Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 6, 1916, Page 9

dotted the surface of new THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE fess active all winter; his track has passed rigo; months in his nest, beside his hoard of nuts, some feet under ground, and BOYS ARD GIRLS DEPARTMENT hence, when he emerges in March, and is seen upon his little journeys|on along the fences, or perched upon a - log or rock, near his hole, it is another =: many paintings and statues in ules for Young Writers. tle round men were made from this|&ign of spring. palace. E o e soft and workable stone and the game HARRY LEVI, - Sl o o 1. Write plainly on one side of the ! i p may have been played with all the zest| -orranville. paper only, and number the pages. | 2. Use pen and ink, not pencil. it is played today by the boys and The Singing Parrot. ¥ 38 Short and pointed articles will|girls of ancient Greece. A t many years ago, in Swansea, ngomuhnnm Do not use Over |~ yryon the little Dutoh boys and girls | Mass,, there lived a deacon with his wife and son Stanton. 4. Original stories or letters only &+ - !wm be used, H ‘Write your name, age and ad- d{u. plainly at the bottom of the story. Address all communications to Uncle Jed, Bulletin Office. F ever ycu are—Be that! ‘Whatever you say—Be truel Straightforwardly act, Be_honest—in fact, Be nobody else but you' POETRY. The Arbutus. drive hoop they “hoople,” and by this name this spring game is known in parts of America settled by the Dutch. All of these games were designed for the exercise given as a means of getting physical development from play instead of such stunts as are known to the gymnasium. And these games are likely to be spring games a thousand years hence. THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. sea and was away very long. returned he brought the parrot as gift to his parents. to_the deacon's house. i 3 take her out. this is what she sang: 3 1—Ruth E. Brown of Willimant! { Hidden unseen in a cozy dell Ruth n‘fld,fis on Clift Tslard. oid “Hey, Betty Martin, ‘Wihere a brooklet winds her way, o Tip toe, tip toe, ' Where elves their mtdnight stories tell,| 2—Mary A. Burrill of Stafford Hey, Betty Martin, Tip ' toe, fine, Couldn’t get a husband To please her, to please her, Couldn’t get a husband To please her mind.” The arbutus creeps astray. ‘What is finer than Nature's gifts? Her birds, her flowers, her stream— The arbutus, fairer than them all, Quiet and happy, grows unseen. Springs, A Regular Tomboy. 3—~Michael H. Kowatts of Stafford Springs, Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics. 4—George Owen Geer of Norwich, After School. 5—Lillian Soukys of West Willing- ton, Little Stories for Little Folks. 6—Blanche Lucier of Taftville, The ‘Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge. 7—Nancy Tetrault of Versailles, Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp. 8—Harry Levi of Bozrahville, Hick- ory Ridge Boy Scouts. Soft and sweet are her petals of pink, Her leaves are fair and green; No one otherwise could think That she is the fairest flower seen, —Elizabeth A. DeBoer. amazed to seec her. the cage and Polly flew out. return for about eight years. One sunny morning of the room into the street. Why the Tent is Full. Father says he used to go + To the circus years ago; Doesn't care about it now, Only goes to save a row. tage. began calling him by his name. Stanton returned. Nothing there he wants to see; LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT,| They sald they would keep Polly Goes because it pleases me. —_— i e A ja: “Polly Mother, she dislikes it, too; 3 Doris M. Amidon of Willimantic: I ne ("“""‘h"!-' A Yfl sala: * °h’ Only goes because I do. thsnk you very much for the prize ‘“‘""‘h“ A and soon after she Uncle Josh will go with us Boslc ¥ recotved. I fisve Sunil i very (PO Bt S SeL L (Seems to me it's curious): interesting. ANNARUSNICE, Azw 15 Says he's going for my sake; Bozrahville. - Sure he cannot keep awake. Aunt Jane says she'll come along, Though perhaps it may be wrong; Bat she thinks I ought to see Things in natural history. Uncle James will go alone; Doesn’t like to chaperon, Says he simply means to go ‘Cause he wants to see the show. —Circus Folk Song. JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. The boys are playing marbles and the girls are jumping rope, and it will not be long before both will be driv- ing hoop. These are among the real signs of spring, as much as the coming of the birds or the setting up of the eroquet arches. How long do you suppose boys and girls have played these games in the spring, and why do they play them at certain seasons of the y driving and “hop-scotcl] games for boys and girls in the sum- | mer time as tennis and crogquet are | Dorcas Clark of Moosup: I thank you very much for the prize book, A Child’s Garden of Verses. 