Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 28, 1918, Page 9

WIN A THRIFT STARP. Wide"Awaks or letters_only name, and ad- the N:t"m of the unieations tc Unele Meg's Easter Egg. To the lone farmhouse on the hill There came to iittle Meg The lovellest of Baster gifts, A blue and golden egs. ' “Look. look!" she went through all the house, And calied each onk to see; “My Easter egg; how bootiful The Baster bird will be! “T1 give it to Old Speckls Wing, ‘Warm in het nest to keep, At 1 n, harken, Barken, till last I hear a peep. “DNo, darting, k i eep your tty gift; o bird 16 hidden there” Pussy Willow. My neighbors had a kitten dressed in gray, 4 And they calied her “Pussy Willow” by the way. She wore all of white And & coflar jult as bright, Aad O, she was 2 beauty, plump and ny! T eften heard thetr chitdren's volces um. Caling eoftly, “Pussy Pussy Willow, come,” For ehe followed them down street On her pretty slippered feet, And they had to coax her back and take her home. This “rh:-v Pussy Willow,” sleek and fat, Was a very happy little pussy cat; She had fur as soft as silk And she loved to drink warm milk, And to curl herself to sleep upon the mat. —L. Myrtle Sours, in Our Dumb Ani- mals. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. The Thrift stamp some clever artist invented for Uncle Sam is growing in popularity, and Young America i bosming it from one end of the coun- try to another, and it is pretty near bringing in Uncle Sam a million dol- lars a day now. This pretty lttle stamp is a thrill- er, and Uncle Jed is surprised by its popularity and the way in which it is crowding out the books ae prizes. At the bottom of three-fourths of the Tetters written now is added: “A Thrift stamp preferred.” Whtile the book stands for merit and selfishniess, the Thrift stamp stands for patriotism and sacrifice represent- ing greater merit. Uncle Jed is pleased to see the great demand for these stamps and be will be glad to be dis- tributing eight a week to competitors. All wingers of three Thrift stamps should remember that the fourth time wins two stamps, and they should not fall to notify Uncle Jed when they bave won three stamps and are com- peting for the fourth, for he has no private secretary to keep account of these things, and he will expect you te motify Bim so that he will make your number five on the fourth win- ning. Eaeh time, you see, you really win one stamp and a quarter, so there Is & quarter stzmp due you for jevery stamp won. This six and a quarter cents is worth working for i addition to the stamps iready won. Uncle Jod does not owe It %o you unless you win four times. Many Wide-Awakes have won many times four books, and some of the most industrions omes are going to Ml thelr Thrift stamp card and exchange it for & $§ war ssvings stamp. Hustle, Wide- Awakes' first winner of five PRZIES AWARDED. 1—Louis THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE , BOYS: AND GIRLS DEPARTMENT Who. will be Size of Pictures Drawn For The Bulletin They must be sither 2 3.16 wide for single column, and 4 6°16 for double column. The lines must come within these ~measure. ments. e e N office for them at any hour afte: 10 'm. Thursday. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT Mabel Maine, of Mystic-—I thank you for the prize k you sent me, en- titled “The Hill Top Boys in Camp.” I have read some of it and find It very interesting. I will try and write an- other- letter soon. & Alvin La Chappelle, of Canterbury —I received the prize book yol sent me and thank you very much for it. Mildred Grandy, of Yantic—I receiv- ed the prize book, “Comrades at Win- ton Hall” It is one of the 'most inter- esting books I have eber read. I thank you. i Howard Garrigus, of Storrs—I thank you very much for the _pifse _book, “The Boy Volunteers With the British Artillery.” T find it very interesting. Charlotte Benjamin, of Norwich—! thank you very much for the prize book you sent me. I have read it balf through and find it very inter- esting. ¥ j Ovila Llanehmo, of Danielson— thank you very much for the prize book, “The Boy Aviators Polar Dash.” As far as I have read it it is very in- teresting and I am very much pleased awith it. STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES, Where the Boys Are Pinched. Say, feilows, is