Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 11, 1917, Page 9

Rules for Young Writers. . Write piuimly on one side of the ¢ only, and number the bagos. ’ i ‘Uee pen and ink, not peneil t,,5 Short and poinfed articles will {3 given preference. Do not use over 250 words. {7 4 Original storles or letters oniy {will be_used, ,°S. Write your name, age and ad- {@sess plainly at the bottom of the story. “-Address all communications to Uncle Fi8a, Bulletin Office. " “Whatever you are—Be that! Whatever you ray—Be truel Straightforwardly act, Be_honest—in fact, Be nobody else but you" POETRY. Jim, the Pay-Roll Cat ‘. (A True Story) s By Louella C. Poole *Bewildered, frightened. hungry, gaunt, I A vagrant of the street, } e crept for shelter, one hot day, . Within the cool retreat— i (= i I | Thoueh deatening was the presses' crash— Of a great printery, BOYS AND GIBLS DEPARTMENT busy and show not only him, but the readers of The Bullefin, what nice work they are capable of doing. ? The work must be carefully done and honestly done. The announcement of the prize win- ners wili be made the first week in March. Competitions will follow the coming March and April, May and June, July and August, September and October, and November and December. The last award wil week before Christmas, so the last contest Will close the I4th‘of Decem= ber, 1917. The contestants will be at liberty to choose their own sub- Jects. THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Helen Wineskie, of Yantic—The Eima Seminary Girls Christmas Hol- ays. 2 Neilson Hulme, of Baltic—Dick, The Bank Boy. 3—Josephine Borovicka, of West Willington—Ruth ~ Fielding and the Gypsies. be made the | 5 M | ga §a.Eegeaee Esigiig ‘We “are going to have six prise. contests for the little folks dure ing 1917. One each two monthks during the year. NINE PRIZES For the best picture apase 6 inches x 4 inches. Pictures which arrive by mail aftor Fob. 28th wil not be entered for the prizes for January and Feb- § i other I walked Joe. Then Joe Otter told him this story: In the beginning of things Mr. Kin fisher was very independent. He was polite to his neighbors, but not so- clable, so his nelghbors soon refused to speak to him. He spent his days fishing, always had plenty to eat and £2n to dig it out. It was all stones father got mad and threw the piclk into the bushes. He went and got it n.and went on digging. My father T hear him!” My father was throwing out some airt and the skunk came running out fast as he could, and he grabbed the stick and hit him on the head and " ROY CONGDON, Afe 11. p. ‘Their Christmas Tree. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell you about the Christmas tree we had &t our school on Friday, Dec. 22d. Our teacher and one of her friends the tree. Every scholar got =] candy and a present. I got a Box of writing paper. ‘We scholars gave her a cap and scarf. Before the presents were given out we played games and had a very good time. 2 We had a ten days’ vacation. I got fourteen Christmas presents: Two bracelets, six handkerchiefs, two pins, a book, a cap and scarf, a box of writing paper, two boxes of chocolates, a pencil box and a calendar. CLARISSA N. CHAPM: Yantic. Had Thirty Presents. Dear Uncle Jed: On Chrstmas day my grandmother and uncle came to my house. We expected my sister and her husband, but they did not come until we started to eat dinner. They came in an automobile and they said they could not stay long, so they sat lockea ¢ uld not track him so easily. We | the morning was passed. N i o el Jeoiing Heier et wws e Around two o'clock the store man tame, so I had a ride in his auto. I enjoyed the ride very much. 1 rode all_over the Point. By this time it ‘was_supper time. 'ter supper I sat in the lamp-light reading. It was now retiring time, 80 I trot- ted off to bed. PHYLLISS BELL, Age 12. Baltic. Walks to School Every Day. Uncle Jed:—I live in the country on a farm ‘of one hundred and ninety acres of\land. Most of it is woodland. I walk to school every day. I at- tend the Sacred Heart school in Wau- regan and I'm in the fourth grade. "~ This is the first time I have written a letter to the Wide-Awake circle, MONCALM GUNTHIER, Age 9. Brooklyn. His First Fishing Trip. Dear Uncle Jed:—I thought I would write you a story about fishing. A brook runs by our house and when 1 was eight years old I bought a fishing rod. One day there were a lot of big fish down near the bridge. I went down and when I was pulling a large fish out he broke my pole and got away. I went out in the woods and cut stick for a fishing pole, The next morning I got up early and went down to the brook and saw suckers, trouts and all kinds of large fishes. 