Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 18, 1915, Page 9

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T g T n'nd rrm the Dh:‘, ooy Hore I mfna “wo weelis and enjoy- Writers. THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS.| oo mysel immensd '" 4 Soris. Trice Idnb'onoudhotfln 1—Agnos w&~mwm ‘o, aad. um bver. o PR oo g, PR £I08 S 2—Giadys Houle, of © Birds and IM and Wl’l ey 'fl‘ —Uncle Tom, the £ thers le an insect that feeds u IS KT ek D0 ach k- oM | S Walter Gavigan, of Winimantic— | : Orii octeh o, oy v T et 2 e g 40 l’-rv--, ot ' NorwichThe | mal -mm the bird. & <Write your name, and ad- | Baynton Phick. destroys the nn:um!enaml;-,‘;:;n in- Yo lainly at the. om. of the e oy gl-y-ns of Stafford Bm um“““'”r:l mm h& only u:: "1’0': \dilress : 3 Te S Bl e ientions i Uncle| | s—Edith W. "‘l“““"{:- "’tm ‘which nature shows he necessity. RN 7o heee B0 SR vu;:—;:fl Rose of ;:'ollyt ourt, | one | o Aet thac m.,“_:. s be des . Deuteh, of Balt troy: emned M e sw;;:{’;gg,y”“f e truat Motor Maids Aecross the Continent .- | ing Js created except for the m}fl‘ ion Heoly, of South Windham | Mment of some good end; and the valu B‘Q"m"‘“_,,’“d‘:? but you.” —;:M ;;ead‘nowhxvyok Girls by the Sea. '-‘f mu':ts éxli"l:m“ln:'e‘m! tflz em;o:: Winners of books. living in the city 7Y %‘{“ A W LITTLE BOY BLUE. may call at The Bulletin business office for them at adly hour after 10 a. m | yery m‘dflm:‘mymh@ ‘The little toy dog’is covgs-ed with dust, | on Thursday. . prepare for-us the material for silk, But sturdy and stanch he stands; = Wwhich, in jts manufacture, furnishes Ang- the Ilme toy soldier is red with LETTERS OF ACKNOWEEDGMENT. | profitable employment to multitudes of rus e men, women and children, and brings Ana ms musket mouds in hisSt garah Hyman of Norwich: I thank|in.large reveénues to the COURLry. hands. you very much for the prize book you| Insects we must thank for homey— Tlmu was whett the little toy (0% Was| awnrded me. read it through|the sweetest of sweets. The air we and find it excitipg and interesting.|breathe and the water we drink are Ama the soldier was passing fair: | Fhis iu'ihe sisih book I have won. kept pure and wholesome by the And that was the time when our Lit-| “gp o0 "y o agenc % o o AP . g, of Moosu H‘ thank Y iads eatarns. . money | ¥ou have found yourselves in the same :.Mm?%mm Yo Conpe pupe plght: if so, do as he did. A bright strue! tle Boy Blue - | which draw sustenance from the im- Kissed them and put them there. | YoU for my. prize book, UIhe Auto- | D fes of the elements. It s mot, “How aon't you go il T come,” he|resd it through apd lilte it very much. then, that insects are to be extermin- said, ated, even if it werc possible, but only “And dom't you .make any noise!” | STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE-| ~The majoriiy of our nativ: birds kept in eheck. /So: toddling off to his trundle-bed, AWAKES have but one brood of young in the :(lle drm'a’med of thde prellty toys; ot = vl:gurse -;t a !;vear; a few have l:wo or And, as he was dreaming, an ang Nt S . ree. In the case of the smaller in- <onig He Could Not Spare a Bite. sect-eating birds, the number of eggs Awahened our Little Boy Blue— Mark Stafford was walking down|¢o a brood is, on 4n average, not more ©Oh! the yeurl are many, the years are | the street eating an lvnle when he|than five. Some of the larser b a. met his cousin Albert, and the latter's|as the various Gallinae, lay from But e tittie toy friends ore true! RrissRe or six to twenty egss to a me a bite of vour apple,| On the other hand, the reproductive Roy. cried as the'three boys|ehergy of insects is truly marvelous. Ay, faithful to Little Boy Blue they ‘V[ar stand , paused a mlmm_e. It is said that a single pair of grain Each in the same old place— !” Mark shook his héad as he tpok an- | weevils have produced six thousand Awaiting the touch of a little hand, | other bite young between April and August. The * The smile of a little face: “Don’t ask him,” Albert /aid quickly. | commor varieties of plant Hce, which And they wonder, as waiting the long |-“Don’t you know he never gives any-|are found on almost all kinds of plants, vears throvgh thing away that he wants himself?” |are produced in spring from eggs laid In the dust of that little chair, Mark’s