Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 232, 12 July 1919 — Page 15

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM The Junior FalladTunPls thT children's action ot Ens' WehmonS. fJladlam. founded May 8, 1914, and issued each. Saturday afternoon.' Allboys and girls are invited to be reporters and contrttmton. Newt, Items, social events, "want" advertisements, stories, local Jokes and original poems are acceptable and will be published. Articles should, be written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author's name and age signed. Aunt Polly Is always glad to meet the children per tonally as they bring their articles to The Palladium office, or to receiv letters addressed to the Junior Editor. This is your little newspaper nd we hope each boy and girl will use it thoroughly.

Riddles 1. What is a lawyer's favorite pudding? 2. What asks no questions but requires many ancwers? 3. What was the color of the Maine? 4. Why can we not send any more messages to Washington? Josephine Thorn. 5. Girls' names: Laupeni, Yamr, Darfe. Dethl, Thlee, Ernbice, Anjiee. Ayiu, Nelethak, Laam, Thorody, Uthr, Drediml, Minae, May Laynion. 6B, Starr School. 1. When are the police stationed on the city hall lawn? 2. Why are the citizens of Charleston prohibited from eating peanuts? Josephine Barnott, Fountain Hill School. 3. Feathered Folk.( Can you answer these with names of birds?) (a) a ruler; and a laborer by the sea? (b) A crime; and a preposition? (c) A bird noted in nursery rhymes? (d) Sad? (e) Two; decay? (f) Part of a day; a lodging house; tempest? (g) A vegetable; very small. (h) Found on a beach; an oldtime musician. (i) A hilarious time? (j) Always goes with a dose of medicine? (k) Found on a ship; found in a vegetable garden? (1) Raw product of the mines; a letter of the alphabet; negro dialect for "ancient"? (m) Winter's beauty? (n) A vegetable; a fowl? (o) A mulical habit? (p) Part of a fire; a preposition; to depart? (q) Symbol of which we have heard much? (r) Something that burns; a measure; to make a mistake? (s) To separate; a long stretch of mountains or raised land? (t) Symbol of strength and money? (u) Symbol of destruction or greed? (v) Symbol of wisdom? Ladies' Home Journal. (Answers will appear in next week's Junior.) Answers to Last Week's Riddles. 1. Pierce, Hayes, Madison, Grant, Talor, Tyler. Arthur, Fillmore, Lincoln, Adams. 2. A Janitor. 3. Bear, Lion, Tiger. Monkey, Fox, Wolf, Coyote, Dog, Cat, Horse and Pig. THE BEGINNING OF UMBRELLAS Under a toadstool, crept a wee elf, Out of the rain to shelter himself. Under the toadstool, fast asleep. Sat a big Dormouse all in a heap. Trembled the wee elf, frightened and yet, Fearing to fly away, lest he get wet To the next shelter maybe a mile. Suden the wee elf smiled a wee smile. Tugged till the toadstool toppled in two, Holding it over him, gaily he flew. Soon he was safe home, dry as could be. Soon woke the Dormouse. "Good gracious me! Where is my toadstool?" Loud he lamented. And that's how umbrellas first were invented. Selected. California was originally known as "Caliente Fornalla," which means "hot furnace." About 600 B. C, a ship canal connecting the delta of the Nile and the Red Sea was begun under the direction of Pharaoh Necho. This canal, the modern Suez canal, was not made perfectly navigable until November 16. 1869. It 13 now under English control.

Jimmy A ragged newsy stopped me on the street the other morning, And in his eyes ho had the biggest tears I've ever seen. He spoke to me so timidly! His voice was shy and trembling: "Aint you the man, eh, mister, wot prints a magazine?" I nodded and I answered with a courage-giving smile, And when he saw the smile he grew more bold. He said: "I wisht you'd print, sir, so everybody'd know it, That Jimmy died to save my life an' only two years old! "Dey wuz a mad dog comin' down de street, an' Jimmy seen him. He seen de dog wuz headed straight fer me, I wuz so scared I couldn't move but what do you think, mister? It was de cutest thing you'd ever see. "He moved so quick, did Jimmy an' he jumped right out before me. I tried to run, but didn't know which way; A n'de mad dog he got Jimmy, an' he bit 'im sumpin' awful! Dey shot de mad dog, mister but Jimmy died dat day."

