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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-11-08

Dear Aunt Polly: Why does
Jack c. like to chew gum?-A.
Warner Friend
Dear w. F.: Probably because
it keeps his mouth busy when he
can't. think of anything to say
Aunt Polly.
Dear Aunt Polly: How many log
cabins were there in the world in
Jumbo.
Dear Jumbo: Your name makes
me want to give you peanuats and
your question almost makes me
want to give you chloroform. 1t
would be easy enough to tell if it
weren't for the bluebirds. They
build log cabins to live in too, you
know and many Of them have told
me about hearing their grandfath-
ers and grandmothers tell about the
homes they furnished in the year
you mentiOn-but all Of them are
not here now. They have migrated
south. So | will not be able to an
swer your question until next June
when the bluebirds have come out
of their hiding places. Besides,
you know, l wasn't here then and
can't speak from experience
Aunt Polly.
Dear w. F. S.: You didn't ask
any questions but as this is my let
ter corner-I will drop line to
you here too l was so glad to re-
ceive your letter and your stories
Expected to see one of the rabbits
you caught jump out too, but
though l searched carefully, l did
not even find a perky ear or a
bushy tail Anyway guess I'll be-
lieve you for you more than told
the truth about the tomato vine
Next time you want to be at home
when callers come-especially |
aged aunts like me.-Aunt Polly.
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.NSWERS TO RIDDLES OF
LAST WEEK

% A dead one. GU Thresh-
ing machine. CD Newspaper.
4) Factory wheels By Ches.
Collins.
(D Smoke. (2) To keep his
pigs in. CD To fill it. (D A
scarecrow. 90 Break out with
small pox.-L. X. X.
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THE MISSING WORD

board, dressed in silver, suddenly
remembers her pa'ching) God
mother my patching will not get
done if 60"
Godmother: Never mind the
patching: it will be done. Now, go,
your coach is at the door. But
don't forget you must start for
home before midnight (EXit
EngiiSha; curtain.)
Act II.
Ball room gaiIy decorated.
Seats against back and side wall.
Prince entcrs.)
Prince: Ito Ignie) May l have
presently?'
Ignic: (deliGhtcd) 81 say So"
Prince: disguised with her
speech, goes to Indic) and, may |
have the pleasure of dancing with
you soon?'
Indie: You bet prince is
relieved from these disgusting girls
by the herald)
Herald: prince Grammar a
strange princess exit prince.
Waltz heard in distancc.)
lgnie: ITS funny no one asks
us to dance"
Indie: 1T amt cause we amt
pretty
Dame g.: My dear girls, the
fact is, you're so beautiful and
well dressed, people don't dare to
ask you
Isnie: Il say. It's too bad the
Prince didn't get to dance with US
before the foreign princess came
Indie: "Of course, she bein' a
princess, the prince couldn't help
goin' to meet her. Wonder who
she was? She had the most beau
tiGul silver clothes. (Enter herald).
Dame G.: Here comes the her
aid I'll ask him. Hey. sir come
here Gicrald stops,) who was
that lady in silver?"
Herald: She was announced as
Princess Of Silver Speech"
Dame c.: Indeed. Wen, the
Prince was soin' to dance with my
daughters, and so was obliged to
leave them for this lady"
Herald: 20, indeed"
lgnic: so you see, we amt got
no partners
Herald: What a pity"
Dame c.: MY girls both love
dancing.'
Herald: Indeed. 'Tis a charming
taste"
Indie: "'Tain't surprising. We
dance beautifully"
Herald: Il congratulate you. |
hope | shall have the opportunity
OF seeing your performance
NIxit hcrald)
ISnie: What a rude man"
Indie: Il don't understand it
atall l thought we would have
been the bellies Of the ball
Dame G.: We'll. sweeties, let's
go to the refreshment room and
have some ices" (Enter prince
and princess. Mother and daugh-
ters curtsey and exit)
Enghsha: What strange look
ing ladies'
Prince: But let us talk of your
self. princess. (Seats her on chair
and stands beside herr Tell me
about this wonderful place where
you live. The Silver Speech,
what can it be?'
Englisha: 1T is in the land
Of" (There she glances at her
She flees, for It's one
minute to midnight. Curtain)
ITO be concluded
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Query Corner

The editor will try to answer
questions readers Of tho Junior
submit to her. She will not
promise to answer all OF them.
The questions will be answered
in rotation, so do not expect tho
answer to be printed in the
SAME week in which you send
It in.
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BY Julia r. Burr.

