Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 126, 27 May 1922 — Page 13
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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 find original poems are acceptable anl will be published. Articles should be written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author's name and age signed. Aunt Polly is always g-lad 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
Howdy, Juniors: An older friend came among a group of about ten juniors a few days ago and was introduced to them all by their first names, in rather quick succession. "Wonder if you know them?" some one asked. "I think I can give all their names," said the friend In a sure tone "Let me try" and then she named all them, remembering as well the ones who had two names as a given name. Are vou able to focus your attention so well on what you are
hearing that you can tell it clearly in your own words, and on what you are seeing that you can quickly give a full general description of it? Try it and see. . And when we know we have to do something we do not want to do, how do we go about It Do we go slowly, do we whin and act "Mr. Grumpy" or do we get up at once to do It and do It well and mako an end to it. Remember how often we have been told to go to bed when the clock went all too fast and visitors we very much liked to Bee wer3 visiting us and telling interesting stories. Oh how we have all begged, "Oh please, let us stay up just a little while longer." Perhaps when we found our parents firm and we went to bed, we went v e r y g 1 o w 1 y, thinking ours a very hard life Indeed. Robert Louis Stevenson speaks of this in a little poem he has written (not forgetting how dark the way to bed seemed) which reads
like this: "Must we to bed Indeed? Well then. Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed."
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Every time we pity ourselves when we face something which Is hard to meet, or hard to undertake, we are letting go of our vigor and strength and letting ourselves be very weak indeed, and besides we are showing a lack of trust in the great source of things which wo believe does all things well and which good result we will see if we wait and watch awhile, and keep working. . Edgar Guest who has expressed many simple thoughts in simple verse, has a poem in which he says it was an "ill-starred" day when someone joined the little scare word "hard" to the word "work". If we believe that by work we can accomplish things; If we know that when we are working we are happy, then we can work better when we refuse to let the little goblin thought "hard" get even within sight of the sturdy, cheerful little brownie thought of "work." When we have to give up doing something we had wanted oh so very, very much to do, something it seemed all right for us to do, how do we act and what do we say when we first realize we must give It up? Sometimes perhaps we have taken it with courage and sometimes (if all of you are at all like me) we have not Would you like to hear about the splendid way a certain little girl
took a disappointment which to her was a very big misfortune? This little girl was about two and one-half years old, and above all, her playthings she liked, best a big red balloon. Once when this little girl was out riding in an automobile, happy as could be over a bright balloon whose tugging Btring she held tightly In her hand, somehow or other the balloon blew suddenly around behind .someone sitting in the car, who leaned back and pop! the gay toy was broken. Such a sad expression on the child's face then as she hid her face on her sister's shoulder. For several seconds, probably a whole minute she stayed that way, then she looked up, her face brightening "All don" she said (meaning "all gone"-) and began playing with her other playthings. Not a single tear or cry and yet that was the favorite plaything she had. But I remember what the White Rabbit said In Alice of Wonderland, "Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!" so will stop for tonight. Your junior friend, AUNT POLLY.
BOYHOOD STORIES OF FAMOUS MEN
Thomas A. Edison In the barn at his home in Milan, Ohio, little Thomas Edison used to spend many happy hours playing and experimenting. One day he came upon an old gray goose sitting on a'nestful of eggs. He wanted tn know how the goslings were hatched,, so he drove off the goose and sat on the eggs himself. For a long time he sat there, but nothing happened. At last he got up, and it was a very disappointed boy who saw that the eggs were all smashed and never could become
Eoslinus.
Thomas was eternally asking questions of everyone he met.
When people wouldn t answer
them, he set about to find out the "why and wherefore" for himself. Edison (born 1847) Is still living
and "finding out" things. The world has him to thank for the phonograph, motion pictures, and electric lights. ANSWERS TO THIS WEEK'S PUZZLE PICTURE The objects are: House, hand, hat, hedge, hitching post, harness, hub,, hoiizon.hen, horse. Don't Know Him "Who is that?" "Oli, that's our pole vaulter."Does he speak English?"
A Rice Seed's Story Near the coast, where the climate Is warm enough the lowlands are used for cultivating rice. Our rice is the best raised anywhere. The rice has to have a warm climate and a lot of rain. It must be kept flooded part of the time until it matures. .
