Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 193, 25 June 1921 — Page 13

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1921

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THE JUNIOR RICHMOND PALLADIUM

The Junior Palladium is the children's section of the Richmond Palladium, founded May C, 1916, and issued each Saturday afternoon. All boys and girls are invited to he 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 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 newspaper, and we hope each boy and girl will use it thoroughly.

France's Youngest Hero and Heroine

AUNT POLLY'S LETTER

Good evening. Junior Folks: Once upon a time a young man, nephew of a Danish king, came into one of the many, many rooms in the Danish castle, reading and not paying any attention to anything or anyone else. The Lord Chamberlain was in the room the young man entered, and he said to Hamlet, far that was the name of the noble young Dane. "What do you read, my lord?" And Hamlet answered without looking up from his book: "Words, words, words." Which made the Lord Chamberlain think the young man was crazy, though of course he was not. "We know what he meant when he said he was reading words, but a long, long time ago thre were poople living in Egypt and China and other parts of Asia and Africa and very probably in our, own American continent, who could not have understood what you meant by "words" because they did not have them. They talked in signs and when they wrote, they drew pictures thoy did not write words built of letters as we do. If you have never realized how splendid a thing it is we have so many words these days with which to speak to people and write le'tters and tell stories, just try making people understand what you want to tell them for a whole morning without saying a word, just making signs and giving grunts. Languages grow just as people do and get more and more words all the time so that people can speak more intelligently and more interestingly to each other. Let's just suppose we had the word "pretty" and had to use that every time we admired something or somebody. Try using that word alone next time you go to the stores or the woods and see how much you wish for other words. Rut we have other words, we can say magnificent, beautiful, attractive, marvelous, lovely, charming, splendid, glorious, and many other words, all of which mean a little something different and we can choose the one that will best express what we mean at that time. Words have histories, too. Some are very, very old and come from Arabia, Palestine, Mesopotamia, China, Egypt. Then there are some other words not so old as those just named that have come to us from Greece and Rome and then from England (from the early peoples who lived there, the Saxons and Celts and Scots) and from France, Germany and Italy. Oh, we have words from nearly every country and century. What stories they could tell if they were given a chance some time to speak! Sometimes scholars hunt up the stories of words, spending most of their lives doing it and people call these

scholars etymologists.

We are given words and we can use them as we like. They are

very, very powerful, stronger than the biggest giant we can imagine

and we may use them to help and to bring happiness or they can be

used to harm. Mr. Van Dyke said he admired this kind or a friend: ."A friend who knows and dares to say The brave, sweet words that cheer the way Where he walks a mile with me." Sometimes the same words mean different things in different, places. The word "lesson" meant a different thing in Wonderland troin what it meant in Alice's everyday world, for this is what she found out about Idssons there: "How many hours a day did you do lessons?" she asked the Mock Turtle. To this question the Mock Turtle made the strange reply: "Ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on." "What a curious plan!" we are told Alice exclaimed in astonishment. The Gryphon, however, hastened to explain to her: "That's (he reason they're called lessons, because they lessen from day to day." Alice thought over this new idea for a little and then said: "Then the sevetnh day must have been a holiday. To which the Mock Turtle said: "Of course it was." How would you like to live in Wonderland where the word lesson meant this? Anyway you have a holiday now, haven't you, anil no lessons for three months. Rut I am glad that words do not take holidays, aren't you? AUNT POLLY.

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Louis Cariou and Mathilde Coic wearing their medals. Louis Cariou, 11 years old, and Mathilde Coic have been called France's youngest peace hero and heroine. They are both of the Brittany coast, and recently at Sarbonne, Paris, were awarded the University's medal, diploma and a reward of 100 francs each for saving the lives of a boy and girl in an angry .'Va. They rescued the children at the risk of their own lives.

THE MASTER'S MUSIC!

CIGAR BOX FIDDLES ARE EASY TO MAKE

While a cigar box fiddle does not make the sweetest and best music in the world, It Is entertaining and has been used successfully for that purpose on the stage and in homes, many, many times. To make one, first get an obi cigar box. Take the paper off It. and pull off the lid. I'lane a three-foot broom handle In half. Smooth down the flat side with your knife and Koine sandpaper. In the top end of (he stick.

two In'-hcH down, bore a hole to receive a peg to the string of the fiddle, should he a "L" violin

string. Is fastened. Cut a long notch in the other end of the stick, so the lid of the cigar box fits on snugly and smoothly. The broom stick need extend only about hulf way along- the length of the lid, as shown by the dotted Hue in the illustration. Fasten the ild to the stick with brads. Center It

about

small which which

CIGAR OX FIDDLY fifo

Some Fish We Have Caught

Teacher (to freshmen) What large river is in northern Italy? No answer. Whisper from back seat, "Say,

l'oe, Leo. And Leo answered, "Sapolio." "Wooden Leg Named Murphy." "Have you seen a fellow around here with a wooden leg by the

name of Murphy?" "What's name of bis other leg?"

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'''SI i THE- tOC THAT C.IVES US ft

Teacher Who can mention a

thing of importance that did not

exist a hundred years ago? Freshman Me? The Finish of Algy. Algy met a bear. The bear met Algy. The bear grew bulgy. The bulge was Algy. An army mule at one of the can

tonments "went West." The pri

vate who bad charge of the last rites had to fill out the regulation

form, and came across the suggestion, "Disposition of carcass." After a moment's thought, Sam mlo wrote on the blank line: "Mean and deceitful."

