Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 18, 1913, Page 9

Thursday, September 18 RS S8 . THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE Boys and Gifls Department Rulee for Yeoung Writers. 1 Write plaifly 6e 6ne side 3f the i i g the ! & & E J and iRk gi gfl gamfi eles will | be g"r‘—égj 3 & @et uee over | 259 words. 3 Original steries or letters only 1 3 = ‘1‘ %‘ifl Four naime, age end ad: dreS2 plaibly at the boltem of the stery: Al ‘mfi 2l communications te Ua- eie Jed, Buittia Qifiea “Whatever you are—Ba that; Whatever you say—=Be (rus Straightferwardly aet, A Be nobody eiSe but Feu™ POETRY. % Willie Broke a Window. broke a window! You can it in the street, jdren marvel at the most prodigious feai. je broke a window pane ” they oui the news along, And Willie 1s the hero of a large ad- throng. it, but the stone it yped, cui ecrookedlike and | the pane it zipped. i and boys they | ell, w-light! Don't | W : leved good and loud £ i When mother took and strapped him, | he's feeling pretty proud; | language was a self that | | | Wilite broke the pane. by yesterdtay, creeping on the foer, s close to mother’'s side or ing around the door. H Now he's broke a window and his| mother’s heart is sore: Growing up to boyhood, he's her litile babe ne mere. —Newark (N. J.) News. WINNGRS OF PRIZE BOOKS, 1—Eva Alperin of Mansfield ¥our rpers, Daddy’s Girl. Asa Hyman of Norwich, The Boy in the Rockies. 3—Howard Weiden of Willimantic, RBor Secou Throuzgh Big Timber. Wi . Briggs of Packer, = bt in a Forest Fire, dessie L. Brehaut of East Nor- Y. Boy Scouts in Maine| | 5 Helen Malone of New Tondom,| oy Scouts in the Biue Ridge Gaorge Farrell of Norwich, Fiy- | achine Boys on Secret Service. ! Esther Hyman of Norwich. Sue, a | e Hervine. nners of prize books living in the ity may cali at The Balietin business office for them at any hour after 10 a. m on Thursday. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Gladys Bentley Newbury of Nor- wich: T received the prize book you =ent me. I have hegun to read it and find 1t very interssting. I hope to win another. 1 have tbree now. Andrew Bellefleur of Norwich: I re- ceived the prize book and enjoyed it very much, and hope to receive an- other. Helen Maione of New London: I thank you for the nice prize book you | sent me. I have read it and find it very interesting. Robert Kirchner, of South Wind- ham: I received my prize book and find it very interesting. 1 thank you ever so much. Florence Whyte, ¢f Willimantic: Thanks very much for the nice book you sent me. This is the eighth prize Fve won. 1 wo have so much time to write to you. as when school started ] was promoted and T'll have more studies to bring home, but I'll write as often as I can | UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE. | AWAKES. The pecple of long ago used to take much more interest in the sky than do | the people of today, for they filled it with pietures, and we heed them not. It may be well for us to make the acquaintance of the Greek children in the sky, and then the sky will be more nteresting to us than it is today. The Greeks used to say -ages ago when the sun arose in the eastern @ky that Apollo came driving his untamed white horse of fire, in hls golden chariot, across the heavens. They sald j stefe f) warm water. that the Hours, the Days, the Menths and the Years were the servants of beautiful Apelle, and that they put him to bed each night en a couch of gold and blue, - Diana, his sister, had a chariot of sllver, drawn by dusky, cloudy horses, and every night she made the journey across the sky, attended by her faith- ful maids, the Stars. Aurora, like a dutiful younger sis- ter, helped Apollo and Diana in their journeyings. She put away all the stars when Diaaa’s need for them had passed, and strewed the mist of early morning on the earth so that Apollo’s rays would not strike it too quicklw She lifted the bars of Apollo’s Sun- palace so that his great white horses could rush out, and at night she closed the bars behind the flaming chariot and put the stars in their places. The last thing she did before she retired was to sprinkle the reviving dew upon wilting flower and field. These three children are represented by the golden sun which smiled on Apollo at his birth, the silvery moon upon which Diana smiled when she was born, and the rosy northern lights called after Aurora, who was a blush- ing maid. Apoilo, the god of song and music, drives his golden chariot across the by ds Diana, the queen of the night, is seen in her silvery chariot | the moon, ever following her brother, | and very but Aurora is only seen occasionally blushing in the sky. This is a preity picture of the imag- ; minute: ination, and it shows how these an- cient peopic adored the beautiful ob- Jecets in the heavens nd kept them in constant thought. STORIES WRITTEN BY AWAKES. WIDE- Meily’s First Accident. I am a tiger Kkitten, ar house where there i My name brothers. deal. There where we live. ed us out for tt Trte littdle one picked me out She Icves me very rmouch. 