Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 30, 1915, Page 9

Ruies for Young Writers. 1, Write plainly on one side of the paper only, and number the pages. 2. Use pen and ink, not pencil. 8hort and pointed articles will Do not use over 50 words. Original stories or letters only be used, 5. Write your name, age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the story. Address all communications to Uncle | Jed, Bulletin Office. “Whatever ycu are—Be that! ‘Whatever you say—Be true! Straightforwardly act, Be honest—in fact, Be nobody else but you.” { I 3. ‘ ;o siven preference. | | POETRY. ¢ A Rhyme of Little Girls. Prithee tell me, don’t you think i _ Little girls are dearest, ‘With their cheeks of tempting pink, And their eves the clearest? Don’t you know that they are best Ana of all the loveliest? Of all girls with roguish ways They are surely truest; Sunshine gleams through all their days, They see skies the bluest, And they wear a diadem , Summer has bestowed on them. Lydia doesn’t care a cent For the newest dances; She is not on flirting bent, | Has no killing glances, But without the slightest art She has captured many a heart. Older sisters cut you dead, Little sisters never; They don’t giggle when they've said Something very clever— They just gzet behind a chair, Frowning, smiling at you there. Florence, Lydia, Margaret, Or a gentle Mary, They form friendships that, once set, Never more can vary— Staunch young friends they are and true, Always clinging close to you. Buds must into blossom blow | (Morn so early leaves us!) i Maids must into women grow ! (There’s the thing that grieves us!) | Psyche knots of flying curls, i That's good-by to little girls —Meredith Nicholson. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. Uncle Jed wishes all of the Wide-, Awakes a Happy New Year. How long do you suppose folks have been wishing one another Happy New Years? when grandpas were “grandsires,” or “grand- addressed as You know that In those days the chil- dren used to say “grand-sir® very much as people abroad now say ! “grand-duke.” ] It is pleasant to be wished a Happy New Year even when it is only a for- | mal expression of regard for it always | wears a mantle of interest and kind- | ness; but the year for us is not made | happier by the wish, for it can onl be made happler for us by healthy | and prospero conditions, by our| kindness to others, or the kindness of | others to us. = TE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE BOYS AND GIRLS DEPARTMENT ! you very much for boo! ¥ it Saturday 1 read|y und it very ¢ Tt must have been away back |y, jmas anda Happy New Year. obedient and pleasant, and for others by being polite and kindly. ‘The year is made happier for teach- ers and pupils by obeying the rules of the school, cultivating studious habits and having good lessons. We all have the ability to make life disagreeable for ourselves and anyone who may come near us, and over half of sthe trouble in childhood is caused by disobedience and in manhood by in- clvility. To have a Happy New Year we must stop fault-finding and inattention and blundering and sauciness and what- ever tends to irritate others or to make conditions very unpleasant for our- selves. We should promise ourselves we will make the New Year the happiest of our lives and then feel bound to keep the promise, just as if we had made it to our Heavenly Father. If we are unmindful of the promises we make to ourselves, we shall find it the harder to keep the promises we make to other people. THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Frank O’Connell of Norwich, The Bobbsey Twins at School. __Clarence A. Hathaway of Bozrah- ville, The Lobbsey Twins at Meadow | Brook. 2—E. Abbott Smith of Burnside, The —Mason Parker of Mansfield, The 8—Miriam Shershevsky of Norwich, | The Camp-Fire Girls the Seashor: Winners of bocks 1i may call at The Bulle fice for them at any b Thursday. n business o ur after 10 a. m LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. —— | rtle E. Duprey of Colchester: I e prize book yo 2 entitled Miss Pat and He have d it and found i Marion Deutsch of Baltic: I tha ine Gareau of Baltic: I than] You very much for the prize book ) 1 have read it th found interesting. V Christmas. Michae! J. Burns of Fitchville thank you for the nice prize book sent me. I wish you a Merry C John A. Burns of Fi you for the prize book. much. Willimantic: e Something must be done besides wishing to make the year happy. Chil- | dren may make the year happier for themselves and their parents by being | Tales you ver e of it and G r. and than ave read sol think it _is very all the Wide-Aw a Men THE STORY OF BUZZl BY M. H W, You want my story, do you? Well, although you do belong to the canine race, my heart has grown so big late- ly that I do not scorn a chat with You, as we ride along together. You