Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 5, 1914, Page 9

i . T BOYS’ AND GIR Rules for Young Writers. L Write niainly on one side of thz paper cnly, and number the pages. 2. Use pen and ink, not pencil, 8. Short and pointed articies wiii be given preference. Do not use over 256 words. 4. Original stories or letters oniy will be used. 8. Write your name, age and ad- dr-ss plainly ot the bottom of the story. Address_all communications t> 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. My “Beau.” I know a jolly gentleman who's very | fond of me: He droups in almost every day to have a cup of tea. His waistcoat, whitegand spotless, and nis modest suit of gra His whiskers, long and bris a very fine display. His eves are bright and shining, and his teeth are white and strong, I just love to have him smile at me, he cannot smile too long. ing, make He hasn't said a word of love or dared io steal a kiss, I'm very sure the reason it is this— de holds my ha*d at every chance, the aucy little chap, aAnd e'en sometimes I've known him to €it down on my lap. Of course, I must discourage him, but oh, it's very hard, He’s the nicest beau I ever had—the squirrel in our yard. ~—Martha B. Thomas, in Animals. But Our Dumb UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. Uncle Jed has been well impre. by the thoughtfulness of those Wide- Awakes who are kind to the useful tle birds. Few people ever realize that the birds are more ancient than man and that they beheld the glory of sne skies before man did. t is said of man that he is fearfully and wonderfully made, but he is no #ore fearly and wonderfully made than the birds. to navigate a steamer or an airship to any part of the world thousands miles away—he has to be very learned in geography and mathemat and understand the use of fine instrument to make his way from New York to any port in South America, but a car- rier pigeon taken from a remote Penn- #ylvania town to Rio Janeiro in a cage vas released 4.000 miles away his dove cote, and on the 47th day he arrived home, showing he has a way man knows not of to find his way through the heavens, and allowing seven days for rest and nourishment he made 100 miles a day with the energy Qod gave him. All birds have the homing habit and the little snewbirds and winter birds which feed at the boxes at the back @oor know where they nest in the sum- mer time away north beyond the habi- | tations of man. In winter even the great Arctic owl flies as far south as Norwich hunting his food. The hardier summer birds which are mow fn the south spending the winter | fn & mflder climate know where their ©ld nests are located and will return | to them in & few weekg. When you think of thess little birds away be- yond the mountains of the south com- ing ftrect to the tres or bush in which he likes me, aml! It takes a skilled man | of } from : THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE LS’ DEPARTMENT they nested iast year in your backyard you wiil know the birds are fearfully and wonderfully made. This may be said of all of other God's creatures, and that is why they are all doing the will of the Cre- and not do injury to themselves. kind to the birds. WINNERS ‘OF’ PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Grace Kern of Girls from School. The Boy Land Boomers. | The Romance of a Midshipman. 6—Elizabeth Parker The Jolly Ten. of Benhurst Club. 8—Edith Hill | Mother. ot 15 dollars here!” | Winners of books may call at The It can’t be all Bulletin office at any hour after 10 a. | el books inly is,” said Beatrice, and i EhuECaYtor e boalek old her mother all about it. { LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT., | The mother looked happy and pleased | Alice M. Gorman of Ve ceived the prize book Pol sent me. 11 it and th much for it. illes: ich 1 | | | | Gladys B, Newbury of Norwicl wish to thank vou for my book ent { tled Billow Prairie I have starte and find it very interest thanks for it. you sent me. Have read and find it very intere Randall Sherman of Colct thank you very much fo book I received. I am so pleased wi it and think it is a very interesting little story ir Margaret to thank tled The Seven and 1 en | ting my library { glad to have my I thi interesting get mor the numb are very to try | to WRITTEN AWAKES. A Day’s Outing. | STORIES BY WIDE- day last summer my friend and my tent, some books we were to read and ot ut under a bi 3 we were tal came softly over and look: and we didn’t like that we started to eat our lu | i | t we had finished we wen te | read. We read a while and then wen in the tent to get some cak had | left ther when to our surprise we 53w a big biack snake. ‘We scared that away with &tick stones and went out to read { After a little while my friend s: i *“Oh, Mildred! J see how bla the sky is over there We are goi to have a thunder shower.” That was the most frigh oF all so we took our things and went home to | stay the