Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 15, 1914, Page 9

Thursday, January 15 P Rules for Young Writers. | 1. Write plainly on one side of tite paper_cnly, and number the pages. | 2. Use pen and ink, not pencil i 3. Short and pointed articles will be given preference. Do not use over 2530 words. 4. Original stories or letters only | will be used. 5. Write your name, age and ad- dress plainly ot atory. { | the bottom of the! | i Address all communications to Un- cle Jed, Bulletin Office. “Whatever you are—Be that! Whatever you say—Be true! Straightforwardly act, Be honest—in fact, Be nobody else but you.” POETRY. A Helpful Child. _ I like to play in the snow, It makes my face and fingers glow. My mother says it’s good for me, And I just try to helpful be. I make a path out to the gate For father, if he should be late; Another to the clothesline, so Mamma won't have to wade throus.| snow. The sidewalk then 1 made quite clean “or passers-by. and then between Whiles 1 make lots of snowballs hard, And play I'm soldier keeping guard. i | 's heaps of fun to be a boy And all these winter sports enjoy; But most I like to think to mother Tve been a help and not a bother. —Helen M. Richardson. i A Little Boy's Wish. When winter comes, the people say, “Oh, shut the door!” And when, As sometimes happens, I forget, They call me back again. It takes till summer comes to learn And “Leave it open! When I go in or out is the ery, | i And then things change about; { { I try to be a pleasant boy, And do just as I ought; But, when t s are so hard to learn, Iw might stay taught, —Henrietta R. El in Little Folks. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. ot January is the month when the art- ists show the old man, Time, with the flowing hair and beard of a prophet He is an imaginary man, who doesn’t il the bill. Time knows neither youth nor a and Time, like the Tide, waits for no man How do vou be time? suppose there came to The first men gave no | thought to time. 'The morning and the evening to them did not make a day. Mar lived ages upon the earth before he recognized the necessity for taking note of time. The early men had no vesterdays nagging them-—they knew nothing of tomorrow. . They first made note of time by moons, and then by | sun dials, and then by calendars, and | then by hour- glasses and water locks, then by clocks run by weights, then by springs: then followed the invention of watches and spring clocks, some of which now only have to be wound once a vear. The timepiece something modern. There are people living who can re- member the hour glass with its run- ning sand which marked the time for the minister and others in public sta- tions. Tt is only modern man who takes time by the forelock—he had no forelock for the men of past ages. When Than invented time, he made & greater stride than he did when he invented letters, for after that he was able to discover how fast water wears & rock and deposits sediment, and could estimate from the height of wa- ter worn cliffs and the depth of mud ! how_long rivers had been running in | any thelr course and vallevs had been in fAlling up with mnd, to get at the age of the earth; and then by time he THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ DEPARTMENT '1,000 years are as a day. measured the speed of light from the sun to the earth, and this is the way man learned light can travel 187,000 miles in a second, while sound only travels 1,130 feet a second in the open air, but the sound of the voice agitates the air at the rate of 14,000 vibrations a second. Without the invention of time these things would never have been found out, or the fake theories of ignorant and superstitious people been 'made an end of and the people made frée. It takes light, which is followed by a shadow, just 24 hours to pass over the circumference of the earth, 24,000 miles, which is the speed of the daily revolution of the globe, and every hour measures 1,000 miles of sunshine by day and darkness by night. Time is most important to man in his tasks, but to the Lord we are told Time will end when the sun ceases to shine, which scientists estimate will be in 70,000,000 vears. