Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 48, 25 February 1922 — Page 17

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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM The Junior Palladium Is the children's section of the Klchmond Palladium, founded May 6, 1916, and Issued each Saturday afternoon. All boys and Kirls are Invited to be reporters and contributors. News Items, social events, "want" advertisements, stories, local, Jokes and original poems are acceptable and will bo published. Articles should be written plainly and on one sldo of the paper, with the author's name and ape 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. Tills is your little newspaper, and we hope each boy and girl will use It thoroughly.

AUNT POLLY'S LETTER

Dear Junior Friends: Do you like surprises, that is, the nice ones? Of course you do, and I do, too. In the letters which have come from Austria to you boys and girls of Richmond I have been surprised to see that those children of Austria or their mothers, whoever wrote the letters, say so little about the gifts themselves. . Did that surprise you? I thought perhaps they would say, "We are having fun with the marbles" (of course they wouldn't know the word 'immies') or "the doll was so nice and, the candy tasted very good." But, though I have read many of these letters, they have not said anything like this. Always they say, "I want to write and

thank you for the liebesgaben the love gifts." That is splendid I think. It means so much more than if they, said, "I want to thank you so much for the gifts," doesn't it? It shows that they appreciate the spirit of friendliness in which you sent the gifts to them that' that means more to them than the gifts themselves, although they were probably very glad to receive and play with the merry little presents and the more useful gifts. One of the letter writers, a little girl of Austria, named Hildegarde, was writing and she said "you will understand why I have not written earlier." It is so friendly to say in such a sure way, "you will understand," Isn't it?. When people of many nations can say that to each other, in friendliness, we will not need to spend long days deciding Just how many battleships we shall build, because people will not want to build "enemy ships" at all. Until then, we are glad over each splendid step, such a3 the recent Arms Conference, which begins to cut down preparations for war. , Just a week or two ago, some girls in a school in London, about 10 years old, were asked to write what they would like to give Princess Mary, daughter of King George of England, as a wedding gift. One said a fur coat, one an umbrella, one a bookcase of books, etc., but one child like the good fairy at a christening of a royal child, eaid Bhe would simply wish her health, wealth and happiness. And probably Princess Mary would like the last gift most of all because It is a "love gift." Your friend, AUNT POLLY.

QUIZZES

Tioor Sirs:

I am a pupil of the Bentonville seventh grade geography class. We would like to know who the prespnt ruler of China is. If you will

please answer my question in the T,,rinr T will thank you very much,

. Qinroroiv voura. Marearet Will-

lams. Bentonville, Ind. i ripar Marearet:

I can not be included in the "dear sirs" group, but I am glad to

answer your question. Ihe present ruler of China is called a president because they have a republican form nf government now, and his

name is Hsu-Shi-Chang. Sometimes we see his name spelled Hsu-SMh-

Chang. He was elected In 1918.

RIDDLES

1. Rearrange these fetters to form names of children, and then

rearange the words so that the first letters of each word will form a name of a president: Sdylag, Euneeg. Eilov, Masoht, Ornnam,

Ulmeas, Iwliaml, Celal, Gyroery, Maydrom, Rcosa, 1 Laer, Egroeg, Maron, Rehnam, Nreie. 2. What side of a dog has the most fur? 3. Rearrange these girls' names so that they all start with the letter A, M, or B: Eilca, Ayrni, Rebtha, Ahtarni, Attemgrar. 4. If there were 5 flies on the table and I killed 1, what was there then? Julia Taube, age 12, grade 6, St. Andrews' school. Answers to thse 1 appear in

another place in this week's Junior,

A Happy Visit In California along the coast, several cottages were built. They were all filled with the joyous talking and laughing of children. One day the children were playing along the shore. John and Frank Randolph were brothers, and John being timid, did not go far from the house, Frank saying.

"Baby stay at the house I'm not!" Dot, their sister, said she would stay with him. Frank and the other boys were going far up the shore where a wharf stood. Around a thin looking sheet of sand was a board fence on which a sign was painted. It read: "Stay Out." Frank, seeing that the owner was not about, began climbing -over the fence and was just starting to walk on it when it began to sink. The boys pulled him out and they went on home, glad nothing else had happened.

