Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 203, 7 July 1917 — Page 8

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THE JUNIOR

Tiw Junior Palladium Is the children's section et the Richmond l'allidiun, founded May , lili, and Issued each Saturday afternoon. All boys and girls are invited to be reporters nd contributors. News Items, social cents, "want- advertisements, stories, local Jokes and original poema ae 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 i the Junior Editor. This is your little newspaper and vo hope each ooy and girl will use It thoroughly.

1 Grandmother Gray's Story Corner : Hurrah For the Glorious Fourth! ."Aw, what's the use of bavin' any Fourth of July this year. .You can't have any fireworks or do anything. Might, as well stay in bed all day, as to sit around an, just think about George Washington." Thus spake Jimmie G. one Tuesday afternoon, the day before-the Great Day, when he and Bill Hadley and Harold Jones were sitting out on the back steps down at , Grandmother Gray's, flipping stones at a eertain knot in the old cherry tree. s Just then Grandmother Gray herself happened to open the back door to empty the dish water, and she heard the last words. ', "Why Jimmie Gray," Bhe said, 'what are you saying. Just because it is not best to sell the powder and fireworks for you boys to burn .up in fun this year,, is no reason why you cannot celebrate the Fourth by making ajl the noise and racket you want to. The idea of you three boys sitting : around . grumping, because you cannot have a few little pieces of red paper that pop. I'm ashamed of you." . "Well now grandmother," protested Jimmie, "what could we do? Every year we've had all the firecrackers we wanted, and Bill Hadley. would, come over at half past four an' get Harold an' me an' then we'd have some fun. But shoot, what can we do tomorrow? We haven't got any salutes or greenies or even , those lady-fingers, that you'd get six packs for a nickle." "Of course not. but you could have a tin pan brigade and then end up with a barbaque on the commons." . "Sure,", said. Bill Hadley slapping Harold Jones on the knee in his enthusiasm. "We had one of those over in Newcastle once, when I was there,' and say fellows, just let me tell you it's one circus." ; : "What is one of those barbenques, I never heard of urn," said Jimmie G., taking interest. . "I'll let William tell you, while I finish canning rcy cherries," said Grandmother Gray. And so while she was in the house, the boys began to plan out - their Fourth of July barbecue. . . , , ' In order to make it seem like a real Fourth of July, they planned to get up real early, so that the day would be celebrated long and loud in that ward of the city. "Shall we ask Tommy Harlow and that bunch," asked Jimmie G., after plans had become pretty well started. " V "Sure, let um come," said Bill Hadley, "the more the better." ' All that afternoon and evening the greatest preparations went on, for the great barbecue. All sorts of noise producing devices were invented, tin cans with a rosin string put through a hole, tin lids to beat together, "sluggers," old dish pans for drums, with pices of broom-sticks for drum-sticks, poppers from the 5 and 10-cent store which made more noise wtth paper than the ordinary fire-cracker ever did, and even old-fashioned tick-tacks where the spool was fastened to a piece of window glass with a rubber band so that Dick Johnson (the boy who invented it) could carry it through the streets with him. For the barbecue itself, the boys decided to each take what he wanted for his own breakfast. Then Bill Hadley's uncle Fred was back from the trainirg camp to spend the Fourth, and be said he would go over to the commons with the boys and help thera build the fire and cook breakfast. - But how shonld they be sure that everybody would get up early enough in the morning? . Almost every boy was sure of himself, but he wasn't quite sure of the others, so finally a great system was worked out Taking a dinner bell, four or five tin nans, and a ball of string up Into Jimmie's bed room, they tied

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PALLADIUM the string onto the handle of the bell and put the other end of the string out the window. Then placing this bell in a pan on the foot of the bed, they put another pan on top, and the remaining pans on the floor just below, the theory being that when anyone pulled the string from below, the ringing bells plus the two tin pans would fall down on the lower deck of pans, and the resulting noise would be sufficient to waken the peaceful slumberer in td. "Do you think it will work," asked Jimmie excitedly as Bill Hadley dashed down stairs to pull the string and try it out ; "Sure she will," began Harold Jones, "just wait an' " The crash camo. Did it work! "Jimmany crimany," gasped Jimmie G., when he found his breath once more. "It founded like this whole end of town smashed in, didn't It?" And the rest of the neighborhood agreed with him. These new alarm clocks were so popular that every boy in that neighborhood fixed one up, and so great was the preparation for the barbaque that every boy was in bed and alseep by quarter past eight so that he would be ure to be the one to pull those strings the next morning. v And next week you can hear how the barbecue itself came off.

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' The little boys and girls of Chicago are trying to see who can raise the most money for the Red Cross by soliciting pledges for a Shetland

pony: The picture shows little Gertrude Magee getting a pledge from

Captain Harry Hasson.

HhtHMONH PALLADIUM, JULY

Hats off to Uncle Sam. Doesn't be look just like we always picture him in our minds. I know some of our little French brothers and sisters would like to see this picture.. In a way he is their uncle Sam almost as much as he is ours for of course you all know, we are helping the French just as much as we possibly can.' That is one of the reasons we could not spend our money for fireworks "this year even if the grown' folks said we might, for just think how many days we could keep a French child on the money we might' spend for fireworks. There are some little boys and girls in France who were quite sad this Fourth of July because their fathers, brothers, uncles and cousins are fighting the Germans and they may never see them again. I heard of one little French boy, whose father had been killed and he had so little to eat that he couldn't study at all until his t.eachcr asked a kind lady from England, who was visiting in France to see that he had something good to eat. .