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. | so far as I bave read Mary Dikv of Colcheste: Anna Retkovske of Norwich: T »u for the prize book you gave i me. ike it very much. 1 am pla ing with and T will write mcre| stories so that I can win more book: Rose Alma Demuth of Baltic: T have | received my T ze book, and T thank! vou very much. I like it very much, { my T done, Aunt Esther,” said Bessie, “and | it i[ss hiu‘d." - t? Perhaps I can help you,” said her aunt, sitting down beside the little girl. “Four and flve make how many? . Here is mamma’s butfon bag. Take out flve buttons. Now four more. Count them.” | “Nine!” cried Bessie. her eyes danc- ing. “Yes. Now take four, then five,” “Nine again!” declared Bessle, So the lesson went merrily on, and when Bessie had the numbers all neat- ly written out, her aunt covered the answers, and Bessle found that she could remember every one of them, “Thank you, Aunt HEsther,” said the little girl. *“This has been so easy, and I thought it was so hard. I will try mamma’s button bag again.” BELLEN NIELSEN, Age 9. Lebanon, Her Trip to Boston. Dear Uncle Jed: I am writing you and the Wide Awakes about my trip to Boston. I got up very early in the morning and dressed myself and had my break- fast. My clothes were neatly packed in _a small vaise. My mother and father took me to the station. They bought my ticket and I bade them goodbye. I went on the train and waved to them. The train flew so fast that 1 could hardly see the telegraph poles by the side of ihe, track, About noon the train reached Bos- ton, the place where 1 to stop. I found my friends waiting for me | at the station. 1 greeted them very | kindly. Then we took the elevator and | went to my friend’s house. We all had our dinner and we then went to the beach. We had a lovely time. in bathing. round a joved We all went I went on the merry-go- 1d on the Derby racers. I en- it very much. TTA GOLDSTEIN, Age 12. | : i | Norw: Nutting Time, Dear Uncle Jed: One autumn day brott ister and I went to pick nuis. We took our lunch with us. I thank | busy When we got to the w we all we picking nuts. re were chest- vyou for the nice prize boc I read it|{n wnd W uts. When it was noon | all through. It is very nic I like it| We sat down to eat our lunch. We | N Al | didn't cat much of our lunch, for we | 3 i : { would rather eat nuts, and we were E. Sherwoed of Willimantic: 1 i for we wanted to get our | writing to thank you for the nice priz i book vou sent me. I will send another | saw some squirrels and rabbits, | story some time and see if I cannot ol ate: air TUOIIT A Rt Ho get another book for more nuts and it wgs pretty J o whe ve got our bhags full. Augusta Sherhevsky of Norwich: WOENL WSS Bt 8 wish’ you to accept my thanks for the! ]‘\.“<h°‘1‘\?‘° "‘l“‘l'i')"'f:"‘:' b ‘l'hr“ b d 4""‘1' book which I received from you, | N1S. AR R Aty Drige lESoawi s | as we were eating them we were tell- Lena Novik of Norwich: I thank you | ing_sto very much for sending me the priz We didn’t have any left for the next | book. I have finished reading the book | day. So the next morning we got.up | and it was nic earlier, and after breakfast we went I thank you | fOF more nuts. And we picked lot: | THanS YAl b waln for the winter. | e book you HELEN WISNESKIE, : sent me, en n the Looking FEIERY iSRS IR, ke Glass. 1 read ay through and £ found it very interesting. o T_‘ 1W3ek1 At Oxcford, : ¢ | Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell Frieda Retkovske of Norw I| vou about a week in Oxford. I went thank you very for the prize|on Tuesday and returned Wednesday. book I won in in. It is very | All the week the weather was good So interesting. 1 to try and!my cousin and I could see the S write more stories and letters so that| and the firecrackers. I saw: a 1 can win more books. | of_people, ; B st | In the crowd there were some peo- E. Abbett Smith of Burnside, Ct.: | iene syere T I received my prize book and thank | {'“’ Whohat, Just ot makriehs iy i you very much for it. 1 have started | tam In back was a sign that they | to read it and like it very much just got married. One of the | firecrackers said Oxford and another | Srwie one said Good Evenin | WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. AY TON, Age 11 P. Vallette Puppy. Alice M. Gorman Dearie Dot and the Dog. 1—Hortens His Lords! of Baltie, of Versailles, 3—Elien Nielson of Lebanon, Dotty Dimple Out West. 4—Helen M. Reynolds of Eagleville, Dotty Dimple at Play. 5—Nathan Cook of Ballouville, Dotty Dimple at School. 6—Lena Novick of Norwich, Miss Malcom's Ten. 7—Irene Kudascher of Norwich, Miss Charity's House. 8—E, Cordsl Smith of Packer, Grace Harlow Sophomore Year. Winners of books living in the city may call at The Bulletin business office for them at any hour after 10 a. m. Thursday. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. Making Study Easy. Dear Uncle Jed: Be: sat by table, working at her home task arithmetic. Her face was very for she was in a great ish and 2o out to play w Polly. Bye and bve Aunt Hsther came in and seeing Bessie, asked her why she Wwas not out at play. “I have to get my the in sober, ry to fin- h her cousin number work WANDERERS OF THE SKY--SHOOTING STARS By JANET NICHOLLS. Fivery boy and girl must some time | have seen a_ shooting star, and prob- | ably most of them have seen a great | many. because they are very common | and we can see them almost any eve- ning. particularly in August and No- vember. Sometimes these stars fall to earth, but they don’t look like stars then——they are only black masses of rock—and ‘gometimes there is & whole shower of them at once. At a place called I/Algle, in Trance, in the vear | 1803, between 2,000 and 3,000 fell at| e time. | 1t is very strange to see things which | seem to be stars shoot madly from | their spheres, as Shakespeare says. It is even stranger to see a mass of rock fall from the skv, and for a long time people refused to believe that these strange stones really did come from the sky: Put afier the shower at 1/Aigle it was tmpossible to doubt it, and now the people who study the stars know that our earth is contin- nally belng pelted with small bodles ranging in size from pebbles or grains | of sand up to masres weighing many tons. The shooting star was named by the Greeks a meteor (mee-te-or), which really means a thing in the air; but when this thing in the air falls to the earth we call it a meteorite. It is only 2 very few of the larger meteors that fall. The smaller ones, usually no big- ger than a pinhead, are burned up be- fore they can reach the earth. Traveling at the rate of ten, twen- ty. thirty or forty miles a second, a meteor strikes our,K atmosphere with tremendous force, and the heat pro- duced by the collision usually dissolves it Into vapor. As the burning mass rushes through the upper air we see a “shooting star.” A larger meteor may get within two or three ml!axof the earth before it is burned up; themn we see & very brilliant shooting star. ‘A very large one reaches the earth without being entirely melted. Then it is called a meteorite. This hap- pens several times every vear In some part of the earth Ever so many meteorites have been placed in museums. The largest one that has ever heen found s in the Museum of Natural History, in New York. It welghe thiriy-seven and a half tons and was brought from Green- land by Commander Robert E. Peary. The origin of these meteors was for » long fime a greaf mystery, but as- trononsers are now convinced that the whole solar system is filled with these small bodies. Therefore it would be strange if we did not run into them occasionally. They revolve around the sun just as ihe planets do and many have been found to move in streams. They are siretched out in great rings around the sun and often there is one part of the ring which is mucn thick- er than the remainder. This is called the “gem” of the ring. Hundreds of such streams have been counted. but two are very much larger than the others. One of the: year in the month we run into gvery of November, and every thirty-thrBe Years for at least 1,300 years—and nobody knows how much longer—we have been running into the gem. In the vear 1833 we ran into this Jewel of the siy, and the meteors fell by millions, likc snowflakes in a-storm. In the year 539 we must have run into it also, for Arabian writer tells us that stars shot hither and thither and flew against each other like a swarm of locusts. Of course people were dread- fully frightened and many of us would still be frightened if we saw the stars behave in this wa But as long as ) in_the sky we don't need to be afraid of them. It is just as well, however, not to be around when they are falling, for they have been known to kill people. The meteors that fall in November are cailed Leonides (Lee-on-i-dees), because they seem to fall from the constellation Leo. Those that fall in August we call Perseids (Per-see-ids), or Persaldes (Per-see-i-dees), because they seem to fall from the constella- tion Perseus. The November meteors led to a very important discovery about meteors. Just about fifty years ago an astron- omer caleulated the orbit of the Leon- ides; that is, he traced the path which ey followed around the sun. About the same time a comet appeared and it was found that it was also due every thirty-three vears. Another astron- omer figured out its orbit. and then the Italian astronomer, Schiaparelli, who