see, my mistress and little mas- ter David and myself are just return- ing from our vacation and thereby hangs a tale. Just six weeks ago”today I heard my Iistress v, avid, what shall we do with Buzz this summer? He is a perfect wreck from fighting with the neighbors' cats. I have a good notion to send him to the cats’ home at Roxbury. If we should leave him here while we are gone away he would surely die at the rate he is going on.” I was lying behind the kitchen stove when she said these words, and, oh! my soul was filled with terror at the thought of never seeing her again. Of course she had no idea I was there, or_she would not have said it. But my dear little master answered at once: “Let's take Buzz with us, mama. The sea air will do him good and I will promise to carry him both ;Iay.!. You shan’t have a bit of trou- le!* Bless his dear, good heart! He did not scorn me, even though there was a big slit in my ear and a piece taken right out of my jaw in a fight the night before. So it was arranged. The next day we started, big box, little box, band- box and bundle, as well as the bas- ket in which I was safely stowed and which my little master held tightly as we were whisked along in an electric car| Rumble! rumble! clang! clang! It took all my faith in both cat and human nature to keep me from dying of fright. You must remember that I was terribly shattered in health. Another change now to the steam cars and this was less of a nervous straln, although when the engine gave a sudden shriek, my heart would fair- 1y stop beating. After two hours, that seemed like ages, we stopped at a lttle station and were hustled into what is called a “barge” in this part of the country. The people were all crowded together, while T in my baskst was wedged In netween David’'s iegs. Away galloped :he horses over a stony country road. “Hurrah! I smeD the ecean™ exoclaim- ed my master. After a little while the passengers began to drop out. (I could see ev- rything, you know, through the holes if the basket, just as I am now look- ng at you.) At last our party was alone in the sarge. We left behinéd us & long row »f beach cottages, and turning out 1pon a back road we came to a little )lufz up above the ocean. We stopped a2t a cottage in the midst of a pine grove, with only one other house near us. It was a lovely spot and a chorus of birds greeted us. I heard my mictress say, “Well, Da- vid, Buzz ought to thrive here! No cats to fight with, and plenty of birds to catch. He wili grow fat and look once more like & respectable puss.” There were no cats, it is.true, and T | was fairly stuffed from morning till with all the dainties tha re | t to a cat's stomach—lobsters, ooked fish, fresh e, there w us_in abundance. Did I grow plump and beautiful, you Did I feast upon the dainty food birds alwayvs afford, and which I could have obtained by reaching out my paw (the ii sent me. as I have read. Esther Shershevsky of Norwich: thank you very much for the prize|out, When Peter was about seventeen book you gave me. I have read some|years old this good master died. of it, and find it very interesting. Stafford pretty prize book entitled The Outdoor Chums, and like it very much. Thanks very much. Earl White of Stafford Springs: Re- ceived the handsome prize book you sent me, and many, many thanks. Carl Anderson of Baltic: 1 was very glad to receive the prize book, and I thank you very much. STORIES presents. The crow boy. little boy got up very eariy and Santa Glaus had not gone. The cr flew as fast as he could until he nted a ot Then his tree. Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat. e 4—Nellie Lynn of Stafford Springs, | e The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore. | jiq had feited Camp-Fire Girls on the Farm. I 6—Gladys Houle of Stafford Springs, | jad The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore. | him 7—Carrie Gelo of Lebanon, The |lim Camp-Fire Girls at Long Lake. ano One Anna LaR you very much for the p: El ot ntitled Mi men. Wo I _began T read it and find it ver wish you a Mer Happy New Year. the m ., and E. White Received the of AWAKES. The Best Kind of a Christmas. One Christmas looking into the twindow boy's home. ‘Willie. thirk that all other children are hap- py_on Christmas eve. He thought he would get many nice But in the morning he was not so happy because he did not find any of the nice presents he expected. so sorry for the little eve of a This boy's He was very happy, was I forgot to tell you that w ame to Santa and said: him as much as ad mas tree. The wanted was ome whi sme gel had whalling. and Gertrude made of Norwich: I thank you very much for the prize book en- titled The Automobile Girls at Wash- ington. WRITTEN BY WIDE- a crow was poor name was and I ill vou give some toys little boy would like “I think I quite for- goir been wish- BER 30, 1915 