Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 16, 1913, Page 9

THE WIDE AVAKE CIRCLE Boys and Girls Departmen: ] oL 2569 words, 4 4 Origieal stories or letters ,only- N your name, d ad: b age an Joi dress as the botlema of thv, wtory. Al‘u'dl cations o “ e Jed, Bulistia OBica ™ “Whatever you are—Be that; Whatever you say—3He true, Steightforwardly act, R Be homest—in {: &l . ' Be nobody ebse but you™ * POETRY. e Little Fio's Letter, L A sweet little bady brother f Had come to live with Flo, And she wanted it brougt 1o the trible That if might eat and grow. “it must wait for awhile” said gr:md- ma, In answer to her plea, “For a little thing that hasn’t teelh Can’t eat like you and me.” “Why hasn't it got vesth, Asked FY¥o in great surprise “Oh, my, but aint it fanny? No teeth, but nose and eyes! 1 guess” after thinking grawvely, “They must have been fordot. Can’t we duy him some like gran fipa’s, Td like t0 know wby not” gravdm?s ?” ¥ | That aftermoon to the cormer Wiih paper, pen and ink, Went Fio, saying “Don’t talk to me, 1f yom do, yowl stop my think! Ym writing a Istier, grandma, . To send away tomight; ] Arnd "camse it's very ‘portami, | | 1 want tp get it right™ At last the leiter was finished — A wonderful thing to see — And directed to “God in Heaven.™ “Please Tead it over to me,” Said little ¥10 to her grandmna, “To see if iU’s right. you kneiw.” And here is the letter written To God from littie ¥lo: “Dear God—The baby yon broiight us Is awtal nice and sweel, ‘canse you forgot his toofips, The poor little thing can’t «at: That's why I'm writing this Jletter A-pugpose o let wou know. Please come and finisi the 1raby That's all. From Litile Fie.” —AL F. O. B When |1 Become a Main. There i one thing 1 am sure of, When I'm 2 grown up man, T'1i befriend the little mrchin, And zive him what T can. If T see a hangry schoolboy. I won't stare in wild surpstise: TN just say, “Go to the pamtry. Help yourgeif to cake and. pies!” And T won't say. “Share with sister,” As I hand him out a dims; But I'll pat him on the shoauider And say, “Have a bully;time!” 1t would give me joy at <hristmas, If T could buy ali I couid see; And 1 would give to ithe fellows That looked just like Bill and me. —Hamide P. Osterhont UNCLE WIDE~AWAKES. Every day at this season of the year we zee bovs and girls burning leaves by the roadside, which they think to be rare sport. The way children piay with fire to- dav it seems difficait to believe that there was a time when grown-ups were afrald of fire, because they knew it was a destroyer, but did not know fte origin, I nature had not set fires by frie- tion—by the winds rubbing dry limbs together-—man would not have learned how to produce it by rubbing two | aticks together, and 1f metal tools had not when coming in contact with met- al or stones thrown off sparks of fire, man would not have known how to start a fire by knmocking a spark from flint into lint, as mosi people nsed to 4o 150 years ago, when it was in or- der to borrow fire of a neighbor when the fire accidensally went ouf, because it was easjer than getting a fire by rubbing wood together or . siriking a ! | -{ carefully { blessing when carefaily JED'S’ TALK TO - THE |t f { Richard C. {zoak trom two pleces of flint into light | ‘material. ‘When men roved the earth in tribes and the fires used to come from the Voleanoes out of the earth, or lightning out of the heavens, man in his_ignor- ance first feared fire and then worship- ped it as a god. When man acquired knowledge enough he made fire his servant, as he did later the lightning, and he had campfires to keep off wild beasts at night; and beacon fires to warn of peril; and then watchfires as signals that all was well, or otherwise; and finally the bonfire to celebrate festivals and to destroy rubbish for the promotion of health. | 1t was long after man had learned | fire could be made useful in a hun- ! 