Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 59, 18 January 1919 — Page 11

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THE JUNIOR WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM RICHMOND, IND SATURDAY. JAN. 18, 1919

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Brag doeal .Now all you boys In' olive' Urals Come smoke a go$d Jock" .pipe $l! I'll readyouf forthrie'iii tbe'smoKe; An' leD. you Una 'things'? 6ee V :

see three Kiddies, plain as day.T-' . 2 "One says,."y .Pa owns everytbingi A million million doriars't too, The other says, "My Pa's a king." An' then the littlest kid of all, Swells up till his buttons tear ."Shucks they aint in it with my ' dadWhy fellows, he fought overthere" "... 4 'Here's luck, you boys in olive drab, .' 'Good, fortune 'bring', you safely, out, ' " '"" 'And give s5me little kid some' day -' A daddy Tie can brag about." - ' - " ' . ". Elsie .Baker. .; Garfield school.

MY CHRISTMAS VACATION. On December 18, 1918, I went to the Pennsylvania depot and got a train for Hamilton at 9:45 and got "there about 11:10, where my two cousins and another boy had come , to moet me. They lived about six squares from the depot. When we got there we vent in the front room and played the piano and then we had dinner, and in the afternoon we went up town to do some shopping. After supper we went over pest door and played the victrola and danced. The next day 1 went to the depot and got on the 11:10 train and went to Madisonville and got a car from there to Milford, Ohio, where I arrived at 2:15. My cousin Marie and I went to the show and saw Constance Talmadge in a "Pair of Silk Stockings," and Alice Brady in "The Death Dance." I saw both of them at the Washington at( Richmond. Marie and I went to see a cousin of ours in the southern part of Millord, where we played the piano and games and had supper. That was the night before Christmas. Then Marie and I made fudge and some other kind of candy. On January 4, 1919, 1 started from Milford 'at 9 o'clock and got a train from Madisonville at 10:06, and arrived in Richmond at 12:30, after a fine time. Elsie Baker. Garfield school. The Mist Sprites From the rivers and seas we mistsprites rise, And the cities we build are clouds in the skies; And when we long for the earth again, We fall in a million drops of rain. If a cold wind blows through the frosty air, As we marshal our hosts and hurry there, We cover us over with coats of mail, And down on the earth they call us hail. But if to the clouds the cold windB rise, We turn to snow-fairies in the skies. V. W. A LETTER FROM BROTHER. We got a letter from brother Eldon and he said that the Ohio was going to make seven trips across, beginning January 15. But he said be was going to Great Lakes Toesday, January 7, 1919 and get his discharge. So we are looking for him home Friday or Saturday. Elsie Baker. The Fabulous Fable A wizard once lived on Cape Sable. Who owned a most wonderful table. It had wings if you please. An could fly with great ease. Could this excellent bird of a table. When it stood in a corner demurely You'd have thought it most commonplace surely. But a man who was there Saw it flying in air With the wizard atop quite securely. Selected.

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German troops in Place St. Lambert, Uege, Belgium, ready to evacuate city. This actual photograph of the German evacuation of Belgium, just received in the U. S., shows how the army, disorganised and disorderly, gathered as a mob when the evacuation at different points in allied territory was ordered at the close of the war. The troops in the photo are gathered before the German headquarters with their supplies and loot piled in stolen wagons.

Colonel Roosevelt m His Play Times As a delicate child of wealthy parents, Theodore Reosevelt could have lived a life of ease, but that, he decided was just what he would not do. So he early decided that he would lead a strenuous life, and would prepare for such a life by building for himself a physical condition that could stand such a life. Systematically he learned to swim, row and ride, and often tramped over the hills. If asked to ride, he would say he preferred to walk, if asked to sail, be would answer that he would rather row. So he grew to a hardy man with muscles like steel. During his first week of school, be had to fight every day, because some one would call him "dude" or some other jeering name because he happened to be dressed in a very fine looking sailor suit. One' day after a 'hard battle, he said, "Let's go around the block and come back and fight them again." He practiced so many of his gymnastics at borne, that his mother once said, "If the Lord hadn't taken care of Theodore, be would have been killed long ago." Just before be entered Harvard, Roosevelt went to Maine to the home of the born woodsman. Bill Sewall. There in the wilderness of Maine, he learned to love Nature, all of her beauties and pleasures, which love stayed with him all of his life. The villagers of these woods declared of this son of New York aristocracy: "Every one in the Falls liked him, for be Is plain as a spruce board and as square as a brick." Every story of Rosevelt's bravery can be matched with one of his tenderness. Once durLng heavy firing in the battle of San Juan, a sergeant near him was seriously wounded. Immediately the Colonel personally saw to his removal from the battle field. One day President Roosevelt was on a train that had stopped in some little town in the west, for him to make a brief address and greet the people. A forlorn little girl in a threadbare coat stood on the outskirts of the pressing crowd around the station, the picture of desiiair because she could not get nearer

the President. Mr. Roosevelt noticed her while he was speaking. As soon as he finished, he leaped onto the crowd, parted it, made his way to her side and shook hands with the little girl, though, as a result, he had to run to make his train. The phrase of "Teddy and the "big stick" came from a speech that he made setting forth his plan of diplomacy: "There is a homly old adage which runs, Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' If the American nation win speak softly and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thououghly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." As a president, he always kept up his vigorous exercises. When his friends, who were not so used to 6ncb exercises, wished to go with him, he took great joy in breaking

