Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 197, 31 May 1919 — Page 14

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY. MAY 31, 1919

Young Pupils Of Miss Gaston In

Charming Recital Many boys and girls and their mothers and pig brothers ana Bis ters and thelf friends spent a very delightful afternoon, last Monday, from two o'clock to four o'clock In the afternoon, in Miss Gaston's studio at Earlham college. It was a recital given by Miss Gaston's I youngest pupils. The long, attract ive room was beautifully decorated with baskets of bridal wreath, tulips and Iris. I After the varied program given by the Junior pupils (and it was a very well given program, indeed, as : everyone must have thought, for the applause was very hearty) Miss ! Gaston and Mrs. Hugh Fosa played some Mother Goose melodies which I were very difficult to play, in spite of their simple sounding name ! Miss Gaston would tell the story t and then they would play the j music, which gave a picture of the story. One story was, "Tom Thumb In the Wilderness," in which you went along In the wilderness with ,Tom, the music pictured the. story so well. Another story was a little fairy story that had been translated Into English from the French, called, "The Princess of the Pagoda," In which some little elves called "Pagodes" serenaded the princess with songs played on sea shells and crab shells and all kinds of queer instruments. The music was In Chinese style and altogether this story was very weird and very fairylike. Mary Lane Charles brought the book In which was the story of this charming princess. After the program, the guests spent a social hour. Refreshments were served. The program follows: t. Little Hands Orth In the Tent ...Perry June Kehlenbrink S. Gavotte .Rogers Waltz ............ .Burgmuller Max Evans 3. Birthday Cake (Mach) , . .Crosby The Rooster (from Noah s Ark) Maxim Martha Ann Gennett 4. Good Night .Rohde The Jolly Farewell ... .Crashy The Goblin .....Gay nor Garda Sloane 5. Harmony of the Angels Burgemuller Barcarolle ....... .Burgemuller Ballad ........... Burgemuller Virginia Harris 6. Story of the Mouse ...... Lynes David Marvel 7. The Goblins ....... Wright In Ball Costume .Lange Bernice Burton 8. The Spanish Caprice. Beaumong Lucille Loufbourrow Violin Classes Are Popular In United States "Violin classes have come to stay. More teachers will be added to the force ; more equipment will be forthcoming; and the dream of a great orchestra is on its way to realisation,"- says Professor B. F. Stuber, in his Interesting article in the May number of the Musician. Professor Stuber is, at present, a tteacher of violin classes in the public schools of Akron, Ohio, and is very enthusiastic about his work He believes that violin classes havo become very popular and have been very successful, consid ering the short period of time they have been in existence. "Many a home," he adds, "has been made happier, where music had never entered before Mary could play a tune on her violin." That reminds us that our own violin classes in Richmond under Professor Hicks have done well too, and we will be anxious for them to begin again next fall. Boys To Work For New Playground Twenty-five boys of the High school have been out around the city during the last week asking for funds to help provide a suitable city playground. The amount estimated for such a playground is $1,000. So far, the boys have received $152.E0. The matter is now under discussion in a committee of which Superintendent Bentley and Mr. L. E. Illff, of the Commercial Club, are members. The boys who are on the committee, which is at the head of the boy workers, are: Sidney Watt, Byron Wettig, Clem Price, William Habcrkern, and Ralph Koirinf.

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: How many children live In Rich mond? , M. M Dear M. M.: According to the last counting and this was just a month ago. there were 6,825 children in Rich mond between the ages of six to twenty-one, which, is the school age. Perhaps you would add about A third of this number to this total to find out about how many chil dren there are altogether, counting the littlest ones. Can you flgure that up 7 Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Poolly: What is your name? S. S. A. Dear S. S. A.: Well, probably my name Is Polly (only one "O" though) and perhaps I'm the one folks sing about when they sing, "Polly wolly doodle all the day." Then, of course, perhaps I'm not. You never can tell! I seem to have several names. Another one of them is Elizabeth, and another one is but, mercy! you do 'not want to hear me tell all my names, it might take too much space in the column. So we'll Just consider that the most important one is, Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Polly: What is my name? I am not asking for information. Lone Scout. Dear Lone Scout: Bein's as you are not asking for information, I'll tell you. I happen to know it right away. It is Enoltuocs Ecinydobemos. Perhaps it doesn't look quite natural to you when you first look at it, but it realy is your name. Look at it from another angle and see If it isn't. Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Polly: Where did you live when you were a little girl? I live in the country. Marjorie Darland. Dear Marjorie: Your a lucky little girl to live In the country. I? Oh, I've always just lived in Richmond, born there in fact, and I think it is a very nice place to live, don't you? I've visited in the country many times and have had heaps of fun, riding the horses and milking the cows and churning. Don't you just have the most fun when you live on a farm! Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Polly: When did the very first war begin and what was the name of it? W. P. A. Dear W. P. A.: Well, to tell the truth, I expect the very first war began thousands of ages ago, when some animal named something like Simla Satyrua Orang-Utan Simiidae decided that another animal named something like Pan Troglodytes Chimpanzee, a relative, had caught more little wild animals to eat and had found more wild fruit and screw pine shoots than he had been able to find, and then came the war. Then they would start to bite and beat their fists and raise a great big fuss and startle all the other forest natives untli they all came out and either watched the fight, or, when they couldn't stand it any longer, joined in, on either one Flue or the other, in short, they settled their quarrels by force, and decided the one was right, who happened to be the strongest. . All our wars since that time, have been much like that only they hava been bigger, and all kinds of new weapons have been invented to be used in fighting. Sometimes, as in this great war, people fight for things that are mueh finer and much more unselfish that the jealousy that started the old quarrel between Mr. Orang-Utan nnd Mr. Chimpanzee. All the very first wars didn't have any names. Names just came tagging along after people and wars and things along after those same people and warn and things had been in existence. Aunt Polly.