'dred ways, and that little fices in the | spring and autumn kept the waste and decaying preducts from pelluting the air and making people sick, that chil- dren ventured to play with fire. There is a proverb that “Fire is a good servant and a bad master,” and anpther is “Shirtz of straw should fear the fire,” so you see as useful as fire is, It is always dangerous and must be guanrded. Ma have lost their lives because they were | ’cueiess whea playing with fire, and | ¢ did not kmow the danger of it i Fire now is known to be the most | desgructive element on earth when 011\:! of control, the greatest | and skilfully | used. Fire comes next to food in the | economics of life. | Playing with fire, or by the fire, in| ignorance is what makes it more dan- zerous and destruciive. Never be care- less in the use of matches, or where a fair fire seems to be making life gay. as weil as LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Mary Nolan of Taftville:, Thank you very much for the mice priZe book you sent me, entitled “The Motor Boat Club in Florida.” 1 have read it and | found it very interesting. | Moran of Norwich: thank you for my loveiy prize book. T is the first one of these series I have ever read. Frances Ficlds of Norsvich: I thank you very much for teh prize book. It is very interesting. Leon Dimock of Gurleyville: T thank you vers much for my prize book. It is very imteresting. I hope I will win another. Helen Malone of Providence: 1thank you very much for the nice prize book Fou sent me. I have read part of it | and like it very mu Winifred Holton of North Franklin: Thank you very much for the book, The Little Girl of Old New York, you | sent me for a prize. I have read it all | through. I like it very much. WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Edna Reibetanz of Willimantic, A Little Girl in Old New Orleans, 2—Helen Malone of Providence, A Little Girl of Old Philadelphia. 3—Mary Rubic of Mansfield Four Corners, A Little Girl in Old Quebec. 4—Florence A, Whyte of Williman- ¢, A Little Girl in Old Detroit. 5—Augusta Krauss of Plainfield, Boy Scouts Through the Big Tibmer. 6—Lloyd Bailey of Colchester, Motor Boat Club of Kennebec. 7—Marion Healy of South Windham, The Boy Scouts on the Trail 8—Amelia Erwin of Norwich, Dave Darren’s Third Year at Annapolis, 9—Harold P. Osterhout of Mansfield Depot, On the Colorado. The winners of prize books living in Norwich may call at The Bulletig bus- iness office for them at any hour after 1 t The 10 a. m, Thursday. STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. Jason and The Golden Fieece. Onece two little children, in peril of their liyes, were rescued by a faithful ram, who set out to carry them on his back away across the sea to a far conntry called Colchis. On the way one of the children fell down into the sea and was drowned, but the'ram car- ried the other safe to Coichis. HeZwas, however, so ‘exhausted by his long : Journey that he lay down and died. ’Wlislflnt yrlm? Dl e 7 3, eve! b am_only a old pe: E s hefcods, over,s mundtul of fgoodlly LT S & ncw abiming fone ks most new pennies. I was born in the United States mint ——f—— | i {he {vear of 1599. Once 1 was only a pi€ce of cowxper, but then I was taken to the United | States mint and put in a machine. 4 When 1 came out of the machine I mm® | Was very bright and shining. An In- ‘. 2 i dian head was stamped on me and a for hours and they did not blink. So I'| wreath was placed around the Indian In the first school I went to one of the first things I saw was a dead bird in a glass case on the wall. It must have been very old, for the glass had & bad crack in it, and the wings of the bird had lost the bright look which they had when the bird lived and flew and sang. Till then I had seen no dead thing, and it took a long time for the thougnt to reach my child brain that here was a real bird, and et not a live bird. 1 was a town child, birds were quite well known lends of mine in the parks and ou the trees. I knew the thrush and the lark, their songs were In my ears on the days when I spent long hours on the grass or in the woods. I knew the eound of more than one bird’s song— For one is glad, her nete is gay. And one s sad . her note changed. . . . is and 1 learned why. I heard that there were boyas who did not love birds, and that the nests were not safe from thoge who stole the eggs. Worse still, when the young birde were born the thieves who eame to take the eggs had been known {o steal the brood of young as well, But up till this time they bad not told me of 'death. 