Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 155, 12 April 1919 — Page 15

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, AfRIL 12, 1919

PA08 THREB

THE JUNIOR

The Junior Palladium is the children's section of the Richmond Ealladium, founded May . 1918, and issued each Saturday afternoon, llboys and girls are invited to be reporters and contributors. News Items, social events, "want" adrvrtiRamenta. stories, local Jokes and original poems are acceptable and will be puMI&hed. Articles should te written plainly and on one aide of the paper, with the author's name and age signed. Aunt Polly is always glad to meet the children per (sonally 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.

May Festival Work Is Progressing "Anyway, mother, I get to play in the May Festival," said a certain Junior of Starr School, the other evening. And many Juniors can say the Bame thing right now, for the choruses and the orchestras and the violin class will include a great number of boys and girls all over the city. The May Festival will be a series of lour concerts which will be given on the following dates: May 9, May 12, May 14, and May 16, and something different will happen each evening. The very first evening, May 9, will be Garfield evening, and will include some of the Grade school Btudents who are in the violin classes taught by Professor Hicks. On that evening, the Garfield orchestra, the girl's chorus of Garfield, and a class of students selected by Professor Hicks from his three Grade School classes will give the program. The violin classes were begun only a short time before Christmas but are progressing very nicely "I am enthusiastic about the work," said Professor Hicks. On May 12, the vocational students and the already well known and popular sextette will give the program for the evening. The vocational students are the girls and boys who expect to be teachers or players in the future. On the evening of May 14, the Apollo chorus, a selected chorus, with some of the vocational students will have charge of the program. The last concert which will be given on the 16th of May will be given by the High School orchestra. The soloists will be announced later. Professor Sloane, Miss Edna Marlatt and the students who are in the Festival are interested and are working verw hard for it. And we, who are to be listeners are eager to hear it, because we know we shall hear some beautiful music, aren't we? Come Again! Come to the meadows again, sweet bird, Come to the meadows again! The cowslips are opening their bright starry eyes, The daisies and "buttercups soon will arise, With their brilliant and blossoming train. Come to the meadows again, sweet bird, Come to the meadows again! Selected by Henrietta Yost 4B, Sevastopol School. Oar Baseball Team Dear Aunt Polly: I am going to tell you how we chose our baseball team. We got all our boys ready to play ball. Franklin Walls is captain, and Verne Swab is first base, Tracy Evans is catcher, Clifford Caine is third base, and I am second base. We are all ready to play next week. We will be all practiced up by then. Edward Schellin. 5th grade, Joseuh Moore. ! A Miser Once there was an old man who lived all by himself. He had a great bag full of shining gold. He was afraid he would have to give up some of it. So he lived far back in the woods. One night a robber came while the old man was asleep, and stole all the gold. There was a hole in the bag In vhich the money had been kept, and as the robber ran away, the money fell out through the hole. Orville Himes. 3B, Baxter School.

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The Two Horses Two horses were carrying two loads. The front horse went well, but the rear horse was lazy. The men began to pile the rear horse-s load on the front horse. When they naa transferred it all, tne rear horse found it easy going and he saia to the tront Horse, "Toil is sweet, the more you try, the more you suffer." When they reached the tavern, the owner said, "Why should I fodder two horses when I carry all on one. I'd better give it all the food it wants and cut the other one out And so he did. Selected by Samuel Morgan. Warner School. Our Pet Coon My brother once bought a pet coon. He brought it home and it soon became a pet. It learned to do many tricks. It was very mischievous. It would get all the toys and other things it could find and hide them in the garret. It would put its paw in our pockets and get candy or peanuts and eat tnem. We had lots of fun watching it wrestle and play with the dog. Once it tore up a pillow filled with feathers and scattered j them all over the room. It finally got so bad that my brother had to sell it. After he sold it, It killed a hen who was mother to several small chickens. For this the coon was killed. This ends my story. Mary Pearcy. 3A, Finley School. A Very Good Fairy Story There was once a good fairy. She was happy all the time. She would make everybody well and happy. So one day a lady got very sick. The good Fairy was very unhappy because the good lady was ill, so she thought that she would "make her well, so she did. That's the reason that everyone must like the good fairy. Louise Weaver. The Flower Girl The swallows are coming, Spring soon will begin, Rosy, my Posy, Now where have you been? I've been to the garden. See what I found there! A crocus, a snowdrop, A hyacinth rare. Rosy, my Posy, May all your life's hours, Be bright as the sunbeams, And fragrant as flowers! Selected by Mary R. Decker. 3A, Warner School. A Wild Bird Summer is coming, summer is coming, I know it, I know it, I know it! Light again, leaf again, life again, love again! Yes, my wild little poet. Selected by Thomas Mueller. 4th grade, St. Andrew's School. Sextette Popular The Richmond High School Sextette is so well liked that it is being asked to play in many places in and outside of Richmond. Tomorrow afternoon, they will play at the Art Gallery for the last Sunday afternoon of the Bundy-Egge-meyer exhibit. On May 17, they will go to Campbellstown where they will play at the commencement exercises there. The sextette is made up of Heistand Brown, flute; Marius Fossenkemper, clarinet, Helen Roland. 'cello; Mary Jones and Corwinj Brown, violins; and Miss Ednal Marlatt, piano.