1 took my fishing pole and first 1 could not catch one, but finally I caught a large sucker and ran ex- citedly up to the house for that was the first fish I had ever caught. Gy and by I caught another sucker. I breakfast, then my sister and I wash ed the breakfast dishes. had to wait until my father came hosed and other workers who must have enduring strength, take - SCOTTS EMULSION to build up and keep up theh health. Surely it will do as much for you, but insist on SCOTT'S, 8Bcott & Bowne, Blosmfield, N. J. + make us feel bad I guess. I am having a good time and ‘wish you a Happy New Year. ALMA BUTEAU, Age & My Christma: Dear Uncle Jed: I am guing-totel Moosup. you about my Christmas. In the morning we got up and had Then we e — - Moosup—The to was well content. d had dinni g kept catching them, so when the fis before we could go in the room aad e mrer By R Bradioy Monnta Boge. in to go across He'saw his nelghbors building homes | “*After Ginner we went in and strippea |Man came round we had enoush | e the tree 4 i So spent and bruised was he. e only al but paid little Al:tent’i‘:n. Soon, how- | the Christmas tree. I had a lot of wl(t)ho\lt im. & 5 About quut!;! v-!-tmnin- = r-u;rr Al Me— | mile;up the over. he, seeing how happy they were, | presents, a flashlight, book: ne day when was fishing I|came home. e told us to stay im B i e i o g oot . [The CampetChie S5 SNMIE L 1 S few Oy o Brides, cross began fo think of building a home. | seven handkercmiot v conicS LookS: [ caught two fine trout and while I wad | the kitehen untll be went i Shes o e with s atet Tt é—Lawrence Gunthisr, of Brookiyn | it e mile and a hel down on the other|The more he thought about it, the | pair of shoes, a pair of mittens a cose |100KINg into the water I suddenly fell | we all ran in to see our presents. & ! The city 3 3 —Tom Tayler at West Point. o 5 more he wanted one. He flew up and [an apron, a box of writing paper. a |in. I didn’t know how to swim so I|got four packages and & Christmas In peace he made his horhe. A-fine reserve, born of his woes, Bade him hide safe from sight, 1 But on patrol, sharp-cared, keen-eyed, . He stalked the place each night. 7—Anna Anderson, of Norwich— iod Croms Girls on the French Firis ine. 8—Willie Cotter, of Scotiand—The Boy From the Ranch. Tabby's Children. This they did, but by the time they reached home they were a cross and down the brook, apparently fishing, but really watching his neighbors. He saw some birds building nests on the some in trees and some in Mr, Kingfisher liked the.home of pad, some nuts and candy, and a few othér things besides. thirty-two presents. After the tree was stripped I packed up my things and went home witlf my In al T hayjcame to the bank. began rolling over and over until I I thought sure I was drowned and began cryingz, but 'when I got home I found out that I wasn't drowned. Ever since then I have been catch- 80 1 got a plecg of cloth card. In my packages I got a blus dress, two hair ribbons, a bat. some gloves and a small sewing machine. y Of course I had to try my machine/ and Sadl ho reed n sister to spend my_vacation. been : : Winners of prize books living in|, I thought the children w! Drummer, the Woodpecker, best. “That GLADYS YOUNG . |ing fish. I will close now. You will | that it sews fine and I have used ® g By sy B gy S the <ity may Teall at The Trietin | Tabby's Babies st summer might like Teilow s the riaht idens teaaht he| Moosul WG, Ase 13 | 200n hear from me again. whole spool of thread maaking delf in truth a paradise it seemed, business office for them at any hour | o know more of them. “He cuis a hole In a tree; he is dr: WILLIE COTTER. Age 10. clothes for my sister. These paths of pleasantnes: ! T6_ome alone aid he respond— The merry office boy— s call gray Jim ne'er failed to heed after 10 a. m. Thursday. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT Oscar Mathewson, of Versafiles: 1 has been very quiet except for the usaal trials of the mother of a family of youngsters. During her first winter—a year ago —she formed the habit of sleeping on Colchester. Have Promised. he is warm; no one can get at him there. Then Mr. Kingfisher tried to make a hole in a tree, but he could not. One day he found a sandy bank. He stuck Skating. Dear Uncle Jed: As all the Wide- Awakes know, the best sport in winter is skating. 1 thought 1 would go. Scotland. Marian's Friend. Dear Uncle Jed: I have a girl friend who came to visit her sister. Mildred a doll almost as big as Berself | canis it_Alice. My little sister three years old got We played a long time with our things then we went out to get dim- o ir- S bout 2 o'clock ‘Sunda; Lfte on With every mark of joy. eased with the Drise BOGR master's felt boots back of the a I have seen in the paper every week | his bill into the bank many times. 0 about 2 o'e v afternoon | fro? came 1 er. sister lives | ner. { m:".‘u R Very much. |UERt stove and the first Hme hey|Lillian and Jessie Brehaut's letters. When he had a hole three or four feet | feW of my friends and I started to|g mile or Gav'v%" e g0 to| We had for dinner, chicken, pota- WUpon his shoulder he would spring Eflor. Borevickn, of. Vrast: “will were put there this winter sl Every single week when I was read- | long he made a turn in it. No onc |80 skating. It took us about ten min-f ;¢ % e’ “Weo ‘have been taking|toes, lima beans, bread snd buter Bach morning him to greet: 1om: Tk T et e e | I G SRS GECe chair, [ IR the Wide-Awake stories I always|could get him here but Mr. Mink. | Utes to reach the meadow, where there | ¢;rn. going to see each other and yes. | mince pie, chocolate and ococomn | Atout his tasks would follow him, - BUE YOS sy e | When he lifts her from his big o{read their stories until the contest | easlly killed in narrow quarters. From [ ¥as duite a few enjoying the sport!ioraay afternoon she came to stay all | cake { ~And purr around his feet. | When the steam whistles biew twelve, *Jim heeded not the sound, \Though ‘twas the office nooning hoar, And quiet reigned around. Bit when at one the whistles shrilied, |~ Quick as a flash he sought Ha friend, the boy (‘twas them he dined), at prize book you sent me. Interesting. Mary Borovicka of West Willingtos I cannot thank you enough for the prize book you sent me. Cora C. ‘Carpenter of Columbia: 1 received the prize book and thank you very much for it. I bave read it through already and think it very in- teresting. Cecelia Huntley, of I am very thankful for the prize book I find it very another favorite place, she sits down and looks from his boots to their pla behind the stove as much as to say: “Come, hurfy up with my bed.” Poor Tommy Teddy has seen the rough side of life. Last summer his little master found him caught by the foot in a trap; his hip wrenched by his struggles. All summer he suffered, never making a sound when he put on the cruel medicine that finally healed it. He lost one foot but s still a good hunter and a most unselfish cat. He pictures were out. So I and my brother Laurence made an agreement together, and we prom- ised to write a story every week to the Wide-Awake rtment. After this time“our letter will leave our house every Thursday morning. MONCALM G. AUTHIER, Age 9. Brookiyn. A Trip on the Water. that day the Kingfishers have ‘n the ground. MILDRED GRANDY, Age 11. Yantic. T Lost in the Woods. One morning a few of us girls pian- ned to go for a walk in the woods. We started ahout half past ten. TI walk was a_long one and we enjoy it very much. On the way we saw several squir- lived It was not very cold and we enjoyed it very much. It was not very rough and we went on quite smoothly. I stayed about three hours and reached home 10 minutes past 5. After 1 ate my supper I read a story book, ! retired about 8 o'clock, very tired after my day of skating. CATHERINE FINNEGAN. Norwich, She Enjoys Wide-Awake Stories. night with me and we played until it was time to go to_be lock Holmes,” “Author: and Jots of other games. After supper we played awhile and then we went to bed. My sister, Alice, | | slept