Christmas, and I wish them all a Hap-| Among those who came to buy boys py New Year. Vera Macinn off this ship was a man who had him- self been stolen from Scatland when he was young. He felt sorry for little Peter when he eaw him put up for sale. The price the cruel captain asked I am reading it and find it{for him was about firty dollars. The very interesting. Lucy A. Carter of Hampton: I thank | Peter for his boy. He sent him to yon very mueh for the pelze book you | school in the winter and treated him It is very interesting as far | kindly. Scotchman paid this money and took Peter, for his part, was a _good boy and did his work faithfully. He stayed Il with his master after his time was He left to Peter about six hundred doi- lars in money for being a good boy. saddle and all his own clothes. Some years after this, Peter married and_went to-live in the northern part of Pennsylvania. He was by this time a man of property. One night when his wife was away from home the Indians came about his house. He got a gun and ran up stairs. He pointed the gun at the Indians, but they told him that if he would not shoot they would not kill him. So he came down and gave himself up as a prisoner. The Indians treated him very cruelly. He was with them more than a year. His sufferings were so great he wished sometimes that he was dead. He knew that if he ran away the In- dians would probably catch him and kill him in some cruel way. But one night when the Indians were all asleep he resolved to take the risk. You may believe that when he started he ran with all his ight. When daylight came he hid self in a hollow tree. After a while he heard the Indians running all about the tree. He could hear them teil one another how they would kill him when they found him: but they did not think to look into the tree. The next night he ran on again. He came very near running into a camp of Indians; but at last he came in sight of the house of a friend. He was tired out and starving. He had hardiy any the he About two hundred years ago a man rees- s sitting, on a cold night, in a room befory biazing fire. in B the man oner. A kettle of & the f e i and stop up at the effect wc tle. ow muct ht he, ere mu let out of prison writes, “a uarters fu firmly up bLoth 1 mouth, 3 b ood fire under st and ma ed it thr the Maraquis contrived by the power r to the heigh bout one hundred years after th ttle boy whose name was Jame and o lived in S | looking at a kettle of 1 the | and holding a spoon before t t rushed out of the unt thought he t not.a shame for you to waste time ? ames was not ot th moving the spoon. idle—he 1l not the steam engine do? it elevates, it lowers, it drains, it pulls, it drives, it it di t cuts, it saw it it bores, it blows, it forges, «, it files, it polishes, it rivets, T it weaves, and does more s than 1 can think of. If it could It propels, pump. spe: Christ- | speak, it might sa: 1d Aunt | “T blow the bellows, T forge the steel, | 1 manage the mill'and the mint it bezan |! hammer the ore and turn the wheel, and ail | the news that you read I print.” In the year 1807 N a th imes, % Tom, Ned a How | Grew a Half Acre of Corn. ;\0"‘1,,,‘(“‘2]‘"’,253225_“"‘9" not I answer| oo man by the door where their| rn the Yl of 1016 & Bald e It seemed a miracle to my mistress | Mother and Baby May stood watching | plowed which had not been plowed and David, for I often heard jthem. 1When they came into the|for over twenty years. We used a ki et e | house their checks were rosy with cold | siae NIl plow. does k they would s They were all ready for dinner. When spring came and the frost haps it would be, “What can be the| In the afternoon Uncle Jack hitched | a5 out and the ground dry enough reason Buzz Keeps 5o thin, when he|UP his two large, black horses in the arrowed it with the wheel har- Gt oanr : *|sleigh, and took them all sleigh rid- Often T would go and rub against When they came back at night my mistre: to her how dress and try to explain I felt, but she could not were col the evening In , but hap the Christmas tree Then in about a week or so after harrowing It we spread on elght loads of stable manure which I immediately seem to understand. Although my s 1it. ~ Thev had music and son harrowed in, using the wheel harrow. wounds and scratches healed up, yet | The children plaved zames. while the | y\yout the 10th of .May it was har- I actu; grew thinner, for I was be- | 0lder people told stories and joked and rowed again for the last time with the ing devoured by grief. For the first |laughed. — They had apples, oranges|gpring-tooth harrow. time in my life I began to realize the | and candy to eat. The fifteenth of May the field was beauty of the great cat world, now | ‘Phe children had had a pleasant| janteq, using an Eclipse Corn plant that T could no longer look upon one | Christmas and went to bed feeling|er, and using 