Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 277, 1 October 1921 — Page 13
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1921
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HE JUNIOR PALLADIUM
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optable and will be published. Articles should ho written plainly on
side or the paper, with the author s name and age signed. Aunt I'ouy
ilways glad to meet the children personally as they bring their articles
l ho railadlum office, or to receive letters addressed to The junior
tor. This is your little newspaper, and we hopo each boy and girl wil
it thoroughly.
AUNT POLLY'S LETTER
od-evening Junior Folks:
We have always thought many of us have at least of the
-ient or the Far East as a fairy tale land a far off land about which
hear many, many wonderfuland beautiful and strange stories.
Now we are beginning to think of those countries as business
ads and closer companions. Trade is springing up between Japan
id China and the United Slates. This promises to grow in the next
years because the countries with which we used to trade products
lost England, Germany, France, Russia and Italy, are weighed uown
great war debts and cannot do business as they did before the war.
,'e can not trade with them much because the money of those countries
valued so low that their people can not buy products priced in
meriean money which at present has a much higher value.
The Japanese, quick to see an opportunity, have speeded up their
ketones and business houses and now very many of the things wo
dually buy from other countries are coming from Japan. When you
re next in the stores, shopping with your mother, if she permits you, .ok at the label on the new crocks, and dolls and toys and china that
re being shown in the stores and notice how often you read "Made in
apan.
China too is waking up, though perhaps more in her government
nd schools thnrn in what we call business. Since China has become a
epublic, her leaders have been trying to improve her government in
ts many lines of activities such as the mail service as well as in her
Schools and her language. Not long ago a teacher of China traveled in Unii-ed Slates, France and Germany visiting schools and has now
l-eliVt'd home and Is telling his countrymen the things he liked best in
ihe'Hchooia ana colleges anu uuiveruier ul iut.n- iuh-irii tuumnvn,
lare foreign to them, you know.
Soon will be set up radio stations by which we may give and receive
Lews directly to and from China and Japan. This is something which
Idas long been needed and which has been hoped for a long time by many people who wanted to keep in closer touch with the great
countries and peoples of the far east and the dream has at last come time. It is pleasant to think that some day we shall be very much better acquainted with the juniors of China, Japan, India, Armenia and the
manv other Eastern countries than we are today. Dont you think so?
AUNT FOLLY.
How Rudolph Solved Stone Castle Mystery
QUESTION BOX
The editor will try to answer questions readers of the Junior submit to her. She will not promise to answer all of them. The questions will be answered In rotation, so do not expect tho answer to be printed in the same week in which you send your question.
Dear Aunt Folly: Can you tell me the names of the men In l'resitlent Harding's cabinet? Jimmie. Dear Jimmie: Yes, I can. Here are their names: Charles Ians Hughes, of New York, secretary of state; Andrew W. Mellon, of Fennsylvania, secretary of the treasury; John W. Weeks, secretary of war; Harry M. Daucherty. of Ohio, at
torney-general; Will H. Hays, of Indiana, postmaster-general; Edwin Denby, of Michigan, secretary of the navy; Albert B. Fall, of New Mexico, secretary of interior; Henry C. Wallace, of Iowa, secre-
ry of agriculture; Herbert jioo-
r, of Calilornia, secretary 01
.-miinierre: James J. l'avis, ol
Fennsylvania, secretary of labor; and some day, perhaps, we shall hav( il secretary of education. I
hope so. Aunt Folly.
2 -.'An
I've found out why The pool is always So calm and peaceful. All due to the Tadpolice.
It's
PUZZLES & RIDDLES
Studying, a Joy. "Studying is one of the greatest in the world, if you can find out the secret joy that lies in It. Nobody can show it to you you have
to find it for yourself. It is a pleasure made up of feeling that you know something you did not know before and of realizing that a great world is opening before you; you feel that you have a new power and you begin to be anxious to use that power to the full. Of course, it is true that some subjects appeal more to some children than they do to others. Hut the different subjects are taught in the schools because it has been found out that these different subjects are necessary to happy and
useful life. If you only studied the things you liked your life would not be quite as full as it should be; there would always be certain paths that were closed to you. Study hardest the things you like best, if you will, but do not try to neglect the thing you think you dislikegive them a fair trial too." Brooklyn Kagle Junior.
.TWEVfte" ClVitf G A Pi AV AT"
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1. Where can you put one hand so that it cannot touch the other? 2. What was our Fresident's name in 1879? 3. If cotton is worth nineteen cents a yard, what is wool worth? 4. What is the center of foolishness in this news-paper 5. Four syllables from this sentence make the name of a famous living statesman: "Who was with her. Ilert or Vernon?" 6. Why is a short boy like a history lesson? 7. Find in this sentence three syllables that make a very rich man: "The mill owner's heir now hoes onions." (Answers to these will be found in another part of this week's issue of the Junior Palladium.
