Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 19, 1914, Page 9

THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE BOYS' AND GIRLS' DEPARTMENT Rules for Young Writers. 1. Write -iajnly on one side of tne enly, and number the pages. Use ren and ink. net pencil. ___Shert and peinted uartieles w = &i¥en preference. Do net use ove '1 guehd steries er letters oniy wiil be used. 8. Write your mame, age and ad- s= plainly et the betfem of the Address all communicatlens t> Un- cle Jed, Buletin Office. “Whatever you are—Be that! TWhatever you say—Be true! Stralghtforwardly act, Be honest—In faet, Be nebedy else but you.” POETRY. LITTLE LAD. By Emma A. Lente, Little Lad, Little Lad, Why o gay? : Are your happy feet'so light They go prancing all the day? Is your heart so full of joy , Is it fine to be a hoy? You are never still a minute. Little Lad. | i Little Lad, Little Lad, Why so loud? When yvou frolic by yourself, One would think there was a crowd! Tp and down the winding stair, Finding pleasure everywhere: sleep can make you quiet, Little Lad. Little Lad, Little Lad, | Why so dear? All the world would be a desert Unto us were you not here, With the love-light in your eyes, And vour questions overwise,— Who could answer all your querics, Little Lad. Little Lad, Little Lad, Why so still? Are vou tired of happy playing, Al so quickly had your fill? You have sickened by the way, But be swift to health, we pray, For the house is all too quiet, Little Lad. Little Lad, Little Lad, Why so meek? Pain has quenched your spirit's fire, Rest is now your main desire. Oh, to hear you slam the doors! Oh, to hear you dance the floors- Hasten to your old-time joyance, Little Lad. WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1 Frank Pardy, of Errand Boy.” Norwich, “The 2,Rose Alperin, of Mansfieild Four Corpers. “Aunt Madge's Story.” 3 Margaret Heibel, of Taftville, “Little Pondy’s Cousin Grace.” 4 Sarah T. Waish, of Norwich, Regular Tomboy."” 5 Eleaner P. Norton, of Norwich, “Little Grandmother.” 6 Alfreda Waiker, of Gurleyrville, “Little Prudie's Story Book.” 7. Lillian Brehaut, of East Norwich, N. Y, “Lady of the = & Fannis Rosenberg of ““The Monastery.” Winners of priwe books may call at The Bullstin Business office for them Norwich, THE TREASURES By JANET course all Iittle peopie are imter- iu fhe neture lessons which the .are.giving them. There the world more woaderful tales that Mother Nature e taike thue to listen to | and the boys nod girls of today to-de very gled, in that they opportsalty to learn such de- ot schiool. It is some- Ltfls folik ever had be- Sowe snoce schools hnn.‘tw.zt ie only Qe last bundred years'that we have 10 be.interested fn nature's story end --ug“mm time since it o ux -chiidren might be in X, too. is not oaly because it is in- bossds of education want to study the book of na- Thet. would bs reasoa enough, | fhere s another one which most more important. ia ithat our itfe upon this e future prospenity of th Gepend Gpon what we know about saturs. T we just thiak for 2 minute we will zm: all weelth—that is, everything we beve—comes cut of the earth. All owr prosperity, therefore, our man- ufectures and our commercs, sven our art and postry and music, depend upon mgriculture and mining. 8o, if we want our sgricuiture and mining to be sucosssfl —that fs, if we want to get | all the treasures whioh nature has locked in ike bosom of the earth--we muost know all about aer ways. The sovernment of the United States and the different stite governments keep a erge numbsr of men constantly study- ¥ thess things, and that is one reason y tbe cowntry bas made such re- merkabie progress. Our depactments of agriculture have dmoovered plants that swould grow on 20l which had previousiy heen barren, and thus has made gardens out of deseris. Il has learmed how to make other phenis mwre valuable, and it nas found owt bow to destyov insects and plants that wers ruining important +any demand that can be made upon | To be wide-awake is to be orderly in they undertake. | T received the prize book and thank | | worklng very hard to find some way of | getting rid of the insects which are de- at any heur affer 10 a. m. on Thurs- day: UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. It is werth something to be a Wide-Awake {f you do not get a prize. The child whe is wide-awake {5 not a dullard for he is alert and is like- Iy to put more vim into life and get more fun out of it than any other boy, or girl. It is important to be wide-awake to manners, wide-awake to duty, wide-awake to privileges, and then you will be equal to almost Yyou. To be wide-awake you must see quick, hear quick and act quick—to be slow is to be deemed rather dull. “Slow and sure,” is a very good mot- to but it is better to be quick and | true. The wide-awake should be