Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 10, 1920, Page 2

"THE WIDE-AWAKE CIRCLE WIDE-AWAKE POETRY. A Horse’s Love. ‘ou housed me in the winter; and I love you, friend, for that; ‘ou stroked me with a kindly hand, Caressed me with a pat. | You have been patient when i knew So little of your ways, LAs awkwardly I tried to do My best to win your praise may not think a horse may care About such kindness— wintry storm or summer fair { 1 mever shall forget YAnd 50 T won the heart of you, { And you the heart of me. }A Borse can love a master true, Devotedly and fre —Horace Seymour Keller Animals. in Our Dumb JUNCLE JED's TALK AWAKES, women of every g of their country, but TO WIDE- The men and Wmre proud of the warely no people can be more proud than swe who live under the Stars and Stripes In the schools xt Monday the boys and e Circle will cele be told tands for beautiful bluc to be WINNERS OF PR ZE BOOKS. 1—Cather Gra rlowe V w LETTFY [ WRITTEN AWAKES, BY WIDE- oefSy’s Drea grown 1 wer Cas yesterday hear it Tett me 1 was moing voice | whe certainly a | eraser | “What do you | when 3 Jow p bac ayin Boys’ and Girls’ Department. Appear At Your Best—Instantly I you receive a sudden caller or an unexpected in- vitation you can feel con- fident of always appearing | | at your best. In but a few | | ‘moments it renders to your | | *kin a wonderfully pure, | | soft compléxion that | | beyond comparison. | iraud's { Oriental Creant BB ju the pink eraser's feell “When you are not thinking and make a mistake on your arithmetis papet, you take poor me and aimost break me in pleces,” the old eraser retorted. “You hurt me more than you éo the eraser. You are always biting me,” fes- tified the pen. i1 “You keep still now, Mr. r ln? know more about pain than i the excited pen whenever the efaser wanted to talk. “Well, we won't argue any more,” eried the eraser, “if you, Betty, promiise net to bite or erase too much. I promised, and just then we heard &' crash, and 1 awoke with a start, finished Betty. “How queer!” I exclatmed. going to keep your promise? “I shall,” Betty said. “But do you really think they felt any pain? she asked me. “I certainly do!” T answered. “At afy rate, you ought to Kkeep ur promise, and your eraser and pen will 1ook all thé better for it.” “ will,” said Betty, as she ran away to play. CATHERINE C. HAYES, Age 14. ich. “Are you Nor The Migrations of the Sterk. About two years ago & Polish man te- wught a stork on his estaté near Lemberg, In Galicia, and put on s neck + metal rifig bearing the inseription: Hace aconia Polonia.” (This stork obthes from Poland.) He then let it go frpe, dnd it flew away in winter as usugi. | In spring the stork came back snd al- | lowed jtself to be caught again. To the | & delight of the gentleman, he found on the neck of the bird, in place of the metal band, n fine gold cirelet with these rds engraved on it: “India cam donis ttit ciconjam Polovfhs.” (India 8énds stork with a :flesent to the Poles.) ALDIA DEROSTER, Age 11. The Acorn and the Puspkin. A country lad as he lay one da: tretched out upon his back bemeath & arze oak, observed the rannér of 4 pump- kin. with very heavy fruit on i, elimbing yon cdge near at hand. Jic shook his head at this ahd said: It is very odd to sée such imfense uit on o slender a stem, and these tiny { acorns up there on the great oak. | “1 really think it would have been bet- f those big yellow pumpkins, the size 1 man's head, had been made fo grow' the stout tree and those small 0 large a8 my thumb, upon creeping plant.” | Ie had scarcely done speaking, when vod sized acorn fell right upen his d gave him rather a shatp rap. s he jumped up, rubbing the sore lace, he could net help saying: “But if had been a pumpkin that el just it would have been all over with my ! And this was not quite so w he said before. | LEONA DOYON, Age 13. not The Red Squirrel. or girl who has nutting must urious little chap. + verson has discovered him of he 1. it is likely that he will sputter, 1l scold at the intruder, working { into a frenzy of excitement. This combined with the rusty red eolor mall size of the animal, about haif 1at of a gray squirrel, renders its ideri- i unmistakable, T quirrel shows a strong prefer- coniferous forests, whether of I, spruce fir or pine, but may be in woods where conifers are few widely scattefed. Although usually ily occupied from sunrise until sunset ometimes continues its activities moonlight nights, especially when nuts are ripe and it 1is time to winter stores. iring warm, pleasant days in spring il when the nights are cobl, it of- at full length along {he top of I ranches, during the middle