Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 99, 6 March 1920 — Page 15

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY. MARCH 6. lf20

PAOB THHKrt

THEJUNIOR PALLADIUM The Junior Palladium is the children's section of the Richmond Palladium, founded May fi, 1916, and issued each Saturday afternoon All boys and girls are invited to bo reporters ami contributors. News Items, social events, "want" advertisements, s'orie?, loral jolccs and original poems are accept-.We and will bu published. Articles should le written plainly and on one side of the papa, with the author's name tiul age ijffiied. Aunt Polly is always glad to meet the children personally as they bring their articles tc 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.

Nature Study

Outdoor

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TENANTS OF THE BARN t!y A.l.Miii l:et I Hoard The slim, gray and w hite barn Owl is a tenant of the barn because it is, or has been, easier to get in and out and to establish himself there than in other places that otter shelter and elusion. Put the steeple of a church or the beli tower of a school house answers quite as well, or better, for, unless the boys find him, he is more apt 'o be left undisturbed. He will even accept a hole in a tree if he must. A pair of Barn Owls lived in the steeple of the church of our town some years ago, content and happy until the church was repaired.

When the broken window of the steeple was mended and the Owls discovered and put out, there was honest indignation among the birdlovers of the place who had long known of their presence but had

kept the secret loyally. The twin children of these Barn Owls were brought to my house by a boy of the neigh borhood. Truly, they were of an uncanny appearance. Even their coats of fluffy, yellowish down did not soften their looks and their manners were certainly not polished. The flat triangular faces with big eye-disks and sharp, hooked beaks, looked ages old. The fierceness with which they repelled any friendly advances would have torn the advancer to pieces had the birds been large enough to carry out their seeming wish. As it was they were only a handful and lay braced against the wall striking out with their talons and emitting a hissing noise from their open mouths which they varied by snapping their beaks like castanets. They were indeed only babies but, after all, plucky ones and it was no doubt fear, rather than rage, that inspired them, for Barn Owls can be tamed and, it is said, make docile pets. A full grown Barn Owl is about eighteen inches high. It gives a thrillingly wild scream when it flys out at night and startles you unless you know what it is. Copywright, 1320, by J. If. Millar

Miss Chickadee Describes Herself This is tho bird 1 chose to be in our Nature Club. The Black Capped Chickadee. 5 1-1 inches in length. The Chickadees are one of the most popular birds that we have, owing to their uniform pood nature oven in the coldest weather, and their confiding disposition. They are common about farms, and even on the out skirts of large cities they will come to feasts prepared lor them on the window sills. Notes. A clear "phe-be," a chick-a-dee-dHwie" or dee-dee-dee." and several .-coaling or chuckling notes. Nest In hollow stumps at any elevation from the ground, but usually near Uie ground, and most often in birch stubs; eggs white, sparingly specked with reddish brown. Range Eastern North America breeding in the northern half of the United States and northward resident.

Writen by Miss Chickadee. (Miss Marguerite Burbanck,) the Nature Club.

Contest Encourages Shoeing of Horses To Protect Them on Slippery Pavements

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A Belgian Boy's Story

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Inspecting non-skid shoe designed for city horses tn New York. To encourage the shoeing of horses with sharp or non-skid shoes to aid them on slippery pavements the Horses' Aid society of New York originated a contest for inventors of non-skid and patent sharpened

shoes. The judging took place on tb.3 frozen lake in Central Park. Miss

I was five years old when the, Margaret George, director of the society, helped judge the merits of the wt: i ; I : I a t .... . . . .

Lively Times in English Class The fA's and 6B's at Baxter school have written language. One day the pupils of one row will write and we choose the boy and girl that have the best stories. After every row has written and the boys and girls are chosen then all the

girls write on one day and we choose the best story among them Then the boys write the next day and we choose the best from among theirs. Then the boy and girl that had the best stories write and we choose the best of these. Then that pupil is winner in the contest. The one that is beaten shakes hands with the winner and congratulates him to ehow they Are good friends. This part of the contest is always funny. We can not get a story outof a book or have any one else write it for us. It must be something that has happened or a beautiful sight we have seen. We try to get a new subject that no one has thought of before. Martha Evans, 6B, Baxter School.

war broke out. I lived in a little

village near Brussels. My. father worked in the shop and my mother kept chickens, and cow and worked i na garden. I have one brother and one sistor, my brother was eighteen, my sister was eight. When the Germans came across

our country, my father and brother;

enlisted to fight the Germans back. The Germans burned our home and killed our cow, and chickens for food. My sister and I were taken away from our home by the Germans and my mother was taken away by another German. We were glad when the United States helped us out because the Germans were very mean to us, and didn't give us enough to eat. And when the war was over I finally got to my mother, and my brother was wounded and he was in a hospital in Paris. My father was wounded at the battle of the Marne. After the war was over, they came back

home . After a time we

many dvices exhibited. She is shown above examining a chain device.

make your heart ache. Wasn't it, Harry?" Harry shook hid head. "We won't tell Willie about that, Charles. It isn't good for him." "Yes it is. Hurry," said Willie. "It makes me more patient. I lie awake nights and think of things of that sort, and I feel as if these men were brothers. Then I can bear pain better. They suffered for something to gain some good. I only suffer for myself. There's the difference." "Oh! Mr. Pel ford talked about that, too," said Charles. "The most beautiful story he told was about that. Patient suffering when no one la by to praise us when we can't see the good of it he said that is the highest courage of all" "Did he though?" said Willie, with a bright look In his eyes. "What was the story?" "About a ship, full of troops, sent to India at the time of the Crimean War. The ship sprung a leak, and they worked hard but couldn't save her. There were boats for a very few only, so the captain and officers called up the soldiers and crew. "Put the women and children into the boats," said the captain; and they put .them in. Then they formed on the deck,1 man to man, shoulder to shoulder, calm and quiet as if they were on parade and down they went ship and all, without a cry. Willie brushed his hands across his eyes, and Harry sprung to his feet, leaped into the air and shouted "Hurrah" before he felt fit to go back to school. The clock began and struck 1:00. They went back to school. Charles and Harry, very sorrowful, but they loved Willie. Bernice E. Beeson, District, No. 4, Grade 161.

