Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 334, 10 December 1921 — Page 17

THE RIC HMONI) PALLADIUM, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1921

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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM The Junior ralladlurn is the children's se tion of the. Richmond Palladium, founded May 6. litHj, and issued each Saturday afternoon. All boys and girls are Invited to he reporter.-! and contributors. News items, nodal events, "want" advertisements, storied, local, jokes ami original poc-niH are acceptable and will be published. Article; should be written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author' nanus and atfe nigried. Aunt Tolly i always Kind to meet the children personally ha they brins their articles to The Palladium orfice, or to receive letters addressed to the Junior Kditor. This is your little ncwi.per, and wc hope each boy and girl w ill use it thoroughly.

AUNT POLLY'S LETTER

Howdy, Junior Folks! Your parents and friends have been visiting schools this week, haven"? they? And you probably have thought that very fine, indeed! There always is a happy-looking, forward sort of feeling when "company's-coming," isn't there? Your teacher is glad because she feels that there is a large group of people interested in what she is trying to do, and you are glad to see the visitors and let. them know about the interesting things you are learning and doing every day in school. Tbcn, too, perhaps, you give your book to the visitor and are allowed to sit with your best friend and look on his book. Do you know, I believe everybody goes to school and everybody has gone to school some way or other since Time first began spinning his great tapes! rv. Perhaps they didn't go to a little brick school house with a large liiuoke slack or a big brick building with several immense smoke stacks, and did not have certain people called teachers to Instruct them regularly, and hooks and maps and many things which make studying more interesting but they went to a sort of school, just the same. In the old clans and iribes, the children learned about all sorts of things they wished to know about from the older peopie in their tent, the older members of their family. Hiawatha learned iu this way from his grandmother, Nokomis, who taught hint songs and introduced hint to the birds and beavers and squirrels and waters and forests, and with all of these he. spent many of his "school days," watching them and learning about them. Then Iagoo. the great story-teller, told the little boy Hiawatha

splendid stories anl then taught him how to use a bow and arrow andj

The Secret Stairway

The old Randolph place, once the; finest house in town, was falling!

on!o decay since the Colonel had died. The Turners, another branch of the family, lived there. They were too poor to fix the house upBesides, !hey were working and saving to pay off the last of an old mortgage. Colonel Randolph, who. before his death, had lost his mind, insisted he had raised the money and paid it, but no record of his turning any money over had ever been found. Apparently he had saved nothing. The Turners wished to keep the place in the family because of its history. Old settlers told stories of how it had once been a "station" for the "underground railway' 'in the days when there was a chain of people who helped runaway slaves to escape. "Let's play hide and seek," suggested Tim Turner one rainy day. "All right, only we mustn't have the house all torn up when mother gets back," said Mildred. "I'll be it." Timmy decided he'd find a new place to hide. So he went up to the attic and crouched down in a corner and crouched down in a comer behind a trunk. He pushed back against the wall in order to brace himself comfortably. There was a crackling sound. The wall behind him gave way.

The boy jumped up and looked at the hole made by the broken board. His eyes opened wide. Then he tore eagerly at some of the other boards, until he had

:i larger opening through

DIMINUTIVE MORO CHIEF RESPECTED BY HIS FOLLOWERS

how to hunt and develop his strength. All of these Hiawatha kept

practicing until he could walk great distances, could run very swiftly, made

more swirtly than his arrow coma speea; couia gnna rocks in nis wnich he crawled into a tiny room hands 'so the story goes) at least, he was very strong. He made the under the rafters. They had never most of all his teachings. So we learn that when he came to be aii,n(nVn this place existed. Tim

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"Skilled in all the lore of old men. In all youthful sports and pastimes, In all manly arts and labors."

