Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 102, 29 April 1922 — Page 25

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1922

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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM

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, social events, "want" advertisements, stories, local, jokes and orlRlnal poems are acceptable and will be published. Articles should be written plainly arid 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 uso It thoroughly.

AUNT POLLY'S LETTER

Dear Junior Friends: Are you learning to jump hurdles equal to your size? Suppose you should see a college athlete jumping one of the small hurdles used by boys In a grade school would you say "That's pretty! How easily he goes over!" or would yon say "No wonder, anyone could do that. He could put that hurdle In hi3 pocket!"? You probably would never see it done though as college athletes, like many, many other people wish to do bigger things all the time instead of smaller. But what is our standard? What hurdles jfre we jumping? In your school work for the past year, now so nearly over, have you studied and learned as much about your lesson3 and as quickly as you were able to do? Have you joined in with your classmates in making your school spirit what you could help to make it? What has been the standard we (for It is true of all of us) wanted to reach, the standard we were able to reach and. how near have we come to reaching it? Once a man told a stqry about when he was a boy and his father showed him some long boards he was to cut into pieces just exactly the size of one piece ho gave him as a model. Then the boy started to work and worked and worked until he had the wood all cut tip. He then called to his father who came out to see it The tather picked up the last piece he had cut and measured it with the first piece he was to as a model. To the boy's surprise he saw the last piece wa3

much longer than the first. As his father questioned him they learned he had taken up the pieco ho had tiit each time instead of the first model, and had used it as a pattern for the next piece. This had made each new piece a litUe larger than the last The result was as poor as if they had been too small they were not cut to standard. If we are not giving to our school and acquiring (or getting) in it what we might give and acquire we are not developing our strength and ability the way we are able to do and we are letting ourselves be what we do not admire in anyone and that is "weak" and "easy". There is only one standard by which we can measure what we are and what we do and that is the true standard and the best one. As we go on living we find this true standard seems to grow bigger than we thought it was at first as wo measure tip to it the kind of person we are and the kind of work we do, but it is the only standard that gives absolutely true measurements. Have you ever dressed up Betty Ann, the largest doll,1 In Suzanne's dress (Suzanne being the much smaller sister doll) and laughed to see how funny she looked? That 13 the way we do sometimes. We put what we like to think on what is true, hoping it will look all right but it doesn't fit. The only way to do then is to take off the clothes we tried to put on the doll and make new clothes that lit If we do not measure up straight with true standards, p?ople say

we are oiasea or on tne siant. That reminds me of a little verse I know that goes like this; I had a little dog named Elias, I guess he was cut on the bias For the funny little beast, Running north, he headed east Such a funny little beast was Elias.

We want our standards true, we want to measure ourselves fear

lessly to those standards, to improve where the measurements show

us lacking. We want to jump hurdles equal to our strength and to

seek for more strength to jump higher hurdles.

And right here I want to add that I like very much to see hurdle

races and hope to see some good ones before school closes. Your friend, AUNT POLLY.

... How Speech Grew Spreading the Alphabet Cadmus traveled in the Mediterranean sea in hi3 little boat with a red dwarf who guarded his treasures carefully. He had silver, gold, steel, jewels of Ophir, honey, wax, and dates, and hundreds of other things. Where he touched the shore he would spread his purple cloth out on the beach to attract the people who came down to see. He gave them his alphabet and stole some of the strongest people and sold them in other places as slaves.

Wilma Morgan, grade 7 A, Garfield Junior High school.

FIN LEY PICTURES STORY The children of the 1A-2B grades have illustrated the story of the Three Billy Goats in the sand table. M. L. B.

WILLIE SMITH COMBINES SCHOOL AND

FI5HING SINCE HE MADE HIS RADIO

PHONE

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Ralph Tells How n Martins Come to

Prize Bird House

Dear Boy3 and Girls:

I have built a marten house of ten compartments, and entered It

in the Bird House contest and won

third place.

