Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 21, 1913, Page 4

117 Subscription price, 12c a week; 50c a month: $6.00 Eatered at Conn, as second-class matier. Telephone Cail Bulletin Business Office. 480. Bulletin Fdiorial Rooms, 35-8. Sulletin Job Offi e, 35-2 Wilimantic Office. Room 2 Building. Norwich, Thursday, Aug. 21, 1913, ‘nr-itb Bu iletia and Gaueice. DOMESTIC HELP. In spite of the efforts which are be- | ing made to give women and children YEARS OLD. a the Postoffice at Norwica, pay Murray | ma Telephone Z10. wife ¢ Nerwich. 1000 of u “ i delly. Eastera alne towsn, rural tree i Have The Readers he city for rural keep Builetin Bu NEW JORK 'S MUDDLE, & ase hazard, particularly among ildren and it i{s therefore the In the New York state miXup OVeT |iima for the exercise of the greatest S g S Sulzer | . ount of precaution. Adherence to B Ste: dispostt iy e ad e given should go a long way Bis acts on the grounds that by €0 do- | {owards keeping down disease and if - - s 2 accomplishes what is aimed at, it e Snipat T '4‘" worth while. 3 many rule s > bef worth while. R & ata eplorable sit- | THE ALASKAN CATASTROPHE. 2 @uty Pathmans with | COASt. [nelading Alaska, are made to ol face manifestis differert problems than B et aga those who operate In more thickly med's | settled regions. with more ports and Governe _ |care vy scrotinized waters. The eied the strau [ wre steamer State of Cal- given M striking an l|n(‘h‘\7|edl tunity to show sny : e ~ of the many steamship ties as have « whieh have occurred on 2 r coast with large loss of . Going down three minutes after it - thera was little opportunity for B st even j0st elanorate lfe saving | comimonweslith e ¥ and from indications ever mucy the 1 the £ no known reason why the ing his s ! was not being operated under B all the precautions of maritime reg- idle moment bringing abe time. Sul \ islature hardi ‘ administe: while ernor shouid Bave weal the momer to escape. »f a new and dangerous monopoly. Such opened the way and as the i s Bos1ot Pos ays The Matteawan g e Neving A e oy v trial before the people befora tution forbidding any 1unication *d by the impeachment court. With an inmate by an outsider except 7 e ia the presen. DOt been Interfered with by the deliver; No such c by which Thaw was could have been per secret con Court orders sensible. been more w Been part of th Just why T private has b why the greatest clsed in-the extension of t bas been which carries interference Nahed taroug That three engine shows the hilly cond fered by the n the fire de ing the need o There is foo elaration that Iy spending = and doliars before he B & the- oot of wvil, wing prosident involves much more than it indicated last November, However strong and honest the as- | g e BT v g | alier Johnsen wanis § 0 mewxi ¥ be that Huerta ca act- P v s sertions ma 1Frte cun Dacl- | your o e will auii pasenll, Pernane | fy Mexico, his efforts have been at- tended with no degree of success which would indicate it. v the same action when h ittle of Chickemaug: hut they will be abls to nmlaw The into over the years n The Circulation of | The Builetin letin has tme largest elr- F wich, ané rend o cemt. of the peoplc. 1,100, and in al « commidered the local caily. Sve postoffice districts, resarts or the Bulletin follow them daily and in touch with Orders should be placed with The Giyan as acting astrated ‘aterans ma: or not Bt fa delivered to over | 10! o 4053 houses ia Nor- ety -theee per I8 \imdham | | an honest living, red te ever 500 Louscs. It oF thisp. & asd Damiclsom to oves | 70 ese places 1 | BPDATE Commeccicut has forty- ou: humdred amd sixty- nd sixiy delivery roates. value thing tion w particu! Bulletin Follow You Do of tha Bulletin lsaving the seashore, mountains, Europe can have | !¢ o home affairs. siness Office. P With puiat | ta bring an “k e of one of the staff had e Gty sen made. that away Thaw's tation ty ould not have erly timed plan spirited are for the most part .“:;, ‘ eicome to Thaw had it | -y, haw wanted to confer in | o privileze | ¢ m, escape but th d in a manner 2 val again with regulations h experienc — > The contest over the lowering of car horse hitch on steps or the abolishment of narrow proper considerati #kirts I8 interescing the carbuilders and tions which are encor the dr extension of this s tment. It Is evidenc a motor fire engine, 3% i th 4 for reflection in the de- | hausted. Harry Thaw bad ar- liowance of eight thous- 4 was twenty-one, that b league, Bot be- able to get | It fight of fifty reeard States country, circums trouble in securing such help whether means leaving the city it, with th farmhand, we Except than through the pa; er this rests entirely with the house- lepends ances, It s | trequent instances where young wom even end t | are unable to get nue of employment so