rest of the day | MILDRED V. MORLE Age 9. Eagleville. ! — | A Birthday Surprise. Beatrice was sit the fire sew- the door. opened it and it read as Dear Beairice By JANET ; Al boys and girls love flowers and + ‘usually it is they who find the first blossoms that.come out in the spring. {But very few of them ever think of Jooking for the fiowers of winter. Yet fhe flcwers of summer are no loveller, snd in some ways they seem even less wonderful, Unllise the fowess of summer, the | flowers of winier do uot come out of { ‘the ground. A on the contracy, messages from the angels, and we muy aiso find them on our windows in the moening if our rooms ars not weil beated, or perhaps in our water pitch- arg, while the surface of every pond | and river is sure to he covered with them. When s great many of them are sollected together we call them snow and frost and ice, but no matter what Wwe call them, or how different they ! look, they are all miracies of beauty ! =1l very mach alike, erystals are the most beautiful of these winter flowers and also the { easiest {0 study. The best time to look for tham is.ou 2 stifl, cold day, When | there is much wind stirring the deli- «ate stara are Deoken as they fall, and ; when ii ian't-very eold they partly melt » aad stick io one amother, making the | Jarge, heavy suowilakes ' one has noticed. 1f we examine a greal many of these ervstals in a great many different anowfalls, we #hall find a most won- derful variety of beautiful forms. Eclentista have pholographed aver a thousand of them, and probably we could go on forever finding new ones. The stars sre the commonest forms, but they are not ihe only ones. Tt ; takes a comparativelr mild atmosphere | io make stars. The colder air pro- duces solid cryastals, which generally cake the form of thin piates of ice that are almost aw beautiful when seen that every- ' under *thy microscope as the stars. | the form of needles. Seme observers tell us that they have ween llttle pyramidas of ice, and in extreme coid the crvstals often take Doubls crystals. @omnected dy tiny rods of ice and Tooking gomething like fairy cuff links, xTe %0 common that sometimes almost v arvsial in a storm is of this kind. th ail this wonderful variety theto s an equally wonderful like- pess. For some reason that nobody i ¥nows water is wedded to the number alx, and with the exeeption of a few three-gided and irregular forms all its crystals are bullt on a six-sided plan. The stars have six 8 and the needles and' pyramids and little ice plates all have six sides, On the tops of high mowmmtains, or in the Polar regions, the snow frequently falls in the form of fine white dust eor delicete needies. Neither the dust nor the needles look as though they had gny deflnite form; but if one examines them under the microscops ong finde that the par- ticles of dust are the heginnings of six-pointed stars and that the needles Rave six sides. -« the regular growth of the sat mn.ng of them, | i: from the sky, 1ke FLOWERS OF WINTER--SNOWFLAKES NICHOTLS. crystal has not been interrupted in any way the six parts are almost ex- aotly like onen anotk It 3 {of a star branches out into spicules (from the i little point) every exactly the same r 1 arranged in the same and If one of the six parts of a he 8on, or si ided 1 decorated n & par r way five 1 be decorated in the of s : way This is ail so wonderfulu that it worth whiie stopping to think about it a litle. How do the atoms know their places in these wonderful com- binations of sixes? They are not sup- posed to have any minds, but if a lot of bo: and girls the Wwere suddenly to arrange themselves in ome “of these complicated patterns they would be thought to be ve clever indeed. Well, the atoms are very clever, too there isn’ use in trying to out how they manage it, for n knows. Peo- Ple have tried to explain it, but as they didn't know anything about themselves their explan help anyone very mu did ‘The most they can tell \nazing process of ion i hat atoms are ve fond of ord 23 © get out of order ex compulsién. ~ With us, of compulsion usually has t way. but atoms are different, it a | and the at of al ances if allowed {0 pass from t the solid state under ditions will arrange the tain definite forms 1 different substance has its own ular kind of crystals. But none are so beau- tiful as those of wate water freezes it cryst Whether 1t is up i ’air, where it is easy to imagine that fairy hands are arranging the atoms in fairy patterns, or whether it is in our water pipes, or on our ponds, where we don’t expect things to happen, the same 13 performed. The water particles, as they pass from the liquid to the solid state, arrange themselves in six-sided forms. We don't see the tals in ice, be- cause they are crowded so closa to- gether, but they are there, neverthe- less, and are quite as wonderful as snow erystals. Professor Tyndall calls them the “flowers of ice,” and tells us that if a