Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 211, 22 July 1916 — Page 12

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SOCIETY NEWS FOR CHILDREN The girls in the neighborhood of South 13th street have formed a little Sewing Club which meets ev ery Wednesday afternoon, and also forms little hiking parties at 5:00 o'clock in the morning, going at least two miles before breakfast, several times a week. The regular afternoon meeting this week was held at the home of Josephine Hiatt, where dainty refreshments were served. Those present were Misses Pauline Mansfield, Harriet Thomas, Thelma Campbell, Bernice Raymond, Mildred Ramsey and Josephine Hiatt. Next week the meeting will be with Miss Mildred Ramsey. Little Rosemary Sharkey of Indianapolis is a guest of her aunts, the Misses Sharkey, of North 15th street. Miss Elma Horr of West Richmond has been visiting her aunt in New Castle. Miss Betty Price after visiting relatives in Toledo, returned home. Miss Margaret Louise Fahrlander of Liberty has been visiting relatives with her mother in New Castle this past week. DAY NURSERY The day nursery has been more popular than ever lately. One day last - week there were 16 children there at once, so just imagine the nois. One day there was a little Hungarian boy there who couldn't speak any English, and he was so frightened he didn't know what to do with everybody jabbering away in a queer strange language that he couldn't understand a single word of. All he could say was Mamma, and she had gone. Alice in Wonderland Is Favorite Story The reason I love poor old Alice is because all her wild adventures are S perfectly true to dreams'. I seldom dream things myself, and so I do enjoy her terrible troubles. That funny old rabbit that kept saying: "Mary Ann, Mary Ann, where is my fan," and the silly Chcsire Cat that did nothing but grin, and the cross old Dutchess that always was saying: "Pig, off with his head." And then the way things would grow bigger and bigger or smaller and smaller, and the way new people and strange scenes would suddenly just be there, why its the best dream you ever could have, and the nicest part of it is that it will last forever. Have You Tried This? Elevators are the most fun to fix up of anything. We used to tie strings together and put a strawberry box on the end, and then hawl things up and down over the stair bannister. - But one day my brother got an old pulley and mother's clothes line, and fixed up a real elevator , out in the barn through the trap door. Tying one of our little chairs on the rope, he would take our dolls up and down on this big elevator for two pins a trip. , Make Toys of Eggshells Have you ever tried to see what you could do with egg-shells? I know some girls who made a whole set of doll dishes out of them, and then painted tiny little flowers around the edges, so that they were the dantiest little things you can imagine. THE BOSTON COUSIN Tho little Boston cousin was visiting her grandmother who has a Manx cat, that queer breed that has a tail only about an inch long. you know, and she was perfectly fascinated by It. After letting it In and out of the door ever so many times, she look' ed up at her father with her face aglow with enthusiasm and called out. "Oh, daddy, this Is tho most con ven i ent cat. You don't have to watch his tall when he goes

through the door."

Toby Dog Runs to Meet Master Toby was an ugly rat terrior. You might think he could not see through the fringe of tawny hair that hung over his bright inteligent eyes. When Toby's master went to the office he did not allow him to follow on the main street, and as his master carried a cane, Toby was wise enough to keep out of react of that cane. Promptly at 11:30 A. M. Toby got busy; he went to the office by way of a back street and if he found the door open he would slip in and lie down quietly in a corner as if he wanted to take a nap, but he never took his eyes off his piaster. . If he stepped out of the back door Toby paid no attention. But the moment he passed out of the front door onto Main Street, Toby ran out in the back yard. He allowed the master to get well started, when he followed on the side street, trotting along slowly and unconcerned, unless he saw a flock of chickens by the road side. He would dash in among them, barking as if he intended to eat them; or If there was a pig lying by the J side of the road, he would sieze it by the ear and bite it just hard enough to make it squeal, and then Toby would scamper about as if he enjoyed the joke, but he never lost Bight of his master. 1 When he neared the corner where he turned to his home, Toby ran to the house and scrambled over the low fence, and appeared in the front yard to welcome his master to dinner. Then he would lie down on the porch and wait until the meal was over. He then expected a dinner of scraps. Sometimes a rat would steal out to get a taste of his dinner. Toby would wait until he was near enough and then he would seize him by the neck and shake him until he was dead. If the garden was soft he dug a hole with his paw and buried him; if frozen, he dropped him in the ditch at the foot of the

