Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 279, 6 September 1919 — Page 13

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM

RICHMOND, INDIANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, , 1919

RONALD ROSS WINS IN A MM AL STORY CONTEST .Vt-nkeys, ek-pliants, rabbits, dogs and hordes proved to be the favorHo animal:) of several Juniors, according to the resuits of Uic content for t!io Al. (. Barnes circus tickets whuh ended Tuesday evening, September 2, 1910. 'I'll.' fir-it prize, which was two fni! tickets vviih rc.-'.erved seat, for the circus, was won by J. Ronald Ross. The second prize was two unreserved tickets to the circus, and was won by Dora Macy, and the third prize of one ticket without n st rved scat, was v. on by Albert K. lienn. Tile following Juniors received Honorable Mention : Melville Siifer, North Twentieth Street. Ill.hel l!ethar;e, Spri.i;: ('.rove. Mary Loui.se lielua;;e, .Spring Ci'ove. Edwin Siewekc, Jr., South Thirteenth street. Henrietta Harris, South Third street. David Henderson, Main street. Kui scll Coatter, Grant street. Irene Wright, R. R. H. Thelma Wright, R. R. I. The prize-winning stories were published in the Grownup's Palladium last Thursday evening, but there were several other stories that were too good not to be in

print, too, so we will publish some of them from time to time in the Junior Palladium. The Rabbits I like the rabbits best because they are so pretty and are so swift. Wo have a white rabbit and it is a very pretty rabbit. We call it Runny. One evening Papa went out in the pasture after the cows and our rabbit followed him all the way there and back ,and every time he started to run he would kick his feet as if there were something on them. It looked so comic to papa. I like them because they hunt their own food after they get large and they are never around the house very much. Thelma O. Wright, Honorable Mention. "What is the connecting link between the animal and vegetable kingdom?" asked the professor. "Hash," answered Johnny. Ime Scout Magazine. A MM Farm When I went to Indianapolis to the Indiana State Fair, I saw a little model farm that was gotten up by the Purdue students. First, irWEEfc was the little house ma'de out of cardboards. Then there was a barn and silo and all the buildings around there were made oat of cardboard. All around the house and barn was grass and trees. They had the hog pens and a little path fenced in and a celluloid hog was in it. The farm was inclosed with a tiny wire fence. There were the fields with real corn, real rye and wheat and a little pasture with celluloid horses in it, and celluloid hogs in the clover and celluloid cows in the alfalfa. It was very interesting. The whole farm was about as big as the top of a Ford automobile. Miriam Burbanck.

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U. S. Soldiers Find Chinese Family of Sixteen

American soldier and family he found existing in squalid hut before which the photograph was taken. American soldiers in Siberia have been appalled at the Insanitary conditions under which the Chinese are living in that country- The solders have caused Rome Improvements to be made. Soldiers found the above Chinese family of three adults and fourteen children living in the hut before wheih they were photographed. The hygienic and sanitary conditions were beyond the soldiers' comprehension.

Quaint Dolls Some very interesting dolls are living in Richmond, and they have lived to a very old age for dolls. They are about seTenty years old, and still they look very much as they did, when people like our grandmothers and grantlfathers ! played with them king ago. They are now living at the homes of several people In Richmond, but the special ones we are to introduce you to, live with a lady who used to admire them very much, when she was a very little girl, and saw them when she went to see her aunties. This lady's name is Miss Gertrude Shute, and she and I the dolls live in the cosiest kind of a little house on Seventeenth street. They were the beloved children of the aunt3 of this lady when those aunts were little girl?. The dolls remember those as great days. For they lived in a fine brick house way out in the country outside of Richmond, and it was so cool and comfortable, and there were so many beautiful things to look at, in this house, that they never grew tired at all. And not all the beautiful things were just to look at, for many beautiful pieces of cloth and lace and feathers were made up, into wonderful costumes for these same fortunate dolls to wear. But the time came when their little mistresses grew so big that they wanted to play in a different way and so these dolls did not get played with every day nor get as many new and splendjd clothes as they used to get. But they did not care so very much, for they were getting older, too, and dolls are probably like people, the older they get, the less often the want to "gad" about. They were still happy because they had a great honor given to them. They were allowed to live in the wonderful, big spare bed room, where only the very most beloved guests were permitted to sleep. Dolls Have a TerriWe Scare One day, though, they were nearly scared out of their aristocratic little selves. They overheard their mistresses (who had quite grown up, by then), say that they might decide to burn the doll3. For several weeks the dolls lived in a state of panic. They had always had a great deal of love and admir ation for the wonderful little French girl, Jeanne d'Arc( but they had no desire to die a Bimilar death) They breathed easier after awhile and no one seemed to carry out the fearful threat "Our mistresses just said that in,

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of Long Ago - Although a human shape I wear, I mother never had; And though, nor sense nor life share, In finest silks I'm clad. By every Miss I'm valued much, Belov'd and highly prized; Yet still my cruel fate ia such By boys I am despised. An Old Charade. fun," they sold to each other, and smiled peacefully. It was not until after their mistresses had grown quite old, an! had died, that the dolls were taken to their new home. They did not mind moving though, even at first, for they did not want to live in ' the great big house without their mistresses, and besides when they found what a comfortable little home was awaiting them, they were almost glad to leave the big spare i room that had grown very lonely i of late. Their trunk was brought along, too only it wasn't a trunk at all. Their clothes were kept in a pretty little basket, and that was what they brought along with them to their new homo. But let us describe these little ladies about whom we have been talking. Some day we hope that they will deign to go to an exhibit and be where you Juniora can see them, for they are so different from most dolls you have seen that you probably connot even imagine what they are. There are three of them, and they range from seven to

