Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 25, 1917, Page 9

P kfter & while the people started to very quickly. 3 A ) o ”"3'.,, z v We pt home at half past one in the - g o L : esting. o TR o et Bee € vk mont 10 BOYS AND GIRLS DEPARTMENT | must be sorry that-he did not wear {my - since’ that we call him Wise|but I saw another about o haif mile skates today for he can hardly stand. ; A e e At last he does fall and wlf.h‘ucnt ‘vnn.fi COTTER, Age 10. i E cifficulty gets up again, vers, > Scotlan, tonington. - § des on. Sarid- Rules for Young Wraars. learning, and how vain is art, but as | grunts, and sli 5 \ g - : — it suides the life and mends the| Thare ‘i & woman so coversd iin Where Spot Was Found. Early Christmas Risers. 1. Write piainly on one side of the = er Parn s 3 - Dear Uncle Jed:—About a month| Dear Uncle Jed: I am writing to you yaper oniy. and oymise fh imeges. | HECC i Mave Epolaiits WithatR | svomsEa ago Spot, our dog, who is blind, dis- | about, the Christmas tree that hs chil Use pen and ink, not pencil. e eapnot have knowl appeared in the night. ran = s glleriod % 3 Skort and peinted articies wil | havine to pay the price. ‘The price s 7 mmu__ GORMAN, Age:12. zco s mi!;“ b tent 16 the B B E _:, mage popcorn padie. s Rbven preferénce. Do not uSe OVET | o magtery of language and its proper _ | working in and about the house: but next day, for we supposed that he was flr:.t 'M"“'-";‘; N 7 S B inal stories or letters oaiy | application to ourselves and to life. What Sort Will You Be? pos Setudey T wes tsld that I coud AL e of M el borsy R e o by R e TR A R will be used, Now, Wide-Awakes, learn to love| It is well for you boys to make up | §e“%aie "M' e e i S T mem et | at ten minutes past foor. 5. Write your name. age and ad- | gnowledge and do not. forget that no|vyour mind now what sort of an old fang had an hour's trip. After we Just as we were getting reagy for|, My father and wother KoL up ing dress plaiuly at the’ bottom of the | " in life are so important as | W3R you ‘would e D en. for you |12nded it was raining quite hard, but " bed we heard in the woods a bark, ,“' i some of the thinge. \nd o n toatlons fo thncie y the ten ‘schoal years: i ‘which youd red Bt B o e oy Riads. Jvve misingull 15Ky SRt ter Chrivtmes which sounded like Spot, so we went |100ked at some of the things = 4 AT e - i Ynat the | Presents. After we had mailed them down to see if he was there, hut we o 1 Ampan 18 1 e Jed, Bulletin Office. may fit yourselves to make your way |and you may R 'y sure he |1 started for Norwich on the train. It % could not find him. did the b'd":u:nthe R W hatever TR AL TS et to be the supporters of every good|=eifih, C e bows. It you |¥as a mice trip. After I reached Nor- next morning I went to a|%Rd """V. oa o The ook, Mobinson Whatsever you say—Be true! ¥k and every good institution. wich I went to my aunt’s house which E x neighbor's a few miles off, to see if “this Be honest—in &Y - ' after lunch I went to see some boys that had not seen anything of = body else but P tham £ 1i, candy, nuts, Be no bus you- LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 1S 05 (0%l °Cr a8 Vou Srn Bo- | DB LKDOR. o+ wetock. When T him, s T went back home. TniRercHIvE, mhoktie, Wal), sty SRR - ing. - o X A few hours later we went down in mother and father say they have POETRY. ! Willie Cotter of Scotland: I received MTKE SUMOSKI, Age 9. |Teached the house my cousin was in; the woods for the second time. We| ALy mother and fathersay Thes ti.e prize book mailéd me. It is very Versailles. then we had supper and after supper hunted around for a long time but we| (e dm"‘“’“t expect any Christmas The Story of Dot. interesting. I thank you for it. 5 we had some music and after the i g e B L a ad G SHA H Laurence Gauthier of Brooklyn: The Redheaded Woodpecker. music we got ready for the show the Just as we were getting ready 1o £0 | Benoo) commenced Dec. 27, a180 kept iv ay prate about your high-bred | That certainly was a fine book I won omd oad| i |name of the picture was The Dream home grandpa, who was not with us, | yan 1 1817, I like my school, and R last week. I had gotfen interested in| The lensth of the woodpecker 1s|Girl It was very interesting. S yelled to us that he had found bim | yercyor. ‘bt as 1 nave been sfex I I Since they are all in stock: the detalls and I could not leave it{about 9 3-4 inches They range from| After the show we went right home. going around in a circle not knowing | haye been absent two weeks. We've dbne away with common |alone: Tom Taylor