Meanwhile John and Dot had gone back to a grove where they discovered a cave. They entered the cave

and found a cask. They opened it

and it was filled with precious jew

els and stones. They carried it home and were always honored.

Frank was sorry he didn't stay at

home. (The End.) By A. M. C,

Middleboro school.

Vienna Christmas Came January 25, L Overman Learns

Louise Overman of the Dennis

Junior High school, learned that for at least one little girl in

Vienna, Austria, (and probably, for many more) Christmas arrived on January 25, instead of the same date, a month before, when she received a nice little "thank you"

letter from Hildegarde Pfausu in

that city. The letter was written

in German, but ha3 been trans

lated into English. Louise is sav

ing the two Austrian stamps which were on the envelope In which the

letter traveled, for her stamp book. The translation of the letter follows: "Wien (Vienna), Jan. 25, 1922, "Dear Miss (Liebe Freundin) : "Through the American children's station, I received today a parcel with love gifts. Enclosed in the package was also your picture, which gives me great joy and I pray you, my dear little Miss, to receive therefor my heartiest and sincerest thanks. As the love gifts only today were received at Weihnanchten you will understand that I could not write sooner "I take the opportunity, my dear little Miss, and also your dear parents, to thank you therefor, right heartily. It made me feel very happy when you send me the gifts. 'Tlease give your dear parents hearty and best greetings from my parents. "I am, with many greetings and sincerest gratitude, "Yours sincerely,

YVIen Miss, "HILDEGARDE PFAUSU."

I SCULPTORS-AND ONI.Y 16 YEARS OLD r- . '-r -rp-r-

These three young people are students in the advanced Junior clay modelling class of the Art Institute of Chicago. The class meets every Saturday and Is open to any boy or girl in the city. A course in elementary clay modelling is being published in The Junior Palladium. A lesson is printed in today's Junior Palladium. (

The Basic Reason "To what do you attribute your long life, Uncle Mose?" asked a newspaper interviewer of a colored centenarian. "Becuz Ah wuz bo'n a long time back," the old gentleman replied. American Boy.

Mary Picks Daisies Once upon a time, " there was a little girl named Mary. She was out in the field one day with her father, when she asked him if she might go to the woods to pick some daisies. Her father said, "Of course, you can, my dear." So, she went, skipping along, until she came to the woods, and she went in and soon had a lap full of daisies.

She thought she had better go home. As she was going out of

the woods, a bear jumped out and

bit her. She stayed in the woods and she was crying and she never came home. Her father took a lantern to look for her. Soon he came to the woods and there he saw his little Mary crying. He took her home and she got better. But she never went in the woods any more by herself. Julia Zwisler, grade 4.

CLAY MODELING AT HOME

By Our Observer at the Chicago i leave the piece stand for several Art Institute hours without attention, throw a

A, handful of clay and.your fin

gers are all you need to model in clay. The first is easy to get. The second you have. Why not be a clay modeller? To be more definite, however, as to materials needed for modelling

in clay, you should hav4 this outfit, which is not at all difficult to obtain: About five pounds of modelling clay, which may be purchased for a small sum at the art supply store. A small board about, a foot square, upon which to make the models. A set of tools made from clothespins, meat skewers, match sticks j

damp cloth over the work, so that

it does not dry while you are gone. To begin modelling, first decide definitely what you want to make.

Then place as much clay upon the

ioot-square Doara as you tninn you will need. Suppose you decide to model an apple. First make a round ball of clay in your hands, as shown in A. Then roll several small, long pieces of clay between your hands. These are the ridges of the apple. Arrange them on the base of the

model, which is the round ball

Then, using your fingers the fore

finger and the thumb and the in

side edge of the palm are the hand

iest modelling tools Nature has

Goldenhaired Mary

Once there was a little girl. Her name was Mary. She had very pretty, long, golden hair, and she was seven years old. One day in May, she asked her mother if she could go in the woods and pick wild flowers. Her mother said she could. The woods were very big and, after going In a good ways, was dark. So Mary started out with her little basket on her arm. It was two o'clock in. the afternoon. The

woods were not very far away from Mary's house. So it didn't take her long to get to the woods. But when she got there she found a gate and she tried to open it, but couldn't. Then she climbed the fence. When she got over the fence she saw a wild flower. She ran and picked it. Then she started into the woods to find some more. She kept on till it began to get dark. She thought it was evening, but it was not. She kept on but the farther Bhe went the darker it got. Then she couldn't see. She then began to cry. And she leaned down to creep along, when something got hold ot her hair. She then began to cry worse than ever. But she had to stay that way a good while, and after awhile she heard someone calling her name. It was her father with a lantern.