A gaudily furnished parlor in
the house of Dame Careless. When
curtain rises Dame {. is found
reading a book. She is dressed as
if going to ball.
Dame c.: Getting up, puts
down book, goes to stair-dOor)--
"Ignie, honey, amt you nearly
dressed"
Ignic: (From upstairs) eyes,
mama, I'm waiting for Englisha to
tie Indies ribbons. | never seen
such a slow poke
Dame c.. "Englisha, tie that
bow Immediately. What do you
mean by such slowncss?" Goes to
mirror and arranges hair. Enter
Ignie and Indie).
Indie: I'VE are ready to go,
mama"
Dame c.: How sweet my loves
look" (GOcS to stairdOOr and tells
EngliSha to come down directly.
Enter Englisha). 'Englisha, we are
going to the bal! that Prince Gram
mar is givin'. He's TO choose his
wife, and I'm sure lgnie or Indie
will be chosen. Nobody could be
prctticr than they. When We git
back every bit of that patching
must be done, or you get beat,
ing"
EnglHha: But, Auntic. how
can you 20 to q ball speaking bad
English? Everyone will notice you
and the Prince will not marry any
one who has a bad speech, He
comes from the same good speak
ing class as | do
Dame C.: YES, you. wish
your dad had not brought you here
when you were twelve years Old
You bet you'd not come from a
good speech class them
Enslisha: "Aunty, don't speak
so. You know that l offered to
teach you better speech, so that
you, too, could belong to the good
speaking class. But you would
llot let lll', anu
Dame G.: FLUSH, You wretch,
What does all this here good
speech have TO do with me-"
Englisha: This is Good Speech
Week."
Dame c.: so that's it, huh?
What do care about it, Seems
to me you're practicing on US.
Come on, my beauties, let's so and
leave silly Englisha to talk to her
patches" exit mother and dauSh-
tcrs).
Englisha: (Gets patching and
sits DOWN ooh, dear, | do wish |
could have gone TO the ball. |
have no pleasures nor pretty
dresses, nothing that attracts one
to me-" (Entcr godmothcr)
Godmothcr: 'Englisha, what's
the natter"
Englsha: Dumps up) "Who
are you?"
Godmother: Il am your fairy
godmothcr. But tell me why you
are unhappy"
Enslisha: Really, sodmother,
I am not unhappy. l was only want
ing to so to the ball. But l have
no pretty dresses"
Godmother: you shall go to the
ball, for you take pride in your
speech, as l want all my godchild-
rem to do. Beautiful language is
always the key to the greatest
pleasures. You really have the
greatest gift of the fairies, that of
the silver speech. Now for your
dress. At the ball you will be
known as Princess of Silver Speech
so you must be dressed accordingly.
Step into that dark cupboard while
repeat a spell. Do not come out
until I finish" (She goes into cup
board. Godmother waves wand and
repeats spell)
"Wavy, wavy, wundo, wum,
Fairy powers hither come,
Turn the darkness INFO light,
Turn the rags to silver bright"
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too, and they ran to the little shop
around the corner.
Rushing into the shop, Ialdydear
asked SignOr Angelo to talk 10 the
little woman who owned the shop.
From her they learned as much as
she knew. She had seen two chill
dren and dog come up to her
window and Immediately two men
standing near the doorway had
grabbed the children and had run
away with them.
Jumping in to the automobile,
they searched franticaily all around
that part of the city but no trace of
the children could be found
Signor Angelo knew of two
clever men who lived on his estate
who could probably help them out,
SO he left that very same evening
for his villa. Ladydear and Cap
tain Brave returned to the hotel
where they found a letter had been
left for them by the kidnappers
which said that Signor Angelo had
ordered them to take the childenr.
(TO be continued.)
Eddie Rickenbacker is laying his
plans for a trans-Pacific flight in
competition for the Ince prize of
$4,000. He intends to have an
airplane built according to his own
specifications.
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Cover strong shoe boxes, just as
you did the weekend bag. using
chintz in a small-flowercd pattern.
Pieces of wall paper in pretty
pattern may be used also. These
will hold your ties and slippers
and keep your clothes press look
ing neat as well. 1t will be a good
plan to stand these on the shelves.
They will keep fresh longer.
Wall paper makes a most at
tractiye covering for hat box, too.
A pattern of roses, yiOlets, Or
punches of wild flowers is the best
to use Lay the cover on the wall
paper, cutting it to fit, and . then
paste it neatly in place. Cut a
broad and narrow strip to paste
around the box and the edge of the
cover.
For Your Bureau.
A small, round candy box makes a
charming pin cushion. II may be
already covered, and it is usually
strong so that YOU have a fOunda-
ton to sow to. Use only The box
itself and stuff it with wool. Cover
the wool with pink Of blue silk.
Then cover the outside with silk
to match, lacking it to the edge of
the box.
\ fcw Of the tiny silk flowers
that you now buy by the yard in
tho shops may be glued to the edge
of the box, or a ruille OF lace will
cover your stitches.
Bows and Girls Newspaper Service
Copyright, 1919, by j. II. Millar
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-11-08

