Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 134, 16 April 1921 — Page 13

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM

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JAPANESE ART SUBJECT MEETING JUNIOR ART ASS'N. Japanene art and. the appreciation of art by the Japanese people was the subject of a meeting of the Junior Art association Tuesday afternoon which was much enjoyed by the members present. Miss Drokaw, who haa but recently returned from a visit to Japan spoke about the Japanese people and their appreciation of art- She allowed several Japanese dolls. Three of these dolls showed the three ways a Japanese girl dresses her hair, the first as she dresses it before she Is betrothed, the second as ehe arranges it after betrothal aad the third as she dresses it after she is married. Miss Esther Griffin White talked on the art of the Japanese, especially in respect to woodblock printing. She exhibited a great number of pieces from her splen' did collection, satsuma ware, cloieonee vases, embroideries, fans and Ivory carvings. Election of officers for the association took place, too, Tuesday afternoon with the following results: Ehner Porter, president j Northrup Elmer, vice-president; Helen Pille, recording secretary; Madge Harris, financial secretary, and Richard Ziegler, treasurer. LONE SCOUTS GO FOR HIKE SUNDAY The following members of The jSUver Tes Tribe" win go on a hike Sunday afternoon. The purpose of this bike is for passing degree tests and for woodcraft. They will meet at 12:45 at their cabin northwest of the city and leave from there at 10 o'clock. Members that are going on hike are: Carl Demarel, captain; Herman Hansen, treasurer, Earl Wolf, Arthur Fisher, Harold Gregg and Joe Retx. INDOOR MAGIC The performer seats himself In a chair, the back of which has bars running either horizontally or vertically. He places his hands in back of the chair. They are tied together at the wrists with a stout cord. A ring is borrowed from one of the audience and placed between the performer's lips. Then a screen Is stood before him bo that he is out of sight of the watchers. An assistant asks the owner of the ring to name which of the performer's fingers she wishes the ring to appear upon. The assistant repeats the name of the finger for the performer's benefit. Two or three minutes elapse. The screen is removed. The ring is found upon the finger named, and the performer's hands have not been untied, nor has the rope been tampered with. When the screen is placed in front of the performer he leans forward as far as possible and drops the ring from his lips to his lap. Then spreading his knees slowly apart, he carefully allow the ring to drop to the seat of the chair. By a series of backward pushes of his body he slides the ring to the rear of the seat, where by squirming his hands, he can reach it with his fingers. It Is then a simple matter to slide the ling onto the finger named. Ed. Note Perhaps if you practice these tricks you will be a wizard like Richards some day. Anyway, they are fun to do. Can you work them? Hibberd 3A-4B's Go to ThistlethWaite's The children in the 3A and 4B grades of the Hibberd school took a trip to Thistlethwaite's fails Wednesday with their teacher, Miss Joyce Snepp, to make a direct study of certain places and conditions in 1

VAILE FIFTH GRADE SENDS LETTER TO SWISS CHILDREN

Richmond, Ind., April 1, 1921. Dear Boys and Girls: The children of this fifth grade are very much interested in Switzerland so that we are delighted to write to you. The Mississippi valley Is the valley in which we live. It is very big compared with the whole country of Switzerland. It is about 1,300 miles from east to west and about Jie same from north to south. Tho surfaeo around here Is about 1.00C feet above the sea level. We can't see the mountains because we are hundreds of miles away. The highest peak of the Rockies In the United State is Mt. Whitney, in California. It is 14,500 feet high. Indiana's surface compared with Switzerland is very level. We are much interested in glaciers because we have none. But many thousands of years ago we bad one and It was over a mile in depth. It covered Canada and a part of the United States, and came down as far as the Ohio river. Then the climate grew warmer and it melted. It made very rich soil, wich is good for agriculture. It made tha Great Lakes and gave us very good water power. We should Bite to know tho width and length of your glaciers. Agriculture is very important in the Mississippi valley. Where wo live the ground is very billy. Indiana was once the bed of an old lake so the soil is very fertile. Two of the leading products are corn and wheat. The climate is suited to these erops for the summers are long and hot and good for ripening them. We have more corn and wheat than we need so Xfc ship fome to other countries. You may have eaten some .The animals wo have oa the farms are chickens, pigs, cows and horses. We have many large poultry farms. Do you have many farms? We have great numbers of them. Our farms: are big and we use much farm machinery. All of our milk comes from the cowg. We do not use goats' milk. Here some of the people use electric milking machines. There are also separators that separate the milk from the cream. Most of the butter is made in creameries. It is churned in large churns that hold over one barrel of cream. Then it is molded into one pound cakes of butter. In one of the dairies there are two hundred and fifty head of cattle. I have told you a little about our dairies. And we would like to know more about your dairies. We are wondering whether your customs are like ours. We are going to write about our customs. First, we will tell you about our churches. In our city we have many different kinds of churches. There are about twelve Protestant churches and two Catholic churches. In America the children dress like the English children. All of our clothing is not mado alike. In the summer we wear light clothing and In the winter we wear heavy clothing. The next thing we will tell you is about our pets. We have many different kind of pets in our country, some of which are rabbits, cats, doss, birds and guinea pigs. Our games are hop scotch, base ball, basket ball, hide and seek and tag. Our studies are geography, arithmetic, spelling, English. music and reading. Richmond has a verynice art gallery for so small a city. It has several artists and we go to see the exhibits of paintings about six times a year. We have five and a half hours of school a day .Valle school has two and a half months' vacation every year. The fourth, fifth and Bixth grades are going to have a cantata. It Is called the "Awakening of Spring." Vaile school has an orchestra with eleven children in it. The instruments are violins, cornet and piano. Richmond is a manufacturing city. It makes gloves, underwear, to6s, lawn mowers, autos, pianos, caskets, and farming machinery. We do this in factories and don't do it at home. That is, we read most of your manufacturing Is

