Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 3, 1918, Page 9

of Young Writers. ,.lw' m ber the pages 2 Use pe m?;x. not pencil. 3. Shorf articles will given | nce. Dp not use over ?30 words. - 4. stories or letters only will be used. 5. Write your name, age and ad- dress plu.li;m:{ the bottom of the | story. POETRY. Faraway Land. When I was a tiny little lad, and sat at my mother's knee, I knew many beautiful, wonderful things, that didn't seem strange to me. I knew the dells where the fairies danced, under the stars at night, I bad seen the sheen of tieir gossa- mer wings, as they pessed me in their fight. I knew the song of the mother-bird, that came from the -apple-tree; I had watched the leaves of a sleepy flower close over the golden bee. And I knew that on shining silver sands, fathoms under the sea, Were castles of shells, and coral-rock, where mermaids' homes must be. And once, over hills and through far off woods, I had traveled day by day, . To the Magic Land, where the Rain- bow ends, and the gold is Stored away. And O! the nights when the -Frost King came, and breathed on a sleeping world: “ trees were bejeweled, the moun- tains white, and the rivers mother-of-pearl, A the Reindeer led by Kris Krin- gle's, hand, raced under the moon-beams bright, joy and mystery joined hands over the world that might. The And Ah! lonely man, you have traveled far from your friends of vesterday, You don't even know the language they speak, in . the land of Where-Away, “You are great, and rich and famous now,” you hear the world ac- claim, il But you'd barter it all to be a boy, in the Land of Dréams again. —Ann Bernard in Our Dumb Animals. The Peanut Is Not a Nut, By Joe Cone. (“The Department of Agriculture has decided that the peanut is not a nut.”—News item.) O luscious little peanut brown, Far frem the sunny south! The most -delicious morsel man E'er placed within mouth; Companion of the circus days, We feel most deeply cut; For men of science now declare That you are not a nut. \ TFor years we've cracked your brittle ehell, And munched your luscious meat, Believing in our souls you were The proper thing to eat. For indigeation and all i You were commended, but ITow can you benefi be Since you are not a nut? B . . . o i Somehow 1 hope to wake at morn, Out of a troubled sleep, And find the sun iz shining bright, And find no clouds to weep. 1 hope to see no walls of white, In lastinz letters cut: “Awake! Awake! Bsliov The peanut is a nut them not, UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. The other day when Uncle Jed was walking among the dahlias an odd bit of color in a big flower attracted his attention. He was about to examine the golden brown spot when it sprang upon him and then it sprang upon the follage of a dahlia near by, and he recognized it as a hyla or tree toad. Of the toad tribes these are the pigmies and we hear them chirruping in the trees very much oftener than we see them, and they are sometimes mistaken for a bird They can spring long distances like the flving squirrel and their feet are so formed that whatever they light upon they are as sure-footed as a fly. The Hyla's chirruping is decidedly musical, and when it heard a great many people say that it is going to rain, but I hardly think the Hyla Is the caller up of or the forerunner of a shower. The one hid in ‘the dahlia to sur- prise insects and to feed upon them was of a soft dove:brown coler and e only beauty it could boast of was s color, for he was as- homely in form as any of the Bufo tribe. The tree toad is not often surprised and I never saw one before among the dahlias. He oniy chirrups in the hot- test days summer, hence he is not expected at this season to make a sound. How such a tender little creature endures the frost and ice of winter seems to be past finding out. THE WINNERS OF PRIZES. 1—Edith Somers of Norwich—A Thrift stamp. 2—Goldie Bruckner of Norwich— Dorothy's Tour. 3—Eloise C. Smith of Norwich—aA Thrift stamp. 4—Agnes Gayeska of Colchester— Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship. 5—Gladys M. Loring of Moosup— The Camp Fire Girls' Careers, 6—Elizabeth 8haw of Norwich—The Camp Fire Girls on Ellen's Island. 