Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 251, 1 September 1917 — Page 5

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY- SECTION OF THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM ' '

SEND HIM AWAY WITH A SMILE SEND HIM AWAY WITH A SMILE RICHMOND, INI).. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1917

Hibberd School Receives Letter from France The boys and girls of Hibberd school have the second letter to he received In Richmond from our adopted friends in France, and it is from Adolphe, the little brother of Odette, whom wo have adopted in the Junior. The letter was received by Miss Schulz, who is the principal of Hlbuerd school, and she is keeping the original French letter to show to all the Hibberd boys and girls when school begins. No doubt other letters will be arriving for all the other schools, also, and w? shall be glad to print them in the Junior, too, so that all of you can read what our new friends and allies from across the water are writing to us. Colorgues, July 27, 1917. Dear Benefactor: Yeslerday I received the draft you sent me, and I write to thank you with all my heart. It lias given great pleasure to my mother, who works very hard and who often does not have money Jo liny shoefi forjmy brother "Jind sisters also. " She is very g!ad to have a little more money, and I am too, for I shall have some new shoes and a pretty pinafore also. I love you much and wish I might see you, to be able to erabrase you. Accept, dear benefactor, big kisses from your little friend. Adolphe Negre.

AEROPLANE FLIES OVER HOY'S HEAD Dear Editor: We went over to Dayton a week ago and we went to the aviation grounds, twelve miles from Dayton. We saw fifteen aeroplanes up at once, and one flew right over our heads, about twelve feet above us, and scared my mother, and we all laughed at her, and then went home and had lunch. The next morning I went out of doors and you can't guess what I saw.. I saw an areoplane two thousand feet up in the air, and then he turned loop the loops clear down to the ground. And then he started up again. And I will tell you more about it next Saturday. Yours truly W. I. C. BASEBALL CHAMPION DECIDED NEXT WEEK Next week will be a great week at the public playgrounds because then the great championship of the Sunday school baseball league is to be decided. These games are always of great interest to all the younger baseball enthusiasts and usually between seventy-five and one hundred howling spectators are there to encourage the teams. At present the Specials and the Lutherans are tying for first place. Boys Start Nobleman Club Some time ago, a crowd of boys up on Eleventh street were playing bandit, wearing masks and burying treasures, and one of the boy's mother said that Bhe thought that was so far behind the times that maybe the boys could have more fun if they had a diffirent kind of a club, and bo this Is what they started: Dear Editor: 'Would you like to know of a Nobleman Club on Eleventh street? The idea of this club is to do nice, kind things for anybody and everybody. For the sick or well. The boys have got to do something, or else they cannot join. The boys get medals for the kind things they do, and the one who gets the most medals, gets a a prize. Yours truly W. I. C. BOYS MAY SHOW PATRIOTISM ALSO Many boys have been wondering if any part has been assigned to them in the parade on Monday. None has, but any boy who wishes to show his patriotism may march with hi3 father or brother, or perhaps with his mother in the Red Cross section. But If he has no one to be with, he may show his patriotism just as much by standing along the sides and cheering for our new Richmond soldiers at the top of liis voice.

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TO THE LITTLE GIRLS OF RICHMOND: The Committee in charge of the patriotic parade to be held next Monday afternoon, desires that one entire section be composed of little girls from 6 to 12 years old. Several hundred of these little children marching as a tribute to the soldiers of Wayne county should prove to be one of the inspiring features of the demonstration. If possible, these little girls should be attired in white, but this is not absolutely required, and all little girl3 no matter whether the uniform dress is complied with or not, will be welcomed and assigned to a place in the big parade. Flags will be provided by the committee. The . place of parade formation for these little girls will be at South Fourth and A streets, and they are urged to present themselves promptly at 1 o'clock. A committee of ladies will be on hand to receive them and assign them positions in line. THE COMMITTEE. DON'T MISS THE CHAUTAUQUA TONIGHT Every boy and girl around Richmond will want to be out at the Chautauqua tonight, because this is your night. Everything on the program is meant especially to entertain you, and Henry, the Magician, is such a wonder with all his tricks and mysterious powers that you cannot afford to miss seeing it all. All the boys and girls from Wernle Home are going to be the special guests of the Chautauqua, and Patsy is going to give them each a sack of his wonderful cracker-jack and also an ice cream cone. So when you are out there, you can look for them on the front seats, and maybe you can sympathize with a certaig Richmond girl named Ruth who said she wished she was one of the orphans that night. MY CINCINNATI VISIT Once this summer mother, sister and myself visited Cincinnati on the train to stay all day. We went to Chester park. We paid ten cents to get in. When we got in we began to look around. First thing I saw was a swimming pool or rather half of it. There was a bridge over the middle of it about six feet from the water at the width of it. One side was used for row-boating and the other side was used for swimming. The water was about up to my neck. There were two diving boards and three slides. Next thing we went to was the house of hilarity. On the floor there are all kinds of real small holes. If you step on one of these an air blast will come up and make you jump off, making a very loud noise. Then there are moving stairs of two kinds. One kind moves sideways and the other stairs are the ones that you can just stand still and they will take you up to the next floor. There are three kinds of slides wliich reach from one floor to the other. There is Spiral slide, a real wide slide and a narrow slide, both of which are almost straight, coming from one floor to the other. Outside there are roller coasters, merry-go-round and all kinds catch booths. R. R. Myrick. GOING HUNTING Once upon a time when I was a young fellow, I lived in the west. I used to go hunting in the mountains. I would set traps that day, and when I would come back in the raorning, I would find a bear in the trap. I would fix my gun and shoot him, then I would skin him and take him home. I got some meat and then I took the fur home and we ate the meat. My father and I went out to the woods and we got into a deep deep forest. We ran across a rattle snake. Just as I picked up a stone and he stuck out his tongue and I threw the stone and in the meantime my father shot the snake! Yours truly J. S. IL

