Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 45, 3 January 1920 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY, JANUARY 3. 19'M Boys & Girls ! Read How to Make and Do Useful Tilings i

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Handicraft A BURNT-WOOD BOOKSTAND By Grant M. Hyde Here's something to make for father, a convenient stand to hold the books on his table or desk. The carpentry of the bookstand is simple, but must be carefully done; the hardest work is the decorating. Secure at the lumber yard a good aak or birch board, dressed on both , ,iAo,a i.st in thick, at least 7 in. wide, and at least 42 in. long. The bottom of the stand (A) should be ibout 7x18 in., carefully planed on ,n Hppa and smoothed with sand aper. The grooves to hotd the mih.tiWm fB and C) snouia oe "n. from its ends, 7-8 in. wide and sunk 3-8 In. Cut them with a fine 49ptit saw and a sharp chisel.As Q and C will be made from the same board, lay out the work as mown in the plan and cut the Tooves as well as the tops of B ind C before the end pieces are iawed off. This will avoid split ting. . . After B and C are shaped, sawed off, and finished with sandpaper, iketch your proposed decorations on their exposed sides, and burn he design into them with a red-hot nail, as described later. Then Jaeten them Into the grooves with jlue or with countersunk screws Jjrough A. Then finish, either with two coats of varnish, or bet- . ter with "a coat of shellac and a horoueh waxing with floor wax ' nibbed in and polished. How to Make Burning Awls For 6uch burnt-wood decorations, is well as for burning holes in mall work, you can easily make a et of burning awls, securing varius sizes by using nails of different izes, as follows: Cut about 4 in. rom the handle of an old broom, vhittle one end down to a tapered nd. Then file off the nail head .nd shape it into afairly sharp oint. The awls should range rom ingle nails to spikes. To ise them,, heat the nail-point redot on the gas stove. For this lecorating work, use two awls, .eeping one in the flame while 'ou use the other, for they will ool rapidly. Practice on" some vaste wood before you begin on the ook stand. toys' and Girls' Newspaper Service Copywrlght. 1919, by J. H, Millar Woodcraft For Boy and Girl Scouts TRAILING. - By Elizabeth Mateer Trailing Is something like the ame of Hare and Hounds-, only astly more exciting, for, instead f scraps of paper to follow, you lave the tracks of wild creatures. Vnd when .you discover that the racks tell a story and that youcan ead the , story, you Immediately vnd emphatically decide that trailng outclasses any mere game and hat of all the different parts of voodcraft, it Is the most interest-ng-la learning to read the strange ales aright, you really become a letective of the wild, and the more ractice you have, the longer the tories . grow, because there are a lumber of things about tracks that ou do not see In the beginning. At flrat you have to (ire your mind

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wheather they are fresh or old, whether the animal was running fast or traveling at his-usual gait If going at full speed, there will probably be tracks of a pursuer close behind. In that case, you will generally find at the end signs of a struggle which did not end happily for the hunted animal. It is much easier to follow the trail when the ground is covered with snow soft enough to take footprints clearly, but mud will show them and so will sand and dust. You can sometimes find deer, tracks along a dusty road Even near a big city, bits of country may be reached in a short time where you can find tracks of some kind of wild creatures. They may be rabbit tracks, three toed and in close cluster which show the deep impressions of long jumps or a weasle's narrow tracks, or the deli cate footprints of the meadow mouse and his relatives. Remember that a deer track reseniles mat or a cow but is very much smaller; a fox track is like a dog's with often the imprint of hairs between the toes. Mice and squirrel tracks look much alike, only the squirrel's are a good deal larger. Boy and Girls' Newspaper Service Copywrlght, 1919, by J. II, Millar Ned Finds the Sunken Treasure "Mother, do you really suppose that's true,-what the Cubans say about that treasure?" asked Fred of his mother. Ned was in Cuba He lived :with his mother and father. His name was Ned Danney. His chum's name was Fred Cook. His other chum was Billy Berry. Their father's were sailors in the U. S. Navy. They belonged to the battle ship TTexas. The three families tie ship Texas. The three families all 16 years old. "I propose a swim," said Ned 'I agree," said Bill., "When do you suppose our fathers will be home," said Fred, as they walked toward the water, "Ouch! ouch! shouted Ned, "what's up. got the cramps?" said Fred. "No but I struck a stone." "Let's get it at low tide for our dam," said Billy. All right they agreed. "Say fellows look under here," cried Fred. Look there's an iron box. "Oh, too bad! here comes the tide, we will have to go back." said Ned. "Put the stone over the hole," said Bill, When the boys got home they forgot the -queer stone for their fathers were home on furlough. After they went to watch them off, they thought they ought to have a swim, then they remembered about the stone. "Well said Fred, gloomily, the tide had Just came in, we will have to wait." Father said that we were to go back to the States," said Billy. "There goes the tide, now for the rock," they cried. Look in here at the gold bars, I wonder how many boxes there are," cried Billy. "Get a spade, they won't come unless you do," said Fred. "At last, here it is," they cried. "Let's tell our mother's," said Bill. "Guess what we have, mother." " A pup?" "No", "a cat?" No" "I give up." "Look! we have found the treasure," they cried. Now we will be rich and settle down. Marian Hodgin, Joseph Moore,

