Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 8, 1919, Page 9

" Rules for Youns Writers. - Write plainly on one side of the 1y, and ire 230 words. 4. Original stoties or letters only‘ will e, us 5. Write your name, age and ad- . plainly at the' bottom ef the Y POETRY. The Story of the Cribby-Bed, ' ve vas a crib of yellow wood t in a nursery corner stood; T)?':: was a little pillow_white, A little quilt of blue so bright, ! And all {o make a place of rest i A little girl should leve tie best. il But dear me, no! She would not go To bed, and it was always so, When: eveniz camé she pouting said, “No, #lo, L-will not go to bed!” At last.one night, the cribby. heard l Each paughty, unkind, wiilful werd, "l 3o ,not Jove my cribby-ded! ! ! do not want to put my hea 1 Upon the little pillow whi H { want to prx,\:r)u night Yhe eribby wished to hear no more; It slid diong across the floor. “I am not wanted here,” ii.said. “8he does mot love her cribby-bed! My child would rather sleep tonight Upon--the-floor! T shall do right To Gnd some-Jittle-one who'll be Hapey 1o hm¥e & grib likeme!” There was a sound of bumptiy-bamp That {rém her chalr made mamma Jjump! She called her: naughty little -maid— The c¢hild ‘was very much afraid; She cobbed with svonder and- surprise, Tears overfiowed. her big bive eyes. They 'pulled-the eribby back, dand” then' They begged it not to go again. All quiet in its place it _steod, On lege of polikhed yellow wood. The little girl saw with delight The pillow soft and quilt so bright. | i i With joy then she jumped up and; down In haste” to get Qier “nighty” on. “T did_mot mean « word i “1 love you, Mgtle crib 1 would not hurt your feelings. dear; “I never knew fhat cribs could hear.” —Loyise Beecher. Chanceller. UNCLE JEP'S TALK TO WIDE- v AWAKES. Since ‘April 18 the noon of spring, Mazy must be the afterneon; and it i regarded in m nations as a merry month. 5 2 The Queen of May has been‘a cefe- brated charactér more than two hun-! dred vears, and the Maypole danee is. one of the pretiy performances whieh bave come down to us from ths Long Ago. 1 do not imagine anyone can tell exactly how long ago. * Perhaps the reasen May is opened| wigh merryms because it marks oach of Flora's procession of 41} blooming plants. lora was made! th$ Godess of Flowers by the Romans,! anfl this imaginary ruler of the sweet and Beawtiful in Nature is recognized 4s’a pretty picture from the minds of the ancients. { One of our g poets cails May ‘pioux fraud;” Lut I do not think she @ fraud at all, since May has been what she is for all re ates rded time,, | May has her cold spell, and’ reast oné extessively cold stbrm.| known as “the lamb storm.” There is very pretty legend of how May go ief cold days, and here it is: t “The year had all the days in charge,i And promised them that they Should each oné see the world In turh, But ten days ran away! n davs that should have gone abroad Sogre time in ourly.May— 3 when May came, and all wae fafr,! These durs were sent to ped, i And ten zood winter daye were sent To see the world instead.” So. i1 0ld timee. do you know, the maids uséd to think that faces washed in| dew could have no freckles, and thig early morning bath was populaf; : “A awarm of bees is worth a load of hay!” “A' ¥ brings no riches” and "Un- lucky are the wives that wed in May! And strange enough, folks have really believed it; but I think we shall not! THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS: 1—Mary ‘A. Kirby, of Nerwich Dick Prescott’'s Second Year at West Poipt. ¢ 2—Anris Fitzmaurice, of The Boy Scouts for Home —Margaret Murphy, of The Mail Carrfer. 4—Emma F, White, of North Ston-| ingtoen—Elam Storm, the Wolfer. J~—Mary Lipps, of New London-- The Steel Horse, §—Catherine Driscoll, of Norwich— Grace Harlowe's ¥ourth Year at Qver- ton. Te-Katheriné Taylor, of Norwich Town—The Boy Scouts in Servia, $—Nettie 'Haddad of Jewett City— Rod and Gun Club. id Winners ‘of beoks in the city ‘may call at The Bulletin business ofl{cem!fi- them at any hour after 10 a. m. on Thursday. LETTERS, OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT Jeseph 'B. Downes, Neorwich—I thank vou very much for the prize book I received last week entitled “Our Fejlowg.” .1 have read - it| through and I think it was very inter- esting. Clarence A, Hathaway, of Goshen, .