Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 63, 22 January 1921 — Page 16

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STARR PUPILS TO , LEARN HOW TADPOLES LOSE THEIR TAILS How do tadpoles lose their tails? This is the subject which is holding the close interest of the pupils in the nature study class at Starr school.. . .: -- Do they drop off? Severat pupils are sure they do and others are not so sure. " They are watching very closely anyway watching the six mile green brown tadpoleB which are swimming around in the two fish bowls in the nature room. As a rule the tadpoles seem very good natured and do not ' mind being watched one bit. They have company, too although the company as a rule live very quietly for they are snails, six of them. There is one minnow, too, in one of the bowls. - Miss Kinchell is the teacher of Nature Study, and seems to be hav ing as much fun watching the tad poles as have the boys and girls. The third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades take Nature Study at Starr n n rl n Hi 1 . . i iiuu a wmmuiee is appointed 10 help keep the playground clean; to feed the tadpoles and snails; and to put the food on the two feeding shelves for birds, which are in the Nature Study room. The names of those on the committee for this past week are: Marie Hunt, chair man; Robert Funk, Ellen King and Mary Ellen Kern. ST. ANDREWS PUPIL SUGGESTS NEW REMEDY FOR BURGLARIES The Flying Squad, , Many citizens of Richmond have been molested by holdups and burglaries. My suggestion to rem edy euch robberies is like they have in larger cities. It is a unique idea and known as "the Flying Squad." It really does not fly but its speed as it passes through the streets at night has gained for this invention its name. An automobile holding several men who have a very powerful flashlight, which is : flashed every twelve and one-half minutes, rides through the streets between eleven and four o'clock at night The lights can be flashed in any direction, thus picking out suspic-t ious characters and detecting hold- j ups. , Wouldn t this be an inexpensive help to our city? Why not try it? D. O, St Andrew's ; High school. . CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION STORY GOES TRAVELING Warner School, Richmond, Ind., Jan. 7, 1921. ' I received your letter and was glad to hear from you. Our teacher never told us that we were going to get a letter from such a far away city, A week before Christmas we decorated our school room and we had a very beautiful Christmas tree and we attached electric lights on it. We hung Christmas bells in the hall room door. And there were other decorations besides those. We had a very nice program Friday, before school closed for the Christmas vacation. Our teacher read its an interesting stoiy, and we had a very nice or chestra from three children from our room. Then there was a little girl in the third grade that danced for us, and there were, a great many other things that were on the program, but if I started to tell you I would never get through. Well, after that,, we went into our room and then we were going to have a little play, so we thought it would be nice to invite the fourth grade children to come and see it. And then about the time that play was over it was time for school to let out. I forgot to tell you that two or three winters ago there was a teacher that fell on the ice and broke her ankle and now she can not teach school any more. She lives right across from the school house and that evening after school was out, our teacher let some of the children go over and sing for her. I thought that was very nice of our teacher to let us go. I had a very nice Christmas vacation and hope you had the same. Well, I must close for this time, and, hoping to hear from you soon, Your loving friend, V HAZEL SARVER. Answer to Puzzle No. 4: 1 YY 1 OWN c c it, translated, says, "Wise in one's own conceiL"

FREMONT.WADES : c FORJIS DINNER Fremont Alexander, Herbert Norton and Tod Barton, Keith Monroe and Hary Martin went hiking Sunday morning along the Whitewater river. They were about a mile out of town when Fremont said to the boys that he was so hungry that he could eat most anything. They were going along the river and Fremont asked them if they had something good. Fremont was

I so hungry he was willing to swim in an me aeep water to get there. The boys across the river had a big fire and while Fremont' was drying, the boys' ran across a rabbit The boys started chasing it. Monroe was on the bank where the rabbit could swim across. The boys asked Monroe why be did not pick up a rock and throw at it, he said he could find any rocks., and he was standing on a pile of rocks on the hank By Alfred S. SHE IS EDITOR SMALLEST PAPER IN UNITED STATES The smallest newspaper in the United States Is published by Miss Alice C. Nichols of Liberal, Kansas. She is fifteen years old, and In addition to doing all the reporting and editorial writing for her paper, "The Nichols Journal," she sets type and makes up forms for each of the four pages. It is printed on the presses of the Liberal Democrat after the young woman editor has locked it up and "put it to bed." The Nichols Journal was started wnen miss Alice was nine years

old. Her brothers .and some of . "What is pepper, Mother? their friends were organizing what) What makes pepper, ptease?" they called "Tiny Town" and de-: "Pepper, little Brother, dared they needed a newspaper, j Is made half of P's. Alice was appointed to the Job andi Then she smiled, "Now, spell it;" she wrote the first Issues by hand.! And he did with ease; Later she learned to cse the type- There' were just six letterswriter and printed her paper with Half of them were P's. the aid of carbons. j '- After Tiny Town had ceased its HOW IT FEELS TO

corporate existence her paper as "The she continued Nichols JourMISS ALICE C. NICHOLS. nal" and soon had over a hundred subscribers who paid for the paper delivered weekly. By this time she found it too much of a Job to typewrite a newspaper, and out of the earnings of the business purchased several cases full of type and some chases and set up her "stuff" in real newspaper fashion. Contrary to expectations, Miss Nichols hobby is not newspaper work. "That is my chosen profession," she said when asked the question. "My real hobby is parties, though I like . basketball a whole lot." She plans after she finishes her high school course to take a journalism course in the state university. John L. Hubble, playwright and author of "Daddies," has appointed himself circulation manager of the Nichols Journal and declares he will start a circulation campaign for the - paper in New York city, following his return; there after a lecture - tour through the west J

