Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 18, 1918, Page 11

=" """ the pond very smooth and sate. We e LETTERS OF AGKNOWLEDGMENT. greatly for Tecelved and the thotght that T have helped the nation with) your ai. Ircne received o and I thank you very mi geite your name, age and ad- @ress plainly at the bo:l':fi of the communications tc Jncle thank_you very much ‘book lymalvd Jast \ POETRY. The Way to Find Out. I never want to go to school, Td rather lie right here Upon the hay, and think about things that are so queer. I often stroke my kitty's fur Until she purrs and sings, Then suddenly right in my arm There's something kind of stings. It seems eo funny that the moon Which looks so big and reund, Can stick up in the sky and not Come tumbling to the ground. And then there is another. thing— I wish somebody’d tell Just how the turtle ever gets Into its funny shell the one entitled Friends, Phillips of Norwich, représented - by the elephant and bear hands, had beneath it The Lillian Murphy 2 transposition of titles must have been apparent to keen observers. STORIES WRITTEN And then how can a tadpole—that Is jost a pollywog— \ Keep changing all the time until it gets to be a frog? There seem to be 56 many things 1 don't know much about, Perhaps I'd better go to echool And then I can find out! ~—Harriet Wintop = Davis, Schoolmate. Polly-Anne and I. ip. The Oh, my foot is in the stirrup and my hand is on the rein, And the wind is sporting gaily with my horse’s dusky mane, Wiiife_the'foy of life s singing on my he aristrings. as 1 ride, And the pulse of life is thrilling in my hotse's even stride; FOf We're off upon a holiday, my Polly- . Anne and I, Jut to find enchanted palaces, where b g Beautles lie; And to follow up enchanted paths, that lead we dont' know where; To a picket fence, a robin's nest, per- haps a dragon's lair. So it's up the hill and down the hill and ‘round the teasing bend, At a canter in our eagerness to see the journéy’s end; Then it's on again at fiying pace {5 clear the hindering bars, As _if Polly-Anne _weére Pegasus, a-mountinig to the stars. There's the play of rippling muscles ‘neath the pressure of my knee, And’ the breath of -woodland balsam drifts adewn the breeze to me, As it brushes By my glowing cheek, and whips my loosened hair: For we're off upon a holiday—and all the world is fair. —Flerence Brigham. '8 TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. Tsn't it queer hofy some boys con- trive to make money in uncommon ways? . A farmer's boy last summer saw an apple growing out on a spray and he concetved the idea of making it grow in a bettle. He took a long necked bottle and pushed the young apple into it and fastened the hottle to the limb of the trée and in the antumn he had a pretty apple in the bottle. He took the bottle down, put some water in the bottle to float the apole about midway and began to exhibit'it as a curiosity and a city druggist gave him a half dollar for it fo show in.the window of his store. It is not often that an ap- ple can be sol for hait a dollar. This apple wasn't reaily any better than any other apple fhat grew upan the gams tree; but it excited the curi- osity of all who behald it to see swch a large apple il a long-necked bottle and while most people wers amazed to see it there it did not occur te many that it was made ®® grew there. The théught of the Boy to excite wander and the svceess of his experiment put valge into ths frust. TUmnele Jed remnmbers seeing targe cucumbers exhibited in bottles which wers doubtles grown M the same A gentleman told Uncle Je@ when he was a boy 40°:always be on the lookout for iMemm beChause they wers worth a dellar apiece, and that the man werk- ing on the stteet is just as likely to express an idea as the man whe teaches school or werks in a bank. This apple-boy’s idea did hot bring him but a Balf dollar, but he mght have got a dollarfor it probably. as the only bottled apple in the world, Whes you have an jdea set to work to develop it and ta dize for ‘yeur-| self what there is i 167 Many'a man has tosmed out an idea_which made the more praklical than Fieh. </ UNCLE JI l —— THE WINNERS OF PRIZES, 1—Jesephine Atwood of Storre— G::l:mmud'u Sefior Year at High 8l > 2—Emily Hopkins of Plzinfield—A & J anrm : ielson— '—.mp.