Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 155, 12 May 1917 — Page 13

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY- SECTION OF THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

TOMORROW IS MOTHERS DAY REMEMBER You Have Only One Mother. WEAR A FLOWER RICHMOND, IND., MAY 12, 1917 BE KIND

CHILDREN'S OWN CIRCUS COMES TUESDAY; MANY PATRIOTIC FEATURES IN SELLS FLOTO

They're coming lo Richmond,.

Junior Folks. They're coming in gorgeous trappings, in the robes and headdresses of the fairy tales, In their pride and might the elephants, the jungle beasts, the strange creatures of the land, the 6ea and the air. From the stolid, fat hippopotamus to the 6tupid, handsome ostriches, from the pink and spangled kings and queens to the balky, cunning burros the famous Rocky Mountain "Canaries" they are coming. They will roll into Richmond from Indianapolis bright and early on the morning of Tuesday, May 15, in three huge circus trains. They are members of the Sells-Floto Circus, which is this year managed by the children's own true friend H. B. Gentry of the dog and pony shows, and he will leave it to you, boys and girls, to judge of his success. He knows that young people like clowns, really funny clowns, so he has gotten together fifty of the funniest white faced follows you ever saw. You will see them in the parade bumping along on the backs of the sly burros, for that is the way the clown band rides in the two-mile street pageant, which is agleam with red, white and blue and silver and gold, from the first great bandwagon to the last of the five calliopes. And the elephants! In parade two of the littlest fellows Kas and Mo, twins, draw a big, bright cannon. Others are hitched up to glit

tering novelty wagons and patriotic tableau floats. Columbia is in the long parade, too, Junior Folks. On a magnific&nt cnnn; whirii Vtnrcn nfVlV ctonAc

X. U ii 0V I 11 V AAV 1 11 - II iuuuu on top a white float, she rides, with the American flag flung to the breeze and aflame in the sunlight with the spirit of cur native land aroused. Everywhere we will see the flags, even on the little tiger, lion and leopard cubs in the cages. Then, too, Baby Bon, the hippoptanius, wears the stars and stripes around his great, fat, neck. In the afternoon at 2 o'clock and at night at 8 o'clock, the big show performances start in the great tent at Athletic Park, where the 600 people and 425 horses and 208 beasts that compose the Sells-Floto family will entertain boys and girls of all ages for one magic day. "America" is the opening number of the circus performance. It is a moving, stirring, imtriotic, pageant and it causes the blood to leap in one's veins, for it appeals to American children just as strongly as it appeals to American grown-ups. As it concludes, it brings the great audiences thousands and thousands of people to their feet, cheering and waving handkerchiefs, hats and flags. Clowns Do Many Feats. After the spectacle, the feast of fun begins. High in the air, leaping, whirling and twisting are clowns, who miss their holds on slender wires and bars and fall intq the nets far below. There is Herberta Beeson, who waltzes, jumps, somersaults and dives along a tight wire. There is Daisey Hodgini, the wonderful and unusual bareback rider, tossing lighted lamps in the air while performing all sorts of stunts on a madly galloping horse. There are scores of other aerialists, wire wizards and riders, too. But we must not forget that Mrs. Biggs, the notorious widow. How she makes us laugh before the big show! You will see her in the hippodrome track. She . may stop your papa, and, if she does, you will always have something funny to remember. Watch for- that Mrs. Biggs. Elephant Carries Woman. Then there are the huge, performing elephants. There is Snyder, who has long, fierce tusks, and who walks along the front of the grand Ptand with his trainer a pretty woman high in the air, for Snyder w alks yards upon yards on his hind feet. But let us not forget the flying

Clown Bandsmen Ride Burros in Sells-Floto Circus Parade Next Tuesday

folk in the top of the tent; the Rhoda Royal wonderful and beautiful high school horses; the groat Omar, the Zeppelin horse; the handsome Rinaldo, the ballroom horse, and his pretty rider, Carrie

Royal; the balloon and cannon clown acts, the wonderful, patriotic statuary; the Bonmoor Arabs, the Chinese and Japanese actors; the slide for life by the hair by Lee Chun; the ponies, dogs and monkeys; the great Usarda and his tribe of daring Indian riders; the Loretta twins, the Novikoff troupe and all the thousand and one ponders of the circus the Sells-Floto Circus. Baby Woodrow is Wobbly. Then, there is "Woodrow," the baby camel, born at Wichita, Kansas, only a few days ago. He is almost white, and a bit wobbly on his legs, but a perfectly good little cutup just the same. And here's a secret! The stork is expected in the Sells-Floto menagerie, a pretty big stork with a pretty big basket, too. Because this stork is to bring a little baby elephant, and it will be here by the time the circus gets to Richmond, it! is almost certain. A baby elephant weighs about 160 pounds you know, and it has the cutest little trunk much too small. Their

legs are too long and their bodies are too short. However, they soon become really handsome, that is, as handsome as elephants may become. AU ;in all, there are so many things for Junior Folks to see when the Sells-Floto Circus comes to town that we will just wait and see it all for ourselves. Then we will tell Mr. H. B. Gentry of Indiana and the "big show" just how glad we were for a day. Mr. Gentry will be with the show and he will want to meet all his little fellow Hoosiers. Yes, indeed.