with us. After awhile we got to_sleep, but not very early. In the morning we wanted to zet un, but couldn’t find any matches. In our fix we woke my sister Alice up ond she also wanted a lamp and we looked ames her- House,” room where the candy and played games until suppe: time. After dinner we went back inte the tree was and . & After supper 'we stayed up very ate. I hope all of the 'Wide~Awakes Jnd] a Merry Christmas and a Happy New| Year. ANNA ANDERSON, Age 1 Norwich 4 » h: the food he brought. v i AR To share the & T rec;i\‘red.r ¥ h’vu read it through and | BURLEL A0 & Moo e, pitifal eyes, o;:e day n:er:dt us. xxl.;lls p}a_nnndww Nl Kt e e S Loy e - | Dear Uncle Jed:—I am going to|«gain. Finally I got up and went in-| What is Taught in Arlene’s Schosl. “SYhy, Vietor, do you always, Iad. found, 3t very:licemethg: while the others eat, leaving his own | 9 _1or & host xide on, the river Ve |ing in the flelds. We arrived at the | EIiie (0 you about Christmas and my | (o the other room amd got some| Dear Uncle Jed: Mont evary year Your lunch share in this was Fred C. Schultz of North Stoning- at once if they come for it. But he about 9 o'clock. On the way woods about twelve o'clock and we Christmas e~ matches. Then we lit the lamp and | wo have sewing or fancy ‘work The master asked, as he observed ton: 1 received the prize book and 35,205 gets his reward by being car-|We €0t the breakers of several small | SO00% MUCUL IO S0tk nd Wel I was sick just before Christmas|in o few minutes we S0t up and he- | LooniVC fCing, or fancy womk e This friendly péir one day. thank you very much-for it. ried to some safe place with a dish of| Fanchel, We went he far as Trading| ;i our lunch, Then we thought we|and I sat up the first time Christmas | gan to dress. went to school here the teacher taught Eleanor Huntley, of 1 some special dainty. Cove bridge. We got off the boat and went up_on the shore and ate our would go farther into the woods. We day. It made it awful lonesome. We had a tree and lots of presents. My father got up and built the fire s0 we were all right. After we had | the girls cooking and sewing and the Quick on the pay-Toll went the name |am very thankful for the prize book [ One of the kitties three—little gray [ went walked and walked and presently one | We ha [ ne T Of “Jim, the Office Cat.” I received. 1 have read it through and | Jackie—lost his life by a reckless auto |'"000 L. .14 our Junch we got in|Of the girls sald: “It Is time to go| W< have yvet got our tree and weare | got most dressed. mother got up and | "y VoL TR S et mre wowa “Gainst ity cents, his weekly wage-— |found it very interesting. driver, but the others are very much |, AUST e ote our Junch e ot In | home, going to keep it untll after New |got breakfast. ' In a few minutes we | cook dinner for all the children, which S Iowe: SoTRt Qe Adah Lamberton of Lowell, Mass.: [alive. ~ g that | Posite shore. “When we got over there| , We turned around and to our sur-| YRR Lo Ll 00 otner girts, | Mo, o2dY for breakfast, but i n't| wag very good. They made their cook- For keeping office foes at bay E o e e L it 108 | eave. Tr mAme-ooks quict. byt let| 7S S&w anotner boat full of girls, and [ DFise we 14 not know which read to| 1 fs 5 mins the Christmas troe | " Maiher told me to dress the baby e e end, of the yéar they Bad e I read it, but think I shall like it. | her find a ball, spool or anything that | Jo_ PIANNed to-have & race UP the| steaq of getting out of the woods we | SeTelses at our church and school | (who is‘my sister). dresses, aprons, and many other things e Carrie A. Gelo, of Montville: I have [ moYes, and— . e sile . i we wpaiws o | SR Soles Bather into e BRIS- | wise g visttes ool A sns | e, TR o dress e that they had made. =~ : just four more pages to read of the [ Cute is a vellow and white imp of | ;ave another race, only the other girls | IV We heard a Tustle in ihe underbrush | reading what others write, ] Sirte walehed me Jxess her. It Some of the giris did manual train Quite dignified and proud puss looked, | Prize book you sent me Robinson e s placis 1ok fuy. Bcne T said it was no use, as we were the | 104 We Jumped behind & bush for| Y wish you and all the Wide-Awakes | ready 50 we sat down to o | oot thngs that T heve Srimcitte: 8, 1l who noted his ;_an A 3 . 