able to see the advantage of being useful at home, well-behaved in the streets and strictness at school. Get the habit of doing something and you will be sure in time to be somebody. It is a short-sighted policy to want to play | when you need to work, or to want to do nothing when you might be of considerable help at home. Wide- awake has an hour to rise in-the morning, an hour for study and for play, and an hour to retire at night habits and to make daily progress in knowledge. “I can't,” and “I don't want to,” are the book-worms that make children useless and a disappointment to their parents—they are the early of failure. “Ill try!” is worth ten thousand of them because it bespeaks alm and energy. signs { wonder he did not wish “to talk about { review | she not out. This made Fred very angry, and |he tried to take the bat from his brothér. David stuck te it, and in the struggle for it he struck Fred a se- | vere blow on the knee. This put an | end to the fight. 1 Fred was so badly hurt that he could not walk, and had to be car- | ried home. He was conflned to his bed for some time, and at length his knee became so bad that his leg had to be cut off to save his life. David was very sorry, though he had not intended to hurt his brether, and there is no doubt Fred was qulte as much to blame as he was; but he felt he could never forgive himself for allowing his anger te get the bet- ter of him. Paor Fred was a eripple for life, Losing his temper cost him dearly, and for a long time he could not be comforted. He would not let any- one blame his brother, but always sald it was his own fault. 1 once knew a young man who had a long scar on his chin. When I asked him how he came by it, he said that it had been done by a knife, but | he did not seem to care to say more. | 1 afterwards learned that ome day, while sitting at dinner, he had quar- reled with his brother, who threw a knife at him and caused a serious wound. The scar was the result. In return he had thrown a glass at his brother, -which struck him on the head, and killed him on_the spot. No the scar and tell the sad story of that awful quarrel. It is too late to stop the mischief when the anger is working in our hearts. We can only prevent harm by keeping our tempers, and by not let- ting our anger master our better feel- ings. This is not an easy thing to de. The Bible tells us “He that is slow to anger- is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.” FRANK PARDY, Age 12. Norwich. In theé Grand Stand. One day a little girl by the Jeanette name witnessed a great army on Germany. Thousands upon thousands of spectators crowded round the stand ,before which the emperor wa. watch the passing regimen: While Jeanette was seated in the saw an old, feeble woman tr 10 get where she could see. German girl said to herself: ‘It is not right for me to sit here of Wide-Awakes all belong to the “Tll try,” brigade, and the result is they | make the best children at home and | the most promising pupils at school. Everybody likes the boy and girl | who tries to do things, and is ready at all times to aid them in whatever | LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Wil iam Eaton, of Central Village— | you very much for it. I have read it through and find it very interesting. John Shea, of Versailles—I re- ceived the nice prize book you sent | me. It is the first book 1 ever won. | I have read a part of it and like it | very much. Katherine Gorman, of Versailles—I received the pretty prize book you sent me named, “Three Years at Glen-Wood.” 1 hafe read it all| through and have found it very in- teresting. I thank you very much for it i BY WIDE- | STORIES WRITTEN AWAKES. Keep Your Temper. Fred and his brother David were playing cricket. Fred said that the ball hit the wicket; but David re- fused to give up the bat. He said OF THE EARTH NICHOLLS. these “semi-arid” lands where durum wheat, or Wilson wheat, as it is now Deing called, in honor of the ex-secre- tary of agriculture, might be grown. It is easy to see, therefore, that if even a small part of these acres were pro- ducing wheat at the rate of fifty bushels an acre, as they will some day, the cost of living, about which we hear #o much, wouldn’t be nearly so high a it §8 now. The government does so many things of this sort that it would take not only a whole book, but a whole library, to tell you about all of them. Just now all the departments of agriculture are stroying our crops and our forests. One of these insects alone, the cotton boll weevil, which makes its home in the | boll or pod of the cotton plant, caused a loss of over $88,000,000 in the year 1909, and it would be hard to say just how much our other injurious insects costing us every year. From all these things ft is easy to see how Important nature study s, but perhaps the