Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 12, 1917, Page 9

i THE WIDE AWAKE CIR : AND GIBLS DEPARTMENT Sors _..By Louella C.. excitement at our/ -our Mopsa caught a “was her first mouse, you' Bes, Safd tincle Art: “Our puss is o “Thet beats the cat of Whittington “L.always knew that she would do Some splendid thing!” said fond Aw oz Jou. p ““Phere never was a braver cat, *Than Mopsa here, I'm surs of that— To do all that at seven months old. Sho's really worth her weight in gold. “But Mopsa, thouj Sald not a wo 2+ loud, Which .purr, interprcted, might be: but “Kina friends, you are so g0od to me— Have givéen me home and bounteous < “food. I owe you boundless gratitude: enceforth there never shall hateful presence in this house %A thievish rat or mibbling mouse. But why was it, the other day You baxed my ears, drove me away, ana led me ‘horrid little cat® “Because 1 caught a nice, sleek, fat “Sround ‘Sparrow, kindly tell me that? 1 saw a man with smoking gun Tjeade tanl 15 why, In pity’s name, fe is allowed to do all that, I¢hile I a little hunery cat, “Should meet such punishment because ¥ was obeying Nature's laws; A mouse tastes very good to me— Likewise a bird, as you can seel Could Uncle Jules and Uncle Art And proud Aunt Lou so fond of heart Have understood our Mopsa's purr, How puzzled to have answered her For 'twas a poser, I confess. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. Every Wide-Awaka looks up to the §kv, but doesn’t see any sky as men used to, because it is all space and far as we know there is no end ipace. In old times they know the moon was quarter of a mil- lion miles away and that the sun (our star) is ninety-three million away, or that it took lght traveling the rate of 187,000 miles a elght minutes and twenty seconds veach the earth. ~ When this was found out man had & way of measuring any distance space, and years' distant. to us—Alpha So when you look up to the heave: at night vou see the light of su twinkling and do mot see the su Which make the light. Our sun is a hundred times bigger than the earth, and these distant stars are as many times bigger than our sun. There are big things overhead and whoever wrote “Twinkle, twinkle lit- tle star, how I wonder what you are,” are parts of worlds there, and dead worlds, and old worlds and new worlds, and Kmd not found this out” There worlds being made. And up In the sky, at a point in the Milky Way there is a hole, the star- hundred ang the sum gazers tell us, that is two millions of miles wide, and all its planets can pass through with safety, and they take a space over one hundred and seventy-fr . rhillton miles. ~Uncle Jed does not know whether ray of light can beat electricity in race around the world, but it can cover the distance seven and a half times » second. And this sun of ours and Planets makes a journey an years. "And how do we know the measure Because a great of spéed is correct? astronomer figured the'speed of Ven: “ouse. |Camp Fire Girls Go Huntin be, | Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore. h she was so proud, purred quite intrude They would have been, I rather guess, —Our Dumb Animals. aid not miles second they found suns like ours #0 far away that it takes 40 years for the light from them to reach the earths a distance so far it cannot be express- é4 In fgures so they say it is 40-light And the nearest star Centaur is distant 26,- 000,000,000 miles and it takes the lght of 1t 3 1-2 years to reach the earth. its around Areturus, a greater sun once in 40,000 i Guldren ana e o 1 have too much Mrs. Hardy’s Eczema 2 Mass of Ltle ftching and calculated when it would cross the face of the sun 100 years before it happened, and it arrived on the very day—only four hours off the time fxed. ¥ Uncle Jed loves to look up and en- il v £ e and up as far as of nmf blisters x i i : u sied, with | you two - Joy the glory of the night, and to think mloflym on_you pul Tinbe these same stars were looked up’ to ey g - ; sled he was | he pulled and a great many nights 1 by the Saviour and all of the prophets Sor joy. But | they tied g ety —that they must have shed their light name of the | put the ing. The trouble went to over the Garden of Eden. e m It is not surprising that the psaim- ist Tooked up in wonder and wrote “Tn fhe heavens is the throme of God: i} ¥ scratch and the eruption smarted and my fingers E 2 i — waw _the| When Granny said “Blackie, Blackie, used to crack open. My THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. they won- | you made me live for a 1ong time," and | clothing was aggravating to me and " told | they Ived A ‘when I put my hands in water they would 1Jossle L. ut, of_ White Boys were i LEVENE, Age 12. | gmart. s B % o e s “The tronble lasted two months before I used Cuticara Soap and Oint- ment. 1 got relief in less than a week, and after using them a month I was healed.” (Signed) Mrs. James Hardy, eberg, Me., Oct. 6, 1916. y Dot prevent these distressing the Iceberg Patrol. 