Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 93, Number 24, 27 January 1923 — Page 17
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. SATURDAY. JANUARY- 27, 1923.
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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM The Junior ralladlum Is tliu children's section of the IUchmond Palladium, founded May 6, 1916, and Issued each Saturday afternoon. All boys und Rlrla are invited to bo reporters and contributors. News items, social 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 tho paper, with the author's name and age tinned. Cousin Helen is always (find to meet tho children personally as they bring their articles to The ralladlum office, or to receive letters addressed to tho Junior Editor. This Is your Utile- newspaper, and wo hops each boy and (?lrl will use it thoroughly.
COUSIN HELEN'S LETTER
Dear Juniors You Juniors may wonder why each week in your paper there appears an animal story. The author of those stories is a man who, not so many years ago, was a Junior, like each of you. lie was a boy who had many pets and loved them, and was always interested In studying animals. I put these k stories in the Junior Palladium because I consider it very essential that all of us become Interested in dumb animals. The boy or girl who has a pet of his or her own and understands it, feeds and doctors it when sick, will be a better and kinder man or woman In later
years. Some people fancy that dumb animals in general do not think, and, sad to say, the great majority of people believe that animals are not grateful for any kind act performed in their behalf. To offset such belief I am going to quote a true story that appeared in the January issue of "pur Dumb Animals," which is so interesting that I am printing it in its entirety. "A very peculiar case was that of a circus elephant whose foot had become painfully swollen. His owners were unable to pro- j
cine a physician who would take the risk of lancing the elephant's foot. At last, one physician said that he would make the attempt. As ho bent over the elephant's foot with his lance, the huge creature seized hold of the physician's hair and gripped it very tightly. One can easily surmise what the sensations of the' physician were at that moment. Although he contemplated with apprehension the effect of his action, he thrust his lance into the elephant's foot. The elephant nearly fainted from the soothing relief from pain. Sixteen years afterward, as the physician was passing along one of the streets of his home town, a circus came passing through, in which was, a large group of elephants. Suddenly, the largest of them made his way up to the physician, trumpeting loudly. The physician identified the elephant as the one whose foot he had lanced - sixteen years before?"
The boy who kicks a dog "to hear him howl" is making a big mistake. At an early age he ia allowing himself to be worse than any of the dumb, helpless creatures that he takes pleasure in harming. This is the sort of boy, who if not properly instructed in early years grows to be a man who beats his horse, his wife and children. All children should have a genuine love for animals. Then they would not harm them, because no one, no matter how hard-hearted, wishes to harm a thing he really loves. I am sure you Juniors all like animals. Isn't it wonderful to see
the difference in a dog's response to kindness and cruelty? You can see every day some ' way to help our animal friends. If only by your example, you will probably teach some other boy or girl the proper
way to treat animals.
Cities are realizing that kindness
to animals pays, 'itiey. are pro
viding bird-baths, bird houses, dog
fountains and free pet hospitals.
There is nothing in this big world of ours which is unimportant. Each has its use. Animals are necessary
for our safety and comfort, to aid
man in his work and to kill
rodents; but greater than all else
they are necessary to us because
they give us ' SOMETHING TO LOVE. They teach us the wisdom
of a little line that I once learned and which is almost a Key of Happiness in life: "Never be too lazy to be kind." Practice this and you will always find the world a much better place in which to live. Sincerely, COUSIN HELEN.
this. Its usual color, when in its wild state, is green. It can turn from this to violet, blue and yellow. This animal is so constructed that its various shades of color are caused by the action of the light on different glands of the body. The color of the animal's side toward the light is always darker than the side away from the light. Almost Two Animals in One The eyes of the chameleon move independently of each other. One eye can be looking one way and observing one object and the other eye may be looking in the other direction or even be "sound asleep. It is possible to disturb this lizard and only wake up one eye. It will be found that the animal is really constructed in two parts. I can describe its construction by telling you that it is almost like two animalglued together. The common chameleon Is sixteen to eighteen inches long, the tail being nearly as long as the body.
RADIO NEWS
Take animals seriously. Practice gentleness. In feelings they are almost as human as you. The man who beats his horse "to make him go" is, at the same time, doing something to himself of which he is entirely unaware. The man who so mistreats his horse has lowered himself beneath the level of the animal he has misused.
