Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 101, 8 March 1919 — Page 17

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. MARCH 8. 1919 PAOR THRKW

THE JUNIOR

'Hie Junior Palladium Is the children's section of the Richmond Palladium, founded May 6, 1916, and issued each Saturday afternoon, .i.boya and girls are invited to be reporters and contributors. News J:em3. social events, "want" advertisements, stories, local Jokes and original poena are acceptable and will be published. Articles should, l.e written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author's name ii .i age signed. Aunt Polly is always glad to meet the children perit.nally as they bring their articles to The Palladium office, or to receive lei'ejs addressed to tbe Junior Editor. This Is your little newspaper t: 1 we hope each boy and girl will use It thoroughly.

COURSE OF Have you all heard about the dikt s of Belgium and the other lowland countries? Can you close your eyes and have any idea what they look like? No, I can't cay that I can either, for of course they wouldn't take me as a soldier and no 1 have never crossed the Atlantic. But they are simply, or I don't suspect they are very simple, since they have to be built so very strong, but at any rate they are great banks which are built up to .prevent those little countries, whose borders are below the level of the ocean, from being flooded over by the waters of the ocean and the rivers that are near it. Do you remember reading the story of Peter and the dikes, which tells the story of a brave little boy who was going home one evening when he saw a tiny leak in the dikes, and then he stopped it up with his hand and stayed there all tight until some one came and found him, and so he saved all that part of" the country from being flooded? Well, back in 1914, they saved the lives of the people of these little countries by doing something entirely different to their dikes. It was on the 25th of October and things weren't going so very well for the" Allies and it looked as If . Ihcir battle lino would be broken. Before that time there had been heavy rains and the little river Yser was brimming full. The Belgians decided to take the last resort to save their little country. So they went to work and soon dammed the lower part of the Yser cafal. And on the morning of October 28, the Yser river overflowed into the flat meadow lands that lay around it The Germans tried to keep in the few dry patches, but their guns became waterlogged and they couldn't do much. Then the Germans built what they called "table tops" which were just great brrfad planks on which they floated across the parts where the water was deeper. Then the Allies opened up great holes in the dikes all around that part of the country, and there are lots of them, which made the muddy brown waters of the Yser pour forth in great waves. This desperate attempt succeeded in stopping ihe Germans, and so their attack, that a few days before hod looked to dismal to the Allies, had failed. In the northern part of France is a pretty little French city. It is a very old little Flemish town, and once was the center of the wool trade of picturesque Flanders. The name of It is Ypres. The Cloth Hall is one of its most important buildings and dates back to the 12th Century. Very few towns of its size can boast a proud history. Sanding as it does on the tiny stream Yperlee, it has Been many interesting things happen in the long years of its life. It has been the scene of deeds that were very important to the British as well as to the French. But poor little Ypres! This last war has given the little city very, very hard blows. Ypres was on the way of all the main routes of travel. The Germans were anxiouB to get It In their hands. So in the latter part of April, 1915, a battle right in the vicinity of Ypres was seen to be coming soon. The Allies' line was made up of the French and the Canadians, and in fact this battle, called the second battle of Ypres is always associated with the Canadians, for the great courage they showed during this battle. Princess Pat's regiment was among the Canadian regiments stationed here. Do you remember Jicr picture that was in the Junior last week? About midnight of April 22, the fighting began. Almost immediately there caruo a Btrange, Bickly smell of gas, which grew and grew until great waves of poison gas were upon them. It was a complete