there anything the matter with your pantry these days? Not so long ago, when a boy came home from school, “hungry as a bear,” wasn't it great to open the pantry door and smell doughnuts, freshly fried, and, see them rolled in powdered sugar and piled sky-high on a platter? You could make away with half a dozen, and Ma wouldn't\even miss them. Now the doughnuts are no more, Tn- stead, there is a plate of corn muffine. They safe, for no one wants half a dozeh of them. Mr. \loover certainly put one over on us boys when he put the ban on the doughnuts! LOUIS ZIEGELMAYER, Age 10. Norwich, The Work-a-Bit Club. to 4.30 o'clock we have a club. We have it in the Congregational church v‘e!;r)‘. It is called “The Work-a-Bit club.” We afe crocheting Belgium squares. I am working on my fifth one. The little children string beads and cut out pictures for ecrap books and color pictures. We larger girls from 11 to 14 eook. We are learning how to conserve flour. Our teacher is Miss Embleton.. Here is the recipe we used at our lesson last Saturday: Scottish Fancies—One egg, one-half cup sugar, two-thirds tablespoon short- ening, one cup rolied oats, one-third teaspoon ealt, one-fourth teaspghn Va- nilla. Beat egg until light, add suger gradually and then stir in remaining ingredients. Drop mixture in teaspoonsful on a thoroughly greased bal sheet or inverted dripping pan. Spread into circular shape with a case knife first dipped in cold water. Bake in a mod- erate oven till delicately browned. Re- move from pans at once. Variations: Use two-thirds of a ctp ofrolled oats and fill cup with shred- de cocoanut or chopped nuts. SHIRLEY JACKSON, Age 11. Danielson, Natlonal Prohibition. National prohibition means that the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors is to be prohibited. In December congress passed a law that we should have national prohibi- tion if thirty-six states ratify the amendment within seven years. Lillian M. N, Stevens, former nation- al president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Unjon, proclaimed that Wwe would have national prohibition in 1920. Seven states have already rati- fled the amendment. It looks as if her proclamation wouid come true. Now we meed national prohibition more than ever because so much food is going to waste in the breweries. Enough grain is used dally to make 6,000,000 loaves of bread, or nearly enough to feed.our allied Armiss, We are asked to conserve.food, but the breweries are allowed to run just the same. Sugar, barley and’ rice are be ing used for liquors. The transportation of liquors re- quires freight cars. We need to use them to transport grains from west. ) Men are needed in'the armies and navies. Drink makes them physicaily unfit. Men who are employed in the Lreweries and saloons if released could work on the railroads in shipyards or on_the farms. Coal and oil is belng used in the breweries and saloons, while some schools in New England had to close because of lack of coal. Perhaps you do mot knew that Con- necticut was the only state in t{:s Union that cast a 0lid vote against the prohibition amendment passed by congress last December. 1t takes only thirty-six states to get natiohal prohibition, Make Connecti- cut one of them. Our Loyal Temperance Legion is go- ing to {{ve $2 for the cause. Every little helps. 1 hope the other legions will help “make the map all white” Hurrah, hurrah_for prohibition! ARLINE B. HASKINS, Age 12. Scotland. 3 One. of Baltic’s Greatest Fires. t Tuesday morning I was awak- by the sound of the church bells. of Norwich— Zisge!mayer “The Frontier Boys in the South Seas. 2~—8hirley Jackson ly quickly dress and lighted & ing out from all ‘houges. ther went out and I also. There wer e sparks covering the sky and pieces of burning wood. There was danger of the houses being set on fire. After calling for one of my girl friends we to where the fire was: ' Insid fre. 1 and went dev;n' stairs le ‘e . s, "My - Every Saturday afternoon from 2.30 | © o $0. 