Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 117, 27 March 1920 — Page 15

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM

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iviii titlo m llnUoA tntoe From the scenes of war, souvenirs from the battle field are not the only treasures brought back by those who went overseas. There Isn't a more dearly cherished memento of the days "over there" brought back by a war worker than a pair of dolls from Alsace, Grctel and Yerrl, dressed in the costume of the Alsataln,and designed by the famous French cartoonist Hanst. The little girl, with roguish eyes peeps from an overpowering headdress of black topped with the huge black ribbon bow whose long ends reach almost to the hem of her outstanding skirt of brown silk. Over the bodice is worn a gay plaid silk ehawl, and the Inevitable apron is of changeable taffeta. She carries a bright red umbrella, all too big, in one hand, and in the other, a tiny slate acros which is written, "Vive la France, Gretel." The tricolor rosette decorates one loop of the head ribbon. Yerri is brave in black velvet suit with scarlet vest trimmed with braes buttons. Atop his red hair is a black fur cap with red crown and one small hand carries a boquet in the tricolors. He also bears a slate inscribed with the same message and swinging from both slates are the tiniest of sponges, reminiscent of the old school days. Brought Dolls from Europe Miss Ruth Charlotte Bush who spent seventeen months overseas as an entertainer, brought home a collection of dolls which she carried around with her, regardless of inconveniences, until the small figures seemed indispensible members of the party. There is a Paris doll with cloth body and hand painted face, gowned in vivid green silk, its short skirt standing out almost straight like a ballet skirt. She wears white silk half-hose; and green shoes, and atop her Titian hair is a flaming carrot-colored bow of ribbon. All light and color is this little lady from Paris. A small china doll from Luxemburg wears a modest little gown of blue silk with demure white fichu, and a cunning poke bonnet of blue silk. An enchanting little harem doll brought way from a small Arabian village in Africa, where the steamer stopped for four days on the way home, is gowned in the most approved har em fashion with brocade trousers, one side red and the other green; an Arabian headdress wound tightlv around the head, with lone lace! veil covering: all but the oves. and tinv sandles. This dollv's face is I much disfigured by tattoo marks, following the true harem custom. A German doll eventually intended for American trade since its vocab ulary is confined to "rnama." has real eyelashes and eyes which turn coyly in the most natural fashion, flirting with her admirers. She has wonderful bobbed hair, and is so jointed that she may assume any position. Even her small fingers and nails are perfectly de signed. Dolls Mascots Against "Big Bertha"! Then there is a very tiny Alsat Jan couple made of yarn the girl with long blond braids and flowered apron, and the boy equally as blond, dressed in black with red sash. This very diminutive pair is supposed to act as mascots, and in less happy days, afforded protection against the big Bertha, and the air raids. They are small enough to be ducked into a purse or convenient pocket. A most realistic bulldog stood guard over this charming group all the way from France. During his business hours he bears a box of matches on his back but he is as ornamental as he is useful. Everyone who went overseas brought back all the souvenirs he could carry, and it is curious to note how many dolls and toys found their way back across the water amid the hardships and tur moil which necessarily attended travel at that time. Indianapolis Star.

FEEDING THE BIRDS I am going to tell you how my father, sister and myself fed the birds this winter. My father nailed a box to the top of the fence post and filled it full of nuts. Then we read in the paper how to nail an ear of corn to a post so that the redbird could eat it. My father also tied a piece of suet to a tree.

