Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 28, 13 December 1919 — Page 13

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM The Junior Palladium is the children's section of the Richmond Palladium, founded May . 1818, and issued each Saturday afternoon. All boys and girls are invited to be reporters and contributors. News 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 personally as they bring tbeir articles to The Palladium office, or to re-

reive letters aaaressea to tne junior Editor. This is your little news

paper ana we nope eacn ooy ana giri The Elephant The elephants lire in India and Africa. Elephants are the largest existing land animals. The ordinary height at the shoulder is eight feet, but sometimes exceeds ten feet. The elephants' weight is about five tons, the body being very bulky in proportion to it's height. To sustain this weight it is furnished with limbs of colossal thickness and strength, which are so remarkably straight each bone resting vertically on that beneath it. Of the appearance of inflexibility presented by the limbs, arose the notion prevalent among the ancients, and throughout the middle ages, that the limbs are destitute of joints, and that consequently an elephant cannot lie and rest like any other quadruped, and if it were to lie down it could not arise again, but always sleeps standing or lean ing against a tree or a rock, against which it may have been rubbing itself. The flexibility of the limbs however are sufficient to permit the elephant to run with the speed and ability of a horse. To indulge the playful gambols, and to ascend and descend steep mountains, elep hants are more sure footed than either horses or mules. On the very steepest declines an elephant can work his way down rapidly, even with a howdah and its occupants on his back. The head of the elephant is large, the neck is short and thick, the long flexible proboscis compensating both for the shortness of the neck, and fot the flexibility cause by the largely developed process of its vertabra, enabling the animal readily to objects on the ground, or to height of several feet above its head or on either side. The ears are long and flappy. An elephant has a good memory, as at one time there was a trainer who was given a cocoanut and he hit the elephant on the head and broke it open and injured the elephant, I and a few days later the elephant was passing some cocoanuts and picked up one of the cocoanuts and hit his trainer on the head and killed him on the spot. Norman Pilgrim, St. John's School. Good Morning Good morning brother sunshine, Good morning sister song; I beg your humble pardon, If you've waited very long, I thought I heard you rapping, To shut you out were sin My heart is standing open, Won't you walk right in? Good morning brother gladness, Good morning sister smile; They told me you were coming, So I waited a while. I'm lonesome here without you, A weary while it's been My heart is standing open. Won't you walk right in? Good morning brother kindness, Good morning sister cheer, I heard you were calling, So I waited for you here. Some way I kept forgetting, I have to toil and spin When you are my companions, Won't you w.'.lk right in? Send in by Raymond Henley, 3B grade, Warner School. , Hen Thanksgiving Day Came About We learn it all in history, You didn't think I knew; Why, don't you suppose I My lessons? 'Course I do! study The Pilgrim Fathers did it. a They made Thanksgiving day. Why? Oh, I don't remember, The history doesn't say. Or p'rhaps, I wasn't listening. When she was telling why, ' But if the Pilgrim mothers Were busy making pies I s'pose they couldn't bother, And so that was the why, It hapened that the Fathers Made our Thanksgiving day. Elizabeth Peacock.

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wiu use It thoroughly. Jack in the Pulpit Jack in the pulpit, Preaches today, Under the green trees Just over the way. Squirrel and song-sparrow, High on their perch. Hear the sweet lily-bells Ringing to church. Come hear what his reverence Rises to say, In his low, painted pulpit This calm. Sabbath day. Meek-faced anem ones, Drooping and sad, Great yellow violets Smiling out glad; Beaming and bright, Clovers with bonnets, Some red and some white; Daisies, their white fingers Half-clasped in prayer; Dandelions, proud of The gold of their hair; Innocents, children Guileless and frail, Meek little faces Up-turned and pale; Wild wood geraniumns, All in their best, Languidly leaning, In purple gause dressed. All are assembled This sweet Sabbath day, To hear what the priest In his pulpit will say. So much for the preacher; The sermon comes next Shall we tell how he preaches it And where's his text? Alas! like too many Grown folks who play, At worship in churches Man-builded today We heard not the "preacher Expound or discuss; But we looked at the people, And they looked at us. We all "saw their dresses t Their colors and shapes; The trim of their bonnets, The cut of their capes. We heard the wind organ The bee and the bird, But Jack in the Pulpit We heard not a word. Melva Hoffman, 5B grade, Sevastopal School. WHAT DO WE PLANT? What do we plant when we plant the tree? A thousand things that we daily see; We plant the spire that out-towers the crag, We plant the staff for our country's flag. We plant the shade from tne not sun free: We want all these when we plant a tree. Sent in by Louise Weaver, grade 4B, Warner School. OCTOBER GREETINGS Leaves all green and gold and brown. Softly, slowly, fluttering down; Skies as blue as baby's eyes, When they open with suprise; Golden rod a-whispering bends Where the lazy . river wends Over all a drowsy haze, These dear Indian summer days. Sent in by Ethel Godsey, Warner School. The Clown and the Countryman At a country fair there was a clown that made a noise so much like a pig's squeal that he fooled the people. But a countryman called out, "That does not sound like a pig's squeal. Tomorrow I shall show you what a pig's squeal is like." The people laughed at him, but the next day he came back, put his head down and pretended to squeal. At once the people called out "That does not sound like a pig!" "Ha, ha, ha," laughed the countryman, holding out a little pig which had been hiding behind him, "You do not know a pig's squeal when you hear It!" Ross Toney, grade 4B, Secastopol school.

