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K. : ; NORWICR BULLETIN, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1916 the doorway. He seemed to mlll—glm-flm‘lohm—lfl‘nflh—d THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE e wna | TRt maChE s meits St oo L Shtm, Ao AN e Mivad 2iid in bag and started home. mnmrlnlnflnfl.herm‘\nl a_partitions, are made wholly | firty les ed in keeping o an . carry! an muscles concernd ’W'hen‘the hen u'ml to she did x:%u.m-un. slipped antl | by themselves and are fragile yet dur- | body’s erect posture, and :;o-t l':; know where she was so she took her | spilled the whole pallful of water over | able. The innumerable cells for the|hundred are employed In the act of b ) D GIRLS DEPARTMENT a the baby, who Basped and ecreamed | young and the care given them are|walking. In order o travel a die: BOYS AN bag | in terror. both interesting and instructive. The |tance of thirty miles, each lower Mmb 3 I put dry clothes on him and put | hornet belongs to this family. must be moved about forty thousand 2o him n the cradle. He cried loudty for MOLLIE SEGAL, Age 11. | times, or both of them eighty thete. “ycs” sald the mother. a while, but was so sleepy he soon| Norwich. o and times. The arms in swinging at \ ‘oung h;‘OpCe!n m;z cover -l.n‘?' I v‘::utput ::; gmea l;xl- eygs and T p‘r‘e.sared hto g0 the sides move as often, so ll.\:'t..m- } P, o lose it up quick!” the fox ome. Mrs. Brown thanked me heart- How John Was Cured. motions of the lower limbs and the: 3 | 1. Write piainiy on one side of the SN, o1} they wonML ern. Mother opened the cover and in|ily and I felt happy because I had been ad ny | thus amount to one hundred and sixty ll-r! only, and mumber the pages. A dollar in your pocket that is real- | went the stone, and both were burned | of some help. John Thompesn was & emart, healthy | (00 S . b m—n and ink, n ly yours makes you feel good—a due- | to death; hut the hen lived happy in MARY A. BURRILL, Age 13. |and good . | This number, multiplied by the two i ‘Springs. playmates and was hated by everyone ) | | P.l. and whg m:: will | bill in your pocket for a dollar makes | her house. = o Stafford Spring: because he had one bad habit—he told lhundndhmumtlu 'hlcl:'m brougat given preference. over | von Sedl :mean. 32 & ot <Xy MARY BUSSE, Age 12. nto action at every step, gives ~ a : 250 words. Loy . KnOW | wyest Willington. Silk. Ues. rod: ual to thirty-tw . One day as he was to the vil- | Product eq 0 thirty-two millions § jd ~Orisinal stories or letters Galy | WheTo €0 ook for a dollar to pay it Many years ago an empress of China | Jaor sons "o buy & fen pounds’ of|Of Motions performed in walking & < = wiil o o always have a dollar when a Fort Griswold. discovered that very fine thread which | candy for some company he met three | distance of thirty miles. \LCOHOL 3 PER. Tiainty *at TS otiom ot the | d0Ular is due makes a person feel in-| Last summer I spent part of my|a certain kind of caterpillar spun in | of his school fellows. How marvellous that the human CENT. dependent—not to have it creates ir- | vacation in New London with my aunt [ making its cocoon might be woven in- [ “Where are you going, John?" they | Pody Is so constituted that it can z 4 to Uncle | ritation and distress. and uncle. We enjoyed several pleas- | to_beautiful glossy cloth. inquired. perform all these thirty-two millions . bs R Tk Saloe aessiens to A Ure trips. I will relate one of them.| We may think of the Chinese silk-| " John fold them, “and” he added, “1|0f muscular actions, or motions, with- ed, Office. l the misery and pleasure |~ One morning we arose to find the sun | worm as a domestic animal, for it 15 | am going to buy five barrels of flour, [OUt Injury! ~No iron or steel couid “Whatever you are—Be that! there s in life depends upon Which |shining brightly in the clear blue and |reared just as cattle are. It is the|ten pounds of candy and fourteen |endure such a vast amount of work ‘Whatever you say—Be true! side of the dollar you keep. cloudless sky, which gave promise of | only caterpillar reared for its silk. |loaves of bread.” as the joints of the human boay tmus L 2 Straightfo a bright day. When the silkworm is hatched it is ered but sald mothing.|80. It is sald that not less than & E ighttorwardly act, Perhaps this is why it becomes EERs JA¥: They wondered e B-.:mut_-m fact, abowh Al i ghty Dol My aunt proposed that we go to|a udnz' :‘!luefl. 