Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 12, 14 January 1922 — Page 14
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY. JANUARY 14, 1922
THE JUNIOR
Tlie Junior Palladium is the children's section of the Ulchmond Palladium, founded May 6, 1916, and Issued each Saturday afternoon. All hoys 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, with the author's name and nfre signed. Aunt Polly is always gad to meet the children personally as they bring- their articles to The Palladium office, or to receive letters addressed to the Junior Editor. This U your little newspaper, and we hope each boy and girl will use it thoroughly.
AUNT POLLY'S LETTER
Good livening. Junior Folks: What are you all thinking about ? The end of the semester? I suppose many of you are thinking about it and thinking how glad you'll be when the "exams" are over. Sometimes, I think, we pick out the thing we fear in the future and spend our time" figuring out how glad we will be when it is past. But how much more we would find life to be, if we could keep from wishing the next few hours or days past, and, because we trust so much in the Source of things, put all the energy and joy and wide-awake spirit we can summon, into today. So we will not worry about "exams" and final report cards not tonight, in our Junior Pal, at least and, I hope, not at all. Let's play that we are in a great, long room which is dark oh, no, we're not afraid, though, because we know there are many, many candles in the room waiting to be lighted. Then, let's play that someone who is interested in us and doesn't want us to sit in the great, lovely room in darkness, appears with a long, slender brightly lighted taper and goes around touching here a candle, and there a candle, until the whole room is cheerily lighted. That is the way I think of teachers, as bearers of tapers which they have lighted from the teachers before them, and who come and light the candles we put out for them and so help us to understand and to.see more clearly the splendor and the loveliness of the place where we are. More common in early days than taper-bearers, though rarely seen even in out-of-the-way villages nowadays, were the lamp lighters. Interesting old characters they were, too, as we judge from reading about
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down the streets, stopping now and then to call the hour. Early in the evening, they would light the lamps oil lamps they were then, and then perhaps, if it were in a city, they would act as guard or watchmen during the night, ending their watch early in the morning by a final round of the streets of which they had charge, to put out the lights. Sometimes, as they would call the hour, they would call the weather, too, as "Past eleven, and a starlight night," or "Past one o'clock and a windy morning." It was m late as 176,1, which in't so very' long ago, as time goes though it was before our Revolutionary War, that 1,000 dim oil lamps formed the complete lighting,for the streets of London. Beginning about 1842, gas lamps began to be used in London streets, and many of them were used in this country. And, what do you think some people thought when it was first suggested in England to have gas lamps on the streets? Some folks said, very seriously, that there was, danger of gas poisoning the air which would result in blowing up all the inhabitants. New ideas and ways of doing things usually have to stand the test of being doubted and laughed at before they prove whether they are worth anything or not. Someone has Said of the lamp-lighter: , , "He is like a needlewoman Who deftly in a sable hem , Stitches in gleaming jewels." And, perhaps, if we could play that we" were in an airplane over a
dark city some evening, and could see the lights come on, one by one, as a lamplighter would light them, it would look as if some one were indeed sewing glittering jewels onto a black cloak. And, if we could understand what pleasure it is to light lamps in places where it is dark, we could see why there are so many people who like to be teachers and we would be more glad that they are happy to act as lamp-lighters for us. Your Junior Aunt, AUNT POLLY,
PUZZLES and RIDDLES
1. Here are seven boys' names jumbled. Rearrange them properly, then arrange the names so that the first letters spell the last name of a great inventor: MRROSI, WEDANR, DRACIIRI, GVLDANI, NOLSEN, REOLIV, ESLHRAC. 2. When the following girls' names, which are now jumbled, have been ananged properly, they may be placed so that the first lettf rs of the names spell the last name of a great president of the Uniied States: raula, eilnel, amir, enla, elilana, lievo, lic.ee. 3. Take one third of "locked", three sevenths of "to-night" and . one-half of "monkey," combine the letters and get a city of Alberta. 4. "The occupants of the room began to nod; Nolan saw his chance to get away." Hidden in the above sentence, wilh its letters reversed, is the name of an English city. 5. Curtail a kind of feather and leave a fruit. Curtail to frown and leave a kind of boat. Curtail a portable lodge and leave a numeral. ",. Hidden in this sentence is he jiame of a large body of water , lit Canada: "The box landed on
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broad - brimmed hats, walking up and the dock with a. thud. Sonbay dashed out of his little office to see what the matter was." Answers to these are hiding in another part of this week's Junior. Can you find them? SNOW FALLING One day in December, the snow was falling fast in the country, and ice on the bottom of the snow, and so many people slip and fall, and break their arms and drop their books, and some people hate snow and ice. Miss Catherine Ridge, grade 5, St. Mary s school.
