Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 120, 20 May 1922 — Page 7

Are You "Swatting" Flies?

"GYPSY QUEEN" TO BESUNG BY JUNIORS IN MAY FESTIVAL Pupils from Dennis and Garfield Junior high schools will take part in the second afternoon concert of the May festival, Monday afternoon. May 22, beginning at 4:00 o'clock, in the tabernacle. The pro cram will be given by the com bined orchestras of the two schools, under the direction of Miss Longman: by a chorus of seventh and eighth grade pupils; by the Garfield Girls' Glee club, under the direction of Miss Schultz, and by the Garfield-IX'nnis boys' chorus. . Miss Longman will conduct the performance of the cantata, "The Gypsy Queen," given by the seventh and eighth grade choruses. Miss Kohler will direct the boys' choruses. Miriam Wiechman accompanies the Girls' Glee club on the piano. The story of the cantata is that of a gypsy girl who married a prince and of the song festival that was held each year and which was attended by all the gypsies because of the love they had for the Queen. The legend of the Gypsy Queen is sung as a duet by Helen Harper, of ennis school, and Josephino Thorn, of Dennis school, and Josephine Thorn, of Garfield. All the other songs are chorus numbers. The scene shows the king and queen on a throne erected in the meadowlands, looking on the gypsies as they sing and dance and give honor to the queen. After the festival, the gypsies return to seek their j homes in the flowery dells again.) The members of the Garfield i Girls' Glee club are as follows: Soprano Helen Poster, Alice1 Estell, Ruth Cassel, Vivian Mendenhall, Maxine Leech, Alice Ellen Page, Laura Schenk, Gladys Ruhl, .Wilma Morgan, Lillian Ewing, Delna Fielder, Edna Manford, Margaret Bell, Lornaine Kenney, Esther Crura. Alto Gladys Noss, Eloise Shockley, Barbara Bentlage, Ruth Roland, Marguerite Sloane, Helen Smith, .Dorothy Wentz, Alma Wolford, Mary Guerin, Lestra Turner, Louise McPherson, Marguerite Burbanck, Donna Mann, Marie Ferst, Margaret Wieshaham, Ruth Wolford, Dolores Kortwright. The complete program for the afternoon follows: 1. March, "The Jolly Soldier Boy" (Field). 2. Overture, "The Little Corporal" (Laurendeau), combined orchestra of junior high schools. 3. Cantata, "The Gypsy Queen" (Walter Aikin), seventh and eighth grade choruses. 4. a, "By the Pool" (Abby); b, "Violets" (Verdi); c, "Maysong" Sraithson), Girls' Glee club. 5. a, "Out in the Deep" (Land); b, "Pucker Up and Whistle" pelected), Gar-Den Boys' chorus. 6. a, "The Bouquet" (Laurendeau); b, "The Troubadour" (Laurendeau); c, "Military March" (Beucher), orchestra. COURTESY IS STUDIED Members of the Courtesy and Conduct committee of Garfield have been active now for the past two months and their work, which is to call attention to and to teach certain fundamentals of polite speech and graceful manners, has proved attractive and interesting to the juniors of the school. Members of the committee go regularly to each of the assembly rooms and give short talks on courteous speaking and acting. Bulletins are sent out each week to the assembly rooms, each one having a rule or a suggestion for being polite, written on it. j Posters have been made by members of the art department and placed in the corridors and different rooms of the building and a few general rules have been wiitten on the blackboard in Miss Thompson's room. Miss Thompson is sponsor for the Courtesy and Conduct committee. Members of the committee are: Orville Slifer, chairman; Beverley Harter, Charles Weaver, Nina Murray.