When her father got to her he asked her what was the matter with' her hair. She told him. And after a long struggle, he got her hair loose. Finally she got home safely. Alice May Stanley, grade 7, Middleboro school.

"The Misunderstanding"

There was once a Dutchman who

knew no English and had no work. One day an Englishman said, "Do you want work in my fruit store?"

The Dutchman said, "Yes." So this was all he was taught to say:

If the people asked, "How much

are the oranges?" he was to say, "Three for a nickle and for a dime."

And if they asked, "Are they ripe?"

he would say, "Some are, and some aren't." And if they said, "I guess I will not take any," he would say. "If you don't, somebody else will." Once, a short time after the Dutchman began working in the fruit store, a man was in a hurry to catch a train, and he asked what time it was. The Dutchman replied, 'Three for a nickle and four for a dime." The man asked, "Are you crazy around here?" To which

the Dutchman replied. "Some are,

and toothpicks, shaped as

shown in the illustration. These are used for putting In the details

of a model, such as the eyes and

mouth, and to smooth the surface

of the clay.

A box of water colors. Two small bristle brushes, for putting on water colors, th other for shellacing the

models. Some white shellac. That's ail. Get Regular Modeling Clay Ask for the regular modeling clay, such a3 hardens when exposed to the air, undampened,

when you go to the art store. Keep

one

and clay

the clay in a piece of damp cloth

and some aren't" The Englishman ! and in a jar an earthen or glass

retaliated angrily by saying, "Do

you want me to hit you over the head?" The Dutchman answered, "If you don't, somebody else will."

By Marguerite Justis, 6A grade, Starr 6'hool.

jar. It will then remain moist. But should it get hard, it may be softened up by kneading It with a little water. Should you find that you cannot finish making a model and must

tools ; given you smooth out the ridges

so that the clay finally doea resemble an apple. The Apple Stem Obtain a real apple stem. Cover it with- a thin coating of clay. Stick it into the clay apple. The apple is now finished. Set it

aside in a dry place, and it will soon become hard. Never attempt to carve an object out of clay. Build it up. Start with a mass of clay which bears some resemblance to the object you wish to make. Then build on the features, one by one, Just as you did in the making of the apple. There are many objects more interesting than apples that you may model. A shoe, for instance. Or, model some vegetables or nuts. Next week the painting of models will be explained. Make up a set of models between now

and next week and have them all ready for painting.

Shep, the Hero

My mother, my aunt, two cousins

P one my age and the other a little

baby two years old and I, hurried up the road about a half mile to meet my uncle and my father who were returning from town with a large number of cattle they had purchased. We were driving the cattle through the barnyard gate, when one old white steer broke loose and started rampaging up the road to where my little baby cousin wa3 playing. I saw the old steer was running, but I was pretty far away and it looked very much as though baby would be trampled to death under the sharp hoofs of the mad animal if she wasn't jerked from

his path.

Just then ,as if from nowhere, a

big shepherd dog jumped from the side of the road, and dashing in front of the snorting steer, caught the belt of the baby's dress in hia

teeth and dragged her from danger, undoubtedly saving her life. My uncle shot and killed the steer, but we still have that dandy old shepherd dog, and he is the pride of the family. F. Dwight, Rockford, 111.

ANSWERS to RIDDLES ; 1. The names of children are: Gladys, Eugene, Olive, Thomas, ; Norman, Samuel, William, Alice, Gregory, Raymond, Oscar, Earl, George, Norma, Herman, Irene. The president's name i3 George Washington. 1 2. The outside. 3. Girls' names are: Alice, Mary, Bertha, Martha, Margretta. 4. Not one. Answers by Julia Taube.