Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 1, 1917, Page 9

- ; Rules for Young o 5o W g ] < AR bp, given preference, Do ot usg o T BN W A Fast and faster whirl the x While storm-winds of wiat g On _the shel my south window Food I scatter on the snow,— To_the cedar tie some suet, . Swift a birdling flies Though the icy wind still Chick-a’dee! his merry D&l;\nti 3 quickly follow, One: m:n%yfl':m 3 ©on_my walls hang the bitfer north wind bloweth, at o simple thing to do, - to_scatter at my window, ve from death a bird or' two. Today So here hath been dawning Another; blue day: » Think, wilt thou let it Slip’ fiseless away? Out. ‘bf Eternity This new day was born; Into Bternity, At pight, will return. “Behold it aforetime No eye ever aid; So_soon it forever From all eyes is hid. ‘Here hath been dawning ‘Another blue dsy; Think, wilt thou let it Siip” useless away? —Thomas Carlyle. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. Few persons realize that the muiti- plication table which represents the seien numbers must have: pre- cede + we recognize as time with al § vision and that it is one of 5t and most important inven- fis in the world. ‘This multiplication table began with or the five fingers of one hen the five fingers of the = other hand were added they had the ten digits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6, 7,8 9,01t took an artist to make the symbols for these primary numbers, and a genius to combine them so that by repetition and the uss of each one ‘with a 0 at the right of it, one rouna made 100;- and ten times was made 1000; and so on endlessly till num- 2% bers werc capable of taking us beyond = the understanding of man. It must have been ® gTeat change when_because of the aclence of simple _¥ numbers men could reckon time by Bo ‘the changes of the moon and counted time by moons, which finally grew from into months; and in wt BT bave been found records of over ©*- 48,000 moons. %" And what a part the multiplication table played in making correct meas- im- ures of time from the sixtieth of a ~ minute and the 24th part of a day to the 365th part of a year, and then riimbering the years for 60 centurles. .And before man had this multipli- cation table he could not tell how old #G 1e was, or fix the time when he was &, Born, or keep account of the past or calculate for the present or the fu- _. ture. He couldn't tell how long he = ‘Slept_or tlie length of a day or. the ‘depth of tle sea or the size-of his foot, S or how he could travel; -them places used to be sald to de so-many days' journey away. He aMin't know this wonderful sun which keeps the earth warm and pro- @uctive was over ninety million miles away; and was a million times great- % ér than the earth: and that the sunm © with all its planets was held In place : By & greater sun, one hundred times . Jarger than itself, which it passes _ Tound ‘once in forty thousand years. The banking and business of the ‘world are all founded on the multi- plication table; and by it distances measured, the woightand strength of all materiais accurately discovered and a thousand and one other things. * It was by ‘the science of numbers man found & bairs breadth was the . 43th part of an inch; that ten beats of a hpalthy pulse is equai to § seconds of time: that tRe possible combination * 7ot the 26 letters of the alphabet are . 408 quintillions or more than a hun- 5 @red men could count in a lifetime. ‘Without this thers would have been invented none of the wonderful ma- chinery of the present age or wonder- ful conveyances. By the multiplication table eame the calendar, the fact that space was T oy TR Yo o p—s THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Ress Driscoll of Norwich, the Meadow Brook Girls Across Country. 2—Viola Turnbull of Nerwich Town, The Meadow Brook Girls Under Can- vas. 3—Harry Barker of Goshen, Mass., The Ieeberg Patrol. 4—Harold_ Kinder of Pawtucket, R. I, Only an Irish Boy. 5—Edmund A. Smith of Burnside, The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Lost Lines. 6—Roland Maurice of Veréailles, Phil Bradley’s Mountain Boys. 7—Geraldine Gareau Madge Morton's Secret. 8—Helena Magel of Jewett City, The Meadow Brook Girls Afloat. 