Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 300, 29 October 1921 — Page 14

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATUKDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1921 A Hall Girl oween

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V TART I. The big man who rescued Billy trom the store manager was the porter, 'and he brought Billy back to the little basement room under the hotel. So ended Billy's first night in a big city. All that night, all the next day and night, and all the following day, Bily was cooped up in that ittle basement " room with no chance to get out, and with only Frank Brown and the porter to visit him twice a day. How he did fret. The porter kept him well fed and saw that he had good bedding and plenty of water, but he gave Billy no mora chances to escape and see the city. He watched carefully as he opened and "closed the door that the gat should not again scramble between his legs or butt him over. On the third evening, however, the porter forgot to completely close the door which led into the other part of the basement, and you may be sure that Billy lost no time in finding out what was In there. The room next to ibis led up into the kitchen and it was stocked with vegetables and all sorts of kitchen stores. Billy was not very hungry, but he nibbled at everything as he went along, pulling the vegetables out of place, upsetting a barrel half filled with flour In his attempt to see what was in it and working the faucet out of a barrel of syrup i in his efforts to get at the sweet stuff which clung to it. Licking up all of the syrup that he cared for, Billy went on to Investigate another barrel which lay on its side not far away, and knocked the

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faucet out of It. This, however, proved to be vinegar, and he did not like the taste of it al all, so he trotted on out of the storeroom into the laundry, leavimr the two barrels to run to waste. Everybody in the laundry had gone up into the servants hall for their suppers, and the coast was clear for Billy. They had just fin ished ironing, and danity white clothes lay everywhere. From a big pile of them that lay on a table, a lace skirt hung down,' and Billy took a nibble at it just to find out what it was. The starch in it tasted pretty good, so he chewed at the lace, pulling and tugging to get it within easier reach, until at last he pulled the whole pie off the table on the dirty floor. Hearig some steps then, he scampered out through the storeroom and into another large room where stood a big, brass-trimmed machine which he did not at all understand. It was a dynamo, which was run by a big engine in the adjoining engine room, and it furnished the electric lights for the hotel. Two big wires ran from it, heavily coated with shellac and rubber and tightly wound tape to keep them from touching metal things and losing their electricity. These crossed the basement room to the further walk, where they distributed the electric current to many smaller cables. Billy sniffed at the two bigi cabes at a point where they were very near together. They had a peculiar odor and Billy tasted them. He scarcely knew whether he liked the taste or not, but he kept on nibbing to find out, nipping and tearing with his sharp teeth unti he had got down to the copper wire on both cabes; then he decided that he did not care very much for that kind of food and waked away. It was not yet dark enough for the dynamo to be started, or Billy might have had a shock that would have killed him. (Copyright by the Sa.Ufield Publishing Co., Akron. O.) ,The Witch's Dress The girl who is tired of going to masquerade parties as a ghost or a witch, might try a jack-o-lantern costume. Make a skirt of green crepe paper, cut in scallops. Then make a waist of yellow crepe paper," and a little, round yellow cap with black paper pasted on to look like the face of a jack-o-lantern.

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She loved to lease. So it came Halloween night and all that day she was planning what to wear. It came night. She dressed up like a ghost. Her mother never knew what she was going to wear. She went upstairs to dress. When she came down she scared her mother so she fainted. She just went right on through the .house till she came to a door. She went out it and she walked a mile and a half till she saw a house all lighted up. She never saw anybody in it, so she thought she would go in. She went into a room. It wa3 full of people sitting in a ring. When they Baw her, they began to run. Do you think you would? I know I would. Frances Worley, Webster, Ind. A TINY BIOGRAPHY Six hundred and fifty songs made him famous. Composing was always his chief delight. He left over 1,100 compositions. Unfinished Symphony is one of his best known works. Beethoven was his favorite composer, and he is buried near him. Erlking is one of his most famous songs. Rather homely in appearance, and was, always very poor. Temperament was sunny and contented, but his health failed, and he died when he was only thirly-one years old. Elizabeth A. Ges.t

He Knew All Right. Little Sister: Brother, what is mortgage? Little Brother: Sumpin' like an umbrella you silly, he said, ma an pa had to raise it. LI E. A., Bethel, Ind. Pupil: What's our spelling? Teacher: The next list. Pupil: There's 'one before that tho. L. E. A., Bethel, Ind. Willing To Help. Landlord: You must raise the mortgage for the house before tomorrow. Tenant: Land sakes if I was young I might take the mortgage off the house, but I am too old to work. Little Johnnie:. Grandpa give me a ladder and I'll climb up and take the blamed thing off. L. E. A., Bethel, Ind. Teacher: Lester, you had better study your grammar. Lester: I know it. L. E. A., Bethel, Ind.