2 st rower: 3 a Haspy New Year. At numR D our | @0 other things that T have forg Fhon cvery pav-day was passed out | thank you very much for it. A O e e T earatle o2 | _We were 20 busy talking we aid not [ One of the girls peeked out and to|® SRSWY Tow Fear, oo 0 | After breakfast mother x| e "hoye made the same t An_envelope marked “Jim.” Joseph Harrigan of Norwieh: -1)0ice as to crawl into the water epoutlses the big boat coming until it was | her surprise she sasv it was Rex and| L ig@BD A C s e s Modionear but " our mext tencher did not tes L thank you very mifch for the prize [ o0 tF ?!."!',;); !Wlhgd nie o Oncs hg | near upon us, and we just barely got :‘I_o;:emh;n:;rgdt;rfihfiga ::\rl Rn:; g by, mare '_“i;:,‘y;.q,;“_{:;nav training and o A valned member of the frm Vers “intereating. T shall write Soon | o4 over the limp little body with fans. |5 1o "unlC BOSRy ue. 1t S v, Tlome sately and perhaps | Dear Uncle Jed:—Thore was girl| £250 b2 15, 8058 Sthor, T wont to Vi< | nook bag that is made out-of bageth s Jim, the office cat! ~ again, and [ hope I shall win another | (O1% FEIW SRmPLOT €0, fof 2 for EDNA GEER; Age 13. |we woula be walking stilh golng home to Junch. 'She diopped a ATARTAY € DAWLEY. Age 10, | 2round the bottom. I made a line of ai —_ very interesting book like the last. it e e .| Norwien: E p doll a boy picked it] oo MRARIAN C- DAY { amonds with blu . T UNCLE JED’S TALK TO WIDE-! Fred Haddad, of Chestnut Hill—I e I e e ESTHER HANSEN, Age 13, | up. | 2150 made a mat out of the sam. A i iz bool me. | 5¥ an ‘ute packed in a tiny space Norwich. He and his ch vere h o e of goods around which I made fan- AWAKES. fecelven fho o o™ ks T | Reld in by a big snow shovel because | Fishing Through the lce—How to Got to_lunch too and he said: - = o0 He Had a Merry Christmas. | oy Stitches with lavender varn, : - R T T fhiey Haa'tisdto PUyw, Boater aud i Bait. The Little Wish Bone Girl. “Helen dropped & sum of money. I| Dear Uncle Jed: T had n happy time| " Last year & girl friend and 1 made Tincle Jed feels sure that there are - | chum. ? = E e | wonder if she has gone home? Christmas. We had a Christmas tree | crochet, face cloths, and after that w among the readers of the 'Wide-Awaka | Richard B. Wheeler, of Stoninston | ~Cute went to the Christrgas tree but | _Before you go fishing through the | Poor little Jack had been lonesome | wonder if sho has sone home®” s n | Sande bage out of white ramia afse —T received the prize book you sent was afrald and had to bd taken out ice, you must get some small fish call- dunce to get soaked for nothing. You zht me a conster re lined they made f Circle many boys and girls between - et T fanie < with a neighbor. |ed “shiners.” 'If vou don’t buy them |body Rad gone to church but himself h otk = T O BE RICves two | ol the ages of 9.and 16 who are capablo | [t vary Inievesting. I thank you for | What the facme may HoWd Tor My | You must of course get them yourseir. e e o e e Goores cars. Tot conost 4" the | nesktlen two. Bundieriniste a" box| P Rhe fist thing we meds were Mk of making pictures of merit with pen | it. and her children and grandchilaren 1| To et them you must buy a large | the Aioner. —How Elad he WAS WHD | jiernoon he had. the. satistaction | of| Of paint and a drawing slate pillows. We made htem out of bag er-pencil good enough to print. can't foretell. It is not uncommon to|neh and & pall 1o keep them in. and | papa and mamma from church, knowing that he would get his skates| My sister got lots of other things.|ging. ~The teacher had designs that ,The money prizes are offered be- | STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- |find Cute running sround with his ;.o s hole in the ice larger than | “Well Jack” said Aunt Nell, “How |Just the same: He returned the dol- 190, ears we had company. AL | e Worked out on the pillows in atf camse they are more Inviting to com- AWAKES. OF ‘corn can, a0 his fate s unesrtain | JOUT net and cut it round. ~Put some e ] e e |l oamy. Soa had dinmee with' ua, | Sant SIS | ke iilbtac of i AER petitors than books, and each one may st S BITA BARBER. |goin Tk T Wit St R S Rt i wil bundle containing skates. This is|and