at West Point. rn Canada to the gulf coast and | When we reached the house it was which way to go. FRANK M. GRAY, Axe 10. © V0L rceds,— Many thanks for the book. from central Montans, central Colorsdo |nine o'clock. We had an sbple and ARTHUR 5. YOUNG, Age 13. Willimantio: Gone wu for Piymouth Rock, Katherine Hickey ~of Montville: | 320, Semtral exas 1o the e o But | M The mens morning T got up at eight Augusta, Me. BB ? Buff Owc.in, Leghorn and the rest, Please accept my thanks for the prize }y, ;o or less migratory in the southern | o'clock and took the ten-thirty car for Santa Claus’ Bandaged Leg. O L N e R L T e i 3 New London. I then baa some lunch Raymon's Christmas Tres. Dear Uncle Jed: The Saturday even- Bug, while dh"e et P Girls in the il e This_strikingly marked and readily |and started on the 1.30 boat for the Uncle Jed:—T1l tell you about |ing before Christmas I went to the OF one old- Lo o o fer heaq, | Helen Aberg of Taftville: I thank |identified woodpecker is common In|jsiand. at school, Dec. 22, 1916, we my Christmas. Gurieyville church. All of the children Her comb stood hig] e % | you for the prize book you sent me. I|some localities and entirely wanting In | T then had a very hard vovage. We|Christmas tree and the children spoke | "The first thing we did was to go|met and went into church. Most of us Har /offes Wolie: Spulii S hriel have read it and I found it very in-|others which apparently are equally |had to stand on deck the waves were|Pieces that made us laugh. The|anq get a Christmas tree. We had to|had pieces to speak. My plece was Sk W A e e, | e well adapted to the bird's needs. Its|as high as a smail house; but we man- | Christmas tree stood in a corner all | go a long way but after a while we|about The Holy Night. iy A e e Dot~ she wais 80 Tound, habits are a combination of wood-|aged to get home safe. trimmed With presents. found a good one. We brogght it| The exercises began at half past 7. W A ioked so dike a batl: THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS.|Pecker, jay and Sycatcher, and oatch- HUBERT RYAN, Age 12. | When Christmas day came we had | home and fixed it s it would be ready | We Lad a fine time. First we had e s auyi . b & insects on the wing is a common | Tishers Island. gome presents from the church. The | for the night before Christmas. The|music and pleces and had a phono- T2 chicks 1—Hulda Franken of Stonington—|bapit, Godpecker eats - " them ‘out. She said: S e ek g g in Mexico, and he 2 th Fielding at the Red Mill R A His Vacation in New York. —h 3 On Christmas eve we set it up and| Santa Claus was in 3 To have no name at all = & 1y twi uch vegetable food as “Dop’t_let the children have them a ident. When he camhe to h hat lays the golden egg S Hopkins 6f Brooklyn—The | Roarly twice as 1 / Dear Unele Jed:—I am writing you | jar Chrintin e strung a lot of popcorn, and also made | had an acc 1 TS the buswihas ‘you sivi + Automobile Gifls at Newport. it does antmal; but the latter Includes | Jhout my Christmaé vacation. I am | ei°co Suristmas, or have a smell of | cornballs for it. We put on orenges, | church he had his leg all bandaged up . = rat r Ansny destractive Insects. thi 3! i enth too. near his knee. ; Dot sang and scratched {rom mOT| 3_Hannah Lawson, of Pomfret{ Greatly to its credit, it eats both Erailoat Dlalers el N- Y. Aud we B e e N e— °Th the morning when we got up we| He heiped ta take some of the things s fouk ihe.tima to 18y Center—All Aboard . species of clover beetles, the COTD },q two weeks® vacation for Christ- | butdant. 2 Pe - < looked over the things we found on|from the Christmas treo. A e carce n?: e ':“e the roont, 4—Alice Kinney, of South Coventry | weevil, cherry scale and 17 year cicada. | yas and I enjoyed it very much as B oF vn. toaciiier Had an Edieon the tree a little while, then we had to He said he could not stay long, “or TR W RPT It with & koo * | —Atrship Andy. It eats corn on the ears and atteews|I spent a week in New York at my|iaiking mashine, do chores. After the chores were done | he had many other places (o visit, We = - — ine Coon o M aunt’s home. She has two young boys NAH g, we ate breakfast. When breakfast was|came homé after 10 o'cloc! s"t,.‘;"vféuftf"h'f\-é’ rxu!ixug?gée?to;oup Boys o‘f“;;:l‘lr‘l:ood 55,’2.,3‘ SRR ““;“'th;"‘"!::‘o:“g}f; b{“_d:"'::"g; and she had a Christmas tree and I Pom,‘,i‘,\lvc:;,‘,z LAWBON, Age 14. | 4 iched we looked to see how many 2 Mnnfly morn:n:'o:ve‘ k:edw A.