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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, MARCH 2. 1918

THE JUNIOR

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

Dear Junior Folks: How many of you enjoyed the monkeys that were at Glen Miller park? All of you did and you will be sure to miss them this summer. How mcny of you would like to have some monkeys just like Mike and Carrie? If you would like to have them Junior Folks, the grown up people are willing to help you. Here is the plan: Boxes will be placed In all of the stores and public places, these boxes are for you to put in your extra pennies and nlckles, and at the end of the winter if you children of Wayne county have not enough money with which to buy monkeys the adults of the city have promised to add enough money to the fund so that you can buy them. Now Juniors, we don't want you to stop buying Thrift Stamps. Go right on helping your country as much as you did before but then there are lots of times that you spend money for candy, ice cream and picture shows, when you could do without them. Deny yourself one picture show a week, one less sack of candy and put that money In the "monkey fund." You see Juniors, you are not the only people that will sacrifice some little pleasure so that you may have the monkeys this summer, bat the older people wiL also do without candy, cigars and picture shows and other pleasures so that you may have some amusement this summer. So Juniors, of Richmond and Wayne county, if you do -your bit and the adults do their bit by contributing to the "monkey fund," we will all be able to enjoy the pranks of some very cunning little monkeys.. AUNT MOLLY.

THE DRAGON'S One day in May, there was born to a kinj a little prince. Not being liked by the king, he was put in a box and placed . on the river. In the course of time, it was received by a miller. The miller, thinking it was a present opened it, and to his surprise found, a baby. ' He took this to his wife and as the miller and his wife had no children, they gladly took the child as if it were really their own and cared for it. After he had grown large, he 'helped the miller very much. One day the king was at the miller's house. Something told him that this boy at the mill was his son, so he wrote a letter sending the miller's boy to deliver it. But the boy was lost on his way and stayed at some gnomes house all night. -Here they read the letter which read as follows: "As soon as the miller's son gives you this letter, kill him immediately." But the kind gnomes changed the note so that it read: "As soon aa the miller's son gives you this letter let the royal wedding be announced." So the gnomes started the boy bright and early the next morning, pointing out to him the right road . to follow bo that he would reach the castle. As soon as he reached the castle and care the message, all the people surrounded - him and he was quickly taken to a large cathedral ; where he' met a countess (his cousin) to whom he was married to his great amazement. When the king came home he was surprised at seeing his niece and heiress married, so he said to the miller's son keep not my, niece ; until .1' receive three golden hairs i from the dragon's own head. So

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GRANDMOTHER the miller's son started on his quest. H? came to a city. Here they askea him, "Why is that where wine flowed last year, water flows this?" H? replied, saying that he would ttll them when he came back from his journey. So he went on to another city. Here they asked him, "Why is it that last year golden apples were on a tree, and this year there are none?" Ht replied, saying that he would tell them when he returned from his search.' Upon crossing a river, the ferryman asked him, "Why is it that I have to do this work always myself." The son answered him by saying that he would inform him o. his return. Now he went to the dragon's home. - In by the fireside, sat the dragon's grandmother. She asked, "What is your business here, my boy?" He told her the object of his journey. She commanded him to get under the floor. . In an hour's time the dragon came home very hungry. After supper, he placed his head down on his grandmother's lap and went to sleep. When he was sleeping soundly, she pulled a hair out of his head. He got up in great anger and said, "Why did you do that." She said, "I was dreaming about where last year wine flowed in a well and this year there is water." He answered, "That is easy enough. Get some men and clean the well thoroughly, then wine will flow." - So he went to sleep again. Again she pulled a hair. When he awoke this time she said, "I was . dreaming about a tree which bore golden apples last year but - none this year." He was almost asleep again, when he answered, "Kill the mouse

that gnaws at the roots, then it will bare golden apples again." He was asleep again in a few minutes. She pulled the third hair and said, "I was dreaming about a ferryman, who has been at his work all his life but now vant3 to quit." "That is easy," said the dragon angrily, because his rest had been disturbed. "When he who is being ferried across the river, can be induced to take tho oars, then he must do tho work forever after." So in tho morning when the dragon had left, tho grandmother let the boy out from under the floor and gave him the three hairs. After warmly thanking rue kind old grandmother, he started out on his return trip. When he reached the river he told the ferryman the answer to his question and received lots and lots of money. He toid the answers at botti ot the cities and here he was laden with four bags of gold. Th3 cities provided him with asses to carry the gold for him. He now went to the king's palace and gave him the three hairs. The king now being willing, the king's niece and the son lived happily, but the king kept asking, "Is there any more gold?" Finally the son said, "Yes, just on the other side of the river." lie knew he would be a ferryman, if he wen, which was to his irking. So the king went and never was heard of again. Everett Williams, 8th grade,. "Prairie Sunbeam," age 12.