Alter the rice 13 harvested it Is
put in threshing machines which separate the kernels from the bits of straw. After the rice has been
threshed it has to be prepared for
the market. The grains have little hull3 on them don't come off with the threshing. They stick on as if
they were glued. The tfireshing
machine is a long tube into which the rice is poured. The rice Is next
polished and made smooth. After this, some of the rice is made into
puffed rice. Most of it i3 used a3 food. One fourth of all the people in the world live upon rice. The husks on the rice are used for packing breakable articles. Some of it is used to make rice flour, rice paper and starch. Rhea Winsett, grade 5A, Starr Platoon school. JUNIOR L. T. L. MEETS The Frances E. Willard L. T. L. will meet at the home of Ross Stoakes, Jr., 20 South Fourteenth street, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. All members are urged to come. ..
Liberty Bell Has Seen Much of U, S.
Hundreds of Richmond school children, now getting to be grownups, remember about the trip they made down to the Pennsylvania station, in 1904, to see the Liberty Bell as it passed through this city on its way -to the World's Fair, which was held that year in St Louis. But who knows the stories of this famous old bell? and who knows how it was made? and where it has been? (for it has traveled! much).
One Robert Thomas, of London,
received a letter, Nov. 1, 1751, writ-
ten by important people In the American colonies asking him to make a bell weighing 2,000 pounds
and which would cost about $1,000 (the dollar was able to buy much
more in those days than it is to
day, and ih3 cost would be much increased if it were to buy the
same sized bell today).
In 1776, when the colonists wanted to let everyone around know that they had adopted the Declaration of Independence, they
rang the bell, and since then it has been known as the Liberty Bell.
Now, bells are exposed to the
weather and are rung often and hard and often they crack and then
their tone .is injured and after
awhile it is lost altogether and then it has to get a new metal
dress, or as they call it, it has to
bo recast. And this is? what has happened to the Liberty Bell, several times once in 1753 and again in 1824-1825. WAS CRACKED WHILE GREETING LAFAYETTE One day, in 1824, It was ringing a greeting to General Lafayette, and it became cracked. The following winter, while ringing a fire alarm, it gave out altogether. Most of Its life it has spent in Philadelphia, but It has taken several Journeys, some to let people see it, and some to save its life, as Its owners thought. This trip that it took in order to be safe was made on Sept. 18, 1777, when it was taken to Allentown, Pa., because the colonists thought the British
soldiers were going to occupy
Philadelphia, and it stayed there until all the British soldiers had
left
Other trips which the Bell has taken have been to New Orleans, in 1885;-to Chicago, in 1893; to Atlanta, in 1895; to Charleston,
S. C., in 1902; and to Boston in
1903, where it was important in
the 128th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Bunker HUL The following year it went to St Louis and the last time it went on a journey was in 1915, when it went to San Francisco to be present at the Panama- Pacific Exposition. Children Ask to See It School children of several middle western states and many of the grownups are now wishing and many of the children are requesting that the bell make a journey this year to Chicago to be present at the second annual Pageant of Progress, which will be held there from July 29 to August 14. It is also being planned that the Liberty Bell be the guest of honor at a special celebration to be held in its home city in 1926.
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PUZZLES and RIDDLES
Can You Solve This Puzzle?
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The solution for this puzzle appears elsewhere in this Issue
Fairies
I love to hear of meadows,
With all their birds and flowers;
Of fairies with their gauzy wings
Who live In wonder towers It is so sweet to think of them. Just when you are in trouWe;
But when you stop, it seems to me,
The task Is twice more double I like to be all by myself Out in a big, green wood; And there, imagine everything That any person could.
And when I go to bed at night, I see them by my side; This makes me feel so good - think, There is nothing I can hide.
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I hide nothing from these little
people. Who have always been so brave;
Who told me not to spend so much
And always try to save.
And then when I go to sleep at
night, They give me happy dreams;
And in the morning when I wake,
Sun, in my windows, streams. Roberta Swain, Economy, Ind.
If we could talk Latin, we would say that our teacher's motto is "Soc et num."