5 — THE KINGFISHER, by Claude Robinson of Norwich, Conn., 10th 25, e prize, drygoods store, bakery shop and bar- ber shop. - Some people lived upstairs. Nothing was saved. The wood burned until Friday and was out Saturday. I hope Baitic does not have a fire like that again. CONSTANCE RIDGEWAY. Baltic. Doing Her Bit. The Red Cross unit of a large igh School was enlars- 1t of the new as the seniors enroliment of “freshis ! call the “first-comers, The following conversation was heard to be taking place between two gitls at about 11 o'clock in the lunch room. The one a senior, the othep & despised freshman: “But Gladys, I told you I couldn’t do it, didn't I? As long . as -Miss Smith refuses to take you into the organization anything I could do would not help matters any. You'd better go along now I guess, Lucy is beckoning to you?" Wherewith the little girl left the senior and departed. “Tll get even and I'll tell her some- thing, too. She needn’'t think that she's snch - so terrible much; that's all.’ Gladys was angry and she spoke her words one almost on top of the oth- T, Going home that afternoon for the first time since she had met the mail- man that morning, Gladys read the letter from one of her summer friends she had met in Commecticut. Part of the letter ran as follows: “And they are giving us our, chelce 28 to thrift stamp or o prize book. Pleage join our correspondence club and'do a great favor to “LILLIAN, “Yes. and ‘get even ‘with Kathleen at the same time,” mused Gladys. After studies that night Gladys re- paired to her room and settled her- self comfortably to write the story hich would bring her a thrift stamp. he tried very hard bscause she felt that she must make Kathleen repent. Gladys wanted to earn the stamp, not merely have her father hand her the 25 cents for it. ere was no fun in_the latter way.s She sent the manuscript and a week later received her thrift stamp. “1 intend to earn as many as® can and not to put in any stamp that I have not earned for that would spoil the whole book,” said Gladys to Kath lsen. It made the latter very envi- ous for she was too old to! write for the “Circle,” as she called it, abrevi- ately being past seventeen. However, it gave her a mew way of looking at ail “freshies,” and to treat Gladys as she would one of her own classmates. In the fight for the cammon cause Gladys had made Kathleeh become more friendly, not only towards her- self, but to all other students around her own age. CECELIA STERRY, Age 14. Brooklyn, N. Y. The Water Turkey. The water turkey is the most pre- posterous bird: within the range of ornithology. He is not a bird—he is a neck with such surbordinate rights members, belongings, and heirlooms as Seom necessary to that end. He has a stomach just big enough to take nourishment for his neck.-and enough wings to fiy painfully along with his neck, and just big’encugh legs to keep his rieck. from dragging on the ground: and his nes# is light colored while the rest of him is black, 5 en he saw us he jumped up on a limb and stared. Then suddenly. dropped into the water, sank like a leaden ball, out of sizht and made us think he was drowned. © Presently the tip of his betik appeared, then the length of his neck along the sur- face of the water. In this position, with- his body submerged, he shot out his neck, spirally into the east, the west, the north and the south. round and round with a violence and energy that made us think of corkscrew lightning. But what nonsense! All that labor and perilous contortion for a beggarly sprat on a douple of in- cheés of water snake. BERTHA MATHEWSON, Age 13. Voluntown. Thrift Stamps. The only way boys and- girls can help Uncle Sam win the war is to save every penny that we can get and instead of spending it for sweet ar- ticles such as candy and other things save it and when you have twenty- five cents get a thrift stamp from the ) and when you have sixteen on your card take it the post office and get a §5 war sa¥ing certificate, and. with your card give the man in the post office according to the month it s from January 1, 1918 to December 31, 1918, add one cent each month, start- ing from 12, cents. This is the wisest and clearest way of saving money, and also. the best way to help Uncle Sam win the war. ROSE RINELLA, Age 9. Norwich. Beb: My name is Bebe. Not very long ago I lived in France with my dear master. I loved my master very dear- ly—he was so happy. - My master and I lived on a large farm. There were bright flowers blooming most of the time. Besides my master, there were his two little sisters and his mother. I was very. fond