The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-05-15

DtdI i Oiiy Ne'4A w.
me how high | am and what is my
weight?-C. c.
Dear c. c.: Should say | could!
You are 3674 and inches taller
and weight 1897 and 3-19 ounces
more than the leprechaun OF the
Irish fairies living in Tipperary
county, Ireland.-Aunt Polly.
Dear Aunt Polly: Where were
the hanging gardens?-J. ID.
Dear ]. D.: They were, and the
ruins of them still can be seen in
a mound on the Chaldean plain
near Babylon. There are five gar
dens built one upon another until
they reach a height of IS feet.
There is an old story that says the
great old King Nebuchadnezzar OF
Babylonia in Asia built them for
his queen who was named Nitocris,
and who had come from Media
where the country is hilly, and that
he built them to keep her from be-
ing homesick for her hilly home
country when living in a flat coun-
try.--Aunt Polly.
Dear Aunt Polly: What is the
oldest city in the world?-G. M. M.
Dear G. M. NJ: There are a
group of cities which historians OF
the very earliest times have fig
ured out are the oldest cities, at
least they are the Oldest that we
know about so far Their names
long ago were Ur, Eridu, Babylon,
Errech and Nippur The names of
the locations of all of these have
been changed now, except Babylon.
Of course these cities now are just
ruins which have been dug up and
people have to do some guessing
as to just what date they. were
built, but it has been figured that
some of these cities existed earl
Ter than 5000 B. C. and were still
inhabited up to 1000 A. d. People
thought they had found the earliest
city before they discovered these,
but some visitors to parts of Asia
between the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers noticed that some OF the
mounds around there looked very
strange. They got permission to
dig Tor excavate,I guess they call
iD and underneath these mounds
were found ruins of old, old pal
aces, libraries, temples and
houses, sometimes whole sets of
them, that is. some cities were
found under others. suppose this
was because a city was built and
then the sands had covered them
up, and the level of the ground was
raised up and along came some
other people and not knowing a
whole city was built beneath this
ground went to work and built an
other city. Wouldn't it be fun to
meet one of those ancients who
lived eight or ten thousand years
ago and talk with him a while?
We learn that they knew a great
deal then, writing and reading, and
law and all sorts of things, but at
least we could make them open
their eyes when we showed them
one of our airplanes, couldn't We?
Aunt Polly.
Dear Aunt Polly: Who invented
marbles? c.
Dear c.: Probably the little
Hindoo boys did long time ago
when they picked up stones and
tried to see how far they could
roll them and if they could hit the
stone some one else had thrown.
Or maybe they got the idea from
watching the monkeys throw CO.
coanuts, and then picked up round
pieces of clay and began throwing
them at some certain place. No
body seems to have just definitely
made up the game, it just grew, and
now we have the game we call
marbles. The game is played in
India and China as we'll as the
United States. It is thought that
the game golf grew from the game !
of marbles. would like to visit a !!
marble factory, wouldn't you? /!
read of one factory that makes
10000 marbles week.-Aunt
Polly.
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