much in need cotmtien of say pewes in Easters - bl Commecticut, srom three to fouc || 07 (helr service Gmes larges tham that of amy ‘|| about domestic make it possible to overcome the marked prejudice which exists against proper disposition to earn of improving the situation ia too nt, for I too SOME Recognition of the edn in = pure and untainted milk especially dur- all of the W W. . ||inz the hot weather has caused the department of agriculture to issue a builetin_concerning the handling of milk, which is intended to be of much particularly However n. ought to ot see the need of ithout having directed thereto. larly Realizing this, the dej s ve h hen it says remove »r the bottle from the refrig- needed for use. Don't let the i milk stand on porch | selivered. but put it In the ice | the ice box become un- wipe daily with clemn cloth and scald once a_ week t let the milk stand in a warm | en or dining room longer than place the milk in a refrig- mpart s which happen all precaution, and only ore emphatica ty of usi wever g time of the vessel development commerce the time w. and house or buoy the n towar EDITO roub; of London. Hue d the san monopolize the limelight. yut the of the oiled streets and highways. ! at an ree Air’ There. is nothing determi Legal ¢ There are other sections of the globe England which consider a irst invasion as the coming of ables. fact that congress is willing to jon t be 1 good < no inz of responsibility ssmalker: 4 good start nnm been made in stde- walk Improvements about the city bt | opportunities are by no means ex- Keop six monihs must be apparent tn Weodrow Wilson he esuid e appeased by beirg alewed 16 play oecasionally Gevernar cenate, up that bedy, especially rges some er is e loss of the steamerr with wider shores ks the greater the con- would le had she prolonged dary used to a summer resort 1y be considered fifies the benefit of trips and visits to the large centers, | there still exists the unexplainable dif- fleulty of securing youns women to engage in domestic work which would incorporate such advantages as well as good homes. mestics, at good pay, has for long ex- ceeded the number work has appealed. of obtaining household help has be- come a matter of much concern and the situation fails to improve. When voung women prefer factory and store employment at much less and far less it is agparent that there is a meed of ing domestic work more attractive in The demand for do- to whom such The impossibility desirable conditions, envelope. Wheth- to a large extent upon yet there is the same temporarily regrettable to note the heir lives because they worle with this ave- es. There Is nothing service which should and the proper treat- hus employed. Yet the ike the work of the fes seem to want to do MILK DON'TS. importance of as to its use for apparent some there are those who exercising cau- their attention be. tment among “don’ts” which elpful during the sum- milk from the originai ment with onions and trong odors s the time of the great- one of those cat- the face of draws atten- vy to the great g every means for much it may affect the and increased menaces will not o will be designated by but until that time berth that is given to and the possibili ds safety RIAL NOTES. have saved herself | ided by the Sulzer and Castro all me time for seeking to Sr | speil to greatest appreciation automobile station the | would indicate the rise unexpected in nation to fight depor- ontests are his special- during the hot weather advertise Wash- that Thaw's i way to get rid of him excuse for such shirk- s It no. one else, the good weris golng. have passed But it in the Chautauqua Biease thinks that his for the tinited |er came and caught —#—_—m Rules for Young Writers. 1 Write plainly on one s.de of the only und aumber the pages. & Use pen and ink, not pencil. & Short and pointed articles will be given preference. Do not use over 250 words. & Orisinn eories o letters only will be used. 5. Write your name, uge and ad- dress plaimly ai the bittom of the story. Address sll communications to Un- cle Jed, Bulletin Ofice. “Whatever you are—Be that; Whatever you say—Be true Stralghtforwardly act, Be_honest—in fact, Be nobody eise but you." POETRY, His First Pocket: I'm got pockets ist like mans— One for bofe of my two han's! One for pennnies when I'm good Like my muvver says 1 shouls; One for cookies—yes, an’ say, I had choc’late drops today, Had 'em in my pockets where They ain't got no business there, *Cause they choc'late up my pants If they git o half a chance. Nen my muvver laugh and say What's they made for anyway ? Afn't they made for boys to eat?— Li'l boys ‘at’s good an’ sweet? *Specially th' kind 'at_giows Up wif pockets in their clo'es! Daddy he's got pockets, too, Ist like all us man’s do, Still he says it's funny, though, Where his pennies all time go. 