Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 5, 15 November 1919 — Page 13
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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM The Junior Palladium Is (hp children's section of the Richmond Palladium, founded May C. 1K1C, and issued each Saturday aficrnoon. All boys and elrls are invited to he reporters and contributors. News Items, social events, "want" advei lisenienlH, Mories, local jokes and original poems are acceptable and will bo published. Articles should he written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author's name and ago signed. Aunt Polly is always glad to meet the children personally as they bring their articles to The Palladium office, or to receive, letters addressed to the Junior Editor. This Is your little newspaper and we hope each boy and girl will use It thoroughly.
ADVENTURES THAT MADEAN-AMERICAN With the Rural Mail Man liy U. S Al .-rainier ''I icy! Stop him! Stop him'" Hunting Eye heard this cry behind him. Looking hack he saw a horse limning along the road toward him. After it ran a man. lie hid in the hushes by the roadside and when the horse came past leaped out and by hanging to the bridle stopped it. "That's lucky man coming up. for me," said the "if he'il gone much had mail scattered luriln i I'd have all over the road, (lot in. I'll give vein a ride." "Who are you"" asked th" Indian Hoy. "i in the rural mail carier mi see h- town hack there has a post ollicc. The whole country is cli:ld into districts and about the middle of each (list ric.t is a town with a post ollicc. Each district is divided into rural delivery routes. The route stalls uliice and goes out from the post one road to ihe then comes cud hack by another road, goes over each of thei:e a day. I le delivers to the mail addressed to carries back to the post A carrier routes once the farmers them and Ollke the mail they wish to send." "Letters aren't always thai big.! i are ihoy?" asked Hunting Eye. "No, we carry small packages well as letters. The carrying thcin is called Parcel Post. A tcr below a certain weight will as : of el-j be , carried anywhere in the l'nit'd Slates lor the same price. Put for' the carrying of parcels the country' is divided into zone's and it costs more to send a pit reel le it distant ; one than to one not so far away." Put the carrier had now come' to the end of his route and llunlingj Eve h'iirned no more about the mail service that dav. CtlK'NfionM 1. What department of tie erncieiil runs (In- neiil svsti-m Z Wlei is at the head ef t!i pai l riipnt '.' ,1. lluw is t,c appoint.!:!'.' 4. I lew is your Ji'iin l.'il " .r. What is his t t; How nri tie' Imseii V 7. What is t!i: I'.o.k '.' liiiys' an, I CJirls' NY '"pyrit;ht, lt'lil, l p,)Sl master aprir, of letter 1 1 f f i e " c;i rncrs Postal Savin; wspap" y J It r X'Tvi Millar The Red Eyed Spook One night, when my mother and I were alone Pitting in our front room, my mother sent me to the kitchen to ge-t something. There was no light out there, but there was a fire: in the cook stove and a window across from the stove. As I passed the window I saw two red eyes and a red nose looking at me. 1 screamed for mother, and she; came and looked, and saw it was the shadow from the draft holes being left open in the stove door. I was afraid to go in the kitchen tor a long time. Mary Decker, II! Warier School.
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The Working Mosses Uy Ad :tla He-lie Heard The re seems to be a good deal of moss of one kind or another scattered around, and wh( n we come to think about it we naturally wonder why. Moss on the trees, moss on the ground, moss on rocks, in bogs, and on the water. It grows along the roadside and de( p in the woods. It is wonderfully pretty and interesting stuff in spite of the dry and difficult names botanists have given to different varieties. Some of it is like miniature forests of liny plm ;md evergreen trees, sonic like vines and terns and oiln r kinds bear small, flower like crests of brilliant colors. Often it is dry and springy, deep and soft, and in the shady woods it makes a fine matin s. or cushion for a tired boy or girl to rest on; but it you think it has no other i: -;c than that you are greatly mistaken. Mouses are among the most industrious ef nature's skilled work-j crs, and they never ask lor a vacation. Everything is busy in the well ordered world of out-of-doors, and it is the mosses' part to help to keep this earth in good repair and i fit for us to live on. What is used! up must be replaced and the: mosses are tremendously busy i ! making n vv roil. They work in various ways, i When (hey collect passes front" the I air to sen! down into tie- ground, j and when tliey draw lime-solutions from water to distribute in places j where they are needed, they use j chemical methods; but they use j actual force when they pry off par-j tiiles from hard rocks to add lo trio bits oi earth, dust, and leafy refuse gathered and held by their closely massed foliage and roots. Saprophytic mosses that grow on decaying logs take from the dead wood and give back to the soil ingredients which (lie trees, when alive, absorbed from the soil. Other mosses till in and Duiul up marsiiy CQO CV3rt NO o places. i rger plants. They arc all workers, you see. Won't it be worth while' to find out metre about them? I!.vs' ami Girls' Newspaper Service Oopyriptit, K'l!!, by J. II. M"!ar Two Dears Once uion a time there was a txiy, and his mother told him te slay home, und he told her that hewould, and he took his gun and went hunting, and he saw a bear, and he shot the little boar, and the big bear saw the boy climb a tree, and he climbed, anil be dropped his gun, and the bear picked it up ami took the wrong side and killed himself, and he got home and showed her the two bears and they had a fin supper, and that was the t nil. Ifcile Horr, gr:ide uA, Warner School.