—I reéceived the prize boek vou sent me, and like it very much. In fact I started'to read it I could ot #top until 1 had finisned it. Svelyn- Caron, of Montville — T am very thankful to you for the inter- edting prize book I received entitled Ruth Fielding And the (ypsi STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE. AWAKES. My Orange Plant. 1 Bave had such good luck with my erange plant that I will try to take pains in explaining to you and my Wide-Awake friends how I succeeded. About three years ago as I was eat. ing an orange and was gradyally pick- ing out the seeds and throwing them Nor Frotection. Norwich— 3 “THE "A? BETTER OLE —_— i Jewett ‘| tented. by the winde dbd her ‘$chool lek- sons. Not being in any hurry, she eat there idly watéhing the passersby. The | lowed “to. away,l detided T-would keep ond and plant {t g U to wmlpsquess I would hai 3 : I Enew one wéry important thing, o “in an orange ‘plant is to endeavor to keep it in the warmest possible and where it would get sunshine. I water jt two or three| imes a week. When it was about six pches in height B wgulkrud it to a lar, d the same thing " Now it §§ over three feet high and I have it planted in 3 tu 0 1 picked out this. subject because I. knew there were yery few' plants of| this nature around here. i .Pélfi';"l‘m HADDAD, Age 13. Twe Gifts for Young Washinstonians.: elephants arrived 3 National Zoo 2 shert time ago vnd sttracting much attention, They came from the island of ~u-! matra, which is jugt south of :thel Malay peninsula, and were bought by subscriptions of sevéral generous pe ple who presented them to the zoo as gift for the children Washington: Their names are ' “Hittan,” which! means little, and “Keehin, \wme'fi betwee: and four means black. 2 q;hfx{hanh 1 is very small, o eef gh, whielt is y small, tonsid~ ering how large the- older elephants are, & v They are plumy little pets and when last seen were. busily ‘feeding on un- threshed . oats, appatently quite con- a JANE WELLOWS, Age 14, Washingten, D. €, 3 A Goed Example. It was on a late autmun day that] Lillian came h'om{ from schodl and sat o cat was. resting befare. the ‘open fire, Presently the girl closed her book and ot up. e iy “WHhy are you mwot ecatching mice, you lazy thifg?” she said to the half- sleeping ecat. . “What example have, vou set for me that I should be catching mice?” an- swered the cat, indlfgnant!y. The girl suddenly turned and sag down in her chair and was absorbed in her work. This faught her a good example. : DOROTHY PATNODE, Age 8. Willimantic. W emE— is well known. First Prize; $1.CO—J’I_._A\’ TIME, By Margaret E. Nosworthy Yellow Warbler. The vellow. warbler or (wiid canary), a common bird, thougl year I spent m hore a m ree of th N birds As T to look up a little erested arbler, In length this bird Yis a Grasoing the Dicart. than five inches. Tt e all.no-doubt, heard.of the| With the breast str You e all, no ubt, T hrown. great shining sea of sand that stretch- &s across the whole of Northern Africa where no rain ever Tfalls and the storms themselves are made of sand. * People canngt lye long in a place like tiis; f6r there are no wells of water in this vast desert to eool thel: burning thirst. Indeed, wone try to; but men find it imperative sometimes to cross this sandy belf, and it would| seem almost ag if the Creator, antici- . This bird, prefers the open thicket mostly the willows, to the thick wood. lands, and often builds its pretty nes by “the. roadside or in shrubbery. the Though not ngs early a hich makes up for what it MARGARET MURPHY, pating their ‘neefls Ssent the camel for; Norwich. this espeefal purpose. s t ESr st Did it ever oceur to you what a M<y Vacation. wonderful creature the camel i ! When 1 wéht on mw vae: Gaunt and homely though he mavistdrted on the § o'cl ea be he is indispenasble to the traveler|to New Haven at aboui th forced to cross the hot, sandy desert.