Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 173, 2 June 1917 — Page 15

THE ttlCIIMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, JUNE 2. 1917

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The Lilacand Her Fairy Once upon a timo there was a lilac who had a maid which she called her fairy. Indeed she was a very nice girl. She had big brown eyes and brown hair and she always wore a violet color dress trimmed in green, for she dressed like her lilac queen. When winter came she had to leave her beautiful lilao queen. How sad it was to leave her lilac queen. She stayed in the house all . winter looking sadly out the window at her queen which was covered with snow. One day it got warm. The birds sang and the queen lilac had little birds all over. "It is spring," she said to herself.

The next'day she went out into the lilac yard. The lilac was in bloom. She danced with delight, but the lilac queen noticed that her fairy had on that beautiful dress of violet color trimmed in green. The lilac queen smiled and her fairy bent her and her lilac's over and touched them softly. And the girl-fairy was so glad to be with her lilac queen once more that she stayed with them all summer and took care of them. By Esther A. 'Armacost, New Lisbon, Ind. BROWN THRASHER (Toxostoma rufum) Length, about eleven inches. Brownish red above, heavily streaked with black below. Range: Breeds from the gulf states to southern Canada and west to Colorado, Wyoming and Mon tana; winters in the southern half of the eastern United States. Habits and economic status: The brown thrasher is more retiring than either the mocking bird or catbird, but iike them is a splendid singer. Not infrequently indeed its song is taken for that of its more famed cousin, the. mocking bird. It is partial to thickets and gets much of its food from the ground. Its search for this is usually accompanied by much scratching and scattering of leaves; whence its common name. Its call note is a sharp sound like the smacking of lips, which is useful in identifying this long-tailed, thicket-haunting bird, which does not much relish close scrutiny. The brown thrasher is not so fond of fruit as the catbird and mocker, but devours a much larger percentage of animal food. Beetles form one-half of the animal food, grasshoppers and crickets one-fifth, caterpillars, including cutworms, somewhat less than onefifth, and bugs, spiders, and millipeds comprise most of the remainder. tThe brown thrasher feeds on such coleopterous pests as wireworms. May beetles, rice weevils, rose beetles, and figeaters. By its destruction of these and other insects, which constitute more than CO per cent of its food, the thrasher much more than compensates for that portion (about one-tenth) of its diet derived from cultivated crops. - '

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TOOTH BRUSH DRILL '

- School children of New York City, including some little Chinese-Americans, taking part in a tooth brush drill in Central Park, as a part of the Oral Hygiene Week arranged by the New York Department of Health.

STARR SCHOOL BOYS SHOW WAYS TO SAVE A friend and I are going to try every week to put ten articles in the Junior how to save. We put these in hoping they will do somebody good. They , are not for fun. We try them out and then put them in the Junior. No. 1. You should eat what is healthy and strengthening. No. 2. You should not waste what could be sawd. No. 3. You should work four days at least. But do not do a -man's work. No. 4. What money you make you should put three-fourths in the bank and spend the, other fourth usefully. No. 5. You should have a garden. No. C You should take a hike of 5 miles or over, one day of the week because it is healthful. No. 7. If you work too much you will become, dull. No. 8. Do not play with any arti cle that it takes gunpowder to operate. It can be used on the front. No. 9. Do not spend a big amount of money on flags. One flag is as good as one hundred. No. 10. Do not use your school writing paper for foolish drawings. IThe writers of this are Donald Vice and Everett Lady. Starr School. Watch the next paper, too. JUNIOR WANT ADS GET JOBS FOR BOYS Since Hie Junior was started purely for the sake of the boys and girls, we are glad that every department of the paper is being used, and can do good. The Exchange Column is absolutely free, and yet many boys and girls have not used it and so do not realize how much good it can do. The following little letter was not meant for publication, but we are sure Marshall will not mind when we use it merely to encourage oth er boys and girls who may want jobs during the summer, or who have something to sell or trade. "Dear Aunt Molly: Will you please take out that advertisement as follows: Wanted Good job in ice cream parlor, etc. I got a job. The advertisement was a success. I like the Junior very much. Marshall Long. Jr., Starr School. Answers to Names of Poets Longfellow. Burns. Whittier. Tennyson. Riley. Field. Violet Parish, age 10, Flnley school. . ' Bananas sell for twenty cents a bunch in Central America. .

