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THE WIDE-AWAKE CIRCLE Bo ’ and Girls’ Department Rules For Youag Writers. 3 1—Write plainly on one side of the ‘waper only, and number the pages. 3+-Uss pen and ink, not pencil 3—Shert and pointed articles will be yven preference. Do not use over 250 be used 3—~Write your name, age and address plaialy at the bottom of the stary. i 8 WIDE-AWAKE POETRY. A Visit from St. Nicholas. “rwas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Net a creature Was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney Nicholas soon would be here ; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, Waile visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; ‘ And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap . Had just settled our brains for a long r's nap, i Wher out on the lawn there arose such | a clatter, | I sprang from the bed to see What was the matter. Awar to the v like a flash, Tore open the shutt ew up the | sash 2 The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snew - { Gave the luster of midday to objects be- low When, what to my wondering eves should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny old driver, so lively and| a quick I knew in a momen? be S ck. coursers they | e rapid than eagles shouted and called Wew dash away, dash away, dash away all As 4ry leaves that before the wild hurri- cane fi When they meet with an obstacle, mount | to the sky Be up to the housetop the coursers they With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nich- t00. in a twinkling, I heard on the root The prancing and pawing of each little| hoof. As 1 drew in my head and was turning arcund | Dews the chimney St. Nicholas came | with a bound. He was dressed all In fur, from his head | te his foot, othes were all s and soot ; tarnished with A Suzdle of tovs back And ke looked Mke a peddler just open- ing his pack. yes—how they twinkled! His dim- | ples. how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like | a cherry! His drell little mouth was drawn up ke a bow. ; And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow; he stump of his pipe he held tight in his teeth s And the smoke it circled his head like a | wreath; He had a broad face and a round little bally That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl ! He was chubt old elf. Jolly And T 1a ghed when I eaw him in spi: eve and a twist of his Soon gave me to know T had nothing to dread Hs spoke a word, I 55 S wonk ut went straight And ed a ngs; turned w g And lay r aside of And gi nod, up the ¢ 008 { He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they flew like down of a thist | Wut T heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night 1" —Clement C s Moore TNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES Probably veu hava a ten letters ts Santa Claus, at some time or other, telling him what ke for Christmas. But have you er received Sor Sinit he should | 10 would pleas what he as going to bri some golden and girls. ow to have a Children been | have reds of years, and some | and they and instead of a little bit better | they do what th t se; but some of t remember what ther are told | #Bout happy Christmases. and they are a Soy and delight while they are little. and n later on who the pleasant place s a hapoy Chris alting | and we all have a | that happiness if we | 7 toys away T even let and T pass around t is being unselfish, not unselfish unselfishness we < the door of happl- e kind of unselfish- being of time to think about sharing some of our good things with some little hoy Se are with us In re because they have nothing th o sbare in the way Giving witt mm no thought of =pirit of unseifishness, gnd It s the epfrit we must have In our | hearts If Christmas s to he a trul i truly happy The unselfeh child i a good ch pra it i ».; wkg . W vou try to rem what kind of a child T think s a Fhat s a good T am wure you w e true 4 T hope that all of you will 1 s door to happi- ness and keep onen all your lives, Wwhen big g1 as well as small | ! anes Your oldest friend, SANTA CLATS, Dem't Fou think it would be fine to get letter ke that, and wouldn't vou be enxious to carry out Santa's ideas? WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Melanise Labarre of Baltic—The Yalow Violin 3—Irene M. Showalter of Norwi Ldttle Prudy. { 3—Geerge Plhcik of Mansfield—The had flung on his|a t make any difference if he didn’t | Lone Indian. 