Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 41, 29 December 1917 — Page 10

THE JUNIOR

Th Junior Palladium is the children's, section of the Richmond Palladium, founded May 6, 1916. and issued each Saturdav afternoon. All boys and girls are invited to be reporters nd contributors. News items, social events, "want" advertisements, stories, local jokes and original poems n acceptable and wiil be published. Articles should be written plainly and on one side or the paper, with the author's name and age Bigned. Aunt Molly is always glad to meet the children personally aa they bring their articles to the Palladium office, or to receive letters addressed to tne Junior Editor. This is your little newspaper cud we hope each ooy and girl will use it thoroughly.

Dear Junior Folks: How many of you are glad that it will soon be New Years? All of yon are glad aren't you? Now just why are you glad, Junior Folks? Is It because you can start again and can have a new leaf? Juniors, vou are starting the new year with a clean leaf and let us keep it clean will you Juniors? How many of you have made New Year Resolutions? Do you keep them, Juniors? Let us keep them this year won't you? While we are making them, Junior Folks let us resolve to save our money for Thrift Stamps, to save tinfoil, to help the Red Cross, to do everything to help win the war and also contribute to the Junior Palladium and don't forget Juniors to study hard at school because after the war the men and women that are educated are the ones that will climb the ladder of fame. Now Juniors remember these things and please Aunt Molly. MY FIRST VISIT TO AMERICA I am a little French girl ten years old. My name is Joan and my sister's name Is Marie My father is in the French army. One day when my mother went to work some kind American mau came to me and wanted to know if my mother, sister and I would come to America. I said "Yes," and Joan clapped-her hands. When my mother came home I told her about it. She was very happy and glad to go. This man put us on board an American ship. It was very clean and warm in the ship. 1 wondered if it was this nine in America. This kind man asked me if I ever saw a Christmas tree. I said "No," and wondered what a Christmastree could be. Mother told me it was a large tree with balls and everything on it. We arrived at New York early in the morninf. .We got on a train and started to Richmond, When we arrived it was Christmas Eve. And oh! I saw a Christmas tree. Marie clapped her hands with joy. Marie and I hung up our stockings and next morning we found candy, oranges, apples, do'ls, dishes, furs and everything. I like America very much and expect to stay here till the war is over. I hope our country will be victorious. Ruth Harris, 7A3, Garfield School.

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PALLADIUM

HOVV TO SAVE Our nation is engaged in a great war. We don't realize what a terrible war it is. We must save all the food we can and anything else that is savable. Some of us think that if we waste a little teaspoonful of something that is not going to hurt anything. In other words some of think that what little they save is not going to help in the least. That little alone won't help but it is the little that all of us put together- save that counts. One girl said to me the other day, "Just think how many things there are that we can save. There is food, clothing, money and ever so many other things. We can save food by not eating everything we want. We can save clothing by not doing everything we would like to whether it tears our clothing or not. We can save money by not buying extravagantly nor expensive clothing. We can also savo money by not buving candy Maxine Whitely. VENICE Venice is on the eastern side of Italy It is built over the ocean and instead of having stone streets they have water streets. There are lots and lots of little bridges. There are only four horses in Venice and they are bronze. Instead of having automobiles they have gondolas, which are a kind of boat. There is only one big piece of land in Venice and that is in Tront of St. Mark's Cathedral. Dudley Woodman, DA Grade, Joseph Moore School. SAVE OUR COUNTRY Our country wants us to save as much food as possible. The soldiers are fighting for us and our country and they need the food. They cannot work without it. If we want our country to' win this war we must do all we can to help. A great deal of our food is wasted when we take what we think we are going to eat but decide that we have had enough. Take a small amount at a time and if you want more get it. Do without as much as possible so that we may give it to the soldiers in France. Think of them over there fighting for you, doing their best to save our country. Save is one of the most interesting things you can do. Alice Starr.

RICHMOND. INDIANA. DEC. 29. 1917

QUEEN VISITS

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The soldiers in the Dritish hospitals where wounded are patched and "remade" look forward to the visits of Queen Mary with joyous anticipanom Her sympathy for the boys is most sincere and her visits do much to cheer them up.

WRITES ABOUT CAMPS The crews of the German ships interned in United States ports are put in prison camps in the east, where they do not have to do any hard manual labor. They have nothing to do but to keep clean and do a little work around the camp. They can not be trusted in industries for fear they will escape to Germany, where some of the knowledge they gained in this country might do the Germans some good. They have plenty of clothing and food of all kinds, so they are never in want of anything, even beer which was made from grain that might be sent to the soldiers in France, where it would do some good. Why not let them suffer awhile, so they will know how the soldiers in France are suffering for want of the good things these prisoners have. Charles Carson. A NEGRO DOLLY I am an old negro dolly. I have lived on a counter, In an old store in New York, until I am so dirty I am ashamed to be seen. I have always wished that some one would come and take me to some little girl, who would love me and keep me nice and clean. There was a lady in the store this morning. She wanted a funny dolly for her little girl, as she said it was just one day until Christmas. I believe she liked me, at least she said she would come for me in the afternoon. Oh, how jealous Miss China Doll was! She said, "Well I don't see what anyone wants with you, you're not nearly as beautiful as I." My dear friend Tin Soldier was very much grieved at my going. "Well, well, I must have gone to sleep, for here I am all cleaned up with a nice dress on and a red bandana around my head and wrapped in tissue paper and in a tiny stocking. There is another stocking by my side, which is quite a surprise, for I thought there was only one child. Christmas morning two small children came running down the stairs. The little girl was very much pleased with me, but imagine my joy when the little boy pulled from his stocking, my dear friend. Tin Soldier. THE POWDER KEG The man sat on a powder keg And lighted a small cigar He thought of his little sweetheart That he had left with her ma The girl was thinking of hl:n that night And her thoughts were all of love Rut she'll have to look for another beaux For he has gone above. Eddisoa Ottenfeld.