2—Hortense P. Valletts, of Baitic— Lost in the Great Dismal Swamp. 3—Bertha Adelman, of Yantic—The b piest of all of them, because he ed he would have a sled and he get one. HBLEN KURTZ, Aged 12 Yantic. s Scott Newgate’s Adventures in Arifona Charlie Lawton and Scott Newgate of “Silvertown, New Jersey, had & cided to take = vacation through the west They had gotten as far as TRed Rock, Arizona about twenty mles from ' Tusco. They were employed in the offics of The Golden Eagie Biining Company. They were interested in mechanics and during their etay they had built an_automchile. They were out walking one day when Charlie slipped and fell; the first thing that Scott knew about it was & yell from his chum under the grou: Secott turned around and saw a hole. Thinking orly of his chum he jumped into the hole. Switching on his flash- light he saw a large cave with veins of gold on the wall, going to another chamber. he saw & faint streak of light following path. He found his chum outside and from there they walked to their cabin. That night Scott could mot sieep. He woke up about two o'clock and thought he would take a little walk in the open air. TUnconsciously he sauntered towards the scene of the other afternoon's episode. He saw John Gotrocks, @ man known to have the fastest auto- mobile in Arizona. His first thought was that Gotrocks was going to jump the claim or say he had discovered the mine and make it out in his own name. In the mo; Scott got intp the “Sand Bug” al cailed his automo- biie to make out the papers for him and Charlie Lawton at Tuscon. Gradually he raised the lever and the speed increased. About ten miles from Red Rock he saw Gotrocks ditched in the road. ‘He crowded on still_more speed and crashed through the bushes past Gotrocks. He arrived at the assayers office and had just made out the claim papers when Gotrocks arrived to find that hiz evil designs had been defeate ariie Lawton and Scott Newgate worked on the claim during the sum- mer and in the fall, after a brief etay at Silvertown, they entered Prince- ton. FREDERICK CUSHMAN, Age 15. Stonington. The water falls In this brook were very My brother had a camera and so| skin troubles by making Cuticura yous hed/1.- We took quite a few pictures | every-day toilet Soap aided by touches of_the brook. .{&nmmtmhe the first signs of Near the brook a raliroad runs. On jes, rashes,ctc.? No pareror more the rafiroad is a small station. The | cfective emollients exi Cuticara. windows of this station are boarded For Free Sample Returs up. m’l‘henuu:' 3,"" nllmn written | yeoo ad Fere 2 on e wall e station. " Jo ¥ 'After ‘we had_watched the brook s | Dept. R, Boston.” Sold everywhere. little while my brother started to fish. As I was jumping across a well made in the by ‘water fall on it, T alipped and fell and fell in. I got wet up to my hips. We have a very pleas- ant time, all except when I fell in. OH. N. BRUSH, Age 11. “Here's to the man whose hand Is firm when he clasps your own— Like a grip of steel That makes you feel You're not in the world alone. “Here's to the man whose laugh Puts the sombre clouds to rout— The man who's fair And kind and square To the one that's down and out.” Bress, of Yantic—The 5—Katherine Gorman, of Versailles —With Trapper Jim in the North ‘Woods. - 6—Pelaga Kurtz, of Yantic—The Tong Measure Hunter. iishn MoDowell, of e The service of trees to us begins in our infancy and ends with our lives. Their value cannot be estimat- ed. Our houses and their fpraiture, and the fences used to enclose _our houses are the products of trees. Even coal is a wood product. It is form- ed by the mineralized wood of the ages. Wharves, boats, ships, rubber, gums, bark, cork, maple syrup, fruit, carriag- es, railroad cars and ties, telegraph and telephone poles—wherever the eye falls, it sees the great service of trees. The great forests make the dense- ly shaded hills, covered with the mc- cumulating leaves of ages, huge