Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 226, 3 August 1918 — Page 13

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i4mreican Men Pay Games witA French Children One of the most Interesting things Mr. Will Jenkins has told since his return to Richmond from helping the French refugees in northern France, was the way the big strong American men take care of little French children. At one village where he was stationed there were twenty-eight thin faced children who walked quietly to school in the morning and home again at night, with no real life or spirit. Even at recess time, they only came out onto the playground and walked or sat about for fifteen minutes and then went back again. But the American men were used to seeing American boys and girls running and playing all recess time, and racing back and forth to school, so they began teaching them American games. Mr. Jenkins and the other workers themselves flayed tag and drop the handkerchief wtih those little French orphans and by the end of two months, all the children were laughing and shouting as they raced about the playgrounds all recess long with as much energy and spirit as the American boys and girls themselves. "I believe the spirit we Americans are putting into the French is one of the greatest things we have done," said Mr. Jenkins. "The houses we built up were knocked to pieces in a few hours, and many of the wounded men were rescued and healed only to be wounded again, but the spirit and life of the Americans has made new life and spirit even for the little French children, and that lasts."

PRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCED. That the Richmond boys and and girls have the true spirit of the Battle of Bunker Hill was shown by the May in which they turned disaster into the greatest success, during the flower sale for Belgian babies last Saturday. When the supplies failed to come, they ripped artificial forget-me-nots off of old hats or manufactured little boquets in almost any manner to supply the need, just as the old patriots melted tip their pewter spoons and dishes to make bullets, and the success of the day lies far more in the unselfish spirit of the Campfire girls and their friends who sacrificed their chance of winning a prize and made boquets for others instead. Since the manner of selling the flowers was so different, the number of prizes has been enlarged and the prize winners are as follows: First Prize Largest group sellers, $68.25; Ruth Critchet, Charlotte Colvin and friends, a book. Second Prize Second largest group sellers, $53.40; Katherine Carr, Mary Jones, Marian Hill and Pauline Smith, a Belgian flag. Third Prize Largest house-to-house sellers, $29.49; Margaret Coe and Alice Starr, a book. Fourth Prize Highest Individual seller, $20.00; Anna Catherine Sharkey, a Belgian flag. Fifth Prize Highest boy seller, $11.00; David Marvel, a Belgian flag. Sixth Prize Second highest boy seller, $7.90; Elmer Porter. Children may call for their prizes at the Commercial Club rooms. SCHOOL MARKET IS GROWING SUCCESS. That the children's market Is a growing success is agreed by every boy and girl who takes part in the sale. More children are entering each time, and a larger number of patrons attend. Potatoes, corn, oatmeal cookies, cottage cheese and beans proved the best sellers at the Friday's market. The highest amount, $3.84, was made by Mabel Gustin, of the Ablngton pike, the smallest amount was 20 cents, made, however by nly havbig beans to sell. The Rockefeller foundation has contributed $100,000 to the fund for welfare work among Jewish soldiers. There are over 5,000 printers in the service. They will use gunpowder instead of a mallet for their shooting stick.

