Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 315, 18 October 1919 — Page 13

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SUCTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM

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The Lady in the Dark Cloak Room "All ot a sudden, a golden mellow oice at my elbow made me jump. My friend, the Scat eerow , stood beside mc I glanced hack toward the center Of !li; Ga i-Iv.n k') see jl his linage v;w still standing there " ' iTo, yes! (laid' 11 Lady ! I'm 1 In re at 1 it y post,' he said 'thai is, my linage is. My Keal Sell is here lv von. Ilae ou itoi i il t h ? Lady

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though I did not see her.' 1 " ' I've seen her dimly harden ; Lady, a good many limes. I he-j lieve the fir.-d time was when my; Moon Maiden lirsi left me. 1 hardly j saw her that is er, uh, well. ! she was a sort of shadow, you know 1 as. if the soft evenin..; darkness I had made a dim shap- lor itselt.. And as she eaino, I heard no sound.' coi p! a 111 lie, laintest sort of stir I anion- the Ganbn Children, as ifj they liad all taken a deep breath j and then sent it out. in a taint, faint. sigh. She seemed to come quite: close to me, and I thought I looked : into her e es. Tin y W ere deep j deep ami dark and they seemed j to grow larger and deeper as lj looked, and then to fill with strange 1 lights, with beautiful, blazing stars! and .suns moving through theni.i Then suddenly she stepped past me j toward my pansy bed with a little j nub of cool air, and I thought ll heard a voice that seemed very j close and yet far, far away, sorOof 1 chanting like, you know. j Come, my little ones, my; pretty ones. It is time for sleep - j sleep." ! " ' Then .she stood up, and all at 1 (nice she grew so tall, so grand,

that her bead seemed to tower toward the .sky; and strange to say, j 1 could see right through her. She j was just, a shadow, and all through j the shadowy figure, the stars were:

shining.' "- By Ethel Allen Aim pliy. (To be continued.)

PLEASANT HALLOWE'EN PARTY AT HOME CAN BE ARRANGED WITH LITTLE COST

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Health Crusaders March Along

If you are King to have a Hallowe'en jamboree, there are so many delightful kinds of parties and entertainments that, it is hard to decide just what to do. The ghost party or masquerade, however, is alwavs a favorite and is

I just as appropriate for little folk as jit is for grown-ups. The first thing of importance is, of course, the invitations. Here is a little verse 1 which tan he written on a oorresI pondenee card and with little black J witches pasted on either side it ! makes an attractive invitation to a

Much "Ihusm" is being shown by the boys and girls of the Junior High school in the big national crusade for health. Many new ; crusaders: are being added to the I army of last year. The following girls have become pages sinco tho beginning of the present .semester: j Mary Stevenson, Nellie lavezey, .ella Fisher, Kslel Dunn, Roberta Hahcock, Martha Smith, Frances j Sheppard, ISernice Richards, Alice1: Pickett, Gladys Dunn, Dorothy! Roost, Alva Garrett, Fthcl Everett,! Louise Kmmett, Florence Mills,: Rerniee Ixmgstreth. Dora Macy, i Elizabeth Kenney, Naomi Rrooks, Mary Falcone, Josephine Rartel,1 Martha I'llom, Gertrude Sample, 1 Florence; Falck, Thelma Alhin, j

Kdna Dunham, Gladys Oler, Norma Meloy, Ruth Rrugger, Mae Laymen, Janice Smith, Madeline Rranson. Mabel Gustin.

small girl's or boy's party. The clever young girl 'could probably make up an original verse and paint the witches in the corners. My house is going to be the scene Of a spook parly on Hallowe'en, When Jack O'Ranterns prowl about And skerry goblins shriek and shout. And if you're there from seven to ten I'erhaps you'll see some witchcraft then. Rut surely you'll be taken to tas-k If you don't dress up and wear a mask. - MARY JONES, 21 Blank St.

