Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 22, 4 December 1920 — Page 17

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1920

THE JUNIOR

The Junior Palladium la tho 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 poems are acceptable and will be published. Articles should be written plainly and on one side of tho paper, with the author's name and age signed. Aunt Polly la always glad to meet the children personally as they bring their articles to Tho 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

Good evening. Juniors: 1 am thinking about two things, tonight, two very different things It seems, and yet perhaps not so different after all. One of them is the new Idea that is now interesting so many people of Richmond in their city government. Folks all over our city are thinking and talking about changing our government and changlrjr it for the better. A change In Itself is refreshing whether It conns in play or work or Ideas or anything. It has a way of giving us new energy and makes us just wish and wish to "begin over". In beginning over we do not want to do as somo children do when lost in a woods near their town, just keep on walking around and around hoping to reach home just because they keep going. A better way is to look around and see if we can see any of the tall buildings, or towers or tall chimneys or smoke from them or flag poles or anything that will help us to know In which direction to start walking. That is what men and women are doing nowadays in Richmond. They are going to start on a journey to The Land of Better Government, but they are studying and learning and talking things over with one another and with people who know about tho different ways, so that they can make the right start. The other thing I am thinking about is (should I say "are"?) puppets. They are the little dolls, you know, which act out plays and shows and the way they act Is by someone pulling hundreds of strings or wires which are attached to them. Sometimes there are as many as 600 of these strings so you see it takes somebody who Is watching all the time to pull the right string so that the puppet or doll does not laugh when it is supposed to cry, and so, mar the show. Several Richmond Juniors have given puppet shows at different times and always they can draw a large audience. These shows are lots of fun and very interesting. These puppets are a very old Idea, as the Greeks and the Romans of old used to enjoy their shows. In Italy and Franco they are popular too, there always called marionettes. English children often see puppets, too. Perhaps tho one seen most often in America is that of Punch and Judy, which often visits fairs or travels with circuses. The action in this is simple but never fails to amuse junior onlookers Sometimes people organize companies and give puppet shows which are very fine. A ian named Mr. Sarg is a famnus owner of marionettes and manager of puppet shows. Recently in New York (I think it was New York some larg city at least) tho Sarg company presented "Rip Van Winkle" in a puppet show which was very much enjoyed if we may judge from reports. Wouldn't you like to see old "Rip" and his dog and all (he rest of them as dolls on a stage? The only way I can connect puppets and our new plans for an improved city government is when we hire or elect someone or a group of people to make laws for us and our city, and then when we take no more interest in the making and enforcing of these laws. Then it seems we are acting very much like puppets in that we stop thinking and acting ourselves and let someone else put on the show j using us as actors. Tuppets are splendid when they are real and in their own place, but. should we as citizens, young or old. be puppets?! AUNT POLLY. I

QUESTION BOX Tin- editor will try to answer oiieslion.s readers of the Junior submit to her. She will not promise to answer all nf them. Tin- questions will lie answered in rotation, so do not expect the iinswer to be printed in the same wK-k in which you send your (ues-.ttun. Dear Aunt Polly: What is my hoe's name? lie lives in Richmond. He has brown eyes, red cheeks and wears nee pants. Betty. Dear Betty: Your description sounds attractive, but please tell me more about him. If thero were only one of him, as there is of Santa Claus, I could guess him right away, or being a very good guesser, I might be able to guess him out of 25 or even 50, but there are hundreds of brown eyes and red cheeks and "nee" pants living in Richmond, and I might easily pick out a hundred "hoes" for you which would be all right, maybe, if the rest of the girls would not pull my hair out for doing it. Aunt Polly. Answer to chins. riddle No. 4: UrThe Mystery NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 1920 Murder in .suburbs of taxieab driver and passenger is a mystery. Two young boys saw this in the paper and were, like everybody else, wondering the cause. Just then there was a rap on the door of t he tenement house.. One of the boys went to the door. A policeman stood there. He asked the boy if he bad seen a strange man. He said lu! had not and the policeman told him several stores had

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j been robbed and thy thought it ! was the same one that committed ; (he murder. At that the policemen i left. The hoys stood in amazement j because just then a man ran in the

BOY SCOUTS MAKE PILGRIMAGE TO GRAVE OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT

Bo Scouts passing through

window, backed tho boys up

against the wall and tiod them. Knowing their parents had left lor the day, they could Bee no means of escape. The thief started to plunder. After getting everything of value, tho thief untied the boys and told them if they uttered a word they were going to be killed. Ho backed to the window. As he wag going out, be got fast in the window, as the jar made it close. Ho dropped his gun on the floor. One of the boys grabbed it and covered him. The other got him loose. After this one held the gun on him while the other tied him. They notified the police. A squad came and took him away. Tho trial was held. Tho man was found guilty of robbery and was about to be sentenced when the gun was examined. He wa9 found to be the murderer of the two men. The bell rang and the officer reported tho insurance companies had offered a 15,000 reward for the capture of this man. Ho was an escaped convict and the prison offered a small reward also. He was sentenced to be electrocuted on Jan. "1, 1921. The boys received their money and were able to pay for their own education. Dale Drown, Winchester, Ind. Children Greeted By Uncle Sam As Members of Family Uncle Sam has recently welcomed many more hundred children to his family. Thee are the children of the Virgin Islands, which have been recently purchased from Denmark. The Junior Red Cross of America is already connecting itself with these children. Libraries are planned, many of them and music in the way of sheet and book music as well as phonographs and records are to be supplied the schools. Band instruments have also been published and school orchestras will probably be organized. Another feature of the Junior Red Cross work with these junior island dwellers is a course in nursing and the care of the sick which will be established in the schools. QUESTION FOR DEBATE Resolved: That every school should have an effective system for regulating the activities in which any student can engage. Augustine. 8 year old son nf Francisco Villa, the former bandit chief of Mexico, is said to bo the constant companion of his lather. They lice on a "0O.000 acre farm at! Cnnutillo, Mevlco, between twin range. of the Sierra Madres. where the soil is very rich. Augustine is, being trained to take his father's! place on the large estale. I Oyster Cay with an insert showing

