Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 22, 1917, Page 9

NORWICH BULLETI THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22 1917 THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE" BGYS AND GIIILS,DBP.ARtmT Rules for Yaoung ' Writers. L W:ilu Dhldl” o‘bonemmde ofe. the | paper_omly, and number the pag 2. Use pem and ink, mot pencil Short and " poinied articles will | be given preference. -Do not use over ! 238 words. 4. Original stories or letters only will be 5. Write your name, } age and ad- aress plainly at the bottoms of the ! story. Address all communications tu. Uncle vJ‘Q Bulletin Office. “Whatever ycu are—Be that! ‘Whatever you say—Be truel Straightforwardly act, Be_ hopest—in fact, Be lflbfl.v dl' bui you.” POETRV By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. There are curious isies in the River of Sleep, Curious isles without number. We'll visit them ail as we deisurely creep Dewn the winding stream whose cur- rent is deep, In our beautiful barge of Slumber. , The very first isle-in this wonderful stream, Quite elose to the shore is lying, And after a supper of cakes and creal We come to the Night-Mare-Isle with a scream, And burry away from it crving. Ana next is the Island-of-Lullaby, And everrone there rejoices, The winds are oniy a perfumed sigh, And the birds that sing in the tree- tops try : To imitate Mothers’ voices. A little beyond is the lIsle-of-Dreams:; , that is the place to be straying. Bvervthing there is just as it seems; Dolls are real and sunshine gleams, Ana no one calls us from playing. And then we come to the droliest isle, And the funniest sounds come pour- ing, Down in;m its borderlands once in @ hile. Ana we lean o'er our bafke and listen and emile: For that is the Isle-of-Snoring And the very last isle in the River-of- Sieep. Is the sunshiny Isie-of-Waking, We see it first with our eves a-peep, And we give a yawn—then away we leap, The barge of Slumber forsaking. POETRY. Spirit of the Food Drive. Herbie Hoover's come to our to stay, To make us scrape the dishes ; am keep thé crumbs away, An’ learn us to make war bread arm save up all the grease, For the less we eat of butter, #77" sconer we'll have peace. {An" all us other chilren, when scanty meais is_done, ‘fi gather up around the fire an’ has v the, mostest fun fA- l‘laanln' io the Proteins thaf: Herbie fank thec Calories that! it you Little clean the our An' fitfle Herbie Hoc\er sn)s when fire burns low: Al' the vitamines. are creenxng ‘from iws, sof an' slo: You better eat the Lhin"! the Food . . Folks says they's plenfy of. And cheat the garbage pail, ai all butcher's meat the shove, An’ gobble up the corn pone, an’ vege- tables and fish, An" save your drippin’s and sweets, an’ lick clean every &ish, Ar’ don't zet fi a-tdlking of what you won't do without, Or _the CIIEO;IQI 1 git you give out —Spesie Kerr, in Life. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. It isn't lkely anyone knows how man awoke to the thought that ‘it would be of advantage to divide the day. imto 24 parts and fake account of time. At first the momning and the evening made the day. Thé early nations had three’ ways of marking the day—from sunrise to sunrise, from sunset to sunset and from midnight to midnight. Thig last W has become world-wide in alrocks were nnfly m!fl. especially | {q, 33 .| city may call at The business sense, hnt Chfl!lml eve and Sabbath eve were introduced upon ‘the from sunsét te sunset plan, and this} is why they occur oh the evening of the day preceding the. festival or the day of religious rites. Men kept time at first with knotwed strings and marked candles which burned from knot to knot or from éir- cle to circle in a given time. Later the sundial was invented: so that the hours were marked by ,its shadow, and in order to tell the holy- days churches were placed in suel a relation to the sun that the. light.on the wall reached these festival marks at the right day of the year. i Then the calendar was invented which divided the year ints months; weeks and days, but it was so imper- fect that an error of 10 years in time was discovered, and the