Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 321, 23 November 1918 — Page 11

THE JUNIOR

The Junior Palladium is tbe children's section of the Richmond Palladium, founded May 8, 1916, and issued each Saturday afternoon. All boys and girls are Invited to bereporters 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 aide of tbe paper, with the author's name and age signed. Aunt Molly is always glad to meet the children personally as they bring their articles to the Palladium office, or to receive letters addresseu io the Junior Editor. This is your little newspaper and we hope each boy and girl will use It thoroughly.

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m Great excitement had spread throughout the neighborhood in which James Frederick Gray, Jr.,: lived, for at last the morning had come on which the wonderful Red Cross pony, Edith Cavell, was to ar- " rive. The boys had gone down to the depot about five o'clock and although little Jean could not go along, for every ten minutes that passed, she had run out into the middle of the street to see if they: were coming. It was about nine, however, before Jimmie trium-: nhantlv drove un in the little cart with a mass of shouting boys dinging on in all manners possible. XJilt MAttiA rtnmrk nn artel trot in," called Jimmie, as Mrs. Gray and Jean came out on the porch. "She's just goin grand." The boys piled off in all directions, forming a complete circle about the new addition to the Gray household, while Mrs. Gray and Jean mounted to the seat of Tionor . where they bobbed along as Edith, the heroine of the day, amiably trotted around tfie square. But since Edith was thoroughly a Red Cross pony, it was decided that everything on this day of dedication should be entirely patriotic. Mrs. Gray suggested that first of all the boys fill the pony-cart with vegetables from the war garden and start out at once to make money for thrift stamps. Bill Hadley, Harold Jones, George Brooks and several others hastily departed for their several back yards and returned a short time later lugging baskets full of their garden triumphs, which were at once loaded onto the. cart. Jimmie then gave the pass word to faithful Edith who started trudging down the street while the boys went from house to house selling their products. But the selling process was rather slow. The morning was half gone before they had started and most of the houses were already supplied with their day's needs, and so they wandered on from one street to another until at last they found themselves in the poorer district of the city where houses were close together, and rickety wheeled wagons rattled uncertainly over the rough streets and up cobble stone alleys. The odor of sizzling firied potatoes and boiling cabbage came heavily upon the air, reminding the hnva that. It wiiR near the time for their noon meal. Edith also was reminded of the fact and she whinnied Ion? and loud. But Jimmie, - who had been driving while the others sold their wares, now had MALTA'S BABIES. Malta had lost all her kittens, and she was very lonesome. She hunted for them; called for them; but they were not to be found. She disappeared for a few days, and when she returned she carried something very carefully in her mouth. She took it to the box in the barn where her little ones had been, and put it gently down. She went away again and soon returned with another little one . like the first. The next week she took them into the garden. She thought she would teach them to climb a tree, but they needed no showing. Up the tree they ran in a way Malta had never Been kittens do. ' They frisked and frolicked among the branches until poor Malta grew . frightened. A few weeks later the squirrels which were Malta's kittens, left good Mother Malta and went to live in the old maple tree. Malta watches them sometimes when she lies down on the porch. Such queer children she never saw! Dorothy Johnson. Seventh Grade, ,; j , White School.

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E3 0 two bunches of beets left, and he insisted on trying just one more street to see If he, too, might not "sell outJust at that moment, however, a very "fragrant" garbage wagon rattled past and turned up a neighboring alley, stopping part way down to take on an additional load. Edith turned her head and looked inquiringly after the wagon. The collector was in the act of dumping a fine collection of watermelon rinds onto the load, and the next thing the .boys knew, they . were being whisked around the corner and up behind the wagon, where the elegant lady Edith reached over and took several hasty bites from the pile. "Well, Jimmie Boy, how is the pony by this time,' 'asked Mrs. Gray, as her patriotic son came in and flung himself down in a chair. "Just fine," answered a much wiser James Frederick, Jr., with almost as much enthusiasm as he had at first. But after a moment's thought, "Only I don't believe Edith was brought up o know just how to act in a city. There's a great deal in the training, isn't there mother?" Query Corner The editor will try to answer questions readers of tho Junior submit to her. She will not promise to answer all of them. The questions will be answered in rotation, so do not expect the answer to be printed in the same week in which you send It in. . Dear Aunt Molly: Tell me how to improve my health, please. CM. Dear C. M.: When I consulted the seer about your question, he was silent awhile and then spoke slowly and solemnly some words that sounded like this: "Son, eat but little and let this little be, oat meal, bread, an orange each day, and a few nuts . every night Just before goings to bed. Work a great deal. Smile while you work. , Sleep one-third of every 24 hours. And remember, 'Earl to bed and early to rise, . Makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise.'" AUNT MOLLY. Dear Aunt Molly: What were the Cyclops? ) D. T. Dear D. T.: According to legend, the Cyclops were a race of giants who had only one eye placed right in the . middle of their forehead. There were two races of them ; one of which was made up of three very worthy gentlemen (if we can judge by their names), Brontes, Arges and Steropes. They made thunderbolts for . Jupiter, king of Uie gods, in Vulcan's workshop. As far as we can gather, Vulcan was the head blacksmith in Jupiter's kingdom. The other race was made up of the sons of Neptune, the god of the sea. The most famous of these had the euphonius cognomen . of Polyphemus. Homer, the great blind poet, represents them as wandering, lawless shepherds and cannibals, who lived in Sicily (to your maps, Juniors, and took at the rather large island that has just been kicked off the mainland by the shoeshaped Italy). Polyphemus had his only eye put out by Ulysses who preferred to do this rather than to be eaten by him. The bungalows of the Cyclops were mountain caves and their usual food was cattle, sheep and roots, with human beings instead of turkey, for their Thanksgiving