little folks think that the liftle bit they will ever learn about nature wili never do the country any good. That is not so at all. In the first place there is no reason for sup- posing that all of them will be satis- fled with knowing just a little. Some of them will probably want to know a great deal. Among all the thousands of children now attending the public schools why may we not suppose that there may be a future Darwin, a Her- 1 Then she gave up her seat to the {old lady and went and stood in the { crowd. " But while little Jéanette was | anding upon her tiptoes, trying inE covered with gold lac elbowed his | way to her side. He said: “Little girl, Her Majesty would be when I am strong and well and can stand, while the poor woman can see nothing.” vain to see, a courtier of the emperor ple v sed to see you in the royal box.” hen the abashed girl stood before | Our Morning’s Walk. Early one morning father and I went for a walk through the woods. We | walked along the railroad track a | ways. We went across the arch and | followed a small narrow path. When what caught our eye but a full grown deer. We followed her trail, but one of her springs would make three of ours. We followed her and she jump- ed across a small brook. After we had got across we lost her trail, but after- wards caught sight of her again. We walked about fifteen minutes after we lost the trail and on a bed of green moss lay the small baby . As soon as the old deer spied she started off, but came back to the smail one. We were about five yards away from her. She took the young one and ran away Then we started for home. We went | on toward the west and landed out on the Baltic road about four. We took the car home. We were at the door when the clock struck five. I think it was the prettiest sight I ever saw. SADIE SHEA, Age 11 | | | | i | Versailles, Saved by Twenty Coins. The Americans were having with France. The French soldiers had captured seventy Americans and put them in | prison. One morning the prisoner: were disturbed by a Fr and twenty Irench soldier 1 The officer told the prisoners to fol- low him. He took them to the sea- shore with a lot of French soldiers, | a war The prisor lined up and the sol- diers shot them. Finally it came George Armstrong’s turn to be shot. The French soldiers told him if he had money to give it to them. He said he had twenty coins and he would throw them ali around the ground and the French soldiers could run for them. He threw them in all directions and the soldiers forgot all ab the While the coins the the American prisoner and ran for the mone ng they were pic ner ran up [ aw | Frea was cheating, and that he was | | care of corn. the mice. Iam going to catch one and put him in it Some day I will write and tell you abeut my Kkitten. ALICE PURCELL, Age 9. Colchester. A STORY OF A MOUSE. A timid little mouse lived in “the house of a great magician. The poor creature was in constant fear of the cat and had net & mo- ment’s peace. The magician taking pity on the mouse, turned it into a cat. Then it suffered for fear of the dog. 'To cure this fear the magiclan turn- ed it into a dog. Then it trembled for fear of the tiger. ‘1?{10 magician changed it into a tiger but it at once began to tremble for fear of the hunters. “Be a mouse again!” cried the ma- giclan in disgust. “You have the heart of a mouse, and cannot be help- ed by wearing the body of a nobler animal.” FLORA LAMBERT, Age 13, Attawaugan, Two Brave Boys. One day as two little boys were out rowing in a cance they heard a cry for help far out on the water. They look- ed in the direction the cry came from and saw a ship which was evidently sinking. One boy sald: “Let's get the other boat and try to save some of the peo- ple, Hal!” So they rowed to the shore, and Hal got into the boat and, both boys start- ed toward the ship. Hal soon left the other boy far be- hind. When he got near the ship he saw two or three people drop off the ship and swim toward him. But they were too_tired, and only one of them redched Hal Hal took as many off the ship as his boat would hold; then started for the shore. The other boy*ook as many as he could, and in this way the boys sav- ed most of the people. Two or three weeks after this both boys received a gold medal for their bravery. CLARENCE POTTER, Age 14, Norwich. A Foolish Rooster. One day Mr. Dorking met Mr. Cocky Wyandot, who lived in the next yard, and invited him home to dinner; but Mr. Wyandot sald he couidn’t go be- cause he wanted to call at Mr. Man's erandfather’s farm and see some cous- ins of his who were living there. He! coaxed Mr. Dorking 40 go with him, be_ | cause he wasn't very well acquainted with the road, and after a good deal of | talk it was agreed that the two should | 20 together as far as the big wall. Then Mr. Dorking said he