1 have read gome of it and found it very interest- ng. Walter Supina of Stafford Springs: 1 thank you very much for ihe prize book. I read nearly half of it and found that it is a very interesting story. Mary A. Burrill of Stafford Springs: I thank you many times for the prize book you sent me. I am very much pleased with it. Lillian Murphy of Norwich: I thank you very much for the prize Dbook which you sent me. I have read it through and find it very interesting. Delia Pounch of Norwich Town: I thank you very much for the prize book, Miss Pat in the Old World. I ! have nearly finished it and found it | very interesting. Clauds Robinson of Franklin: | thank A Brave Nurse. The eagle™is troublesome neighbor. confines his attention such as hares, part He usual dges, etc., the farms, loss to the farmers. The prey i nest and divided among the young, UNCLE cradle. When in pursuit of pre; daring bird, off e hounds. however, of the ictim to his own rashnes: t maid of Munich on one occ: sion earned great pr: lar presence of mind. garden with a child ni and set it down on the ground, I 1 much for the prize u sent me. Have read it and have found it very interesting, as it contains thrilling adventures, Helen M. Dawley of Plainfield: I was prey. As Stanton grew older went went to ‘When he Winter evenings many people came Every evening the deacon took Polly out of the room. This evening he didn’t As soon as someone stopped singing Polly commenced to repeat the words. Polly soon recognized the deacon’ wife's voice, and as soon as she ended singing Poliy commenced to sing, and | boat ‘When Polly finished the deacon was He soon opened Stanton went back to sea and didn't Polly flew out She saw a youngiman walking towards the cot- She soon recognized him and The old folks were very glad that a very noble looking bird, but is apt to prove a somewhat to small game, but sometimes likes to vary his diet, and carries off younz pigs and lambs from thus causing considerable s immediately taken to the there should be any eaglets in the lofty the eagle iaving bees a hare from before months old, when ted from the by, with Next day we saw the Russian Cos- sacks being trained for war. The Cossacks are soldiers. A week after Maria took me to Mos- cow. She showed me wonderful things 1 do not see in Willington. When we MARIE HAK, Age 12. ‘West Willington. - rip to New York. When T went to New York last sum- mer I went by boat. I went with my grandmother. We got a ride in an au- tomobile to the depot and went to the it by train. ‘We went to the depot at 7 o'clock. The train was to come thirteen min- utes past seven, but it came about fifteen minutes to eight. 1 was very tired waiting for it. ‘When the train came we got our bundles and hurried in:o it, but we had to wait because the train that comes from New York hadn’t arrived. This train ought to have come sooner. But at last it came. Then the train we were on started for the boat. When we got upon the boat we paid for our tickets and checked our bundles. Then we went to ask for a bed but the woman who had charge of the beds said we couldn’'t have any until 12 o'- clock. So we went upstairs. We sat on the deck watching the iittle boats sall past. When we thought it was about 12 o'clock we went down and got a bed. In the morning when my grand- mother woke me to comb my hair I forgot I was on the boat and said: “What a_thunderstorm!" My grandmother laughed at me. Be- cause you know it was the rumbling of the boat. When the boat got to the New York station my uncle was there waiting for us. AGNES KLECAK. West Willington. The Sheep and the Birds. Once a father and his son were sit- ting under a tree upon a hill. It was near sunset, and a flock of sheep were feeding near them. A strange man came along who had a dog with him. As sgon as the sheep saw the dog they became alarmed and ran into some thorny buches which grew nearby. Some of their wool caught upon the thorns and was torn . 