Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 29, 1913, Page 9

Rules for Young Writers. Write plainly on one side of the P& only* and aumber the pages. Use pen and ink, not pencil 3. Short and pointed articles will be given preference. Do not use over 250 words. 4. Origiral wili be used, ‘Write your name, age and ad- dress pianly at the bottom of the story. Address all commurications to Un- cle Jed, Bulletin Office. stories or letters only | “Whatever you are—Be that; Whatever you say—Be true Straightforwardly act, Be honest—in fact, Be nobody else but you.™ POETRY. | The Language of the Birds. | Birds love the country where !Il\‘:.'\ live, | And speak its language, too, If you will notice, you will find That what 1 say is true; The birds of Holland sing in Dutck, The Scotch birds Gaelic speak, | And | am told the birds of Greece ! Still sing in ancient Greek. I'he whippoorwill, we know so well, Boys and Girls Department Speaks English They all ng German gutt’rals hoa The oriole still sings in French’ v, of course; His sweet, enticing song, Although in North America He has been living long. The mocking bird a medley sings Of all the languages, And that is why such favorite In all the lands he is; And why the wanderer abroad So loves his cheerful seng— He calls to mind the scenes of Lhome, All day and night along. strangest thing is vet to tell; In Northern Texas here, The whippoorwill sings “Whip-poor- will!” In English, sweet and clear; But on the Rio Grande's banks, He keeps his whistle wet With dew, to liquify his notes, And sings in Spanish yet. For more than half a century Our efforts have been vain teach To this patriotic bird n English plain; the Spanish language best, And will not let it go, But warbles out “Guillermo, Still ffue to Mexico Jake H. Harrison. Dallas, mal!” Te: | | | | \ | | [ | i | i i | i | | | i UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- | AWAKES. We have given up most of the Wide- Awake Circle page this week to the letters written by pupils of the West Side schools about “The City Beauti- ful Exercises.” There were 42 letters written, and every one of them gpoke well for the attention and scholarship of the pupils who wrote them to the Arbor day speaker. | The children who throw litter and | fruit skins and peels and other rub- bish into the streets or upon the side- walks are following a very bad exam- ple. To keep the streets of the city clean ehould be the duty and pride of the city fathers, and the detective of filth should be commissioned from city hall and the removal of it should be prompt. It doesn’t look well to post signs on all the telephone poles which say “Spitting on the walk is an of- { { { | | | | ! { 1 i ‘ fense for which a flne of $5 is im- l talk very much on Arbor day and I " other THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE \ posed,” while dead animals killed by the traffic are allowe d to decompose in the road and be ground to dust for the people to inhale. these ‘We are printing letters in the irterest of grown- ups as well as for the edification and entertainment of our li Uncle Jed work, and he is glad s are willing to help kee; and to plang, shrubs beautify it. The boys and Bulletin is circulated letters and they may have a care and to schoolyards and house; cultivated. These letters were so well written that they cailed for very few correc- | tions, which evidences the painstaking care of both teachers and pupils in their work. believes try ittle friends. in this good 0 many children p the city clean, and flowers to girls wherever The will read these prompt them to to keep the yards clean and LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. James S. Moran of Norwich: I thank you for my ieresting w nice book. story. fiam D. Buckley ¢ it is a very in- »f New London: Thank you very much for the prize book which vou sent me last week. I am very much pieased with it. Frank Pardy of Norwich: I thank vou vggy much for the prize book 1 won last week. I have read it and like it very much. - Eric Gilbert of Danielson: I re- e book good one, and think it is a 1 hope 1 can get an- WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. —Josephine Holbrook of Norwich, Jackanapes, by Juliana —Julia Virian Lath The Young Archer, | Brimbletom. 3—Ednah I‘la Her Little ulock. 4—R. DeWitt Parson Great Emergency, by Ewing. 