Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 250, 31 August 1918 — Page 13

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM Th Junior Palladium is the children'? 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 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 aa they bring their articles to the Palladium office, or to receive letters addreseeu to the Junior Editor. This is your little newspaper and we hope each ooy and girl will use It thoroughly.

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a o Dear Dad: I guess this is the last letter 1 can write for a while. You see mother didn't tell me about you going over there to Franco right away, until tonight, and I didn't know I wouldn't get to see you any more, for awhile I mean, because I jest thought you were going to be down there in camp fixing up cleetrickle things and coming home fome Sundays, and everything. And ho dad, mother and I talked a lot. Mother showed me what she was rending, called a Rabbit Bin or something like that, only it wasn't about rabbits. It said you want to grow old because you were meant to live a whole life and not just the part when you were young and having a good time without thinking about it, because at the very end we'll be a lot happier than we are right now. And so dad, mother and I are just going to keep thinking how grand it will be when you come heme again and tell us all about it. And in that book 1t said that when a hole lot of things happen to you real fast, it is just like when they put pieces of clay on a board wheel and turn it around real fast, because that is what makes bottles or things that are good for something out of just lumps, and that it is the same way when you're making your charickter. Mother said the thing that made you different from everybody else and just you was your charictur, I can't spell it dad, but you know. And so it didn't matter what happened, but it was the way you took it that counted. And now she said it was the time for me to show peoiJe I am your real Jr. Pardner, and irm going to do things for my country and at church or around other places just like you. And dad, even if you are over In France ,we aren't going to think nbout you being way off. It isn't At Agnes s Party By Claude G. Miller. It makes you feel rather good to know that you have a fellow sufferer, who will be near you in your time of greatest suffering, this is how I felt about the afternoon Tracey and I were about to face. Of course I knew that Rozzy would have a delightful time, he's one of those kind who always has a better time with girls than with boys (or seems to have). When I was all togged up in them old pumps and white gloves, 1 thought of the chauffeur just to see that he was ready in time because I didn't want to go late that attracts too much attention. As I passed the back steps I saw Tracer over in his yard walking around carefully like he was afraid his clothes would come off. I watched him for several minutes wondering how he could be so good looking in a dressed-up suit. I noticed that he seemed to be watching the back window like somebody was watching him. Then as though that person had stepped from the window Tracey flew to the barn door and entered the barn. It wasn't a minute until he came out sticking something down Lis pocket. Just then Elizabeth called and went back without even getting to see the chauffeur. Elizabeth and I got to the party late, and girls oh, I bet when I crossed the reception room my legs didn't move in the same swing two times out of fifty. There were sirls and girls and girls; girfs in the reception room, girls in the hallway, girls in the conservatory and girls in every corner of the room I bet Tracey didn't say nice" words when he arrived. After Elizabeth and I had

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your hands and your legs and your head that makes you our father, dad, because everybody's got some of that .but it's the way you feel about us, dad, isn't that so, and I I guess you'll still be caring about us just the same, won't you. - And so when we get to wanting to see you pretty bad, we're just going to pertend that you are down at the office and will be coming home pretty soon, and in the evenings, dad, we'll play Keep the Home Fires Burning and all those things you like pretty much, and jest pertend that you are out in the den or something. And when I go to bed, dad, I'll just pertend that you've been down town on business and come in afterwards to tell me good night, same as always, only I'm asleep. I'm going to do everything just like you would if you w.we here too. dad. I'll take care of mother and Jean, so don't worry. I won't let mother shovel coal in the furnace or anything, and I'll lock up every night like I said, and I'll remember to bring in the paper every night like you did, dad, and I'll try to be here on time for dinner too, so I won't keep things waiting. And dad, I'm going to stop fussing with Jean, too. So if there is anything else, just let me know and you can count on me. Goodbye dad, and now you be sure to let us know as soon as you get there, because we'll want to know pretty much, so please send it quick. Yours truly, Jimmie G. P. S. I guess I made a mistake about the name of that book mother was reading, because I saw it on the table and it was Rabbi Ben Ezra but that's something like Rabbit Bin, isn't it? Jim. P. S. S. And dad, if any old submairen does hit you and you half to be In the water some, dad, don't get tired and give up, because dad you see, well you know dad, you're the only father I've got. Jimmie. primped a little, one of those crazy dressed servant men hurried us into the dance hall and announced my name. Isn't it queer how girls can handle themselves in such tight places? There was Elizabeth, who just acted as though she had been born in society. She introduced me to every girl that came across our path. When the dances started Agnes and I led (Elizabeth saw to that). Later, Rozzy came up to me with a girl hanging on his arm saying: "Hello, Koibley, I want you to meet my friend, Miss So-and-So," that is all I remember hearing. I just wonder if they noticed how much I wanted to get out of there. I never saw a thing of Tracey untl about the third dance. His sister Helen and he came in and were immediately surrounded, at least Helen was. I think that she is the most popular girl in the city. She gets invitations to every single thing! I slipped away from my pardner's guardianship and sneaked over to where I could get a good look at Tracey. Girls by the dozens were talking to him and it looked as though poor Tracey would have to spread out his ears to keep from slipping through his coFlar. My pardner found me again. She was one of those timid girls who are afraid to be seen, but are not afraid to be heard. I could hear her crazy "tee-hem " away above the din of he orchestra. Later I noticed that Tracey had disappeared from the floor, this didn't bother me for a while for right about that time I found a pretty sensible fellow over at one side of the dance hall, and we were telling whoppers when Rozzy joined us. It was the only time

