Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 129, 10 April 1920 — Page 15

TIIK RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1920

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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 boys and girls are invited to be reporters and contributors. News Items, social events, "want" advertisements, stories, local jokes and original poeais are acceptable and will be published Articles should lie written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author's name nd age tJgned. Aunt Polly is always glad to meet the children peronally aa they bring their articles to The Palladium office, or to receive letters addressed to f.ho Junior EdKor. This Is your little newsraper and we hope each boy and girl will use it thoroughly.

AUNT POLLY'S LETTER.

II"llo Junior Folks: Have you started your garden? I started mine that is I have been planning it in my head and by the time you are reading this little letter of mine, I expect my radish and lettuce seeds will be snugly wrapped up in their brown earth beds. Isn't it fun to go puking around in the ground, startling big fat fishing worms out or their comfortable places, and those gray bugs we used to call them potato bugs that curl up into balls when you give them orders to get out? Have you noticed that as soon as you start digging anywhere, the robins, one or two and sometimes more perch themselves nearby and watch you? Do you know why they do it? Likely as not. they're planning a banquet of fresh juicy fishing worms for their next meal. Last summer when some of our tomatoes wilted and toppled over on the ground, dead, and the peas had lots of beautiful green leaves and very few peas and green bugs got on the rose plants and red bugs got on our golden glow I said in despair, "I'm not going to have a garden next year. Everything I plant either dies of its own accord or the bugs t at them up." Hut as soon as Spring of 1920 began to peep into Richmond the Gardening Brownie got a hold of me and I forgot my garden failures last year and I remembered the good things I had had, the luscious beets, the good stringbeans and rhubarb, lettuce and onions, my pansies and nasturtiums. "My garden this year is going to be better than ever, I just know it is," I said and began planning what I should have in it. I have declared the garden a "danger zone" for bugs as the Germans declared a J danger zone with their submarines and I am going to kill every bug that

bothers my vegetables and flowers with poison gas. We are going to have lettuce and radishes and beets, beans, asparagus, rhubarb, nasturtiums, sweetpeas and cosmos in our garden this year. What are you folks going to have in your garden? Yours in grubbin' time, AUNT POLLY.

RED CROSS USES REINDEER SLEIGHS IN FIGHTING STARVATION IN SIBERIA

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Several units of American Red Cross relief workers have been sent with convoys of food to tannue vh-

lages in North Russia. One of the units, halting In a little Lapland village, is shown above. The men in the picture are Major W. H. Smith, of Philadelphia; Capt. W. Y, Massenberg, of Macon, Ga.; Capt. William C Kucera, of Hutchinson, Minn., and their native Eskimi reindeer "chauffeur."

Sports that Make Men

Athletics

&WlSHINGpLANE By " " WILLI S WlHTF.R

Before we tell more about what i very fertile lands in some places Jack and Jane saw in the Persian is composed of dry, sandy desert capital let me ask you little folk J land.- Nothing but a few sickly what you imagine the center of the : trees grow on the desert. Often-

principal city in rersia woutu ue like? Has it street cars, electric light, gas and other modern conveniences? Or are the picturesque people still traveling about with camels or carts? Well, I'll tell you.

times it is more than a day's ride

by camel from one spring of water to the next," said the Armenian. "Camels are the only animals which can stand the long journeys on the deserts although the powerful Arabian horses are ridden by the Arabs

on the desert where water is more

pnsilv obtained. ritist sfnrnis and

Jack and Jane didn't see a single ith(? possibility of the camel becom

ing sick or lame or the rider becoming ill, has caused the travelers

camel on their way to the heart of

the city. And when they finally

turned a corner into the main sec-j to makp ,he ong journeys in grops

lion, imagine how Muynsu.i "' and 'it is these groups we call 'carwere to see before them a modern avans . Am, tonighti after we have boulevard, a wide, beautiful street, finighed sight.S00jng for the day just like many of the big cities in . perhaps we ;an find some of theSe America have. Street cars. al-,camel drivers who can tell you though they were small were run-more about themselves, their ani-

nine anoui. adu on me corners

OVER AND BACK By Dr. E. D. Angell With the Cart Wheel, and RollOver mastered, the boys were anxious for a new trick, Beppo, how

ever, never seemed in much of a hurry to give them new ones. He said that each stunt should be perfectly learned before new ones were tackled. This greatest and funni

est clown believed it better to do a

few tricks in first-class style rather

than many in a sloppy fashion. After the boys had shown Beppo that they could do a circle of Cart Wheels all around the barn floor, and four or five Roll-Overs in succession on his padded mat, he nodded approval and said they could start on the third tricler This stunt, Beppo told them, was mighty hard for a fat man, and in fact almost impossible for anyone unless his joints were good and limber. Then he encouraged the

boys by saying that it was one of

the best tricks for exercise that there was. Beppo then took a rake handle, that was standing in the corner of

The All Round Girl

Red Cheeks and Pep

Jack and Jane noticed gas lights

for lighting the street at night.

"Why, youd almost think we were back in the United States again if you didn't see the queer-

looking people, said Jane. And she was right. The people

were surely odd looking folk. Their

faces were a yellowish-brown col

or. That's as close as I can de

scribe it. Their eyes were very straight. They wore beards, too, but Jack and Jane noticed that those who wore no hats had their hair cut very close as though it had been shaved off. Their caps were like turbans, only higher. They wore long, flowing gowns, too, like some of the Turks. Gregory told the children that under the gowns the men wore big baggy trousers. The children saw one or two women, too, not many. Those they saw wore long, flowing gowns like the men, and their faces were covered except for a square hole cut iu a piece of cloth across their faces, which allowed them to see where they were walking. "You see, the Persians are Mohammedans, too, and do not allow their women to go out very often," explained Gregory. Jack and Jane had seen a few camels at a distance as they approached the city and now, as they

looked along the street, a long procession of camels, with their drivers and riders, came down the street. A "caravan," Gregory called it and he told the children how the camels were used to carry people and baggage across the coun

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mals and the dangers of the deserts." You can rest assured that Jack and Jane didn't forget his promise during the rest of the day. Copyright, 1919.

