Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 245, 25 August 1917 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. AUGUST 25. 1017

THE JUNIOR

Th Junior Palladium 13 the children's section of the Richmond Palladium, founded May 6. 1916. and issued each Saturday afternoon. All boys and girls are Invited to bo reporters nd contributors. News Items, social ovents, "want" advertisements, stories, local Jokes and original poems are acceptable and will be published. Articlos should be written plainly and on one Hide of the paper, with the author's name and ago signed. Aunt Molly. is always glad to meet the children per. conally ao they bring their articles to the Palladium office, or to receive letters addresseu t the Junior Editor. This is your little newspaper and we hope each ooy and girl will use it thoroughly.

11 11 yJ lLmJ' By Henry McParlone

Say, sleepin' at the Chautauqua with 67 ukeleles, 4 fudge parties, 3 violins, 10 vlctrolas, 2 Starrs and 52 & male quartets comin' off all at once is like stoppin' the clock to save time. Of course the city pays some cops to guard one's safety, but the cops get so full of fudge that why last Monday night Hershel Nicholson accldently spilled a quart of good drinking water all over the inards of one tent yes It got one of us wet to the gore only he had put all of his valuables in his 6hoe, and the old cop only grinned ' out of his left eye. We got a swell location right near to Huckleberry Finn, editor of Hicksville Breeze, and Horace Parker and "Suitz" Schneider and tha only thing those burds do is to sleep. Yesterday Parker slept to noon to save the price of breakfast. Last Sunday night I went to hear the Oxford Concert company and the guy next to me could certainly snore some why honest, he snored horrible I wouldn't cared a bit tho only he woke me up. Our tent is on Lennex avenue, so when you . come out here and want to chew the rag , come .over here and open House at 60 cents an hour. Monday morning I played baseballhonest, i was walking past the diamond when Schwan yelled "Hey, you wanta play?" He did not say "Can you play?" he said "yon wanta play?" . I said yep, and both sides had a scrap over me neither side wanted me. I was first up to bat gee! that ball cornea fast. - I have often watched them play ball at the Exhibition park from the top of the fence, so I thought I could pull an original Lafayette act and make a three bagger. Yaws, children, I struck out. They set me over on second base to keep flys from lighting on PART II. Vivian hurried down the long hall and staircase at the foot of which the maid who had conducted her upstairs waited. "The ogre wishes to see you at once," she said and was rushed into the room in which the ogre sat waiting, his hideous goblins all about him. He himself was terrible to behold. He had long green greasy hair and long clamy fingers, and was of enormous size. Vivian drew back, turned pale, and shuddered, and then took courage as she remembered that the fairy had said that she and her sister must die if Vivian was not brave and did not do her part towards helping them. This Vivian determined she would do, so she bravely faced the ogre who said in a thundering voice: "Ha! the very thing I needed to wait on my wife, but I wUl have little need of you now, for my wife has given away the golden key which unlocked the door to her sister's prison and she and her sister will be drowned with millstones tied to their necks in three days, and you will be made one of my goblins. Away with you!" And with these words the maid dragged Vivian who was now prostrate into the next room where she sought to revive her. When Virian came to herself she was alone in tho room and quickly