Gregorian cai-. endar was adopted, and this mmde our own Washington 10 days older than|’ he thought he was, so his birthday, is now celebrated on Feb. 22d. Washing- ton was 20 yedrs old before he knew he must borrow 10 days from the ntn to make his age right’ Then the hour glass was, inxenied and was used until quite recent times. There are persons now living who re- member when the hour glass _used’ to be placed on the pulpit in “church dnt turned over as:the sand'-ruiiouc-of the upper into the lower part, tomark the hours. ) Then the clock" was invented, -which’ marked the hours and minutes, and these were improved until they also. noted the seconds and the changes..of the moon and tides. : Watches followed which were.carried in the pocket: but these are not one- fifth as larse today as they used .tb be 100 vears ago; afd they not “oRly count the hours and minutes'and séc- onds, but also guarter seconds THE WINNERS OF P PRIZE BOOKS. !—Clme A. Gelo,” cf Ynntio—!&x{y I W is.wonderful.how: one’invention opens. the way for a. better: one: ss Moppet. —Evelyn Caren, of Cross Girls in Belgium. 2—Nelson - Hulme, "of Baltlc—The Broncho Rider Boys. 4+—Katherine Taylor, Town—Her Willful Wa 5—Delsie ‘G._Ames, of wmmanuc—- A Daughter of-the Forest. 6—Esther Bress, Ferry Maid. Lillian M. Brehaut, of Huntington [.. T.—The Benhurst Cluh. S Jou e L. Brehaut, of Hmnngtn-, Broncho Rider Boys in Art Norwich—Red of Vqrwi'bh of ) nnflc—*-b’l'be Winners of prize books living in tHe e Ralletin business ¥ hugr;,\-n‘: 10 &, office for them at m. Thursday. ¢ ' LETTERS OF AcKNoWLéBuMEN'r. Ellen Belknap of Sterling: 1 received ! the prize book which you sent me and | vas pleased as well ‘as surprizes. thank you.very much. i Mary Felechatz qt _Willimant ThanK you very much for the lovels prize book. -I'te readitiall through and think it fife. nk You ever so much. James Currier of Versailles: 1§ re- ceived the prizé book: The Boy Allies, and I thank you very much for it. | meam to try for another one before ong. ' S | STORIES WRH’TEN BY WjDE- Devil's Der. One day while flie. Boy Scouts were out camping we ‘thought we ‘wotld {ake a hiké and 1ook" for'thé Devil's Den. When we went in the morning we did not find it, ;o we inquired about it and succeeded in Hfldln‘ it An Y.he afternoon. It. was situated . between two ln-ge rocks.. There were abqut seven smaller caves around it. The inside of - the cave “was ‘very damp and <old. The warm was not long, but there was another that turned around amd -went back again and ended in front of a solid piece of rock.: The other passage went straight from the main-ene and ended the same way as the other ome, for it had caved in. The, other caves were the same way. The best part of ‘the plicé was ‘the scenery, which was very pretty. Some Maria Wblund of m T .1' one ‘which _on the top was cut away: having a pool of water full of leaves. After .looking ‘around and explering other. yés for about an hour we m‘ bl Lg %’LME Age 13, Baltic. Au(umn. To me autumn is a very sad portion of the year, butto some peeple: it is very ‘gay. The irees that once bore green leaves for shade and covering let .them fail in different colors to the earth, to form soil. The grass that was 80 green, with biboming flowers scatter- éred here and there, has been cut for Hay or is dead and shriveled. Going through the highway one could :smell the.sweet perfume of “wild. flowers that grew everywhere. < ‘The birds that came-in spring and sang sweétly during the summer days have flown south;..but a few stay with us during the -cold winter. The gardens that were -green with leaves of the vegetables:and fruits have-all been cleaned up——the-produce gathered and put. away: carefully for winter. which perhaps will be very severe. “But -winter will soon be .over and spring will arrive with her tTeen drese lend musical birds, and - will -gladden the whole earth.again. 2 CARRIE -ALICE GELO. Yantic. 3 e . My Journey. .. One week my pa and ma went to New ~York and they-left' mé at my aunt’s in Moosup, Ct. And I had éucn a good time I wanted to stay there Jlonger. I went to the theatre and T went to visit the school and also mly relatives. When ma and pa were ifi New York they went to see the Hippodrome and how mother praised it. She bought me there a lovely hair tibbon and other pretty things. - EVELYN CARON, Age Norwich. 