sponges from which trickle the sup- plies of streams. To cut the forests recklessly is to dry up the rivers and eause drought. Forests affect the climate of the coun- try. ‘They also prevent tremes of heat and cold, and the sud- den changes in weather that spoil the crops, therefore our forests must be preserved. . MARY G. LEWIS, Age 12. Stonington. ington— s Boy Scouts With the Allies in 8—Mary G. Lewis, of Stonington— The Boy Scouts On the Plain. - A wondertul piece of mechanism in the E world. As we salled on we reached West Point, where the famous U. S. Mili- tary academy is located. Here they educate U. S. military officers. The next stop was Hudson, where we s™yed over night. From Promenade Hill we viewed the Catskill mountains. On the return trip we noticed the trains disappear in holes in the moun- tains which resembled cat holes, and appeared on the other side of the mountain in the same manner. ‘We arrived at New York at 7 p. m. Reached uncle’s home at 10.30 p. m. enjoyed the trip very much. HORTENSE P. VALLETTE, Ase 13. c. nt H 5 g5 LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Fitchville. P2 8k - He Ran Away from Home. Dear Uncle J One time when 1 ‘was six vears old I had to bring wood and water for the house. 1 thought my brother, who is two years older than T am, did not do his share, so I thought I would go and live with a neighbor. about two miles away. 1 told my foiks the night before that I wes going away to stay. They thought I was fooling them, but the next morning I ot up early and start- ed before breakfast. After they had looked for me my grandmothertel phoned to them to find out if T w: there and told them to send me home. I came back home and I have nev run away again. This is a true story. HARRY BUGEDNE STIMSON, Age 8. North Windham. The Squirrel and the Wolf. Dear Uncle Jed: A squirrel was leaping from limd to limb and feil right upon a siteping wolf. The wolf jumped up and was going to deyour him: but the squirrel beggad the Swolf to let him go. The wolf said, “All right, 1 will let you g0 on condition that ‘you tell me why it is that you squirrels are always so happy? 1 am alway melancholy but see you playl and leaping all the time in the frees. The squirrel said, “Let me go first and then I will tell you, but mow I am afrald of you.” The wolf-let him go, and the squir- | reli leapea up_into a’ tree ana from there it said, “You are melancholy be- cause you are bad. Wickedness con- sumes your heart. But we are happ: because we are good and do no o any harm.’ WILIAE LE PAGE, Age 10. Versailles. i into the fleld. There they’ found in the morning, while returned to the barn before anyone was up. She had an innocent look when she bad been on these excursions that would call forth one's admiration. When I rode her to bring back the through and found it very Interesting. Alice Purcell, of Colchester—I re- gelved the prize book you sent entitled “Water Bables” and find it very in- teresting. Many thanks to Uncle Jed for all the nice books he has sent me. Esther Hansen, of Norwich — I thank you very much for the prize book you sent me. I have read it and found it very interesting. Antoinette Markenwitz, of Baltic—I thank you very mueh for the prize book T received from you. It is the first time I have tried to win a prize and T succeeded. Kathorine Gorman, of Versailles—I received the nice prize book you sen me entitled “Uncle Jim's Bible Stories. I have reaq it through and found it very interesting. 1 thank you ever so much for ft. Pelagea Kurtz, of Yantic—I thank you for the nice prize book you sent me. I have read it through and have found it very interesting. £ BT 1 £ found, and we would chase them home in a hurry. One night we heard a queer noise in the barn. Father drew himself out of bed and went to see what the noise could be. You can imagine his aston- 1shment when he found Julitte stand- ing with the raised pump handle in her mouth, trying to pump water. while the three coits. with unbounded confidence in_hey ability, stood atgthe trough, watching her with ex; nt eyes. KATHERINE GORMAN, Age 12. Versailles. A Thrilling Rescue. ‘Three of us boys went for a walk by a dam. and seeing a raft in the water we got on. The youngest boy sat in the middle. I was steering and the oldest boy was pushing. We went out a little way and turned around, when the raft started to rock. The eldest boy jumped out, the raft tipped and we got flung into the water. None of us could swim. The oldest was standing on the bank, velling but did nothing to save The Autobiography of a Mouse. I was born in an old trunk in the garret. When 1 became older I thought of seeking a new home in spite of my mother’s warnings about being caught in mouse traps, by cats, etc. 1 thought .1 would move into the cup- board, because I knew it contained cheese. 