Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 22, 1917, Page 9

, muaand the frost is coming out of the i__ sround and the ice melting off the sen they show no signs of life their hearts | gifferent treatin men watched us Who were Walting f0r | Simer that no one was ever frightened. +g3 o-heart stops beating it is dead. With-|You one day watched crawling over | gerald. -2 zmsout fresh air or food the heart keeps | e &round may have been the same Rules for Voung Writers. 1. Write on one side of the night until they 5 e little black mite % "Original storles or letters only | by itself. et | age - | to tadpoles, and the = fr-l- at the bottom :hd. drop their Address all communications to frogs. Jed, Bulletin Office. you are—Be that! vou tay—Se wuet a S = It was 8 wonderful field to the tw Be_homesi—in fact, ing' at Lighthouss e ] - 2 * John was the first to reach Bp nmobody else bui you” o ! s 7 patch. Such POETRY. b ‘h? a9 ¥ = $—Elamsis of - rec 3 At St ine It made sas's mouth I teli you what I liked to do Boy Seouts Sealed Orders. caliod u 1.1 Y 4 to see that huge cake served When I was 'bout as big as you, 5—Pelagia Kurtz, of Tantio—Black Thes ‘atwe bean authiA “fore o sence | = g o I % 3 ¥—Gracs A. Bureill, of qfi Of night one-half the consequence, s Jor Balc’s fatlor pure dov U | S8 et 57 M O Mo N ; 1 e orolock—{ 7—Elsie Mal of i P = Staffora : It's brektus time, nigh five o'clock—{ o VWA, | !I:;nhb.u ¥ Manafield Exposition. ? Jacqueline Ralston. F y'll hurry up an’ feed the stock kD B0t s Wit D . | ama-Pacific . 3 a e e z o 1 che: J s—Alice Purcill, of Colchester— . 3 pot. more | line Ralston is one of my best Beyond the ridge the white road bent-— | Water Babies. 5 s friends. She Was born on the same The furthest then I'd ever went! The wi of day as I but one would never know An’- then went leadin’ down et T et A e e y o s oot Frm lo thinking. I . T am big for my age Past Jackson's Crick an’ Possum Gap, | 2l 2t the Bullelin office for At e 4 3 4 . She ‘is very small. Through woods 8o dark I hung ' pap, | @Y hour after 10 a. myon'Thursday. : -n“u Jacqueline, but no one An’ -ever’ step showed more an’ more|,; eynERS OF ACI S > e o s 2 her but Aunt Hepzibah, her The world I'd never knowed befo: KNOWLEDGMENT. | dr 2 cranky old maid aunt who thinks nick- Past flelds o w;v;l‘l:; ‘::,’,“ -fln' flax Jennie Dinamete Bt De- : Mh“-u-ndflflh - us. ’Every- A oy UACKS. | pot: T received the Pook Sou deps 3 ed : is fifteen vears old and is only Age 12. i e e St SR iding- . it e 3 1 u e over five feet tall. She is very Of all my’youthtul dreams, T gess, | Pt LINAET WlARED It Saecaines pane.. The Whis m and has a wealth of golden curls, . . Nun baif so great cud be! 1 ‘thank you - : k he . . Her eyes are clear blug, but Aunt Hep- The st millwheel ever wrought 1k you very much. E 3 < L zibah says: 1% Was turned to grind the grist we) Christine M. Barry of Mansfleid: I K “They look jes’ like two marbles of brought! write to thank you for tlie prize beok s noon blue chiny; nothln” pretty 'es I kin The biggest things the world aroun’ |I received. I haven't read it all yst: I _saw right there in Burgettstown— | Dut as far as I have read 1 have found No baildin’s half so big and tall! it to be very interesting. e Bhe loves outdoor sports and is an athletic girl. She can swim, dive, play baseball, basketball, tennis and 1s an It seemed that. there was nuthin' | Grace Burrill of Stafford Springs: ¢ : s - ok o den ‘small—. thank you very much-for .fi.’mrl e Lo oo Exceptin’ pa an’ me! prize, of twenty-five cents. I was very The Caces Free. . . Bhadto Win e Dribe pnd s 15 e The cacao tree s mostly cultivated The sund beedgm' tomds th wost | another. Who has not heard - of the Big|in South Americs and West Indies | (he SUPRCR, DOOr 8 Bink lades en pa’d allow: “Well, Bud, you best | Anna Andersom, of Norwich:—1 | Tiges” of California? . They S peien onaiats of 215 sweet aito voice and sings saprano Climb up here, with Yer pa,” thank you very much for the prize s i ; ; . - “She is well educated: An’ put foom “nfath the vext ‘ud cum | book you gave me entitied, “The Fed s : But ‘best of all ‘she likes acrobatic "-‘""‘h ‘3‘.