Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 11, 1919, Page 10

for Yeung Writers. on one side of the B ink, not pen inted articles will e Do not use over age and 2d- the h»mom of ‘the { 3 story POETRY. “Rags” We uued him “Rags.” He was just a cur, But twice, on the Western Line, That little old bunch of faithtul fur Had offered his life for mine. And all Brea lhat he got was bones and Or the Itanm ot/seldier-grub, + But he'd give hig heart for«a pat onl : the head, 2 Or a friendly tickle and rub. And Rags got home with the regiment, d then. in the breaking away— Tell, whether they stole him, or whether he went, I am not prepared to say » One day they took us budding M. D.s To one of those institutes Where they demonstrate every new disease means of bisected brutes. 4 one animal tacked and tied As plegsant as one might Wish. stopped to look like the rest, of course, And the beast's eves levelled mine, And his short tail thumped with a)r teeble force And he uttered a tender whine 1t was Rags, yes, Rags! who was mar- tyred there, Who was quartered and crucified, {&nd he whined that whine which is . dogeish prayer, Anad he lickgl my hand—and died. And I was no better in part nor whole was found among, blood was on the sout Which he blessed with his dying tongue Well! I've seen men go-to courageous| death In the air, on sea. on land! “Byt only a dog would spend his breath n.a kiss for his murderer’s hand. Edmund Vance Cooke. Little Boy With a Busy Dad. ke mixes wrong roungster on his is good and what little chap, hose who have a b 207 P dad. | -ls-one ol His Pa is He's th in his office every d: king of his business Hine many dolinr bills away g wealthy is szoplders broad he'd like o | himt things he doesn't un- nd plavmates an. | father, he'd be | i through ang < wcase i< ‘the De Free | NCLE JED'S TALK TO AWAKES. Some,_people lve and dle without ver reaMzing the difference between wants and their ds. Uncle Jed has no doubt some of his Svide-Awal more presents on mi¢ than they néed.” Perhaps.a dtew of them—a very few-—would like %o haye & whole shoy full of toys, and bad them they would not fnow to @9 With them. 3 What we need is clothasto keeb us Zwarm, food to keep us fed. and some- Pthing to'keep w8 busy. What man = & everything he has energy or to gets things Which cost the most in are least It is ussless to name them, WIDE- | ;_-ueued Ehince Wide-Awakes cannot fail.to ho- Btice them, & Some peopls thimk. they need 2 ten $thousand dollar, dlamont whose fa- her's or. grandfather's sgreatest need as 2 spade! & Nearly three thoueand vyears ago #Socrates’ wrote, “the less man wants, £Rhe more he resembles the gods!” With S#very age eince then mian has kept ‘more and more until it almost to be a joketo sdy man wants -; What #man needs s not material S$hings as much as quallty. Quality is he things money cannot buy, use it is attainable only by loyalty truth and devotion to principle. & Man's wants muitiply as fast as his Slortune, and often run far ahead of it. S What he most needs is the spirit of b will and brotherhood which un- $geriies the world's greatest relizious liday, and which he permits once a to cocupy his attention for a day. Man's wants always distress him; t his needs are for his comfort and -A fellowship that would be heavenly. *HE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS, uy- and cfl."w }I think it is a very | Little John Budfefd- Tbanksngmg.