1y if aw this he was trou- See, father, how the ¢ the wool from the poor These bushes ought to be cut down, so that hereafter they may not harm the shee; they were speaking a bird flew down among the bushes, picked off a tuft of wool, and carried it away in | his beak to a high tree. we.” said the fother, “with this wool the bird is making a soft bed for its young in the nest. How comfortable nd the sheep f their fleece. is well to cut n thorns re th you now e g 55 surprised to get the prize book, The Sh the bushes? f for older people? Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook. T or and, Sald the boy, “we will ot them And the game of marbles has its| thank you very much for it. I have!in spite ¢ s, held him fast HRA language as well as baseball, and the | read part of it. 1 taink Laura Lee| (il some j T o Ner anaint- ber my son.” said the boys will soon “knuckle down,” “pink | Hobe Writes very interesting books. t we are all dependent i leadon bl i another. It scemed to you v for taw” and be shouting “no hunch- | STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- | tne torons OF ' 2mply rewarded |hard that the poor s uld lose tns” and lots of other things Undie | e their wool; but now you see, that AWAKES. nt the eagle Jed used to know but has forgotten. | Whenever a man harks back to Ducks in China. boyhood, and many of them do in the | Most farms boast of a few ducks, spring, they realize what a great game | Dut did you know that there are more to without this wool, not have its warm ne SIE BUNDY, Age 1L le bird could Norwich. ! ducks in China than in all the rest of A Walk. ik i marbles is, and how mighty smart the | the world put together? Even the| I went for Ik and as T went| - __L"“’l" the Nosthern ""9"" . boy £ Is who has won a pocket full | cities have their ducks. In the coun- | along I sa et 1 was sivig ] 0 I A FoN 8 Shory et & WA One old fellow talking of the game | try districts they literally swarm. One | of them. My father went up to them g_“'m(‘“ "‘s !~l‘n'd“md"> years er says: “What a sclence the game was, | 6€5_them everywhere: ~The Chinese |and h hand and they began | ™ Lindu, children are given their care largely, and a traveler sees them caring for ducks on every road, in the field and in _the yards. Even the boats on which, in China, families live, have their ducks' qua: ters. 1t is a great national indus! Then there are great duck-hatching establishments, some of which are said to produce fifty thousand young ducks a year. Ducks are a staple food salted and smoked as smoke beef and ham. MICHAEL J. BURNS. and what gymnastics for the lungs, as | played around the box stove at the back of the old schoolrgom or on the hard yellow earth outside, with a straight line for taw and an unlimited fleld, or with a great circie for taw and the inclosed area for field. If you were a boy out of the first readers you held your alley between the thumb nail and the end of the first finger, and you might shoot from the ground or kneel or stand and make your shot through shouted them run d lots. It was u ought have seen across the of the funny of birds and trees. Then flock of hens they cat! I and are we salt ana How the: are goinz to get something got home about dark. 1 like take long walks. Fitchville, It does me good. d saw about r got on the m the hill and un to see them 1 kept walking and kept finding lots things to look at—lots we saw a hoy feeding a big| will run when God said to Lindu: charge of the birds. Whenever men came to kill them Lindu would pray for a stronger wind to blow the dust into their eyes so they could not see. Then the North Star saw that Lindu was a beautiful girl, so he wanted her for a bride. But_ the little girl answered: Mr. North Star, T don't love y cause you are very far away.’ Then the Moon saw Lindu and sald: du is zeing to be my bride.” indu heard this she quickly 1 don't love you because “You may take to to the air. From a standing position, an T a— 1 haven't got my brother now. 1 ave the same round face every expert could pink a marble at three The Chipmunk. lost him last June. He was a good ¢ expert could pink | e L e Yo T I S e the Sun then thought, “she yards every other time. Only the little 3 n March is as =it better than the | Will be my bridy 2 itp, | SUTe a token of the spring as the.fust| MOV e much better than the| "'p ¢ she didn’t want any of th boys and the sirls shot their alley with | §1e, - 7020, 410 LIRS B2 theafuat | i, ut sh: n't want any of them the thumb from the hollow of the first finger at the second joint.” Since marble has been known for more than two thousand years, it is| quite probable that at first these Iit- I haven't any school this week. em goiug to help my mother. I haven’t missed school this term, HELEN DAWLEY, Age Plainfield. as welcome. Some genia! influence has found him out there in his burrow. deep under the ground, and waked him up, and enticed him forth into the light of day. The red squirrel has been more or Helping at Home. old. works_all _day, with her brother and care of. MY. FRIEND, THE TOAD s i T 6 something to eat for them. 1 will acknowledge at the outset that I met my friend, the toad, by accident. That is, he came into my rock garden on a prospecting tour, no doubt, and while resting on a log in a shady nook, introduced himself by a peculiar sound. It was just at dusk, so seat- myself on a rustic bridge I made up my mind I would study his move- came healthy. It was a joy to see leaves for once free of the usual insect perforations. Slug and bug extermi- nators were no longer brought into service. The toads attended to that part of the work. One evening a neighbor accidentally killed one with his lawn mower. “Here’s our chance,” I suggested, “to prove how great a service the toad renders.” It had a ravenous appetite: that much I knew, but of its real worth I ‘was in doubt. We soon had the contents of the stomach spread out on a board. Such an array of pests is seldom seen. There were cutworms, caterpillars, thousand legged worms, bLeetles, cock- roaches, sow-bugs, cabbage worms, moths and cucumber beetles. ‘A snail, and a slug an inch and a half long. All told we counted forty-six noxious in- sects, besides flies and a few small bugs. That settled the question as whether the toad was a friend to man- kind. Henceforth, he deserved our pro- tection and would recelve it. Talking with another man a short time later, he stated that Counted under the microscope, in his going to and from their nests. they work. sweet juices with which to honey. couldn’t brag of his beauty, un- 1e88 the squareness of his figure should be considered. He was a big fellow and when he lumbered off the log he landed on his head. Surely, thought I, he hasn't much in the way of brains. Picking himself together, he cautiously moved toward the carnation bed. For a period of five minutes or more nhe remained motionless. Suddenly, out sho: his tongue with lightning-like ra- jdity and a juicy cutworm bid good- 5ye to friends and earthly scenes. “Fine boy,” I said, under my breath. i had tried in every manner possible to rid this bed of cutworms. Almost ps fast as I transplanted the carna- tions from the propagating boxes they mowed them down. It was now my pleasure to see four of these worms pass into the world beyond, before out and ready for bed. BLANCHE LUCIER, Age 13. ‘Taftville. A Good School Game. so it is a good school game. “chasers” chosen. ting between. I know a girl who is just 10 years Her father is dead and her mother so she is left alone sister to take She doesn’t only play with them but watches over them like a little mother and when they are hungry she fixes She takes them into the little gar- den in hack of the house and together they watch the busy little black ants She has watched them so often that she knows their ways and how hard She shows the children the little bees as they dive into the flowers for make In this way Mary keeps the little ones from worrying and when her mother comes home from her day’'s work she can rest, for the children are all tired This game is known as Liners, and it is played by from twelve to twenty, At least two groups of four each lock arms. There must also be a “runner” and two The two chasers must try to catch the runner, but the groups with the locked arms must do their best to protect the latter by get- When the runner is caught she takes her place at the left side of one group, ‘while the chaser who caught her takes Then the Northern Light came in his charlot and when Lindu saw him she fell in love with him. She said she would be his bride. stream gave her a veil, Frost King gave her a lace, and irds gave her a white dress. pring came, but the Northern Light dian’t come. She wept every day. After a few days she lived happy. She is still living. Did you ever meet her? ANNIE BLAHUSIAK, Age 12. West Willington. 