of all of them; but I think I loved my master the best. One day everything was changed. Instead of peace there was great con- tusion. We walked through the garden with great black things that were filled with fire and smoke. At -this time I was taken into a large fair and here I was taught to jump high fences and bring capes or belts from the wounded soldiers. One day the men sent me out into| a field where there was a great many wounded me. I followed a little path that led into some brush and there 1 found my dear master. You may be sure he loves me more than ever. ALICE KRUG, Age 10. Norwich. A Visit to Hartford. One day in November a kind friend invited mother and I to go to Hart- ford with them to see some friends who lived there. = We started about half past 7 in the morning and we reached there at 10 o'clock. My little friend Doris was very pleased to see me. We played games for a while,” then we went out and walked a short distance up the street, as 1 wished to see the school she at- tended. It was a very large school- houseé, and was built' of red bricks. When we came back to her home we had_dinner. After dinner we went out in the yard and saw her pet gray squirrels. One of them was 50 tame that. it would come up in your lap and eat nuts from your hand. He followed us all around even in the house. When we did not give him -all the nuts- we had, he would climb on our back and scold. He was s0 pretty ahd cunning that 1 wished I had a squirrel for a pet. My mother called me to get ready to go home. Doris rode a little way with us in the auto, and then she walked home. ‘We got home about 6 o'clock, havin had a fine ride home. We all thougt we had spent a very pleasant day, and we hope to again. Mother and 1 thanked our friends for taking us, and then we said “Goodaye.” DOROTHY C. BENNETT, Age 0. Norwich, How to Help Win the War, All of u3-should help win the war, either by buying thrift stamps or by doining the Red Cross. We should think of our boys “over there” who are fighting for us and for our country. Think of the poor mothers and child- ren who are suffering for want of food and clothing. Think of the little blue the little flag, which means. out of the family. perhaps three,” We should help, tod! The girls'in my room are and sewing for the soldiers, Most of the girls in our room have joineqd the Red Cross and have bought thrift stamps. We are sewing. cush- ions for the soldiers who are fighting for us. ELIZABETH McGOVERN, Age 11. Jewett City. 3 The Baby. Charles Henry is the baby, but ap- parently he is quite unaware of the fact. Indeed, he will dispute with you hotly if you address him by this title: Chatles Henry is what might be call_ ed a_ busy-bodyy. He is invariably crowded with business affairs. : He is usually employed in drawing a red cart freighted with earless teddy- bears and headless dolls. Anyone can see that he is a man of businéss with little time for trifling matters. In reality he is only a rosy little boy stars in one boy two or knitting office or from the letter carrier; of two. His yellow hair stands out mm:m Sl bm«u ‘h-uann ‘& man. " DOROTHY E. HORTON.. Pomfret Center. = . April Fool's Day. ] : The modern cuStom ‘ot sending one upon a. bootless errand on the first day of. L is of u origin. { the e that it may be:a: relic of some old_heathen fenival o . - the - persen- the - - is played on is called an “April Fish.” In. Bngland and United: States, such a Blemn pril Fool,” ¢ Pl o % The favorite jest is to send one upon an errand for something nonsen- sical, or to. make appointments which are not to be kept. or to call to a passer-by that his shoe-string is un- tied, or there is a spot of mud upon his face. 5 Last year my brother thought he would April fool me &0 he charcoal- ed my white kitty and when she came running to me I thought it was a strange cat, but when she stood up and began to beg, I knew it was Snowball. Then -he teased me and said he had heard of one's hair turn_ ing- white it _one- night, ‘but never heard of it turning. black. KATHERINE TAYLOP, Age 13. Norwich Town. be, am _ and - make save the pennies ‘'who get the most stamps each week. The seventh and-eighth grades got five dollars. and twenty-five cents wokth E thrift stamp book with 14 it. ZILLAH MARRIOTT, Age 13. Oneco. A ¥ Doing My Bit. Dear Uncle Jed: I am savifig my money. to buy thrift stamps and war savings stamps. 