1 am going te tell vou some of the things that hap- puned to me. The firs when d all gone out for a 1 was asleep and they didn’t see I When I woke up I found that I was shut up in the h >. I looked {7+ something to eat plenty of milk. my paw on it. I couldn't get my L-w off. Then I sat down and couldn’t get up. 1 jumped off the table and got ail tangied I was wound up in m my ears to my taf they came home the little me the first thing and “Oh, mamma, Molly in fly paper!” They got a tub and filled it with ed all stuck up They gave me a ba Then they put me in the sun to dry“and T felt petter. EVA ALPERIN. Mansfield Four Corners. The Eagle and the Cat. Once an eagle in search of food spied a rabbit near a barn. “Now for dinner,” thought the eagle, as he pounced down upon the rabbit. | material which has Before he had ered his misi was a cat! The eagle tried to drop the cat to the ground, but the cat was too quick for him and she buried her claws in his breast. Then began a furious struggle in which the eagle was weakened by loss of blood. The eagle finding all his struggles in vain, at last cried out to the cat: “Pray let me go!” But the cat only said: “If T let you go I will be dashed to ieces on the ground below, and, b s that, you thought to have me for your dimmer, but now you must be mine.” Slowly the eagle fluttered to the earth, where he met his well deserved fate. Moral: Those who seek to kill others will one day find their match ASA HYMAD ne far he had discov- Norwich, A Maazic Mirror. There was once had the power of making everyone who looked in it appear beautiful., It Dbelonged to an enchantress, who dwelt inside a. rocky mountain, in a mys terious and magnificent cave She jewels and riches and power beyond measure and it was her custom to sit by the roadside and accost all trav- elers and persnade them to look in her mirror. Having looked once, they were so enchanted with their own ' It is not every day that you meet | with a soul who will let a fly talk as | i it, too, had many lives. Why, if it Were not for a piece of bad luck (or was it good?) 1 had today, I could not | b2 telling you this tale I am not an old fly, but I have seen gome queer things in my time, and | heard more. When 1 was quite tiny an | old biue-bottle gave me some of his | ife talk, and it was sad to hear. He | said the great wingless flies who build the big nests they call houses are | hardlygever known to be kind to flies, or to thke a hint from our wisest ones. Yet, he said, we never stop buzzing round, doing our best for them, eating | up their bad smells and irying to warn them as well as we can The house I live in is not in a town, but near enough for town news to reach us now and then. It has a gar- den round in which we flies go in and out of all day long. One day I was so happy and skippy, as if some nice thing were coming to me, and, sure enough, I heard such a sweet singing, and flew out’ of the open window to find myself in a great cloud of fifes, They were not strong, black fellows like me, but ever so small, with wings and bodles like fine clear gauze, I said they must be fairy fiies. The gound of their wings was Hke the hum of a light wind in e silk harps the spiders buil® in the flowers, They told us they were going to tell the great wing- less flles in the town that the river was nasty, agd all that day our garden was thick with them, They told me 8o much that 1 esn‘t © begin to repeat it: Of the fate of flles everywhere, and how the big humans zive neither help nor pity, but spread traps that torture us, This I eould not nelieve, as 1 had never seen one thing in our house thi&t was meant te hurt a v, But I must get on with my tale, Une ef the wingless onesn our house has been ill. and as she is alw to us I stayed in her room 3 and at last a strange thing took plac She had in her hand a nice large sheet of what they call paper. It was and cool for my feet, so I ws my back legs on the top of my wings, 1 was so startled and glad Then 1 knew that what the fairy flies said was true, and the terror of it went through me from wing-tip to foot. After that I never went far from my | friend, and as she had by her bed a cups { from which she kept sipping I thought it would be civil on my part to taste it, too. And then came my bad luck. I fell in, and as she had gone back to her paper I thought I should die before help came. Just as I was giving up hope I was lifted out, and found my- self resting on soft white cambrie that soaked up some of the stuff, but, alas, two of my legs were so stuck to each other that I could not get them free. My friend lay quite still te watch me only now and then giving me a touch with a fine pointed thing that helped to lift the sticky stuff away that clogged my wings. Once, when she said "I think you'll come round now,” she began to laugh gently as if my antles were funny, Perhapy