The Shade Of Hezekiah Applegate

By ELISABETH STEELE Skeleton Suit Found; Ghost Walks No More. "It was not difficult the next evening to leave tho campflre unobserved. I dressed in our tent since all tho girls were down at the point, wrapped my kimono around me and ran for a rise in the ground quite a distance from the fire where I knew I would be perfectly visible. ' "Suddenly I turned around and presented the glowing skeleton toward the point and waited for someone to discover me. It was fully five minutes before anyone looked in that direction, but what a melee when they did. I beard a few shrieks and screams but most of the girls were too frightened to utter a sound. Even the Owl had no argument to offer. It wa3 there. She could not deny It. "I slowly lifted my right arm and pointed a bony finger at them to show that they were observed. This was too much. They fled in all directions. "I wrapped up In my kimono, stumbled and ran back to camp and crawled Into bed, putting the suit between the lowest layers of bodding. "If I had been satisfied with two appearances all would have been well, but my dramatic soul demanded a third. I appeared on the hill in my accustomed manner and succeeded In frightening a few silly girls and got back to the tent unobserved. "But, In the morning, Ibe Owl, desperate now for she feared the girls were going to leave her camp personally supervised tent and bunk Inspection. She happened to see the corner of one of Ixtuie's books sticking out. That ten-cent novel spoiled it all. It was a signal for every bunk in our tent to be torn apart. Thero in the bottom of mine was tho shade of Hezekiah Applegate. "1 don't know how I ever happened to escape being sent home. As it was 1 was porched for the day. I was disciplined, but I am here to tell vou that it was worth it.. The End Ideas, Money and Christmas Gifts That present for dad. mother and Ihe rest, including your chumhow are you earning the money to buy it? Are you working at a job, fomeone el?e suggested or are you i doing something you thought of! oursolf and making money at it? Write to the Junior about it and! the Scouu at the grava,

perhaps you can help some othei boy or girl "to decide how he or she will bo able to buy the present they most want to get for the folks they like best. Here are two letters, one from a girl and the other from aboy tell ing how they are earning theli, money: Tho first: With Christmas coming wa are naturally thinking of presents and money with which to buy them Each year I am given just so much money to buy my presents tfcat I Intend to give away. We had a closet full of maga zlnea which mother said I could have to sell If I would carry them out to the back porch. I jumped at the idea and proceeded to carry them out. I then hailed a rag man and told him that I had some magazines to sell. He offered me 75 per 100 pounds, but I said that wasn't enough. He then boosted the price to a dollar. Thinking that enough, I let him have the magazines. There were COS pounds. So 1 earned $5.05 that day for my Christmas money. ELIZABETH HUNT, Age 13, University high" school, Chicago, 111. The second: My older brother was always get ting his shoes shined. It must have cost him a dollar or a dollar and a half a week, including tips. Dad wasn't quite so bad, but he spent a good deal himself. I decided to go Into the business in our neighborhood. I figured I could save money for my custom crs and make some for myself. So I gto five families, including ours, on the list and agreed to call at each every day and shine all their shoes for 50 cents per person per week. I make three calls in the morning and two in the evening. Right now my business is $5.50 a week. W. R. D.

Art Corner

Hore is a riddlewhat has more than four corners? Answer, the Junior Palladium. And here Is one more, because some Juniors suggested that we have it, since there are so many boys and girls Interested in art and since this department is so active and so Interesting these days. The boys of Mr. Brown's Junior high school art club have been sketching out of doors for many weeks. They have completed stud;es!n pencil, crayon, enarroal and vslel. After a while they will commence copying selected studies in the high school art rooms .or in Mr. Brown's studio. More than 100 drawings in color of birds, fishes and flowers and a variety of designs worked ont from motifs developed from nature study, drawn by high school students of New York city are being exhibited throughout the United States by the Fine Arts Federation. All pupils In the New York city high schools except a few in commercial classes, are required to study art two periods a week for two years. The boys and girls of the sixth grade in their art work are making some very nice Christmas cards. They are to be worth sending in design and greeting. They are learning which kind of Christmas cards are good to send and which are not so good. The boys of the 7A Grade are making an intensive study of the exteriors of houses. Drawings are made of attractive exteriors. The ninth grade boys are doing something that has never been done before, in connection with their art work and a very interesting way of studying art, it is, too They are discussing what makes a beautiful automobile, the colors, lines, spacing, distance between wheels, and many, many other points which must be considered in the making of a beautiful automobile. Pictures of all the well-known makes in many models have boea brought to the school and studied and the interest runs very high. Perhaps they will tell Junior readers just what makes up a beautiful automobile, when they have discovered the secret. Is your class going to have a Christmas party? Or your club? Are you planning a Christmas celebration of any kind anywhere? Write to us and tell us all about It. We will be glad to publish it in the Junior.