Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 87, 21 February 1920 — Page 11

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM RICHMOND, INDIANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1920

Essay Contest Arouses Interest in Richmond "What are the benefits derived from an enlistment in the United States army" id the question on which many boys and girls, all over the Utited States, were writing Friday. The contest was announced by

the different Army Recruiting stations of the entire country and was open to the boys and girls of all the public schools of the United States. The essays were written in the class rooms on Friday, February 20, and were not to contain more than 400 words. The best from each building were sent to the local recruiting station. Then the best selected from all the essays sent in from Richmond schools will be sent to the recruiting headquarters at Indianapolis, which will in turn forward the best essay from the state to the War Department in Washington. From this number will be chosen the final winners the three ben. The three lucky ones will receive three medals the writer of the best essay, a gold medal of the second best, a silver medal and of the third best, a bronze medal. And the very best part of all is that these three boys or girl3 will be given a free trip to Washington, D. C, and will there bo awarded the medals they have won. Besides these national prizes, the state is offering a silver cup to the boy or girl who writes the best essay in Indiaua., The local recruiting headquarters is also planning attractive prizes for the best Richmond writers in the contest. Although it was not expected that a large number of Richmond children would enter the contest, there, were several contestants from the

different schools.

NATION HONORS MEMORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON

Garfield Pickups. Special programs were held Thursday morning in the different Assembly Rooms in honor of George Washington. Many interesting readings and recitations and otlier forms of entertainment were enjoyed by the pupils. No chapel exercises will be held this semester as the chapel room

has been condemned. Insufficient

fire protection is the cause.

THE GIRLS' WINTER SPORTS IN HIBBERD YARD "Whew it's icy" is the slogan used most frequently in the Hibberd school yard. The girls side is very slick which makes the girls' sports fine. Some of the sports are sliding, coasting, chase, race track, horse and partnership. Of course everyone knows how to play partnership and chase, sliding on sleds and coasting on sleds, but others do not know how to play the rest so I will explain. Race track is played in this way. Some of the girls bring sleds to school to make icy sled-tracks.

These we call race tracks and

coast on them. Horse is different

One of the big girls has another

girl to take hold of her coat and pulls her. Margaret E. Kemper.

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Pictures of Washington, his wife, his birthplace and his tomb. The birthplace of George Washington at Westmoreland county, Virginia, Is shown in the upper corner. The picture of George Washington at the right is one of the best liked and best known pictures of him. The portrait of Washington in the center is a. reproduction of a painting made in 1772 by Charles Wilson Pealc when Washington was 40. Washington gave Peale 18 pounds and 4 shillings for the painting. The portrait of Martha Washington is one of the best liked likenesses of the wife of the Father of His Country. Below is Washington's tomb at Mt. Vernon.

THE BOYS' SPORTS. The boys of Hibberd school are having great fun. The things they bring are skates and sleds. The sport I am most interested In is ice-skating. The boys that bring-skates are Charles, Estell, Cleo and Robert. The best skater Is Estell Lid he can make the figure eight perform the Indian dance ard can do many other things. Other boys have great fun on their sleds. Clarence Puckett

GEORGE WASHINGTON George Washington was the first president of the United States. He was born in Westmoreland county, Va., Feb. 20, 1732, and died Dec. 14, 1799. He married Martha Washington In 1759. The Washington monument at Washington is 555 feet high and was begun in 1849 by the Washington National Monument society, and finished in 1884 by the United States government. Lillian Smelker, 5th grade, New Paris, O.

Making Jack Happy. It was early in June and Jack's roses were in full bloom. Everyone who came to visit his mother thought they were beautiful. Just across the street from Jack's house was a little cottage whefe lived an old woman. One day the old woman was very sick. Jack's mother told him about it and he went right out in the back yard and picked a large bunch of roses. He took them to the old woman. She thanked him very much and said that some day she could make him as happy as he had made her. The next February Jack and his family moved and he had to go to

another school. It was nearly Valentine and Jack thought he would not get a valentine. On Valentine morning Jack awoke bright and early and was down stairs in a moment. On the table right where his plate should be was a large envelope. He hurried and opened it. Out fell a beautiful valentine made of a heart of roses and in the middle of the heart were these words: "To the boy who made an old wom

an happy with roses." You may be sure Jack was a very happy boy. Charles Waggoner, Vaile School, 6B grade.

Garfield Art Club Exhibits Work In Miss Maue's room in the High School building have been exhibited for the past week about thirtyfive speciments of art work accomplished by the boys and girls who were members of the Garfield Art Club last semester. About seventeen strings of gaily colored beads are shown which were made by the

girls of Miss Mawhood's depart-1 motion picture company began her

"Movie" Favorites Who Began Early Did you think that people who act on the stage are all grown up when they begin their careers? Many of them are grown up, but many of them take part in plays when they are children, sometimes very young children. Miss Thelma Percy who is 17

years old and playing for a large

ment of the club. An equal number

of pictures copies of casts and landscapes, mostly in black and white, are shown as the work done by the boys of Mr. Brown's class. Miss Williams hopes soon to exhibit this work in the Junior High School.

