Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 217, 29 July 1916 — Page 16

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TUB RICHMOND PALLADIUM. JULY 29, 1916

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM The Junior Palladium is a section of The Palladium issued every Saturday for boys and girls of Richmond and vicinity. All boys and girls are invited to contribute. Stories, sketches, personal incidents, happenings In the school room are acceptable and will be printed. Write on one side of the paper, and give name, age and address. Send all mail to The Junior Palladium. No manuscripts that are not printed will be returned. The Junior Palladium is the first newspaper for children printed in Richmond. It will be devoted entirely to their interests. For this reason, it will be glad to have you write, or if you are too young to write, let your parents write the letter for you.

Dear Boys and Girls: . Do you have an awful time knowing how to spell? Well 1 do, and I'm rather proud of it. Anybody who can spell any word you think of, right straight off, without making a single mistake, must be a freak. . Why there isn't any rule, science, or sense to our English spelling, and yet we hang on to it as though it were our last chance of being saved, don't we, leaning on dictionaries and hobbling along, like a cripple with one crutch. Head, bed, said; and yet they all sound alike. Sew, go, ' know, why any child in kindergarten ought to do better than getting a combination like that. And what is spelling, anyhow; Muhn started it .'in thp first nlaro?

If you did but know it, spelling is .the common consent of all the people that they will agree to have oortnin mnrlrs Htarirl fnr icrtsiin

combinations of letters standing for different sounds. That's all. NoOtfy makes us spell any special way. 1 We do it ourselves. And just becauseour grandfathers used to spell this mixed up way is no reason we have to, anymore than we have to wear wool stockings

and hot scratchy clothes, or live in log houses with dirt floors just because they did. We have used science to make engines to do our work, and we've used science to help us talk places our voices won't carry, and we travel by science, and see plays through science, and we even hear great music by, science; And yet

here we go stumbling along, trying

to spell like the Greeks or Romans did thousands of years ago. There is a group of educated men who are trying with all their best energy to get people to adopt a rational set of scientific rules and then spell every word by it. They call it Simplified Spelling; and lots of people don't like it because the words look so queer. But I think it will not be more than one more generation until all the children will be modern enough to refuse to twist their brains over these absurd combinations, and spelling will at last belong to the 20th Century instead of the Dark Ages. . The only thing I'm sorry for is that I'll probably be an old lady with gray hair before that time comes. Aunt Molly.

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The editor will try to answer questions readers of the Junior submit to him. He will .not promise to answer all of them. The questions will be answered in rotation, so do not expect the answer to be printed in the same week in which you send it in.

Saturday Night Talk

Children's Chum Club

A chum club has just been started with three secret members, the chuui mother, chum sister and littt chum brother. It meets every night just before bed time in the "chum chair" and the business of the next day is planned out as chum mother sits in the middle with chum sister and little chum brother on each of the arms. There are several contests now going on in the chum club and the prizes are awarded at Btated times. At present the contest is to see if chum brother and chum sister can keep frcm slapping each other for a whole week, and the prizes are kept ready for Saturday so that big chum sister and little chum brother can look at them every time they are tempted to forget. Chum clubs are secret clubs and maybe there, are lots of fhem that Aiding Children in Big Hospital The Rochester Children's Hospital is one of the best things that big city has ever built for its children. It is big enough to keep 65 babies at once, and it is almost full nearly all the time. Each child has a little white bed out on the big cove screened-in porch, and this hot weather yoi can see the poor little things, lying out there with their little legs bear, fast

asleep. The heads of the beds arei all padded with soft blankets, so that they won't be hurt. And onj the foot of each little bed is the!

tablet where the nurse writes down everything the child does or has to eat, so that the doctor will know all about it. Only little babies or children less than five years old are taken In this hospital and none with contagious diseases. Then there is a little house close by where their mothers can 6tay part of the time. And any time you'd go there you could see all these little sick children who were getting well.

we have never heard of in thfJun-

ior. But if you don't belong-to one, why don't you start one; because it's more fun than anything and all you have to do is ask your chum folks to join with you. And then you can be a secret chum member for life.