they were, they tired me badly, At last I had to asle another ly to help me, He came and sipped the stuff from my two helpless legs, and at last, afier o long and weary time, I half fled, half hop- ped onte (he wingless one's pillow, [ felt I must tell her what the old blire-~ botile sald, and the great cloud of tiny fiies, and Low [ did not think all of her kind were cruel, o my friend said she will write down for the young folks how the fly helped me. You may be sure I am very wary now when I taste things. My~ friend may not be there to save me next time, L. H P, d I live in a | | ient T had was one | They pulled the fly pa- | rer off me and put me in the tub. | 1 e—the supposga rabbit (%5 do in order | squirts out a jet of | ma 4 | A magic mirror that | pealle?.: ;hgy gladly gave all they pes- se; L for anether lesk: GW}:. & thl; had continued for | some time the king twhe ruled this eountry hbtieed tHHt cach wear the meney that caie inte the treasury Heerbafed, #ind the inerchants were | combliiBdfiz of hard times. Investiga- tion shoWwed that the peeple were spefiiing their money to buy o glance in the Sereeress’ mirrer i _At fength_things grew so serious the King bifered 4 reward to anyone who w}x BEing the mirror to the palace. At thig the sorceress was so mueh amusedl that she offered to zive the mirrer te anyene whe, having gazed in it vould do so. Many set out on this quest, but each of them, having once gazed in the mirror, was so- enraptured with his appearance that he offered all he possessed for another look. So things grew worse instead of better. Now, the king had a little daugh- ter, who was unusually beautiful. Fearing that she would grow up sel- fish and vain, he had her brought up in a part of the palace in which there were no mirrors, so that she had never seen her own reflection. One day this little princess met the sorcer- ess by the roadside, and the sorceress, as was her custom, \showed her the mirrer. When the princess looked in it she was frightened. She did not ask for another look, instead she ran home as fast as she could. In the sorceress ran after her and begged her to look again. The prin- cess only ran the harder, and finally hid in her room. When an hour had gone by and the princess had not again looked into the mirror, the sor- ceress was obliged according to her offer, to give it up, and., after the king had it locked safely away, peace and prosperity returned to the coun- try. GEORGE FARRELL, Age 13. Norwich. ! The Sea Acorn. his is a very common jells deed: yet anybods it. That wims about in the water it is almost invisible. And if it the beach it dries up in a very few But if you want to look at do so. On a it, you can very h, just a small net into the - and work it gently to and fro. t it out and e the sides and you are most sure to ps of jelly, T not much < ar sea 1t them tly clean sea water you will very soon find them bout. They look like a ed in the water. AUT, Age 15. The Piddock. Now we come to on wonderful of all the ¢ live in the sea You can about in of the mc t namely, the Piddock. ty shells lyin on almost any par > the cliffs are made which are ieft dry when down you will see the OW S- 1t the rock the tide g entranges to its bur piddock is a boring shell, which drives s tunnels through and through the rocks, until very often they are quite honeycombed by its tunnels. Some- times you may meet with a big block of chalk which only weighs a h as it should, because all been cut ay by piddo ou would split it open sev could be seen lying age to cut their d chalk, or ove, nobody q how they through the t Most 1i 3 by _means of the soft we c: the * y by means of the shell w they turn fi a littie te.on nd then a lit it to the other s just like a man who is using.a b awl. Eve and then, of course, t burrow gets hoked up- with the been scraped away. inows quite well w to ar it ter siphon tubes, by means of whi breathes, and so washes thne burrow out. Now let me tell you why I that the piddeck is one of the mg wonderful of all the.cremtures which live in the sea. all, then, remember that the ‘ting by itsel s ve little to wash soon as the waves begin the face of a chalk it the spores, or Very soon those spor nd before long the cliff is covered with masses of weed, so that the hardly touches the chalk undernea them at all. The waves n be upon the ¢ for hundreds and hundr yvears with- out breaking it down. ” But the piddock comes and burrows into the chalk just below high water K. Backwards and forwards it boring in. till at last only thin dividing walls are left between its tun- Then the sea washes in, and down the walls. so that the whole foundation of the ff is cut and part Jut the pidde another landslip. You can see the eifects of the pid- docks' work upon any part of the coast where there are chalk cliffs. Just look at the beach when the tide is out. You will -notice long spits of weed- covered rocks which sometimes run far out into the sea. Well, those