Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 72, 25 March 1922 — Page 17
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1922
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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUMlWhaaLMeqa
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j 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, nodal 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 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. This Is your little newspaper, and we hope each boy and girl will use it thoroughly.
AUNT POLLY'S LETTER
Quah, Juniors: No, I'm not Bpeaking as wo learn Keen Eyes and Pigeon began to 6peak in the little language story we publitsh each week, though this word, too, belongs to an early race. "Quah" is just a word of greeting used by Indians- of the Penobscot tribe, as Princess Watahwaso told us last week. It was always said with the right hand raised high, the palm of the hand toward the person addressed (you'll just have to imagine that part of it!). Princess Watahwaso told us many interesting things about the ' Indian. We were especially interested In the way she showed us an Indian in his everyday life with his family, other members of his tribe, and in his religious life. Some of us, who may have thought that an Indian was most natural when "on the war path," in war paint and feathers, jumping and howling and sneaking, with tomahawk flashing, found out that that was only the way he looks and acts in war, but isn't at all like an Indian when ha is living his natural, ordinary life. The Indian, as Watahwaso showed him to us, is brave, yes but also a lover of fun and deeply religious. Perhaps he doesn't call the one
whom he worships God, as we do perhaps he calls him "the Great Spirit" but whatever the name, the Princess Watahwaso told us he worships this spirit very often and very sincerely. She sang one song which told about a mother of the Zuni Indian tribe, standing on the roof of her hut (for western and southwestern Indians live In clay huts instead of tepee3 or tents) early in the morning, holding her baby in her outstretched arms, asking the sun god to protect it that day. The song was beautiful with trust and simple sincerity. The Princess says she. often sings this song to children in the schools and that they like it and that once, when she returned to Plainfield, New Jersey, after being away from the place for two years, a
little girl, eight years old, remembered the song and asked her to please sing it again. Which only shows us again that if only we.believed in people more and tried to understand more their way of looking at things, we would find boys and girls and grown-ups, in our schools here or far away, much more kind and likeable and finer than perhaps we thought they were. So, though we like to dress up like Indians and play we are fierce savages and that evcTy white man's head is in danger, let us remember the finer more likeable Indian which Watahwaso told us about.
STORY OF SPEECH
Keen Eyes
and Pigeon Pioneers
Become
One day . Keen Eyes said to
Pieeon :
"I think the cave is too full of people. Let Qs go down the river
we saw yesterday."
Pigeon thought this would be
great fun. They asked some other
men to go with them. Here they lived several years, when the animals which they had hunted for food "began to be more scarce. They then followed the pony herds, west, and at last came to a rich river valley. Clay was plentiful here and they built houses of brick, which were dried in the sun. After many year3 other people came here to live. They built their houses of clay and stone which they brought down from the mountains. Wilma Morgan, grade 7A, Garfield school. Ed. Note: This is the third chapter of the story of how lang
uage started in the world, and how it grew to be the great, big power it is today.
Blind, Deaf, Yet Uses Telephone Sixteen-year-old Willetta Huggins of Janesville, Wis., who is
totally blind and deaf, can receive
telephone messages through her
acute sense of touch and in some ways is said to excel Helen Keller in her sensitive discrimination in touch and sound.
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Next Week's Pictures
Many new pictures will bo studied next week by boys and girb all over the city, and by men and women, too, for many grown-ups are playing the game of Famous
Pictures. The pictures which will be stud
led by boys and girls in the differ
ent grades are as follows: Grades 2 and 3: Age of Innocence Reynoldss. Angel Heads Reynolds. The Strawberry Girl Reynolds. Woman Churning Millet. The Pirst Stcp-Millet. Mother Feeding Her Children Millet. Grades 4 and 5 will get acquainted with all the pictures named above and with the following pictures besides: ' The Angelus Millet. The Gleaners Millet. The Sower Millet.
Grades 7, 8, and 9 will study the
pictures in both the above groups
and the following pictures a3 well
Self Portrait Chase. Whitewater Valley Steele. Blue Spring Bundy. At the Well Dumond.
Any Junior wishing to take part
in the adult contest and all grown
ups, will add the following pictures
to the foregoing, list: The Assumption Titian. Holy Night Corregio.
Creation of Man Michael Angelo
HIBBERD 5A-6B'S MAKE MANY HEALTH POSTERS The 5A and 6B grades of Hdbberd school have been making health posters. On some of the posters there is fruit; on some, milk, on some fresh air, and many other kinds. After the posters are all done, they are going to put them in different rooms to show the smaller children what to do for good health. Helen Thomas, reporter for Hibberd school.
Indians Along Whitewater Indians of the Delaware and other tribes once lived in the territory drained by the Whitewater river, early histories of Richmond tell us.
One day, in England, about 150
years ago, a Httlo girl named Theophila Palmer called "Offy" for for short went out to , gather
strawberries. She took her pottle with her, for in it she wanted to put the strawberries she picked. Pottle is a word people of long ago in England used when they meant basket, a basket which held four pints. "Offy" found a place where many fine, ripe strawberries were growing and she picked till the afternoon had just about changed its daylight dress into a twilight one, and her basket was nearly full of berries. Then she Btarted homo. When 6he reached a large rock that hid the road, Ehe was surprised to meet a man. He said to her, "Utile girl, I want to paint your picture. I want it to look just as you look this minute. Stand still, please, beside that bfg tree." Then he got out his paints and brushes and began to work very quickly. At last he said, "You may go now but please come again tomorrow to this same place and at this same time." Theophila came again and again for many days, and at last the pic
ture was finished, which probably
pleased her very much, as it isn't so very much fun to stand still and have one's picture painted. Whenever this picture was exhibited, it was admired very much, and the Marquis of Hartford bought it several years after it was painted for $10,500. Theophila herself grew up and
married a Cornish gentleman and they often looked at this picture, the great Reynolds had painted of her when she was a little girl.
