Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 24, 9 December 1916 — Page 9

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

NEWS OP THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF WAYNE COUNTY IN THE JUNIOR BOYS AND GIRLS WRITE MANY INTERESTING LETTERS TO-JUNIOR" RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY, DEC. 9, 1916 Santa Glaus Tells Aunt Molly of His Plans to Bring Presents to All the Boys and Girls

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WARNER CHILDREN

WANT PLAYGROUND Dear Aunt Molly: The children of Warner school are in need of a larger playground. Since we are the second ward school in size. We have a very little playground. One need of having a larger playground is for the boys to play ball in. The little children want a larger play ground so that they can play horses too. I hope we do get a larger playground, we are too crowded in 'this one. t Your friend, Charles Surrendorf. PRIZE COMPOSITION THE HIKE One Saturday morning at six o'clock Aunt Molly took the sixth grade girls from the Whitewater summer school on a hike. We walked up the hospital road. We stopped to eat our lunch about half past seven. We walked two miles when we stopped again to eat some bananas which Aunt Molly had. We saw pretty birds on our way. Aunt Molly told us stories about them. Then we came to a mulberry tree. The girls stopped to pick some berries. A girl left her hat by the tree and when we had walked about three miles from the mulberry tree the girl said that she had left her hat by the tree. So of course we had to go back and get it. We went wading in the river. Aunt Molly told us to take off our dresses for fear we would get wet and have nothing to wear. We were having a very nice time. Two girls fell in and were wet. Then we started honfe for Aunt Molly had to be at the Palladium office by one o'clock so we had to start home. On the way we came to a farm where there was a house where the front yard was full of rose bushes. The lady in the house said that we each could have a rose. A girl did not act very well. She refused to do what she was told to do. I think when we are with a company we should be very polite and unselfish. I enjoyed it very much and wish Aunt Molly would take us on a hike again.- Fannie Rizio, 6 A, Whitewater school. HOLD NIGHT SCHOOL The sixth, seventh and eighth grades of White district school are having grammar night school, beginning at 7:30 and lasting till 9:30. There have already been five meetings. James Morgan is the teacher of all eight grades and as the time is limited to an average of 6 2-3 minutes to every class, it was decided to have njght school for the three highest grades in different subjects, starting with grammar. The teacher receives no extra pay for coming the two mile3 out in the country to meet the pupils, but does it for the good of his scholars. Some of the older people of the community have asked to be Included in the class to finish their education. Myrtle Gibson, Rep. For Warner Playground I think Warner school should have a playground like the other schools. We have hardly any playground at all, and the children don't think it is right. We would like to have a base ball diamond for the boys and girls. The other schools have better play grounds than wo do. Will you try to help us get one? We will do all we can to get one. The school board might try to find an empty lot somewhere for the boys and girls to play after school. We are trying to get tho play ground for all the children but mostly for the ones that do not have any place to play at home, for there are many children In this district who live in flats. Lucilo Leonard, Warner school.

SANTA CLAUS CITY, NORTH POLE My Dear Aunt Molly: ' Your telegram was just received and I am glad to know that the children are sending in their letters so early. Please thank them for telling about theirjittle brothers and sisters too, for I would be very sorry to miss any little one who is too small to write. Since the chimneys are so small now days I have been having more trouble each year trying to get down them, so this year I am not going to try it at all. Tell the children I am coming in the daytime because it will take so much longer to come to each door that I will have to start early to get all around. And also tell them that this time since I will be so long on the way round, that I may not stop at the houses where the mother and father or other folks have already sent word to me that they will be my helpers. But I hope all the boys and girls will be watching for me, because I want to say "Merry Christmas" to each one.Hoping this reaches you safely in spite of the heavy snow storms' up here, I am as ever, Your old friend, SANTA CLAUS. THANKS JOHN R12ZIO. P. S. Please thank John Rizio for inviting me to dinner. Rabbit is my favorite meat, so I am especially sorry that our big Christmas dinner up here will keep me away. S. C.

Heleu's First Christmas Helen was a little orphan girl three years old. It was the week before Christmas. One day a beautiful woman cime to the asylum and said she wanted a pretty little girl about three years old. . The matron sent for Helen. The woman was glad and so was Helen. So the woman took Helen home with her. She and her husband lived in a very big house of stone. . It was a mansion inside, and they were very rich. When they got honie the woman called to a nurse all dressed up in white. She told the nurse to take Helen up to her room and dress her for dinner. The room which was to belong to i Helen was very beautiful tor littsi girls and Helen liked it. The nursd put a little white frock on Helen with a little blue sash, blue hair ribbons, white stockings and white slippers. She went down to dinner and after supper the lady, who was now her mamma said, "Helen, my dear, you may write a letter to Santa Claus and then nurse will help you get to bed." This is what Helen wrote: "Dear Santa Claus, I want a big doll with light hair and blue eyes that shut when you lay her down, and I want a doll bed, a set of dishes and a doll buggy. Your little friend. Helen Thomas." She hung her stocking up and kissed mamma and papa and went up stairs to bed. The next morning she woke up and ran down stairs in her nightie, and there were all the things she wanted and more too. And for once Helen was very happy. Grace Simcoke, Finley. A PRAYER Father, whom I cannot see, Look down from heaven on little me; Let angels through the darkness. ness spread Their holy wings above my bed; And keep me safe because I am The heavenly Shepherd's little lamb; Teach me to do as I am told And help me to be as good as gold. Amen. The Pathfinder. QUITE AN HONOR Dear Aunt Molly: I spent Thanksgiving in Winchester. We enjoyed a big turkey dinner in the evening. While I was there I had the honor of meeting cur new governor's wife, Mrs. Good rich. I hope everyone had as nice a Thanksgiving ns I had. Vera Kinert. Warner school.