‘ e Cross Giris On_ the French Firing oy P stunts and toe-dancinz. It is a pleas- um— Line.” 1 think it is very nice. Qre to see her hanging from the rings Sum hard-biled oEEA an’ singer snaps| Clarsnce L. Maine, of North Ston- ved.” dried, “and "shipped to 'fac- by one foot and turning somersaults 54 remo: Ap ok 7 ington:—Thanking you again for the no | torfes in the Btates and Ku- | backwards and forward: but I like her < fi {b':;l‘u';n -‘: ;au:;’ Zu‘:‘.',. prize book sent me._ rope. The seeds contain a large |best gl -lfll'?en 1 see her spinning T bagk humt' ma! 4 Isadore Riben, of Manafie] 2 amount of fat and in the process of | around so fast as a top on her toes. L qug'.‘m s Woria| 1 secaives the et B ia Soa z preparing c and cocoa much | Everyons loves Jacky and think for January.”/ order and thank you very much for it.| the upright hoflow trunk of ome of | of this is separated and is known as|her i meapl et old Aunt Hep & My teacher found my letter in The | these forest ts, which nevertheless | COCoa butter. zibah who never likes anyone and al Lottérs of Advice. Bulletin and brought it to achool. 115 still ently, to bear leaves MARY BOROVICKA, Age 12. |Ways has something to say about ev- cut it out and am saving it. on its branches 300 t above the| West Willington. eryone. She says: “Wal, naow, some day you'll be sor- od children shomld be like B's, Christine Burdick, of Jewett City— | 57ouna! listened v ¢ around flower-beds one C's, | I thank you for the lovely boak | o ven JeoFe encrmous than thoss siill A Fausied Hevse- Feli"be a bad nun, allers dancing and And not be fohd of too much E's, entitled “Ruth Fielding wn _in| 0 ng here are some prostrate| Opne Thursday morning my friends | gsech things.” ‘Which will their loving parents Dixie,” you sent me. I have read it | “ORSters, one of which must have had | came over and asked me if I would IE 5 Rt Dok Bt Srvwine ¥ |l Srolih Vol o vy tnimont | Rt ageiirice of 18 foet s | 8" il U ostencs THR | o 7200 SIS e 1 ing. 3 ve years ago. Then if they mind the Py Y e largest tree now 1} . “Ang evers moment Hahtty Ua ©° | _Irene Stewart, of Jewstt City—1 re- | circumference of et O B R | 1 et g wae i b Py Setng Thomas E. Edison. They surely must, now mark it well, | Coived the prize book you sent me on- | its first branch (six feet in diameter) | "«Marie, if I were you I wouldn't go.| Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Both in and out of school X L. {itled Ruth Fielding of the Red Miil |Is 200 feet from the ground! It is an|1f you haven't been there betore you'll | Ohio. His mother was a Scotch lady. = Catherine Trsula McGovern, |LBaYe read it half way through and | extraordinary fact that the cones of | be scared out of your wits Mr. Edison was taught to read by his o ind it very interesting. I thank you|these trees are no larger than walnuts, “Well,” I sald, “I might as well take | mother. When he was twelve vears UNCLE fl"—TALK TO WIDE. | Very much for it. }::’n;*“ only ome-fourth inch in|a chance.” - 0ld he bacame a newsboy on the Grand AWAKES. STORIES" WRITTEN BY WIDE- < B0 e, Torming - we started | S Ny knd sivaied durine " his LILLIAN M. BREHAUT. |about helf past ten bitious boy and studied during 'his . White Plains, N. Y. B was quite a journey to Nerth- {leisure time. Mr. Edison was very The couptry roads ate reeking with AWAKES. % At A O mere fuaily | much Interested in_science. The Story of the Silkworm. ress learn i y Now that th u; journey.. There was a fine fire burn- | D! and learned printing and edited swamps nd ditches. A silicworm is not a real worm. but | je¢ all ‘trus Ammericans bo. fesds foc|Ing on ihe earth, after & light sup- |a paper. i, R g ror Js not o real worm, bt |10 O U1 SOt e e 5" 2 It wHE not:be Tomg-before you will | during the whole of thelr life histors: | & Foromrd. thraosh Mot b (o and § Nhallhy Saans GRS A \ see th ¢ The common earthworm which you see was very glad to teach Mr. Edison, e the purple Haze of spring on the = y cloud and fire, glorious the shout, th as very gl Mr. Edison, he 10§ ifor thett Sniten; 1 *F life history of an insect is not at | L0/, TSCKCr's blasting spire, so 1 eay t 3 é. T be d; thy .. .