Sammy Stay-atHome

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Comes to Richmond WANTED All the Jokes I can find to put in my old kit bag, since at present it is so full of troubles it makes me have the grouch every time I open it. SAMMY STAY-AT-HOME. This unusual notice was brought into the Junior office late last week by such a queer looking fellow that the editor at once asked him if he lived in Richmond. He nuswered that he had just arrived, but' expected to remain in the city for some time unless his troubles grew too great. "Do you have so many troubles as all that?" asked the editor, for in spite of the rather worried look on the queer fellow's face, he seemed to have a very merry twinkle in his eyes. "Troubles!" he exclaimed. Then dumping his bag down on the floor with a thud, he began fumbling with the straps and buckles of the kit as h continued, "I wish you'd just look in here." An opening the old worn kit, Sammy Stay-at-Home revealed such a volume of packed and mashed scarps of paper that I had to ask him what it all meant. "Why, those are all my troubles," he explained. " You see, I have so may, and they keep piling up so fast In all my travels, that I was afraid I might forget some of them, and so I have carefully made a note of each one and packed it away in my old kit so that at times grew dull I can review some of my old ones. Good idea, I think, don't you? "But I thought all the Sammies wanted to pack all their troubles away so that they'd forget them," I answered in great surprise. "Forget them!" cried Sammy Stay-at-Home. "Well, I should say not. To think of having any perfectly good troubles, and then forgetting them!" And he looked at me with such scorn that I found myself murmuring, "I beg your pardon." "Oh tha's all right," he said quite cheerfully once more. "Lots of people who don't know what a comfort troubles are, feel that way about it. I wish they could me educated, poor ignorant souls." And that gave me an Idea. "Suppose you start educating us poor Richmond folks," I suggested. "Anyone with such a rare collection of troubles surely ought to feel quite selfish keeping them all to himself. Won't you consider sharing up with us here in the Junior?" Sergeant Stay-at-Home (for he had the emblems on his unusual uniform) was quite thoughtful for several moments. Then looking up with earnest patriotism on his face, he said, ::Well, just to do my bit for Richmond citizens, I will. But we better get the boys and girls to send in some jokes, too, so they will lighten things up a little bit, or the papers would weigh so heavy that the carrier boys would hare to get trucks to haul papers around Saturday nights." And so it all was settled. The first edition of Sammy Stay-at-Home's troubles will appear in next Saturday's Junior, providing the boys and girls send in plenty of jokes to balance the great weight of poor Sammy's heavy troubles. CAMP FIRE GIRLS ARE ACTIVE. The Okiclyopi Camp Fire Girls have been very active in planning work for the rest of the summer and early fall. At a meeting held Thursday evening at Glen Miller, arrangements were made to hold a camping party at Watt's Cabin near this city during the week of August 12. Also plans were laid for giving a circus in this city before school begins, and to repeat a patriotic entertainment In Centenrille, which was given In the High School auditorium of this city last spring. Funds from these entertainments will go towards a camping trip to the lakes next summer. The members who are present at the picnic-business meeting Thursday evening were Misses Emily Bailey, Mary Catherine Youngflesh, DeMarius Helms, Martha Eggemeyer, Martha Jane Holcomb, Vera Blossom, Mariam II ill and Edith Lewis, with Miss Catherine Reece, guardian.

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Viscountess Harcourt The new recipients of the Order of the British Empire include many distinguished women. Among them is Viscountess Harcourt, honorary secretary of the American women's war relief fund and head of the American Red Cross hospital at Lancaster Gate. She has been made dame grand cross, Order of the British Emplr.

Canning Clubs and War Gardens Save $10,000,000 Last year $10,000,000 was conserved by the boys and girls of America through the canning clubs and war gardens which the chil dren conducted. More than two million children took part in these, and by the reports which they sent In, the government officials are able to estimate, the part which American boys and girls are doing to help win the war. This year the season Is only about half over and from the great spirit the children are showing, it seems that their "bit" is growing to be larger and larger all the time. But there is still plenty to do, and Mr. Murphy and Miss Nina Short are hoping that the boys and girls will do even more to make Richmond and Wayne county come up higher still in the scale. Canning clubs still may be organized, and any child who is interested in joining one or starting a new one may call the Palladium and the Junior editor will be glad to help in this cause. SCHOOLS BEING PUT IN READINESS. All the schools of the city are being put in excellent shape for the fall's work. All the janitors of all the buildings are working together, redecorating one building at a time. Garfield school has been finished and Warner and Whitewater will be done as soon as possible. The one who will take Mr. Stocklnger'8 place as principal of Whitewater school has not yet been de cided, and several men teachers, especially in wood-working departments or manual training in gen eral, are still needed. CHILDREN BUY AMBULANCE. Porto Rico school children are doing their bit Through the work of their Junior Red Cross, the boys and girls raised $16,000 which has been used to buy and equip a Red Cross ambulance. No man hath greater love than this that he should lay down his life for a friend.