1 did ! mot know of the fate of the young birds, Life I knew, death was new to me, The dead bird on the wall taught me for the first time what death meani “There is a sweet bird at the school,” 1 told them at homs, "It has brown eyes and blue wings and such a bright 1ail, Its beak i8 long and whits, it stands on the branch of a tree, But if does not sing, and it dees net fly” Day by day | saw it, end my thoughis Eave it g name-—in my mind its name wae Dick, Diek wus the nams we gave the bird with the red breast whick came 15 focd FTor crutahs wheq if was cold for il o Bad feod for lts owa if, L think !-loved Dick now, my I the Dick on the semool wull, mors than all the birds of the fieid, 1{ was strange, all the same, ihat bick did not talk, ner sing, nor Ay, His eyes dld noi move—you could watch them found that Dick was deaf and dumb and blind. Still 1 loved poor Dick, all the more when 1 knew he could not hear, speak, see or fly. One day boy 1 knew found . out that I was.fond of this dead bird, jand he told all the boys of our class, who came to watch and laugh at me. Their laugh hurt me, but it did not teli me the truth I had got to learn. A girl my own age who went to the :ame school w my first friend, and she was the first to make me cry. I'ar she told me rniuch, and my own dear fbiks home told me more to make me.feel how sad life is and what death rx» The boys made some of the gir at our school most days, but my tes were not the kind of tears boys rnake you weep when they hurt you. ¥t was a new pain to me, the pain which is feit in the heart when you firsi hear that those you love are dead. 1 was told that this sweet bird was the gay plumes once lived and was once free in the woods to sing and fly and be with those he loved. Then one day a man with a sun went out to kill big birds, and his shot. meant for a, large bird, hit this dear Dick of mine, and Dick died while he sang. To stuff a bird and put it in a glass case on the wall is not quite the best thing; tc do in such a case, but It was gciod for Bome of us that it was so, 1 am not sure that it was not good too that tha boys had laughed and that 1 hzd erled when the tale of poor Dick was told, All the school knew ii now, anfl as we saw the bird all the davs of the week from the day we came till the day we left school we had a chance /to think more than once of the facts, A deed bird can thus taij: te llve boys and girl w tell tham what the live bird has no power fo tell. It ean reach their hearis =ud fuuke (hem kind, 1 aska atl drow tig hird wi s We want {o hreathe the pure air and join in the song ef life. lei, us think o6¢ life (all jives) as worthiour eare fo save and help and 1‘«_mr——'1‘he Childgens’ Realm. | for your pay.” | ind | go with him. deeds, changed the fleece of the ram into pure gold, and it was hung, as a memorial, on a tree in a sacred grove, and guarded day and night by a flerce dragen. The fame of the Golden Fleece spread abroad through the world. In Thessa- 1y a young prince named Jason resolv- ed to capture the Fleece. With forty- nlne heroic companions he set sail for Colchis, Their ship was called the Argo: they themselves wero therefore known as Argonauts. After many and ghh'!n‘ ge adventures they reached Col- s, N Jason bade the Argonauts keep their Vvessel manned and ready to get away again quickly. He set out alone for the grove, where he must kil the dra- gon before he could carry off the Golden Fleece; yet so terrible was this dragon that Jason had small chance of success. But Jason made friends with the Princess of Colchis, named Mede, anl she came o his aid. She threw a magic powder down the dragon’s throat, and the monster fell into a heavy sleep. Jason seized the precious fleece and rushed back to the Argo. The rowers were seated on their benches, their oars in the air ready to | dash into the water. On came Jason, and with one bound he leaped on board. The heroes raised a mighty shout, to-the sound of which the galley leaped over the waves, heading for Thessaly, Thus Jason achieved the quest of the Golden Fleece. LILLIAN BREHAUT, Age 15. East Norwich, N, Y. The Box of Flames. Once upon a time in a faroff coun- try there lived a poor peddler named Joga and his wife, named Damon. | They made curious jewelry, which | Joga sold in the sireets of the big city. On his way home one day, aft- | e having seld very little of his jew- elry and~wondering how he and Damar would live if trade did not grow bet- ter, he saw a gir! standing under a tree by the