rocks were not always rock They were once the bottom of ¢ But the pid- docks and the sea, working together, cut the cliffs down: so that the sea gained. yard by vard. upon the land. Indeed, I think that it may be said, quite truly, that if it had not. been smooth | s putting | | myself to rights on it when she spoke to me. 1 stopped just as I was with | for the work of the piddock Britain would not be an island. At any rate we do know this, that once, s of thousands a great many hundrec of_vears ago, Great Britain was not an ‘island at all, but was joined to the m of the_continent of Eu- rope. And we also know that the sea, ng by itself, could ngt possibly e cut a passage through what we now call the Straits of- Dover. The piddocks helped it> to do so. They kept on cutting away the foundation of the cliffs by boring backwards and forwards through the solid chalk, just below the level of the waves, and the sea finished the work which the pid- docks had begun, by breaking down "the thin dividing walls between their burrows, JESSIE 1. BREHAUT. East Norwich, N Two Deaths. It was a cold night in winter. The wind sobbed and moaned and howled about the casements of a wretched ten- emen’. house in the slums of the city. It crept in through the cracks and into one of the miserable rooms where it touched coldly a woman whb crouched in a corner holding to her bosom a little haby. jut the woman did not shiver—she was too numb—and the wind crept out again to chill some other poor person. The woman (ried fesbly to clasp the child eloser, but her own body was 100 cold to glve warmth to the baby— the baby was cold with the coldness of death, There was no fire in thé room, no food, no eomfort, and there had mot been sinee the drunken husband ‘had taken what little money there was and left his sick wife a couple of days — 1 T - | a drink he set his glass upon the table and, smacking his 1 sald thet it~ was guperfor to an: ng he ever tasted. “No,” seid a comrade, “you ‘quite mistaken. There is one thing ich both our estimations far surpassed this in the way of drink.” “What was that?’ asked Wood- ‘worth. His comrade answered: “The pure, cold water that we used to drink from the old oaken bucket after our return from our labor in the field on a hot summer day.” Tears glistened for a moment in Woodworth’s eyes. ‘True, true!” he replied, and soon after he quitted the place. He returned to the office, grasped his pen, and in half an hour The Old Oaken Bucket had been composed. HELEN MALONE, Age 14. New London. INATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY GRAHAM CRACKERS During ‘the years that they have been on the market, millions of packages have been consumed— and the output is daily increasing. Two Weeks at Camp Meeting. Dear Uncle Jed: I will write and tell vou about my trip to Willimae~ tic Camp Ground. I started from Packer on the 8 o'clock train. We got over to Wil- limantic a little after 9. We had to wait about an hour for our trunk. We went over to the mp ground in National Biscuit Company Graham Crackers are a revelation in goodness. They are not only nourishing, but delicious. Try them. Always in the an auto. I stayed there two weeks. H = ik % G -hi ren’s 3 pro.tectu::g pa.ckage tha.t‘ keeps in i’ni;lsl,erl to go to the children’s meet their unique goodness. Always look There were quite a lot of squirrels there that were tame. I went over to the playground quite a lot. There is a tennis court, a croguet set, two seesaws and a swing over there, There were lots of children at play. irst meeting at 6 o'clock. an 8 o'clock meeting around : preaching service at meeting is at 1: vice at and a young people’s in the evening. for the In-er-seal Trade Mark. to the 10. The a preachi flung up on | was going back dreamily to the dsz before her husiand had till day, when the sea is quite | S %S | and they had been happ he waves of that wonderfuliy love Then there was was one more soul Unsteady stegs came up and the woman's husb: His glance fell o motionless atures which | All of a st burning exve astly The mise of chalk or limestone. And if you look ge, oval | got woked | holes, several of which you' may often . find quite close together. For the ihe table. 1 saw something so I pu[yr o) come for you soon, letters of red fire: no drunkards in the lips cclls and forec Heaver the man. Kingdom of ed the figure and van The man sank to the i if to sh but another visio a great bla | on the edge of it the beckoning, forward ou mergy on your wife?” ask- How many of the Wide-Awakes have d. heen (o the capitol in Hariforc or and closed | Bve and think it is very nice. I however, they do | - time has come,” he hed with his fins Down i dream was Benny's Exploring Expedition. holiday for the pupils of i song of the Old ( the Melville hool. over ten years, ing in a nearby wood wont’s get There was a thun shower while there and two trees were with lightning. would have laughed to see the 1 | before. Nohody had entered theoom |but this did not dampen their ardor | people going to get splinters of the people around about w: taken up with their own wretchedness to pother about this wo- |let him go. His pleading finally pre- | ym man and child. i The woman felt no bodily pain now | The woods were reached in an hour's |y poy {in the least. tree to malke toothpicks of. hey went Benny's mother at first would not | pefore it stopped raining, holding their rell over their hea .