1 have one war sav- ihg stamp and nine thrift stamps. 1 got the thrift stamps in two weeks|" and by saving my nickels. I have a war saving stamp. | My, teacher has seventeen thrift stamps ang T'am trying to her. - There are seven or eigl dren in'my room besides m have them. I have Jg)ned the Junior Red Cross. I have not got my pin yet, but will have it verysoon. I am trying to do my bit. DORO'X‘P{Y DUPONT, Agze 9. Voluntown. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED oty g Houses For the Birds. _ Dear. Uncle Jed: The' edrly spring evenings - aré just the time for boys and girls to be building - bird-houses for next' summer. - Everyone knows the necessity for .protecting-the :birds it we do not want to be ovetrun' with plant pests. This year the® necessity for rajsing .larger. orops. makes- the protection of birds a double duty. No way brings better results than protect- ing, birds during the nésting season.” It is said that in the United States in- sects™ cause @ 1085 of half ‘a billion dollars. each year and birds, most of anything, hold these in cheek. According’ to estimates made by the biological survey 124 pairs of .birdss’ nests hmg average fatm of 100 acres is is in the ~northeastern | states. In the plain region east of the 100th meridian’ the bird population is For Over - Thirty Years S8 ASTORIA . It Will Make You Happy. Dear Uncle Jed: We ally can do something for the Red Cross by saving what we can. Do ‘not'spend your woney for candy. Put it in for the | Red Cross and help %in the war. It will make you happy to get in the Red Cross and help win the wa FLOYD BITGOOD, Age Voluntown. :: War and Thrift Stamps. Dear Uncle Jed: One day our teacher brousht us some pamphiets. These 'she said we should carry hothe about the same. There Are 131 pairs |and ask our parents if we-could save to.100 acres in the south. In the|money to buy thrift stamps at 25 cents northeastern states on each 100 acres | apjece. of jsolated woodland under observa- y folks signed the panmiphlet. I tion there were 199 pairs, * haye six stamps or $150 worth, tamps. worth Bxact Copy of Wrapper,” s cenTaus sompanY, mEw vorx orrv. and conseryation one would scarcely realize that' our danger far exceeds the perils of the war of the Sixties. Near- ly a whole year-has passed and still we sometimes apear oblivious of the awtul fadts of thé precarious situation not only of our country but of all the countries of the whole world. Our President has sounded” the clarion note and this year as last summons every boy and girl to do each, their “bit” to help gain the victory of De- mocracy over Autocracy: In the Civil war our chief duty in food was to pro- vide ,sufficient for ourselves and our armies in the field. This the men could easily do while the boys and girls ‘had but few of such tasks to rform. The husbandry of our Allies has been interfered with while their men have been called upon to assume the sword and the gun. From our granaries they must be fed together with the vast army of ourrown boys who have gone abroad to defend our rights. Last Year's Accomplishments. Sometime ago 1 wrote to Mr. A. J Brundage of Storr's Coilege for infor- mation upon what our boys and girls 414 on the dand last year: You and I would be of little use in France to meet the enemy of all mankind with sword and bayonet. I am too oM and you are too young. We can, however, fight the foe With plow and harrow and hoe, the implements of our uoble hus- bandry. Mr. Brundage, who is fthe Leader of the “Extension Service Club Work"” for our,own state gave me some yery interesting and stirring factz He informed me that in Thirty-three of the states about 440000 were en- gaged in Club work for production and conservation. Only 160,000 of these Teported their results, but these produced and, conserved $3,669,633.50 worth of stuff. Leader Brundage is of the opinion that had all reported it would have aggregated an amount equal to $7,000,000. He informs me that In our own State of Connecticut some 13,000 boys and girls enrolled in the various clubs while only about one-half, or fifty per cent. reported at the close of their efforts. This small number had_pro- duced and conserved in foodstuffs to an amount