'Nen my muvver she ist play Like she don't hear what he say; ‘Nen he says well he suppose Burg-u-lars been in his clo'es. 'Nen I say I spec’ they do An’ he says he knows 'em, too. But he don't—'cause muvver she Says he puts ‘em there for me. Muvver she—it don’t seme fair— Ain't got pockets anywhere. | But she says, gee, ain't it fine? She kin keep her things in mine. —W. H. Herschell in Indianapolis News. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Lillian Brehaut, of East Norwich, N, Y.: L received the book vou sent me, entitled “The Automobile Giris at Newport.” 1 have read It and found it very interesting. I thank you very much for it .John F. Barnett of Jewett City thank you very much for the book. have read it and found it very inter- esting. Ruth C. Brown of Willimantic: 1 thank you for the nice book. I like it. Asa Hyman of Norwich: I have re- ceived the prize book entitled “The Iron Boys as Firemen.” I have read it through and found it very interest- ing. WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Lillian Brehaut of East Norwich, N. Y., The Submarine Boys for the Flag. 2—Jennie G. McSheffery of Taftville, | Lena Wingo. 3—Robert L. French of Montville Center, Pony Rider Boys in New Mex- ico. 4—George Farrell of Norwich, The Grammar School Boys in the Woods. 5—William Cushman of Stonington, The Circus Boys in Mississippi. 6—Margaret Somers of Norwich Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School. 7—Agnes Aberg of Taftville, Grace ! Harlowe's Junior Year at High School. 8—Esther Page of Mansfield Center, Our Animal Friends. Winners of books living 1n Norwich may call at The Bulletin business of- fice for them at any time after 10 a. m. Thursday. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO THE WIDE-AWAKES Isn't it queer that nobody can tell what position in life a little girl or boy is ggoin to occupy; and that those who are born to money live to be poor men and women, and those who are the chil- dren of want become great men and women. Only God seems to know the place the little boy or girl is to fill in lie, for their parents do not. Uncle Jed knew a little boy once, the son of a gardner, and he was determ- ined the boy should be a gardener, t0o; | but when the lad was left alone to hoe his row he would take paper and pen- cil out of his pocket and make pictures of trees and birds; and when his fath- him idling he would birch him. The birch-stick- beating did not feel good, but that couldn’t make a gardenmer of a born artist, so this lazy little boy, for that was what he was called, kept getting | caught making pictures when he was told to hoe onions, and he kept get- ting flogged by a father who couldn't tell what God had made for him. One day after he had taken a severe beat- ing for his bad conduct, he blurted out between sobs and tears: “The time will come when I'll sell my pictures for $800 apiece!” His father thought the boy was a silly, obstinate, ne'er-do- well, and laughed at the statement as being a dream—all nonsense. Well, Uncle Jed was with the boy's father many years after one day far, far from home—for they were comrades in peril —and the father received letter from this worthless boy telling him he had just sold a painting for $800; and the artist's father exclaimed as he read the news: “Well, I vum!” and he told Uncie Jed the story he is now telling you; and Uncle Jed saw a little tear run down his bronzed cheek as he thought how he beat that little boy for doing things his genlus compelled him to do, and which had made for him a gréat name: and he seemed to feel a good deal prouder of his hoy than ho ald of himself. WRITTEN BY WIDE. AWAKES. S8TORIES Hew Graiss Hear and Smell, The way in witieh crabs hear and emell is almest us curieus as the way |in witich they see, for they have very 8dd litile ears and neses in very edd | | Blases, A pray hus (we pair of fesiers on its head, called the “lesser feelers’ the “greater feeiers.” | do nel he is net passiag eut compiiments to these whe mais readily were 1 atill da vou ceuld easily 1 H THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE Boys and Girls Depart'ment | | i | | and ;but ai 5 o0 (RiRK | he received onesihird of the hooty, cras eun hear seunde in the air at all, | But water carries ssuade mueh mere millienaire’s homs, tham air dees, so that if veu |siaved on wateh outsids and Jack and dive inte the sea om a calm, ! the other away. And the ears of the crab are made in such a way that they can hear sounds in the water quite well, even though they may be deaf to sounds in the air. - The crab always seems to find its food by scent. LILLIAN BREHAUT, Age 15. East Norwich, N, Y. Tea. Tea is grown mostly in China and Japan. It is a kind of camellia; it grows much like the American box and is carefully cultivated in