I We hav0 had many little feathered

creatures about our home this winter. There were 3 chickadees, 2 nuthatches, a creeper, a redbird, a hairy wodpecker and downy wood pecker and a blue jay. These birds came every morning and alter the red bird has had his breakfast he sits in the top of a tree and sings a very pretty song. Katherine King, Page County, la. In Arabia An Arab boy lives In a tent. He moves around, And pays no rent A little boy on a sandy desert, Was caught in a storm one day He covered his head and lay flat on his face Until the storm all went away. The Arab boy can shoot and fight And they can run all their might. The Arab girls wear veils of lace To cover up part of their face. A racing camel I saw one day, He kicked up his heels and ran away. Sevastapol, Grade 3 & 4.. Only A Path in The Country "l wonder where Myra could be, "queried Mrs. Genie as she came out of her daughter's room. "Isn't she in there?" asked the father, "where did she go?" "To Martha's. Marvin White and Stephen Jenkins were to meet them there and take them to the opera." "Maby she stayed at Martha's all night." "No she tcai: the key, and besides she wasn't prepared to stay out for the night." "Now, Just call up Mrs. Harris and see if she isn't there." "Oh, there's the phone now." "Hello, what? Martha gone, too? Elizabeth entering, "Where's Myra, Mother?" "I don't know, dear. But I do know thi3 that you are never going out tonight until we find out where Myra and Martha are." Time passed on. The police and searching parties had scoured America. It was even rumored that searching parties had started out in Europe but nothing was heard of Myra and Martha. One morning as they sat down to breakfast Elizabeth said. "It's getting to be lonesome without Myra." Just then the morning paper came and Elizabeth ran to get it for her father. When she saw the headlines she cried, "Oh mother, two more girls have disappeared." "Who are they? Read about it.' "Last evening, "Elizabeth began in her clear voice, "Marion Jones ' and Lucy Morton started to the park with Marvin White and Steven Jenkins. When they did. not return their parents became anxious and worried. Police have searched the city in vain. Police and searching parties are out now, but nothing has been reported." "Well, it certainly seems quepr. Myra and Martha were with Marvin and Stephen?" said the mother. "I never did like Marvin or Stephen either one," said Elizabeth. One day Elizabeth and her friend Edith were walking in the country, j Elizabeth stepped on something, that gave way under her foot. Onj loomng uown mey eaw a iray uuui. (To be continued.) Mary Lucile Moorman, Freshman It H. S. J. H. S. Art Clubs Busy The members of the Junior High School Arts and Crafts club are making Sanitas Table Mats and happy indeed will be the mother of these designers If they are the recipients of a set of hand decorated table mats. Each member makes his own design and chooses his own cloor harmony. The members of Mr. Brown's club the Drawing and Painting club are meeting with Mr. Brown in his studio above the Richmond Light, Heat and Power company, on the corner of Ninth and Main streets and are working there.

RICHMOND, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH

Children Have Style Show Too In one of the large windows of the Lee B. Nusbanm store were exhibited Friday afternoon and all day Saturday until 6 o'clock some of the spring dresses for children. What is most important to us, these dresses were shown by little girls of Richmond who played in tb.9 window with dalls and sand piles and tricycles and had lots of fan wearing pretty new dresses and smiling at all the people who gathered to see them. All the time the children were having this "Style Show" crowds of people gathered around the window to watch these children at their play. There were six or seven performances. The girls who took part in this attractive display were: Mary Louise Dillon, Dorothy Smith, Mary Alice Krueger, and Thelma Thomas. One Hundred Tables Start to France This begins like a fairy tale doesn't it? One pictures tables all sorts of tables walking down the national highways, toward New York, walking up a gang plank and trying to fit themselves into the vessel s steamer chairs. But tnat is not really what we mean. The fact is that one hundred kit chen tables made by the manual training pupils of School No. 8 of Indianapolis were sent last week to the American Red Cross Headquarters in New York from where they will be sent to Belgium and France for the use of refugees there who want to go back and start building new homes, and living. again, in places where their homes once were. Raymond Conolly Heads 8 A Class During the fourth hour Wednesday morning the 8A class of the Junior High school held Its scheduled meeting for the election of officers. The following were elected: Raymond Conolly, president; Philip Kessler. vice president; Richard Coons, secretary; Earl Thomas, treasurer and Rhea Shepman, chairman of the social committee. The hour was ended before the faculty sponsers of the class and the other members of the social committee were chosen, so the election of those officers wa3 postponed until next week, - Belg ian Scouts are Thankful to U. S. Mr. Francis Dessain, secretary to the kindly Caradinal Mercier, who visited the United States recently brought a message n cently to the Boy Scouts of America from I Georges Do Harque for the Province of Antwerp, Belgium, in which he expresses thanks to the Boy Scouts of America. He said that the Boy Scouts of Antwerp carry a cascade of ribbons in the United States colors to commemorate the eager spirit of generosity shown to Belgium by America in that country's misfortune. Tatokekiyas to Give Indian Dances At last we know the name of the mysterious something for which the girls of the Tatohekiya Camp Fire are practicing. It is to be in the nature of Symbolic Indian dances and Campfire Motion songs. This entertainment promises to be of the superior sort and will be given in the high school auditorium in the latter part of next month. Honorable Mention We were unable to publish the contributions of some Juniors either because they were a duplicate of stories already publish&fcin the Junior Palladium or because the Btory was a duplicate of some grown-up's story, and what we wish to publish In the Junior are stories by the boys and girls themselves. We are, sorry not to be able to publish your letters and hope you will try writing us another story real soon. Here is the list of the Juniors whose letters we were unable to publish: Louise

