Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 247, 2 September 1916 — Page 14

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY. SEPT. , 1916 THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM Something To Puzzle Over

The Junior Palladium is a section of Tbe Palladium Issued every Saturday for boys and girls of Richmond and vicinity. All boys and girl:) 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 Juniors: "I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, you know the rest of that, don't you? But I wonder if you have ever thought much about it Do you know what a shadow is? Different people may say different things, but the shadow I mean is the part of you that - faUs where you can never be. The funny thing about shadows Is that they are always yours but hardly ever look just like you. You may be real little, but your shadow may stretch out half a square and fall on someone way off from you, or you may be real tall and think your shadow ought to reach all over town, but it may be a little bitty weaseled up thing and hardly affect a person. - And then another thing, , about shadows is thai the length of them often depends upon where you are. If yon are way np on a high hill your shadow may reach all down the side of the hill and half across a valley, and you wouldn't know anyfiiing about it. Out at the Chautauqua, those people, TTbo are up on the platform . and teH us the best things they know, bave a shadow, and do you - know, I suspect it reaches almost every one in the tent In some way or Mother. To some people the Little Ones Enjoy Picnic Dinner TT3 "Children's picnic was a great success last Friday, when Miss Grace Shera with two assistants, took the Kindergarten of Chautauqua down In the Glen from 4 o'clock to S to eat supper. Slxty- : seven went and when they were all tied together along one rope, they made a line about a square long. Playing by the animals cages and watching the monkeys was the main amusement One of the boys played ball with the monkeys and ' it was quite exciting, for the monkeys were very good players. The children ate their lunches there by the monkey cages, and some of them thought the monkeys were laughing at them. But that didn't hurt their feelings, and they all were so happy that they sang "My Country Tis of Thee" and other favorite songs all the way home. UERY CORNER IBoys and girls often ask their parenls Questions about things which they do not understand. Sometimes ft is about a strange word, or about a foreign city, or a strange custom. Children and parents are afiked to send these questions to the Query Corner. We will try to answer them. Here are a few that parents told us about: Why do little folks bave to go to bed at eight o'clock when grown people don't go until eleven?. B. P. It is resting and sleeping that makes you grow, so if you want to stay little and weak, just as you are now, you can stay up that late. Ed. What la a left-handed monkey wrench? I never saw one. N. Brown. A left-handed monkey wrench is a right handed one too; there Is no difference. Ed. Why can't we have a cement swimming pool out at our public play ground like they have at Ind ianapolis? M. B. C. The main reason is that many people haven't thought about it yet But we ought to have one. Ed.

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different shadows just look funny, and they laugh; to others the shadow faces seem strong and noble, and it makes them want to be strong and noblo too. And the people who are making the shadows never can know where their shadows are falling, or how they look to the people, so all they do is gt on, saying the best and doing the best they can, and just believing that their shadows will at least partly show them as they are. And so every one has his own little shadow. I have one, and maybe it is falling right over the page where you are reading. You have one; and maybe it is influencing someone right now. A happy little girl on the street has one; and maybe it reaches up into a- sad home and makes the people smile just for a minute. Every king and (Jueen has one; and maybe the shadow of the points on their crowns fall on different homes and seem like daggers. President Wilson has one, and it is reaching clear across the country. Shadows funny little shadows, and funnier big shadows, with everybody having one where they can never be. . What are you going to do with yonrs? I'm going to keep mine, and make it behave just the best I can, wouldn't you? AUNT MOLLY.

Goyote Plays With Katydid Out at the Glen last Sunday, the people who were watching the animals were amused to see a coyote puzzling over a new plaything a large green katydid. He didn't know quite what to make of it The katydid was slowly crawling over the cement floor of the cage when the coyote discovered it, and he immediately came prancing over to it, cautiously touching it with his fore paw. This turned the katydid over on its back with its long tapering legs waving in the air. The coyote then put his nose down on the floor and sort of came snuggling up to it, but the insect tickled him on the nose and the poor coyote jumped away, sneezing and sputtering, and thoroughly disgusted. After this, he walked around the queer object several times before deciding to treat it as a real plaything, after which he contentedly lay down and kept it between his paws for sometime, until finally in a burst of unusual playfulness, he rolled over on the poor thing, and that wa3 the end of the katydid. LEORA IMITATES JUNIOR. Leora is a little girl down in Terre Haute who had the Junior sent to her the other week, and when she read about the little Boston Cousin she came running over to her mother and said: "Oh mother, I'm going to say something cute, too, so tbcyH put it in the paper." NORTH END MISSION Tomorrow will be Cradle Roll Day at the North Fourteenth street Mission, and Interesting exercises are being planned, so all mothers and fathers, or. brothers and sisters remember to bring all the little folks who are on the roll, or who ehould be. SEEK ESKIMO SLAYERS. Captain French and four constables sailed from Montreal, July 29 to hunt the Eskimo murderers of our American explorer, Harry V. Rodford and T. George Street of Canada. It is expected that the expedition for justice will take at least three years.

Saving the Dolla r Once a boy ten years old found a dollar bill. He said to himself, MI will spend this for candy." On the way he lost it. His sister came along and found it. She said "I will buy a doll with it" As she was going she lost it A boy came along and found it He was five years old. He picked it up and said to himself. Til take this home to papa." He took it home and gave it to his father. His father let him keep it and put it in his bank, and his father gave him another dollar for his good luck, and that was his first two dollars. GEORGIA BEAM.