‘ | the loft of the little log cabin which { { teathers and - heads 6—Miriam Parker of — Comrades in New Yorn Mlnlfldd 7—Stanley . Parker of -Mansfield— Comrades at School, P s &—Gladys " St. John of Moosuj Boy Allies-at Verdun, = o0 1¢ The winners of prize beoks living ! the city may call ot The Buletin bust ness office for them at am atter 10'e. m. on Thursday. - 5°%F LETTERS OF ACKNOWL!DGM ENT Lois C. Savage, of Storrs—Thank you yery much for the prize book. I liked the boak very well.” I finished it yesterday. Diana Doyon, of Glasgo—My sincers thanks for the prize book received om Thanksgiving day entitled Marjorie's Busy - Days. - You have-a good taste for ehoosing books for girls. I have read it through and found it very in- taresting. Grace Gardiner, of Griswold—I re- cey yed_my prize book entitled, Miss Pat’s Problem. I Hke it very much. It came on (ThahkSgiying morning and that is one-of the'things I have to be | thankful for, - R. Winston Main, ‘of Norwich—I was pleased to receive the pri¥e book ‘you sent me and I thank you 'very much for it, Annie O'Connell, . 6f = Norwich-— I thark vou for the prize boak I won. nice book. We readl it and thank you very much. for it, Sophie Gaska, of Jewett City-—Re- celved the lovely prize book you sent me and was ‘delighted” ;I have read it | through and found the story Jjust grand. T wish. to-thank you the ‘best way I know how, for your kindness to me. The Name of the book is Outdoor Girls' in«rmy Service. This makes me a dozen books from vou so far, for which I am very tiankful. Stelia Gaska, -of = Jew thank you very much for the prize T received in the drawing contest some time ago. I was very much de- lighted swhen I received it. Thank you again. t City—14 ‘sToRIES wm‘r‘rEN BY . WIDE- AWAKES. The Christmas Presant Once upon a time there was a poor little girl. One. day- when she was valkjng along the street she came to| 2 foyshdp and in the windows tuere | was @ lof of dolls. The little girl was | longing for a doll and she said to herself: 7 wouldn®t tare What one I hagd if T could only have one.” That night she dream’t that it was Christmas andthat Santa ' Claus brougiit her a beautiful doll A rich lady who had seen her looking at the dolls knew that she wanted one, and at Christiiag the lady sent her a beautiful doll ‘and many other presents, which made the littie girl PARE O'BRIEN, Age 10: Norwich. 1 John Bradford, the governor's little| ng fast asleep i nbed, up in was his home. e was dreaming of Xndmnm whe were plentiful and een in those days. Little| the woods, shooting. tur- . wien alliof a sudden .the red- pbeared, ~whooping -and yellifg, ! “Whoo-0go-ooh!” they yelled. One of\ them raised ji's tomahawk -and Sap- { proached John. He was too.scared . to ay, and just stood there, shiv and waiting for the tomahaw! N and nearer came the | stone. There was a crash | own on his head, and litte | adford rolled out’ of his the cold, hard floor , of sssured himself, that the whooping of the wag' only the whistling of the| wind ‘through the cracks in the log | wall, he dressed quickly, and slid down the ladder into the room below. The | emell of freshly cooked pumpkin pies greeted his arrival, ang ‘it was not long before he stood beside the fire- place, his eyes gloating over the sight of iwo rqys of beautiful pies. There were pumpkin pies, and apple ples and minee pies, and lots of.other kinds. 'John wandered out into the yard, to fest whether ihe new-fallen snow was for smowgalls or ' not. Having fosted thelr quality on the front door he returneq into_the.house. After Lreakfast his father employed him.in taking branches of trees o tire fort, where there was to be a grand Thanksgiving celebration to which xh,l Indians were. invited. At noon the Indians began to arrive. They were ali dressed in - their very best war paint and skins, not to men- tion the rows and rows of brilliant which _adorned their already gay costumes. The' chiet and his braves were