of the a sking in the warmth of the siin. ZEPHERIN GAGNE. been 16 a havé seen . for smm, nd Plainfield. An April Fool Party, & 1 went to an April Fogl was given by the boys and high school and the seventh grades. We had the party back room of an ice cream parlor the decorations were pink and blue vaper. down at about 8 o'clock, and we played games and played ch other. The games that we c. How, When and Where Do It and Winkum. Then we had hunt The first prize was a jumping jack and the booby + candy box full of coal. We ned the donkey's tail on, to see could get it the nearest. Some of anced to the music of a player which was in the store h eighth t hile You Lik N we got hungry, refreshments, ting of cake, wafers and sand- wic were served vlayed some more after the re- hments, and just before we went we drew favors from a basket sus- 1 from the ceiling. Then we Went fier having spent a very enmjay- evening. GLADYS YOUNG, Age 15, falley, R. L i The Goat. is found in many countries. at ts will climb stesp and to find heather and ubs on Which they like to ey also eat grase, and are fond of f trees. Some goats have hair; the hair of others s fine d silky There is o country in Asia cafled Thi which abounds in goats. The half e goats is so soft and fine, that of great beauty and value are from tame goat is a very gentle animal rocky oth- feed. The wnless it is teased; then it will buft with It horns. A young goat is called a kid. ARCELIA DOYON Age 1 Glasgo. A Petitio: Halr, face, and hahds were dissatis- fied. FHair said, “That boy always leaves me rumpled and only combs me on Sun- day (and then his mother dees it) asd I think 1 am il _treated. Well,” said Face, “how about me? His mother is the only ome that washes me." “How about ue,” said the hatid, re in the same boat as you ate LIl tell you,” sald_hair, “let's etition to bratn. Il write it" said t Hand. little while the petition was ramed, stating that Hair wanted to be wwibed at least three Smes 4 day, and nds and Face wanted to be washed make a In egularly the same number of {imn brain read it and said, “They are cctly right” Then he sent & mnf::a to the mind. He sald, “I want yét fo control the movements of this boy afid | see that Hair i§ éombed at least thiée times every day, an@ Hands ahd Fae washed regularly the same niimbef of times. WARLE BUTLER, A§6é 18 Plainfield The Bagle. iagles are found ih most parts of the There are many kinds of them. largest kind and the noblest in pect is that called the golden eagle. "he manners and habits of the eagle arc cld and crude. His sight 18 quiek and reing and baving once seen his prey, T Easy to See the Picture In Our Big Window OME to our store to see the Eveready Daylo $10,000.00 Contest' Picture. You'll probably be one of abig crowd. Nevertheless, - you'll get an early charice for a close look at the picture which may be werth a fortune to you. An entire big window is devoted to this picture. 'And special facilities have been provided to supply you with contest blanks—as many . as you wish. A complete line of Eveready . Daylos are displayed. Ask us about them—tnaybe you'll get an idea for the winning answer w=worth $3,000.00 0 you. Bring your: old Daylo flashlight in for a new battery +—a fresh supply just recsived. or The Norwich Electric Co. he flies so quickly upon it that it very s1dom edcapes him. He can carry off with east rabbits, lambs, geese and oth- er small animals. When he atéacks fawns or calves and kills them he feasts upon their flesh and .blood on the spot afid then takes a part of them to his a Fie or nest. LENA FOURNIER Age 13. Glasgo. Abraham Linecoln. AbBraham Lincoln was horn in Ken- tucky, February 12, 1809. He lived in a log cabin. His food eame from the Woods. When he was nine years old his father moved to Indiana. Here his mother died, and he helped his father build the coffin she was buried in. Then his father moved to Illinois. Here he was kept very busy clearing the land and| helping to build & new log cabin. One time he sailed down the Mississip- pl river and stapped at a city where they were selling slaves at auction like beasts. He felt very sorry, and wished for a chance to help them. He kept store but this didn't pay, so he studied law and became a lawyer. At this time the North thought the South ought not to keep slaves, but the Bouth thought they could. Then the great war called the Ciyil War broke out. The North won. In' 1883 Lincoin freed the slaves, after he had ‘been elected president. ' He was shot in a theatre in Washington in 1865. FRANCES LAMB. Age 8. North Stonington, R. F. D. No. 1 Learning to Swim. This letter is about my learning te swim at