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8 -Year-Old American Girl Is Heroine Boys and girls in France and Belgium are not the only heroes and heroines in the world today. Rose Blumberg is only eight years old, but she was brave enough to rescue her grandmother and grandfather and a little six months old baby from a burning house during the night. She lives In a little town in Pennsylvania called Pottstown, which has no Are department. And so when she awakened, about eleven o'clock, and found the rooms thick with smoke, her first thought was of her grandparents who were visiting them. Rushing to their room, she hastily awakened them and helped them out of the building, and then quickly returning, she carried out the six-montbs-old baby of a friend who also was visiting at their home. The other people in the house barely had time to escape in their night clothes. The fire alarm was sent in to Philadelphia, and the fire company of that city made the run of four miles, in only ten minutes, so that the other buildings were saved from destruction, although the house in which little Rose Blumberg lived was burned to the ground. CANNING CLUB GIRLS SENT TO WASHINGTON. Any Richmond girls who wish to try, still have a chance to earn a trip to Washington, by proving themselves the best canners of this district The canning club even now is open to new members. All girls who are interested may call Miss Bertha Larsh or the Junior Editor. At a tteeting Wednesday morning, a demonstration of canning corn was given. The following girls were present: Martha Plummer, Martha Webb, Viola Bromley, Louise Bentley, Ruth and Dorothea Hasemeier, Lucile Thurman, Iris Cook and Alice Lemon. An alarm clock which awakens deaf sleepers by Jarring their beds has beeii invented in Germany.

Their Summer at the Sea Shore By Grace Simcoke. Sunshine everywhere, blue skies and floating clouds, who couldn't be happy on a day like this? All were happy, but one girl who was sitting in a large comfortable chair under a large tree not far from her father's house. She was an invalid and every little bit she would look up from her book and glance down to the lake below where her father, mother and sister Frances were swimming. Frances was a healthy girl who could boast of sixteen summers. When but a baby, Gwendolyn, -who is the invalid I spoke of before, was dropped by her nurse and her spine was injured. She suffered for fourteen years, the doctors thinking that notfcJng could bo done to help her. One day her father, Mr. Sherwood, went to New York and brought back a specialist with him. The Sherwoods lived in a little town close to New York and as Mr.

Sherwood's business was there he heard the men In the office talking about this wonderful specialist and 30 brought him out one evening. He examined Gwendolyn and said that she was not strong enough to undergo an operation and advised Jie whole family to take her to the sea shore for the summer. He thought by fall she would be strong enough to have the operation. So they all packed up and went to the sea shore. As I said before they were all in swimming that day except Gwendolyn and her nurse who was fixing lunch for them. AfteV Gwendolyn had finished her lunch, the nurse brought out Gwendolyn's knitting. She knitted until the rest of the people returned in the evening. It was too cool for the family to sit out of doors that evening so after supper the family gathered around the fire place. The father read the evening papers while the rest of the family did their knitting. Mr. Sherwood said, "Let us invito come of our friends down the day after tomorrow for a regular picnic on the island." They all agreed. Gwendolyn was soon busy writing the invitations while Frances hunted old clothes for them to wear. , The next day the people arrived in a big truck about ten o'clock. They told the driver to come after them that evening. Mr. Sherwood took as many of them as possible in his yacht on his first trip to the island, he kept ferrying until all of them were on it. They all had a fine time and on the way home they sang, "At the End of a Perfect Day." The Sherwoods had many good times at the sea 6hore, and when ' they returned to New York that fall Gwendolyn had rosy cheeks and had gained many pounds. She underwent the operation and it was a success. A few weeks after she was as well as any girl. They decided that they would stay in New York for the rest of the winter. Nex week I will tell about their winter in New York. Chautauqua Interests Many Children Fountain Cuy Doy scouts have written to Mr. Wissler, who is secretary of the Chautauqua association, asking for a tent reservation, and expressing their desire to camp during the entire fifteen days. Many children also are showing their desire for Chautauqua time to come, and already have been., buying their season tickets, which were put on sale at many of the stores over town on Tuesday. One of the most interesting features for the boys and girls will be an entertainment given entirely by the Chautauqua children themselves the first Saturday afternoon, August 24. Miss Bessie Buhl, who has been a very successful Camp Fire guardian, and who arranged the "grand council fire" given in Centerville some time ago, will be in charge, and all boys and girls who will be interested in taking part will be requested to come Monday, August 19, to begin the rehearsing. '