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Answered Jto Boys A WORKER IN CONCRETE By R. S. Alexander "Gee! Thai'B a big bridge they are building, Uncle Harry." "Yes, Bob, and Its all concrete, too. A lot of that kind are being built now." "Who's that busy guy up there running the job?" "That's Brick Young, a fellow I went to high school with. He's a concrete expert. Works on jobs like - this all the time. In high school, he was a shark at Mathematics and Chemistry and he liked to build things. Was always figuring out how to build houses and such stuff. "After he graduated from high, he wont to a technical school to get his training as an architect. There he got interested in concrete. Reeinforced concrete was just then coming pretty extensively into use in construction work. So he sped-1 alized in the study of that kind of J construction. After he graduated he got a job for a while as an in-i spector for one of the large cities j on a Dig concrete joo it was navmgj done. Then he worked for a time in the testing department of the big cement manufacturing company. "Later he got into this kind of work and Is now the Chief of Oper ations for the Mills Construction ; r it- i : . u , : .. .:.! u. iik claims mure is a uig chance in the concrete construction ; game for a young man; because concrete is being used more and more in construction work." "Gee Uncle Henry, you've got me interested." "Well, if you want to read up on it, there are a "::"L books you can get. A couple that you might begin on are: 'Popular Handbook for Cement and concrete Users,' by M. H. Lewis, 'Cement and how to Use It, by W. A. Radford, and 'Elementary Principals of Reenforced concrete, by Andrews. 'Concrete' published by the Concrete Publishing Co., of Detroit, is a magizine that mlsht be worth reading. I was talking 1 with Brick last night and he told i me they were good books to give I one a general idea of the subject." Boys' and Girls' Newspapfr Copywrlght, 1919, by J. H, Service Millar For Girls to M&ke uf r 1 iumecraib w MAKE YOUR OWN BED QUILT By Carolyn Sherwln Bailey Snow flying, frost pinching, and coal scarce! Who cares? The very best thing for your health is to sleep with your windows open, and the heat turned off. You will enjoy it if you have plenty of covers. Why hot make your own bed quilt? The Patched Quilt The diamond and the box patterns are the most attractive to use and they will be the closest immitation of the old fashioned quilt, so scarce now, and so vauable. The diamond patch is made by first cutting a paper pattern of a geometric diamond figure the size that you wish. Then cut your cloth by this pattern in patches of contrasting colors. Plain blue and white and pink, and white will be pretty. Sew the diamonds together on the wrong

side with the small over and over stitches. The box pattern is made by combinding diamond patches in threes so as to make the geometric box figure. Then sew the boxes together as you did the diamonds. The quilt, plain lining first, then a layer of cotton batting, and last the patched top, is fartened to quilting frames. Then invite your girl friends to an old fashioned