the beach in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In the early summer T could just keenq myself up in the watér. I began practic- ing. and soon T knew a few different | trokes. It was not easy, but as the saying goes, practice makes perfect. I goon deemed it possible for me to swim up to the large raft in deep wa- ter. This I did, and you may be sure T was puffing and blowing when I reach- ed that raft. I was all in, and scared stiff, wondering how I was to get back. Some girl friends urged me to try div- ing, and after a few timed trials, I soon learned to go in head first. I swam to shore all right, too, and have always had faith in myself since then. That Wwas & veat ago, and T hope to learn stil more about swimming this | summer. HELEN SELLERS, Age 13. North Stonington. Tommy Bangs' Awful Dream. “Let’s go down and see the gypsies and fhrow stones at 'em, tomorrow,” said William Robinson one night as he said good-night to Tommy Bangs. “All fight” Said Tommy, “Tll meet you in the old barn in Ryan's lot. Good night,” and he went into the house. That night Tommy had bad dreams. He dfeamed that he went down to the g¥psies to throw stones at them. ‘While he was watching them build & fire he felt a_dirty hand clapped over his mouth. He was carried struggling into & tent. His hands and feet were tied and he was wrapped up in a soiled blanket. Towards afternoon a gypsy woman appeared. She brought him a pewter plate of stew and & piece of hard bread. Tommy ate the stew, but re- fused to drink the tea mixed with poppy juice. After she had gone he fell asleep. He did not know how long he slept. He felt himself being carried to a_wagon. He peeped out. It was night. He was very tired and drousy and soon fell back to_sleep. When he woke it was day. He felt hungry. Tn one corner of the wagon he found an apple and ate it. He was i‘”m to throw the seeds away when he eard voices in English. “You are sufe this is the boy?" said “Precisely, meestir,” sald the other. “Very well, then. Here is your pay.” There was a clink of silVer and then they walked away. That afterncon an Bnglishman came and fook Tommiy out. He took a good fook at Tommy's face and muttered: “He's the one” He took him to the edge of a clif and said, “Look here, ourigster,, when 1 say thires, over you o Tommy began to struggle and scream. The man Jaughed malicously. * “One—two-~three, over!" Tommy felt himself falling. He would be dashed to pieces. He would never see his moth- er or father again. He— Tommy opened his eves. He was in his own roem, on the floor. His bed clothes were mussed up. s put on his clothes and van down to William Rob- %nson'u house. On the way he met Will- am. , “Oh, Wifliam, T'm not géing to tease the gypsies and throw stones at them. They might tske me away and throw mé off a high cliff,” cried Tommy. He_told him about his. dream. At the énd William said, “Prm not gaing, elth- ér. Tve got some money and we cin 6 to the cifons.” Tommy agreed to this #hd ran home to tell his mother and get soffie breakfast. But never again did eiffier of the two boys suggest that they g0 and see lie les. L@%h'n‘n.pm Age 10. New Lendon. MWy Fhling Day. One day last summer I went fishing with my uncle and cousin Jack. My uncle lives near a large pond in which there are several kinds of fish. My tous- in caught-a bass and six perch, but my uncle caught four large pickerel. One of the pickerel weighed nearly three pounds. Sardines are small fish of the herring family. . ALICE CYR, Age 10. Norwich. Johnny’s First Day of School. Johnny was to g0 to school for his first time. His mother went along With him as far as the corner, as the school Was right around the corner. As soon as he got there he started in quarreling. In a little Whilé the bell rang which meant that it was time to g0 into school. ‘When Jjohnny got in school the teacher noticed that his face was all scratched. She asked him what the matter was and he said that he had been fighting with one of his companions. When the teacher found the other boy whom Johnny was fighting with she sent them both in to the principal's of- fice. . The principal found out that the other had not hurt Johnny. very badly and that it was not his companion's fault, but it was Johnny's fault, he had started it. So Johnny got a whipping the first_hour of school life. FLORENCE CLARK, Grade 6. New London. i . Only a Dream. One night T went to bed at a late hour and, beliig utterly fatigued, at once was sound asleep. After heing asleep for som time I had an awful dream. It was this: One day I was daring my ftiends that I would not be afrald to cross the rail- road track when the train was