Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 229, 12 August 1916 — Page 12

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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 Girls Although we live in a city that is noted for many things that are unusually nice, there is one thing we lack more than anything else, it seems to me and that is a swimtag pool. We have no Y. W. C. A., the boys wont let us even look at theirs in the Y. M. C. A. (although most all of us worked like Trojans to help them get it) and the School Board says that they are too poor to put one in the public schools, so the only thing we can do is to make the best of Hawkins' Pond. Hawkins Pond! Do you go out there? Frankly, I don't, much as I would like to know how to swim. I did go once, as full of joy and enthusiasm as anticipation of cool water on a hot day can make you; but I hadn't been in very long when some long skinny fellow with hanks of sickly-looking yellow hair hanging over his forehead, came thrashing right towards me, and when he got just in front of me, lost his stroke, went under, and then came np blowing his nose and spitting all over everything, besides stirring up all the mud possible. And of course it was just then that I went under and swallowed everything he had spit out. Now I'm not saying anything against Hawkins pond or that boy only now I stay at home and envy the girls who can stand it to go. But girls, even you who do go to Hawkins, can "only use it part of the time in the summer, and

My Boy Scout Neighbor (Reprinted fro m the Atlanta Go., Journal.)

One winter night I sat on my. front steps forlornly in the dark. I could not get into my house. Something was wrong with the lock and the key would not work. I had returned, sick and deadly tired, from a business excursion into town. A locksmith could not be had at that hour, granted I were able to go for one. There seemed nothing for it but to go to a neighbor's or a hotel for the night. But I wanted my own bed, my own comforts. Between laughing and crying, I Bald to myself: "I believe 1"11 just sit here and freeze, it's ridiculous not to be able to get into my own house." Now, this may seem a small matter but it was not. I knew that more exertion or more exposure would make me seriously ill. 1 had been ready to drop when I reached my door. The tinkle of a bicycle bell put new life into me as I recognized its rider when he passed under the arcliKht at the corner.! "David'' I called. In a moment a boyish; figure In uniform stood before me. j cap in hand. "David," I complain-j ed. half crying, "I can't get in." THE BOSTON COUSIN. The little Boston Cousin was being very much impressed by her father's description of good people ; going up to heaven. j "Well, daddy,' she said. "are. these folks up there in the sky j right now" "Yes, dear, lots of them." "But then, father," she complained thoughtfully, "why can't I see their legs a-dangling down?" CHAPMAN TWINS BETTER The Chapman twins who were hurt in an automobile accident, are getting along very nicely. Helen, who had her lee broken, has to lie in bed with it suspended in the' air all the time, so that it will grow ' straight again. But Mary can be' out of doors all the time. I

there are about 8 months a year when you have to go swimingless. Suppose there were the chance to get a real, modern, first class swimming pool, Just for us. Would you be willing to help work for it? A swimming pool that would be the equal of that in the Y. M. C. A., with heated water, lockers, s,hower baths, a woman to be in charge, and just one square from 8th and Main; would you want it? " Well, listen; you know this wonderful Martha Washington hotel that is going to be put up on the corner of 8th and South A, just for women, that will just about take the place of a Y. W. C. A., don't you? Well, it is going to have just enough space left in the basement next to the gymnasium to have a 30x30 pool, and Mr. Krone says if we can offer him enough security to assure the stockholders that it will pay them to put that many thousands of dollars into the building, we can have it. The Camp Fire Girls are in for it, and are going to work to help get it, but we need every club and every girl In Richmond back of the movement. Because, girls, that would be one of the biggest things we ever have tried to do, and there isn't any one organization of girls big enough to engineer a campaign alone. Are you in for it? Talk it up when you are out in crowds, and I wish every single one of you would write in to the Junior and show your colors. Here's my letter, now let's see yours. Aunt Molly

It was comfortable to have to say that to a child. An adult must have heard with an inevitable sense of amusement. David was gravely sympathetic. "I guess I'll have to get you to phone for a cab to take me to a hotel," I finished. "Oh, I can get you in all right," said David. He went to his home and returned with a small kit of tools and a flashlight, also with a shawl, which he put around me. He worked at my lock and soon had me in my house sitting by my cozy fire. "Bless my boy scout neighbor!" I thought as his bicycle bell tinkled when he rode away. This was one just one of the times in which David helped me out. There were ways, so many ways, as I learned, in which a scout could and would render efficient first aid.