4—Arcella Doyon of Glasgo—The Auto Boys' Big Six. -+ i 5—Irene Goulet of Danielson—Little Prudy’s Sister Susie. 6—Rose Weintraub of Leonard Bridge —The Trail of the Seneca. Winners of prize books living in Nor- wich, can obtain them by calling at The Bulletin business office after 10 o'clock Monday morning. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Arlene Bennett of Preston: I thank you very much for the prize book entitled Fighting in the Alps. I have read it half through and find it very interesting. LETTERS WRITTEN AWAKES, \ Catching the Rabbit. Dear Uncle Jed: Do you like to eat rabbit? Rabbit is fine eating, but first we have to catch the rabbi BY WIDE- old rag do head and covered it with tar from to foot. Then he placed the tar n the rabbi en the rabbit came down the path he saw the tar baby. “Who are you?" said Brother Rabbit. The tar baby did “Have you no tongue in head?” shouted Brother Rab- rou do not answer at once I am baby did not answer and bit hit him with his ri hand, which stuck fast in the tar. When Brother Rabbit found he could not , he said to the tar baby: let go I shall hit you er Rabbit hit the , and that also Let me go!” shouted If you don't, I shall He k3 kicked as he said he would and his foot stuck fast. Then Brother Rabbit raised his other foot and id: “Do you see this foot? If I kick this foot i r is knock Brother Rabbi then both han kicked th r baby ds and both feet were stuck “Let me go mnow, Brother Rabbit, * my head a tom of the will you?” sald vill butt you with lear to the bot- Brother Rab- 1d his head, too, me go,” your s: friend. said Broth- u going to build a “I am e build a fi are asked Brother Rabbitt. “Oh’ sai; er Fox, * t is fine. So Brother Fox g: leaves and branches and bui re near Broth- As the fire g e tar baby began to mel d bit's hands was was free, but How is that for “That is not much ral hall ked the fox. said the hi e fire you w ald Brother Fox. “Go to it!” said Brother Rabbit, and whiie Brother Fox went after more fuel Brother Rabbit ran aw: “RAYMOND rth Franklin. NNING, Age 12. A Beautiful Scene. Dear Tncle Jed: The leaves are almost all gone from the trees Here and there see some 1 down over the roc rose over the hill The stone wall at one si sudden into a bunch of grass. The gr: 11 ove e goes down rs and dead 2 vellow. / HELEN KEECH, Age 13. Danielson ¥ Firdt Skating Leeson. third time I we I could ska The next time I went and the last time T Robert Morris. went Soon he did a large ¥ the St After would our sol- s used his own money and borrowed money from his friends to pay them. O borrowed $50,- 000, This saved Wasl army. Later he established th bank or North Ame to form the Constituti>n o ed States. When he was an old man he lost al mone: He was mut into prison. Later he was set free. hut he died soon after that. KATHRYN McKNIGHT, Age 8. South Coventry. Blind Jack Newsman. Dear Uncle J deser : T am going to try to e to you a m I know. He is called Blind Jack. To look at him now one would it hard to belleve that Jack found very hard at one e. It is more than fifteen yvears ago since he became blind.. At first he rebelled against his affliction. He thought of many. reasons that would make it per- missible for him to end hig life, and in reality his reasons seemed plausible to He called himself a burden to ster. Sha was an elderly woman who had ed. Jack hated himself bit- ase was rnecessary for his Mary support and take care it , to sister, ¢ him After some time had elapsed he con- fided his secret sorrow to a friend, who had come o see him. Together they di cussed many and means by which elf a self-support- After arguing back and ally gave home after industries make a suc- forth for a up trying. sing to think of as m as possible which Jack cou cess of. After 2 month or so, during which much talking had been done, Jack decided in favor of sl newspapers. He made arrangementg vith the ary authori- tles and started on career as a sdealer. Ona of the companies from which he nurchased his papers, gladly supplied him with a news stand. After that Jack could be seen outside get | Pine | at 5.30° a. m. every morning. He al- ways started the day's work by carrying the different kinds of papers to his stand. He had a specially assigned place for each separate kind of paper. Of course he con!d not assort them himself, because he could not see. But he had many a willing friend who gladly per- formed this little service for him. Naturally all the neighbors patroniz- ed Jack. Strangers also became accus- tomed to scelng