Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 142, 24 April 1920 — Page 16

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, APRIL 24. 1920

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Th alitor will try to answer questions readers of t Uj Junior Buhmlt to lt"r, She VIM not promise answer ull of th"Pi. Tho Questions will ho answered In rotation, no do not expect tho answer to be printed In tlie mme week in wliicli you send It in. Dear Aunt Polly: Who la the ruler of Russia? C. C. Dear C. C: Rulers in Russia are about as changeable and uncertain as the rulers ia Mexico. .Our news from Russia comes in very tinall amounts and cannot always be relied upon. As far as I can find out now, the Soviet government is in charge at Petrograd, with Lenine at tho head. The troops of the Soviet government are called the Bolshevist troops and are fighting in different parts of Russia to try to conquer those districts which are against the Soviet government. Vladivostok, where the American soldiers were stationed for a time has recently been taken by the Bolshevik! troops. General Semcnoff is, I believe, the leader of the main Russian opposition to the Bolshevikl. He recently succeeded Admiral Kolchak. Japanese troops are in Siberian Russia opposed to the government of the present governing Soviet. So you see if there la any one ruler in Russia it is hard for us to decide just who he is. Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Polly: See if you can guess my teacher's name. Here are her initials, L. P. M. E. 11. Dear M. E. H.: All right. I'll guess! I gues your teacher's name is Lola Parry. Am I "warm?" Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Tolly: What is my name? T. D. M. Dear T. D. M.: Your name? Well, perhaps It is Telemachus Delphobus Mackay, or perhaps it is Tom Mackey. Anyway, it Is Mackay. Aunt Tolly. Dear Aunt Pol'y: Say, what's the biggest building in the world? Me. Dear Me: "Biggest" might mean lots of things. The highest building as far as I can find out is the Woolworth building in New York city, which is 750 feet high. Higher structures which cannot exactly be called buildings have been built by men, however, as the4 Eiffel Tower, the great iron tower of Paris, which Bhoots up 1,000 feet toward tho clouds. The Maker of mountains far surpassed us however, for one peak, rdone, Mount Everest in the Himalaya mountains in Asia measures 29.002 feet in height. And they te.l us those people who look through great telescopes that we shall see even higher mountains when we can visit the moon. Aunt Polly. RIDDLES 1. Why is a horse with his head hanging down, like next Monday? Fern I. Via, age. 11, Monroe school, grade 6. 2. Why does a dentist put his teeth in a show case? Fern I. Via. 3. When is a man like a piece uf wood.? Chester Collins, grade o, Finley. 4. When Is a bell in a church steeple like an orange? Chester Collins. , 5. What color3 are the wind and the waves? Ruth E. Smith, grade 5, White school. (Answers will be published in next week's Junior.) WATCH FOR IT I lis first name Is Billy. He's oft in disgrace. His last name's what some men Wear over their face. Heroin J3 contained the name of the lively new serial story which will begin in next Saturday night's Junior. WEEKLY TWELVESYLLABLE Throw a stone At a bird, Meanest trick Ever heard. RHYME FINIS! Aunt Polly: My grandpa at Greensfork gave me a sketch of the death of George Washington. George Washington died the last hour of the day, the last day of the week, of the last month of tho rear, of the last year of the last tentury. Howard Brooks, Roscoe jtreet, Richmond.

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Lady Patricia Ramsay, who, as "Princess Pat" before her marriage to Capt. Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay, who known as one of the handsomest women in the British Empire, seems even more beautiful, her admiring friends say, since the birth of her son. Capt. Ramsay, who acquired the title of Lord Ramsay after his marriage to the princess, is a British naval attache in Paris.

