Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 90, 15 April 1922 — Page 15

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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM f l The Junior Palladium Is the children's section of the Richmond Palladium, founded May 5, 1918, and issuod each Sacurday afternoon. All boys end girls are invited to be reporters and contributors.. News Items, poeial events, "want" advertisements, stories, local, 'jokes and original poems are acceptable and will bo published. Articles should be written plainly ana on one side of the paper, with the author's name and age elffned. Aunt Polly Is always glad to meet the children persorfally 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

Dear Junior Friends: One junior said to me, "why don't you write something about spring, sometime?" ' There is eo much one might say of the springtime the fun of getting to play and live outdoors again and the newness of everything that it might fill whole pages but we are not going to do anything like that. I would like to tell you a little about the walk we took the other day. Have any of you done any spring hiking yet? If you haven't, don't put it off very long for now Is such an interesting time of the year to go walking. We got out in a road where there were beech and other trees and looked around us and one junior began to say in a most mournful tone, "I don't see any wild flowers!" (for he had come especially to find some wild flowers) and then we began to hunt underneath the wet beech leaves and we found many kinds of flowers, . some just about ready to bloom. There were spring beauties, violets, trilliums the little three-leaved and three-petaled flower and crow'sfeet. We dug up some of the plants for our wild flower beds at home and covered the others up so that they wouldn't get cold. We also looked for stones and found many different kinds, limestone with old Bhells and coral hardened or petrified in It, a little flint, and miny other kinds, as well as stones of several colors. Later we saw the first Baltimore oriole we have seen this season.

How many of you have seen one? Several juniors have reported seeing newly built robin's nests, all

nicely plastered with mud. Have you found one close to your home?

It is fun to live in a small town or village If not in the country,

because you can by such short walks get out into the country and Into

woodland. Villages and people in them have playea important parts in history. Right now in the little village of Oberammergau, hidden in a valley among the Bavarian mountains, people are practising for one of the most impressive plays that has ever been given. This play is called the Passion Play and is based on the events of the last week of the life of Jesus. It begins with the triumphant ride of Jesus into Jerusalem, children throwing palms before him on the way. All the people of the village, a simple peasant people, sincerely religious, enter into the giving of this play which has often been given in performances 10 years apart. The costumes and the scenery are made by the people In the village and even the music for it was composed in 1814 by the man who was then schoolmaster of the parish. The last time the play was given was in 1910. The war and its effects was the reason they decided not to give the play in 1920. People who have seen the play have said it was a wonderful experience. They have felt no staginess or false gesture or light speaking. The playing is simple, riirpnt. natural, truthful. The children are told from the time they are

very young, about the play, and they (or at least their parents do, for them) look forward to their having a part in the play when they grow older. - It is a tremendous thing, lasting about 9 hours with an intermission at noon. In 1910 about 700 actors took part in it. That seems a very long time to watch a play, doesn't it, but people say the audience does not grow tired.

The first performance of this play dates back to idj5. - A most unusual village in many ways is this Oberammergau which has made itself famous throughout the world. This summer the play is to be given again and many visitors going to Europe are planning to SPG jt, " Notice as you study your history and geography how nfany times, villages prove to be very important. AUNT POLLY.

Wrens Have Come

To Live in House

My teacher was talking to us one day about putting up bird houses, so when I came home from school 1 got a nice little box and cut a hole in it about the size of a quarter, and put it up in a tree in our yard. I put bread crumbs in the box, and watched several days for the wrens to come. At last, I saw two little wrens flying in and out 'of the box, carrying out the bread crumbs. I put out dead grass and they goon began to carry it in and built their nest. I am Bure I will soon be paid for all my work with their sweet music. Dalles Harris, age 9, grade 4, Economy school.

Visiting Rabbits What fun it is to watch and play with rabbits! About 50 rabbits, cunning little ones hopping over each other, and large older ones moving more slowly, and watching everything that is going on, live in a nice little brick house on the home place of Mr. Nathan Wilson, who lives just north of the overhead railroad bridge on North West Fifth street. He likes rabbits very much and has sometimes had as many a3 300 at once. When the Junior editor went to see them the other day, they were

very friendly, although they are

more like wild rabbits than many

"ARCTIC BABY" TO UNVEIL PEARY MEMORIAL

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SCHOOL REPORTERS

Mary Saves the Baby

-1 Photo by Bundy Angela Crabb Reporting for the Junior Palladium what the boys and girls of Warner school are doing, is interesting business, think3 Angela Crabb. Angela is in the 5B grade,

in Miss Murphy's room, and having

had a birthday just about two weeks ago, she is now nine years old. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Crabb, 904 North Tenth street.

There was a great fire on 14th

street, on Feb. 2, 1907. The people

that lived in the house that was burning had a baby and a little girl. The little girl's name was Mary, and she was 7 years old. When the folks discovered Uhat their house was on fire, the father, mother, and Mary rushed out of doors. They never thought of the baby. As the fire burned, people came running to help and to watch. The father of the house rang the fire alarm. In about 5 minutes the firemen came. The horses were stopped,

and the firemen began to work.

Then Mary remembered the

baby. She didn't tell any one,

but dashed through the door and in the sitting room she found the baby crying. Mary then took the baby, wrapped it up, and ran

J through fire and falling glass.