roadside. “O good -lady he said, holding up a ring from his tray please buy a ring: it will adorn such a hand a yours.” The girl took the ring from Joga and said: “It is very beautiful; | let me sce the other pieces of jewelry.” | Joga handed them all to her, but i shook her head saying: “N I this curious ring best. o, 1 I will keep it, | | but you will have to go to a king who lives at the other side of the country “Suppose he will not pay me,” said Joga, looking anxiously at the ring on her finger, for she was walking | away. “Oh, have no fear of \hfllf"l said the girl, “he will pay you, but if he should refuse, tell him he will | the exact amount in the box of | streaming flames to which he has the | key.” The girl went into the foresi | and seemed fo become a part of the | trees. Joga walked away quite dazed by | what had occurred, but the ihought | of what Damar would say when he told her what had happened brought him to his senses. ‘“She will never believe me.” he said. ‘She will think I sold the ring and speni the money in drink.” But he resolved to tell the truth and try to go to the place with her where the girl had directed | him. R | “You are a foolish old man" said | Damar, when he told her his siory. “You will have a long journey and get nothing for your trouble. You had better try to find the girl and get your ring back.” But Joga said he would try to get the money from the king first, and finally persuaded Damar to She scolded him all the way and wished she had stayed at homs, but they soon got to the palace and the king found the streaming box | of flames, and in it was the exact sum that Joga had asked for the ring. JESSIE BREHAUT. East Norwich, N. Y. My Vacation. During this summer T spent most of my time in Bristol, Rhode Island. I arrived the night before the Fourth of July. It seemed as if it were the fourth then. Col. Colt's residence was all lit up with electric lights and Chinese lanterns. It was a beautiful sight. There was to be a barn dance there in the barn, which looked mostly like a house. Many fireworks were, being fired off ,which were beautiful, In the morning in a parade I saw the sailors off the ILouisiana, a mili- tia company dressed up as Continen- tals, Boy Scouts, G. A. R. and the old coach of Rhode Island which took the first congressman to Washington. Col. Colt and their present congress- man rode in it,-and there was a float representing the Minute Men. Last of all was the firemen of the town and different societies. A salute of twen- = ty-one guns was given at twelve unny. o’clock. Dear Uncle Jed: Last There was a band concert and a |brother set a trap to catc base ball game in the afternoon. In |Instead of a skunk he caught the evening there was a band concert | squirrel. and fireworks. He could not carry her hom much, and 1 enjoved my visit very T ! ich 1 wish have many other things w to tell you some other timse. AMBLIA BRWIN, Norwich. Age 13. The Story of a Penny. Well, girls and boys, I am would like me to tell you re you story, was written the | felt very proud head. At the botiom vear 1 was born. 1 when 1 was all made. Fager hands were anxious to get me. The man who worked in the United States mint said he was going to take me to his little daughter. Ile gave me to her and she was very glad to get me. One day when she went to school she forgot her pencil at home. As she did noi have any money with her except me, she went into a store and gave me in exchange for a pencil. She was sorry to part with me, because I was new and shining. The woman in the store put me into a dark cash register. { In two days a little boy came in and asked for a 'mickel's change. Four more pennies and I were given to him. | He dropped me on the floor under the counter in the store. As he could not find me, he left me there and went ! away. I am still under the counter, where I am writing you my storv.