9—Oscar Matthewson of Versailles, Phil Bradley’s Snowshoe Trail. Winners of books living in the city may call at The Bulletin business of- fice for them at any hour after 10 a. m. on Thursday. STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES Be Up and Doing. Last year my father told my sister Mary that we could have the ground at the end of the garden to do with it-as we liked. S6 we made up our minds to raise flowers. Mary went to work at once. She was up bright and early, _digsing, planting and looking after her gar- den; and while Mary was at work in the ‘morning I was still in bed. of Baltic, ‘When I did get up there was only time to get something hurry off to school. After schoo! I played a while and after that I studied my lessons. Now and then I thought of the garden, but only to put off the work, until at last, it was too late. When I saw the flowers in Mary's garden, 1 was both sorry and ashamed. sorry because I had no gar- den, and ashamed because I had not done what I ought to do. It has been a lesson to me, I hope, and after this I shall try to do at once whatever I ought to do, and not put_it_off. GERALDINE GAREAU, Age 10. Baltic. to eat and v The Old City Gate. The Spaniards who _established themselves in St. ,Augustine under Menendez in 1585, ‘more than half : century ‘before the Mayflower broughi the Pligrims into Plymouth harbor, ieft many traces of their conquest. ‘They buiit, among other works, a mas. sive wall across the entire peninsula, from “shore to shore, to protect the clty on_the narth. = e greater part of this has long since crumbled to decay, or been re- moved for building purposes. One ent of it still remains, howsver. It is this, City Gate, situated now at the head of St. George street. As we ‘might lock upon its old square tow- ers, containing loop holes for the guns of sentinels, our thoughts would in- evitably be carried back to the time when this, the oldest Eul n settle- ment in the United States, was a point of_danger. Few places in America have been & English colonies . of lina_and Georgia. It has in . b many mesters. Spain, ngiand, Spein egain. and f- nally the United States, have one by one posscssed it, and during the war between the north and south it nged masters thres times. . Souvenirs of these memorable events for example, in 1812 to commemorate the Spanish constitution. The U. S. e C———— o A evidenced by an in_the of a young New Yorker on a New farm. 2 the haycock crow, T sly old chap The city man suavely, “T've mi » a knot in a cord of - 5 LOUISE Baitic. Hole Drilled Thi h- Human Hair. A watchmaker in Ma., is said to have drilled. the %. o ever made with an instrument. hole was drilled g ~ human hair with a needle %- as to be scarcely discernible naked eye. A minute strand of sik was threaded through the hole after it had been cut through. JOSEPH GRBUSKEL, Age 9. Versailles. A Telephone Wire, Once upon a time there was a mon- key who was dressed up in & man’s suit. A giraffe who was standing by was about nine timeg taller than the man. The man was holding a telephone in his hand, holding it up to his mouth, 2na a receiver up to his ear. The wire on the telephone went from the man up to the giraffe’s head. The head of the giraffe reached up-in the clouds. The man was talking to the giraffe through the_telephone, and said: “Hello! That_ you, Mr. Girafté? Where are you? I've been waiting here for_you for over half an hour.” “That is all of the giraffe and man. LOUISE DEMUTH, Age Age 12 Baitic. My Dog Snubb. One day I took my dog Snubb and went to hunt for .some rabbits and squirrels. We had not gone far when we came upon a_hedgehos. Snubb pounced om the hedgehog and got his feet and mouth full of quills. Then I had to pull them out. His forefeet he could hardly step on for about an hour: but we went on slowly till 'Snubb could go faster. Then he saw a rabbit and ran after By and by he came back with the 1 took it and put it. rabbit in his mouth. it in my hunting bag. Then we took a walk around _the woods in a circle. We saw a number of sauirrels, but could not get within gunshot of them. It was getting dark and we thought we would go home 21d see how every- thing was at home and feed my Big- eons. ¥ I have six pigeons. One is a white one. The others are blue. They are very tame. When I call them they | come and sit on my head and shoulder. HARRY BARKER, Age 14. Goshen, Mass. At School Last Thursday, as it was the begin- ning of our monthly examination, .our teacher told us that when we finished this examination she would give us the rest of the time in writing letters to our parents or drawing. Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock we were all finished and we were all glad because it was a very long one. Then we were told whs would write the -best letter to papa and mamma should have.five marks. This_is the letter which T wrote: Wauregan, Conn., Jar. 19, 1917 Dear Papa and Mamma: You cannot know how long T have been learning to spell the words T am using In this letter,and I do not know how many times T must write them be- fore every one is’ correct. Oh, if someone would make a way s0_the words would spell themselves! Most of the boys say they do not know what to write, but if I cquld spell T have plenty to say. I suppofe when I am older it will not be so hard. but now I had better write a short letter and promise you to try my best to have the next letter better. and more in Your Tittle son. LAWRBNCE GAUTHIER, Age 12. Brooklyn. William F. Cody. William F. Cody, best known as “Buffalo Bil,” who died last week, you would find it he said, “let me have some said: “Oh, mo! It will be n for you to learn to put your things away, as I have always told you. ‘A place for everything and ev- g its place.’ " AL LACHAPBLLE, Age 12. Canterbury, ‘Worki and Going to Night School. It was after graduation last June from grammar echool that T went over to the Royal typewriter shop to get a position. They gave me a slip of paper and told me fo go to the state capitol at Hartford #nd get a working certifi- cate and bring it back to them. This was done and they put me in Dept. 6, where - they rack up parts of type writers to be nickel plated, copper plated and oxidized. T looked around for some other boys about my size, but there were none. There were a few men working on machines and the rest were youns women. I was workins on a bench racking key levers. It was rather -hard at first. but it soon became easy, and I soon began to get caught up on my then I would go in the next department, where the men were dip- ping the racks into the different tanks which was necessary to give them the proper plate. It was very warm out there. There were tanks in which were chemicals which did the plating. It is Tiecessary to copper plate everything Defore it is nickel piated or oxidized. AR ¢t is on Main | I bad two watch fobs and many other stroet e ‘Oa Town S, a reminder | things mickel plated ‘and they look of the old colonial days. Built in 1650 | very Zood. by John Winthrop, it was used for| I found it very hard going to night grinding corn. It is well preserved, |school three nights a week, and the standing today just as it did in those | Other nights doing my home work very n rning. A tyihe foof of State strest stands|ieis to bed and sarly to rise did mot monument. a fitting tribute to those | Make me healthy, so, as I had to give 5 . up one, I gave up work. I decided that Rl e their lives that | o ‘Work was very dirty and that I One will be well rewarded for his|needed a higher position, so I am go- pilgrimage If he visits the old bury- |ing to a business college. ing ground, northwest of the city. Here [ AsS I have learned the value of We nd old slabs inscribed with epi- |money, I go with a better determina- Tapha that would make the Sphinx [ tion t0 learn than I dld at srammar smile; but to others recall sad mem- | School. e ories of husbands and sons lost at sea EDMUND A: SMITH, Age 14. in the thriving whaling days, when | Burnsi New London was a busy seaport. Near the old ' cemetery stands “the little red schoolhouse” in which the martyred patriot, Nathan Hale, was teaching just before he joined the Con- tinental army. This like the Shaw mansion has been converted into a mu- seum. - Here we_find among other things letters in Hale's own handwrit- ing, and a white woolen shawl which his sweetheart knit for him when he was a student at Yale. WALTER GAVIGAN. JAMES LA GENA, Age 12 Stoningto: ¥ New New London, on the sound, Is a place rich in historical interest. This old town was settled in 1645 under the name of Nameaug or Pequot harbor. but reverence for the metropolis of the old world inspired the name to be changed to