Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 53, 13 January 1917 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. JAN. 13. 1917

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM ... 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 he 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 tho Junior Editor. This Is your littlo newspaper and we hope each boy and girl will use it thoroughly.

Grandmother Gray's Story Corner

It was so rainy on that Sunday afternoon that Jean and Jimmie G. had to stay in the house all day long and they were as cross and fussy as they could be. "Grandma," coaxed Jean, "won't you tell as a story about what Uncle Rob and Aunt Lucy used to do? Please?" . : " Well, ' let me see," said Grandmother Gray thoughtfully as she settled her glasses on her nose, "Did I ever tell you how they played 'Joseph in the Pit' one day?" " "No," breathed Jimmie G., hunching his foot ' stool up closer to UERY CORNER The editor, will try to answer cfuestions readers of the Junior submit to her. She 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. Dear Junior Editor: Will you please explain to me how O. K. has come to stand for all right. Frederick Johns. My dear Frederick: The real origin seems to be unknown, but there are several stories which may be partly , true. One Is that Andrew Jackson, either because he knew no better or for a Joke, signed his papers "oil korrect" or O. K. Put there also is the story of an Indian Chief named Old Keokuk .who signed many Important papers with his Initials, so that O. K. comes from him. Ed. ' Dear Aunt Molly: What is the Yours .truly, May Smith. Finley school, , - Dear May: The last time I saw a dog and cat close enough together to be compared, the difference between them was an altitude of about eight feet, the. cat being ou the lower limb of a tree, and the dog just below. Ed.' Dear Aunt Moly: Why are there bo many jokes about a Ford? Julia Burr. Starr school. Dear Julia: Because when pure brains can take tin, pigiron, nails and some boards, and put them all together to make a contrivance that can run forward or backward, climb mountains, leap gaps, and still come out the best on the road, It makes everybody sit up and stare until all they can do is make up : yarns about the unmatched and unmatchable Ford. Ed. Why doesn't . Warner get playground? Hallie Marshall. . . Maybe because they haven't serenaded the school board on moonlight nights with their sweet melodies, "Try, try again," Ed. Dear Editor: How could that girl In the moon at the show last week swing way. out over the audience? A. L. B, , .. The stage men worked a derrick .which they could push forward or .bock as well as up and down or .from side to sider so that the girl In the moon could swing -around ' lust as the loads of dirt do when a work-derrick Is in operation. Ed. ' ; Dear Editor: What is the differ- ' snce between a street car and a . train? Blanche Cosgrove. ', Dear Blanche: . A street car takyou somewhere for a nickle, but ' l train doesn't. Ed.

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Grandmother Gray's low rocker, "Tell us now." ' "It was one Sunday afternoon," began the story teller, "when Uncle Rob had about ten or twelve of the boys over here. That was too many to play any of the iuiet games, you see, and yet the boys knew they had to keep 'the Sabbath at our house. So while they were up in your Uncle Rob's room talking and trying to decide what to do, Aunt Lucy opened the door just a crack and said, 'Say, boys, why don't you play Joseph in the Pit.' "It was not long before those boys were the funniest looking Israelites you ever saw. Some had on old shawls with Grandfather Gray's silk handkerchiefs around their heads, some had old coverlids wrapped around them, and Joe Perry, who was the smallest in the crowd, played Joseph and wore a striped afghan for his coat of many colors. "It was in early spring bo that these blankets -did not feel too hot when the boys were out doors, and they all trooped out in the back yard as soon as they were rigged up. They pulled open the wooden door over the cistern, there where we have the bricked ; in hollow above the deep cistern itself. So into this brick hollow they lowered Joseph with a rope, and then went out to the barn to get old Dolly to play the camel In the caravan. "In the meantime while poor little Joseph was down in that dark brick hollow suddenly something" darker than the shadows began moving along the wall. It ran a little ways, and then stopped; then it came a little farther and stopped until finally the animal was almost up to the boy as he crouched in the corner. It had a long narrow head and a great long tail that moved slowly back and forth as the animal crept slowly along the wall this way nnd that, but always nearer, and nearer to the little Joseph. Suddenly a ray of light from the cracks of the board door struck the creature and made its little beady eyes glitter in the darkness. Joseph let out one shriek, at which the frightened animal darted swiftly forward, ran across his hand, up the afghan and on to his , back. Joseph was screaming and dancing around like a crazy Indian, tearing at the coat of many colors which was tied on with the rope, while the creature on his back was racing back and forth, even touching the poor lKy's neck sometimes. "When all of us finally reached the cistern door and got the half wild Joseph out of that bricked hollow, the "animal" dropped off of the coat and scuddled away in the grass. It was a rather large green lizard, though only about eleven inches long. Rut It was the first one little Joe Perry had ever seen, and it served to break up the game of Joseph in the Pit, at least for that afternoon. "Many times after that the hoys spent " Sunday afternoon playing Joseph in the Pit but they never could get Joe Perry to be the Joseph."