hedges, which rise to the height of three to five feet and are usually about two feet in width. They. look scmewhat like a rosebush, their color being a very bright green. The plant produces its best crops from the fifth to tenth year, and it 1s said to live longer than man, The tea is picked many times during the season. The first crop of every year is the best. The work is done en- tirely by girls, who walk about picking oft_the bright green leaves from the dark ones. They ‘put the leaves in baskets and carry them off on their backs. The leaves are dried in the sun, then steamed and dried again. The tea Is then shipped to the tea factories at the ports, where all moist- ure is taken from the leaves by rub- bing them about in great iron bowls set in ovens. After they are thor- oughly dried they are serted by Japan- ese girls, then packed for shipment. The work is all done by hand, so every cup of tea we drink is made from leaves handided again and again by Jupanese men, women and children. MYRTLE FRANCES SWAIN, Age 11, North Stonington. My Trip ‘We left New York July 6 at 12 p. m, on the Anchor line steamer Columbia and had a very pleasant and enjoyable seven days’ trip. We landed in Glas- gow, July 14 We were there for about tnree weeks, when we left for reland, where we visited the Giant's Causeway. Car- rick-a-Ride (a Tope bridge which ex- tends from the mainland to a large rock in the ocean). This bridge is used| by the flshermen, and many tourisis cross. doing 80 at their own risk. Coleraine, Port Rush, Port Sleward and Port Ballantine. After three weeks’ stay, in which we had many a the old fashioned jaunting cars, returned to Glasgow, thence to Edin- burgh for a few days. We left Glasgow Sept. 6 for New York on steamer Caledonia, arriving Sept| 14. i ‘We visited Long Branch park, Jer-| ity and Newark. | NIE G. M'SHEFTERY, Age 14. Taftville. My Medicine. T had a sore throat, o I had to take medicine every two hours. Tt did not taste bad at all, but slll it was med- icine, so 1 thought Ismust make a face whenever I took it and mamma must give me some sugar, and DIty me_besides. Once when mamma gave me medicine 1 did not make a face ask for any sugar. “You're getting used to it, aren't you, Rose?” said mamma. “Not exactly,” sald I, “but T've been thinking Isadore and i used to.go to the nasturtium bed and eat the séeds. | | My! they did taste awful, but we just | afe them for fun. “Then we used to go down by the brook snd cat e sopen. Thes were so_sour, but we just ate them for fun. “So I make belleve that I am tak- ing this medicine for fun, and then it} tastes all right." Mamma kissed me and said I was right. Do you think so? ROSE ALPERIN, Mansfield Four Cornes Story of a Desk. T am a desk in one of the country | hoolhouses in Canteen, Montana. The school is situated on a high bank over- }looking the Little Big Horn lake, on the | western side in which you can see the shadow of the school even by a bright moonlight night. There are five pu- pils in the school and three desks. Two puplls sit on one seat. Two jolly bovs st on one. their names are Ben and Joe. The teacher calls Ben sometimes Cowpuncher Ben, and Joe, Mountain Joe. I would like to tell the story of my life, so I will tell it to you I'was an oak tree in the woods, near where they were building the school. A man cut me down and floated me down stream to a sawmill where they made me into boards. I was sent to a carpenter who, made me into a desk and seat and placed me in the schoo. where I am now occupied. I think I will close my story cause I am using Mountain charcoal. JOXAS BIENENSTOCK, Age 12. Uncasville the nor Age 9. I think be- Joe's Webster's First Plea. One day Daniel and Ezekiel Webster | were in the garden. They saw that the turnips, lettuce, and other vege- tables were eaten. the animal to a hole. and hog. Ezekiel wanted to kin tne woodchuck but Daniel wanted to let it free. The boys went to their father, who was a judge. Ezekiel said: “The animal's hide is worth something and it has eaten things out of the garden.” Danlel said, “God made the wood- chuck to live and eat. It has a good right to live.” Then the father told Ezekiel to let | the woodchuck go and enjoy its free- dom in the woods. PAUL LESTER SMITH, Age 12. Baltic. The boys tracked | They set a trap | usht the woodchuck, or ground- The Drunkard’s Dream. Jack Riley came staggering into the miserable room which he called home. His wife and two children looked pale and sickly and a look of dismay | passed over thelr faces when they saw he was drunk. After brutally abusing them he took another drink and laid down on the dirty old bunk. He soon fell asleep. He dreamed that one night he was drunk and in a saloon and two tough looking men came up and invited him to have a drink. They sat down.to a table and asked him if