Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 13, 1913, Page 9

'THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE Rules for Young Writers. - paper only and number the pages. 2. Use pen and ink, mot pencil. 8. Short and pointed articles will be given prefershce. Do not use over 250 words. i = rite your name, age an B :n—n& Planly at the bottom of the Address all communications to Un- cle Jed, Bulletin OfZce. “Whatever you are—Be that; Whatever you say—Be Lrue Straightforwardly act, Be honest—in fact, Be nobody else but you.” POETRY. A Paying Game, It pays to wear a smiling face And laugh our troubles down; For all our little trials wait Our laughter or our frown. Beneath the magic of a smile Our doubts will fade away, As melts the frost in early spring, Beneath the sunny ray. It pays to make a worthy cause, By helping it, our own; To give the current of our lives A true and noble tone. It pays to comfort heavy hearts Oppressed with dull despair, And leave in sorrow-darkencd lives One gleam of -brightness there. It pays to give a helping hand To eager. earnest vouth: To note, with al] their waywardness, Their courage and their truth; To strive with sympathy and love Their confidence to win; Z It pays to open wide the heart And ‘Jet the sunshine in." A Lest Day. ‘Who's seen my day? 'Tis gone away, Nor left a trace In any place. 1f I could only find Its footfall in some mind— Some spirit-waters stirred By want of deed or word— I should not stand at shadowy eve, And for my day so grieve and grieve. UNCLE JED"S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. Uncle Jed is glad to ses the Wide- Awakes increasing end deepening in this department of The Bulletin. If the Wide-Awakes could see the stack of letters he has on hand they would be surprised. There are one hundred or more ahead of immediate requirements; so the writers should be patient, for their turn will come unless their is some good Teason for rejecting the letters, All Wide-Awakes should read the instructions and follow them. They say: “Write only upon one side of the paper; always sign your mamse at the bottom of the last pags, With age: and writers over 16 are barred from com- peting for books,” Uncls Jed is sorry to mnots seme slovenly work, and also to say that several latter writers have fafled to get a book because they did net sign their names. Do not yleld te the temptation te write rhymes. _ Poor rhymes are less tolerable than poar prose, There are lots of rhymers, hiit a very few poets, SUNNY DAYS IN INSECTVILLE How Insects Foil Pursuers (Copyrighted.) It required a man to prociaim that the first law of nature is self-preserva. tion. The dwellers in Insectville dem- onstrate this in their manner of meot- ing peril. . Some of them preserve their lives by fiying to a safe retreat; and what do ou suppose 15 a safe retreat for many utterfiles and moths? Just the surface of the trunks of trees, or rocks and of the earth, or the face of flowers. The butterflies open their wings when they alight, and the wings are figured be- neath’ in browns and grays so that they look So much like the object they light upon that they are lost to view. The moths close their wings over their backs when they alight; hence the upper surface of their wings are ttled with colors which represent same objects and when they are peril they know enough to fiy to: Ec colored objects they resemble in polor, and._thus become lost to their Snemies. Mrs, Philodicé will light upon the ploom of 'a yellow pansy with purple ptripes, and stand there out of view cept to those who knew her tricks, st as Mrs. Mourning Clark will alight pon a dark brown tree trunk.as as Mrs. Calosoma will upon 2 gray tree trunk, or little Miss Mileta wiil hide in a bed | or sorrel bloom with her red wings gully spread. These little creatures of the grass and the shrubs know their enemies; Xnow what they resemble in color, and how to hide for safety, besides where to lay their eggs, so their young may find protection and thrive on sustain- ing food. This reminds me that W. H. Gibson Gives Pink Glow to GUMS---A Superb Lustre to TEETH This is not all that DR. FORHAN'S DENTAL CREAM will accomplish. If your gums are soft, inflamed or receding, or if your teeth are sensitive to heat or cold. you are contracting Rigg’s Disease (Pyorrhea). DR. FOR- HAN'S DENTAL CREAM will ald yo to speedy recovery, - 3 Ask your Druggist for a tube, Read car.lnuv the literaturs found ia the carton. | Follow the directions given, and if you are not delighted with the