Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 191, 24 May 1919 — Page 15

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JUNIOR PALLADIUM

WEEKLY SECTION: OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM RICHMOND. INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1919

The White Apron Of Polly Flinders Polly - Flinders wanted a new white apron with ruffles on it. She thought It would be very beautiful and while she was Bitting in the doorway thinging about it she fell asleep. And while she was asleep, a very old cotton-stalk, with long white hair, walked up the steps and spoke to her: "Good morning, Polly Flinders," said Mr. Cotton Stalk, bowing low, "it is very warm let me fan you with ono of my leaf fans.

And so you want a new white apron, do you?" "Yes," said Polly, opening her eyes very wide. "How did you know?" "Never mind about that" said Mr. Cotton Stalk. "Get a bag and follow me; I will show you a place where white aprons grow." So Polly got a bag, and away they went, down the path, across the meadows, to a field where ever bo much cotton was growing. "Now," said Mr. Cotton Stalk, "get to work. This is my field, and you may fill your bag full of cot ton. When you have finished, pick out all the seeds and bring them to me to be planted for other aprons you know." roily thought that was very queer, but went quietly to work as he had told her. She picked and picked and picked, until by and by the bag was full. Then she picked out all the seeds picked and picked and picked and gave them to Mr. Cotton Stalk. "What now?" asked Polly, feeling very warm. "This isn't any apron?" not yet, of course," replied Mr. Cotton Stalk. "It is only the beginning of a whole apron. You have been a smart little girl and have worked bravely. Now you do what I tell you and the white apron shall be yours." "Put the bag of cotton on your back and carry it to London Town, where there Is a large factory. Then the factory man will tell you what to do next." Polly was very tired, but thanked Mr. Cotton Stalk, and off she went over the field, across the stile to London Town. At last she came to the factory, where she put down the bag. Such a turn and buzz of wheels she had never heard before! Round and . round they whirled, singing merrily:., "Over and over and over we go, Spinning the cotton, as white as snow, Weaving the cloth for aprons, you know, . So over and over and over we go!" "Well," said Polly, "how strange! That is just what I want you to do for me." So she untied her bag and the factory man said: "To be sure! Just bring your cotton this way and empty it into the bin, now wait a minute. It will not be , long before these wheels have your cloth ready. Watch!" Polly could hardly believe her own eyes, when she saw her cotton draw out into long thread. It grew finer and finer, crossing and recrossing, until it was firm, white cloth. Then with a spinning whir the wheels stopped and the factory man said: " Your cloth is finished, Polly Flinders. Take it to your mother and have her make you a new white apron." "But wait I'll Just blow you back to your village. Puff-f! Puff-f! Puff-f! and away you go!" Polly opened her eyes very wide and found herself sitting on her own doorstep. Just then mother called: "Run here, Polly and see what I have made for you." And sure enough, there was a new white apron with ruffles on it! Sent in by Marjorie Meek. Chester School. THE CHEERFUL CHERUB. I went out to a well one night, Soft darkness hid all daytlmes's scars. I held some water to the light And drank a dipper full of stars. Selected by Walter Buchc. Grade 3, St. Andrew's School.