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM Weekly Section of Richmond Palladium

STARR SCHOOL COOKS MAKE PEANUT BRITTLE CANDY All the boys and girls who were Number l's in the cooking class this week had a very interesting time making candy. They made brittle, and put nuts in it. They are all very interested in cooking. We would all like to learn how to cook. Number 2's will make candy next week. By Loretta Kittle, reporter for Starr school. MANY VISITORS SEE FINLEY ART WORK Thursday afternoon our mothers and fathers came to see our school exhibit. When school took up we went around to see the other rooms and their exhibits. We stayed in each room seven minutes. After the seven minutes was up, we went to another room. When we had seen all the rooms' exhibits, we came back to our own room. Later on, we had visitors. Mary Louise Brehm, reporter for Finley school. First Grade Children Show Birds, Baskets and Flowers The first grade had a circus parade in their exhibit. They made Home Books. They had pictures of flowers and birds. They have a big tree with all kinds of birds on it. They have baskets of flowers in the window. The room was decorated with May baskets. M. L. B. Parade and Circus Form Exhibit Children in the 1A-2B had a circus, tent and parade on one table. They had flowers and birds drawn on paper. They have The Ginger Bread Boy pictured on paper and a little story under it. They have animals and flowers and other things on paper and a story under it. They have song books made out of paper; the backs are made out of wal paper. The room was decorated with balloons. M. L. B. Fifth Room Visited Last Thursday we had an exhibit in our own room. All the children of the school went in each room to see other exhibits. We had a very nice time looking at the exhibits. We wrote invitations for our mothers to come. And about 3 'clock our mothers came. Dolores Dill, age 10 years, 5A grade, Finley school. Fourth Grade Shows Flowers We had an exhibit yesterday and we worked very ' hard to get it ready for our mothers. We - made clowns, robins, 'bluebirds, May bas kets. Easter baskets and violet jugs, and flags. Jane Weesner and Geneva Bybee made dolls and a parrot. We made 1 1 a map, rabbws and camels tor tne parade. We had a very good time. We had several mothers here that afternoon. BeCcher Weaver, 4A grade, Finley school. Kindergarten's Toy Town The kindergarten of Finley school have a Toy Town They have a hospital, a station, a train and track, a church with a clock on it, and two houses. They have grass in fron tof the houses The children made side walks out of paper and colored I them red, with black lines. M. L. B. DOZENS OF CARDS COME TO CITY FROM VIENNA I Cards with pictures, and cards showing pictures of places in Austria, arrived by the dozens during the week in lhe office of Miss Payne, supervisor of grade schools, addressed to all of the public and high .schools in the city. Most of them express their gratitude for the Red Cross boxes which were received in Vienna, and cards sim ilar to these have been coming to Richmond juniors since February. "Mrs. Joseph Moore" read one address and others are written to pupils or to the principal of the school, (or "director," as they call it), and one is written to a parentteachers 'association. Many of the cards are attractive in appearance and bring kindly, charming little Austria.

RICHMOND, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 20,

DEPARTMENTS GIVE PLAYS IN GARFIELD The English and French departments of Garfield Junior High School planned to present plays for the school chapel held Friday iifternoon, May 19. Gay , little French folk songs, Cadet Rousselle and LaBergere were sung by the pupils in the French department. Other numbers on . the program were: songs 'by the Girls' Glee club under the direction of Miss Schultz; a little clown dance by members of the Dennis physical education classes of Dennis and a news film. "The Princess and the Sage," a play adapted from a Russian folk story was presented by members of the Girls' Dramatic club under the direction of Miss Williams. The cast was as follows: Princess, Josephine Thorn; First Lady-in-waiting, Eloise Shockley; Second Lady-in-waiting, Lucille Wickett; The King, Agnes Elliott; The Queen, Lestra Hibberd; Dancing maids, Helen Smith, Marcia Wesigerber, Kathryn Cook; courtiers, Josephine Hollingsworth, Wynema Brown; The Tutor, Margaret Tillson; The Sage, Thelma Stott; two poor children, Esther Fienning and Ethel Cox. "Cendrillon" the French version of the play of Cinderella was presented by members of the French department under the direction of Miss Elliott. The following juniors took part: Cendrillon, Thelma Sharkitt; Madelon, Virginia Brook-1 bank; Fleurette, Susan Hart; le page, Charles Waggoner; le prince, John Harding; la Fee, Elizabeth King. Juniors who will take part in the clown dance are: Rexford Huntington, Iieler. Harper, Maxine Edwards, Elizabeth Smith, Marie Mackey, Berenice . Simpson, Louise Daub. SPEAK AT WHITEWATER Miss Kinney and Homer Rodeheaver of the Sunday Evangelistic party spoke to the children of Whitewater school in their chapel exercises, Friday morning beginning at 9:30 o'clock. Sir Conan Doyle's Two

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ROTARY OFFERS J. H. S. PRIZES FOR THEMES j Members of the Rotary club in their meeting Tuesday announced that they would give prizes to the Junior High school pupils who wrote the best essays on City Planning, the essays to 'be in the hands of Charles Thomason, chairman of civic relations committee, by Thursday noon, May 25. The junior who writes the best esay will receive a prize of $5; second ibest, $3; and third place, $2. It is said the essays should be of about 500 to COO words in length. MISS WORK SPEAKS OF EGYPT AT STARR Mis Work gave a talk last Thursday in Miss Finfrock's room on "Egypt." She talked about how the people used to travel on camels. She gave a very interesting talk. She spoke a few words also, for us in the Egyptian language. By Loretta Kittle, reporter for Starr school. WEATHER CHARTS MADE BY ST. ANDREWS' T HI RD Thti third grade of St. Andrews school have made weather charts for every month of the year, and on them they have illustrated from which direction the wind blew and whether it snowed or rained. Thti first grade made May post ers. Herschel Oler, reporter for St. Andrews' school. TILES TO BE ENAMELED Tiles and flower holders of clay made by boys and girls of the fifth and sixth grades of the public schools, and tiles and candle holders made by juniors from Dennis and Garfield, returned in fine shape from Cambridge City, where they were fired in the kiln of the Overbeck slsffers. They are shaped and designed and the pupils who are making them will now decorate them in color with enamolac. Sons Turn Baseball Fans

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Keep All Flies Out of Your House

CHILDREN OF CITY SIGN REQUEST TO SEE LIBERTY BELL Would you like the Libert Bell to pass ' through Richmond & and make a journey to Chicago tliia summer so that you may have an opportunity to see this famous old bell? . This is what school children of the city are being asked this week in Richmond. Papers stating that such a journey for America's historic bell is favored, were sent to all the schools of Richmond last week and the children given a chance to sign them if they wished this to happen. They came from the Indiana State superintendent of education and similar ones have been sent to the children of all the larger cities by the superintendents of the states through which the proposed journey would be made. The papers were addressed to the, Mayor and Common Council of the City of Philadelphia, who have control of the bell. The request is made that the bell be sent to be exhibited at the second annual Pageant of Progress, which will be held in Chicago this year from July 29 to August 14 inclusive, and that opportunity be given the people of the cities through which the train carrying the belJ will pass, to see It. SHELL EXHIBIT IN LIBRARY ENJOYED "I like it when it's real, like that," said one of the children who went to the story hour, Saturday afternoon, May 13. He meant that he liked to see and touch the shells about which Mrs. Griffis told many interesting stories. A large number of the sheila, several rare specimens among them, were shown to the children. Favorite stories of people we like to hear about were planned for Saturday, May 20. There were to be stories of Joan of Arc, Rip Van Winkle, Robin Hood, and William Tell. Mrs. GrifTis was to be the story-teller for the afternoon. STARR SEES LEECH A little girl from Starr school who lives in the country, was down by a pond near her home when she found a very large leech She brought it to Miss Kinchell's room, which is the nature and penmanship room. Miss Kinchell had it in a quart bottle, and when it stretched out, it was the full length of the bottle. Miss Kinchell put some raw meat in the bottle, but it would not eat the meat; it would only suck the blood from it. By Loretta Kittle, reporter for Star school. CAROLYN KING RECEIVES A LETTER AT MOORE Along with many of the other children in her room. Miss Stafford's room, the 3A-4B grades of Joseph Moore, Carolyn King wrote a letter to the manager of the chamber of commerce of some Indiana city to ask for information and literature about their city. Many of the children have received attractive pamphlets in answer to their letters and last week, Caro lyn received together with several little pamphlets of Michigan City, Indiana which was the city to which she had written, a letter from the manager of the Chamber of Commerce of that place telling her about their city. COOKS PLAN PARTY Our cooking class is going to have a party the 29th of May. Miss Murphy said that we could make sandwiches. Then we are going out to the falls and play games. The kindergarten has a picture of a parade drawn on their blackboard. Ada Van Voorhis, reporter for Sevastopol school.

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