9 Calendar of The Turks. The Turks count their dayv from one sunset to the next sunset, dividing the twenty-four hours into twelves. as we do. This is plain’ sailing, but, unfort- unately suhset does not fall at the same hour day after day. and there en- sue horrible complicatiéns to the in- neéent European. - By way presumabiy of jest the Turk- isk steamers follow Turkish and their railway. Frankish time. Many a good man. probably has ended his life in a lunatic_as¥lum after a frantic attempt to’ reconcile the two. The pamnpered rich have watches specially ¢onstruet- ed with two dials, one showing each ‘time. Apparently some enterprising Osmali thought that the Tukish calendar erred. on the side of 'simplicity and Kkindly imvonted' a_new ~ complication. The Mehamnied@in vear dates . from . the flight of the prophet in the.seventeenth eentury. FEach year the first. month, Mahavian. comes eleven. days earlier, 50.the months do not matk the season 1ike ours. % “There is one more Section for the benefit of the Turkish péasant. who in his ‘rural rétreat knows mnothinx of months. For him the year is composed of two seasons—hidralis. . beginning on May -6th, and kassin, heginning - No- vember 7th—so to him April 20th is the one hundred and sixty-fourth day of gassin. JESSIE L. BREHAUT. Huntington, L. - To Be Seen in New York. . If any of you are visiting New York city .here are some specially interest- ing features which should-not be miss- ed: » New York Skyscrapers, Battery Park, Statue of, Liberty, Custem House, Eowling Green, . Trinity Church, Producas Kxchange, Wall Street. St,. Paril's. Chapel, City - Hall . Park. . New York and Brooklyn ‘Bridges, " Grace Chureh, Urilon Sqnuare, Madison- Square, Avpellate Court House. Madison Square :Garden, Fifth Avenue, Central Park, < Metropolitan Museum of Art, .@apa Central Terminal, Hegald nd Times Sqyare, Riverside Drive, 5 »*Gramnt’s Tomb. - Morningside Heights; Fronx Park, Van Cortlanat Park, and The Subway. LILLIA\ R BREHAUT Huntington, L. My Preparation For Winter. . During the last summer I have been very busy canning and making jellies. 4 haxve neyer done ‘such work before, but I have become interested in if, and think I bave been successful. Tirall | Bive twenty-seven jars, fn- qluding - peaches. granes. currants, pears, “blackberries and huckleberries. Now I am drving apples; whic¢h T thipk will. be ‘more -economical, ‘than | making jellies, as sugar is very pensive: “In.my. school the-children have sign- ed-a nledte m‘ eat candy until Christmas. 00,25 T intend help our seld.lcrs as muth—az possi- e I have n.hered a gnad iubn‘!'y‘ of e many thlnn in ‘the ' RATHERINE !Azma‘ g —_— Twa Th-nknguvlnm. I'm Uncle Sam, by Elsie Church of ——, Sth prize, $0.25. Nurse Watkins‘and her Jittle charge, Howard Tyler, when returning from, tie shore which,lay back of the house which was owned by Mr. Tyler, cerned, on .coming out on the main road, a dog trying to rum, but being lame and having no strength, could not do so, but laid down and moaned. Howard patted him, aithough nurse did not want him to, for the animal was a disreputable looking waif, dir- ty, rough, nothing but skin and bones, with big staring eyes, lons ears and leng, lanky legs. He was minus part ‘of his tafl, and no doubt his lameness was caused by the ill-treatment of the boys in the village. Howard suddenly started for home as fast as his short legs would per- mit, with nurse followinz as fast as propriety would allc She met Mrs. Tyler ana Howard carrying a pail. Mrs. Watkins advised them not to g0 to the dog's rescue, for after a while he would creep somewhere else, but being a kind-hearted woman and wanting to teach_ her little son to bel kin@ to animais Mrs. Tyler proceeded on_her way. Deogsie was moaning and whining and did not have strength to take the milk_that Howard turned into a sau- cer for him, so mamma very gently turned it down into his throat. The nilk revivea