5—Carrie A. Pratt o Calkins Mot ter, Theodore and Theodora, an W. Wildman. by Horatia Ewing. of Norwich, Charles -E. am of her, Kissimmee, by M s of Norwich, A Juliana Horatia f Pomfret Cen- by Mari- 6—Flossie Meyer of Taftville, A Loy- al Little Maid, by Edit 7—Bertha A. Fuller Big Brother, by Anna stone. h Robinson. of Eagleville, Fellows John- prize. Thank you very much. Estella Yerrington of Taftville: I received the prize book you sent me and thank you very much. I have read | some of it and it is very good. Mildred Grandy of Yantic: I thought I would thank You for the nice book vou sent me. 1 have read it all through and find it very interesting. | | One of my schoolmates is ding it now. Walter Gray of Jewett City: I beg your pardon for not sending my ac- knowledgment sooner. I thank you for | the book. I find it very interesting. 8—Edward Burns of Norwich, The | Pony Rider Boys in T Gee Patchen. exas, by Frank | Winners of books living in the city may call at The Bulietin business of- fice for them at any hour after 10 a. m. on Thursday. CITY BEAUTIFUL LETTERS FROM WEST SIDE SCHOOL CHILDREN. Pick Up Scattered Litter. My Dear Mrs. P.: We enjoyed your The Wide Awake Circle Story THE STORY OF A TOY DONKEY When I came te my senses I was standing among a lot of other don- keys on a shelf, t I noticed that I had a small slit if my back leg, where the person who sewed me up had been in such a hurry te go that she had not gewn it properly. Thq next day we were packed up and sent away to a big shop where we were priced. I was 7|6, and the one besi®e mo was 4/6. Presently I saw little baby boy who looked about 3 years old; he and his mother came up The and to our stand and looked at u child said: “Musser, det vat one,” pointed to me. His mother came up and looked at me, and when she saw the hole in my leg she said: “Oh, no! darling, that one is not whole. 1 will get this one.” I was very glad that I dld have that hole in my leg, beca the Baby carried the donkey out of the shop by its tall, which must have been very painful for him. One by one the other donkeys were sold, 1 I was left alone with brown horses, who would not take any notice of me, because I was a donkey with a hole in my leg. One morning early two little girls came to the toy department with their mother and a friend. The little girl eame up to me and \ooked at the price AMd then she said ; that is 6d. more than 1 have.” Thon her mother sald: “Well, 1 will give you sixpence.” Thank vou, mum, I will get it, [ 1think.” Then the friend came and no- ticed the hole In my leg. “Oh! I won't et him,” said the little girl. 1 was terribly disappointed when I heard her say that. Then she said: “T think I will go to David Jones’ and see If they have one.” So off they went. able all that day. Sunday, so nobody looked at me. T was very miser- The next day was On Monday the little girl She ran mother sald the little girl raight “Oh, said: and she took nn . You can't She took me zed if she would look. So she ca wa afraid that girl couldn’t very but the fi imagine how glad there The girl came in again I hoped that sne was going to get me. to % my shelf: her (\ gone. Then . he isn’t; he is dl)“ n from the the’ counter 1 but rried me off. I might not nd another go, and Then the little girl s anted a lion cut too. and that was bought, but it w: wrapped up, and I was not. I w: carried under her arm and I felt \ofv proud that She where with I was boug! took me down tc I was put dowr the lion. I for a while, but when was shown to every was introduced to all t cel and donkeyvs. She room, and put sor head, ang aid, Ned was in the fu to b the evening I had a put on me, and taken with the ecu ht at last. > her motor car, 1 1 the par- w forgotten we got home, I | me, and then I he other horses » to the bath- r on my dvk which e my name. In nice warm down to b. After dinner I put to bed with the other horses and don- keys, but the cub was taken to bed. I was very great friends with Neddy who told the little girl took At care but boy, cam and he did not ta us, but he was not because he did not less with us. I 'nght feeling very girl had bought bor ) hap n —Written by tralian girl of 11. )-A'h\ sometimes a to pl with much care of bad little bc n to be car to sleep that that the lit- and not the a Dy ne, Cleaners Who Clean NORWICH Our modern process thoroughly cleans every weave “LNG MEANS QUALITY” It’s the cleaning that has made FAMOUS to give the garment a NEW APPEARANCE. Beware of SPOT CLEANERS