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AMATEURS CATCH FROM PALLADIUM Many Richmond amateurs caught the speaking and the music that were eont over the Palladium wireless telephone to Whitewater Monday evening and to Chester Tuesday evening on their own aerial apparatus. Homo of the boys who "tuned up" well with the Palladium messages were: Merle Hobson, Edward and Howard Mills, Charles Beck and Robert Clark. Maurice Druley and Fred Clark, seniors in senior high school have ben at the sending and receiving ends of the lines respectively.

Miss Mary Lane Charles Speaks Interestingly of Year in France

"I liked the great cathedral Notre Dame especially and It was real close to our Betel whore we stayed in Paris. It is magnificent I like the front view of ft best," said Mary Lane- Charles to- ' the Junior editor last week. Miss Charles is ft junior who has Just returned to her home in this elty after sixteen months spent in attending school and visiting in different parts of Prance. For tke pleasure of Junior readers, Mary lane has told some of the things she saw and did and liked especially during her stay in France. "The gardens, called the Tuilleriee, 1st front of the Louvre, are very beautiful," Mary Lane said. "They, are large asd (here are many trees and statues, and monuments, and flowers, and fowatalns playing all the time. They are in the French stylo, regular and arti ficial but exceedingly beautiful.. la the fountains and basins the French children sail their boats, real bright boats with pretty white sails on them, rod boats and green boats and blue boats. The children fly kites and roll hoops, too, is these lovely garden parks." The Louvre itself, tho great art musiua, held great attraction for Mary Lane while she was there. It is an old palace built of stone where the kings of France used to IiVe. Now It ia used for the home of treasures of art, painting and sculpturing. The famous Winged Victory of Samrthrace, the monument built hundreds of years ago like the figurehead of a ship, the Venus de Milo and the painting Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci are three of the most famous art treasures in the Louvre. Of course this means the originals of these works and not copieB. Near the Louvre is the church of St. Germaine, L'Auxerroise, is the tower of which was rung the bell that proclaimed the, massacre of St. Bartholomew in the reign of Marie de Medici. At the other end from the Louvre is the Place de la Concord where the guillotine stood during the reign of terror. Leading away from this is the Champs Elysees, the largft and most beautiful boulevard in Paris and here, the children do not roll hoops and run around as they do In the parks, but walk very seHORSE "THAT WON'T