CLAY MODELING AT HOME
By Our Observe? at the Chicago Art Institute ; The making of pottery is a process of building up. You start with a small lump of clay, flattened and rounded. This is "A" in our picture. By shaping it with your fingers the mass soon assumes a bowl-like Bhape. (See "B.") With additions of clay and more shaping the object grows and finally is finished. When adding clay, be very careful to get the wails of the pottery of even thickness. If possible, work with one hand inside the object to serve as a brace. Trim Object witht Knife Allow the pottery to dry. Then trim the edges and remove any lamps on the surface, using a keenedged knife. Paint the object with your water colors. When the
a thickness of one inch, and make it four inches square. A kitchen knife is a good tool with which to do this work. Make the top and sides of the tile very smooth.. The Burface of the clay that now faces up is not the top, really, but the bottom of the tile. Slip your knife carefully under the clay and turn it over. Tho side which now faces up is the top and should be made very smooth. Decide upon the design, you wish to press into the soft clay. In planning the design, remember that it may be pressed into the clay with the aid of buttons, seedB. ends of thread spools, and similar objects. A pencil, or the sharp end of a meat skewer, may also bv used to draw lines of the design on the clay.
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STANDING OF GARFIELD'S SMALL B. B. LEAGUE
The standing of Garfield's small league teams as reported Wednesday evening, was as follows: Purple . Team Lost Won Puckett 9 0 Posther 5 3 E. Evan3 5. ... 3 C. Evan3 ; . . . 4 1 Baird 4..v. 3 White Lacey 3 5 Stuart 3 i Davis 1 .5 Defederico 1 7 Ernest 1 7
paint has dried, apply a coat of white shellac. This produces a glossy finish. Bee's wax rubbed on the painted object will produce a
more artistic finish. The eurface will be softer and smoother, and less glossy than when shellac is applied. Should bee's wax be used, coat the inside of the pottery sev
eral times with shellac to add to its strength. Thi3 pottery will not hold water. If water must be put into the object place a container a glass or a tin can inside. Use of Tiles Tiles may be used for a number of purposes. They make good ornaments lor the mantel, and they are useful as paper-weights. Smooth out a lump of clay on your modeling board. Press it to
When the design has been chosen, sketch it carefully on n piece of paper. Gather, together all the articles necessary to make the imprints on the clay, and then with the pencil design before you, get busy. The clay should not b too wet when you press the design into it. Allow the clay to dry after tho
design has been made, an! then with a knife cut away the rough edges and correct errors. You may finish the tile by paint lng it with water colors and then coating it with white shellac. Bui if you wish a less glossy finisli than the shiny surface furnished, by the shellac, rub the painted tile with bee's wax. The tilf should be painted all over, and no? the face and sides only. Boys and Girls' Newspaper.
AN ENGLISH ARTIST
Reynold's first name was Joshua. England was his home. Years passing have but added to his fame.
National Gallery, of London,, Eng-J
land, showed his "Age of Innocence." Offered $10,500, when famous, for "Strawberry Girl." Liked to paint children's portraits. Delighted public when portraits were exhibited. Strawberry Girl is one of his best portraits.
LETTERING CLASS MAKES
PANEL OF PICTURES' NAMES
Whitewater school has the names of the pictures in the Fa
mous Pictures contest and the names of their artists, done in attractive lettering on heavy paper and hung where all the school boys and girls may see it. The lettering for this was done by members of Miss Phelps' special class In lettering, which meets on Saturday mornings. Children in the 3-AB grades of Whitewater, Miss Wuenckers room, ruled the paper on which the lettering was done. The following girls did the lettering : Clara Garthwaite, Helen Evans, Mildred Bromley, Mary Elizabeth Toney, and Katherine InderstrodL
SURE SIGN OF SPRING
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RADIO NEWS
Robert Snyder, who is Just 8 years old, and lives at 610 National Road, West, is probably the youns est radio fan in Richmond. He now hears everything sent out by WOZ, the Palladium station, and has heard John Regg, 9AMT, of Fountain City, with a very small crystal tuning set, which he helped his father build. This set is very much smaller than the usual receiving set, the primary being Just l1 inches long, as compared with the 6 or 7 inch primary of the usual receiving set. The secondary is the same length as the primary. There are 26 taps for the primary, and 12 taps for the secondary. On this set, Robert is using a radiocite crystal. Robert wound the coils (and wound them splendidly.too!) on this set, the en-
I tire cost of which was $2.
Robert and his father, Mr. C. O. Snyder, became enthusiasts of wireless a year ago when visiting a cousin in Philadelphia, who had a radio outfit. The firet piece toward an outfit, which he got soon after that, was a loose coupler. His father has built a very good set for himself with which he hears plainly all .the big stations as far west as Denver, Colo., Atlanta, Georgia, Maine and New Jersey, have been clearly heard over this set. Mr. Snyder now wants to hear the telephone station on the Pacific coast. Robert is now making, with his father's help, a receiving set, to be used with the average size tube. With this set he pxpects to bo able to listen in on all the big stations.
One of the 6ure,t igns of Spring Is when the kiddies get out their
roller skates, oil them and go off for a spin.
HIBBERD 5-A'S TRIM 5-B'S The 5-B's at Hibberd went down in defeat to the 5-A's in baseball, at the school yard Tuesday. It was a nip and tuck game all the way through, the final score being 3 to 1, in favor of the 5-A's. Score by innings: 5-A's 0 0 3 0 03 5-B's 0 0 0 0 11 By Richard Kemper, grade 5B, Hibberd school.