‘,‘ of nielson—A Plcture Comrades 1ebanon—The - %o in an Afri- Young 6f Moosup—A. bes:et West Willi Boys' ¥inal Trip. Holmberg of Norwieh—A ter—I thank you very much for the Thrift S . know how pleased 1 was when-1 saw | ;¢ my_ letter in The Norwich and I thank you for accepting *it and also for the nice book you sent me. ing allegiance to the flag,” printed on| Apeil 4th, was oredited fo Mary man, when it was the work of Miss| Catherine E. Kirby. taking this year, English is my favor- ite. s0 it other Yessons. writing, reading of analyses, etc. best, ‘while I do not like sentence ana- Iysis. esting the year around because we read many different books. ing than others. On the wholeI think that English is the most useful and{ interesting . study, o English, gives us a better idea of what. books to read, etc. very pretty. - When-papa goes’ to. barn to milk, my sister and I go with him. for the cattle to eat, while my sister |1p helps my father mill T ' pretty soon, and give them a littje ex- ercise. Awakes write. you a way boys and girls. of United States can make the soldiers happy. save their pennies and ‘buy little things for the soldiers, such" as cigarettes, candy, vandkerchisfs, ete. the = poor soldiers in the trencl ‘woul 6~ lighted, for there is no stores to“buy | People come and speak to us about anything near them. ing of them, &nd when ourboys come)| We arc just beginning to have & marching home we. can proudly say Jave Zound = loz and pliced 3 for Sbout ¥ miguie and 5 eG, W flLl,W/éfl the mid; fl%(y frienid. climbed on the rock and | ! as ho did so the m&a& away apd lie was left helpless in middle of the stream. M Looking around, I foun and after a hard time I ‘placing it out to the rock wl tflend,w‘:x. ch‘:;‘t‘tmy he cra shore and réac! A “We built a fire for him to dry his clothes, and also ate our Tunch. “Wo spent the rest of the day bm’, and about 4 o’clock went home, ‘We én- yed the day very much, also our ad- ture. % JOHN FOX, Age 12 Winni Wide“Awake Letters are r:’vnrd-d _with _a Thrift - Stamp, with.an extra Stampifor State your preferenca stamp Norwich. How We Spent Sunday Sunday - afternoon my a nkiu:‘g. One and 1 decided to go _1started at about 2 o'cl found skated for about an.héur and a half | and soon noticed that it was growing cold. The brisk wind that had. Eagleville—The Sub- the *7..'"| vlowing all afternoon had died Fag ‘“We first got some thin grass and sticks and then some bigger sticks. We built a sort of wigwamn of ile wood and soon had a Toaring fire. We 8 ;| took off our skates and soon were L. Stewart ot Jewett City—I|very warm. o the Thrift _you eent.me | The ice before the building'of th for it. .| fire was thiek e mm‘ 21y mn is Zeigelmayer of Norwich—I | Before we knew it the ice - o s [ pistaly taviied and the Bratfelf inth the water and went out. ' At this Wwe ot -discouraged and started home. s Wo were walking Home we saw & full grown deer and concealed our- tamp. ' Seives and watched I Towalitsd along Irma Perry of Danielsen—You don't| ihe brook near by and soon ecente for it set off at a lope and soon HN, | disappeared. 136 Tl We went home and wefe glad that we went skating Sunday, for en Mon: day the ice broke up and hasn’t frozen hard engugh since for z00d skating. 5 HAROLD WILDE. Patricia ¢ the Thrift Stawmp 1 Dorothy E. Horton of Pomfret Cen- . Corrections. The picture of a young girl “pledg- ‘Wauregan. Gor- e “The Brave American. Once upon a time a woman whose only son had gone to war was sitting in her room when she heard a moise downstairs, so she went out of her room and hurried downstairs to see what was the matter, and thinking it Phis| was the twins fighting, she hurried to stop them. When she got down in- stead of the children scrapping she saw the Germans and her son, who was a German prisoner; but he was an American by Tights and would not be a coward, so he fought and at last he knocked off all the Germans, while his terrified mother ran and telephoned | to the police, who came at once and took the Germans and made them Anierican prisoners, and ever after the boy lived with his mother and was the happiest bpy in the whole United Stdtes, for he had been made a gen- efal ; DORS OLDHAM, Age 13. Of the pictures. printed April 1ith; | i by Sadic Winter _Girl, by of Norwich. BY WIDE- AWAKES. My -Favorite Study I think, of the four studies that I'am There are more branches in it, is not as monotonous as the ere_is composition, boaks, eentence Of these, I