almost immediate results, your 25 cents will be returned without question. The tube you will find, s/ almest (wice as large as tiiose contaiming er- dipary tooth pasis BSold and guaraa- teed by er's Mroadway Pharmacy. & e the interest | 1 The best things to wrlte about are what you see and what you do; and do not yield to the temptation to copy a story so as to get a book, for a book won in this way is no satisfaction or credit to the winner. Uncle Jed is pleased with the gen- eral neatness of the work of the Wide- Awakes and the interesting little sto- ries they tell of their play and pets, etc. N LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT June Lathrop Johnson, of Chicopee, Mass.: 1 want to thank you for my second lovely book. I think the books 1 get from the Wide-Awake Circle are the best ones I've got. THE PRIZE-BOOK WINNERS. 1—Harold Kramer of Taftville, “An tione of Oregon,” by James Otls. 2—Ruth Pollard of Taftville, “What Came to Winifred.,” by Elizabeth Wertys Timlow. * 3—Eleanor P. Norton of Norwich, “The Grasshopper's Hop,” by Zetella Cocke. 4—Gladys Bentley Newbury of Nor- wich, “Thro’ the Looking Glass,” by Louls Carroll. io L. Brehaut of Locust Val- | ley, R. 1., “Not Like Other Girls,” by N. Carey. 6—Myrtle Swain of Norwich, “The Bicycle Highwayman,” by Frank N. Bicknell 7—8arah Gray of Mystic, “Alice in ‘Wonderland,” by Lewis Carroll. 8—Florence Ladd of Norwich, Child of Urbino.” Winners of books living in the city may call at The Bulletin business “The | moth foli a robin b: office for them at any time after 10 a.4 m. on Thursday. STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. A Queer Carge. Into the port of Boston tame rex cently a ship sailing from the Chiness coast, bearing on her manifest an item of 85 cases of horse tails. They came from Tientsin. The United States imports horse ‘tails from several, countries, partic larly from Rusia and China, where the horse tails grow unusually long, and from Bouth America and Australia, as well as from nearly every European country. B Sometimes these tails are worth 20 cents a pound, and again as much ae $2. The hairs, being carefully graded for length and color, are used either alone or mixed with sther fibres in making different kinds. of brushes and with other material n the manufac- ture of haircioth for various purposes. In the countries where these tails are collested, cured and prepared for export the occupatiorn of the horse tail buyers may not seem more odd to the natives than the “old clothes man” or the “rags and bottles” men do te ua. HAROLD KRAMER, Age 10. Norwich. My Visit to Philadelphia. In the summer of 1911 my mother, my father and I went to visit my cousins in Philadelphia. We went on the gnarter past four car and reach.d Norwich at a quarter to five. We went on board the Chelsea and sailed from Norwich at five. We went to bed ar nine o'clock and the fog horn wes blown every thirty seconds. I will leave out about my trip be- cause I wish to tell you about my visits to histerical places. On the Friday after we arrived wa went to Fairmount park and saw Wil liam Penn’s house and went inside of the Netional Historical museum, where Wwe saw many flags which had been in the Revolution, and the flag that Bar- in his “Strolls by Starlight and Sun- shine” calls attention to the fact that the butterfiles were the first Dotanists —that they selected related plants with fully as much knowledge of their value as the human beings whose attention was attracted later to plants. A host of little moths seek safety. on the ground or in the leaves but they take pains to select spots which, they resemble in color, and they are-thus lost-to ordinary sight. The beetles are tiny, hard shelled creatures, and they secrete themselves among the pebbies and chips which they very much resemble. Some of the follage beetles have a way of play- ing dead when they are disturbed, and thus escape their enemies, who, by the way, in time_become aware of their tricks, and thus discover their where- abouts and capture them. I have seen birds beat vines with thefr wings, and when the bectles dropped to the ground as if dead, the bird would alight and eat thein. There is a beetle known as the sol- dier beetles, because when he is hotly pursued by an ememy he shoots Into its face a smoley feffluvia whicn dis- concerts it and hefps the soldier beetle | to_escape. The big moths escape the birds by | craftiness. I once saw a big Emperor dropping a foot or more in the ai The robin flew | straight for his