Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 7, 1916, Page 9

—_— e e — ——— — — — o L — THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE BOYS AND GIRLS DEPARTMENT Rules for Young Writers. Write plainly on one side of the er_caly, and fumber the Dages. Use pen and ink, not eil. Short and pointed articles will Do not use over 3. b given preference. 250 words. 4. Original stories or letters oaly wili be used, 6. Write your name, age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the tory. Address all éommunications 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™ POETRY, THE SHADOWS. 21 up and down in shadow-town The shadow children go; In every street you're sure to meet Them runnipg to and fro. They move around without a sound, They play at hide-and-seek, But no one yet that I' have met Has ever heard them speak. Beneath the tree you often see Them dancing in an dout, And in the sun there's always one To follow you about. Go where you will, he follows still, )r sometimes runs before home at last, you'll find him fast e you at the door. A faithful friend is he to lend His presence everywhere; Blow out the light—to bed at night— ir shadow mate is there! he will call the shadows all vour room to leap; 1 such a pack! they make it black, 1 @1l your eyes with sleep! THE DOLLAR FAMILY. five a Half-Dime make, Dime, two Half-Dimes take. -Dimes—'tis surely so— cr quickly grow. ese—I tell you true— -Dollar give to you. tell_me, little scholar, - Halves shall make a Dol- show, my little rhymes not forgot, how many times One Half-Dollar counts in Dimes! Y n, if Quartérs two Malk; Half, T1l ask of you, If I owe a Dollar, yet How many Quarters pay the debt! Or if Dimes are needed, tell ho to v many do as well. Half-Dimes now we come. If vou tell me what's the sum Needed for a Dollar dear, My sson’s_ended here! ES LEWIS MITCHELL. —Agnes Lewis Mitchell. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES, may not have noticed that when bees are gathering most honey the flowers, boys and girls are sired to gather the least learning | rom their books. Dees find joy in working among the mwgrs and Wde-Awakes find pleas- gajtudying their books A Iggy bee is cglled a drone. and a 1z pupil in school is called a dullard. A aullard never more than Ralf ake, never can become ‘a vom is hence walke. Wide-Awakes are glad when the ol bell rings and calls them reg- to study. And a real Wide- never abandons his studious s as long as he lives, for study nowledge and power. A good The ing to make it useful to us; and those who do not know how to apply it for their promotion or profit are called book worms. Tt is by knowing what men have done that we may know what may be done, and by this the learned are in- spired to do more—to hustle. The hustler is a little Wide-Awake that has grown up and who never goes to sleep on his Job, but gets out of it all there is in it for his emplover or himself. 8o our Wide-Awakes must all be glad that the school-days are here again, and the lessons and promo- tions. It 1s good to be meither tardy nor absent, but it is better to always have a card marked high for deportment and for recitations. ‘Wide-Awakes must work to become more than an average In the ranks. THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Rosina Rolger, of Norwich—The Meadow Brook Girls in the Hills. 2—Frances Baker, of Norwich—The Motor Boat Club in Florida. 8—Rose Gauthier, of Brooklyn— Owlet Library Books. 4—Mildred White, of Staffora Springs—The Submarine Boys and the Smugglers. —Esther Shershevsky, of Norwich —Henry Hudson. 6—Martha Hargey, of Uncasville— The Submarine Boys on Duty. 7—Frances E. Adams, of Eagleville —Madge Morton's Trust. . 8—Pauline Hasler, of Taftville—The Submarine Boys and The Middies. Winners of Prize books living in the city may call at The Bulletin bus- iness office for them at any hour after 10 a. m. on Thursday. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT Jessie L. Brehaut, of Jersey T received my prize book. It is a very nice book and I am sure it will be interesting as all my other prize books have been. Lillian M. Brehaut, of Jerse: City: Many thanks_for the three lovely prize books. I am very glad to have them for I read durlng my spare mo- ments and they contain such interest- ing stories. Thanking vou again for them, I remain a Wide-Awake. Abbie C. Murphy, of Taftville: T thank you for the prize book you sent me, he Grammar School Boys Snowbound.” T read it and found very interesting. STORNES WRITTEN AWAKES. The Strange Man. Last vear while at the seashore I admiring the ship named the Nar- BY WIDE- ansett. T sa very strange man painting the decks of this wondérful ship. He sat on a _curious sort of a staging, high in the air, his arms and feet bare, and his collar back. He was evident. a sailor, as he had a saflor blouse. His hafr was rough and curley, arouna his 1 