WHAT WOUM YOU DO? Grandmother Gray was sitting by the south window in the late afternoon not long ago, when suddenly Mabel burst, into -the room, her arms full of books, and her whole being filled with something Mabel didn't often have rage. "Oh Grandmother.", she began, "the awfullest thing 'happened today. I was accused of cheating! Yes I was. It waft that new teacher. We were having our exams. And I wasn't cheating at all!" "Well.. Mabel dear." said Grandmother Gray gently "sit down here

on the foot stool and tell me all about it." "You see, Grandmother," explained Mabel after she was settled by Grandmother's side," we always study between our subjects, so to

day when the questions were given out I turned mine upside down under my pencil box and began to review. I was so intent on studying I never heard the other scholars asking about the questions, so when I was through studying I looked at my questions and began my work. Then Miss Hartley came stalking down the aisle to my seat. I could see that she was awfully mad about something. And then she said, she had caught me, and for such a trick as I had tried to pull on her (pull was the very word she used) she felt like refusing to grade my paper. And oh, she said an awful lot more, too. . "I was never so surprised in my life. It was a few minutes before I knew that she was accusing me of being a C-h-e-a-t. And honestly. I didn't know what to do. As soon as I finished, I came right down here without seeing any of the girls; because I couldn't bear to. "And now. Grandmother Gray, If you had a teacher like that, what would you do?" (Since this question will be dis cussed in school. Grandmother Gray's answer will ' appear next week.) . . Grandmother Gray Asks Do you know v 1. Who Horace Greeley was. .2. What President Wilson said in his peace note. 3. In what book Tiny Tim appears and who the author was. 4. What habeas corpus means. 5. What a gyroscope is. Answer to Last Week's Query 1. I A hawk can fly 150 miles per hour. 2. Elias Howe. 3. Ottmar Mergenthaler. 4. Etna. 5. Caspian Sea. Contributed by Charles Murphy. Whitewater school. Colonel Cody, the famous Buffalo Bill, died last Wednesday.

Popular Science News

Since the eclipse of the moon was at such an inconvenient hour Monday morning, not everyone saw it. but several of the 6R boys at Whitewater school gave a good account of it in school. One of the boys described It as looking bright orange as the shadow started across, with the spots- (usually called the man-in-the-moon's eyes, nose and mouth) looking jet black. New Helps to Firemen. . , All new up-to-date buildings are piped with automatic ways of putting out fire, which are of great help in case of fire. The fire prevention is a very simple affair. The pipes are placed about nine inches

