Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 75, 7 February 1920 — Page 11

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUMWEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM

RICHMOND, INDIANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1920

How We Spent Our Vacation In the African Jangles One winter I and some of ray echool boys made up our minds to go to Africa where it was warm through ten days vacation. So one Friday morning, Jan. 8, 1920 we started for the hot country. We took with us some things to eat and some weapons such as a rifle and a revolver and each a box of shells, about 1,000 in a box. Then we thought when we got there we would buy a pony for each of us for a few dollars and have a good time. So we rode on the train for a long time.. We thought we would never get there. But on Monday morning, Jan. 21, 1920, we saw Africa. There we got off the train. I

thought we never would get along there where the Africans watched us like hawks. It looked awful funny to see those dark people going

around wearing just part ot tneir clothes. They were not very well

satisfied because we were there,

but we were going to stay. One

day we went out in the .woods to build us a hut. We got some logs and brush and built one. One day we got hungry, and so we got on our ponie3 and went out in the woods hunting. We couldn't find anything to shoot but monkeys and they weren't very good cooked. We were riding through a big cocoanut tree when we heard some monkeys up in the tree dropping cocoanuts down. Well we thought we would die laughing at the silly things dropping cocoanuts down. We got off of our horses and took our horses and tied them. Then we took our rifles and just stood there and shot the cocoanuts as they came down. It surely was fun to sit there and keep pulling the trigger as fast as we could and we kept it up for awhile, when we heard some Africans coming Ihrough the woods after us. We started shooting them and killed several of them. But they finally got ahead of us and captured us. They took us to prison and I was getting pretty scared. They fed us on bananas and oranges and other fruit. But they didn't feed us many of them because they did not like us. They kept us there for about a month, but one day they were all out hunting, all but the guard. He was standing in front of me one day with his back turned to me. I picked up a great African club and hit him on the bead and he went tumbling down and died. Then we took our guns and I said that we had better get back to Ohio. We started and got home in safety. Harry Bussard, grade 6, No. 7 school, Butler Twp.

When Mary Had A Valentine Party Mary was a ltitle girl who lived in New York city. It was growing near Valentine's Day. Mary plan

ned that she would ask her father if she could have a party and in

vite her friends. At the supper table that night she asked her father if she could have a party. Her father said "Yes." She was so happy that she did not eat any suppei. Every afternoon, Mary's mother would miss her. She would find her in the basement working at something. At last, the night came when she was going to have her party. Each guest received a little Valentine which had these words on it, "I wish you a Happy Valentine." At last the time came for the children to go home. They had had a lovely time. Chester Collins Grade 6A, Finley shool.

GROUND HOGS

In the American Boy Enos A.

Mills says: "Two summers while I wa3 guiding on Long's Peak, a

ground hog summered on the sumit

A few minutes after I arrived on

top with a party of climbers he showed himself and waited for

lunch scraps. After he was better acquainted he did not wait "but expected to have helpings from the first table. His winter den was two thousand feet below the top. Ground hogs, especially- in spring, wander in search of green plants; usually from their tracks they know where these are most likely to be found.". Christian Science Monitor.