concentrated beam of sun- light, or & ray of electric light, is pass- ed through a bleck of ice, it will melt the crystals here and there and en- able us to see them, or rather the water of which they were formed and whieh still retains the general shape of the erystal. Litéle shining points appear in the path of the light, and around each is a beautiful water flow- er with six petals. The bright spot is a vacuum, for the water takes up space than the crysial did, and leaves an emply space in the center, and whenever 1i strange miracle we should not hold their lives cheaply, for ator, and no one can be cruel to them Be | Norwich, Three 2—George D. Palmer of Griswold, Louis Wohllebone of Taftville, A Mansfield, 7—Harriet Perkins of Colchester, The of Oneco, Their Little I re-| not | ves in cer- ! the bosom of the | jover this afternoon and help me straighten the house, as I am all upset from moving? Beatrice told the boy she would surely be there. That afternoon when Beatrice went to Mrs. King's she was | told she would have about two weeks' work, and as Mrs. King was a wealthy {lady and very liberal she told Beatrice she would give her ten dollars for her work. Beatrice was tie daughter of a poor widoew. She tried to do some work to help her mother support the house. So it was no wonder she was glad to get this job. 0 to work she looked wor- morning to i d. ried and ti Mother,” said Beatrice, “you aren’t going to work the morning of your birthday, are you?” “Why, ye enougih mor due my dear. I have hardly y for the rent, and it 1s tomorrow. So ou can't expect | 1 | | me nc W even if it is my | P enadics 1e not to go to work even i i e : 3 | birtha { _4—Sarah Hyman of Norwich, A| “Oh, mother, I think I can give vou Young Heroine. { enough money’ for the rent,” said Bea- 5—Allie E. Kramer of 2 aid the mother.- “Do you mean to tell me you can give me six dol ., “Just wait and see if I can’t” said 3 She then produced a smail and took from it all her She gave it to her mother, who {here in amazement. nd O and you didn't even tell m while!” You see, Ma, 1 E: and wante irprise ‘A daughter. a rise, my i KERN, Age 13. Eagle. and e s go and the eagle and fa do not like the eagle beca 1 anything that comes in go up the nest v watch 1gle is the time rd on the e HAROLD W BLAIS, | st by the ]‘ Brown had and sed to make e cre, ff had to and forth treadfl he 1 ent h S| r time, when step he spied a two rods below his m come m up the hill, hole with his me | £ n to catch | him. | GEORGE D, PALMER, Age 14. Griswold | How the Months have alre We reanin 1 m na from July was sold Her Pet Bluebird. x vou a story wh I found the ground ch n to ough. It would alight on my sing for me, and even eat hands. ery day it would Ay E 1e neighbo! g wood. One bright morning it flew away, as it always came it ) I went out for it, but in vain, forq couldn’t and went disappointed. next morning I went looking and found it dying on the home and mourned e fence around wers inside the whenever I see bluebirdg T re- \ber t 1. too, once had a pet ROSE BLUMENFIELD. The Tinder Box. me there was a dier who met old witch on his way | home from the w | evenin she said. | | “What a fine sword you 1 nd what a big knapsack! You are a real soldier. | You shaill have as much mone as you wish.” “Thank you, old witeh, d the sol- dier. “Do that big tree?’ asked the witeh, pointing to a tree that was neart “It is qulte hollow inside, You | must climb to the top, and then you | will see a hole, through which you can let yourself slide, as to get down into the tree. 1 will tie a rope round your waist, so that I can pull you up when vou call out to me.” “What am 1 to do down in the iree?” ask the soldier, ‘Tetc You see ! some money,” replied the witch. “When vou get to the bottom of the 6 you will see a large cave it is quite bright, for over a hundrec lamps are burning will see thres door open, for the keys are in the keyholes. If you go in the first chamber you will see a great chest in the middie of the t Then you you can floor; on th sits a dog with eves as 'bi r of teacups; but You need not care about that. [ will e you my blue-checked apron, and You can spread it upon the floor; then EC quickly and take the dog-and place Beatrice did not tell her mother that { evening she had a new job, for in | about two weeks was her mother's | birthday, and she wanted to save the mone, 2 W to get to give her mother a birthday gift and surprise. ]. At t the mother’s birthday ap- proached. When she got up that high moun- | and the next day | blue- | 1 him on my apron, open the chest and | take as many pence as you like. They are all copper. If you want silver, you can have that, too. If you go into the third chamber you will find a tinder box. } FRANCIS LYNCH, Age 11. Stafford Springs. A Chat About China? I suppose vou have all seen a China- man. How funny he looks with his| long pigtail hanging down his back, | and queer shaped clothes and shoes. | You