couldn’t go any farther. | After a_while they came to the gate | in the wall, where Mr. Dorking said he would stop. Just then, to their sur and fear, they saw the nose of, | Mr. Fox sticking up through the weeds | on the other side of the gate, as if he how glad I am to see you! Surely! you'll help a poor fellow out of his | trouble, won't you™ Then Mr. Wyandot saw that Mr. Fox looked as if he was tied up, and said: “T'm going to peck a hole in your | nose and I may scratch vour eves.” | But no sooner did the bold rooster | come near enough to carry out his| threats than he was in Mr. Fox's mouth, and Mr. Dorking who was peeping through 4 hole in the wall, saw | all that happened and he hurried home | as fast as he knew how. | JESSIE L. East Norwich, N. Y. How | Made My Corn Crop. Mr. Brundage told me about the Corn | club. 3 | So I joined the club. 1 thought it would be = thing to join the club. I measured my field with a stick a! rod long. Then I plowed the ground. 1 planted my corn in the It grew quite well. Mr. Brundage visited my cornfield and took a picture of the field. The weather was sunny most of the time; but some of the time it ralned. I had 49 bushels of corn. 1 have learned how to plow and take BREHAUT. very good | prine. ALFREDA WALKER, Age 9. Gurleyville. s How a Plucky Girl Saved Her Chum. It was a hot June day. Helen and Gladys were playing on a large yacht that was anchored in the Hudson riv- | 22 They were starting to go to the clubhouse by means of a passageway of small boats. Gladys stepped into the first boat and Helen started to follow, but slip- ped and fell into the water. ' She could not swim and sank instantly. adys looked about her for her friend, but in vain. Just then Helen came to the surface; Gladys grabbed her and began to scream. nearby sailor who had heard her S COLLINS, Age 9 Kitty, Buster, One day last summer our milkman | bert Spencer or a Huxley? In the next place the people who know a lot about things cannot help us very much uniess we know a lit- tle about those things ourselves. The government may pass all the laws it likes for the protection of birds or the destruciion of injurious insects and plants but if people don’t know enough about these birds and plants and in- sects to make them want to see the laws enforced. they wiil do very little Zood. The Department of Agriculture erops. If we l0ok at one or two of the things thet the Tniteed States depart- ment of agriculiure has done we will get some Hea of how valuabie work ir, and will wonder how worid mammged to gei on befors partments of agricuiture existed: Out in the west, as we all know, *here are great tracts of desert and hal desert Jund whera for a long time it was supposed that nothing would grow. A few years ago the secretarv of agri cultura (Wilson) predicted that these desert lands would one day fesd the aast, amd his prophecy is now begin- ning to coms true, By means of frriga- tion part of this desert has been made to bioesom Ifkke the ross, and other parte sre actually being made to grow #ome of the best wheat on the market without any irrigation at all, Soms of thess desert lands have a rainfall of from twelve to eighteen inches a year, and the department ex- perts formd out how to keep this mols- ture in the soil instead of letting it Russians were growing on dry land very muoh ilke that of America = su- perfor -kind of wheat called durum, They brought Jfhis wheat to America. and now it has been ghown that eur former desert is capable fiftx -bushels of it te the acre. the ave: aze natural yield of wheat under ord the de nary ferming methods being only fif- | teen husheix i tie aere. Now (here are Swom 304,080,800 1o §00,000,000 acres of this | producing | may tell the cotton growers to get rid :fvf the cotton boli weevil, but if the | srowers don’t know enough to do what th re told .th wiill be no bet- ter off than they were before. They must work together, toa, if they want o get results, for stay on the farm where bred. They are great fond of new pastures. This, indeed is the reason why we make so little headway against our in- sect enemies. Instead of spraying our trees and crops, it would be much cheaper and easier to let the birds eat the insects. But some peopie want to eat the birds, and others want to trim hats with their bodies. Othors, agaln, want to shoot them simply for “sport.” as they call it. And so they have gone on killing them in spite of evervthing that the scientifie peopl whom we pay to study these things and give us good advice about them could say. If only they had learned a little abour nature and her way at sehool they surely would not be they were | | | stupid, Tt is betier o te know mueh than lit- ile. But it is a great thing 1 {dmow a little, and every bov or girl who learns to protect a heautiful or 1 useful bird, or