Tom and Molly On the Farm Tom Cartridge was a boy of 11, healthy, jolly and yet, he could be very serious If he wanted to be. Hits mother called him "My Little Man." Molly Cartridge was Turn's twin sister. She was like him in every way. They both had dark brown eyes and curly hair. When they laughed their eyes danced. When thev were angry, their eyes flash ed. Mr. Cartridge had died when Tom and Molly were six years of age. In the next five years Mrs Cartridge had worked for her children and had taught them at home, raising them to be gentle, polite and intelligent. But In the last year better times had come for the Cartridges. Mr. Bfakler, Mrs. Cartridge's father, had often had Tom and Molly come up to Maple Brook, his farm, for the summer. He had been much pleased with his grand children, but Mrs. Cartridge refused all offers to come up to the farm aDd live, saying, "father you raised me, but you shall not raise my children It would be too much of a strain on you. I will raise them myself." But that year Mrs. Cartridge's health broke down and she was forced to stop work. She could no longer refuse her father's offer. So the Cartridges went to the country. Maple T.rook was a beautiful farm. It got its name from the fact that maple trees bordered the drive to the house and a brook ran through the grounds. There was the big barn to play in on rainy days, the hay mow to slide down and the big grassy lawn to play on. But don't think it was all play for the twins. Indeed, there was much work. Tom helped hi3 grandfather in the arn, milked the cows, went after hem at night, fed the horses and lid other odd jobs. Molly helped ier mother in the house, fed the hickens, went after the eggs, cookd and did all kinds of work a little irl could do. But still with all his work, Tom and Molly had nuch fun. A friend of Tom's, Bert Hartly, ftcn went swimming and took nany picnics with the Cartridges, tack and Margie Martin, and Edythe Tompsomm were also included in these trips. One dj grandpa went to th1 city '..nd came back with a pony for Tom and Molly. Tom and Molly soon became quite skillful in riding ind sometimes Tom rode the black mare, Maude, and then sometimes lack afid Bert, Margie and Edy would join them. Mr. Eleakler persuaded Mrs. Cart ridge to stay there and keep house for him saying. "Mary I am get-,

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AND HER BABY tting to be an old man and I will need help on the farm and Tom is 'a m'jnhr little ff.llfw ofirl I nnnH him. So you must stay." And they did. Tom, Molly, Bert, Jack, Edythe and Margie had many good times in the country riding, playing or working. And now we must leave the jtwins, hoping that they may always be as nappy as now. Marion Chenowe th. Study Problems Solved Jennie Hall, Francis W. Parker School. FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF Want to find something out? Want to do something? Then go ahead and do it. Don't wait for some one to wind you up and set you going. One of the glorious things ia being a human being is that each one of us has a will of his own. A will is a sort of perpetual motion machine, which runs of itself, as long as you do. Take Joe, for example. He wanted to know about eyes. Books told him a lot, but not in the way he wished. He was after practical knowledge. So he went and bought a sheep's head at the meat market. iHn ft lur . u-, k b. I 9 C ifiUi . lie began by cutting out the eye. Going at the job carefully, he found the iris and the pupil and the lens. It took trouble to find, but he located the optic nerve. Then, as soon as he had finished the roll of film in his camera, he studied the lens of that, and worked out the likeness between the eye of a mammal like a sheep (or a human being) and the modern camera. So far, so good. But Joe knew, too, that he could take pictures by making a pinhole in a dark box, the "camera obscura" plan.

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modern camera is a development of th pin-hole (amua, why shouldn't the ccmpb-x eye of the mammal be a development of some' pin-hole1 form of eyf ia .ie simpler forms of life? A book might have told him, but

he wanted to find out for himself,

So, sure enough, in the nautilus appearance you would piubably and similar forms, he found a reg-j think he had grown up when you ular pin hole i ye. I first met him. Air. Tarkington la Then Joe really knew. lb had the man who tells us ab'unt T"7Trod found the clue to many of the won- and many o''acr "regular fellows." dcrful secrets in the eye, which h; j -mrcnee and his chums have bewould never huve known ii ne liad , come very popular wherever he not hunted for iheiri himself. I has appeared on the real stage or

A Red-Eyed Vireo Goes to School

Last September we found a nest- j Poland with him when he set sail ling red eyed vireo in the street. for Europe last week. He is exHis leg was broken at ankle joint, j peeling it to have an important, and he was so tiny! We set the; place in the series of plavs he is

leg, and the little fellow was very tenacious and cheerful. From the first he was a great favorite and kepi us all busy catching crickets and hoppers, for his appetite was a long one. We fed him blueberries, ruin cherries, pears, and grapes, together with insects. All insect food was taken In his foot and held and eaten from there while he sang his little whee-ee. He visited each child several times daily, generally chatting a little. We never caged him and he never flew away, although there were many chances to do so, with forty children pas - sing in and out. On their Christmas-tree the children put some beefsteak for Vireo. This he liked slightly, broiled. The friendship between this mite and the children was beautiful to see. If we had not let him attend

school each day he would have died1 that a bird-house need be is mereof homesickness. He pined during ; ly a box or a can that is weather-