WHERE Despite the signing of the armis tice more than Bix months ago and the subsequent labors of the peace conference, there are today sixteen wars raging in Europe, and more are in prospect. Here Is the list, according to latest advices: Bolshevikl vs Allies. Bolshevik! vs. Russian Loyalists. Bolshevikl vs. Ukranlans. Bolsheviki vs. Germans. Bolshevikl vs. Poles. Bolshevikl vs. Rumanians. Bolsheviki vs. Letts. Bolsheviki vs. Finns. Bolsheviki vs. Lithuanians. Poles vs. Germans. Poles vs. Ruthenians. Poles vs. Czecho-Slovaks. Germans vs. Letts. Austrians vs. Jugoslavs. Rumanians, French, Serbs and Czecho-Slovaks vs. Hungarians. ' Bulgar Royalists vs. Bulgar Reds. A seventeenth war, but recently concluded, was that between' the Bavarian government and the Bavarian Reds. Danger spots In Europe, where actual fighting may at any time begin, are: Ireland. Dodecanese Islands. East coast of the Adriatic (Flume, Dalmatia, Albania.) . The Russian Bolshevikl, who have displayed an eagerness to fight everybody except the old German autocracy, appear to be at the bottom of more than half the pres ent trouble in Europe. Until recently they have been waging war against the forces of the allies on two fronts the northern, comprising the region around Archangel and the Murman coast, where several thousand Americans are part of the allied forces, and the southern, including Odessa and the Crimea. On the southern front the Bolsheviki have prevailed, but in the north the fighting has been going against them. The war between the Bolsheviki and the Russian Loyalists is being waged on several fronts, the most important being those where the Loyalists are commanded, respectively, by Admiral Kolchak -and General Denikine. These two lead ers have recently reported bril liant successes in engagements with the Reds. A third war being waged by the Trotsky-Lenine government is against the Ukranian Nationalists under Petlura, who resent Bolshevist interference in Ukranian af fairs. Latest advices would seem to show that after some reverses, Petlura is finally gaining the upper hand. Considerable haziness surrounds the fighting between the Bolsheviki and the Germans and the Bolshevikl and the Letts. The latter accuse the Bolsheviki of terrible atrocities in the region inhabited by

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the Letts around the city of Dorpat. Some weeks ago the Bolsheviki sent an army to Bessarabia to contest the Rumanian occupation of that territory. They are reported to have defeated Rumanian forces here. ' Still another war being waged by the Bolsheviki is againt Finland. Only meager news, of this war has trickled through to the outside world, but it is known that the Finns are moving eastward toward the Murman region in co-operation with allied forces in that quarter. Turning to Poland, one finds a state of military activity in that infant republic surpassed only by the . situation confronting Lenine and Trotsky. ' The Polish govern ment, headed by Ignace Jan Paderewski, the renowned pianist, in addition to administrative problems of the utmost intricacy, has four full-fledged wars to worry about. That against the Bolsheviki has already been mentioned ; the other antagonists of the new Poland are Germans, Ruthenians, and Czechoslovaks. Fighting between the Poles and the Ruthenians in Galacia has been going on for months. The Ruthenians, who inhabit the region about the important cities of Lemberg and Tarnopol, are of stock akin to the Ukrainians living to the eastward, and many of them are un willing that the new Poland should comprise their territory, though it was included in that part of the defunct' Austro-Hungarian empire known as Austrian Poland. The city of Lemberg has changed hands several times in a few months, and has been subjected to bombardment by the Poles and Ruthenians, while pitched battles, vying in magnitude with those which made Galacia a shambles in the campaigns of the Russians against the Austrians and Germans in the early part of the great war have been fought near Lemberg, Przemysl and other Galacian cities. So serious was the fighting that the allied governments sent strong protests to the combantants, which caused the trouble to calm down for a while, but it has flared up several times despite these protests. With the Republic of Czechoslovakia, southwest of Poland, the new Polish government is also having differences. These concern especially the region comprising the valuable mines of Teschen. In the region of, Libau the Germans are at war with the Letts. Recently the former were reported to have ousted a Lettish government at Libau and substituted one of their own. What has happened since then is doubtful. One of the liveliest battlefields during the last few weeks has been Hungary. After the armistice