'mu‘;‘g for forty days|mhey quite knew Johnny. They lay I‘l‘x‘:dm ;mxsf:rs T emp!:yod every d ' nobody else but you” ‘Almi Tar. visit Fort Griswold in Groton. 1 was|continually on mulberry or osage— the road and when John- | time we breath; yot we draw our ! ” Do not think o dollar does mot| delighted to see it. as T had read and | orange loaves, and it be:;?hr:ra‘s"ar;euzt o ot ol the canty breath evesy moment without even el o ways tell- | heard a great deal concerning it. o lars. s unds of it, eithe; ensible e vast and compii- i POETRY. f;‘:‘““ e lr it ol w“‘“_;‘d We sont word to two mu‘eoun:; its cocoon which Is heated to kill the e I " vt e cated apparatus that ls necessary’ to g BGStAng s of mine to go with us. They accept rva, or erwise become 3 | the things were and he answered that | effect this. e least impediment to % it is a part of your business to have a | th, tation, whic] a party of | moth. ng them. |our breathing throws us into the e P care how the dollar is talking. - T In Japan, China and Ttaly, a girl 18 | "Gy Saved him it e id clirab the | &reatest distress, buat how Tittle do Curled in a maze of dolls and bricks | ™, & We started at 12 o'clock and took a|Paid two cents a day to reel the yel- | yeientone pole mearest them. we value this blessing till disease or ‘I fina Miss Mary, aged six, e value of a dollar depends| . .5 ° 51 5nd rode to State street,|low silk into skeins. She dips the co- | *“iPIONS BOE PPATSE LR 1 ovory | accident makes us sensible of its en- alondly blue-eyed, frank cepriolous, | wholly upon what you do with it and waited for the ferry at the dock | coon into hot water to goften the &um | yime 1 come. this way." Joyment. z bsorbed in her first ool for about 10 or 15 impatient minutes. | that holds the threads together. it, but he sald| Besides the muscles which move the % . T esoetéan Daule S0 wNNERA TOF. BRIZE) BOOKS Tio “hoat arrived and we went on | I takes about one thousand cocoons | enat e st B it bones, there are muacles which give 3 " - board. It was a short sail, of course, | to make u W silk. g " be- | motion to other.parts of the boay. Because it's “so delicious! 1—Helen Lowenberger, of Norwich: |as Groton is within evesight of New| The United States buys about one- n:"Z{,;fi',’,‘:",‘néucxflgfot:ro e b3 | Wi exantile: ol the warialr oF . - “Such marvels, too! a wondrous boat | Little Folks in the Country. London and is separated from this clty B O D Ty iy Ik} | never e up the pols bafors. When | sression in the humen face fs pro- +In_which they cross a magic moat 2—Edith Purvis, of Norwich: | 1 e:]nye?ie: very much, because|England are large buyers: ’,L',a"t;,"’.fiy'."{e&”u: Nie Son’ (het | meecies. | When we mmile. or |nu;‘: That's smooth as glass to Tow on— |Grimm’s Fairy Tales. about_ten years ago, when T was two| The United States, France, Ger-|;.youlq never lie again, and he kept | these expressions are produced by the e e i | Clacne A Hathn Bograh. | years old, I went on this same ferry-|Many and Switzerland make about |y (g - movements of certain muscles in the A s S p Y e e The Bobbsey Faine in the Goun. | boat_ (Governor ~Winthrop) when & o atiome, & 80048 produced| “Now he is a good boy at achool and | face : try. went to Groton, but not to see the DY ¥ it = everywhere, beloved by everyone. In smilling, the corners of the mouth ur 'nr : monument; and In that lapse of years e greatest silk mills are in New | *'7 5 "oy "the Wide Awakes remember | are slightly drawn up: In laughing, PRt e How e 4—Raymond Welden, of Williman- |1 had not been on the ferry until last| York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. | .ot S (1€ 0I5 SOOI o still more so. There are also musctes R ) the gt e te: Hans Brinker, or The Silver [ summer. D e A OCURTE BARNEY BERKMAN, Age 13. |to pull down the corners of the mouth: . i by Wik ix | Skates. It is quite a distance between from |Center is Paterson, New Jersey, which| .y, o and it is by these that the expression e Tl St pieasite Moe to Bx| b Dorethy . King,. cf. Plainae:,| e ferrylanding tothe fort. ' Asiwe|i& the Irgest ribbo mill {n the worid. g of sadness is given to the face. The On tales of dwarf and siant! Three Little Women as Wives. e e ] o A Conalduccte. ONer Mefussd. expression of “pouting is cwused by X I st dence men should teach | o —Mary A, Burrill, of Stafford|the trees hid it. We walked a little . An Irish sailor had been sent aloft| jo pecout the under Mp: and anger 1 TR ot ARG In spaech Springs: ~ Treasure Island. farther and the top of the monument The Indian Boy’s Destiny. to do a piece of work and had taken a| or weowling by muscles which knit the 8 3< Doses —15CENTS Sr. Datntel GoltraMiotiong: 7—Harry Levi, of Bozrahville: The | PReared far up above the trees. * A long time ago in a small village | VEIY long time about it . |brows. In many people these 35 JJ. " 4 That sclence ranks as monstrous [High School Boys' Fishing Trip. ‘When we reached the grounds sur- | there lived ten Indian boys who were| ~Come down, you lazy vagabond.”