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Interesting Book There are many interesting books down at the library, but one that I was most interested in was an edition of "Alice in Wonderland" that is the exact copy of the way Lewis Carroll wrote it, with all the words printed in the funniest little cramped writing, and queer little pictures drawn with a pen and ink along the margin. Ask Miss Foulk to show it to you the next time you are down to the library, and see if you aren't as interestedin it as I was. STUDY 300,000 INSECTS There are thousands of different kinds of bugs in the world. Learned men have examined and classified about 300,000. It is estimated that there are about twice that many which have not been studied. Some of these bugs have brilliant colors and are pretty. OMMOli.AMERJCAN BIRDS INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT THEM SUPPLIED BK THE BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BOBWHITE (Golinus virgianus) Length, ten inches. Known everywhere by the clear whistle that suggests its name. Range: Resident in the United States east of the plains; introducedin many places in the West. Habits and economic status: The bobwhite is loved by every dweller of the country and is better known to more hunters in the United States than any other game bird. It is no less appreciated on the table than in the field, and in many states has unquestionably been hunted too closely. Fortunately it seems to be practicable to propagate the bird in captivity, and much is to be hoped for in this direction. Half the food of this quail consists of weed seeds, almost a fourth of grain, and about a tenth of wild fruits. Although theus eating grain, the bird gets most of it from stubble. Fifteen per cent of the bobwhite's food is composed of insects, including several of the most serious pests of agriculture. It feeds freely upon Colorad potato beetles and chinch bugs; it devours also cucumber beetles, wireworms, billbugs, clover leaf weevils, cotton-boll weevils, army worms, boll worms, cutworms and rocky mountain locusts. Take it all in all, bobwhite is very useful to the farmer, and while it may not be necessary to remove it from the list of game birds every farmer should see that his own farm is not depleted by eagrer sportsmen.

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Something Reuben's

"The egg is finished! I will now read a chapter in 'I low to Make ArtArt Live. Whow! What a noise!" On turning. Rube discovers that the squawker sits by his side. Frightened by the unusual entrance of the bird, Reuben throws down his traps and starts on the run, exclaiming, "Hatched out! By Crickety!" Copyright by George Matthew Adams

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Exchange FOR SALE A good girl's bicycle. Call 1937 or write in care of the Junior. WANTED To buy a second-hand bicycle. See Earl Porter at the Palladium. FOR TRADE Gold watch, guaranteed for twelve years, for a good tennis racquet See Vaughan Chamness. FOR SAL EOR TRADE Old paper money,, old coins and four magic bill books. Call 379. FOR SALE OR TRADE Good Sqnirt Gun. It cost 25c when new. Will take 15c for it if sold. If you have anything to trade what will you give for it. Everett Lasly, 1529 N. A St., City. TO SELL A 2A Scout camera. Call 2475, or address Junior Palladium. FOR SALE A good bicycle frame, handle bars, pedals, two good rims and lot of other things; call phone 3153. TO TRADE A good flashlight with a new battery. What will you give? Address E. K., 1233 Main St. TO TRADE 1,000 stamps, mostly foreign, worth about $20, for a tennis racquet. Call W. W., at 2551. TO TRADE 30 rugs from cigarette packages to inake a blanket. Address D. R., care of the Junior Palladium. TO TRADE Grey Mackinaw for a good ennis racquet. Address W. N., care of Junior Palladium. WANTED More boys to Join the Boy Scouts ; guaranteed to be the best boys' organization ever started; recognized all over the world; mentioned in almost every newspaper, magazine, or periodical ever printed; holding a membership of over 400,000 boys here in America alone, with 20,000 men in charge, while in other countries the membership is just as large. Go to some of the meetings and see all the things the boys are doing, and then give your name in to be one of them.

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Movies Column FOR TRADE German and Netherland stamps. What will you trade? See II. H. M., at the Palladium office. FOUND A boy's air rifle. The owner can have same by calling at 910 N. 10th street, and identifying it. TO SELL Unusual stamps; 3 Burmuda, 1 Chinese, 1 Japanese and several old American. See R. S. T. at 21 S. 20th, or call 3612. FOR SALE Fine Belgian Haves. Several sizes. Will sell very reasonable. 401 North 20th St FOR SALE 2-A kodak, in good condition. Was bought for $7.50; will sell for $5. Call 2321. FOR SALE Auto in good condition. Cost $15 to make it. Call at 32 S. 20th st., and have a look at it. WANTED To trade a new gymnasium suit for a good $1.25 base ball. Russell Sullivan, 35 South Sixth street. I have outgrown a ball glove. It is in excellent condition. It is for sale or trade. Call 1010 S. Eighth st. FOR SALE OR TRADE Angora Billy Goat. John Hipskind. Jr., 2205 East Main St., Phone 3795. FOR SALE Cheap, a rabbit pen. It is in excellent condition. Ernest McDonald, 1221 Boyer st. FOR SALE or EX (JANG E A good wireless detector. Call 2475. STAMPS A Belgian soldier interned in Holland, would like very much to obtain some American or other stamps for his collection, in exchange for European stamps. Write to Antoinc De Coster, 18 eme Batterie de place interne, Baraque 21, Camp 1, Zeist, Holland, Europe. FOR SALE Ingersoll watch in good running order; also two good Water Pistols. Frederick Marsden, 333 S. 10th St., Richmond, lnd. FOR SALE No. O. O. cartridge Premo Kodak cheap. Call at 217 N. 14th street.