After the contest I took the house home and gave it a coat of

paint and got a pole from the light plant and put a platform on the

pole.

I put the house up on Saturday

and Sunday, about 11:30 o'clock, a pair of martins visited the

house. Since then they have been coming and going quite often. Since then another pair of martins lias settled in the house. On Monday when Mother was hanging her washing out, all of a sudden she heard a lot of noise up by the house. She looked up and the martins were driving a pair of sparrows out, who 'were building

there. Mother said it was some fight. They just missed her head. Ralph testing, grade 7A, Garfield Junior High school.

J. H. S.JFLASHES A meeting of the 8B class of Garfield, will be held Monday afternoon, May 1. Dennis and Garfield schools will compete in a track meet on Reid Field the afternoon of Saturday, May 27. Miss Kinney and Homer Rodeheaver will give a program for the Dennis chapel program, Wednesday, May 3. The Garfield chapel program will

be in charge of Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver, on next Friday, May 5. ' . . Lucile Wickett's group in Garfield's Girls' Dramatio club re"ad "The Reforming of a Bad Boy," in their meeting, Friday, April 23. Fauline Massey is chairman of a committee from Garfield school council to arange for a party for that group before the end of school. Dennis 9B's will organize as a class at the end of this semester as a result of a recommendation approved in the school council on Thursday. Girls of Miss Carroll's and Miss

Shera's hiking clubs planned to walk with their leaders, Friday afternoon in Activities period to the cirgus ground.

May Paxton and Elizabeth Schultz have finished weaving their

rugs in Miss Wilson's weaving club at Dennis, and many more are completing their work. The- sum of $74.30 has been added to the Denni3 treasury so far, and all but 10 tickets have been heard from, as a result of the evening performance of the dedication week plays, Friday, April 21. Pupil3 of the 7B grade of Gar

field, under the sponsorship of Mrs.

Graves, enjoyed a party in the

girls gym Tuesday afternoon, from 3:15 to 5 o'clock. Community games were played and songs were sung. Later refreshments . were served. Boys in the Dennis gym classes are taking tests for which they receive points. The boy winning the highest number of points will be recommended for a school letter. Last week they took tests in bas-

j ketball, far throw, backward and

forward. The following pictures were 'aken during the past week for the last number of The Headlight which will appear about the third wek of May: The combined Headight Staff of both the Garfield and Dennis schools; Garfield Board of Publication; Dennis Board of Publicity; the "G" senate, the 'D" senate; police forces of both schools; Garfield council, Dennis council, j

The following committees from the 7A grade of Garfield is making plans for a class party to be held soon: Dorothy Daggett, chairman

of program committee; Kathryn

Cook, June Kehlenbrink, Melvin Studt, Everett Sauers,'- Barney Reddington; refreshment commit

tee, Delna Fielder, Myrl Homan, Wilford Nungesser. Miss Elliot and Mr. Emory are sponsors of this class. Other officers are: Robert Sharp, president; Roland Lane, secretary.

Special school baseball teams, a

first and a second team, have been selected to represent Dennis as

follows : First team H a n d 1 e y Frame, captain, s.s.; Taylor Holll-

day, c; Byron Howells, p.; Edward Lovin, 1st b.; Jo Silliman,

2nd b.; Herbert Huth, 3rd b.; Roy Byrum, l.f.; Ather Reeg, c.f.; and Harry Norton, r.f. Second team Kenneth Holtcamp, captain, c.f.;

Herman Mitchel, c; Kenneth Short, 'p.; Robert Morgan, s.s.;

Gilbert McConnell, 1st b.; Dale Anderson, 2nd b.; Alfred McNally, 3rd b.; Otis Thomas, 1. f.; Herbert

Norton, r.f.