RICHM ONIKP ALLADIUM. SATURDAY, NOV.

Background We have seen most of the forces that were the immediate causes of the war. It is aa if we had been studying a picture and these direct causes were the trees, grass and leaves in the foreground. There are, however, at the back of the picture, some snow covered mountains standing grim and strong. They cast their color, and atmosphere over the whole picture; and so, though standing still and firm In the background, they form a very important and definite part of the picture. That is the way It was in European life, from 1870 to 1914; certain laws, customs, and complicated relationships were taking place in and between the nations that were painting the dark background for the scenery of this great war. One of these things was the very nature, the government itself of the German Empire. The Franco German war; taking place In 18701871, resulted in France giving to Germany an indemnity of one billion dollars, and ceding tbe fertile provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany. It was at the end of this war, that the German rulers decided to call the country of Germany, .an empire and not . kingdom, with Wilhelm II as Emperor. , There are twenty-five states in the empire with one Imperial territory Alsace-Lorraine, each having separate state government subordinate to that of the empire. The king of Prussia is the German emperor, with full direction of the army and relationships with other nations. The federal council, or Bundesrat, is something like our senate in its makeup, and is the most powerful body in the Empire. The states, however, have an unequal number of votes. Prussia, the

A Day to Remember November 11 will long be remembered by the people of the United States and the Allied nations. It is the day that brought victory for our armies and for the cause of democracy. . Your fathers and brothers and uncles have been overseas fighting for the cause of democracy. Democracy means giving everybody an equal chance for food, home, education, happiness. Autocracy means that part of mankind must serve a favored class. The surrender of Germany means the victory of democracy over autocracy. If you have a copy of the Palladium of November 11, you had better put it away among your treasures, for it has the first news df victory in it, with a picture that you will like to0iave, when you are grown, as a souvenir of the victory our American men went overseas to win. Next year and foor many years, November 11 will be remembered for the joy it brought to millions of men and women and little children. When you are an old man or an old woman you will take pride in recalling the incidents of Monday, when the joy of the people knew no bounds, when no work was done, shops were closed, and old folk and young poured forth into the streets to find a way to express their pent-up emotion. .

dinner and other gala occasions. Aunt Molly. Dear Aunt Molly: What it a boomerang? M. B. Dear M. B.: A boomerang is an instrument used in war or hunting by the savages of Australia. It is made of hard wood, bent, aout two and a half inches road, a third of an inch thick and two feet long,' with rounded ends. The secret of its power lies in the shape; which is formed on very scientific principles. It is thrown forward, but because of this shape, it goes up in the air, whirls round and round, and finally falls behind the one who threw it. The Australians, it is said,1 are very skillful in hitting birds with it, the birds, being, of course, behind them. Aunt Molly. NOTICE1 All boys, with the consent of their parents, wishing to join the Lone Scouts of America, can do so by seeing William F. Gilmore, at 229 South Second street. The charges are six ($.06) cents in stamps. Join now.