like to write themes the This study is also more inter- How to Save On Food. We should not waste any- food. be- cause the soldiers need ail the_ food we can save for them. The people in this country should " | use all_theorn meal they wossibly can and save the flour for the soldiers. (Every person in_the United States b should eat vegetables, such as pota- Stafford Springs, toes turnips, carrots and . cabbage. e hen® we pare potatoes. we should My Pet Calves, pare them real thin so as not to waste 'We have two little.calves. “They are{them, We should eat all we take on l‘he our plate. There are quite a few people in the I throw off hay from the mOWS | United States who dislike ppotaloe!‘ everybody liked potatoes .as well as I do there wouldn't be any going to waste. We should use cornmeal in every place where it is possible. If we stop Of course, some are -more- intetest- It - correets MARY A. BURRILL. k. B P going 16 take the caiVes out am I love to read the letters the Wide- and French children are, it will keep us from throwing away food. Do mnot waste a_bit of wheat. 2 MARION BURGESS, Age 10. Tebanon. MARION PIERCE, Age 13. Preston. To Help Win the War. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell the Our School. The . school I go to is on:‘School street. It has: four rooms and'a hall on the first floor, four rooms and a hall on the second floor, two rooms, a hall and a large hall in which we have If every boy and girl would different subjects on ‘the third floor. I am in the sixth grade. This will show them we are think- war program on Friday afternoons. This Friday we are all going to bring 014 pieces of clean cloth to snip. Every Friday afternoon we have a drawing lesson. We have been working on a poster for three Friday afternoons. The name of it is “Save Sugar.” Each one of ‘us brings a few cents each week to held pay for a Liberty bond which our school took. ¢ | In the fall each ome of the girls in my - class brought some money with which we hovsght a basketball. Our teacher made us a game schedule, We have dumbells once a week and gymnastics every morning. Weé nave a music teacher Who comes every Tuesday afternoop. - SHIRLEY JACKSON, Age 1f. ani & We have helped you win this war! EDNA FOOTE, Age 11. Norwich. A Curious Pet. T have a nice fat yéllow hen named Mary. Every time we speak to. her she ‘will sing to us. The other day I was surprised to find her standing on the door steps waiting for somecone to open the door <o she could get to her pest. She has lam in there three times. I hope the Wide-Awakes have such a pet 28 mine. ? EDITH PIERCE, Age 12, +Preston =3 Why We Should Buy Thrift Stamps. The 1muain reason for the purchase of Thrift Stamps ‘and War Sl,vlnfs Stamps 18 because our country is in war. Our country nceds every penny Checking Waste in the Use of Coal. Coal is an important mineral for every man, woman and ¢hild can save]home and factory use. - It is called and lend, in order to feed, clothe, a®m |the “Kins of minerals” 1f ‘the coal and equip the soldlers atd sallory of {SUPPly Should sive out, the steam- Ameriea and win this righteous war in | Ships would be turned to sail-boats, defense of American no;:r m‘? tho j factories would be idle and ou cause of democracy throughout the world. 3 ‘When our fathers and, sons znnd’: brothers were called by our courtry to take up arms in ner defense you did not hear an individuai soldier refuse to serve because his service alone would net win ihie war. Fach man was ready to do his part. The great army thus formed is go- ing forward to face the fite of hatile and to risk everything for the safety and security of our’families, and or the very existence of éuf ‘country. 'HEW I the coal supply should give out we_could not replace it. Coal is different from iron or 'tin. After iron is old vou can sell it for scrap - iron, but after coal is burnt, nothing is left but ashes. If we use coal as we ought our sup- DIy will last 7,000 years. We have about four and one-half trillion tons of coai in the country which is more than any other nation has. Coal is wasted-at the mines. Some- times the miners leave a roof of good BERTHA MAT! SON, Age 13. |coal, or pillars of coal to hold up the Voluntowa. {roofs. - Waste in human life is as bad as A Good. Lassen. | Wasté of conl® -The mines are liable to cave in while the miners are work- One afternoon as.d wdb-teturning