1 My Playhouse. I have a playhouse in the garage where my daddy keeps his automobile. I have a large cupboard where I keep my cookies, cakes and pies. I keep these in the upper part of the cupboard. In the lower part I have my dishes. My furniture is an old sofa, two chairs, one table and a little icebox. When my brother Anton comes home he is my grocer. He sells me suzar, made of ground brick, yeast, raisins and all that i1s needed in the cooking part. LILLIAN SOUKYS, Age 6. West Willingtor LETTERS WRITTEN TO UNCLE JED. Lost in the Woods. Dear Uncle Jed:—One tright day in April my mother, sister, brother and I went out to pick Mayflowers. We thought we would look in a new place. We started through the pines but af- ter we had gone quite a way we de- clded to go back because we didn't find any Mayflowers. We wandered around for sometime, not knowing which way to go and at last we dis- covered that we were lost. The woods were everywhere all d us, but after we had traveled lm“-a covered the toad’s move- : m'm'y.t twelve cutwoml , six ca- |8 a::afila;‘flx;hmh o tth!thulh‘bfi T‘k;:- around some more we came at last to Iente, erpillars, four sow-bugs, nine-cabbage | Crowds e two at the right, who ledge where we children sid Next evening I looked long and hard | worms, with a fow mosqultoes, in the it e e R may rest for a while, before 1 digccvered him squatting un- | stomach of a toad. der the cucumber leaves. years| My garden is froe of pests. My |and chaser can be chosen from those tn succession the.bugs lLad ruined my | plants healthy. I have only the-toad |remaining. If not, they themselves vines. love for this edible was |to thank for it. must be ‘4t e only 1115l thetiencouraged me to| This article has an o namely, NANCY TETREAULT, Age 13. ry it is year.. It was, there-|to urge all to protect the toad. En-| Versailles. fore; some satisfection’when I noticed mmge it to live In your garden by | e the old felivwr pwk!nu_dfl n;e patf&t“ lding a stmn_ll t{:g!pond._nm ‘which My Visit to Russia. g over a meadow bog a arrange a few sl and as a| I started out January first, and got venings later, I found another.godd | shady rendezvous on hot summer days. | there January ffteent Fo Sizea toad which I conveyed to my,| With this encouragement one can soon i S B bid_ good-bye to insect troubles. ds h: rder. ourage:.the toads .to he romutn, 1 B %{""'“ tro test Ehe wide by : ; e fe my friend’s name, and her brother. there are enough playing so that a new runner took me two weeks to cross the ocean. Then in a day I reached my friend's The first thing my friends did was to treat me to some tea. Marla was was Gofitrey and I sat Gown to the table and drank our tea. down. The sun went down and it was becoming dark when we heard a saw- mill engine. We went in the direc- tion of the noise and soon came out in the road about two miles and a half from home. We walked home as quickly as we could and it was pitch dark. Of course we had to explain why we were ab- sent so long, and as we were all very tired from our long tramp through the woods_we went to bed early. GRA Age 11 OB A. BURRILL, Stafford Springs. The Boys' Athletic Club. Dear Uncle Jed: The boys in our neighborhood have gotten up a club - and named it The Boys' Athletic Club. By his good| We did not have anything only tea | We meet every after school. and sugar which we put in it. When the business meeting is over we We talked laughed all night, | have jumping, wrestling and gymnas- e day when we |after we went to tics. rotection for our | The next day took me out to| This . ~We went to. St. Petersburg, mvmn 1 called 2 3 s now. a 1 Petrograd. er we are going to have | bef There are seven in the clyb, = m,@n.m,— Dick’s Kind of Fun. Dear Uncle Jed: work, all the time. of trying to be go0d? o g0 tells me I That's just my luck all the time." ‘The speaker was a boy of 14 years|in one egg, if you have any (but I of age, with brown hair and whose |often made them