him standing beside his papers and rcadily became his custom- ers. Now ¢veryone knows him and has become his friend. He has taught him- self many ways of recognizing both the new and old acauaintances. t is wonderful to see hig sightless eves lisht up when one of his numerous friends has cailed him by name. TImme- diately he has recognized the person, not only by volee, but also by the ring of footsteps upon the pavement. Among many of his. accomplishments is the curlous one by whigh he gives change to his many customers. He has learned by much handling of coins and 3 very keen scnse of touch. to know the different plec>s of silver. He has a sep- arate pocket for each plece of silver which has a different monetary value. indeed, that he makes a He is very ruch changed now. No one Iwould say he was once a down-visaged man, who despalred of ever earning a ing. ow ha has o comfortable little bustness which he attends to by himself. He is cheerful and héalthy, excent for his one defect, in fact he even takes a lively interest in the final scores of the bare- hall zames which are plaved during the summer_season. ABRAHAM SCHWARTZ, Age 13. Leonards Bridge. A Little Girl's Rebuke, Dear T sle Jed: Alice was sitting by the window of the parlor, looking out. It was snowing fast. She saw an old man with--rutches. He walked ag if In pain. “Poor man hed little Alice, “How I pity vou! then she heard | a shout of laughter. i two snow* balls flew past the dow. One of them struck the old man on the neck. He mave a cry of pain. Then tha two boys who threw the snow balls began to laugh. The lame man turned and spoke to them, but they onlvy laughed. the more. ‘You ™ bad bovs,” sald Alice to herself. Suddenly she had thought. She slioned on her cloak and hat fn a hurrr and ran out | the front door. The bovs avere fust about to throw <ome more at the man when Alice spoke: “Bovs, how would vou ltke it if vour papa was lame and some bad hovs threw some snowballs at him? Then the Jame man looked back and sald: “God bless you, miss” During this time the hovs.were wateh- Alice from the corner. The next day Alice was sitting with her mother, when the door Dell rang londly. Then they | heard steps going swiftly away. Tt must |be those hoys sald Allce. Her moth- er went to the door and came badk | smilinz., In her hands she held a puppy. “I think vou zave those bovs a les- son, little laughter,” she said. Around | the nuppy’s meck was a card. It sald on it. “For a mice little lady, From Fred and Dick.’ | LUCY DUGAS, Age 12. Versailles. Christmas in New York. Dear Unsle Jed: T have never written any stories ta you, but will make my first attempt. Last Christmas my friend and T start- | we just had time to buy our tickets and {zet aboard the train. {ant journey and arrived at the Grand 1 ere my brother was waiting s un to a boarding house, We ad manv z90d times. We went ice skat- ;'rz in Prospect Park, went to the the- atres and enjoved ourselvés in many other ways. On a .Sunday afternoon we ‘started for me, accompanied by two of our Nef % pals. 3 { 10SE WEINTRAUB, -Age 14. Leonards Bridge. My Pet | | Dear Uncle Jed: I am a little girl and | T want to tell you about my pets. T haye two rabbits and their names are Bunn and Peter. [ have a cat named Harry. T like to kave my mamma read me the jstories other ltle girls and boys write o j I do not zo to ¥chool ves but T know i."‘\' letters. EDNA WHITE, Age 5. North Franklin. Dick's Trial. Dear Uncle Jed: Dick was a 200d lad. He loved dear, old, wid- owed mother very fondly. Dick had a job with Mr. Moore. a rery wealthy man. One Saturday after- as all the men were working, Mr. \\[}'mre came in. “Boy he said, * very ‘you Tl all come ¢5 work tomorrow.”. Dick.” hearin~ this, went quickly to the boss. “Mr, Moo~ s~id our hero, politely, “I cannot cor-~ tomorraw.” “What is +“~ matter, my lad?” an- swered' Mr, 3 “Becausa Sunday.” replied Dieck “Well, it y ou 1 cannot obev orders, you and ~ot yvour farswell pay.” was out of work for three One Aav. a banker went to Mr. Maore. and asked if he knew of an in- t DoV, to' ha emninved as -cashier. testion Mr. Moore thonght of “Yes. sir. T 40" answerad Mr. Moore. “Dic’k Mason, who formerly worked here, would be a ool ca. “But. sir, T do not tr4=% he was very g00d. if you diemissed him.” : ‘“Den’t vou think a boy, who, at the voice of his conscience. would not work on Sunda; is good?” So Dick was emnloved as cashier, and had "a hetter nosition than before. ROSE BLANCHETTE, Age 13. Danielson. Our