i " 1100 "is danger of foods, e from a visit to my sunt's'my dog spied i me. At first he did not know me, e e Soal Inotr B o5 ot 1 e i e fin e iy puttizs in more coal thar is needed In stoves or furnaces. : i Rt N6 SERELE] b S ap!front of the mines. but now there are D e m e SCAELed Mt 080R A0 ATk s rngeey s in factorics made. sepecial’ S et lo0ked.qut of-the sindow S ctities vbe S ik g oight b 2 o u%\{uo:-r? T s eed Wi to use waterpower. This Is & waste Vhen the dog saw my mother .com- C N i ing he rah away. < .YO'SE'PHLVE ATWOOD, Age 12. About half past 5 the dog came into| Fasleville. the house, and I guve him a whipping and a seolding, and ever since he bd- havés, because he learned a lesson that day. ELIZABETH SULLIVAN, Age 11 Norwich. . How the Bears Helped One Ancther. Boh Bruin was a gocd -yvouns bear, who minded what his father and moth- er said to him. “When you take a walk oat of the t.” said Mr..and Mrs. Bruin to v don’t go near those houses, Men It was a bright day in Jupe and a|live in them and they treat bears very friend and myself thought we wawld | badly.” . 80 picnicking in the ‘woods. . We ‘took ) “Whet do they do?” asked Bob. our lunch along, intending to stay all|’ “Oh” said Mr. Bruin, “sometimes ay. - : : “they Kill us and cat our flesh. Some- times they wound us and tie.a great log to cur legs, so that we cannot run.” “Ahi”. said Bob, “but F-shall bite, An Adventurs in ‘the. Woods. y: £ We hiked for aboui ‘aTalf hour, when we came to 2 hrogk which. was quite wide, and there was mo ‘way. to get across. . i Affer laoking aroind for a while| them. 1 “Fo. prevent that they will. tie Ja it acvass | great muzzle on your away irom them, Bob. Bob promised to obey. But ‘the stream. It was qi shak; across flu‘_m pe and 1 startod \ ¥ . branch at the top of the pit, and Mr. |~ ,‘? forest in safety, and had a long talk and so we thought it safe to build a|about E: DOOr bears i you only ing their part in'this great war. We are helping our government to whip | lme great enemy. pers #and rags, then sell them and and we have raised in all now $49. dren of America put their shsuldal‘a to the wheel it will turn an turning. We are helping to turn it. Are you? read my letter and many qthers are stamps. and told me I could buy anything 1 to think of how hungry the Belgian{ homes Would de cold and uncomfértable.” !al Jmouth, so-keep| ones | I reached tbe oppesite!while walking outside the vue_d-‘g tight at the and ¥l try to up. So Bob and Mrs. Bruin held in, ‘who would very well, manag ¢ e out of the pit. They all went home again to the it men, and their tricks to catch : n pits. “Seei” you can help, each other if try. : HELEN GORMAN, Age 8. Norwich, x How We Are Doing Our Bit. The scl in my room are all do- We, are also help- | to clothe and feed cur soldiers. | ‘e pick up old rubbers, boutles, pa- ! take the money to buy thrift stamp.. In my room there are 16 ‘scholars We' have decided that if the chil- it is I hope all the boys and girls that uying or are geing to buy thrift I hope also that you may use some of gur plans, ' EMILY HOPKINS, Age 11. Plainfiald. A Little Patriot. One day my father gave me a dollar A Fable. The sun had just risen over the city of Jerusalem. "The street shops were just opening, and the vendors were eagerly crying their wares. In the courtyards of the houses, the morning dew lay on everything, and the sun made dim shadows around the arched entrances. Out into one of the courtvards came & Iittle .girl, dancing, and humming a tune as she played.. A woman came out from the shadow of the arches and stood a moment watching the child. “Rachael,” she called, “gather me some flowers, for T must g0 to the se- pulchre this morn.”" “Yes, mother,” replied the child. Away over on the other.side of the garden the flowers swayed excitedly. “Ah,” said the roses, confidently, “she will surely take us. Are we not the most beautiful flowers there are? Wyose perfume can compare with ofirs ¢ “Nonsense,” returned the Stars of Bethlehem, “Do‘you think she wottd take ugly ‘red flowers like you to the sepulchre? We are named for the star that announced His bivtm, 0 of course, we will be picked.” “We. are white, so she will surely take us. Our perfums is sweet, our stems are strong, and we do not fade crigd the myrtle. In a minute they were all quarrel- ling, each insisting *that she only would be chosen, “Perhaps,” ventureq the lilies tim- idly, “perhaps she will take us all.” But the other fiowers stared in such e wished becanse I helped mother. I know this is war time and every- body must do his bfi, s0 T bought four thrift stamps. 