(l‘ct‘llrlscler:;u o v v 3 i e S enjoyed it very much to see the voung- - presents we had. ree at home. E e bk Sl Groan, f Versallics~ I™s|segs ana ssefuge. legraph | SteTS S0 pleased with it. On Christmas P 1 had a necktie, book, ball, a hand- [les, one orange and some muts. * But elmply sang and laid until G Tim Sl 5 It does some damage to telegTabh|nignt I took them to the moving pic- A Fins Christmas. Kkerchief and a few other presents be-| I was very glad to have a new ‘She 11d herself away. 7—Joel Barber, of Moosup—Tom the{ poles by boring into them to make|;y,eq and they saw Mary Pickford in| Dear Uncle Jed: We had a fine | sides candy and nuts. and 1 liked it very much. “ One day I heard Dot cackle loud, Telephone Boy. nests. X “Hearts Adrift. Christmas tree at school. The exer-| We left the tree in the house a few| Friday afternoon before Christmas aod T Guite ToAT of aili, 3—Mary Steimeyer, of Bagleville— WILIAM L. DUKE, Age 1§. T sailed for home on the 27th of | cises were at half past one. The par- | days and then took it out. our school kept until about 3 o'clock Ran out’ t8 get the fresh-1aid ezE Two Boy Gold Miners. Stonington. December and stopped at my grand- | €nts were invited and we spoke pieces.| "My mother gave us all a roast|Then we had a potato race until 4 To bake a cake for tea. —_— mother’s in Connecticut and spent two | Then &M were given a present and a | chicken dinner with all the fixiegs. o'clock. n Fluffy Ruffles’ t Christmas Eve. |days there and received many presents, | PoX of candyv. And soon after we went After dinner my brothers and I| First the seventh grade raced, then On peering down into her nest, Tmagine my surprise— There lay two eggs as much alike As your or my two eyes. STORIES WRITTEN AWAKES. BY WIDE-{ pg 24th my | Finally I reached home and found all | home for our vacation. layed ball, as it was not very cold; |the fifth. When it was my turn and mag:elry l;!:emn:o?:ngowoil ch;:lar Wher{ well. > I had a Christm: tre at home. E]m read our books. another girl’'s, we raced and she beat I have a fine time running around and ° FRANK O'CONNOR. |Christmas morning when I 2ot up I| ~yhen night came we went to bed |me. I was sure she would finish be- - < 5 - . looked in my_stoeking and found a | Bty Tore I, but when we got to the plate oW e e e DI WG e “"{}‘,2‘,‘..‘,‘,’,;’;‘2:;,, after milking wame T pair of fur mittens, a necktie, a pair | WT¢% ARG RADDY- o o RAY. Age 12. |she feil down and I ran ahead and got Are we keeping them for fun? One summer day I went to my aunt's | 5,y the outside steps leading to the One Summer Day. of stockings, a pair of armiets, and &| willimantic. the last potato. house to keep house for her, as she was ill. I first washed the breakfast dishes and when finished I put the chicken soup on the stove to let it cook, I then went and played with the four little kittens. Soon I thought I would look and see if my soup was cooking. ‘VhenIIdh:loked in the pot to myt.ull; E 9 prise id not see any soup: just the R e chicken was in there. The soup had AWAKES. all cooked away. I quickly pat some S water on it and left it on the stove. One reason every Wide-Awake should I then set the beans on the stove story book. Then the third grade came and then second and first; then we went home. My teacher went away for rist- chores and then I went Into the house | Dear Uncle Jed: I hope vou all had | mas. ¥ v door and I rished out, and when I saw | g'clock when we started. When we | tr uee mn berekfan, Dgar Uncle Jed: 1 hope you, all bad el that cat I just gathered myself to-|got in the huckleberry Iot we found |~ LAWRENCE NUTTALL, Age 11 | Christmas pgesents: thred handker- [ Eagleville, getherand went for her and sout. herfgtod iace wRich miade our. pall Bal| Pomfrét Center. ! chiefs, & crodheted necklace, @ half- i fiying, you may be sure. full. We went further on and found Z CHIET TR CIochat] DecKibpew tals N My mistress the day before had|another place which filled our pails. 3 P ’3 b Barnice’s Chiistn baked a chicken, but as it needed| As we were walking on we-came to Carl’s Christma: e oY nireantional|. Desr Uide Jed: T.will cooking more, she placed it in the oven|a spring. We were very glad because| Dear Uncle Jed: On Friday. Dec. chur‘;‘f“,n;‘f{_u‘l’rdn'}f mz-;;: egational |, L Pent my Christmas vacation. that Sunday morning and let it stay | we were thirsty. After we got a drink | 22, 1817, we had a Christmas tree at | Chricimas exercises. mother and I ate dinner at my grand- When chickens long ago laid eggs, And two instead of one! Go prate alsut your thoroughbreds, cellar, Katrina, whom I dislike great-| Dear Uncle Jed:—One day in July ly, followed him as he carried a large ! when it was very warm we decided to pail of new milk.