School. Dear Uncle Jed: One day at school we asked our teacher if we could go down jto the pond. We have an hour's noon- Ing. Wo started as soon as noon came. We went through two.lots, and then we come to a haystack, where we stopped and ate our dinner. After we had eaten our dinner we started on agafn, and soon came to the pond. The water look- ed all blue. On the shore there were some clam shells. They all had beauti- ful colors. Some of the colors were green, brown, white, reddish and many other colors. After a while we all thought we had better be starting for school. We reached school without any experiences. We were not late. T g0 to the Boardman school. T am twelve vears old and am in the eighth grade. My teacher is Mrs. Elizabeth Me- Cracken. She is a very good teacher and T like her very much. We have elghteen scholars. Our studies are reading, spell- ing, arithmetic, geography, civies and Physiology. ARCELIA DOYON, Age 12. Glasgo. A Trip to Oakland Beach. Dear Uncle Jed: I will now tell you about my trip to Oakland Beach. We started at 6 o'clock in the morning and 8ot there about 9 o'clock. We had a nice little cottage. We took off our coats and hats and had a little lunch. Oh, how glad I was to see the ocean right in front of me. In the night we Went out to see the merry-go-round and the fiirt and the roller coaster. We came home about 10 o'clock and then we went to bed. In the morning we got up and ate our breakfast and then washed our dishes, and then in the wWater we went. stayed in the water all morning long. In the afternoon We saw a nics acroplane. I saw many of them. I ed out for the station, when he arrived | We had a pleas- | ~Wild Life, Kf‘ Forest and Field He is a queer customer, “Porkv,” but harmless enough unless you let him slap you with his tail and thus drive in gis quills. His right name is PorCUPINE but he 4s nicknamed “Porky” by woodsmen and hunters. He has ‘quills with which to protect himself, but he can- not shoot them at you as you have so often been told. When he is attacked, he merely erects his quills and strilkes a quick, strong, sidewise blow with his tail. Then woe to the attacking animal if it is hit. Its nose, mouth, and thrcat are frequently so filled with quills that it cannot eat and dies of starvation un- less they are withdrawn or it is put out of -its misery. I once saw a little dog up in the mountains with his face stuck full of E‘:xilla He came to me whining to have em taken out. But they were so thick and close together that it was lmiyossible to do so. Porky may be safely killed with a club. Porky often prowls around a camp hunting for scraps of food. His taste demands something greasy and he will eat leather if he gets a chance at it Usually he makes his diet from the bark of the trees in which he lives. He is especially fond of beech, cotton- wood, and hemlock bark. He and hic fellows have been known to strip an entire tree of its bark. In the country between the Great Lakes and Hudson Bay, Porky is known as the Canada Porcupine. In this region, his color is black tipped with gray. In the west and northwest, be is called the Yellow-haired Porcu- sine from the color which his coat takes there. Sometimes he weighs as much as thirty pounds. The anada Porcupine is not a i THE DX FACE WAS Foit OF quiLLS Hedgehog and should never be called by that name. Mr. Hedgehog’s home is in |[Europe and he has never emi- gratedto America. He is much smaller and weaker than Porky. He is not a awing animal but feeds on insects, o be very careful not to confuse the two. It would be a most grevious in- loved to go down to see the beautiful things they had down street. After two weeks we came back home. I was sor- Ty to come back. 1 Frope all the Wide- Avgakes had a good time like I did. IRENE GOULET. Danielson. My Wunting Trip. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell you and the members of the Wide-Awake Circle about my hunting tri It was a fair morning -and I have! Anything to do that thought I would go hunting. to ask mother if I could go. could go. So I want to my cousin % and asked him to go with me. He said he would go. So we took our rific started for the woods. We had fles ready for instant use. All at T heard a lipperty. lipperty, lin. T look- ed back and saw two nice fat rabbits and then ng! hang!” went our guns, and s fell dead. We went on but we did not mere rabbits so we went home. v mother fri the rahbit the fried rabbit for dinne: GEORGE didn't ones any and had 