afte .xm’nr oy sister m' ;my| which she worked in red raffia, An use. his money for anything he needs - Plainfield. lites before you pull ft up. Be careful | But he was very happy till dinner | What You get by being honest. father went sliding on the fce and had | ogher had to work out in 1 or any pleasure he may prefer. When my brother wes ten years of how you handle the shiners becaure | was terved, for Aunt Nell read the| DORIS EASTERBROOKS, Age 10. |& xood time. BHInE Yoia Fapop l Huse & nother gt had o g From all points of view the first | os s Tirtndar peestmt. THe won o Clothing. they are very tender and you might |new number of “Our Little Men and| Willimantic. o how close wishing you a Happy | ket of flowers which were worked,w arawing contest Which covered the |pleased, and it was not long before ho| ,We need clothing to keep the heat |kill them. Women,” over to him three times. L 3 s A BouRET Ass 10) . |[RitesentcoleriiL 08 UG 3 as T awing and hammerng. away, | Of our bodies from escaping too rapid- | After you have got enough shiners| At dinner Aunt Nell said to Jack's A Nice Summer Vacation. e o S By o e . mohth of November was most satis- | Wes sawing ond hammering away: |ly into the air, and the clothes save the | you must buy a fishing tackle to caten | pap: Dear Uncle Jed:—I had a very nice| Glasso. Sk orange and decorated with a Du factory: but some of the best pictures | (% 08 10 make SOMELnE: He MAdS | skin from peing torn or hurt; and if | the fish. I don’t know what the price Now, George, give Jack the wish |vacation this summer. 1 visited Gro- Gere o boy_and girl RS0, e came too late to compete. We Drom- | ana after that a little toy wason for | We did not wear clothing the sun |is becabse I made mine. Fasten the |bone. He must keep it and after din- | ton Long Point. Having a Good time. .,/We have not done any fancy work Toad but four bucka’ to: thabontostantil . ot - would burn the skin. shiner on the hook. The line is fast- | ner I'll show him what to do with it.” | Every morning I went in bathing.| Dgur Uncle Jed: I am viciting my | this year A SmA AL e = The tool that he likes best is a fooc- | The clothing should be changed ac- ) encd to a little hook which works like | * After dinner Aunt Nell rolled the li-| We have a row boat. I can row it | little cousin In Moosup. 1 am havinge ARLENE L, Ag but.we sent out seven to those whose | (e 00 o e never to tire uding | COTding to the climate or season of the|a rat trap. < brary steps along to the door into the | Early one morning I went out rowing | aa good time tonight. We colored some | Augusta, Me pictures we selected for printing. it. He measures the chairs, the win- [Ye2T. In summer we ought to wear| On the end of a plece of wire is a | hall, and taking Jack’s wish bone she|I saw a crab, so I came home for the | fashion books, and I tell vou we mor L = We propose to print the pictures | dows, the fences, and other things n | lighter clothes than in the winter. ted piece of cloth which, when the | cjjmbed to the top steps and hung it|crab net. After a half hour of suc- | than colored the drezses. Guilfoll.—Saturday, about noon, a sent in by the prize-winners: and we | and around the house. | "We should change the clothes fre- |fish bites, pulls the little hook and the | cyot the Qoor. cessful crabbing I started for home.| My little cousin said her styles were | tramp entered the store of C. C. F o . Once. he tried to measure” his own | quently and should not sleep in the|Wire with the cloth on it springs up “Now, Jack.” sald she. “When I was| It was eight o'clock by the time I[ nicer than mine, so we had aunty say [ man on Boston street, and while may print some of those given hon- | C5Cs but he found It was mot easy | ciothes worn during the day. end you see it, and then, maybe, YOU | iittle girl, I used to hang the wish | reached home: breakfast was ready,|which was the best and what o vou | Rassman was engaged in the back aable mention. to do that, for while at one time of | ‘We should not wear wet or damp|bave a fish. bone over the door and then the first (so I sat down and ate. After eating | think she said? room of the building the stranger *Whenever a request is made to re- | the day it would be quite