Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 81, 12 February 1921 — Page 15

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JUNIOR PALLADIUM

Th 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 contributor!. News items, isocial events, "want" advertisements, 6tories, local Jokes and original poems arc acceptable and will be published. Articles should bp. 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 aa they bring their articles to The Palladium office, or to receive letters addressed to the Junior Editor. This is your little newsp;ipfr, and we hope each boy and girl will use It thoroughly.

AUNT POLLY'S LETTER

Dear Junior Friends: Do you think Lincoln would have been the great man that he was, if it h:ul not been for the rails he had to split? You know the stories of how much hard work he had to do when he was a boy at home because he was so big and strong and how he often split big logs up into rails for fences. If you are having "hard licks" right now, do not try to make yourself think they are easy. They aren't. They are hard but the medicine for them is courage, as Lincoln took to help himself and faith and hard work. Let us not feel sorry for ourselves. That acts as a drug on our ambitions. It never cures our troubles and if taken in big, round tablets very often, it will

give our ambitions the sleeping sickness from which they may never wake up. When Lincoln grew old enough to want to do more than split logs and "tend store" in a little newly made western town, he saw that he did not know much of anythinghe did not know about books and history and that was one of the things the big world demanded the world where he wished to play a part. The task looked very big so he tackled it for he liked big things a big scrap and tussle when.a boy, an extra big log to split when h: was older, and the heaviest part of the work to be done in New Salem. 111., and the other places he lived as a junior and a young man. He saw he had to make his brain work straight and long and well and that he had to learn to write and read and then he wanted to read a great deal. You have seen boards, haven't you, in porch floors or on roofs, warped and bent by weather, hard and changing weath?r? Well, that is the way one's plans and ambitions are apt to grow when "hard knock" stones get into our paths. But Lincoln kept his ambitions kept them strong and sincere. He wanted to get into legislature, to get a railroad out to the new western towns; to become a member of congress, and was determined to stop the terrible crime of slavery. So he read law and history books Ht night as he "tended store" and ha sharpened and polished his ambitions as he sharpened his axe before going into the wood? to make a clearing for a new log cabin, and he got what he wanted finally. He paid the price of getting what he wanted unselfish as this wanting was and was fchot just as ...lings were beginning to clear up for the bitter. But wasn't it worth "more to him to have reached what he wanted even though he paid a high price, than to have given up his p'ans when things looked dark around him and to have decided to be a store keeper in New Salem? He might have lived longer nnd died quietly at home but would it have pleased him? Of course it wouldn't. To have given thousands of unhappy slaves a chance to really live, to have been president of the United States and to have lived kindly and simply and nobly through it all was to have been great and so people all over our country have given him, in affection, another name. We call him "Lincoln, the great-hearted", and really that is a better gift than a crown of gold and sparkling diamonds, and pearls and emeralds and rubies isn't it? Perhaps you are saying "Aunt Polly's preaching" and if you think so, just pass up this letter and I'll promise you a lively one next time. But., honestly, one must be serious sometimes, and sometimes there ARE hard knocks, lots of them, and the very bast way to meet them is to keep going. It is hard but is worth it when you do what you most want to do and see yourself getting to be what you most want to be. I like the way "Abe" Lincoln sharpened his axe and went after the biggest logs in the wood when there were rails to split. - AUNT POLLY.

WE PLAY BALL AFTER SCHOOL When I get homo after school, I go over to play basket ball. Benny put the goal up on a very cold day. The goal Is in Benny's yard. There are as many as ten boys at one time. They come from all parts of West Richmond. Sometimes there are as many as five balls inthe air at once. Sometimes we have a game which looks like a football game. It Is very fine to be ab)3 to play basketball so near at home. Sometimes we don't quit playing until six o'clock. Tracy W. Evans, CA, Joseph Moore School.

Lorraine The Story of a Little Girl

C ; I Valentine Refreshments I V ! J Here are descriptions of a number of attractive dishes from which you may select the menu best adapted to your needs: Cupid's Salad. Cut out heart-shaped pieces of tomato jelly that was hardened in a large, flat dish and place on crisp lettuce leaves. Prepare a cupful of stoned olives, sliced and chopped cucumber pickles, mix with mayonnaise and place a little heap upon each red heart. Love Sandwiches. On a thin slice of buttered bread

lay a lettuce leaf, spread with may-i onnaise dressing and sprinkled ' lightly with grated cheese and finely minced English walnuts. Lay

i anotherslice of buttered bread over j this mixture and trim into heart!

shapes. Or hard boiled eggs cut in! thin slices may be used for the!

filling. St. Valentine's Nectar. Melt six rounding teaspoons of grated chocolate, then add quickly six cups of boiling milk. When chocolate is thoroughly dissolved, add two tablespoons of strong, clear coffee and a teaspoon of vanilla. Serve hot with whipped cream and sugar.