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I it Some one got up to bat and tried to kill me why the ball barely missed me an inch. Some guy started to run at me from first I wonder why. I started to run, too. Everybody began shouting. "Get a second basemen!" "Kill the big stiff!" "Run him a curve, Charley !" I wonder why? Some big fish even tried to assasinate me by throwing the ball at me. Finally that fellow started after the third baseman and I went back to my place. In the fifth inning I came up to bat again everybody started yelling like I was a big attraction and everybody' started to perform acrobatic stunts and shout "Purty Bird," "Watch out, Ethelbert, you will break your wrist watch." I didn't see a bit of fun in that now do you? Well at last Dick Mansfield winked his eye at the umpire and threw a ball past me "Str-r-r-i-ke wan" and I hadn't struck at all. "Str-r-r-i-i-ke ta" and I hadn't made up my mind to wiggle the bat yet Everybody began to whoop again and the left fielder laughed the hardest so I decided to assassinate him this next time or break my neck trying. When the ball came towards me I let the bat go and the left fielder got behind a tree. I don't know where it lit but I don't think the ball really killed the left fielder. Everybody started to shout "run," so I started to first like I seen somebody else do then to second then to third then to home . When I got at third everybody started to shout "slide home." I started from third to slide and I wiped off the home plate better than the umpire tried to. It was a great play. I was a hero ah-h-h. I was being great and feeling great looking great when found an open window where she climbed out. A goblin watching from a window in the ogre's room decided he would follow and climbing from his window, sneaked along behind. Vivian knew he was following her but paid no heed. Soon she came to the home of Fairy Helpfulness. She entered and the goblin climbed in at a nearby window. She was ushered into a beautiful room and explained her errand to Helpfulness who then caught the goblin and threw him into a dark and dreary dungeon. She then fastened a pair of gauzy wings on Vivian's shoulders, placed a crown of jewels on her head and then touched her with the wand she held in her hand. Vivian looked down at herself to find she was enveloped in a long blue satin gown embroidered in jewels. Helpfulness handed Vivian a wand saying, "This wand combines the power of every fairy in the world. Fly into the ogre's window and tell him you are a wicked fairy, and of bis gobiin who is shut np in my dungeon. Help him to recapture the goblin and bind me to a tree. "The ogre will then toll you, you may have anything for which you ask, and of course you "bust ask for the release of the fairies Hope and Faith which he will be obliged to grant. You must then wave the wand I have given, yon, and the ogn- wlfc once more become Prince

Little Girl Waif is Mystery of New York NEW YORK Officials of the Children's Society are endeavoring to find the mother of a smiling two-year-old girl who was left sitting in a chair in the main office of tho society at Fourth avenue and Twentythird street on the night of August 12. Tho little girl had with her a doll which she clutched tightly in her arms. Together with her doll, she was put to bed. Her identity . is still unestablishcd. The child does not speak English, and can do nothing to aid the officials of the society in their quest for her mother.

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1 The umpire yodled into the air "Foul Ball." Bam!! Biff!! I handed the umpire a line of talk that made the Bowery look like the hole in a doughnut. Everybody laughed again and started for me. I got into town first. Bravery 8nd all of his wicked charms and hideous goblins will disappear. You will not need to unbind me for it is in my power to do that myself. You go now, dear little princess, for your mistress will soon have need of you, and these things must be performed before that time." Then with a smiling departure Vivian was off, winging her way through the bright warm summer sunshine to the castle of Govern All. She flew straight through the open window and alighted before the ogre bowing gracefully to the ground. "Ah, ha! and who are you who dare, to enter my castle without my permission? Away with her, my goblins, to the dampest, darkest dungeon in the castle! She will be killed with my wife and Fairy Faith." "Hold!" exclaimed Vivian lifting a staying hand. (She now realized that the wand was giving her great courage, and words she could never have thought to use otherwise.) Then a wicked smile crossed her lips and hei eyes were also reflected with the same expression. "I meant you no harm," she continued, "I really meant good. I am the fairy. Destruction. One of your goblins has been captured and thrown into a dungeon by Fairy Helpfulness who lives on yonder hill. I only meant to recapture him and bind Helpfulness to a tree."

Query Corner Tho editor will try to answer questions readers of the Junior submit to hor. She will not promise lo answer all of them The questions will be answered iu rotation, no do not expect the answer to be printed in the siame week in winch you send It in.

Dear Aunt Molly What was the first thing that lived on the earth? John Wesley Palsgrove. Dear John In the Bible, the first thing it tells about living and growing on the earth is grass, but nowdays, the men who have studied about the earth most, have come to believe that probably the very first thing to live was something so small that the man who wrote Genesis never had seen it. Because this funny little thing is supposed to be the great grandfather of all the plants and all the animals, and yet it is so small that you have' to have a high powered glass to see it. Usually the little animal is a single ball like a drop of water, but when he gets hungry he turns himself into arm and reaches out after something.to eat, and then when he gets his food, he turns himself into a mouth and eats a good ineal; but when something that frightens him comes along, he turns himself into legs and runs away as fast as he can. And this little fellow's name is Amoeba. Ed. Dear Editor How do they make tar? Dorn Patterson. . Dear Dorn There are two ways of making tar, one from distilling coal to get Uie gas out, and another from distilling wood in making methyl alcohol, etc. But both coal tar and wood tar are by-products. Ed. Dear Aunt Molly How much bigger is Mutt than Jeff? Donald Hoffman. Dear Dcnald In the last newspaper where I saw them, Mutt was seven-eighths of an ich taller than Jeff, while on the last bill board where I saw them posted Mutt seemed to measure nearly a yard and seven inches talier than his small companion. But in real life I guess the difference in their size, plus the things they say, has measured out just about a million dollars for the man who created them. Ed. Editor Junior Palladium, Dear Sir Why does Mr. Patsy's birthday come on a different date each year? F. J. Perhaps Mr. Patsy is trying tp set a good example to the rest of