who press the dirt in- to the garment. S WE DON'T DO THAT KIND OF WORK LANG'S Cleansers -and Dyers, 157 FRANKLIN STREET. Sanitary Way NORWICH' S Only Modern Plant I hope you will come again. Our city has done a great deal to help us. It has given us the public parks, the playgrounds, where they have sand- boxes and the lovely swings and see- ?aws_ where the children have such un. There are a great many things we can do to Lelp this city. Scome of the principal ones are not to break twigs | off our neighbors’ trees, not to burn the trunks of any trees, not to shoot birds, not to rob birds’ nests. and not to harm little birds or trees. We should be very careful about tearing up papers, and pick up any that we find scattered about. Your friend, ELIZABETH BILL, Keeping Clean Adds to Beauty. My Dear.Mrs. P.: 1 am going to tell you some of the things my city has done for my use and what we are do- ing to help make it beautiful. It has given us a library called the Oftis li- brary, large schools surrounded by pleasant schoolyards, a beautiful park called Mohegan park, playgrounds and a_beautiful large academy called the Norwich Free Academy. I can pay the city back by picking all the paper up I see on the street, and throwing it in a rubbish c: can feed birds in winter. T mus make fires in old tree ‘trunks, and not break limbs off of trees. Our city Is s0 beautiful that we call it the “Ros3 of New England,” and we can add to its beauty by keeping it clean. Your friend, HYMON BENJAMIN BASS. Will Do Her Part to Make the City Beautiful. My Dear Mrs. P.: I enjoyed your talk very much Arbor day and hope you will come and talk to us again sometime. Our city has done a great deal for us. It has glven us libra where we can get books, and the parks where they have swings and seesaws. | Then we have the playgrounds where we have sand boxes, swings and see- saws. Some of our streets 1ook vej nice, and I hope they will still im- prove. I will do my part in making the city beautiful. We should keep our schoolyard look ing clean and nice. We should pi the papers up when we see them in the et and put them in a rubbish | can.. We should keep our yards look- | Ing ‘clean and nice. { We shouldn’t throw banana skins | on the sidewalks, because somebody | might slip on them and fall and be | badiy hurt. We ought not to chalk | sidewalks, fences, public park benches | or_any public property We ‘shouldn’t break the c our neighbors’ trees nor build fires in the trunks of trees, because it would | kil them, and then there would be no trees. We ought not to kill birds tw off of ob their nests, bec ggs will be little birds. Your friend. MARTHA HANSEN. What the City Does for Him. My Dear Mrs. P.: One of the things that my city has done for me is, it has given me the use of the publi library. When there are rainy I can read a book taken from It. A other thing Is the parks. There where 1 like to go. I was up at Mohegan park once, but I didn't stay long because it was late. I hove to go again this summer. An- other thing is the hospital. When my mother or father are sick they can be taken there.. 1 hope that you will come and speak again. Your friend, STEPH \ VO SCH. What He Should Do. My Dear Mrs. P.: The city has giv- en me and all the rest the playground the libraries, the streets, the College, the new little trees, wich Free Academy, the T and swimming places and hospitals where sick people can go I can look after the trees around my house and everywhere and the streets. T ~hm|hl not throw I can give apple peels to horses for in the streets. and banana enjoy them. Your friend ALFRED KEARNEY. | Will Not Set Fires. My dear Mrs. P.: I thought you might be interested in heari | of the things I think our for me. It has furnis : grounds to play In the are swings, see-saws and sand boxes. '1! has furnished us the William Back- | us hospital for the sick people. | Tt has furnished us schools for chil- 'dren and libraries to get books from and many other things. Some of the things I can do for my are to pick up all the papers I all the fruit skins I see, not break off tw from trees or sef any fires that might destroy property and my back yard clean. 