without) name was Richard, but called Dick|add seven cups of flour, for short. H.'lllh.on.l,chfld.gl:: warm place to rise. he wasn't to be spoiled, for this. father, Dad, as Dick neighborhood. Dick didn't stay in this mood long, in but had not been taken sick. Next day, while Dick was doing his | very fun: chores, he began thinking of the boys who had gone fishing and “Maybe the fellows did have ples, and it wasn't spoiled, either.” ‘Whenever there was work to do Dick was always there, for he had found out that there is fun in work. CARL ANDERSON, Age 13. Anna Likes Geography. Dear Uncle Jed: I think it is lots of fun. scissors ‘were Yrites Jduestions on cards. then We|snipping merrily amongst his lank ave to answer em. e searn 2 ;- about the North Frigid Zone, the North | Keipeq 1™ Minutes latef the barber Temperate Zone, the South Frigid y Zore, and the Equator. ‘We live in the North Zone. and the tropic of Capricorn. We have learned about the sun, the The sun is larg- er than the earth and the earth is a The moon gets its light from the sun and moon and the earth. large ball of land and water. is smaller than the earth and sun. Another thing I will tell you about The horizon is when | Christmas flower. is the horizon. the earth and sky seem to meet. and sea flowing A through land the is a river; ocean partly larger than a gulf or bay into the land is a sea. we have learned so far. ANNA RETKOWSKE, Age 8. Norwich. Whzt Happened Yesterday. Uncle Jed:— fie we were at gest thing happened. school was reading. Hverything was of the room. called him, was | three loaves. Let rise again and bake. one of the well-to-do farmers of the ood. During supper a neighbor called in and told them that John, one of the boys who had gone fishing had fallen Dear Uncle Jed: sa1d, | a musician of a poet. me fun, | with an easy grace down the street, but ‘it spoiled it when John fell in,|his eye caught a notice outside while I bad fun while sorting out ap- | bas I like geography. Our teacher|jown and soon the Temperate Today we have learned of two imaginary lines, the tropic of Cancer, large stream of water an | faith enclosed | sSnow and strengthen it. s a bay: an arm of the ocean extenaing | sweeter That is all T Yesterday morn- the The chil- n were all busy and one of the girls still when all at once a little rat crept un- der the door and ran up to the front | with h: uth Makes Dear Ui Jed: " Would you Mke to know “!(Io mixer. ' “Add the yeast. Put have and then and put in a place to When well risen, shape into bunns. This will make When well done: wash over with a ta- blespoon of milk in which is dais- solved a tablespoon or two of sugar. Half a yeast cake will do i# you want to leave it over night to rise. I hope that some of the Wide- RUTH E. BROWN, Age 1L ‘Willimantic. He Tricked the Barber. I will write you a story I once,read, which I thought y. by his hair, he was either As he strolled Judging rbers shop which read: “Shaving 10 cents, haircut 15 cents” Ho entered “Can you,” quoth he in dulcet tones, “remove 15 cents worth of hair from off this head of mine?™ “Certainly, sir—certainly!” answer- ed the barber had been interrupted at his hair-cutting and wanted to get the job over. The long-haired one sat “And have vou taken off IS cents® worth of my hair?” asked the alleged poet “Yes, sir,” answered the long suffer- ing tradesman. “Then,” said the ther sweetly, as he opened the door, ‘You may keep it for your trouble. Good morning. FLORENCE GAYESKIL The Poinsetti Dear Uncle Jed: The poinsettia is a Tt teaches us hope, struggles in the snow, but s hope. us faith, for has it not n coming to melt the Its fragrance makes us try to be very day inspiring color gives ation to be good. cn the other flowers have long one been dead it comes to cheer Christ- mas ¥y So does it not teach us faith ? GEOF 'STOCK, Age 15. New Yo Bad Luck. Dear Uncle Jed: T am going te tell you about what bad luck mamma had hin On the nin In an instant books and lessons were | hundred and sixty eggs in the incu- forgotten. Excited whispers of |bator. I dare say that during the A T went round:; and, of course, |first six days it was just exactly as it he =irls screamed and teacher jump- |should be, but on the seventh day it ed upon a chair. got too hot, and the heat was the This made the boys laugh and two [only