Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 51, 10 January 1920 — Page 15

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1920

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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" advert iHements, stories, local Jokes and original poerns are acceptable and will be published. Articles should be written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author's name nd age signed. Aunt Polly is always glad to meet the children pertonally 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.

Every Day Science Dollar-Making ff-hte. fLilIf Ideas fj WHY THE PICTURE IS BLUR- A NEIGHBORHOOD STORYRED GIRL By Grant M. Hyde By Marie Scoville "Why is the picture in the news- Sally had a "way" with children; paper blurred, Daddy?" she planned to be a kindergarten "That photograph? Because it teacher when she was graduated

was printed from a half tone cut that was too fine for stereotyypin "What is a half-tone cut? "A half-tone is an engraving used to print reproductions of photographs. You remember that I told you how they make the line engravings which are used to print drawings? I told you that such 'cuts consist of raised lines on a zinc plate. Such plates cannot he used to print photographs because they produce only black lines of ink; on a white background, while a photograph is made up of various ; shade3 of gray. To make the gray in it, the black and white must be broken up or mixed together as Is done in a half-tone. "If you look closely at a newspaper print of a photograph, you will see that it divides into thousands of little squares with lines of white running each way. These lines are made by a screen that breaks up the black and white to produce ray. The half-tone plate is made photographically just like the line engraving except that when the engraver takes his picture of the original photograph, he places a screen in his camera to break up the light. This screen is made of glass with fine rulings on it. The light, broken by the screen strikes the negative in thousands of small dots and so the half-tone plate made from this dotted negative consists of countless metal dots or points. Wherever the photograph was dark, the dots on the plate are large, so that they print more black than white, and produce dark gray. wnerever me pnotograpu was light, the aots are smaii ana produce light gray. "For photographs to be reprinted on smooth paper me nau-ioue plate is copper and made with 'fine' screen with from 100 to 250 lines per inch. For coarse paper the plate is zinc with a 'coarse' screen of from 60 to 85 lines per inch. Such a 'coarse' plate must be used for stereotyping, or the papier-ma che mat will ot get into all the de pressione. This blurred picture re sults from an attempt to stereotype too fine a cut." Boys' and Girls' Newspaper Servlc Copywright, 1919, by J. II. Millar THE BOY GOT IT A hungry traveler put his head out of a car window as his train pulled up to a small station, and said to a boy: "Here, boy, take this dime and get me a sandwitch, will you? And, by the way, here's another dime. Get a sandwich for yoursel, too." The boy with evident satisfaction, darted away and returned, munching a sandwich, just as the train was starting off. He ran to the traveler, handed him a dime, and said: "Here's yer dime back. boss, they only had one sandwich left."

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little things father could not always afford to buy, so she decided to use her talent, for such it was, to make money outside of school. Sally often noticed on Saturday afternoons how Mrs. Brown's little girl 'cross the street and Mrs. Jones' little boy next door played on the street and often were en dangered by automobiles while' their mothers were busy in the house or shopping down town, Very often they would come runnmg over to sit on Sally s porch wniio sae ioia mem a story, Thus she thought of organizing a story telling class. First she sent out little notes to all the busy mothers with young children who lived in the neighborhood saying that she would enter - tain utue James or Elizabeth at; her home on Saturday afternoons , from two to five. This would en-1 able mothers, without worry, to go calling, shopping, or to a matinee For each young charge the fee was twenty-five cents. Soon the living room in Sally's home was filled each Saturday afternoon with small boys and girls whose grateful mothers eagerly seized this opportunity to have them entertained. Sally kept constantly on the alert for stories to tell and new ideas on way of entertaining children. These she found in books at the library, in the magazines her mother took and in the daily newspapers. In the summer the class moved to the front porch and often to make it especially festive she would serve vanilla cookies and pretty but harmless pink lemonade. Sally told not merely fairy stories but 6inipie, interesting stones or tne lives of great men, how a caterpiliar becomes a butterfly, etc The young mind is sweet and re ceptive and for any girl who loves j children and possesses charm and j tact, this is a genuine pleasure and to be looked upon as a real opportunity not only to make money but to do good. Boys' and Girls' Newspaper Snrvic Copywright, 1919, by J. IL Millar WHY WE SHOULD SAVE A good American 6aves his money for Thrift Stamps. If a man has a store he can save some of the money he makes in the store. If people have a garden they can sell some of the things they raise and save the money for Thrift Stamps or Liberty Bonds. If children would save every penny and nickel, they could buy Thrift Stamps. Herbert Bantz, 4B, Joseph Moore School. NEW VARIETY "Mamma, I want a dark breakfast." "Dark breakfast? What do you mean, child." "Why, last night you told Mary to give me a light supper, and I didn't like it," Blighty (London).