HOW WE SPENT THE FOURTH. Dear Aunt Molly I am going to tell you how I spent the Fourth. My papa and mamma and grandpa and I went a fishing. We drove to Martindale's creek Which is. about two miles west of our place. We start ed early in the morning, about six o'clock and took lunch along with us. We fished until about noon. I caught two fish. I caught a small red horse fish first, then I got an- '

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other bite and my cork went away under the water, J started to pull and it was so heaVy" I thought my line was fast. Papa told me to jerk, that I had a fish, and sure enough I did. It was a big cat fish. It weighed about a pound. My! I was tickled for it! was the biggest fish I ever caught. The rest of them never caught a fish. We ate our lunch about eleven o'clock, then I waded into the creek and made some mud pies in the sand. Then we came home. Helen Williams, age 7, Greensfork, Ind. A CHILD'S DREAM OF A STAR (Adapted from Dickens) Two cniiuren, a sister anu a brother, used to watch the stars at night One star, in particular, at tracted their attention. The -children would stand at the window and the first one who saw the star would exclaim, "I see the star." One day the sister grew sick and was unable to stand by the window and .watch the star. So the brother stood at her bedside and told her when he saw it shinrng from the sky. Finally the sister grew so weak that it was an effort to even ask if the star was shining and at last she died. The . night she was buried the brother stood at the window and with eyes filled with tears .watched for the star. And that night he dreamed of the star. He dreamed that a shining road led to the star and that upon the road traveled a great many people, among whom was his sister. "Sister" he cried, "I am here. Take mo!" But when his sister turned her beaming face in his direction, it was night and the star was shining through the window. One day the baby brother died. That night the boy dreamed of the star once more, and saw the road over which the people traveled. Then the star opened and he heard his sister ask, "Has my brother come?" And the leader answered: "Not yet, but another brother is here." The boy cried, "Sister, sister, "but as she turned toward him, he awakened. When he was a young man his mother died. And as usual, the boy, then grown, dreamed of the star that night. He dreamed he too, traveled the road with the other travelers to the star. Then the star opened, and he could see his sister and baby brother waiting in the gateway. The sister said, "Has my brother come?" And the leader answered, "Not Thy brother, but thy mother." Then just as the star was closing, the man heard a shout of joy come from the star, as the sister and baby brother were reunited with the mother. When the man was middle-aged, bis daughter, still a mere child, died, and the only thing which consoled the father was the vision of the star he bad that night. He thought he saw his daughter surrounded and caressed by his mother, sister and raby brother. - But when he cried to them to take bim

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come. ' The man grew old. One night he noticed the star shining more brightly than usual through his win dow. "The star, the star," he cried. And his children said, "Our fath er is dying." So this time the gates of the star were not close on the man.' He saw his sister and mother, his daughter and brother, and when- be cried to them to take him, they did riot reply that his turn had, not come, but stretched out their arms. TO GET OUT IN OPEN ; Seventy, happy kids from the congested districts of Chicago left on Thursday for, Camp Algonquin. It will mean-to many of them the first sight of a 4ow, the first river that could be used for bathing. I won-. der what you readers of the Junior would do if you had never seen a cow, never been in the countryand always bad to stay in some hot ojd city. Don't you believe you would appreciate iwhat the Chicago Tribune is going to do for those youngsters? Friday," fifty more went and another group of fifty will leave on Monday. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday a grouR of one hundred and five convalescent mothers will go. to the Tribune hospital at Algonquin. . 'There they will get real well- so tnai tney win De Detter able to, take care of their boys and girls.' ; The babies and children will get the finest frefch air and food treatment available. . All of the thousand worries of a mother of the tenements will cease and if complete recovery- from the iilnoss which has weakened them is possible, it will come there. Hibberd School Children EnJoy Playground Hibberd school children are enjoying their plaground this summer, pne of the unusual games they are playing down there this summer is -tennis. They have stretched one side of the net upon the south side of the building using a tree for ono of the posts and there on the gravel the-boys have the most exciting games, while the girls sit in the swings and watch. ' SCOUTS TO TRAIN. Nearly 200,000 boys will go into . preparedness camps in all parts of the county this summer, under the leadership of men identified with ine lioy iscouis oi America, aucuiuing to -an announcement made at the organization headquarters. Military drill will not be given the boys, but in other ways the camp will be very 'similar to the military instruction camps for adults at Plattsburg, New York and other places. GIRL WHO CHRISTENED NEW U. S.-DREADNOUGHT. MISS H&J7TA SIWMQKi. Miss Henrietta A. Sunmonf, grand-daughter of Governor Alexander of Idaho, who acted as sponsor at the launching of Uncle Sam's newest of great dieadnaughts, the U. S. S. Idaho. The launching took place in the Delaware River, at i'amden, N. J.

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