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22. Uil

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Quarut of pretty girls giving their web-footcd coursers a try-out previous to the race of the poultry show. A goose race, such as is common in European countries, will feature the coming poultry show at Madison Square Garden in New York city. Breeders throughout the country have been training their lest running geese for the races. The photograph shows four of the pretty girls who will drive the geese in the coming races. They are, left to right. Miss Margie Himen, Miss Dorothy UacEail. Miss Olga Ziceva and Miss Mildred Mann.

What Makes Pepper, Please? PLAY IN A CONCERT Saturday, the 15th, about one o'clock, I was putting my 'cello in my case and getting music ready and watching the cars. I called Roland Lane to know what car he was going on. After we got off the car at Ninth street we went to the high school' lunch room where we found groups j of children talking and tuning. Aft-1 er we were tuned we went on the! stage. When you go up on the stage you ;

feel awkward when everybody is; 1Jie waier is passea anu iney nave looking at you, nevertheless I got ! Srace which is said by everyone, up courage to look for my parents. I Then tbey eAt and tell stories or When you are playing a solo and I riddles and play games which can make a mistake it seems as if the be Played without getting up from audience knows it. tne table. Then when everyone Is When you begin to play it seems ' done tney lorm a line and march as if the audience is not looking at j to the playroom. After having you so much until some of the in- Played for about five or ten minstruments have rests and you have; "fes in the playroom, we go to our

to keep on playing Benjamin Bentley, 6B grade, Joseph Moore. LIKES TO PLAY IN CONCERTS When the orchestra got settled I ; thought everyone was looking so I looked up in tho balcony and saw my teacher and some other people I know. Then I looked down in the audience and saw my sister and mother. When Miss Marlatt came, up to start us off on "Over the; Waves" some one took a flashlight 1 picture and Miss Marlatt dropped, her baton and every one Jumped. I like to play in concerts and hope we have another soon. Mervine B. Loper, Joseph Moore school, 6A grade. Dreaming As I sit here by the fire so bright, I saw the most wonderful sight, We bad so many beautiful flowers, It seemed as If I sat there three hours, Drinking in the beauty. The clock was ticking soft and low, Outside the door was gently falling snow. By Frances E. Lane, age 8, 3B grade, Hibberd school. All the juniors of the 6 A grade of the city's public schools attended an informal reception at the Garfield School, Friday evening, with their parents, in order that they might become acquainted - with their soon-to-be teachers and to find out where all the different rooms are located.

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HOW WE GET UP TO OUR STANDARDS We take addition and take a test to see how much below standard we are. Then we work every morning for fifteen or twenty minutes on our addition for a week. Then we take another test to see bow much we have raised our ability. Then we take up another operation in arithmetic. We work till we get up to standard, and we always get up to standard. Tracy W. Evans, 6A grade, Joseph Moore school. i DINNER TIME AT JOSEPH MOORE F,rst the children come down and rash to et a b4- Napkins are men passed around and the chiluren sprean tneir lunches out. mouius. nmia in. Asmey, josepn Moore school, 6B grade.

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THE CONCERT BY THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ORCHESTRA A PLAYER When we went up on the stage I did not feel very good. I was A little scared that we were going to make a mistake. But after we got up there I was alright. The seventh piece on the program was a trio by Helen, Barney and Lena Reddington and Lena- Reddlngton played on the cornet. She did not have tho right mouth piece and she went off of the stage and Miss Marlatt wondered where she was going and when she came back they played a very pretty piece. They took our pictures four times and once when they took it we were Just getting ready to play. When Mildred Fox played her piece on the piano she was so little Mr. Maddy had to bring her out to the front of the stage so the people could see who it was that played. By Bernice Simpson, CB grade, Joseph Moore school.

DO YOU KNOW By the "Y" SCOUTMASTER WTiat miracle is recorded in all four gospels? Where given? This question will be answered next week. Answer to last week's question: There are three letters in the word OLD, and there are nine letters in the word Testament. By putting the two numbers 3 and 9 together, you will have 39, the number of books in the Old Testament, and by multiplying the 3 by the 9, you will have 27, the number of books in the New Testament. Beautifully modelled Noah's arks and wooden toys are now on exhibit at the Merchant Adventurers in Sloane Street, London. There are eight pairs of wild and eight pairs of domestic animals and all aro made to scale, for the artist, while modeling them, made frequent visits to the zoo to keep her eye in training. Answer to Puzzle No. 3: Princeton, in which you find: Prince, tin, ton, cent, tire, nice, not, in, to. "blowing bubbles' Black or Brown English or medium toe, values up to 16.00; your choice $1.95 and $3.45

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