TOMMIES

COMING TO INDIANA In the early days of Indiana, Mr. find Mrs. Smith and little Elizabeth started from Virginia to come to Indiana to find them a new home. They started one morning very early in a covered wagon. They had no trouble tiil they got to where Kentucky now is. One night as they were sitting around the fire, two Indians came up to them and wanted some bread, but as they had none to spare they had to refuse the Indians. The squaws began to talk among themselves and left an"'ry. The next morning when they started to move on, a band of Indians attacked them. Mr. Smith did his best to defend his little family, but gradually the savages closed around the pioneers. Soon a bullet struck Mr. Smith in the shoulder. Then an Indian threw a burning torch on the wagon, which immediately began to burn. Little Elizabeth lay trembling, cuddled up in her mother's arms. Then it was that a great shout rent the air. "The soldiers," shouted Mr. Smith joyously. Yes, the Indians were fleeing, chased by U. S. Cavalry. The soldiers were a scouting party whoss object was to destory the Indians' power. Soon Mr. Smith had the fire extinguished and the little party of pioneers quickly resumed their journey to Indiana Zelma Bozworth, 7ih grade, Boston Twp. Dist. No. G. THE WISE MAN There was a man in our town And he was wonderous wise He swore it was his policy To never-advertise. Rut one day he advertised Aud thereby hangs the tale The ad was set in quite small type And headed "Sheriff's sale." Eddison Ottenfeld. LETTER FROM LEWISBURG Dear Roys and Girls: , It is about Xmas time and I will tell you what I want. I want a pair of ice skates a new suit, and a little candy. I hope Santa will be good to you. Our school has a fine baseball and football team. We beat the Indianapolis Intermediate class. Yours truly, Min Banker. LETTER TO AUNT MOLLY Dear Aunt Molly Santa and his wife are very busy now for it is near Xmas and they want to get the toys ready for the girls and boys. The girls and boys will be sad If he doesn't get tho toys done. Every girl and boy wants some kind of a toy. 1 wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Your friend. En a Uarnhiser.

EAT MORE BEANS ADV ISES THIS BOY Heansare a delicious food and we should take to liking them because if we do not our allies will starve so we had better eat beans and let the other things that can be shipped across the water. ir you do not like them eat them any way and pretend they are good like the people did when England closed the port of Boston and the people ate all kinds of food and pretend it was good. To like them it doesn't take much, just you read this article and you will want to eat them. Make a good batch of cornbread and let it get real crumbly, then cook your beans with a lot of soup in them. When you get them ready to eat mix them together and you will wish you had some more. Ralph Asbury.

RANCHING The Great Plains are given over mainly to ranching. There are few streams, and very few trees, except along the streams. The ranchman must have water and wood so he locates his house and sheds so they both can be reached. Few fences are built. The region is owned by the government not by the ranchman. They own land near water so the cattle can reach it. They should have a few fences because the cattle should roam far and wide in their search for food. The cattle eat bunch grass and it is so scattered that they have to walk a long distance. A ranchman may own from ten to twenty thousand head of cattle, yet they may all be allowed to wander about upon public land, called "the range." They keep within a distance of thirty miles of the ranch house; but sometimes they stray one or two hundred miles away. Twice a year there is a round-up occurring in May or June, the other early in the fall. The first is to brand the calves that have been born during the winter. Since there are few fences, they are even a hundred miles apart, they become mixed during the winter. Each cattle owner has a certain mark, or brand in the form of a letter, a cross, a horseshoe, etc.. which is burnt into the side of ?very calf. A round-up, which lasts several weeks, is planned by the ranchmen. A squad of about twenty cowboys, with a wagon and several weeks' provision, a large number of ponies and a cook, go in one direction, and other wagons set out in pther directions. Before they leave each other In the morning, the members of a squad agree upon a certain camping place for the night and then they go around and bring the cattle together, riding perhaps sixty or eighty miles during the day. Each ranchman knows his own cattle by the brand. After brand' ing the calves, each ranchman drives his cattle homeward, to feed during the summer within a few dozen miles of their homes. The second large round-up is somewhat like the first, except that its object is to bring together the steers or male cattle and ship them away to market, it is called tho beef round-up. The steers are collected, then they are loaded upon trains and shipped to distant cities to be slaughtered. Very often the cattle have found little water, and poor pasturage, then they have to be fed before being slaughtered. This may be done upon the irrigated field near the rivers in the ranch country. The lives of ranchmen and cowboys are interesting, they spend most of their time in the saddle. A ranchman must build his house, kill his beef and dress it, put up his ice, raise his vegetables, do his blacksmith ing, find his fuel, and even keep school for his children. He affords a good example of tho pioneer who was so common in early days. Willis Aughie, Fountain City, Ind. SAVE PENNIES FOR THE POOR At Vaille School in room 1, Miss Moony's room the children have had no candy since Thanksgiving. They had a money box on the teacher's desk and in place of buying candy and chewing gum they put all their spending money in this box. With this money they bought (5 pairs of stockings and 4 suits of underwear and sent them to tho North End Mission to be given to some needy children.