|muscles are in very frequent use. e iy 4 s 5 rounaing it we sank down to sest on|always out at dusk. ' They wers great ifl::ul"“!w‘l':’;l"}:‘::be:"gn& 1l sive You | CLARENA A. HATHAWAY, Age 12. < - $—Lillian Murphy, of Norwich: The | the velvety grass. When we had rest- | friends who always went together. - Bozrah. T;;gen ufifsv“mifl‘fl’;"ficfix,z_ Automobile er: u_{ ‘Washington. :d long em;‘ugh ‘we pmwl:d 0‘«"31‘-’ < the‘ 01:; of them was ?( great singer. w{"“:t‘:'::’ :1“0:] e:;:\rcl: xb‘e ::;‘!‘::_and. Thisds Cageg'ol Weagaia N ‘Winners of books living in the city | fort. At that time, in the middle o ne day they asked their mother for | Wi su . : - Tk cxnTAUR CompaT, NEW YoRR SITY. P That there's no giant now but Stearn; | may call a¢ The Bulletin business 3% | Tuly, eversthing was in full bloom and | food with which to make a feast, but| T Wouldn't come down even thoush _The First Easter. " That life, although “an empty dream,” |fice for them at any hour after 10 a.| the grass and turf on the battlements|the mother didn't give it to them. |you offered me two dozen® Ao i1 e n e s Toet fo tayon scarce “ 1 * |m. on Thursday. were a bright green. . At dusk they went out into the AU, A S e u Sut Baster A e i) We passed through the dark|woods to amuse themselves. The sing-| Taftvilie. Many years ago the world was so 1 did a thing far wiser, though— | Lg trenches which my cousin called the|er began to sing very sweetly. The wicked that God sent Jesus. His only 1 read the tale with Mary. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT! spook-holes and T agree with her, for | boys danced In a circle and the singer LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. Uyt anee (Chal worta Jf The wai bucx T 7 1t gave me the creeps to think the | was in the center of the circle. ecember the twenty-fif .or Christ- t N E —Austin Dobson. | Michasl H. Kowats, of stafford |ayiig and wounded who had once suf- | While they were whirling srouna Jeremiah's Vision. mas 2 e R e s e e e - T oy o T ek L jfered there. they all changed to cone bearers or| Dear Uncle Jed: I think it woula| ‘When He was a man He went from | "y snould you have pails? they [ Al g o en . Afterwards we saw the well from | pines. prove a Qifieull wak to find & boy or| It 1o City, Dreaching and ~teaching | .uca' 43 the aagien We oy Sk Sieen the Geuselar Higile! oy’s Song ¥ toiwin mors G which the soldiers drank and we carved | The mothers came to call them but | gir] who does not like figs. I am very | (e Gospel. Jie healed many of the | 5" i 0 T e —— i Where the pools are bright and deep, | Nancy Tetreault, of Versailles: I re- | our names on it with a jackknife. Then | were disappointed. ~Now they resret | fonq' of them. Large quantities of|Sick Deople. The people did mot be- | J1 RIEE o0 KO0 e B T ive | in Lo ousnh experiments with seaweeds Where the gray trout lies asleep, celved the prize book you sent me. I|We looked at a small slab of granite|becefuse they didn't give the boys|them grow in Guernsey, where I used |l!€¥C What he was preaching. but said f FGUS. o, 05 55 e e e they Up the river and o'er the lea, have read it through and it Is very | inclosed within an iron fence that|what they wanted. 16 Bve . he was making believe and wanted We have wwosd bun sl the il B i That's the way for Billy and me. interesting. matked the spot Wwhere Colonel Led-| The singer was changed to the bark [ yvast quantities come from the Med- | 1o be king. plen. "It is bagiuning to crew el hecsnnic it devee B 3 yard fell, pierced through the heart|of a cone bearer or pine. The boys|jterrancan, the choicest kind being| o All together they made a big cross. | DS hude This sap can be made | natare) siate have lone - Whers the blackbird sings the latest, b gufligl-ngfia?gytsgfggié with his own sword in the hands of a | changed to circies of branches. those Arown in the neigtborhood of | Ofe day they made Him c &t into r.. We oah Sive Some SE'It [fatmete of Novia “"‘"z Where the hawthorn blooms the British_officer, to whom he had just s tells us the Indian boy’s des- | Sravens © Fig cultnre 1o one of the | hill Where thev were to kill Him. At|} — S O | el of Movia sweetest, book you sent me entitled A Regular | surrendered the fort. tiny. A e la: hev reached the place. They . sup en to the sugar | purposes, and that they read- Where the nestlings chirp and flee, Tomboy. I have read it through and| 'In Wadsworth Museum. Hartford, B ANNA RESNICK, Age 13. | Drincipal industries throughout most of | ;5jjeq Him to the cross. This was | BoU! e D e e e e e e at’s the way for Billy and me. was 5. the vest ard shirt worn by Ledyard| Bozrahville. e aarthess T on a Friday and that is now called | Tne Sriiren o Or o e Suss ound seems to e ® vaine % i 4 t the maple|as a possibie comercial fertilizer. The b e Ne . - | on the day of his death is kept to show . Good Friday, in memory of the day| /o Chhqen lke £ S P = 3 | Where the hay lies thick and greenest, We stood on the battlements and| AsT ing b P2 ok gy Sy - - After that they buried Him In a| ' Gpoon M s i G weed. Yhere the hay lis thick and greenest, | soe. I have read some of it, and find ents and| = As I was coming home from a nelgh- | nearly finished reading the Old Testa- | Afte: R e i “They may have some of our sap; roduction of analine dye is That's the way for Billy and me . |it very interesting. ke e I o e ey | hor's hdume onie Spturday night 1 saw | ment, and the fig is also referred to in | (iendls fomb- | arge stone Was|.,id the pine trees. ‘“We wish to ng. The dye mer- i & s ondon b- | something dressed in white following | the New Testament. Glaced at the door. - ake the children glad at Ch Where the hazel bank is steepest, toct.ht::):";'%u‘-:;r:tm’\::n‘:rhihé st B e had passed through the| Mool idn't take any notice of it, as Tezekiah in his illness was told by P i St A sl By P time, They take you home e e Where the shadow falls the despest, |book You gave me, as it has afforded | gates of the famt il looke o 1f 1o | thouslit It was a neighbor's cow: but | the prophet Isaish to make use of alfriend were Rbringing fowers 1o candles upon you. They cover you| in February, Tampico, Mexico, ship- Where the clustering nuts fall free, |me a great deal of pleasure. - G ted b 1 th, 1 I thought I heard it talking to itself,| plaster of figs, and _that he would then | PUrial place and the stone at the en-| yith peautiful things. ped 9 % barrels of crude ofl to the Tt i eIl ks, - | ¥as guarded because of the two large|so I turned around and saw a ghost|speedily recover. Nathaniel chose the|trance was rolled away and on it sat MILDRED GRANDY, Age 10. | United States. in February of 1986 | 5 Eiie and cannan omench xife, we went | hehind iirie: quiet snelter of a fig tree for prayer |20 areel saving “The Son of God| yape, the amount was 746,164 barrels. Vil Wt i aliaitl: it 1 STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE-|to see the monument. It IS a few| I tured and ran home as fast as I|and meditation. has risen from fhe dead and gone nt w e ¥ the boys should drive away vards away from the fort. could. When I got home I told my| " During neariy the whole of Jere- |0 Galilee, secking for His Disciples.” bt | Little sweet maidens from the play, AWAKES, The granite monument, which was| father that a shost, was following me. | mio "Brc GanY ythe whole of Jere:|™rhe anniversars of that Sunday is Had Lots of Fun. From the Consular Reports. Or love to banter and fight so well. — our guide to Groton Heights, was bullt| Then he lighted the lantern, told my | iproush cxcesdingly trombions i | always called Easter Dear Uncle Jed: 1 go to school ev-| The Un States bureau of naviga- | That's the thing I never could tell. Our Jenny. from the receipts of a lottery. older brother to come with him. My|owing to their forzetfulness of God s EDITH PURVIS, Age 11. |ery day and am in the third grade. ticn repe eight sailing, steam, | . Our Jerny was a small brown don-| A marble tablet placed above its|brother put on his overcoat, took his| command. The prapher warned them| Norwich. T am very foud of reading. {#as and vessels of 326,408 | R iy key, which_we used to torment with |entrance is inscribed: rifie and went with father. They s0on | again and asain of thelr danger, but There are twenty-seven scholars in | gross t the United States | = = gy hair, and we often combe Wi his Monument so my belief in seeing a ghost was only o - That's the way