garden. He never left a dead rat in the dooryard. He had a fine reputation as a rat terrior. When the boys would say rats! rats! Toby would scamper along the yard and come back again: he knew that was only play. But a cage of rats was serious business. If he allowed one of them to escape he was very crestfallen. Toby lived to be quite old before he went to the land where all good dogs go, KENNETH. t BOY SCOUTS Drill practice was held Wednes day night at the Athletic Park. The boys are getting ready for an exhibition .to be given at the Chautauqua. The boys who had not taken their tenderfoot examination as yef, took it at the home of Richard Mansfield on South 17th street, last Friday night. The other scout mem bers meet at the residence of the Assistant Scout Master, Vernon Brammer, on Main street, and were joined by the new tenderfoot group after their examination. Harold Sinex.is the latest mem ber to join the movement; any others who are interested will be most enthusiastically welcomed, or if you can't say that word very well, say this Some Welcome, Believe Me! Kenneth Dollins, one of the patrol leaders, is out at the hospital, suffering from a slight case of gastric fever. The scouts are do ing as much for him as possible. Centennial Notes Years ago there used to be a queer old astronomer that every one In town knew, who would spend every clear night squinting through his telescope and scrib bling down notes. His name was Cox, but people knew him better by his hair, which had grown so long that he had to fasten it up

with a wooden peg.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY. JULY 22, 1918

Radio Club Grows Rapidly; Talks With Union City

The Richmond Radio Club is growing all the time. Now there are about fifteen active members, and stations are being put up all over the city. Lloyd Snyder, the chief instigator of the club, has completed putting up the high aeriel and now. is able to send messages to the branch clnb in Union City; but those boys have not been able to get their sending apparatus as yet so there only can be the one sided communication. The Rich mond club, however, Is able to receive messages from Arlington and many other distant centers, and also will soon be able to send the calls to those stations. This wireless club is one of the best financial investments you boys could make, because wireless is undoubtedly the coming thing, end LAKESIDE REST f Do you take advantage of things that are free? Especially good, cool summer resorts that , other people pay hundreds of dollars to go away and find? Well there is a perfectly grand cottage right near here, where you can go for the day any time you want to and have everything just as it would be if you had gone up north somewhere, with boating, canoing, shady woods and everything, and it's all free, waiting for you. Did you know about it? It is Lakeside Rest, the pretty little cottage there by the Bathing Beach, which is open to the public and especially to children, under the supervision of Mrs. Edith Summerfruit, who is very anxious to give the children of Richmond a good, wholesome place to go for pure fun and recreation. And in order to make the arrangements for all to enjoy it the best way possible, Mrs. Summerfruit has set aside Thursday afternoons for girls from 10 to 15 years old, so any Sunday School class or club of any kind that is planning to have a picnic in the woods could not find any place'that would be better. Mrs. Summerfruit will conduct drills and outdoor exercises for the young folks and if it rains there is a reading room and a reception room in the cottage where you can go, besides both an upstairs and a down stairs porch. The day set aside for the boys from 10 to 15 is Tuesday, and they can do whatever they like then. Any picnic party that would like to engage the cottage ahead of time may do so by calling Mrs.) Summerfruit at the Bathing Beach or writing her at Lakeside Rest, Route C. There is absolutely no admission as the object is to advance better social conditions among the buys and girls and to make the cottage a popular gathering place for all sorts of social affairs. Picnic sup plies will also be furnished at cost. So parents send your children and bring your picnic suppers and make a good vacation out of this summer cottage. LAKESIDE REST, right next the Bathing Beach; don't forget. Sunday School League Since the Specials have gone to pieces, the league has been somewhat irregular. The standing now is: Teams. W. L. Pet. Lutherans 4 1 .800 Mt. Morlah 4 1 .800 Presbyterians 3 2 .600 Baptists 2 3 .400 St. Mary's 1 4 .200 i Playground, News j By Richard Thornburg I Twenty-second Street Playground. Bill Keys was hit in the mouth by a ball while batting. He had his bat between his legs and the ball hit it and glanced off. He was not seriously hurt. The tennis courts are not used much now. There are only about 25 people at the courts and they want to lie around and do nothing. There may be a disease called "spring fever," but there Is also a "summer fever."