Govern All's expression and manner was quite different now. "Have no fear," said he. "I will not harm you. Let us make ready and go at once to recapture my goblin." In a few minutes all was ready and they started, Vivian leading the way. With a wave of her wand she freed the goblin, and then, with another wave, bound Helpfulness to a tree. The ogre wished to kill her at once, but Vivian insisted that it would be more torture to starve her to death, and . Govern All finally agreed with her plan. "My dear Destruction," said he, grinning hideously and rubbing his clammy hands together, "you may have anything for which you ask even to half of ray power." "I want none of your power," she replied, "only free the fairies, Hope and Faith 'and return Hope's power to her." Govern All was furious but he had promised to obey her wishes, and in a few moments the two fairies appeared, and just as they did so, Vivian touched the ogre with her wand, and the hideous goblins disappeared, and then heard a great noise, for Governor All's spells were breaking all over the land, and in the ogre's place stood a handsome young prince. "Forgive me." he cried, "it was not my fault that I did these many wicked things." "You are forgiven," smiled Viv

his family, and the world in general, by only having birthday anniversaries when his loving friends can afford lo celebrate Ed. Now honust, Aunt Molly, why does everybody lauf wen a feller tells um about a real good fish he nearly got. Jimmie G. Well, Jimmie, you know how the water makes everything look just a little bit bent and crooked, don't you? Perhaps in telling your story about that fish which was still under water, you made it seem so true to life, that it looked sort of bent and crooked, too. Aunt M.

WHAT TO DO WHILE HEARING THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER Many boys and giris have been wondering what they should do when they play the Star Spangled Banner iu the picture shows and different places, where it does not seem just right to ting. How many of you, who do stand while it is being played, get up with the biggest effort, and as though you were so tried you could hardly move? Instead, you should spring to your feet at the first strains, and show that you are as much a patriot as the soldiers are. Or how many of you who stand while our national anthem is being played, talk and joke or look all around while you stand? It is such an easy little thing to do, to really show our pride in our country and our respect for our national anthem by standing erect and listening. And yet it is something that very few boys and girls ever think of doing, isn't it? Next time, try it. ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S RIDDLES. 1. Because it sometimes runs down. 2. Because it cannot chew. 3. Because they both wear wrappers. 4. A Chimney. From Some Junior Readers. EXCHANGE COLUMN Open to All Boys and Girls. These Ads Cost You Nothing; Send in Your "Wants" to The Palladium Junior. FOR SALE Belguim hares for 40 cents each or 75 cents a pair. Kenneth Hybarger, 422 South Twelfth St. FOR SALE Air gun; 600 shot repeater; Daisy; new; H. O. Hotsenpiller, 79 Ft. Wayne Ave. FOR SALE White bantam rooster. Call 5138-h or II. J. Malone,' R. R. D.

ian and the fairies. Then Vivian touched herself with her wand and once more she was gowned in her dainty white dress, and the articles belonging to Fairy Helpfulness returned to their owner wbo was now unbound. "Princess Vivian," said Faith, "we are now going to give you a playmate. The butterfly whom you followed out of your garden is your twin brother, who was stolen by the ogre when you were both quito small, and turned into a butterfly. Your parents grieved and begged for him which was of no avail, and they finally gave him up, but he is now restoredato you and your parents." Then the lad, who looked quite like Vivian, came forward and there was quite a happy meeting indeed. Before long a golden carriage and six white horses with golden trappings were ready and Vivian and her brother started for home. Oh, how glad the parents were to seo both of their own dear children home again. That night a grand feast was held in each castle, one for the return of the two lost children and the other for the return of Prince Bravery from being an ogre to his former self. And so, as all things ended in those days they lived happily ever after. (The End.)