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U. S. NOW GUIDE Jacques Suzanne with sole survivor of Peary's dog teams, photographed at Lake Placid, N. Y. Jacques Suzanne, who claims to be the only man to walk from Paris to America, is now a guide for the pleasure seekers at Lake Placid, N. Y. He is credited with having walked across western Europe and Siberia and then across the ice at Bering Straits to Alaska some years ago. Great Writer Shows Poor Spelling in Letter at 8 Years Men who have become great writers did not always get 100 per cent, in their spelling lessons, as their early letters show. The great English writer, Horace Walpole, wrote the following letter when he was eight years old from Bexley in Kent, England, to his mother. In a short time this letter will be of fered for sale with other works valued by people interested in books and writers.. This is the letter: "Dear Mama, "I hop you are wall and I am very wall and I hop Pupa-is wall and I begin to slaap and I hop al wall and my cousans liks thers pla things vary wall and I hop Doly Thillips is wall and pray give my Duty to Papa "Horace Walpole. "and I am very glad to hear by Tom that all my cruataurs ar all wall and Mrs. Selwen has sprand her Fot and give her Sarves to you and I dind there yester Day." ANSWERS to RIDDLES 1. Morris, Andrew. Richard, Charles Oliver, Nelson, Ingvald, Priinals spell "Marconi." 2. Laura, Irma, Natalie, Cecil, Olive, Lena, Nellie. Prlmals spell "Lincoln." 3. Edmonton. 4. 5. 6. Ixmdon. Plum-e, scow l, ten t. Hudson Bay. THE FLY How large unto the tiny fly Must little things appear! A rosebud like a feather bed, It's prickle like a spear; A dewdrop like a looking-glass, A hair like golden wire; The smallest grain of mustardseed As fierce as coals of fire; A loaf of bread, a lofty hill; A wasp, a cruel leopard; And specks of salt as bright to see As lambkins to a shepherd. Walter De La Mare.
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THIS WEEK'S BOOKS
Our little animal friends that we see every day (or, perhaps, just on;e in awhile!) and the bigger animal friends that we see in circuses and in zoos how we like them and how we like to read about them! People like to -write about them, too, so It seems, from the number of very interesting books which have been written about animals and which are in the library. Stories of animals were to be told Saturday afternoon, Jan. 14, in the story hour, held every week in the library. Probably there are many times when you want to read animal stories and do not know just what to ask for when you go to the library, though of course, Miss Foulke is always very glad to suggest stories to you. ' - . Thinking it may help you to choose the stories you would like to read, we publish below a list of many of the animal books and stories which are in the children's department of the library: x The Adventures of Happy Jack, by Thornton W. Burgess; Other stories by Mr. Burgess: The Adventures of Paddy, the Beaver, The Adventures of Ol Mistah Buzzard, Bowser the Hound, The Ad-ventureg-of Grandfather Frog, The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat, The Adventures of Old Man Coyote, The Adventures of Prickly Porkey, The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum', The Adventures of Mrs. Peter Ra'bbit, Old Mother , West Wind. Four Handed Folk, by Olive I Thorne Miller. Ben, the Black Bear, by William H. Wright. Green Timber Trails, by William Gerard Chapman. Elephant Stories Retold from St. Nicholas. So-Fat and Mew-Mew, by Georgina M. Craik. i The Animal World ,by Theodore Wood. Stories of Animal Life by Charles Frederick Holder. Little Folks In Feathers and Fur, by Olive Thorne Miller. When Mother Lets Us Keep Pets, by Constance Johnson. Ways of Wood Folk, by William J. Long. Adventures of Sonny Bear, by Frances Margaret Fox. Comrades of the Trails, . by Charles G. D. Roberts. Other stories by Mr. Roberts are Haunters of the Silences, The Lit-j tie People of the Sycamore, The Return to the Trails.
INDIAN MAIDEN, NOW DRAMATIC STAR, WILL APPEAR BEFORE LONDON AUDIENCE
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JVtiss Frances Nikawa, a full-blooded Indian maiden of the "Buh
Cree tribe," a branch of the Blackfeet power that she is now on the stage. London audience. She was born at
The Animal Story Book, edited by Andrew Lang. The Red Book of Animal Storiea. edited by Andrew Lang. The Wonders of the Jungle, by Prince Sarath Ghosh. The Boy Woodcraf ters, by Clarence Hawkes. Other stories by Mr. Hawkes are King of the Thundering Herd and Shaggy Coat. The Strange Story of Mr. Dog and Mr. Bear, by M. P. Blodgett. Wild Neighbors, by . Ernest Ingersoll. First Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling. Other stories by Mr. Kipling are Stfcond Jungle Book and Just So Stories. . - Black Beauty, by Annie Sewell. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Tail, by Albert Bigelow Paine. Other stories by Mr. Paine are Mr. Possum's Great Balloon Trip, Hollow Tree and Deep Woods, Hollow Tree Nights and Days, Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book. A Little Brother to the Bear, by Wiliam J. Long. Beppo Carlo Lorenzini. The Monkey Who Wouldn't Kill, by Henry Drummond. Beautiful Joe, by Annie Fellows Johnston. Chats in the Zoo, by Teresa Weimer and R. G. Jones. Field, Forest and Farm, by Jean Henri Fabre. Our Humble Helpers, by Jean Henri Fabre.' - Little Billy Coon, by Elizabeth Hays Wilkinson. . , - Monarch, the Big Bear Ernest Thompson Seton. Other stories by Mr. Seton are' Rolf in the Woods, Lobo, Rag and Vixen, Lives of the Hunted, Animal Stories, Animal Heroes, Wild Animals I Have Known, Wild Animals at Home, and The Biography of a Silver Fox.
Our Common Friends and FoesEdwin Arthur Turner. Stories of Brave Doga, Retold from St. Nicholas. Wild Animals Every Child Should Know Julia E. Rogers. Familiar . Animals and Their Wild Kindred John Monteith. Friends and Helpers Sarah J. Eddy. Sunnyside Tad Philip Verrill Michaels. The Sandman: His Puppy Stories H. W. Frees. Bobtail Dixie Abbie N. Smith. A Dog of Flanders Ouida. Nixie Bunny in Holiday Land J. C. Sindelar.
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tribe, has shown such dramatic She is soon to appear before a York Factory, Hudson Bay.