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FIVE SCHOOLS ENTER HUMANE POSTERS IN FEDERAL CONTEST Boys and girls in many of the school buildings who are making posters in their art work now, de cided to make Humane posters and enter them in the contests of school Humane posters which Is open to school children all over the United States. Boys and glrli In the sixth grade In the following schools are completing such pos ters to be entered in tho contest: Warner, Joseph Moore, Sevastopol, Baiter and Starr. These posters will fee sent to Miss Williams, art supervisor In the schools, who wilt forward them in turn to Albany, New York, the headquarters of ths Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. dately and obediently beside their nurses. At the end of this wonderful avenue is the Arc de Triomphe, erected by tho great Napoleon in celebration of his victories, a very large stosie arch ornamented with groups of very fine sculpturing. Saw Cinderella Tapestry Being Woven (Sebsllnz A group of gtrls in her schoolten or twelve perhaps, including Mary Lane, herself went for a trip one day to the Luxemburg Palace and Gardens. Ta France it is always "the girls' school" or "ths boys school," for girls and noys ao noi attena tne same schools in- that eeuatry. They stopped before one of the numerous fountains in tho gardens to watch seme hoys who were saHlag boats. As they were watching one or the boats got caught and held on a . stone right beneath the spray of tho fountain and looked as rt it had weathered a heavy storm by the time it reached port, aoflse or t&ese boats are small, about six inches long, and some are about two feet long, and tke gardens, too, the children had oanoons, rea, yenow ana green ones, somo melon-shaped, as we tee them here sometimes. At one time on this visit the girls noticed one of these melon-shaped ones floating up in the air. They watched it as It rose higher and higher and appeared smaller and smaller until it disappeared altogether. On the same day on which they visited the Luxemburg gardens, they went to see the place where the famous Gobelim tapestries are made. Thoy saw the large frames on which the threads of the warp were stretched, saw a man marking the pattern on these -threads, and another man arranging the bobbins. There are many of these little bobbins which the weaver moves in and out of the warp threads, putting in the woof all of them filled with colored threads such fine thread and such small bobbins that it seemed wonderful indeed that they did not get all tangled up. Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother and the pumpkin coach (the designer must have planned his pattern after the clock had struck the hour of twelve for Cinderella) were being woven into a beautiful tapestry the day the girls visited there. NOTE Miss Charles was In Junior high school when she left in January, 1920, for France. From February until July 13, 1920, she attended a girls' school in Saint I Germain, an hour's ride from Parts. The summer of 1920 she spent in the Alps in Grenoble, France. From October of that year until March, 19, 1921, she attended a girls' school in Versailles, about one-half mile distant from Paris. A BIT OF 8PRINQ WORK Trimming the school's pride tree, the apple tree on the west ground, is the line of spring cleaning in which a number of boys of osenh Moero school voluntarily

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GARDEN CLUBS ARE ORGANIZED BY BOYS' SECRETARY V1LS0N Garden clubs for boys from IS to U years of age are being organised by Mr. Perry Wilson of the Y. MC. A. Three lots, one in tho oast part of Richmond, one la West Richmond, and one In FaJrvIew win b secured for the work, and 51 boys will work each plot of ground. This ground will be prepared for the boys and they will do the planting and working. Each gardener will have a plot of ground 20 by 80 feet which more than fills the 20 by 2 foot Boy Scout requirement for the Gardener's Merit badge. Those gardeners thus may combine, this work -with the School Garden Amy and Boy Scout garden requirements if they wish. The ground and seed will be studied and records of Uft cost, thus spent in the garden and results In amount taken from tho ground and tho nancia! return, if tho produce is sold, will be kept Prises trill be awarded tho boys having the beat gardens. Mr. Wilson Is an expert gardener himself, and has successfully carried os boys' garden club work as boys' secretary in the Newcastle "Y" for several years. Last year 128 boys were In tho dubs is that place. By Thursday evening, 2S Richmond boys had stgnsd for this work. Other Clubs Organized. Par boys with wheels ft Bicycle club Is being organized. Trips will bs takoa ones a week, and about one ft month, races will be held. Thre hoys ha signed for this elub by Thursday. Prvo boys have already shown their desire to become members of the Uwb Mowing club which Mr. Wilson Is organizing.) Citizens who wast their lawns mowed can apply to Mr. Wilson who will notify a member of this chib, who will cut the lawn. Last but as all walkers know, by no mean least, is tho hike club, for which 12 beys have already signed themselves as members. Every week Mass will be taken and descriptions written of the country traveled over. The best of those will receive prizes. The T" building the boys' department, that is wilLfce open every day after school until six o'clock and beginsing at 8- o'clock la the morning, will be open all day Saturdays. Friday, April 8, the hike scheduled for Junior boys was given up on account of the weather. The boys stayed in the "Y." played games ha the game room and in the gym, and later had a swim In the pool. MOORE SIXTH SENDS LETTER TO OREGON Letters were sent to Albanv. Oregon, this week from the boys nnd girls in the sixth rrada or Joseph Moore school in answer to letters received from pupils in a BChool there recently. The letters were reported to be very Interest-' ing and were written on a variety of subjects. Bonio told about the draining of Glen Miller lake, the new bridge, the glacial formation along the Whitewater river, the cr-nter of population being in Indiana, Earlham college and museum. Thepe same boys and girls have been making posters for the Humane contest, the Red Cross and advertising the school art exhibit. Seven posters were sent from this grade to be entered In the prize contest of the national Humans societ y. HOW SPOING fEvra errFXTri IITTIE WIU.lt 0MC lttth tct am

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