Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 211, 16 July 1921 — Page 13

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY, JULY 1G, 1H

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THE JUNIOR

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, stories, local Jokes and original poems are acceptable and will be published. Articles should be written plainly and on one side of the paper, withthe 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: ; You have heard the old saying, haven't you

tune in a basket"? 3 .... Most of lis are not splendid singers and It may be that many of us can not carry a tune no matter how carefully we may try, but every one of us has a voice which we feel we cannot possibly get along without, and these voices of ours, especially here in America, have been and are being much criticised. . It is just a few weeks since a man living in New York city wrote a little story about the American voice. To begin with as Alice in Wonderland might have said it, there is no real American voice. Voices from all countries have blended into our American speech. Of course you have all held your fingers over your noses and then tried to talk. This man who spoke about voices of people in America 6aid, aYid many other people have said, too, that we here in America talk too much through our noses. Theu, too, we are told that we do not speak our words carefully nor clearly enough. It rather hurts our feelings .to be criticised unfavorably, doesn't it? If it is just, though, we should be glad that some one has called our attention to what we lack that is good to have In ourselves, so that we can improve. This Is the happiest idea about it, is that each one of us can improve our voice very much. Some of our tones, the ones that sound as if we were speaking through our noses, are 6ald to have grown that way because American cities are so noisy and that this tone has been used to carry above the noise. , , - What is the use of getting 250 feet of twine for a kite If we only need 150? People who have studied what makes a beautiful speaking voice say that if we stop raising our voices higher than we need to, stop shrieking and shouting and talk in an. ordinary tone that our voices will carry as far and sound much better. , Many people notice the hands of a stranger first, or the eyes, or the nose or some one feature, but many people notice the voice of the stranger the first thing. Shakespeare must have thought especially about people's voices, he speaks of it so often in his plays. He says: "His big manly voice" and "Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low an excellent thing in woman", and then he writes in his funny way"I'll speak in a monstrous little voice". Can you do that? And many, many other times he speaks of the voice. Someone once said it gave him joy "to catch the thrill of a happy voice". That is one of the very most important things of all a voice always expresses the feeling and thought behind It. If we feel friendly toward people, we will speak in friendly tones. So as we try to make our voices more deep and rich and full and the kind that people like to hear, let us remember that the greatest thing about a beautiful voice is that it speaks sincerely. Your friend, AUNT POLLY.

Our Farm

We live on a farm, Every year and day, And my choice work Is making hay; And catching rabbits All the day. We have a horse Who is very bay And is a star In every way. Russell Stanley, age years, Economy, Ind. 10 DING-BATS Wow! Ope day Mother Told me to tell Uncle John to tell Aunt Jane to tell Uncle Will not to forget To tell Grandfather to tell Great Uncle. Tom to tell Aunt Elizabeth what cousin Mary told Mother The last time Mary was At our house Contributed by Edith Vanzant. - Bill, the Boy Inventor CONTRIVES V WAY;, TO. KEEP

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-"He can't carry a HARD KNOTS "1. My first is in slip, but not In fall; My second In run, but not in walk; My third is in tree, but not in shrub; My fourth is in ship, boat; My fifth is in light, dark; My sixth is in dent, but not but not but not hole; My seventh, in green, but not grass ; ' My eighth is in nest, egg; My ninth is in tile, but not but not but not block; My tenth is in heavy, light; My eleventh, in after, but not before ; My twelfth is in rust, but not in Bhine; My thirteenth, In double, but not in single; My fourteenth, in fight, but not in war; My fifteenth', in knife, but not in fork; My last is in good, but not in bad. My whole is the title and name of a very prominent statesman, also, we may say, of an United Statesman. Contributed by S. G. II. 2. Of what use is a spider be sides making webs? Answers in this week's Junior. Look for them. ' SAY 'EM FASTI Fancy Fred Fresh falling fifteen flights that fast. Contributed by JUartna K. See seven slim slender saplings softly sleek. Contributed by Agnes M. Pearl passed Paul Peters peaches, pears and plums. "Come, Clara; call Carl coming across Carson's crossing." A war pondent. Last week's : Admiral Sir Da vid Beatty.

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America First (A3 a Richmond Junior thinks about it) . . Men, women and children are being sent out to get money for the orphans of Europe. Although I believe in helping the poor I think before we help foreigners we should help our own orphans. There are children In America now that are starving and even grown people are without food. It is not Food alone, some families were in danger of freezing simply because they had not half enough clothing. If we would not help our little American orphans we would not have such a great country. There are many little boys and girls whose fathers have been killed in the war and whose mothers have died. Sometimes mothers are forced to put their children in an orphans home simply because they cannot afford to keep them. While

the little American children are put in orphans homes, the Americans adopt the French, Belgium and English orphans just because they think they will get a name. If these people would adopt the little Americans they would be helping their country far more than they are now. Richard McCann. Baseball Signed President is Mascot's Prize Herbert Young and the baseball bearing President Hardiru's signature Herbert Young holds a position sought by most every red-blooded lad that of mascot for a big league baseball team He Is with the Washington club. But just as though thi3 were not fame enough, Herbert now boasts of a big league baseball autographed by President Harding The president wrote his name on it when the boy called at the White House. The ball also bears the signatures of the members of the Washington team NEW DOLLS PLAY IN NEW YORK THEATRE Shadow dolls, grotesque little figures, paraded before a screen in the Criterion theatre in New York recently, pleasing the audiences not only because they were new to them but because they were artistic and interesting. They were shown as a part of the minature theatre entertainment produced by the Danish theatre man, Mr. Tony Sarg, who had so much success with marionettes or puppets. Mr. Sarg says that . he got hia Idea from Chinese fh:iuo!?graph dolls, which were used in China. 505 years ago. Some Chinese J shadowgraph dolls are exhibited in 'the Broklyn Museum (