Have You Started Your Garden! If not, you'd better begin to get busy. Why? Because everyone else, at least, a great many other

Juniors are starting to plant theirs, and one is already watching her onion plants grow. Cabbages and tomatoes, real young yet, are thriving in the boxes in the school rooms of the grade schools. The government seeds have arrived, too and were given out to the pupils to plant in their own gardens. These included beets, lettuce, onions, carrots and peas. At Whitewater the boys and girls of the Gth grade have planted a garden in their Bchool yard. The boys spaded and the girls raked and both planted, and now they are watching and waiting to see what happens. A new man from Purdue univer sity has arrived to oversee the gardening in the schools. His name is F. W. Wesler, and he is a graduate of the 1918 class of Purdue. Oh, soon gardens will be com ing up everywhere and every Ju nior and Senior too, will be talking gardens all the time! THE EMPTY SLEEVE. The other day on the street four soldier boys, back from "over there," were walking along. They met some beautiful girls and smiled and bowed to the soldiers. After they had passed the girls, one of the boys said to the others, "Come on boys lets go talk to them." and then another said, "Ah, gee boys, I can't go, they won't look at me, look at this empty sleeve." Do you think that the girls would laugh at his empty sleeve. No, I am sure they would not. Would you? Harrison Dille.

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TWO DOLLS. , Once a little gflll and her mother were walking down the street, when the little girl stopped and said, "Mother, look at this big doll, will you buy it for met" And her mother said, "Yes," They went In and got it and the next day she saw a little girl and she had a doll just like hers and so they played all day with their dolls and they had a good time. Rudolph Drifmeyer, 5B, Finley SchooL

Tatohekiya Camp Gives a Play On the evening of April 26, the girls of the Tatohekiya Camp will give an interesting program in the High School auditorium. They will use the "movie" machine there to "run" a film showing interesting pictures of the many Camp-fire activities. This will be followed by a play in which all the girls of the Camp-fire will participate. Admission of ten cents will be charged, and the proceeds from the entertainment will go toward pay ing for the girls' summer camping trip. Cats Come By Mail Once when the mail man left a package at our house, and mother opened it there was a big mother cat and two little cats in it, and a letter on each neck. We took them off and gave them some milk and a basket to sleep in so all of the three got in the basket and went to sleep. Rudolph Drifmeyer 5B, Finley School. Near Easter

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WEEK'S RIDDLES. L A. When it gets to the bottom. 13. George Washington, because he was the Father of his Country, Marion Mae Weeks, j A. Clothespin. B. He weighs ice. C. The word "noise." D. The hair. E. A dead hen. i An Alabama negro, who had spent several years as a servant in a New York family, returning to his home, attempted to instruct the members of his family in cop j rect usage, especially in their I language. One day at the table his 1 brother said to him, "Gimme some lasses, Sam." "You mustnt say 'lasses, corrected Sam. "You must say Mo lasses," "What you talkin' bout?" ' grunted his brother. "How's I, gwine to say mo' lasses, when II ain't had none yet." J Lawrence Baker. 3A, Sevastopol School. The Girl and the Golden Flower Once a girl was playing under a big tree. She had a doll with her making clothes for it. She saw a big flower it was golden, in the middle was brown. "What can it be?" she said. I will take it home and see if mama knows. "Why Mary," said her mama, "that is a sun flower. If you take a seed and plant it, it will grow," said mama. "I will," said Mary, and the yard was full of sunflowers. Ruth Jennings. Age ten. By Temple n i. if