Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 155, 11 May 1918 — Page 12

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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM The Junior Palladium la 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 orents, "want" advertisements, stories, local jokes and original poems are 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 ai they bring their articles to the Palladium office, or to receive letters addrcsseu Uf the Junior Editor. This is your little newspaper and we hope each ooy and girl will use It thoroughly.

RICHMOND PALLADIUM, MAY 11, 191S

MAY FLDWERS

., ; Dear Junior Folks; There are about five, more weeks of school. Have you decided just what you are going, to do "this summer, Junior Folks? ; It seems to me that in such times as these we all should use every minute of our spare time doing work for our country Even ho you are little folks there is still plenty left for you to d6. The Red Cross will be very busy this summer and will need the help of children. When school is out don't fail to continue going to the ;Red Cross rooms, in fact you should spend more of your time working for the Red Cross this summer than you have ever spent. Then too, you must not stop buying thrift stamps, ;You can get them from the mail carrier just; as you can get them at school.- This summer you Juniors should be able to buy more, thrift stamps than you have because you will now have a chance to earn your money for them. You can do this iri many way3.ff : , 7- .'71 ' ' ;, ,1 . - -Juniors let. us make this' summer a different one than any of the other summers we have had. It is our second summer in the war and this year has brought the war home to us. It;i$ no, longer, three thousand miles away. Those of you who have relatives bh the firing lines or who are in training ifor vthe;firinglines realize this. This is now bur fight and so Junior Folks let us help win it. We can all buy thrift and war savings stamps, help the Red Cross and have a war garden. . . The gardens will probably help as much as the loans 'we have made to the government. Let us all do. something worth while this summer Juniors and see how we can help.win the war. " " . AUNT MOLLY.

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EXCHANGE COLUMN Open to All Boys' and Girls. These Adt Cost You Nothing; Send in Your "Wants" to The Palladium Junior.

WANTED Work by two girls. Age . twelve and thirteen. Will work after school . and on Saturdays. ' Call 509. and 720 South . Fifth ' street LOST Paper dollar in Glen Park. ' Please return to Harold Hanson, 2002 North F street.

LOST Fox terrier dog, .white with brown ears, v Reward. Phone 2521 -131 South Ninth .street. - ;

FOR SALE A Belgium Haro Rab- : bit Call 331 South lith St.. Richmond, 2nd.

FOR SALE Child's rain coat and and a pair of ball-bearing skates. ' Will sell cheap if sold at once. : Call 416 South 16th street

LOST At Washington theatre Sunday afternoon, a ocket bood containing 20c. 'Please return to Elsie Baker, or leave at Aunt Molly's .office. j.'. ;.-, ':; 'j, ,

LOST Small r pocket-book, if found, -return to 1118. N.'D. street, - or prone 1366. . . " - . LOST Small- purse containing rosary beads. Phone 1366, or call at 1118 N. D. , ,,C v-

FOR SALE I sell the Ranger and Crusader Bikes. Gilbert Smith, 236 Soutfc Third street - WANTED Fifty Lone -Scouts to call .at 236 8outh Tthlrd street Saturday.- v."- '-;

WANTED: Place on a farm. Cab $15 NOrth .G, Leolin Klui.

WANTTD To sell or trade a B. B. ir rile. Will sell for 80 cents. See Leoline Klus. '- -

LOST Purple striped hair ribbon. Phone, 1823. .

A MONKEY A monkey is an animal, , ' And he has four feet; And hi3 eyes are very sharp . When he sees something to eat. Irene Sieweke, 5th grade, Whitewater, Ind.

The monkey is a cute little beast, Give him some peanuts and he'll have a feast. His face looks like' a little bid man, He will make you laugh whenever he can; . -' He is most always kept in a 'wire cage,... And when you . torment him he'll .; 5 fly in a rage, ' He has four feet and a great long tail, . . . .-...: ,. ,v Which he winds around and hangs from a rail. Francss E. Hinshaw, 5th grade, Whitewater, Ind. Poor little monkeys at the park are ' dead;-" They were burnt up In the big flow- - er shed.': J .'."'" . It happened one night when they were in bed ' . : ; Now Carrie and Jocko both are dead. -.. u -r-Delbert , -Jennings, : 5th grade, Whitewater, Ind . A monkey is an animal, A monkey has a a tail. - ; A monkey is a comic fellow When he sits on a rail. "' " ' Irene Wright, 5th grade, Whitewater; Ind. '' I always see the monkey page Where he sits in a cage; . . He always has a turned up nose, And has lots of toes; ' ' ' He likes peanuts and chewing-gum, and always has lots of fun. ' He Jumps from one board to another, .'.-.' Just exactly like his mother. Thclma C. Wright 5th grade, Whitewater, Indiana.