7. friend. R CLABBY. She Can Help in Many Ways. Mrs. P.: M for me schools, me n me and m.n has libraries in many wayvs 1 can keep frc g papers about if, or rubbish of kind, or banana peels. We ing many things about how our city more beautiful, our friend. NNA MONTE, to keep n throw- any RO Should Pick Up Papers. My dear the P.: ur Mrs. that ve These city ire some of has done for in which ar ws. Then we e many doctored. swings thin We sw the hospitals, are taken to ygrounds with nd see-saws, we can do to make tiful. We can If we throw banana sk Ik, someone m and break must never We should we see on the h whe be people We | and | city look be ards clean come nd or any ¢k up side- along and leg. So fruit skins papers and a3 1 | ! | any walk that lawns, friend GULOMB. Your NIE little Aus- | | i How to Make the City BReautiful. My dear Mrs. P.: 'm going to w little you a letter about what mjy | has done for us. The city has us playgrounds where we every summer day. The city | en us the hospital where we 20 | when we are sick. The city has given | us parks where we can go on a hot summer day. |~ The city has also - make it look beautifu make_ it look heautifu jup papers that are scattered on the | | street, by cleaning up our front and { back vards. Other ways, we should i not break off the branches from the | trees, or take the young birds out of | i their nests. ked us to help The way to s by picking Your friend. JOHN PERINGER. What She Can Do for the City. My dear Mrs. P.: T am writing to tell you what my city has done for me and what I can do for it. The city { has given us parks, plavsrounds, li- braries, hospitals and many other things to enjoy To help the ecity T ean pick up the | paper T see, not throw down the skins of the fruit I am eating, not break the twigs off the trees and hedges, and keep my vard clean. If we do all that it will always be a “Spotless Town.” Your friend. and three trees, Another thing the city gives us is the library. People get books from the libr. and when they are read | they must be returned | The ¢ also furnishes the parks. | In the parks there are Swings, see- | s and benches. The names of some | are Mohezan park and Wash- munn Street parl WALTER SCHULER, Age 9. STORIES' WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. The Gentle Goat. There was once a little boy who | ownea goat that was as gentle as a lamb. He used to feed all day in the field. .. This same boy had a cow that gave milk every day.” When he had milked her in the morning he would hitch up his goat in a little cart and peddie his milk from house to house. Every week when he got paid he | would bring the money home to his mother, who was very poor. | Somstimes he would his young | sisters and br Some nights ent up to| h(d in his cold room, the zoat would | by the bedside until early in the | mmmng and then be would stangd n;\i and bray, as if tellinz him to get up. | One day when the goat was feed- ing, some other boys came into the | field, and took the goat and began | riding around the fields." Soon the t stumbled and fell. When they went to pick up, they found that his leg was broken WILEIAM D. BUCKLI Age 10. His Little Red Cart. Dear Uncle Jed: 1 thought T would write and tell vou about m cart My mother had some spare certifi- J )t me a cart The cart v zood one. It is red with gilt ures on the outside. There is a nice red seat. It is large enough to | holg two or three children. 7 have carried .quite a few pabers and books In it. Yesterday T went to the almshouse with books for the old people. Some day T want to go to the Rock Nook home with some books and toys I do not use any more R. DE WITT PARSONS Norwich. A Little Gardener. Tn a country on the other side of the world there lives a little bird calleq the garden bird. This little bird not only makes a house for him- self, but he m garden around it. The first thing he does is to find a spot of ground with a shrub grow- ing in the center of it. Then he piles you use it. In the Heckee mill, every known scientific precaution in milling doss not suffice. Every day the quality of Hecker's Superlative Flour is PROVED by rigid tests in the oratories and the practical tests of actual baking in the mill. So when it is Hecker's you know it is flour that is more than scientifically pure. conscientious in its absolute uniformity that it produces the same kind of dough overy time The Following Grocers Sell HECKER’S SUPERLATIVE FLOUR A. T. Otis, 72 Franklin St. "~ « . Sevin, Norwich ¥ J. P. Holloway, Main St Henry Norman, 36 Franklin St. J. Connor & Co., \’\’dt(-‘r St. L. Rosenberg, M. B. Prentice, 159 Sachem St. T. McMahon, West Matn St. G. Budwick, H. D. Rallion, 45 Broadw \ Otto Ferry, Franklin St. Mrs. J. Fox, West Main St. W Fletcher, 25 Oneco TLouis Itkind, 170 West Main St. Fitchville H. D. Avery, 202 Franklin Sl E. Henderson, High St. Lewis E. Brant Laurel Hill Market, 322 Laurel Chas. Fairclough, West Thames Yantic Hill Ave. St. A. Jones. J. H. Davis, Laurel Hill Ave. Panoss & Demetri, 12 Thames St. W. E. Manning. F. L. M3 p]o< Elizabeth § The Great A & P Tea Co. Norwich’ Town A. Franc & Son, 1 Thames St. W. E. Holdridge. 