face flushed, but he ¢id not|the season before; and through -the Wh:n has become of cur Little Boy | offer to " . He went | summer only females are developed. Blue, X ; something to| The silk worm moth produces about Since be kissed them and-put them that one apple was not|G500 ezgs, the goat moth, 1,000, the tiger there. much to share with any one. moth 1,600, ‘he femald wasp at least He was not like the unselfish broth- | 30,000, There is a specimen of White i er who -ut the kernel of a filbert inlant, one of which deposits not less UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE-| oy that he might share what little|than 60 gegs & minute, giving 3,600 in AWAKES, he had with his sister. an hour! fadoibly Neither was he like unto the -one JESSIE L. BREHAUT. Here it is the middle of November | Who gives to us in such abundance and| East Norwich, N. who bids each one of us to give as _and the biuebirds are carrolling in the | Who bids each one of s to Eive as s S trees and it is often warm enough to 1 giving. mean in just the great things of life.| o'y yrovqonen O L sit out in the-open air at mid-day. We. It means that each must strive con- | - »fteT o R T mouth Rock, the Pllgrims set to work “geesthe snow birds about but no snow- Yy’ to d_generous,|i, naie homes for themselves. flakes vet no matter whether he is blessed With|qhrough the winter half the little et B e e oveithe padinn wino | s e band died: and the next year they y LEO PELOQUIN, Age 11. [bought some land from the Indians and ter- birds, the chic-a-dee, the junco| Versailles. some Indian corn. They made beau- and the nuthatch. If you do not - tiful farms. They planted corn, wheat, know them 1 will tell you how . to A Trip to Mt. Tom. barley and oats. When they Had har- recognize. them. The junco has a| On a bright morning in Jyne my|Yested their crops and threshed ali very ‘dark colored head .and & light|Parents and I started on a visit to Mt. | {hey had. they said: “Let us thank God 4 ” 181t | pom. We ook the cars for Palmer, |for what He has done for us” And coléred breast and when it flies Shows | arriving there we changed cars for |tBey white feathérs on each side of it’s tail. | Springfield, h'““f sent 5;“‘;;"“’» an Indian, to It is about the size of the sparrow,| When wWe reachoed there we pur. |the wiswam of Massasolt, the Indtan io-a-dee wears = black sap apd |cDESSd a few gifts for our friends at A Xt 3 The chic-a-dee wears a black cap and | fome, ‘After dolng a0 we (ool the | The feast was called Thanksgiving. Al calls: “Chick-a-dee-des.) The niit-|cars for Holvoke, where we got off | ¢f the men and some of the boys went hatch is a sturdy little greyish bird |and went into a little station at the |10, the Wwoods to hunt deer and other Si\E white breast and ¢ | DoLtom of the mouritain, bought tick-|¥ild game and when they came home \a white breast and runs about | ol tOR, g (G YIRS PORERL Uk they “brougnt three large deer and trees like:a spider and is often seen |about five minutes We _were going up ] Some .turkeys, wild duck and other upon- tree trunks hunting for insects’ the mountain side. b",i‘fl: i g s t was no time béfore we found our- e ay as lanksgiving. sees, head downward. These blrds are | i J'C% The top, Stepping off the car | They got sight of the Indians who not very shy and may . easily . Dbe|we walked up a cement walk ta a sum. | Were coming. The men-took up their studied. Taer I NOUBE. savs, hammers and nails and made November marks the end of the| Here we ate a lunch we had brought | three large tables for the men and harvest #nd the beginning of winter, | Vith us. Thén we went into a large | their guests: but the children and t g + | house where there were telescopes and | Women ate inside the house so that it bids farewell to the warm season and ! locking glasss. By looking into these | the bovs and girls would not be afraid takes us gradually to ice and snow,|you would become short and fat or tall | Of the Indians. The women brought 4 ana thin, out turkeys, duck, geese, deer and and_ skating and out-of-door sports | “, [ s o ioek w left this aélight- |Other things. They all sta heartily which you all so much’ enfoy. ful place. At the faot of this iy, |and after they had eaten some of the When we leave the autumn with its | tain is a beautiful park