"Wavy, wavy, wundo, wum,
Fairy powers hither come,
Turn the darkness INFO light,
Turn the rags to silver bright"
Evening star., 1919-02-26
NAVY SPENT VAST SUM
Secretary Daniels Estimates Cost
for Year at $2,313,414,413 in
Answering Senators.

Increased expenditures of the Navy
Department due to the war amounted
to 1851 .970,ss4, Secretary Daniels in
formed the Senate today in response
to q resolution. For the fiscal year
1919 the cost of the Navy was esti-
mated at $2,313,474.413.
1.-The total expenditures for the
Navy" said Secretary Daniels in a
letter to Vice President Marshall, ire
ported during the period from April
1, 1917, to November 1. 1918, amount
ed to s53.5s3.3S3. Assuming that
the expenditures for the Navy on a
peace basis during this period would
have continued to increase at the
same rate as during the decade from
1907 to 1916, in which time the annual
cost of the Navy grew from SsS,392,-
144 to $162,S21, $40, the total expendi-
lures for the Navy on peace basis
from April /, 1917, to November l,
1918, would have been S261.622, ,4s9.
Deducting this from the total expendi-
lures of 1888, ,593,3s3 shows that the
expenditures were ,9f0,S84 above
normal, and this amount is therefore
to the cost of the war"
OF the money spent between April
1. 1917. and June 30 last the Secre-
tary pointed out that $779,27S,164 rep
resented expenditures for the pur-
chase and construction of ships and
for improving naval stations.
Evening star., 1919-02-26
COL. BENTON HALSTEAD
DIES AT HOME HERE
Inventor of First Working Type
writer-Earned Military Title
in Civil War.