operators are even now getting pretty big salaries. So learn it while you can have time to experiment, and know all about it. You'll never be sorry.

OTHER CLUBS STARTED These Radio Clubs have been started all over the United States and the revised lists of the active clubs is published each month in the Electrical Experimenter. A few of the other cities that have them are Akron, Ohio, Troy, N. Y., Cincinnati, O., Carrolton, 111., Chicago, Denver, Washington, and all the largest cities of the southern rtates. In Los Angeles there is a Radio Club of girls who have been experimenting with an umbrella for the ariel. It has proved quite successful. The way to make this wireless instrument, is to use an umbrella with a plain wooden handle so you will be sure to have no ground on it, and then by sprinkling the cement sidewalk so that it will be wet for about a hundred feet or so, two of you boys can use your other instruments and talk for at least half a square. Try It and see. A complete list of the active members will be in next week's Junior, so that you boys will know whom you can talk to, and where their stations are. And any questions that anyone wishes to ask, or diagram that you would like to see, address Lloyd Snyder through the Junior. BAXTER Some of the things they have at Baxter are swings, two sets of croquet, sand hills, basket ball, indoor base ball, and 35 or 40 different people there all the time. r Campfire News One of the most interesting camp fire meetings ever held here was the grand council fire of the Wahpikameki girls, when eight of the members were made Wood Gatherers and received their honorheads and rings. Guests were invited to witness the ceremony, and refreshments were served. The Akipsaya campfire held a called meeting at the home of the guardian Friday afternoon, ending in an informal picnic.

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Notes About "Y"

More boys than ever are using the swimming pool at the "Y" this summer, but no great excitement has happened as yet except the other day when some struggling beginner left his waterwings in the pool and they got in the valve and held it open, so that the next morning the poor fellows found & . dry tank, which had to be filled up with cold water, and it sure was cold, wasn't it? Although the boys are not having as great activities as during the winter, their busy life will commence once more when Mr. So Dime rville returns the first of August. Mr. Schwan, the new physical director for boys' athletics, will be here to begin his work the 10th of August.

r Whitewater News Whitewater playgrounds are tho most popular of all at present, for the average each day is 80 in the mornings and 125 in the afternoon. Although they have not organized regular teams in baseball, they choose up sides and have two games a day. Every afternoon from 3 to 4 Mr. Ramsey conducts a Victrola concert in the kindergarten room, where children can dance folk dances or just listen to the music. These are very popular and both boys and girls enjoy them thoroughly, especially when Rastus, the little Victrola man, is brought out to jig away on top of the record RIVERDALE "MOVIE" BANK A new bank is being opened in Riverdale, in the safety deposit of Mr. D. D. Ramsey. The accounts are not in excess of 6 cents, and the time limit is forty-five minutes, for the purpose of this bank is to keep funds dedicated to the admission fee of feature picture shows. RIVERDALE HIKING CLUB. The Riverdale Hiking club of which Mr. Melpolder is the leader, has decided to postpone its regular Saturday walks until cooler weather, unless they start out about 4 o'clock in the morning to do the walking before the sun grows too hot. CLASSES DISCONTINUED Classes in cooking and sewing which usually have been continued for several weeks after summer vacation ended, have not been kept up this year, so that the girls are having more vacation than usual.

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