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of the War largest state; has 17 votes out of 61 or really 20 votes, counting the S in Alsace and Lorraine which the Emperor "instructs." The Reichstag Is the other body of the legislature, and Is something like our house of representatives. Prussia has 238 members out of the entire number 397. The number of people one of these members represents, varies greatly In the different parts of Germany. ; A member of the Reichstag sent from Berlin, represents about 125,000 votes, whim one sent from 1 East Prussia, the home of the Junkers, represents about 24,000 votes. The Junkers are members of Prussian nobility., who usually become officers In the army. Their general attitude Is one of proud superiority over the common people of Germany. The word "Junker" has come to be a term that is anything but complimentary. .The emperor has the power of breaking up the Reichstag, any time, and ordering new elections. The administration, or, let us call it, the management,' of the empire is in the hands of a ministry or group of men, something like our cabinet, and is headed by the Imperial Chancellor. They are not responsible to the law making bodies, the Bundesrat and . the Reichstag, but are responsible to the empcrorc ,So, even if they were defeated in the Reichstag they could still hold office as long as they acted in harmony with the emperor. . This almost absolute power of Prussia over the other states of Germany and of the emperor over Prussia, has a great influence over the cause, and later, the carrying out of the war. It forms a high mountain peak in the background of our war picture, j RICHMOND'S VICTORY BOYS AND GIRLS The Victory Boys and Girls are doing splendidly in their part of the United War Work Campaign. At present, the total sum pledged is in the neighborhood of 82400. Almost all the returns are in, and the reports from the - different schools are as follows: 285 high school boys (100) have pledged 11,025.50; 299 high school., girls, $778.50; 131 junior high school boys, $157.25: junior high school girls, $160; St.. Mary's boys. (16.45; St Mary's girls, $35.95; St Andrew's boys. $48; 33 boys of St John's (100) $14.85; girls of St John's, $10.10; Baxter girls, $16; Starr girls, $13.50; Sevastopol, $5. The present total for the 'boys is $1,262.05; and for the girls, $1,084.55. MUCH EASIER. Sam: - "Who was the first Kaiser?" Bull: "How do I know? Ask me something easy." Sam: "Something easy?" ' Bull: "Yes, ask me who's the last." London Opinion. -

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PACK THRES Ho& D&y Buried a Sparrow Friend "Don't, don't! oh. don't!" BiHy cried, and went running down the front steps as fast as his short legs could carry him. lie was standing at the window when he saw two larger boys -of the neighborhood pass the house, rifles in hand. One of them stopped, aimed carefully at something in a tree; there was a report; and it was then Billy left nxs place by tbe window and ran tor the door. . By the time he reached the walk a little sparrow was flooDlne its wings feebly in the pavement. Its areas torn and bloody. Now. Billy isn't always as good to his pets as he should be, and frequently be has squeexed the white bunnies and pulled the cat's tail just to hear diem fuss. But he would never kill anything. He reached over and picked up , the little bird. .. Don't shoot any more, please." he begged the boys, tears in his brown eyes. "Look at this poor little thing. Oh, how can you?" And BHly bore the bird tenderly in - the house, calling for mother. ' 'Oh, mother, look!" he cried. "He's kilt. Can't we get him alive again?" Mother looked at the little bandie of feathers and shook her head. "No, dear. Te little bird Is quite dead. I expect that bullet went right through his tiny heart. "Welli I must bury him, then, mother," Billy Bald; and so mother hunted a box and BiUy placed the . little feathered heap in it and carried it to the back yard. He was a long time digging the grave, tor it had to be deep enough so that " Puss's claws couldn't dig it up. But Billy was a plucky little man,' and he wanted the little bird to have the best grave he could make for it When he had patted the mound with his shovel be called mother to come look at it, and she helped him cut to small sticks to put at either end of it, so no one would disturb the place. "1 am very sorry, mother" . Billy said, as they came hand in hand to the house. "Poor little bird." What November Means in History November the "wind month" or the "Blood month," so the old Anglo Saxons, who had a simple and picturesque way of naming everything, called it the latter name being given probably because of the killing of animals at that time of year, for the winter supply of meat. The Romans never troubled themselves to give November a specific name. In the old calendar it was the ninth month, hence Its name from the Latin novum, for nine. Its name was never changed when later it became the eleventh in the series. Once a Roman senate suggested to Tiberiur Caesar that they rename the month for him, but he declined, saying, "What will you do if you have thirteen emperors?" At' one time November had only twentynine days, then thirty-two, and finally they changed the number to thirty, as It was at first divided on the old calendar and as Jt is today. Some love the hazy days of Indian summer, and do not mind the shrill, gusty winds or the early snows thai the month often brings. ; But although many poets have written of it fewer ; nice things . have been said about it perhaps, than any other month. Buras wrote about November's surly blasts and the bare fields, and forests. Taylor describes a November t day thus: "Wrapped in his sad-colored coat the day like a Puritan stnadeth, Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color. . - Thoreau loved Nature in all her moods, and he wrote the pretty ' lines: A :. "As frc'ts, and leaves, and the day itself, acquire a bright tint just before they . fall, so the year near Its setting. - October is its sunset sky, November the later twilight" Many people of note hare been born in November. Mark Twain, Henry Van Dyke, Jonathan Swift, Louisa Alcott Joaquin Miller, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Eliot William Cullen Bryant, . Martin Luther, Garfield, Frederick Funston and John P. Sousa are among these. The good Saint Augustine was born in November of 354 and Mohammed in the November of DA