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THE WAR surprise and was the first time that poison gas had ever been used. Those men, the Canadians, and those Frenchmen were very brave, and held their places although they were overcome by gas, and to be overcome by gas is a very terri ble thing. Men by the thousands suffered that terrible Buffering that is worse than most any other kind of suffering and thousands died. Still they did not give up. All that time they had no food, too, for twenty-four hours, and even then they had nothing but bread and cheese. After you had gone without food for a day or at least when you get very hungry, don't you want something more than bread and cheese. But then that looked mighty good to them. On April 24 came another great gas attack. Great clouds of gas were sent toward the Allies' lines, and they crossed No Man's Land in two minutes. Still the Allies, held their lines. We are not surprised that Canada thrills with pride when she thinks of the way her sons fought during that terrible week. We are proud too, and admire them very much as well as the Frenchmen that stood this first gas attack, for we like to admire courage whereever it is. Of course a great many funny things happened In this battle too. One time when the Allied forces were leaving some trenches that had just been newly built, one man especially hated to leave those nice, new trenches. And bo what do you suppose he did? He took a broom and with a very solemn face, he went to work and swept and cleaned his dugout just before he left it This battle had a very important effect. It was a sign of democracy, because so many different kinds of men fought and Buffered together. It convinced the Allies of the superiority of their principles of fighting. Ypres filled the soldiers of the Allies with seriousness and determination, to conquer the forces of badness and cruelty In . the world. But today the little town of Ypres is just a shell with Its beautiful buildings and its little homes all wrecked and ruined. Some one who went into Ypres before that battle was quite finished, told of the sad beauty of that little place. The lilacs were in bloom and the hawthorn and the trees, though crippled by the shell fire, were getting green; the grass was green too. Over in one corner a careful starling was building a nest on the broken pinacle of an old building. And everything was there which we think would make a place seem beautiful, that is everything except people, and that made all the difference in the world. This place was very, very quiet and bo it was not attractive. It was desolate. It was lonely, and bo a person going there could not call it beautiful. RIDDLES. 1. What comes after cheese?.. 2. Why is London Bridge like merit? 3. Which is the most ancient of the trees? 4. Which are the most seasonable clothes? 5. When does a cow become real estate? 6. Where was Humbolt going when he was thirty-nine years old? 7. Why is anger like a potato? 8. What Is It that walks with its head downwards? - Ida Mae Moriarty. CD Grade, Starr School MY BROOM. When mother goes to brush the room, I always get my little broom, for if I do not Bhe will never get through, Phyllis Bertha Moss.

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 Polly: What was George Washington's wife's name? M. H. Dear M. II.: Her name was Martha Custis, just the kind of name that seems to belong to lovely, aristocratic lady like herself. - She was a widow before she marired our Washington and lived in Virginia. Aunt Polly. Can you tell me why my brother will not write with his right handS. C. S. Dear S. C. S.: Probably because he thinks it is the right thing not to write with his right hand, but that it is the right thing to write with his left hand. (This is supposed to be said real fast and faster than that if you can.) Maybe his right hand has told him that it was tired and didn't want to work and said, "Let George do it," meaning his left hand when he said George. And then again it may be that he thinks it looks much more graceful and attractive some way to write with his left hand. At least it is different from the way most people write. Did you ever know anyone that could write with both hands? I do. Why not? Really we ought to be able to use our left hand just as well as our right, and we could if we practiced doing it for a while. Try it! Aunt Polly The Teenie Weenies By Florence Noris. I wish the rain would fall at night Instead of in the day; For then you see we'd never lose A single moment's play. The Teenie Weenie poet sang this little verse as he looked out at a huge rain drop which bung trembling to one of tiny windows in the shoe house. It had rained five days and most of the time it had rained so hard that the Teenie Weenies dared not go out in it. The rain dripped off the rose bush and dropped with a thud on the shoe house. It slipped down the roof into the tiny eaves trough and was carried away to the Teenie Weenies' cistern. The cistern was a big one, holding cups of water, but at the end of the second day it was filled to the top. "Well, I've seen some pretty big rains in my time," said Grandpa, as he drew his chair a little nearer to the fireplace, "but I'll say right here by the thimbleful, but this takes the prize for a long rain." "Jimminie f-f-fish hooks!" sputtered the Dunce, who had been loking out of the window, "here c-c-comes the c-c-c-Chinaman," "I n a few seconds the Chinaman stamped up the steps, shook off a few rain drops, and stepped through the door which the Dunce had opened for him. "What brings you out such a wet day?" "Oime havie lottie trouble, me muchie mad," answered the Chinaman." "What's the trouble?" asked the old soldier. v "Me can no dry washie in tea plot Muchie much too much rain," "I never thought of that," said the General. "Of course you can't dry. your clothes when it's raining like this. The old teapot makes a fine place to have a laundry, but there is hardly enough room to dry a week's wash," "Couldn't you hang them up to dry in the hospital," asked the Turk. "Well, I should say not," cried the Doctor. "Do you want to get the place all damp? No, sir, you can't hang your washing up in my hospital" "How about the tool house?" suggested the Lady of Fashion. "Too muchie dirt in tool house," said the Chinaman, turnnlng up his liny nose. (To be continued.)

GOO BLESS US. ' "God bless us every one!' prayed Tiny Tim; Cripple and dwarfed of body, yet so tall Of soul, we tiptoe Earth to look on him, high towering over all. Thelma Mackey. Ten years old.

