Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 256, 7 September 1918 — Page 13

PAQB THREB THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM Tht Junior Palladium la the children's, section of the Richmond Palladium, faunded May 6, 1916, and Issued each Saturday aftemoou. 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 wiil bo published. Articles should be written plainly and on one side ot the paper, with the author's cama and age signed. Aunt Molly Is always glad to meet the children personally at) they bring their articles to the Palladium office, or to receive letters addresseu to the Junior Editor. This Is your littlo newspaper and we hope each ooy and girl will use it thoroughly. SIREN CALLS ON CAPITAL FOLK TO PRAY FOR ALLIED VICTORY Query Corner The editor will try to answer questions readers ot tlio Junior submit to Iter. She will not promise to answer all of them The questions will be answered in rotation, bo do not expect the answer to be printed in the same week in which you send it in. 311 C

RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SEPTEMBER 7. 1918.

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Dear Mr. Censor: I've got a letter here that I've

just written to dad, and I thought I

Harlow she thought the war was making me lots braver. But dad the most fun about the T. A. O. is inisheating in the other

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atS-is the first letter of mine "1 2!, "

that you've had. because you see '7""i

i them out.

First we made the fellows dress

dad just started across yesterday,

but I'm going to be his Jr. Pardner while h's gone, so I guess you'll get use to my writing, because I write to him about every day and tell him how things have gone. I'm doing things around home just like he would, taking care of

mother and Jean she's my sister j

only five years old and she doesn't know very much yet, but she's got sort of long hair that curies and she looks pretty nice, and I thought it would kind of surprise dad to find some letters for him as soon as he gets over, so that's why I'm writing now. I guess mabey I haven't spelled all the words just right, and I can't use a pen very good, either, but I want to tell you I'm not a prophaganduah person or anything but a plaia American clear through so please don't scratch anything out because I'm alright. I was telling dad in the letter abottt the T. A. O. That's a club some of us boys have started so don't worry. The inishules is a secret, but they mean Try Anything Once, isn't that a good one, that's what we thought and all the

other fellows are pretty crazy to find out but we aren't going to tell j them anything. Just Bill Hadley and Harold Jones and me are in it and we half to da something every day, so yesterday Harold dared Bill and me to go over to old man Ezra, he's that old harness man down there by the river and stingy, say honestly I bet you could pull off some off his skin easier than you could get him to give a nickle, well anyhow, Harold dared us to go down there to sell his some thrift stamps and say. He didn't even know what a thrift stamp was, and when we tried to tell him, he just blinked his eyes and said he didn't write letters to anybody, and anyhow he couldn't afford to pay a quarter just for a stamp. Mad, we were so mad we just went home and bought another ourselves instead of going to see Douglas Fairbanks. Well, I guess I've explained about everything, but if there's Bomething you're not sure about, just let me know and I'll tell you. Yours truly, James Frederick Gray, Jr. P. S. That's my whole name, but most people just call me Jimmie G. Dear Dad: Did you get the letter alright that I wrote ysterday, I thought you would dad, because I just asked the old Censor to let me know if there was anything he didn't understand and I haven't heard anything from him yet. At first dad, I didn't want to write just like always to you when I thought about him mixing in, but now I've got acquainted with him I don't mind, because I guess he understands how things are with us. Knowing people means just lots, doesn't it dad? You know I was telling you about the T. A. O., dad, that sure is a fine club you ought to start one. Some- : .. ...I .. ki - j .

thing kind of hard, just say, "Try

'anything once, old boy," and that's

all there is to it. Just like last night when Bill heard mother asking me if I had gone to the dentist yet and I hadn't, so he said "T. A. O." and I knew what that meant. I tried to tell him I had gone, but he said it wasn't since you had the toothache was it and I said no, so he said it was something new then and I had to go or drop out of the club and today I heard mother telling Mrs.

up like girls and go over to Miss Seamore's and ask for something to eat. You know how fussy she is dad, well we thought she'd turn them down flat, but say, now honest dad, George knows how to work people so good he ought to be a secrit service man, I wish you could of seen him. Our red bud is just in bloom so he got some off of the bush there by the south gate, and when Miss Seamore opened the door he said

he had brought her a flower and J simply unravel or straighten out,

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Dear Aunt Molly: Why does the moon look much bigger when it is rising or setting than when it is up in the top of the sky? William Campfield. Dear William: Scientists believe it is because you have something to compare it with, while it is just over the tree tops, but that when it is high in the heavens the great space of millions of miles about it makes the moon seem rather small. A ten-year-old

boy may feel rather large himself, when he stands beside a little clump of toad stools, but if he were out in the middle of the ocean all

by hjinself, he would feel rather

small Editor. Dear Aunt Molly:

vvnen you get a hole in your

stocking, where does the goods go?

Betty Price. Dear Betty:

That depends on what kind of a hole it is Sometimes a stitch be

comes broken and then the threads

have a piece' of bread because they were so hungry. And dad, what did she do but give them some bananas and fruit cookies and a great big piece of chocklate cake three inches thick, and all the time we just had to stand there looking through a hole In the back fence and watch them eat it. Bill Hadley said it made his mouth water so bad he thought it had sprung a leak. So we decided

we'd get even, and we did alright.

