Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 350, 28 December 1918 — Page 12

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My Summer in Burlington 1 wish to describe all the fun w had wh'le In Burlington. There is a ve-y beautiful lake, called Lake Champlain, and a wonderful beach, and every night 'we would spt-nd hours bathing. My father and I know how to swim, but mother was Jurt 'framing, and we would dive under and get hold of her and duck her. We took our dog, Jerry, one nlsht, and he liked it bo well that often after we had gone to bed Jeny would start for the lake and come 1 ack in the mornings dripping wet l ut cool and happy. Father and I went fishing' and got about fifteen large pickerels, some weighed five pounds. I went out and sold enough to buy one War Saving S amp. My Grandma Dille had started a book for me and I was in a nmry to get it filled. - One Sunday afternoon father took my uncle and my cousin and me on a boat, and we went to Pittsburgh, N. Y, We had a dandy time..; ' : ,5' s- . , r Wh'li? in Burlington, we met a young lady who is an actress, now play r,g in the Hippodrome in New York. She knew mother when a little girl at school. She ia a fine dancer and singer, so when she left Burlington, where she was visiting her mother for the' summer, for New York, ' she insisted upon mother, and mo visiting her when we came to New York. Later I will tell of my visit In New York. Harrison Dille. EXCHANGE COLUMN Open to All Boys and Girls. These Ada Coat You Nothing; Ser4 In Your "Wants" to The Palladium Junior. NOTICE More boys are needed for the Junior Army. Several places are open- for officers. Those who come In first will get the highest class. LOST Cuff button. See 610 So. E street. Phone 2110. , WAN'lEI)-rTo trade a pair of ice skates for a pair of roller skates. phone li.80. LOST Ureen hat cord. If found, please return, to .Kenneth Moss, 800 north G. street. . . WANT ED -Position of caring for babies and small children -after school and on Saturday, by a girl age thirteen. Phone 2828 or call 206 North Ninth street. FOR HALE Manaolin and case. Will sell cheap. . Inquire at 222 North 5th street. WANTED Boys to join the Lone Scouts. Call at 229 South Second or nee William F. Gllmore at once., WANTED More boys to join the United States Junior Army and the United States Junior Navy, and to start a training school. Inquire 915 North G street LOST-Receipt for $1.80 in envelope. Also contained list of names. If found, return to 128 Richmond avenue. WANTED To buy girl's bicycle. Phone 4658. WANTED To buy green trading tamps at once.' Please bring to the house. Charles Walsh, 308 South 4th St FOR SALE Aeroplanes, made by A. William Winner. Call at 31 North Ninth street FOR SALE 16-Inch airplanes with wheels, 75 cents; 8-inch with wheels, 35 cents. Leoline Klus. WANTED To trade a pair of Ice skates for a pair of roller skates. Phone 1580. TOR SALE Pigeons. William Hoffe. 418 South Eleventh street WANTED New scraps of all kinds of good, for quilt pieces, two to three cents a pound paid for them. Alma Chamnese, 18 North Eighteenth street city. , 'ANTED Doll visa to make. Can 111 Norths Zhird lreett or

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When Santa Santa niil Ranla Claus was keDt busy

In France and Belgium and Russia and Serbia and at the same time give Johnny and Mary in the United States something nice for Christmas. But Santa's reindeers are swifter than airplanes, even, and he got over the ground without missing anybody. This picture shows Santa's reindeers, Vixen, Blitzen, Prancer and Dasher, on their way to the United States after they had filled the stockings and wooden shoes of all the little ones in Europe. You can see they are speeding some, for Santa Claus knew it would never do to miss his little friends in America.

Juniors Receive Charles MacLeonhardt, a friend of the. Junior Palladium, and at present with the American soldiers in France, has remembered the Juniors, even so far away, and has written a story for the Junior about a visit to. the home of Jeanne d'Arc (which in English means Joan of Arc), which he made not so very long ago. , We are very glad indeed to receive the story.1 An excerpt from the letter and the story follows: , ... " "There are many interesting things to see In this land and fortunately I am withing a few miles of where "Jeanne d'Arc," the heroine of France was bora, and lived; and thinking maybe that the children of the Junior would like to hear about her wonderful history, 1 will try and tell in my own words of my visit there and some of the wonderful sights that I viewed. JEANNE D' ARC. A Visit to Jeanne d'Arc's Home Is Most Wonderful Sight in France. On of the most wonderful things I have Been Bince my arrival in France was a visit to Domremy to see the birthplace and playgrounds of Jeanne d' Arc, the little 19-year-old heroine of France, who had the inspiration to lead the armies of France, and suceeded in. her mission. Riding for fifteen miles in a jolty army truck, over winding roads, with trees so beautifully set on each side of the highway, added much romantic Dleasure to the trip then next we came to a cross roads, which told us the direction tn the home of the Maid of France. and a five or six mile hike was then taken at mv leisure. The road was winding, and this along with the October weather and the trees be ginning to show their beautiful contrasting colors, made the walk a much added pleasure. Along towards noon found me standing by the big iron picket fence which surrounded the little chateau of the brave girl of France. Domremy is a mite of a town, boasting in peace times of about 300 inhabitants and In war times

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and his reindeer team leaving Santyland. this year. He had to visit the war orphans and the poor little children