VERY PATRIOTIC GIRL In the city of Lawrence, Kan. lives an Indian girl who is twenty 1 two years old. She is a ftill-blood-! ed Prima Indian and her name is Minnie Mack. Minnie is making her own living by working for Mrs. Edward Parker. Out of the little sum that she saved, she bought a fifty dollar Liberty Bond, not knowing of the four percent interest, but thinking she was giving her money to her country.. If this girl can buy a bond while working as a cook and not intending to draw the interest, we can surely buy a much larger one. Maxine Whiteley, Garfield School. IN CANADA Last winter when I went to Canada to visit my uncle, we went out for a deer hunt. We sat down by a stream with our guns and waited. Soon a deer came to get a drink. My uncle whispered for me to shoot, but when I fired I did not hit the buck. Just then my uncle fired, but the big buck ran away. . We went after the deer, for we could track him by his blood. After we had traveled for at least five miles, we came upon him quietly grazing on a hillside. Again uncle said for me to be careful and fire, when I fired the bucx fell. So we went up to the deer, and my uncle slung him over his shoulder and we started home. While I was in Canada my uncle and I went out deer hunting every day, but I shall never forget the first deer I killed Dewey Ttatzer, Boston Twp. Dist. No. 6. THE STORY OF A CAT Once there was a cat which was white and looked like a bunch of snow. I called it Snowball. Soon after it was born its mother died and I had to feed it with a bottle. I fed it on the bottle until it was about a year old then I gave it away to a little girl that lived in the country, whose name was Marie Smith. Snowball got plenty of milk every day. One day I asked her how the kitten "was and she said the kitten had died the night before. She also said that it was very fat, and it had a bath in warm water twice a week. Crystal Heinley, 7A West Ward, Columbia City, Ind. RIDDLES 1. What goes up and down and never touches sky nor ground? Answer A pump handle. 2. Why does a rooster hold his head up when he crows? Answer He knows his lesson by heart. 3. What is the last thing you take off at night? Answer Your feet. 4. What is the first thing you do when you go in swimming. Answer Get wet. 5. What goes 'round the house 'round the house and peeps in every corner? Answer The wind. 6. Why do soldiers wear gold buttons on their coats? Answer Jo button them. Elisabeth Buening, St Andrew's school, 5th grade,