SAVE FAMILY FROM STARVING Anna Klein (above) and her sister, Edith, who discovered the Poins, hungry, without clothing, and collected enough cash for temporary aid.

ash 4 lWWK J--5T 1 trVJir ! Huddled in two rooms at 1104 South Lincoln street is the most depressed family in Chicago. There is a husband with a crippled leg, a mother who brought a pretty baby into the world a week ago and four other children, none more than nine years old all hungry and without clothing. Edith, nine, and Anna, eleven. daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Max Klein, 1137 South Lincoln street, discovered this state of affairs yesterday. Their mother sent food, but the young Misses Cline did not stop at that. Girls Collect $2.65. They improvised collection boxes and within a few hours had obtained a considerable sum of money from pedestrians. The story of Max Poin, who came HOW THE FOR-GET-ME-NOT WAS NAMED Once upon a time in a far coun try there lived a little boy and girl. They were brothers and sisters. They loved each other very dearly. They lived in a little hut. By this hut there flowed a river. The girl's name was Deloris and the boy's name was Jack. Across this little river the children would Fpend their afternoons In picking flowers that we now call for get-me-nots. So this is how ft happened. One day when they were out there Deloris said to Jack, "Jack, will you get me that beautiful little flower growing beside the river." So Jack went to get it for her. After he had it in his hands, his foot slipped "and he fell in the water, and he held the flower up and said, "For get-me-not." By Helen Gardner, Warner school.

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here ten years ago to win his fortune, is a chronology of misfortune. He married a wigmaker in a Chicago hair store. Five babies have come since that time. They are Ida, nine; Philip, seven; Jactb, five; Rebecca, four, and the baby, as yet unnamed. Horse and Wagon Stolen He saved enough at work to buy a horse and wagon, but, just before the new baby was born, the horse and wagon were stolen. Then he got a job with an ice company and a large cake of ice crushed hi3 foot Then came the summons from the landlord to vacate. The rent is three months in arrears. The Poins have been made temporarily comfortable, but more help is needed. FUNNY ANIMALS AT THE ZOO. Dear Aunt Molly; We went to Dayton and staid all night. Next morning we started for Cincinnati at 7:15 a. m. We landed at Cincinnati at 11:00 a. ni. and went out to the Zoo. One of the funny thing3 we saw was a land tortoise that was as big as a wash tub who was standing up on all fours with a pelican pecking at him, picking all the bug3 off of him. After we had seen all the ani mals we went to the Hotel Simp son and staid all night Next morn ing we went back to Dayton and that afternoon we came home Your little friend, W. I. C. Some of the California Indians store their corn supply in willow baskets, which are as large as the rooms of a modern-sized house.

Boys and Girls May Help the Red Cross Richmond boys and girls are not doing as much for the Red Cross as they are in other cities. During the whole summer not more than about twenty-five children have been in the Red Cross rooms, and yet there are many useful things they can do. In fact Mrs. Crichet, who has been in charge during this last month, has placed a table especially for

the boys and girls, but many times there is no one there at all. One of the main things the junior helpers can do, is cutting tip the scraps of outing flannel into tiny little pieces, to stuff pillows' with; another thing is cutting strips of muslin, just as carpet rags are cut, to be crochetted into floor rags for the hospitals. Girls who know anything about sewing may help malce the comfort bags, and those who prove that they are careful workers, even might roll bandages. Boys are often needed to go ou errands, and the Boy Scouts have been badly needed for the past week to wrap , up several large boxes of supplies which are ready to be shipped away. In Indianapolis they have had a large window display of Red Cross , work that, has been done by boys and girls alone; and in many of the summer resorts, girls have earned quite' a little money for the Red Cross by having flower sales. And surely the Richmond boys and girls are just as ready to show their patriotism and do their "bit." Everyone knows where the Red Cross rooms are, on the corner of Ninth and North A streets, so go down there the first chance you have and work. GIRLS! DO YOUR BIT Dear Girls: When you are wanted to take your place in this big public way of showing our big brothers how proud we are of them, you won't fail, will you? You don't know how much it will mean to all those new soldiers who are going away, to see all of you together, you younger girls from six to twelve years old, dressed in white and carrying the flags which they will fight for. Your section of the parade will be one that they never will forget, if only you will do your bit and take part. Don't feel that you won't know where to go or what to do, because as soon as yet get down there at the corner of Fourth and South A streets, there will be plenty of other girls, and probably some of your former teachers will be among the committee of women there to tell you what to do and help you find your place. We will give you your flags, so that all you have to do is if possible, dress in white so you will be in uniform, get one or several other girls to go down there with you, and then be there at one o'clock sharp. Girls, you will do your part and make this parade a great success, won't you? We will be expecting you. Aunt Molly. OLD GLORY When Old Glory waves on high, And the soldiers go marching by, All that shows that they stand By Old Glory. For would they stand for the Red, White and Blue To be torn down and abused? No, instead it waves on high, And they keep it in the sky. Now let us all say, United we stand ' today, And divided we will fall For Old Glory. By Helen Gardner, Warner school Enjoys Stories at Chautauqua One of the most popular parts of the morning program at the children's tent is the story telling. Evan Parks enjoys that paxt so much that he has written a special letter with each word carefully printed, and he posted it in the Junior mail box out at the Chautauqua. Thrs Is what he said: "Dear Miss Ruth told us a story Friday and she is going to tell U3 a story today. Evan Parks." What is believed to be the oldest inhabited residence in the world la a mansion in Germany that was built in 7C3.