'PLIHCIX. Mansfield. ; Fow The King Tanght Dear Tn-le Jed: Once upon a time a a Lesson.. good king, called Albert, ruled. He wonld have heen happy for one thing, his people were lazy. However, he determined to teach them a lesson. So one night when cverr one was asleep he went out and dug a hole in the road. This he filled with gold and covered it th, a larze stone. He then went home Three davs later he went to the same place, but the people had b too lazy to remove the stone. hen called toseler the peo- ple of the city He rolled away the store and the people beheld the gold The king then explained that he had done this beciuse of their laziness. It was a lesson for them angd after that they were never idle LOUISE CASE, Age 10. Baltie. Saved By An Elephant. Dear Uncle Jed: One dav as a hunt- er was roaming through the woods he was captured by natives and tled in chains to a post, ready to be burned. As he looked ahead he saw his pet elephant dashing throuch the woods towards him. As soon as the natives saw the elephant coming towaris them they fled. The ele- phant pulled up the post, broke the chains and set his master free. The elephant had saved his master’s life. MEYER FISHBEIN, Age 11. ‘Willimantic. My Life In Washington. Dear Uncle Jed: For three months I lived one block from the capitol and four blocks from the new raflroad sta- tion. I hav® been all through the cap- itol. T have teen all through the White House and tnat {s such a beautiful place T wish I livaq there. There is a gold pi- #no that was used in the time of George ‘Washington. I also went up 555 feet in the Washington monument. The ele- vator runs every 25 minutes and takes 40 people at a time. I went to see the president’s gol? links, and have been to the pension bullding and the zoo. It is a beautiful place and when my grand- ma came iown to visit us from this clty we went all over Washington. We went to the botanical gardens. saw all the dif- ferent kinds of gold fish and fed the squirrels. They even get up in our laps and eat out of our hands. We saw George Washington’s home In Mt. Vernon from the boat as we went down the Potomac river. We went down there’ twict and I hope to go down again. IRENE MAY SHOWALTER, Age 9. Norwich. Litchfield.—It cost the Southern New England Telephone company no less than $10,000 to repair the damage done by the late ice storm to poles and wires in Litchfield county. No less than 11 poles had to be reset and miles of wire were replaced. 1| w 195th DIVIDEND Norwich, Conn., December 10, 1921. The Directors of this Society have declared out of the earnings of the current six months, a semi-annual dividend at the rate of Four Per Cent. per annum, payable to de- positors entitled thereto on and after January 15th, 1922. The Norwich Savings Society ' (A Purely Mutual Savings Bank) We take pride in calling particular attention to our record — One Hundréd and Ninety-Five Consecutive Semi- Annual Divid:rds. COSTELLO LIPPITT, Treasurer. DON'T MAKE A MISTAKE! By Overbuying Wrapping Materials for Holiday Trade, You May Have to Carry Them for Months | WE CARRY A LARCE STOCK OF PAPER CUTTERS, LIGU:D CONTAINERS, ETC. Buy Wh=n You Nzed Them ! Connecticut Machinery and é&les Co. 93-85 Water Street Tel., Norwich 219 WESTERLY A sale and tea conducted by Greene Ward chapter, D. A Phebe at the ;and pocket evening was passed at cards, billiar b owd of eager_ bidde: this will be contr} of §1,000 being r Rhoge Island room at Washington, D. C., and the education of a child at the Inter: national school at Springfield. Danlel Eadie, representing New York | architects and outfitters of banks. has {been here taking measurements and pho- tographs of the exterior and interior of tre Richmond block preparatory to sub- | itting p! s to be made e Pawecatuck it | uted to the state fund furnish je w Mrs. James 4 Mr. and Mrs. D. C, Hinckley who left for Santa Darbara, Isle d to Highiand avenue, in ng before Bank and Trust compa The new bank is scheduled to open about Feb. 10. Lanphear of Pierce street h: spend the hol Land of Eyan~i field, showinz by Rev. Mr. Hotfield on | Nava Seotia. There were selec quartette, John Hoze, Harry Ralph Koelb and Willlam B liam Ph as accompan freshments were served and an picty L. Urquhart of ve has CHESTHUT HILL vty;mm“ of }Ak Mr. and Mrs. Geor: Mr. Pond and Mrs. rthur G h Mr. and Mrs G attended the morn‘ng se rch in Lebanon. STONINGTGON James H. Stivers is exhibit board whic fact t e wide, an inc and does not contain the vestige of a knot, He