picturea clothes on, my face and a9 part of it fringed 1 5 Vseif with quite decent hair combed nice, my 2nds. cleaned. A T just finiskad ship, he "jumped the mext v met this his painting he fortune for he I clothes. His_a but his hard facf now. had two children v but 1 sure they were not his own. Tt seemed to me, if anyone who was in trouble came to him I felt sure he ve them good advice in a rough way. He helped the people all he conld with the little money he had painting. When I thought to admiring the into his boat: but ar 1 went to the shore I again. By not gain s same shagey was the strange man aid a vself T con- sition and big pay. There are two Kinds of knowledge, he practical and the mind-develop- ne, and the more of each one obtains, he more useful he becomes, We have to know how to use learn- cluded this kindness w bette LETTERS BY LITTLE NEBRASKA GIRLS. Willie and Bounce, delina Kenyon, Aged 12 Years. Two fast friends were Willle Brown and his little dog, Bounce. Willie could never think of taking a walk without Bounceg Cake and pday were equally 1 Wetween them. Willie taught his dog many cunning ricks and often said that Bounce 5uld do %lmost ever§thing in the a but talk There came a_time, Bounce really told Willie's father something, though he could not talk. Let me tel! you how he did this. It was one bright summer afternoon. Willie had strolled with Bounce down 1o the river, which was not more than two blocks from his father's store. Willie began to throw stones into the water and to watch the ripples as they made one circle after another. Bounce lay on the grass, watching ihe flies that buzzed around his nose, ind catching any that came too near. There were some logs floating in the ‘er mear the shore. Willle jumped upon one of them to see if he could throw a stone across the river. Fe drew back and sent the stone with all his might. Just as it left his nand, the log turned, and he fell into the water. He was very much frightened, for he did not know how to swim, and there was no one to hear, though he called as lcd as he coulg for help. Poor little Bounce gave a great velp of distress. If he had been a big wa- ter dog he could have plunged in and rought his master out. Tle ran up and down thé bank two ,r_three time barking, looking first at Willio and then around. Then he started, ns fast as he could run, up the street to the store, Whe nhe got ‘there the doér was shut, but he scratched against it and barked loudly, until’some one came and opened it. Fle caught hold of Mr. Brown's tlothes, then ran to the door, then back again, .catching. at him, barking, and jumping. A _friend who was in the store said to Mr. Brown: “Something must be wrong: I would put on my hat and _go with the dog.” Bounce, seeing Mr. Blrown taking his hat, started for the river. Then Mr. Brown thought of Willie. As he came to the river, he saw Wil- ifle’s hat floating in the water and his small arm thrown up. - He sprang i and caught him just as he was 5:“ down for the last time, and quickly cafried him to the. bank. “Wiliie soon got over his fright and o ome scemed more delighted than moe. o however, when A Conceited Pumpkin. Helen Adkins, Age 1 It was a week before Thanksgiving, and the pumpkins in the fleld of a very large farm in western Nebraska were very large and ripe. “Oh,” said one extremely big one, fou other pumpkins around here have nothing to live for; T am the only one that's any good The other pumpkins nodded among themselyes and sald, “Just wait.” Thanksgiving was to be on the 27th of November that vear, and on the 26th Grandpa Smith (the owner of the farm) and his tyo voungest grandch dren came out in the ficld to get o pumpkin for ples. Jack, the little boy, said: i “Oh, grandpa, see that great, one over there; let's take him.” “I told you, so,” said the conceited pumpkin to the others. So Grandpa Smith pulled the pum- kin up and they started for the house, with the conceited pumpkin in his full glory. big 0Old “gobble” was strutting around the farm in fine anger and he sald: “The very idea of my being eaten, the finest one of my race; the wit- tiest and the noblest. I know what I shall do when Farmer Smith tries to catch me, T shall tell him what I think of him.” So when Grandpa Smith started to kill Mr. Gobbler, he satd: “Mr. Gobble, I hate very much to do this, because You and T have been old pals for a long time, but those canni- bals of srandchildren of mine make me” And then he winked his eye and M Gobble didn't say anything. But, alas for the conceited pumpkin and Mr. Gobble, their fate had come, and’ Mr. Gobble tasted very fine the next: day. :‘And the sons and, daughters and_grandsons and granddaughters said/that they, never tasted better pumpkin ples than the conceited pumpkin was turned into, but the con. ceited pumpkin never again said, *T told you so his | arned by his | all the fine clothes, and money I desired for him. MILDRED E. WHITE, Age 15. Stafford Springs. A True Story. First it will be told about the time wo went to the land sale at Brendon Heights. The sale was at two o'clock, 5o my mother and 1 went up, for their was a hig crowd of people up there to win the presents given away. We all wait- ed about one hour or more, and in a few minutes my mother wonj a pair of cuft_buttons, . After a little while we stood by the auto and I asked my mother if she was thirsty. “Yes,” she replied. So we set forth for the cold spring. I just took two steps and reached the spring. 