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Like Raisins? Here It Their Story Raisins are dried grapes. The grapes grow in clusters. They have a very sweet, sugary taste. They are grown in temperate and tropical climates. The best varieties come from Spain, such as the Malagas, and from Turkey, the Symaraa. California, also furnish es large qualities of raisons. Raisins are prepared in two different methods. The method con sists in partially cutting through the stock of the ripened bunches, and allowing them to shrink and dry upon the vines by the beat of the sun. They are by far the better sort, and are called risins of the sun, or Muscatels. Malaga Is much cele brated for its sun raisins, which are the finest In the world. These riasins prepared by the other methods are called Leilas, and are gathered and hung on lines, or laid on prepared floors to dry in the sun. When dried they are dipped into hot lye, made by dissolving the alkali from wood ashes, or barilla with water until the filtered fluid has a specific gravity of 1,100 to this is added, four gallons, a pint of olive oil and a quarter of pound of salt. After dipping the fruit is laid oa hurdles of wicker work to drain and are continually exposed to the sun for a fortnight The raisins are then pulled. from the stalks, and packed into boxes for transport to other countries. The qualities best known in the markets are Valenclas and Demas, from Spain. Malagas from -Malaga, and black Symranas and Sultanas from Asiatic Turkey. Raisins are used in cooking and baking. Also eaten in desert, and often used in medicine. Hilbeit Hirschfield, St. John's school. RIDDLES 1. What is the biggest state in the Union? T. D. M. 2. Upon a hill there is a house. In this house there is a table. On this table there is an Indian head. John Barker, 6B. 3. I know of an animal; it's home is in the jungles of Africa and Australia. It is larger than a horse. It is the largest animal living on the earth. Its skin is a very good gray and. full of wrinkles. It is seen at circuses. Most of them are very tame. It has a large trunk which it picks up its food with. Its ears are very large. Its tail is short. Its legs are as large as a moderate sized tree. What is it? Floyd Williams, ajce 11 years. 4. Girls' Names. The letters of these names are all mixed up. Can you straighten them out? Neleh, Yarm. Uolsi.e Tuhr Liveo, Ezeha, Derlimd, Heltnia, Sieel. (Answers will appear in next week's Junior.) H. B. ANEWERS TO LAST WEEK'S RIDDLES For Adams Express Company Needle. Mistletoe. 1. 2. 3. 4. Elliptical (a lip tickle). Madeline Branson. THE DAISIES The dear little daisies, The little white praises! They grow end they blow And they spread out their crown, And they praise the sun. And when he goes down, Their praising is done; And they fold up their crown, And they sleep, every one. When over the plain He's shining amain, They're at it again, Such low songs raising That no one hears them But the sun who rears them. Sent in by Elizabeth Toney, 4B grade, Sevastopol School. ' OFF AGAIN Twinkle, twinkle, lktle star Riding in a trolley car, Trolley car went off the track. Wish I had my nickel back! H.B. OUR THANK YOU The following Juniors sent in stories and poems which, we are sorry to say. we are unable to publish because they are duplicates of poems already published in The Junior, or because they were incomplete, or because they are already familiar to Junior readers: Charles James, 4A, Warner; Mary R. Decker, 4B, Warner; Violet Mae Winters. SB, Warner; and Laura Marlow. 4A, Warner, and Virginia Rhoades, 4A, Warner.

A Happy Stumble There once lived a man who had six children, and a wife to support, and they were very poor. A rich man lived next door to them who

