Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 87, 21 February 1920 — Page 13

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THIS RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1!U9

PAOB THRE1

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 boya 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 perlonally as they bring their articles to The Palladium office, or to receive letters addressed to the Junior EdUor. This Is your little newspaper and we hope each boy and girl will use it thoroughly.

Every Day Science

for Boy Mechanics

MAKING ARTIFICIAL ICE V,y firant M. Hyde "How does amonia make Ice, Daddy?" "By evaporating. It freezes water near it because it has a lot of 'latent heat'." "What is latene heat?" "Did you ever notice that, when some gasoline evaporates on your hand, it feels very cold? That is evidence of the latent heat of evaporation. Did you ever notice that ice will not freeze cream in the icecream freezer until you ad salt to ment the ice? That is also latent heat. y "It is one of the laws of nature that, whereas it takes so many heat Units to raise the temperature of a pan of water from zero to the boiling point, same more units are need to turn it into steam which still has the same temperature of 212 degrees. The last units that make the steam are latent heat, and the same units come out again when the steam condenses into water in a steam radiator. When wa-

The All Round Girl

Red Cheeks and Pep

I'LL say so . By Motile Price Cook "Elizabeth, close those windows, You're freezing us out." " I'll say so," Jack called. "Well you need fresh air every hour," answered Elizabeth, "and if it is tdo cold to keep the windows open all the time, they should be

Indian Spends Years Carving

Tribe's History on Totem Pole

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ter freezes, it gives off the eame latent, or extra, heat which it takes to ment ice. Almost all substances show this law when passine from solid to liquid or to cas

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some substances take on and give off more latent heat than others. "Ammonia is used for ice-making because it handles a lot of latent heat. Although it evaporates at ordinary temperatures, heat is necessary to enable it to evaporate, and the amonia takes this heat from anything earby. "In a refrigerator plant, the ammonia is first compressed by a pump into liquid form, then allowed to evaporate in a coil of pipes hung in a tank of salt-brine, which does not easily freeze. The brine, thus cooled to very low temperature, is run through pipes in the refriger-ating-room or other places that are to be cooled. In most ice-making plants, it runs through pipes encircling a tank of water and freezes the water. "Although ammonia is most commonly used, other substances are Bometimes employed, and other methods of using amonia are in practice." Copywriglit. 1920, by J. II. Millar

Carl Graham Heads Astronomy Club Officers for the new semester were elected Tuesday by the Astronomy Club at Junior High School. Carl Graham is the new president of the club. A program committee was formed whose chairman is Richard Lancaster. Earl Hawkins and William Webb are the other members of this committee. Club meetings are held every Tuesday afternoon at 3:20 when informal talks about the sky dwellers, the planets, Mr. Moon and the stars are enjoyed by the members. Observation meetings are held from time to time on clear evenings. Mr. Beck, instructor of English, is the faculty member of the club.

opened frequently, letting in fresh air and closing them when it gets too cold. We can exercise while they are open." "I get enough exercise," said Jack "Of course, you get a lot. Jack,

but there are jolly things to do in the house that you wouldn't dare do outdoors. For instance, this is an exercise that girls like and there's no reason why boys should not try it." Elizabeth held up the back of a chair with her right hand and balanced herself on her right foot, with her left leg stretched as far back and as high ui as possible Rising on the ball of her foot, she bent the upper leg, rotating the knee outward and pointing the toe Her left arm extended diagonally forward above her head. "This is harder than it looks," said Elizabeth. "I'll say so," said Jack, trying to

hold the position.

Elizabeth put her hands on her

lips. Then keeping the body perfectly straight, she bent one knee, extending the other foot forward and raising her body up and down ten times. With each bend of the knee, the free foot swung back and forth. Then she changed to the other foot and repeated the exercise. That exercise can be varied by pointing the toe of the free foot, touching it to the floor and kicking outward from five to ten times; then changing feet. Kick-Twos: 1 Hands on hips, body erect, kicking forward alter

nately and as rapidly as possible!

toes pointing and just slamming the floor. 2 Same exercise, kicking backward instead of forward. A clever girl can think up dozens of variations to exercise of this kind. Copywri&ht, 1920, by J. II. Millar

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Chief Shelton at work on the pole and arrayed in his war bonnet Chief William Shelton, head of the Indian school at Tulalip reservation in Washington, is just completing a giant totem pole describing the history of his tribe, the Snohomish tribe. He has been working steadily on the pole for five years. Its height, when completed, will be over 100 feet and it will be seven feet in diameter. It will stand in front of the school and last for generations, Shelton believes. The combined wealth of the world would not persuade Shelton to sell it, he declares. He is said to be the only totem pole maker in the world.

AUNT POLLY'S LETTER.