— Unsigned. An Adventure With a Bear. One Saturday afternoon four boys were talking near a store in Baltic. Their names were Tom, Bill, Joe and Ted. Buddenly Tom exclaimed: “I have | an idea!” i “Out with it,” said the other boys. “Let's go hunting,” sald Tom, 8o the boys went, and they appointed Ted for cook. He started to make din- ner while the other boys went off hunting, Suddenly Ted turned around ' fmd there was a large bear looking at | him, He turned and picked up the pan and flung it at the bear, mude the bear very angry, ran afler Ted, reed for a lree, (he bear wag only pacit of him He ‘climbed’ up {ie fres, when till bear climised up a iree near by. - The bear was half way up when he saw a limb that touched the tree that Ted was on. = The bear started to cross when Ted s0 Wien' e 60 vards | | ed to hung, { found a dolly with her milk shook the limb, and down wents the bear, head first. It was killed instantly, climbed down and skinned if. The beys returned soon and they had an armful of bearskins each. - They went home and sold.the skins and got about $54.50 for them all; but Ted never forgot his adventure with the bear. 5 JAMES S. SEWART, Age 12. Baltic, Little Daisy. Once upon a time there lived a little irl and her name was Little Daisy. he had golden hair, blue eyes and wore a blue sack. She walked through bher flower garden most every morning, Her favorite flowers were daisies and roses. She used to roam through the woods. She liked most every wild flower. There was a huttercup field near her home that she-liked to play | Her friend’s name was Isabel. One day they were playing hide-and- go-seek Li;ttle Daisy was it; they were playing in the buttercup field. Little Daisy forgot all about play and began to pick buttercups. Pretty soon Isabel bcgan to call her. Isabel asked ber why she did not look for her, and she said: “I forgot to, the buttercups so_pretty!” Isabel said: ers.” were “You seem to like flow= DONALD PECKHAM, Age 9. South Windham. Edith’s Birthday. Edith woke up to see the sunshining brightly in at her window on the morn- ing of her birihd. She hurried to get dressed quickly, for her mother had bromised tc send for her two littie cousins, Mary and Alice, and to thern have a little party Edlth took up her sho sitting in them w dollies dressed in - “Oh!” cried Edith in d ht, “T am going to call you Bluebell and Prim- rose.” Around Bluebell's neck note with the words: “We are two of have come to live v Edith; we are hiding Edith flew down t but only found before the bres ‘When Mary and A started to look for all kinds of dolls, in e ten dollies that ith our Mamma look far . and t- dolly was bell ran arrived The; where that doll is?” said Alice. “We will look for her after suppe said Edith. The little girls went into the pantry to get a drink of water and there they pail other stool. “Oh, you dear little Milkn Edith, hugging her dolly w might. Mamma now called the to supper. After supper Alice went home. That night Edith went but happy, with her ten on the bed beside her EDNA REIBETANY, Willimantic. Age 11 How Uncle Sam Got His Name. Dear Uncle Jed: I know the Wid Awakes would like to know the or of the term Uncle Sam as applied the United States government, o 1 will tell them about it. In the war of 1812 beiween this coun try and Great Britain Elbert Anderson of New York purchased a large amount of pork for the American army. It was inspected by Samuel W who was known among his friends a Uncle The barrels of pork wre A, T. y an employe of Mr. nen the meaning of the mark (for the letters Uncle Sam Wilson. The joke took among the wor and passed current and Uncle Sam ing present. was occasion 4 on the increasing extent of sions. Soon the incident appeared in pr and the joke rapi gained f 1 it was recognized in eve country, and will no u continua so while the United States remains a nation. his posse HELEN MALONE, Age 14, Providence, R. L LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. and Ted ! | i ! let | she found a | little | and | | name S.,” the lettering be- | Wilson. { U. S. for United States were then en- | tirely new to them), he “he did not-know, unless it meant Elbert An- | derson and Uncle Sam,” alluding to be- | made Ask for ORIGINAL GENUINE cause she would bite him and then run away. He went home and took a cage, chesed her into it and tied a handker- chief on her face so e would not know where she was biting. He brought her home and put her in the kitchen and we named her Bunny. When she was six months old we let her go; but she did not run away. 3 Bunny used to run and play with he kittens and talked to them in her own language. The little Kkittens seemed to understand her. But in the month of July pet Bunny died. my dear MARY RYBIC, Mansfield Four She Goes to Oyster Bay. Dear Uncle Jed: I walk to Oyster Bay every day as I go to high school. Oyster Bay is about two miles away from Kast Norwich. The inneola fair i at Piping Rock they horse show. Yesterday there was a flower show i Uyeter Bay, I am in the £ and I have six three iessons over now and are having a st year at high school studies. 