full of nice |Men dressed up in their soldier suits harvests and emter the winter with its | flowers, deer, bears, etc, We fed the|20d when the Indians heard their oo mterWID 81 o on candy while waiting for the | tfumpets they were afraid of them. rost we cgn’tHe better imagine how |car, When the car came we got on|IDeD there was a roaring sound and the Israelites felt when they were|and arrived home about 7 o'clock, a |the Indiatis sprang to their feet. Wondering- in tho wilderness, and to|Very tired party. Five of the Indians said they would AGNES ‘SCHRIE: g0 and bring back some deer. The break the dreariness of winiter man| Stafrord Sorines. o ARS 12, | et Gay the ifive Tifigus\reiurned, has made it the season of greatest — each bringing a fine large deer. and when the time was over, they went My Vacation, home feeling very happy; and from aving accepted an invitation to|that time on till now we have Thanks- ;i:l:fl my c(;::&lln. I started from our in- |giving day. Istrious le_town one morning in| CLARENCE HATHAWAY, Age 11. July for East Erookfleld. my 'destina- Bozrahville. x tion. —_——— 1 was met there by my cousin who | The ‘Humming Birds. Humming birds are natives ¢f Amer- ica. They are the smallest and the moast brilliantly colored of the whole feathered race There are many spe- ) T = S cies, all varying in size from a wren 3 to a bumble bee. with such beauty and splendor of plumage it is hardly pos- sible to describe them. These birds are to be seen clad in lu-;d loveliest crimson, lzlue\an: green, YE OLDEN TI Y aid on a ground of gold. Nothing can o = : = DES tTars Abxeutm;re l;;(.utltul than to :‘eeh:hem ren’t you- proud of your pretty very gentleman wi glittering like gems among the highly dolttes, and don't you have a lot of fun powdered nis. haty | & dueue and)yoonted flawers of the warm countries with titem 2 % whees they inhabit. Well, mtue Lou loved hers, too;| A sentleman bowing to a lady always| - Thay possess a long and very slender but I'wonder if 3 ygulwould not tirn up | scraped his foot on the ground. g‘.z with which they sxtract the nec- Your._nose at olis Mattie-Lou had | 4] % r and the small insects which lurk o nasith: “m'fle‘;“ t"”{;""‘““”‘ ;& village as-|in" the recesses of the flowers. They You see, she lived way up in the at the inn on “post day” to formed for rapid flight and are mountains, far from. a store of any [hear the news. on the wing. kind, and anyway, Mattie Lou's pnpl The church collection was taken in|, Vherever a creeping vine opens its didn’t- have the money for doll it | a bag at the end of a pole, with fragrant clusters or a tree flower took all he had fon cornbread and mo- pole, with a ball | hlooms, these lovely birds are to be lasses for-Mattie -Lou and. all her 1it. | #ttaclied to arouse sleepy contributors. | seen. Tn the garden, in the woods, tle brothers ang -sisters. + An old copper mine in Connecticut |Qver the water. everywhere they are But Mattie Lou didn’t cry and fret|was used as a prison. darting about. over this. No, indeed; not a bit of it! | Imiiconment for debt Sometimes they are seen chasing Mattic Lou was not the kind of girl ta Or debt.was a com-|each other with a rapidity of flights, ery: e mon practice. circling round and round and rising She just made: her own dolls—now| There was only one hat factory, and | Di€h in the air. then darting off to wait. till you: hoar what she did. that, made cocked ;or;::rgl;un: h:(lmc:lurfl - swiftly it s for eye to follow. Virginia contained “a fifth of the| Perched wpon a limb they smooth ha whole population of the country. their plumes and seem to delight in the finest s, to Two stage coaches.bore all the travel | their dazzling hues. For she d out some ,m stock- | between New York and Boston. Their wings vibrate with such rapid- e, ‘and she "'] Mississippi valley was not so| ity that the motion is scarcely visible, .,m, then put the known'as the heart of Africa|2nd it is from the constantly hum- d - this fringe hung |now is. ming sound, caused by their wing: hair for the bottle| There was not a public library in|that they »m their name. the United States. The nest the humming bird is know, Mattie Lou Books were very expensive. The | beautifully made, of the softest down d this hair as if it were Lhe- of the Poets cost $15. gathered from