1 stepped into a bees nest. And the bees can¥ flyiug out after me; and one tung me on my left finger. and, of course, I was crying, for he hurt me very much. Ma said some one had been plagueing the bees and these kind of Dbees were called the “Yellow Jackets.” ‘When the presents were all given out we started for home, and many people were complaining of “those horrid bees.” This will be the end of this story, for its a very true story. It was the first time I ever stung by the bees. ANNA PUSKAR, Age 13. Stafford Springs. got. John Paul Jones. John Paul Jones was born in Scot- land the son of Scotch parents. He lived on the coast and engaged in fishing. When twelve years old he was very strong and so his father con- In’1 inia_and the 3 Wil- liam had settled in ‘When this brother died John*Joues went to take charge of his brother's estate in Virginia and later declared his will- ingness to help America if he was needed during the Revolutionary war. The ship Ranger was sent out un- der Jones' command in 1777. The French king, wishing to help America and defeat England, gave Jones a _vessel larger than the Ranger, the Le Bon Homme Richard, meaning Good Man Richard. Captain Jones had a severe fight with the Inglish ship Serapis off Flamborough Head and after a severe struggle won the most remarkable vic- tory in the naval history of the world. alled The Father of the d in Paris and in 1906 was brought to America for Annapolis. Jones was five feet, seven inches tall and slender. His eyes were large, black and_piercin; LILLIENN Willimantic burial ATHIEU, Age 11. What to Do in Case of Fire. | If you should be surprised at night or in the davtime, by the presence of smoke in your room, do not lose vour wits if you can help it. Remember at such a moment that altvhough you n great danger, there are friends will, if possible, come signed. There we walked through the city hall, one of the largest and most Dbeautiful buildings in ~ the country. Upon its _tower there is a bronze statue of Penn which was made by Philadelphia_workmen, and it is one of the largest statues in the world. It does not seem very big as we look at it from the ground, but it is really as tall as a three-story house, and the buttons on it are half a foot across. During our tour through the city we stopped for a moment at the grave of Ben. Franklin. It is in the lit- tle graveyard of Christ church, in the midst of the hum and hurry of the busy city, and is marked by a plain marble slab, It was in Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin lived the greater part of his life. He was born in Boston and learned there the trade of a printer. He came to Philadelphia as a boy to find work, and his first meal in this city was a loaf of bread which he bought and ate walking along the street. ) ‘When he first came here Philadel- phia was larger than New York. It was the largest city in the United States until the Erie canal was built. It has, however, more than a million people, and has many beautiful build- ings. PAULINE A. HASLER, Age 18 Tattville, Why ‘the Cocoanut Has Eyes. Cocoanuts generally srow at the edge of the sea orerivers. The nuts are surrounded with a thick husk with a- waterproof covering, so that when they drop into the water they will float. In floating the three eyes are always on top. From one of the eves there comes a shoot which- develops broad leaves like sails. The wind catcMes these sails and sends the cocoanut on a journey sometimes many miles long. As it sails the other two eves de- velop roots. In good season the co- coanut is swept upon another shore, perhaps on another island. The roots work themselves into the soft earth, the sail becomes the trunk and a co- coanut palm is growing where none grew before. MILDRED V. MORLEY, Age 12. Eagleville. Silk. Silk was first used in China and northern India. It gradually extended into Japan, and Persia and then into Europe. The first silk mill was set up in_i810, Mansfield, by Rodney and Horatio Hanks. This mill was only twelve feet square but it proved successful. The Hanks brothers then with the partnership of Harrison Holland and John Gilbert, built another mill at Gurleyville. It was a great deal larg- er, but proved to be a failure. Then Rodney Hanks built another mill at Mansfield and with the help of