Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 45, 3 January 1920 — Page 13

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY. JANUARY 3. itf...

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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM The Junior Palladium is the children's section of the Richmond Palladium, founded May 6, 1916, 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 poerns are acceptable and will be published. Articles shoull bo w ritten 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 their articles to The Palladium office, or to receive letters addressed to the Junior Editor. This is your littl newspaper and we hope each boy and girl will use it thoroughly.

Bo shev st Ch id-en If you should go down a certain narrow afreet in Cambridge, called Burleigh Street, you would come to a low, dark building on an alley vji v with a sign over the door, "East End Christian Union," and anv ;it't r ion there, coming in and out of the rude doors, you would find children. Of courfii? usual about thTP is nothing unchildren going into a rocrea! '"i c one tells you that many of these ldren are i'oii. h or ..a j.un nd t at some of their fathers are openly communists and Bolshevists, it makes you look again to see what kind of children th ;o.i are. Going inside find groups of rather torn magazines or taking boohs down from the rough shelves. A lf.rgo square piano is over at one 6i' it the room and several ch.ldn w always are trying to thump out their school songs. Besides the general reading room is a little kitchen where the girl scouts have Jheir meetings and cook their suppers, a boys' recreation room, a gymnasium, and, upstairs, is a .general lecture hall. Miss Goldthwaite, who is in charge, has such a perfect understanding of the children that everything usually goes very smoothly, or if trouble starts she knows how to nip it in the bud. The other day a group of girl scouts were in Miss Goldthwaite's private office planning for a Christmas' party, when several inquisitive boys insisted on pressing their noses against the glass door, listening to everything the girls said. This made the committee so furious that finally one girl rushed out threatening the boys with, "You get away from here, or I'll smash your face for you." Miss Goldthwaite, who was over at the other side of the room talking with a visitor, looked up in surprise at the outburst, and then laughed good naturedly as she said, "Yes boys, you go in and have a game of billiards. Sometimes when you're having a committee meeting I'll keep the.girls away from you." So the. boys took their caps and went off grinning as though it were the best joke in the world while the girls with a proudly triumphant smile with Miss Goldthwaite, went back to their Christmas planning. One day, however, when Miss Goldthwaite was in New York, affairs were a little more rocky. The assistant, who was temporarily in charge, was a very attractive girl but quite young, with bobbed hair and rather innocent large brown eyes. She was the leader of the girl scouts and usually very popular with most of the children, but when Miss Goldthwaite was away the children refused to mind her, and that day she was having un EXCHANGE COLUMN Open to AM Boys and Girls. These Adt Cost You Nothing; Send In Your "Wants" to The Palladium Junior. FOR SALE Rabbits, one doe and five young. Young two months old Call 2209 north F street. LOST Silver barrett between 12th and 14th streets. If found, return to the Palladium office. WANTED 32 boys Training is given too. 915 North G. Street, for a club. Leoline K. FOR SALE Rabbits, two bucks, two does and three young ones, mixed breeds. To be sold at once Call Earnest Cooper, 302 N 22nd st. LOST Pair child's tan mittens on street. Return 927 Main street.

usual trouble. The girls had quarreled with their gymnasium teacher and when the scout leader tried to take her part, the girls turned on her with the most angry and cutting words. All this happened just before five o'clock, when it was time to close th: rooms during supper hour, so when the younger children, who had been listening to fairy stories

in the bad; room, came out into the general reading room they stop ped to listen to the argument. The assistant was trying to get the girls out of the building and they refused to go. Some of them went out and began drumming on the piano, while others hid on the stairway leading up to the lecture hill. The poor girl tried every means of persuasion she knew to

the- building you i get them to leave, but they stubchildren reading1 bornly refused until finally she

tooK noict or their shoulders and began pushing them. "Don't touch me," said one of the girls defiantly. "Then go on out, of your own accord," answered the assistant as quietly as she could. "I won't go," the girl insisted still in the middle of the room. The assistant took her bodily and began pushing her out the door. This so enraged the girl that she called the scout leader a most insulting name, and the older girl struck her in the mouth. Open battle broke out after this. The girls who had been hiding rushed out doors with the others and began throwing mud in the hallway while they shouted the worst names they could think of and threatened all sorts of violence; but the girl in charge managed to shut and lock the doors against them. The gymnasium teacher had left a few minutes before this, so the assistant and a teacher who had been telling fairy stories were left alone in the building. Some child ren came around in the other alley way and beat on the side windows - i while the others pounded on the front -door; and in the meantime the assistant was explaining to the teacher what all the trouble was about, and they were discussing howr best to pacify the young mob. It was quite simple, however. The teacher, who was new to the children, went out and asked what j they wanted. Of course they said they were waiting to settle with .the scout leader, so the teacher said, j "All right; she'll' be out in a little while." Then she began asking j, about their plans lor Christmas at school. At first the answers came sullenly and slowly from boys and girls (for boys had joined the forces by this time) ; but the teacher kept on encouraging them to tell what verses they were learning for Christmas exercises until they ;rew to be a little more responsive and had come closer to her, especially when she sang two or three little nonsense songs which made them laugh and ask for more. Instead of nonsense, however, the older woman told them of a little boy in the children's hospital in Boston, who had been there for two years and had to lie on his back in a plaster caste all the time; a boy whose mother was very ill and whose father was so poor that Billy probably would not have anything very much for Christmas. "Aw, the poor kid," said one girl immediately. "I've got some books at home I can give him," one boy spoke up. ' "My mother keeps a bakery and I ican get him some animal crackers," one volunteered, while still another said," Down at the five and ten cent store they have Christmas trees that fold up, and I can get him .one of them." "Oh, that's fine," exclaimed the teacher with genuine surprise and pleasure, "but listen. I have to take a car down at the corner. Can't you come with me while we plan some more?" And the whole crowd, utterly forgetting their violent threats of a few minutes before, moved off down the street perfectly absorbed