for Billy and me. a currycomb; but Jenny was always| jvas erected under the patronage of Miss Driscoll. —James Hogz (The Etrick Shepherd) | dusty. Connecticut, A. D. 1830, on from bad to worse. It seems prob-| Dear Uncle Je The largest steel steamers a fancy. sy pemamd o Do Uncie ¥ I had a new sled in the winte: able that at length they even sioned |last summer two of my my - & ures &me: 5"“] 2 W t MARTIN DELINSKY, Age 12. | i death. Finall s =725 feror g e oY | had lots of fun sliding down hill. g i Sk i . z ch one broug o Ne 3 UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- | {8 (B0 TP of s would get i in dnescy of thelDusye; paxtivts 2 eyes, and while Jeremiah Is looking | sized box of lunch. We started about| North Franklin AWAKES. to_it at once. who fell in the massacre of o glosely at it he hears God's voice say-| ten o'clock in the morning for a very BT to renadilitate the Then poor Jenny had a hard time, Fort Griswold, A. D. 1781, Many years ago there were great|ing: i high hill, which is not far from my | Manufacture of Sand-Lime Brick on trial plants laid low $a It is said, and I think it may be|for she had to draw us up and down when the British, under the Sy i b thenel fminanne.’ SWAEDA] S SWhat noost son house. We plaved around until twelve the Increase. true, that some people live and die |the road until we were tired. command of the traitor, ‘were enormous trees of soft, pulpy ‘The prophet replies that he sees two | o'clc and then my sister and anoth- The repert on sti ime brick soon | 3 people live T hag call Mo ooy atient: but they it Arants wood, ferns, and stranse plants. As|baskets of fiss. In one basket the|cr irl called us to dinner. e e hr the Cotiogar Ty without having learned the value of a|,ro ohstinate, too. Jenny would take| burnt the towns of New London |these trees’ gradually grew old_they | figs are all of them very good, but in| Our dinner consisted of sandwiches, | i be lssued by the Geological Sars dollar. it into her head to stand still, and and Groton, and spread fell and were co;ex"‘e‘g‘hy wh:z;r‘. M;r’:y mchn:ln»; thl‘hy are very ha;-l. in fact,| cake, fruit, es, coffee, and can- IR INae Lotk . i A dollar seems to be a large sum |then nothing would make her go. We desolation and woe throughout o ot 0 TG LRSS Resl et (DS MR, Our lunch tasted fine, you may S ckery consid- | V2 el TAIEHE snsly o Tewianisandl el ko thictaeion = dirt became rock and pressed upon the | Now, of course, this vision or picture | ba sure, for we had played out on the | A - - :z money for a boy and a s s hlas ould e e woull : = bluriexd plants, which were squeezed | was meant by God to teach the prophet | hill all the morning. e i ,».g'.," Y ‘-E,‘"r s — or a man. only shake her long ears now and| A few years ago-this monument was | ©0Sely together. some important lesson. The zood figs r dinner we played “Hide and e 1 M s kel G - What is a dollar? It is one hun-|then, as if she would say, “I hear you, | strack Ty lightning and cracked, but|, LD heat of the earth cooked them |represented those Jews who had truly | for a while. We then sat down | False over f914. Siciean wee What Law Can’t Prevent. dred cents, and was the most impor- |but I don’t heed.” the damage was soon repaired, for the ar!d between the heat and pressure|repented of their sin and who had a rest t 3 o'clock we all got Dl:l(‘l‘:flf\;k’ ed to the v: - t e e o the ereat formmae of fomm | Sometimes we used to ride on her | state of Conmecticut would not stand | CYerything but the black carbon was|sousht the forgiveness and favor of | < cannot be devised ue of queezed out of these trees and plants, | God. The bad fi £ thirsty. Our coftee had all given | o gyer one-fourth of the « man_who . e s Lo Moo jon b ; : squeezed out of these trees and plants, | God. The bad figs, of course, repre- 1 « frmests; - ggrlagines ool by and sce this dear old memorial fall | ; can . so 1 went home for a can of wa- | 00 - Sme from employing Camtlcrer ‘tar ahc! sousasome Il s and this Jaid in the earth until some|sented those who remained careloss || c ‘arrived home at five o'clock. | calue of the sand-lime brick omotion of dis~ and it took him three years to save |thing worse than to shake her ears.