7—Jane Fellows of Washington, D. C.—A Thrift stamp. 3—Doris Geer of Norwich—A Thrift stamp. oy The winners of prizes living in the city should call at TAe Bulletin busi- ness office for them any hour after 10 2. m. on Thursday. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Agnes Gayesky of Colchester—I re- ceived the Thrift stamp, for which 1 thank you very much. I am sending another story. Floreda Riel of Voluntown—I re- ceived the Thrift stamp you sent me. ! thank you very much for it. This will be the fourth stamp on a new card, and I hope to get more. Elizabeth Shaw of Norwich—Many thanks for the prize book 1 received some time ago. I have enjoyed read- ing it very much. i Beatrice Ableman of Norwich—I thank you for the lovely prize book sou gave me entitled The Camp Fire Girls on the Edge of the Desert. I bave read it through and have found it on one side of the | Thank you very much for the prize ‘Ynuch not seeing the Wide-Awakes' Louise Koyarovics of Ashford— book which you sent me, Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island. I have read it through and found it very interesting. STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES, < A Lesson Alex Learned from the Ants. Alex had not gone very far on his way to school one morning when he spied several ant hills. Being interested in ants and other insects, he stopped to watch them as they ran hither and thither, carrying grains of sand with which to build their homes. As he watched them a new thought seemed to strike him. . “What industrious little creatures these are,” he was thinking to himself, “and how ashamed of myself I ought to feel when I complain of doing some small task.” 2 “1 will turn over a new leaf,” he thought as he walked along to school, “and not let those little ants be more industrious than I am” * Alex did turn over a new leaf and irom that time on was never known to be_lazy. He had learned the lesson of “in- dustry” frgmNt{;e busy little ants. % ANE FELLOW'S, e 13, ‘Washington, D. C, T It was about the middle of June that a pair of song sparrows began building a nest in a elump of dead grass beside a newly built cottage. One day a man in cleaning up the yard and not knowing the locality of the nest, tore out thé nest and carried {( off, leaving the birds .in great dis- ress. Sth Prize, $0.50—HISTORY, by Jokn Gunderman of Norwich. The owner of the cottage, who had watched the birds making the first nest, didn't expect them to,come back where they had been so badly treated, but about two weeks, after in the same clump of bushes where the first nest had been there was the nest rebuilt with four eggs in it. The eggs were grayish white, speck- led with brown and lavender. The birds had brown heads trimmed with gray bands. Their backs were gray- ish brown and underneath they were gray, streaked with dark brown. The distinguishing mark of the song spar- row is a black spot on the breast, The only widible difference in the Lwo nests was that the first faced the east and the second the west. Per- nearly every day, but T got so sun- burned that I only did_it one day. I spent the other tWo days mostly in be- sieging the owner of the first aid kit for sunburn lotions of all kinds. We were divided up into squads. Ours was the “Stormy. Petrel” squad, and the girls in it were “‘Stormy Petes.” We also had the bad luck to be allotted to a councillor who owned a tin whistle, which she used so much that all you had to say was, “Stormy Petrels, toot, toot!” to raise a laugh, for the rest of the summer. 3 The “Stormy Petrels” were not so bad, howeter, for we found an old chest with the bottom and top knock- ed out, and it made a fine pantry. An e 10 wash basket we found made an haps the mother bird intentionally | oxcolnt 100 to our pantry. Then turned her back on her troubles. The! SXCelICBE 000 10 CuT PANT ut et avas deeply sunken in the ground|or o ryjver blanket and some drift- ::::;‘hi[a“.tz:shr%fm‘g";i:[{@;‘°‘§ deag wood, 0 we were fixed comfortably perfect, £ s ¥ made and | cpoueh to draw the envious eyes of all tac other squads. Bavk at camp we had as much fun. There were four girls and a councilior In each tent. We had to get the tent in order every morning after break- fast. At