him, and soon he drank all they had brought. The animal scemed thankful for the food and sympathy and Ris moans were less | pitiful. Nurse, at Mrs. Tyler's request, summoned {wo men frcm the stable with a stretcher and soon doggie lay oa some pics clean straw in a corner of the garage. When #Howard told his father that night the story of the doz and asked permission to lkeep him and to bring him into ‘the hcuse he was refused. Papa told him he was sorry for the dog, and that he and mamma would find a good home for him after he was fully recovered. but thas he did not want that kind of a doz around. Howard named him Shag, because e was so shaggy: and .dosggie re- sponded to the good care which wes ziven him. He was fed, washed. combed and brushed each dav and althouzh he would never be a hand- some doz he srew better looking every day, proving that he was nearly starv- ed when he was rescued. A _poor widow, wanted him so tha” she ‘would not be entirely alone, and | Shag *would have a zcod permanent home; but Howard feit so reluctant about parting with his playfello that dogrie was permitted to rema a week longer.. ter to go from Boston to New York. Then it was not ccnvenient. to write, for there were no steel pens, no ready- gummed envelopes, no posmge stamps, and no lefter boxes. One of Mary's uncles went to Chi- cago, then a smail village to do some trading, and the letter inviting him to the festivities was sent the latter part of July. The little Mary of 1903 has. a _cousin living in Chicago, of whom she is very fond. Just a few days before Thanksgiving she iamvited him to come to her house for dinner, and he heard her talking one thousand miles away over a long distance tele- Dhone, so plainly as if they were in the 'same room. How differently the zuests came one hundred years ago. Then there were no electric lines across the country. Even in the cities the old-fashioned would have considered it a fairy . tal {1iké the story of Jack and the Bean- 1istalk. One of her cousins came from New York to the gathering, afid it ‘ona a!t;)s' % “ : P ablebort baking juble-| lers, sranulated sugar, k der, B 1o A0 flmu‘ifi.‘“‘ nd vege! B, and . ‘enameled sink, d ‘many that make the " cooking. sent -in_from..a summer. a treat as that {mr,mue e dreamed -of. Wwho -waer. | Ilinais uv-:h.ml address th :nox him a week :olssnest :htetrec The Mary, of eft . Chicago ,arrived {n Boston the wh,ng You suppose the folks talked ahout. uter the dinner was over in the year 18092 There was little news, or it mythlgn‘ Qa‘n hnpp:«::, it :u.s an old story time “go around.” Perhaps the older omes told stories’ of promise as did !helr d e muozmmim u G.. AMES. [Miss .Ames has written to the Wide- | Awakes one of “the veéry best letters received in' the &even years of its ex- lmee —Unoh Jedy - le, mlllt “th -.ml loving the same maid. } were not PONticAl friends. Both rh—- two glants were to stand on the same platform in seven different e samo great questions nf the %ey had many th':tt debates. tro Titnels, Douglas was ‘made sen- .atory !u: ncoln was made of the I;Fltld Stj.lel. Two days before Shag was to 2o to his new home Howard, doggie and nurse Watkins went to ths shore as usual for their daily walk and play. The tidé was quite high so they could not ‘play on the shore and soon How- ard tired of playing on the bank, went down the embankment, and he and doggie got into papa’s boat which was usually moored on the beach, but for some reason, unknown to nurse, it was only pulled up a bit. The boy and dog played for a while, cantering the hoat from side to side, then nest- led down on the cushions in the bow of the boat and fell asleep. Nurse sat on the bank and knowing that the lad was sleeping, began to read and did not kmow the tide was receding and carrying the boat and child out into deep water until Shag suddeniy jumped and swam ashore, the boat was too far away for her to grasp the rope which dragged behind on the surface. Although Shag reached the rope he could not swim 2nd pull the boat ashore with the rope in his bouth. Howard awoke and see- ing himself alone, began to ery. _ Shag did not dally any longer, but