| The tun was now low in the west, | el found this black rock and called}and disobedient—those to whom still had a fine t and expect | (00 171G New York third. Tho san Bine. =] nis first $75. The first dollar saved |She would go up to the first wall or |and we retraced our steps homeward, | .t ©0al = = 5 heavier punishment would most cer-|. nather picnic this summer. | ;0 hrick jndustry after experiencin i = e fence she saw, and coolly rub us|a tired but happy party, with curiosi- FLORENCE WILSON, Age 14. | tainly come. LILLIAN MURPHY. Age 0. | bF s and qowns of a new *| Rockville—William R. Dowding sue™ was the beginning of that great for- | ol ®i® Il o tumbled off on the | oy sntished. g East Willington. Pupils at Sunday school may rightly wich. N ey T. E. Brown as local agent for tune. ground. Then she would give a lit-| = We left the old monument and fort = be called figs and the clasess to Which | T established and has found “its piace in jams Express company, the lat- | A dollar ahead means you are_a|tle snort of triumph, turn round, and | to its solitude with memories of bygone My g Trip. they belong the baskets. But there is An Adventure. 0 sun y ODSTRLOPS AT® repos £ been promoted to & post im capitalist—a dollar behing, that you | {0t auietly off t8 the stable. Wasn't|days. My first fishing trip this year was|One striking difference between these| p .. yoncie Jed: 1 am going to tell | oa ag enlarging the capacity of thelr wlor~ gl R L e T | teat wipretty Vtrick? DOROTHY P. KING, Age 12. |April 3, 1916. As it was teachers | Sunday school figs and those in the| Dear Uncle o0- 1 am S0/0% M e | . S e . UNSIGNED. Plainfield. meeting day I had a good chance to|Prophet's vision. When Jeremiah 100 S ! success and failure is a dollar. = go. T went with two of my friends, | d closely at the picture he noticed that [, Onc day last summer wy —mother i A dollar in a savings bank will be- The Little Red Hen. The Rescue. We waded the Yantic river. In some|all the good fizs were r‘n!llr‘cud to- | oy Whilo T was re my cousin come two dollars in a few years, and | Once there was a red hen who lived | It was an excellent day in December, | Biaces we had to go on the bank, for | Eether Iato one Dasket. gnd all, The Bal| to1d me of a ) AR $10 there will become $20 in the same [on a farm all by herself. There was|The Wwind was keen and raw, the air | P§ Water was too deep. a| could mot be done very well in school. | = nder the fence by a fox. He length of time. a sly fox who lived in the woods. was very cold and the sun shining on e Sy B | Hio 1¢ v ro bad fies they are to be |also told be that the fox had taken a > 3 The fox wanted to get the hen of- | the snow made it sparkle like dia- | uck, for the fish wouldnt bite. But| o ' (REre A%e PaC H o or olas: a chickens, ollar proves to be a har ng v : in one place, where the water was too e sa apkots (or clay So one day 1 went into the woods o to be a hard thing|ten, but she always locked the door|monds. What more was needed to . hice tha wai R e T o Dot os s to keep because our wants are always | behind her. make it a delightful one? The pond|JeSP to wade, we went on_the bank|BI" I8 £00q QRCm, Ut ived by ap: |and made a trap. I next put a plece greater than our needs, and self-in-| One morning she went out to get|had as clear and transparent surface|2Nd threw in our lines. e didn’t| the . Rk e ety oet = t on the ttom o fthe trap. g : have to wait long before the fish be- | Pearances, though we very often are.| the fox took i€ & asiigeiing R6hns oI Sk some wood to start a fire. The fox |as a piece of glass, and was spotted - The End of chilicen that sy be x . . oor Sutdentml,, o ana satd: With a merry throng of people skating|5an Diting. 1 pulled in my line and e on his paw. : s is what all bank accounts are founded [~ “Mother, put on water, the hen is|to and fro. calight ‘s nice trout. "We aidn’t go|ccmpered to goof des are those fvho) went the fox got upon, and self-denial represents power | getting wood and I am going to catch | In an instant I had joined them and |2WaY from that place very soon, but|are truhfll, STECenyns. Oreiving t. and took him out of a4 self-indul X her.” we were all having a jolly time. I nad|When We did we had caught six trout. | and praverful. Those who are Jist the | ype “trap he got ¥ B B When she leaned to get wood he|been continuing thi tor We each caught a couple more fish | oPposite are compared to bad figs. “Then 1 ch without any ek, A dollar is twenty weeks' mainte- : e ng this sport for some| s ,wn the river and were satisfied with| Another difference between the figs B - run_into the house. time when I was invited to a game of e . T s v and chNS but on the pa‘h I fell and there was ance for a Chinese