Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 30, 16 December 1916 — Page 16
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, DECEMBER 16, 1916
THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM
J . The Junior Palladium is the children's section of the Richmond Palladium, founded May 6, 1916, and Issued each Saturday afternoon. All boys and girls are invited to be reporters and contributors. News Items, social events, "want" advertisements, stories, local jokes and original poems are acceptable and will be published. Articles should be written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author's name and age signed. Aunt Molly is always glad to meet the children personally as they bring their articles to the Palladium office, or to receive letters addressed to the Junior Editor. This is your little newspaper and we hope each boy and girl will use it thoroughly.
The Ghum Club Corner
MERRY CHRISTMAS . now Thanksgiving is over and Christmas la come, and I wish al! the poor , little children a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. ) Marguerite Muckridge. So do we all, Marguerite, and we re so glad that you are taking' s part in the Chum Club and expressing your wish to us. We all have that good little Chum feeling at Christmas time that makes us want to say "Merry Christmas" to everybody, but most of us are too timid or careless, or just neglectful, to ay It, and we thus fall to make other folks much happier. k V But this year. Juniors, suppose we start In time to see what a merry Christmas we all can have. Don't you know some little old lady who has rheumatism and has to stay in the house all day long? Well, 6iippose you think of her real hard and then just before Christmas you stop in there for a minute and say "Merry Christmas" to her. Or perhaps you can find some lit- . lie sick girl or boy in your neighborhood, and you can say it ito them.
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UERY CORNER
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Remember, Juniors, that everybody likes to have a friend, and the very best Christmas present you canu give anyone is a little piece of friendship tied up a "Merry Christmas," and marked "Meant for You," Aunt Molly. Old Santa was all through work one ChristmaB night all his gifts weredistributed and every single thing was given away except a little doll that had half of the sawdust leaked out of it. "'" Santa is the most kind-hearted fellow in the world so on seeing the doll felt bad about it His spirits soon arose again and he shifted his reins and drove his reindeers down to earth and scraping some snow away, filled the empty place place with dirt. Instantly the doll became lifelike for every human is made out of coarse dirt.' Santa, his spirits rising higher than ever over his creation put his hand In his pocket, for handling snow sometimes makes even ' Santa's hand cold. But he quickly drew them out for his hand touched a letter that he had not even noticed before, he opened it, and it read: . "Dere Santa i aint got nuthing fu crismas ner never had will yo bring me sumpthin plese. i live at 240 torll stret, Jeni." Santa had missed that place, Oh, how badly he felt! So he turned his reindeers around and you may be sure that little girl had that little doll that was almost life-like for her Christmas. Think of how many little children Santa misses is it YOUR fault? , Claude G. Miller.
I Dear. Aunt Molly: How did we get our last names and why are some of them so funny? Myrtle Gibson. .. .;' My Dear Myrtle: Our custom of surnames is a growth out of the middle ages, adopted about 1000 A. D.; but it probably started by peo
ple taking a second name when they were converted to Christianity, as Simon Peter. . The reason names are so funny now la because we have lost their original meaning and changed their spelling. If you want to know more, it tells lots about it in the Encyclopedia Americana. Aunt M. .- Will you please tell me what is blacker than a crow? Bernlece Uhl i" My dear Bernlece: Don't you know? Some people say crow feathers, but I say the. big, black boog-er-man that visits bad little boys in the middle of the night . E. Where did the English language get started and could they make such funny words? Louise Ballard. The English language got started when the Anglo-Saxon and Normans
and Germans and Greeks and Latins and Spaniards and several others all got together and tried to talk to each other, so I guess funny words were the only kind they could make. Ed. ' ; Dear Editor:- I seen in the funny paper wher It said, "The, best Laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley." What's that mean? H. Smith. , ' ... ' "Gang aft agley" Is the Scotch for "go oft awry." The quotation Is from a little poem about a mouse that had carefully made its nest In a field late in the year, when one day a big man came along and plowed up the field, destroying the nest before he saw it. So as the poor little mouse " was scurrying away, over the 'field Robert Burns felt so sorry for it that he wrote this poem. Ed.
The Naughty Dog
Once there - was a man whose name was Pierce. Mr. Pierce had twenty sheep and a, dog whose name was Buster. Buster did not like the sheep at all. One day when Mr. Pierce had gone away Buster went to the pasture where the sheep were kept and killed one of the young lambs. In the evening when Mr. Pierce
came home he went to the pasture
to drive the sheep in and found one missing.
He knew how Buster hated the
sheep and went in search of him and found him in the hay mow.
Buster only hung, his head and
looked ashamed. Then Mr. Pierce got his whip and gave Buster a good thrashing and made him Bleep in the barn instead of in the cellar where he
usually slept After that Buster never killed any more sheep Janet
Russell, age ten, Baxter school.
Trying to rid himself of warts by spinning twice and throwing a piece of pork over his shoulder Willie hits his father in the eye.
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THE HAPPY PRINCE
Once upon a time there was a princess who had a very fine father and mother. They both liked her very much. But one day while they were gone, a witch came and took her away, and then she was very sad. The king put up a sign in front
of his castle like this: "15 re
ward for anyone who finds a princess named Elizabeth." Everybody tried to find her but they failed. About a week later a prince came along and he said he would try to
find her. Finally he came to a tower. He walked in the door am" j
heard some one crying so he went upstairs and went into a room, and there was the princess. They escaped and when they got home, they were married and lived happily ever after, and her father and mother were glad to see her. Annabelle Cain, Vaile
Those who in quarrels interpose, Most often wipe a bloody nose. Gay.
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