victim, and would have | made quick work of him had the moth | not seen him coming; but he simply | closed his wings and dropped out of the robin’s course, which required that the robin should regin his perch and start anew, which he did three times, and then gave up, for the moth was t00 sharp-eyed and cunning for him. There are all sorts.of sharp practicea soing on in Insectville, because life is | full of peril and holds most for the| keen-sighted 4nd the alert. You will see the wasps in the grass capturing ground spiders for food for | their young by the hundreds, but if you follow the wasps to their big pa- per nests you will discover web-weav- ing spiders fearless enough and confi- dent enough of success to spread their webs Close by to capture the foes of their less capable relatives. The caterpillars with stinging hair roll themselves up in a ball like -the hedgehog when assailed by birds, and are too prickly to be eaten, while those with moft, hairless bodies have horns they profrude ir moments of danger, from which issue a sickening, life- protecting odor, It is too much for their enemles. There 1s somsthing new and excit- ing going on in Inseetville e\ery day. In fact, life there is hustling day and night. ' Brilllant feats take place as well as tragedies of which no repert is ever made, Life is real, life is earmest in the 1 sect, world, as well as in our gwn. UNCLE JED. | in the morning and got bara Fretchie shook forth into the air and sald these noble words: “Shoot if you must this old gray head, but spare your country’s flag.” J I also saw & great number of curious articles. After we had been all through this bullding we went into the building in which are a great variety of plants. There were palms of many kinds and lichens from the northern part of North America. We went to Betsy Ross’ house and other places of interest. E I hope some other Wide Awakes will write about their visits. RUTH POLLARD, Age 12. Taftville. ~ Florence’s “W| soever” Party. There were el dainty lavender- scented envelopes with Little Jack Horners and Bo-Peeps playing hide and seek in the corners, ail stamped and ready to be slipped Into the post box on their way to.eleven dear little girls. Florence wasn't happy till she saw the ' Drecious bundle safe in Brother Fred's big pocket, really started on its journey. “They're gone, Grandma!" she said. invitations to my birthday “Eleven!” sald Grandma, slowly. T thought yours was the lucky thirteen class! Where 1s the twelfth little girl?” N Florence’s smile was gone. “Well, Grandmea, it's like this: You see, Mary Moore's not just in our set; she wears shabby clothes. The eleven of s thought perhaps she'd better be left cut.” 5 party said Florence’s thought -~ my one,” would be a whosoever Grandma. “Whatever is a asked the little girl. “Well, it's not the kind eof invitation that most people send out” said Grandma, ‘“but there was One who when He asked people to come to Him wanted everyone to accept His invita- tion. He didn't say ‘This little girl isn't in my set’ or ‘That littie girl is too poorly dressed.’ He didn’t ask the rich and leave out the poor. He want- ed them all to come, without money. “Whosoever will, let him come,’ He d. Don’t you think Jesus would want to include poor little Mary Moors when he said Let the little ones come unto’ me?’ Yes, indeed, Grandma,” was the little girls repl: ‘m just ashamecd of myself for trving to spoil my party by leaving one out,” Florence said. ‘1 know Jesus wants Mary Moore just ae much as, He does the twelve of us. She's going to be asked to my party, snd I know she'll come, too; and Il see that all the girls give her & g0od time. The prettiest sheet of paper was chosen to write the invitation on. and for Mary Moore Florence's ‘“whoso- ever” party was the happlest day of her life. JESSIE L. BREHAUT, Age 18. Locust Valley, L. I My Cat. > is Teddy. He was en to me by a little girl at my sum- mer home in Eastern Point. When h= was given to me he was about four months old; he is now two vears old. He is black and white. His breast is all white and his forehead, nose and mouth_are white, too. I forgot to say that his feet are partly white. All the Test of him s black. We are all very fond of him. 