{ern Union Telegraphy Co. large wheel that keeps turning around These toads musé e pretty hungry, | all iike that of & worm. Hach of the | bare 0y 2nd stand by Dear Old Uncle | the BIanc. o/ . 3 crept on my| In 1879 Thomas A. Edison invented |and a man catches the hogs and hooks 2, o for they have met bad anything to eat eggs of an insect hatches into a little FLOYD B. LAMBERT, Age 9. hands and knees out of the room, and { the white Jight. ‘The operation of them on the wheel. Then they are x wormilke animal or caterpillar. 3 toz five menths, and. have not taken a | Nving & mumaber of depe 1oy career| Norwich. drink or drawn = breath, for they are | pillar changes into a pupa or chrysalls. Con: open the door and look in. But, in- | phone and .invented the phonograph.|are pulled up. It is said that they use hibermating in the <old Tud now, and | 1n -this Condition It has & MATA as8| One day wher i es wood siiding | SeRd. I pecked. through the kevhole | e is considerd one of the Worlds | evéry part of the v _can only start when the earth gets|2nd I8 helpless. Now it undergoes aluniister and T went -~ © in€ | ang what a funny sight met my eyes. | greatest inventors. Mr. Ford has bought that squeal— < s slow change and after & time emerges ‘WArmM enot . erfect insect winge. very The woodchucks and the bears hi-| Thus we gee that the insect during :fla'xl:: © very hard £o it was not £00d | anq then went to my. room. a part of its life looks Il begngte, ap-de e toads, and although bu{' during another nvl.lrt’ g.kfl‘l'm Taf Ibon meent on s Ntep MIL Soue < ctnen When a. hibernating creaturse | © The dairy: littie caterpiiar whicn | W&l T T i the country and there were not any Norwich. RS amuse myself by picking flowers and 1 (i Srounn zag Rivs e tha We had a fine time. 2 playing with my dog. “beating thraugh. the lons months they | prefty Dutierny, vou ehased over the| ColmiiASOY NUHFER, Age i3 e iconscious each y . meadows. s e was cut and taken to a factory. | as I would find some new companions. And the peep-toad's nest is 2 lump|, Have Jou mot seen the pretsily 3 e i e ia ‘& machine wiich |~ “The school was a little white one of white Jelly with the black €883 | {nree-fourths of an mch"'l';""‘g.fln\m:: ; ember about myselt | Made me round. Then a man bored a |about one mile from my house and distributed in it so that it looks like | from a board or limb? If you happen |18 that T was born In & high loft of | loie,in M8 and poured in iead phos. G ek e S the water is warm this mest floats on | Wil See the insect come out a perfect | BEO. 4 = g moding in the o oW 5 th or butterfly. My mother is black with a little |y i Wan,'hon Packed. in e SEALEE L e e o hiEuened > b 5ot top of $he water: and when the sun| 3, 2 little | when the box was opened I found my- | ran as fast as I could. As I was ru In a short time its wings, which | White around her nose and under her |slif'|y & larpe statlonery store on the | ning something seemed to say to m The Broken Sled. L= oes down and the water cools it sinks | were tightly folded in the case, throat and sh De: o o wil] and she is two years of age. |ihica BheIf ou coward! Why do you run? 7 5% 10 the, bottom of the water; and so it | D® expanded and it will fly away|, I could not see anything for about| 'y enjoyed my.life there watching the | Why don't you go back and see what sled..rh'":::‘:s -’aed‘nfadonfi:d?nd a little through the air. ten days. The people who kept m | i.ople coming in and going out, buy- | the matter 1s?” LR keeps: always in the warmest rt of ey This butterfiy will lay eggs which |Mother bad missed her. They began|[IPPL TOMTR 0 IqV So 1 immediately went back and The toad-to-be does not become a|pillars. Is not