Junior Writes of Tall Tomato Vine Dear Aunt Roily: Have you ever heard of anybody having a tomato vine growing eight feet, tall? Well, we have, and it, is growing yet. It is at 1Nth and J street, north. We have other vines not so tall, hut have tomatoes weighing a pound

and more. Win. F. S. (Editor's Note: Good for you

Do not. bo surprised if you editor comes down to see that vine, soon.J

Art Club Formed at the Gar Held

Every Thursday afternoon m

Room 0 will meet a group of boys and girls who are interested in sketching and painting and art work of different kinds. Mr. Brown will have (barge of the Juniors who aie especially interested In landscape painting, while Miss Mawhood will be in charge of tho arl craft work. The members of (he club are enthusiastic over their woi

They Do Not Make Beds in Yucatan In Merida, Yucatan, the majority of the people do not use beds, in fact very few of them have ever seen one. They sleep in hammocks, which are swung across the rooms at night and with no fuss of bod-making; the person just goes to bed and is gently rocked to sleep by any passing bree.e. The climate is ko hot that it is only

, i during the months of January and

I eiiruary that a light sheet may be I I 11 uired as covering. ThoHo hammocks are usually made by the mother of the family, and consist of thread, more or less

fine, woven together on great frames with a kind of a shuttle or needle. Homo of the designs are wonderfully intricate and the colors beautifully blended. I saw one very large ono made in tho colors of the United States flag, which was to be sent up to the United States for a gift. It was certainly a work of art, made of the finest mercerized thread; and yet the hammock could easily support a weight of three hundred pounds. A servant always brings his or her own haniock, which in very convenient. Lilly de O. Osborn.

Decorations

The hostess can make most of

her ow n deeorat ions if

take the time. Furniture can he shrouded in sheets and piilowcases, and this is a good way to keep good furniture from the scratches and sticky hands of little folks. Touch es of color can be added by making streamers of orange and black crepe paper and trimming the walls and windows with cut-out witches, cats and pumpkins. The table shown is trimmed in a charming manner with no expense save fifteen cents or so for paper cups. It was done by a woman who lives on a farm arid so she had all of the pumpkins, corn and wheat at hand. She bought the ordinary little paper cups, tied wheat around them and filled them with salted nut and candy. Popcorn can also be used to fill these favors. She used the pumpkins to make pies and to can, the corn was just dried and hanging in the ham, so nothing was lost. This table could he made a little more elaborate by buying a set of paper napl ins and tablecloth to match with pumpkins, and other figures on it. Games. There are a few time honored games that are always indulged in, such as bobbing for apples, throwing apple peelings over your left shoulder to find out tin1 iniiial of your "fate," and playing ghost. Then there i-i the mysterious ghost journey whirl) always amuses the

little tots A leader dressed up like a ghost Ikes the hand of one of the chihlrrn and with all the children clasping hands the ghost, leads them all over the house, through darkened rooms, with queer shapes bobbing up here and there, through gloomy hallways, and so on until tho kiddies are tired and then into a bright room, where everyone is told to hunt for the treasure. Favors, candy or mils are hidden about the room and the one who finds the most gets a prize. Another game is "Dead Ghost." A stick is lighted and the flame extinguished so that only a spark of fire remains. The players pass the stick from hand to hand saying, "Ghost's alive," as long as the spark of fire lasts. The person holding the stick with "Ghost dead'' is penalized by having a daub of charcoal marked on the nose. Any person whose nose is thus marked and who holds "Ghost dead" the (.-eiond time has to drop out of the game. Another game found in an old hook was that of the magic spot. The host marked with chalk a fairly good -si7f(l square upon the car

, pet. The guests again formed a ring and to the music of a hidden

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; dance auoui uie square. 1 in; oiny i trouble was the person who tout h- ! ed the square had to leave the dance. Naturally, there was every ! attempt made, to get the other guest' !lo touc h the magic square and thus (he relegated to the side lines, and jthe game provoked lots of merri

ment. 1 he winner, 01 course, was the last person to avoid touching the square. Ghostly singing is fun, too. Again some one is "it" and stands blind-

i folded in the center of the circle of I ghosts, armed with a long stick. The ghosts circled this person, summing softly some funeral inarch. At the cry "Cease," the j circle stopped revolving. The one j iu the center then extended the j stick till it touched sonic one. The iholder of the stick then conunand- : ed "Warble," and the person touchI cd had to sing. Naturally every attempt was made io disguise the j voice and the results were certainly (all that could be wished in the way : of weirdncss. Again the winner j was the person who was touched ; the least.

