Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 93, Number 6, 6 January 1923 — Page 16

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, IJZX

North Wind Tells

I am the North Wind. I live away up north In the castles of Jack Frost. I have three brothers, the South Wind, the East Wind, and the West Wind. My brothers say I am sometimes very cruel, but I only mean such things in fun. I toss the ships about on the sea, and sometimes dash them upon the rocks and sink them. When the boys and girls come home from school and rake the leaves, they rake them into a bigpile and I come along and make the leaves flutter around, then the children must rake them again. The trees sometimes bend low. It Is I, the Nort Wind, who has such power to make them bend down so low. They obey my commands. Sometimes they hold themselves too stiff: that makes me angry. Then I blow so hard that it uproots the trees and they fall with a thud to the earth. Now I will tell you about my brothers, as they are sometimes better liked than I am. The South Wind is always welcomed in the Spring, after I have had much adventure during the Winter. He brings life into the seeds, and brings soft showers which are always welcome. Brother West Wind helps the ships journey home after I have dashed them about. I do not like him, for, when I am playing, he interferes and helps the ones that are in trouble. East Wind i3 jolly and merry. It whirls the leaves over the ground. He is my -best brother. He likes to play. But still they say that I am a troublesome wind. In the summer I do not have much fun, for gentle South Wind always plays among the flowers during the Summer months. In the Winter I help Jack Frost and Snow Fairies. I cover the fields with snow and howl down the chimneys. I peep through the cracks in the windows and doors. Some times the Snow Fairies get angry at me and say that I am harsh and cruel, but as I said before, I always do it in fun. In the very cold nights I heir Jack Frost paint the windows. 1 am a great help to him. If it were not for me there would never bf any frosty painted windows, ar I freeze the paint on the windows In the morning the children ge' out of bed and run to. the window and say, "Oh! Jack Frost war here last night." They neve think that the North Wind did a. much of it as Jack Frost. I have also been on trips witl men who are seeking adventure Brother West Wind helped Coluw bus sail across the Atlantic. Man 1

DAYS OF REAL SPORT

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Interesting Story

times I tossed Magellan ships to and fro on the ocean. It was I who only meant in fun to bring Buch a cold winter to the Pilgrims. Many of them died and afterwards I was sorry. Now I must end my tale, as I must be further on my journey. I hope I may write to the littlte girls and boys again. By Mary Helen Saurer, 4A-5B, Warner schooL 500 Movies in New York New York City has EOO motion picture theaters seating 300,000. STORIES ABOUT THE TERRIER No breed of dog attaches Itself so strongly to man as the terrier. It wants to he the constant companion of its master, and as such becomes very sensitive to the least look or word from him. The dog acquires a Jealous disposition and will become angry and sullen at any sign of affection shown for another animal or a person. A certain English gentlemen owned a terrier that was very fond of him. The man married. His terrier did not like his master's wife. Immediately after the marriage, the animal seemed to feel that his master's affection was diminishing. He became sullen. He avoided his master. But when he saw that his mistress, Instead of disliking him, showed much affection for him, he became his former self. Then a child was born. Of course the mother and father paid a great leal of attention to the baby. The dog saw this, and whilo his master and mistress paid no less attention 'o him than before, the dog felt ho was being slighted. A look of reentment came into his faco. He 'pathed his food. Nothing contented him. Ho hid himself in the coal iin and refused to be coaxed out 'ven for his food. He finally died f starvation. The terrier's courage is equally s strong as its affection. The folowing true instance illustrates this .act.

Corn Becomes Biggest of Farm Crops in U.

S. Corn, the red man's gift to the white man, has come to be the nation's most important farm crop. Consumed either directly or in the form of a meat and other animal products, it is the principal source of the nation a food supply. Forty percent of the crop is fed to swine on farms, 20 per cent to horses and mules on farms, and 15 per cent is used directly, for human food. DOGS YOU KNOW A man was walking down a dark street in New York City to his home. He had been out for an evening's stroll with his terrier which was playing along at his side. On coming to an alley a bur ly fellow Jumped out of the shad ows and attacked the man with the dog, hitting him over the head with a heavy club. The highwayman was about to strike another blow but before he could do so, the terrier leaped up at the man's throat and sunk his teeth. The dog held on till his master had time to regain his senses and start running up the street to safety. Then tho dog let go of the hold-up and ran after his master, but first he tore a piece from the man's suit coat. The terrier gets Its name from "terra," Latin for "earth." The dog is most remarkable, perhaps, for the eagerness and courage withj which it will attack all quadrupeds from rats to the fox. There are numerous varieties of terriers the Airdale terrier, Irish terrier, Skye terrier, bull terrier, etc., but the fox terrier probably is the variety most popular and best known among boys and girl3 of to-day. The fox terrier not only is a good sporting dog, but an ex cellent house anima'. It Is not a large dog the preferred weight being in the neighborhood of seventeen pounds. There are two types of fox ter riers, the smooth and wire-haired. They are identically the same, ex cept in their coats. Both types aro of the same build. The skull is flat and moderately narrow, the cheeks are not full, the ears, of moderate thickness, are V-shaped and small, the nose black, and the eyes dark in color. The terrier's neck Is muscular and not throaty. Its shoulders are long and sloping and the chest, instead of having great breadth, is deep. , No dog makes a better and more loyal pal. 1