exceeding $200,000. Plain- fleld set a pace that comparatively few towns can follow in voting a sum of money to hire a Garden Supervisor. About four hundred were enrolled and their results most interesting. Their products. T am informed amounted to about $5.000. It must be taken: into accpunt at all times when considering the' amount produced and conserved, that it cannot include all that was ac- complished for although many did not report as members of the Clubs, there were large numbers who worked singly outside the various Clubs so that no positively accurate estimate can be given of the whole advantage that the girls’ and boys' work was to the coun- try. But now the Spring is with us once more. What has, been accom- < 2 { Dlished is only a small fraction of|Sit Walter Davidson. the Governor, on * be broug] as his accession to office. The Labour | ;rl:,ilid':: 7 bA, DEOMESE 50 Bal s ient | membars contended that the office of | in our midst the ey State Governor should be abolished. ~ Connecticut Fobd Army Is being recruited. It is pretty closely estimated that in this very state there| are at least 200,000 boys and girls be tween the aZes of ten and eightee vears who are able to’ do some kind of work on the land. In_ considering the number of hours in the year and then deducting the school hours as well ds those for play, sleeping and eating there still remain 3,000 hours t6 do a little producing and conserv- ing for-our country. Just think of this ! for one moment. { Forms of enrollment have been or | are to be issued and a Junior Food Army button will be presented to each | person putting his name to the roll. Now you will ask “what is expected of me The-Food Army’s Work. The' work required will consist in WILLIAM C. YOUNG Successor to STETSON & YOUNG CARPENTER and BUILDER Best work and materials at right prices by skilied labor, PR & Telephone S0 West Main St At the Cornell university in Ithaca,| Our. teacher has two war sf N. Y., there are 256 acres of campus, and the birds there are protected and encouraged. On this campus careful Etu indicated that there were 573 pairs ‘of birds. The birds are desirable on aceount Qur whole school has oveér $17 of thrift stamps. . We have bought about seventy thrift stamps. When we buy these war stamps at $4.12 apiece we lend money to the government for five years, at - DENTISTS 203 Main St., Norwich, Ct. Office Hours: Telephone 9 a m to8p m raising corn, potatoes, garden stuff in general, pouitry, pigs, calves or.sheep. The conservation will include home cookery, now so well practiced by some Camp Fire Girls, cannigg of fruits| and vegetables' or preserving them | by drying. The Governor of the state comes, in right here, for he will sigh “Achievement Certificates” to any ome who ghall pursue these activities 10 a successful end. What T think may be considered best .of all—exhibits and contests well be held throughout the state where each one’s work may be compared to each of the others. This will enhance one's enthusiasm. The circular® describing this Junior Food Army, calls for 50,000 boys and girls in our Commonwealth which accord- ing to the estimate given above is|. only about one quarter of the whole number of boys and girls within our borders. ¥ Can_we not agreeably surprise our Chief Leaders by presenting them with a roster containing the names of 100,000 resolute boys and girls? Let us make the attempt. It will be no “cinch” in the vocabulary of the boys. It will be hard work. So is it a hard task for our brothers across the sea. Wé want to help them and must help them while they protect the rights of o kind against an implacable, reientiess We can do it, must do it, if we vould not join the despitkd army of ‘slackers” "Let that “universal tide of patriotism” described by Mr. Hol- | land fifty and more years ago be but | a faint description to that which ex- | ists in 1918, Wake up, young soldiers | of the soil Your country calls, € it UNCLE SAM, by Grace A. Burrill, aged 13, of Stafford Springs, of their being insect destroyers; and ;.he end of which time we Wil receive aiso, because ~of their beauty and |$5. % songs. When the young need a great HENRY J. DONDA, Age 11 deal of food more insects are destroy- [ Eagleville: ed than ever in an attempt to satiss Iy their appetite. \ All birds