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An Old Street Lamp Tor many years the old si reel lamp on the corner bad burned
brighlly. No matter how stormy j or w indy it was, it never went out. i The lamplighter bad been a young j nuin when the lamp was put Up. j They both bad grown old together, j Tomorrow a new lamp was to be put up. On the last night the old . lamp only burned the brighter. The next night the lamp found, itse lf by a warm fire-side. The old ( lamplighter had brought it home, with him. At first he liked it.s new home. Hut after awhile it i longed for the noise of the street. One day, the wife said, "Today is his birthday." So she polished the lamp until it Phone, lit it, and placed It just outside the door. That night, the old man came home!, and he was ve-ry much surpri.sed to see the lamp burning on the doorstep. When the old man had gone in the lamp said, "I have made him happy." So the lamp lived with the lamplighter as long as the y lived.-- Naomi Osborne, 415 grade, IUxtor School. Happy Jack Something was wrong with happy Jack Squirrel. There was no doubt about it. Something was very wrong with happy Jack! He was racing up and clown the old chestnut tree -now in it, now out, now running around it, and all the time scolding as fast as his tongue could go. His grew angrier and angrier, and then all at once he sat down in his doorway, buried his face in his hands, and began to cry. "lioo, boo, tioo!" sobbed happy Jack Squirrel. Just then along came Ch,-! Merer, the rod squirrel, who is own cousin to happy Jack, the prey squirrel. Chatleier is a mischief maker. He likes lo see other people in trouble. As soon as' he: saw happy Jack sitting in bisj doorway crying, ho put his hands! on bis hips, ran out his tongue at happy Jack, and ran away. -Thelnia Canan, Warner School, MORNING Robert Browning. The year's fit the spring And the day's at the morn; Jdorning's at seven; The hillside's eiew-pearle-d ; The larks em the wing; The- snail's em the theirn; Cod's in his Heaven -All's right with the world! Sent in by Viedet Winter: grade, Warner School. CAME IN WITH PANTS "I am an American born," ON said man to a loreign born. "True," said the foreign born, "but 1 really have more- right to be proud of my Americanism than you." "How's that?" said the American liorn. "You came1 hero naked, and I came with my pants on," the either replied Selected: Madeline Pranson. STORIES PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF HEARING "Oh. no, I wouldn't listen to any one talking on our party wire." I enjoyed your sermon so much "If I can't s.iy about anybody, I thing." anything don't say good anyI too always largo." wear my -.hoe: size 'Why, you don't look as old as that! -Madeline Pranson. THE SAILOR'S MOTHER Plow high, blow low, Plow east, blow west. The wind that blows my boy to That wind is best! 'lie Plow high, blow low, Plow warm, blow cold O wind, you are- so strong and free Plow my dear lad again tei me, Pefore I am too old. - Sent in by Ethel Oodsoy A SMART STUDENT "Annette, my dear, what renin try is opposite to us on the globe?" asked a teacher. "Don't know, sir," "Well now," continued the teai'her, "if I were to go in at this end, where would I come out?" "Out of the hole, sir," replied the pupil, with an air of triumph at having solved the great question.