Sports that Make Men

Athletics VOLLEY BALL By It. 8. Alexander Yu think nothing good can come out of Germany? But volley ball did. It was Invented and first played there. Volley ball can be played outdoors , on in the gym. in the backyard, vacant lot, school yard, or attic. All the equipment needed is a net about the same size as a tennis net a couple of posts about 7 1-2 ft. high, and a ball a little smaller and about half as heavy as a basket ball. Set the posts in the ground or on the gym floor about 25 feet from each other. Stretch the net between them, the top of it level with the ton of the nosts. If vou can't cet ; a net, a rope stretched from the top 0f one post to another will do. Mark out your court about 25 feet wide by 50 feet long. A basketball will do if the kind of ball described above can not be had. The game can be played by any number of people from two to-a dozen or more. The opposing teams are posted on opposite sides of the net. To start the game one person aots as server. The server places himself with one foot on the back line of the court away from the net and bats the ball over it with the palm of his hand. The players on the opposing side try to bat it back over the net. If it touches the ground before they can do so, it counts one score for the server's side. If they are able to knock it back then is is up to the server's team to return it. If they are unable to do so and it touches the ground, it counts one score for the opposing side. Whenever the ball touches the ground, it counts one score for the opposing side. The team which first makes a certain number of points may be declared the winner, or the game may be played for a certain period of time the team making the greatest number of roints in that time winning. Considerable science and team work may be developed in knocking the ball from one person to another on the same side until a chance comes to bat it over the net into an open space not played by one of the opposing side. Boys' and Girls' Newspaper Scrvic Copywright, 1919, by J. II. Millar A TIMELY THOUGHT The once were some thinsrs called exams For which children had nothing but slams Accursed, carnivorous. Ghastly, cramivorous, Those abominable things called exams. AN OPTOMIST'S WISH Here is my New Year wish for youStrength to do what you have to do, Health of body, peaca of mind, And a daily chance or two to be kind. Leigh Mitchel Hodges. SOCIETY NEWS Masters Ross and Bobby Lyons who have been visiting their aunt in Richmond returned with their mother Thursday to their home in Lafayette. Miss Cortesia Johnson of this city is spending the week wiih Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hunt, south of Centerville.

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His First Birthday Louella C. Poole

Fiddle, the kitten, is one year old One year old today is heBeautiful Fiddle, with eyes of gold And coat like silk. Now how shall we His birthday celebrate, oh, say, On this his first anniversary day? Well, Instead of birthday cake We'll give him a patty of hamburg steak, And a gorgeous colored worsted ball With which to frolic abouMhe hall; A saucer blu. and a "catnip mouse" To toss and chase all about the house, For there never was such a playful cat (Or is he a kitten?) as this one that Romps all over the house all day Like some young monkey full of play. Now here i3 a question that puzzles me: He's twice as big as his ma, you see, And he's one year old today. Is he Fiddle the Kitten of Fiddle the Cat Our .Fiddle the Mouser, sleek and fat? Our Dumb Animals. An Unexpected Gift There lived a little girl with her parents in New England. They were very poor. One Christmas Eve this little girl put her wooden shoes in the corner by the chimney. I forgot to tell you the name of this girl. Her name was Piccola. cola. The next morning she got up and went to her shoes. Just guess what she found (a little chicken). This little chicken had belonged to a neighbor. Piccola shared her crumbs with the chicken. The chicken grew and laid eggs for them

