The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-29

I've got verse of scripture. Zach
ariah said, 1.-THE streets of the city
shall be full of boys and girls playing
In the streets thereof"
Zachariah lived four hundred years
before Jesus, and Jesus lived nineteen
hundred years ago. Nineteen and four
are how many? Twenty-three hun
dred. Twenty-three hundred years
ago, this man, one day. looked out of
the window and there were no boys
or girls in the streets, because their
fathers and mothers would not do
right and the old prophet was look.
ing out of the window and he felt sad
Just think of what an awful thing
1t would be if there were no boys
and girls alive on earth. We could
not have any schools or Sunday
schools. Then l think he thought
about heaven. He said. There will
be a place where the streets will be
full of girls and boys playing and
that will be up in heaven" and so
the Lord wants US to do right and
have good time on this earth
The Lord likes to see boys and
girls play, but we have to do right
down here and we can't lie and steal
and swear and do mean things. All
those things are what Satan wants to
do.
I suppose the boys are playing
ball, some of them are playing mum
BILE peg. Well the Lord likes to see
boys play and have a good time. He
don't like to see one of these Jimmy
Tough kind of boys and if you ask
him something he says, ooh, | don't
know" One of these boys is always
the first at the dog fight and last at
Sunday school
How Business Man
Picked a Boy
One time | read of a man who ad-
vertised that he wanted a boy to
come to work in the store and there
were about twenty-five boys came
around Some had their hair comb.
ed some didn't, and be picked out a
boy and he said. boy, can you writer
He said, yep"
He said, Can you read?"
He said "Sure Mike"
He said. "Can you figure?"
"Un huh
He said, 81 don't want you"
Finally he picked out a boy and
he said, why didn't you pick out
that boy?"
And he said, "He doesn't know
how to say Yes Sir and No sir. A
lady would come into the store and
say Have you any oranges? and he
would say, I'm huh. They like to
see a nice boy
When | was, one time, up in New
London, Connecticut, a man said,
Come here, Mr.. Sunday, get on
board this boat" | got on board and
went across the river and climbed up
a hill and there stood fort that
stood there in the Revolutionary
war and there is big stone place
and right in the middle Of it is a
brass star and on that brass star said,
Here's where Benedict Arnold sal
when they came in and burned it and
destroyed everything, but one store
house.
Let me tell you what kind of a boy
Benedict Arnold was when he was
a boy He was learning a trade, and
YOU have been in a drug store where
they have been big bow made on: Of
iron and a big stone. He would pu;
glass in there and pound it up fine
and scatter it around on the tooI
and the boys would come in bare
laugh at them. So, no wonder he
became a traitor.
Tells of His
Athletic Record.
| used to run foot races. There
wasn't ANYBODY in the United States
that could beat me. | could run one
hundred yards in ten seconds.
could run around the diamond when
| played baseball, in fourteen sec
onds. If | could get a start on fel
low, if he could run as fast as l could
he never could catch me. SO that Is
the time to learn those things when
you are younger. l can run now and
take a Jump here and turn a somer
sault over in the air
So. want you to learn when you
J are young. Now it says that tho
bows are playing. l have often
wondered what the girls were play
ing. Well. it would not look nice tc
see girls play leap frog, it is all right
for BOYS The girls can't play ball
If a boy stood over there and an
other over here and she went tc
throw ball 10 that boy, she'd hi
that boy over here That's what the
Girls do Here's the way the boy
does. Look, He knows how to d.
it, but girls do this way.
I suppose some of them are play
ing dolly. some of the girls are max
ing mud pies, but they were having
a good time Nobody likes one O
these saucy, impuGent. kind of girls
remember when Helen was little
girl going 10 school in Chicago. sh'
came homo and said, Mama | an
not going with that little girl tina
lives up on Monroe street any more.
''Why not, Helen?"
She said, Coming home from
school today she said, Helen, don
like you, Bah, and stuck her tongue
out"
Nobody likes that kind OF a girl
remember Helen sat IN the par
one day and a lot of little girls wer,
nIaying Drop the handkerchief,
and a lot of games, and finally th'
mother said, "All sit down and VIZ
will have ice cream"
Had Ice Cream
And Other Things.
So they had Neopolitan ice cream
\ They had ice cream and they brough
a dish around and little girl wa
there with her two brothers ant
when they passed around the CAKE
she measured with her fingers 81