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Hungary existed for a while precariously under a democratic regime, headed by Count Karolyi, but it was overthrown by Hungarian Reds under Bela Kun and others who appeared to be In direct communication and sympathy with the Lenlne-Trotsky crew at Moscow. The Hungarian Reds found themselves in hot water just as soon as they took up the reins of government. While decrees as fantastic as any launched by Russian Soviets followed each other in rapid succession at Budapest, the heads of the new regime had to cast about to find means of meeting a converging invasion of Hungary by Rumanian, Serbian, French and Czechoslovak forces, approaching Budapest from the east, south and north. The Red forces were worsted in several battles, and, at latest reports, the invading armies had encircled Budapest. Gathering Flowers Once upon a time a little boy wanted to go to gather some flowers. His mother said he might go. So he took a little basket and his dog r and started. , He had to go about a third of a mile to ; the woods. This little boy is only1 ten years old. When he got to the woods he saw a bunch of flowers. After he gathered flowers a ' bit he said I wonder where this path leads to. He said I will go and see. He wandered far off into the woods. After awhile he found It was getting dark. He started back but there was something standing in front of him. It was a fairy. She said what is the matter? He told her and she said come with me. She took the little, boy and took him home and ever after the liUle boy didn't want to go flower hunting by himself. His name was Marion. ' Hattie Marshall. 6B, Warner School. v The Poor Girl A poor girl's mother was dead, and the father was dead, and the thelittle girl went out one day to her aunts, and she got something to wear and something for supper. The little girl was too poor to go to school. One day a man came to the little girl's house and . gave her some money and a new dress and the little girl thanked him very much, and the girl was happy. The man said that he would like to havo her for his little girl and the little girl said yes that she would go. The man was a rich man and the little girl lived very happy ever after that. The end of my story. Martha Ellen Titus. 4B, Finley School. WILL YOU WALK INTO MY PARLOR. A Mr. Cobb has married a Miss Webb. He knew they were meant to be Joined ns soon as he spied her.

Who Was The First Camoflevr? Long,; long ago, before battleships ' and submarines were even thought of, and everyone went around in the same kind of clothes they had on when they were born, it was thought perfectly proper when you wanted something to eat to go out and kill something or someone and chew him up. For a long time Dame Nature was at her wits' end to know what to do about it, when suddenly she hit on the idea of Camouflage. She called her assistants and told them to get out their paint brushes and colors and start in at once. It was an all-year job, for many of the animals had to have two sets of clothes, and it kept the poor old saints busy trying to keep up with the changing seasons. The rattlesnakes weren't much trouble, for as soon as they had had several layers of diamond patterned tissue laid on to their backs they just peeled off a layer each year and considered themselves fixed. The walking sticks and grasshoppers were tinted brown and green to harmonize with their surroundings, and the hop toads and mud turtles were colored like the mud in which, they wallowed. The . ptarmigan had to be plain white to harmonze with the snows of hie Alaskan fields, and the ermine, regal little beast, must be brown in summer and pure white in winter in order to safeguard his valuable

coat from the ravages of the hunters. There isn't any doubt about Dame Nature being clever. She could and still can give points to all the camofleurs of the United States and British armies, who thought they were the first ones to evolve the idea of trimming up a flock of machine guns so that they looked like a miniature greenwood, or painting a battleship to look like a crazy quilt,' so as to fool the submarines. Brooklyn Eagle Junior.. The First Birthday I One little year with its changeful hours,' Blossoming meaaow , ana wimry showers, Shadow and sun. -Shadow and sun, and rain and snow, : Morning ' splendor and ) evening . glow; - -The flying minutes, how fast they gO! " And the little year it done. What has it brought , to the baby pray, The princess who holds our hearts ; : In sway? ' ' : A queenller air, A merrier laugh for lips and eyes, A deeper frown of grave surprise, A ' hundred ways that prove her wise, An sweet as she Is fair. Kiss her once for the year that Is ' done, And once for the year that is just begun; , . . And softly sing, "The years that are coming so fast, so fast . Each brighter and happier be than the last; And every, hour that goes hurrying past, " " ' , New gifts to our baby bring!" Irene Baumer. Cth grade, St. Andrew's SchoL America A means you're anybody's country, M means you're meant for me. E means you're everybody's sweet heart, and R for the right of Liberty. I stands for Independence first and all, ; ;, C for your colors so grand, A-M-E-It-I-C-A, America means, I love you my Yankee land. Ruth Roland. 4A, Starr School. THE ' BABY. The baby is here, And the baby there. But it is dear to mother And dear to me. Josephine HollingswortlL 4B, Starr School.