he ever had tried his hand at_theft, He said he hadn’t and said he was never low enough to take what belong- ed to another. They conversed long time. At Jack went home, A week or later he was dead broke and hadn't had a drink for two days. What was more, his family had not eaten since the day befors yes- in low tones for a last they parted and terday, He went down to the saloon and pretty soon the same two men came in, Thoy mtarted talking to Jack .and atior n while started to tell him of a way he could make some money, He asked how and they unfolded the plan, A certgin rich man had just sold & pleco of ‘real estale for an emormous sum, Tho banks had closed before he could get to them and he had taken tho money home, These two toughs invited Jaok o help tham get this meney that night, Jaek was relustant lasi promised to heip them If At about 1130 they started for the ne of the teughs tough went inside, In & ; hear the [ghort time they had the safe spen and beat of the oars in a beat haif a mile, were taking out the Swag when the I have a pair of | ROBERT LEWIS FRENCH, Age 13. | brought me to a store, but he dropped door opened and & man uueml. a struggle the man downed tflh and Jack fired & shot and hit the lionaire in the back of th o thon 1an 1otk window, Jimped out, and was about to run away when a Bluecoat caught him, He was taken to the court victed of murder. He was tobe elec- trocuted _six later. day came and just as he sat Ja the e\mnc chair Jack awok He #at on the bunk a long time and then t out to logk for a job. He obtained a job in the mill and he de- cided to stop drinking. His wife and children were fitted in new clothes and he bought him- self an entire new outfit. They moved fo & better flat gud goi better furni- ure; After working in the mill two years Jack progressed rapidly. He was pro- moted to a boss's. job and later entered the officé as cashlier. At a meeting of the directoze and stockholders of the mill John Riley was made assistant superintendent. He purchased a cottage In a little sub- urban. village near the city. A short time ago Riley was elected one of the town's selectmen and is a man respected by all. -He has not touched a drop of liquor since his dream. d con- WILLIAM CUSHMAN, Stonington, Conn. My Trip to Worcester. It was net without some misgivings that I started June 29th for my first journey away from home alen But people were kind, the scenery was beautiful, and almest before 1 realized it 1 was in the mew Union station at Worcester. However, I was very much pleased to see my friend on the plaiform ready to welcome me. This was my_ first visit in Worces- ter and my friends were very kind in showing me about the city. I saw many points of 'interest, but at this time shall speak of one only, namely, our visit te Greenhill park. This park is large, has beautiful shade trees, walks and flowers. Also in this park is a fine museum contain- ing nearly all the birds found In Mass- achusetts. But the part that Interested me most was the fish pond. After a visit to this pond one can tell quite & fish story and yet not depart from the truth. If & freight car were filled with these fish there would still be many left upon the beach. The chief occupation of these fish seems to be eating bread which visitors throw them. They are very greedy and make as much nolse in eating as a drove of pigs. I never saw so many fish in all my life before. T am sure that no one will be appointed in making a visit to Green- | hill park because they will not only | have a good time, but they may learn! many_things. Montville Center. The History of a Penny. I am an penny. I was made in the United States mint at Philadelphia over one hundred years ago, in the year 1799. 1 am worth many thousands of dol- lars now. When I was made I was a bright copper penny about as large as a half dollar is now. I passed from the mint to a man who brought some wood to the mint; | from him I passed to a boy who me and I fell through a crack in the fioor. 1 fell into a box and was not found until the store was pulled down. Some men were pulling it down over fifty vear after and a man found me. He | brought me to a bank and received & thousand dollars for me. I now lay in a large vault in the bank. 1 have lain here for about forty | years, but I am going to the city of | Washington, and the man who owns the bank is going to get five thousand | dollars for me from the government. GEORGE FARRELL, Age 13. Norwich. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. Dear Uncle Jed: I have a rabbit, his name is Jumbo. He has a little house all covered with sweet smelling | flowers, because it is his birthday. This | morning for breakfast he had a nice | big vellow dandelion, and for dinner | a caulifiower, and for supper a cab- bage leaf. He is a nice rabbit. ESTHER E. HOADLEY, Age 10. Brattleboro, Vt. The Big Fish. Dear Uncle Jed: One day as I went in bathing at Ocean Beach a big fish came swimming by. I got frightened, | for he came under my feet so I ran out of the water. When I came out of the water I looked for him, but could not find him. When I went in the water again I saw a little | fish and I think the big fish must have | {270 Var D W hich ia nearly out of my been the mother, Yesterday 1 fell down and broke my doll that I had for nearly five vears. MADALYN SULLIVAN, Age 8. I Norwich. How I Built My Box Cabinet. Dear Uncle Jed: Perhaps you would like to hear how I buillt my box cabi- net. Last week Friday I found a ox | and I thought it would do nicely ler‘ a cablnet. I took out the inside of an orange box and sawed off the l()u‘ of it and then I nafled it to the inside of the box. 1 then took out the other | 1 thick board of the other end of the box. I sawed the top of this board off and nailed it six inches away from the other board. Then I took the re- maining board. Cut it in half and placed them in the middle of each shelf and the cabinet was finished. 1 hope some of the boy Wide-Awakes will try to make one of these cab- | inets ASA HYMAN, Age 1L Norwich. How Sand is Made. Dear Uncle Jed: I read vour letter of July 31, 1918, about sand. I am go- ing to write what I know about it. As rocks change from sold to warm or from wet to dry, they slowly crum- ble or decay, just as nails and wood do, but many years may be needed to loosen only a few grains. Water freezing In cracks in rocks| often splits them, just as freezing wa- ter bursts bottles or iron pipes. | Rolling stones in streams often strike | together and knock off small pieces. ! The larger rocks often crush the small- er ones. When rock has been ground to sand the little grains may blow about, strike together and crumble still finer. Plants help to crumble rocks. The hairlike roots creep down into tiny cracks In the rock, searching for food. As the roots grow iarger they pry open the cracks and thus help to break the rocks. I think this letter is long enough, so will now close. JESSIE L. BREHAUT, Age 17. East Norwich, N. Y. Her Dog Is Named Ned. Dear Uncle Jed: ested in the letters the children have | ‘been writing. | My home is in Winchester, Mass., d T am visiting my cousins in the | conntry. i I have a dog named Ned and when the dog came the kittens I had in the | barn ran away—they were natural enemies. I have flve ducks and I drive | them over to the pond every day. 1 have m play horss and I make mudp! and they look good, but we | don’t eat them, I enjoy playing with the dog and he can draw my eart, OLIVE PAGE, Age 10, Mansfield Conier, Visiting In the Ceuntry, Dear Unela Jed; I am visiting my eousing in the eeuntry, My heme is in the eity amnd i seme- times esme up o grandpa’s aute, oxom, six cows and | wouldn't stand together, so the whites | tanl {and red, with brown spots | how to kill it. T have been inter- | kill them, Uncle Jed? | tle blue and black ones, while some- Atter | one white horse, whose name and two hundred and fifty dhhlcn I help feed them and water them. T have & big brother at #chool and a little baby brother, Lo cherry trees and we gather Cners Thqra is an oak grove in back of the hous There Iy a beautiful maple tree the hammock hangs under. One of the cows has a White calf. He is awful cunning. ESTHER PAGE, Age 9. Mansfield Center. Isadore’s Home. Dear Uncle Jed: I wish to belong to_the Wide-Awake Circle. I thought I would write you about my home. My father has one horse and one cow. I have fifty hens. 1 drive the cow to pasture. At 6 o'clock I drive her home again. I like to chop wood, but my father says I'm too small. When I grow up and am older, I will chop wood. We also have four oats. Sometimes I go huckleberrying. My mother makes pies from them. They are very good. I hope you had a taste of them. ISADORE ALPERIN, Age 7. Mansfield Four Corners. George Washingten. Dear Uncle Jed: In 1732 a boy was born in Virginia. That boy srew te be a leader of the army and the first President of our eountry. The name of that boy was George ‘Washington. We celebrated his birth- day on February 32nd. ‘When a bey Geerge loved all eut-of- door games and was alwayg called “Captain George” when piaying sol- er. Ho also loved herses and enee killed hig mether's faverite herse while try- ing to ride him. hen a young man Washington was sent to the west to survey some land. He had to endure many hardships and when he returned he was mede a pub- lic surveyor of Virginia. THOMAS BARNETT. Jewett City. 5 The Indians. Dear Uncle Jed: I always liked to talk about the Indlans and how they used thelr skill in making canoes. They worshipped the Great Spirit and smoked before the setting sun. They could stand great pain with. out showing any. ey also could