peasant, and a| When she got in she shut the door |hockey. Of course, I accepted the in-| What We got for the first day's fishing. | Which the prophet saw and chidren. |, p co stripped adder glaring at me. week's pinmoney for an American girl |and said: “I am glad I am in the | vitation and in time too short to tell HAREY. TIEVE, AZ8 12 | N e o Dhoinaod g%, = that the sood| | I pulled out my jack knife sad aft= if she buys nice candies. house away from the fox We were again spinning over the glossy [ Bozrahville. . fie. romaincd, xood, ‘the bad ones. re- | r escaping several bites. I killed the m v s 0od, nake and went home. A surplus doilar is capable of earn- | goor. The hen g:w!o;u;npoenh;g = g‘digga{";e;saipg:;{x.euh S——— My Useful Pet. e o e T sake ang N MCVEIGH, Age 10. ing four cents a Year for you for all |house. Then the fox turned around| We thought of nothing but getting| I have a dog named Bruno. He|With children who feel that they are — the ball to the appointed goal, which g el B B ready to| pamered A neformed into a Eoed| The School Children in Turkey. ‘was the icehouse. The wind cut across | help any time. fig: v ] o Uncle Jed Turkish children our faces like a whiplash on a tengeg| One day I went to the pasture, )| fi8: the boy or girl who has caused| Dear Un o = A ¢| recite their lesson all together in th horse. _ Just at that instant someone|went to the pasture. I could not find | 2nXlety to parents and teachers may | recite thelr leseon o1 ToRBther fn (o0 o shouted: the cattle. I hunted and hunted for | >rin& them happiness and comfort: | 0 ohsCONCE o You would think that GAMES YOU CAN PLAY ||| trtg0 asar the tcshouse. Tre tce) s, long time 4iL 1 was tizsd, then re; | there’must be s chanse of hears. Do you had zone o Wonderiand, where 4 But just at that Instant John, who|see them running and jumping with € rest until vou obtain this. and then | “Thinas WowAR L ComT SEURIC) g was taking the lead, neared the spot,| tho dog after the frisky things which | JOUr Whole life witl he brisht and| The 1t £on 500, SO0, an the ice bent and broke and poor John |were driven into the barnyard by the | paPPY- “sdgnagy ove & ke Faaine iness, for you will prove bless- | old serva: who carries all the book: ool e ol M i o B herever you so o Pees- | O What looks like @ small clothes & Beaing Game. e e Jack, who was taking after his friend, FRANK H. KOWATS, Age 12. JBSSIE L. BREHAUT. |tree. The company is seated round a ta-| An amusing pastime is the geogra- | ™ awe ':;‘“ué“‘&:‘g;'““ e in| Staffora Springs. East Norwich, N. Y. The boys come or go in two long bie, each member, With a pencil and |Phy same. The players are asked to y were in in a very few seconds. But in quick lines, attended by their teacher. They s 2 v their own books and w a sheet of paper, writes what hel h°p80 8 leader and aleo an umpire | time we had grabbed a diving board Ths, Fec. The Muscles. O s Catny e s thinks would be a good title for a|avoid mccusations of unfairness. Af. | Which was near and by putting it over| This terror of hen roosts and delight| pear Uncle Jed: T am going to tell | g8} C00 the dangerous place we managed to | Of sportsmen is found in most parts of | you about the muscles. The muscles | TtHEFS: 1 ATTIN, Age 10, picture. Folding down the top of the | ter the leader is chosen the players are o e R n SUSAN HATTIN, Age 10. tar the leader 1s chosen the players are | get them out of the water. Wa jmme. | America and many other countries. It|7re the fleshy part of tho body. Be-| 3r trope paper 5o that the writing is hidden, | go. E11eR, BE e idea fs to see who |3iately got them home, where we|Vvaries very much in color and size,|sides giving roundpess and beauty to 7 3 = he passes it to the person on the|can think of the most geographical|lcarned we had done a brave deed by |2ccoTding to the country were it lives.