1 was a daring mouse and I thought T would take a chance at getting some ~heese, because I was getting very hun- &ry indeed. I heard the doorbell ring and I knew this was my chance, as the cook had to answer it. 1 peeked out of my little bouse so as to be sure the big black cat wasn’'t around. I jumped up into the cheesebox and I was having such a fine time eating cheese that I did not hear the cook coming until she exclaimed: “Good- ness me! you little rascal! How dare You start eating the cheese that I was going to make sandwiches out of? Bcat! and don’t let me see you, here 1 was quite afraid after my experi- ence with the cook, and I thought of taking a trip to my mistress’ room. I spied a pretty blue hat on the bed, trimmed in bright red cherries and a Indian Character. Many people have wrong ideas about Indians. An Indian was not so dirty as he Is now. The reason for this is that while he roamed about in the wilderness he could take a bath any time Fie wanted. Now he is shut up in reservations wh there is not so much water to be found. Indians are often blamed for being cruel without reason. They are some- times cruel in fighting, but when vou read of white men burning Indian camps with defenseless women and children you will not wonder at their being cruel Indians also have great endurance. They can go a day without eating. What white man could put red hot coals under their arms and hold there as the young braves have to. Tndians are great swimmers, hunt- ers, and trallers. They can swim {bO¥ across rivers, hunt amidst the thick- est of forests, and follow a trail that to a white man is_almost invisible. JOHN McDOWELL, Age 13. Stonington. STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE A- WAKES A Visit to a Sugar Plantation. New Orleans is one of the chief su- gar markets of the United States. There are thousands of barrels of su- ar piled up on the wharves and you can smell little else as you walk through the streets near the wharves. There are vast sugar plantations near New Orleans. There are score: of them, some containing ome thous: and acres. Some are so large that they have railreads upon which to send the sugar cane to the factory. Visitors often take horses and ride “Japanese Cous Murphy of Norwich. us. The youngest boy started to cry as he was goiag down, and caught hold of my leg. The tv:o of us went down. ‘When we came up he was on my back. are! It won't hurt Wh are you afraid of?" “Don’t send Lim again to urge him wien he doesn go,” said Phil, boy him scolded any Da o LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. to wan -4 =3 pretty blue ribbon. I set to work and Cruelty to A als. another S A o i yan the ide-a-Wee. e B tened et T otaTt, | chewed the red cherries into bits and 1| Dear Uncle Jed: One dreary, cold| Looking for a Magic Spring. ~|came running up ) right season rise over their heads as| My house which I have affectionate- |I had seen people swim.. I was much |5y cd the pretty ribbon into shreds.| winter night a poor, jet black xitten| Dear Uncie Jed: 1 am going to tell “Oh, g0 on! Don’t you be so wis e e on the horsss. MStany ot the | 1y mamen B o Wee. 1o a tarme hana. | surprised to see” that I Kept above], N mext morning was Easter and Ifcame to our door. 'It. was aimost|you about Ponce De Leon's quest for a|sneercd Dave where - sugar cane stalks are fifteen feet high. | some buildiri®, standing some distance | water. Ve iwas awakened by my mistress’ excla- [starved, the owner having put it out | fountain. once more! Good dog! Go at | * R of sugarcane doss not 100k | from the Strest. from which In the| At iast I saw the ratt. It was about |TAUORS: she was saying: “O dear! My |in the dnow to ind its own food. Ilet| “When Ponce De Teon was at the|nd heg fune the sHCk far U unlike a field of our corn. noonday’s heat my home resembles a |five fést in front of me.” I caught hold |aita. I'm sure Kitty @it do that.