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My, but I am tired," paid a prince as he came lo a something that looked like a castle to him
with vines and roses climbing all
over it. "Well, I wonder if there's any
mystery to this thing, as I have
heard people say. I have walked
all these miles and I am going to
find out if there is any mystery. I
had better find some place to
sleep, for it is geltlug late." Not very far back sat a house a little way from the castle. "Well, I guess this is my restingplace for awhile." "Tap tap, come in." said a rough voice, but kind. "Well, my boy what is It you want? Any thing we have you may have in the eating line." "I'd thank you very much if you would give me something to eat, madam," the prince said.
After they had set the food before the prince and he had eaten they lit the lamp and talked. "Well," said the farmer, "what
brings you here? Well I will tell you. You see my father is a king." "A king indeed!" said the farmer. "Yes," said the prince. "Then you must be a prince." "Sure," said Rudolph, as that is what I will choose for his name. "My father said there was a stone castle in this land somewhere. "There is," said the farmer, too anxious lo wait. "He said there was some mys
tery to it and so that is the reason
I have come to see if I can find out
the mystery."
"You'll never find it out for hun
dreds and hundreds have tried it and have never been seen again.."
"Never been seen again? Why?"
"Nobody knows that and never
will I think but if there ever is any lad brave enough to fight his way through maybe he will find it all out someday." "Well I have come all these miles to find it out so I am going to try tomorrow morning bright and early." "All right old boy go to it." Thai night he was awakened by the most screeching noise he had ever heard. He jumped up and looked out of the window and looked out across at the castle. At the window of the castle he saw a beautiful girl crying and a man was trying to get in by pounding on the castle door.
The next morning he told the farmer what he saw. He said he wasn't going out that morning to try to get in but was going to slay another night.
The next night he was awakened by a low soft cry and saw the same girl he had seen the night before. He pushed his window up easy and called hut to his surprise when he called she began to sink. The next day he started over to
the stone castle with tools and said he was prepared for the worst. When he got over there he thought he had to use his tools but did not. He just opened the door and walked in and stayed there all night. When it was about midnight as he thought it was, somewhere in the room a clock struck 12. It was midnight. When the clock had struck the last sound,
softly coming down the long winding stairway came the slender form of a young girl dressed in white. She stumbled over something and fell. After she had passed, the prince got up and followed her.
She went out into a garden which he had never seen before. Down, down they went finally she came to a place made into a room made
out of flowers.
She pressed a button. Down they
went only she thought that she
was alone. Well, now that I am all
alone down here I feel I might as
well end my life here. I never can get out of this castle. I will get my
things down here that are worth being brought down. How I wish somebody brave would come and get my father somewhere in the castle, I know not where. Just as she was starting to put the gun to her breast, he grabbed the gun from her hands. "Please don't shoot yourself, you are so beautiful!"
"Oh." The
When she came to she jumped up but felt. "Dear, dear won't you come to
me and be my wife?
"Oh no, no, I can never marry
till some one finds the mystery of
the castle. Won't you find it?"
"Well, I will try, but please wou't
you tell me your name? "My name is Clare." "Well Clare, I will try and see if I can. Do you know what the mystery of the stone castle is?" "Yes dear prince, but I cannot tell you what it is." "But how do you get out of here?" said Rudolph. "Before we go any farther please tell me what your name is." "My name Is Rudolph Neal." "You just follow me and I will show you the way, Rudolph."
The next day he went into the castle and went all through it, but one room. He went into that room and found nothing but an old wooden tub. He walked around the room. Suddenly something went flop. looking over at the tub he saw it was open and in it was a box covered with light blue satin ribbon. He look it out and found the key tied on the end. He unlocked the box but to his surprise it was different than it looked on
the outside. It had many pretty things in it. All kinds of jewels, rings, sets. When he took it down la show her that night she did not
smile as he thought she would Lut only looked sad. - "Haven't I found all of tho mystery of the castle?" said Rudolph. "Yes you have found all but not my father." "But where Is he?" "I don't know. You will have to find out." "So the next morning he went down to the place where she had fainted and went still on farther. He came to a place made like all the other rooms and went in. There was an old man. "Well my boy have you been brave enough to seek the mystery of this castle?" said the old man. "Yes, I believe so." He took the old man and went back to where he had left the girl. "Well here is your father, little girl." "Now my son if you like you may marry my daughter." So they were married and had the castle all fixed up and the weeds cut down. They lived very long and often went to the old room where he had found the blue satin box. Flizabeth Holt, grade 5A, Fin ley school.