41 Dunham St. Brady & Saxton. J. Jordan, 88 West Main St Thomas Crompticn, .1 B, nning. J. M. Young & Son, 3-6-9 Market C. W. Pearson, . H, Young. St ( \’\ Hill & Son, 147 Franklin Taftville ‘Wm. Disco, Jr., 499 Main St. J. Marsan. Sherwood Potter, 410 Main St irkin, 9 Forest St. P. Dion. A. B. Main, 217 Central Ave. D J Williams, Maple Alfred Chartier. Michael Bray, 400 North Main The Herman Alofsin Co, 175 W. E. Baldwin. J. W. Semple, 285 Central Ave West Main St. A. J. Senft. P. H. Ether, 351 Central Ave. Wm. E. Jones, 14 Maple St. The People’s Store. e o e e lab- It is so done for me? My city furnished the schools for me. hools there are books, desks and chairs. In front of our chool there is a lawn and a few trees I go to the West Thames street school. It is on West Thames street. There is another thing that the city furnishes. It is the park The ¢ plants flowers and kee the gra green. In the parks there are bench swings and s The names of e parks Mohegan park and shington Str park. ANNA HUS: , Ag | 1913: | re et May 14, Her Schoolhouse. dear Mrs. P.: What done for me s city furnishes the parks. are hes, sand aws and swinging chai My city Y has my | | | i | le (-n\ ends teachers to play with the children. People go to the parks in the sum- mer. i Our city also furnishes schools. Tn | the schools there are chairs, desks, | pictures and book i I go to the West Thames Street | school. There are four trees in front | of our schoolhouse. We also got grass in front of _schoolhouse. Another thing our city furnishes is the poorhouse. People g0 to the poor- house who are old and poor. LUCY BORKOWSKI, What the Clty Does for Him. My dear Mrs. P.::What my city done for me? The city furnishes the schoo! schools there are chairs and de 80 to the West Thamds Street school. In front of our school there is a lawn Age 10. has In mo on the ground ound the shrub. After this he brings a great many long green twi hich broken off trees and stic them in the ground around the shrub, so that they will lean against it, near the top. He leaves one side open for a door. The twigs soon take root and grow After he has built his house he sets about making his garden. Around his house he elears off a space for a lawn, carrying away every stick and stone that is in the way. Then he covers this space with the finest moss he can find. TUpon this lawn he lays many pretty berries ang pink flowers, and as often as the flowers fade. he takes them away_and brings fresh ones. The house is sometimes three feet long and one foot high. The garden bird is about as big as a robin. The top of his head. his back, his wings, and his tail are brown, and his breast is a greenish red. EDWARD BURNS Norwich. Age 13, Pearl Fishing. Pearl fishing ls one of the oldest in- Qustries. Pearly are found in oysters which are found in the warmer waters, A dfver who goes down after the péarl oysters faces many dangers, the com- monest being the shark. ® HELEN WOODWORTH., What the. City Does. My dear Mrs. P.: What has my city When a shark sees a diver he waits half way from the surface. If the div- er reaches the bottom in safety he is safe until it js time to ascend. If he | Ii | | Beach { Gardner. | the en he wishes to ascend | self flat on the ground, sand up as fast as possible, | ghtened hy Lhe unusual | hesitates. While he hesitat- | diver has time {o escape to the | throw he ing the he sha ight ng the pear! nd depends upon | color. The pink be- > of rum vell rause they soon and black ones ar When the day's diver divid sters into two pile One is for Ly which he | employed, the other for himsel Most alway out of four or five hun- | dred a pearl is found. | FLOSSIE MEYER, Age 12. | Taftville. | | A Trip to Pleasure Beach. About two years agc my mother and | went to my friend’s at Pleasure | W holi a boat named the | We had a very pleasant time | going over: | When we reached the wharf at Pleas- | ure Beach we got off and went up to my friend’s house. She