Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 119, 29 March 1919 — Page 17

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY. MARCH 29, 1910

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The junior

The Junior Palladium is tho children's section ot the Richmond Palladium, founded May 6, 1916, and issued each Saturday afternoon. Allboys and girls are invited to be reporters and contributors. News Items, social events, "want" advertisements, stories, local jokes and original poarns are acceptable and will be published. Articles should be written plainly and on one side ot the paper, with the author's name and age signed. Aunt Polly is always glad to meet the children personally as they bring their articles to The Palladium office, or to receive letters addressed to the Junior Editor. This is your little newspaper and we hope each boy and girl will use it thoroughly.

A Group of Busy Friends "Oh, I wish I were a bird, with nothing to do all clay but fly around wherever I pleased and sing all the day long." Did you every think of that! Well, juat watch the birds and see if they think they don't have anything to do. What do they de? Let's think! They build homes for themselves. We spend a good deal of time doing that, ourselves, don't we? They take care of the little birds, seeing that they get enough to eat and that they are kept safe from harm. They go around and hunt food for themselves, too, singing and whistling as they fly around. Then sometimes, when they want to rest or visit with other birds or people, or some of their many friends, they perch themselves on a bush or way high in the trees, and let the wind swing them back and forth and chirp or sing or trill or whistle, which is just their way of talkrhg and telling what a beautiful world they know this is And really, isn't that what we people do a great deal of the time, those very name things? And we feel that wc are very busy, don't we? Some birds are busier than others and some sing more" than others. And that's just the way we do too, isn't it? Do most of you Juniors know the Chickadee, that lively little bunch of feathers? They're so friendly, too, and are great acrobats. We venture to say that you cannot begin to do all the "stunts" those little birds can do. Try it! They are grey colored on top and white underneath, and then, oh crowning glory, they have a shining black head. They only sing about two notes, but those two notes are so clear and so cheery that we don't mind it a bit that they don't know more songs. And one Junior wrote about seeing a Peter bird, which is just an other name for a tufted titmouse, another gay little bird. It has a black forehead too only it's head goes up in a point and forms a crest which makes it have a kingly appearance. Grey is the color of this talkative bird, that is, it's the color of his back. His breast is white. And do you know what he sings? He whistles loudly and clearly over and over again, "peto, peto, peto, peto." That's how he happened to be called the Peter bird. The Titmouse and the Chicadee think this a very nice place to live all the year around, so they just ctay with us all year, even through the winter. There are many birds though, that just like to stay around this part of the country a part of the year. Some like to stay just for the summer and spend their winters in the South, and others like to stay just for the winters and spend their summers much farther north. The active friendly little Junco is one that stays here during the winter. He's a slate colored little bird with a yellow bill and his breast is two distinct streaks of color, one of white and one of grey. His song is low and sweet and his chirp sounds just like 'tsip. About this lime of year he joins his other Junco friends and flies off to Alaska to spend the summer months. Try fo see him and get acquainted with him before he goes.

Three Sisters Once upon a time there were three sisters. The first was named May, and the other was named Alico, and the other was named Rath. One day they were playing in the playhouse and they saw a spider. Ruth said. "Oh, mother!" and May said, "Oh, mamma!" and Alice said, "Mamma, spider." The mother came out and killed the spider. Mary Ann Weaver.