GIRLS FORM LEAGUE The girls of the Manual Arts high school of Los Angeles, California, have organized a Girls' league. It has two purposes; to make girls more helpful and friendly, and to help them get higher grades. They hold meetings of their own. They give parties for all the girls of the school and sometimes invite the mothers to them. In addition they keep track of every girl who leaves school during the year.

A STORY OF THE AGES What He Wanted to Be Age 5 Pony Farmer. Age 7 Barber. Age 9 Cowboy. Age 11 Locomotive Engineer. Age 13 Electrician. Age 15 Editor. Age 17 Movie Actor. Age 19 Lawyer. Age 21 Salesman. What He Is Age 30 Undertaker.

CAME IN WISHING PLANE Judge "What's your occupation?" Mike "I'm a sailor." Judge "You don't look like a sailor. I don't believe you were ever on a ship." Mike "Do you think I came from

"Most of Persia outside of the 1 Ireland In a hack?" Lone Scout.

the barn, and holding it lightly In his fingers jumped over the stick, and with graceful ease jumped back

again, still holding the stick in his!

hands. How It's Done. "Now, boys, I want you to remember the directions I give you," Beppo said. "First, you hold the stick lightly in your finger tips so that failure will not cause you to trip and fall as it would if the stick were held tightly. You jump in the air drawing your knees up to

the chest, as in the Roll-Over, and with your arms perfectly straight you- swing the stick under your feet. Remember three things, straight arms, stick lightly held, and legs well bent." The boys Immediately began to practice, and after many failures Ralph succeeded in getting over, but try as hard as he could he failed in the back jump, which Beppo did so easily; but both boys went home determined that they would keep at it until they could jump over the stick both forwards and l)Eiclt w&rds Copyright, 1920, by J. II. Millar

AN OLD AND NEW SPORT By Mollie Price Cook

Do you know that when you put

on your hockeys to glide over the ice you are . indulging in a sport that 13 hundreds of year old! The old Norseman had skates made of

oxen bones, curiously shaped, and fastened with thongs to his shoes.

The Puritan fathers wore wooden skates quite similar to those which the Dutch wear today. Thanks to invention, the "peppy" girls of today who live where it Is cold in the winter have the advantage of modern skates. Imagine the joy of the old-fashioned girl over a pair of smooth, sharp, steel skates! Surely you are not permitting yourself to miss the fun they hold! Skating Not Expensive. To enjoy the greatest sport of the season it is not necessary to have expensive skating shoes and fancy skates. The plain inexpensive kind with a strap over the ankle will give you all the speed you need. The point is to skate. Girls, who do not own skates can earn them. Dimes and quarters earned in nelping mother will soon add up to $2.50, the price of a pair. Make a soft padded tongue of eiderdown or lamb's wool for your shoes and lace them tightly. Then tightening the strap will not hurt your instep. Use both skates. Do not try to gyrate on one foot as that injures the spine. If the ankles turn over nothing will keep them straight but practice and lots of it. If your ankles are weak, skating will strengthen them. "Rollers" for Southern Girls Girls who live too far south for frozen river3 and ponds merely

substitute roller skates for Ice

skates. Roller skating gives the same invigorating exercise in the open air, and "rollers" can cover as great a distance on a floor as steel

skate blades on the ice. Roller

Dollar-Making Ideas m

TRAPPING. FOR PROFIT By Belle Case Harrington A high school boy in Ohio made $150 last winter, selling furs. He know just where to trap and he had a dog to help him; but an ordinary boy, without so much experience, and no dog, can make good money trapping; for furs are higher than they have been in thirty years. November to April is the fur season. During the summer most furs

are worthless. Earlier than November they are not heavy enough.

Muskrat, raccoon, mink, opossum.

and skunk are the animals most commonly trapped. Skunk and

skating is not a "sissy" sport, but one giving opportunity for great skill. Many girls seem to think that there are only certain seasons for roller skating. Not so; it is an all-year-round sport. Why can you southern girls not set the pace for a roller-skating revival, making it a great national girls sport? Copyright, 1920, by J. II. Millar

should be skinned and all flesh remuskrat are easiest Skunk are found under barns, in haystacks and in burrows which they make in the edge of the woods. Steel trap No. 2 is the best size for this animal. Meat is the best bait to use, but many trappers do mt put the meat in the trap. They "trail" it by

fastening it to a long string tied to the belt as they go to set the traps. As it drags over the ground, it leaves its scent and the animal follows it. When he comes to the trap, partly covered with leaves, he rushes into it. Muskrats inhabit swamps and creeks and can be snared rather easily with a trap, size 1. Select a rotten log lying in the water. Place some corn on it and chop a place in one side for the trap. Fasten the chain to a stake set in deep water. Put the trap where the muskrat will be held in deep water and drown; otherwise the little chap will gnaw off a foot and thus secure his freedom. Some trappers use alligator traps, which kill the game as soon as caught. Opossum and raccoon are trapped in much the same way as tha skunk. With dogs, the best way is to trail the coons and shoot them from the branches of the tree. As soon as caught, all animals moved. The skins are then stretched on a board to dry. This board is of a shape to fit the hide. Any good magazine on hunting

and trapping contains advertise

ments of bide dealers, to whom you can ship direct. Copyright, 1920, by J. II. Millar

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