his son George went into the silk business. FRANCES E. Eagleville. in this country at ADAMS, Age 10. The Settler and the Forest. When the English came to America they thought it would be b to save the forest as they in_ England The Indians could hid in_the woods € hesin o .cland it made it so that the peopie e doors OF windows | couldn't win battles with them S0 in standir and .vrvxmmc for help. | €25¥- They cut down the forest so tead, think of the straightest way |that they wouldn’t get beaten. oy e p e Thiel Shawl or |, After a while the English decided . on | aoverings ous|to dproteet yihe: foresta: Ifthey did 1 Vour hair. and then creey on | this they misht keep floods ~from talzway. Thete 15" alwaynasane (toj]L (A0 Wewant to: have as many fors If you are in a room with others,| L, . JT‘ SAN HATTIN, Age 10. | nd u lamp is upset or some fioating Sount op I e Description of My School. on them. il down curtains My school is in Mount Hope. It is ingings and coverSthem with a|on the west bank of the Mt. Hope carpet or quilt, or in some simi river. v stop the current of air on which fire feeds. It a child’s apron catches fire from the or stove, wrap a shawl or blanket ahout her promptly and roll floor ISHEVSKY, Age 11. The Dikes of Holland. Holland tion of pluck and everance; were it not for its peo- Holland would be washed out of by the force of the sea. nd, even more than in other is I Pl existence in Z provinces, the dikes are a question of life and deatl every broken 1 and the 1t have fo resis | ttack of the nother even more dangerous MARY NELSON, Age 10. Versailles. Our New Cat. y brother had been away on his | vacation for cne week, an@.when he returned he brought home a lovely ti- er cam The next day every ot one was petting too much pet- it, but I think ting for in the afterncon we found it under the piazza e something. Just give a guess W ? It was one of our chickens. I was so angry at it, I told my brother about it, but he didn’t believe it for he didn’t begin to think it was such a cat; but just wait till I tell you. This was on a Saturday noon- time and cvervone was eating their dinner. We heard a very loud noise and we all ran out and to our sur- prise he had my pet chicken, the one I thought the most of. I took it out of his mouth and the chicken lived a1l right, and we had to give our new cat away. MILDRED E. WHITE, Age 15. Stafford S Narcissus. away Greece a_story is told oung man named Narcissus. He Ty pretty and one day he wan- ar from home. Hec found a and getting down he saw an in the water. It was the image own face. He would look at no_one but himself. Echo called to him from the hills but he thought he was Narcissus the beautiful. “There are none like unto me in all Greece,” he said. One day the gods looked down on him and changed him into a flower. It is now called Narcissus, in memory of him. It has petals as pale as his face, and a center as golden as his hair. Everyone thinks it very pretty. LINA WHEBLER, Age 12. Baltic. In far of a of his A Trip in the Woods. Today my sister, brother and I thought we would ‘take a trip in the woods so we packed our lunch and started. At last we reached our place and sat down and ate our dinner, and read The Bulletin ana started to pick berries. After our pails were full we went to look for things. My sister saw a pret- ty stone and she went to get it and stepped into a hornets’ nest. She be- gan to cry and we ran and got our berries and came home. My sister's legs were all swollen and she made up her mind not to go in the woods egain. BARL WHITE, Age 11. Stafford Springs. Philadelph Philadelphia is one of the oldest. to8 1t this Countey, 15 was fovnAGIOR the Quakers under W. Penn and for 10 years from 179 to 1800, it was the capital of the United States. We _visited Indcpendence Hall where the Declaration of Indeperdence-was: It is on the main r tic. My teacher’s name is Church. She came from E to Williman- Mrs. Mabel ngton and now 1livgs in Chaplin. e’is good to the childrew in schapl ¢ history, readi petic, , civics, lang and ‘agri- I like one study el as I do another. I do not know where I shall go af- ter leaving this school GERTRUDE HATTIN, Age 10. Mt. Hope. Apples. Apples grow in a cool climate. | Their native home in America, but they are grown in The apple tree like any other tree. Its blossoms are white and pink and arc very fragrant The ripe apples picked care- tully. They are pac and sent to all parts of the country. GERTRUDE HATTIN, Age 12. Mt. Hope. How to Make a Doll’s Dressing Table and Cha For Drossing Tabl large cork, as in making with silk or cotton mate: small flower or figure a ke half of a al with d make flounce of same. It should be two inches high when finished; use toothpicks for legs. To the back or straight edge attach the part holding the mirror. Take a piece of cardboard inches high and two and one-half inches at lower edge, or