the silk cotton tree and . . A day laborer received two shillings |COVered on the outside with bits of uid. tie a little scrap of | @ day. leaves and moss. The nest of the thé neck of the bottle,| A horseman who nm,rd on a city | Smallest species is about as large as play with it and enjoy | Street was fined four half of a walnu s you do your store| Crockery plates we: ob1ecus1 ‘tobe-| BDITH W. HATHAWAY, Age 9. cstuse they. dulied the knive: Bozrahville. you know, she gave these| A man who jeered at the preacher or /queer- n.mg the names of | criticised the sermon was fined. A Trip to Hartford. what ld been the bottle, lome- Dry goods were designated as “men’s| I went to Stafford«Springs with one um.,_nc.mfl.,-- was the name of | Stuffs” or “women’s stuffs.” of our mneighbors, one: She thought that was a beautiful m\s.lv;’e;a i unknown. ;‘lhfoomnl It was a warm and beautiful day the an open last of August, swm Lou lopged t! Six days were required !orthurnev A :{H:ng of mine met me at the big oon} fm whut You Dhtmk "ehe | between New York and. Boston. Springs and we stayed there a while made o Many of the streets were not named, |ana then took the car to Hartford. Why, thm wu a tree stump by the [ and the houses were not numbered. We went through Tolland, Vernon, side e&h’ log mbin. and Three-fourths of the books in every | Rockville and East Hartford. When is stump in her o prons | library came from beyond the Atlantic. | we were going across the Connecticut ,,nd .~filbonfiet she called it “BluAa Twenty days were required for a |bridge I saw the large ships ready to Ann.* letter to. go t‘rom New. York . to|sall to New York. There were many e Ann had- hair, too, for Mattie Char!ea@m by land. small- boats on the river. Lou <ut up a pl of black cloth in New England girl was not allow- ‘We got off the car down town and .:rlpg and tacked this to the slum: od to marry til she. could bake a|walked up to where we were to board. so Mattie Lou had.a good time braid- |loaf of bread ‘ng cut it in smooth, even| We went to a restaurant one day The Thie hate of Susje’ Ann. Hices while. it was still warm. for dinner and in the evening we went There was only one'trouble with her|{ When a Virginian -t.-.rtsd a jour< | ts' see the moving pictures. stiunp-dolk; she couldn’t take it in her | ney to New York he made. N- wm and|. We stayed at our boarding place for arms, But, then, Mattie Lou never|bade farewell to his friends, as though|a while. Then we went up to the house troubled over something that could not | he_never e:pectea to sce them again.|of one of my friends and stayed there be_helpsd. When & man Rad enough tea hc-tewm- Then we went to the Now wheni you ‘tire of your own |placed his spoon across his cup to in- Gfu-n Kettle restaurant for dinner and pretty. store-dellies, and maybe fret|dicate that he wanted no more. in the afternoon went to the moving for 2 new. ou Just think of Mattle| Dances in Philadelphia were ?n pictures. Lou, with tile and stump. d‘:ou-. every uga, l:"h' b\‘;t ymmlmln un. : That. evening we were asked out to 20 and. under "’-. tea. festivity, and in-door pleasyres divert our’ attention ‘from out-of-door dreari- ness. a3 Follow pursuits which interest you and you will not become lonely or downcast: 'MATT]E LOU’S QUEER DOLLIES. quarts of sap a day he is thought to the tree. of an egg cdp. I gathers have done well. 5 The Book of Leaves. After the sap h eariied back it was a cold October mlnlali Tim was restiess and “Oh, A fire of nuts is started in a small chimney about two feet high. These nuts make a dense smoke, After fl;- = fire is started .the gatherers paddle into the milky sap and quirx. iy thrusts it into. the smoke. H remove it from the paddle and car-| ries it to the house or shed to be sent away. It is packed on fllt boats to be car- ried to Pars, rubber houses we had & Mfluv East Norwich, N. b Thanksgiving Pins. BRENAUT. Dear Uncle Jed: “As ’Rhukt:lvl:fi will._soon the Wide pie; aiso’ chicken be: Saca$0* wriee and_tal Awskes how I make squash e. In making a squash pie, first maake ‘Three fiogr, ome cup ea. paste: cups - ‘:.ur, one cup water, one-hall spoon baking powder. powd lers Tud I lard or butter, ail the water and_mix into a smesth Filling: dough. Mix three cups thick stewed and seived sguash, two cups milk, one sugar, oue-teaspoon sai, two teaspoon cinnamor In making a chicken pie, you beil chicken in salt and water; when made and put over the Dbake B even and you'll have a HA ‘chicken; until .crust is @one, chicke: mymm;logum I am in the we have sewing this and it is very - thing we ‘was 5 o'clock when we came out, | 4 model of amerent smche-. e have We did some sho; aewefl on t happened, he was just going home ‘'with his auto and, having to pass ourl South Windham. different articles and n-w'n to make fancy bags for said, lucky zolng wish 1 had sometlring to do™ pn.p. 