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s R AN 15 et a8 S RO E WADE AWAKE CIRCLE . R Sr. O BAATEE THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS, iy 1—Alfred Fontaine, of Vi ‘The Dreadnaught Boy's World Crulse. | Y et e i . A P 4-—irene Mathi Willimantio— S—Helon Wineskie, of Yantic—The ww&mmmmm —— ; ¢—Alics F. of St Y PoETRY. & - austor Masds by Hone Y —— ] e e 7—Mabel Prus, of Eagleville~Mo- wl&-‘mmw » %, Bk e e i the Ha, Jetls 3—Fordinand Foley, of Versaities— ‘What have you done¥with theicottony | The Ocean Wireless and the What have youj done with the ball d —— to AIOWT | ewith o[UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- et heve you donerwich the shem AWAKES. m'n'idnh:-'-am,m the games| TLook out for your “rathers” for to play? they make no end of trouble. Most And the races, deargwhich we.msed | ;oys ang girls have them. o run? +| It is an unruly child who rather do ik j i ] it iR B B i i 38, E! s vew o \ P . | i ¢ i e B2 i g!i:! £t 1 g i i i :!iig* i il i iz E i i : H i L H ' i | =R § i i i g ‘ou see, she only ittle it and early, thiy W. -"W‘ ar “s fl Body H-rrymtghnnmn and s g:v;; prings. < S T E 3 ., ly & N I New Yeart s There wasn't a hapj little girl the world than Mary use she ha. Ezg il Why do you leave meaout here alone, [ what he has a mind to do than what re with the treesgand 'butt he bas been asked to do. you a notionythaty Perhaps you have known the boy ‘who would rather take a hoe 3nd go to the fleld to do a man's work than to bring washing water or keep the hens out of the ganden: or the one who rather take the axe and chop wood than to pick up chips. The girl who would rather wash the dishes than make the beds, or who rather sweep the parior than sew The trees you lovedtwhenfthe games were done. & R SR T i to o ‘patchworl The :‘:év Sat and the bouneinsbars| Tou may not have thought of it, but et ,,“m"“‘m you are grown, | Rather s the guide to disobedience Grown up tall, and a lady, quite? |and the malker of frouble—he prompts Is that the reason I'm all aloney t2 | YOu to object to doing the most helpful And calling you inithe fadingUEht? | iy oy g moment—to balk and to Dear, do you want to putielrildbood ' offend your parents. by, A These children get so they think Doing your ringlets up in. o oot |they would rather die than do wh: lossoms and fflelds and S =thit 0. wiag A they are told, but they would not. Aud_all the romps in thesmeadow- | This is a false notion which has grown ; out of a desire to have their own way -4 i your l’"“?"fi"“‘“,‘:',‘,f. instead of trying to please their par- 5 e baby with lips apout? .nl‘:f':-‘-u:‘du“ to wish to de Where 1 the t s just as easy to wish to do every Here is the daddy whofloves YU | neipfyl nitle thing it & boy or girl . 1| would omly think so. Studying to Don't toes chilfoed aside’that way! | please is not a profitless occupation. Don't throw glaguess faway from| When I would rather not comes into Tou! a feel the flush of Hold 1 mes of thelyesterday! |YOUr mind and you feel the flush of ome. bl here wherejthe skies are | obstinacy just grapple with and over- biue! come it. It means friction and more Shake your eurls fromitheir shining | tnan twenty different kinds of trouble. t, 'ome and race in a hpadibmg fiight, | Rather do as your parents wish you ‘K‘hcm;h The flelds and . the meadow- | to do, and you will not be sorry. lot; Catch your childhood:and clasp it|STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- tight! —Juad Mortimer Lewis, in Houstan AWAKES. Post. plm The United States. The United States is the foremost LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT |republic in the world. o A republic is governed by the peo- Mary A, Burrill, of Stafford Springs | ple. —Many thanks for the nice prize book | A country that is governed by a Jou sent me entitled Grace Harlowe's | king is calied & monarchy. Third Year at Overton. I ltke that e United States is perhaps the serfes of books very much, Thank |most prosperous country in the worl you again. The area of the United States i three and a half million square miles. yo!u‘nv.ar';":\-x'c'i o Fomajtisard tank The population of the.United States which you sent, 1 have read it about |'® ISL BOSS MIRE o an BaiGivex throagh. the nations of Europe come into the Dorothy P. King, of Plainfield—I |country every year. It is wonderful thank you