had al- | ready come out to meat us. | Soon we went over to South Beach | and got a sreat many little shells. While we were getting them I sud-| dehly slipped and fell on my side on a slippery rock. I rolleq and went into | the water. It took a long time for my dress to dry. On the way home {rom the beach T| think T was lucky, for I found a little | beauty pin. It was the shape of a| wishbone. It had a little four-leaved clover in the center. In the center of the clover was a pearl. When we reached home we had din- ner. After had a fine 4 o'cloek very rough dinner we playing. At about ed home. It was back. We stopped alt Ocean and took the car to New London. There we took a car for Norwich I was very tired when I | home. | JOSEPHINE HOLBROOK, Age 11 Norwich. The Osceola High School. Our school is called the Osceola | High hool, although the building in- | clude yoms for all the ades, from | the first to the ninth, besides the high school was named for (‘SL'E‘!“ ninole chief, and it has a pic- ¢ him painted on the front of the ng. Osceola was the son of a Creek woman and a Scotch trader. When he | s a small boy his father died, and mother took him to Florida. After | arew up he became a chief. When Seminole war broke out he was and died of a broken he imprisoned heart. There are only of these S live in the Evergia | 1t is thought t they will have to tm‘ removed to the western part of the; Vnited States, as the Fverglades are | being drained and settlers coming in| all the itme. EDNA Kissimmee. three hundred | ., and the; CALKINS, Age 13. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. Sunnyside White Mittens. Dear Uncle Jed: I enjoy the stories and letters of the Wide-Awake Circle very much, so I thought I would write. There are so many things to tell about t this time of the year—books, flow- ers, kittens, May baskets, taking walks etc.—that I scarcely 'w what would be most interesting to you. I have read quite a few letters about kittens, so I will write about mine. My cat's name is Svnnyside White Mittens. She five years old this pring, and she has had thirty kittens —not all at once, of course, but every spring and autumn she has a new family. She had two babies this spring in March, but we didn't keep them very long. 1 give some of her children away, but most of them have to be killed. One Kkitten, Sott died a notural death. 1 found h in her bed, dead and eold and stiff. 1 buried her under a little pine tree and put pussy wil- lows in he pasteboard coffin. My Kkittens are often mischievous, but I like them all the better wher they are so. Some of them are wild and some are loving. 1 hope some oth- er girls will write about their cats, as 1 love to read about them. CARRIE A. PRATT, Pcemfret Center, Age 14, A Big Lemon. Uncle Jed: W¢ have a lemon and It has one lemon on it. This May 18th, my father plcked it It was very yellc and weighed one pound and a quarter, and meas- urer 14 inches around the middle of it. Tt was a very large ong, and I think if we were to exhibit it, it would take the prize. Don't you. The end of it will be in two good pies. JULTA VIVIAN LATHAM, Age 12 Norwich. Dear tree, morning, My New Pets. Dear Uncle Jed: I think vou and the Wide-Awakes will like to hear about my new pets. About two weeks ago0 my mother bought some fresh eggs from our gro- cer. While mamma and I were doing dishes we head “Peep! Peep!” every time we went in the pantry, and we could not think what it could be, as we do not have any chickens. We thouhgt it must be the martins out in the little bird house, but when we went to the door and listened we could not hear it. So we went back in the pan- try and looked around, and heard it In the pail of eggs. We took the egg and put it under a neighbor’s setting hen that night. The next morning we found it piek- ed, so mamma brought it up to ths house, and it hatched out. We made a box for it, and every time it hears us it hollers, and wants us to pick it up. It is white, and I call it “Siddley.” A lady gave me a litftle black one to go with it. T call it Blackie. BERTHA A. FULLER, Age 9. Faglev All the largest Canadian steamships must now be tquipped with wireless outfits, PER CENT. | AVe eflelable Preparation| IbrAs simitating ihe Food andR ling the Stomachs sm Promates Digestion Clheerfid | ness and Rest.Contains neiter Opium. hoip‘une nor Mineral | NoT NARCOTIC. 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