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"There's no place like home," sighed Uncle Lucky, as ho tied the Luckymobile up in the stable and gave it a drink of gasoline, and then bo and Billy Bunny went into the house for supper. The little rabbit always loved to eat supper at Uncle Lucky's, and so would you after I tell what there was to cat. First, there were lettuce sandwiches and turnip topovers, and carrot cambric tea. Then sugar coated carrot candies, and after tha'. apple pie with lots of brown sugar over the crust! "Well, what shall we do now?" said Uncle Lucky after supper was over. "Let's go to a moving picture show," said Billy Bunny, and no sooner had he said the word than dear kind Uncle Lucky put on his stovepipe hat and started off. And by and by they came to the building where the moving picture show was held, and Uncle Lucky bought two tickets and in they went. But, oh dear me and oh dear you! lsn"t it strange that something always has to happen to these two nice bunnies. Won't somebody please ask the policemen to see that nothing awful happens after this? Well, no sooner had the old gentleman rabbit and his small nephew sat down than the place caught on fire, and everybody tried to get out of the door at the same time, and if the- side of the building hadn't given way, 1 guess two or five people would have been squeezed out of their shoes and stockings. And when everybody was out and the place all burned down the fire engine came puffing up j.nd squirted water all over the people who were trying to got their money back from tho ticket man! "Let them keep our money," said Uncle Lucky. "I'd rather lose it than get all wet." And he jumped into his automobile and started off for home. But, goodness me! he didn't notice that Billy Bunny wasn't with him. Wasn't it careless of kind Uncle Lucky? You see, he was so excited over the fire that he forgot for a moment his small nephew wasn't with him. And so, off he went. And when Billy Bunny looked around of course he -couldn't find the old gentleman rabbit nor the Luckymobile. "Well, this is loo bad," said Billy Bunny. "What shall I do?" And then, without answering himself, ho hopped olf down the road toward Uncle Lucky's house. But he had only gone a litile ways, when a big owl tlew out of a barn and picked up the little rabbit and carried him back to her nost. "This is the last of me," thought the little rabbit. And then he thought again, and this time he thought something else. For he turned up his strong little hind logs and kicked that bad owl on her funny bone until she laughed so loud that she dropped the little rabbit on a pile of straw just as she was going to fly into the barn with h'in. Wasn't that lucky? ' Of course, if the owl hadn't dropped Billy Bunny on the pile of straw, there might not have been any story, for owls are fond of eating nice tender little rabbits But it's wonderful how lucky this little rabbit is in getting out of scrapes! Well, no sooner did he touch the straw than he hid underneath, and the bad owl couldn't find him anywhere, although she looked under the pump and over tho wheelbarrow and behind the pitchfork and every place she could think of. Then, after that she tooted a very sad song, and this is the way it went: "Oh, dear, I've lost my supper, I'm very sad to tell; I had a tender rabbit , But on the straw he fell, And now I cannot find him, Whatever shall I do? I'll have to catch a mouse, I guess, Or a little kangaroo!" And then she tooted three times just like an automobile horn and flew away to look for her supper. "Now's my chance!" whispered the little rabbit and away he hopped down the road straight for Uncle Lucky's house. But when he got there the front door ,was locked and all the windows dark and the hammock rolled up in a corner of the piazza and the croquet box locked so that he couldn't crawl inside. "What shall I do?" said the little bunny, after he had knocked for the forty-ninth and a half times on the front door. "Oh, dear, what shall I do?" And then a little sparrow looked out of her nest under the porch aud said: "I will tap on the window Where Uncle Lucky dozes, And if that doesn't wake him up I'll hit him with some roses." Then off she flew to tap on the old gentleman rabbit's window. But, oh dear me! He was so sound asleep that it didn't wake him up the least little bit. So she flew down to the garden and picked a big bunch of roses. First she threw a white rose through the window, but it fell so gently on his pillow that dear Uncle Lucky never heard it. Then she tossed in a yellow rose, but it fell on the floor without waking him. After that she threw in a little pink rose, but it just touched his ear and only made him snore. At last she threw in a whole bunch of big red roses and they fell all around his nose and .their perfume was so. sweet that it woke bim up and he ran downstairs and let Billy Bunny in. And then the little sparrow went back to her nest and cuddled her little birds to sleep.

THE SNOW FORT Once there were four boys. Their names were Tom, Dick, Harry and Jack. They started to school one morning. It was ju?t about time for the bell to ring. They went in and took their seats. The day went so fast. It was soon time to go home. On the way home they said, "Let's have a fight." They went on home and Tom and Harry made a fort. Soon Dick and Jack came along. Then a battle began.- Soon Tom hit Jack in the nose with a snowball. Then it was all over. The two boys In the fort won the battle. Glenn Blew, Columbia City, Ind., grade 5A, age 13. GIRLS' NAMES Orodthy Dorothy. Liztheaeb Elizabeth. Auinelp Pauline. Serhet Esther. Ahild Hilda. Dithe Edith. - J Ciela Alice. Lethe Ethel. Geslna Behnen. 5th Grade, St Andrew's School.

Girl Writs Poetry About Monkey O, Monkey, you ugly thing Always playing in a ring; Doing all kinds of tricks, As the clock ticks You're just as black as coal; As on the bottom of your sole. You're always happy And the dogs are always snappy And when you are mad you always bite; To l)ite the kaiser would be your delight. The little monkey buys Thrift Stamps And see the soldiers in camps. By Florence Webster, Chester school, age 10.

NAMES OF STATES 1 Iaggroe, Georgia. 2. Saxta. 3. Alambaa, 4. Tabu. Texas Alabama. Utah. 6. Dihoa. Idaho. 6. Wne-Coixme. New Mexico. 7. Tuckyenk. Kentucky. 8. Ealmn. Maine. 9. Wne-Koyr, New York. 10. Diananl. Indiana. Pauline Korthaus, 5th grade. Andrew's School. St