PUZZLES & RIDDLES 1. "The last, long, lingering look was the easiest one." Contained in each word of that sentence is one letter of the name of a certain day whioh every boy and girl in this city likes to celebrate. - 2. Why should a certain kind of snake make a good story teller? 3. Behead that which a rooster does and have what a bow does on the river. 4. What has no legs, cannot walk, yet runs? 5. HIP A LADLE HIP. Rearrange these letters properly and you will have the name of a Pennsylvania city. 6. What has a head but cannot think? 7. "We went to the other side of the straw and found the boys hammering into a board." Fill the first blank with a word of five letters. The same letters, rearranged, fill the second blank. 8. How can you usually tell a school teacher? Answers to these are found in another part of this week's Junior. By Brigss

Jean Gets a Scare One day a little girl and her parents were riding In an automobile. They were going out in the country where they intended to eat their lunch. Thye rode on until they were about 15 miles away from the city. They saw a pretty little stream that ran through a pretty green meadow. "What a lovely place to eat our lunch," said the little girl's mother. They went into the pretty meadow and spread out their lunch. The little girl whose name was Jean, saw a sort of cave in a little hill, close by. She said to herself: "I shall see what 13 inside of htat cave after lunch." When they had finished eating, Jean's mother and father brought cushions from the machine and made themselves comfortable. But Jean went to the cave. It did not look very big. Loraine Petty, grade 6A, Cambridge City, Ind. (More next week).

A Day in the Woods Wlia its more pleasant than a day in the woods with your favorite companion on an October day after Jack Frost has made a visit or two? It is Old Mother Nature's festival month and she and her children put on their gayest colors. The maple family especially try to outshine their friends with their flam ing scarlet and bright yellow. But the rich browns and light and dark greens of the trees around them stand nodding a friendly welcome, while all together they shower us with bits of their bright colors. We gaze in awe, wondering if anything could be more beautiful, when all at once we are attracted by a brightly hued butterfly flitting by. Following i,t we see it light on a bunch ot wild asters, we glance around and the whole woods seema to be beds of colors. With an occasional walk every irregular indeed, but very picturesque. The blue, pink, white, lavender and yellow wild asters nestle cozily together, while. the feathery golden rod and the royal purple ironweed standd majestly on guard giving us a haughty greeting as we pass by. Great bunches of fern with its delicate folage, silently comune with its neighbors and the ivy, myrtle and bittersweet tangle together in ropes of trl-colored green with the scarlet berries of the bittersweet peeping out here and there. We come to a clear brook, whose water is rippling musically over the stoyu bottom. We linger a few minutes but we hear such a chatter above us that we look and there Is a frisky squirrel barking and scolding as if to order us from his domain. We wander on through nature's cathedral stopping now and again to examine more closely a bed of moss or to gather a few of tho nuts, which the squirrels seem to think Old Mother Nature provided especially for them. The birds at this time of the year are congregating together, making their plans for their journey to the south and feasting merrily on tlie ripened seed. The voices of the different birds, the musical tinkle of the water, the chatter of the squirrel, the occasional plop-plop of the falling nuts, the rustle of the leaves and the soft wind that whistles sigha and moans creates an orchestra that soothes and comforts. Wa look in wonder at the profusion of flowers, the wonderful combination of colors, each harmonizing so perfectly with the other, the sun shining through the leaves casting flickering mellon lights over all and it causes us to know that no artist even in height of inspiration can paint such beautiful scenes as Old Mother Earth is giving us daily. Samuel Hazlitt, grade 5A, Vaila school. ARE YOU MAKING A MUSICAL SCRAP-BOOK? Have you begun your, musical scrap-book? Get some old musical magazines or catalogues and begin tonight cutting out the material that you want to use. ANSWERS TO THIS WEEK'S RIDDLES 1. Halloween. 2. Because it trets off a ratilini? good thing in the way of a tale.

i. L-rows. 4. A street-car. 5. Philadelphia. 6. A match. 7. Stack tacks. 8. By the pupils in her eyes.