200 pounds of Rogers of my own race. I, who had sought to | happy- o) and Hubards' corn fertilizer an having tnjure and destroy my fellow-bei NELLIE LYNN, Age 15. | the rows about three feet apart and whenever they had come in my way! | Stafford Springs. about fifteen inches in the row be- I who would not allow another cat e tween the hills. to even jump over our garden wall at Not So Fast. After it had been planted about a flome without a desperate encounter| “O, mamma,” cried Blanche. *“I|week I went over it with & heavy to the teeth. This was the first chance | heard such a tale about ith! I did | bush. to thing which had come to me. Do you wonder why 1 did not gain flesh? Do you see now why it became mpos- sible for me to kill a bird or even rot think she could be so naughty. One—" “My dear,” said her mother, “before you tell it, we will see if your story It came up in about eight or ten days. When it was about two inches high I went through it with a culti- vator. It was cultivated In all six to torture a field mouse? I began to | yyiil ¥ ves.” v 5 : : pass three sieves. times, about a week or ten days apart. realize that other birds and other mice |~ “What does that mean, mamma?” | The corn wae hoed twice, working if they should dis- “I will explain. In the first place, | mornines and nights after school and appear down the throat of a monster |let me ask you about your story. Is Saturdays. cat, and I commenced to feel interest |it true? even in them. One night (It was moonlight, I re- member) 1 tould not restrain myself any longer. I went out among the trees and cried out in anguish to the great vellow moon. (I heard after- wards ‘that I greatly frightened some people passing by. They thought there must be an escaped lunatic in the woods.) But that night T made a solemn vow that if I lived to return to my own “I suppose so. White, and she Edith’s.” “Does she show he telling tales of he be true, is it kind “T did not mean to be unkind, but I am afraid it was.” And is it necessary?” 'No; of course was no need for mentioning it at all.” is a great friena friendship ot, mamma. I heard it from Grace Though proven to There The 14th of September I began cut- ting corn. I worked before and aft- of | er school and finished it the 17th of September. by I began husking the 27th of Sep- temher. working as I had time, on mornings and nights and Saturdays. T finished husking the 22nd of October, having in al! 50 bushels. T sent some of the corn the Conecticut Fair and won a prize of three dollars. MASON PARKER, Age 12. “ATw: <] o three qui Mansfieid. deat. homel dtics! mote iny Hfallows | nect aien e et oe, Guestiona] Manafield would find me a reformed cat. I had |gomething about ethers come to sce that just so far as 1 LEO POLIQUIN, Age 11 Roads. should injure or destroy any one of = i 3 Good roads are very valuable because my own race or another, just so far I would be injuring myself. Poor stupid little pug dog! you can’t understand such lofty ideus, I suppose, :u( they may do you some good any- ow. Ah! the train is stopping. We have reached Boston. I see my master com- ing to get me, so I can't talk with you any longer. By the way, I heard uvid say the other day he was going to change my name to Sampson Schley Hobson Dewey. I hope he won't with ail my heart, for though it wouid confer great honor upon me, yet I dislike anything that could re- mind me of my old fighting days. Good-by! Versailles. stolen from their parents. taken to Philadelphia and sold, work for seven years. Little Peter was fall into the hands of a kind master. The Story of Peter Williamson. One day a boy named Peter William- son was walking along the streets of Aberdeen in Scotland. low was eight years old. Two men met [ most important part of the roads is him and asked him to go on board a|the crown. ship with them. When he got on board | rounded off so that the rain will run he was put down in the lower part of the ship with other boys. sailed to America with twenty boys. Like Peter, the other boys had been |slde of the road that the leaves will They were | fall into the road, for that will make lucky enough The little fel- light carriages can drive over them easily; also because heavy loads can be drawn over it quicker and with larger loads. In selling a farm, if there are good roads near it, it is more valuable. The The crown should be into the gutter and not soak down and ‘The ship | make the road muddy. There should be no trees so near the to | the road dusty. to | ruts. It is not used in all places. If the soil of the road does not pack He also gave him his best horse and | put gravel on to bind it. A road | England and America; and memorials || attention to keep a good crown. ‘Trees and brush should be cut away from the ditch for about a yard. MYRTLE DUPREY, Age 13. * Colchester. Molly’s Grief. In sight of a railroad lived