Col. Benton Halstead, inventor of
the first working typewriter, died at
his home, 1886 Bi1tmore street, early
this morning.
Col. Halstead was the son of Griffin
Halstead, and was born near Cincin-
natl, Ohio. March II, 1884, and was
educated at College Hill. graduating
in 1854 At the beginning of the civil
war he recruited his own company at
Hamilton, Ohio, under Gen. Lewis d.
Campbell, served in the seth and the
7sth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. and was
colonel of the 1s7th Regiment at the
close of the war. He was in the bat
ties of Resaca. Lookout Mountain.
Peach Tree creek, and the siege of
Atlanta, and was on Gen. Sherman's
staff on his memorable march to the
sea-"
The typewriter he invented was
used by himself in his law Office sew
eral years before any commercial de-
of typewriters,
He is survived by his widow and
one son, Col. Laurence Halstead. chief
of the bureau of operations of the Ist
American Army in France. His only
daughter, Lenore, died two months
ago. and he lost a son, Benton Hal
stead, jr, in 1901. Col Halstead was
the only brother of Murat Halstead,
journalist and editor.
Evening star., 1919-02-26
READY FOR USE MARCH /.
Two Government Buildings Practi-
eally Are Completed.

Two new government buildings viii
he ready for occupancy March I, and
more soon thereafter, announced J. A
wetmore, acting supervising architect.
this morning. The new structure to
be occupied by the war risk insurance
division. at FL street and Vermont ave
nue.. and the liberty loan building, at
the foot of 18th street, to take care
of the loans and currency division and
registration. will be ready on that date.
The Treasury annex, for housing the
administrative offices of the internal l.
revenue bureau, will be occupied June
1. Contracts were let this morning for
a new hygienic laboratory, to cost $3.50.
900, to be erected as an adjunct 10 the
Naval Hospital on the present site OF
In six months. -
Evening star., 1919-02-26
Wv. RY. co. GETS HEARING,
Asks Right to Withdraw Inter
changeable Commutation Tickets.

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion yesterday afternoon gave a hear
ing on the application of the Wash
ington-virginia Hallway Company for
authority to modify it's rates by with
drawing the interchangeable commu-
tation tickets now issued for passage
TO Washington by way of either the
Rosslyn or the 18th street lines OF
the company.
Remonstrants against the applica-
tion from Falls Church, Baiiston.
Clarendon and Rosslyn. in Virginia,
appeared against the application
either as individuals or as representa-
tives of civic organizations.
Withdrawal of the interchangeable
commutation tickets Is considered by
remonstrants to be a hardship and
unwarranted. They maintain that
they are entitled to transfers to civ
lines at either of the two points men
toned
Evening star., 1919-02-26
NAMES SIMILAR; ERROR MADE
young Women's Christian Home"
Not Y. W. C. A. Home Needs SIS. 900

In yesterdays Star 1t was stated in
news caption that the Y. W. c. A.
Home was in need of $1,000 for re-
pairs. The caption should have read
that the Young Wemen's Christian
Home was seeking aid. The two or
ganizations are not affiliated. The
close resemblance of names caused
the error. The Young Women's
Christian Home is seeking the money
so that It may continue caring for
war workers In ita two hemss. heth
establishments being in need Of re-
pairs.
Evening star., 1919-02-26
Boil SHEVK SHOUTERS
HALT BOSTON MEETING
Interrupt Nine. Breshkovskoya,
Who Retorts in Rusian-0ne
Speaker HoWled Down.

BOSTON. February @6.--Mme. Cath
crime Breshkovskaya, the aged Rus
sian revolutionary leader, in answer
to questions shouted at her in Rus
sian from the balconies at fremont
Temple Monday night by supporters
of the bolshevik government, replied
in spirited speech in her native
language. She had made speech
in English at the meeting. which
was arranged by the Massachusetts
Weman's Suffrage Association to raise
money for Russian war orphans
Many bolshevik sympathizers, who
were in the balconies. had previously
raised a disturbance while Rev. DR..
Samuel L. Crothers was speaking
against what he termed mob rule in
Russia" and had caused him to bring
his address to an abrupt close.
Evening star., 1919-02-26
Y C. A. DEATHS OVERSEAS.
Harry G. Fisher of This City
Among Four Workers Reported.