FABLE OF TWO BOOKS There were two books. One had a pretty cover, the other was worn and dingy. Said the one with the shiny cover, "Look how much better I am than you." Said the one with the dingy, worn back, "Yes, you are prettier but I have done good I have been read. I was Jim's favorite book before he went to the war." And one day many years later a famous man, that once was called "Jim," said. "One book more than any other has helped me to make my life a success. I can never figure in dollars the value that book has been to me. I had my old copy bound yesterday in the finest leather binding I could find."

Henry Clay said once that his mother was always poor, but that she was never too poor to buy him a good book.

Dear Juniors: Well, here I am back again after being away from Junior work for two whole weeks. Vacation ? Well, not exactly. I was entertaining company. Now, usually, I just love to have company at our house everyone feels so happy and we have extra good things to eat and it is heaps of fun but this company was different. You see this company I have been entertaining for two long weeks was Mr. Antiochas Rameses Flu. I guess those are his first names. Anyway he ought to be buried way off in an Egyptian desert like old Rameses and never dare to show his head again. Don't you think so? Anyway he has gone now and I am so happy to be back at work again in the Junior office, that I feel like letting someone shoot me to Mars as that aviator wants to be shot only I would want to be shot back again right here into Richmond, Indiana. Did you all read the little notice in last week's Junior asking all you boys and girls from the very youngest to the oldest of Junior age to write to the Junior office and tell us your ideas about what you would like to see in your little newspaper? I want to remind you of this and ask you to write us what you think about it, because we are only very human after all we who plan your little paper for you, and what we plan may not be what you would most like to see and read in your paper. Perhaps we publish a fishing story or a ghost story just when you wanted to read a fairy story or a scout yarn or a wonderful story about a little tea party with blue dishes or do something else disappointing like that. And besides, probably you think of all sorts of good ideas for your little newspaper which do not happen to come into your Aunt Polly's head at all, and which would make the Junior more interesting. I, for one, will just be "tickled pink" and yellow and blue and green, too, if you will write about these ideas to us. And I promise right now that the Junior who sends in the best suggestion before next Saturday will get an ice cream sundae with chocolate syrup and nuts and whipped cream ?nd a big red cherry right on top. " All the time when I had nothing to do but look at the ceiling I was planning to make the Junior a better little paper than ever, for all its little friends, who are also my little friends. And you can help too. Your very own, AUNT POLLY.

Fop Boys to Make

Handicraft

SWING ROWING MACHINE Ily Grant M. Hyde You've heard of the rowing raa chines used in college gymnasiums to develop the back, leg, and arm muscles of varsity crew men? A swinging plank rowing-machine is a similar device that any ingenious boy can set up in the attic, basement, or wherever there is room and fresh air. The principal part of the rowing machine is a swinging-plank hung on four ropes from joists or rafters above. The plank should be about 10 feet long. 1 1-2 to 2 in. thick, and 10 to 12 inches wide. It should hang about 8 inches above the floor on four ropes tied separately to prevent tiHing. To be stiffer, it might be hung on four long narrow boards, say 1x4 inches pivoted on spikes at each end. The handles, or stationary oars (E and E) may be made of sections out of the handle of an old shovel or rake. The uprights (D and D) to which they are fastened with bolts, should be about 2 feet long and of 2x4s. The cross pieces (C) to which the uprights are nailed should be a 2x4 about 3 feet long. The clearance between the inside ends of the handles must be at least 20 inchts. The footrest (F) is a 2x4 about 30 to 36 inches long, nailed edgewise to floor. The distance between the handles and footrest depends on the boy's size. Hang the plank and build the oar and footrest frameworks. Before nailing them to the floor, sit on the plank, lean far back, almost touching the back to the plank, and keep legs absolutely straight. While in that position, have someone place the footrest so that it is against the feet and the oar framework so that you can just reach it with your hands by streaching,

Then nail the framework in.that position. To use the machine, sit on the plank, with the feet on the footrest and pull yourself forward with your hands, allowing knees to bend; then push back with your feet. Do it slowly and pull hard. A load of boys on the plank will keep the exercise. Copywright, 1920. by J. H. Millar

Forty Dolls Eager To Go To Far East Forty little dark skinned faces will be wearing forty little happy smiles on some day which may be in next July or August. Anyway, whenever the boatload of smiling doll children arrives in that distant port, there will be great rejoicing, we are sure of that. Many dolls will go from Richmond and already the first part, of them let us call them "The Rainbow Division Dolls" are dressed and waiting to be called into service. There are forty of these. Fifteen of them have been dressed by the girls in the industrial classes of the Junior High School with the greatest care and interest. These fifteen dolls were given to the Industrial Art girls, to dress by the Red Cross. Twenty-five other dolls were given, already dressed, by other Garfield girls. A grand parade was held in the sewing room at Garfield Tuesday afternoon. No, the dolls did not parade the girls of Garfield did the parading all around the sewing room looking at the gaily dressed dolls with great delight. These same forty dolls were also on exhibit in Price's confectionery store the latter part of the week. All the ('oils carried precious messages around their necks. There were the names and addresses of the girls who gave or dressed the dolls.