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::LL T'-.k ' pk, . .TJ rr iua.9 ami uuugui Kiiifl. i lucum icmembered where this little chicken came from. She bought some gifts and gave to the neighbors. They also had a good Christmas dinner. Faye Crocker, Farm Hill School. - Almas Cow Ran Away Once there was a little girl, her name was Alma, she was a very good girl, and she had a cow. One day Alma took the cow out of the barn and began to stake her and she broke loose and kicked her nvpr in thp eardpn. It hurt her so that Alma could : hardly walk. While Alma was lying there the cow ran away and Alma could not find her, she had to have her mother come and help her. When they got her, they gave the cow a good beating and she never ran away again.- By Bernice Sinipson.GB Grade, Joseph Moore school. Had A Good Time Anyway For Christmas I got a sled, a book a pair of bed room slippers and a pair of slippers that you wear in bed and a dollar and a box of candy and some nuts and an orange. After breakfast we went and got Tracy and John, we went coasting out at the links and then we hunted up a place and we found a hill and all of the boys went down and then I went down and when I got ; up I found that a piece of my sled was broken, but had a good time. Ben Bentley, Joseph Moore school A Snowstorm in Vacation The Monday before New Year's Tracy, John, Morris, Bon and I went; out to suae. When we were going it was snowing so that you could just see ten yards ahead of you. Flute our dog we could just see. When we got out there we slid. When we got cold we built a fire and got warm. Then we went over the hill and it had snowed enough that we could coast dandy. When we got cold we went home. Frank Bentley, Age 10 years, Joseph Moore School WHY I DO NOT BELONG TO THE THRIFT STAMP CLUB I am putting my money into arrittle bank at home. When the bank i3 full I will buy Thrift Stamps. I have no Thrift Stamps now. I wash the dishes every night and get a penny a night, or five cents a week. I put it in the bank and save it. I shall soon have a Thrift Stamp. Mary Adams, 4B.

Bob's Unlucky Shooting Trip Once there were two boys who' went Into the woods and took a gun The older was sixteen and the younger was fourteen. The older one's name was Frank, they often called him, "Mischief Frank." The younger one's name was Little Bob. Frank bought himself a Colt revolver for his birthday, and his parent's didn't want him to have it for fear he would cause an accident. Bob lived next door to Frank. Ono day they decided to try Frank's new gun. Their mothers were worried about their sons. The boys put up a target. After a while when it came Bob's turn, Frank set . the target up and Bob took a good aim, and Bob was just pulling the trigger when Frank ran in front of him, and he dropped dead. Bob was so scared he tried to shoot himself, but he changed his notion. He took Frank's body and hid it in the bushes. Supper time came on and Frank hadn't come home yet. Frank's parents were so worried about him that they went over to Bob's house to ask if he knew where he was. Bob sat at the table without a word. His mother noticed how queer he was. Just then Frank's mother came in and ask Bob if he knew where Frank was.. Bob kind of started and said, 'No. After a few days Bob told them

.where Frank was and told them all about it. It cost him a great struggle, and he had to promise he would not use a gun again until he was a man. Merrit Swails, 5A Grads, Joseph Moore School. The Misplaced Boys Once upon a time, in Newfondland, two boys went hunting. They took two guns and some bullets They went into the woods and saw to shoot, it was gone, so they went further into the woods and saw a man. . He asked what their names were. They told him that they were Jack and Charlie. Then they asked him why he wanted to know. He said, "I was after some boys that got lost.". Just then the boys heard something. It was a bear. Then shot. The man went away, and then the boys went to see if it was dead. Sure enough it was dead but when they got ready to go home they couldn't find the way, so they made a house out of birch bark. It took some work, but Boon it was finished. Then they took the bear am skinned it and used the brains to tan it. They used the skin for a cover for a bed. The wa,y they made the bed was they took some boughs, Jack told ' Charley to stay at home for a while and he would get some rabbits. Then he got his gun and went, out. . When he got back he had . four rabbits. Then they ate supper and went to bed. When they got up they went to the pond to get clams. Inside the clams were pearls. They got a leather bag full. Then they went hunting for foxes. They had got four silver foxes and four ,red foxes. They skinned them and put them up. They saw a man, it was their father. He took them home. They took the pearls and skins. When they sold them, they got a great deal of money. Then they lived happy ever after. Hugh Dorrey, 5A Joseph Moore School. DOS WORSHIPED YEARS AGO To the Egyptians dog were much more than either assistants In the chase or household pets. They were objects of veneration and worship. They appear in the friezes of the temples, and were regarded as divine emblems. . "Herodotus tells us that when a dog belonging to an Egyptian family died, the members of the household shaved themselves as an expression of their grief, and adds that this was the custom in his own day. " The dog is the one animal which can follow men all over the earth and adapt himself to every climate and every use to which his master chooses to put him." Earnest H. Baynes in National Geographic Magazine. Waco "Can you tell me the quickest way of getting up in the world?" Dontroke "Sure, I can. Hit a j mule on the hind leg!"