PUBLIC PLAYROOM FOR BOYS. Since there is no Y. M. C. A. at Seymour, Indiana, the boys did not know just where to go to have a good time. But somebody had an idea and mentioned it and it became popular right away. And that idea was that the basement of the City Library would make a very "playable" playroom for the boys of Seymour. After-a few changes anad "fixings over" the new playroom will be opened and it is expected that the room will soon be opened for a good time.

FOUR NEW FLAGS. Some of the new states that have sprung up as a result of the war and which have been recognized as new states by the allies have been very busy lately. They have been planning their new flags. Four of the states have decided upon their flags. They are: Letvia, red, white and red horizontal stripes. Esthonia, blue, black and white horizontal stripes. Georgia, a crimson ground with a rectangle half back and half white in the upper corner. The kingdom of the Hedjaz, black, green and white horizontal stripes.

HISTORICAL CHARADE (a) Between 2 hills my first is seen Generally pleasant, sunny and green. (b) Fiery hot my second then, Comforts the horses and busies men. (c) Speak my first and my second, My whole, then, you name An army's headquarters Known for suffering and fame. (Answer will appear in next week's Junior.)

life on the stage when she was

nine years old, playing the part of one of the fairies in "Peter Pan" with the famous and well-loved actress, Maude Adams. Mary Pickford was in short dresses when she began playing with the famous play producer, David Belasco; Mary Miles Minter played in "The Littlest Rebel" at the age of six. Priscilla Dean had the honor of playing the part of little Mina when the great actor Joseph Jefferson was taking the part of Rip Van Winkle in the play "Rip Van Winkle." When she was only four years old, Josephine I fill sang with the Pollard Lilliputians. Frank Mayo played little Dave in "Davy Crockett" with his famous grandfather when he was five years old. So you see many people who are now popular in "movies" were acting on the real stage when they were children.

LEAP YEAR PARTY It is almost time for the leap year party. Too bad that the 29th comes on a Sunday this year. But we can have a party on Saturday, the 28th. Have you some unusually good ideas about how to work up such a party?" Write a letter to the Junior Editor so that she can print here your ideas and all the other girls can have better parties, too. Be sure to sign your name.

DoYoaWantto Write to Odette? Another letter will soon be on Its way across the Atlantic to Odette Negre from her friends here. It la' thought that perhaps there are some Richmond boys and girls who1 would like to write a little letter to her. If there are any Juniors: who would like to write, and your editor hopes there are some, please write your little message to her and send or bring it to the Junior office as soon as possible. If you: have any snapshots or pictures of' yourselves or your pets that you' would like An send, enclose them! with your letter and we are sure Odette will be delighted to receive them. Odette is a very friendly littie givl twelve years old and seems very Interested in all her, little friends here. For those Juniors who may not know who Odette is, we add that she is the little. French orphan adopted by The I Junior Palladium. -

THE VALENTINE'S STORY TO A SCHOOL PUPIL! Along while ago I was a little ba-' by's white dress. j My mistress was a pretty little golden haired baby girl. Her1, mother was very proud of her and myself too. j When 6he washed me, she was' always careful that I did not get torn. When I was ironed she nev er scorched me and I was always ironed very smooth and neat. ! But one day when my mistress' had outgrown me I was put away! in a box with many other clothes.; Many months after, I think it' must have been somewhere nearj Christmas, baby's mother came up to the room where I was and took me out of the box and took me down stairs. When I got down there I was put on a lovely tig doll. Then I was set under a Chlrstmas tree, all decorated with candles. The next morning my little mistress came into th eroom and found me on the large doll. You should have seen her. She picked me up and smoothed me out and then laid us into a cradle. I stayed on this doll for almost a year and then one day my mis-' trees took us out of doors and laid me on 'the ground. s j We had not been there very long-

before here came a very fierce dog

up to us and tore me off of the:

doll. When my little mistress came back and found me all torn, she began to cry, and her mother came out and said for her to never mind, she would make her another one Just as pretty as I was.' Then I was thrown in a bag with many other rags and clothes. ( Then one day a man came into the house where I was and picked up the sack that I was in and put! us into a wagon and took us awwy.j He then put us on a train and shipped away to a large city called Philadelphia and there I was run through a good many machines and when I came out I was no longer a piece of cloth but a sheet of paper. I was then put with many other pieces of paper and tied into a bundle and sent away in the cars . again. ' Then I was taken into a large house and put into a cutting machine and cut into the shape of a heart. I was then sent to another machine where I had a tiny verse writ-' ten on the inside of me. When I was out of this I was then run thru a- machine that colored my, face and put a pretty picture on me. I Then I was taken to a store and

put on a counter with many other Valentines. I lay there for a long while and one day a very nice boy picked me up and gave me to the clerk to wrap up. When he got home with me, he took 'out some paste and other things 'and then put over my face a piece of paper lace and then cut a hole in the center so my face might show and was pasted on to it very fast He then nut me in an enveloDe

and mailed me to the very little girl that used to be my mistress. She then set me on top of her bureau and here I still sit. Center School No. S. !