The Chameleon
Picture Puzzle
THE NAME OF A COUNTRY 15 HIDDEN HERE. BEGIN WITH A LETTER IN THE SECOND COLUMN FROM THE LEFT AND MOVE FROM 5QUARE TO SQUARE DIAGONALLY
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Answer to this will appear in next week's Junior.
Answer Manitoba.
to last week's puzzle:
In last week's Junior Palladium I told you of the ant-eater, whose strangely constructed tonj makes it one of the most reniar. ile animals known to man. This week as
a fitting sequel, I am going to tell you about the Chameleon. When you think of a chameleon you at once think of a little animal that has a strange power of changing its color, and you will no doubt wonder in what respect an anteater and a chameleon are similar. Their similarity is in the fact that both have such wonderful tongues.
Chameleon Swats the Fly
I here is a common belief that
chameleons live entirely on air.
The reason for this belief is found in the. fact that the chameleon is such a sluggish animal, and goes so long without eating that people
were led to believe that it was too slow to catch insects, and since it
was never seen to eat they imagined that it never did. The truth of the matter is that it lives on flies
and insects. Nature has equipped it with a very wonderful tongue especially adapted for -catching its food . Its tongue is a hollqw tube, and, like the ant-eater, It can .extend it to a great length as quick as you can say "Jack Robinson." On the end of.this tongue is a cup like knob or cavity which is always covered with a sticky substance. When the chameleon has selected its prey, it merely shoots its tongue out to twice the length of its body; Mr. Flyia caught just like on sticky fly-paper, and is as quickly transferred to the chamel
eons mouth. It rarely misses its aim. The chameleon is a member of the lizard family and has the distinction of being less repulsive looking than the other members of the family. It is noted for its power to change colors. It is, in fact, famous for
This department Is conducted by Hoirer Jiindley. All radio news should ho sent to liim, hi care of the J uuior Palladium. Radio Broadcast Jan. 25, 1923 Station Dearborn, Mich., call. letters WWI, wave length 360. Station Decatur, Oa., call letters WAAS, wave length 360.
Station Decatur, 111., call letters WBAO, wave length 360.
Station Denver, Colo., call letters KLZ, wave length 360. Station Des Moines, Iowa, call letters WHX, wave length 360. Gothamite3 Borrow Chi's Music for Society "Hop" NEW YORK. Mr. and Mrs. Charles William Taussig gave a
dance at their home, 190 Riverside
drive, recently, borrowing their music from Chicago by radio. Mr. Taussig, who is a radiophan and an author, said today that the experiment of giving a dance in New York to Chicago music was successful. "The music came, not spasmodically, as is frequently the case in long distance reception with "lowpower stations, but was continuously loud more than two hours," said the radio dance host. Mr. Taussig is experimenting with apparatus to receive music from Europe loud enough for dancing and other entertainment.
CAN YOU DRAW THIS ONE?
The High-Flyer
Complete the big drawing by adding, one by one, the various lines shown in the series of small key pictures below.
Detroit Amateurs Send Christmas Messages, Free DETROIT. If you are a Detroite and have friends living in Hawaii,
t anatla, rorto Kieo, Alaska, or in any part of the United States, to
whom you would like to send Christmas greetings by radio, the
Detroit Radio association wilf un
dertake to transmit Christmas
cheer to them free of charge.
Planks for transmission, similar to
telegraph blanks, have been placed
by the association in several down
town stores handling radio apparatus, and in the lobby of the De
troit News. All a person need do is to get one of these blanks, write a message on it, and leave it in charge of the person who supplied the blank. A messenger conies around every evening to pick up messages and distribute them to various owners of amateur transmitting stations. These amateurs wilt send the messages by radio, and other amateurs at the receiving end deliver them.
ESOP
ANSWERS To Questions Worth While
How long Is Methuselah supposed to have lived? 969 years. To what author can the following quotation be traced ?"I11 blows the wind that profits nobody." Shakespears. What is the meaning and derivation of ibid.? It is an abbreviation of the Latin word, ibidem, meaning "in the same place." It is frequently used after a quotation, meaning "in the same writer's work."