an en- gineer with his wife, two daughters and mother in a large white house. Every day the family sat on_the piazza waiting for the train and the children waved their hands to their father, who could not get home often. Molly ‘was ten years old and Dot was seven and they had many good times together. One dzy, however, their father lost his work and could get no other. The family had to move to a smaller house and then again to a still smaller one. After awhile the engineer began to drink and that took what little money he earned. His wife died during the next sum- mer and now they had to live in a small tenemert house and Mr. Brown drank more than ever. The children’s clotbes were reduced to rags by wear and often they had nothing to eat. One day thelr father came home drunk, as usual, and in his anger beat Molly and his mother, then threw a stick of wood at Dot, which hit her above the eve and made a horrible scar. Not long after that his mother went crazy. Dot's father took her away where: no one knew where. Molly was taken to an orphan asy- lum. Poor Molly was very sad, for £he had no one in the world now but Dot and she had been taken away and some- poor children At Christmas time they planned to give presents to the p. SHat Bo clothes left on him. He knocked ali']l‘u‘. hospital and whi the crow thanked Santa, and | the door. e o e - 4 o o nd hid them by| The woman who saw him thought he | the scar over her eye. She told i « to the rab- | Was an Indian. She screamed and the | them how had been left in the . e o’ Cnrist. | man of the house got his gun to kill | street by her drunken father and from AR A im; but he quickly told his friend |the tken to a hospital by a police- row asked the rabbits if he it he was no Indian, but Peter Wil- I oo ;\hv“\\ - and could not have the Christmas tree the¥! Everybody had given him up for| Molly spent th G B to come witn | d¢ad, but now all his friends were|It was the happi and ye Adest O eist ree | DAPPy to see him once more. He had y had spent for a long time. NTISUMAS €€ | (wice been carried into slavery—once | was xl“: %o =ad after this be- irrels who | PY cruel white men and once by yet | felt that Dot was happy Jthe squirrels who | %, 0, T red men . o [mother and srandmother. ot and| FRANK O'CONNELL, Age 12. @ any such children as nt to the bear and | i Dot and Molly and all of them do not Sh Lo ind kind friends. ther to give e St ot Water: MARY A. BURRILL, Age 13. Staffo d Springs. My Country Home. the last of June. hower of the steam in | Jame w to be a good and at | m nd contrived those wonderful mprovements the steam engine hich have made it so useful in our it | | back to school and my the | or the | Robert Fulton, an | room and the table. ndows 1 some of their pped on the lawn orchard. Th 1 . rect hundred n the center i - the and the flows on to then the river. wn to b into 1 he was rely resumed my sted th ar me 1 to my new it wuld not read for the pond. )t in a boat ar 1t on the w when the book and was t 1 did not hear one put ater el for i | ner was heard. We hurried back bu were w minutes late. Later in the afternoon I took m cotsin home in my pony cart and r turned The dusk t of my vacation was spent mary pl nt onti nd tourna- ments a r in the fall when harvests were taken in, I returned friends. G HOULE, Age frord Springs. 12. Sir Edwin Landseer. Edwin Landsecer was one of the most famous artists of modern times. He lived from 1802 to 1§ He was born in London. was an_engraver w much admired. His father work as His brother was also a iy storm, so they | American, put the first steamboat on | famous engraver. ’ the Hudson river, and in 1829 a loco-| The lad learned to draw at a very rge hill in front of | motive steam carriage went over a!early age. He loved to go out into the morning | raliroad in England. ficlds with his paper and pencil, and eds and had | CLARENCE A, HATHAWAY, Age 11,/ drew so well that his friends soon be- S5 e koo Jozrahville, gan to be surprised at his work. you ever go to London and visit the great museum at South Kensington in London you may still see some of th drawings which he made before he was eizht years old. Wh his sketch book with him and told with his pencil what he saw. He liked best to sketch animals and he went he_could find animals to eketch. a famous Engiish painter, Hayden. the structure of the animals he paint- ed so that he might know the pl and shape of every But Landseer was not contented with studying merely the bodies of the ani- mals: he watched them as they moved about in the ficlds, played with one an- other, slept or sought for food. was them almost spoken to him. as if they When Landscer was fifteen years old | he painted a picture of doss fighting. Everyone who saw it admired it and it was sold at a good price. He painted who studied his pictures went away with a real lking for the themselves. In