There was once a little girl whose name was Iorralne. Lorraine was a very selfl6h little girl among all her playmates, even Jocelyn Smith, her best playmate. In playing house she would not let any other playmates have anything which belonged to her. If she and her playmates vfere going for a picnic, she would always share her playmates' goodies, but never her own. One day, Lorraine's mother received a message that Aunt Ella was coming to spend the week-end. Now, Lorraine liked Aunt Ella very much because she always brought her many shells, pearls and many gems from the seashore. Now,

Lorraine's mother, Mrs. Milliard, had written to Aunt Ella about how terribly selfish Irraine was, so Aunt Ella had worked out a plan which she intended to carry out. The day came for Aunt Ella to arrive in the largo city of Salem,

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Oregon, where Lorraine lived. ' It was on Friday, and Lorraine 'did not go to school that day because Aunt Ella Donson was coming. Mrs. Wllllard went to the station In the car lo meet Aunt Ella, When they arived Lorraine took Aunt Ella's traveling bag and opened It Immediately. Upon opening she found many small trinkets which, Aunt Ella said were for Bobby, Janie and Lola, Ixrraine'a sisters and brothers. Poor Lorraine! Alas! Was there nothing for her? She who was always Aunt Ella's favorite? She to whom Aunt Ella always brought so many things? "Oh, Aunt Ella," shouted Lorraine, "is there nothing for me? "Please tell me, Auntie Donson." "Well," said Aunt Ella,, "I hope you will learn a lesson from this, and never again be a selfish little girl" and then she gave Lorraine a beautiful shell from the seashore. Maxlne Coblentz, 7B, Garfield Junior High School.

SOME FUN THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE

Sunday, Papa said, "We are going to Twin Lake in the summer. My grandma and grandpa are going, too. They have been there before. We are going to Twin Lake in grandpa's automobile. When we get there, Grandma said we would have a cottage to stay in. We could go out and play in the sand and go fishing and go across the lake and go swimming. I think I will have a good time. Eugene Wlckett, CO grade, Joseph Moore School. Beware 0' Green Apples A green little boy in a green little way, A'green little apple swallowed one day; Now the green little grasses ten-

O'er the green little apple green little grave.

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WHO IS HE?

A printer, scientist, and statesman. Last, week Frances Willard, founder of W. C. T. U.

DO YOU KNOW

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Very Wise, Indeed. Miss Buchanan is a wise teacher. When she goes out of the room she always says, "Don't make too much noise."-Hyde Park Weekly, Chicago, 111.

This week's Bible question by the ' Y" Scoutmaster:

Name the books of the Old and New Testaments having but one

chapter.

This will be answered in next

week's Junior. Answer to last week's question: The first Christian martyr was Stephen.

Teacher "Robert, do you know 'How Doth the Little Busy Bee'?" Robert "No; I only know he doth it."

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WANT ADS

GARDEN SEED for sale; 10c a package, three for 25c, while they last. Garden and flower seeds. Also all kinds of cards; nothing over 15c. Put your order In now. Call 103 Richmond Ave.

Table decorated and set for the Valentine party feast and a crepe paper frock to wear to the party. Next to Christmas to the youthful mind comes Valentine day, with its fun of making and giving valentines and its many fancy dress parties. The possibilities for the decorations on this di.7 are unusually good and many pretty ideas are to. be had for small sums from ten cents and up iv.;t, om th nrire of the paper

sets and novelties most 01 uie tores carry. NnnnHivn the table recorations

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about the simplest part 01 luncheon. The illustration

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cloth decorated with many red hearts and a garland border. Paper plates, paper napkins, paper baskets with little cupida attendant, paper streamers from large paper cupid holding a huge paper neart centerpiece, and love-letter place cards delivered bjr a dove form a pretty and at-

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tractive decorations. A fortune may be attached to each favor or some little prophetic saying a to the heart affairs of each guest. The little heart-shaped baskets may hold small after-dinner candies or salted nuts. Of ourse. all the dishes served at the luncheon or supper party

should have some sort of heart decoration or be in some way a reminder of the occasion. The dress which is illustrated may be readily made over from an old muslin slip or frock. 1t is fashioned of paper with hearts and garlaiids for decorations The hat is also made of paper.