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Weaver, grade 4 A Warner school; Dorothea Dillman, 4 A Starr; Elean or Martin, 4A Starr; Mary Mar gar et Tillson, 4A Starr; Pauline Bear, 5 A Whitewater; Leoline KJus, Warner school; Herberta Bell, No. 9 Bchool; Hazel Ewtng, School No. 9; Florence Norris, 6B Warner. Health! Go to bed early. Have lots of fresh air Cover up warmly, And forget you are there. First thing in the morning, Wash, dress and brush teeth, When breakfast is over, Get ready for school. Always eat slowly And take a small bite Chew it and chew it, Until it's Just right. Our teeth must be clean, Or they will decay And cause us trouble Most of the day. We bathe In warm water, As you can tell, And play In the sunshine - And always keep well. This Is a co-operative poem written by the pupils of the second grade of Sevastapol School. BOWS AND ARROWS INTEREST A former Scoutmaster of an Indianapolis Boy Scout Troop farming in Tennessee, writes that he ha3 enough cedar to furnish bows for all the scouts of Indianapolis. That sounds good in these "Robin Hood" days. Scout week begins Sunday, March 28, this year. Scouts representing fifty-six nationalities will be present at the great "Jamboree" in London next summer. Each of the two hundred local councils in the United States will be entitled to one representative at this gathering. Trips to the battle fields of France and other points of interest on the continent ate being planed for the delegates. The object of the meeting is to mark the appreciation of the restoration of peace, as well as to make the aims and methods of scouting better understood, and to put the Scouts of all nations in closer touch with one another. His Games George Washington liked to play I soldier. He had a wooden gunj and sword. All the boys had a wooden gun too. George Wash-i ington showed them how to march and drill. He was always .the leader because he knew how to do these things.. He always played fair. All his friends loved him. Thelma Felty, 4B grade, Starr School. My Garden I took up my hoe And 1 took up my rake, 1 worked very hard And a garden did make. I set out some cabbage And some tomatoes too, Which grew very fast As they always do. I pulled up some weeds, But the soil was new, So it wasn't hard work For there were only a few. But the nice big melons Were the best of all, And the ears of sweet corn On the stalks so tall. I planted some melons Some corn and some beans I planted some beets Which are nice tor greens. v We turned on some water Which ran down the rows, It helped very much To make the plants grow. And when things were ripe O, then we were glad, Of nice fresh vegetables What a lot we had! It's fun to make garden And belong to club too, Which helps yon try harder, la whatever you do. By Kara Lucas, Nevada

Children of France Welcome the New Armies of Toys In the magazine "La France" for the month of February Is the picture of the little daughter of Monna. Delza, a little French girl, three and one half years old, shown playing with her Christmas toys. The toys look very much like the toys we see in America, for there was a. doll cart, a horse and a cart, a hobby horse and a Teddy Bear. The dolls, however, looked different because they were dressed In French style with high white bonnets and full short dresses. There was a brave looking rooster and a doll's bed that would make - any child's heart almost turn a somersault The headboard wag very, very high and the footboard was very low, making it have a different appearance from that of the doll beds we have. The bed spread seemed to be quite a fancy one, if one can Judge from the picture. For the first years of the war there were no new toys in France. And even before the war the people of France had not taken much interest in making toys. Some one said of the toys made in France

at that time. "The dolls all wore the same smile and I am sure exchanged the same remarks." Oermasy noticed this and her craftsmen got to work and made an irresistible army of toys. Then the war came. Many men were unable to serve f in France in the fighting lines because they were crippled and they thought of something. Why Hot make some French toys, some toys that were new and very appealing? So they set to work, artists and craftsmen, silently and busily. In the spring of 1919 the review of these new toys was held. And where do you suppose it was held. Right in the Louvre, Itself, beautiful, big treasure house of Paris at the Museum of Decorative Arts. There was a great array of toys and they were described as being as droll and charming and fanciful as toys could be. Many men wounded in the war have taken up the very interesting trade of toy making and France is finding out that she, too, can make her own toys, as America found out during the war When the supply of tys from Germany was cut off. Would it not be dreary not to ee any toys or dolls in the wind ws even at Christmas time? Of cou se it would. Well, the children of France did not see any toys in he windows of their large departm nt stores for four years after the war commeneed. Then in 1918, about two weeks before Christmas, toys were on exhibition. Mr. Crawford of the Second National Bank, was in Paris at that time and he was told your editor, how the children of Pajk-is enjoyed seeing these toys shofc'n in the big store windows for Jhe, first time since war began. He said that the children were linVd up for two or three blocks justlto pass by the windows and feist their hungry eyes on the funny my animals and the prettily dressf-i dolls. His little niece here in fie United States is the posessorlof one of these dolls from Pass, brought to her by her uncle amd she may well he proud of it, fori it is so daintily dresed. Robin Hood Robin Hood once chanced to inlet The sheriff on a 6hady street, The sheriff said, "Who are yfu, my brave man? But he didn't finish, he Just ram Grade 4B Vale Robin Hood and His men Robin Hood jumped up in .the morn And to his lips he pressed IBs horn, And said,"Ho! Ho! My merry mi, We must up and fight again. Grade 4B Vaile Schc Robin Hood was brave and good, He chose to live in the dee green wood, He had some men, his helpers true Who did everything he wished them to do. Grade 4B Vaile The above poems were made up by pupils in the 4B grade of Vaile School.