had one son and his wife to support, The rich man had a son who was saved by one of the poor man's, son's, from being run over. The rich man wanted to give the poor man a better home and some money for a reward. But the noor man refused. Thanksgiving was near, and the noor man man had no money to buy anything. Thanksgiving morning the poor man's wife was going oat to feed the chickens, and she stumbled over a basket She took it In the house and took the things out There was a turkey, fruit, potatoes, candr. nuts, and a lot more good thlnrs to eat In the bottom of the basket was an envelope with five thousand dollars in it and letter that said he should come and live in one of his houses. The poor man went to thank him, and lived In the house with his family ever after. Roland Fuue, years of age. grade 4. St. John's School - HE DIDNT UNDERSTAND There was once a king of Prus sia who had a regiment of very tall soldiers of which he was very croud. Whenever a new nian Joined his regiment the king used to ask him three questions, usual ly in the same order. He would ask, "How old are you, my man?' Then he would ask, "How long have you been in my service?" Last of all he would ask, "Are you quite satisfied with your food and quarters?" A Frenchman who knew no German once wanted to enlist in the regiment His officer said to him, "When the king asks you how old you are. you must say, thirty years! When .he. asks you how long you have been in the service. you must say 'three weeks' and when he asks is you satisfied with your food and quarters, you must say, 'both . - . The Frenchman learned to say these three sentences in German, just. as a parrot would say them, without understanding tin q-ies t ions to which they were the ans wers. One day the king came and beckoned to him and said, I haven't seen you before, my man, How long have you been in My service?" He did not understand a word but gave the first answer he had been taught, "Thirty years." "What?" cried the king, "How old are you then?" "Three weeks." "What?" thundered the kins in a fury. "Are you crazy or am I?" "Both" answered the Frenchman, JUNIOR JOKES Getting married is like playing cards. It depends on what kind and a hand to hold whether you win any money or not. Kastus: Hab yo any medicine ! dat will purify de blood? iern: its, we Keep aareapariila at $1.00 a bottle. It purifies the blood and clears the complexion. Rastus: Well has yo all sumptin fo bout 50c jes fo de blood? I don't keer bout de complexion. Don't stone your neighbor but you may rock the baby. Farmer Hey there, how came you to be up in my apple tree? Boy Please, mister, I just fell out of an airplane. London Opinion. It is just as un-American to vote against a man because he is rich as to vote against him because he is poor. Theodore Roosevelt "Mr. Smith," said a lady at a church festival, "won't you buy a

bouquet to present to the lady youjium office.

love?" "That wouldn't be right." replied j Mr. Smith, "I am a married man, Isaac: So you was in dot theater I . i ' ii m i i , - , i its l mgiii, ounauuu, vai uiu you see? Jacob: Dot morchant von Venice. Isaac: Dot morchant von Ven ice! Dell me, Schacob, did day get off dot old chestnut about a pound of flish? Jacob: You pet! Dey got off dot same old gag about a pound of meat choost off der heart pone. Dear Aunt Polly: I hope you can understand this joke, because of iM being Irish. Your friend, John Barker

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Dolly Learnt Abozt . ThsAsgiving Day 111 tell you about It my darling, For grandma explained It all: So that I understand why Thanksgiving , - '' Always comes late In the fall. When the nuts and apples art gathered, And the work In the field Is done. And the fields all reaped and silent. Are asleep in the autumn sun. It Is then that we praise our Father . Who sends the rain and the dew; Whose wonderful loving kindness Is every morning new, Unless we'd be heathen, Dolly, Or worse, we must sing and pray. And think about the good things, Dolly, When we keep Thanksgiving day. But I like It very much better When from church we all go home, And the married brothers and sisters, . And troops of cousins come; And we're ever so long at the table. And dance and shout and play In the merry evening, Dolly, That ends Thanksgiving day. Selected by Marguerite Burbauck. Robin Red Breast Good-bye, good-bye to summer! The summers nearly done; The garden smiling faintly, Cool breezes in the sun; , Our thrushes now. are silent Our swallows flown' away; And robin's here in coat of brown, No scarlet breast so gay. Robin, robin, redbreast O robin, robin dear! . Robin singing sweetly In the falling of tbe year. Bright yellow, red and orange, The leaves come down in hosts, The trees are Indian princes, ' But soon they'll turn to ghosts. Sent in by Freda Moran, age II years. Finley school, gradt 5B. . GLAD THANKSGIVING Once upon a time there was I little girl who was poor, and one that was rich. And the poor girl did not have anything for Thanks giving dinner. So the little ricb girl went up town with her mothet and they saw the little poor girt. When the rich girl got home she asked' her mother if she could buy the little poor girl a turkey and her mother said yes, and she went up town the next day and bought the turkey for the little poor girl. When she took it over there her face brightened up and she went home. The poor girl's mother cooked it and they, had a nice Thanksgiving dinner and they lived happily ever after. By Elizabeth. EXCHANGE COLUMN Open to All Boys and Girls. These Ads Cost You Nothing; 8end In Your "Wants" to The Palladium Junior. FOR SALE Airplanes, will deliver but not out of town. Will take orders, Call 915 North G. street. WANTED Boyr to Join the Lone Scouts of America. Application free. Inquire, 1215 South C st FOR SALE A Plaid Mackinaw that will fit a boy about 10 to 13 yrs. of age. Just as good as new. For half price, $3.00. See John Sudhoff, 222 So. 8th street. FOR SALE Erector model building set No. 4; good as new. Call 222 N. 5th. LOST Bag for money. Lost in the Palladium office or near it. If found return to the Junior Pallad- . WANTED 32 boys for a club. Leoline K. Training is given too. 915 North G. Street WANTED Position of taking care of babies and small children after school, evenings, Saturdays and Sundays. Phone 2S2S. FOR SALE Buff Cochin Bantams, young and old stock. Call 711 Southwest A St., or Phone 4813. FOR SALE A flexible coaster sled; average size; just as good as new. for 12.00. Se John Sudhoff. 222 South Eighth street FOR SALE Mated eons. Phone 3088. Homing pig-