in these novices. Once he made one them ciimb up a forty foot bank. When they reached the top, the President 'said, "Let's go down." "And pray, what did you come up here for?" asked the green beginner. "Just to see if we could do it," was the only answer. Mr. Roosevelt was a great playmate of all his children. There are reports of furious pillow fights between them even in the White House. He read a great many of their books and enjoyed fairy tales and stories of the sea especially. As Santa Claus, he was a universal favorite in the old family home in Oyster Bay. Once, as he was giving out gifts to his own and some of the neighbors' children, he said, "I want you all to grow up to have a good time. I do not think enough of a sour-faced child to spank him." His boys had many pets, some were very curious ones, and were presents to their well-known father. Among the list of these, there was a lion, a hyena, a wild-cat, a coyote, two big parrots, five bears, an eagle, a bam owl, several snakes and lizards, a Zebra (sent by the Emperor of Abyssinia), kangaroo rats and flying squirrels, rabbits and guinea pigs. Some of these strange pets, such as the squirrels, and kangaroo rats would sometimes make unexpected appearances at the breakfast table or at

school, from out the pockets or blouses of the Roosevelt children. Many times, father and boys woud take a day off and go camping in some quiet cove, cooking and then telling stories around a big fire un til it was time to pitch their tent and go to bed. Then in the morning, after an early swim and breakfast, they would eome home. The Poosevelt boys always went to the public schools. When one of them was asked how he got along with the "common boys" in school, he is said to have replied: "My father tays there are only tall boys and short boys, and bad boys and good boys, and that's all the kinds of boys there are." xnese utue stones are just a few of the many funny, interesting and human anecdotes that are told of the great American citizen Theodore Roosevelt How Beavers Badd Beavers not only make dams and canals and ponds; they construe! what are called lodges as well, to serve as dwelling places. These are made by piling up a number of logs mingled with clods of earth. stones and clay, and digging out the soil from underneath so as to form a sort of hut. These lodges are oven-shaped, and are from twelve to twenty feet or more in diameter, the inside chamber being about seven feet wide. So, you see. they have very thick walls. And they are generally entered by at least two underground passages, all of which open in the river bank below the surface of the water, so that the animals can go straight from their lodge into the river with out showing themselves above ground at alL Inside each lodge is a bed of soft warm grass and ood chips, on which the animals sleep; and it is said that each beaver has his own bed. At any rate, several animals of various ages live to gether in each lodge. Then near the lodge these wonderful creat ures make a otch or hole which is fo deep that even in the hardest winter the water in it never freezes quite to the bottom; and in this deep place they pile up a great quantity of logs and branches, so that in winter ttiey may have as much bark as they require to eaL

Locd Girls Sezv

The first Junior quota lor the retugees of Europe came .'into, the lo cal vRed-Croea Headquarters -about . the., first o' thU-moath.a The com- - tilete uota consisted ef- sixty plait-. ed, tiac. satin pinafores lor girls,' ten years old; 26 chemises for girls twelve years old;-50 brown, serge plain .dresses for girls eight: years oW; 25 plain blue serge skirts for women; and 00 hankerchiefs.. Of this number, the girls of high school are making & pinafores and 10 skirts. They are also helping the girls of junior high school in making 335 of the 500 handkerchiefs. The women of the local Red Cross chapter are finishing the quota. a" Next time, it Is hoped that arrangements can oe maae so inai the juniors can fill, a greater part of their quota, all by their very own selves. The Magic Coin There was a shining silver coin, And in the road it lay; Along came Master Martin Moyne, And found it there one day. He picked it up with a shout of glee, And then to the nearest store ran he To buy the treasures he could see, Aa these he brought away: A sugary plum, A package of gum, A hook, a line, a sinker, A knife er two, A tube of glue, A pocket cap for drinkers, A bottle of pop, A whirling top, Some cakes in a fancy box, Then marbles foar, And one thing more, A safe with keys and locks! The safe ht needed so he learned When he had ceased to bay. To keep the change that was returned, And now no one can deny That a shining coin is a magic thing, When so many treasures it will bring, And then leave other coins to ring , As in a safe they lie. GIRL SCOUTS. . The Girl Scouts met last evening at the home of Hazel Harris on North B street. As Captain Jones was not. able to be present. Lieutenant Way and Corporal Libbking took charge of the meeting. Plans were discussed for the Valentine and Masquerade partiy which the scouts are to give next month. Plans will be completed at next meeting. The Girl Scouts are going to take a short hike next Friday evening, after school, north of town. Next Monday evening a meeting will be held at headquarters. Madge Wbitesell. Furry Pussy Cat Furry, purry, pussy-cat, Do you think of this and that, As you sit before tne fire. And the flames leap higher and higher? Do you dream of many a dish. Toothsome mouse and fragrant fish? Furry, purry, pussy cat, As you lie upon the mat. Is your banquet always graced With the fish you did not taste? Is the mouse you vainly sought Sweeter than the one you caught? Furry, purry, little sage. You are wise beyond your age. Much you've lived in little space, Comrade of the feline race, Loved and lost and loved and then Lost and loved and lost again. Furry, purry, puscy-cat, As you lie upon the mat, Sheltered from the winter's storm, By the fireside snug and warm, Dozing on with joyous purr. You're a true philosopher. Sent in by Marguerite Muckridge. - 4A grade. Let all things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.