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The Magic Kiss The children were long finding the Princess's hiding place. So long indeed that the Princess grew tired waiting for them and at last she got so sleepy that she took i off her crown, cuddled down on the ! ground and went fast asleep. But as everybody knows the goblins may do harm, if you fall asleep in a toadstool ring. And no longer had tlie lit tle Princess shut he eyes than the wicked little goblins came creeping, creeping, creeping around her. And when they saw who it was that was lying asleep there they danced for joy, for the goblins hated the fairies. And they were all delighted to think the daughter of the fairy king was in their power at last. "What shall we do to her?" they said. "Shall we make her a prisoner and carry her far away underground to be our slave?" "Shall we steal away her voice so. that j she will not bo able to speak or sing any more? Or shall we cut off her pretty wings, so that she can never fly again?" "We will do none of these things said one of the goblins, lie was the wickedest and ugliest of all and because he was wicked and ugly, the other had made him their king. '"If we make her a prisoner the fairies will onlyrescue her. And they will bring back her voice or make her some more wings. No, I'll tell you what we will do." And then he whispered his plan in -the other goblins' ears. When the other goblins heard what, it was they laughed with delight ,only silently, so not to wake the Princess. The the goblin king picked the greenest toadstool lie could find and crept up quite close to Elva's j face and squeezed the juice of thi3 poisonous looking toadstool over her pretty face. Cessette's Fortune One day there was a little girl and her name was Cossette. Cossette lived in an inn along the road. Her mistress made her wSrk hard. One day there was a man came to the inn for shelter. He saw how poor the little girl was and wanted to take her with him. The women let the little girl go. I Because she said that she was not her little girl. The little girl found that it was her own father that came to get her. He was very rich. When he got to his home he took the little girl right to her mother. Her mother kissed her over and over again. Because the little girl had not been home for a long time. One day this little girl went out to play and strayed away so far that she got lost. She came to a little, house. She went up to the house and knocked. A poor little birl came to the door and welcomed the little girl in. She asked her where she lived and she said that she lived in a big house at the end of the woods. Cossette asked the little girl that welcomed her in if she lived all alone. She said she did and asked Cossette if she would ask her mother to let her stay with her. She stayed awhile with the little girl after that she went back home and lived happy after that. Gladys Johnson. 5A, Finley School. A Squirrel's Store Hoase A squirrel lives in a tree near our house. Last fall we had some walnuts and a squirrel would jump from its own tree over to another tree, from that tree over to the tree in front of our house and from there over to the tree in our yard, then to the lowest part of our house then over to our neighbor's roof then down to the grapearbor then down to the ground and would get a nut and go back the same way it came. This Is a true story Mary Elizabeth Riggs. 4B, Starr School.

URGES NATIONAL GARDEN DAY

Copyright National War Garden Commission A National Garden Day every year for the soldiers of the soil is urged by Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the National War Garden Commission of Washington. "Let the millions of gardeners have a holiday to inaugurate the home food production campaign," says Mr. Pack. "Let them march to the furrows of freedom, say on April 6, the day we declared war on autocracy."

The Humpback The Ghosts and . Once upon a time there was a the Children

a walk. They met a humpback and I asked him to go home with them, so they went forth together. When they came to the palace, the Queen opened the door. They went in and .the humpback and the King sat clown. The Queen set the table. And the Queen went and called them for dinner. So the King, Queen and the humpback went to dinner. They had everything good. They had fish and the little humpback man swallowed a fish bone. They called for the doctor just as soon as they could. The doctor said he would be there right away, but when he got there the poor humpback was dead. The King and Queen sat down and cried. The King and Quaen said "Let us go and take a walk," So the ueen did. She -said, 'T wish th humpback could go." The King said, "I do too. But I can not help it. Here is the doctor, and lie !s too late." "I am sorry," said the doctor. Audrey Jones. Tkelma and Jimmy Once upon a time there was a little boy and girl. The girl's nome was Thelma and the boy's name was Jimmie. Their father was dead but their mother wasn't. They were very poor and hardly had enough to eat. One day Thelma and Jimmy were in the yard cry - ing as if their hearts would' break, when an old women cam by. She asked them what they were crying about and they said they were hungry and had nothing to'eat. So the old woman gave them some money and food and their mother went to work at a factory and they got along all right ever after. z Mary Mutchner. 3A, Joseph Moore School. Fluffy Likes Crzmbs I have a pet bird. It is yellow. It sings very prety. Its name is Fluffy. It eats bird seed and fish bone. I open its cage and it will come out of its cage and pick up the bread crumbs. It seems to delight in flying to the flowers that are in the window, and eat bits of geranium leaves. The door of its cage opens. It goes in its cage. Dorothy Johnson. Joseph Moore School.