- He opened the cellar | zo huckleberrying. It was about two When I had looked at all my things 5 E I_went out to the barn, did all my | She Spoke at the Methodist Festival. And tell of ezgs they’ve laid; ‘But here's to my old-fashioned hen, That could lay them in the shade. —Mattie B. McGliney. R, Age 11 lan hour. Later left it in the drippinZ|we started on our way home. We took |our school. A great many people came | | gnoke a piece down to the metho- | mother's. Then at half past 3 o'clock pan on two kettles in the «fnk to cool. | the wrong path and found ourselves in |and we spoke pleces to them. After | gicechurch I go to. /This plece was|We went to Poquetanuck station and « 2 and then started to pare potatoes. Soon | L, Smelled it. but my master, who was | the midst of the woods. Then we|that the teacher unloaded the Christ- | oprigimas Eve. 4 took a car to Westerly and from West study hard is because “learning makes | 31l (hen, STErTeq 10 PO g and run. | Shaving, told me to go into thelcame to a fence which we had to|mas troe and I had a book, a box of | ") CigH*Sou " ait a Hs 3 eriy we went to Mystic and from Mys- one fit company for himself.” et e o R Kitchen. 3 climb over. We kept on walking and | pencils, and ¢ game. Y ALICE KINNEY, Age 14, |tic on to Old Mystic.. It is impossible for an i t per- , T| Seems my mistress meant to shut|ail at once we saw that we were com- | _The next day I went down to Mr. s The car stopped at Mr. Williams' § It is impossible for an ignovant per. | the heanis were bumned'biack T auick- | SSSER B HIRSESS TEREL O e e e e vl Husasi's (. Cut & ol of Bard wood,| South Coventr R e T i =on to enjay gmpchbecanne B Sbepiit | Ty voauet O mty '"’mk“‘;m{l Apd | for church, but it was a time when she | came out our dresses were torn and | It took me a day and a half to cut it. - 2 v my other grandmother's house. She know much. e e i the | ag gifts fo take for other people and | we were very tired. On Monday we had a Christmas trec Katherine’s Christmas Vacation. Was very gind to mes me and the No onme was ever sorry that they ! [ then placed th tat the | In_her haste she forgot that door. We went home and never went|at 2 o'clock and I had a sweater. a| Dear Uncle Jed: I will tell vou |tle girl who stays there was, too. We studied hard: but thousands have been | stove and let them cook. At quarter |, Defore she went she told me I should | huckleberrying after that time. game, a hat, a harmonica, a half dol- | about my Christmas vacation. We got | had a lovely time playing and at Sorfy ‘Hechmises they ot aot 1 he | t> 12 T fried the steak, and ”‘,‘en my | have my dinner before the rest. ALFREDA DURR, Age 12. lar, a cake of soap, two boxes of cho- | out of a Friday. In the school we had { o’clock my mother went home. After it e g artes g h I had thing | Vel atter she had gone the chicken colates. and a box of pencils. a Christmas tree which was trimmed | she went we had supper, and at half most of their school days. e came,. home ad .everything | smelied so good and as it came noon. My Uncle Hugh’s Horses. ghc':exé (:;) I wert up to Pomtret | very preciily. PESE B W weBt 1o Do Every day to sch being very hungry, I felt I must eat; et e and stayed there two hours. en _ o I horr e s ARl L e gt Yol the tors Every. day you-go.t5/achevl you are | “iie doup tasted a Hittle burned, But | oS gE.lor? by to the sink. &ng thers| Deer Uncls Jod:—I want to tell you!l S35 SRRl "SR U0 RNEE LT Tag | AT e tonchers Al e e | arn oKt 08y we ment 12 fhen e gaining knowledge. The school soon|he did not notice this. When I tasted | 50 JURREC U8 1O the TG S0 ULl fabout my uncle Hugh's two big horses, | Goon nill. il B P ol 7 T LT el makes you aware you don't know |the potatoes I remembered I had for- - one black and the other white.. They . fore e came hom 0 3 E 5 fowl. I was very careful not to make "On the next day.I sawed wood and | fime we drew names and whosever | " The next day and the reat<of the a mess and even after finishing eating | focy tony, Sontle. iven did my chores;: and the next day I|pame we got we had to buy a Drosent | week we went visiting. I cleaned my paws so not to leave| “p. " ojic "ihe black one Topsy and|SPoveled srow and made withs. for them, so every child got a present. | = At last the time came when I was grease tracks around, and felt 1 did very well for a young puss. gotten to put salt in them. You could are very gentle. Every night I go much: and