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LIBERTY STATUE

BATHED IN LIGHT The Statue of Liberty, which for so many years has welcomed immigrants to the Land of the Free will now be lighted at night. It stands in New York harbor where it is the first sight that meets the stranger from Europe. If you do not know much about the statue, it might be well for you to read about it, and then write a little article about it for the Junior. NOTICE! All boys who are interested in Roytown positions please see Joseph Swearinger on or before January 1, 1917. Swearinger, the newly elected mayor, wishes to have the best possible cabinet for Boylown. There are a few offioes still unfilled, bo if you would like to take part in this great forward movement, see Swearinger at once.

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Why We Want Playground The children . of ; Warner school think they ought to have a good playground just as well as the children of other buildings. Many of the children live in flats and have no playgrounds. Warner school is the only school m th3 whole city that has no good playgrounds to play base ball and other games. We wish the people of the second district would help us to get a few lots to make a playground for ball and other games. The school board can buy one for us. Onis Lipscomb, Warner school.

THIS WILL TELL YOU HOW BOY BECAME RICH Once there was a little poor boy who sold peanuts. This boy, every morning and evening went down to the train to sell his peanuts. Many people bought from him because they were always fresh. " ; One day the train was full. Many people bought. After a while when he was walking along the train, a man called to him to give him some peanuts. The boy handed him the basket. He took them all but did not give him any money. Just them the train pulled out. The little boy went home crying. When he got home his mother asked him what was the matter, and he said that a man took all his peanuts and never gave" him any money. -, . . The next morning -the boy was not at the train. The people wondered where he was. The same day as he was playing in the sand a man came up. It was the same man that took the peanuts away from him. He 6ald, "It was mean of me to take those peanuts away from you, come with me." And he led him to a woods to a big rock. He said to the rock, "Open." It did. He walked -inside. There were bags and bags of gold. He said they were his. The little boy ran home as fast as he could and told his mother". She went to the rock and said, "Open." It did. She went in and got some money and went down town to get some food and clothes. Many years after she died and the boy got married and lived happy the rest of his life. Paul elevenger, Baxter school. WOODEN SHOES A girl brought some wooden shoes to Bchool one day. The 5 R's looked at them before recess and the 5 A's looked at them after recess. One had some carnations on it and the other had some paneies. They were very Interesting. Clara Huber, 5 A, Valle school.

WHY RABBIT EARS AND NOSES ARE PINK Once upon a time there was a rabbit who had two baby rabbits whose names were Peter Rabbit and Bunny Rabbit. After they were a month old their mother said to go out and get their own living and she shut the door and left the poor little rabbits in the rain. After a while it commenced to rain so bard and the poor little rabbits were so cold. After a little bit they saw a can and they jumped into it and it was full of red paint and the paint got all over their noses and ears and feet- t. .' After they got home their mother washed them and made their noses and ears and feet pink, and that is the reason their noses and ears and feet are pink. Mary Louise McClure, 8 years, New Castle, Ind.

STELLA GIVES PARTY FOR LITTLE FRIENDS One day Stella came running in and said, "Mother, can I have a Thanksgiving party?" "Yes, my child, I shall let you have ; a party. Tell me whom you want to invite." "I want Mary, Alice, Ella, Rose, Reba, Leona, Ralph. Roland, Rudolph and Ann. Mother, may I go and get some .invitation paper and envelopes," said Stella. "Yes, go put on your pink dress and you may go," said her mother. When she came home her mother wrote the invitations. Then Stella took them to the homes of tho children. When they came Stella took them into the parlor. Then she went out to help her mother get the table ready. When Stella had gone down town she had bought seven little dolls and three toy guns. -The guns were for the boys and the dolls for "the girls. When the table was ready, Stella went in the parlor to play. It was six-thirty and at seven-thirty Stella said, "Come with me," She ,then led them into their dining room. At every plate there was a card with the name of the person that was to sit there. Stella said, "Now take your places." " There were thirteen places. ' Stella's mother sat at one end and her father at the other end. When they were, ready to go they said, "Each year one of us will have a party." Then they went home. Lucile Moorman, age 11, Finley school. TWO LITTLE SISTERS Once upon a time there were two little sisters and their father was a farmer and he had some sheep and one of the mother sheep died. She left two little lambs and the father gave one to one sister and one to the other. So the girls were well pleased and fed and cared for them. One little lamb died and when the father came in that evening one of the girls was sitting by the stove looking very sad and her father asked her what she wanted - and she said, "I haven't any faith In my Jesus any more." and papa said, "We could not live without him." And the little girl began to cry and said, "He let my little lamb die." And her father told her that the Lord had given them all to him, and that he would give her another one. Ellen Tewart, Vaile school. Ruth and the Kitty Ruth was making her doll a dress. She was sewing a long seam around it. She heard a rap-tat-tat-tat when she opened the door in walked her kitty. Her mother said "Go and get your kitty some milk.' While she was gone her kitty hid her sewing basket and needles and thread. When she came in she asked her kitty where her sewing basket was.. ' He only said "Meow, it taw." Chester Collins, yVarner.