Once upon a time there lived in a family six children, and their j mother said, "You can go oit and j take a walk," and the children said j "goody" and put on their coats and hats and all of them went out for a walk and while they were walking one of the children said come on and go through the woods and so they started to go through the woods. And when they were about in the middle, a ghost grabbed them and said that tomorow he was going to kill them, and they started to cry and the ghost said if you cry I will kill you right now. And so the children stopped crying and the next day came and there were two ghosts then. One of the ghosts went to sleeep and one child pulled the cover off and it was hi3 mother and the other ghost was their father and so their father and mother took them home and they lived happy ever after. Florence Dingley. Finley School. My Dog Bob I have a little dog. Its name is Cob. It drinks milk. My dog likes mo. He runs and barks. My dog will jump. My dog likes to play - with me.- He would like to go to school with me. He barks at me when I go to school. I want him to stay at home. I do not , want you to go to school little dog. You must stay at home. Elizabeth Jane Emery.

A Frisky Garden Team on a Brisk Morning

These boys got up early one brisk spring morning, and in a couple of hours they bai the soil of their garden plot broken up and free of clods. The gardener who' has no roller can get rid of hi3 clods by breaking them with a hoe, spade, or other tool. Clods lock up within them selvps the food that Dlants must' 1 A- t and llnv must the returns. clods should all be broken with the j edze of the srade as the soil is be ing turned over. Where the gar den is plowed clods can be broken i I tn hest advantage iust behind the I plow and before they have a chance Jto dry.

On the First Day of April "Aprilis" is the name the old Romans gave to this month that is the fourth month of our year. They called it that because the word came from a Latin word that meant "to open," for they saw that in this month all the buds that had seemed to be sleeping began to raise up their heads and shake back their winter hoods.. The hardy Anglo-Saxons called the month by the queer looking word "Ooster," which, doesn't stand for a beheaded rooster, but referred to Easter. The practical Dutch people called It the grass month There's lots of things that happen In April, but the thing that we 4e interested in right now happens the very first day. Can you possibly guess what it is? Yes

saying it, laughing to think how you are going to celebrate the day April Fools' Day. Did you you think that all you American boys and girls were the only Juniors that use that day to play all kinds of funny jokes (which doesn't at all includa any mean tricks, which aren't at all) on air your friends? No there are Jriany Juniors in many lands doing i ne sawn mmg on the same day. The children in almost all the countries of Europe, and in England and Scotland are also trying to think of some new something to do to some one who won't know what that something is till they "bite." Even the little Hindoo children way over in India celebrate an April Fools Day, only their day is the 31st of March, the day when they and all their friends and their fathers and mothers have a great festival which they call the Hulu festival, which of course, doesn't mean anything to us but doe, mean a great deal of fun to them The Juniors of France call this day, the poisson d' Avril, which means the Fools of April, and they have just as much fun probably as you will have, at least almost as much. In Scotland, they make this day of general merrymaking, calling it the day for "gowks" which word really means "cuckoo," but has come to stand for the April Fools. It is the custom to play as many jokes as possible early in the morning before people have realized what day it is, and breakfast time in1 many home on the first day of April is the time when every one plays a joke or has one played on him, and everyone has a general good time. Some times jokes have been successfully played on great numbers of people on this day. For instancein England, in March, 18G0, a great number of people received important looking cards that read as follows: "Tower of London Admit bearer and friend to view the annual ceremony of washing the White Lions on Sunday, April 1, I860.. Admit only at the Whits Gate." The trick was very successful. For cabs full of people rattled around Tower Hill all that Sunday morning in a vain attempt to find the White Gate that led them into the place where they wash the White Lions. What are you going to do on April Fools' Day? My Pet Rabbit I have a pet rabbit. It is brown. We keep it in a pen ia the barn. It has five baby rabbits. Daddy put some wire netting and hay over the box to keep tha dogs away. Alice Margaret Test. 2B, Joseph Moore School. 6' ' jf Itf'M ? - H LOT