width of co; a hole in it a trifie smaller than a small mirror, about one and five-cights inches diameter; cover on one - side flowered material by pasting eds: back side, then put mirror in place at the back and paste a picce of paper over it, drape with long, narrow piece of material and tie with baby ribbon. For the Ch Use a small cork as for other furniture, but instead of pins for backs, use cardboard. Cover with w flowered material. Slope slightly to- {ward front edges. Cover and pad corks according to directions previous- ly given, and finis h a flounce. Use pins or toothpicks for legs. MARTHA HARGEY, Aze 12 Uncasville. Our Farm. 1 live on a farm of 165 acres which is mestly wocdland. We kcep one cow, called Betsy, of red and white color, and four catfle which as yet have not_been named. We have three horses, two black ones and a red one. The black ones are named Ned and Dick and the red one Dan. The house is painted white and con- tains ten rooms. In back of the house there is a yard where all the hens and chickens are kept. ‘We have 65 apple trees, and 20 of all other kinds. ROSE GAUTEIER, Age 14. Brooklyn. About Paper. Hurdreds of years ago there was no paper, and today we couldn’t get along without it. We are always wanting it —to write upon, to wrap things up in and, last of all, to print our books and newspapers on. 1t was a little Japanese gentleman who invented it. This man was a ‘merchant and was always puzzling his brains to_find comething cheaper_to wrap his bundles in. As he did a big business he found the silk in which he wrapped his bundles quite expensive. One day while walking through his gardens he noticed a wasps' nest. He saw how-wonderfully it was made and how the wasps had used:some kind of ‘wood and soffen: and Jeft it to shapirg it. “If the wasps can do a thing like ry, I Hanks Hill, | cover | cover ol chant. I could get some kind of wood and form it into a pulp by means of the river water, and the result would by something like the fabric of the wasps nest. [Ill ‘try it, anyway, and see what I can do. It would save myself andg other people a lot of money if I succeeded.” The liftle merchant tried apd suc- ceeded in making paper. Not long af- ter a few paper mills were built. The first paper mill in America was built near Philadelphia in 1690 and 20 years later (1710) the second was built at Germantown, and in 1714 the third was built and it furnished the paper Benjamin Franklin needed. EDWARD WARD, Age 13. That Fly Paper. Lottie was a little girl who some- times disobeyed her mamma. She was only four years old. One day on entering the kitchen she saw a large piece of paper spread out on the table. Her mother told her that it was covered with something sticky to catch the flies. She promised not to touch it. Her mother left her there trying to count the flies that had been caught on the paper and she became tired of watching them and wanted to see what made the poor flies stay on the paper. She spread one little hand out flat on the paper. When she triéd to take it off with her other hand it caught that hand, too. At last she put face against it and tried to push it off. But it only stuck hard and fast to her poor little nose and cheeks. Frightened by this time, she called for her mother, who hurried to her, but had to laugh to see such a funny looking girl. She took the paper off her hands and ehe promised not to disobey her mother again. ANNIE F. DAILEY, Age 13. Tateville, The Wigwam. The mission church, built about the year 1831, was bullt for the Mohegan Indians. 'About 1560 the Ladies’ Sew- ing soclety was started and held the first wigwam. At the wigwam the great Indian dish, succotash, was served. They also had yokeag. To make vokeag they tzke ~veliow corn and parch it. Put it into a mortar and pound it with an iron pestle till it is a flour. Then it is sifted. It is eaten on ice cream, or with milk and sugar. Some like it just as it is. It is hard work to pound it, I am writing because I havé an aunt in Tennessee and she has been looking for my name in the Wide-Awake Cor- ner every week. FRANCES BAKER, Age 10. Norwich. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. Ske Has Written Six Stories. Dear Uncle Jed: I have just returned from a visit to Danielson. “While I was there 1 sent a story to The Bulletin. When I returncd I decided to write a letter fo you. I wish to thank you for that prize book you sent me. It is very inter- esting. I have written a few poems and six fairy_stories. MILDRED L. ANDERSON, se 13. Edgewood, R. I To Grow Pines. Dear Uncle Jed: Cones contaim seeds. These secds should be gathered in September and dried _thoroughly. The seeds will fall out and can be put away for the winter. In e spring, when the ground has becorie warmed, they may be pianted in well drained beds around which boards are placed and ovi their tops crossed slats or brush wihen the