A BASKET OF APPLES One day, as two little boy3 were walking along the road, they saw a woman carrying a large basket of apples. The boys thought the woman looked pale and tired; so they said, "Are you going to town? If you are, we will carry your basket." "Thank you," replied the woman. "You are t!ry kind; you see I am weak and ill." Then she told them that she was a widow, and
phad a lame son to support.
She lived in a cottage three miles away, and was now going to market to sell the apples which grew on thef only tree in her little
garden. She wanted the money to pay her rent. "We are going the same way you are," said the boys. "Let us have the basket." And they took hold of it one on each side, and trudged along with merry hearts. Wnen the boys got home they told their mother and father what they had done, and they said that was a kind dcted. Rielta Ilirschfield, St John's school. WAS GUEST IN CITY Miss Mildred Harvey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Harvey, of Marion, Ind., spent the weekend here visiting friends and relatives. By Loretta Kittle.
Boys Show Story
Of Transportation Boys In the 6AB grades of Baxter school worked out an Interesting project the story of transportation, in their manual training work with Miss Buhl. Joseph Sherrow made a model of a prairie schooner; Claron Sharon and Ernest Whitmore built a steam engine and car out of wood and tin; John Green made an electric car of tin with the trolley wire attached, and Roger Shute made an automobile of wobd. All five of the boys made airplanes. AH of these models were on exhibit Thursday, in Miss Johnson's room.
Richmond DX Club May Install Wireless Members of the Richmond DX Radio club in their meeting Wednesday evening considered the Installation of a wireless sending and recelviag outfit in the boys' summer camp, that the boys may enjoy the programs sent' from the Richmond station and keep in communication with their families and friends in Richmond, while they are at camp. The loan of a wireless sending and receiving set has been offered for the camp, and members of the club have "offered to install It and perhaps to give bi-weekly lessons in sending and receiving and in wireless principles. - : The suggestion of establishing a wireless station will be considered further at the next meeting of the DX club, which will be June 1.
STORY OFSPEECH The Beginning of Rome No one knew about the start of
Rome, but they have made up stories about it.
The people lived in a little city
called Alba Longa. The king of this city was not the rightful king. This wicked king killed the rightful king's two sons and -shut his daughter up In a castle.
The daughter had two sons
which were twins. The king of
Alba Longa had the boys put in a
basket and put on the flooded river Tiber. They were washed near the foot of the Seven Hils.
A wolf gave them milk and a
crow brought them food. A shep
herd found them and called them Romulus and Remus.
When they grew up Remus was
eaptured by some lawless men and taken to the king of Alba Longa. Romulus and his compan
ions went to help Remus. He suc
ceeded and they joined together and finished the other king and put their grandfather on the throne. They were not satisfied here so they got some people and built a v city on the Bhore near the foot of the Seven Hills, and that was Rome. Wilma Morgan, grade 7A, Garfield J. H. S.
A SIMPLE FORM OF ANTENNA I" r- iji I. i i '-'ii li i ji i iimimt- -rijiriM-i r-r-n-i T A-SCREWtYt H-R0PE. ' ' V f. ,B-R0PE. il -SCREWEYt 1 -, ' C-PULLEY 'j-LLAWN WIRE 1 1 I D-ROPE , K-LIGHTNING SWITCH . c-insuUtor l-grounowire frrmi F-ANTENNA M- GROUND PIPE. V W7o l G-INSUIATOR N-LEAD TO RECEIVING 57 KfAit l O-INSUUTINGTUBf,'- ... WJt!
The Bureau of Standards of thd Department of Commerce, which has issued a pamphlet describing the construction of a simple radio receiving set for about $15, shows In tbe sketch above the simplest form of aerial. For receiving messages from amateurs sending on wave lengths below 200 meters, an aerial of one strand about seventy-five feet long, thirty feet from the ground, is all that is needed; for a more efficient antenna for listening in on broadcasting stations the length should be 150 feet The aerial need not be strictly horizontal. The lead in wire should be short as its length may be considered part of the antenna, and should lead direct to the lightning switch. Although tbe aerial shown Is more adapted for country or suburban than for city use, the general features are for the same as may be used on a roof aerial The wire for this aerial may be No. 11 or No. 16 copper wire, bare or insulated.