MINSTREL SHOW. Every one should, be interested in knowing of the entertainment which a group of little girls in the east part of the city are planning for next Friday night, September 8, for the benefit of the Day Nursery. It will be in the form of minstrels, with songs, violin music, solo dancing, and probably a little play, and will be presented on the lawn at the home of Mr. Foulke on South 18th street Although the entire caste has not been chosen as yet, the following are working towards the success ofthe entertainment: Misses Helen Robinson, Winifred Comstock, Margaret Coe, Gertrude Williams, Alice Lemon, Virginia and Janet Harris, Lois Ward, Martha Holcomb, Alice Carr, Jean Shiveley and Caroline Bartel. 01AMER!CAN mk INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT THEM SUPPLIED BY THE BUREAU OF BIOLOOICAt SURVEY OF THE UNITED . STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE (Lanius ludovicianus) The loggerheaded shrike is one of the few birds around here with a bad name. He is the "butcher bird," and to tell the worst truth about him first, he does kill other birds and pin them on a thorn until be Is ready to eat them. But his main diet is on large insects and field mice, so that he does lots of good, even if he is cruel. This old Mr. Shrike, like most murderers, isn't very sociable, but sits all by himself in some lonely place that is rather overgrown and thorny, watching for something to swoop down on. He isn't a very big bird, not being as large as a robin, but he is very strong and has a huge beak to tear his meat with. You can tell them by being all grey and white with black tail and wing.s, but especially by the black patches over both eyes, like the masks robbers wear. But shrikes are most interesting to study. They have perfectly wonderful sight, for when they are perched up at the top of a high telephone pole, they bave been known to see a little grasshopper way down on the ground, and swoop down on it Most people say that the shrikes never make a pleasant sound, but Ernest Thompson says he has heard them singing songs that would be worthy of a Cat-bird, in the springtime. For in the early spring when all the world is growing beautiful, even cross old Mr. Shrike can show that he too has a sweetheart, and can sing to her.

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A hole in the ground, a sign, some trees, and a toad stool. What can Puss make out of all this? I believe the answer is on the sign board.

Read Want Ads In the Junior There is no doubt about people reading the Junior Want Ads Boys and girls who have put them in say that people ask them about their things right away. One advertisement for selling aa girl's wheel was answered the next morning, and the wheel was sold immediately. Another "Found" advertisement for selling a girl's and many others also have proved most satisfactory. But since there are no charges for this column, those who put in the advertisement are careless about notifying us when its mission is done, and thus several have been carried on long after the article has been sold, traded or found. So since this is a very convenient exchange column for you, and since one Aunt Molly scarcely can be a good editor, reporter and advertising agent at the same time, we would appreciate it very much if you all would not only send in your want ads, but also tell us when you are through with them; HARD ON THE BOYS In Rochester so many people are working in the munition factories that the stores scarcely can get clerks to wait on people, especially ice cream parlors. One store had such trouble that just a few weeks ago in the hot weather when everybody was wanting cold drinks the store simply had to close up because they couldn't get any waiters. INTERESTING DATES Sept. 4 Labor Day. Sept. 5 First Continental Congress met, 1774. Sept. 6 General Lafayette born, 1757; President McKinley assassinated, 1901. Sept. 8 First Circumnavigation of the World completed, 1522. Your character cannot be essentially injured except by your own acts. Exchange WANTED Every reader of the Junior Palladium to see Charlie Chaplin in "The Bank" at the Arcade, Sunday. Lots of fun for five cents. FOR SALE OR TRADE United Profit Sharing coupons. Will trade for Liggett and Meyers coupons. A4dress Frank Berheide, care of the Junior, or call 1329. 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 .he meetings and see all the things the boys are 'doing, and then give your name in to be one of them.

No. 6 EveningatGrandpa's I sit on the porch out at Grandpa's Just before going to bed, And watch the light of the fireflies As they climb to the sky overhead: And I wonder if they ever fly downward, Or just flit onNtill they're dead? Sometimes I hear a voice hooting, From the top of an old hollow 4, oak; I used to think someone was calling And very politely I spoke. But now I just smile in the darkness, . For it's an owl's only kind of a joke. And down at the edge of the pasture, Where the wood climbs out of the Glen, I seem to see fluttering movements And flashes of light, now and then, And I know it is King Brian Connors . At the head of his wee "Little Men." But I'm not afraid of the Fairies, For I've magic against any harm, In my pocket I. carry some pieces Of the oak, of the ash and the thorn And my knife blade, cold Iron, will guard me From any effects of their Charm. Then Grandma calls out from the doorway And I almost jump out of my skin She says it is time for the Sandman And maybe he's already been; But I take Cold Iron to bed with me Lest the Sandman and Brian Connors are kin. Hettie Elliott. WHY HE IS HAPPY I woke before the morning, I was happy all the day, I never said an ugly word, but smiled and stuck to play. Stevenson. Column WANTED A girl's bicycle before school begins. See Naomi Caldwell, 258 North 22nd street, or telephone 378G. WANTED Everybody to see the Boy Scout exhibition at the Chautauqua Saturday afternoon, Sept. 2nd. FOR SALE No. O. O. cartridge Premo Kodak cheap. Call at 217 N. 14th street. TO SELL A 2A Scout camera. Call 2475, or address Junior Palladium. WANTED AH mothers with healthy babies between 6 months and 2 years of age to register them immediately with Miss Mary Kennedy in the Commercial Club rooms for the Prize Baby Contest. FOR SALE OR TRADE Female goat broken to drive. Phone 5112 a