In time, if you stick to it 1,54 taste that the beans were burned, the school will teach you that you|although here and there were still cannot know teo much. some black ones. The three R's are the most important | | When D gls’;:fl I had a nittle % —“Reading, "Riting end ‘Rithmetic | 2o0eF uck 2s 1 broke. only one cup It is the reader who makes the writer, HILDA FRANKEN, Aze 13. the writer who makes his mark in the | Stonington. world, and the figurer usually makes & “mCARL LAWSON, Age 12. Santa Claus gave out the presents|to go home. They were sorry to see = rooklyn. and it was much fun to have a Bania [ me go. When I got home I had & One Returning from church, my mistress g‘ O = uaa o, e enit WMD) —_— in_school. e CiRioe with ney (Chrlstmiss prés- thought of that door and chicken, but |S° % T€0n o\ Lol b o g William’s Presents. We are having a week’s vacation but [ ente. felt, as Christmas eve was approach- | aijs him Tom. At night he lets me| Dear Uncle Jed: I had a very nice | We are not having very good weather. | " Goodbye to the Wide-Awake Circle. ing, she better not worry. £o up to the hay loft and throw down | Christmas at school. We had a |Sunday and Monday five or six girls BERNICE CHURCH, Age 9. When she came into the house I was | £2 "0 "0 (7" M5, 08 HeC 1ol Cee 1| Christmas tree and all spoke pieces. ent skating and they camie for me.| poquetanuck. lying under the stove. She _went |22V 2o T e fo e N When 1| _ My brother, Archie, came with my | We had lots of fun. the white one Nell. Nell has a sprain- I his plle if he figures right. Cold. straight to the sink room and found, | 2% S50 Tong with hime BNt s e s silece . eithoush CATHERINE COONEY, Age 11 s % ‘The use of knowledge Is not to dls- ! ! Everyw ' although the meat was gone from the JAMES F. LOOBY, Age 7. |he is not a regular scholar. I received | Baltic. K Y stmes, : how lttle memeone olse knows, | has been at work. He has decorated |Ift wing and towards the neck thers| Norwich, o #¢ T | abox of paints and a box of candy on _Dear Uncic Jed: I had a very nice :""; °;m 2 ’k e e’]’ “°;’" the window panes and the smow hag | WeT® Do Erease spots to b-mn;n r:ie“;_ A bt the school Christmas tree. + Camping. (.ll;r tmas and 1 am going to teil you gt Bow Title Re.anv Giupcives GibL er had the gravy been spilled and the i At home we had a tree Monday. i e - fis about it. ~ covered the trees and the Sadie Had 33 Presents. N Dear Uncle Jed: One day five girls i e o 5 e A We may gain the knowledze which Will | & beautiful white, At eh‘gl:fl;?d With | chicken was lying in the pan. She was Dear Uncle Jed: Christmas my Early in the morning we had our pres- | pjanneq to camp in the woods. We My father called me half past ‘i “help us and not waste time upon that| On the street everybody looks um- | S0 thankful that she didn’t even scold _ ' “8", 7' 1 ,C0 time. All the |ePtS: I ot a baseball mask, a mitt. | stayed threc . "We conld go fish- | 2nd told me to get up. 1 told him which neither brings a blessing nor a | comfortable although most of _the | P that time. A scholhrs spoke pieces, then we il had | 2, P2t 2 ball, a pencil box and many | ing as we were near a river. I had to | would be down in five minutes. ' hur- shoppers are warmly dressed with | VW 1cn Might came being Christmas|, cconts “given to us. I received a |Other things. 1 be the cook and keep the tent so I|ried up and dressed myself and then reward. heavy coats and furs. Icicles are sus- | £V, there was a pretty little fir tree & I hope you had a merry Christmas | coulq not go fishing. went down etairs. The first thing I Knowledge may be a protection | pended from the roofs of the buildimgs | foF M. and when my mistress took out | PIClure, & box of candy, and a book | ang will have a Happy New Year. On the following day my father came | did was to look into the den. as a prize in aritbmetic. After a jol- = . ! e - pr There against mistaken views and many |and the people are warned of the dan- | Of @ large box a stocking bearing my |y Bl G e we T s DELLE SN ME VAR IS SINE, Jr.. Aum &) | suasiooked forius. ‘Arter Iooking fora | = THiere were all of my presents: There 3 ger of the massive pieces of ice which | name I was much interested in it. Well. | ™ o0 "opristmas T went to my Aunt| Fomfret Center. fow hours he found us. He told us to | Was a box of handkerchiefs, a pair of prejudices as well as against inefl- | B0y, Quite froquently, The few -people | She emptied it of the little tins and I| 4 yof Gimisamas [ went to my Aunt e pack the things. He sald that my |$tockings, a