nine o'clock the inspectors came around, armed with pencil and paper. Woe to the tent that had a piece of thread in the back yard, or a bit of fuzz on the floor, as we did once. The best looking tent received an honor banner, and the worst, a booby sign. Our tent had the second best record of the season, for we had the banner cight times, and honorable mention fourteen times. We never had the booby. It anyone has ever watched an old hen on a nest he knows how that little song sparrow fluffed out her feathers and spread her wings in a broad fash- fon. Pretty soon there were four fuzzy nestlings in the nest. They slept and grew most of the time, filling the nest more and more until at an hpur known enly to themselves they flew away. Father Song Sparrow is an un- wearied soloist, and as they say that the sparrow family sing twelve dis- tinct songs, the four song sparrow children from the grass nest will sure- ly have something to keep them from remembering that winter is coming when they begin taking music lessons.| I hope the Wide-Awakes had as fine ELIZABETH SHAW, Age 13. |2 summer as I. but they could hardly Norwich, have had a better time. Thank you for the prize. thrift stamps with it. ELOISE CROWEL SMITH. Norwich. 1 bought How | Raiced My Peppers. My pepper seeds were first planted in hoxes in the house. These boxes weré watered every day and . placed in the sun so that the seeds would 8row. As soon as the seeds began to grow and it became warmer the boxes. were placeq outdoors in the sun dur- ing the day. Every two or three days these little plants were fertilized a little. When they were about six inches H%h I set some of them out in my garden. T.dug a small hole for each plant and placed a little fertilizer in the hottom of each hole. Then I placed a little dirt over the fertilizer and set the plants in. I pushed the dirt down firmly around the roots of the plants, being sure !5 put in plenty Our Red Cross Show. Dear Uncle Jed: I am writing you a story telling about cur show that sev- i boys and I gave in names are Ruth and Bennie Bruckner, Edna and Jo Halpern, Della and.Mabel Babador, Florence and Kenneth Morrill, Bea- trice and Viola Shoales, Rose Wiener, who was a private dancer and Max Goldfob and myself. Eleven dollars and Ge, and given to ti after. The sixty cents was Cross two was as fol- W lows: Four wounded sailors, Bennie Bruckner, Max Goldfob, Kenneth Mor- rill and Joe Halpern; and three Red Cross Nurses: Florence Morrill, Ma- bel Rabador and Goldie Bruckner. Three Cheers for Uncle Sam, Goldie Bruckner rill. A Happy Birthday, Joe Halpern, Bennie Bruckner, Mabel Rabador, Max Goldfob, and Beatrice Sholes. Baby's Frayer, by Edna and Ruth Bruckner. Many little dances were done by the smaller children. They all have brothers in the ser- vice and many of the children be- long to the Junior Red Cross club. At the end of the show we sang The Star Spangled Banner, Keep the Home Fires Burning, and other patriotic songs. GOLDIE BRUCKNER, Age 13. Norwich. by and Florence Mor- Halpern Doing Her Bit. Dear Uncle Jed: I have one War Saving Stamp and $1 toward another. and have joined the Junior Red Cross 1 take Current Events and have knit- ted three fice tgwels and have start- ed another. I go to the Town Street school, and am in the Fifth grade. We have eight studies. DORIS GEER, Age 10. Norwich. A Little Patriot. . Dear Uncie Jed: I am going to do my bit by knitting socks, pillows, face rags ad other things for the Red Croexs. In our school we joined the Red Cross for twenty-five cents. We are going to help. We may not | do_much, but every little bit helps. Uncle Sam wants us to save suga wheat and other grains. So I think is nice for the children to help. This summer some children gaye a fair at Eastern Point. They made ninety-three dollars. It is not much but it helps. I am going to help to win | this war. Everybody can help by saving pe nies to get Thrif: Stamps, War Sa ings Stamps and to help the Four: Liberty loan. I have a hundred dollar Liberty bond. EDITH SOMERS, Age 10. Norwich. of dirt. For a few days [ had to water the plants night 7d. morning to keep them; from wilting and dying. As soon as they got a good start in the ground I stopped