New London in 1658. ‘One of the many interesting spots to be found in New London is the old Shaw mansion on Bank street. It was built in 1756 by exiles from Acadia— that place so immortalized by Long- fellow- in Evangeline. It is now_the headquarters of the New London His- torical society. In payment of a small sum, one may view the remarkable collection of relies displayed within, of which, perhaps, the most noteworthy is the old four-poster in which George Washington slept during his stay in New London. The First Snowstorm. It was a dark, dreary day. A snow cloud drifted lazily across the dark earth. Suddenly down fluttered tiny snowflakes; first a few, then they started to increase. Flake after flake of snow fell through the thick atmos- phere. The downy tufts of snow found a snug place beside their companions on earth. The trees were clothed in a blanket of white. The great pine trees groaned under their burdened joad, The the roems. ~_ LAURA BAUCHER, Age 13. ‘Wauregan. > Dear Uncle Jed:—I think the Wi wakes would like to hear afraid of their red tongue whe stuck it out at them. - 1 kept the snakes in a box and them on meat, worms and water. The black snake shed his skin while he was in the box. I kept his skin in remembrance of him when he away. They both got away as I could not get a box snug enough to keep the squirming things in. I was very sorry when thel were gone. I expect to g=t some more next summer, VIOLA TURNBULL, Age 11. Norwich Town. A Trip to White Beach. Dear Uncle Jed:—I am going to tell you about the trip we took to White Beach last summer. We took our dinner and our sand pails and our bathing suits with us: and we had a lovely time all day. When we got tired we laid down in the sand. We came home about 5 p. m. on the car. MARTHA HELEN REILLY, Age 7. orwich. ‘We are surrounded by the presence and bounty of the sea. 1t is the sea that fegds us. Tt is the sea that clothes us. We make wealth for ourseives and our children out of its rolling waters, though we may live hundreds of miles away, and meve:r have looked upon it. Thus the sea though it bears no har- vest on its bosom, yet sustains all the harvests of the world. If like a deser: itself, it makes all the other wilder- nesses of the earth to bud aand blos- som. The sea is a perpetual source of heaith to the world. Without it there would be no drainage for the lands. 1t is the seavenger of the world, it also purifies the atmosphere The ocean is not the idle creature it seems with its vast length stretched between the continents. It is 4 mights glant, who leaving his oozy bed comes uupon land to spend his strength in the service of man. It keeps in motion our factories. Thus it spins our threads and weaves our cloth. It {s the power of the sea that helps man to do the mightiest works. CLARENCKE _A. HATHAWAY, Age 12. Goshen, Mass A New Submarine. Dear Uncle Jed:—Last week one of the girls at school brought the follow- ing current event, telling about a ney invention. Charies 3. Stanley is the inventor of a new tvpe of a submarine which he claims will be of great importance to the United States government. It has two propellers one at each end. - Tl rear propeller pushes downward and the front propeller pulls downward, causing it to sink in less than ten sec- onds. Another advantage the boat is that it has no water ball rises the moment the machinery stops. RUTH DAVIS, Age 11 Canterbury. Where We Live. Dear Uncle Jed:—I am going to tefl you where we live. It is about two minutes’ walk from the village of Ver- sailles. We keep a cow. We named her Nig because she's all biack. W3 have three fgs. We have three dogs. Their names are Sport, he's all brown; Beauty, all white with light brown spots. She- goes and gets the cow. When she comes back we play with ber. She pulls our dresses and tears them. When we get in the hay she covers herself up. She is about two years old. Bessie is an old shepherd dos 5 also have a cat named Toby. We had four little pigs. My father killed one so we have oniy three left While my father was killing it 1 was in the house. While my father was fixing it I went to feed the other three. T saw something that looks like a pig’s tail. 1 went and tola my fath- er and of course the pig had its tail. T went and Icoked to see if others had tails and they had them. My sister came with me and told a carrot stem. 