'houmlwlsolnwrvllh!e As (‘.hrlscmn.n I am 11 years oM. ON HEALY. Troop No. 2 age amoun of scoutcraft. That s The regular meeting of the troop|they think that a tenderfoot kuows was held Tuesday, Nov. 16, owing to |first aid as well as a first-class scout, port, or to mhz‘ du“ from which it |the bases of his book, wflun‘ the | the Scout rally at the armory on}for has it not been spread about 3! is sent to the United States or Europe. There it 1s made into many things. |!Bem. 'If you wish you can make one 1t is used in tires, rain coats, rub-|Of these boaks " a small one is the pest to begin with. | races, tilting, cockfighting and a gen- bers, in mackfiery, ~rubber =bands |® You can write little poems about jeral good fime. At the next meet-|all he can and as quickly as he can. autumn on the first pages, too, if you|ing competition between candidates|t0 uphold the homer of the organiza. erasers..and is put to so. many other uses we cannot name them all. Indeed names of the leaves in ink below | Wednesday evening. scouts are proficlent in first The scouts had light work consist- | Well, most scouts are, ‘but a bay only it is used so much that the labor of | Wish. for second class scout work will be |tion and gathering it is increasing and it is with many pages, but [ing of centipde races, wheelbarrow |{W0 months a scout does not know a great deal. It is his duty to jearn to fit himself for actual ser- In pasting be careful not to tear the | held. The scout in each patrol pass-|Yice with the least possible. delay. leaves and use good sticky paste. A |ing with an average of 90 per cent.|Then there is the boy who has heen a ‘°‘§§.’£{.,;"§{'c§°’$‘5cmy"‘:;e 13, |book of leaves is a stmple thing, but|will be installed as partol leader.|Scout for a year or more and still a e Mary was a little ity girl. Her Uncl-;ohn :)';.d her Aumt Sarah llv«; on a rm. e day, about the first o June, her mother and father decided Gualberto’s “Forgiveness.” to go and visit them, and stay all| Far away in Italy, on the banks of could hardly wait for the time to come |2 very unpleasant place to live in, for much at night. At last the time came [as to who should rule. to go. At one of these times one of the She awoke early in the morning, got | nobles killed the brother of Glovanni dressed arld almost flew down _the | Gualberto. ' And Gualberto was very stairs. She hastily ate her breakfast. |angry at the death of his brother and They were all ready and soon on the [ vowed revenge. way. At length he captured his brother’'s Mary was thinking so much about | mufderer, but just as Gualberto was her uncle’s farm, she didn't notice | drawing his sword to kill his enemy, anything. When they had reached the | Who inelt helpless at his feet, he heard farm and had talked awhile they took |a voice say softly: “Forgiveness is |class, first class, or merit ba’ge nes.. and show othors that scouts 4o thero is no distinction as _|live up to their motto? .BOY - SCOUT EDITORIIN-CHIEF. a walk. Mary saw many wonderful | nobler than revenge.” things, donkeys, horses, cows and| OGualberto knew it was the voice of ' Christ, wi rgave th Naturally, then, the idea is pi sheep, There were numerous hens and st, wio forgave those who crucified | FotuT . aen. A e o chickens, Him. Soon they came to a brook. Mary | So Gualberto sheathed his half- ran ahead and followed it for a long [ drawn sword and said: “Brother, I time and ran back to her mother. She | forgive thee, o in peace.” soon lost sight of them. and called. % FRANCES FIELDS, Age 12. At last she saw them coming in the| Norwich. distance. She ran with all her might = 4 toward them. 3 i A Camping Trip. Her mother cried, “Don’t run so fast |° Last summer as soon as school was child. ~You'll fall and hurt yourself|over we got a letter from our friends badly” May and John to come to visit them. But this cry came too late. Mary| They lived in Maine. My cousin and bad already fallen. She was near her [ started two weeks after school was mother. She tried to get up, but her {out. We got there in the evening. lex was hurt so much she couldn't.