The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-01-03
Dear Aunt Polly:
Are you good or bad? ]. c.

Lear Aunt IOly.
Are you good or bad? J. C.
Dear Jay See:
A little of both! And a great
of the last! And this is why
know it. Every body is good in
their sleep, and / am real good
sleeper, in fact l would like to have
at least eight hours of that good
thing called sleep each night. Sup
pose l really had eight hours
(Which l am sorry to say do not
always have, especially this time of
the year when the WORKOUT old
year has to be ushered out and a
brand new one saluted), then you
see l would be good at least a third
of every day. So that is not real
ly so bad, is it? You see ] am
some good and would be more good
if people did not insist on my get
ting up in the mornings. How good
are you.-Aunt Polly.
Dear Aunt Polly:
What makes a tadpole turn into a
frog? M. E. H.
Dear M. e. H.:
The fact that frog does not look
at all like a frog when it first
comes into the world, is due to a
natural law or rule of growth.
Frogs just naturally have always
looked like the cute little things
we call tadpoles for years and
years, and SO most of the new
frogs that come into the world
think that they ought to do the
same thing. Many animals and
insects have this period in their
lives when they look just about as
different from the thing they look
look like when they are grown, as a
blade Of grass looks like camers
hump. Take for example, the
butterfly. Al first it is just a
wiggly fat worm and then one day
something wonderful happens AMI
it leaves it's worm house and flies
out into the sunshine, a beautiful
butterfly. Just why these animals
do this, we do not know, but we
know that the laws which say how
a frog or any animal must grow
are made in a large part by the
place where an animal lives and by
the neighbors with which 1t lives.
In other words, an animal has to
find out which Is the best way for
it to grow, and try to suit its home
conditions as nearly as possible.
Perhaps the butterfly thought, or
rather its ancestors long ago
thought that it was safer for 1t to
live as a worm when 1t first came
into the world and then when 1t had
become stronger, to turn into
butterfly and SO it kept changing
a little, the great, great Crandfath-
er land many greats before that
butterfly little and then the great
little more and so on,
until it thought 1t had found the
way that it seemed best for butter "
fly to grow. Perhaps the ances-
tors of the frog used to be more
like fish living in the water and
swimming around, and having long
tails, and then perhaps there was
not as much water as there once
was, so the frog ancestor decided
to change and so grew feet instead
20 that he could hop, and probohlE,4,
has found this much the better way,
but when he is very, very young he
nay still have the appearance of ,
1is great grandfather which he out
crows as he grows into frog, and ,
ooks a much more sensible frog for
| country where there is very little
water compared to what there used ,
o be- hundreds of years ago. &,
My, but l have written great ,
leal, but do you understand now j.,
hat a frog is tadpole first, be- =
,ause he is trying his best to live =
10 to law made by our dear friend i
dother Nature? Aunt Poly. :
SV1S IL.