SCISSORS CIRCUS

When the big circus has left town, leaving a confused dream of white horses, trapezes, clowns, pink lemonade and lions, you can freshen up your memories of It by making a circus of your own. Get out your water colors or crayons and some cardboard. Then find some little brass paper fasteners.

out legs and paws, they should bo made always a little longer than the original pattern to allow for the Joint by which they are fastened to the body. When all the parts of an animal have been cut out, they should be placed in the proper position and holes should be punched with a

Now you are ready to make your

wild animal show.

You probably have about the

house some sort of an animal pie

ture book. Use this to get your

ideas for figures lor your menag

erie. Take a pencil and sketch or

trace with tissue paper the animals in the pictures. Just sketch tho bodies of them first, for .the legs are to be attached afterward, so that they can stand and do all sorts of tricks. The feet must also be made separately, so that whatever position the legs are in, the feet can be level. ' Tails cannot very well be made of cardboard, so glue heavy string on for tails. For the monkey you can use a piece of wire. This may be curved so that the animal can hang by it. In making the different animals, decide just where the joints are located. Then cut all the sections separately, drawing each part carefully by itself. Cut with a sharp jack-knife if the cardboard 13 too heavy for the scissors. In cutting

coarse needle or an awl at the joints. The joints are then fastened together with the bra33 paper fasteners. If you make the animals large, the part3 may be fastened together with some of the little collar buttons which the laundry man puts In father's shirts and which would probably be thrown away anyway. Next, comes the painting of the wild animals. If the pictures you use as patterns are colored, they will Berve as a guide for getting the colors just right But even if they aren't, you can remember what colors the circus animals were and can mix the shades yourself. The picture shows a lion and a monkey all cut out, ready to be put together. They will be easy to make, and once you have finished them you should not be satisfied until you have the trained seal, the dancing elephant, the per- . forming ponies, and all the rest of the circus animals. Boys' and Girls' Newspaper.

OUR COOKING CLASS The 6B girls of Starr school go to the cooking room every Wednesday. Our teacher's name is Miss Murphy. Some Wednesdays we cook, and others we write recipes. Once a month we are weighed. The girls who are at standard or

above weight are in the Star Health class. The girl3 now in the Star Health class are: Mildred Hickman, Wahnita Alexander, Elma Lewis, Doris Darland, Helen Reddington, Mary Imperial, Anna Harter, and Ruth Stott. Some of the things we have cooked are, spaghetti with tomatoes, baked custard, floating island, and next week we are to cook Golden Rod eggs. By Ruth Stott, 6B grade, Starr Platoon school. '

PLANTED TREE, TOO One boy In the Finley school kindergarten wanted to be named among the children whose names were on the school roll for having set out new trees or shrubs this year, so he said he had planted a tree, too.

"What kind of tree did

plant?" the teacher asked. "I planted an onion tree," the boy seriously.

you

said

Old Ship Is Beached The old wooden brigantine "Essex," once the flagship of the American fleet which broke up the slave trade on the west coast of Africa, is to be beached at Duluth. It will be used as an armory and station ship for Minnesota naval reserves.

HE TAKES IT BY THE BOTTLE

On Its Way 'And what is an eeg?" asked the

missionary who was testing his

hopeful pupil's knowledge of

English.

An egg, earn tno boy, "is a

chicken not yet." American Boy.

Famous Anecdotes Famous People

TENNYSON j "Naa, but he was a pleesant

Tennyson found trreat 1ov In r- snentieman, was tne reply.

lating anecdotes of his visit to

Scotland. -He told the following

one about an inn-keeper near Sterling to whom the remark was

made. "Do you know the man you

I had with you the other night?"

"It was Tennyson, the poet"

"An' what may he be?" "Oh, he 13 the writer of verses such as you see in the papers." "Noo, to think o' that," said the inn-keeper, "just a pooblic writer, an' I gied him ma best bedroom."

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Old Baldy, a circus elephant,, went on the sick list, having consumed

too much popcorn and peanuts. Being a little bit larger than the ordinary human being, Trainer George Denraan gave hira a whole bottle of castor oil