|and food, "1 Gl mot jot her mot That | won “Erowing Sray and the wrinkies |spaniel Was plunging : Sugar cane is not planted like corn. It may be planted in either fall or spring. Pieces of ripe stalks are placed in furrows about seven feet apart. The stalks are laid together, three being placed side by side. Next, the soll is thrown over the cane with a plow. In August the stalks become as tall as a man. In the middle of October they are about twice as high as an average cornstalk. Then théy are ready for cutting. Sometime I will write about the refining proce MILDRED GRANDY, Age 11. Yantic. bit of Paradise to my eves. The hard, smooth carriage roaq leads through a sreat iron gate, guarded by two, large, bronze, lifelike lions which have frightened many a youngster. Next comes a large, long, green lawn, dot- ted here and there with tall trees, with long, drooping branches and on its left a little brook flows gally along. Across this brook three foot bridges have been built, all of which are lat- ticed and over-grown by sweet honey- suckle vines. The gardens are beautiful with their massive rose bushes and shrubs. These gardens are surrounded on all sides by tall, birch trees, and venerable oaks. In the back of the house is a tennis court and far in the distance are seemingly endless fields of éorn, cotton and sugar. of it and drew the boy and myself on. Then, breaking a piece of the raft, 1 rowed to shore and we dried our clothes. Tt was a good lesson for the both of us, because we learned to swim. JOHN KURTZ. Yantic. “Don’t let him go! and I'm afraid the surf is for him,” pleaded Walter. Oh, Trixey, come back and the faithful little creature, ent to his master, turned and for the shore. “He shan't c-me back to make him get that stick there!” shouted Dave, throw after the dos. His_aim was only too t stone hit the struggiing cr head, and he disappeared water and the strong curre; shore carried him out t LENA MAG to Come, Kitty, ind the mouse. When 1 heard this I ran home to my mother and remained there. 1 have a very lively and merry life. MILDRED DU Norwich. were growing_dceper. Just then he heard of a strange story. Somewhers to the northward Was an island on which was a mazi fountain. Whoever drank from it would become youns again. Tn 1513 Ponee De Leon started on his voyage In search for this fountain. Day after day they sailed from isi- and to isiand. At each island they drank from the springs and bathed in the streams, but 1o one becams any younsger. One day as they cime near shore they saw a land bright with flowers. 8o they named it Forida. Tle went to Cuba to tell about the land. He died soon after. The magic fountain was never dis- covered. ALICE SUGRUE, Age 9. ight, but the next day wouid couldn’t make her leave the house, 50 she stay- ed with us. A few weeks ago on a Sunday after- noon about 5 o'clock she went out. In less than half an hour she returned with an Injured back, a cruel dog had been teasing her. He bit her back so hard that she could not drag her two hind legs alonz. For a week she was iike this. Slowly the wound healed up, but net awod. - Last week she became sick again and died. Now don't you think some of these cruel dogs ought to be done away with instead of a poor harmies: cat? in Age 13. A Fortunate Incident. ¢ The bleak December days had ar rived in New York ecity. Tommy Burns in his ragged ciothes and worn- out shoes was slowly returning to_the tenement where he and his mother lived. His mother was ill. Tommy had spent the waning hours of day- light in a vain endeavor to procure enough money to buy, for her, some much needed medicine and food. His papers were slow in selling and returned to the tenement with but a The Abandoned Baby. One day as I went on my way to school 1 thought I would take a short cut through the woods. Near an old stump of a tree T saw something which ‘ooked to me like a fox: at least the color made me think so. Picking up a_stick to defend myself. I walked over where the animal lay. When 1 reached there I saw it was not a fox but a little animal with long thin Nellie's Regret. “Oh, dear! how sorry I am that I ever said unkind words to Bertha, mamma!” Nellie Smith exclaimed one day with tears in her eves. ns ns. ns UNSIGNED. The Discovery of New Haven. A Kind Mayor. legs. few pennies in his cket. 7, 3 g t It only I had not said them, I| The house is a rather low, two- Poa i Dear Uncle Jed: O Dear Uncle Jed: A ragged 1 Bed "It ohe should ges better how |of the house, whose piliare ave inter: |1Sver thought of this little " sieepy. |hundred dollars would save his moth- e agoyilel Fhetr homis wee s My School. ot s stavt, Just thesi & §OUE sorry I shall be all my long, that|vined with ramblers, honey-suckles . Yot v e gl 2 Dear Uncle Jed: 1 go to the Gur-|ing gentleman jumped off the and Violet had each a pony of her I ever was unkinii to h Wnd climbing vines, ail mo-closely 1u. |41 not have time to call anyone, so I| Tommy affectionately tended to his|2nd YViolet had each o pony of herd, [She Lihooi “which is just a little|ana asked the girl for 15 conts wor® c o g i - = IS EATROR The pew aear | SIS G G T oe| S0 oo, Bl i B gt e e e O o et b | R o bome 1 65 home o7 G er 0T . ! 