this a strange story? | the cupola in the cowbarn in the ha¥ | pought me. He took very good care|with his left leg broken, which I sup- be moved about in the water with a rraw just as if it were a stick, but|worid, where the weather is mot too | C2US® I was heavy for dear mother to DY -1l 8t onee it becomes conscious and | °ld- PEEY. Die =% Siv. e, —_— The larva or young insect She finally got me to the house and filed: with fear, and then it will run | catorpiliar.” Tn Toe myineehis, 2 Httle |1 thougtit, On, what a nics and Rappy Our Library. b e R I B EVA B. NUHPER, Age 3. tway from your straw the moment you | life it is hairy, but as it grows it loses | POme-T shall have! e e i T i T | tee: » | Slumbig. h it rds it. its hair and en my mother's owner would |fine il e Jona m- A i e——— rah. it tows 2 its hair and looks more like & worm. | come n Sth the siflc he would ghrs | bull Nochey. Tt 18 In the conter of the | n,After school that night I took him A Big Snowate Ana watch it as.close as you may, | Liis i 2 catled the sifk- | 00,0020 0nd"] o Eret big ik of | town. Fhis ia not vers comvenient fop |Nome and have been busy caring for _A Big Snowstorm. rou will mot be able to tell how it| The caterpillars or larvae are’ given | MK every night and morning. Bl eople o he town who' live at | Blm ever Scs and fnd him e very | Dear Undlegeds We Bl g s o had a little collar and she told me|arranged to loan books to the pupils i e e that T would have one some day when | and parents through th R Norwich. such trees have fo be cultivated 1o |8 So G I0UER s s e ly ) ul catch rats | wi & portal library mug Supply the necessary amount of leaves. | and ‘mice. for mer. 1 don's lases whet | Nike. the one. leancd W5 the Cotonial The larvae are very great eaters. Dasry 40d | T would have done without her. Dames, but we find this much miore AWAKES. o comes off, a new one having formed| When the children used to under it. get W — through playing with me they used General Court of Connecticut Vhen fully grown, the eaterpiilar|to put me in & box with hay in the|others. The 1 1 “We know Low g00od you are, and S spins a cocoon of silk about itself, | bott o — - i > ttom. n of the hay was a 1lit- know how nice you look. We sing to ftohed So-Had to Tie Child’s Hands, | che"sic being taken from the lower | fe quiit and thoy. had w litiie miliy | Mo Dizon & wonderral suthor. you in spring and when the cold | (conCmics, Whls & cOMTSe ourse af Very Cross and Fretful. Hair |0 .0, seie up in about one thou- | 125 25,030, When they thought 1{ Of tne thirty_six books I have read | winter comes we g0 down south of the 1 H e & e ng ey wouls twenty-seven. ‘was chosen . | United States. Came Out. CuticuraHealed, - | sand vards of very fine thread. In this | In my littls bed and give me o drink |Bech pup is allowed to Neep & ook | Most of the birds like us have lived - | way is formed e whitish er yellow! bread or cak 3 t may “‘My son was three years old when k case which is-about one inch in hnsls: :‘w’:fih ‘.‘}2.: Tor bwut Dait o Do ez oy ::':‘ o o, accote the. ::u‘;f & water be'ian on his head, then this case snugly tucked away the|at a time. After I woke up 1 would Our fathers and mothers have pleas- on his eyes, and then all over his body. | sect goes to sieep until after under- | look for my mother. When I couldn’t ed your fathers and mothers a good Hk@n:‘;umflo '&gfid‘ mg the | 50Ing 2 slow change he awakes as a :l";‘dmfi:éfll Jould sit on the window : many times, even before you were 3¢ breaking out itched had to tie E or her, bern. mittenson bis hands for he would scratch | ¢, hem. it Caco0nS ATe to be used EFSTE M DANIELS, Age 15. "But we have some sad news to tell ‘make it spread. He was very cross | fach At & coriatn B by caed, (o[ Mansfield Center. you. Some of the cruel boys and and me awake nights. | jitied’ e 1. Ineset 1y xirls, Jill our brothers and chil- | fretfu Bfake ighte. | illed and_ the silken threads are un- The Commen dren. Seme of your beautiful girls el Chute SF and wee i oacry one by ma-| The common pin which we use ev- kill us, because we are beautiful, to You ¢ day was at first a_piece of wire ¥ get our feathers to trim their hats - conlu can see that it must take many | with a great many kinks in it. s with. coons to make one yard of silk cloth.