Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 75, 7 February 1920 — Page 13
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1920
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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM
The Junior Palladium is the children's Beet ion 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 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 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.
Reading Course for Boys Boy Who Has Learned to Use His Time Well and Has a Little Good Advice in Selecting Books May Easily Read Two Dozen Good Books a Year Without Infringing on His Time for Work, Sleep, or Play, Thus Becoming Familiar With a Large Part of the World's Best Literature.
(A certificate, bearing the seal of the United States Rureau of Education, signed by the Commissioner of Education, will be given to each boy who gives satisfactory evidence of having read all the books on the accompanying list.) For most boys in the United a year without infringing on his States school days are few. The!time fr work, sleep, or play, and averaee is onlv a little more than! rocrca,ion- By -reading two dozen average is only a Mtie more man good look8 R yeari ftny boy may 1,000 for each boy. For many boys before be is 20 years old. become the days are fewer still. While in familiar with a large part of the school they have little time for best literature of the yorld, fill his general reading. Lessons in arith-j mind with helpful ideas and noble metic, algebra, geometry, elcmen-; ideals, and gain much of the finest tary science, geography, history, culture that the world can offer, composition, technical grammar,; Many men have attained all this and other subjects take up most of with less of opportunity than ;is the time. presupposed here. But all boys in the country nnd por reasons easily understood, city alike may, if they will. find!bpoks on reliR;on are not included much time for the reading of good I ....... ... a literature on Saturdays, Sundays,!"1 ,h,s ,iet I,ut every Amprican holidays.-during the long vacations. ! -boy. of whatever church he may be. anil after they have Quit school, j or if he be of no church, should
liven it a boy works steadily xor;know thp English Bible and read
iu iiout.s a uay, o aays a wkk, nei may still find much time for such .1! 10 1 . . I . . . 1. . . - I. , . , '
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14. Idylls of the King. Alfred Tennyson. 15. Macbeth. William Shakespeare. 16. Merchant of Venice. William Shakespeare.
The Oregon Trail. Francis Parkman. Franklin's Autobiography. New
York. 19. Abraham Lincoln. Norman Hapgood. 20. Robert E. Lee. Philip Alexan der Bruce. 21. Burke's Conciliation.
22. Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration. 23. Washington's Farewell Address 24. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. 25. Lives of Poor Boys Who Be came Famous. 2G. Famous Scouts, including trappers, pioneers, and soldiers of the frontier. C. II. L. Johnston. 27. Careers of Datger and Daring. Cleveland Moffett. 28. What Can Literature Do For Me? C. Alphonso Smith. Suggested Reading for Boys (Not Required). The Children's Hour. 10 volumes.
The Baby, the Banny and the Prophylactic Pup The antiseptic baby and the prophylactic pup Were playing in the garden when the bunny gamboled up;
Two Sly Tiap'pers Once two trappers whose, names were Jchn and Bill, went north to trap. They only had fifty traps, and sc they packed them in a canoe and started out. They went up
An Automobile Tale They went through Greensfork, One evening in May, Eighty automobiles Within one hour of the day. Some was going East. Some was going West, Some was going slow, Some was going their very best. Some had nice cushion seats, Some had only a board. Very few were Overlands, The rest w,as Fords.
Who was driving the Overland?
I Whn was rinvin? th Ford?
it constantly. J A white man driving the Overland,
A gocd book should be read more negro driving the Ford.
save his time, has a taste for reading, and lias formed the reading habit. In a week there are ICS hours. Ten hours of work a clay for 6 days make 60 hours for the week (most boys work much less; in many cities and states . the day's work is limited to hours; 10 hours a day for rating and sleeping make .70 hours; 3 hours a day for play and recreation make 21 hours; a
total of l jl hours. This leaves l i hours a week, of 884 hours a year, for reading as many hours as arej spent in school by a boy who at- i ;tends school regularly and prompt-! ly 5 hours a day, 9 months iu the!
year, with only 3 holiday
than once, and every boy should own some of the books that he reads. Books are cheap, and money paid for them is well invested and will ray large dividends in life and happiness and even in money. Most cities and towns in the United States and some country communities have good public libraries; and many public schools, both in city and country, hare good collections. Every community in which boys and girls live should have a public library with all the books of this list and many others in it. If there is no such library in your community in the school or elsewhere, then you should get all the
boys and girls to work with you
Sent in by Howard Brooks, coe Street.