discovered the canals on Mars, noticed that the two orbits were exactly the same. The meteors evidently were following the comet and it scemed reasonable to suppose that they had once forrned a part of it. Afterwards it was discovered Lhat the August me- teors were also following a comet, and then so many other streams of me- teors were connected with comets that astronomers concluded that probably all meteors werc once parts of comets. Central V He Had Many Presents. Dear Uncle Jed: I am taking time to write you a letter as there Is no | skating or sliding toda | I hope all the Wide Awalkes enjoyed | Christmas as well I did. T .had | a good many presents. Some of them were useful, such as a raincoat and | a watch. I also had games, candy and books. I hope I may be able to | win a prize book so as to add one | more to my library. R. PERCY PARKHURST, Age 13. Stafford Springs. Life on the Farm. Dear Uncle Jed: T am ten yvears old. I live on a large farm. 1 have three | brothers and two sisters. My father has ten cows and two horses. I go to_school and am in the sixth grade. I went to school all last year and ir tend to this year without missing a day. My brothers set skunks snd muskrats. two muskrats and one We have a_dog. His name is Rover. We raise duck: Buineas, ‘We had a nineteen pound turkey for our Christmas dinner- I got lots of presents for Christmas, I go ice-skating and roller skating. I like to skate and slide down hill E. CORDELIA SMITH traps_for They skunk. He is a good dog. rabbits, caught | turke hens and Packer Why the Clover is so Sweet. Dear Uncle Jed You why the clover day I am going to tell so sweet. One to a daisy and a little fairy flew will vou give me some said the daisy. “I will not give the fairy flew to a rose and | Beautiful Rose, will you give me me honey “You may have just a little” said the rose. ; Thanks.” said the fairy, “I do not | care for yo honey.” | hen away she flew to the clover. | “Little Clover,” she aid, “will you | give me some hone. “Indeed, 1 will, “Take all you want.” “Thank you,” sdid I will be kind to vou. the clover. { iry Now Hereafter you Wwill have more honey than any other flower.” And from that day the clover has heen sweet with SRRY, Age 8 Norwich. What She Did During Vacation. Dear Uncle Jed: As T have not w: ten for a long time, 1 will write and tell you what I did in my Christmas vaca- tion. 7 I went down to South Manchester for a week. I went to an entertain- ment at a church; Sunday night 1 went to a concert at a church and to the moving pictures one night. I re- ceived quite a few presents. Two books. I always like books, T had a very good time. I will have to go to school next week, I hope all of the Wide Awakes had as good a time at Chrisimas as I did. VIVIAN M. STONE. Hampton. | Santa Claus at School. 1 Dear Uncle Jed: T want to write a ! few lines to vou about Christmas at my school. Santa Claus came to our school and | he gave me a book and some water- colors; and gne of the boys got a boy doll and all/of the other scholars got water-colors, too. T will close now, saying goodby. ALTON B. GRAY, Age 6. A Merry Christmas. Dear Uncle Jed: I suppose all the ‘Wide Awakes had a_merry Christmas, and I hope Santa Claus was good to them. Santa Claus was good to me. Tomorrow /is my sister's birthday, She 15 going Lo make a party. She iy going Lo invite me and six more chil~ dren. I suppose we will have a good time. . 1 had 2ood time Christmas, T hung my stocking Christmas eve. I | paints a; | m: I'll fasten him all right for you.' { | “Don’t you touch my dog, si sald the young woman, excitedl: T will | ! the dog was thrown off, but the woman early to go to my stocking’ 3 in_ stocking a banana, in paper and PR ey in a and my sis Fam:a ; S0 did my other sis- ef. I had a Christmas tree in my house. MARY GORMAN, Age 6. Versailles. Fire_at Storrs. Dear Uncle Jed: I have read the stories of the Wide Awakes many times and like them very much, so I thought I would write a story, too. Last Sunday there was a fire at the @onnecticut Agricuitural coilege at Storrs, three miles from the place where I live. My father went in an automobile with some other men who went up to help. The building that burned was called Gold hall. There were six stenographers and some col- lege students had rooms in it, besides a family living in it downstairs, ‘There was a large building side of it. Two men were on top of the large building keeping the blankets wet. While one man was keeping wet blankets on the roof he fell off by ac- cident and struck on his left side and got badly hurt. They took him to St. oseph's hospital and think he will re~ cover. I have read The Trail of the Lomne- some Pine, Daddy’s Girl, A Sweet Girl Graduate, Grimm's and Anderson’s Fairy Tales, Miss Nonenity, Farmer Holt’s Daughter and The Bird's Christ- mas Carol. I find them all very Inter- esting. HELEN=M. REYNOLDS, Age 12. Eagleville. Ruth Saw Santa Claus. { Dear Uncle Jed: The night Christmas 1 spoke a piece church. All the other girls Ypoke and | sang. I had a nice time. H After one of the girls finished speak- ing T looked around and Santa Claus before } in . the| came trotting . 