miiltlnir hoe. with biscuits. Die and uougnnuts ror supper: A Chintz Comfortable If you can use a sewing machine, you can make a soft dainry quilt for your own room to match the , curtains. Stitch Chintz in a gay : pattern so as to make a large, bag shaped covering the right size for your bed. Then stitch it on the machine up and down its length, leaving a space of About six inches between the rows. Gather all the soft, old material that you can find for stuffing it, cotton old stockings old linen, scraps of silk, or ravelings of yarn. An old sweater, ravelled, is splerdid. Fill the spaces in the quilt between the rows of stitching with this material, and finish it by binding the edges with plain cambric or ribbon to contrast with the colors of the chintz. Boys' and Girla' Newspaper Copywrlght, 1919, by J. II, .Service Millar Young Citizens 37 Adventures L A. III By IX. S. Alexander The . school bell was ringing as Hunting Eye came up. Several children were running into the school house. Huntine Eve foliowed them and sat down in the ' back of the room. At first, all the pupils and the teacher look, d at j'ni curiously. Soon hov ;! their strangeness wore off and, j presently, one offered him a book and another a pencil aid before long, they were quite friendly. When recess came, they all gathered round the boy from the North Woods and asked Aim all manner . OI questions. When their quest ioning died down a bit, the Indian Boy beiran to ask a few himself. "What is this?" said he. "A school." "A school?" "Yes, a school where you learn ' and such things." "Who runs it?" asked Hunting Eye. "Here comes the teacher, ask her." "The state government runs the schools," said the teacher. "Long ago, the government did not think the schools important enough to 1 take up its time in running them. ! go they were carried on by private persons and any one who wanted to go to school had to pay for that Privilege. Soon however, the men saw that one of the most important things they could do would be to provide an education for all the boys and girls of the state. So they established free schools for everyone." "Does the state run this school?" "Yes, through the township. You see, in most states, each township is divided into school districts. In the city, the districts often cover the same area as the wards. All the districts in the township are grooped under one head. The township beads are under the County Superintendent. The state Superintendent is over all the schools in the state. In the city, the schools are all under the City Superintendent who is usually directly under the State Superintendent. The head of the schools is generally chosen by the school Board, the members of which are, in most cases, elected by the people The Board also chooses the teachers and carries on a good deal of the business of the schools. "The Federal Government has a Bureau of Education -which studies school problems and aids the state schools in many ways.' ' Boys' and Girls' NewspajMtr Servlc Copywrlght, 1919, byJ. II. Millar

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and Pep MAKING FRIENNDS WITH MORPHEUS By Mollie Price Cook "Evelyn," said the teacher, "where is the Ainivson river?". No ; answer. "Evelyn did you htar?" saiI the teacher sharply. With a dazed look. Evelyn raised her head from ht-r dsk where she had been p act fully n'limlvrrng. This was a habit of hers falling asleep in school. Several girls !u Evelyn's room were doing the fame thing. The teacher wondered wh ,'. It could not be the air for the room was well ventilated. It wa . not wrong eating because the girls' mothers were extremely can lul about their diet. The teach'.-r decided that it was the plain old-fashioned reason not enough sl"How many hours do you g rl 3 sleep, and when do you go to bod7' she queried. One girl of ten said: "I go to bd at nine and g.t up ai s-.wu." Another girl : "I start to bod at nine, but the clock strikes t- n before I get to sl'M-j. 'lever vant to get up in the mu :ig. Mother has to drag me out." Further questioning showed that few of the girls were receiving the proper amount of sleep. No girl can be a real girl without1 giving her body a long rest every1 night. During s'eep, the body has a chance to rebui'd the tissue wasted during is one of the day. A girls bed her best friends. An open window is another. Sleeping on the right side with light warm covers and a finn circulation of good outdoor air in the room means health and energy. A closed 1ow means po Bonous air a1 tease, crankiDass in the moia ig, and a languid filing ai.' dav .. A girl should have each night at lojtnt 'b- mmber of hours r ieep shown here: Age Hours to sleep 8 to 10 11 1-2 10 to 12 11 12 to 14 10 1-2 14 to 16 10 16 to 18.. 9 12 These are government, f'gnres, published by the Bureau of Education in Washington. If you are not getting the amount of sleep indicated for your age, you are cheatyourself. The way to be patriotic is to be healthy, cheerful, industrious. Exercise, study, and sleep, plenty of each of them, will make you valuable to yourself and to society. Boys' and Girls' Newspaper Ssrvio Copywright, 1919, by J. II. Millar Oar "Thank Yon" List We are glad that we received letters from the boys and girls whose names follow and sorry that we were unable to publish them because of the fact that they were just like stories sent into the Junior Palladium at other times and which have t)een published in recent numbers of the Junior. Lucile Goehner 5B Grade, eph Moore. JosMary Cornwell Mahan 2A, Baxter. Agnes Leona Huber. Joseph Thorn 4A, Starr. Alta Roger Tumpkins Grade 4 Modoc School. Thelma Kerr 6th Grade, District No. 6 School. Edna Freeman. Baxter. Charles Daugherty 4A, Baxter. Louise Dungan. Violet Sanderson 5B, Sevastopol. Clarence Mumpower 4B Sevastopol. Treva Mackey 4 A, Sevptepol. Mary Dungan Sevastepok

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