THE FUN BOX

Dangerous Charlie: "I had a good joke to tell you, sis, but I see it wouldn't be safe to tell it." Sister: "Why?" Charlie: "Because, If your face lights up, the powder will go off." What He Meant Student : "Gimme ham and yeggs." Waiter: "Pardon me, sir. You mean eggs, don't you?" Student: "Yes, hard boiled." A School Yell Rickety I Rickety! Rah! Rah! Roar! Morton High School! Twenty-four! Proof Enough "Give me three proofs," said the geography teacher to the boy who had been reading detective stories behind his geography book, "that the world is round." "Well, the book says so, you say so, ana ma says so." The Young Lawyer "And If, my son, "tho lawyer said, My shoes you wish to fill, Remember that I got my start By working with a will." Making It Up "You haven't got the answer to this problem right," said the new teacher at the close of school. "You'll have to stay and do it over. "How far off Is it this time?" asked the boy in despair. "Two cents." Well, I've got something: awful important to do after school. I'll just pay the difference." Is There a Man (This Is one of a series of stories about the mysteries of the skies bv Dr. II. W. Hurt, National Field Commissioner of the Boy Scouts, and writer of two of their three handbooks. Dr. Hurt has studied the stars for many years, and at one time was in charg-e of the Yerkes Observatory In Williams Bav, Wisconsin, where the largest telescope In tho world Is located.) If you and I were to decide to take a trip to our nearest neighbor, the moon, we would find it nrettv hard traveling. In the first place, By Briggs ICICLES

Why We Give Gifts At Christmas Time

Many years ago in Bethlehem, a town near Jerusalem, shepherds were out watching their sheep at night. An angel came and told them there was a baby born who was to be their king. They followed a large star that was in the sky. It brought them to a barn; they went in and they found Jesus. They gave Him many presents, and so that is why we have Christmas presents. By Virginia Long. MADONNA PICTURES We have been studying Madonna pictures for the last few days, and now we are going to write a story. When we speak of a Madonna picture we mean the Christ and His Mother. There are hundreds of Madonna pictures in the world, but just a few famous ones. The artists never saw the Christ child and his Mother, but they had seen a lady and her little one that they theught looked like the Madonna, so they just painted them. If I were going to paint a Madonna, I would try to find a lady and a baby to paint. I have enjoyed studying the Madonna pictures very much. I like the Sistine Madonna and also the Madonna of the Olive Branch. I like the first one because the lady and the baby look so much alike. I like the Madonna of the Olive Branch because it has a symbol of peace in the baby's hand, and I also like the way it is painted. Mary Frances Kelly, 5A grade, Baxter school. in the Moon? no airplane could make the hundred-day trip at a hundred miles an hour, for the air about the earth .doesn't reach out more than fifty miles. If we could, somehow, land there we'd be faced with another 'problem. We would have to take with us not alone our food and water, but our air as well. Great oxygen masks would be'necessary, because the moon is an absolute desert. There you will find no living plant, nc air, and no moisture. At times the heat of the sun raises it to the heat of boiling water and again it drops to an absolute zero, so that even if we got there we'd find it an uncomfortable place to be visiting. Surface Makes "Features" The mountains and desert plains of the moon roughly outline tho features of a face, or "the man in the moon." These "features" are always turned toward us. No human eye has ever seen the back side, because while the moon rolls around the earth every four weeks at the rate of 37.4 miles per minute, yet it turns once on its own axis in that period, holding its same face to us all the time. That is why we see the same face when the moon is full. Great mountainsand old craters, deeper and stepper than ours, make its surface ragged and rough, yet it has great level plains, or seas, as they are called. One of the queer things about the moon is that its force of gravity is so smalrf In fact, there is so little gravity that, witHfrno air resistance, Babe Ruth could hit a ball hard enough to make it sail right off into space and you'd never see it again. v Another interesting thing you've noticed abouV the moon is that it seems to change from a thin crescent to a full moon. What happens is that the half which the sun lights up shifts from being in full view to being out of sight. The moonlight is really reflected sunlight, so that when the moon, circling around the earth, rasses between us and the sun its dark side is toward us, and when it gets on the opposite side of us we can see all of the lighted half. So you don't see a "man In the ' moon," and the moon doesn't change In size, and moonlight Is really sunlight A lot of what your eyes tell you when they look at the sky Isn't true at all.

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