the pictures he repre- nts himself as sketching, and his two sketch, as if they were judging w i er it is good or bad. One hardly knows which to like more in the ture, the frank, open face of the ist, with its clear eves and noble or the earnest, intellizent faces o dogs who look over his shoulder. You may sometimes see this artist's name written "Sir E. Landseer.” Queen Victoria made him a knight with the title “Sir” because his work had been so well done. CARRIE GELO, Lebanon. Age 11. Phillips Brooks. Phillips Prooks was born in Boston. December 13, 1 His college edu- cation was reccived at Harvard. after which he studied theology at the sem- inary in Alexandria, Va. After preaching for several in Philadelphia, he removed to Bos- ton and filled the office of rector of Trinity church. a beautiful edifice which was designed by the famous architect. H. Richardson. Mr. Brooks was one of the years most ‘A road drag should | preacher and professor at be us&d after every rain to fill up the | University. ination, and his printed sermons are widely rasd. He was offered the position of Harvard but declined. occurred in January, 1893. Erooks was loved and honored His death in not successful, but helped many other)a fox hunt i to him have been placed in London, at Harvard University, and in church- es. ETTA McGRATH, jge 13. Bozrahville. My Play House. My father had built me a lovely lit- e play house in the back yard. It had two little windows and on the door was also a glass window. First of all I had to furnish it. My mother gave me a pair of ljace cur- tains, and I put them on the windows and indeed they looked very nice. I brought my dolls’ table down there and my fatker made me " doll cupboard to put my dishes in. He | even painted it white, which made it look very nice. ‘There was a lock on the door and every night before I come up to go to bed I would lock the door. In the afternoor I invited my friend Gladys to come up and play with me We would do our hair up like ladies, put on long skirts and take our doll for a walk. My father bought me a boy doll I like my play house very much, and hope the Wide-Awakes have got one | fully. just ke it. MILDRED E. WHITE, Age 14. Stafferd Springs. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. A Fox Hunt. Dear Uncle Jed: Alice Kinney, of South Coventry, sent two riddles to the Wide-Awnke circle of the 1Sth of |you of the experience I as the answers have | steers. November and of modern. languages in Bowdoin col- “fn 1835 e was appointea _protessor of modern lanzuages and Beiies-lettres in_ Harvard university. Then he continued to live in Cam- bridge in the house in which Gen. Washington lived when in command of the army there. Mr. Longfellow wrote there some of is best known poems. He published many books of poems and is better known than any other American poet. Among his _ longer Ppoems are anzeline, The Song of Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles O Nyt I et any of nglfellow's poems are houschold words. Even the litte chil- dren know them. Every schoolboy can repeat Excelsior and every schoolgirl knows the Psalm of Life by heart. He died when 75 years old, March 24, 1882, YETTA LEVINE, Age 12. Colchester. The Christmas Tree. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell you about my school. Last Friday we had a Christmas tree. It was decorated very beauti- There were many candles on the tree; and the children were all there. We all got a present from Santa Claus. STELLA TETREAULT, Age 9. Versailles. His Experience with Steers. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell had with not been sent yet I will answer them, One day my father hitched them up perhaps she would never see her|as I think I can. { What can run down a tree, but can- y was taken from the asylum |not run up® The answer is “Water.” soon after by kind friends. She told| What part of a_ grocery store re- them about Dot and a search was|minds one of a fish? “Scales.” made. For a long time they were Last Th our village and it com- ced just opposite our house. The zentlemen were dressed bits and the leader The leader follow- started off im, thes They jumpin went along very ditches and fences as r te catch the fox, ed from sht. reading the letters about as I as fond of ali ani- birds. nd I have three bantams, en and a little dog, lit bout them. are cochins and tame that me may pick up and feed them from th The ducks are Rouen ducks and are tame, al The kitten is the only one we have, The odor| every where. 