to des n injurious i plant, is learning semething which will not only he a source of great ml ure te him or her. but a g bhenefit to the eountry as well the weevils won't | travelers and | brought me a little white rabbit kit- ten. Oh, it was so cunning and j as_white as snow. As first I called it Kitty, as it began to grow older it got very fat and chubby so I named | it Buster. I used to play with Kitty just as if it were a doll, dress it up in my | doll's clothes and la and it would lay move once, My little chums used to come over | to my vard and we would play with | t in the carriage st as quiet and not | it all day long and when we let it | » it gould run away as Jast as it Sould Bovas 18 1t wewe dclerted to get away | Lately it is getting older, so I can- | not dress it up any more. It will | growl and bite my hand If I try to | dress it up so I have to leave it aione, | » I thifk our good times are all over with Buster, SARA T. WALSH, Age 9. Norwich A Story of a Little Leaf. T am a little leaf. I lived country on an old maple tree. day 1 fell to the ground tumn then. The next day in the! One | It was au- | some children came | and picked me up with some other Jeaves and carried us to their mother. | She made a wreath was one of them | In a little while we grew crisp and the mother threw us out and a poor | little boy picked us up., He carried us home to his mother. But they did | not keep ue long. They threw us out and that was the end of me, BLANCH ARKWEATHER, FPlainfield. Age of leaves and 1| w My Chickens. 1 live on a farm. 1 am nine years old. 1 have seven pullets and one | rooster. One duy thew laid five eges and three the mext Island Reds. They are Rhode I feed them hominy wet with warm milic uetimes 1 give them ws and oals and corn. 1 take care of them all myself. I have l;x litile house all alone. There i little family of mice in my chic house. I have a box lixed for one of i received a very | out of a barrel plunged into the water to her ue. Though a fine swimmer, he appearing to netice it he scattered the corn along. The squirrel was shy at first, and kept some distance away, but as the mail carrier passed on he had the pleasure of seeing her pick up the corn. The kind man repeated this each day. The squirrel would venture a lit- tle nearer each time, until she be- came 50 tame that she would run up on his clothes and perch on his shoul- der. Then he would stop and hold open his pocket and she would jump into it and eat the corn there. She had a nest in a hollow tree, where rested three pretty baby squir- rels. After a while sie took them to meet the kind man with her. He fed them all, with much pleasure, for several weeks: then he was called away and another man took his place. He was very sorry to leave the squir- rels, they had been such good friends for many months. NANCY TETREAULT, Age 10. Versailles, The Excitement a Dog Created. One day in November my sister, a friend and I got up early in the morn- ing. soon as the morning paper was delivered we began to read it. I said, “Let’s look and see what has been lost” So we did and a black, white, brown and gray hound was Jost. After reading it we thought no more about it until my friend saw a dog like the one described in the paper. Immediately we began to chase him, I on my bicycle and the others on foot. We chased him up to East Broad street; we live on Broadway. Then we caught him and led him home, holding fast to the collar for we did not want to lose him. When we reached home we tied him in the backyard and then went in for breakfast. While eating we hap- pened to look out of the window to see the dog, but no dog could we see. We then raced out of the house to find jhim. What had he done but slipped his head out of his collar. We were very frightened, for we were not sure that he was a lost dog. My friend chased him and held him by the ears until I came up with the collar. We tightened his collar and tied him. Then we went into the house, ‘When we finished our breakfast we went out to give the dog some, but he had disappeared again! My heart be- gan to beat a little faster. That morning we chased all over town for him, but we could not find him. So we took his collar to the p lice station very much frightened Il have to admit and the dog was not a lost one. OR PLANT NORTON, Age 13. | ch. —_— | The Four Oxen. Once there were four oxen which were very well off. They had a nice green field to graze in, but these oxen were not content. Not far away there was brook flowing down a hill. Beside this brook grew nice green weeds. So the oxen said: the empress, she graciously said: | had been waiting for them. Then Mr. “Let us unite and go down to the “Come here, my daughter, and sjt | Wyvandot said he was going over to|brook.” with me. 1 saw vou give up vour | talk to Mr. Fox. When they got to the brook they seat to that old woman and now you | “But hell gobble you up before a|began eating right away. It chanced must remain by my side.” fly has time to wink,” said Mr. Dork- | that a fierce lion lived hear this brook. So God honors those who honor the |ing as he crept among the weeds. One day the lion said: aged and helpless. But Mr. Wyandot flew up on the| “Here are all these nice oxen and MARGARET HEIBEL, Age 9. |gate and when she looked down Mr.