| sfrernoon. When we got ther The name which the, Bedouins.give tof jyp, ndwiches ad cake. him, “the ship of the desert” is cer- tainly well applied, for b progress, | wiich is both swift and steady, is fur-| ther augmented by a faculty which hey possesses of passing several days without drinking and his being able to didn’t ing my ecousin. “Oh.” thought he, “T will never lie|books Thes next day she went all avound, d0Wn in the water again.” Once mere e el She s the ary and il led him back to the.se and another big building e bags with salt. ten feet undgrground ¥ was wiser now and ca vacation d about the yellow ttle more an expert musician the vellow warbler s | o quality of v no upeh, but splash! spiash! splash! of -the DOt Very o a the of salt. that he d fallen, for {110ad much ‘lighter. he! ese Dir I dec stumble this time. He wise donkey. This time YeUOW ! much salt that his m reddish ) As_they merchant laughed to garden| donkey of this trick. he seashgre heé fille nd often, y "t s lacks in ouEhL load I have!” over the rough roads. Again they .came to th thought the donke) load lighter still. middle of the brook. found his Joad so heavy cely rise. ation we We got in the we had was not happ; n:down his sides and the middle“of the brook. for he was obliged to go back to the wshore for another load. were walking along « of Hampten. In the middle ream was a large sione which he did not see., He stumbied and fell ter ran all over the bags Sqon' the donkey was glad he found his They came to an- jother stream, but the denkey did not laid down in He was a he lost so er was angry the himself, He thought he knew a way to cure the When they came bagy made from cloth or oid ra; ed by a rag man who weni ‘What a light}aeking people for old rags or rewspa- d the started for home. ¢ brook. “I will ‘make my He lay This down™in the time he that he could The water made Ve Wide- Awaks amaount of feod. Withaoh 5 fond 4, TR S ot e o (Gaches the amoun . ) g 2 £ One day one of cacl camel will trayel at an gvérage l'uleg. %t L:\‘:“Dd":‘ "“:’m‘)":, = of 20 miles a day, byl on-eommercialj "RINE DRISCOLL, Age 10. journeys with a 163d upon his back he | CARORE PR AR Yy * Is not expected to make more than 10| o'y, 3 fo1 my consig to come and | T or 12 filgonhfi:oolmgeag‘fn:]oi“ht CaTTY{ ook and sec if it was here. It The Liberty - Bonds. from 300 to 1, pounds’ ght. My cou. tTt will A\ bhoy One strange thing about this animal! suppert tree or pole to prevent pus- sy from reaching the nest. will prove a great attractlon. Some birds can and do protect:them-| selves against other hirds. like -th. inzlish sparrow, but the sparrow wil usually drive other birds away if al-| Have a vessel for comtaining fresh! waier, renewgd every day, it in some This’ should be attended to|W early in‘the spring, ®o-ti® birds willjoOr find’ quarters waiting for them when|IoW denkey they come. CHRISTINE M. BARRY, Age 11 Peg. A cat comes t§ sec us évery day. is 2 male cat and is as black h vith yellow eyes. We think his.name is Peg, because when we call by the! place” for ' the comfort of the|seashore for “rusoe n, and I Anished A T played ma LRNE durin WALKER, good tim ROBERT L. Mansiield Centc The’ Donkey and the S One time a merchant wen load sal re m n the jou and and streams like ad and foot ridge came to a t through the water, bond. He felt time when he named Tom Parks was alone richer bought the meat fell into greedy dog ha GEORGETTA West Ashfor: I to 4 book. and then a. store to be The ‘peopl When I wa abgut 7 or 8 ' cos She The me. id 33 a i hold it. dog, and as he opencd hi: :0ld me for 35 . in the store a little %o)‘ ttle boy When' the. I TWO PORTRAITS. . i I % 4 i Paint me a picture, Master. and maks it strict anpd true: on P the chesks 1o vrl?ner- B the eyes mo deepes bluc Give to her form np sefier grac 5 to each rounded ltmb The highest lines that art can trace are shadowless and dim. Color to life hier. matehless hair and, If ; hou - mayest, . portray. . The sweeiness of those scarlet 1ips; thdy ' smiles thal round them play, Canst thou preduce ihe tadiant m that beams from out her 07;? ake more fair or pure or b the soul that in them lles? ‘5 .af Fashion my bride, g0d painter, low and kind and : e, i Fair a_wreath of lilies, sweet,’ Helr perfume, too. t"y: 3 3 o= I - 33, Paint me another picture, as in tW& before, years y . a7ans Tracing with careful pencil hersgi A nothing. more. it Leave not a single shadow out of THA¥" “snowy A; T nne =i oW, i Every thread of siiver—paint hervas .. she is now. Inne .be, ! Maybe the cheer is * smile less free; {Care has altered them, doubtless, but: i oh! T tell to you i The cloud that darkened ome life shads ° wed the other, toe! Sagim paler, maybe \P«D: Paint me my wife, that the years have fled, And Love has blessomed out of the e ¢ Use N For Over Thirty Years dust of Passion dead. Place thé pictures gide by wall— | Which is to me the fairest? the last of all! JUST DREAMING. Dearest. it is your face that comes“te i . dream vouth and that m n them sound of happiness, and m\s‘ags_ iove's eteruit] -, ripples mate with moonbearm, 1 hear your veice s happy and ea free. What an exquisite joy my heart woy know ; 1f you might, cedise to be a memor And come again to bring my dredtd ings true, <N aversan —Géorge Bancroft Dube another dog with another piece of at, s 2 The Story -of a Book. T'am a brand new book. and trotted along gaily [ bers. The ragman after he got through collecting brought me ‘Ah, | where T was miade inte paper. § put in a machine and made in- Then the people of the factory put me ina box and they nailed the box me other people put me on ter kindly helped him but}a train for*Hartford. When T got to Hartford I was taken him | off ‘the frain and then I wa seld ‘with “sev ~cents. ears old cents. said he would tak The lady .did me up in some paper and put a string:around the paper to. le Boy-got - home t time. taken to al other | ! came in and v me and asked the lady how much much surpriced when would run after it and try to catch it. 5 We: used - to have.great.sport watch-i When finally offered: a salary raiss, “I 'will “have that meat,” said the]ing -her. after yvears of poor pay, a Univeraity, mouth thej One day a friend of ours wanted to)|of California professor sald: “Neveq, the water and 'the{take some -pictures. We put my little|mind; I've chaifged jobs with the d none. i brother Walter in one of my doll car- | janitor. CUSHMAN, Age 13, |riages, and Bessie: sat-down beside the| «Pa, what is a humorist?” d. carriage. They turned.put to be very! “A humorist? Why, my som: % nice pictures. One morning “when father went to 1 was| e barn to milk there he found Be! 't funny, - el lying on the hay with eleven lit-!isp't funny.'—Wife. s around| !¢ Puppics lying beside her, We did} “yyopnry 7 Just finished my davs not: see BDessie for -over a week after work, that,«but .one day shs. came up bark-{" y oo ce o1 S {ing and’ whining ws if “trying ‘to tell| S s K £ " 5 to a fd?fi;x us-about her pupplek. “We went down |, Henry—I set the calendhr ahead F4% tomorrow.—Stamford Chaparral. Mr. Lerret—This article, five Ways to Cut the Groger's to ‘see them. -She walked us all the way to the barm. found the titfle black and w ahead of There we | pup- ey were: all very ought to be valuable. L R o ey and | O . Terret (sadly)—it would Thad | | Ome atay wé wove out ‘6f dodrs play- | invaluable if even one of the wargg ing and -an ©id tramp started- to-come | would Work—Life. 3 in the yard, Bessie ran out to him.| “Many a man"” said Bgbert, ‘¥ very fiercely, and he went|been ruined by prosperityy - “That may- be,” rfi[lliNI Algy ‘Bt e have many cute|it Td got to face ruin/ I'd sooner fate tricks. She used catch a great{it that way than through adversit§.” many, - woodchucks and® rabbits—Un-; —Minneapolis Tribune. Sennd. Teacher—“Can any Httle boy tell me T what is meant by “divers dis 3 A Fire. - Harry—"Yes, teacher, I know." L ¥ ke{ One ning in the ¢old month ef{ Te Well, Harry ceaadl December a family were gathered Iarry—"Please teacher, fish bites! about a warm and comfortable firej—London Tit-Bits. telling stories. Theré were two ehil-| “Did your moiber dreyt in .the family, a boy about the|time/you came in?” he lage of 12 and a fair blue-eyed girl] “Yes, 1 told her guarter of twel nal! ilis parents had died.