Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 257, 28 October 1922 — Page 17

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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM

Tho 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, fcoclal 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 authors name and ae signed. Cousin Helen Is always giad 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

eacn ooy ana Kin win use it thoroughly.

COUSIN HELEN'S LETTER

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Dear Juniors j We are all looking forward eagerly to Halloween. It is, above all, on eve of fun and laughter. Hallow even, as it is sometimes called, is the eve of the vigil of All Hallow's, or All Saint's Day, which is on November 1st. This Saint's Day takes its origin from the conversion in the seventh century of the Pantheon at Rome intq a Christian place of worship. At one time it was celebrated on May 1st, but wa3 later changed to November. It is a lucky thing for us they changed it, for what would Halloween be without a pumpkin face for a Jack-o'-Lantern! In the state of Louisiana, they still celebrate All Hallow's Day by decorating the graves as we do on Memorial Day. This is also done in some foreign countries. However, there is nothing churchly about Halloween, for it is a relic of pagan times, or mediaeval superstitions. It resembles-the German celebration, called "Walpurgis Night," when it is believed that the evil spirits assemble on tho summit of Brocken in the Hartz mountains. In England, it is called "Nut-Crack Night." This night is the time of all others set apart for spirits to wander over the earth. Even our human spirits might detach themselves and wander about. Boo! Juniors, is not that spooky? No other day in the whole year is so full of superstitious lore. Of course, it is all to be taken with fun. However, at one time people did really believe in these , queer things. Let us open our dictionaries and learn the exact meaning of " superstition." It tells us that 'superstition is "belief in what is absurd, without evidence." This should teach us to put no faith in superstitions, yet it is quite surprising how many superstitions have come down to us even to this day. I'll wager every one of us has at some time knocked on wood three times to avert the evil of boasting. Who of us have not. "spotted" 100 white horses, land then made a wish? How familiar is the rhyme "hoad of hay, load of hay, , Make a wish and turn away." Will you go straight ahead if a black cat crosses the sidewalk in front of you? Breaking a lookingglass means at least seven years of bad luck. And, what a terrible thing it Is to walk under a ladder! When we want good luck to come our way we wear all day the garment we put on wrong-side-out in the morning. Which is the way to pick up a pin? Is it head toward you, or point toward you ? For

. you know "Sen a pin and pick It up, All the day you'll have good luck." I have heard that there are people who, when they move into a new house, move their bread and salt in first. Now, what do you suppose that means? This is a late fall and many Juniors have seen trees blooming at this time.lt seems that is unfortunate to the owner of the tree, for do

they not say "Trees blooming out of season. You'll have trouble out of reason."

Ask Daddy if he can remember when he thought that to get rid of

warts, all be had to do was. to swing a dead cat over hla head, and, letting it fly over his left shoulder, say no, cat: Wart follow cat." This is just a few of the many, many superstitions that we could recall, but we do not believe that either good or bad luck will come to us by following any of these rules. Surely the persons who. long, long ago, created these strange rules and rhymes must have been " poking fun." I guess, after all, the joke Is on us, Juniors, since some of us even yet have our own little superstitions. Sincerely, COUSIN HELEN

Boy Scouts Observe Roosevelt's Birthday

(Continued Frra Pagre One) troops also will make a memorial pilgrimage to eome of the points where "Roosevelt Trees" have already been planted, a procedure which will also be followed In Hartford, Conn., and other cities where trees have been planted by Bcouts in previous years. Pilgrimage By Cincinnati Scout Troops Cincinnati Scouts will make a pilgrimage to Mount Storm, where there will bo a patriotic memorial service outdoors. Granite City, llinois, council plana a similar stunt, every" Boy Scout, Scout leader and council member and niiwiy friends participating in the hike. In Maiden, Massachusetts, all the scouts of the city, together with parents and friends, and the general public will assemble in the high school, where a Scout Court of Honor will be combined with a memorial program. In Glens Falls, N. Y., Menominee, Mich., and in

many other places the scouts themselves will be the chief speakers, either at (school sessions or public meetings. Roosevelt Memorial Cabins To Be Erected The plan to erect a Roosevelt Memorial Cabin at Oyster Bay in reproduction of that occupied by

the Colonel, when he was a ranch

man in the Bad Lands of Dakota, promulgated during last year's observance of the Roosevelt birthday, is still going forward and was the subject of much favorable discussion at the recent Scout Executives conference at Blue Ridge, N. C. The project will be put through in co-operation with tho Roosevelt Memorial association. It Is suggested that the logs from which the cabin is to be made shall be supplied by scouts from all over the country, representing every state in the union, an arrangement eminently suitable for a movement which has its membership, 550,000 strong, in every city and nearly ery town and hamlet in the United States and all dedicated to the same outdoor life, the same sturdy manliness of character, the same virile citizenship which are always associated with Theodore Roosevelt.

CAN YOU DRAW THIS ONE?