long, at|clothing any longer than we have to. NELSON HULME, Age 13. little . boy that walked under it was|we started for the bathing beach. We ‘Well, she said one was no hetter | helped himself to $20 from the cash MARY BOROVICKA, Age 12. Baltic. going to be my playmate foreve:.” stayed two hours at the beach. Thus | than the other. She did not want to | register and made his escape. another it was very short. tBrA the drawings it should be accom- panled with a stamp to pay return postage. -Now Uncle Jed hopes the boys and This set him to thinking. Then he found that the shadow was long in the morning, shorter at noon, and large again in the afternoon, until ot be seen at West Willington. Schools in Alaska. Our government is making great Autobiography of a Homeless Cat. 1 once lived in a beautiful home. My mistress and children were very fond wish bone very anxiously. Day after day went by, but no lttle playmat zirls came with their mammas to call, You may be sure Jack watched that “forever little * came. Te be sure. sunset, when it could improvements in Alaska. Many Amer- lcan teachers are sent there to open schools for both white settlers and na- tive Eskimos and Indians. of me. 1 was a gray maltese and the children would call me Buff. I wouid sit_in their laps and purr and sinz. One day I was very sad. My mis- gitls of Bastern Connecticut will get siris came with their mam o all the afternoon; but they were sure to_go away when it began to get dark. A WHOOPING What a funny party, I hear you say! And who ever thought of hav- ing such a thing? This is how it cams about. Fiydia had the whooping cough, g0 of..course she had to stay home from kindergarten and as every child who gaes to kindergarten knows, this is hardly to be borne. But when in ad- dition to staying away from school, you can’t even piay Wwith the little §irl_on the next block, nor go near any baby for fear of giving “It” to her, why then it is too much. 5 $o you can imaginc how picased Lydia was when she heard that Ilse and Corinne and Kathryn had whoop- Ing-cough, too. Not that she was gled that they had whoeoping-cough, while, as you know, |s..mot & comfortable thing to have, but, if they had to have it, she was jad they all had it at the same time, cause here was some one to piay "E5 the 1ady who lved near Lvais invited all the four children to tea and this is how they ceme to have a wheoping cough par z Lydia, who enly lived upstairs in the-same house, came first, o she was jhere to_receive the other thres, and )s she had never seen them before, “they her, there was great excite- Jrent. First, the three little girls had COUGH PARTY large potatoes and a small spoon, on a slippery wooden floor. At last they were asked to walk out to tea and there was the table, - ail beautifully set, just as if it were for grown-up people, with pretty silver and china and pink candle shades and cakes and chocolate and -milk and brown bread. The little girls all made a fine tea and no one sat at that table but just their four selves and the grown peo- ple just stood up and waited upon them. After tea they went back to the par- lor and the-three little girls, who had been in Germany, began to recite some pretty little verses about the stork and about a little pony and a fox. When lo and behold! Lydia had never been in Germany, but she tn- derstood German and she even had a German Dbook with some of these very verses in it, so she not understood what the Mitle girls recited, but she could say some of the verses herself. And then the very thing happened that Lydia had thought of; they all began to cough at.once. Nothing fun- nier was ever heard than these ‘four little zirls, three in white dresses and the foustii in green plaid _trimmed with red, alj doubled over and red in the face with ccushing! It was so funny that they could ot heip laugh- ing themsclves and of course that made them cough more, till they were quite helpless. However, that was all over at last, and then they had a little' more play before the the three little who were the ;h:wr; bade 1o the one Ittle rl who lived hey part- 22 1in the hest of Eeod temper: mad much pleased with each other. 