Masic Twice Canned Cheers Soldiers You know how hard it seems to be in bed a long, long, time. When you are sick, it seems as if tho clock turns itself back an hour or two when you have your face turned away from it, and you are sure the hours never will pass. People come to see you and bring you good things and there are so many stories to think up- and yet, after all, there are lots of times when you would be tickled to pieces if something would only happen! You don't care what is is -a wild animal circus, or a picnic, or even someone just flying a kite outside of your window. That is the way it is with many of our poor hurt soldiers, who are in the hospitals. Rut you knowwhen things get to looking real dark, and you feel indigo blue, something always happens all of a suddt n that makes the world its same wonderful self again. That's -what happened to tho soldiers in the Walter Rt id hospital in our capital, Wu: hington. And it was the kind hands of the American Red Gross that made the diference. An Aeolian -Vocal ian ( a kind of phonograph) w-as set up in the library of the hospital which has some electrical wires and things and a switchboard (if you do not know what this is, ask your father or mother -it is not a place where spanking switches are kept) fixed on it instead of tire big horn that is usually on a phonograph. To this several transmitters are fixed that look like the receiver of the telephone, connected with things that stir up al lkinds of energy by electricity in the air around the hospital bedrooms. One end of this transmitter the soldier holds in his band as you hold the receiver of a telephone, and the other end is fastened on some metal in the patient's room, as a radiator or a bed spring -and what do you think! Tho sick soldier can hear the music which comes from the library without being carried there by wires, or anything but the energy that the electricity stirred up. Now the soldiers of Walter Reid hospital do not have to lie for hours, trying to figure out whether or not No Man's Land was ever drearier than the space around his cot, for they can hear all sorts of music whenever they want lo. And, music is not the only thing theyp can hear this way, for stories and all the news from the newspapers can be carried to tho sick person in the same way.

The eighth annual dog team race of Alaska was won last year by Siberian wolf dogs. The race course was 412 miles long from Nome to .'audio, Alaska, and return.

A Red Cross tea room operated by eight girls netted $1,400 for Shelby County (Ky.) chapter.

October Days Are Hiking Days

Oh. days and 1 think

Juniors! Talk about Spring being the days that just call all you to play hookey! 1 these are the days that keep

! teasing folks lrom lessons and

desks out into the country or woods. Aren't these wonderful

days for hiking? I went far down I into the woods the other day, and! I was so happy I just wanted to! sing and sing about it all. I did! start to sing, too. but the prettiest blue gray titmouse imaginable ... , . 1 1 : .1 1 1

iuckcu ills oresLcu loan un one sine and looked at me so que erly out of

I his little bright eye; that I stopped.

That seemed lo please him, for what do vim think he did? lie flew

to a tree a little farther away from

me, and began singing "peto, polo, 1 j peto," with all his might. Funny 1 1 : , j 1 . 1 : ...1 1 1 1 ... . .1 . - I

nine nun. jie sn iin'u hi iiiiuei-: stand that he really could sing and! I couldn't, and 1 just sat there andj

listened to him and thought ot a

little verse of heard, that say "I hear you. Shouting a s broken wal

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Fho" louder vet, no 'ong can tell il. all, PinL' to my soul in the deep, still wood : Tis wonderful, 'tis wonderful. Beyond the wildst word:

'Tis wonderful, 'tis wonderful: I'd (ell it too, If I could, if 1 could." It's such fun to gather nuts now, too. 1 wonder how many of you have been nutting. There are lots of black walnuts, and 1 have heard of some Juniors who discovered a grove of white walnut trees near Eaton, Ohio. Isn't it. great to get your hands all dyed a deep yellowish brown, and have everyone look at them and wish they bad been nutting, too? Old Mother Nature feels in a gay mood this lime of year, now that the summer's work is finished. She likes to play all kinds of tricks with folks that Ktart walking out in search of her pots of gold (like the boy who started to go to the end of the rainbow, only in Mother Nature's kingdom, the gold is easier lo find.) She makes the funniest kind ef plaits and tucks and things in shirtwaists and trousers and skirts. Try running as hard as you can through a woody grove and see if she doesn't. Then sit down and as you slowly pick them all out, count how many different kinds of burrs and stickers she used in her sewing. But even that's fun, too! What's Fall without "sticktights?" AUNT TOLLY.