Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 249, 28 August 1920 — Page 13

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TBS RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY, AUG 2S, 1920 JAGE THREE

THE JUNIOR

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 toe reporters and contributors. News Items, social events, "want" advertisements, stories, local jo!ke3 and original poems are acceptable and will be published. Article should be written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author's came and age dgned. Aunt Polly is always glad to meet the children personally as they bring their articles to The Palladium office, or to receive letters addressed to the Junior EdHor. This is ytmr little new raper and we hope each boy and girl will use It thoroughly.

Dear Juniors: "Oh, that's Just a girl's game!" or "She's only a girl!" and sayings like that will probably be said differently after this. For no longer are men the only ones who help to make the laws in this great country of ours. Of this, the girls and women may be glad, but wc realize too, that if we are to vote in the right way, we have a great deal to learn about the ways of voting and about each candidate for whom we expect tor vote, so that we may learn as far as we can, which one of the candidates is the best fitted to take the office. Many men and boys are for it, in fact they voted for it, but there are some that still grumble about it. Perhaps some of you boys are grumbling about "girls thinking they are bo smart now that they can vote." But, just think, it has stopped lots of fussing, because, you know, the women wanted it, and well, I have heard some folks say that you might as well give a woman what she wants. But, seriously, a great law has just about become a part of our great constitution, said to be one of the best written and best thought out constitutions in any country. That law is the Nineteenth Amendment which says that women may vote in local and federal lections all over the United States. Miss Susan B. Anthony was the woman who helped to put this amendment on the big books, and In a very short time, we expect it to be awakened and told that it ia In force. Before this time it has been asleep, because it had to wait until 8 out of our 48 states said, in their legislatures, that they were in favor of it Tennessee was the 36th state to say this. This has caused great joy and celebration in many parts of the United States among suffragettes and many hundreds of other people who believe that women should have the right to vote. Girls, do you want to vote or not? I would be yery interested to know how you feel about it. And you boys, are you disgusted or pleased or just politely interested? Some people say, "What are the women coming to?" and look as if they thought some great calamity had come upon the world, and perhaps they got this idea from what were called "militant suffragettes" who were willing to fight to get the right to vote. But this group. I think, does not represent the most women in the United States. Men fight, women do not. We do not want to see masculine women and girls any more than we want to see "sissy" boys and men, but the fact that women may vote does not mean that' women are going to copy the voice and manner of men, it means they have a power In their hands which is their right and which they may use for good If they study to hse it that way. I really do not think that people need to be afraid that girls do not want to be girls, or that women do not wanl to be women. I sometimes have wished I had been a boy ao that I could cut my hair short and race around and whistle juat as much as I wanted to, but I have found that girls can do some things boys can not do make butterscotch pie, for instance. In other countries, Great Britain, Finland and Sweden, women have been voting for many years. One of these days, if you hear bells ringing and other signs of glad celebration, you will know it is because the Nineteenth Amendment is in force. AUNT POLLY.

Grace's Hard Day When Grace Burden opened her eyes very early one morning ana heard her mother's voice feebly calling, she knew exactly what the matter was. Her mother had one of those terrible headaches that RIDDLES FOR JUNIORS SOME TREES WITH THEIR NAMES CAMOUFLAGED i a tr that is worn by tne 2. One that is neat, trim, stylish, in dress and appearance. i That in an Insect pest to grain. 4. That is a vehicle and a small, seedy fruit. 5. That is a southern product and a kind of fuel. 6. That is famous for rods. 7. That is an exclamation and a seasoning for food. 8. That is a poisonous serpent and the letter N. Answers to these will be published next week Catherine Fye, Junior high school. CAN YOU GUESS THESE? 1. A word of four letters that berin with in and ends with tea. Thp wimlfi is a place of shelter, nftpn nepcl in vacation time. 2 A word of five letters that is rf something you can ride "whizzing fast" in, and which, urhn hPheaded. pours down from tha ctrv a n c Ire win hft nublished in iiiicjn tin ' next week's Junior. ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S CHARADES 1. Duet. 2. Pollyanna. 3. Automobile. 4. Stonewall Jackson. SOME TREES ANSWERS Palm, pine, willow, ash, oak, cedar, beech, maple. WANT ADS LOST Watch, in Glen Miller park. If found return to 422 N. 15th St.

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came now and then, keeping her poor mother in bed for hours end making Grace a nurse, cook and housekeeper all in one.. Grace's first thought was, "How lucky this is vacation," but the next one was, "Oh, dear me! What about Mr. Keevey?" Still, rn her nightgown she ran to her mother's room, asking if it was her poor j

AMERICAN BOY SCOUTS ARE HAVING A GRAND TIME ABROAD

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Several hundred American Boy Scouts from all sections of the country are now touring in Europe and havinfir the time of f:i

head, end then going downstairs, telephoned for the doctor. As t lie r"cc(or did not live very far away, he oon came " When lie arrived she knew what to do, and, brinim; the right number of spoons and fil.vssefl, the save him her attention. It was not lor long, though, because in the next bed lay a perfect love oi a biiby, with his dimpled, pink, bare lega hanging out from under the covers. Just then the. doctor said that her mother must have perfect quiet. Carefully covering her mother, and darkening llie room, she carried the sleeping baby to her own bed. Most any thirteen-) ear-old girl would have shaken her head over such a problem, tor here was a state oi affairs: Mother in bod, tho baby to take care of, and a strange man coming home with her