}undid me and began:to read. When he about 7; but these children, like all| “But it was after one when we laf is its love of the sound uf'xha hl|]fl'|d"; s Shdphera dee. ‘teen vears old and had to|8°t all through he said I was theiboys and girls, were alws in mis-|the place. P voice. The rider never uses whin 01:; “He will do L6 ng. e went to New Pest hook hLe ever read. T felt very|chief. Well. quarter of twelve is three., i?:; ia‘d:l;’izg f,mfmdfim?ca;’é"{i’e‘ t day he made enough Dri"i,d\{- 0; ~0\:§:;§‘ eto‘l:)t;ar“mnl:l i ¥ " The h(’)y went down cellar after thejisn’t it?’—Yale Record. s w or ra me, s v selling papers fo have sup-f. 1 se_vou would like to|coal and wood. ‘He earried a small| e . scientist “is {Fying te dyeite g»lmknu.-\ “regulates his pace ac- iy per and a bed in the Newsboys' Lodg-| Xpow 1oy hame. 1t i3 The Adventures |lantern, hut he hunfped it agninst the ,,P,-}fl.,“».iom:n:xe‘ Lear § cordingly. i ings for cents a night. : BUANY. i corner of the steps and i went out. He!' ‘wPijese scientists mean el but % KATHARING TAYLOR. ; The he had better luck. | MABEL F. TROWBRIDGE, Age 10. | s pocket’for a match. He|mthey are always In the clouds * Forwich Towk E it employment for five dollars| Willimantic. : one, hut he was too lazy to light| = «gyp i 7 e R TR 5 Jewett City. . He was very economical un- 3 = ' the lantern, for he was half-way down| = wxow. a -dible sandwich Puoviding. For the Birds. [y L ¢ had money enough for a suit of Rainy Day Friends. and, besides, he fhought. if 10 Use.| womig ey G, DA dandTicR Did you ever metice how few people! St W = : Lila was seated hy the window|When he reached the: Bottom of thellouisville Courier-Journal, 5 make any. provisions for-the comfort acation Wo about this time America en- watching the rain which pattered slow- |{steps he struck the match against the| . HStuptal | Wy “Inibe Bt i, T This b 40 Wové. th Birds closed Marel for a war. The first Liberty loan|ly against the-window n Lila| wall gnd, thinking it was out, threw it| Mrs. Man-—-Stupld: Why fin the Shout th Favein (48 Dovitis vard, and Ltion. ut and he the first one to|w cery gentle child and her moth- |2Way It landed right in the middle{ World did you get seats for “IMadame the dnwi A family of martms will | During my vacation I carried wood|bus a bond. He took the bond and|ar was very much surprised when she|of the woodpile. Hubightisy Somiien, L istiatly s yon do a-great- deal of good to protect the| {0 the wood shed and house, gotcobs | felt vich. ile saved up every penny|heard the angry words that Lila was| 'Whén. hé had put the.coal and wood|l Wanied to hear Pagliacci® S IS oir hav o hnd oibes fosthoidor the ¢ bedding and fed the|hc ¢ould get. He saved up until helsaying to her brother Howard who|in its place he went to:bed. About| Mrs Man—To preserve my dignity. Sred thieveur wwhite other Birds pro.|cOWs and calf: i had four bonds of the four Liberty|was building h and windmills | five minutes afterwards hmothesiWom s REgguen WL tedctied chclLRE L e e oy femuting on| We have two cows and one calf. The | louns. with “his’ plocke om the ‘floor. |€aid ‘she ‘smelied smoRafthey went| Window T forgot lLow to pronounee PREBTHECES auataiedt et l(:‘ 3 s Midnight. H fifth Liberty loan was called| After Lila had stoppéd scolding her| down celldr#and found jtdn flames. | that thing.—Buffalo Express. iRy e 3 5 pped 2 maple tree. 3 { ictory Liberty Loan, so Tom |brother h ed her if she didn't want] Shé ran out the door without shut- R T prl;‘;}eg’f ‘?gguggle&xs;len?r\‘!\{:énég The books that T are Out u_r:.