watering them en- tirely. After this all that*I had to do was to keep them weeded until the peppers got large enouzh to pick. GLADYS M. YOUNG, Age 13. Moosup. GETTING THE By Florence Alberta Barns. It was on a Saturday mobrning when Mr. Parker, manager of a large clty cffice, employed two new cffice girls, and told them to report for duty at 830 Monday morning. It was Monday morning when Emily Carson, cne of the two girls, stepped quietly into the office ready for woik. It was £.35 Monday morning when Grace Hil- Thrift Stamp School. Our school has forty-six dollars and |dred, the other girl, rushed breath- seventy-five cents in Thrift Stamps |1éssIy_into the office and denounced and War Savings Stamps. We have |the Street-car service in loud tones. only about twenty-six scholars in our|Mr. Barker merely listen to the school. eirl's excuse, and kept his thoughts, Now I am going to tell the Wide. |Whatever they were, to himself. He Awakes how our school is helping, It |3cSigned the girls their respective s just a small country school but it |WOTK, made a few careful explana- tions, and left them. Emily, first of all, quickly took an inventory of the equipment provided for her on her desk. She arranged is helping Uncle Sam _ very much. Everybody writes on both sides of their paper, afd do not waste it. They don’t use their pencils or pen and ink| unless it is recessary, and in way | her pencils, blotters, erasers, stamps, they gavs the Boooveid %% |ana other ‘tools in the most conven: Stamps for it, 3 and buy Thrift [jons piaces, added a freshly flled foun- The only way we can help is|t3n pen to her supplies, placed a by not ting and with the mo’:m\, quantity of scratch paper to her that is saved buy Thritt Stamps " [FI8ht on the desk, and then opened Uncle Sam needs all the mogey heltPe hox of filing cards in front of can get and the more you give the her. A half-hour later, when Mr. Bar- quicker we'l' kill Old Kaiser Bill and RIGHT START Ker passed by her desk, Emily completely oblivious to b ings, so absorbed was work. Grace, on the other hand, opened the box of filing cards before her, and burriedly began to sort them. Her fountain pen needed filling and she had to hunt the ink bottle. When she returned to her desk, she made a mistake in her cards, and made se eral errors on the record sheet. This necessitated a search for an eraser, which she finally found after shufiiing everything in and on her desk. Mr. Barker, in his half-hour round, found her nervous and ; vexed, vizorously erasing figures on the record shee Emily placed all her records scratch paper first, and then copied them neatly on the ccord-sheet. Grace's sheet was untidy and blotted, When the two girls handed them in at noon, Grace said petulantly, “Tt sheet is a mess, I know, Mr. Barker; but everything went wrong this morn- ing.” Emily smiled when she handed hers in, and said, “I hops 1 was not toc slow, Mr. Barker: but I put all my figures on scratch paper first, so that I wouldn't make any mistakes bring the world war to a happy end. AGNES GAYLSKI, Age 12. Colchester. Cotton. Cotton is produced in the southern bart of our coMatry, British .India, Egg'pt and Brazil. It requires fertile soil, abundanance of rain and a long, hot’ summer. . The seeds are planted in spring. The rows are three feet The plant grows three feet in The blossoms are large and When the blossoms drop off the come which contains the cotton. When ' the pods are ripe they burst open. The cotton is then picked and taken to the cotton gin. This machine picks the seeds from the cotton. It is then taken to another machine and pressed into bales. It then goes to mills and is made into cotton cloth and thread. MILDRED TUCKER, Age 11, Norwich, early apart. height. light. pods LETTERS TO UNCLE JED, Six Weeks at Camp. Dear Uncle Jed: I have misged ve: page this summer. I have been away at Camp Mystic for six weeks, where 1 had a perfectly glorious time. We had Dancing, Arts and Crafts, First Ald, Nature Study, Swimming, Div- ing, Rowing, Canoeing, Hiking, Ath- letics, and Horseback Riding. The camp owned a motor boat, the best in the harbor, and we often went for rides or trips to Mystic Island or Fishers Island. At Mystic Island