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THE "S" STORY Sarah Swift sews seams swiftly. She saw some stylish serge sam ples, saying she should secure sty lish serge suit shortly, so she sav ed six samples. Sarah sewed steadily seven Saturdays. She Stitches such satisfactory, salable shirts she soon saved sufficient silver. Sarah started shopping. She strolled slowly six squares. Seeing several stores similarly situated, site said softly, "South Street." So Sarah Swift selected serge, sewing silk six spools. Sleepy Sarah sewed serge slow ly. Supposing Sister Susan sleepy, Sarah said, "Sleepy, Sister Susan?" Sister Susan smiled. Sleepy Sarah soon slept soundly. Sister Susan softly slipped sleeping Sarah's serge, sewing-silk, scissors. She sat silently, swiftly sewing Sarah's serge suit. Six seams securely sewed she. Sarah, suddenly startled, surprised, sat staring, seeing Sister Susan sitting sewing seams swiftly. Sarah's , salutation surprised Sister Susan. Sarah 6aid, "Sweet Sister Susan sitting sewing; selfish Sarah sleeping!" Sister Susan, smiling, said, "Supper. Sarah." Sarah soon spread supper. Salad, salmon, sandwiches, steaming soup, Sister Susan saw. She stopped sewing. Sumptuously she supped. Stylish serge satisfactorily sewed. Spring sunshine smiling. See sweet Sarah (Sister Susan's sunbeam, so she says) strolling slowly smiling sweetly. Contributed by Llda Maag, age 12, St. Andrew's School. "MARY ROSE" There was once ' a prince who loved three girls and he did not know which one to marry. He loved Mary Rose better than Ruth and Grace. He did not know how to decide so he decided to marry the one that loved him best and this is the way he did. He built a castle of Jewels and brought Ruth to see it She had not been there a week before she began to think of her beauty. The prince said, "I will not marry you because you do not love me." So he sent for Grace. Before the week was up she began to think of her beauty and the prince said again. "I will not marry you because you do not love me." So he sent for Mary Rose. When the week was up she thought of nothing but him so he said, "I wll mary you because you love me and not beauty." Thelma Thomas, 6A, Finley school. General William Booth first opened the East London Mission and began organizing the .great Salvation Army on July 6, 186$.

JOSEPH MOORE SCHOOL CHRISTENED CHAPEL The children of Joseph Moore school named their chapel Friday afternoon. The school sang some spring songs. Miss Hill gave a short talk. Mrs. Lindley gave a talk for the mothers of the school. Miss Williams, who is the manual training teacher, gave a talk on the early life of Mr. Bundy. Mrs. Johnston also gave a very interesting talk on art and the picture which Mr. Bundy gave to us. Miss Overbeck of Cambridge City, gave a talk on the making of porcelain tablets. Mr. Giles christened our chapel the "John El wood Bundy Chapel." Harriett Hunt, Joseph Moore School. THE LOST WAND One day me Fairy Queen went out riding. As she was riding she dropped . her wand. . She did not notice it then, but when 6he wanted to go home she couldn't because she didn't have her wand. Two little children lived in the woods where she dropped her wand, They were hunting wild flowers when they saw something shining in the violets. "Look here! What this!" exclaimed the little girl. "It looks like a fairy's wand!" exclaimed the little boy. That's the way they are in the pictures! "I wonder who could have lost it," said the little girl. "Here comes the Fairy Queen, let's run to meet her. Maybe she lost it," said the little boy. When the Fairy Queen saw the wand she was very glad. She ask ed them what they wanted. They said they wanted to go to fairyland. The fairy took them to a tree right beside their house. With her wand she touched the three. Seven little men came out to put away her rabbits, which she used for horses. She took the children inside. They went all around fairyland and had a very nice time. The Fairy Queen told them to come back whenever they 'wanted to when they were ready to go home. The children told their parents about what a nice time they had. They went to fairyland whenever they wanted to, after that Glenna Miller, Baxter School, Age 11 Yrs. BEAUTIFUL PICTURE IS GIVEN NEW SCHOOL Mr. John Elwood Bundy, gave Joseph Moore school a beautiful autumn landscape. In the picture there are, several beech trees and a few cows and there is a little farm house back in the distance with a little stream flowing past it. Ruth Marguerite Hutching, 6A Grade, Joseph Moore School. -