"Yes, sure I'll print it, laddie!" The tears were in my own eyes. "But boys that die that nobly go to heaven, son cheer up!" He looked at me in wonder. "Oh! Jimmy wurn't no boy, sir" The big tears bubbled over "Why, Jimmy wur a pup!" Joseph Andrew Galahad. I have so dreamed of a life of high use that I cannot decline to a life of amusement or small occupation. Julia Ward Howe.

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1919

Cowgirl Delivers Important Message To Governor Robert Carey of Wyoming

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Mrs. Jack Elliot on her way up capitol steps to see Governor Carey. Without troubling to dismount, Mrs. Jack Elliot, a well known cowgirl of Wyoming, dashed up the steps of the Wyoming state capitol and delivered a message to Gov. Robert Carey. The message was a request from a committee of Wyoming girls that the model for the much discussed "Miss Wyoming" figure for the Frontier Days poster be selected from among the girls of Wyoming only.

Traveling at an average speed of 172 miles an hour, a British pilot is said to have made the LondonParis flight in the record time of 75 minutes.

THE JOYS OF JULY

t i - v .fJ, The simple reason why there are always waves upon the ocean is that there is always some wind, somewhere. The winds make the waves.

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Here and There

Not Enough Room for Them. Tenderfoot Hey, Scout, how many crab-apples are there In A dozen? . First : Clas Scout Twelve, ot course. " . First Class Scout Twelve, fit course. .- . a Tenderfoot I bet It doesn't tak many watermelons to make . do4 en. 1 Schoolmaster "Robert, tier BJ an example. Seven. Wa Trent ton the tond to swim. Two rere told! not to go In. How man? vent lnt4 Robert "Seven, tUrr -JLone Scout At the close of the recent Bor Scout rally. Lieut Gen. Sir ItobM ert Baden-Powell, Chief Scout, pre1 sented Eagle Scout badges to sevH enteen Scouts. Lone Scout (Inquiring at boon store) "Have you 'Lamb's Tales't Bookseller "This is a book store, not a meat market." "Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts arc the roots. Kind words are the Blossoms, I ' Kind deeds are the fruits." Selected by Rosalro Burtt. j Tommy " 'Ow far Is It to camp, mate?" Native "About five miles as the crow flies." Tommy "Well, 'ow far is it supposin' the crow 'as to walk and carry a rifle and kit-bag?" "You seem pretty proud since you gave 25 cents to the Red Cross fund." "Yassuh" replied Rastus. "Talk about doin' yuh bit! I Jes done my two bits." Lone Scout. Gerald lives downstairs and comes up whenever he swells something good being made. One day was doughnut day and Gerald, be ing cautioned by his mother never to ask for anything, said: "I musn't ask for anything, but uni them doughnuts smell dood!" Roland had found a pencil eraser, and offering it to his little cousin, he said: "You can have it, Hazel. Do you know how to write?" Then, evidently he happened to think that she would have no use for an eraser unless she made mistakes, for he added: "Do you know how to write wrong?" Jimmy had been over playing with the little boy who had just moved in across the street. When he came home I asked him how he liked the new neighbor. lie replied: "I like him fine for games, but he is the taKSagest kid you ever heard." Chicago Dally Tribune. Danny Lyon went away from far East Sixteenth Street twenty years ago, became a successful business man in the West recently returned to visit his boyhood haunts, met an old friend, Mrs. Murphy, reintroduced himself, and after a long gossip about old acquaintance asked : "And Paddy Sweeney? What became of ray old pal Paddy?" "He was a contractor. Made a million dollars and was drowned." "Paddy made a million! Why, he couldn't read nor write!" "Nor swim." N. Y. Sun. WHY A PENCIL WRITES. You can use a pencil to write with or to make marks, because the pencil wears off when you are scratching it on a surface rough enough to make it do so. Writing, you know, is only a way of making marks so as to make them mean something. You cannot write on a pane of glass, because the glass is so smooth that when you move a pencil over its surface the pencil will not wear off. To prove to yourself that the tip of the pencil is constantly wearing off when you write, you have only to recall that when you write with a pencil It keeps getting shorter and shorter. A slate pencil will wear down short by merely writing with it, but a lead pencil must be sharpened, that is, you must keep cutting away the. wood.in order to get the lead inside. Norman Pilgrim, St. John's School, Gth grade. A San Francisco scout wheeled a paralyzed neighbor eight block