3 A m B ted the B e oty remember, | © T Intestor of the house is no less | W/ien School was out 1 went home the |left. He went down to a cheap res- |PRAUIML VS |\ L Loy very | The schoolhouse is painted white on |handed them o him. & taurant and ordered a small lunch. There were two other occupants of the restaurant. They were sipping their whiskey. The drink had evr- dently loosened their tongues. They were conversing lowly and did not know Tom had entered. The one addressed as/ Marner said train tegan to move, and the sot on quickly, without paying apples. He gave no attention at all, but laughed as she cal for_her money. The mayor of the city was stan by. The mayor was a man wh plsed all meanness. He looked same route I came and there was my little animal: but it was breathing hard and rolling its eyes as though in the outside. Inside the walls are green There are six blackboards. There arc five rows of desks. There are thirty- three single deska. My teacher is Miss Biiss. 1 like her. There are thirty-one scholars. Four- teen of them are girls. T am in _the seventh grade. There beautiful than the exterior. There are seven large rooms and two small kitch- ens on the first floor. In the library and breakfast room, the walls are hang painted, while the rest of the rooms are tastefully papered. All the floors are hard oak, smooth angd glos- sy with the exception of the kitchens, after this, that the one way to avoid having unpleasant words recalied, is to refrain from speaking them.” Run and play with Gracie now! There she comes for you; and remember to do your thinking before you act, anoth- er tim And this is advice to all who #ead g00d religious people, and though they were rich themselves, they did not forget the poor. They wished their little girls to grow up to be noble women. One evening after Lillie and Violet had gone to and their father and mother, whose names were Mr. and I called my brother and he picked up the scared little thing and we car- ried it home. We tried to feed it but it could not eat. All our efforts to ith a_coarse laugh, “Just think five n i . : it ‘would do well to follow. Which are covered with tiles. There are | [o5toTe it were in vain, and in a short | With, 2 My, Lafasette, were sitting togetier | are five other children in the seventn |angrily after the train. Ther " “"JOSEPH DUGAS, Age 9. |large open fire places in five of the|Umg It gasped and the baby deer was o d::‘.‘:a'er.'flr'::h‘-‘hm for | in their beautitul parlor all’ furnished | srade besides myself. hy, | the little girl by the arm and ied it| Versailles. rooms. # I %ait sorry, for I thought T might|mile 'tween Chicago 'n me. Uncon- | N velvet and gold, Mr. Lafayette sud-| I hrfv l{;““‘ Aire, ::g‘f“';lg‘;v home with him. You may be sure & of Upstairs there are five bedrooms,| i, j¢ and have it for a pet: but I|Sciously he had lifted his voice. denly paused in the middie of a piece | arithmetic, e Aatory. *|received the full value of her &ps spelling, reading an St. Valentine’s day we had a valen- tine box st school and I had seven valentines. ‘When the good mayor 1 she was an orphan girl, home, he fourid a kind were glad to take care of her with separate baths. these walls pale pink, or bium he' was playing on the pianola, and said, *DMy dear wife, It would be splendid if we got some poor chiidren A Disastrous Result of Coastin; The paper on One afternoon last winter some boys inyited me to go coasting. Tommy heard and understood what he meant. Tom had read in the pa. per of the murder of O. K. Johnston, ve was more than surprised when I found that it was a deer, for I never expect- ed to get so close to one. My father ith famil a . rather low, but are tastefully arrang- to_make them haDpy. s ], The bill was icy ana .:onb;!loh:r: 24, Eiving them all a homelike " |zaia it must have been abandoned by &gommlmt g g B reward of | 10 ke Nty S Tn winter when it ls good siiding |ic®%ied the mayor. Ho was B ey W ol et mother, or perhaps its mother was e e T ohe TIOTMALION | 10n they were £oing. A8 they got off |1 take my sied to school and slide |y gy, in| the double runner creaking under 2 FLOSSIE MBYER, Age 15. |50t of ‘m"”"'"m;‘“;";ol;‘m’ one| “Marner, the -murderer, evidently |the train they saw two children, very | down the hill which is in the school- SARAH SCHATZ, Age Tattville. 