«,n.ul as much money as he could. He|to play with him. At first she would rmfi’ it aftér her. It was a v windy | THE KALEIDOSCOPE et gr \ 3 i the 1: of the Up|iwould not o anywhere. He saved up|not go, but later on she went and had|night and the fire was Zai t funnel-shaped tin fastened around the Club in Hood, | : wdred dollars so he could get ula The population of m is 2 time: the United King- headway up into the kitchen. Thestathe S dense as’that of the eufather woke up the boy and he| other caljing them to|dressed and came down stairs. When| United States. : |'supper to see the.sunbeams plaving|the mother retufmed ¥he found the{ Turkish paten punish their tior lend the governmeént ev-jaround the room. | firemen there fightin he flames. naughty children & hitting them on Aze M. he had. The government| But as Lila had had a good time| Nobody had thought of the girl tll}the soles of the fect. dred dollars of his mon- | that afternoon she- gave Howard and now. The firemen put up the ladder| rThe production of copper in the xieen was rich. And | his blocks the name of Mainy Day|to her window and brought her down|{iteq States hae increased more ~E ore money from his earn- | Friends safely. The mother thanked and re-|than 25 fold since 1850, 1t 1o the And if the government DOROTHY I THOLEN. |warded the firemen for théir kindness.{ New Mexico has 13.692.26 acres o A eeded more he would have money to| Norwich. i BITZMATRICE, | Age 11 | -NEW. EEECO Qa8 2oy 35 . o erel give o his ooy ; ey | S e YE;?“{)P:&n. . of whi h 5,423,333 have - AnTIEES ee e The Ruffed Grouse ! e oL aben SUTYRRAL New London. - | : T al value artieles in- New London, The nifted - graes Kitty is in a Hurry. -Th.(. total value of rti fr One day a dog e of meat in ¥ went as am. stream | 1 1 need > over it. he had to cross The Greedy Dog. name of Pex he comes. We have] great sport with him and wish we could keep him. One day my mother put bread to| rise pear the stove and was very; anxious to see it rise. When' she look-| ed at it she was disappointed to find| our neighbor’s black -cat that weighed| about eleven pounds sieeping comfort- | ably on the bread. We children had a laugh, but mether was rather an- gry. JEANETTE TARVIS. Age 11, Norwich. ¥ Vacation On the Farm, It was a bright. warm summer morning at Aunt EMzd’s farm. Lillian and Bthel, whom Rena had invited for 4 summer vacation were seated ut the breakfast tpble enjoving ‘themselvés, byt sorry Bert had to work 4nd could! hot come. Just as they were saving| that the door bell-rang and in ponped! Pert, for his father's hired man lad| came back, so Bert eame to enjoy his vacation with .the t. Auntie gave him a cup of coee and a biscuit te taste of them. After he ate heartlly|. he asked. the if they would agree! to go rowing in.the afternoon and they, all agreed. Au e them each 4 luneh of heot and other good |- things. They arn n a good time, 7ot a hoat and sailed quite 8 distance. After 2 good frolic they began to get ready for home. As they were walking aleng Lillian cried out. “Circys! A circus! see the wagons and horses. “Sure cnough,” sald Bert. : They stopped and ed him to help them put up the tents and they gave his 3 ticket for each. - < They enjoyed the.cireus very much and were Sorry when it was ever. They arrived héme, late amd went o bed'a short while after, for the next morn- ing they were to leave. g RKATH ROOLLAND: . Bacond Prize 75¢—~THE arwic| | FIRST TULIP, By Eloiss a peculiar bird, | ibut gs beautiful to look at. 1 When I was coming home from my at Copen zoing home | Haster vacation at Stonington I saw ¥ ds mouth. On!a peculiar bird which I did not know spry as she : S » a {When I reached home 1 looked in e girl. Tt ta a_ who L As he was|The Book of Birds Every Child Should |minuté to et the k the lock. |Mahkeenae in Massachus Whee o look into!Know, under Ruffed Grouse, as 1| But kitty is i to_get in.fer Shepardson, of Lennox thought «it might be ene, and to my vl she says, and rubs|iel Metealf of Springfield. s She has a family of| Pike perch weighing 69 pounds around its vecl It. had- an -open bréwn and white and a rufile of black It was in a swampy place near the roadside, and as it did not offer to fly my friends and 1 had ia good look at it. had 4 nest. near EMMA ¥ fan-like tail k. it _is supposed s0.did not flyv. WHITE, Age 13. North Stonington. T The .ostrich the werld. fast