Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 57, 15 January 1921 — Page 15

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15.' 1921

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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, Btories, local Jokes and original poems are acceptable and will be published. Articles should be written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author's name and age signed. 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 Editor. This is your little newspaper, and we hope each boy and girl will use it thoroughly.

AUNT POLLY'S LETTER

Good Evening, Juniors: This is going to be a cinnamon, cloves and allspice letter tonight Now what do I mean by that? Just this, that I have so many different things to write about to you tonight that this is going to be a variety letter and there is a quotation grown almost ragged througn use that "variety is the spice of life." Maybe you think postmen have an easy time of it but sometimes they do not and sometimes they have exciting times, especially in some countries. In China, especially in some provinces of that enormous country, the postmen get into all sorts of dangers attacks by bandits, floods or landslides. Often deeds of daring as exciting as any told of in the most adventurous of adventure stories are performed by these men. ' China is such a large country and includes within its borders so many different kinds of climates and weather conditions that mall is delivered in many different ways. It goes on camels across the Mongolian desert, on ponies over mountains and dales and through yes really through streams, sometimes on donkeys, in the native two-wheeled carts and sometimes even in wheelbarrows Wouldn't it be funny to see our postmen delivering mall in wheelbarrows? The longest of these mall routes in 3,643 miles and goes through wild portions of country where primitive tribes of Mongol horsemen live. Everywhere these Chinese mail carriers are spoken of as simple, honest men with a great devotion to duty. In that respect they are like our postmen in the United States. Have you ever thought about how steadily and in what a friendly way your postman delivers your mail through all kinds of weather? Another thing in which I am very interested is the subject of our national parks. Many of us have never seen many of the large ones. I have never seen any of the great ones as Yellowstone, Yosemite and all those famous ones, but I, and I am sure that all of us, like to see pictures of them and are proud of them and hope and expect to see them some day and we want to see them in all their native beauty: But, unless decisive action is taken soon in our congress, we will be In danger of losing the whole effect of our park system as far as scenery is concerned. Business interests are urging that they acquire the water power of many of our parks for industrial plants, and It Is said by people whose criticism is based on a sound knowledge of ho rnndlHnns that we should oDDbse the effort of these business in

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If we do not, we risk losing tue natural treasures ot tnese parKs which should be kept for the benefit of all the people as examples of the beauty and wonder of nature. Another thing, does your home have a name or a number, and if it just has a number can you think of a name which Just suits it, so that it can be more just YOUR home? I was reading the other day where John Burroughs was talking about this and said that in England many, many more homes have names as well as numbers than In America. Some have such names Oak Tree House or Ivy Cottage, but there are thousands of names they might have. Burroughs said he thought it was much nicer for homes to have names than just numbers and I think so too, don't you? What name suits your home? AUNT POLLY.

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By the "Y" SCOUTMASTER How many books are there In the Old Testament, and how many in the New? What is an easy way to remember the correct number? (This will be answered next week.) Answer to last week's question: "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." Soloman; Proverbs. 25: 11. WHO IS HE? WHO A rich man's son, but a hard worker one of Chicago's "Big Five." I-ast Week's: Charles M. Schwab, the steel man.

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PIRATE GOLD My story begins in a little lage in England. Mrs. Forbes and her little boy rin a hotel. The boy's name was Jack. Pirates were going and coming. Mrs. Forbes seemed to have no trade. One day Jack heard somebody whistling. There was a' great knock and ho went to the door. Here was a big) man a pirate, but Jack did not know it. But just then along came another pirate. The first one, Black Dod struck with his sword; but instead it hit Jack. Was he killed by the fatal stroke? To bo continued. By John Charman, St. Mary's School. Lumbering In the days of the early settlers most of the Northeastern States were covered with forests, but now most of the forests have been cleared away from the land except where the land Is too steep for farming. x Standing on Mount Katahdin one sees only a vast wilderness of trees every direction. Winter is the busiest season for cutting down lumber because the swamps are covered with ice, also the logs and rocks are covered with snow, and it is easier for the sleds to travel over the snow. In summer when the snow melts, another busy season comes. The lumber men put the lumber in a swift current to float down to the saw mills. Floating logs down the stream Is called a log drive. This is a very hard thing to do, for often a log gets -caught, and If It Is not removed right away the other logs will block up the stream. Oft en there is not enough water to' float the logs, so the men have to build dams across the stream and when they need more water they take the dams away and let the other water come In. Lumbering is very important, although it does not employ many men. Reba Thomas, Starr school.