do not build in. houses but some of the most desirable ones do. Wood is a better material for build- ing birdhouses than metal and earth- enware, although bluebirds and wrens will build in tomato cans even. It is well to make a small drainage hole in the floor If there is danger of the rain blowing in, MILDRED GRANDY, Age 12. Yantic. A HUNDRED THOUSAND BOYS ANG GIRLS WANTED Great Opportunity To Save the Goun- try Through the S5il—Time to En- list Is now. By Dr. Edwin Alonzo Blaks. It was in the spring of ‘Eighiteeff Sixty-one. South Catolina, a short time before, had seceded from the Union. The' spirit of patriotism ran high in the North as did that of secession_at the South. The surrender of Fort Sumpter on thé Thirteenth of April only added fuel to the fire. Mil- itary companies were hastily formed and speedily drilled. In spirit at least they were ready when. the first call for volunteers was_issued. The Zovern- ent was unable to provide uniforms in sufficient quantities to supply the needs. The womeh had also caught the spirit of patriotism and vacant halls were quickly prepated for man- ufacturing the much-needed clothing. "The girls ran errands and z‘hel boys did ‘all within, their power to %elp on the went 0 @ restaurant and had break- | ooy Dnthusiasm grew from day. to fast.” After breakfast, we .had _ice|day as reports came in from all over cream and cake. - We had a fine time | tnd country. in New. York. s 5 _On_every public building as well as BENJAMIN SACHNER. |from many a private residence the Stars and Stripes were unfurled with the .assertion by the oOwners ‘“there they shall remain till the war is over.” But they wore out. Lilberty Poles, or flagstaffs were erected in the public equares and when the flags were raised heightened' as they cheersd the old flag scores and hundrers of people as- sémbled to .have their enthusiasm heightened as they cheered the old fiig. of approved the sentiments of the impassioned orators. J. G. Holl eIl deccrived i wiien e mrots Wi 4 universal burst of patriotism and indignation had never been witnessed.” Savings Stamps ‘Those-now-livinig who saw ft then will TPhic is a good way to save, and I|iestify- to that assertion. The battle hope many others Will do the same |fr to help Uncle Sam win this great war. At first this was kind of hard, but after a little Wwhile’ we found it much eagier than we thought it was. So help_vour- eountry, -don’t -be. a slacker! Buy War Savings Stamps! OVILA BLANCHETTE, Age 13. Danielson. A Trip to New York. Dear Uncle Jed:—One Tuesday night lasd July, I started with- m: father, on a journey to. New York We started on the 10.23 P. M. train for New London. The train went fast and I fell asleep. When we reached New London we got off the train and went to the boat. When we reached the boat we bought our. stateroom, and we also checked our valises and Went to our-room.. We -ate -a few cookies -and, went to bed. . We had'a very ood sieep. In the morning, my father woke me up, because it was late. When we got off the boat wo 32 votes to 11 the New South Legislative Assembly carried | Holman's motion congratulating | Norwich. bronchitis and other troubles, but if- Scott's Emulsion is given promptly, it carries strength to the organs. and creates rich blood to build up the forces. . Buy War Savings Stamps. Dear Untle Jed:—We ‘are now en_ gaged “in “a_ great strife. so children must help win this- strife as -well as men. A :good way to do this is te buy] War Savings Stamps. Tn our school many children save, their money to buy these stgmps, and almost all the children of our school have joined the Réd Cross. 5 We put aside our pennies which we would spend for candy to buy War THRIFT STAMPS 4 Per-Cent - WAR SAVING STAMPS, GER. &Y Per Cent - CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS A some di Dear Uncle Jed:—I' am going to tell |as & ‘sign of ' patriotie devotion. you about “My School,” which is call- | sang songs that stirred the very soul ed the Riverside Grammar School. It |though it must be sl they were is made of red brick. At school on every Friday afternoon, “afternoon ' the war. e g which were about ‘the Red Cross, but | It . took - all through.. on. us "&ufi&n had an ente: of X Al rooms tosk part. -’x%,, Totey Ahat we niied want - fowe ‘sher apatant (it 3