very much pleased with the food that the white men gave them, and little John watch- ed with envious eyes the plates of turkey and ple that disappeared ltke lightning when placed in-the hands of hungry sgvages. After 2ll the men had finished eat- ing, the women and: children sat down to the table. Slice after slice of tur- key. piece after piece of pie, and an enormous amount of vegetables, little John consumed, and after he had eaten as much as any little boy ought to eat, he piea.dea “Prithee, one more slice of turkey” and “Prithee, just a tiny slice of the ple,” until, at last, reaching the limit of his capacity, he sank limply Back on the bencin Then they all went to meeting, to hear a Thanksgiving sermon, It was hot in the meeting-house. The minister's words grew longer and longer, and the little boy became more and more puzzied in trying to under- stand, until at last JoHn’s head droop- ed, slowly—glowly—and his eyes closed slowly—slowly, and little, John Bradford was fast asleep; The man at the door walked up the aisle a little way, and then back again. He had a long pole, with a squirrel's tail at the end of {t.. But little John knew, notting of the tithing-man now L 1~Sophie Gaska of Jewett City— “himited.) V.u}’u&ea —Ruth 8. Tracy nf Auburndale, f‘ KALPHO is sold by the Lee & Os- —he was dreaming again. . He:dream- ed of pies and pies and’ turkeys and » sawed off. ’flm will avojid. Eighth Prize, $0.25— Pussy’s Dream. by Loranda Hebert of Plainfleld. )é:::fl—flum Fielding l‘;flnmwud' : Lo"-?x';vm Dflzwicmmma—, . ;m; o - Eloise . i Norwich—Miss e ; % Aot o Feato—he os | S SShel o : and small hold the books on his Th 5 * ting] dw tip of his fall, not so much mlufl 1 *stowed re” cracking away and tantalizing of' the oven, ‘why, tiny I- house could hoid such a deal of oll{! “Tis a wonder it didn't burst nto n. thousand bits! d that's. what ‘‘Mouse alive, ves! ides” the Twitchets. were preparing “Christmas! Bob the end: pxecu (B, lnfl‘fl) 2%in. from'its -eni led; for ‘twould:be lay out the d cut the grooves o s“‘m"f»zo;e&.aa, After B and C and finis hed wi g your, proj ml deco posed._si e whh later. grooves wil screws thre Then' it} with two, coats. of v:m-h better with a coat of .shuxm 2 E waxing with' ruhfid~ L3¢ -Emh!- was veh_.:,,a ‘m&' d ‘away" fir deer life, and in a m! ,Tm most he'd flaished his ‘whifts ren. ‘Were' concern: his r(h Mr k!réhief u-xd I my Sy ets gort”.of ‘Then it began ed the snow « “Anyway the o e Ty Taatae, ry laugh, and tl all feel Dfinfl! tewelt; we're st eat, so let's go yoi 3o o the | prgpened rs o the atlons. Surely Along toward -ie-t-5” with the under _the kettle, floating out 'tis '3 wonder so kletail had bade or at least that nearly - did . ;“r?:. S e relloyed himasls nndh looked ¢ ‘A third? ook 1 thinking of skates and: whisting ce: I ~Claus'can still .come,” ed to find himself. cat: tails!” he exclaimed, dropping his hat' in. astonishment. Having thus again. . “Why, there but’a ‘Smoking snow- onj - 5 mub!n sa't o 9 bubw:fltfih while, o5 | the gm.w hmug‘ a = w?”angm thelr: w“”‘ e “wondeping whiit “in .the world'| wfl‘.“?he matter. How could they guess| that Bobby ‘buried - them under -three shovélfuls of snow.. ' . v 1o grow a lite lig] Ler, foF the fire in the grate had m .on_the chimney top and now burned ‘up brightly. chimney’s clear, San- juavered This made Daddy Jer- ho laugh made them 111 alive and must 8 on with the bakisg,” ‘witchet. Taking . their courage in both paws and ‘trying to forget the strange dark- ness and stillness that had befallen them, those piucky little mise went right on_with their Christmas, prepar- something must hap- pen: to help a family like this! And something did