indeed. A full grown ostrich cannot be over- Its long legs are covered wilh scales, and on each foot there are but two toes, one! of these toes is armed with a sfrong, h it uses in defend- taken by the sharp claw, W ing_itself agai | | Very often it han ten times i The ostrich tiful. feathers and tail, but it frich farms Wi birds “just raise poultry fie made very | most anything of iron, gla 11 S | Norwich. | | 1l | We onee hid s Wery-niee black and | Proposals which the municipality ac i white:bird dog. Tler name was Bescie. | 2 | At firet it wae ‘herd 16 Keep Wer from:| Crowell Smith of the Shiekens. chickens slie she saw the shadow of a bird she and murried men -Z280. he. Ostrich. *the largest bird Its Wings are quite small, and it cannet fly, but it can run very fleetest horse. h inst ils encmies. The ostrich lives in, warm co\m!rin} 4nd where there are great sandy. des-| ts; - Tt doss not build-a mest as most rds do,” but-lays its eggs in the sand. does not sit upon i | eggs. but leaves them for the heat of |y zhc sun to-hateh. A-single egg is more as large a% a ‘hen is hunted for the Avhich * deck ' -its is very hard to catch. ! In some places, men have large os these ! country men | here they raise in - this hen taken young these birds may tame, They will cat a that comes in their w 4nd have been kunowhn {0 swallow bits d even pocketknive 15 MOPSIK, Age-10. Our Dog. Every tima she' suw Would- chase thein. of wings pted but theimen refecied = ‘ » fi usting. the income | ’ . the' mpt bacheiors and | 11| wido un to.the amount -of .‘.‘101 5 pickerel weighting more pounds—a record ‘ict- in Berkshire. the old kitty and the; The osage orange growing wild ir rived at granny's four daysthe Southwest waited to find its pi in the romic world until the o fwar cut off our foreign dyes and then came int e quantities and so marked the brin into use of a resource heretofor wasted. A cablegram of April sul General Skinner, [ that a gemeral Ticense April 12, permitting the of wine from all countries, t thro four Kitchen. safe. | in a willow basket in granny's She wants to see if ‘they are catch They :\é young—a ago. : Kitty ‘belongs to Nannie Brett. Nan- nie found the four small kits one; morning in a corner of the barn, on the hay She tugeed the whole four) linto the house in her fat little arms. “Oh! Oh!” cried Nannie's mamma in dismay.. “What shall we do with four more cats? We must drown them.” Then Nannie lifted up her voice and| cried so loud that mamma finally said.| to comfort, her: it in “Well, well, stop erying and we license was later revoked cxcopt as to Font dbonn DA Gt { France, Ttaly and Portuga But-Kitty had overheard - this talk! Which countries alone wint about her children. Perhaps you think, imported. cats do not understend. Just try | some tithe and sce! Her mind w made up_at, once, .This kitty under- knew . what- drowning! Can arose out of 7 » { made by Canadian sc8fiers thef® H likes cats.” TT ‘take them!thelr English w an sweethearts ts | was what she said to]because of deper on servanis Lad ne bean taught te cook i » care of 'em,” she said!wash clothes. 10 nothing of p at could. et them ‘stav, and both ¢ kecping or daife work. 0 grann The 1919 rice cro: Nagnic and Littr come ¥p - it them! coehin Chins | masy times a day, S exceed 60 {o MARY A, KIRBY, Aze 8. e st Tast y over 1 ole for cxport | FROM MANY LANDS ee appointed nvoy 1 two political div Kingof the Bel- ions. | Persisient Coughs t o | are Aangerous, Get pr 5+ Piso's. Steps irritavien, ;K No opiat Town {wavmen having fu jteryés, the Agdmin i+ Pretoria el clive and safe for young and old o8 ir {Mavbe the eye is duller far than R° B oh, Master, #&f" LY side on (flg me <5, 8 those sweet momentis when T idly st loving Fou- T might 5 ndi full happine: rving tigeay And. worshipping forever but. ¥Rz humorsit is the fellow who can maka? an audience laugh at somecthing thiae" roaiYl asic you whath | fina and Combodia; - this’ veae n’a Matin® states that M Cartor de Wi- jmated that not over 560609 the former Beigian Mipister of {859,000 tons will be shiphcl from thes