our vacation and seemed so happy to seethe children when school began once more. I carried him home every night. He wanted to come to the tablp every time we ate. We let him tit in a fern, and if nothing seemed to be coming his way he would throw dirt in my plate until I fed him. If visitors came to the school he generally flew to meet them. The fire-chief came to lecture on his department, and Redeye picked his brass buttons and even tried to get the gold from the chief's teeth. Several times the bird had been nearly under foot, as ho would run on the floor under the seats in play. One day, on one of his jolly little trips, he was stepped on and was gone in an instant. Since then we have kept a good grip on ourselves, but each child feels the loss keenly. Vireo did more good in five months than people often do in as many years. We shall try harder than ever to help the birds on their return. Many of the children have feed

ing tables for the birds now here. ; of the bird you wish to attract. It Last summer we raised over fifty ; milst be out of reach of cats and injured and orphaned birds and still ! ,,,ller enemies of birds. Here are have two robins. We gave our i some designs that will start you summer vacation to the birds, and n tnc track of novel ideas: would like nothing better than to, "The Bird Apartment House (Fig. work with them all the time. !) is made of several flat boxes We write this about our vireo '(say 18 inches square and G inches

that yen may see how social and lovable a bird he was. He was the most ir'.elligent bird that we have lived with. MARY E. COBURN. Army Officers Of Finley School Armies are being mobilized again, but thi3 time, it is for peace, instead of war. The army we are speaking of is the United States School Garden Army. llie lollowing boys and girls are

officers in the Garden Army of Fin-1 fasten the cans together, or upley school: right sticks outside may be used. Room 1, Grades 1 A. B Richard "The Rird Cabin fFiir 31 rnnsista

Trouse, captain; Orval Fetters. 1 first lieutenant; Lucy Borders, sec ond lieutenant. Room 2 Ilernlan Meerhoff, cap-

tain, i,aura Elizabeth Whitesell, 1 and a couple of boards will make a first lieutenant; Elmer Holzapfel, 1 roof ' second lieutenant. j A Keg-o-'Bird Nest (Fig. 4) is Koom 3 Lynn Byrket, captain; made of an old nail keg, divided iniMizabeth Allison, first lieutenant; side into four nests, each with its l v QT ,ieutenant. own perch and door. A cheese jaf teILa Edith Weist- caP- box, with sides cut down to 3 inch-

Tn ' nXh o- r eS IlrSl llp"ten -v, wimiiouu, pecunu neu tenant. Room 5, Grades 4 A, 5B Mark Graffis, captain; Paul Battenberg, first lieutenant; Thomas Moore, second lieutenant.

Room 6, Grades 5A. B Melvin Studt, captain; Nina Murray, first; WH0'S MADE SOMETHING? lieutenant; Marini Allison, second' Tne l)ys ,ou-ay arc the invenlieutenant. ' tors of tomorrow. Sometimes they'r Room 7, Grades 6A. B Clifford ! the inventors of today. Mayba Burr, captain: Dale Anderson, first! you've made something that's ouit

lieutenant; Mary Hodapp, second lieutenant. 0

CLARENCE GOES TO POLAND Clarence- is only one f the many real AmArk'an boys represented in the play by that name s hieh has recently been published. The play "Clarence" was written by Booth Tarkington who is just a big boy

himself, though from his age and in movies. But that is not all. Clarence is going to travel, A man named Richard Ordynski liked Clarence so well that he took several copies of the play home to planning to present in Poland. For Boys to Make Handicraft SOME NOVEL BIRD-HOUSES Grant M. Hyde "Tell us how to build some birdhnnpsp that nrf tifffrpnt lTnrlrt ; 1,nha111thi that ih nlhf.r tvI. 1, haven't hnilt " "If you know what bird-houses should be like, Sonny," came the prompt reply, "you ought to be able to see ideas in any pile of boxes or tin cans. The birds don't care about the beauty of their houses. They seek safety and shelter. All proof. It should have a perch. The door should be from IV4 to 2 inches across, depending on the size high) set on top of a pole and covered with a roof. Each box should have four doors and should be divided into four apartments, as shown. The boxes may be set squarely, on top of each other, or diagonally to provide perches. "Tho Bird Tower (Fig. 2) is made of several tin cans, set on top of each other with an old funnel for a roof. Boil the cans to remove the labels and to clean them. Cut each door so that the tin flap that is cut may be bent out for a perch. Boards may be nlaced between, to of several tin cans, cleaned, and with doors and perches, set end to end on a flat hoard. Cleats on either side will hold them in place, !es and placed upside down, makes the roof. "These will give you other Ideas. Remember, though, rhatever you build, be sure to pai. ' and to put it out of reach of cats." new, or you know some one whi has. Write and tell us about it.

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