must rembember, however, tha Englishmen look just as odd to John Chinaman. { In China everything is very different | from what it is here. They have very few railways and no hansom cabs. When people wish to ride from one place to another, they hire a kind of chair slung between two poles and carried on the shoulders of two men, one in front and one behind. | The houses are not at all like our | houses. They are low, and the walls | in many cases are made of bamboo cowered with thick paper, so if anyone wishes to see if his neighbor is at home ~ he may just poke his finger | through the wall and peep through the hole. When a Chinese baby is a month old | all the family and friends meet to-1{ gether, and after the little one's head has been washed a barber shaves all the hair off. Master baby is then carried to a| table on which are spread little toys,| each one representing a different trade. | He, of course, grasps one of them, and ' this toy is held to represent his future trade or profession. VERONICA V. F. TUCKER, Age 16. Versailles. on | A | he | We had The Bringing Up of Teddy. ddy w a boy at the age of 8 yea His father and mother died| when he was but 4 years old, and he Now, Teddy w | and one day wh Broadwaj too small to work, e he was walking up he saw a shining object in He bent down and picked at, to his surprise, should but a silver dollor. He had not had anvthing to eat since the day before, so he thought he would get something at a cheap restaurant, and with the rest he could buy some | papers to sell. e succeeded in selling i pers and he had a profit of 12| said he. day I} is a good make a beginning, much eve have a complaint. R y feit tired by this time and thought it best to be going to bed The next morning and every morn- X that he sold papers until he s 15 vears of age. Then he sought v position as cash boy in a large firm. first he got but four dolla A week, ause of his honesty by the time w to be a man his wages In- creased great He is now one of the members of the firm be: b BESSIE FOX. Norwich. Father Sandman. { et out of my way, stupid the third night I Lave tum- , soft- would | 4 | Pippitello laughed shrilly as he swung himself slowly to and fro on the low branch of nearby shrub, chanting “Close, little e close up tight , for the Sandman’s come to town!™ The old fellow had gone Into his a it wa sarly dark nov old brown shoe came , catching t elf as he| him neatly on t th him. 1dm childr He was not in goes very softl n may not he ing h r Sherman, and ickle was heard coming from | and that was a Pip went 1g revenge. In the middle upper he snapped his fingers > he cried himself to another fried ng: and he began to hum a n saw Pip, ana it is you who are sorry [ am sorry,” was the re- all the children sit up habies must go ear- | t the Sandm babi er n The next minu ck on his and a smile on ce, was trotting off to the town. | LILLIAN BREHAUT, Age 16. st Norwich . LETTERS TO UNCLE JED, The Bird and the Sheep. Dear Uncle I am going to tell you about the Once upon father were sitting under a tree tend- ing sheep. A man came along with a dog sight of the dog the sheep were fi ened, and ran through some bushes which were nearby. | This tore the sheep's wool for there | were thorns on the bushes and the | wool < to them At sight of this the boy was very angry and said: i her) these ould be cut down,” but n had he said | thig than a bird flew down and took the wool away. Then the father turn- ed to his son and said: “My son, now do you want these bushes cut down: the bird will x a good warm nest for his young hout the wool replied: “N bushes stand where | ELIZABETH M'GARRE Taftville, The Dance in School. | Dear Uncle Jed: T will tell you about the dance we had in school. two days before Christmas. Some children were months, and others were elves. There was a boy who was Father Time. I was an elf. The elves had white wings on their back. The months had whatever thing came into me of the month. July carried a December carrled a little Christ- mas tree, and November with the tur- key for Thanksgiving day. The months and elves had snow on their heads, everybody in the play was dressed in white. My sister was a month. The elves and months went into an- other room. Then the elves would march into the room singing a song. Bix elves danced around one tree and the other five would dance around an- other. Then they stoppred dancing around the tree and three or four elves wonld speak. Presently the months would ceme in. \We were all greeted et A we would all make Christmas glad, say he knew how to make Christmas glad. He said to us all 10 help cheer- the poer, Thep we would tell Father think hew to One elf would | o | coons old fellow, with | 2 1 AAI\‘;;OHOL 3 PER CENT. getable Preparationfor. similating the Food ting the Siomachs OT NARCOTIC. Tre CENTAUR COMPANT, - NEW YORK. E Ath monihs old CASTORIA The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature ir Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIP THE CENTAUR CHwes Y, KEW YORK CITY. Time all the sad things we saw be- | Christmas. month to go with one of us. fore by two Time an happy. A mon ab Christ sing Norwi Dear { snows Colchest born, an snowin bri; hi down would That made it I gu no one ha them up. a teleph call a Then two we would come up to Father d tell him wha they had made He would nth would “it was only a e in the manger who brought mas hymn. Then we a song. enjoyed it very much. d oranges out to each one. people present to said they en- re many d they much, ARAH HYMAN, Age 10. The Big Snowstorm. "ncle Jed: I don’t believe many the Wide Awakes have seen such a | orm as we are having In_East er. I never have since I was d I am 11 years old. It began Friday evening and did not il Sunday morning. some places were as high Is. It was all papa could do Sunday it so I went out and slid out every slide I took I headfirst into a big drift. all the more fun the roads are prett been out till today to break 1 ght, I tell you we are giad to have one so that we can talk with the neighbor: rning my brother started for he came back. It is the ed at school. out from town he had to go back, s in today and I e drifts will be worse tomor I have been writing this letter | nan telephoned that had miles and would have to go | ALLIE KRAMER. Colchester. Dear are tent cocoon of. I ve tached t Most 1 wt Cocoons of Moths. ‘nele Jed: 1 have been getting I have nineteen Prometheus; pped in a leaf. The leaf winter. two Cecropi TFheir cc- wn in color o 1so have one other know the name dark aped. I ich 1 don’t seen cocoon at- o a noth 2 wire at night red and white wings are d with red, black avd has a large white crescent spot, bordered with red and black on each wing. e caterpill has tubercles or knobs on its body. Those near the hear are like red coral, others are bright blue and some are yellow. P One of my Cecropias I found when a cate llar upon n apple leaf. I put it in a box and gave it apple leaves every day In a few days it spun a cocoon. Have any of you Wide-Swakes found any cocoons en gathering egg masses LIZABETH PARKER, Age 12. Mansfield. Dear died, les divided followi g An Eastern Puzzle. Uncle Jed: An old Persian ring seventeen camels to be among his three sons in the proportions: The eldest to have half, the second a third and the t a’ ninth. As the camels sould not be divided into fractions, the brothers a very wise old der Nothi First the seventeen, thus making eighteen | came s half, third, w to have ing which was nine, seventeen wise dervish his one not wise? HARRIET PERKINS, submitted their differences to sh. ng easier!” said the wise one. divide them for you.” he added one of his own to The eldest brother took the second his hich was six, the third wa a ninth, which was two, mak- in all, and giving the camel. Was he Age 14. Colchester, Dear Awake ( The Bul I have A Busy ttle Girl. Uncle Jed: I read the Wide “ircle stories every time I ge letin. I like them very much written once before, but per haps you do not remember as you have« so_many to look gt Our supervisor ‘has asked the schoo children 1 am I go to school every day, and at night | I get in to write more letters. going to tell you what I do my kindling wood and water. At 5 o'clock 1 go over to my neigh- bor and milk. I a little One At two Chri Unece summer get her milk pail to get some run errands for her and earn that wa L stmas time dre: things. Some ob get, but carned six dollar: I bought a coat, sses and matny other useful T like to Save up my mone: hildren spend every cent the) 1 do not think it is right, EDITH HILL, Age 13, bad, as | Winter Sports. | Dear Uncle Jed: We have had an |ice storm here and in the daytime [when the sun Is out the ice on the trees | sparkles. | quite a We have had snow hers which is | fce and snow, as I enjoy coasting and 1 | | | | » yet. But I don’t mind skating after I have done my home- work. F have coasted several times this vear on_a toboggan with some of my friends. We coasted on a hill which was very icy and it was very hard climbing up the hill, as sometimes we would get half-way and then fall and slide to the bottom and have to <limb up | again. The top of the snow freezes we can walk on it without g through | | half a v lucky in getting have had at least either in going dowm dozen, to high school or walking home. I started attending Oyster Bay High school in September, 1913, and have been on the honor roll every month. The pussy willows are blooming fast, JESSIE BREHAUT. PFast Norwich Stubborn Annoying Coughs Cured. “My husband had a cough for fifteen yvears and my son for eight years. Dr. King’s New Discovery completely cur- ed them, for which I am most thank- ful,” writes Mrs. David Moor of Sag- | inaw, Ala. What Dr. King’s New Dis- d for these men, it will do for ¥ Dr. New Discovery should be in every home. 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