1 lke to feel that T am doing something for Uncle Sam, téo. . EDNA LAZINSK, Colchester. The Violet and the Little Girl. Once upon & time a little blue vio- let was living with her sisters in the great forest. A little girl came along and said: “Oh, what a lovely Vlolet!™ She stopped to pick up the flower, but something told her to leave it there, and being a polite little girl she left it there. When she got- home at night she told her mother. about it, and her mother said: “Take the plant mp by the Toots and bring it home and plant £ So the nmext day she went into the forest and dug it up. As soon as she had dug the plant up she hurried home and planted it in the garden, The little girl only lived a month longer and when she was gone her mother took great cars of the lovely violet because it was her. child’s fa- vorite. o she planted it on her child’s grave and the litile violet lived a long and happy life, roses, near by. broken. will take fright. He fs ris Magdalene. disgust at the poor lilies: that they shrank back against the wall hung their heads. They were just going to continue their_quarreling, when. Rachael menced to piek them. the Stars of Bethlehem, the myrtle, and some other smalfer fiowers com- But she left the lilies aill these,” she said. en!” By standing, at which they were heart- Rachael gave the flowers to her mother, and pleaded to go with| her to ‘the sepuictire. Then' she dashed out into the gar- den, and returned with the Ililies. oy At the door of the house, Rachael and her mother were miet by Mary Together they came to the garden where He was buried They approached the sepuichre, and then—the two women eried out For the in stone * was rolled away, and the sepulchre was empty! Suddenly a bright Hght shone before them, ahd they fell on their knees, whife a soft voice spoke. it said, “for I know ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here— ‘Then the light disap- peared, and they ran to tell His disci- ples what they hag seen and Eeard. Before they were half out of the garden, a voice calling -1ade them look “Fear not,” gave Him He stooped, and blessing around. It was Jesus. The women thréw themselves at His, feet, but Ra- chael hesitated. Then she the flowers. her, told her that -ever afterward those flowers, which she had given|’ Him, ‘would be, called the Easter flow- ers.” ELOISE. DORIS OLDHAM, Age 13. we, could take a jitney We decided to go. It was very cold and icy. There were two men in front so that the five of us sat in back. We skidded terribly and one time almost went into a tel- ephone pole. We passed Gleasondale, a_little village and were going up & hill when the auto stopped and the lights went out. The man got out and looked at the engine. He kaid, “There 'is not afy gasoline.” So he was going back down hthe hill and go home he said. We walked down the hill. The jitney went back to Hudson without us. They got cold feet T guess. A man told us to go to the board- ing house. I stepped in -~ a puddle which added much to my enjoyment. We stayed there that night. The next morning we went to Maynard. DOROTHY P. HARVEY, Age 12. Norwich. to Maynard. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. Joining the Junior Red Cross. Dear Uncle Jed: Several in our school have joined the Junior Red Cross. Tt “costs twenty-six cents to join and each child is going to have a Red Cross pin. "We will also have a banner for the school. Our pins and banner have not come yet, but we ex- pect: them any day. I have done quite a little knitting for the Red Cross. I have knitted two squares for an afghan, a hot water bottle cover and » pair of wristers. Three of the children in school Kave started - thrift stamp cards. Every Friday afternoon is Patri- otic_Afternoon. We have no lessons to study in the afternoon, but we re- cite patriotic quotations and _current events. ‘We also read about the war, and our teacher, reads to us. GLADYS YOUNG, Age 13. Moosup, A Rallying Cry. Dear Uncle Jed; 1 am @ boy eleven years old, and seeing we are in this great conflict of war, I must ask my Lrother members of the Tierney Ca- dets to have them all join in the thrift stamp _campaign. Brother