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more than a collection of houses, humble and broken down by age, situated in the valley with the river Meuse circling around, which added much beauty to this olden times village. The mission of Jeanne d' Arc, who was born here in this obscure little hamlet of the Lorraine marsh es, was to lead : her country, sore oppressed by foreign rule, sore be set by internal strife, to liberation and unity. It seemed, as if her work was thought of as something impossi ble for such a young girl to accom plish, and her vision and plana had to be repeated over and over, until she convinced many of the disin terested people of her mission. It was she who gave to the French the vision of a united and restored nation, free from foreign domina tion; making the nation wholly France. Jeanne a work progressed because of her good faith in God She expressed her thoughts: "It is my Lord's will that the Dauphin should be king and receive the kingdom in trust," meaning in trust for the King of Kings." Within a few doors of La Maison de Jeanne d' Arc (as this is what her home is called and means in English, the home of Joan of Arc) stands the little church called Eg Use paroissiale, where the little maid was baptised and where for long hours, she used to implore the aid of her saintly trio, the great St Michael and Sts. Marguerite and Catharine, the martyrs who sent her forth on the quest that ended in her own martyrdom. On the inspiring windows of stained glass, which have been ad ded since her own days, one can read . her history from the time when under the great beech tree on the hill beyond, she heard the voices calling her, to the time when reviled and discredited, she was led to the stake and burned at Rouen in 1431. But with her faith in God and with the knowledge that she had led her armies to victory at the battle of Orleans, she felt her work had been ac complished and the whole of France now worships her like we Ameri-,

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to Juniors cans revere the tombs at Mt. Vernon and Springfield, 111. On January 6, 1412, Jeanne d'Arc was bora, and the very house is standing now which was built per haps many years previous, even to that date. In front of the house stands a beautiful marble statue of her that was sent from England. In the room near the entrance on the ground floor stands a bronze statue given in her memory by the Princess of Orleans, and an earlier one, given by King Louis XI, on the same floor. In this same room where several other statues have i been placed stands the same old fireplace, around which the family sat during the long winter months, colder and bleaker in old Lorraine than any other part of France, with very little thought of the fame .that was to come to their youngest daughter. Leading from the big room, one steps into the little room straight to the right and finds it to be Jeanne's own room, with its big double window looking out into the garden. There is no furniture in her own little room, and the bare sills which hold up the upper floor show much age and the same big double window fram still stands, althought framed in with screen to keep the tourists from cutting off souvenirs. The next day I traveled the road which was the very road that Jeanne d' Arc and her family used when they fled to Nenfchateau to escape the marauding band of Antonie de Vergny, the governor of Champagne, who espoused the English cause. You can see Americans treading over the road which leads to the north and on which the Maid of France set out for Vancoulenrs to beg the aid of Sire de Bandricourt for her high adventure. Most every one feels that they are about to tread on holy land as they follow the footsteps of this little girl whose home is the shrine of France. Interesting as the birthplace, lit tle church and rustic little hamlet arc, I did not Btop at that Far yonder to the top of a big hill I wandered, to the very spot where Jeanne played In her childhood days, and where the big beech tree stood, around which she used to have her dances and watch her

flock of sheep which was left to herd. There stands the Basilique Ia Portail an elegant structure built by the French army and navy in her memory. The Ba-silique was started before the present war and is almost finished, but work on it was stopped at the outbreak of war. Mauy wonderful statues and banners donated by proud cities of France, where little Jeanne had gained a career are to be seen all through the church. As a person enters this building, a masterpiece of masonery, on the right is a bronze statue of the quaint old Mme. Jacques d' Arc, Jeanne's mother, with her sewing outfit on her lap and the peasant father, Jacques d Are, on the opposite side with his plow lying by his side. All through the church are stained glass windows with . history and . pictures of Jeanne's life, but being unable to read French, that history Is more or less of a guess for me. Then I went up the winding stairway and entered what we would call the parlor of the church and it was a room full of statues and six bis paintings on the two side walls, which all looked as though the people could speak, but owing to the fact that I have so many things to write about I am unable to tell any. one what they all were to represent. After going through the Basilique, we then took the winding road around the hillside, where one of the most elegant views of the valley could be seen; and admired the greenness of the grass in the valley in which the Meuss river made its many winding curves along with the rich autumn colorings on the hill across the valley, several miles away. It seemed like a dream of a beautiful painting, but it was all natures' work. The air was so clear that one could see many miles away; and while standing on this hill I counted six little villages scattered in many directions and several kilometerst or miles) away. About half way up the hill on the way to the Basilique stands the crucifix of Christ (life size) which had stood in the lonely spot for several centuries. There were four darling little French girls, age about five years old, making mud pies and just having the time of their sweet young Hves, and not realizing that they lived near such a historical place, a place that people from all parts of the world have visited. Pvt. Charles MacLeonhardt. 3d Co., 3d Air Service Mechanics, Amer, Exp. Forces, France.

Trapping a Sport Trapping is a great sport. Many boys are trapping this year. You can make a lot of money by trapping. I like to trap, myself. The fur-houses want a lot of furs for the boys over in France. They pay high prices for them. Skunk, mink, otter, muskrats, opposum, bears, wolves, foxes, coons, and wildcats, and many others, are fur bearing animals. Skunks stay almost anywhere. They don't dig their own noies, but take them away from other . animals. They eat dead snakes, rats, mice, birds, chickens, insects, and other dead things. There are short striped (narrow and broad) skunks and black skunks. They stay under old houses, stumps and brush piles. Their fur is not prime until it Is pretty cold. The minks, otters and muskrats stay in the water and on the land both. They stay pretty close to corn fields. They like corn very much. They build their dens along the rivers and you can sometimes see their tracks close to their dens. You want to be careful when you set your traps for them. Wash your tracks after you have your traps set. Their fur ia prime when it is cold. The oppossums stay under trees in the ground. The eat almost anything. Cover your traps up good when you set them. Some animals can smell rust There is animal bait, and it will draw animals from far and ground. They eat almost anything, some keen-sighted animals. William Rei'chbauer. Wernle Home.