1 was glad to see | him. He looked so funny I had to laugh. He brought me lots of pres- ents. My mamma said it ! was a good girl. I hope good to all the other little RUTH BLLA Danielson. What Santa Claus Brought Me. Dear Uncle Jes had eight books, som nd a new dress. ster had a box of writing paper posteard book. Santa made me a nice present of a doll. He made me a new dress and a new hat and a pair of shoes. 1 was very glad when he brought me these t T hope Sant 't forget the Wide Awakes on Christmas cve CHRISTIN Ballouville. About Christmas. Christmas morning when I got out of bed I.went downstairs to see if d any toys in my stocking. I asked mother if Santa Claus had come. My mother said: “He came about 11 o'¢lo¢k last night. After I took my ti out stocking my mother told me chicken for dinner. After dinner I went skating uncle. My uncle and I went H Quatic river, and it was excellent skat- i That night we came home about 9 o'clock. . I hada fine time during my vacation, but I was all ready for school when it began. | | { i of my to kill a i | with my | | DELOS CASSON, Age 12. | Ballouviile. } What | Got for Christmas. | Dear Uncle Jed: For Christmas I| got two games, two books, a box of | paints, a new hat, a worl basket, a pair of stockings and many other: thinge. | Besides that I made a poor woman | happy. I gave a big box of frult. Papa killed a chicken, picked it and cleaned it, and I carried it up to her. | She was very happy. 1 hope to make someone else happy | next year. | ALICE HAZEN, Age 9. Ballouville. My Travel to the Mountains. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would tell you about my travels and what I saw. Last August in ons of the moun- tain-bound parlor cars sat a richl dressed young woman tenderly holuing a very small poodle. “Madam,” said the conductor, as he puriched her ticket, “I am very sorry, but you can’'t have your dog in this car. "I's against the rule.” “I shall hold him in my lap all the way,” she replied, “and he will disturb no one.” “I couldn’t allow my own dog here. Dogs must ride in the baggage car. trust him to no one,” and with indig nant tread she marched to the baggage car, tled her dog, and returned. About 50 miles farther on, when the | conductor came along again, she asked him: “Will you tell me if my dog s all righ “But you tied him to a trunk, and he was thrown off with it at the last sta- tion!” 1 felt very sorry when T heard that e still_rode on; then the stopped angd T watched the people sailing on the ocean, and enjoyed it very much. T hope 1 will have as good a vacation summer as I had in August. LENA NOWICK, Age 11, Norwich. th Watch Meeting. Dear Uncle Jed: Dec. 31, 1913, the Epworth league of the Methodist Epis- &as been womanly diseases. B will help you, if yeu know for pears ez ft Bas positively provem its great viiue (2 the trestment ef copal church gave ‘watch e G nt'x.onu church e Congrega 3 From 9 to half past 10 preaching and then at half past 19 the ladies served light refreshments. At 12 o'clock we went around and wished the Deople A Happy New Year. 1 had a very good time, ana we are stlll hoping that it will be so we can have another one the coming year. ELLA NYE, Age 12. South Coventry. A Visit to Grandma’s Farm, Dear Uncle Jed: 1 want to write and tell you how I spent my vacation last | summer. Papa and my sister and I took the 10 minutes past 10 train at | union station for Hartford. We Maa | to change cars at Willimantic. We | arrived at Hartford at about 12 o’clock ; and then took the car for Glastonbury. ; ‘When we arrived at Glastonbury my uncle met us with the car e, and we drove out in the country to my grand- mother’s farm. My sister and I had a lovely time. We used to feed the chickens and give them water. Sometimes we went to the field to watch my uncle hoe tobacco and watch him set out new plants to take the place of those that died. The tobacco lants look very pretty when they are n bloom. The leaves are very large and the blossoms are pink. ‘When the plants are ready to cut my uncle cuts them down with a tobacco hatchet and puts themy in the tobacco shed until he is ready to prepare them for sale. My sister and 1 used to go to the meadow and watch papa load the hay on to the wagon. When it was loaded on papa used to lift us up on the hay ! and we all rode back to the barn. We staved there two weeks and had a pleasant visit. IRENE KUDASCH, Age 11 Norwich. STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. A Visit to My Cousin. 