WILD LIFE OF FOREST AND STREAM

PLAYING ANIMALS Francis Itolt-Wljeeler Ever watch bear cubs box? Probably not; few of us have the chance. Yet they do box and that with Queensberry rutes of their own. Ever watch kittens wrestling, or lambs gamboling? Why not? All of us have the chance. And the games of animals are as interesting as those of man. Animals don't play in any haphazard fashion. Far from it. Each different species has his own racial naou oi piay. borne ot tnem are curiously well organized. Monkeys play "tag" with a certain regard for a f ew simple understood rules; squirrels play "follow ray leader," insects perform intricate dances in the air, kids run races together; otters slide for tho agreeable sensation of sliding; even the clumsy fur-seal does a two-step ail summer long on the foggy beach of his Pribllov Islands Sham-hunts and shamlives. After their jamboree in London, where they were shown every courtesy by the Bntish sroverrment. the lads visited

father for supper and who was

very hard to be pleased, but who must be pleaded, no matter what happened. Slipping downstairs, she heated the baby's milk and took it upstairs where she found him just ready lor a big howl ;and fretting miserably. "Another tooth,' 'said Grace, and thrust the bottle into his mouth. Ho even cried in his bath, though Grace let, him splash as much as ho liked. After Grace had swept and dusted a little and wrestled with the baby a great deal, she went to tho telephone and called up the "SimthSirocory and Meat Market." Mr. Smith answered the phone himself, and was pleased to fill her order, but there was no one to deliver it. In her distress she poured out her troubles to Mr. Smith, who fights are common. Many birds, as tho magpie and the jackdaw havo collecting fads, and tho bowerbird builds a playhouse to play in. Play is tho young form of work. Pl.1y is educative. The animals who play best when young, work best afterwards, live best and thus liand on to their children the same love of play. A most important point is that the animals which man has succeeded in domesticating are notably the playing animals. There are two kinds of play in animals, one of movement only, which trains the muscles and the nerves to the work of life. The other 13 the play of experiment, finding out what other things are. So, in ourselves any amusement or play which quickens the muscles or nerves, or which helps us to find out about something or some one is worth while. The cleverest man or woman is often the one who never gets too old to play. France. They are seen here marching to the Grand Palace in Paris, where they gave a most interesting exhibition.

I was very sorry and promised, if

. posible, to bring them over. At a quarter to five the front door, bell rang and on going to the door. it rare lounu a very nice looking man with a kis'.et of groceries at his feet. PolitHy she asked him to bring the groct-i es tn, then toll him to sit down and stay awhile. "You are Mr. Burden's daugh tor. I suppose?" he asked! , ' "Yes," answered Grace. ' " " Giving him th" job of juggling the baliy to keep hi:n quiet, Graca proceeded to answer Mr. Smith' question about Mr. Keevey, ex plaining why everything must be tip-top, for they were not very rich and if her father could get the position Mr. Keevey offered, he would obtain much better pay. "I see," said Mr. Smith, and after that he helped her cook potatoes, shell peas, peel peaches and was a great help in many ways. When the supper was prepared, Mr. Smith said, "If Mr. Keevey does not like this supper, he ought to bo made to eat cinders and soap." A few moments later Grace's father opened the door and asked where Mr. Keevey was. Hurriedly Grace told her father about her mother's illness and about Mr. Smith's kindness. Turning with a smile to introduce her father to MnSmith, who, covered by a big white apron, was stirring the peas, Grace noticed that her father Btared wildly at Mr. Smith. "Mr. Keevey!" gasped Mr. Burden, " what does this mean?" "It means," he answered, "that 1 am having the best time I ever had, and that the position you wanted ia yours." "I don't understand," said Grace. "Didn't you bring the groceries?" "No, my dear,' answered Mr. Keevey. . "They, were on the steps when I rang the belL and I hope you'll forgive-me for my little trick?" "Father," said Grace, "you go upstairs nd see mother while Mr. Keevey and I 6erve the diner we rooked." Florence Muey. age . 13, St. Andrew's school. Honorable Mention in the Story-Writing contest. One of the features of the Inter national shoot in Canada was the appearance of a squad of school boys In a special event. The race was won ty James Handley, IS years old, who broke 67 out of a possiblelOO. The following beautiful words hatto been set to the music of "Taps:" "The day Is done; gone from the sun; from the lake; From the hills, from the sky; Sweetly rest, all Is well; God is nigh." Juniors in Waverly, New York, have been supplying two quarts of milk daily to three children whoso widowed mother was unable to provide for them. THESE PENCIL PUZZLES We wish to call tho attention of Junior readers to the new appearance of the Pencil Twisters. In one corner of these newer pencil puzzles are given directions which will probably help you readers to draw them. We hope that these Ldirections will make the drawing of those puzzles easier for many or you and more enjoyable. Your editor would appreciate your showingher, sometimes, your completed drawings of these puzzles. Pencil Twister Cam You Change 5anta Claut Into am airicot Suudaz ? S vra t'Wf Answer next week.

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