3 thought that by losing himself in the |9irty and ragged. They were selling|Yar . . 45 school very much. Fantic, weight as we took the bumper when We crossed the car track. After a while a team was going down the hill when we started. We did not _see the team until it was too late. We could not turn out anyway as it was so icy that we would always slew. ‘We bumped the buggy as it was in the middle of the hill right on the back wheel. It lifted the buggy about BERTHA Yantic. The Lion and the Bear. A lion and a bear chanced to fall upon a fawn at the same time and they began to fight for it. They fought so flercely that at last they fell down en- tirely worn out and almost dead. A fox passing that way saw them stretched out and the fawn dead be- newspapers, the boy asked of Mr. La- fayette, “Do you want a paper.” Then Mr. Lafayette said, “Come with me to my home to see Liille and Violet. They will be glad to see you, and the girl and boy followed. . When they got home Lillie and Vio- let were glad to see them. Mrs. Lafayette told Violet to take them upstairs and dress up. So they went up and soon they were dresmed up and going for a walk with Lillle ADBLMAN, Age 11. | ity he would not be discovered. Tommy slipped out quietly and told the nearest policeman and Marner was immediately arrested. The murdered man's brother, the man who had offered the reward, was notified. He paid Tom the reward and questioned him as to what use he would make of it. Tommy told of his mother’s iliness. ‘When he returned to the tenement A K. WALKIER, Age 12. Mansfield Cent: Eleanor’s Doll Dear Uncle Jed: Some time ago T wrote to the Wide-Awakes about my trip to Fishers Island, and this time 1 going to write about my dolls. ¥ have seven dolls, which I received as gifts. 1 love to play with my dolls. But the ome I like the best is the one The il has not yet 1 to heaven that perseverance gain the summit of at last A Visit to a Museum. When I was in the fourth grade in a New York school my teacher took us to a museum. We had to ride a long distance on the car. We arrived at the museum at 9§ o'clock. In the doorway there was a man who acted as a guide and ex- plained different things to us. “CASCARETS” FOR SHOULD MAKE A . MILLION FOR HIM CMCINNATI MAN TELLS HOW TO SHRIVEL UP CORNS 80O 52 fid ] . THEY LIFT OUT Oucn This kind of rough talke will In one room there were large statues of Grant, Lincoln and other famous men. In another room there was an Indian tent in which sat an Indfen family. In the different cases around the room were Indlan clothes and moccasins. Later we went upstairs, whers we found old books, pamphiets, manu- scripts and skeletons of animals. We started home late, but we were very much pleased with the things we saw. ESTHER BRESS, Age 13. two feet high while the boy who was steering was knocked senseless. It was the end of our coasting for a while. ROLAND MAURICE, Age 2. Baitic. s that night he was in Mr. Johnston’ big touring cat. Mr. Johnston’s had Tommy% mother taken to a hospital. The operation was successful. The operation was successful. Tommy is at present emploved in a lawver's fice and has gained his employer's recommendation. ts look brighter for Tommy and his mother, than they have for sowme time. JOHN CUSHMAN, Age 14. Stonington. Little by Little. It was a dark and gloomy day in February. The sky was gray and tween them. He stole in siyly, seized the fawn and ran away with it for his own dinner. When they saw this they could not stir, but they cried out: ‘““What wretches we are to take all this trou- ble for the fo: This fable teaches us that when two persons fall to fighting for something a third person is apt to get it. LAWRBDNCE GAUTHIER, Age 12. ‘Brooklyn. My Trip Up the Hudson. I went on a visit to my uncle’s. I started from Baltic, went by the way of New Haven. My uncie met us at Bridgeport. From there we took an electric car to his home in Westport. I stayed here a few days. From West- port we went to New York by train. We arrived at Grand Central at 9 a. m. From Grand Central we had to go to West 42d street terminal. Here we took the boat for a sail up the Hu son. The boat was the Hendrick Hud- son. As we ll-l:;‘l:‘ull mo&l:k the first interesting was Palisades. The perpendicular rocks 100k as if they mere cut out by an artist. As we eatl- my cousin brought me {rom Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada. My aunt was afraid it would be broken: but when she opened her trunk, Dolly was safe and - ound, and looked very pretty. She bad a white silkc dress on. 1 named her Iris, for Ter eyes were a_pretty shade of blue. T have had her three years and a half; and she is just as g0od as new. 1 love to play with my doll school. 