Flying Overseas What was once thought absolutely impossible, has been accomplished, men have flown over the Atlantic ocean from one continent to another. The Yankee crew of the seaplane NC4, under the command of Albert C. Read, landed In Lisbon, Portugal, the evening of May 27, and were the very first men to accomplished the flight. The machine which acted perfectly, is, like the members of the crew, all American, and it Is an achievement of which every American Is proud. The members of the crew, which were six in number were awarded the grand cross of the Order of the Power and Sword by the Portuguese government.

Hawker Honored. With a spirit of daring amount ing almost to foolishness, Harry E Hawker, an Australian aviator and Lieutenant Commander McKcnsie Grieve attempted to cross the ocean in a land plane. This flight was not successful and the, men and plane had to come down in mid-ocean. A Danish steamer, named Mary, picked them up and left them at Thurso, in Scotland. In the following brief telegram, Hawker tells about the trouble he had with his plane and his land ing: "My Sopwlth plane was stopped, owing to a filter feed pipe from the radiator to the pump being blocked with a refuse resembling solder. No fault was to be found with the motor, which worked in an absolutely perfect manner from start to flnislh. We had no trouble in landing, and were picked up by the steamship Mary after an hour and a half." For six days no word was heard of Hawker and his pilot, and many people feared that they had lost their lives. In one magazine, a poem was published about Hawker, the writer of which considered him killed. We are glad that this was proved false, but nevertheless the poem is very interesting, and gives in a little way, some idea of the joy and fascination, that the flyer feels when he is thousands of feet up in the air. The following verses are quoted from that poem : . "I fled the little earth, I climbed Above the rising sun, I met the morning in a blaze Before my hour was gone. I ran beyond the rim of space, Its reins I ffung aside, Laughter was mine and mine was youth And all my own was pride." When Hawker and Grieve arrived in London, King George bestowed on them the insignia of the Air Force Cross. They are the first men that have ever received this. . Try the "Impossible." The most important thing about it all, is that, since these men have dared and accomplished this flight across the ocean, the tiling is possible, and before long, many people will be doing the same thing. After all, there Is very little that is really "impossible." How many of the now so-called "impossibilities" will you Juniors try? Church Built In Salt Mine Common salt is made of two substances, that are not at all like salt, and are very different from each other. One, codium, is a soft bluish metal, and the other is chlorine; a yellowish green gas. The chemical name for salt is sodium, which is derived from the two names sodium and chlorine. Hock salt is tho purest form ia which salt is found and to prepare it for market, it is merely necessary to grind it or cut into blocks. The greatest deposit of salt in the world is probably that at Wielizka, in Poland, where there is a bed 500 miles long, 20 miles wide, and 1.200 feet thick. Some of the mines there are so extensive that it is said some of the miners spend their lives in them, never coming to the surface of the earth. Salt is white and glistening. The crystals have a cube shape. It also is very hard. All water that comes into the oceamj by way of the rivers and other streams contain salt. The amount is so very small for a given quantity of water that it cannot be tasted. But all this river water is poured into the oceans eventually at some point. After it reaches the oceans, the water is ;

evaporated by the action of . the The girls who are now knights sun. When the sun picks up the i expect to continue their work durwater in the form of moisture, it J Ing the Bummer and attain the does not take up any of the solid i knight banneret, a pin similar to substances which the water con-1 the knight pin, only in light bronze.