very much for the prize- |how quickly these foreigners become book awarded me entitled The Meadow | Americans. Brook Girls in the Hills. It is very | The president of the United States interesting. is elected by electors chosen by the Voronica Racheleay, of Nortn |PeOPle, The president is elected to Franklin—I yeceived the Dprise book | ™. laws of the nation are made by Thave read | ConETess. The powers and duties of of it and. find it very interesting. | FIOETVSS a%e lo make laws, tfo coln 3 postoffices, to make fhank you many times for it. war, to raise and support armies and Alix Dugss, of Versallles—] thank |to maintain a navy, you_for the prize book I received. 1| Congress consists of the senate and it and found it very interest- |the house of representatives. Every state has two senators. The mumber of representatives Lucy Henshaw, of Colchester—1 re- | popuiation of the e e T celved my v.a;l: m"l;gf 'l;':l:__i; :& YERONICA ROCHELEAU, Age 14. very nice orth Fra it yet. I thank you ever so much for s it B A Good Time at @ Cirous. Thelma Boynton, of North Franklln| I was at a circus last week and I THE FIRST PARACHUTE The iuvention of the aeropiene is| The enormcus erowd that covered accepted todsy as tha most significent | the park, the roads, the neighboring echievement in the conquest of tho| plains, maintained a hushed silence as The same attitude was held in|the balloon slowly rose, There wasg 3, when the Montgolfiers invented f not a murmur from the awed specta= ke ‘balloon, and again in 1799, when | tors, who followed with a sort of fas. in demonstrated the ical- | cinated gaze the figure of the disap. of the parachute. The latter in-|pearing Garnerin. Would this brave m In particular roused populpr|man really dare the unknown? Would to a degree that amounted | he dare to jump from the great height aimost to awe. An engineering expert | to which he was rapidly being carried? of the time describes in an interesting| The balloon, undisturbed by any the scenes of that memorable | wind, yose stralght in the air. event. seemed like a mere speck On a besutiful day of the year 1783 | sky to the crowds . Women citizen of lier, France, oyt for | Were becoming hysterical under the &uspense. Suddenly - a great cry of Borror rose from the plains. The single speck had become two, one of which selentist, scemed to disappear in space, while and respected man balancing | the other was dropping like a bullet on the sill of his first-story | toward the earth. Garnerin had eut hand he clasped an | loose, and the parachute had failed to um the paints of which | open. to the Landles, The throngs in the Parc Monceau by was thunderstruck by | were mad with excitem sight. In another moment % ‘was more . Suddenly a shout of oy an of beholding a|burst from every tor. Like a e air, he saw | great bird unfolding its wings, the down, andl | parachute had opened. - gontly 2 and unhurt, on the pave- | With the sudden check in its tre- had been in- the parachute and the t beneath it were set swing~ of Lenormand's invention | ing lations. rapidly, and it was not long | the darkening eky, & speck aclentifc Rodles had ai” | ar every moment ) e e . ma de died Aug. 3, 1807, in his home im he | New Hampshire. : Soann For Over . | fully. S0 TSl Birpa. 4nd ek mad |l 37 U2 U BVOIon & oy | "t wona ne ima” B B T e ‘Which of the two would you be? DOROTHY KING. nis . 5 e e o " | Blemes. ‘rarmea” Gibbes. " The: tamity gught o 3_::”;:: %"' ""W Thlrt, Years John G, Whittler. i to ! 5 - ey John Greenleat Whittier was born in e [ b neas e Massachusetts in 107, the some year LETO POLIQUIN, Age oy g § 35 Doses—35 ‘which Longtellow was born. e E rte P e ——————— Longfellow, he was a gentle and 5008 | pen T e g e B A AR A TR hm-;' um:l a mport‘antml..-n!mlh" .dhhn. oh‘: in the blazing sun, when for the ol lucat! . for he lived and worked on & farm -~ seat he staggered, foamed s s il - Exact Copy of Wrapper. prosio e s Mok 33 - . untfl he was 18 vears of age. whe ball i mouth and fe Hig maester gave him Whittler attended the distriot school | Weke ‘N¢ (CaPnon balls were fy g ot nly edi he ever adminis. ? The chuntge. Tt thay remmber: | i Dat T A o e & % m:h"."'o o m""":.,._.u'n':k‘ apdoutns and of the canndse. en ey remember- 1) od that @ little baby had been left|aid. ith & 424 Snally left Moy beside the road to as a post he supported himssif mainty . Neither Mr. Gibbes nor his| The abstinence of Samson's mother r a time there came along a lit- wife were able to travel back to the |would have been worth little to m“ofi lame man, Jehan, ben editing newspapers. house gain. The negroes were 100 |if he, too, had not abstained mu::‘ nd nd ook« > " poeine e vy na Gescipions | och IghIened 5 B M, 0 £t | IRt a0 WAMOEL o] oy oo | o8, founahe- e sy e | P 0 uete Trnnie et | HORSE COLLARS 3 were ¢ n. o - e wl - m natural scenery became Very popu- z:.b;.