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The Brave"

The last stroke of twelve had struck. Long before its tones had died away, the school doors flew open, and out burst the happy boys, all talking at once. Not a moment was lost in getting to play. Jackets were taken off; balls were thrown and caught by the larger boys; and the smaller ones retired into corners of the play-grounds with marbles, as better suited to their age. Two only of that merry crew stood apart from tho rest, and shook their heads when calleil upon to join in the games. "Let us go at once, Harry," said Charles, turning off to the gate. "The longer we stay here the harder it will be, and we promised Willie, you know. Poor Will! he is sure to be looking out for us." Yes. indeed. Willie was looking out. They found him in the garden

found ' on a couch, under a large shady

sister, and we were all at home again Ail. Paul Sanders, Grade 6, Economy Indiana.

Sheep Not Playful Boy Discovers

One of the most interesting places on a farm is the barnyard, or it seemed that way to me. I used to sit on the fence and

watch Use cattle and sheep come in j and it was all they needed

from the pasture. When once inside the gate there was one mad rush to the water trough. I had been told many times to leave the sheep alone but one day I thought I would have a little game of my own; so I began chasing the sheep. Before I knew it,

a ram turned around and butted

me, throwing me several feet back

ward. I lost no time in getting up to the house. When I got to the

house what do you think 1 got?

I got that same old "1 told you so."

I made up my mind then and there

to leave the sheep alone. John

Harding, 6B, Baxter School.

WILL WASH NECKS AND EARS More than 200,000 school boys and girls in New York state, outside New York City, have joined in the Modern Health Crusade. They pledged themselves to take care of their own health. Here are some of the things they promise to do: Wash their hands before each meal. Wash their necks and ears as well as their faces each day. Drink a glass of water before each meal and before going to bed. Brush their teeth every morning and evening. Sleep ten hours each night. sua uJ MDml fiUaijht.

tree. The two toys threw themselves down on the grass by his side, and asked if he was better. "No," answered Willie. "Yet you never look dull and miserable," said Charles. "You alwavs have a pleasant word for us." "I ought to have," said Willie,

"when you give up your games toj come and see me." It was .all the 1 thanks he gave his two friends.

Boys

are shy ot speamng their leenngs, but they understand each other. ! "When we were reading about, the Spartans this morning," said Harry. "I thought of you. Willie. 1 thought you would have made a first-rate Spartan.", ' "Did Mr. Belford tell you any good stories about brave people?"

asked Willie. "Yes, capital ones; and a great deal about different kinds of courage, but I remember the stories best." "Tell me some of them." "Well, there was one which, I daresay, you know. About. Napol1 1 , i . i . r 1 . ,.

eon caning a soiuier out in laniti

to write a letter for him. He rested the paper on a wall, and just when he had done, there came a cannon

ball close by. and battered down

some of the wall, covering them.

with dust. The soldier merely :

shook the dust off the paper, and ; said, "That will serve to dry the ink, sire." The Emperor took notice of him after that, and he became a great general before long." "Did he tell you anything about the charge at Balaklava?" asked Willie. "Oh, Yes" said Harry, and he made it as plain as possible. There was a valley a long valley. Lot us make'it in this flower bed. Now, look here Willie, this is the

valley, and the Russians have possession of all these hills, and they have cannon on them and the English army is at this end. Well, they get an order, six hundred of the light cavalry." "There was some mistake about that order," said Charles. Well, mistake or no mistake, said Harry, "they never stopped to ask." The order was to ride up this valley and stop the firing." "Spike the cannon," said Charles. "So they dashed off at once, straight through the iron hail. The whole 6ix hundred, horses and men not one coward, cut through a Russian regiment, and as many as were alive cut their way back again, and they did this work they stopped the cannon; but not half of them returned." "Did you hear any more about the Crimea?" asked Willie. "Ob, yes. of the sort of courage the courage of endurance, the patient suffering in the trenob.es."; said Charles. It was enough to

RIDDLES! 1. Upon the hill there is a mill; back of the mill there is a pond, in that pond there is a boat, in that boat there is a girl, beside the girl there is a belL What is her name?. 2. If a father gave fifteen cents to one son and ten cents to another one. What time will it be? 3. Why does a fanner always build his pig pens on top of the hill? 4. Down in a dark dungeon, I saw a bright light; All saddled, all bridled, all fixed for a flight. Slik was his saddle. And silver his bow, I told you the name three times in a row. Marjorie Baker, School No. 11. 5. What is the difference be twe-en a pound of lead and a pound of feathers? Chester Collins. ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S RIDDLES Printer's PI Margaret, Henry, Charles, Martha, Agnes, and Garnet Helen Lee.

Society Leota and Howard Hosbrook spent Sunday in Dayton Ohio, being the guest at Loews.

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