In early England, as well as in other countries, boys who wanted to learn a "trade, as that of carpenter, were apprenticed to older and successful carpenters; that is, they went to live with the carpenters for a certain number of years and learned all they could from hini. This was their schools. Today we have great opportunities in our schools and are, with many, many countries, planning to improve them, to make them better all the time. Have you ever thought how much just having interest in people and work means? It is like putting electric power to a wheel when the interest of everyone concerned in a work is shown continuously. That's the reason why visits of parents and friends are such splendid things for school work. Their interest and understanding of our daily work at school helps you in your work, and your teacher in hers. A country with splendid buildings for commerce and government and entertainment, but which has poor school buildings, few opportunities, medium good looks and poorly-paid and trained teachers, is like a man dressed in fine clothes and a tall silk hat, without any shoes. Not only this week, then, but often during the' year, invite your parents and friends to come to school. Many Juniors, too. when their school has a vacation, plan to visit, other schools, perhaps one they went to a year ago. That is an interesting thing to do, for we see things differently sometimes when, as the old saying goes, we are "on the outside looking in" than the opposite way. In places where new schools are built, the ehildreu are so happv they want to stay there all the time, as the little Egyptian girl did whom Miss Work told us about in the story hour. She cried when it came holiday time.

Now we wouldn't want anything like that and there's no danger of it for we look forward eagerly to holidays, but I have never seen any school Junior of the kind that Shakespeare fold us about: "And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining

morning race, creeping like snail unwilling to school." And I'm not anxious to' see one. Your friend. AUNT POLLY.

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saw that it contained an old rusty . average American child of two . 1 -1 1 A 1.1-.,! . 1. . . I ..... .

dcu, auu u lumuie-uuwu uuu-au. in years, this little man is a ruler of

He is Datu Panglima Diki

Diki, also called Datu Sibi Sibi, head Moro chief of the island of Ubian, near Jolo in the southern

i Philippines. He is thirty-seven

of age and is thirty-two

I one corner was a large hold. Tim j people.

peered down it ana louna a narrow staircase. The stair seemed so rotten he was afraid to try it, but from the.

heat against the wall he knew the i years

staircase had been built by fixing a

partition in the big chimney. Endently there was some hidden opening in the fireplace. "So this is where they hid runaway slaves while they were waiting to send them on," thought Tim. "This is a fine place for hiding things. Funny the Colonel never told us about it. I wonder I wonder " lie pulled open the bureau drawers, trembling with excitement. Then in the corner of one of the drawers his hands closed over what he had been looking for, scarcely daring to hope he would find it a mouldy bag. "Mildred, Phil, everybody!" he cried, as into his eager fingers he poured the contents of the bag. "I've found the Colonel's mortgage money!"

inches tall and weighs twenty-three pounds. He is also a priest.

Texas Rangers "If the United States won't settle the Mexican trouble, the Texas Rangers will." That is what people of Texas, said when, several yyara ago, Villa was keeping the border people in terror. It shows the confidence the Texans have in their Rangers. One time a Texas Ranger waa caught in a ranch house which was besieged by a band of Mexicans. Only the rancher and his wife and daughter were on the ranch. Along cam another Ranger who had expected to meet his pal at that particular ranch house. He crept as near to the house as possible, then he got up and walked cooly in, right under the fire of the astonished Mexicans. The two Rangers held off the whole attacking band for hours, until a detachment of Rangers arrived and settled the matter. That is one reason why the Rangers are so much respected. The Texas Rangers is a very old organization. Its members helped to build the state of Texas. Numbered among their men are many famous and daring fighters. During the Comanche war of 1840-73 the first band of Rangers as we know then today was officially organized. The Rangers have no natty uniform. "Chaps," a flannel shirt, and a Stetson that is their outfit. They provide their own horses and are given carbines and pistols. They have no school of training, but are plain, everyday Texans who are sworn to uphold the law, and who are willing to take long rides without food and sleep and to face danger till the very end. There are four companies of Rangers in Texas today. They are listed as constables, and each Ranger has a certain territory to patrol. The requirements of the organization are few. The Rangers must be good riders and marksmen, and they must be "only such men as are courageous, discreet, honest, of temperate habits, and of respectable families."

CANADA'S FIRST CHRISTMAS In the fort at Quebec 3S5 years i hood, who had been friendly to the ago the first Canadian Christmas Frenchmen, were behaving in a

was being celebrated. Jacques Cartier r.nd his home-sick, discouraged men were trying, to bring a Christmas of old France into the new, strange country.