“h onl; .:ur;m yl::lr. old. m s. umnr'a-n-c& w:s 1:»‘;:! man a:o;n?:. L:: 5.-'3’-51“3‘..».'&"0;‘3: Heavy, Long, Straw, Curled Hain . that een ‘was opting them wit] . x 3 e i el g | FTTES 1t Ll 80, and get im. shs |tle profited therebs. : ana Patrasche Sasiy po JESSIE L. BROHAUT. |Ticking Lined 3 said. was a dark and stormy n y who knows n - helpful. She went back into the heat of the T athletics, knows that & Rrst |10 Sout lass. He B Norwmg e 1. 3 $4.5S0 battle. When she reached the house, |class athlete must avojd uco_t\:l a8 B8 from his new master. Motto Making. The first day after the d A mew line of Auto Robes, Fus been rain- the W‘flol:l’ht'hhb Ilood’ at é‘" :‘::h ‘would I‘IIY other It e 3 It has Whittler had great sympathy for the | Forit PO 10 RS K0 o JuL LY | mere colngidence thet i Woe | o meerl ok e 2 Ing here ol day, Sunday. so ihis att | Coats and Blankets just in. MNP SIS Sndmedr o e Revnd [ fhas he Jot her pass. . In the third |u tate in the strictest sense Soas, Dot SEeL ial, fo do Y Look them over at story of the use she foun: e ~ | of the word. good text the people in their behalf. The I took a sheet of stiff white pa- to sec them free, and no one rejoiced | b3y garione ang toy trany of tatne | pyoomeon hiad & futher who praved fov laced - himsolf betwosn “the | o, THE L L. CHAPMAN (0. the darkness and the crash of battle, | him and a mother who practiced self« per and printed the text em It which than he when slavery was at an | pe ‘:\ml. The eannon balls scat-|control on his mccount; he was bt - i tered dust over her and the baby |with God's blessine reating on him. | (0" draw - the cart, and iy = | wriiiches profit.not in the day of|}4 Bath Street, Norwich, Cu. ful to the principles and customs of | puor 0o SITpck near hev but She §o1| | Any bov, With such & start in life, | dog go more jovfuily to play than thin | WMBL 0 ien targ- the Society of Friends, he s often ‘bl : snimal ‘went to his taak. it of all around it drew mnd lily called the “Quaker Poet.” the bady sals in hev seipe STANLEY CONNORS, Age 11 BLi "RINDER awe 13, |est of all and por "t h > leaves. I colored the leaves green and Ho dled tn 1893, neariy 85 yesrs ald, oo e 1o | (el Tattville, cach word & different ‘color. 1 thiuk JOSEPH BRADFORD, , Age 12. RIS The Cessacks, My Trip oo S Lot texts made this way are very nice n Bosmahvile, Apples. the| LOnE. 1008 ago, there came into the| Some of my friends and T started | ‘*als Sister and T bad & mice Sut BOOK BINDER Honwy: Longteliew Boy. The best apples are raised in’ the My sister and I had a nice automos New England states. s et s 8, SPwn. cSion” the raintam. Hew Biver ol 8 bile ride with my father last Thurs- . 2 3 n wi ives L" | o'clocl un and went to y ¥ Wi ! e Ho alvaye wantea to do. Aght, "Ha| g APPies are packed best in the West, | from "(ho Tartar ward mesning Ires | imentic aad ook the rony o Gpis | 487,10 Oyster Buy Cove. We had nev- | Blank Sooks Mads and Ruled to Orden, could not bear to see one person do|SCme are packed in barrels and oth-|men” or “free fighters.” They lived |entry Lake. It was almost noon when to see the lovely private resi- 108 BROADWAY any wrong to anot ers in boxes. They have to be grad-|up to their name by protecting many |we got there. We had our luncheo ces owned by the gentry. Some of o was very tender-hearted. Ope|®d first that is to have them all the | Russian women and children from be- | with us, so we ate it. Then we the houses had ponds In fromt day he took a gun and went shooting. | %eme size. m’l'hw ll;wlfl mr‘l‘ h;n: coming slaves to the cruel Turks. a ride around the lake in a steamer.