'They laughed at me, for T thought it was o A LA ROCHE, Age 3. of tanley AD Versailles. A Ride On Sammy. Deaar Uncle Jed:—I m going to teil rou and the Wide Awakes about a ride to Mohegan park with my cousin. 1My cousin and I started on a ride to Mohegan park on Sammy, the donkey. We went ur Washington street and in that entrance and that way Is very long. Tt took us a long time to get in- to Mohegan park. When we got there we looked at the birds. Then we wanted, to take the road to Something About Bum-Bum. Dear Uncle. Jed:—1 wish the Wids Awakes all a very Happy New Year and _you, too. 3 I like to red the letfers and stories, and can hardly wait for Thursday to como. £ 1 am in the sixth grade in school My teacher's name is Misa A. Brown. 1 like her very much. I like to go to Willimantic. foundations of the fence posts were of [poains snow. Doing His Best. The wind began to blow. which ~ g, hew boy came to school one rainy the Il e e s o b o2 high. ‘When asked if he could write, he timidly said “No.” ‘The teacher then said: “What can you do, dear?” ‘The little boy looked up brightly and answered: “I can smile real well.” “Then you're just the little boy we ‘want in our room this rainy day,” said the teacher kindly. MONTCALM GAUTHIER, Age 9. Brooklyn. A Place for Everything—Everything in Its Place. There was once a lazy boy and he always wanted his mother to wait on him. One day she said: “Fred, if you would only put away your thingd in their proper place, you would make the work lighter for me. Iam so tired of to a small clear piece of land. Some telling you the same thing over and cows were eating the grass. The man read ©or| In'about an hour the frozen ground no longer lay bare, but a beautiful white sheet covered it entirely. Above all were the great trees swaying their frozen branches back and forth, while the cold winds seemed to give its yearly warning that winter is here. CHARLOTTE BI , Age 13. Norwich. - LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. The First Day On the Farm. Dear Uncle Jed:—I am going to tell you about our first day on the farm. 'We came to Yantic on the car whers we found a team waiting for us. We started to ride to the farm through a short weg. We rods wstil we came.to a gate. . We went through this gate in- Musqua is a very wonderful dog. His home is in a little ploneer town in North Alberta, where, In “winter, there are no trains to carry the mails. Thus it is that Musqua has - portunity to Nve a useful, though st times, a very hard life. He is one of a team of six husky dogs that in winter are hitched to an odd-looking sled much like @ ‘Then when the snow is thick on f£round and the lakes well frasen over; 1o the still frosen noe. o O W qua’sancestors, wolves, inhabited A WONDERFUL DOG = that was driving told us that these were our cows, and that we were rid- ing through our own land i Presently we came to the house. The first thing a little brother of mine said was We all laugh. A little while later my little sister asked where a candy store was. My father gave her a_cent and pointed toward the barn. She went into the barn sid only took 2 few steps in when she camé running out frightene:. She had seen cows instead of a candy stare. ‘When it was time for milking the cows, we thought we would see how ‘were ‘The country life seemed lonesome at first, different from New York, from where we came. There was a forest nearly all around house. Houses were _far apart. Now I am used to it and I do some of work myself. us chiidren thought it was of fun looking on and ng the ‘e enjoyed cows something to eat. the first day. HARRY SCHATZ, Age 11 Yantie. About School and Keeping House. school. For pets T have a black and white Tom cat; also a nice brown and white dog. His name is Sport and the cat's is Samuel, 1 haave dear little nephew of nine months_of age. We call him Bum- McKinley, avenue. We asked a maa what road to take., He showed us the road and told us to go straight. We tock that road. It was growing dark, and it seemed as though we kept go- ing around in a circle. For Over Thirty Years B CASTORIA DR. SHAHAN, Speciafist on diseases of the Blood and Culture therapy for Rheumati: ritis, Tuberculosis, Anemis, fdney troubles. Conventignal scription