1| 'ed on the front y home the Yel- nd the climbing red in their ¢ of roses 1; the tennis tour- | | the boy went to work he took | where | Young Landseer became the pupil of Benfamin Hayden taught him to study ce bone and muscle. He their friend and he understood could have dogs, sheep and deer so that everyone animals dogs looking over his shoulders at the brilliant pulpit orators of his denom- | nd likes to fol e best and hout some of 'BREHAUT. | East izing Colors. Jed: Some of the Wide- ve a box of paints ft so here is 3 Dear Uncl nd brown and brown h e makes pu nine with straw makes makes blue with lead color mp-black with indizo ver gray Mixin L ack with { mnl lead color. green with green. | ow ochre and white | ite tinted with purple chrome green - green with white green with white N vermilion with chrome yel- es orange. « chrome yellow with white w color. hite i | low - rted with red and | vellow cream. | Mixi ite with tints of black and | purple makes ashes of roses. | Mixing white tinted with black and | purple makes French gray, | Mixing chrome yellow, blue, black | ana red makes olive. ! :SIE L. BREHAUT. h N. Y. The Schocl Children in Turkey. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell you and the Wide Awakes about the sch hildren in Turl Turkish children recite their lessons all tozether in t old-fashioned schools and if you could hear them you would think that you had gone to East Norw derland where “things wouldn't come st ht. The lit girls go to schocl in groups and with them is alw old servant who carries a ton wh looks like | ttended by ., cher. They ¢ their own bool and wear long fathe Som own In of the tiny little tables and girls carry their awing boards. ages the children | ns by songs in the streets. They siand in a circle with {a big girl in the middle and they get v er and noisier the more interested Y ETOW. MIRTAM SHERSHEVSKY, Age 8. rwich. Out of Door Sports. Dear Uncle Jed: I thank you very ch th prize book you sent me a Forest Fire ve read d very in are not ma ed in the w 1 hope | m: nter, but I en- the Wide all very good sport, with | clear ice. A good twenty miles an_hour. » very good sp . with hard louble ripper apart, an E In this way more sons. can also be yed, but the Wide Awakes have Snow b I_think aill played them. 1 and a the i le Awakes i a Merry Christmas a Happy New Year. BARNEY REKMAN, Age 13. Yantic. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. r Uncle Jed: I thought to write t } Wadsworth Longfel- » was a famous American poet horn Portlan Feb, . He was graduat y Bow- llege when 18 vears old in 1525 n to study law in his father’s but left it to become nrofessor office, and let me drive them. So I went up in the lot and got some wood and on my way back they took advantage and ran away and I haven't driven them since. morning there was| CLARENCE B. SPENCER, Age 12 ‘Willimantic. Hadlyme—H. Weinstein & Sons. manufacturers of cloth, hats and caps, estimate their loss from the recent burning of their storehouse at about the others followed oOn|gy50) clear of insurance. It Has Been Done, So Scores of Nor- wich Citizens Say. To get rid of an aching back, The sharp twinges, =¥ The tired-out feelings, : You must reach the spot—get at the cause. In man; 'tis the kidneys. Doan's Kidney F tdneys. y cases s are for weak | Norwich eitizens testify. B! 235 W. Main “My back was in ad shape and I suffered severely from i, It Mar; et Brown, !sx Norwich, say heavy pains across my kidneys. was almost imposs for me to out of bed in the morning and I rable I tried s, but wasn't helped. Kidrey Pills, procured at N. D, & el like a Qi in ev medick Torent ! Doan’s Sev Drugz Store, made me rent woman, restoring al condition and ains in my back” e at all dealers. Don't | = y ask for a kidney remedy—get { Doan's Kidney Pills—the same that { Mrs. Brown had. Foster-Milburn Co. { Props., Buffalo, N. Y. I Worms are a common childhood afl- Y They make children irritable, nd restiess, besides robbing v and mind of proper nourish- Watch your child. Examine the st sizns of worms give a treatment of Kickapoo Worm Killer. They kill the worms, |2ct as a laxative and expel the worms land poisonous waste. Tone the sys- and help restore your child's alth and happy disposition. Only 25c at your drugsist. ‘ Corns, nlons and Ingrowins | n Toe Nails treated without painm. Com assured. Shampooing, Mani, Scalp Treatment and Facial Mescage: (niiiches made from your comd- nEw. KATHERINE LANZ Room 22, Shannon Bulldiag 43-3. (Take Elevator) DR. ALFRED RICHARDS DENTIST Thayer Building, Room 305. Telephone 488-2 DR.R.J.COLLINS DENTIST Phone 424-4 TuThS PREPARE FOR WINTER During the warm days of the Fall is the best time to do any repair work, instead of wait- ing until the cold makes out- e wrork difficult. Have you examined your roofs and gutterns to see if they are tight? your heater in condition to run through the winter? is the plunbing sani tary and all right for the com- ing winter? If not, call or "phone and we will attend to it promgtly. REFRIGERATORS of the best kinds will be sald at very low prices rather than carry them over. Cur loss wi be your gain, and it will pay you to look at them. 1P BARSTOWS 0. 23 and 25 Water St.