1 have two or to do home every at apples are geiting rice now. !‘Hl’ down to LILLIAN BR Norwich, Fall Work Best. We and I oes in b Likes have helr been get the gathered the ready best, ve vier work putting all the T've learned Willimanti Goin WO wer We too nutting but nany nuts as were Dear 1 ha two « are for hom 13 I went missing any certi- missed steady half o could day wh a be a MARION Windham South She Liked Deazr Uncle J 1 you at next r narning 1 I had appendic stay three weeks and I liked | | | | T enjoyed_my | | bal | the fi | 12 cows | it very much. The doctor and my nurses were very good to me. > My friends brought flowers, fruit and games. The Sunday school T g0 to sent me a pretty plant. I am all right now. From your loving niece, LOUISE ERWIN, Age 11. Norwich. The Puritans. Dear Uncle Jed: Once upon a time there were some people in England who were called Puritans, The king of England would not le them worship God as they pleased, and some of them went to Holland. They stayed there about thirteen vears: but they found their children were learning the language of the Dutch; and so they went to Piymouth. There they stayed and lived peacefully. They became rich. GRACE KENNEDY, Age 12. Enjoyed the Trout Fishing. " Dear Uncle Jed: As this is my birthday I am writing to the Wide Awake circle. I want to tell you how symmer vacation. 1 went with my papa and mamma and brothers to Ocean beach the Fourth of July. We ate our lunch at the beach and then we went to the game in the afternoon. fourth of August we went on Block Island. It was the me I had ever been to Block put I hope it will not be the we had such a good time I besides we had a fine of United States The steamer t nd, t for love the water; of a number I the trout fishing very much ar. One day I caught two They each weighed The gentleman I was ghed a pound. eptember we one haif pound. with caught one that w 1e second day of | went to the fair. This was the last good tim af my vacation, for the next N our school commenced. 7 a new teacher. I like her I am in the fourth grade -d for 1 want to make ear ‘D BAILEY, Age 11. | to you fo and | imbed | e them and on some other | we | . 1 Typewriter: Jeheste A Little Sister to Play With. le Jed: 1 have not written a long time, and now I am to you. I have a little si but I don’t like to pla) T3k to pla better P She is so small. She writi | | with | with her for with the girls. rear old. » to school she begins to her and gives ery s | her i v with and tken | she stops when 1 come home from 1 she is so glad to in JLINE ABRAMSON, Age .8 There is a great demand for ceiling electric fans in Hong Kong. GOT ‘ HEAD STUFFED? i A COLD? TRY PAPE'S i i"Pane's Cold Compound” relieves Wersticold ortthe oribasiin el feew hours—Ne quinine used. [ Tuke “Pape’s Cold Compound” every two hours until you have t doses, then all grippe m and your cold will be brc romptly opens your clogged-up ils ges of the y discharge or nose the headache dull sore throat, sneez- stiffness. and the air pa and I stuffed-up! Quit blow- snufling. your throb- 1 ad—nothing e in the world gives such prompt relief as *Pape’s ! Cold Compc d,” which costs only 2§ cents at drug store. It acts assistance, tastes nice, and no inconvenience. Accept mno 1te. ] > 9 (Take It To Lincoln’s | He Does All Kinds of Light Repairing. s, Keys Umbrellas, Cam- eras a specialty. Now located in the Steiner Block, 265 Main St., rooms over Disco Bros. Bstablished 1880 (patented). Why Two Hods? all of the ashes. carry and doesn’t spill. pers. have an Ash Hod with a Coal Hod beside it The Ash Hod is deep and catches It is easy to remove and Both hods free. The old, clumsy ash pan is hard to remove and strews ashes over floor and stairs. The . wonderful “Single Damper [patented] makes perfect control of fire and oven. , Better than two dam- Have you seen it? Gas ovens =D [single] or elevated [double]. For sale by M. HOURIGAN; Norwig: Agent. Walker & Pratt Mfg. Co., Makers, Boston if desired; end