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LITTLE STORIES;row EARLHAM MUSEUM

Rare Skeleton of Extinct Mastodon One, of Most Interesting Exhibits

How many of you boys and girls have seen the hundreds of interesting and curious old things that live In the Earlham college museum? Probably many of you do not know the strange skeletons and stones and birds and weapons, many of them very rare indeed, that are so close to us all the time and so very Interesting to see. The museum Is located in LIndley hall on the Earlham campus and is open from 8 to 12 o'clock in the mornings and 1 to 5 o'clock in the afternoons on every day of the week except Sunday. The museum is closed all day Sunday. "Tecumseh" the Mastodon As you enter the museum, the thing you probably see first is the immense statue of the Mastodon, and then probably you gaze and gaze at it, wondering what this animal looked like when it was alive. If we were to ask it ques tions, and it could talk, how many, many absorbingly interesting things it could tell us. Let us Just "make believe" it really can talk and let it tell us Its story. Perhaps it would say something like this: The Mastodon's Story. When students and scholars study me they call me Mastodon Gigantus, but when folks call me by my pet name, they call me "Tecumseh." Whether that was my name or not in the thousands of years ago when I lived around these parts, I am not telling, but my friends the students who study my skeleton have given me that name as a pet name. Part of me, of my bones that is was found buried in the mud near New Paris, ()., and the other part of me was found near Losantsville in Randolph county, Indiana. They could not find a complete skeleton in either place, so they used different bones found in these different places, and bo I am really made up of the skeletons of two Mastodons. Even then, there were some bones that belonged in the skeletons of Mastodons (they found this out by studying skeletons in other museums) that no one could find, so they made some for me out of paper pulp so that I would be complete. I appreciated that, as I didn't want to be exhibited in pieces. Tusks Were Longer Than Elephant Tusks I am very proud of my tusks, they turn upward in such a masterly way and are so long. I think the elephant which you see today Cheap Mule. "Wunt to buy a mule, Rastus?" "What ails de mule, Sam?" "NothinV "Den what do you wunt to sell him for?" ? "Nothin'." "I'll take him.; "Isn't it glorious to wake up early and hear the leaves whisper ing outside? "It's all right to hoar the leaves whisper, but I can't stand hearing the grass mown." Don't Be Unreasonable. A boy who had been accuHed by his father of going to a baseball game on Sunday instead of learn ing his Sunday School lesson, responded promptly: "I didn't, Dad, and I've got the fish to prove it. The wife of Captain Kkld was terrified when he called tier "My Treasure!" She thought he wanted to bury her! Cartoons Magazine. Do Most Girls Appreciate Music "Most girls I have found don't, appreciate real musjc'l. ttYliy Co y&u say that?" "Well, you may pick beautiful strains on a mandolin for an hour and she won't even look out of the window, but just one honk of a born and out she comes."

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must feel badly to think his tusks hang straight down instead of curling upward as mine do. By the way, the students say that elephants are some far off descendants of mine. We are alike in many ways. I lived in the cold period just after the great glacier had come down over this part of the country, so I wore a heavy coat of long hair. That kept me warm. My tusk3 were beautiful ivory once but the old peat bog where I lay for so many years before anyone found me, stained them this dull color of brown. Mastodon Was Bulky Animal.'

People say that when I was alivo I weighed about 10 ton3. That seems very big, doesn't it, but then there were many immense animals alivo in those days. It Is thought too, that we lived on great long grasses and bark and leaves. Well perhaps we did. That is another thing for students to guess who study about our history. I came to live here in Earlham college in 1895 and I like being here very much. The room is big and sunny, the visitors are always pleasant and interested and it is very nice to be admired by folks and to help show them something about what the "old days" were like. . ............ Any time you children come over to see me, I will be glad to see you. Your friend, TECUMSEH THE MASTODON. From BIG LEAGUE Ball Players Written Imperially for the Boys and Girls Newspaper by ALEX GASTON Of the New York Giants SUGGESTIONS FOR CATCHERS Every catcher should know his pitcher. The catcher should learn" what kind of balls the pitcher can throw, and how he puts them over. Practice ten or fifteen minutes now and then and -have the pitcher throw the balls just as he would If there were a man at the plate. Never signal for a certain ball unless you have a good reason for asking for that kind of a ball. ' Don't Repeat a Play I There is often a doubt when a i . 1 1 l. : . Yw. 4whether he should be walked, or whether the pitcher should pitch to him. Unless the, score is very, very close, I don't think the man should be allowed to walk when there are already two men out. But if the next man up hasn't much ability as a batsman, it is a good policy tc walk the better hitter. Never repeat a play immediately after it has been tried. The oppoa ing team may catch on and then it is "all off." Mix the plays. How a Ball Should Be Caught The catcher should learn to throw accurately. This will give the Infielders certain confidence in him that Is necessary if they are to be able to work well with the catcher. The proper way to catch a ball is to let it first hit the glove and then clap your hand over it. Don't try to catch a ball with the glove alone. It may roll out. , Alway3 use your other hand, too. A good way to tell whether or not a batter intends to bunt is to watch the base runner closely. If he seems to be keeping his eyes hard on the batter and edging off the base, you can be pretty sure the batter is waiting for a shorl tap. Signal the Pitcher If you think a batter is about tc bunt, signal the pitcher for a wide throw. Catch this ball and hurry it away to the base the runner ia heading for so as to catch him off. As you signal the pitcher for the wide throw signal the man covering the base which the runner intends to steal so that he will know he is about to receive a throw from the plate and can be ready for it.