| ~To make the pin then first put thé Men with their large guns shoot us The different colors of the silk are ‘wire into iron rollers which out given the thread before they are|the kinks. These rollers cut ] our nests and ezgs woven Into cloth. Info pin i Phercat the wrs nd if thi . ALICE PURCELL, Age 12. [another w‘“{"’_"flm - ~ and little ones. a is goes on Colchester. i e I e 10 18) with any donger there will not be any more birds. =n fron bar and the head is Y W know you have made laws, and George Dawey. Then the other end is filed and we do humbly pray you o meke George Dewey, the third admiral of | made into a point. It is then put into another one that they shall not Kill the United States navy, was born in|a vessel of melted copper and tin, us or do us any harm. or wear our Vermont, Dec. 26, 1881.. As a boy | Which changes it and makes it shiny feathers on their hats. George Dewey was not fond of study. |end strens. If you will make this law we will He entered the naval academy when | It is then put into papers and away N you a hundred times and we he was 17 and was graduated in 1858. | to many countries to be sold. T edch sour chitdren to be clean fifth in_his large class. JOBE{’HN:!:. HARRIGAN, Age 12 . and to have peace with one another. _His first active eervice was in Far-| Norwich. % = “We will build our homes gmong the rgut’s attack on New Orleans, and B = trees and we will play in your gardens t! ‘r n: ".nowea courage and coolness B _ Franklin. ; + |and eat the worms that destroy them. 3 z ne day Franklin was eating dinn 4 Stgners: !';r two years after the war he was |at his friend's house, . et o Sweon. Robin._Hed: 4 X¥ructor in the naval academy. Inl ] the lady of the house poured } Sylvia A. Miner of ‘North Franklin. 4 breast, Pewsee, Blue Horon, Swallow,!of Willimantic, s N THES.A,.GOLDSMITH CO. The Formal Spring Opening of This Store Is Truly a Splendid Occasion The Most Charming and Bewitching Display of Women’s Wearing Apparel Ever Shown. SUITS, COATS, DRESSES, WAISTS, EVENING AND AFTERNOON GOWNS AND SPORT APPAREL OF EVERY SORT There is every new weave of material—Burella Cloth, Loop- ine Cloth, Gunyburl, Bolivia, Poire Twill, Jersey Cloth, Velours, Poplins and Serge. AS TO COLORS — There is an almost unlimited field to choose from this season, and every one, from the staple navy p to the latest dictum of fashion, is well represented IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE whether you are prepared to buy or not, you will be welcome, and if you have the slightest interest in matters of seasonable dress we urge you to accept our invitation to visit this store’s Formal Spring Opening FORMAL OPENING DAYS — Thursday, Friday, Saturday, March 221024 You Are Cordially Invited Special Under-Price Quotations on Pnnmu Coats and Suits THE BEE HIVE STATE STREET NEW LONDON Stand by Uncle Sam. and were quite fatigued with our long[ When a young man he bought a|counirg, Woodpecker, high scheol. There are five girls in my class, and about forty boys who have some class- day Mr. Edison saved the life of The Chicage Stockyards. Dear Uncle Jed: I want to teil you “~ horizon, - _ was taught telegraphy and soon after- | about the Chitago stockyards. First, izon, and hear the peep-toads call- | worm. shock, the crash of steel, the voile: parl Ward he was empioyed by the West- | about the killing of hogs. This semester T am having Physic: Most of my about its history and the hist the lives of the great composers. We have to write different scales. 