Cartier had come out to spend

very suspicious manner, and his men, broken by cold and disease, were expecting troubIe"at any time. It was under these conditions that the first Christian Christmas was celebrated in Canada. If the

BOYHOOD STORIES OF FAMOUS MEN

Fred, the Marksman Once a boy lived with his mother. This boy's name waa Fred. He was a good boy and a good marksman. He could shoot a small bird from a limb of a tree. One day as he was hunting, a king rode up to him and asked him who he was. The boy told him. The king said. "I have heard you are a good marksman." Fred replied that he was. The king said, "Show me that you are." So. Fred took an arrow and said, "Da you see that rabbit over on ihe hill? I will hit it for you."The king did not believe it. The boy took aim and shot. His aim was true. He hit the rabbit and gave it to the king. The king said he was a good boy and asked him to come and live with him to be one of his hunters. The boy said yes. bill lie would have to bring his mother.. The king said that wis all right. Fred went and got. bis mother and they were rieli the rest of their lives in the king's palaces. - Kenneth Farwig. WRITE A HOLIDAY LETTER What are you planning to do in your room or club or Sunday school, for Christmas? We will be glad to receive tellers from you telling about your plans tor the holidays.

The Poor Weatherman!

Eleanor is a little girl 5 years old. who goes to school, and who takes her lunch on rainy days. One morning, she got up and asked her mother if it was going to rain. Her mother said, "I don't know yet ; we will see how it looks when you are eating your breakfast." Put Eleanor ran to the almanac and looked to see what it said would be the weather for that day, and was delighted to see it said rain. "That may not be so, though." said her mother, "you can not be sure of what calendars say about

the weather."

Charles Lamb Curled up in a big arm-chair sat little Charles Limb, looking with intense interest at the pictures iu the "Hook of Martyrs." He liked to put his hand on the flames. He imagined that the picture flames bunted him and it gave him a feeling of great pride that he, too. was dying for his faith. Charles Lamb retold the stories of Charles Dickens in such a way that every boy and girl can understand them.

the winter in Canada to take pos-1 brave Cartier could have looked

session of it in the name of the sov-! nio uie luture ana seen, lnsieaa oi

ereign. He soon came to love the beautiful, wild country through which he tirelessly made his way. He wrote of it: "It is as good land as it may be possible to behold, and very fruitful, lull of exceedingly fair trees." Put he found that the smiling land hi'd teeth behind its smile. The beautiful fall turned into biting winter . By Christmas four feet of snow covered the land and the "fair trees" were coated with ice. ('artier had rot been prepared for such weather. He had left some sailors and workmen back in Quebec to build up a fort. So he went back to them to spend Christmas. He found that the men were suffering from scurvy. In addition he found that the Indians of the neighbor-

the flimsy fort, the busy streets of

Quebec today with their Christmas-shopping crowds, he would not have found it quite so hard to celebrate a "merry" Christmas. UPTO-DATE PLAY SUIT FOR THE CHRISTMAS DOLL

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Princeton Plans Chapel. Princeton university is planning to build what will be the second largest college chapel in the world. The style of its architecture is based on that of the fourteenth century in England, which style is generally accepted as representing the highest point reached in Croat Brit-

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ANSWERS TO THIS WEEK'S RIDDLES

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Totem Poles Show Rank Totem poles in some part.s of British Columbia anil Alaska are used to show that the Indians who own them have wealth and power and conimiand respect.

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Magician's Maxim: Never tell your audience what you are going to do before you do it. Can you "palm" a coin? This is the first thing for a young magician to learn. Place a quarter in the palm of your hand. Grip it by pressing the ball of the thumb inwards. Practice till you can hold a coin this way, even when your hand is upside down, without seeming to have anytlfing there at all. Many tricks are based on this for instance: Magic Production of a Coin Come forward with a coin palmed in your right hand. Show your left hand, back and front, as empty. Then, as if to emphasize what you say, give it a slap with your right, leaving the coin. Now; show your right as empty, at the same time pulling up your sleeve with your left to mask the presence of the coin. Close your left hand and. alter one or two passes over it, produce the coin.

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3790 -Here is shown the popular "knickr" style, that will be comfortable and atractive for big or little dolls. The entire suit may be made of one material, or the smock could be of material .contrasting to that of the "knickers." Gingham, chanibray, crepe, batiste and lawn ate easy for little sewers to handle. The suit will require yaid of 38 inch material for a 24 inch size. Cut in 5 sizes

for dolls: 16, 18, inches in length.

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