2 to my cousin in | mmer. 1 took ! 1 went on Attleboro, Mas: visit last the train from Baltic to Attleboro. When I got there I met two cousins who I had not seen before. { One afternoon my two cou and 1 visited Capron park. The next day we went on a picnic. There were eight | of us. We all went to Providence, where I visited more of my’ cousi When we returned to Attleboro we went out for an automobile ride to Plainviile, North Attleboro, and returned. We all went another picnic to a lake with a very long name which I have forgotten. Before we got to the lake the automobile broke. We ail got out and walked to the lake. We had a good time. It was 10 o'clock when we got home that night. I enjoyed my visit very much Wishing Uncle Jed A Happy New Yea HOR' E P. VALLETTE, Age 10. Balt A Little Chinese Girl. The little Chinese girl lives in a low house. Her feet are bound very tight- ly. This was done when she was b, years old. She is 11 now and her feet are very small. Her mother's feet are | small, too. She does not go to the publi¢ school, for it is only for boys. She h a private teacher, as ner par- ents are rich. She has a brother older who has a very long queue, and he is very proud of it. Her father owns a store where he sells siik which is made in China. She has a beautiful dress made of silk which she got in his store. Her fingernails are very long because sne never cuts them. Around. the tp of h is a band of gold to-keep them trom_breaking. It is a custom of ri ple to let their fingernails grow very long. When her father comes in b does not take off his hat, but at the door he takes off his shoes and iays them on the doorstep. I think the Wide Awakes would like to see her and her home. I would. I hope that some day we can. | ALICE M. GORMAN, Age 1L Versailles i Chinese peo- Story of a Mad Dog. i Once upon a time there was a man who had a large St. Bernard dog which he kept for a watch dog. He valued him very highly. At might when he got home from his work he would let him in the house, and his children buid romp and play with him all the evening. They would pull him about and he did not seem to mind it. This dog would not allow anyone to come in the yard if he was loose, so the man had 1o keep him tled up. He had a cotton rope an inch through tied to his collar and fastened to a tele- graph wire, the wire being fastened to the corner of the house and the barn. One night while the man was asieep the dog went mad and bit the rope in two. It looked so it had been cut witn | a very sharp kmnife, When the man got up In the morn thought semepcdy had stolen his dog. He inquired of everyone to know if they had seen his dog, but afler a | few days he was notified by a telephone , message from Jewelt City that his dog had been killed after it had bitten two or three children. They had killed the | dog and sent his head to New York to see if he had hydrophobia. They received word that the doz was mad. The man had to pay damages, but he said he was very sorry ttat the dog bit the children, and he was also sor- ry to lose such a valuable dos. This is a_true story. ATHAN COOK, Age 10, Ballouville, Tommy's Dream. Tommy broke his wrist through fool. ishly trying to climb a tree. How strange it is bovs like to do such hings when it isn’t necessary, for very, ! he Woman’s Relief De Krugers Vibura-O-Gin Compound, the womawn's remedy, Rell sinos Weman' are & Gufferer frem any of the Uis pecullar to women, which can be reached by medicine. 