| The next day we went with May and All excited, her father carried her|John for a walk through the woods. home. She was put to bed with a|After a while we came to the shore of sprained ankle, but made comfortable. | the lake. There we saw a boat tied to In two or three weeks she was running |a tree. It belonged to our friends’ through the flelds. She was very sorry | fathe: when she had to go home. We jumped in_and John rowed the EDITH PURVIS, Age 11. |boat. When we were in the middle of Norwich. the lake the sky started to darken In% we knzw it ::.uld ldm rztdm 5 ‘e turned the t and row rap- e Sheah 8Ol and) Des- idiy back. When we came to the shore My grandmother has just got back |we started to run home. but when we from visiting a lady she knows. UD|were near the house it started to raln In Glastonbury. The lady_has two|ang we ail got very wet_ old cats and four Kittens. When the | ““\q stayed in Maine one month and cats and Kkittens are eating, one of the kittens hides a plece of meat un- ‘went out many times in the boat while der him. then he tries to get another 7 piece away from another kitten. st b My grandmother calls the kitten a — little pig. F T wish T had been there and seen Value of Paper’te. US. him. I think he would look cunning.| Paper is made from a pulp. The My grandmotQer is going down to| United States, Germany and Great thy uncles and aunts for the winter.| Britain make the most paper, using My uncle and aunt have a dog that|linen and cotton rags, wood, straw, will do many tricks. He will eat oft|old paper and esparto in the manu- a fork, and when my uncle gives him | facture of printing, writing and wrap- a piece of meat he will g0 off in a|Ping papers, which are the most im- corner and eat it. He likes to fol- | bortant kinds. low my uncle around everywhere. ‘Wood-plup is the largest material ‘When my uncle and aunt go away |used. Wherever t forests of he feels awful bad because he cannot | #Pruce or poplar exist, as they do_in g0 t00. The dog’s name is Rover. our country, Canada and Germany. We 1 will send the Wide-Awake Circle | make more paper than any other na- a couple of riddles: tion, largely because of the great num- What can run dowgga tree, but can- | ber and size of our newspapers. Paper not run up a tree? Is one of the great-exports of United at part of a - ates. minds one of & MERT. Y SoTe O IRENE MATHIEU, Age 14. ALICE GERTHA KINNEY. Columbia, SRt D LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. My Little Red Calf. Apple Day at School. I once had a calf that would hard-| Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would day when my friend was here he lold ‘We had apple day the last Friday in me to put a rope around his neck, October. by Senor Don Jullo Betancourt, the he could make him go up beside of| In the afternoon we did mot have him. The calf went nicely till he|any work except writing and came on the hill. Then he started to|about apples. P run and ran till he came to the barn We 'wrote a recipe of something There he stopped. that could be made by using apples. ing steps a quurter of a mile long. We| My teacher said she would give the were all watching him while he was|One who wrote the best recipe five making his fast trip. We were all|Cents. She took the papers home for iauching before they were out of sight. | her mother to decide which was best. After 7 went to feed the calf with | TWO of them were the best, so she gave milk and water, and then it was|each five cents. I got five cents for my getting dark. recipe. ‘When my friend came in the house, | After that two of the girls peeled said, “Look at my knee snd my |and cored some apples. These apples band, how sore they are” were canned for apple pie filling. Tw the morning when T got up and| Ther® was a pail placed upon the went into the barn, I found the calf very sick, because we gave him milk | Partially sealed it and put it into t and water while he was so hot. pail of water. He had