happen! five o'clock, Mr. T. ‘Whiskers Twinkletail came trudging over the snow. He was S0 _busy re- membering all that Mrs. T. W. Twin- him tell Mrs. Twitch- et, that he never looked up untik he was right before the Twitchet’ door, was where he expect- “Mouse ears and hie rubbed his eyes there. was disclosed , the. chim- ‘The terrified ‘T. W. Twinkletail ‘waited for no more. Off~to the. vil- 1agt. as his best boots would carry read, | hin, nanted'the llttle meuse. gentle- doors he Jarm-nus appe; ;hey ;erkéd isters were too | dust fiy! Even »;ba}tli:d and | Mrs. ta m] ed. g‘:r L t, Twl!chet' commotion them! talked at onee, *| was never befor ville. stizzing, And didn’t ‘that ouse -really ‘did ‘The Twnkleufls qnthn‘:fi) but_the Twitchets gotng b per with them, ang burdling man, Hammering frantically on all the .. In. less than no passed me he was back,. all the mice.in.the neighborhood at his heels, with wheel- barrows and ‘shovels. Phew! - How Snow the.lady ‘mice helped. T.: W. Twinkletail did -as much 38 any, two men. And - when - the appear, e T MIetal = ot Mra. Twticiat fell into each other's arms. Every one and such a rejoicing e -nor smce in !!ouse- womfl hear the’wholé family intosleds,and wheei- barrows their rescuers ‘trundied them|., Bnb' » polished. g How to! Make For such lmm:eyood well as for bus work, you can easil bummg awls, securin; ‘Thid, lhufl flm&' iz ! Junior N there’ were, and sugar ;“mg nailsof diffe kward, unanei o B IR vl 05 g Bl ows: Cut about 4 in, froiu’ the handle n'rh‘tre Mg, Do bty ofan old broom, whittle'one end down by S. to a taper. and ‘drive a nail gartwdy into Y.hep!eapefl:d end. Then file'off the nailhead'and ! it into'a fairly sharp yomh The-awls should 1 s with terror, by Then the' w:, two awls, keeping one while you use the othef, fn: 1 ool rapidly. Practide; on so! wood béfore yéu qu on the stand: Loy 3 and Girls'* Vewspx et SQr\dca Copyright, 1919, by 7. ‘H Mfllnr s {ithing - Gon . Wi )u,sz T Tbmz seest” she H’fifl; “bow. G hould learn: to B ing would At noon Mary pushed aside lh | soup, letivee; nad. and. omelet wm time. her “mother” had pre ed for !g; “I ‘don't like th;t sh;aud. ol am going to raid the pantry see if | I can some P”}J.'o e pantry [k Mary went and ? und 2. pxm of plc _There’is.. which she ate. . she, { a glass of water, pl:Lgd 2 few lumy &. of sugsr from the bow!on " the-tab! and went back to school. i o R 'Aftsr school Macy bought an, sdie: | 090 ' taffy. It cost five cents, so-the apple was of poor-quality’and. th: tafly was a_cheap glucose preparation, ve sticky. Oge of the girls met the way home Jgnnd' gave & herme drops and 3 dj )fi uunpg = {east. mtmd;,dme; s she wasn't hungry-a er family won- dered why' she could “fiot- eat. % d'nne(. n J:ct she-said’ shevdi care for any‘ excepting e\d;nm‘ Now Mary's ncgmpkx on 1s-poar:, gets hczdz:hes and lags about in 3. less manner, 1f Mary-ate-{ots of - and’ drank a quart of milk & ajy i ycu think ¢he would be' fwdl!ger fl Norwleh, sute, but stil nity, Jike.some o wide ‘yerana, See. m:t p m hnuse ~top there rose| hhm ‘dishes Jumped the Tyitchets ks cradle, ;an the little’ e darkness hat: awful, uc):x;* msm < b T one, and” John W.ls st eting-house, [ there- 14 the , g | tishine-man standing o o Chi: +: Jolin curled up-on fore the kitchen fiteplace; lad been in-chureh. His mother: H.flfid\ ‘l(i;u';ap and, carried h‘.zn upstalrs st he: steeps. krie s ’-!n me;u{xz less he”is ko fittie heo hee “Well," #aid the- gdvernor, { uneommonly s6ft with him. It Is right meeting., OfiF reverend -preacher is 1> inclined ‘to’ give long ser- 73 no harm, but nev- erthéless'T wil not cane hlm this first o ' BLOISE C. SMITH. TS T The' Deserted' House. ne. place: about two. miles from my héme which I like to: visit and let my imagination run riot. - This place.is \ls‘.lilly known.as the Deserted: aan“ is that” of--a. gleomy old brown ence, forlorn and n with-an air ofjquiet diz- - old gentleman greatly- reduced circumatances. ’AS you walkupon the grass-grown dfl veway, you obsérve that the «ro unding 1t; dotted with birdhouses z - sflver-{ipped spruce trees, ‘must have once been a beautiful la X:h'rqnch the fmrm steps and step on 4" and: there. axe several s in.gilt. frames tnon. the flaor. hdt?.oIt xpunded like :fi:‘%’; The Eqaunphr is back” to- the folks. a; pEfag R The honse rnek- their: quak- family Merry C unuea carriages. Oh, groaning ghost! ahead: isy't it 1t is narrow it | Uiitle arched bri lli{le no}‘s | the” duekd, {.nfoken in. 4s fast asleep as | Of all: said’to the gov-i hat It was Neverthe- cruel knife, an f0.. leads directly house, alk “thou art keep. *awake in o0ld-fashioned h waik “in. only one other wonldn't this b camp out {n? > But see, it wi must go! Goo Goodbye, ‘Lovers again sometime: yout/first impres- ected.. to be o going to suffer Most ot ‘our ‘south. but-our emigrate to wa und that they - will us ook Igto . there' Is &' lot’ of s of ai ity usty few- crymbs that Semie péonie take a' handful village. the..mice middle’{s a tiny enough to hoid a little island villa for Across see a greenhouse, with the gl white-robed figyre. But come. let us go omn. : RUTH 8. TRACY, Age 14. Auburndale, Mass. spite of the cold. winter. come, arqund near the houses to get tie | Ah;—brave wee 1 wish vou could on the celebration in the 'schos] house, ontheir dear little tree. and conld have heard the drell speeches of Mr.Twinkletail as he pre- senited the gifts, Teeny-weeny dplls ums, ‘skates, !ust big enough for May "o.n' ‘Chrlstmasbe as happy as ‘hristmas! - SOPHIE GASK_A look! There. ia . our It is that old._wind- mill which creaks as it slowly_ turn: : Now here is the lake just ‘pretty? Hére where is crossed by.a dear dge. Out ‘there in' the island, - just e you can ss all .3 Now you must’came and see tie best | a real Lovers' Lane, bord c‘losdy by willows. Imagine the blissful pair strolling here | In the r‘:qonflzht" Can't vou. just And o bt hanpen here! There Is the villatn-Jurking in the shadow, with his is the haunting the; to the .dearest ‘little round stones cemented.| together, and with a rustic veranaa. The windows ‘are all of little square penes, but most of the glads s gone. dthat the arched door with its inges is open, so we Here is a delightful . living room ‘with @ cosv fireplace, and even places for electric lights. There is Toom, 2 cellar. Uh, g, & "lorlou.: place to 11 soon be dusk, and we Ibye dear little house! ' Larne!- .\We will comeé | ~big d | The lane mieroscopic kitchen, with the remains of a stove & sink.-and “a tiny | P ‘THE FLAUOR LASTS B SO DOES THE PRICE! C apackage , before the war C apackage during the war and C apackage - NOwW the frozen and almost starved bird outside. 1 bave q parrot, and ke, too, times ,cold, and then he si corner of s cage on perch and waits till ed up a bit. - t'u I'hope that mans The Aoosup, Bruised Bud. v one, ‘and found ‘Gut it was : the one that was injured.in, the,bud. as some: people are injured by liftie. sins i eany. difes . GLADYS ST: JOHN, Age 1. ha Enahob: Canvunadl 3 Our Winter Neighbors. It seems to prove by the cold weather we are having now that-we are.going to suffer culd, but the ‘people are not as ‘much as thé wild animals and.birds. songbirds fiy to the “little “ &parrows néver rmer countries. . Phey ;. .You | seem " to, have.made Up-their mings stay, inthe north. i They mostly + 14y around. are: kind -enough to of “crumbs. and - soak thent ‘in . water and then give. them to the little SPRrrows. There are: but a vs whosare kind enough to_build just thmk of keeping ever give a crumb to " b fow" the ate plenty of, cereals ;" o ?A ::e ~m‘mi§e ,1.,3“‘{’,“,3 little birahoyses.far them. vegetables and cut out the ‘caftdy and .r se. . Right this, way. Here u orne’ people o e pastry 42 you think she w tm 14/ carriage hé If you, look i% | themselves ;arrn an. ed ‘up”, Wi pep and be as strong and ¢ 1’1 see there :are-still seyergl’old | warm food, good-looking as Sally Ja:m acreas the street? Sally Jones eats wholesoms ¢ggs and milk, wl l:hzhm m@“" butter, and leafy vqeublu such a5 | Isttuce, cabbage, and beet tops. which | | contain’ vudomu:. l;onk up "\num;x& in i ict They are 1il particles ml fgd"v,vbkh make it nouz- | ulun: W'lhout dnun* undernourished 2nd Boys’, and’ Girls!: New: Copyrighty 1819, by, fi” mor, turkeys, and Indians ing aag eating. One of the Indians.ate so fmuch John was ‘sure he was growing- Tatt while he ate.. My, what.a'fat man he was_getting to be! »Eretty mn xw would burst. -But—ooh! ful, -awtul :feeling' ‘lappeal to him, ‘|stead be One “day a little bo him ‘to a distant pa then forcad the boy His atfention just abqut’to pluck this flan when he spled a spotted tortois ning himeelf at. the oot of the rho- dora. He. picked up a stio had ecen other bo: squirgels and other e would follow tl As ‘o lifted the turtle, something- checked T and a Voice within him s: wrong!” He stood still -uplifted and was amazed looked. down he saw. rhodora and {he tortoise va his_sight. He hastened home and t to_his.mother and asked was that told him it, ith tears in her eves. that some.peonle call but she calied it “the within the soul of man.” She also told him if, he listened t: and oheved it, it would smeak cl and clearer and- alwa¥s . guida F right: but if he made helfeve he aidn't hear if. and disnheved it. it would fa awar little bv. little and loave him the dark. without a_gzui “Our ‘lives sometimes’ denend,.upon heeding: this Jittle yoice.” AGNES GAYESKI, Age 13/ Colchester, The Last Word. . I'" As James Carroll was return'ng from !'his work at the close ofa long, hot & he met his father. ‘Ah. Jimmy.” said Mr. =lad to have met yo W |:this packaxé to the v fo Now James was only 14 and liked to plav as. other boys. Besides. he was tired and hungry and wanted to set his supber as soon. as mossible; The two-mile walk to the villaze dld not and his first impulse ‘was to refuse his- father's request. Something nrompted him to_ look into ‘hls fatber's patient, tired face and in- answered checrfully cotrse I will. father.” ‘As thev walked dowh ‘the road to- zether, Mr. rroll sald: “T was goinx with -{t myself. but somehow I don't feel strong today. When thev came to the turn in the | & l'%ad his father said. lavinz hls ham HEY his son’s shoulder: “You'v heen a good bov to me, Jimmy; .J been a good bor James| hastened to the then hurried home. On néaring. the house: ha was met By hig uncle, who' satd gentlv: T have s2d news ifl you, my bov. Your father and town, thi blossom. in: mov Sat Nearl: iovely deH- ticed, how-1mother ountry. Jnited - States, The English language | the most important, but in many re- . the most. interesting: language the world. Tive hundred }enrs agy language was spoken about four million people in t ish Isles; now it is used by o¥er one hundred ‘and thirty’ millions: OBDGONI rod over the earth. The ptincipal cause for the Engl language, now the leading lan the world, is the word colonization. three hundred years 2ge Great Britain bégan planting:. Which spoke the same:laiguageyas the, for I'_ is " pot omly only Brit- age o onies, w0z !