thing that spoiled all the eggs, but or three ran to capture the poor littie | this was only my father’s fault because mous They opened the drawers of | he turned the wick more upward. This the desk and there he was in one of | he first time that mamma had so them. One of the boys kilied him. eggs spoiled in three vears, but before b w things destroved. MARY A. BURRILL, Age 13. Stafford Spring; Skating. Dear Uncle Jed: for a walk. side where we sat down to rest. I Suddenly to frighten us. to_get our feet warm. While resting came back home again. As the sun went down we were ready to go home, having had a fine time. FRANK H. KOWATS, Age 12. Staffora Springs. The Birds That Dear Uncle Jed: 1 zuess he must have visited school cause one of the girl's books chewed up ond other papers and One cold Sunday morning four boys invited me to go We decided to go to the pond, take our skates and dinner. The ir was keen and cold and when we cached the edge of the ice we strap- ped on our skates, raced to the other we heard a loud scream and started to our feet in alarm. but it was only one of the boys who tried All were quite tirea and cold and prepared to build a fire we ate our dinner, after which we had another race and e Near Our School | —Messrs. One day in March | went to Erivan, I saw two bluebirds flying over my vill not give up with poultry rais- WALTER SUPINA, Age 14. Stafford Springs. l RUSSIANS HELP IN RELIEF MEASURES American Committee at Ti Work Under Way. Dr. James L. Barton, Foreign Sec- retary of the American Poard of Com- missioners for Foreign Missions and one of the Chairmen of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, has just received a letter from George F. Gracey, an American Board missionary, who was sefit to Tiflis, Russia, to ald in distributing relief to the -Armenian refugees in the Trans- “aucasus. Mr. Graccy reached Tiflls, where Dr. F. W. Macallum, another of the board's representatives, had preceded him. in mid-January. After a few da¥s spent in arranging ways and means for dis- tributing zoods, and planning for the shipment to them of supplies and fur- ther goods under cntract, the two men Gracey and Macullum— hmiadzin and the region which they s Reports Nova-Bayazide head. They built their nest high upon | were caring for when the letter was the tree so th make their nest of sticks grass in a hole in the tree. four or five pale blue eggs. naughty boys or cats could not get their Young ones. They and dry | with the kindnes; They lay written. Mr. Gracey says: One is struck * philanthropy of t. Here in all numerous refugees the Russian gov these regions are ‘When the little ones are out the old | woh have come from an enemy coun- birds are very busy for they have to feed them. They sing cheery songs and we love | and to see them fly around the schoolhouse. | money for the Armenian orphans. They are nearly as large as the robin. try, vet the government day by day allows them a certain sum per head contributes large amounts of It has also, I understand, begun to re- If there were no birds the worms | construct the towns which had been would eat the trees and plants all up | destroyed, but which the Russians and we should take care of them. They go away in autumn. MARY M. DZUIBAN, Age 13. Stafford Springs. A Trip to Hartford. Dear Uncle Jed: 1 was invited to go to Hartford with some friends of mine. ‘When we got there my friends had to do some shopping and then we went and had lunch and did more shopping; some ice and afterwards went to the and then we went In and cream, moving pictures. ‘We came home in the auto very ‘We had a long ride and were very col: ‘home. I enjoyed my ride very much and think the rest did also. MYRTLE E. CONVERSE, Age 11. West Willington. My Two Bunnies. Dear Uncle Jed:—One day when the vered they returned. ery day, and they they wouM eat from my hand. MICHAEL H. KOWATS, Age 10. Stafford Springs. Has Had a Fine Time Sliding. Dear Uncle Jed: I live on a farm. I have two pet pigeons. I like them very much. L e e moet o¥: | lung-power ‘as well as eloquence to row qccupy. It is one of the bright things o nthis trip to see the high ideals that prompt the Russian gov- ernment in the efforts to succor the teedy and at the same time do what is just and right for its own people. “The Armenians of this region, too, had responded