|T am so fierce that I could easily get | Taftville. Fox ‘said: “Oh, my dear Mr. Wyandot, | one and when I get it 1 will give a grand feast.” So the lion sneaked over to where the oxen were feeding. All at once the oxen saw him coming. They rushed together and put their horns fiercel toward the lion and the lion as fie as he was was afraid. He turned and fled as fast as he could, At last a sad event happened. The oxen had a fight. They fought flerce- ly with their horns and finally they were tired and stopped, but they fed apart that day and would not go near each other. Then the lion rushed upon them and carried them off to his den one b one. When he got them there he word to all the lions near by to a great feast. E. ARNOLD SMITH, Age 9. Norwich. Lion. One of my best friends was a big . Bernard dog named Lion. He lived {in the country and his master owned some flour mills & mile from the vil- lage. So every day Lion would go to the postoffice for the letters and paper and bring them safely to his masi If the postmistress was busy he would lie down on the floor and wait until she had time to attend to him; but if he walted a little longer than usual he would give a loud vawn draw the attention to the people. “Well, Lion, have you come for your letters?” and she would tie the lette around his neck. When he got home he always fed the cat at 12 o'clock. Lion took a jar by a string handle, which had been put on for the purpose, and trotted away to the farm near. The farmer filled it with milk for him and he presently re- turned carying it so carefully that not a drop was spilied. Pussy was walting for him and she rubbed her eoft sides against his legs, purring loudly to express her pleasure. He put down the jar and lay quietly down to watch her drink the mi When she had finished the milk she sat down in a pussy cat fashion and proceeded to clean her paws, but Lion made a sudden sprine at her and rolled her over in the flour, with which the \ ade slow progress, both because of | floor was covered thickly, and then is clothing and because of the cur- | such a game of romp followed. Helter rent. | skelter, all over the place they raced, When he reached the yacht he found ' playing “hide and seek” and “catch Gladys nearly exhausted and Helen | me” until Pussy was tired out and ran unconscious. He lifted the helpless to the top of a pile of corn sacks to rl into the vacht. After Helen came too he rowed her over to the shore. He good reward. REBECCA WAX, Age 12. Norwich. My Visit to Boston. I am going to tell you about my visit to Boston. I was gone three days, and 1 visited several historical places. 1 went over the North church, up in- to the belfry tower where Robert New- man hung the lanterns as a signal for Paul Revere, and I also saw what they call the “Vinegar Bible,” given by King | George II. From there T went to Paul Revere's house, and there I saw the cradle his children were rocked in. It was made There were many oth- er interesting things. 1 went over the Art Museum. There ilver he and his father made ears ago. 1 have also been to nis grave. 1 went to Bunker Hill Monument, and from the top got a fine view of the city. I went around the Navy Yard and over The Constitution, or “Old Iron- sides,” and to the Museum there. They had bottles of water, one from | the river Jordan and one from Jacob's well. I enjoyed my visit very much, and T wish all the little boys and girls could e the thinks I saw MYRTICE L. BROWNING, Age North Franklin. a The Mail Carrier and the Squirrel. In the state of Maine there lives a man who is very fond of dumb ani- rest and clean her befloured fur coat in peace, when Lion would turn quietly to follow his master home to dinner. FANNIE ROSENBERG, Age 11. Norwich. i | Glass. 1 once lived on the road. A came and picked me up and br me to a mill. Then another man me and blew me to glass. Then cut me up in all sizes. to a store and sold me. They in a picture frame and put a picture under me. Then they hung me on the wall and I am still hanging there to- day. Many people look at me when they come in the house. HELEN GARVEY. man took they They took me put me Norwich. Old Mary. My name is Mary, but people call me Old Mary. 1 am only an old horse, but when I was young I was handsome, and I took a nride in letting no one P me. Now I can do little, but I try to do that well. 1 take invalids and timid old ladies out driving, 1 little children drive me, and the slap the lines, rattle the whip. shout as loudly as they wish; it doesn't iry my nerves. Sometimes they climb my back for a ride. I step very care- fully, so they won't fall off. I do when the baby toddles around am cropping grass on the lawn. 1 am always ready to carry parties to the woods. 