We got a plate of maccaroni and wet it so it was all cold and wiggly, and then we got some-good fat fishing worms and put them on a plate too. Then Harold Jones got one of

his father's handkerchiefs, I didn't take yours dad, because mother's got all your things put in your drawer in piles and we're going to keep them that way, dad, just waiting for you, and we made a blindfold .and then made them feel which ones they'd eat. George got the right one, but dad, honest, Tom Harlow thought the fishing worms was maccaroni and so he ate it. We near about busted out laffing. Well, 1 guess that's about all I know to tell you today, so goodby, dad. Yours truly, Jimmie G. P. S. And dad, when you write, be sure to tell us all about any whales or things you saw going over. Jim. P. S. Although this isn't Fourth of July, I thought you might like to see some fire-works anyhow, just to celebrate the 50-mile Hun retreat.

and all the "goods" still is there.

but in a column of straight threads instead of the tightly woven form. The usual hole, however, is caused by tiny portions of the cloth being rubbed loose bit by bit until finally a little thin place comes. Then a thread breaks, and the goods snaps apart like a broken rubber band. More than that, you will find the frayed edges of the

hole rolled farther and farther back until the little hole has grown to be quite large in a short time. Aunt Molly. Dear Aunt Molly: How many feet of wireless are there in the world? David Hendrson. Dear David: In other words, I suppose you would like to know how many feet of air there are in the universe. Of course we might start laying a ruler down and measuring the air around the world where the course of a wireless message might pass one time; and then we might move the ruler over a quarter of an inch and measure the course which another message might take, but in the meantime you might swallow some of that air, and then we surely would have a time following it down into your lungs and back again. Still David, just to satisfy your curiosity, according to my last estimation, there are four billion, three

hundred and fifty-seven million, eight thousand and seven feet of wireless, more than you can imagine. Aunt M.

It is all right to ride a hobby if you know when to dismount.

Fear to do ill and you will fear all else.

Unveiling "Victory" sirene.

Impressive ceremonies marked the unveiling recently of the first "Victory" siren in the country. It was erected on the roof of the Evans building in Washington. It will sound the signal day for a noon-day prayer for victory and everlasting peace. The photo shows tho siren and little Irene Elliott Moore, who unveiled it.

Americans Praised for Generosity to French The work of The Fatherless Children is peculiarly understood by children. The horrors ot battles

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Wounded American soldiers In a portable tent hospital somewhere in France, supplied by the American Red Cross and turned over to the Army Medical Corps and its nurses. This GOO bed hospital, with floors, windows and double canvas walls, was completed at a' point near the front within twenty-five days after the army had suggested that It would be useful.

and the land devasted by the Hun

are rarely told to the children, but to tell one child that there is another in France whose father will never come back from the wars is perfectly allowable. It is also right to explain that a French mother wants to keep her children with her and can do so if she gets help from America. That is what every young American should know and can understand. Whenever school children have become Interested in adopting French orphans they have gone into the movement heart and soul. They have not only subscribed to the necessary amount of $36.50, but they have also sent cheerful letters across the seas. In this way the adoption has kept the charm of a new game and the French child becomes a playmate. If the older Americans will stand by their children many more orphans will be adopted this coming year. The following is the list of adoptions for this year: Total number of adoptions sent to Paris from January 1, 1918 to July 1, 1318. 27,195. Total number of renewals sent to Paris from January 1, 1918 to July 1, 1918. 4.874. Total number of orphans' names sent from Paris for adoptions from January 1, 1918 to July 1, 1918, 33.3C0. Friday, Sept. 6, fas the fourth anniversary of the first battel of the Marne. On this date many Americans renewed their adoptions

of French orphans. The following

letter of thanks was written hv

- - . v r, Marshal Joffre the great French ! church, commander during the battle of the

Marne, It was written to Mr. Ed

ward Shearson, the first vice-president of The Fatherless Children of 1 France. j "May I beg to express our thanks to the members of the American ' Comimtttes for their touching sou-j venir on the occasion of the anni 1 versary of the Battle of the Marne. ; I cannot resist the pleasure of . again expressing to you the recognition of all France for the gener-' osity with which the Americans have come so spontaneously to the.

assistance of our widows and orphans. "I understand the new effort which you propose to undertake now in behalf of our society. I commend it with all my heart H

win be in truth a mighty consolation and a precious encouragement for our soldiers to know that, thanks to you, even though they shall succumb in the glory of the field of battle, their wives and their children will not be abandoned. "This assurance should give to them even unto the end, the necessary strength to force victory and draw closer yet the sacred bonds which already unite them to their new companions in arms. Thus shall be sealed for all time the brotherhood of the two great peoples of A.merica and of Europe." The money which was thrown into the big flag which was carried by the Palladium staff in the Fourth of July parade was used for the adoption of French War orphans. One of the orphans adopted is a little girl who is a deaf mute and another is a little boy whose rather was a French lieutenant. The pictures of the orphans may be seen at the Junior Palladium office.

Sammy Stay-at-Home's fifth father has been murdered for the sixth time. All the family is horribly upset.

Restaurants and hotels are restricted to two pounds of sugar for every ninety meals served. This includes sugar for kitchen as well as table .use.

The inhabitants of Belgium, with the exception of about 10,000,

belong to the Roman Catholic

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