No Thunder No Wonder! Jim: "Pa, that man going there can't hear it thunder." Fond Parent: "Is he deaf?" Jim: "No, sir, it Isn't thundering."

HIS POOR TALE A teddy hear sat on the Ice, As cold, as cold can be. But soon he was up and walked away "My tale is told,' 'said ha.

Chapter VIII.

Mr. Van Harritt thought that he

was Ruth's father in one way, and

in another way he was not sure

that he was her lather because he did not think that his wife had married an American man. Mr. Van Harriett then left but when he got to the bottom of the steps to his astonishment coming in the door was Ruth's father. Mr. Van Harritt was very much surprised because Ruth had told him that her father was out of the city. Mr. Van Harritt and Ruth's father, Mr. lleinonamos, met at about (ho middle of 1 he room. Ruth's father stared at Mr. Van Harritt and Mr. Van Harritt stared at Ruth's father. After a short pausej

Mr. Van Harritt said, 'Please don t

tell Ruth that I am her father,

and then he walked around Ruth's

father and went out the door. Ruth's father was very angry be

cause Mr. Van Harritt had been to

see Ruth. He went straight to Ruth's room.

He did not take time to knock but just walked right in. Ruth was so astonished that

she did not know what to do or say

but finally said, "Why, father, I thought that you that you were out of town and were going to be away for three weeks." "I was just trying you out to see if you would have that old Mr; Van Harritt back again, and, sure enough, you t did," answered her father, icily. ' "He is not old, I thank you,"

Out too TUio JStf I MONTni, OUT QmSiJ ACIl W jSft V Cj.v Soocom

said Ruth, sobbing. "He isn't as old as you are." "None of your sass, now," said her father, "none of your sass." At this he left the room and Ruth did not get any scolding aa she thought she would. Ruth walked up and down the

room. Every once In awhile she would look at the one-eyed doll. When Mr. Van Harritt was going home she met his two old friends from Germany whom he had not seen for two or three months. They were glad to see him but Mr. Van Harritt was not glad to see them. They walked home with hii. When they were home one of the men asked Mr. Van Harritt why he was not glad to see them. Mr. Van Harritt did not want to tell them, but he finally said, "There is a young girl that I want

you two men to meet. I want you to go right home and put on your very best clothes and be down here in half an hour."

Then the men left. While they were gone Mr. Van Harritt dressed in his very best suit and called a taxi. When the men came they had on their very best clothes, but one ot the men forgot to comb his hair, so he had to comb it at Mr. Van HarriM's home. When the man was through combing his hair, nil throe of the men went downstairs and got in the taxi. Mr. Van Harritt said: "Take us to 132 Broadway street and don't be long about it," so the driver started. Ho went very

fast for Mr. Van Harritt, because it was the first time that he had been in one of the taxis in New York. It wes a very long distance to

132 Broadway, so It was a very

long ride for the three men, but

they enjoyed it very much. (To

Be Continued.) Nola Mae Arnold 6A grade, Sevastopol school.

on the broom handle. He careful

not to crack it In each side of the lid, using a sharp Jack-knife, cut two "S" shaped holes, similar to those In a real violin. These slots should ,

about three Inches long and the cut should be one quarter of an Inch

wide. Hefora fastening the Ild to the box, cut a groove In the end of it to receive the rounded side .of the broom-stick. Then earefnllv ... u

on the Ild.

In the bottom end of the box directly In linn with ih. ...

broom stick, bore a small hole Into

whlrh another neir this i

. - - r. ...... ... i n- ciiruui iiair an Inch long, Is snuglv fitted hasten the other end of (I.- -ih.ii

string to this peg. A hand made bridge to hold the string up should be placed on the or tacked ' "Ped "0t b K'u0j All thin done, the fiddle Is readv for tuning. Tune It up to anv note on the piano A regular violin myy be used in playbig.

From BIG LEAGUE Ball Players

STEALING BASES What base player doesn't want to know how to "steal" a base? None! Exactly. Read the special article on running bases by Curtis Walker, New York Giants, printed in this edition of The Junior Palladium.

Teacher "DeNne 'trickle'." Student "To run slowly." "Define 'anecdote.'" "A short tale." "Use both in a sentence." "The little dog trickled down the street with a can tied to his anecdote."

Written PJspecially for the Boys . and Girls Newspaper by CURTIS WALKER Of the New York National League Club. It is better, in most cases, to try to steal third base than it is to second. Pitchers seldom attempt a throw to second because they must make

a turn to get the ball to the base. It Is not so difficult for him to get Jt to first. This fact makes it easier for a runner to lead off second than first base. When a catcher sees a man stealing off first he has little difficulty in throwing to that base, for it is on his right side. Practice Sliding . While it isn't much harder for him to throw to third, it does take a second or two longer, generally, because he must turn slightly. Sliding is something that can bo learned through practice. Practice' to see how fast you can slide and

how far from the bases toerf..-st how far away from the base you should start so . you will not go over it. Take care not to slide over the base, but slido into it good and hard.

Be Limber When Sliding. When you slide do it in such a position that you can get up quickly after you have touched the bag and head- for the next base if you have the opportunity. It is a good Idea to slide even when you don't have to. It Is a good practice. Besides, it relieves the muscles of the strain that Is placed upon them by stooping Quickly in an upright position. Never slide into a base with your legs stiff. Bo limber. But just as soon as you touch the bag, stiffen your muscles and dig your under knee into the ground . It helps you to get up quickly and hurrf away. Besides, the stiffened muscles serve as a brake.