Living in Squalid Hut

In Richmond twelve Inches tall. They are very very slender, (sometimes people call it, thin), and their bodies are made of very beautiful kid. Their hands and feet are so tiny that they look like the feet of the Japanese women, whose feet are bound from childhood to make them small, and 1 these are made of wood, and look i as If they had been whittled by a very clever, and very careful person. The heads are of plaster, painted wkh beautiful faces, rosy cheeks and blue eyes, and the curia j are very black. They are probably sisters, for they look very much alike. The dresses are all made by hand and the stitches are bo very fine and straight, that you Juniors would have to try very hard , to make stitches that look like these. These dresses are made with tight little waists, short tight sleeves, and great full skirts. The youngest one is the owner of two wonderful bonnets, too, all fashioned of velvet and straw, and feathers and ribbon, with long streamers, which tie in the back under the fascinat ing little knots into which she has twisted her curls, low on the back of her neck. The medium aged one wears two aprons just as they used to, long ago, oh, no, not at all like our plain little checked gingham aprons which are so good to work and play fn, but fancy ones. The ones this lady wears are taffeta, and dotted net, very fine and dainty, and we can easily guess that those dainty little ladies never stepped their fine little feet into the kitchen, but preferred to lead queenly lives. Just think of all the fun they missed, never once to have made a pie that the family would eat. There is a little French doll too, that lives with Miss Shute, but she is not nearly as old as the other dolls, for she was given to MLsa Shute herself when she was a ittle girl. This stylish little lady has the honor of really coming a pretty little from France, and thing she is. She is all made of china, but smiles just as happily as if she didn't know she was made of something that was easily broken, and is aU dressed in a dress of Brussels lace, which means that it is made of very fine Ut.ce. Her greatest charm is her high coiffure, or head dress of real hair, which is wonderfully curled on top her attractive little head. Her arms can really move, and thi3 was a very unusual thing for dolls when Miss Shute was a little girl, and first received this little maid from Europe.

St. Helena Desires ' Kaiser as Guest St Helena, the island whose specialty is the entertainment of deposed monarch, has good economic reasons for its reported desiro to have the Kaiser for a prisoner,'! says the i iional Geographic Society. "Napoleon was its moat famous and best paying tneut,' though not the only one, Dintzula,1 a Zula king, was a more recent exile; soon thereafter he led a rebellion against the British daring the Transvaal in 1833. While Napo-. loon was at St Helena, 'profiteering' at the expense of the Bonaparte household and the numerous members of the garrison sent u guard him, was reduced to a fine art by the ialaud citizens. "In fact, It was the high cost of St. Helena living which created part of the friction between Napo

leon and the British Governor of the island, Sir Hudson Lowe. Instead of living within the 8,000, allowed for the maintenance of Bonaparte and the half hundred members of his entourage the bills for a year mounted to three times that sum. Upon complaint of the Governor which Napoleon resented, the ex-monarch executed a bit of 'play to the gallaries,' by ordering his silver said and his bed brokciv up for wood, which when reported in England, created so much criticism of the Governor, already nonetoo popular, that farther remonstrances were not made. "Living almost wholly within tworooms and hia garden, Napoleon insisted on all the pomp and ceremony possible in such cramped, quarters. Since his companions necessarily were much in his presence his Insistance upon their standing sometimes brought themi to the point of fainting. Nona might speak unless spoken to and' all became extremely bored "with court life in a shanty involving alt the burdens, without any of tha splendors of a palace.' 'At first the exile rode horseback, but soon abandoned that rather than have an English guard along. His secrasiant fe best attested by tha fact that for five of his six years' stay he did not exchange a word with the Governor; and of the three commissioners Russian, Austrian and French sojourning there by the provisions of a treaty to in sure themselves of his presence' one saw him through a telescope once, a second looked into his face for the first time when he was to be buried .and the third saw him not at alL "Napoleon's days at St. Helena were not wholly devoted to killing time. He dictated his voluminous memoirs, and military commentaries, while a number of his associates later added to these diaries: conversations and memoirs of their, own, inaccurate or deliberately misleading in large part. Now this activity would be called propaganda. It was highly effective propaganda too. Though Napoleon's escape was prevented by vigilence to an absurd degree, and though thoi effect of his winning personality j was guarded against by forbidding; visitors to see him, his writings and those of Montholon and Las Cases resulted a the royalistic; 'fiareback' that put3 Us nephew on the throne In France. It was to Napoleon III that Queen Victoria, presented 'Longwood,' where Napoleon lived and died while at St. Helena. "Geographically St. nelena is peculiarly fitted for an island prison. Its volcanic formation acocunts for a half circle of mountains which, permit only one landing place, that at the island's single port and- city, Jamestown. Uninhabited when discovered ten years after Columbus sailed for America, the island was settled by British, Dutch and Portuguese. In the days of sailing vessels ami before the Suez Canal was. opened the islanders thrived by providing supplies for passing vessels. With the passing of this market for their meat1? and vegetables, the island's principal industries waned and the inhabitants dwindled until; there are now only about 3,500 persons, as compared with twice that many residents thirty years ago. The island belongs to Great Bri-, tain and is administered directly by the Crown."

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