BABY "WOODROW" BORN APRIL 27TH AT WICHITA, KANSAS, SELLS-FLOTO CIRCUS

History of the . American Flag

The flag of the Massachusetts colony had a pine tree in the center of it. The other colonies had different flags. Before the war of eighteen-twelve Gen. Washington went to Betty Ross' house and asked her if she would make a flag that had thirteen stripes and thirteen stars. Gen. Washington said, "The the stars should have six corners, the colors of the flag should be red, white and blue." Betty Ross said, "If the star had five corners it would be more pleasing to the eye." Then Gen. Washington said, they would have it that way. Gen. Washington gave her an army coat, a pair of army pants, and a shirt. The American flag was first used on land at Rome, New York, it was first use on the sea by Paul Jones in war on a battle ship. The American flag today has forty-tight stars and thirteen stripes, seven red stripes and six white stripes. It is four feet six inches In length and four feet four inches in width. The government flag factory is in the navy yards at Brooklyn, N. Y. A set of the flags cost $2,500. The while of the flag stands for purity, the red stands for bravery and the blue stands for truth. By Howard Mills, 6A Baxter School.

CIRCUS DAY When the circus was here I saw it unload. When I was sleeping my father woke me up that morning. He said, "Wake up Lois, don't you want to see the circus unload?" I never answered. Then he said, "Wake up, Lois! I hear the elephant crying." So I w;oke up and got on my clothes and went to see the circus. I did not stay away from school. I went home and washed my face and went to school. I had Keen lots of things unloading but I did not want to be late to school. I did not get to see the parade so I got to go to the moving picture show that night. I looked at the picture until eleven o'clock. I went home and went to bed and dreamed of nice things. Lois Farmer, Whitewater School.

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GYMNASTIC FESTIVAL IS A GREAT SUCCESS The festival was a great success. From the beginning, when Mr. NusIniim'a Land played such stirring music and all the hundreds and hunuitud and thousands of boys and girls formed the grand march, to

ine very last iiuuer oi nags in mat that wortderful drill, it was fine. You all know the main big events, tho wand drill, the Garfield and High School girls in their attractive black and white suits, the circle folk dances, the High School boys who showed that they weren't quite ready to be soldiers yet, the beautiful fancy dances with tho girls in their pink shepherdess dresses and the fluttering grey swallow costumes, the Y. M.' C. A. boys, and all the rest, but there were many little things that perhaps you didn't 6ee. Behind "the scenes, the piles of wraps and clothes with umbrellas stuck in the ground here and there like guns, reminded one of an army camp. Then when the Garfield and

High School girls were marching past in such perfect step, someone remarked that all their legs moving

duck ana ioria logeiuer maae you think of a thousand-legged worm. The audience thoroughly appreciated the whole exhibition, but most of the cheering was done by the High School boys when the H..S. girls came on the field, although the girls tried to return the compliment When the Garfield boys were through tftelr games and Mr. Nohr fired the last shot, someone on the bleachers grew very excited thinking that the boy who fell down had been struck. ; The expert performers on the parallel bars had such a great effect upon some of the smaller boys that at once they began turning hand springs and air flips behind the crowd on the sidelines. But some of the girls were affected differently. When Mr. Nohr was balancing himself in the air head down, and then turned the backward summersault, one of the girls was so scared she turned pale and hid her eyes. However the most in-

was that money was being distributed over the ground and they were too far away to enjoy it..

nut tne one person wno received; tho most attention was little Mary Louise Dillon, the tiny pink shepherdess who went through the drill perfectly, and although she was by far the emailest one in the whole exhibition, fhe took her part as one of the best. Altogether it was a day long to be

remembered by the children of Richmond, and although many breathed , a sigh of relief when it was all "over, they wouldn't have

missed it for anything.

TELLS HOW TO PLANT GARDEN The place I selected for my garden was in Benton Heights. I spaded my ground arid then I raked it. I planted in one of my beds lettuce in another potatoes. The way I planted lettuce was to make a trench and put the lettuco in, then cover the lettuce up with dirt. The way I planted my potatoes was to make a hill and put the potatoes about one foot apart then aewcii t?i rm nn w4t V dirt

I am going to hoe the potatoes when they come up I am gcir.g to pick my lettuce so that there will be more come up. Violet Hazlitt, 6B Grade, Sevastopol School.

THE JUNIOirS BIRTHDAY The following verse came in too late lant week to be put in that Junior, but perhaps it can be enjoyed just as much today. This we are told. The Junior now is one year old On this sixth day of May. So we should all bo hpppy and gr.y. To this cau ;e a willing hand We fihculd lend,

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We may help to mend. The Junior is our friend. To its gocd work thore is no end. N'ow little children do not sigh. Everyday will be Junior Day Bye and Bye. Martha Mien Mull, Centervills, Ind.