For Girls toMake ) Gardening in Frosty Weather I5y Cvuljn Shcrwln liailoy Time isn't any reason why the house need be hare of flowers and green because frost flies outside. Almost any plant will be beautiful in your home if you only nurse it. Box and Pots Needed, A window box for that southern window of the living room will be company for you all winter. A long wooden box painted green, or white with preen banding will do. Have your brother make a drainage ian for it and fasten it on brackets to the sill. A layer of coarse gravel in the bottom of the box will help the drainage and the earth should be mixed with fertilizer. I 1 1 ill1,, 'li mm Ordinary flower pots are better for growing plants than a fancy jar. These should always have saucers underneath and you can dres them up in green crepe paper for everyday, orange at Thanksgiving, and crimson at the holidays. Your Indoor Plantirrj. Put slips of red, white and pink geraniums in your window box, or shoots of lovely pink begonia. Set out small, hardy woods tern, myrtle, ivy, or inch plant from the garden for a border. These will need coddling at first, plenty of water, not too much sun until they are started, and trimming so that all the strength of the slips wil not go into the haves and prevent blossoming. Some Odd House Greens A long box of cement or terracotta that fits the mantelpiece will be beautiful filled with trailing ivy. Among the ivy roots stick branches of bayberry, bitter-sweet berries, mountain ash, or black alder with its red berries. These will keep bright and fresh a long time. ('berry, pear, apple, and lilac twigs will burst into leaves and flowers in a vase of water in the house. Sprays of evergreen, such as white pine, the creeping pine, ami hemlock with its tiny cones make lovely winter decorations if you, i;eep them in a vase of fresh vfiter. Keys' nn.l ft iris' Newspaper Kervk e','pyro:ht. IS 1 9, t.y .1. It. Millar RIDDLE. sits the lord mayor; sit his twe nicm; sits the cock; sits the hen; sit the little chickens; they run in chinchopper. Here Here I fere Here' Here Here chinc hopper, chinchopper. ehin. : A Warner Junior, next week's Junior.) (Answer in l What goes around a button? A billy "goat. --Thelrna Ellis, Milton, Indiana. What is that which every one can divide, and no one t an see where- It is elivideeld ? - Mary Jane Schillinger. THE GOOD FAIRY W1i.it do you thing was in tho garden? It was a big pumpkin. Tom wished to make a pumpkin of it Mary wanted pumpkin pie. What did meithe r do? She said i she would be a gtioel fairv and grant both wishes. How do ou think she did it? ; Dinner time- came, and on the table wiis a pie. and in the window stood a lantern. How the children laughed to see them.- Floyd Williams. Warner School, 123 N. Third St., age 11. j
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A Code of Manners for Bool l!y Isabel W. Clayton Francis W. raj Jut School Just an there is a code of manners of behavior, there la one tot books. Io you know and use It? Do not hurriedly open a now hook. Instead, lay it on a table off flat surface, grasp the pages in on , hand and with thei other gently ' push the covers down. Then press j a fi'w leaves down, first in the ! front of the book and then in tho back- lo this until all have beetv pressed down. This softens thab.'ick and prevents it from breaking. Never use anything thicker than, a piece of paper for a bookmark I ht not turn the book over on ita face; do not turn a leaf down or place a pencil or pencil mark in the book to mark the place. Keep your books clean. Do not touch them when your hands are soiled. Do not turn the pages with a moistened thumb. It leaves a mark which is hard to remove. When the cover has become soiled, clean it with finely powdered pumice stone rubbed in with a soft cloth. Soiled pages may hi' cleaned with the pumice stone or with art gum. If a leaf is torn, cut a piece of thin onion skin paper one half inch wide and the length of the tear and apply it by means of a good library paste to the tear. Put a piece of oiled paper under the page when mending so that no paste will get through to the next page. If a page comes out, make a hinge of a good brand of paper one inch wide and the length of the page. Told tho pape'r lengthwisePut library paste on one half of the foldenl paper and apply to loose page. Pe sure that the folded edge of the paper is next to the inner edge of the page. Then paste the other side in book. See that the page is put in evenly. If it protrudes beyond the other pages trim neatly. Povs' Hnr Girls' NYwspipor Kerviee Copyright. 1!1J. by J. It. Millar EXCHANGE COLUMN Open to All Boys and Girls. These Ad Cost You Nothing; Send In Yotir "Wants' i" to Thoj Palladium Junior. WANTED Boyr 10 join the Lone Scouts of America. Application free. Inquire, 1216 South C st. FOR SALE Home-made canoe; phone 1580 or call 1129 East Main after school or on Saturdays. POST Child's velvet pocket book, with eighty-five cents. Please- reiturn to No. 128 Randolph St. Reward. FOR SALE males, Hoc. S. 13th St. Pups; males, 7.rc, fe(iertrude Dixon, C22 Phone 23G5. WANTED A Pantatn rooster. Write to H. O. Johnson, Losanlsville, Ind., or call Palladium ofiiee. FOR SALE--A fine mammoth bronze turkey, male. Write II. O. Johnson, Lo.santsville, Indiana. FOR SALE Puff Cochin Bantams, young and old stock. Call 711 S. W. A St., or Phone 4313.