Exchange Column LOST Last Sunday, child's purse Have a good Brown Chinchilla containing beads and handker- overcoat that I have outgrown chief. Phone 1366. Will Tit boy 5 to 8 years. For $2.00 Call 203 South 7th street. FOUND An old golf ball. Owner - -fmay recover his lost property by FOUND A key ring with five applying to the Junior Editor at kevs- a Dent button hook and a the Palladium office. By Scout emblem on it. Loser : may apply at the Palladium ofWANTED More policemen in boy fice for his property. city. See Jack Falk, Max Davids or Tames Sherry FOR SALE Model Builder, good as ' ! ; nw. Carl Lohman, 206 North WANTED The Chilacora Basket 22nd street, city. Ball team wants games with any team which has players that are LOST A brown kid glove for the fourteen years or younger. See left hand. Please return to the Robert Thornburgh at 21 South 20 Palladium office. or call 3642. FOR SALE A good shepherd dog. FOR SALE--A good bicycle basket See Paul Clevenger of call at 215 carrier. See Robert Evans at N. West Third. Starr School or 1322 Main Street FOR SALE-A new model moving LOST A rabbit, Wednesday morn- picture machine with complete ing about 6 o'clock. If found re- outHt including films, show creen turn to 18 North 12 Street. Re- nd tickets. Will sell .at half xvard price if sold at once. Call 307 Z. North 17th Street. Anette Barr, FOR SALE A Premo camera for 12 years. City. sale. Call Baxter school or 110 ' S. W. 7th street, Margaret Stevens. FOUND Numbers of lost articles ..., .... have been found in the Boys' DeFOR SALE Nearly new 16 year part men t of the Y. M. C. A. Owneld boy's overcoat. ' 223 North en may have . same by describing. Nineteenth street. V. D. B.

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David Lloyd George, who rose from .an obscure position to be Premier of Great Britain at a time when his country was facing a crisis greater, perhaps, than at any time in its history. Lloyd George's daughter, Miss Olwen Lloyd George, has not taken a great deal, of interest in social affairs in England, but it is now expected that as the daughter.of the Premier she will be compelled to figure more prominently. Mrs. Lloyd George was Miss Margaret Owe, of Creccicth, Wales.

from the celling. The little projections that stick out of the pipes are made of copper shaped to form a spray. When the fire starts it melts away a piece of lead that stops up the hole in the pipe, and this lets the water escape through a spray which in turn throws water on the blaze. RICHARD THORNBUR-GH. - THOUGHT FOR THE DAY. Cultivate new patience with the faults of others, and study your own with greater care. Young.

Premier, His Daughter

yiiss OtWFV BOY MAKES PILE-DRIVER The third room of Warner school has been greatly interested in tho work of its young inventors, who bring their inventions to the room and let all the other children see the things as they explain how they are made. Last Monday, Leoline Klus brought a large pile driver which he had made without any directions. This is his letter, slightly changed: Dear Aunt Molly I want to tell you about my pile driver. I made it with my model builder. It has eight, twelve and a half inch angle girders that makes the tower shaft. Four of the twelve and a half girders make the supports to the tower, and two twelve and a half girders make the arm that is fastened to the tower supports. Take a string and tie it to the end of the arm, then put it across to the tower shaft and hang a scale weight on the end so that it hangs down in. the tower shaft. Take another string and fasten it from the end of the arm down to the bush wheel. Then as I would turn the crank on the bush wheel, it puljed the arm down and that raised the weight. Turn the bush wheel back and the weight goes down fast. This morning I drove a nail into the floor and could hardly pull it up. I had a nail right under the weight I was playing with the pile drive and the string broke. The weight fell on the nail and drove it in the floor like they drive piles in the river. Francis Leoline Klus, 3A grade, Warner school. Kitten Investigates Piano I have a little piano that -I got for my birthday four days ago. I keep it in a clothes closet. I heard it playing one day, so I went to see and I found my kitty tapping the keys and looking at it very carefully to see where the sound came from. When I went to play on the piano she would grab my hand and cry like a mcther cat when she calls her kittens. But she is getting use to it now. She just sits and watches, and listens to me play. Katherine Parish, 4B grade, Joseph Monre School. James Stevenson, press agent