Editor Junior Pal: I can't understand why, when electric fans make things cooler, they use them in winter when there is already frost on the windows. Frederick J. Fans do not make things cooler, they only keep the air in motion so that frost cannot form on the glass. Ed. - Dear Editor: What are germs?

You hear so much about them now days. L. R. B. Germs are tiny little . animals that live off of other living things so small that they float on dust, or that millions of them can live in one drop of water. Some are good, eating up dead things so that they wont be in our way anymore, but some are very bad, gathering in large numbers and eating up some part of our bodies and making poison in its place. Ed. Editor of Query Corner: Why do birds go north in summer? M. D. Birds travel north for several reasons, I suppose, but mostly to find a safe nest for their little ones.

If you want any more information you had better ask the birds themselves. Ed. Dear Aunt Molly: Why don't flowers grow in our yard? Bertha .Whitehill lives right next door and she has lots of flowers, but only weeds grow for me. Jeanie F. My dear little Jeanie, I do wish I could tell you, but the flowers in our garden act that same, way. Some weeds must be naturally mean. Ed.

The Gentle Girl She is still among us, although we rarely see her picture in the paDer. She does not care for that

kind of thing, and possibly she does not earn a place in the columns

oi me aauy press. For her ambition is not to be known as a star swimmer, jumper or basket ball player. She shines in the home. Her gentle word soothes her father; her ready hand and willing services save mother manv a sten:

and her wise, kind advice to young

er cnuaren prevents many a squabble. The big brother thinks her second only to mother, and often her, "I wouldn't do it if I were you" induces him to give up some prank that might make trouble, or sets him thinking so earnestly that he sees the right way and often follows it resolutely. Being gentle does not mean being weak or uncertain. It is surprising how firm the quiet, gentle girl can be when a question of right and wrong is raised. Her tranquil eyes see clearly, and her Avoids make plain that there is but one course, the one that conscience whispers "follow." We need the gentle girl today. May she be found in more homes,

to give Joy and content, and to

JULIA BURR EARNS RING AND WATCH

Julia Burr has earned a gold ring and a silver watch by selling perfume. She did that in five days and is now working to get a bracelet, That is a pretty good way to spend your vacation if you haven't anything else to do, isn't it?

Something For Fun

Five Vice Presidents have succeeded to the Presidency by the death of the President, and all sought renomination for another term. ,

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bring a blessing' on' all lives that touch hers. The boisterous girl, the athletic girl, the social success have their day, but if they have no other recommendation to favor, it, is only for a day. The clamorous, boastful girl soon loses vogue; a better swimmer or jumper may retire the athletic girl even in one brief contest; and the social success may after all be only the most pitiful, kind of a failure. But the gentle home girl endures. She is the type of true womanhood. By FATHER CRONIN. .

Who is Macbeth? The county superintendent was visiting the country schools and asking the frightened children a few literary questions. "And who is the world famed creator of matchless Macbeth," he asked. There was no response. "Children, who wrote Macbeth," he repeated. Still no answer. "Johnny, you tell me at once who wrote Macbeth," he commanded. And Johnny quavered out, "Please sir, I didn't do it."

James Buchanan was the only President who, having served one term, was not a candidate for re-nomination.

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Uncle Bill And The Movies . Uncle Bill Is taking a nap. When a young man, Uncle went to Africa, and for one thing brought home this picture of a great monkey he captured there. As he sleeps he dreams that the great ape begins to climb out of the picture saying, "Look here, Uncle, it's about time I paid you back for taking me away from my happy home in the jungle." Then he gave a great bound out of the picture and seized Uncle Bill by the throat, causing him to cry out in terror. He wakes up to find that it is all a dream. Instead of the great ape choking him it was only his good wife trying to awaken him so he could eat the dinner she had prepared. She says: "For the land's pake, what were you dreaming about?" Copyright by George Matthew Adams.

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