King Alfred and the Cakes J knocking it heard at the door. Wife Proloeue: Lonjr. lone asro there continues to scold. Again the
lived a good king of England, who
gun fell from her
hands and if he had not. caught her she would have fallen on the rocks that were lying round on the ground. He carried her till he came to a room made just as the other one was made. He sat down on the ground and rubbed her hands and face till she came too.
was loved by all his people. They
called him "Good King Alfred." At
this time the fierce Danes were trying to drive the English people out of their own land. The Eng
lish army had been defeated and scattered. Even King Alfred disguised himself and fled for his life to the hills. One night at dusk he came to the cottage of a poor shepherd and asked for food and shelter. Scene: Kitchen of the shepherd's cottage. SHEPHERD: 'This but a humble cottage, stranger, but right welcome ye be to a shelter from the cold. KING ALFRED: I thank you, my good man. I am so weary and hungry that I shall be grateful for even a few crusts of dry bread. SHEPHERD: Good stranger, our fare is but simple. Thou wilt get no white bread, but hot oaten cakes baked by my good wife here.
WIFE (angrily looking up from work): Work! work! Nothing but
work! And bringing hungry knaves home to spend the night. Fool!! SHEPHERD (anxiously): He be no knave, good wife. 'Tis but a
Kinaiy stranger who has traveled far and is nigh spent. Sit ye down, good man, for ye have traveled far KING ALFRED (sitting down
wearily) : Aye, I have traveled far
anu i am worn and weary. SHEPHERD: Sit Ve (lawn flinn
and rest ye while I see to the cattle. Soon we'll have some oaten cakes smoking hot, and my good wife there do know how to bake them. (Leaves the kitchen). WIFE (putting cakes on hearth) Tis naught but work from morning till night! (Turns toward King Alfred.) Well, these cakes must be turned. Can ye watch cakes? I must needs be leaving the kitchen awhile. KING ALFRED: Aye. good woman, I will watch them for you. WIFE: But oaten cakes are quick to burn, idle fellow, so mind ye, watch them well! (Shakes liPr
finger at him.) KING ALFRED (sighing): Aye, good woman, they shall be watched well. (Woman leaves the cot !
tagej. KING ALFRED (rising looks out of window): Will these Danes destroy all England? God in heaven, help Thou the right. Would that I could see my brave army on yonder fields, but they are scattered to the four winds. Alas! mv poor people! What shall I do? WIFE (entering cottage and screaming): My cakes! My cakes! My cakes! I smelled them clear outside. See! They're burned black burned black! I say! Take that, ye lazy lout! (Strikes at King with stick of wood.) SHEPHERD (running in): And what be the matter, good wife? Stop ye, good wile! Stop ye! WIFE (sniffing angrily): Can ye not smell them? Fool! Look at my good cakes burned to a cinder. Ye let them burn, ye lazy lout! (Strikes at the King again.) KING: I am sorry (Woman scolds on and interrupts King. Ixnid
knocking. King Alfred eoes to
door and opens it. A messenger enters and salutes King Alfred ) MESSENGER: Sir, your country needs you. Your brave army is gathered together once more, and awaits Its King. Come, sir, they need their King. We must make haste. WIFE (shrinking back in terror): King? King? King, did he say? SHEPHERD (falling on knees): Aye, King Alfred, our good King Alfred! (Wife kneels and implores forgiveness.) KING ALFRED (turning to woman): Nay, nay! Fear not, good woman. Thou were but right a king must watch well. When I am King once more, I shall reward your hospitality. Fare ye well. (King and messenger leave cottage). Boys' and Girls' Newspa per.
BOYHOOD STORIES OF FAMOUS MEN
ill the Slates
Cyrus H. K. Curtis. In 1867 a newsboy stood lobby of the old United
hotel, in Portland, Me., looking up with admiration at a gorgeous lithograph of the then new and recently opened building of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The building was regarded as a marvel in its day and its opening was a great event. Famous men from all over the world came. Charles Dickens started the big presses. Then and there that newsboy made up his mind to see the Public Ledger building. Today he owns it. The newsboy was Cyrus H. K. Curtis, now publisher of the Saturday Evening Post, the Ladies' Home Journal ,the Country Gentleman and the Philadelphia Public Ledger, with which he recently merged the Philadelphia Press.
ANSWERS TO THIS WEEK'S RIDDLES
On the elbow of the other
Harding, the same as it Is
A chain of five-ami ten cent
1. arm. 2.
now.
3.
stores. 4. The letter " S." 5. Herbert Hoover. 6. He is often looked over and not remembered. 7. Millionaire.
Where's the Student Who CanBathe the foot of the rainbow. Fill the teeth of tho gale. Remove the wrinkles from the brow of the hill. Paint the face of the earth. Silence the still, small voice. Put the dogs of war Into their kennels. Clip the wings of the-niorning. Rock the cradle of the deep. Make the bed of the river. Wind the watches of the night. Run the trains of thought. Lower the shades of night. Return the call of the wild. ; j.