'Tfe has one or two tricks. One is that he will stand up on his hind legs with his front paws potsed like those of i dog and take a plece of meat withou pawing for it. This is a njce trick, but he has one very bad tfick. When often ecratches, which is very unpleasant. We are trying to break him of it. HLEANOR P. NORTON, Age 13, Norwich. ‘whosoever one?" snybody plays with him he Their Bwing. Jane and Mildred wers both good girls. . They har not vet been absent from school a single day, and the, term was nearly out. They had been faithful, too, in all their lessons, and often praised by their teacher for their good conduct, But the best of all was they loved and honored their parents. A large shade tree grew mear thelr father's house, and under this old tree these girls had spent many happy hours with their playmates. One day after they had gome to school their father made them a nice swing from a branch of this tres as a reward for their love and high stand- ing in school. “What a fine swing!” sald Jane as they came out to ride after school. “We will all take turns, for we all want a ride.” “Let Mildred first” said they, and sc_John pushed ber. Each, of the other girls then took their turns, and they had a sgood swing, too, as well as Mildred. These children have had many a ®ood ride since the swing was made. But they never go out to play until their lessons are learned. And their motto is: “Work Before Play.” FLORENCE H. LADD, Age 13. Norwich. Saved by Flyln~ Fish. Once two eailors who had lost their ship In a storm were saved by these fish, When the ship was sinking they made a raft of some boards and a and on this were, able to keep but they had very little foo and soon this was all gone. and the men were starving. Y Suddenly they heard splashes in the water around them. It was a school of flying fish. They caught a great many —enough to keep them alive for some time. At last they were seen by a passing ship, which sent a boat and took thems on board, so they were saved. FRANK PARDY, Age 12.° Norwlich. A Visit to Ocean Beach. On Saturday, Feb. 22, I went to Ocean Beach. I went about 7 o'clock to Ocean Beach about § o'clock. It was not raining when I got there. At 11 o'clock I was playing when I looked up and saw a tug and three barges. Soon after I saw the tug stop and the barges floated into the harbor about two miles inland and dropped anchor. That was a sure sign of a storm. About 2 o'clock the tide turned and it rained. Just a little while after that I heard something that scared me. It was the fog_horn. When I got on the car it rained again very herd. HAZEL L. HOWARD, Age 13 Norwich. A Pleasant Excursion. One summer a few years ago my friend, Mrs. Bentley, invited my mother and I to spend a week at her home in Manchester. Two or three days after I arrived I went for a day’s visit to Hartford. [ went to Elizabeth park, where thers was a beautiful fountain, great beds of lovely flowers, arches covered with roses, and green grass steps leading down' to a little pond. I saw several squirrels in the park They were very tame and we fed them some of eur lunch. Then I went into the state capitol The house of representatives and the Senate chamber were both in session, and I listened to the speakers for & while. I saw the flag my grandfather car- ried in the Civil war, It was torn and bleod-stained. I registered my namse in a big book. Then I gtarted back to Manchester on a trolley car, going over the large new stone bridge W cromses the Con-' necticut river, arriving at my nd's house just before dark, tired, but very much pleased with my day's sight- seeing. QLADYS 7}'-‘“-"!-'“7 NEWBURY, jorwich. The Stork. On an oak tree near a cottage stood a stork rattling his bill. A little girl sat in the garden under a llac tree. Her little brother came out of the cottage and stood beside ner . and asked: . . “What are you looking at? “I am looking at the stork,” she re- plied. “Granny told me+ he might bring me a littie brother or a sister.” “The stork brings nothidg,” said the boy; “that's only a silly story.” But where is the baby to come from “Our Lord brings it under His mantle.” The breeze stirred the lilacs. The cottage door opened and Grandmothes called to them and said: “Come and see what the etork has brought you—a little brother.” FRANK PARDY, Age 12. Norwich. How the Cat Learned to Dance. An old cat was eating a dish of bread and milk in a garden. It was a pleasant might and the cat purred for Joy. All at once he said: {How fine it would be to dance if there was only a fiddle. A wise littie mouse was watching the bread and milk with one eye and the cat with the other. “I can teach you to dance without a fiddle,” cried he. The cat was much pleased and cried “Can yQu? Then come and show me.” The Wise little mouse brought out some pretty red boots. “Put these