to be killed he was suffering There were some apples left over 80, which we made into apple sauce. g I jwax very sorry and sad. because mn:- "Pf'hnia ':"g““ 'WkM but eoul never have another calf so e SRUce A pie T good. nice as my little red calf. ALFREDA K. WALKER, Age 11 IRENE VONASEK, Age 11. Mansfleld Center. e Apples and Thair Uses, A Sad Mistake. In a certain village there were twe families whose names were Brown. | ples are Both were fishermen. The early appies are Astracans, Au- One day each had a loss. one his|gust Sweets and Golden Sweets. Late wite, the nther his boat. apples are Baldwins, Northern Spys, The minister's wife. as she sup- |Crabs, Pippins, Maiden Blush, Twen- wlhbutchecnlldmuumwho h.d"l lost his boat. 'm sorry to hear of you foss.” she sald. T e i Oh, it isn’t much,” *She ved Mr. terpiliar was a rickety old thing. I offered her | trees. nqn(olthmv-nllh- ;’onyn\nt- but he wouldn’t have her. will it will teach you to know the trees|Should there be a tie( or nearly so) and there are leaves in your vielaity |the matter will be decided by - the ™ i, SCTIoN Wb SN ok~ What Happened. at the Farm. that will help you in nature study. |scout master. The troop regrets the [ample? PP WALTER GAVIGAN, Age 13. |resignation of Mr. Ray Fillmore, who illimantic. leaves to take up the assistant scout master position in Troop No. 3. tenderfoot. What sort of a showing All concerned should, of course, do everything in their power to help a boy to advance, not alone hy zlv{ng him attention to tests, bu: also y emphasizing the important omes. Troop No. 9. For instance, some one Troop 9 held its regular meeting | With the Boy Scouts might ask a summer. the Arno, 1s & beautiful ity called |, Tr%R S y night. The meeting was | tendegfoot about signally. This scout Mary was very happy about this and | Florence. ~But for, centuries it was | alled to order about 7:15. The raliy |ought to know something about ome when they started. She couldn't sleep | its citizens were always quarrelng :;d'-{‘:ws_:f?m‘;‘;e‘;“’g B c";:‘fx“fig code, but he cannot be expected to signal with any speed. This person the wheelbarrow, cock fighting and |after questioning—finding that the the centipede race. The meeting au- | Scout knew comparatively little as jourzned at 8 o'clock. yet—would go away shaking his head and thinking that the Poy Scouts did nut live up to their standards.. But EDITORIAL e is wrong. The boy needs time to learn and to practise. Therefore, Most people know scouts a Scouts, isn't it up to you to possible “acouts” not as tende-f-n‘s s endeavor to progress as quickly as without sacrificing thorough- Boston Scout News FLYING BOAT WITHOUT WINGS MEETS TESTS SUCCESSFULLY A new type of boat, a “glider,” a plane propellers revolve in the air at sort of hydroaeroplane without wings, | a speed the first of its kind to answer ex-|and drivi pectations, was tested on the Hudson Iy g0 to any body else but me. One|Write you about appie day. T ey of 1,200 revolutions a minute e the boat at a speed of forty- five miles an hour. When cafrying & load the craft draws only three inches of water. It is adapted Jande II. The triails were witnessed |for service in all weathers. The Yo- landa IL is built in sex sections, anl Colombian minister; Francisco Esc-|the designer, D. La Chappelle, Ce- cobar, ex-consul general of Colombia and Senor Montejo, private secretary [on cork- to Minister Betancourt. The Yolanda clares it is unsinkable. It ls mofinled filled pontoons. Gonzalo Me- jia, who is a Colomblan banker. con- IL measures 30 by 20 feet, and her |ceived the idea of a glider about five ‘While running my friend was mak-| | Wrote about fried apples. cabin houses eleven persons. The mo- | years tive power is supplied by two 150 |left to borsepower engines. Two giant aero- . The men in the picture are right, Senors Montejo, Mejia and Betancofrt. PUBLIC FISH MARKET 77 Franklin Street SPECIAL THIS WEEK FRESH Ib. aoe | FRESH mlSLANDCODS'IFAK.lb. Seic oh tie T whio Toac hia | fnctwa-dencer and Rusedts O UMEREY SRS . . oo s o i aidwine, Fivpins;| FRESH HADDOCK, Ib. ... ........ . 20¢ .. 1800 12Y%5¢ AL Ry LONG AND ROUND CLAMS ............ 3 qgts. for 25¢ CAPECODANDWAKEFIELD oY MHAUBUT Orders Delivered SMOKED SALMON Telephone 133

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