sun becomes hot enough to threaten to scorch the ung plants. The covering should be removed af- ter wet weather to let the beds dry ut well. The plants will show above le earth in about three weeks and should be kept free of weeds. A: th end of the son they will be between two and three inches high. The second summer the plants will not need screening, only weeding and a little watering if season is dry. The nce of growing-and thriving It f the same age transplanted the dig a hole nad put in a nut, pressing it down firmly and putting in a label you will remembe® where to - it the following spring. JESSIE L. BREHAUT. Jersey City, N. J. Now at Jersey City. Dear Uncle Jed: My vatation is over now, o I am at Jersey City again for a while. + I have already secen several places of interest, amcng which are the high school, public library, St club, postoffice, lead _pencil Colsate’s soap and perfumery factoriés, the American Sugar Refiniz company, and lots of other large build- ings. One evening when I was down near Colzate's factory 1 saw a lady carry- ing a large paper bag under her arm and more than a dozen cats following her. T was later told that she al- ways fed cats in that neighborhood So he is certainly very good to poor dumb animals. 3 A great deal 6f damage was done in Jersey City at the time of the explo- sion, for nealy every store window was mashed, and they are not all fixed et. Some of the stores have their windows boarded upj while others (those that are displaying goods) have chicken wire for protection. I often go out, but when I have noth- ing special to do I knit, sew or read a book. I have been trying to play the Weber piano that is in our parlor, but I cannot play without my music I did not succeed. Hoping the Wide-Awakes are enjoy- ing their vacation, I remain, your Wide- Awake friend. LILLIAN M. BRTHAUT. Jersey City, N. J. The Junior League's Sale. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would write you a little story about our Junior league’s sale. Of a pleasant day recently, orange- ade, lemonade and ice cream were for sale; also popcorn, candy and peanuts, The girls also made fancy work to sell, such as guest towels and sofa pillow tops. The ‘boys made flower pots and bird could dine on those fish and none be missed. They arrive in what the fishermen cdll “cod mountains” These codfish are piled upon one another, often to & depth of over one hundred feet. Thc mountains they thus form are wide as well us high—great moving mountatns of cod. ¢ you have seen a fish net you know it has weights along the lower edge for sinking it. When the fishexmen off the Norway coast cast their nets among the mountains of cod they feel the sinkers hitting the fish, that seem to_have barely room to swim. Have you <ver thought that crea- tures living in the sea have more space than we who live on the land?, If it were not so, in time the fish might all be cavght and eaten. Some lakes and streams where too have hardly any fish left in the water. It is said that this can ever happen to the ocean. can get them. People may expect to eat boiled cod and chowder as long as the world stands. The saying will always bo a true one that “there are as good fish in the sea asever_were caught.” ROSINA ROGLER, Age 12. Norwich. Mary Sunshine and Her Pets. little girl who lives in the country. She is lame but happy. Mary has a cat, a dog, a Jim Crow and a robin. She sometimes takes her pets, puts them in her wheeling chair and wheels out into the woods. She spreads nuts and corn on the ground and_squirrels and birds come to eat it. Some are not shy and will come and eat out of Mary's hand. Jim and Robin go and their friends then. Kitty nad the dogs know enough not to bark or catch them. is very happy with her pets me day she is going to run around with them. LOWENBERGER, Age 10. THE ISLAND OF EUBOEA About the Size of Long Island—One of Aegean Iclands Where King Peter Found Asylum. (Special to The Bulletin.) Washington, D. C., Sept. 6.—Euboea, the Greelk island in the Aegean Sea, where the exiled King Peter of Servia is reported to nave found a temorary asylum, is the subject of today's war geography bulletin issued by the Na- tional Geographic Society from Wash- ington, which says: “The northern promontories of Euboca, on one of which the aged, thron sovereign of the nation which ] est war nged Europe into the great- in the world's history is re- ported to have taken refuge, arc the most interesting sections of this island which became & part of the kingdom of Greece in 1530. “Buboea corresponds in _size ex- actly to Long Island, New York, hav- ing an area only four sguare miles farger than the latter. It extends alonz the northeastern shore Crecce, being a little less than 100 miles Tong, and varying in width from 4 to 30 miles. It is separated from Boeotia by tae narrow Euboic Sea, which becomes constricted to the trait