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Query Corner
The editor will try to answer question's readers of tho Junior submit to her. She will not promise to answer all of them. The questions will be answered in rotation, no do not expect the answer to ho printed In the same week iu which you send It In.
with loathing undisguised,
For he wasn't disinfected and he wasn't sterilized; They said he was a microbe and a hot-bed of disease; They steamed him in a vapor of a thousand-odd degrees;
They froze him in a freezer that was cold as vanished hope. They washed him with permanganate and carbolated soapi With sulphuretted hydrogen they bathed his wiggly ears; They trimmed his frisky whiskers with a pair of hard-boiled shears; Then they donned their rubber mittens and they took him by the hand And elected him a member of the fumigated band. Now there's not a microbe in the garden where they play, And they bathe in pure iodoform a dozen times a day.
Taking each his daily ration from
a hygienic cup
The baby and the bunny and the
prophylactic pup
Maj. R. S. McKenzie, surgeon, in
the Watch on the Rhine, A. E. F,
A boy who has learned to use, J ul there u one his time well and has a little good .hn . .
aavice in Beieuuug uu.m, u., j toureau8 cerlifica,e must notify the
easily read two dozen good books
EXCHANGE COLUMN Open to All Boys and Girls. These Ada Cost You Nothing;
OCNlf 111 ivyi v v at 1 1 .v ih Palladium Junior.
FOR SALE High grade violin,
' three-quarter size; Heberlin make; ' 326 Pearl St., or phone 3133.
LOST One overshoe at St. Mary's
School. Call at 35 So. 19th St. FOR SALE Rabbits. One buck, ' two does. Call at once. Howard Brooks, Roscoe Street.
FOR SALE Two pair of Cochin Bantams. Call at 524 So. West A Street.
FOR SALE One 110 volte alternative current motor, two speed, one Linael Battery motor, one telegraph sounder. Will sell cheap. Call at 26 South Eleventh street or phone 1510. LOST Silver barrett between 12th and 14th streets. If found, return to the Palladium office.
WANTED 32 boys for a club. Training is given too. Leoline K. 915 North G. Street. 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. LOST Fur neck piece at the Washington Theatre. If found, return to 103 North 16th St., or Phone 1981.
bureau at the time they begin each book, and when each book is finished they must send a summary consisting of a description of the principal characters, the chief episodes, and their own impressions. Some of the books do not lend themselves to this form of summary. In these cases send a brief statement of the essential features of the books. By application to local or stale libraries readers may be able to borrow these books. The Bureau of Education does not furnish them. To each person who gives satisfactory evidence of having read all the books in this list, a certificate will be awarded bearing the seal of the United States Bureau of Education and signed by the Commissioner of Education. For admission to the circle of readers in this course it is necessary only to write to the Home Ed ucation Division, Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C, giving your name and post-office address, your age, and a brief statement of your education and occupation. It is not necessary that books be read in the order given. They should all be read, however, within three years from the time that you register. Reading Course No. 4. 1. Hans Brinker. Mary Mapes Dodge.
2. The Jungle Book. Rudyard Kip ling. 3. Robinson Crusoe. Daniel Defoe. 4. The Last of the Mohicans. James Fenimore Cooper. 5. Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain. 6. Stover at Yale. Owen Johnson. 7. Lorna Doone. R. D. Blackmore. 8. Treasure Island. Robert Louis Stevenson; 9. The Cloister and the Hearth. Charles Reade.
10. David Copuerfield. Charles Dickens. 11. Westward Ho! Charles Kingsley. 12. Age of Chivalry. Thomas Bui finch. 13. Ivauhoe. Sir Walter Scott.
SHARPENING THINGS
By Belle Case Harrington . Did you ever watch an old scissorsgrinder 'with his bell and -his tread-wheel? Housewives from all
over the neighborhood flock around him, for shears are always dull, so
it seems. Besides shears, there are. knives, meat-grinders, skates, pencils, and
lawn mowers that need sharpening. and if you carry, a hammer and I screw driver in your kit, there will ' be, many other little jobs which you can easily do, and which will net you a neat sum. ! An oil-stone is probably the best
all-around tool for your purpose.The 1
Dear Aunt Polly: What year j hardware dealer who sells ft to you was it when Adam and Eve were, will show-you -how to use It. If born?-Jumbo. j you can get hold of one of the Dear Jumbo: On New Year's round steel sharpeners which used
Day in the year 1. not 1 A. D., just plain 1. Just how many years ago the story i3 supposed to have taken place, nobody knows, so everybody guesses. It's lots of fun to guess, when no dark, sour looking person can pop up and say, "That's isn't right because I know!" and when
you know your guess is just about sharpen pencils. In the smaller ofas good as everyone else's. fices too, the pencils are generally Not wishing to act like that sour; in bad condition. An office boy in old joy-chaser, I will leave you to j one of the big buildings in Cleveyour own guessing as to how long , land has a regular list of customago this particular year 1, was. j ers whose pencils he sharpens on
Aunt Polly I
Dear Aunt Polly: Guess my name. L. V. R. Dear L. V. R. : That's easy. It's "Loveable Virginia Rhodes." Guessed it the very first time. Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt . Polly: What is my soldier brother's name? Hi3 initials are M. P. M. T. D. M. Dear T. M.: His first two names might be Member of Parliament, or Mounted Police, or something else grand like that. But since he is a soldier, he is never known by anything but his last name anyway first names are completely forgot
ten in the army and so I will just tell you his last name and that happens to be Mackay. Aunt Polly.