1 liked my studies last semester bet- ter than some of those that I am hav ing this_semester, try and botany. T live about a mile and a half from Storrs ana walk back and forth each down the stairs, to the parder door’ |street cars by electricity was due to[swung to the top, and the only time I was too frightened to vemture to|his invention. He improved the tele- | they do.their sque: ing is when they but its squeal. especially chemis- The cat was running over the plano| _ LILLIENNE MATHIEU, Agze 12 | using it on the cars he makes. The hill we went on was not pack- | Ihe, ca¢ s running over tre miams| i When the pigs are at the top of the ey o wheel they slide along on 4 rod and a This year the girls at Storrs have &ood basketbali team €d two games and hope fo least one more game. first and second team. is composed of while the second team is of substi We have much = o a - tly. didn’'t wake A Congenial Compat 3 :’n.n; sldnh:\ the pig i‘l; th‘e (hffllld‘;d he the others, but I told them about it. 5 E e s dead. He is slid along and keeps PR L w8 AT en il 1ovpa - I :olnx until he gets to a place where EDNA GEER. - e is going to be dressed. little girls to play with. So I had to The horns and hoofs of the cows and pigs are used for making combs Autobiography of a Lead Pencil. When I was seven years old I went |2nd various things, - ve T i The cows are hit on the head, and it I was first a piece of an oak-tree. I|to school which gave me great delight is such a tender part of the cow that they drop dead on the spot. They do not kill cows on Saturday. They are building big stockyards in - iy croe Kansas City, Mo. * plum-pudding; and at mid-day when | to find one at just the right time you |hay. I was born about four months) o ‘me. caw something ‘moving in the srass| - EDWARD J. GRAHAM, Age I1. We have play We have a The fivst team best players, play indoor baseball. ELIZABETH PARKER, Age 5. rning Agriculture. 1 thought I would tell vou what I have learned in agri- Dear Uncle Jed In relecting specimens for a fair the vemetables should be suitable for use uniform in size, shape and color, und they should be clean. After digging potatoes we should let them lie in the sun for one hour be- fore using them. we should let them stand In water for an hour in order to loosen up the dirt. We. can take a sponge to wash potatoes, for if we take a brush it will injure the potato. The potato is one of the most valu- able cash crops of the American farm- farmer raises the ield of potatoes per acre now is no more than what it was about fifty vears ago. ‘We should drop the potatoes in the row from ten to twelve inches apart. There should be a long space be- tween each piece of potato. The best time to study birds is In winter when there are hut few, and in the early spring, when they are coming —e———ihe water untit the tadpoles hatch out. E T pol t.| will in time hatch into other catsr- | t0 100k for her. They found her near | ™6 C8%78 204 CARIN. .\, 1 ana [ there I found. the dearest little rabbit | mar®s tores. "r1iiaked the siod on the i d tadpole for several weeks, or show any | . The silkworm came from Chine. 1 stayed in the barn for about three | Dgu3 %, R - 0 back of it. and then I got in the team ctiye 1ife for several days. It ma; hay Do Noka Hiare fhe undreds e BT St Dather S b S he Ty ‘uu-“:ex!; il Sy ol Do e e Wi Siyselr ¢ The teanm Ntacied: n it . and perhaps thousands of years. It o Very Mk Placs. She small and was seon thrown a I took the rabbit to school with me | "“ive went down is now raised in many parts of the|io climb for sbout five minutes be-|*my . ended my happy life. _ . fana Sreived ton minutes late, but when | g o WD 0T b0 Colamits AMBON, Age 13.° |Tgave the teacher my explanation she | GLcoh, WWLC we were comi After doing that was very much pleased and said I did | roien and could not be fixed. The average mows it is in peril of a morning when [all they can eat of the soft green |y ATOURd my deat mother's neck they |some distance so the school board has L STHEA HANSEN, Age 13. | vory near up to oas e LRy ‘were as high as the stone wall. We had some fun playing snowball N. BY WIDE- |and walking in the drifts. FSETERS. WEITE IDE- | % foday. "It has taken the snow afl ZILLAH MARRIOTT, Age 12. The two bird standards are the Eng- lish sparrow and robin. Many of the hjrds catch food as they | theSoay e fkin does mot grow with | (e hat and coat. My mother used to | six books, some books of Dear Uncle Jed: I have read differ- 1 becorass o fi‘,""m’“l"u -clnfu'hnl; sit at their feet and watch me so as | tory, Seography .