| of them. He killed a robin. Then ke felt so :f;"‘“l 8. -5 =00 & - The trainipg of the Cossack boy cam LILLIAN M. BREHAUT. - begins from the cradle. had fce cream and| East Norwich, N e T e THe e e it | * Whon apples are put in boxes a|"“Fhe mother sings her bady to sleep T e vernauiing an that he never went shooting again. plece of paper should be put in the|with Cossack war songs, The Junier Chatauqua. Ho fiked fo read Irving's 'Sketch |bottom. Then wrap them up in papers|” As soon as the boy fs three years traj lo Jed: I would like to tell 1 Book” Its strange stories about|2nd ut layers of card boarq between.|old he is taught to ride a horse. M. sl Kinel aBoh o 6 T aad epair or Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkie | After they are graded they are put on |° When he is eightesn he eniists in the Boss S SEM akows s Sen X ryy e N a table and a man stands there and | the army for three years of training. i AR o TR el VLo T T is 1o benta o packs them. There is a cloth on the 2 He must provide his own horse, uni- Rockville, Connecticut. of all kinds on It was about Lawell's fight with. the 1u le tacked only at one end s0 When |form and ,:mu,:mm,m,_ e LETTERS WRITTEN TO UNCLE On the opening day the Juniors pa- Indians. He sent his verses to a news- ves gpd dust it can-| After his three years of training he JED. raded through lhfle streets. The dgn;:u AUTOMOB“J".S, be shaken. There is a little board at- | enters active sefvice and must serve . were dressed in flower dresses and the X Fouia print thom. He Could not ek | tached to the table to put the box o | Ui "he ls 55 Y Going to the Fire. Soys carried the fags of the diterent| CARRIAGES, WAGONS, , ; = e man takes his left hand to reac A > e sta SEmniting ses the ormtne S mD, 212 | the paper with his right to reach the| versailios. Slear Untie Jod- R wia o wEiet s SIS the parade we all marched in- TRUCKS and CARTS printer’s hande. : - dents of Crescent . Te 2 4 When the paper came ouf there was | _When the apples are packed in bar-| 4 goitier on the upper Mattawa | Beach: Amusement park - Wonderand® | then T e D unbar SINSINE | ming, Upholstoring and Wood Work. his poem. It was signed “Henry.”|Tels there are cushions at the ends|,iver in Canada, who had caught a|was on fire. Soon the fire engine came o thay Wte Soven Joo0us days.| Olsckamithing in aif its branches: Longtellow read it. He thought it a |20d fancy paper at the top to make|yolr naq read that ships were some- | by and young and old started to run gy 50 1 / poem. the apples look well, 4 ut If farmert | iimes cleared of rats by fastening & | along with It toward the fire. e T o TR L. e A" judge who did not know whose | Should sell apples Dot the bap. | bell around the neck of ome of them. any were screaming with fright e o poem it was talked about it that even- | Ples at the bottom and top of the bar- e Ly - cnfi ar {;urn‘ 50° years old. KOUNTAINE, Age 1. tent the Junior leaders told us stories, Accordingly, it seemed to him t lest some too brave youngsters should Ing. He sald to Lonsfellow: “DId you | e} that mauid mot e o et ing ap- |® Similar manner, he might rid ‘the |be trampled on by the swift fire horses. | *d,then we would sing songs. . see that poem In the paper? It was| There are f woods of wolves; he therefore fasten- | SHIl others were racing ahead fn T ook la Te A e ek r :uc and all taken from other poets, | Ples .in MABEL PRUE, Age 11. }°4 & bell on a woif's neck and turned [ hopes of saving some friends at - the park with the captain of the tent 5 5 N . SL« 00. it loose. . : 7 te 51 orth Main This made Henry Longfellow feel| FEagleville. ‘While he stdod watching the -1 " Whien the auto chemicals came along; S ona g‘,‘,‘;’;,a,f'f;‘, R T2 bad, but he kept on (rying. After et bols -of the lambs, the sheep pricked | many were hurt in the rush to met — many years he became a famous poet. How | Helped Mother. up thelr ears, as if intently listening.|from their path. The rush seemed | ¥ S3Tes oon the tor I wonder how many of the Wide-|Then. with & great deal of bieating | almost mad since the road was Wide | cyom hqur sare o piay ootiticd A Telephone 762 Awakes like to cook? I am sure I do.