3t has helped thousauds of other sick atters from them clsarly describe. Nt econtains =e polsences women, as grateful i f AtH months old 35 DOSESS 35 Cexts ) The Kind You Have - Always Bought ; - Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPARY, NEW YORX CITY.. he what I n. got ot often they for boy get hurt. on the ground, up in the air, . Tommy was in be hurt, claims that he fell a am going lee; to teil yo Tommy saw the door to read “What are you going to do?’ asked Tommy. “T've come to read you a few help- d his nd dreamed hi: father { bedroom The pro; with a good home and plenty to eat or in and wear. To go on with my story. Godfrey ; of cour thought he would go after some ber- ries, t0o. So off he started with a fpail on his arm for the same lot in which Ned had just entered. After filling his pail he climbed over open and in walked Mr. Cochin, the | the wall and was about to jump imto | rooster, with a big book under his | thée road when he met with defeat. wing. The boy seemed to be fright- | Instead of jumping into the road, he | ened, but Mr. Cochin jumped on a |leaped into a mud puddle, losing his table the side of the bea, puiled | hat and spilling his berries in the bar- a pair of spectacles out from his feath- | gain. He called for help, which came ers, and, putting them on, made ready | immediately. Ned Smith happened to come up just in time to save the poor_ strug- gling boy, just as Abraham Lincoln saved the pig. ful rules for climbing trees,” said | . When Godfrey turned and saw his Mr. Cochin. “If vou will persist in | rescuer his face turned a vivid scar- roosting around iike us birds, you |let. The two boys stood for a moment should know how to do it properly.” | looking at each other. The one hon- . Cochin went on turning _the | est face, the other a once seifish face, leaves until he finally said: “Ah, here | but Godfrey had changed. He was it is: Trees, flving up into. Rule one, | the first to break the silence. Squat firmly on both claw “I thank you,” he said simply, “for But T haven't any claws,” Tommy | the service You have rendered me this said_faintly. afternoon. I regret those cruel words “That's a fact, we'll have to try | I spoke to you today. Now will you again. The second rule is to spread | gome and see my flowers?'—Unsigned, your wings wide 1 never had any wings” Tommy said, growing bol@er because his vis- d so friendly.” the third rule, which | “Then hold your | hen om. } Onie farmer’s nm) ly JE stralg burs Tommy, Norwich, N. < don't have feathers in scratched his for and Always Be Polite. rm day ame in “July, t. t out laughing, as chin a | rning the pages of vou. Ned past a neighbor’s | It that have mno should never cems to meet your the best vou can do is to follow the rule | vt up to the letter.” Mr. Cochin w specta her Tommy the Lost in the Woods. There was once a little girl named Jane. She was an only child, three vears old. Her parents were very fond of her. | One day her mother went out and | left Jane alone with the maid. The ! maid did not pay much attention to her, so Jane finally opened the zate | and went out. After walking about a quarter of a mile she came to a fleld and stopped to pick some daisies. Af- ter she picked some she walked untli she came to a wood. Thinking she would find her way home she walked until she came to the deepest part of the woods, Meanwhile her mother came and asked her where Jane was and she sald Jane was playing with her toys. Then she went to see if she was there and she wasn't. So her father was called and when he came to the woods and called for Jane and she answered and she did not go away from home again. INEZ MESSER, Age 10. Norwich, The Mouse and the Lien. house with a basket on his arm. Ha was going after blackberries. | Once upon a_time a mouse was try- As he ncared the gate which he had | 1n2to find food. He jumped on & Hom. to pass. he saw some pretty flowers | e mouse said: “Let me go; let me in a flower hed close by. Fe stopped | go [ might do something for you. ri and ed at the flowers ad- The lion let him go. The hunters miringiy 1 hoy came up to the s caught the lion and tied him to a tree. te in a stern v What ou W replied Ned. are 1 Wh h bov wit in a poor. anding there for? looking at your flowers,” nl ere are v Neod ith searceiy ou going with that bas- d the selfish nd de - gate a t ‘another $1.25 a bottle with directions. AND ALL DRUGGIS1S. For wervousnsa with beaten iture the sel boy. 1g after blackberries in the 't be seen | The mouse saw the lion and sald: “Are ¥ou the lion that let me go?” The iion saild: “Yes.” Ther the mouse began to gnaw the Tope. Then the lion was set free. EDWARD BENOIT, Age 9. Ballourile. Wats-bury.—For the fourth time in word and | as Ry ks, Mary Fletcher of the hig | Watersury was found Sunday mori walking the sirveeis clad only in nsel- | night gown and one stocking. She was ain a sound p and it required the 4 Jived | efforts of three policemen to get her cotiage | home, as they had to carry her. 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