talned as It came in from the rivers, and while there Is about as much water in the ocean all tho time and about as much also in tho air in the form of moisture also, the ocean never gets fuller; the solid substances from the river waters keep piling up in the ocean and float about in the water there. Salt la found in large quantities in the sea water, in which it is dissolved with some other substances. It is also found in salt beds formed by the drying up of old lakes that have no outlets ; salt wells, that yield1 strong brine; and salt mines, in which is is found in hard solid, transparent crystals, called rock salt. - A trip through theses mines is interesting. In one of them can be seen a church made entirely of

salt. The salt supply of the United States Is obtained chiefly from the salt wells of. Michigan and New York, the Great Salt Lake in Utah and the rocw Ealt mines of Louisiana and Kansas. The Dead sea and Great Salt lake are very salty. Ocean water is eveporated in large pans; and salt , remains. Water is led into salt well3 after the salt is dissolved, the water Is pumped out and evaporated. Salt Is mined and purified. Wielizka, Po land, is one of the most famous' mines in the world; it is over 700 years old; 1,800 feet deep. Pro duces about 62,000 tons of salt every year. In the arts and manufactures, the mos't important uses of salt are in glazing earthenware, in extract ing metals from their ores, in pre serving meats and hides, in fertillzmg ana sou. , Most people think it not only lends a pleasant flavor, but is itself an Important article of diet. It is certain that all people who can obtain it use salt in their food, and where it is scarce it is considered one of the greatest of luxuries. It is often used In freezing mix tures such as ice cream and ices. Carl Meyer. Grade 6, St. John's School. Riddles . llf a donkey was on one side of a river and haystack was on the other side, how did he get it? 2. Patch upon patch and a hole in the middle. Everett Hosea. Sevastopol School. 3. What is the difference between a hen's egg and a goose's egg? . Frances E. Harperf. Sevastopol School. 4. What Is a harbor used for? 5. If a man was born on February 29, how often would he have a birthday? Wilbur Williams. Sevastopol School. 6. Over younder stands a deer, Follow, follow, never here. Earl Davis. 1A, , BEHEADINGS. 1. Behead an animal and have a word. 2. Behead something that floats on the water and have a grain. 3. Behead a girl's name and have a boy's name. 4. Behead a piece of furniture and have something which is a part of you. Elizabeth Schultz. 6A, Sevastopol School. ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S RIDDLES. 1. A dead hen. 2. A wagon. John N. Johnson. Grade 4, White School. 3. A wheelbarrow. 4. A rooster. 5. A cherry. Anna Brees. Middleboro School. Girl Crusaders Become Knights About twenty girls received their bronze pins signifying knighthood in the Junior Red Cross Health crusade during the last days of school. The movement was only begun at the Junior High school in March, so the Crusaders were not able to enter the National Tourna ment which will be held in July. They hope to enter the tournament next year.

What I Want To Do This Summer I should like to go to Winchester where I used to live. I have several friends there. Helen Murphy. 6B, Warner School. This summer I would like to go to Africa to see the wild animals. Also to see the bright colored birds and the jungles. I would like to catch animals and make a museum. I would want some men with me that know ' about the jungle. I should like to bring home a small cub of an animal. Raymond Fraze. 6A Warner School. This summer T should like to go to New. Paris, Ohio. I would like to see my aunt who lives there on a beautiful farm. They have cows, chickens, ducks and many fruit

trees. Not very far from my aunt lives a girl friend of mine and she has a very pretty dog which ia very playful. Old Ned, the horse, loves children. I think my mother will let me go to New Paris this summer. I would like to go here because the lawn is very beautiful and green. I could milk cows, feed chickens, cut grass, and when the trees are filled with fruit, I can help pick cherries and other fruits. But one thing I would love to can fruit. Mary Wade. 6B. Warner School. The way I would like to spend my vacation is to go to Florida and spend the summer. The reason 1 would like to go to Florida is because I would like to see the fruit trees and see the kinds of farms they have. If I could not go to Florida. I would like to go to the mines and see them mine diamonds, gold and other things. Then I would like to go to Georgia and see the sights there. Another thing I would like, to do it to go on the Mississippi steam boats to see the levees and to see the kinds of trees. Alma Chamness. 5A, Baxter School. I would like to go to Colorado in the mountains and see wnere I was born. Go upon Pike's Peak. Then from Colorado to California and go to San Francisco. Then get on the train and go from San Francisco to New York and see the boats come In and out of the harbor. Then I would like to go on a boat through trie Canal down Lake Erie, up Lake Huron, through Lake Superior, down the Mississippi river to to the Ohio river and up the Ohio river to Cincinnati. Edith C. Johnson. 5A, Baxter School. This summer I want to go camping in the woods, and cook on the fires, and have a pleasant time while I was there. One thing about camping is to sleep in the tent on the bare ground. And then in the morning get up and cook breakfast. And the other place I would like to go it to the lakes, and swim, fish, and go boating. I do not know how to swim, but I know how to fish. The best thing in the world I like to do is fish. Reba Robblns. 5B, Baxter School. Balls Tarn To Fuzz Warner school has a very small playground. We haven't any good place to play ball. When wo do play the ball goes over the fence. There are business streets all around the school house. Besides this there is an Interurban freight station right out side. The cars run over the ball and leave nothing but a bunch of fuzz. The ball also goes down the sewer. The boys of Warner school haven't any ball to play with now. Don't you think we are having a lot of trouble? Edwin May. Warner School. Actual records prove that there have been toads of more than 100 years of age, and some scientists believe that the lives of some toads exceed that number of years.