1 go doctor 1 take guests to the never shy at tooting engin, s, baby carriages or wh rows. | take grandma to the weekly prayer meeting and sewing society. pi for mals, His business was to take the e " : mall from the station to the post of- | [ dowt remember ever playing a floe, in_the center of the town, To Meam trick in my life. Sometimes reach the station he had to cross a | School children make fun of me. Some- e e S e e Phen 5% 1 | time in the future you may be old, poor e e and slow. How would you like to be One day, as he was walking along, | 1aushed at? Sicksh Si et aa ¥ he saw a little squirrel running be it side the way. On returning home he theught of the squirrel and put handful of corn inte his pocket. The next day, on coming 1o the place he saw the squirrel again. Without Mansfield Four Corners. l The first (hing Robinson Crusce did when he had beem cast on the desert tan and I GAST For Infants an Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the = S ALCOIIOL 3 PER CENT. ANegetable Preparationfirs- simitating the Food an{Reguia: ling the Siomachs of INEANTS SCHILDREN. Promotes DiestionCheefid ness and Rest.Contains neither Opium.Morphine nor Miseral NoOT NARCOTIC. A crfeclk:nuly“ for Consfipz fio%,ch.n‘Smmdl,Dhrr?fl Woerras Convulsions.Fevarisic nms_andLOsSOFSLZEP- TFacSiifz § island was to build a ra went to interesting Bits. 1 mbined with he is wre many use Then he T a table, and liv the dog_he had found wrel. There were goats and, and these he shot for f fter 2 One day to find foc long afterw: behind them to eat 1e island and they ran a black man t This black man and Robinson nam was on th ved on From the Cons; Rus E Robinson Crusoe work and made a and proud they we afloat, and Robins hoped to be able to o for f noon we s ride our hors We we shopping we were go | | | LOSING HOPE WOMAN VERY ILL Finally Restored To Health By Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. d 2 were horn d he “J was in a terrible Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com=- Bellevue, Ohio. state before I took ment ar {pound. My back SHy acheduntil I thought Norwi it would break, I had % == pains all over me, Salmon In Tasmania. nervous feelings and America h < | periodic troubles. L of mania 4 was very weak and D T dunces o ton panid run down and was B ente aun aDAtEh losing hope of ever being well and TR ST ¥ strong. After tak- Stubbora Annoying Co s e e e ham’s Vegetable Compound I improved King's New Di rapidly and today am a well woman. I ed them, for cannot tell you how happy I feel and cannot say too much for your Compound. Would not be without it in the house if it cost three times the amount.””—Mrs. CHAs. CHAPMAN, R. F. D. No. 7, Belle- vue, Ohio. . Woman’s Precious Gift. The one which she should most zeal- ously guard, is her health, but it is the one most often neglected, until some ailment peculiar to her sex has fastened itself upon her. When so af- fected such women may rely upon Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, a remedy that has been wonderfully suc- cessful in restoring health to suffering ‘women. If you have the slightest doubt for you hould s hac and a back ailme dru ing All & C clkien c m Cleanser. uritie Spring Blood and Sys the winter v tonic you need; liver and bowe | Beaith, strente that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta= | Bitters m you fee ‘ble Compound will help you,write & fonriwecis Greatue to Lydia E.Pinkham MedicineCo. you in fine shape ‘fo (confidential) Lynn,Mass., for ad=- e i vice. Your letter will be opened, “%5.VE. Bucklen & Co., Philadelphic read and answered by a woman, or St. Louis. and held in strict confidence. HAIR STOPS FALLING, DANDRUFF DISAPPELRS--25 GENT DANDERINE. SAVE YOUR 'HAIR! MAKE IT SOFT, LUSTROUS AND BEAUTIFUL. Try as vou will, after an application | diate and g of Danderine, you cannot find a single | 18ht, fluffly and : 3 appearance of abund: trace of dandruff or falling hair and | pavable lustre, softness Ip will not itch, but what will | ance, the beauty and shim you most, will be after a few | hair health * “use | when see new ha Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's fine and downy & ves—but real- | Danderine from any drug store eor ]1\» new hair all over the | tollet counter, and prove that your | scaip. | hair is as pretty and f 1°°A” littde Danderine Immedintely | that it ke been negi doubles the beuuly of your hair, No by careless treatment