jumped into the boat, caught the crild’s clothes in his mouth and dived into the water, keeping his heaa and the boy’s head aboye water and swam for the shore. Nurse Watkins' criés had summion- €d help who turned Howard on his face for a moment to remove the salt water from his mouth, then they used artificial respiration, rubbing limbs and body until the boy breathed nat- ural and was conscious. Then he was taken home and given a hot_drink and put into a warm bed, and soon was fast asleep. Howard awoke, refreshed. bfit re- mained fretful (probably he was ner- vous from shock and fright). He was not willing for Shag to leave him, neither was the dog willing to do so, and when the boy was about again he was following at his heels. Soon after the bov was about while papa was amusing him by teiling him a story one evening, the littie fellow put his chubby arms around Shag’s neck and began to cry convulsively. Oh, Oh, papa! I can’t let Shag go! Don’t! Oh, don't give him to Mrs. Avers.” “Why ?” replied his father. -I do not intend to do so. Is that what has ailed you these past few days?” Up jumped Howard. * papa! Do you mean I mav keep him for my very own doggie? I khow he is not pretty. for mamma says he is not, but I do love him!” “And so do 1.” replied papa, “be- cause he saved your life for mamma and L” Howard was now hugging Ms fa- ther and caressing him and he could haraly, continue. my boy, when® you were sleebin‘ after the accident I at once sent word that we could not spare Shag. A dog house is being built for him and you ‘can have him in the house whenever you wish. So_the pocr homeless dog in show- ing his gratitude for what had been done for him by saving the little boy from a watery grave found a good permanent-‘home ‘and ‘friends to love hh‘n although he was a homely dog. DIANA. N. H. going down river, Charlis Chaplin, by Anthony Connell, of Norwich, Sth prize so 2 ' i — WOMAN’S AILMENTS proceed from so many varying sources that it would be visionary to suggest a cure for all. Many of them proceed from a general debility of -the body caused by improper nourishment and impeded circulation. The many common ills frequently resulting from these causes yield readily tothe wonderful corrective properties of BEEGCHAM'S PILLS By toning the system, feedirig the nerve cells, stimulating the digestive organs, increasing the flow of blood to such partsas need it, they put the body into a condition favorable to warding off the insidious attacks from other sources. There is a marvelous sympathy between the bodily organs; and what affects one may affect another. What helps and strengthens one frequently improves them all. For generations women have found their most satisfying iremedy in Beecham’s Pills. They FORTIFY . AGAINST DISEASE Directions of special value to women are with every box “The Largest Sale of Any Medicine in the World” At All Druggists, 10c., 25c. TOMMY TIDD. What Tommy Tidd says: I like my grandma’s pumpkin pies, I like roast turkey, too! I_don’t like to Hooverize— But I think I'll have to— Don’t you? WARRENVILLE Mr. Fletcher was a recent visitor in New York. Mrs. Raymond O. Baker children are guests of Mrs. Baker's parents in New York. Anna Mildred Wright is very ill with blood poisoning. Dr. H. A. Meeks and Charles M. Will- iams of Meriden were guests of E. L. James hursday of last week. Miss Lillian Amidon of Westford was a recent visitor of Mrs. W. L. Durkee. 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TOMPKINS. 67 West Main Street TRAVELERS’ DIRECTORY $1.25 To New York $1.25 TO NEW YORK mfilfl‘l‘ AND PA.S.-NGIR SERVICE BETWEE| NORWIGCH -AND NEW YORK York, Bridge, ‘East River, foot Rouenn treet, Mondays, wunud-.n. Effective Oct. 1bth, '125—' Vo KNOUSE. Agent—$1.28 1647 One of the historic places in Norwich for over two centuries has been the ramous - ADAMS TAVERN The . trolley ‘will - get “you there from. the.city ia about fifteen minutes or $0u can run there in an autcmobile in! less time. Phone 519 FREDERICK T. BUNCE Piano Tuner Phone 838-2 <2 Clairmount Ave. “THERE 1s no savertising medium 1a Estern Connecticut equal to Tye Bul- tin for busin ults.