we went in swimming and had our supper on the rocks. We went on a camping, trip to Fish- ers Island, where we spent three won-| * derful days and two nights on the beach. We played in the sand, and went swimming or rowing. Most of the girls wore their bathing suits| N 9th Prize, $0.25—SOMEWHERE IN NORWICH, by Faith E. Curtis of orwich. on | MEANS LESS SHORTAGE AND LESS DISCOMFORT LATER. A SHOVEL OF COAL SAVED DAILY BY EVERY FAMILY WILL MEAN A TREMENDOUS SAV- ING IN A YEAR. DO YOUR BIT—SAVE COAL. Have heen know The oven and fire box of the fuel used. | SAVE, SERVE § BUY RANGES 1 to three generations of satisfied users as economical fuel consumers. 1 range is proportioned to obtain the best results from vartz Brothers 0-11-13 WATER STREET, NORWICH AT T alke the office accurate, loyal to h rlaces, constantly ter Eve link in the the right Stone w church Rev. C. Seventh D crly, read the scr address. Rev. reh of Mrs. o B3, B ton Saturday Db niece. Rev. services in the family, no the home. On account of nume mmfluenza in to no held in the vilk cht morning. Mr, ang Mrs. William G and son, who have spent the months in this village, left S FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA Children Ory | . Coates, who was ap- 1cher of the Center school, engazement there, weeks, who was attacked enza last week, does es for Austin A, Maine n, a former resident here, Third Baptist church rcon. Mr. Maine united ch 21 years ago. The conducted by Rev. y, who spoke from- the i he Indepe , Court Advance, No. 3836, of and the bearers were from Perkins, John LaChap vas well represented at the fair at Brooklyn. Gallup was home over end from her school inj sfield. 1 spkins of Plainfield spent | ht at E, B. Gallup's. witifu! colori: are on the 1e high winds are scat- lea all about. on Blakeslee attended a y eveni: and m visited her on a few days recent- r, Miss Brown, spent in Colchester. Vylie school | of a fall he door- her eye. o use her eyes and is care. e a large congregation helnful ‘Sermon by Rev. he church has extended o become the pastor. re are planning to go s week to hear Billy NORTH LYME ? L. Reynolds of New Lon- here Saturday. family, who have oc- osdiek homestead for the hs, returned to New Vonnoh has returned New York after spend- | here. | Francis Purvis are spending two weeks' vacation at Pine Grove, Niantie. Carlton Jewett motored to Bellows FaNs, Vermont, Sunday in company with Keeney. Banning, of Hadlyme, who received a telegram that his sis- ter, Miss, Lillias Banning, was seri- ously 1ll. Rev. and Mrs. J. G. Ward and Miss Gertrude Ward of Plainville visited at M. J. Stark's several days last week. ? Miss Gladys Miner is ill with Span- ish influenza. Mrs. J. i.awrence Raymond attend-' ed Guilford fair last week Wednes- Gay. SOUTH CRISWOLD Oliver M. Young is hauling wood to Glasgo. Julius olfram of Sunday with local friends. Many people here have been suffer- ing with colds. Clarence H. Luther has been trans- ferred from Norfolk, Va., 'to Newport News, Va. Y Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Winthrop of Bayonne, N. J., are visiting at the home of the latter's parents. Mrs. Harriet Palmer attended the funeral of Austin A. Main in Voilun- town Sunday. An aeroplane was seen over this place Saturday. Sterry Pierce and family were call- ing on relatives in town Sunday. Several from this place attended the auction at Homer H. Kinnie’s on Pen- dleton Hill. SOUTH WINDHAM - Several in this place aregill with colds and grip. Those who are confined /to _their homes by illness include Mrs. W. C. Card, Mrs. Alfred Card and Willis , Richard Lewds, How- amily, Daniel Ives, Miss ud and Miss Masid Smith, also Arthur Sweet. 7 Austin Wade has moved his family to Mrs. Carrie J. Backus® house. Mrs. Rice of Norwich,'was in the place one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie ‘A, Clark mo- tored to Franklin' Saturdlay and called on Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry King. tion for natural ol m.m restoring color to gray o dsndruf and as & haird: sing. Is not :‘d‘%u li:cdxl;umes n’:l‘ Teady Go use, Philociay Con Newsrk, N. Bulletin Bui}ding, BUCK SAWS, AXES, WEDGES, ETC. The Household ! Telephone 531-4 74 Franklin Street