BEST COMPOSITION (From 4th Grade Whitewater.. School) -

Polly and Her New Home? ' vf In Indianapolis there lived a'iittie girl named Polly, of which I am going to give a little of her life. Polly was a nice little girl with brown curls and brown eyes. She was just nine years old. One day her parents concluded they would move to Richmond, Indiana. " The next day the packing of their goods began. Polly was busy helping. At last it came time for her to go.' She said. - "Good Bye" to her friends, all of whom were sorry to see her go. Her mother, when' they arrived in Richmond took Polly to her aunt's till they could get their goods arranged about in the house. It was summer time now, so Polly did not have to go to school. . . Soon she became acquainted with several ' girls and boys. It came time now, i for school to take up. ; Polly marched off to school as big as anybody, for she thought, now. that she was , a little , woman. , The teacher liked Polly very much. Since then. Polly has grown to be a big girl and is still living in her hew home, which, is old to her now. We will leave Polly here now, hoping she will live in happiness the rest of her life. Louise Emmett 4B, age 8, Whitewater School." ; A LEGEND (By Claude G. Miller.) Back . some two - thousand - years ago in a little, city of Greece -there stood a statue, , modeled . out of brass, standing many feet up above the city square by means of a marble pedestal. -' The most striking thing about the statue, however," was a great gold plate on the marble pedestal which held a verse. No one ever could quite find the meaning, for it started out with Latin and Greek and shifted to another language, then another until it had many twisted in to one little epitaph. However, as the statue had stood on this self same pedestal . for so many thousand years, no one could remember ever hearing who modeled the statue or what the verse -meant. But there was an old. old saying that some day an old man would come to the city and read for them the meaning of the mysterious verse. "- -? ; Old man after old man come and went, some dying from the cruel treatment they received from the natives; but no old man ever came that stayed long enough to see the city square. At last one old man came who seemed more learned than the rest. People treated him worse than they had any of the other wanderers. But treat him as they did he would not leave their town. One day after the natives had thrown . many stones at him, and abused him even more than usual, he came to the city square. The mob at his heels mocked at him as he stopped in front of the epitaph, for should this verse that even Paul had given up be translated by this old man? . - The man studied deeply and' long, the crowd grew even more jeering and some people became very frightened. - At last the old man turned and held up his hands. The crowd grew quiet that if somebody dropped their spears it could have been heard all over the town. "This epitaph," he began, "is a message to you. It reads: "To ye on high and ye below And ye that Btudy things, I charge ye all with one command Respect old men as Kings." Many dropped on their knees In reverence while several who had treated the old man most shamefully stood off in shame. That night a thunderstorm arose and carried away the statue and no one has since seen the old man. But ever after that, every old man who came to the village was treated better than a king. Answers to Patriotic Songs 1. Columbia, . the Gem of the Ocean. - 2. America. 3. Star Spangled Banner. 4. Battle Cry of Freedom. . 5. Battle Hymn of the Republic. . 6. Hail Columbia. Yankee Doodle. 8. Marching Through Georgia, By Myrtle Gibson