Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 16, 1917, Page 6

BCYS AKD GIRLS DEPARTMENT Rules for Young Writers. 1. Write piainly on one side of the | vaper only, and number the DaZes. 2. Use pen and ink, not pencil. Short and pointed articles will Y ve given preference. DO mot use over 250 words. 4. Original stories or letters only will be used, 5. Write your name, age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the story. Address all communications tc Uncle Jed, Bulletin Office. Whatever you are—Be that! Whatever you say—Be truel Straightforwardly act, Be honest—in fact, Be nobody else but you.” POETRY THE BLUE JAY Dressed in his best, with quaint little cap Jauntily set on his head; He perches on limb of an apple-tree— And coaxes away to be fed. He very well knows that his notes can be heard, And some one will hasten to throw Peanuts or crumbs in the well beaten path, Just under the tree on the snow. He's a cute little fellow with appetite keen, And peanuts are chosen instead Of the crumbs that are plentifully sprinkled about— He much prefers peanuts to bread. His voice is discordant at time we al- low, But sometimes he takes on a tone ¢ vibrates with music as sweet as can be. (Although this may mnot be well well known.) 2 We welcome you, Blue Jay, in spite of your greed, And gladly we'll feed you each day; ood and to spare from our e; we know sits all efforts repay. A HOUSE TO PROTECT By Adelbert F. Caldwell little blue house holds an embryo A song, A song of wonderful cheer; E should robbers attack the little blue house, That music the world would not hear, And this little blue house with such twonder within? It's neither a riddle nor jest, lainty blue egg full of life and and a song. float—give it time—from JED’S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES UNCLE aware if you plant bachel- jor's buttons or sun flowers in your he goldfinch will come to see se these flowers furnish him beca ed the wild canary and also -d and both names fit him, ana color he resembles the and he lines his nest with the the great seed pods of the a e of the latest birds THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE . They saw a pretty butterfly, and thea had Fielding at Sumer Farm. 8. Elsie F. McDaniels, of Mans- fleld Center, Ruth Fielding at Sunrise Farm. The winners of prize books may call at The DBulletin business office for them at any hour on Thursday after 10 a. m. by writing she replied £00d book, and she repli 2 ng to The Co ", a mother had subscribed to. Lillian went home with a brilliant idea and thought she'd tell Marie but upon enteris the room she said in- stead: “Done already? It was grand wasn't it? “What ?” “The ending, I mean. “O, yes, but I wish I had the next book in the series. Papa says you can’t buy them in New York, for he's tried all over.” Anxious to please her sister and eag- er to win praise, Lillian after coax- ing her mother to subscribe for the paper sat down and painstakingly wrote “The Dark Murder,” a good enough story for a novel, but not for LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGR | Ciiigfen’ so she didn't &et anything e for it. L = i , Time after time she wrote similar Anna Ulrich, of Norwich. I thanl |tories, but witMout success. At last you very much for the prize book Yo | sheconfided in Kathérine who laugh- Sent me. I have read it and find it very interesting. Catherin Lee Burns of Norwich. 1 thank you verw much for the prize Look you sent me entitled “Our Young Aeroplane Scouts at Verdun.” Arlena Pearl, of Augusta, Me. I received the prize book you sent me. I have read nearly all of it and find it very interesting. I thank you ever so much for it. Estelle M. Jodoin, of ewett City. 1 thank you very much for the prize book you sent me. I am reading it and find it very interesting. Beatrice Ableman of Norwich. 1 thank you for the prize book you sent men entitled “Mildred at Roselands.’ STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. The Lost Children. One afternoon as Dorothy was sit- ting in her swing her friend Dora ran up to her and asked if she would go out in the woods for wild flowers with her. “All right, I will run in and ask mother «r_if I may go.” Dorothy went in to ask her mother. She found out that her mother was out for the day. “Let’s go by ourselves,” said Doro- thy. Dora agreed They toward the woods. then ran off and chased it until they grew tired and sat down. They were very hungry and | tired and they could not find the right path to go home. They laid down and fell asleep. About midnight Dora woke up and heard the barking of a dog. As the dog came near she heard a man's voice. The barking sounded familiar. She knew it was her dog Bruno. Dora woke Dorothy up and soon they were clasped in their father's arms. When they reached home they were glad to go to bed. They both promised their mother that they would never go out in the woods alone again. BERTHA TAFFLEL, Age 13 Nerwich. Our Sunday School Picnic One Saturday our Sunday _school supes tendent told us we should take the ten minutes past nine car for Wildwood Park. We held our picnic there because of its being noted for bass fishing. During the forenoon the men and boys | went fishing. I caught a few sized perch, but no bass. At noon we ate our basket lunches ice cream. In the afternoon we held games for good | | thought occurs to him that ed nhilariously. “Of course you won't get anything Lil, if you dom’t write originally, something like a description of a trol- ley ride,-the history of some country, etc.,” advised Katherine. “Thank you. TI'll try,” Lillian meek- Iy _responded. The next edition of The Courier showed a printed article entitled “My Visit to the Adirondack” and another letting the writer know she had won a book. Lillian was extremely happy and she gave the book to Marie because it was the next of that series. Lillian wrote many stories and though sthe is married now she still encourages her children to follow her path which they are glad to do. CECELIA R. STERRY Brooklyn N. Y. Nature’s Submarines. Way back when the world was young, we are told, sharks did not stop growing until they were ome hundred and twenty-six feet long. Compared with them, the man-eaters of today would ~hardly be considered big enough “to carry home” but would be tossed back into the water, as we would throw back three-inch catfish. In vast deposits known as phos- phate beds, on the Carolina coasts, are thousands and thousands of sharks’ teeth. mixed with the vertebrae and the bones. 3 Some of these teeth are nearly as wide as one’s hand, and are as per- fect as the day their owner died, the imperishable enamel having preserved intact even the small cutting ridges on the edge. These fossil teeth are shaped very much the same as the stone arrow head. So no matter what may be said about the shark we must admit that it is classed along with the oldest citizens of the world. If he failed to leave any “footsteps” on the sands of time,” he did leave to us tons of teeth. The shark we know is the tramp of the ocean, and when the call of the road gets into his blood, he must pick up and leave. When we decide to take an ccean voyage, there are a thousand and one things to be attended to. we worry our brains about cabin reser- proviGe heavy wraps for fos- g Vs, the steamer trunks, steamer robes, and a lot of other things. The worry of getting ready almost does with the pleasure of going. Not so with the shark: he may be dreaming away coral reets of the Indian ocean when a he would I'ke to see how things are going in the neighborhood of Coney Island. All the geiting ready he has to do is to get his nose pointed rect d keep a_straight cou women and children, including the po- | 1°Ction, a : Tato ace 10. yard @ach. threc-lexked | There are many kinds of sharks, race for girls, race for boys and a | OMe harmless as a channel cat bean guessing game. ? |and others full of ferocity. The great L A ome havine eh. | White: shurk ‘sithe - man-ester’ s ia A Etbgpta E | veritable tiger of the seas, cruel and —Un ed. joyed a perfect day An Arcient Cliff City. treacherous, knowing no fear, possec- sed of an appetite that is never sat- NORWICH BUL the days among the | in the right ai- | ’-.fi his food at all, he hasn’t the time, but bites: off great hunks. He has a habit of ewallowing anything that may be thrown overboard from a vessel. An old mattress was thrown overboard, and by the time it struck the water, four sharks were tearing it to pieces, and it disappeared, each shark bolt- ing his share of cotton waste and cloth. Besides man, the shark has another enemy; this is the nemora. or sucking fish, it sticks to its body and sucks his life away. Strange as it may seem, the shark is able to smell under the water for very great distances. Living ,the shark is a menace and a nuisance, and dead he is little better. His flesl is tough and worthless, and his skin has but limited value. His skin is Fard and file-like, and is used to some extent for covering instrument cases. Tht liver yields fairly good oil, and the fins are considered something of a delicacy by the Chinese. GABRIELLA BUJAK, Age 14. Mansfield Center. A Shopping Expedition. One morning I awoke bright and early and found it such a delightful day that I decided to go to town to do a little shopping. 