Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 307, 6 November 1920 — Page 15

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THE JUNIOR PALL AD IUM Tlio Junior Palladium is t ho children's section of the Khhmond Palladium, founded May 6, 19111, and issued each Saturday afternoon. All boys anil girls are invited to be reporters and contributors. News items, Hocial events, "want" advertist in. nts, stories, local jokes and original poems are acceptable and will be published. Articles should be written plainly and on one side of the pap r, with the author's name and ago sinned. Aunt Tolly is always glad to me. t the children personally as they bring their articles to 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.

AUNT POLLY'S LETTER

about many Russian

In our last week's girls of Poland who

Dear Junior Friends: Remember a few weeks ago how we read

children who were on a big boat going home? Junior we saw the pictures of fifty-six boys and

want to go home, too. .Most of you boys and girls go home every afternoon but these boys and girls are going home after one year, two years or perhaps more. Their parents have died, so most of them are orphans and perhaps even the houses they called "home" have been destroyed in the wars that have been going on there for so long so we wonder what they think of as home but they wish to go to their home country any way. These Polish children who will live on a farm on an island near Seattle, Washington for a while, fled from their homes when the Polshevik armies entered Poland. They had lived on the bleak steppes of Siberia where their lives were in danger from the Russian and Japanese soldiers. Although the United States is not responsible for them in any way except to protect them as long as they are in this country, many people are wondering if after a happy stay on a peaceful farm on Painbridge Island, they will W so anxious as they are now to go to a home which if it exists at all, is in a land still torn and unsettled by war. The people of Painbridge Island and others, some of Polish descent, are very kind to them, and are gladly giving these unfortunate children the food and loving care of which they are so much in need. It is safe to predict that after a happy stay in this country, these children, if they leave us at all, will return to us some time wishing to become citizens of our country. The editor of a Seattle, Washington, Junior newspaper thinks that if they were taken now and distributed in this country a few at a time, they might become better American citizens than the children of Polish parents who get their first view of America when they see the Statue of Liberty and ICllis Island. At any rate, we believe that if they find Americans kindly and friendly and openhearted, they will like them and prove loyal to them and their country. AUNT POLLY.

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DUMB ANIMALS Stupid, we say, is a donkey, Put with humans, we

will agree, If we do not speak well Our listeners can tell That we are far more stupid than he.

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WILD LIFE OF FOREST AND STREAM

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TERROR, THE TERRIER "Most people bore mo, especially

women. Yet I am a gentleman of: experience. My residence is in j New York city and I am a winner j of the blue ribbon. i "I have a large repertoire of. tricks, but. never waste one until sure of a reward. I am full of pep and like to do tricks, except silly ones, like 'dead dog'. j "I always bark at other dogs.

Chows I dislike especially and I

WHEN HUGHIE WENT TO TOWN Hughie was a country boy. Who went to town one day. lie had some carrots in his hand, And ate them on the way. Now. wasn't that a funny thing, For that small boy to do? He gave some to his city friends, And they ate carrots, too. Exchange.

must confess that they don't seem to care much for me. "My best friend was the butler. He used to throw the ball for me, and we had good times together. One day he left the door open and I sneaked out. I was just starting on a glorious run w hen a big cop saw me and made a chase of it. He never would have caught me, but for a lot of hateful automobiles which got in my way. As it was, I was lugged off to prison and put behind bars, just like a regular fellow. 1 had to stay there till the family came. "One of the policemen wanted to buy me, but my mistress made such a scene at the thought of losing me again! So I was whisked home again right away. This sounds like

a story witn a nappy enuing, uul it's not that nice butler was fired. "I spend my summers at the seashore, and when not fetching sticks out of the water I am chasing squirrels. I like to hunt. Our name. Fox Terrier, comes from England where we hunt foxes. The biggest quarry I ever had was a rat, and I finished him up in fine fashion, I can tell you! "Now, I just long to catch a squirrel. They run up trees, though, which I don't consider sportsmanlike. It's fun to chase them, though. "Ah, there goes a big bushy-tailed one now Oh, I!oy, let me get at hi''"' ,

He thought he saw a rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek; He looked again and found it was The middle of next week; "The one thing I regret," he said, 'Is that it cannot speak!" Lewis Carroll.