in planning to share what few possession or a little money they had, with a boy they never had seen, just because he was sick. Miss Goldthwaite says she thinks we will have no trouble with Bolshevists here in America, or indeed with any foreigner, if we use common sense. "Most of them," she said, "come here with dreams of liberty and brotherhood, as well as becoming wealthy, but here they are the poorer classes and real Americans do not mix with them or did not until this Americanization campaign began. No wonder they developed radical ideas, and and no wonder many of them merely wanted to make all the money they could and then go back home. We would to. "There is a group of communists Bolshevists that asked me if they could meet here, and after talking it over with the government officials, I said they could as long as they gave me their word of honor they would not plan any violence. I think it is better for them to meet openly than in some kitchen or behind dosed doors. I know that they send money to Trotsky and Lenine, but if we are ever going to win them over to American ideals we'll have to do it by first gaining their good will, and then arousing their admiration for our government. The thing to do is to get them and their children so interested in America that they will forgot their interests in old coun

tries and want to go on with thing? as they are here and now And. miss Goldthwaite added with a smile, "I think we are going to do it" Mary G. Mather, Former Editor Junior Palladium. Economy Echoes Some think Fanny Cain changed considerably in the has last sixteen years. Why is it that Mable and Helen are always looking in a small hard mirror? Do you suppose they are counting their teeth? One good thing happened when the teacher changed our seats last Thursday and that Is that, Clara and Ruth were separated. Notice: It would be better if no one would offer Elizabeth Manning any red drops, as it worries her so, to think that once she ate a germ flavored one. Just take a look at CeciL Still water runs deep. We wonder why Ruth Cain attenfls so many socials and parties at Richmond? Does anyone know where Lila got so many poems? Wonder why Carl was sitting on the floor last Thursday in the History class? Who gave Alberta the celery she was eating when we wrent to the History class last Thursday. We wonder why it is that Dudley says, "I can't studdy during the last period of the day?" I wonder why our teacher is so anxious for us to learn to sing "Jingle Bells"? Why does our teacher think Floyd should go to a Vaudeville school? You should have seen Carl sitting on the floor in History class last Friday. How did Helen Lundy come to spell "who", "Hoo"? Be careful when you go to Sugar Grove, that they give you the right song book. For Instance ask one of the Sophmorc girls. Alberta has given Rena a new title, "Sin Twister.' ' Be sure and ask Elizabeth what is the difference between a piano and a bank and a bee-hive? Why did Reece fall off his chair in Latin class , yesterday? Economy High School Items. Hiking via A Ford Once Everett and I wanted to go to Webster to swim. We started out and on our way we saw a Ford coming up the road. We said, "ride us to Webster." . The man said, "why sure." When we got there, I said, "thanks- for riding us to Webster." It was about a square from the road. After we got done swimming we washed our selves, then we went on our way home. It is about six miles there, we walked half way back and got so tired that we had to lie down and wait for another Ford, sure enough, here comes one. We said, "ride us to Richmond?" The driver said, alright." After we got home we ate our supper and played after supper. By Eugene Wickett, 5B Joseph Moore SchooL