4 And it they had A most Interesting experience in the education of the northern Eskimo has been an effort made by the govern- ment to teach the Eskimos the use of the reindeer. The reindeer are imported from Si- beria, the younger Eskimos are given a course of training in caring for them and making them useful. After a young man has completed a training course he is presented with a number of animals with which to start a serd. The instruction and training are given by the schoolmaster in connection with school work. The reindeer will be a great help to the Eskimos in making their life more comfortable, Even as far as Point Barrow, on the shore of the Arctic ocean, which is the most northern polnt of land belonging | to the United States, there is a schaol for Eskimos in charge of an American teacher. JOSEPHINE BOROVICKA. Age 14. ‘West Willington. A Leak in the Boat. One moonlight evening a few years ago my mother, cousin and uncle were tress was to move to a far away land. She could“not take me with her. The big team came to take away the goods. The children were sorry to leave me. They stroked my fur and spoke to me in most gentle tones. At last the home was empty. I then wandered out into the street, homeleas as could be, until I came to an old farm house guite out of the city. My new master put me in_ the barn, to catch the mice. One night I camé home to the barn a little later then usual, he had shut up his team TOMMY TIDD. What Tommy Tidd Say: out in a rowboat on the Mystic river, enjoying, as were many others at that time, the beauty of the lovely moon- 1light evening. The time wore on, and one by one the pleasure seekers de- parted homeward, until finally the only boat left on the Tiver was the one in ‘which my mother and her friends were enjoying themselyes. At last they, too, decided to go home and were just going to row for e landing on the other ‘when— ‘'Oh, dear, my feet are getting wet.” cried ‘my_ cousin, and looking down they beheld a large puddle of water in the bottom of the boat, which, to make matters worse, was steadily growing larger. lfiy ‘mother and cousin started to bail out the water while my uncle rowed for the nearest landing, but It seemed as if the water came in as fast as they could bail it out. TFinally, after what seemed ages to them, but what ‘was in reality only a few moments. they reached the landing and bumped into anotfier boat which was fastened grandmama. and, oh! sueh & He wasn't “lonesome” chickens and cats, and colored cooks, and little darky children to play with. For it was down as to but felt better when Dapa toid nim ‘there was a surprise for him at home. into the Jibrary to find mamma, bu: she b et B He apron an Win'a bundle in her arms. “I've heard all about the wishbon~ and here is a dear little sister that has come to be-a ‘forever playmate. he gave her a big hug, and told ¥r he was glad to get home. satd: write you about through my Christmas vacation, cling through. the woods and we 'e-zd:"z':; Tole under a little pina. It In the spring Jack went to visit his out in the country, time as he had. there, with old Vi came after him. He By and by When they reached home Jack ran looked up at the ¥ aes that ix o account.” T guess t] no Just then a tall lady with & white cap on came walking on “Weil, little Jack,” said the tall lady. When Jack went up to see mamma Then he “I think the wishbone mirl's pret! small and red. but I guess she'll grow.” LAWRENCE GAUTHIER, Age 12. Brooklyn. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. The Stusk Hust . 2 e Dear Uncle Jed: 1 m 3 father and I were trav- One day my followed it and not a very good looking hole. but their nest. My father reached into the bed and Probably nowhere in the great war is the ingenuify of the fighters in ‘winter more severly tested in Carpathians, where weather condil are extremely severe at this time of the year. The Carpathians are rious for their £f Jand heavy snows, with low temper| /res, often going b low ezro. The ( sads are few and far between, and {ie paths over the mountains are virtually impassable at this season. The soldiers of the bat- ting armies are hard put to it for shelter and utilize every means of pro tection when not fighting. The body of Austrian soldiers shown in the p! ture have constructed a shelter or hut with their skis as a framework.