A HAPPY HEART. A laugh, a giggle, a smile, or grin, Perhaps a chuckle or two thrown in; Mixed with Sunshine, nart for part. Is a recipe for a happy heart Lois f. Williams. 2A, Sevastopol School. THE BIRDS. It will soon be spring time, and : the birds are all coming back We must not kill them for they help us in our gardens. We must throw crumbs out for them. I have seen two robins and two Bong sparrows. Bessie Mills. 4A, Sevastopol School. Marshal Foch once said to a class of pupils in a military school: "Later on ycu will be asked to be the mind of the army. Therefore tl Eay: Learn to think!" The Girl Scouts' new marching! (song, "On the Trail," written by! Miss Mable W. Daniels, has just been published by the Oliver Ditson publishing house. The famous statue of Lincoln by St. Gaudens, which stands in Chicago, has been decided upon as. the statue of Lincoln which the United States will give to Great Britain, it will stand in Westminster and will commemorate a century of peace between these two countries. A grain elevator, with the most wonderful equipment of its kind in the world has recently been completed in New Orleans. It was built and is operated by the State of Louisiana. Four ships can be loaded from it at the same time. A ship named "Indianapolis" arrived in Falmouth, England, on Jan. 10, carrying the largest cargo of flour ever carried by an American merchant vessel to a foreign port If this flour, 9,290 tons of it could be made into one big loaf it would span the ocean from New York to Liverpool. CHILD'S ROMPERS WITH SLEEVE IN EITHE OF TWO LENGTHS. 2678 Checked g:agham, with drill or repp in a plain color for collar and belt could be used for this model. Sriped seersucker, galatea flannelette, poplin, khaki and drill is serviceable also. The bloomers portion is made " with a drop back. The sleeve may be in wrist or elbow length. The pattern is cut fn 4 sizes: 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. Size 4 will require 2 yards of 36-inch material. A pattern of this illustration mailed to any address on reseipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. Address City I Mr Size Address Pattern Department, Palladium.

Fresh Freshies By Butch and Butz Why is it that Iona Lamb is always Baying that her teachers are so loving to her. Why is it? How do you get it? Lutie Karch has again restored his friend Gayle B. That is- sure hard luck for Jimmle Hart. Dot Hart does not like Hilda -Bank's Webster's dictionary. Please be more friendly. Dot! Bute Weidner has a new position. Ask him what it is? Why Is it that certain boys bought two tickets for the tournament? . Several people have asked who Witchy's brown eyed friend from Michigan was last Sunday. Grannie Hodapp and Lona Hoff like candy very much, Therefore they have received the name, "The Candy Kids." Don't eat 'em.

Certain girls object to have their daughter's names in the Fresh Freshies. We wonder why? We would like to know the difference between Tommy Banks and Jimmy Hart? Answer: One cuts bread thin, the other cuts bread thick. Lutie after this pleasa bring your chair when you go visiting. Russell isn't it embarrassing to have your name in the paper! We sure do apologize. ' Tommy Banks we would like to know if you have been studying on your book report? Shine McBride has a very pretty knife, all you do is press the button and out comes the blade. He is tired that is why he has this kind of a knife. Roily Osborune has everything except a cane and a pair of spats. So let's chip in and get them for him. He will then have a complete outfit. Wallsie seems fond of nick-nacks at games. Harry Eikenberry when tickled over scenery seems to have' spasms, '.' Lewy D. is said to admire leftovers. He is very conserving. Butz 0. would make a very good cook as he knows how to cook noodles. Happy Ward is a wonder at exercising his lungs. Francis R. declares that he likes rolls that twixt around and stretches out long. SOCIETY NEWS On Friday evening, February 28, Misses Mary Ann Swaynie and Margaret Coe entertained theft Sunday school friends with a partj at St. Paul's Episcopal church. The evening was spent in dancing and games. Chocolate and cake wat served. Last Sunday afternoon Miss Neola Ewing celebrated her eights birthday anniversary with a little surprise party. Many games were played. Lunch was served later io the evening. She received many nice presents. A STRANGE DREAM. Sing a song of dreaming That never seems to stop; Just a dozen wooden dolls Dancing round a mop! When the dream had gone at last. No dollies were in sight; Wasn't that funny thing To happen in the night. Bernice Haris. 3A, Sevastopol School. ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S RIDDLE! 1. The letter "m." ; 2. Because he hasn't , ; " crust to go over the top. . Directly after T.