of Kuripus at the seaport of Chaleis, a_town of about 8,000 inhal tants ' At this point the island js separated from the mainland by omly a few yards. A rock rising from the of the strait forms an anchor- for a stone bridge between it and mainland, and for a swineing halcis, the latter be- ing necessary to allow vessels to pass ag the through the channel, where at irreg- ular intervals during the day the ers rush with the velocity of a ft river, scmetimes from north th and at other times ite direction, according to the tide. en the ISuboeans revolted from ensiduring the Peloponnesian wags Ioggotians constructed he fizst to ot cacross the strait, “making following year they may be carefully |- hodZ st g deil lifted out. put in wet mud and then|Surcea an, lsland to everyone except set out, about 18 inches apart, in rows, i IRV {1 1o chosen the north- gnd the next year they may be put | qstern promontory of Euboea as his their permanent positions. This fre-| o0 (N AT oo o e ay - when quent transplanting will cause a great | 20 WS *EEORS PLRL OOk, WIER e el bt o Iat A JOUr YeaT | ceed in driving the ememy Teutons = v gancs ng | from Servian soff, he can overlook the water was fought where the battle of Artemisium 480 B. , a prelude to from woods, where it has been Pk e continuously. {n one gnot.<iPmesywill| Li° Sreater slory of Salam's and tho erow anywhere cxcept in low W) GRrolc jdetonse (of M (BDs Lot thar L s o the Greek fieet, commanded by Them- Ancther tree that children may plant | g (o€, CeGn FOMTEIETE DY TAGMS sceds for is the black walnut. October | I osies (08, fJather, OF T0 Ahenian is walnut gathering time. Select & |pe Jnown, met the supecior maval few walnuts, remove the green hulls, | 5 t forces of Xerxes in a three days’ bat- tle. While not achieving a decisive ctory, the patriotic fleet received its m of blood’ which prepared it ubsequent triumphs over the ian hordes. on the other hand, the exile has chosen the more salubrious mnorth- western promontory, under the shadow of Mt. Gaetsades with its heights clothed in medicinal shrubs, he will be able to enjoy the famous Baths of Heracles. ~ These sulphur waters, hich are still_much- frequented by who suffer from gout, rheu- m; n and digestive ailments, af- forded a favorite retreat for tue Roman Dictator Cornelius Sulla, self styled ‘Venus' favorite, but known to his enemies as ‘half lion, half fox.’ One “h of the few acts of clemency recorded of Sulla was his removal of the name of Jullus Caesar from the proscribed many people go fishing, after a while, | There the fish have learned after twenty years ex plenty of space where no hooks or nets that. its habitual use, after Dear Uncle Jed: Mary Sunshine is a highl talle with gy O£ 100,600 in the op-| After Your Child’s Bath Y_"" Should Use Nothing But because nurses and mothers have rience e bath, skin free from irrita- tion and soreness. Itis able to the ‘most delicate skin, and is the only powder that should be used eve; | doy on infants an c}lldre‘n, esagreatdeal of skin soreness is caused by the use of Perfnmed ders. Mother’s own toilet powder is not adapted to the delicate skin of a child, while Comfort | Powder is especially made for children. | Sykes’ Comfort Powder is not a plain talcum powder, but a. helghly medicated preparation, which if used dailywill keep a child’s skin smooth, healthy, free from odors, chafing, itching and all irritations, | 'At Drug aad Dep’t Stores, 25¢. COMFORT POWDER 00., Boston, Mass, | keeps children’s list of adherents of the Marius party. In sparing the life of this vouth of 19 Sulla is reputed: to have exclaimed prophetically, “There is in that boy many a Marius “At one point on the northwestern coast Euboea is separated from Thes- saly by a etrait which is only a mile and a half broad. It was in this vi- cinity that the final episodes in the eventful life of the Greek demi-god Hercules were supposed to have oc- curred. It was after he had accom- plished his twelve labors that Hercules erected an altar in Euboea to his father, Zeus. Fe sent a messenger, Lichag, to Thracis for a white robe to be_used in the dedication ceremon- ies. Lichas brouzht a cloak given to him by the jcalous Deinira who be- lieved that the zarment. dipped in the blood of the dying centaur Nessus, was a love charm. It proved to be a fiery and fatal poison. Hercules, as soon as he felt the sting of the coat, hurled the innocent Lichas over a cliff, ncar the village which now bears the lat- fer's name and which may be Kin Peter’s retreat. “The most beautiful Grecce is to be found valleys and towering mountains of Buboca, which gets its name, ‘rich in cattle; ‘from the finc pasture land of its plai The inhabitants, more than n number, arc chiefly enzaged and in agrieniture, scenery In all in the ferti in cattle ra the pr ng wool, hides; “Chale! seaport of the island, is miles by rail northeast of