| ent stories of the Wide-Awakes and Will Be Two Yea racks and|fo see I 8id not get hurt. These are Famo: I am very much interested in them. I| pe.r Uncle Jed: This year I am go0< Agricultural will send you the birds’ address to the | ;%5 the Comnecticut 1 am taking & Some birds in winter live in 1 to read letters Wide-Awakes Norwich Katherine's Kitten. Dear Uncle Jed: One brought us up y box, v hole in it; and he made me & was in if. I guessed every the risht one. n he lifted er and out ca e cutest lit ten. It was stripped like was hardl. to small. ve it somy it drank i and his na When g0 to the room loc to get one. much and zome d little dog. KATHERINE FARRELL, Ag: Caterpillars at Fishers Island Dear Uncle Jed: 1 am a § Fishers Island public school, and Fifth grade. It is u pleasure to tell destroying of the tent c In the fall of the vear, just beginning to met coo), tt the tent caterpillar Jay around thelittle brar.ches c the kinds of trees, but most and cherry trees. She stick together with o water proof sub and the next spring they bat every egg a caterpillar e hundreds of caterpillars i Miss Wilt, our teac] nd told us about 1 caterpillars do. It is not a h to do: and it not only he to the trees from this pest, but ir the frult crops, for many very badly injured by thes erpillars. The other dax lard for the birds. chickadees, nuthatch peckers come and h: eat. 1 have already put two.b out in the trees. I feed them crumbs and wate LORETT Fishers Island, N A O'CONNC Y Honest Work. Once In a town there lived tw blacksmiths, whose names were M May and Mr. Finner. Mr. May w an honest, hard-working man Finner was a lazy, reckless man college at Storrs. 4 West Indies and Central two years' course F.LSIE McDANIELS, Age 15. in the school of s His Bunni Tl tell vou about Dear Uncle Jed: my rabbits. They will stand on their hind Their names are Jim and Beauty My big rabbit is gray and my tle rabbit is white and They eat all kinds of vege- tables and cake and drink milk and 1 like my bunnies very much ERIC SKINNER. Norwich Town. His Pet Mice. 1 am a boy old, and I love animals My uncle gave me two white The white rats n ‘my birthday. were very tame and would eat out of my hand and loved to have me give them candy they would sit up the mcandy they would sit up wash thelr facés with both paws aft- er eating it and looked so_cunning. When I come home from school they run te the ether end of the cage nnd them and I let climb up on my them out and they One day I put them out in the yard and wome dogs opened let_them out and the cat caught them. folt very lomesome with out them. : i “Pater Pan and His Dog” drewn by | Vesmsr Spatrow. Wren, Robin Red:| “The Song Sparfew,” by Fose Kagan ot One day the two blacksmiths w ortlered to make chains for two 1 ships. Mr. May set straight to and took paips to close every 7 carefully. ~Mr. Finner did not care they. were closed or not, just the sa he gets money. As soon as the chains wers and attached to the ships they we et on the water. The shin had ~Mr. May's chain sailed and came_safely back into the har but Mr. Fjnner's chain broke middle of the ship's voya shin was wrecked, T wish all boys and girls s like Mr. May. IDA STOCK, Age Colchester. Belongs to Audubon Socisty Dear Uncle Jed: I went to every day this term. 1am in the Fift grade. We have to sell post cards ind are going to send away and ge picture. When I sol1 mine slushy and T got my feet wet We are having an Audubon s which I like very much. The copies of both came last Thursd got a blue jay. HENRY P. HOLDEN! A South Windham. Stephen Wise rabbl of the Free synagogue of New York, will lecture in the institute ok Thursday evening. *