members, How | Kept Cool Last Summer. Dear Uncle Jed: Every hot after- noon lasi summer my mother wduld squirt the hose on my friends and I. On one of the hottest days in the middle of August, I turned the hose on the empty sugar barrel that the grocer had brought my mother when ‘We were getting ready to move Mother let me put on my bathing suit and I was jumping in and out of it all afternoon. RICHARD BUCKLEY, Age 7. Worwich. we must, each ang every one, fight and. the harder we work the quicker we win the war. The sooner our dear brothers, rela- tives and friends oversea. will be home with us to_tell us of the joyous greet- ings of vittory. BUGENE GARVEY. Norwich. v A Christmas Journey. Dear Uncle Jed:. I am going to tell you about an experience of.mine. Last Christmas my mother, father, sister, and I went.to my aunt'’s home in Maynard, We left on o PFriday night The Horse That Wept. Dear Uncle Jed: For ten years two good friepds, a man and a horse. had lived together; for ten vears they had worked side by side, in rain or sun- panion. who saw Baltic, soldiers. sons. am. going to shine, the animal drawing the heavy cart and the man leading him. This tender friendship continued uatil ill- ness came to put an end to it. The carter, for it was he who was the cause of proving that all gobd things must confe to an end, was six o'clock. At Hudson we lost the st car for Maynard. My mother tel- ephoned my awnt that we would not be there that night. Then we went out and were going to a hotel when we met a man who had -come on the car with us. He said | forced to leave his work and his com- Yantie. “him, caressed it. > Self-Denial. In the train Two years after this separation tie carter fecognized his old friend. approached s spoke to him. Then followed & most surprising and affecting scene to those The horse hearing the [voice of, his old master, ‘celing the caress and the familiar heag against his che€k, began to weep. Yes act- ually to weep! Great tears flowed from his eyes and ran down his Wpstrile. Can you deny, after having wit- nessed similar manifestations of in-~ telligence and fidelity that the horse reasons and that he has & for affection as great as ours—unques- tionably greater than that of a large majority of men who pretend to care for horses, but who only martyr and tortyré the poor animals? WILLIE VOGTMANN, Age 12, He him, and eapabNity Dear Unele Jed: Today 1 saw a train of cars. there were When I saw them T waved hat and went around for Some money. Some men put in a penny and I thank- ed the men and I told my mother and she told me to save the meney. and I 1f anything looks good I am net get it MARY FLYNN. Doing Our Bit, to_them and they waved back.y Well, that train went along and a little while after another train came and it stopped. I said to my mother some mothers are sad tonight and weeping for their ‘When the train stopped one ofthe men asked me what I was wishing for and T gaid: The only thing T wish for fs to seo’ you bring the Kaiser. They said: “I would have my wish. He said: “Come here, my little girl.” I went to him and he took off. his L Age 10, Dear Uncle Jed: T go to' a country It is on a Hitle Rill by the There are only cigven chil- school. roadside. and|' WELL PROTECTED, by Margaret Musuin of Norwich, dren going to school. I like my teacher very much, as she is very kina to_us. We have all joined the Junior Red Cross. The older children are knit- ting washcloths, and the younger chil- dren’ are clipping cloth into little bits for_pillows. We have also bought thrift staraps and war savings stamps. My brother and I have each a war saving stamp and are working hard to get another. My father has a greenhouss. 1 help transplant for him. He has a_large bed of pansies. I wish the Wide- Awakes could see it. They are in bloom and they are beauties. HILDA HOLMBERG, Age 12. Norwich. Buying Thrift Stamps. Dear Uncle Jed: At my school the teacher sells thrift stamps. 