1 started out immediately after breakfast. arriving in town about 9 o'clock. I got off the car and went into the different department stores to get a few odd things I wanted. After I had bought all T needed and had seen all that I wanted and felt tired, I went into the drug store for some cream and soda which tasted very good, for it was a very warm day. I then went through the five and ten cent store which I found very in- teresting, with its long counters of many different articles. I arrived home in time for dinner, tired, but very contented with my shopping expedition. ANNA ULRICH, Age 14. Norwich. A Home-Made Flag. In our neighborhood there were two small children who were too poor to buy a flag as the other children had done to show respect to the soldiers as they passed through the streets. As these children sat on the door- step thinking how to earn money enough to buy a flag one of them said: “You will take vour blue waist and I will take my red skirt snd tear them into strips and sew them together, and here is some white cloth for star: As the soldiers came marching by the house the general halted his army for them to salute the home-made flag EVA DICKINSON, Age 14 Colchester. How Beads are Made. Making glass beads is a world in- dustry and needs expert workmanship. They are manufactured from colored slass tubings of different sizes. This tubing is cut into small pleces, the pieces being rounded on the edges by melting them with a blow pipe. My uncle once took me and~my sister to a_place where they made beads, but T was too small to remem- ber anything except some blow pipes, colored glass and some machinery. Beads can be used for many things such as embroidery and necklaces, and many other things. There are coral. |ivory, amber, wooden, and scented beads. The Chinese Mandarin must have a string of beads. or his ceremonial cos- tume is not complete. It has porce- lain beads of beautiful colors. They have secret colors, which we can’t find out. The ds for eves of imals. e character doll e hair. comnlextion, and of our cousins in Holland. Italy, and ance. The Swedish blue eves and the Italian dark tovmen use }dolis ana shows aves us -t . o %] i s isfied. and with a record of speed that A a sweet little| Walnut canyon, near Flagstaff, Ariz. | oS0 705 Deen broken. materials and secret dves A t, vellow plum- | Contains some of the most_ interesting e power that lies behind the jaws |are u<ed in making glass beads. They ¢ and a black top. | FN8 on #he contimeat The canyom| nark is something almost be [720e helped us to buy land from the - = S e elf is remar . being 2 | Another peculiar thing about | The Indians liked daz ccoznized. feet deep, a qua; mile ! et hibeo Tiave Gonbiatng. ach as blue, red and Whieieve e thistle grow-|the top and a few hundred feet at e ialaoy s A liked red best a 3 and he ean |Dottom. The sides do mot rise up e e word bead means praver, and sl ntle slopes, bt shing acind. comes from Anclo-Savon. ~ Decanse he e [uport tier, e iant e head of a shark is laroe in pro- ANATE BTANS, Aze 12 ng: o 1 birds, the| FHere were con to the bodv, and- somewhat Mansfield Center. wren and the man. T The nose is long and o bEi oot fleor, the eves hiz and rolline. The Road Through the Woods. 1 — clump of sun- Ak s situated far under the| There was once a little cottage sit- 7 A shark is eaid to have nated at the end of a large forest. Tn on pur- 3 S of teeth on each jaw one hun- |this little house. one story high, lived h o Tonig DeYer lared and forte infallThe little girl with her father and moth- T t at, but when seeing its prey er. Her only were her two R e least | (he pOwer of erecting every one of |large shepherd dogs a few chick- ere are at e S0 a shark bite is not just a|ens. She learned the names of many mitive dwolll from a single row of teeth: it!