The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-02-07
AUNT POLLYS LETTER.
Dear Juniors:

Dear Juniors:
Old February always brings us an interesting basket
full of days and this year she throws good to
please the whose masculine friends particular
ly bashui. One of the days people of the United
States like most to celebrate February H. next Thurs
day, the anniversary Of the birthday of Honest Abe
Lincoln. Isn't it strange it Thursday? Christ
mas on Thursday so did New Years Day, and now
another important day comes that same day of the
week.
We Hoosiers are especially interested in this big,
homey American, for he lived in Indiana for ten of the
most important years of his life, the years when he
planning to be somebody and studying and thinking about
what he going to DO and how he going to do it.
He lived in this very state when he boy the
age many of you Juniors from the time he about
years DID, until he about seventeen. He
to Indiana in 1916 which important year for
state and for Richmond That the year when Indiana
became state, part of the Union, and Richmond be-
real town, remember the centennial we had four
years ago. Of course you d. Probably many of you
helped to celebrate it.
How would you like to live in log cabin cutting
down trees for homes and splitting rails for fences and
writing your arithmetic problems shovel by the side
of open fireplace? That the way he began his
life, just plain Indiana boy but he finished it of
the most lovabe presidents Uncle Sam had in charge
of his country
am always glad he was homely too somehow do
not feel he would have been quite kind and ovabe if
he had been handsome. never knew, but always i'm
agned it would turn anyones head to be really hand
some. Don't you think SO?
Did any Of you General Tom Thumb and his
life the famous little midgets who travelled all over the
United States with Barnums circus? Probably you never
did, for the General himself has been dead for good
many years and Mrs Tom Thumb quite old when she
died about month ago. but ask your fathers and mothers
and grandmother too (my grandmother has seen them
and they will probably tell you about them. Well this
handsome little gentleman and beautiful little lady (ess
than three feet taD married February TO- 1863
And where do you suppose they went their wedding
trip? They went to Washington right straight to the
most important building in that beautiful city, and visited
President Lincoln and his wife at the White House. And
we are told that they enjoyed their visit very much
Most people did like to meet Lincoln he was so big and
friendly
1t seems to that Lincoln painted the coors of our
own Red White and Blue banner little deeper shade and
made the white stripes and stars of little winter by his
life in the White House.
The white made winter because he took the blot
of slavery from country the red made deeper
red by the blood of the soldiers who died save the Union
after the slaves declared Free and by his own blood
who shot because he stood like man for the things
in which he believed and the blue made buer by the
greater loyalty felt for the country after the war;
And so | am always glad to honor the birthday of
this great. big kind man. this who was friend of
his countrymen at that time and is still thought of as a
friend by all Americans who follow him.
Yours: proud to be countryman-coun I
should say, of Abraham Lincoln and also proud to be
Hoosier, AUNT POLLY
Maxine P0npr Dolls RIDDLES