They looked upon the creature a small lake till they had gone per
haps GO miles. They had pa§ a town and gone on till they met a boy in a row boat. The boy told them that a family lived Just up the river apiece that always kept trappers through the season. John and Bill went to the place and got a room for the winter, then they made their line of traps up one side of the lake and down the other. They had caught a largo amount of rata and kept them In their room. One day the man went to look at their traps as usual when the man at the house suggested that they rob them and hide the furs in the woods. So one of the young men at the house took the skins and hid them in a hollow tree and then went back and tied and gagged the other people. Of course he was the son of the people and was doing as they said. He was acting like a robber had come and tied them to chains and then robbed them. After he got
this done he took his gun and went into the forest to hunt. The two trappers came back, and discovered the people all tied up. They soon had them all untied and they told what had happened, saying that a robber had taken all their furs and all their money. There was a bustle around there for a day and a half trying" to find the tracks but ail to no use. For a month or so all went well till little Nell exploded a bomb under the nose of Tom and Bill. You will have to excuse rae for I got the wrong name in before. Tom and Bill were getting ready to go out to hunt for some new places to set traps. They had not set all of them. It was a warm day in December and the birds in. the woods were singing joylly. - Nell was 13 and was looking fine with blue eyes, and rosy cheeks and dark black hair. She had asked to go along and see them set the tjaps. Nell was the favorite of the men so she got to go along. When they had gone about half way she told them if they would not tell her father or any of them at home she would tell who had taken their furs. Of course they promised not to tell so she told them of the plot.
They told her that they would hare
to get even with them so they asic-
cd her what she would advise them to do.
Nell's folks were mean to her and
did not care if she ran away or not. So she told them to take her and
make a house in : the woods and have it so her folks could not find it, and she would be their house maid.
She said that she would even be
one of their daughters. Tom said that he would adopt her. So Tom and Bill hunted -till they found a nice place to make a cave and the next day was Saturday and they went to the town called Foxtown and bought two picks and two Iron chisles and two- large hammers ' (To be Continued.) Ilershel Gregg, Butler township, school district No. 7, age 13.
Dollar-Making
Ideas
to be sold . with carying sets, It will
also be useful. A file is the best thing to sharpen, skates, and will often do for shears, too. . Don't Forget Pencils. It may sound like a joke to speak of sharpening pencils for pay; but the average woman simply can't
J-ITTLE MISCHIEF I shall tell you some stories about a little girl whose name was Bessie Allen. . She was so fond of being busy that she sometimes got into sad scrapes, so people called her "Little Mischief." One day she thought her father's hat looked rough and rusty. So what did she do but wash it with a sponge wet with water? She thought she was making it look quite nice and shiney. but she nearly spoiled it. Her father did not like it at all when he found what she had done. He loved his little girl but he thought her much too meddlcssome. Frances M. Berkmeyer, grade 4B, Starr school.
the patent pencil sharpener of his
employer with the employers consent, of course. Remember This Formula. It is a little too early for the lawn mower trade, but it will pay you to cut out this formula and put it in your desk for future reference. Sprinkle powdered pumice stone thickly upon a smooth hard surface. Make it the width of a lawn mower and about two feet long. Moisten it with machine oil, and run the lawn mower backward and forward over it, as if mowing. Touch up any parts not perfectly sharpened, with a file. By bringing all the lawn mowers to an old barn, or some other central point the amount of pumice stone required will not be large, and the process can be kept a secret.
ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S RIDDLES 1. One p Lela Moyer. 2. He was afraid the magazines would blow up. Lela M. 3. Because he is always looking for snags. Chester C. 4. Girls' Names Catherine, Mable, Dortha, Bessie, Theima, Alice, Roberta, Irene, Helen, Ruby. Owen McCoy. 5. A wise one (Ay YYs 1) Correctly spelled. There was an old person of Hove, Who frequented the depths of a grove, Where he studied his hooks. With wrens and the rooks That tranquil old person of Hove. From Edward Lear's "Book of Nonsense." 6. "Who Shall Free Her?" A little girl was captured by a party, and they told her if she could make a riddle they could not guess they would free her. She started out studying and she saw a horse's skull with a bird's nest in it, and five little birds hatched and one piped and when the other was hatched then the seventh shall set the Virgin free. It was the mother bird. Russell Stanley.
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