|of the birds and flowers and roamed There is b stabbinz of an even gross of |abou: the fields gavly all day long. 3 -cdge wedges. He does not chew | One day. when she went into the £ this bu tely filled t A5 ottt e THE MOTHER JUNIOR GUARDSMEN house or sateway, one those who feed | George Cable, a laa e vears ofjcome back, and God will iet him, “I £ ! looked up when he heard a cry |know!” Wk e | from his mother, who had been reading George's faith filled her with new e, ackened ceil- | \he morning paper. In an instant he |courage and hopefully and prayerfully 2 RITIN Been founa | Tealized something dreadful had hap- :she helped her son with his prepara- T el fount | pened to mamma, for her face usual- | tions. Cheerful outwardly, and_tear- I Lot OB Iy all smiles and the dimples in her ful inwardly she bade him “Good- t— R. Ste SO0 | cheek’ where the flush tint of color |bye!” waen he started for the train- e i blayed at hide and seek could not be |ing camp. Jw.; The tears were chasing each| George in his brisk way, fiitted here, B Eehen. r down her colorless cheek and her | there and everywhere, trying to run | ey 65 SR U‘j; oape | face was drawn, she swaved as if she|errands and to take care of mother. 3—E Colorestas e s Sl Gl about to fall, then recovered her- |He and his comrades talked *of their i Shates G AR while sighs escaped from her lips|b ers, who had zone and maybe : PEet | as she murmured: “I can’t—can’t bear | would meet the submarines, and ow o Bosic |it! " Poor, poor Karl! I can’t let him |how they regretied tnat they could ~ Book. 2o Inot, as they termed it, heip to take bed toss- | " George pushed his erector aside and | care of the fla D in a|ihrew his arms around his mother's | Their teacher intimated that they 1 r S00n |neck. exclaiming: “Oh, ma. Oh ! What i could do so if they would. She told and altnough the |is the matter with brother?” them that the soldiers in uniform were an, had pronounced her on the | were a | ibtful. am tired of talk and | feel seeing the g and more who come to make me I am ill,” Marie told her moth- | en she came in with the supper | like child, thy come to make you Are yvou not glad to know | ¥ and they were not if | one escaped. | rer lap and again scanned the names | bry Cable realized that she must 1f-control, and soon the ; were like hiccoughs, srew frequent and enly an occasional As she drew the lad on Mrs ecover her the drafted men in the paper, she hed a prayer for strength to bear the future held for her, and to » her to make her little boy under- | stana. She told him of how our forefathers you wky do they send all these 52 Only this morning Dick El. |came to this country, then a wilder- 1 brought you this beautiful bunch |Tess, of their hardships ard sacrifices, ouse fowers,” she pointed to|of others joining them. how the colo- |nies were formed. of how ities and the colonial “Better to strive and climb And never reach the goal, Than t An aimless worthless soul. Ay, better to climb and fall, Or sow though the yield be small, to throw away dav after day, nd never strive at all. Th. ft along with time, the handsome flowers and sighed when she saw her daughter's dissatisfied countenance. The mother soon left the room, but had scarcely gone when the in- valid's young sister, Lillian came tear- ing in with a book which it was evi- dent she had been reading. “O, Marie, the disagreeable old maid married a German doctor. Oh, I'm so glad that it came out so nicely This was th- salutation Lillian gave her sister as she entered. ‘Where did you get that book?” “Why Katherine let me have it to read. I have just finished and am on my way_ to return it. “Ask Katherine if I may read dear, when vou go over?” “All right! Goodbye,” laughed Lil- lian as she threw a kiss to her sis- ter. When she came back with a fav- orable answer, Marie was asleep so she softly took a pen frem the desk and wrote “Yes” and Jaid the book be- side her pillow. Marie woke up and found it ther® and began it next morning and finished it before dark. The girls and boys didn’t call which was due to Mrs. Fanning telling them it was one of Marie’s poor days. In the meantime Lillian asked Kath- erine how she happened to get such a it, | towns grew up, of how houses had taken the place of log huts, lof how the mother country became so tyrannical that George Washington and other brave soldiers fought it, and the land west of the Atlantic ocean now the United States, because a separate nation: of how the colonies became states and of the first flag, |made by Retsy Ross. She concluded | several times our country has been at war with our enemies, but our val- jiant soldiers have kept the Union un- broken, or so to speak, the flag unharm- |ed. for the flag represents our nation. Now foreign nations are at war and our country has been drawn into it, and our president has asked us to help him protect it and to help the Allies. 