MAKING DOLLS OF STOCKINGS IS FUN SAYS J. MOORE SEWERS Just before Christmas the girls in the sixth grade made rag dolls for the Day Nursery. There were about 12 of them. The way we made them was t get a sock or a stocking and cut out the legs of the doll. Then you measure for the body as far as the head and cut off the stocking. You sew around the legs where it is needed. Right by the waist line you make a tuck. The heel of (he stocking you use for the arm's and the toe of the stocking you use for the cap. After you get through you can make a few yarn stiches to brighten it up. You put some stitches around the neck, cap and waist. For the face of the doll you use while but the other part of the doll "' be any color. This is the way we made our rag dolls. We had as much fun in making the dolls as the children at the Day Nursery in playing with them. Emaline Hunt, Joseph Moore school.

THE DOG FIGHT ON THE HILL On Wednesday, the 29th of December, some friends and my brothers and I were out at the hill. When Jerome was walking up the hill, the other dog came and jumpen our dog. Flute got a bite right under the eye. He was blinded for a while by blood, and he wanted to quit, but the other dog jumped on him again. By that time our dog was all right. The other dog got five grips on Flute, and Flute shook him off every time. Then Flute got a grip on the other dog and got him down and shook him like a rat. His master would not come and call off his dog. He went under the fence and cried. A man came and took my sled and hit the bulldog, and separated them, but the bulldog got on Flute again. He finally got them separated. We took Flute home and fixed him up. FRANK BENTEY. Joseph Moore School, Richmond, Indiana. HOW I SPENT CHRISTMAS DAY Christmas morning I got up and went in the other room, where the Christmas tree was. And my things were there. I got a pair of gloves, a new dress, a pin, and a great many things. Christmas afternoon, my aunt and her children came up. We played the piano. We ate some candy, nuts, apples and oranges. We had a good time. After supper some more company came. We played all kinds of games They staved ti'l 25 after 20. Then we went to bed. We had a hapnv Chr't"ias. I hone everybody e'se had the same. Henrietta grade -5A. Sevastopol. FIRST CANADIAN SCOUT HAS 43 OF 59 BADGES OTTAWA, Canada. Hyman Segalowitz. founder of the 39th Ottawa Hebrew Troop of Boy Scouts, the largest in the city, stands as Canada's greatest Boy Scout. He is 15 years old. has been a Scout four years and holds 43 out of a possible 59 badges. These badges are: Ambulance, fireman, pathfinder, public health, horseman, marksman, missioner, master-at-arms, interpreter, engineer, electrician, entertainer, woodman, starman, friend to animals, citizen, health, photographer, metal worker, leather worker, airman, naturalist, dairyman bee farmer, blacksmith, clerk, basket worker, mason, pioneer, surveyor, carpenter, cook, laundryman, handyman plumber, gardener, farmer, artist, stockman and war. THE HOT SCHOOL LUNCH Pa warms the milk for t he little calf. Ma heats the food for the chicks; They eat a hot dinner at noontime, too; But my lunch is cold as bricks! We have a hot lunch at our school now Cocoa or soup, as hot as the dickens. We fill up our cups as we pass along. They've decided now we're as good as the chickens! Varey V. Miller, In Idaho News-Letter.