How Heesian Fly Got Here The Hessian fly, a damaging In
sect pest which attacks our wheat
plants, is supposed to have come
to this country with the Hessian soldiers hired by King George III. to help suppress the American revolution.
It 13 said that at one time when Xanthus started out on a long journey, he ordered his servants to get all his things together and put them up iik bundles so they could carry them. When everything had been neatly tied up, Aesop went to his master and begged for the lightest bundle. Wishing to please his favorite slave, the master told Aesop to choose for himself the one he preferred to carry. Looking them all over, he picked up the basket of bread and started off with it on the journey. The other servauts laughed at his foolishness, for that basket was the heaviest of all. When dinnertime came Aesop was very tired, for he had a diffi
cult time carrying his bread for the last few hours. When they bad rested, however, they took bread
from tho basket, each taking an equal share. Half the bread was eaten at this one meal, and when supper time came the rest of it disappeared. For the whole remainder of the journey, which ran far into the night and was over rough roads, up and down hills, Aesop had nothing to carry, while the loads of the other servants grew heavier and heavier with every step. The- people of the neighborhood in which Aesop was a slave, one day observed him attentively looking over some poultry that was" near the roadside; and those idlers which spent more time in prying j
into other people's afairs than in adjusting their own, asked why he bestowed his atentions on those
fowls. "I am surprised," said Aesop, "to see how mankind imitate this foolish fowl."
"In what?" asked the neighbors "Why, in crowing so well and scratching so poorly," rejoined Aesop. (To be continued.) Taken from Journevs Through Bookland. Edith L. Webb.
No Small Coins Last Year
Junior coin collectors will probably be interested in knowing that for the first time since 1823 a year has passed without coinage of a single piece of minor currency. This means that during 1922 no pennies, nickles, dimes, quarters, or half dollars were made. Therefore, if you are a coin collector, you will have a gap in your collection, for none of the small denomination coins named above are dated 1922.
, Daylight Saving in 1784 Benjamin Franklin proposed a, plan for "daylight saving" in 1734.
Prince of Wales Beats Dad Out At London's Royal Cattle Show King George and the prince of Wales were rlval exhibitors in the recent royal cattle show in London. The prince beat his father in the
j class for Shorthorn steers.
Of Interest to Juniors There are a great many little Richmond girls who are taking dancing lessons. Miss Elizabeth Kolp has two classes of little folks. The younger class is made up of the following little dancers: Stacia Hayes, Miriam Ulrich, Adie Marie Miller, Jane Sudoff, Nella Marguerite Harter, Julia Anna Anderson, Susan Robbins, Harriet Chenoweth, Joan Golden, Barbara Jean Hoover, Alma Ruth Haas. This clas3 meets from 2 o'clock to 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. From 3 o'clock till 4 o'clock the older class meets. The following children are in this class: Katherine Buche, Jane Buche, Lizetta Campbell, Vivian Cox, Katherine Myers, Jane Elmer, Elsie Bull, Mary Quigley, Jane Gilbert. Alice
Jean Price, Mary Alice Krueger, Bettie Taylor, Mary Shively, Mary Elizabeth Reck, Phylis Hughes. Helen Miller, Mary Alice Harrington, Alice Marie Hall. Mary Mae Harrison, Suzanne Williams, Louise Logan,. Lucille Steers, Maxine Ferguson. In three weeks there will be a party for all the children in the classes. The children in the older class will come in the costumes they wore when they danced for the Woman's Club entertainment and will dance the "Danish Dance of Greeting" and the "Swedish Singing Game." The smaller pupils will dance ""Spring Flowers." There will be special dances by some of the pupils, and games and contests. There is to be be confetti and serpentine crepe to throw and the party will end with a fancy march.
THE FUN BOX One Way Out He couldn't get there on account of an accident, so he sent this telegram: "Cannot come, washout on line.'.' He received this answer: "Borrow a shirt and come anyway." The Lever, Colorado Springs H. S., Colo. Following Directions
"Hey, what's your room-mate doing with those two mirrors?" "Well, he had a boil on the back of his neck and the doctor told him it wasn't serious yet, but he'd have to keep his eye on it" Snappy Work Judge: "Name?" Prisoner: "Smith." Judge: "Occupation?" Prisoner: "Locksmith." Judge: "Officer, lock Smith up."
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