1 bope that some of the Wide- Awakes have just as many dolls as 1 have. BLEANOR HEINRICH, Age 9. Taftville. . A Thoughtless Boy. Dear Uncle Jed: One y while T was at the seashore 1 found my cousin Walter and his {riend Dave playing on the beach. With them was Trixey, ‘Walter's dog, who seemed quite tired out, as he had Leen swimming in the surf, and going after sticks that Dave threw Into the water. ‘Walter was afrald to let him go but Dave kept him going until the poor creature was fairly trembling with cold and fatiue. As he came flrfl“ his stick up the sand and 1aid it at Wailter's feet the Jittle muetor bugged him and said: “There, now, 's_enough. You shan't g0 any; | more.” and Violet, very happy indeed in their new home. When they got in the woods the boy said, “Let us sit down and rest a while. When they had sat a little ‘while the boy said, “What is that thing coming here?” Then Violet said: “That is a herd of buffaloes. Let us get out of the way. The boy said: “This place has not been trodden on by any creature, so we will live here. They lived there. The girl said, “We have discovered new land, what shall we name it7” The boy sald, “New Haven would be nice. So they named it New Ha- ven, and they thanked Mr. and Mrs. Latayette for taking care of & them when they were poor snd ragsed. TLBANOR DAYON, Age 12. Plainfield. The Wise Elephant. Dear Uncle Jed: Once a rich man gave a baby elephant to an ol wom- an. She took good care of him and soon became very fond of him. The children in the villags called this wo- called th - X RS “Please. And HEADACHE, COLDS LIVER, BOWELS The Four Oxen. Four oxen fed together in a large field. A lion lived near them. Every day he would try to catch the oxen. When the oxen saw him coming they stood together and showed their horns. 7 One sad day the oxen had a quar- rel and fed apart in the fleld. The lion said, “Now is the time for me to catch them.” . One day he kept going nearer and nearer until he had caught them and dragzed them off to his den, one by one, and then he ate them. 1o, | baske Balicuville. : - losking. ot the DesMHiERr Dibd: teate e Tk, and flowers. Some of the children picked some flowers to make wreaths. One of the most interesting sights of Soon it was dinner time, so they all Cambridge is the home of the poet[eat down on the grass and ate their Longfellow. It is a spacious old fash- |lunch. _After they had eaten their ioned Colonial mansion, painted in|iunch they began through the ‘woods, lfllfi:’ and 3 we had better because it wiil R E R ENJOY LIFE!I DON'T STAY B 10US, 8ICK, HEADACHY AND CONSTIPATED after GET RID OF BAD BREATH, SOU STOMACH, COATED TONGUE INDIGESTION Get a 10-cent box now They're fine! Cascarets liver, clean your thirty feet of and ‘sweeten vour stomach. ¥ one or two, like candy, before to bed and In the morning your is clear, tongue is n, sto sweet, breath right and cold Get a’box from your druggist an Joy the nicest, gentiest liver and bow cleansing you ever experienced. Cas carets stop mick headache, biliousnes indigestion, bad breath and cos tion. Motbers should give a whole Cas caret 1o cross, bilious, sick, feveris children any time. They ar harmisss and never arive or sicken. e Sy Hd Yantic. Lost in the Weeds. One day some children were playing in the woods. ‘Were going to have a picnic, so they all had their lunch “Y must hurry or I will get caught in the storm.” Not long afterward it began to snow. First, small flakes fell, then larger and larger ones, until it was snow- ing dreadfully. it snowed all day and all night. The trees, bushes, and stone walls were all covered with snow. When Mr. Smith canie home he was covered with snow. “Oh it is a terri- ble day: the snow is so deep. T don’t believe 1 can work tomorrow, but any- a. “Johnnmie” said Mr. Smith, want vou to make a path to the barn, ‘would answer "'gon.. on!