1f we &ive twenty-five cents to the teacher she_ will give the money. to the rural carrier who gives her a card with one thrift stamp. This card the teacher gives to the child, All this money if that is collected from us is lent 10 the government. stamps. we must 2dd twelve cents to the four ‘dollars and we wiil then get a carg with one stamp amounting to four doliars and twelve cents, This card with the stamp we should save for five years for which we will et five dollars. I think that this is a very mice way of saving our money. Any child that does not want te wait five vears can give ten days’ notice and then get the money back If any ome buys one thrift stamp for fwenty- five cents. only he does mot get any interest fory this one stamp. I think that it is best to buy a four dollar and twelve cent war stamp so as to get five doilars at the end of five years and at the same time to help out the government. Many children in our school have bought thrift stamps. My teacher has also bought two war stamps for four do¥ars and twelve icents each. ... EVA OROL. Eagleville, Danced For the Red Cross. “oar Uncle Jed: I thought I would ‘v and tell you what T did last Sat- ‘ay. In_ the meraing I chopped s34 and drew it up. In the after- s 1:won I chonped some and then I went sliding with some others. That night I went to Wormwood Hill to an en- tertainment. This place is two miles from my house. After the entertain- mient @ iunch was served conslsting of coffe¢e and sandwiches. After we finished eating we danced. We finished dancing about 12 o'clock. We then went home. The entertainment was for the bene- fit of the Red Cross. LEON DIMOCK. Fagleville. Knitting For the Soldiers. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell you how I am trving to help win the war, I am knitting for the Red Cross. I have knit a scarf and am knitting some wristlets. The best thing I am doing is to be thrifty in saving my clothes, not to get them soiled, because they will have to be washed. clothes the quicker out. I am_trying to make o shoes ldst as long as two pair gener- ally do. they will” wear ‘We do not have sugar, nor frosting nor have any wheat bread on the table. For one whole week we When we gt sixteen | by The more we wash the me pair of did not use any wheat flour. While the boys are fighting “over there,” we must do our bit over here. We must not use very much be- cause the soldiers need it. We must save food, because the soldiers need it in order to keep their soul and body together. We must buy Liberty bonds, war savings stamps and thrift stamps. When we buy stamps and bonds we are loaning our money to the goverm- ment to help win the war. ELLA BUGBEE, Age 11. West Willington. War Rally Day. Dear Uncle Jed: I went to a waf rally Friday and it was very i There were tweive men from Roek- ville with a music man and they sang very nieely. A woman spoke about the war and told us how we might be thrifty. By- erybody was: interested in what she had to say. And she asked Mr. Hall if she could have five minutes to speak to us children. He said yes, ang she told us how thrifty weshould e. There 'was a man who spoke very nicely about war, e We sang songs. Our singing teachen has drilled us on a great many patri- otic songs and the school children at- tend every rally and sing. The church was full of people. Mz, Jones spoke about the third Liberty loan. Everybody enjeved the war =al- Iy Friday. I have one book full of thrift stamps and I have one blg war savings stamp. 1 think I am geing to start another one. T earned my money last vear by selling huckieber- ries; and the rest I got by carrying butter to Sourh Willington, EMifA ADAMEC, Age 13 West Willington. Theift Stamps. 5 Dear Uncle Jed: In our class af school, everyome has bought one er more thrift stamps, so we are a 108 per cent class, If every school child in the Uniteq States wouid buy enly one thrift stamp our government would have three millien There are many ways in which the boys and girls of 1918 can do. They con help win this war just as the boys and girls of '16 heiped. Some of the things which o _are as follows: Running _errands, Buying_thrift stamps, Doing housework, Sifting ashes, Washing dishes, " Bringing up coal and wood, f And doing many other things. Last. month in our class at schoel we sold 119 thrift stamps. If we that amount of thrift stamps e month I think that would be very good, don't you. I'hope we will continue to buy stamps every month, HELEN BRAUMAN. they can Norwich. The Russian Situation. And there are the Russians yielding to the German Black —Atlanta Constitution. Honk Belgian deportations are more dras- tic than ever. Not only the men, even boys, are seiged. On 25 Mons had to provide the authorities with 300 boys, 14 to 15 years of age. In communes the number 50 to 100, A census