treatment for the Ston Easy._ prevention of Typhold. Ho 10-11 & m., 2-4 and 7°§ p. m. 821." No outside calls made . m. Distillery House. me months atter wards the son, meeting a friend “We have been thinking of changin fhe name of our residence, is searce sounds well, my wife's lettery to be ad dressed from Distillery House. ¢ You suggest a suitable name? The friend thought for a momier and then said “T think I have it? What 4 say to caalling it Alcho Hii? FLORENCE HALL, Age 9. Norwich. Each Had a Dear Uncle Jed:—AMinnle was & visit to her cousins John ana A She had her dear Miggles W This was a white cat, and 8t handsomeer than her name. John had a beautiful brown spa He was called Bask, because he es knows a t de an she play blindman's asked Alice. Why, no!” replied Min g first,” have a John dog’s it. Then will sald show John, Come is nose ner. Il ndkerchi remove the h Alice rubbed the sugar leg of a table. and t ber work box on the “Find!" cried John. Bask about the room almost as fo bad not been blinded. He the chairs, and sofa, and the other niture on the sides of the h t he came to the table. He ga sniff at the leg. and then stood with his paws upon the top. the 1id of the box with his the sug Alice, st & your lesson w Minnie seemed unhapny You d, “1 dor sadly at Miggles. nothing thing!” she cr! you one bit! Then we saw two signs that said— To Washington street and to Lake. We thought we were lost, but w3 took the road to Washi: on street. Then when we got out of that road we started for Broadway. By the soldiers’ monument Sammy got afraid of a bicycle. He jumped, then ran to one side. My foot came out of the right stirrup an1 T fell over the left side. ‘We starteq @bout three o'clock and didn't get l\‘&. until quarter past six. ROSE DRISCOLL, Age 9. Bum. He is very fat and his greatest pleasure is to pull my h: T ‘make belleve crying he laughs at me. T got a lot of presents for Christmas and hope every other Wide Awake did, too. HELEN MAGEL, Jewett City. Age 13. Her Kitten Loves Squash Pie. Dear Uncle Jed:—I have a kitten which .is very cute. He is gray and black. Every time 1 am eating he cries until I give him something to eat. If T sit down he jumps up on my lap and falls_asieep. He goes down the river on the ice when I am skatifig. Many times he follows me part way to school. My kitten loves squash ple as much as I do. He is very playful AGNES CRONIN, Age 12. Norwich. A Cunning Baby Sister. Dear Uncle Jed:—I will tell you about my vacation. We had turkey and potatoes and turnips, Johnny cake and_chicken. apple pie, cream pie for Christmas dinner. 1 had a doll ana two scarfs, thros books, two handkerchiefs and two boxes of writing paaper. My two cousins spent Christmay with us. I have a baby sister. She is very cunning. She called her grandmother a hen. Grandma said she was not to blame s she héard the school children sdy it. Baltic. An Appropriate Name. Dear Uncle Jed:—The som of a weaithy distiller in the north of Ire- Jand was upon his marriage promoted by his father to the position of man- aging_ director, and was handed over one of the father's residences known as “Why, what has Miggles done e Alice, In surprise. “She can't find any whimpered Minnle, ery. John and Alice be sugar 1imost she can catch mice John. “Oh, ye! “Well, indeed! Bask does not know eno one has his or her P #5:d Aunt Thorpe, ¥ just entered. If Miggles cat m Well you ought to be proud of he she does some other replied Minnie, brightes things, too, fog_up. “You dear, dear, ola Miggles! nile was no longer jealous, or unha BEATRICE M. HALL, Age Norwich. Take It for Granted. Most people are so busy the prices of butter and eggs w new half dodlars that they ha had time to verify the press st that the coins have new desig Taunton Gazette. 1 play hide and seek with her and have lots of fun with her. I take he: on the ice pond, She is afraid of the cows. She said the teacher is afraid of the gobble. I think sl funny. ‘We have two pet dogs and two pe: cats. One stays out in the barn to catch the rats and mice. 'We have eleven cows. LOIUSE WHEBLER, Age $. Pure and wholssome. the house; they prevent colds, sore throats and hoarseness. This old fashioned remedy will- save many a serious Winess if taken in time. -~ — ' Big package & cents. . A. BRIGGS CO., Cambridge, Mass.