News of the death overseas of four
Y. NJ. c. A workers has been received
in this country by the national war
work council OF the association. Among
the number appears the name of
Harry G. Fisher OF Washington, who
died in France. Mr.. Fisher was a hut
secretary, and died of pneumonia
His wife lives in Denver, Col.
other workers who died were Miss
Alice Gilman knight of Brookine
Mass, who died in France, and Miss
Blanche A. Rowley of Rochester,
N. Y, and Miss Helen NJ Burrage of
Cambridge, Mass. both of whom died
in Liverpool,
Evening star., 1919-02-26
GIFT CAR FOR MIR. BIELASKI.
Former Department of Justice En-
ploye Remembered by Staff

A. Bruce Bielaski, former chief of
the bureau of investigation of the
Department of Justice, recently re-
signed. yesterday received a present
of a passenger touring car from
the employees of the bureau in the
field and in Washington. W. T.. AL
len, acting chief, made the presenta-
tion speech at the department. 18th
street and Vermont avenue. In the
evening Mr.. Bielaski was dined by the
officials at the Cochran.
Mr.. Bielaski was chief Of the bu-
reau for eight years, and has been
with the department since 1905. He
gained an enyiable reputation, es-
pecially by the manneE in which he
handled the spy cases during the
war. He is now with the oiI-holding
company of Richmond & Levering.
Evening star., 1919-02-26
SURE PRESIDENTS
APPEAL WILL WIN
London Papers Leading Ed
itoraIs Discuss His Speech
in Boston.
LITTLE PARIS COMMENT

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 26.-Comment
on President Wilson's Boston speech
takes first place on the editorial
pages OF this mornings London news
papers. They unite in expressing the
hope that the Presidents appeal for
support of the league of nations will
the United States.
I'VE can be as confident as Presi-
dent Wilson Essays the Daily Mail,
that their generous impulse. dis
Interested aid and guidance VIII not
fail his people now, but rather gain
strength and permanence. as the need
for 1t was never greater. The al
Tentative is that the United States
should return to her traditional iso-
lation and regard the welter of Eu-
rope from afar. Such a decision is
unthinkabie. The United States is in
the war; she must be in the peace"
breaches Grand Gospel Grand1y."
The Daily Mail says: president
Wilson knows that America has only
begun It's task and that the breach
with WashIngtons policy is final
Every pacific interest in Eu-
rope Will be with the President in his
appeal TO his people. We 40 not
think that the appeal will be in vain,
for the President has a grand gospel
and knows how tn preach Ii grandiy.
The Daily Telegraph says: The de-
of the peace conference
constitute signal to the world that
The President Is not wrong In asstim-
ing that Europe looks toward the peo-
Pile of the United States with new
confidence. OF Americas sym :
pathy with the essential ideals for
which President Wilson is laboring 30
and We are confident she will continue
to take her full share in the great
task Of regeneration which confronss
The Daily Chronicle says Of the
Presidents speech: He appeals to
part in policing the unsettled terri
tories of the old world and protecting
the young nations. If he succeeds in
carrying his people with him in this
new crusade he will have succeeded in
rendering a second service to man
the United States to finish the war"
Makes "Little Correction.
PARIS, February 26.-With the ex-
ceptien of the Figaro and the Echo
de Paris, there is little comment in
the morning newspapers on President
Wilson's speech in Boston.
Alfred Capus, in the Figaro. after
making what he calls 'little cor
rection" in the Presidents statement
that the soldiers in the fighting only
understood the value TO humanity of
their efforts when these accents
reached them from America" adds:
What President Wilson really
added to the wars morale was the
vision of the future seen through a
society or league of nations"
The principal difficulty in the appli-
cation of this view. in the opinion of
NJ. Capus. is "the adaptation of ma
tional interests and traditions to this
ideal of justice"
cit is with this difficulty" he con-
tinues, "that President Wilson is con-
fronted in his own country, amidst
the struggles of the political parties" !"
Evening star., 1919-02-26
cow AT MARDI GRAS BALI.
VIII Be One of Features of Fret
Milk for France Benefit.

liveaeow will be one of the fea-
lures of the nardi gras ball to be
held on she night of March at the
Wardmar Park Hotel for the benefit
of the free milk for France move
ment. Tickets for the ball are on
sale at the headquarters, at 14th and
F streets, and at various hotels
Miss Virginia EckleS, a debutante,
will act as milk maid, and, aided by
assistants, Will serve milk to guests
who attend the midway plaisance-"
The COW will be stationed at the en-
trance of Pre- Catelan.
Evening star., 1919-02-26
Veterans of Former Wars.