o; said he; ‘“they are fairy boots and will make you dance before you know it.” The cat purred louder than ever and made haste to draw on the boots. But there was wax in them and it tickled his_toes. Very soon his feet began to go up and down. Then he hopped high in the air and jumped and danced about the garden till he could hardly breathe. “On, do stop me!” he cried. ‘“Take off these boots! Take off these boots'" “I canmot do that,” sald the mouse “I have only learned to make you dance. I have not learned to stop you.” And so the poor cat had to dence all night till the boots wore out, but the wise little mouse ate up all the bread and milk and then sat down and laughed at the cat. EDWARD BURNS, Age 13. Norwich. “The Art School. 1 %o to Art school every Saturday morning from 9 to 11. There are five boys and nine girls. We draw with charcoal and erase with chamois. We sometimes model with clay. Next week we are going to make tiles and send them to Hartford to be fired. Sometimes we have a flve minute recess. The larger children are doing Jap- anese prints. By this I mean copy- ing flowers, birds, rabbits, etc. Last winter I went to dancing school but I like this better. RAYMOND F. ROYD, Age 9. Norwich. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. Richard’s Collection of Cards. Dear Uncle Jed: 1 write to tell the Wide-Awakes about my collection of fost cards, which are very interesting. have some from historic Quebec, Montreal, St. Hyacinthe, Beaupre and Mt. Morency Falis. Others are from England, Ireland and other foreign countries. I have some as far off as the Philippine islands. I ‘have some from nearly all parts of the United States. I have plctures—of the White House and capitol, and all the prom- inent places of Washington, D. C. One of my most interesting cards is the home of Washington, its interior and exterior views each room of this historical mansion can be seen on these cards. I have a post card of the tombd of ‘Washington overlooking the Potomac. This part of my collection my papa bought for me at the Washington mansion at Mt. Vernon while on a visit there last summer. RICHARD WILLIAM TOBIN, JR. Norwich. Age. 11. Needle Work Myrtie Dees. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would write and tell the Wide Awakes how I pass away my idle time by making ink wipers. needle hooks, petticoats and aprons. To Make an Ink Wiper: Cut four hearts out of a piece of felt. If you have not felt take flannel. Sew the four together. Then take some silk- aline and overcast the edges so they will not unravel. On the cover em- broider your initials. To Make a Needle pleces of card board 2 by 3 inches and cover with velvet or silk. Then take 3 or 4 pieces of flannel not quite as big as the covers and scollop the edges; then sew all together from the back. On_the cover embroider your initials. Then take some silkaline or silk and make a cord to tle the covers together with. This makes a very pretty needle book. I have made four petticoats for my sisters and will write and tell you how I made them. Take two breadths of flannel, back stitch tHe seam: then overcasL them, cut a place in center for opening; turn up a two inch hem: hem the bottom then featherstitch it; also hem and gather the opening; gather at top and put on a band; then make three but- tonholes one in front and two in back. To make an apron, take a piece of gingham and turn up a hem at the bottom; then hem it. Gather at top and put on a band. 2 I hope some of the Wide Awakes will try to make some of these things: MYRTLE SWAIN, Age 11. North Stonington. Book: Take two Motor Boat Experience. Dear Uncle Jed. In my vacation I was out on Mr., Jepson’s island at Stony Creek. We had a motor boat named the Ida B. The battertes were all soaked, with water so Mr. Jepson had to buy some new ones. At first the boat al- ways went backwards, but after a few days it went frontwards all right. I stayed there two weeks and Mr. Jepson made me a sail boat. WALTER ELMORE SPICER, Bristol. Age 10. My School. Dear Uncle Jed* I go to school ev- ery day. I have only missed half a | day since I began to go %o school. Our teacher’'s name is Mr. Chapman, who lives in Brooklyn. He walks three miles every morning and night. He boards at home and brings his dinner. In summer he rides a bicycle. There are six windows to our school- room, and seven scholars. Our school begins at 9 in the morning and lets out at $.30. EVBLYN PARKHURST, Age 13. Bropklyn. R. F. D. No. 1. Pinkey’s Sly Way. Dear Unecle Jed: I will tell