LIFE'S LITTLE ANNOYANCES. .How about the woman with the big .hat who aits down ta front of you at the theater?

SIR HIRAM MAXIM "Many years ago a boy tried his hand at firing a U. S. Army service rifle," says the St. Nicholas Magazine. "II "was a heavy rifle of the Civil War period, and the lad did not know how to hold it. He let the butt of the gun rest uncertainly against him, instead of pressing it firmly to his shoulder, and, as a consequence, when the gun . went off -he received a powerful kick. That kick, made a deep impression on the young lad, not only on his flesh, but on, his mind as well. It gave him a good conception of the power of a rifle cartridge. "Years afterward, when; he had moved to England, the memory of that krek was still with him. It was a useless prank of the . gun, he thought; a waste of good energy. ;Why could not that' energy, be put to use? And so he set himself the task of harnessing the kick of the gun." St Nicholas Magazine continues this article with a detailed explanation of the gun that this young man - invented, which will not be reprinted here, but it is interesting to know that this man was Hiram Maxim, , who is now one of the world's greatest inventors. He was knighted - by the king of England for -his -first: great invention, that of the gun which used up its exuberant energy in loading and fir; ing itself. . . .., , '. . ' The name of Sir Hiram Maxim is now known the world over. It is Interesting, to note that a single incident of this kind: has resulted in many -of our greatest inventions!

THE NEW GUN. ; The Germans have a new gun that - will - shoot seventy-six miles. It has been shelling Paris for some time. The guft is located near St Gobtn Forest. . ' - : - . r The bullet ' Is supposed to have three shells. The Mrst shoots-one third of the. way the second shoots the second third. . and the third shoots the last third. The third is the one that does the damage. The gun is under ground except the end where the bullet comes out. Back of the enclosure it is packed with mats to take away the jar of the gun. Richard Robbtaa. '

THE LINDEN TREE "It is interesting to know that Linnaeus, the great botanist, derived his name from a linden tree. His father belonged to a race of peaants wh ) had Christian names only, but having by his personal efforts raised himself to the position of pastor of the village in which he lived, he followed an old Swedish custom, common in such cases of adopting a surname. A very beautiful linden tree stood near his home, and, being something of a botanist himself, he chose Linne, the Swedish for Linden and called himself Nils Linne; or Nicholas Linden. -When his famous son, Carl, become professor of botany at the University of Upsula, his name Linne was Latininized in to Linnaeus, as we know today; But when the King of Spain conferred upon him a patent of nobility, it was given to him as Count Von Linne, or Count of the Linden Tree. This same Linnaeus named our splendid Magnolia trees in honor of Pierre Magnol, an eminent botanist, who lived in the seventeenth century. Russel Burke, St. : Mary's School. .

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Do you know how to train Tines? This and other valuable informationfor the city farmer will; be found in the free garden book which anyone who sends a twocent stamp can have by writing to the ' National War Garden Com mission at Washington. D. C. ' Buy W.S S .. :

What Writers Say of Trees They, are silent sentinels that never desert their post till death or violence calls or drives them away. They are friends, protectors and teachers; they lead us naturally by their innocent, lofty beauty, t look ! through nature to nature's God." "'

As the leaves of trees are said lo absorbe all noxious qualities of the air and to breathe forth a purer atmosphere: is it seems to us as if they drew from us ail sordid and angry passions and breathed forth ieace and love for one another. '.There is something unspeakably cheerful in a spot of ground which is covered with trees that smiles amidst all the rigors of winter, and gives us; a view of the most gay season in : the midst of that which is the most dead and melancholy. Edwin Herman, St.' Mary's School.

ALLIES TAKE DUTCH SHIPS. There are enough ships in existence to do the work that is needed. Most of these are tied Up. in ports afraid to go out on the sea because of the German submarines. ' The ships that the allies . have had have been busy carrying sol-

Vicio uu wvaa DU(riiuis, xiitay wanted the best bargain . Ships are at a great, premium now. ! - nu: i. v. .. 1

ui nrgiau mic uccu uswi to a. great extent in. the war under arrangements with England. More than; eight hundred of these ships have been destroyed by the allies; Sweden has not allowed her ships to be -used- to a great extent. Holland employed her ships freely,' but as the' Germans became more' unscrupulous she withdrew her ships' : Many of Norway's ships ' that have been rusting away in idleness will now be made, use of. Norway will now 'receive many things that' she has been in need of for many years. - . - v Holland has stood out against the allies In every effort to use -her

ships. She has- been prompted by Germany in her demands. The a!-, lies have lost patience with the Dutch aud have decided to take all Dutch ships they can reach. About

nsuij in iuck mps were in American ports. The total number taken was several hundred. Paul Roaa. -