THE DIARY OF MARGARET DUBOIS

Part I It was a warm day In August, and Lydia was walking up the street "with Peggy and Polly. "I wonder who la going to move in the big white house?" asked Polly. "I think mother eaid," answered Lydia, "a man, woman and child by the name of Powells. The lady's name is Margaret and her girls' name .is Harriet." "I wonder how old Harriet Is? I hope she is our age. They are to move in tomorrow. You come over about one o'clock and we will walk down in that direction and maybo we will see Harriet," Polly eaid. The next day aa Lydia got through with the dishes, Polly and Peggy called her. So Lydia tidied up and went out to meet them. As they got near the white house they saw somebody sitting on the front porch. As they got nearer they saw it was a girl. She had golden curls falling over her shoulders. She wore a blue serge dress. There was a large shepherd dog lying beside her. All three of the girls thought the same thing. They thought this was Harriet. She motioned for them to come. As they got up to the girl she smiled and asked what their names were and where they lived. They told her, and she said her name was Harriet Powell. She had been helping her mother and bad come out to get cooled off. She also said she was 15, the ame as Lydia, and two and a half years older than the twins. Then Harriet's mother came out on the porch. The girls all liked her at once. They then went home, for it was getting late. On their way home the girls talked about Harriet and said they liked her very much. They had been invited to come the next day also and play a game of tennis. The next day was a pretty day. It was not as hot as the previous ones. Harriet and Peggy were on one side and Lydia and Polly on the other. They had an exciting game. Lydia and Polly won. They then went to sit on the porch. They had lemonade and cakes for refreshments. The trio then went home (the three girls called themselves the BOY MESSENGER BROUGHT WORD OF FLIERS' SAFETY I his tweive-year-old boy. v., tiam Golding, carried the message ovr the wilderness trail from Mattice, Canada, to Cochrane, announrim? the safj landing of the three U. S. navy balloonist! near Moose Factory. He is an expert runner end snow-shoer.

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trio). The next morning Lydia was over at the twins' house. . I r "I like her very much." exclaimed Lydia. "She telephoned to ma and asked us to come over tomorrow afternoon. And. oh, girls, I believe I will show her the diary I found. She seems so much like a friend. I must be going now, for I have to go to the store. See you again soon. Goodbye." I The next day was a rainy day, so Lydia stayed home and helped her mother, and read. The next day was a sunshiny day. At the appointed hour tho trio went to Harriet's house. ; Harriet was out by the front gate to welcome them. She took them around to the summer house. "I have something important to tell you if you don't tell a soul. Promise?" "I promise," answered Harriet. "Well, about a month ago I was looking for a book when my hand hit the wall and a door flew open in the wall. I stuck my hand In and pulled out a little red book. It said, 'The Diary of Margaret Du Bois.' " "My mother!" exclaimed Harriet. "Your mother?" cried Peggy. "Hurry, let's go and tell her." They all three scrambled to the house. Mrs. Powell greeted them as they came up, panting. "Mother, we have the most wonderful thing to tell you!" cried Harriet. And Lydia told her all about the diary. Mrs. Powell sat quietly until she had finished, and then eaid: "She thought she would come after the pearls, but her mother had taken ill and they had gone to Florida. She had met Mr. William Powell there and had married him, They had had one child, and Mrs. Powell named her Harriet after her dear friend Harriet Murphy. They then had moved to New York and then back to Fernville." Lydia ran home and got the pearls. Mrs. Powell did not want to take them, but Lydia said they were hers. About a week after this happened the trio was over to Lydia's house, and Mrs. Powell came up and handed her a ring. It had her initial, with her birthstone around It. She gave the same to the others. All of the girls started a diary and, laughingly, declared they would read It when they got old. MILDRED GARDNER. 8A Grade, Garfield School.

Our Biggest City New York is the second city In size in the world and the largest in the United States. It has nearly six million people. So many people live here because this is where the New York harbor is, the largest ocean vessels can go in this harbor, and another reason for so many people here is because New York is the greatest manufacturing center. Some poor families live in apartment houses, they have no yards at all. Some of these children have never seen a tree or bird or a blade of grass except as they go to the parks. When summer comes the people that live in the country take these children to their homes and keep the children all summer. The only place the children in the city have to play is in the streets. New York has the highest building in the world. It is the Woolworth building. It is 52 stories high. When you are on the top of this building you can see all over New York. The streets of New York are very crowded. The buildings are so high and close together that it is like going through a tunnel. New York has a great many beautiful parks. It has a great many hotels. If you would visit a different one every day it would take you three years to visit all of them. Mary Louise Gardner, Starr Platoon school. Answer to Puzzle 1 : Arrange the nine digits in hree groups as follows: 219, 438, 657. Then the third is three time3 ihe first, and the second is the difference between the other two.