AUNT POLLY'S LETTER,

Dear Juniors : Old February always brings us an interesting basketful of days and this year she throws in a good measure to please the women whose masculine friends are particularly bashful. One of the days we people of the United States like most to celebrate is February 12, next Thursday, the anniversary of the birthday of "Honest Abe" Lincoln. Isn't it strange it comes on Thursday ? Christmas came on Thursday, so did New Year's Day, and now another important day comes on that same day of the week. We Hoosiers are especially interested in this big, homely American, for he lived in Indiana for ten of the most important years of his life, the years when he was planning to be somebody and studying and thinking about what he was going to do and how he was going to do it. He lived in this very state when he was a boy the same age as many of you Juniors, from the time he was about seven years old, until he was about seventeen. He came to Indiana in 1816 which was an important year for our state and for Richmond. That was the year when Indiana became a state, a part of the Union, and Richmond became a real town, remember the centennial we had four years ago. Of course you do. Probably many of y6u helped to celebrate it. How would you like to live in a log cabin cutting down trees for homes and splitting rails for fences, and writing your arithmetic problems on a shovel by the side of an open fireplace ? That was the way he began his life, just a plain Indiana boy but he finished it as one of the most lovable presidents Uncle Sam ever had in charge of his country. I am always glad he was homely, too, somehow I do not feel he would have been quite so kind and lovable if he had been handsome. I never knew, but I always imagined it would "turn" anyone's head to be really handsome. Don't you think so? Did any of you ever see General Tom Thumb and his life, the famous little midgets who traveled all over the United States with Barnum's circus ? Probably you never did, for the General himself has been dead for a good many years and Mrs. Tom Thumb was quite old when she died about a month ago, but ask your fathers and mothers and grandmothers, too (my grandmother has seen them) and they will probably tell you about them. Well this handsome little gentleman and beautiful little lady (less than three feet tall) were married on February 10, 1863. And where do you suppose they went on their wedding trip? They went to Washington, right straight to the most important building in that beautiful city, and visited President Lincoln and his wife at the White House. And we are told that they enjoyed their visit very much. Most people did like to meet Lincoln, he was so big and friendly. It seems to me that Lincoln painted the colors of our own Red, White and Blue banner a little deeper shade and made the white stripes and stars of it a little whiter by his life in the White House. The white was made whiter because he took the blot of slavery from our country,-the red was made a deeper red by the blood of the soldiers who died to save the Union after the slaves were declared free, and by his own blood, who was shot because he stood like a man for the things in which he believed, and the blue was made bluer by the greater loyalty felt for the country after the war. And so I am always glad to honor the birthday of this great, big, kind man, this man who was a friend of his countrymen at that time and is still thought of as a friend by all Americans who follow him. Yours, proud to be a countryman countrywoman, I should say, of Abraham Lincoln, and also proud to be a Hoosier, AUNT POLLY.

Making Paper Dolls We are making paper dolls in the room 1 go to. After we get them

done we are going to bring clothes, pins and dress them. Miss Wil

liams wants us to pick out three of the best dolls we make to send to the liille children of Europe. This is the end of my story. Mary Hayward, age 7, gTade 2A, Joseph Moore school.

MY DOLLS

RIDDLES 1. I come from cloudland in the

night, And make the grasses silver bright:

Frances Berkraeyer, grade 4B,

Starr school. 2. What fruit does the electric plant bear? Marjorie Baker, school No. 11. 3. Why are the Door in Ireland

carpet? Marjorie B. In what way is a tree like a

lifte 4. dog.

I have a girl doll. I have a boy doll. My girl doll

has an Indian dress. My boy doll

has a sailor suit. I am going to

give you a girl doll. Do you make dresses for your doll?

I do not like you, dolly, you were

naughty yesterday. Winifred Bry

an, grade 2B, Joseph Moore school.

Marjorie B. (Answers will appear in next week's Junior.)

Two Bold Outlaws in Mexico

Once two Americans went across

the border of Mexico to hunt gold

They had gone a long way till they reached a mountain where they were sure that gold could be found. They knew that Mexicans were mean so they took pains to hide all their tracks and to watch

out for them. They proceeded on a few miles till up in the mountain they knew had gold, then they looked for signs. On coming to a hollow in the hill, they stopped, dog and all, and one of the Americans found gold. It came in large nuggets. They picked it up and put it in a sack and tied it to the saddle horn on their horses and kept this up till the sacks were all full and then they started home. They had to camp along the edge of the mountain that night and two Mexicans robbed them while they slept. Herschel Gregg, age 13, Butler township, school No. 7.

Robert, the Trapper,

Has Luck in Maine There was once a man that lived all alone on a mountain-side, near Ishpening and his name was Robert. He lived in a log cabin and had some skins, and he trapped in the forest. One winter when the first snow fell he set his traps. . But there iwas a Wolverine that stayed there In the forest in the winter time and when Robert set his traps he could not catch anything. He would go out and find his trap3 dragged away, and they would be empty and lots of tracks around it So one morning be went out real early about 2 o'clock in the morning and when he got near the traps he saw a

wolf in one trap and another an!

mal in the other one. The same wolverine was there just ready to

kill the wolf. The hunter took the gun and started to aim but to his

misfortune the wind was blowing that way, and the wolverines are

very keen and would follow Robert wherever he went and see where he set his traps and snares.