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As the children came in the room, the men were talking very rapidly in low, excited tones. Roughly they seized the children and slung thetr wraps around them saying only, "we have not a minute to spare!" and other things that sounded terribly ugly and angry, that Jane did not understand at all, but that Jack thought must be swearing in Italian, for it sounded just like Mr. Cradd back in MakeBclieve town and Captain Brave had called it swearing. Anyway Jack did not like it at all and it made him feel afraid the man would do something terrible to them. But Just then the door opened and two, big, armed men jumped Inside of the door, then two more and two more until the room seemed full of them. Every robber was taken captive by these men and, every door was guarded. This was all the children could see, but they somehow felt that these newcomers were their friends.. The room was almost entirely dark as one yellow flickering flame from a small lamp was the only light In room. At first the kidnappers looked i so angry and talked so ugly that! the children were terribly scared but they soon realized that the! newcomers had taken all their j ' arms and that even the robbers had realized that it was useless to j try to escape any more. j Then came a blaze of light and j the children looked in the direc-1 tion from which it came, but one I look was enough and with a shrill cry of "we knew you'd come!" thei children ran across the room and flung themselves in the arms of ! the big man who had dropped thei flashlight to gather the children in his big strong arms. It was Captain Brave, and oh, how glad they were to see him! and he, well- he was so happy he talked real excitedly and laughed so often that this made them know he never did that-but they wondered why he took his handkerchief and wiped his eyes often, they guessed that it was because he was happy. Then some of Captain Brave's men found two large lamps and lighted them, and then the children recognized some of the other men that had come to rescue them. There was Signor Angelo and Como and some of the men they had seen on Signor Angelo's estate when they were there. But this was not the time nor place to visit and the robbers must be taken away and the children must be dressed and fed or they might get sick, for they had not had a very good meal for a week. Then most of the men went away, taking the robbers with them. There were two men on each side of each robber and they seemed to know where they were going to take the kidnappers. Later Captain Brave and the children got into an automobile that was waiting nearby and started off for home and Ladydear. They went straightway to their rooms and to Ladydear. Such a happy meeting as it was. I will leave it to you to guess just how happy the children and Ladydear wrere to see each other again. Ladydear looked so thin and pale the children thought, but she said that she would not look that way anymore now that she had Jack and Jane back again. "What did they do with the kidnappers, Jack. "They son, so children After Captain Brave?" asked i are all locked up in jail, that they will not rob any more. the children told their i story, how they were picked up and i carried away, and where they stayed and how happy they were when they looked out of the little window and realized they were near the Mediterranean Sea, and how they knew that Captain Brave would find them soon. Captain Brave told them how they had been searching for them day and night since they had been stolen, and how it wa3 little Booh after all who showed them where the children really were. That made the children '.augh and ask for him, but as he was sleeping in his little house on another floor of the hotel, Captain Brave and Ladydear told them they could see him in the morning. Then after all is saidjack draws a stool right up close to Captain Brave's chair and sits down by him, and Jane cuddles up in Ladydear's

lap and II,. t ly says anything for several minutes. Then Jack speaks up, "I knew you'd be there soon," said Jack, I wasn't a bit afraid,? at least most of the time I wasn't-? "Oh, I'm so happy." sighed Jane, happily," that old woman was so mean. Oh, I'm so glad I'm here again., and in a few minutes she had fallen sound asleep and there was a happy contented little smile on her face as if her dreams were very, very glad ones.

Nell, A Little Girl of Russia Tom's Robbers Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Nell. Her home was in Russia. Now this was when they had a Czar. He was a very bad Czar. And whenever he thought some one said something against him, he would have them sent to the mines. Now the mines were dark and dirty, and Nell's father had been ' sent there the Czar thought he j Bald something against him. Nell's father had been mistreated and was getting very thin, so Nell s mother said, him escape." "we will try to help Nell and her mother talked to j the guard, and the guard forgot all about guarding the . mines, and Nell's father escaped. Now it was dangerous for Nell and her fathei and mother, because the guard went back to the mines and looked to see If all the men were there because he thought that some might have escaped. And after hf saw that Nell's fafher was not there he was very angry. He wen! to see if Nell and her mother wen at home, but nobody was at home he knew now that they were well i on their way. Nell and her moth er and father were on the train, and the train was going to Moscow. As soon as the train stopped. Nell i and her fathei and mother, hurried off the train because the guard had sent word that Nell's father had escaped, so it was dangerous because the guards weri hunting for him. But Nell's father escaped to America and they are very thankful that theydid. Coming to America the Captain did not want to take them, bu he finally consened hat they might ride on his ship, and just as the ship got out of sight the guard3 came running up but they were too late to get Nell's father. Nell and her mother and father are safe in America. Louise Overman, 6B Joceph Moore School. Loaise and Alma Have Gay Christmas One day a rich girl was up town doing her Christmas shopping, when she met a poor girl just as she was going in a store. The poor girl had only a dollar to buy her Christmas presents with. The rich girl's name was Louise and the poor girl's name was Alma. Louise was going to buy her mother a ring for her Christmas and an umbrella for father's Christmas. And Alma was going to buy her mother something for 50 cents. She had only one dollar to buy brother, father, and mother's Christmas. So, Alma asked the clerk what she coTTTd buy with 50 cents. And the clerk said, "What do you want?" Alma said, "I would like to have a nice dish for mother's Christmas." The clerk said, "I have a nice dish for 50 cents." So, Alma said, "I will take it." Then she went to the men's department and said she wanted to buy a necktie for her father. "I have only 50 cents with which to buy it," said Alma. So, the clerk gave her a fifty-cent one. Louise went home and put her presents away until the next day. Alma went home and put her presents away. The next day, Alma got up early and helped get breakfast. After they ate their breakfast, she washed the dishes. Then she went and got the dish for her mother and the necktie for her father. Louise put on her hat and coat and told her mother that she was going over and invite Alma to her party. So, Louise went over and asked Alma's mother, and Alma's mother said that Alma might go. So, that night at 7 o'clock Alma went to Louise's house and they had a happy Christmasafter all. Mary Louise Bills, 5B grade, Joseph Moore School.