| They had a bazaar and 1t a doliy and nanced her Lena. me, and as it was noon they ate Our school begins Monday with a their lunch e inona fternoon (‘\;‘r;;\ 1‘:"1.\':‘;!&] ln‘{.;\n, WINIFRED BRIGGS, Age 10. vailed, and she put him up a lunc that—and her m to drink | In the hen ) 1d- [ and did not notic ; i med to hear a voice of | of e cefness sayin | they unto me and I give you | ually The Heros : saw_ an opening in Dear Uncle T am telling you in and be proved to be a cave. 1 s Lo o Gncs & woor Ber abated and they staried n | My lette I &3 mly they zot there DLienny I 2o | bOY was riding crowded car in the I = 80L £ 3 891 streets of New York. A boy who tried on no more poor-boy off to get seat piis car. His feet % : S ) ed u © the world to Dbear patient Norv 1 ‘}K He was ;‘)\ 1:-1‘(-11;! He drunken husband and ther o i \: Betatie ,‘, o/.a hospital 'Thn Police in Heav : The Conviet 15’"!’- ; _itold him to tell who pu him off fow mahy of the Wid S 8 | He w it. A few uld not tell who did > convict ship Succes s aften > New London dock eedal reth ) see it. It was once a mer- ! ESTHER HYMAN, Age 9. 1 between the Indic M was used as a g from Greas w_the he coffin bath, the sweating and other instruments of tor- | i he died. Don't you 2 h | 1l maider ture Tiere were many relics, like the | * i vords, whips, whip= cannon. but has been raised curiosity to those who Anyene can see the cab- our soul.” suddenly It is great like history A dumbd ter- HOWARD V Willimantic. “Merey!” and 2 echoed moaningly My Trip to Hartford. there some very interesting things | one cannon whe been in a great many battles—one part of the hub has been shot off. One cannonball shot off a piece of the rim heel. AW iot of buttons—all col- are torn except the |and annd t the hor FULLMAN TOUoH TREAD TIRE REDUCHAYOUR TIRE EXPENSE by usihg PULLMAN AP TIRES. No other lack figure stoc the man felt him | some irresistinie ' Of the v skeleton 1 I also th ol the & ones—they ave as| TOUGHL ZRE g tie Riandly : tires can compare with them from the hecard a s f as of visited the Wadsworth Athen- | standpoin delivering mileage and s ¢ p i a lot of Indian money | general iction. Note the perfect ’ old there: besides many | non-skid c very desirable for this wa ancient things, * | seaszon. For sale by i : AYMOND WELDEN, Age 9. LR < oy y e drun e Wilkimant €. 5. tersick & Co., ngels of Heaven knew | { ¥ i New Haven, Connecticut, | LEVRERSIEOIUNCLE JED. Dealers in High-grade Automobile and The d‘c,;(l,’,"a‘m(m_ Motor Boat Supplies. Dear Uncle Jed: 1 suppose nearly Cata og mailed on reque: all of the Wide-Awal e heard the Bucket, but cee bays, none | pernaps few of them: have Reard of ite | A full line of WEDDING snd pints [ ENGAGEMENT RINGS at do were pl One day Samuel Woodw my hatchet, cause welll jer, went into a cafe in have to cut pieces out of trees so we’| for the purpose of drin o ndy . said Benny {and water, for which the D WM. FRISWELL'S. was the longest Benny | noted. The liquor w good and i 25 ANLY 27 FRANKLIN STREET next day was ¢ ecemed inspired by it, for after taking away. 1e result is, of se, that before very long there is a Jandslip. | Hundreds of tons of chalk come tum- | bling down into the sea. -Then the! piddocks begin work again a little far- ther and by and by there is Crawford * Parior” Crawlerd “Wood Parlor” “ Crawford Parlor.” A genuine indirect draft stove with full return flue; the smoke passes down between the firepot and the outside casing of the stove to a flue beneath the ashpan, thence up and out through the back smoke pipe to the chimney, giving more heat and burning less coal. The grate center slides for- ward for dumping. Large clinker door; wide, deep ashpan; dust damper; nickel rails removable. Four sizes. “Tropic Crawford.” With or with- out down draft back pipe. Draw center grate. Best stove made at the price. Nickel rails removable. Crawford “ Wood Parlor.” In this new heating stove for wood the front . *Tropk” Crawfora door swings open to give the effect of a fire-place. By moving a slide in this door the fire can be seen without opening the door itself. The slide openings are protected by wire gauze. The main top swings to one side and underneath it is a large plate that lifts to admit large pieces of wood. This stove is made in both direct and indirect draft styles. It is strongly made and very handsome. Three sizes, to burn 19, 22 or 25 inch lengths. : Walker & Pratt Mfg. Co., 3135 Union St Boston - For sale by M. HOURIGAN, Norwich Agent.