SAILS AND RUDDERS Ey Adelia Belle Beard A bird is a boat of the air, wings are the sails and oars,

tail is the rudder. The long, stiff feathers of the wings have a Latin name which means "rowers" (oars) and the Latin name of the long, stiff feather of the tail means "rudder." This is another case where nature provides an example for men to copy

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by showing them the use of Sails, Oars and Rudder. Watch a bird flying a long distance and see how it first uses its wings as oars, forcing its way through the air as a rower fortes his boat through the water, then, with wings wide spread and motion-

les, sails along without effort. The

momentum gained by first vigor

WOMEN IN SOME PARTS OF NORWAY STILL SPIN AND WEAVE THEIR OWN MATERIALS

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Norweglan woman at her spinning wheel. The women of Telemarken, Norway, do not complain of poor fabrics which do not wear well, for they make their own. After the wool leaves the back of the shep the women wash it, spin and weave it, t'ten cat and shape it Into armanU,

ously rowing sends it forward as momentum makes your bicycle go on when, after pedaling hard, you stop work and coast. Put at times t lie bird undoubtedly takes advantage of the lilting and carrying air currents; then, indeed, its wings are sails and it glides along, tipping occasionally as a boat lips when its sails are filled. It will even take an upward turn without one beat of its wings, and all this time the tail, as rudder, keeps the bird true to its course. The wing and tail of a bird are shown in our illustration and I suggest that you secure a wing of a chicken, or other kind of fowl, which has been killed for food, and identify the fathers that make the bird go. A barn-yard fowl is not built to fly the distance that a bird does, but its wings are made on the same plan. It is the quill-feathers. of the wing known as primaries that are tho "rowers." These are fastened to the wing bones and are not easily dislodged. Tho soft, covert feathers are used merely for protection, as shingles are used to protect the outside of a roof. At the end of the bird's spine is an upstanding bone shaped like a plow-share and to this bone the large quill-leathers of the tail are attached, forming the rudder which the bird moves at will.

BOYS WHO STAGED SHOW IN COLLEGE NOW DOING SAME OUT ON BROADWAY

Probably he wouldn't like being called a boy, but Richard C. Rodgers, 17 years old, who has just completed his freshman year at Columbia university, ' New York City, is the composer of most of the musical numbers in Lew Field's new play, "Poor Little Kitz Girl," now being run at the Central theater, in New York City. , As the Cmoklyn Eagle comments, youth has taken a big part in the production of that play. Herbert Fields. Lew's son, who has had a big hand in staging the show, i3 only 21 years. 1orenz M. Hart, who wrote many of the lyrics, is a recent graduate of the Pulitzer school of journalism. These three fellows are college chums. They recently did such good work in staging a show at Co

lumbia, that even an old hand likej

Lew Fields was convinced they could do the same on the real stage.

"GET RICH QUICK" An Irishman had been arrested for speeding and he was brought before the judye. "Ten dollars or ten davs in jail," said the judge. "Which shall it be?" "It ye plaize, sir, Oi'll take the money," said the Irishman.

What Shall I Be?

Answered for Boys

A METAL WORKER By R. S. Alexander "So you want to find out about metal working?" said the young foreman of the cold drawn room. "In this business you have every metal from pig Iron to platinum, every kind of job from yards roustabout to general manager, every kind of work from blacksmlthlng with a sledge hammer to the most exact work with the most delicateinstruments, everything from smelting the ore to putting the final touches on tho finished product." "If you are figuring on going Into the mills as a metal worker, the thing for you to do is to learn about metals and the processes Involved in handling them. You are going to high school. Well, take all the work in mechanical drawing you can. Get your mathematics down so you know It and can use it in a practical way. Then either go to

a technical school and take i course in metallurgy, or go lnt the mill itself and learn there. "If you go into the mill, don't go in expecting to run the place In a couple years. That takes a long lime and hard work. Go in as an apprentice and be a real apprentice. Learn all you can about the working of the metal you are handling; learn it from the ground up. The general manager .said the other day to us foremen "it is easy to pick up skilled men who can do tho work but it is very difficult to find men for foremen who understand the processes and can direct men.' "No matter where you go in, whether it be as a pattern maker, an open hearth man, a moulder, a blacksmith, a machinist, a boilermaker, an inspector, or what not, go in with the idea to learn all there is to know about that branch of the metal industry. Study the subject yourself in a night school, an apprentice school, or a Y. M. C. A. continuation school. Make yourself the master of the fundamental processes in the making of the metal in which you are working and you will find that there is a place for you somewhree up In the general direction of the top."

JOKES

"On my last voyage I saw waves forty feet high." "Get out. I was on the sea fifty years and never saw 'em that high." "Well, things are higher now than they used to be."

CORRECT Teacher I'll have to give you zero for your examination. A. Herbert -That means nothing to me. Lone Scout.

TRUTHFUL JOHNNY Teacher: Willie, have you whispered today without permission. Willie: Only wunst. Teacher: Johnny, should Willie have said "wunst?" Johnny: No'm. he should have said "twict." Boston Transcript.

"He doesn't seem to mind political speeches." "No; you see, ho was gassed in France."

WHO IS SHE? Her pen helped to free the slaves.

OR FOUNDRIES Ernest K. Why do dentists call their offices "dental parlors?" Ambrose M. I suppose they think it would make their patients feel too bad if they called them drawing-rooms.

"Dear Sir," wrote the anxious mother, "1 fear Johnny is not trying enough." "Dear Madam," replied the worried teacher, "I assure you Johnny is quite trying enough. He is the most trying boy in the class." Commerce, High School of Commerce, Omaha, Neb.