|the whole flock took to the woods. The | enough for twice the crowd. Pageant of Avenge Town" The eiephone The twins are very moley sometimes, |settier wondered at this strange freak | Although pushing and kuocking one | Fnseant of venge Town, = The N Nathan Hale. 80 I help do the cooking. There are|on the part of the lambs, but he went | another down, they finally came to the | §ro o ar o (e e alen it e New London-Norwich Nathan Hale was born in Coventry, | eight in our family. Last time I baked | about his work. fire. They wers then so_ exhusted | ¢ TOUC Dye Works Conn, in 1765. His family was so poor | Some cake and sweet pudding and I| When, an hour latar, the sheep re- | by the neediess rush and hurey they (PPPOTX). = G ye he had to teach school for his living, | thought some of the girls would like |turned, the owner discovered that ome | became a hindrance rather than an the town which had the dest Junior 33 Broadway At one time he taught school at East | to try the recipes: e Chautauqua. Rockville won the ban- Haddam, Sweet Pudding—I put in one cup chop- ner. “When the war broke out he was|ped suet, one cup chopped raisins, one ed—again b - T think all the-other Juniors had a teaching school in New London. When | cup of milk, one cup molasses, ’ good time, too. he heard of the war he stopped teach- | teaspoon cream tartar, one-half tea- Delds. GEORGE BIENENSTOCK. . ing, bocause he wanted to be loyal to| spon soda, three cups fiour and a little New York. Harmony in the Home Ahis’ country. sait, all kinds of spice; mix well and Th Dear Uncle Jed: I am e farm gisl, ——— e went to Washington to be en-|steam three hou; s hes b eight years old. I live on a farm about| Hartford—Bernard C. Mur-av, form- roiled as a soldier. Washington wanted | _The cake I made was Cream Sponge distance, three miles from the village. erly of Hartford, is now ia_tha insane i someone to go over to the British| Cake. This Is the way I make it: Put| All pon thi T 8 10 school. I am in the third|asylum at Matteawan, RCS‘S wuh lhe Cook two eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup e ing to a story from Nor- of bread flour, one-half cup of thick|to the neck tmac]| “We have five cats, namea Tiger, | Mass. sweet cream, one teaspoon of cream Tive. . Tapaw: Sheashins e v’ the plans. ad found out the|tartar, ome-half teaspoon of soda; ) TR 3 otiver Amaan b Kiyn, The best natured plans and was on his way home when | flavor with lemon, od P BRI 0 D G T e S salbel worid will get grouchy oD oo | Bl MO S ond b e | Sheir 1ast n. The Speck Sopleon whasfes. . m ta the papers. pes. I always have good luci he, Kitcher Just as they were going to tell him | al! the cakes and puddings I make, they pot Th = Jabs by e B i to go. one of the officers thought of IRENE MATHIEU. with S his shoe. They looked in his shoe and Toind The Pitne e o o X Modern Gas Range e was taken to the British com- mander, Cornwallis, who said: ““Hel . : GAS IS A TIME-SAVER ill be hung tomorrow mornins, which 2 z fooa B g No bullding of fires or carrying out A 2 5 ® {n the night Hale called for a Bible, y alwe: A Dog Stery. S o i vy TR . o s face o ady. Tt o erumed That TiEht Be | I olemn, and its eyes 80 wide and B e T ol it A Gas Range is an On friends, but the hard-hearted jail- | Tound that they feit sure that the owl |3 S¥EIN® HNC ‘She ‘ia a brave dog Kitchen and a joy to th keeper tore them up before his cyes.|Must be the wisest of all birds: and rescues many Nves. This does not | Teftvilies, three with Order now before the Just before he died he sai when the sun shines the owl blinks "“l Baves Bumen lives, becvane We are also headquarters for Hum- ¥ I have but and goes to sleep in a dark hole. e ‘e almost we phrey Gas Arcs, Weisbach Reflex lose Sor Tae monntiye but one life to | g e every hird is & bright ‘and | She doesn't. Lights and Ruud and Vulcan Tank MABEL, PRUE, Age 11, |cheecful creature, never. happier than o ey Eagleville. % Physician's The City of Norwich - Gas and Electrical Dep't THE DEL-HOFF ELEN WINESKIE. Yantic. Auto at your service St Gaudens. St Gaudens was onme of the great | Untll the D - the. alert, FERDINAND - FOIST. Ago 3 e ‘Ili sff il il idg i i E gi o I : £ H i a message. strong ;“:“r‘" staylone. e European Plan oo BRI = sTux ow e M e e o B Rates 75 cents per day and um apprenticed to & cameo cutter named m‘” It h-u.m us e week and HAYES BROTHERS. -9 Avet. This man O, RTerA LB R g fl"& Teleohone 1227. 26-28 Broadway | grain from the bern T =T, ¥ © oo DRS. L. F. and A. 4. LaDIERRE! 287 Main 4 i H g8 PRACTISE LIMITED TO s B 1 statue, and Diana, which ©of the bulldings in New York. After many years of faithful labor, jaigz: i LY i . i ‘We owe him a great flf“ for the great works he left behind m. FRIED: HARIEDA RETKOWSKE, Age 13. . :;% i 55;’