Athens.” Rocks Mads te Tell Their Own Story. The walls of the Grand Canyon in Arizona form a great natural geologic section, in which each layer of rock is In its original position relative to those above and below it. In few other places, however, is the story of the upbuilding of the earti’s crust so plainly and impressively told. rule the geologist who ‘would d the records.of the rocks, mmust bit here and a bit tzere the R xiver bluff and others stigking ou steep mouniaiu side. ~He* determines by fossils or other means the order in which the beds were deposited, 2nd by putting all his fnformation together he constructs what he calls a_columnar section for the district in which he is working—that is, a section ok the order, thickness, and character the beds. Such a section discloses the strata that form the upper part of the & 4. P. SWAHN Tailors Franklin Square, 237 Main Street Telephone 5561-12 d. M. Dr. Alfred Richards DENTIST Offee Hours: 9-12 a. m.—1.30 to 5 p. m.. ‘Wed. and_Sat. Evenings 7-8 Room 305 Thayer Building 438-2 House tel. 354 Tel. FREDERICK T. BUNCE THE PIANO TUNER 27 UNION STREET _ Phone 14i4-2 Norwich, Gonm = Mill Ends and Seconds PONEMAH MILLS Taftville, Conn. / We offer Printed Canton Silks, Printed Organdies, Printed Lawns. Willimantlo and Norwich cars pass sur door. Salesroom closed between 12 and 1 and afternoons Saturdays. g NOTICE 190 Franklin Street is the headquar< ters for nice CORNED BEEF to boll or already cooked and pressed ., for luncheon. Try some and become & regular customer. VAL LUPPERT, Propristor DR.R.J.COLLINS DENTIST 148 Main Street, Norwich, Gonn. Phone 1178 TuThS The Chelsea Savings Bank Norwich, Conn,, Aug. 7, 1916. The Board of Directors of the Bank have this day declared a dividend for the ending August 31, 1916, at the rate of four per:cent. per an- num, payable on and after the fif- teenth of September. CHARLES B. CHAPY Good For Hot Weather Salmon, Tunny Fish, Shad Roe, Lobster, Shrimp, Kipper- ed Herring, Sardines, Etc. . Sec’y. Peopie;l!larket € Franklin Street JUSTIN HOLDEN, Propristor edding Gifts earth’s crust at that place, t as a slice of layer cake shows at a glance the variou ers of which it is com- posed. After a number of districts in a region have been studied and their general columnar sections determined, the geologic history of the region can be learned by cnmparing these ns just as the engineer who is drilling for low-grade copper ores compares his drill records and thus learns the out- lines of the ore body. Such a compar- ison of the beds at one place and an- other shows how certain beds change in character and thickness from place to place or even thin out and disap- pear. It enables the geolosist to draw some conclusicns as to the former distribution of Jand and sea, to dis tinguish the deposits laid down in deep water from those spread by rivers over their flood plains, and to reconstruct in imagination the course of events at a time -long_before the besinning of the Grand Canyon. Such a compari- son has recently been made for Ari- zona and is published by the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, as Professional Paper 98-K, by F. L. Ransome, geologist. IN SILVER - _ Lowest Prices - THE WM. FRISWELL (0. ' 25-27 Franklin Street # M. A. BARBER, | Machinist Stcam Engine Repairs. and Engineer. houses, also little tables and chairs, which seemed to sell very well. Everybody seemed to be having a good time, and the Juniors Teported the sale a success. FLORENCE E. BROWWN, Age 11. Norwich Town. Cod Fisheries. Dear Uncle Jed: As I have already written to the Wide-Awako Circle and had excellent luck in winning an inter- esting book, I thought I would try again. The greatost place for cod fishing is off the western coast of Norway. it into a°thin paste | Duricg the months of January and after carefully | Fehruary the ocod ‘come about the Loffoden Islands from the south and west in great numbers. It seems as | that, why caw’t 17" fhought-the mer-4if 2ll the familles of all the countries THEY SEE TH £ WORLD THRGUGH ANGTHER'S EYES One of the most interesting of New York charitles is_depicted herewith. It shows Mrs. G. F. Jould, well known in soclety, reading to the inmates of [curacy and fluency the Home for the Destitute Blind. It really puts many seeing women to shame to discuss the topics of ihe day with these blind womer, for they are “gp* in anything in the way of eur- rent events, and they can di: ss the changes in the map of Europe with ac- As or political gossip, civic welfare and the many other subjects which appear in the dailies and magazines, they are freely omen. Ev- ery morning Mrs. Gould and several other ladies spend hours.at’ the keme reading aloud the news. While they read aloud the “eyes” (fingers) of the sightless men and women are busily engaged in their daily work, caning chairs, knitting, sewing, crccheting, ete. BT Oy T