raincoat, and a hat to go ciency, disease and death. who to their dismay have found it {bad a fine time playing with them and|{,.c” We all had dinner, then we had Moses Crows For Wilson. aunt arrived in the morning. After | With it, a box of l-hgcnlzlfil"s, :‘n p:‘\‘u' of An able poet wrote: “How empty |necessary to be out this freezing cold | S0me nuts 2ll the evening, while my | ¢o presents from the Christmas tree. Dear Uncle Jed:—I am nine N an hour's work we were all done. My | Pajamas, a bathrobe,” five books, a master and mistress were enjoying |y h,q thirty-three presents. There |old. I go three miles to school father helped us pack and in an hour | sled and threc games. » i thelr gifts. She having me, said it|ere books, shoes, stockings, dresses, | school team. I am in the fourth grage.|and a half we reached home. My aunt| At 1l owlock [ went over to my seemed as though a small child was | oot PORSS, FUote SOt OREs 1 help papa do the chores every|was in the door. 5 Uncle Walter's. At 1 o'clock we had Eotnd. SADIE GORMAN, Age 9. |night. I don’t have much time in the| The rest of the girls stayed dwhile. | dinner: Turkey, mashed potato, on- Finally T was so tired I ran to the| prookiyn. 3 morning as T have to be ready for tha| We plaved games and sang. ions, turnips, cranberry sauce, pic, and lounge, curled into a ball, and went to = by half past seven. It was about supper time and we ate |all kinds of fruit and ndy. WIDE-AWAKE CIRCLE STORIES sieep. =0 that was the end of my Qesios Crristmas: foam by hair pastseven * | s k., We | In the aftermoon my unclé save out h eve. e o . i v t to bed right after supper as we |the presents. Christmas day I played with my|, Dear Uncle Jed: We had a beauti- [ hens and put the cow and calf in the| Went 1o Ped righ 1 received a jack knife, and two more tul Christmas tree here-at our school | barn. s : irs X o - recelv presents and have off and on since, as | | ALICE GREEN, Age 13. |pairs of stockings. My sister received n Pomfret. The presents,were given | Our cow’s name is Buttercup, and = f 4 % o are kept in two boxes on ‘the | I PO e e box. | her calf's name is Queen, Versailles. a.lot of things, too. After the pres floor, where I can easily get at them. = ! —_— ents were given out, my sister and I Wishing Uncle Jed and my young Eatys Su JLENER S s e Y Puarets c Cheisbmas Went to the moving pictures. readers a Happy New Year. e R e g N DR 5L e o et After the show I met my father and e D N AcaT. monthe, |and web all had presents. I had six | door ready to come in; and when nn-| Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would | After the show [ met my, tath - - | presents—a sweater, a_pencil box, a |pa lets her in she goes and gets on the | keep my promise and write about our | §hEF ant Lhw e WERE homE - P e e game and a box of candy bed with mamma and wakes her up. [ Christmas entertainment. |20 VE0 ) y ORGE LAWSON, Age 19._ | And then she will cuddle down beside| We had our Christmas entertain- | *I0f S0unG. Norwich. RESOLUTION CUSHIONS. MILT MULLIN’S MUSINGS. There was an expectant smile on| ‘Bein bad aint what it is krakt up to Grendma Bartlett's face. She pulled the shade over the lam.p and drew the :!:sz gum 1:1:;;;;-1 awtul bad m;: curtains, shutting her room in cozily. nt no saint neether ner no wings The clock on the mantel was ticking [onto me ner nun of the fellers that are the Old Year away as fast as it could | a1l what jake moony calls 1 hundred hurry him off. It was dusk and New Year's eve, and that was the time for |PeT Sent inkorrigibbel, but with a the Pincushion Ceremony at Bartlett's. | Chanct to keap owt of jale mebbe. he Fred met Alice on the stairs, and|sez me and jack horner is purty shure Belle and Arthur came along the ball [or going to jale or congras with Belle carried Baby Letty in her arms, and they each bore a bristling _little | chances bowt eequil but i sez id bowt red tomato pincushion in their hands.|as HMef mailk it jale fer thay dont Grandma had placed five hassocks in [seam to be no respek for congrassers a row. “Come, dearies,” she halloed out to Arthur’s subdued knock. They filed in, laughing. WELL, Age 9. Jaclk did not hang up his stocking on | Pomfret. her and go to sleep. ment Thursday evening, Dec. 21, 1916, Christmas eve. I live near . by my grandpa and|at half past seven. The only stockings he had were ot The Best Speaker. grandma. I go to see them almost| We had selections on. the grapho ; tur, and he wore them all the time. Dear Uncle Jed: I have been read- | ®Very day. I have to go by their house | phone for twenty minut Then we Going te Have a Victrola. One of his stockings would not have | jno ‘some of the Wide Awake stories | €Very day when I go to school. sang a welcome song. We all had rec Dear ncisiTeh: OuE sibopilioise. 