|the human form, they possess the Mrs. Biddy Chicken. right, who reads the title, and fold- | names beginning with & given letter tn | S3VInE, them from death. Weren't wey, che BOPIGE OF 10 (0% 5% Iestiy | power of shrinking and lengthening like | 1.0y ncle Jed: One summer as ; again, d rtai 3 2 : a plece of Indla rubber. S gas S fattvee z 3 \ befow the Toldea Hine to Tepresent the | ia fhe Arsc. place the leader an- RAYMOND WELDEN, Age 12, | its burrow, if it be fortunate enough to| * Xitached to them are strong white |1 wa2 visiting my erandfathers tarm, 4 Select wtveh. o T e e be e e e ] | wnnmantc. posscss one. ‘Toward evening it sallles | cords calleq Sinews or tendons, the |l Wwent down to the 4 'his tan say: s feed the chicken: 1 heard a “Cluck, Vi 16 Daces e ot : - out in search of f00d, and Woe to the | ends of which are fastened to the e A next peraon. who thes. o muke out |the lavérs Begin (o wiite a3 Tast as| A Half Hour With the Baby, |unfortunate hafe, rabbit, pheasant or |pones. When the muscles contract | Clucki™ s usual and also o ‘Peen What the picture illustrates; and writ- | possible geogTaphical names beginning | One fine Monday morning I went | W1 that comes its way. they pull these tendons and this gives | PECD B e ing down what he thinks it is, folds | with A. At the end of two minutes,|d0Wn to the mext house and found| ozranvilfe. » Age 14. |motion to the different parts of the | €X{ra num b Vhe: ot there, Mrs. Blady down the picture, leaving his titie vis- | or.whatever has been decided upon as | Mrs. Brown trying to get her washing When 1 got 4 passes it on again. Then be. | the time limit, the leader calls “time” | out early, but the baby was so cro POl example. if T wish to bring my | Chicken stood nt the front of them all lsl;l:e-' “he Tun of illustrating the sec- |and the players must all stop writing |and fretful that he would not keep Lazy Pussy. hand to my head, the muscles on my | Wit" e . ond title, and passing the second pic- |and turn over thelr paper by making | still Pussy was a lazy cat. She was 50|arm between the shoulder and elbow |them over. 7 3 v Daisy, Snowball, Fluffy, on to the next person, who writes |a fold which hides the list of names| For some reason my father had been | 1azy she did not seem to see the rats|immediately shrink and pull up the|jrmes Were, d In Biaturn what he thinks this sec: | beginning with 4. Then the Jeader|down thers carly in the morning and|and mice when they came out for a|forearm. When I wish my hand to | Brownie. Spottie and Topev. = ond picture represents. After passing | passes on to another initial, which he|On leaving gave me his permission to|800od meal g0 Dback, another set of muscles on| GV GV Fo0ttun to see them > the right once more, the papers are | announces in the same manper, calling | stay there and take care of the baby.| She would sit by the fire and doze.|the back part of the arm contract, | gnd PIo¥. as great fun io se unfoided. The results are sure to be | the time limit on this letter as he did | Mrs. Brown was very glad of my as- | Everybody said she was a good-for-|and straighten out the arm again. The | O€DY over @i €FHC U0 RITE: W\ o) amusing. The point of the game.is|for the first one. % sistance, as she wished to finish her| nO! cat. muscles are usually thus found in| Ope CO8 a3 & WA WEELTE TG0 SRS e drowings cas m“fl“ Pyt 5 work. The first thing to do was to .she sald: “This will never|pairs, one set to bend a ltmb, another | it suddenly 1a: “Clucs. Cluek! ‘who | tery 2] this | amuse iittle Justin. I found his picture | 30.” S0 she went to-work. She to straighten it. Piddy g| cken ‘sata oClucs. Cluck! mln}nilw the books, took him on my knee and tried The whole body contains about fow: | Cluck, Cluckts She seemed 16 Sov, ‘|an advantage. P ‘léatler | to interest him inthe pictures: but, .| hundred ana fifty muscles or two “gm"m';‘; P gy Al get wet| The Blackfoot Indians, zealous for|very long ago, when we owned all the t|jumps from’ place to most bebies, motizing. kept bis et~ |3 as - | Bundred ana twenty paira. the uses of | {nqer 1%, WOE: the preservation of thelr tribal his- | OURLIY, from' the Saskatchewan to S04 Sriere tht o bl R o e « R e thuse ‘nauscles sl the.motions |, HELEN LOWENBERGER. Age 9. |tory, are petitioning the United States S R of the Rockies castward for some hune * government against the giving of [dreds of miles. We desire to have b white men's names to the mountains, | some memorial of our wise and brave e lakes, rivers, waterfalls and other nai- |fathers who ruled that vast muscles . would be motionless. The | » Dear Uncle Jed: One day a farmer | ural features of Glacier National Park, |and what more fitting than that ‘bones~and the muscles are thus nec- jcamc into the woods. [ hung pails |in Montana. The Biackfeet sold the |own mountains should be thelr pesary)to: one.another;, and their unjon] upon, the maple trees. ‘made_lit- | park to the government in 180¢. “Time |ments? At the head of the o thesbody are 0 Fhe |4 Norwieh. T T it Trees That Maks Us Glad. - & A3 190; 3.0 (ndiang. .“and & not = 50 iars is Chief