A LITTLE HERO

The Dinner-Pail Irishman Complete the big drawing by adding, one by one, the various line shown in the series of small key pictures below,

Sevastopol Making Halloween Faces

Children of the second grade arc going to make themselves each a " jack-o-Iantern " for Halloween. They are also going to make false faces. Ada Van Voorhis, reporter for Sevastopol school.

Announcement The story hour was held last Sat-

jurday afternoon at the library. I Several Juniors were there. To

day we had fairy stories. Remember, the time is from 2:30 till 3:30, and try to come next Saturday.

Evils of Smoking Passenger "I ay. Engineer, what is the average life of a locomotive?" Engineer "Oh, about thirty years, sir." Passenger "I should think such a tough looking thing would last longer than that." Engineer "Well, sir, perhaps it would, if it didn't smoke so much." Richard McCann. '

Did You Know?

It's the gweet potato that makes postage stamps stick. This vegetable has been found to make the most harmless glue. The liquid is forced through pipes and made to drip on the sheets of printed stamps. There are certain places in Mexico where rain never has been known to fall, while in Torrent, Kentucky, it rains some time during every day in the year. A cyclone moves at the rate of 585 yards a He&ond.

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. Hard on the Chairs Four-year-old Wendell arranged the chairs In neat order and having

propped his Bible up on the chair

in front of him he began to preach to bis "congregation." "Wendell," said his father to him one day, "don't you get tired of this?" "No, papa," replied Ihe youthful minister, "I don't get tired, but its rather hard on the chairs." Wendell Phillips w-as the greatest orator In the movement for the abolition of slavery.

Substance, Not Form

The question of originality is not one of form but of substance, not of cleverness but of Imaginative power. James Russell Lowell.

Just Pretending Go fasten a veil to a comet's tail, And sail for the limpid Moon, And live for a day On bubbles and whey, Dipped up by the Great Horn Spoon. Go, scatter a rose on a sunbeam's nose, For summer will vanish soon, And wander an hour By the Big-zag flower That whispers tho bumble-bee's tune. Florence M. Pettee, In Child Life.

Remember November 12lh to 19th 13 Father and Son week. ,

The Wiiiter Birch, and Especially Our Good Friend, Mr. Red Head

Jesse Allison, of Lexington, Ky., saved his father from being trampled to death by a mule. Jesse wa riding a horse and his father the mule. " The latter sprang, unseating the man. Jesse, aged 6, raced after the mule, reached for the bridle and brought him to a halt.

By MILLARD MARKLE (The following1 Interesting artlclo s tlifrd of a Berles pn nuture mih-

hwtM. written esoeciallv for The

Junior Palladium. Iy Prof. Millard

8. Markle, heart or the department OI biology,, of Karlhum college.) The Red-Headed Woodpecker Just now1 migrating birds are rapIdly going south. On these frosty mornings, every tree is full of tiny flitting forms, eagerly looking for their breakfasts after their long

flight during the night.

This is not the best time of the

year -to study the migration of

birds, for many of the young birds, that are now going south for the first time, do not have the typical plumage of the older birds, bo one often has trouble in Identifying them in the fall. By the time the spring migration begins, all the birds will have the adult plumage. Soon, however, these migrating birds will be gone and we Khali have with us only the winter residentsthose that stay here onlyJ during the winter, and the permanent residents those that stay here all the time. Winter is the best time to begin the study of birds, for there are so few kinds here that it is not nearly eo confusing. In the winter there are twenty or twenty-five kinds of common birds. In the spring there are over one hundred kinds of common birds. In the winter the trees are bare and the bird.i may easily be seen. In the spring the young leaves soon cover the trees and it is harder to see the birds. One of the mosJ, interesting families of birds Is the Woodpecker

family. The best-known of these Is the red-headed woodpecker, or redhead, ag we often call him. He is one of our most Intelligent birds. He has many ways of getting food. Often we hear him pecking holes In the dead limbs of trees to get the fat worms that bore into the wood. Often he sits on a dead tree or telephone pole and looks for Insects flying thru the air. He files out after them and returns to his perch. I remember driving one warm summer day along a country road. Looking down the road, we could see dozens of red heads, sitting on telephone poles and flying out across the road after insects and coming back again to their perches. As we approached them, each woodpecker would move on to the next pole. Thus we drove them before" us down the the road for a long way. Protects Fruit and Grain Many of the Insects upon which the red head feeds do a great deal of harm by injuring our fruit trees and destroying our field and garden crops, bo we ought to think f the red-head as our friend; and If he takeg a cherry once in a while, we 1mght to think of It as merely collecting a little payment for the good he has done in many ways. The red-head does not always slay thru the winter. Some say It depends upon the crop of beechnuts, which he uses for his winter food. Since there are many beechnuts this year, perhapB the redhead will stay with ub this winter. Next week," I shall tell you about other members of the woodpecker family. u