The wolverines kept getting Rob

ert's animals, that he caught and

when 'the winter was over he had nothing to show for it. So he thought if the wolverines were there next winter he would not be able to live because the wolverines would catch everything that Robert caught. So he thought he would go to Maine. So he started. It was a long journey but he finally got there. The cabin was warm and dry and heavy snow had fallen and it was just right for snowshoes. It was noon, by now and so he sat down to a warm dinner. When he got through, Robert got up, put on lots of heavy clothes and got his traps and gun and snowshoes and went out on

the snow. It was dismal and cold. But Robert didn't care. He went quite" a long ways and set his traps. He came home, went to bed and slept hard. Robert woke up early and went out and found four foxes and a wolf. He killed them and went home happy. The next morning he foiirid others r and every morning Robert would find animals in his traps and when the winter was over his house wa3 full of skins. Robert went home very happy. He went to a tanning fac

tory and got a lot of money. Rob

ert moved to the city and lived happily ever after John (No last name given), grade SB, Joseph

Moore cshool.

Plans for Father and Son Week, Fast Hearing Completion Girls do you have any show at all in the Father and Son week for which many plans fire now being completed at the local Y. M. C. A. The week commences on February 15th with a meeting at the Grace Methodist church. Mr. Sloane' will plan the musical program which will be played by the High School Orchestra. Wednesday night, February 18th will be Recreation night when all boys in the "Y" gym work, games and swimming. The annual banquet for the boys and their "Dads" will take place the evening of February 20th. Four hundred tickets are being1 printed, which is the highest number of guests the gym of the Richmond "Y" (where the banquet Is held) can accomodate. Mr. W. J. Sayer, speaker, known in many parts of the country, has been Secured as speaker for the evening. Mr. Beaty, Secretary of the Boys' division, is very much pleaased to have secured such a man as Mr. Sayer, as speaker for that evening. An Interesting Doll Show A great exhibition and sale of dolls has been held in London. Among the dolls was a charming one dressed in the Welsh national costume, which was sent by Queen Alexandra, mother of King George, with the following letter. "This beautiful doll was given to me on my first visit to. Wales more than thirty years ago, and was very precious to me, but aa my children and grandchildren are grown up now, I will give it as a historical memento to the nation

for the benefit of our brave soldiers' and Bailors' children." Dolls were sent by well-known actors and actresses dressed as themselves in some play in which they have appeared. Miss Violet Vanbrugh sent one representing herself as Queen Catherine in "Henry VIII"; Miss Lillian Bratthwaite , one dressed as Portia; Miss Genevieve Ward one as Lady MoBeth; Misa Doris Keane one ai Romance. Mrs. Asche (Miss Lily Brayton) arranged a group from the first act of "Chu Chin Chow." Lady Henry sent a doll from Paris, dressed as Henry of Navarre, and there were also dolls dressed as famous airmen by Lady Drogheda. Miss Adams Acton prepared a model of Miss Megan Lloyd George, youngest child of the Premier, which Mrs. Lloyd George dressed. There was a group representing personages of the great war, a historical section, an American section and many others.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM A certain small boy in one of the first grades of a Richmond school was studying the pictures on the school wall very seriously one day. Two of the pictures seemed to interest him, more than the others

for he cried out eagerly," I know who those two men are, they are Washington and Lincoln."

This aroused another smaller boy to reply, "I know them, too. A bad man shot Lincoln, but Washington died of a cold.

The six leading gold producing countries In 1910 were: Africa, United States), Australia, Russia, Mexico and British India. Floyd Williams.

HISTORICAL CHARADE

1. My first is a liquid, which some children hate; Lacking, it causes

suffering great. 2. My second's a girl's name, or some one would say, just part of the name, used in- a friendly way. 3. When together my first and my second you call, You've a word great in history, A great general's fall. (Answer will appear in next week's Junior.)

ART CLUB CONTINUES Although the 6B's of Starr school are now 6A's, they will not re-organize their Art Club, but will keep the same officer sin charge for the second semester.

WILL HAVE VALENTINE BOX Dear Aunt Polly.: I have a few things to tell you that I will write at once. I go to school every day and like my studies fine. I am in the Sixth grade. If nothing happens we are going to have a Valentine box. As Valentine day is on Saturday, we are going to have it on Friday. My My teacher's name Is Miss Holsinger. I love my teacher. There are thirty pupils in my class. I have been studying some of my lessons for tomorrow. THE END Fern Via, Sixth grade, Monroa School.

SIT STRAIGHTI Sit straight! It makes for health; And health's no trifle, it is wealth, Of greatest value to young and old. Worth more by far than gems or gold. Sent In by Helen Moody.