nobly to the claims laid upon them by their suffering people. ‘What they have accomplished is really remarkable and the large amount of money they have given has exceeded all expectation: while the business like way in which they have distri- fast, | Duted their funds is very commend- 'y | able” ‘When I came home my friend’s daugh. ter was at the house and she stayed over night, and the next day she went BY “MOUTH POWER” IN CHINA, Lectures and Demonstrations for the Women In the Far East. One of the most effective ways of getting a few fundamen‘*al gospel facts into the minds of a Chinese crowd is by means of lectures and speeches at the big village fairs or at the large open air theatres in the cities and towns. The village church- es value the chances and invite Chin- ese Christians who have what they to come and It takes make oneself heard over the noise of big fair ground and so sometimes the evangelists use pictures or charts or dramatic presentation of some parts ©f their messages. ‘The American board's workers at . & large city not far from Peking, have taken special ad of the regular temple fairs to get ac- 1 have had a fine time sliding down | quainted with the crowds and two or hill with a friend of mine. 1 go to school, but I am having a|specially successful in vacation now. ‘We will have a long vacation next|four lectures was given 1 never wrote to a paper|ef from 300 to 500, summer. ' ARTHUR GALLUP, Age 9. MeooW - - 1 ¥ v three of the American ladies have been ting hold of the Chinese women. to audiences which included many of the high class women - JMies Berina Heed. . ol are g i LA JERZ” Silk jerseys corded to simulate the | corduroys of winter are used for street suits. This one is a lustrous pistache green cut with a full skirt, patch! pockets, open neck and stringy belt beautifully tasseled. These garments are exceedingly comfortable. The suit takes a black turban that flaunts three jade ornaments on the right. ate, was on the prevention of tubercu-, losis, and was illustrated with strik- ing charts and pictures, not to men- tion a toothbrush, and included sug- | gestions on _house hygiene. Then Mrs, Stelle, of Peking, assisted by a graduate of the Normal department of the North China Union Woman's College in Peking, gave a lecture on kindergarten principles, using “gifts”, games, songs, etc, to show how the child’s senses are developed and his mind opened. At another lecture, three American and two Chinese ladies gave a litle play, in which by means of spirited dialogue, and with pots, ketles, bath-tubs and bottles, and especially with a big rag doll, the au- dience was shown how a _little hew baby should be cared for, bathed and artificlally fed. All the materials and utensils used were exclusively Chin- The spectators were enraptured and ¢ould hardly be kept in their seats. They talied about nothing but the lectures and the demonstration for days afterward; ome of the country pastors has suggested that the latter be given in a round of country sta- tions with the confident expectation that an immediate decrcase in infant mortality would result! Something to Worry Carranza. Carranza might be willing to send troops against Villa if he &ad any assurance that the troops would mnot change their poiitics and decide mot to come back.—Washington Star. In Doubt. Nicholas of Russia seom= just a bit undecided whether he will eat his Christmas dinner in_Simla or Cal- cutta—Washington Post. Bad for the Hair Soap should be used very carefully, if you want to keep your hair looking its best. Most soaps and prepared shampoos contain too much alkali. | This dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and ruins it. The best thing for steady use is just ordinary mulsified cocoanut ofl (which is pure and greaseless), and is better than the most expensive soap or-anything else you can use. i One or two teaspoonfuls will cleanse the hair and scalp thoroughly. Simply mo the hair with water and rub it in. It makes an abundance of rich, creamy lather which rinses out easily, every particle of dust, dirt, and excessive ofl. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves the nu.bs‘hnfi, and the hair fine and silky, t, lustrous, fluffly and easy | to manage. | i You can get mulsified cocoanut ofl any pharmacy. IUs very cheap and will supply every mem-