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Hi Belgian "Old Glory" has been honored epeatedly by the Belgians in ccognition of America's gener that he didn't have a girl hanging on his arm. He walked up to us; and after exchanging greetings j with my friend, asked if I had seen , anything of Tracey. He said that j he had a fine girl friend for Tracey. I Later Tracey came past us and said, "Got any matches?" I didn't j at the time think what he meant, j At almost the close of the party ; Helen Johnson, jraceys sister came oer to my pardner and I and asked if I had seen Tracey. Now there are a lot of places where a fellow can be when ever there are girls, present so I told Helen if she'd take care of my pardner, a Miss Dill, I'd try and find Tracey. I looked in the conservatory, the clothes presses in the rooms and almost everywhere. When I came to the kitchen, I timidly looked in and asked the cook and his helper if they'd seen a boy with brown hair and about my size. The cook who was paring apples told me, after some thinking, that he had given a boy like the one I had just described some matches. Remembering how Tracey sneaked into the bam that after noon, and matches oh, he had the smokin'. Then I did hunt, finally I ran into Rozzy and old him about the smokin', Rozzy began to hunt with such vigor that he almost knocked four or five vases down. The party was breaking up and Rozzy and I were still hunting Tracey. The hunt was getting more and more desperate. We felt that if Tracey had the smokin' there would be nothing left of it because Rozzy and I knew how Tracey could smoke. At last I opened the door leading to the roof and there at the top of the stairs I could see Tracey as white as a sheet. He had a cigarete in bis mouth. Of course I was tempted to give him the Dickens, but . I could see that he was a sick boy, and rather scared, Rozzy and I helped him down the steep stairs. Acid Oh, you ought to have smelled that fellows' breath you could have told that he had been smoking if you had been a mile away. Then at this a new question confronted us. We liad to take him home, for Tracey was sick, and that odor of smokin' and then his clothes were white with dust. We finally decided that I should stay up here wih Tracey while Rozzy went down and swiped some refreshments to kill the smell. Some how or other Rozzy got tangled up and soon Helen came running up the stairs and when she Baw Tracey she almost went crazy. With as little confusion as possible, Helen got Tracey home and a doctor was called. The doctor examined Tracey and winked at Mr. Johnson and they went out on the top porch. Tracey scringed to one side of the chair and then to the other. The doctor came in followed by Mr. Johnson. anJ said that Tracey had some kind of a terrible disease and couldn't live. Then Tracey did tell everything clear up to howhe hated girls. Well, all of us three boys got it that night oh, well, we might havo got caught some other time. Poverty Is no crime.

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troops passing before Star Spangled osity and kindliness in helping that stricken country. The photo above shows representatives of the Query Cornell The editor will try to answer questions readers of tho Junior submit to her. She will not promise to ntiwer till of them. The quvsrions will bo answered in rotation, so do not expect the lunswet to be printed in the Isame week in which you send it in. Dear Juniors: Since so many questions have been sent In, it is impossible to print them all, so that we use as many as there is space for. By being patient, however, you will be rewarded with seeing your question and the answer in print as your turn comes. It may be added that the offer of a thrift stamp for the first quessent in which the editor cannot answer, still holds good. When practical information is desired, the editor will be glad to give the satisfactory answer, or else send the thrift stamp, but catch questions will be answered in the spirit in which they are given. AUNT MOLLY. Dear Aunt Molly: How many leaves are there on the mapletree in front of our house? ' William Horneday. Dear William: There are three thousand two hundred and seven more than there will be December 14. Aunt Molly. Dear Aunt Molly: How old am 1? Betty Price. Dear Betty: You are millions and billions and trillions of years old, if you want to know the true answer. The uon in the blood which makes your finger nail pink may have come floating through the interstellar space of our universe and banged In thiB earth of ours sev

WHY IT IS BETTER TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE. " The smile explains why. One of many Americnn Red Cross workers in Frnnce who distribute sinokeR and many other comforts and iittle luxuries such as mother would provide to all wounded American soldiers in the military hospitals.

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AME1 Banner. Belgian army and some of the soldiers marching past the Americnn flag in honor of America's help. eral millions of millions years ago, and one of the drops of water which helps to make your cheeks look plump might have been sailing over China a few billion years ago until finally it come down in a rain storm in the ocean, was carried by the gulf stream or somei thing half around the world, finally reached the fine cool subsoil under Glen Miller and was just bursting forth in crystal stream from the front spring yesterday afternoon when you happened to stick a cup under it, catch that very drop of water and swallow it down without so much as saying, "I beg your pardon" so that now it is safely stored in your left cheek. I don't have time or space the life history of every molecule that belongs to your anatomy, but perhaps you see from this much that even though you have not reached high school yet you really are quite an antique lady. HMitor. Dear Aunt Molly: Can you please tell me who 13 going to win the .world series? David Henderson. Dear David: . I certainly can Just wait until Christmas and I shall send you a neatly written account of tho greetings. Aunt Molly. Dear Editor: What is an expert? John Charman. Dear John: A real expert is one who knows everything about something, and enough about other things to realize the relative importance of his speciality and so to co-operate with others in this world. Editor. Say Aunt Molly, If Katy-dids went to France how would they keep on argueing about whether she did or she didn't with the French Katy-dida when they didn't talk the same language. Jimmie O. Dear Jimmie, I'm afraid I could not tell unless they would take a parrot along to be the Interpreter. Aunt Molly. 22M