you some- thing about my pet cat. Her name |is Pinkey Bkinner. She is yellow, black ang white, She will run after me and she will play with a ball. One night I let Pinkey outdoors. She stayed out all night. In the morn- ing I went out to find her. I could not fing _her anywhere. Then I went in .ihe house because it was almost time MR. ROBERT H. NORRIS people in country taken for the They taken in the stages, h They find experience Peruna w abort course of disease. who take runa A great many have Peruna Peruna ‘when the first eymp- tomas appeared. People recover much _Quicker. Compar- Pages Nine to Twelve PE-RU-NA A GRIP REMEDY A Multitude of Cases Take It After Every- thing Else Has Failed this whether each person gets from the atmosphere 1l & &Tip. ave first | [f, however, catarrh. 124 that i11 the the acute cases catarrhal it disease. In bones. Tired feelings It _comes on more suddenly common cold. There than Pe- for it. Samuel M. York, Grip is a catarrhal disease. Whether it spreads from person to person, er it direct mooted question. I will not discuss it, fur- ther than to say that if grip is passed on by one person to another it would be properly called eopidemic catarrh. grip is taken from the atmosphere and not from each other, it would be properly called endemic Yes, grip is a catarrhal disease. An some resembles a common cold. There are some symptoms different. Intense aching of the musclese and predominate. has been no particular exposure to cold to account of Union Grove, account 'of & womsn Who bhad beex cured of grip by Peruns. My hus- band got some Peruma and lmproves ment began in a very sghort time. I continued to use it untll I was em- tirely well” Mr. C. Happy, of Hardin, Ray Co, Missouri, “took a very bad cold amd had la grippe last February,” he saym, “I took three bottles of Peruna and it cured me.” Similar letters are received fra- quently, without any solicitation ok our part. They come to us through our regular correspondence, and course represent only a small fractiGe of the cures made by Peruna. of the grip in its various phases and stages. a Yes, Péruna is a catarrh remedy. It matters not whether the catarrh i epidemic or endemic, or where the catarrh is located in the body. Pe- runa is an efficient, reliable remedy. One trial of it is all the recommenda.. and yet all run down, out of sorts, eastly fatigued, no appetite, when the stage of grip has been reached, then there are multitudes that resert t> Peruna and they are never disappoint- ed. Peruna restores them in a com- paratively short time. itivel: Alabama, says: “I was taken with h,,we‘(-e,f ©®inke |the grip. This produced catarrhai|tion that is needed to make Peruna Peruna during the acute stage, Gea- | deafness. After taking two bottles |2 fixture in every home. erally other medicines are taken at|Of Peruna I found myself well of th Mr. Robert H. Norris, No. 1383 ¥ et|grip and my hearing was fully re- |Henry St, North Berkeley, Californis, first, where doctors are emploved. |stored. My health is better than +whose portrait appears ove, also But when the disease becomes chronic, [ has been in five years.” used Peruma with great benefit. He when recovery has been sufficient to| A great many people have a similar | Writes: e have never had any e s i'to ter o ieucont | exveciGizee SNt tonly: do - they sfud | ot medicine in our home but.Pe- themselves relieved of grip, but thes |Funa since we have been married. “I suffered with kidney and bladder trouble, but two monthe’ treatment with Peruna madegme a well and strong man. “My wife felt weak and was easily tired and was also troubled with va- rious pains, but since she took Peruna she is well and strong. find _their health greatly improved. Mrs. Jane Gift, Athens, Ohio, R. D. 1, says: “I think I would have been dead long ago if it hadn't been for Peruna. Six vears ago I had the grip very bad. I grew worse, in_spite of doctors and other remedies. I saw an in other respects to go to school. As I went through | the hall 1 heard a funny noise. 