1 held much if he could have hung it|ang I like them very much, Grandpa has a tamerooster and his|itations. Twenty in all, also dia-|ypjte on the ouiside and yeliow on up. This Christmas my schoolmates and | Pame is Moses. logues, pantomimes and more SONES. | the inside. There is also a tall, white But Christmas morning Jack found |y haq a Christmas tree. It looked so Grandpa will sit down and ask him| After we got through speaking and | q,..51a with a-pretty flag on it. On @ nice present waiting for him. pretty that I could hardly wait until | to_come and stand on his knee; and |singing we unloaded the Christmas| ;. sigc ther It was a little basket of clover hay.| we had gone through our pieces. then grandpa will tell him he will give | tree. Our teacher, Miss E. M. Stan- | ;o0q .On top of the hay was a nice cracker.| It was snowing that day so there|Dim some corn if he will crow for|dish, hung one for each a game or| “rThere are two halla, onc for the Jack gave a big jump for joy. were not very many presents. We be- | Presidéht Wilson and Moses will crow. | book, a horn of cardy, and a Christ- | b,y5 and one for the girls. Inside w Then he began to eat very fast. He|gan to speak our pieces at half past JOEL BARBER. |mas card and an orange. have three blackboards. There are likes his present better than cake or |two. After the pieces the gifts were| Moosup. . The teacher passed candy around 0 | ceats but only 18 pupils. The stove candy. distributed and I received a box of the: visitors. hat | 18 ' the north corner of the room. MONTCALM GAUTHIER, Age 9. |candy and a little pendant. The Adventures of Darby. L At D et s |, We Bu & wchool fair last fall. We the teacher hung on the tree for me. ~hed - Brooklyn. There was a little sirl at the tree,| Dear Urnole Jodso 1 s e | S feaclis mflygvmw" had a Christmas tree the day school Miss Mary Gorman and when it was | 5 gt 4 . 1o | Closed. T received a string of pop- One summer I was down to my|2nd S b e vt ain TPOUSNt| that were hatched early in the fall Hhode Tstand sent me a book, and one | WHit" rs golnig o have & Victrola at U SIE HOPRING ‘Age 17, | The mother stole her nest and when |of my neighbors gave me a ‘bottle of | oyoc, *"“\ PR (0 PING % ohicy are two preity muple the way peepel talk sayin thay are all crooket and so 4th wich 1 reely dont # N “Stools of repentance” crie 1 2 B R o rekon I will have to tern sum good Grandma, my cpshion is full of pins. I |F Tite kwick be caws things is gettin broke my resolution every other day. I|so in ower streat that thay will have resolved to keep my temper, You know, | to put on a extree cop and mebbe sum and I got so tired of poking in a pin for a slip, nights at bedtime. detektives to watch things the way Tock At my lazy pins,” mourned|they are going and 1 dont want em Fred. ¥ E . |to think that 1 got ennything to do «wfififi mm;'“c:ehlnd-“mfl stickers,” | with it even if i did see em tern mister T Glam't thimk T dia put off things|Ways the grosherys potatoze all over so often,” sighed Agthur, and then|the streat and even if 1 do no hoo R’;‘: 'e'{ngttt)\‘ stuck up her cushion. It{rung mest all the dore bells on won e e as y side and then skipt and then cum coon Omipdears.” sald grandma, "Pro-|pack and tyed strings acrosst from Solemnly they each tumbled their | Wellers dore nob to jaksons dore bell pins into a box on the table. Another |and from jacksons dore nob to wellers stood near it. “Why, there's not half so mmany as last year, grandma!” cried Fred. ' why! And we all felt so bad- aunt's in New London. girl Tuesday night to see if they could raise some money. They did, and our teacher Is going to take the money man. One morning she asked me it I would she brought home her chickens ma- | perfume, and a little friend gavé me e Sl like to go to Brattleboro. Brooklyn. ma told me I could have them. D Peir of embroidery scissors. went around Monday and I said “Yes,” and wanted to know 1 forgot to put them to roost one 1 hope every little girl in the Wide where it was. Has a Long Walk to School. night and when I went out the next| Awake Circle fared as well as I did. She said in Vermont. Dear Uncle Jed: We had a Christ- | morning to find them there was poor CORA C. CARPENTER, Age 9. So we took the train to Brattleboro. | as tree at school and a few presents I | Darby with the other chickens playing Columbia. When, we reached there we went all | received were a box of candy and a|in the pond, A great thunder storm over the city and we stopped In a | penci X, came up which quickly filled the pond : 2 store and 1 got a postcard which T| At home I had a box of dominoes|with water. There was a little high A Sore of & Five. sent to my mother, but did not put my | and a suit of clothes. patch of land in the pond and the| Dear Uncle Jed:-1 am writing you a name on it, so she did not know who ‘We have a long walk to school in story of a fire. it was from, as she did not know any- | the morning. My brothers and sister e and my h‘r‘::h‘erlol-l;:gyw;:g body in Brattleboro. go with me. com When my uncle and aunt and I| I like to read the Wide-Awake stor- PETING FRCYUNES, papa happened to look out of the win- |, The sfit That Hurts reached New London I was very tired, | ies in the Norwich Bulletin. dow and saw sparks and smoke. ‘ although I had a nice trip and hope to I am ‘n_the sixth grade in school. First pape went down and after papa I o there again, TIARLES HOPKINS, Age 14, had gone Henry and I ran as fast as . 2fany of the most intense body pains MARION LARSEN, Brooklyn. we could and we were bare-footed, but Norwich. et et . : we were used to Eoing barefooted so "'u:"m’i":}:z‘_‘:“;‘ s :‘ quickly Helen Had 22 Presents. we didn’t mind it much. rcome by When we got pretty near the fire ||Single application ef Min- LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. Dear Uncle Jed: We had a Christ- £ Tt S, Sk A" X et % B we saw automobiles lined up in a row. (lard’s liniment. It is best ! 4 3 v wen the fire the lifor sore, strained, lame % My Christmas Vacation, ture. 1 had two pieces to speak. We : R e T S ca Tt 4 }’ Dear Uncle Jed:—T1l teil the Wide | had company at school. Biere ‘were from 4016 60 people. there, muscles, sff neck, lum- @‘ J’g First, songs were sung and pieces were | & Pendant, bracelet, four ribbons, four There was a brook down a hill called | ing feet, and spraine. It gives said./ Then some boys distributed the | Pairs of stockings, one picture from Bt brook. They rushed down the | {nstan ling ' presents. After the presents were|Dome, candy, pencil box and lantern, Q hill o the brook and soon were ready et s oveemuy, sotl nd pay the DORIS L. GRANDY, Age 8. Yantic. dore bell so that them fellers wuz ringin each others bels evry time they lookt cwt and wuz both mad as blazes = & in satd grana. | VR thay found the strings. “Clean cushions again,” nd- mn Tty etne ap’ Letts to hug| Thay awt to a node it wus not mé her. Now for gradma’s New Year's|Caws i wuz rite there wen thay wuz presents.” There were 2 lookin owt and cussin but old weller he beautiful books and|sed he rekont i had sumthin to do with games. N Siways feel as If vou pesd us for |it nd sez hoo me no sir 1 aint tide heing naughty, said Alice, looking up |no strings ner nutin but i did not tell with o smile from her book ~But Il him i node hoo done it and that i giv, wouldn’t pa with my .~solution bt s Y g e the signal fer em to skip and.lay low] Arthur looked at his empty cushion.|Wen old weller cum owt to hunt em “I'm glad those pins are some” hcand thay had to hide good @nd proper ‘A clean start for a heppy New |i ten vou or hede a had em by gum I say, grandma, how we love hay wood uf told and give me away. ennyway thay Sort uv sus- An@ four impetuous pairs of arms|peit me and i got to behave sum for & aimost smothered dear. gentle grand- |wile. MILTON )(LLLINB ma.—Youth's Companicn. - R bout Christm: .| _We had a Christmas tree at home. ‘bago, sciatica, rheumatic AT e fmenty ascond ot Deserbe: | We aid mot put the presents ‘on 1t. I SO and e e fre engine |:Pains, backachs, stiff joints, school closed With a Christmas tree. |80t twenty-two presents. They were from Mpystic came with five firemen.|:tired, aching, burning, itch- septic, free from injurious drugs and ::.:mrk, and out went the fire Pretty | yginiess to flesh and clothing. Surely Nothing burned up. Mr. Browning | ¥y this wonderful liniment -nd see passed out candy was passed around |etc. by the teachers. After this happy time we went home. HELEN CAFFREY, Age 8. Brocklyn. . Our Christmas vacation lasted a little over a week. We had a lot of shopping to do for this time pset lantern~in the loft d | how quickly it brings Sclignant | Pt ke Dr e (e Bt as et A aver Suppolnty, Gt 2rig Had An Edison Talking Machine. Molly Yarner, age 14, Norwich. He managed to save everything but of the Dear Uncle Jed: On Christmas day