show great marksmanship. When they saw the first white men they supposed they were angels direct from heaven. An’ Indian never wept unless it was for great sorrow. The Indlans showed the whites how to plant corn in the forest without chopping the trees first by girdling and killing them. They always showed re- spect for courage. But they delighted in torturing their captives. An In- dian is a treacherous and cruel enemy, or a steadfast friend. Indians once covered the greater part of this continent, but they used | it as a large battlefield to fight on, or a hunting ground to roam over. ' As some tribes were in quarrels they took one tribe at a time and finally drove them out until now there is just a few reservations in the far west. If you give an Indlan beads or mar- bles he will be your friend, for bea@s were their money: but they’ never used money very much. They lived mainly on the game they caught. A squaw’s work was to hoe the corn | and do the hardest work, while the ! man delighted in roaming the woods | and making war with other tribes. MYRON RINGLAND, Age 10. Norwich Town. Margaret’s Pressed Flowers. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell you about my pressed wild flowers. I began my collection early in the | spring. While in Norwich I went to the park and found many early spring flowers. Now we are at Eastern Point. Every day I go in bathing, and coming home there is a nice road where I have found many flowers. I have found the wild carrot, or| Queen Anne's lace, is a white flower. It formerly came from Europe and Asia. Our cultivated carrots came from the wild carrot. It also has an- | other name. It is sometimes called | Birds' Nest. When in bloom it looks like lace, and dried up it curls up in form like a bird’s nest. The Joe Pye weed has a pink or purplish flower. It is named for an Indlan doctor. His name was Joe| Pye. I found hard hack, wild asters, yar- | row, boneset, meadow sweet, white daisies, black eyed Susans and butter | and eggs. In our vard I found some beautiful blue sailors or chicory. I also found | some swamp rose mallow. It grows {reach. It is a beautiful big pink flow- | |er and is a cousin to our garden hol- | | Iyhock. | While picking biackberries I found | 2 bunch of meadow lilies. This is a | flower and_its color is of yellow The In- dians used the roots for thickening | soup. Chen I wonder how many of the Wide- Awakes are collecting wild flowers? MARGARET L. SOMERS. Country Joy. , Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would | write and tell you and the Wide- Awakes about our farm. We have | Gquite a large one. | Father keeps seven cows, two horses | three heifers which we raised our- | selves, seveaty chickens and thirty | hens. | Our house is bullt on a bank with an offset wall around the front. And how we enjoy the nice large veranda. | |1t's just fine to sit out there and to | look “across those large meadows and | [to hear the brook rushing over the | rocks. My brothers and sisters and I have | many happy days on the farm. I wonder how the city children get along this awful hot weather? We often think of them. Hoping to see you and the Wide- Awakes sometime, FLORENCE A. WHYTE, Age 9. Willimantic. The Butterflies She Sees. Dear Uncle Jed: Having read your | talk to the Wide-Awakes about but- | | terfiies, I am writing to you about the | ones I have seen this summer. There are quite a few around my house, because 1 live near the woods. One day as I was looking at my flowers I saw a large butterfly. It was brown and had a black dot on both of its wings. I thought that it was alive and would fly away, but it was dead. I | brought it into the house and pinned it on my bedroom curtain. I also saw a very pretty moth. It was of two different colors of green, with pink. blue, brown, black and white mixed in. It was so pretty that I wanted to keep it, but I didn’t know Do you know how to It was the first butterfly or moth that T had ever seen that had its body | colored the same as lts wings, as usu- ally the bodles are of ona color. This moth stayed in my garden a whole day and the next day 1 saw it agaln, but all of its pretty colors were®gons. It was only a dull black. 1 think that the rain the night before had done it. There are many other pretty butter- files that I see, There aro yeilow ones with blaok edges around it wings, lit- times I see a large pre 'y white one. I hope that gome of the Wide- Awales will write o me, AGNES ABERG, Age 13, Taftville, Has to Keep Hustlin ‘Fhis is a great and grewing eeuntry, It has to be te keeu up with the grewth of the taxes—Pittsburg Dis- pateh, 3 Recls THE DI A powerful photo-tragedy featuring Ermete Zacconi, The Mansfield of :my TUAL WEEKLY NO. 33 "GAME OF POOL—Key-Comedy MISSION BELLS—Rel. 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