only a short distance gy Well, I did it, and, not being satisfieq, tried it again. By this time the train was drawing nearer, Ves, very near. I lay down on the ground and kept very still. Finally the last car had thundered away in the distance. There I lay, un- harmed in the least—only stunned. After a while I recovered from my shock and again said T would climb a lad- der and go on the roof of a high build- ing. I did this daring thing. When I was safely seated up there, I ! kicked the ladder and with 2 bang ! bang! bing! it fell to the ground. Scared to death, I screamed for help, but no one seemed to hear my pitiful cry. Alas! T knew not what to do. It was growing dark, and so 1 decided to give one leap into the fast. coming darkness. 1 did. Another bang! bang! and I fell to the ground unconscious. At this part of my dream T awoke and next morning found that the bangs I heard were the slamming of several doors. LILLIAN ANDERSON, Age 11, Allen Hill, Brooklyn. Battle With a Snake. One bright day in May as we were coming home from school we had to pass through the woods. As we were walking along end talking, 2ll of a sudden we saw a monstrous black shake. Because of the size of this snake (we had never seen one as large as this) we were very 1 went after 2 large stick and when I came back I saw only the black snake's tail under a large rock and several others. My stick had a very large point on one end. 1 hit the snake with the stick and yet it was still alive. I pulled it out of the rogks and it head was all broken to pieces by the heel of my shoe. This was not very far from my home, so when one of my sisters ran home and gave a signal to her father he instantly came running toward me. But I had al- ready kifled it, and was Half way home. When we got home wWe measured the snake and it was six teet long and four inches round. Quite a monstrous one— but it isn't living. ‘much startled, but 1 did not give up. BRIDGET PLOPA. Ledyard. How She Helps. 1 am going to tell you what I d6 when 1 come homé from school. We have some little chickens—some. are bigger than the others. I have to feed them every might The smailest ones I feed chick-feed, the biggest ones 1 feed chops and middiing mixed with water. The big hens and roosters I feed ,whole corn. 1 wipe the dishes somefimes at night. Then I read in my book and then I go to bed. Down at our school we are going to get 2 eertificate if we fead five library books. The teacher has a list of ndmes of the books from the Wheeler library in North Stonington. BETTY M. BENSON. North Stonington. A Trip to New York. 1 dm golng to tell you abwut going to New York. My aunt came home on a Saturday night and she stayed until Mon- day and I went back with her. We went by train. It took us four hours. We _left Westerly at 7.0 and got to New Yofk at 11.30. When we got there 1 aldn't see muth because I went to bed, but in the morning when I got up I saw a lot of thifigs. 1 saWw the traing nad boats. It was a large city. I went to the park with my aunt and saw morikeys, elephants, giraffs, cfoco- diles, zebras, lions and parrots and lots of oflier Kinds of birds, and then we went home for dinner. We went out again after | | i 11 could go that trip “COLORS AS IT CLEANS” CHANNELL CHEMICAL C Distribulors Chicagp - Parls - London - Torente “Cleans as it Polishes” inner and went to the pictures. it very much. Where 1 was they had two pianos and a Vietrola. I learned to play some songs on the pianos. 1 had a good time. I wish 1 liked s, IRENE MAINE, Age 11. North Stonington, R. F. D. No. 1 A Deer Hunt, Bill and Harry were paddling upstream in their canve in search of deer. They had Dan, their dog, with them. They | hadn’t been paddling long when Bill said | “I guess this isn't the deers' favoritej day.” *Don't be 8o sure; just look ahead and you can make out a buck and its mate,” apswered E The boys were excited and they headed their canoe to- wards shore. When they reached the shore the boys took their guns and crept up on the deer. When they reached the place where the deer were standing they hid in some bushes. Harry stepped on & twig and it cracked. ' It atfrdcted the deers’ attention and they began to run. Dan rushed out of the bushes, made one great Bound and got a tight grip on the | buck's neck. The buck's mate ripped a Geep wound with her horns in Dan's flanks. But brave old Dan never relaxed his grip for that. There came a deafening roar and the mate dropped in a heap. Dan had the buck in his last agonies, but at last the time came for Dan to let go of the buck's neck, as he was suffering from loss of blood. There came another deafening roar and the buck stretched