1 look- | ed behind me and there I found Pin- key. She had slipped into the house unneticed. AGNES FORBES, Age 12. Oneco. Shep a Hunter. with my uncle we saw a raccoon. Its ory is like the sound of a baby. THEODORE BOULIM. Jewett City. boys and girls. MILDRED L. AUSTIN, Age 8. Gales Ferry. My Pet Canary. Dear Uncle Jed: I want to tell you about my bird. His name was Dicky. One day as I was cleaning the bird An Adventure. Dear Uncle Jed: Last month we were 3ll out in our vard playing cow- boy, when all at once one of the boys Ittle Dear Uncle Jed write to you about my dog. I thought I would His name came running towards us. I sald: “What Is the matter with you?" “A robber is going in cage Dicky flew outdoors. The kitten caught it, but it managed get away again. It was badly hurt and is Shep. He ls a very good dog and He replied: Iicen to piny with me. e will drive | that house.” dled a little while after. I buried hin cows. We got the policeman and went to |in the garden in a box. court with the robber. i BESSIE CONNELL Shep is brown and white. He likes to go hunting. He went a_hunting with my father one day and_ caught | a gray squirrel. He is a good watch | { dog. He is glad when I come home from school. MYRTLE DAVIS, Age 10. Norwich. | PR One day when I was on the farm | Norwich. Protect ~ i b o My Black Kitty. | Ask for 5 Dear Uncle Jed: I have a black' J kitty named Nig. He is eleven vears ORIGINAL old. ' Mamma said when I was born that Nig and I weighed the same, eight pounds, but I have grown to be much | larger. Nig has many cute ways. One is when he wants a drink of water he goes to the wash bowl for someone to turn it on. He loves to sleep in my doll's carriage, but I put something in it to keep him out. ALICE C. WILLIAMS, Age 7. Norwich. GENUINE The Food Drink COAL AND LUMBER. Coal All Sizes Lumber Full Assortment Gentiemen: This is the time to order your Spring and Sum- mer Shirts. CUSTOM-MADE SHIRTS Deer in the Peach Orchard. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would tell you about one of the sights I saw Thursday night after I arrived home from school. I saw two deer. I suppose one was the mother and the other her young one, They were in my father's peach orchard eating dead weeds. They were of a dark yellowish celor witl. white tails. They did not have horns. ¥ brother thousht —of shooti them, bt my mocher aia not ‘agree. - | are one of the features of our GH APPELL CUI My father went and frightened them away. They went over the fence and their tails did look so pretty as they dashed away through the bushes. I have seen deer before, but never so close *to the house. SARAH GRAY, business. Central Wharf BRANCH — 150 Main Street Telephones We guarantee you a per- fect fitting Shirt from excep- tional material and patterns. The Toggery Shop 291 Main St., Norwich, Ct. Age 9. J. A, MORGAN & SON Just received cargoes of Nut, Stove and Egg COAL Office 57 West Main St,, Telephene 5 Yard Contral Wharf, Telephone 834 PROMPT DELIVERY GOAL Free Burning Kinds and Lehigh ALWAYE IN STOCK. A. D. LATHROP, cor Market and Shetucie: & Telephone 168-1a. Mystic. The Value of Knowledge. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would write about two men. The two men were talking together in the ship. The man asked the captain if he had ever learneg algebra. The' captain “You have lost a life” sald the man. Have vyou learned German? No,” said the captain. You have lost another quarter of aid, “No.” quarter of your SPRING MILLINERY A FINE ASSORTMENT OF LATEST STYLES. MRS. G. P. STANTON, 52 Shetucket St. “Then you have lost your whale life, ‘we are sinking.” “It burns up E S Well Seasoned Wood C. H. HASKELL. 402 — Plhiones — 439 bu learned French?” said the captain. “You have lost another quarter of your life.” The captain asked: how to swim?” “No,” said the man. “Do you know clean.” ALPERIN, Age 11. Coasting and Skating. __Dear Uncle Jed: T have enjoyed sld- ing and skating very much this winter, I am just learning to skate. I learned with a chair. I take my skates and sled to school and noons and at re- cess we g0 on the pond, or slide down hill. 1 like to read the stories from the THERE 1s no advertlsing med/um in Eastern Connecticut egual ta 3as Bul- ietin for business resulta Makes the invalid feel better Keeps the well from feeling ill KING’S PUREMALT was mentioned among the food pro- ducts of absolutely pure quality in “A List From Which Housewives May Choose Without Doubt or Hesitancy,” which appeared in an article entitled, Here Are Foods That Are Pure,” by Margaret Wagner in Collier's Weekly, September 2, 1911. This list was the result of several years analytical work by the pupils of the State Normal School of Westfield, Massachusetts, under the direction of Professor Lewis\ B. Allyn. 3 KING’'S PUREMALT is sold at ail drug stores and in strict conformity With the Pure Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1906. NOT A BEVERAGE. Send for prices to your druggist or to us. King's Puremalt Departm:nt, 36-38 Hawley St. Boston