The fourth division will be composed
OF Confederate and Spanish war vet
Grams Men of these two organiza-
tiens living in the suburbs of Mary
land and Virginia have been invited
TO march with their Washington COM
rades in this section. They should as
SENT BILE at lSt and + streets.
THE fifth division will be made up
of cadets from the Army and Navy
Preparatory school, the public high
schools. St. Johns College and st.
Mary's Industrial school
The sixth division will he headed
by Gen. Barnetts corps of pretty mar
inettes and the Cosmos Theater Band
They viii be followed by the Navy
yeowomen. women of the Red Cross
the Maryland state College Band, navy
yard Red Cross workers, the Y. NJ. G.
A, War Camp Community Service
Government Recreation League, jew
;sh Welfare Board, Catholic Womens $
War Relief Society. Girl Scouts. Wom-
ems Naval Service and knights of Co
lumbuS
Evening star., 1919-02-26
FIGHTING IN PRAGUE.
Anti-Government Com m unists
Driven From Public Buildings

AMSTERDAM, February 2s,-severe
fghting took place all day Saturday
in Prague. the capital ef bohemia, in
which the National Guard and stu
dents drove the anti-government COM
munists from public buildings which
they had occupied, according to the
LokaI Anzeiger Of Berlir>
Evening star., 1919-02-26
SMILES.

There are smiles that make US happy.
There are smiles that make us blue.
There are smiles that steal away the
teardropS
AS the sunbeams steal away the
dew.
There are smiles that have a tender
meaning
That the eyes of love alone may see,
And the smiles that fill my life with
sunshine
Are the smiles that you give to me-
Copyright, 1918, by Jerome II. Remick & Co. }
Evening star., 1919-02-26
VOTES FOR DRY NATION.
Pennsylvania Forty-Fifth State to
Ratify Prohibition Amendment.

HARRISBURG. Pa, February 2s-
The state senate yesterday adopted
finally the house joint resolution ratify-
ing tho national prohibition amendment,
rhe vpte was 20 to 16 Pennsyivania
thus becomes the forty-ifth state to
rattfy. Tho house Of Representatives.
adopted the resolution AhreA weeks
&c
Evening star., 1919-02-26
So Minimum Wage Bill Goes Over.

All hope of passing the Nolan 50
minimum wage bill for government
employees at the present session of
Congress has practically been aban-
doned. The next Congress will have
to deal with this measures, its sup
porters say. The Nolan bill passed
the Aeuse weeks ago. but has not
been Seperted to the senate from the
Senate cemmtttss on education and
Evening star., 1919-02-26
walk with Chairman Harper and the

walk with Chairman Harper and the
District Commissioners.
Behind the President will be the Clti-
zens' committee which ;.rranged the
r,arade and. then the draft boards of
the District. led by Maj. Daniel j. Dono-
van.
The sccord and third divisions will be
made up of the local soldiers who are
being honored. including both the men
mustered out and those still IN service
at Camps Meade and Humphreys. The
Washington men ut Walter Reed Hos
pifal VIII be in the second division.
The 1G1St Infantry Band. formerly
of the District National Guard. which
played on many important occasions
in France. will arrive tonight from
Newport News TO march in the parade.
Evening star., 1919-02-26
"kEEP THE HOME FIRES
BURNING"

Keep the home fires burning,
While your hearts are yearning.
Though your lads are far away,
They dream of home.
There's u silver lining
Through the dark cloud shining.
Turn the dark cloud inside out
Till the boys come home.
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