out on the ground, never to rise again. Bill put Dan in the canoe and treated his wound, while Harry managed the deer. Soon the boys and dog were start- ing homeward, tired but happy over the killing of the deer. BILLY RUDD, Age 11. New London. Betsey Ross. Betsey Ross lived in Pennsylvania. She was a very neat sewer. That is why ‘Washington and two other gentlemen went to ask her to make the first Ameri- can flag. Washington drew an outline of the flag for her. Mrs. Ross set to work at once and in three days the flag was done. So We remember that Betsey Ross made the first American flag. THEODORE A. COVIATY, Age 8. Glasgo, Conn. Waonders of the Sahara Desert. Far away in the Sahara desert stand the pyramids. There is one which is the largest of all. When you climb thém, & guide has to be on the upper step and pull you up. Each step is as high as a dining room table, Fach pyramid is built of many thous- and stones. The purpose of having these built was for tombs for the bodies of kings and queens. Another curious thing in the Sahara desert is the Sphinx. It is made of stone and has a face like a human being. It was built many years ago . by skilful! stone cutters. Arabs shoot arrows at it. When there is a sand storm in the desert the sand blows against it and makes it rough. LOUIS J. GROVER, Age 11. Norwich. Enjoyed Church Soelal. A few weeks #go the Christian En- deavor society of this village gave a free social in the church. It was for the purpose of getting the young people to- gether and having a good time, and we certainly did. Ic began by the pastor of the church telling everybody to laugh when he drop- ped a piece of paper on the floor, and see who could laugh the longest. They did and at the last end a baby began to cry and So the pastor said that the baby had won. Then they had bottles of different medicine and the audience was supposed to tell what each was by smelling of it, and writing the guess- es down on a piece of paper, according to the numbers of the bottles. Also they had a tray with a cloth. They would let you look at it for a little while, then you had to write down all the ar- ticles that you could remember. They played blowing the balloon, car- rying peanuts on a spoon and bean bag. One man carried over forty peanuts across the room on a spoon. The fa- vors were bags of popcorn wWith two or three candy kisses in each bag. Each person present received ome bag. We : e -, CENTER Father, soi and mother all being, Pomm _ clean, the mother began to think the Miss Eleanor J. Clark, with her room looked y. She got on her knees and washed the floor. There was a wo- man boarder in the house, Who, sceing | the otfhers clean, washed herself. So :1]!) the room wWas Set clean simply by the clean fate of one ragged school boy. Children, as well ad grown-up people, should always set a good example. We never know how much good may be done in this way bad example. hold goods, estate, La son. Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Hoppini spént the week end in Boston Misses Martha and Alice Brown éf Worcester spent the week end at Welt- land- farm. Mrs. E. nor how much harm by 4| Monday. has arrived at her laisarice, fof thie Summer §en- E. Brown was in Wofoestér Mrs. Wakefiell of Watcsster spest DIANA DOYON, Age 13. | Tuesday with Mrs. E. E. Brewn. Glasgo. i3 i Danbury.—Rt. Hev. John . Murray, Chester.—New potatoes were selling in | auxiliary bishop of the dlocese of Haet- Middletown Saturday for $1.05 a peck. | ford, administered the sacrament of o8- 0ld_potatoes were selling in Chester for | firmation to a class 6f 380 young pedgle $1.50 8 peck. at St. Peter's church Sunday afternogm: went home about half past ten o'clock. GLADYS L. BARBER, Age 14. Hope Valley, R. L A Kind Act George was a boy about twelve years of age. He was a very kind and gen- tle, boy. His mother was & DooT woman. It “happened that one day George was crossing the street in front of the post office. All of a sudden he stopped and looked around just in time to see a man beating an old dog. George went up to him and told him to leave the dog alone. A man who stood by looking o heard what George said. He came up to George and gave him some money and said, This is for your kindness. CLAIRE FOLE Willimantic. A Good Example. A poor boy went ragged to when he had his face well washed. When sehool, he went home, the neighbors looked at him with astonishment. They said, “That looks like Tom Rogers, and yet it can't be, for he is so clean.” Presently his mother looked at him, and finding his face so clean, she fan- cled her face dirty and washed it. 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