The rather rememDerea the baby, also, and he had Just started in the house when he met Mary. He helped her and the baby to get out. By that time, the fire was burning the downstairs because the father hadn't called the firemen in time, and so the firemen could not save the house. Alice Stanley, R. R. C, Richmond, Ind.

which people raise, because they are not played with very much. They just let you touch the tip of their noses and then they give a big hop and are 'way over the other side of the pen, watching your every movement with their

large brown eyes; they seem to like. to ee visitors. They like to nibble a great deal and were eating alfalfa hay when we saw them. These rabbits eat a great deal of oats and corn, too, during the winter. As spring comes on, they are given more green things to eat and they think they are fine. What they like best of all, is

dandelion leaves. It's a great feast day for them, Mrs. Porterfield,

who helps take care of them, said, when dandelion leaves are served. You have read about and have

probably seen nests which birds make and line very carefully to make them soft inside. Some birds make prettier and softer nests than others. The canary, for instance, lines its nest with feathers. Rabbits make soft nests, too. They pull out some of their own soft fur and line their nests with that, and the little baby rabbits have the most comfortable kind of home. There are some little rabbits in a nest like this out at Wilson's now. The rabbits belonging to Mr. WilRon are of three kinds, the Rufus Reds, the New Zealand Reds, and the ones with grayer fur, the Bel

gian Hares.

(Pacific and Atlantic photo) Mrs. Marie Peary Stafford, daughter of the late Admiral Peary, wits her two sons, Edward, Jr. (left) and Peary Stafford, photographed in Washington. Mrs. Stafford, who was born in the Arctic and was known as the "Snow Baby," will unveil the monument to her father over his grave in the National Cemetery at Arlington, Va., on the thirteentL anniversary of Peary's discovery of the North Pole.

ANSWERS TO PUZZLES 1. Treasure Island. Word3 are tree, run, sail, sad. 2. Hair. 3. Nome, Sitka.

Old Toys Look Like Bears A number of little figures of animals supposed to be children's toys and thought to have been used by the Greeks about 300 B.C., have been found as people were digging along the Black Sea. These strange looking things prove that the Greeks had, at that early date, become acquainted with the polar bear and the rhinoceros.

Butterflies In Winter Most of the butterflies die before winter comes and the following year the new generation comes out of cocoons. Some butterflies, how

ever, hide in sheltered places and survive. I

Well Known Writer

Gives Library Books The following letter written by

the children's friend and story teller, Kate Douglas Wiggin, to children in London who get books

from the David Copperfield library, which is the new and the first children's library in England, is framed beside one of the book cases in that library:

"To the Dear Readers of the

David Copperfield Library, in Lon

don:

"I began to love Charles Dickens

and to read him when I was a little "country mouse," eight years old. and when I was eleven (oh, wonderful good fortune!) I traveled with him on a certain railway journey between Maine and Massachusetts. It was a magical and miraculous trip of two hours, during which my child hand was in his and his arm around my waist;

so that in that long talk we became real friends. I have told the tale in "A Child's Journey with

Dickens." Some of you may have read it and it will explain my inter

est in the David Copperfield library. "There are many other Ameri

cans, thousands of them, who love and read Dickens and want to share in making this- library in the house where he lived as a boy. One of thQjn, Annie Carroll Moore, who chooses the children's books for the New York Public library, had made this representative collection which I am asked to send

as a gift from the generous Ameri can publishers whose names an

pear in each of their presentation

volumes.

"Kate Douglas WTiggin (Riggs)."

Ed. Note: Mrs. Riggs gave

complete set of her own books to

this library.

RADIO NEWS

A Different Fellow

"Who was Nero, Bill?" asked one man of another. "Wasn't he the

chap who was always cold?"

"No," said the wise friend,

"that was Zero, another guy alto gether."

When Mr. "Dandy" Rabbit arrives on the scene, the Easter prom

enade is brought to a sudden end.

The new clubhouse planned for Rockport, Texas, a great fishing and hunting place, is to be completely equipped with a radio receiving station with a radius of 2,000 miles, and a sending radius of 500 miles by day and 750 by night. The guides will own their own motor boats and a large fleet will be maintained for fishermen and hunters. One, at least, will

be very high powered, of a Bcout type, capable of doing at least 30 miles an hour and equipped with, wireless of sufficient power to at all times be in communication with the main building. In this way, the big fleet of boats can be kept informed as to the best places for duck shooting and the largest runs of mackerel.. H. W. Sturr, a high school boy of Belleville, N. J., sent the first amateur message to Scotland recently. This message, "LAAY TEST," were the words received

by dots and dashes by Paul F. Godley, the official observer at Androssan, Scotland. Sturr began assembling a radiotelephone set in the garret of his home when he was 10 years old. He soon mastered the Morse code. Now and then he picked up an S. O. S. call from a ship in distress and told his mother about it. Mrs. Sturr would say, "Well, son, you certainly are gifted with a vivid imagination." Later, as she read in detail, in the newspapers, stories about, ships in distress, she realized what her son had accomplished. -

Helped Injured Bird

One morning some canaries flew in our cherry tree. They started to build a nest. Some eggs were in the nest. There were some white eggs in the nest. The little birds later opened their bills and cried for food. One canary fell out of the nest. I went out and picked it up and took it in the house. WThen my father came home he put it in a box with cotton in it. I set it outside the window. The mother came for a few weeks and fed it. One day the mother canary came and took it up to the nest

again. Ralph Gildenhar, grade 3A,

St. John a school.

ANSWERS TO RIDDLES 1. A fountain. 2. It's 10 to 1 if

you catch it. 3. A rope. 4. Wind. 5. They are often rung (wrung) for company. 6. Because it raiset a-corn.