5o all the men between 21 and 31 had to register, and today’s paper tells .me that our Karl is one of the first of the chosen ones to fight for the cause. “Why? whv. ma? Don't you want Karl to g0? T wash I was old enough!” With suppressed feeling she told him “that she would have no one to care for her and that very many of the soldier boys would never return, and Karl might be one of them and. “On!"" he interrupted, “I will take care of you! And you just want to think all the ‘time that brother will not the only helpers, for the men who ! provided and manufactured clothes, food and ammunitio buiit ships, gave money and in many other ways helped to protect the flag, for without these supplies, the war could not be carried on. You wart to know how you can be soldiers a home, first Jearn to obey in every way, then try lin all ways to help ~to make mothers cheerful, tell them of plays, go about with them instead of by yourselves, read to them: and, oh, there are many ways that will sug- gest themselves to you. If your en- deavors are accomplished you will be soldiers in your homes for father and mother will then write ters to the absent ones that will con- vey fresh courage and strength to bear the hardships which must be en- dured by soldiers in time of war. George spent much time thinking over what his teacher had said, then { be called the boy tore’ther and or- sanized a society. They elected their officers and voted to report weekly what each one considered the most important way in which he kad helped. After much discussion they hose “The Mother’s Junlor- Guardsmen” their name and ciosed th ing. Their teacher heard of the organiza- tion and presented each member at their second meeting with a red and white striped rosette with blue stars in the center and the initials M. T G." were below, embroidered in red, white and blue, which were placed on the lapels of their coats. The secretary was authorized send thanks to the donor. Who can doubt the good such a so- ciety can do: and it is hoped many boys and girls will guard, protect and help those in the homes. while older ones are fighting in foreign lands for victory. / DIANA N. H. 4 - cheerful let- for first meet- to woods with her mother she discovered a little path; she asked her mother where it led to, but she refused to tell her. : She always sat down and thought about it and sometimes she would stray away and sit down at the begin- ning of the path and see people go to and fro carrying flowers. She would ask them where they were going, but they would only start to weep and go away. She longed so much to find out about it, but she dared not go without her mother’s consent. At last her cur- fosity set her so much to thinking about it that one day she determined to go out and follow the path. The little road was surrounded on both sides by trees and bushes and was very lonesome. On her way she met a few people with sad faces. At last she reached the end and what do you think she came to? She came upon a little cemetery surround- €d by a little stone wall. In it were a few white stones with writings on them. She had never seen anything like this before, and wondered what it was. She picked some of the flowers amd started for home. ‘When she came home she described to_her mother what she had seen. Her mother told her what it was and told_her never to go there again. ESTHER SHERSHEVSKY, Age 10. Norwich. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. An Auto Trip. Dear Uncle Jed: I will tell’ you about going for a ride in our auto. We started Szturday morning about 9 o'clock. My father, mother, sister and I went. We rode 15 miles. It was a beautiful day, but very warm. ‘We arrived at my grandfather's be- fors noon. My father bought a cow and little calf'on the way there. My uacle had one pig, some cows, hens and a dog. When we were coming home we had a blowout. It happened that there was some big trees there so we could work in_the shade. My sister enjoyed picking flowers while she waited. Yhen it was fixed we came home VK W. GRAY, Age 10. i FRA ‘Willimantic. A Nice Large Farm. Dear Uncle Jed: I will tell you about | the farm. It is a nice larze place With a lot of trees all around the house and_barn. We have planted nine acres of corn It is about ten feet high and is just tasseling out. We hope to have quite a lot of corn this fall. | We have got through haying but will have some rowen to cut. We have one pig which I feed nearly every night. I also have sixteen hens; nice ones. My father has fifeten cows and about twenty-four hens. T help my father peddle milk every day during vacation, In September I will have to go to school again, and then my brother will help him peddle. 1 expect to set out a strawberry bed this year. RAYMON W. GRAY, Age 12. Willimantic. A Mischievous Trick. Dear Uncle Jed: One dav as T was sitting on the porch I saw my brother carrying a little poodie. I asked him where he got her and he said that his triend gave her to him. 3 She being very fat. we named her Fatty. One day while Fatty was in the street she was called by a mis- chievous boy. This boy called her because he saw an auto passing. / When Fatty was half way over the | street she saw the auto, which was almost on her. While she stood puzzled the wheel wen* over her head When I was to!d of this ac ®%ent T they are; jnstantlv buried “e dog in my back vard his was .ie result of a mis- chievous act ROSE WEINER, Age 10 | Norwich. How She Spent Her Vacation. Dear Uncle Jed: I will tell you how I spent my summer’s vacation. After school let out I helped work in the house. When I got my work | done T would sew. i Then ihe hay got ripe to cut, so T had to help work in the hay lot. Our | hay is in two lots, but one is larger | than the other. H | _We have the hay mowed except the | | meadow in the large lot and two or three places in the small one. My brother and I have been huckle- berrving and got three quarts, but {went a little while at a time, as we did not have time. I have also been to dances and had a good time dancing, and also visited | a girl friend SIE F. McDANIELS. nter. I CHILD LABOR LAW | Misunderstood y Manufacturers, Miss | Mansfiela ¢ Hololway Claims—In Effect Sep- tember 1. Miss Charlotte Holloway. of New London, industrial inspector of the state department of labor and factory inspection, said vesterday there is c_cns:rhx ble misunderstanding among the manufacturers of the state, as to the exact meaning of the new child labor law. She has just visited vari- ous of the factories, and finds many of them have the opinion that all boys | under 16 years of age must be di charged They thought the law went into ef- fect Aug, 1 and on that day, several of them discharged from their em- ot MISS COLUMEIA, THE MAYFLOWER, by ploy all the boys under that aze. Mis Holloway has explained t the new law does not zo into effect until Sep- tember 1, and that it does not mean all minor boys shall not he employv- ed, but that t 1l work only 4% hours a weeck Some of the manufacturers who have lessened the hours of work of minors to - conform the fed }law, have found tr allowinz boys to go home an hour earlic night has caused much tion among the other er do_not understand about order to get around this, Mis: gested to these employers let the boys come in to in the morning, and then ! an go home at the sams hour at night, thus doing away with any feel on the part of the otl employes Miss Holloway found no large amound of child labor about the state in the factories which she has secn that manufacture cotton, silk and velvet. In most of these places, they have had bovs and girls working, b in simple routine work. which does not involve much hardship to them The shortaze of labor because of war conditions, has made the employ- ment of minors absolutely necessary Miss Holloway finds. The cotton n- Tt Kaiser, w himself as a w vith some diffc his present What We Scmewhat Embarrassing 4 AN INDIAN MAIDEN by Dorothy Rasmussen of Norwich. Land duty of one of our boys of the naval militia is shown her: He i3 guarding a lighthouse on the Hudson river. a becon that is an important aid to navigation o nthe waterway. To most Americans the Hudson river is known chiefly as a beautiful stream, the scene of pleasant excurs is a s0 an important arter merce bearing the producs of vior states to the city of for use or export. Guarding fic ie therefore - =n-—=-4 tamk time. the & its of traf- war-