is to have one | side nlaned and polisfed and hung on thes been aying for the p brother, Charles L, James. Stoningt i the mill at Bay can Velvet compa be held at the My: Communt v Haven. Chest - enterprise w uit that was ra was the people clo: ed. dogtars e Miller. who has heen at wor At least in Philadelphia, has returned to Stonin ton and is employed by the American Velvet company. nest Cushman has gone to Chicago In the interests of the Atwoo¢ Machine company. It is expected at it wi be four or five weeks before h's return Edward Beattie has gone to New York pend the hollday season wtih h father. A storm vestibule has been erected-at the entrance of the house and office of Dr. W. T. Veal Saturday, Dec. 17, at 1.30 p. m., at the parsonage-by-the-sea’ Harold Breed of Mystic and Reita Josenh of Stominzton were united in marriage by Rev. D. C. 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A word in regard to our Bracelet Watches is that they run and give satisfaction * OPEN NIGHTS UNTIL CHRISTMAS THE WILLIAM FRISWELL CO. 25-29 FRANKLIN STREET PAPER, BAGS, TWINE, MAPKINS, TWINE HOLDERS, | ds The household goods of Dr. Joseph home of State Recent Mrs. Samuel Da- !gmih of Hope Valley. who recently vies on Spring street was most gratify- | moved here, were sold at auction at 179 ing. a good sum being netted. A part of | Mechanic ftreet. There was a large and good prices The auction was managed Burns of East | Greenwich have been recent callers here. of West- of ived there. ool street for more than 16 years, where be with her sister, Mrs. Mattie house and lot to Peleg Slocum. The December soclal of the Westerly tty Palmer of New London is Masonic club was held in the cl s | & h friends here. on High The entertainme ne to St. Al- RISEAT S0P Jectirerion /THe li- Wall com- n a business es , Mr. imes of New London T - Tuesday in New " and | f v v1 | ¢ 1 2 C. Peckham wall as a re der of the days when A d Mrs. Myron ( w:ira pine trees of large e Wi to be “ daughter Evel of Manchester were found in -this sec and show the | visitors at A. S. Peckham's Thursday. Mrs. Margaret Baldwin of Meriden has t week with her | The move- | needed for 26 | sed for about 10 days \\'uh‘ to a half million | $18 000 ked for was contributed | PIY 2 dull the landacape bosom snowflakes lle, While trees their smow-clad branches rear. 3 From 1 clouds the winter ra‘m, Cheet'=ss. descends no longer now, To_patter Joud on roof and pane: But falls the daneing flakes of snow. The birds give forth no notes of cheer, For they have flown. The woods are still ; The fields are shorn. and brown and sear; Icebound are river, brook and rili seems grown gray with rime, for rest—te die, to sleep; 5 Woos sweet rest, courts de- cline, And feels the death-ahill o'er her creep. Her race seems short. and almost run; Her knell. is tolled by pattering hafl; In_clouds of crape is clad the sun: The wind gwves ferth a meaning wall The n{!h seems wrapped in her last Bleep— All nature robed In shrouds of smew, All nature And Like man, e lowering clonds in pity w That she, like mar. is thus lllm'. —J. A Kerr, In is News. THE RICH YOUNG MAX, It seemed =0 mad a thing to do— To grieve 50 deep; to perish, too, For men He never cven knew! A life 50 lomely. meek and dare! 1 wonder why He made a prayer For them that mocked and nailed Him there! | yast weaith is mine. why do My golden store without a: Why turns no man with Jove to me Why did He triumoh, and T fall? Poor and despised! th 1 see 17 Hew strange ing That mighty hests, with worshipping. Their homage te his name ehould bring! Oh, ‘tis a_grievous mystery— That mankind never looks to me As to that spent and broken Christ That drooned on Calverw! —Laura Simmons, in The Living Church HUMOR OF THE DAY Gladys—When ‘you toid father ghat Jou wanted to marry me, 1id he put his foot down? Bobby (excitedly)—Somg linament a cement, please! Druggist—Why b at oaen? Lcbl-y—Pa hit me with a china cup.—~ Westfield, N. J. Leader. Able—~Tkey, ear| yau ve me the icorrect definiticn for the word bargain? Tkey—A bargaa's w hest of the other fellow. Riggs—All automobiles have the tobac- 20 habit. Jigzs—How is that? R'ges—Well, some smoke and all use 1lug.—Science and Invention. “Do ytu call that a becksteak? jmaies me laugh ! “I'm giad to hear it. sir. Most peo- swear.”—Kasper. Stoeknolm. Priggs—So you cida't hear tne bu lar unil he was leaving the house. Wi | ¥ou alarmed? It ple Griggs—I should say s. I thought it the coikx sneaking - out On US.—DBaston Tranecr oot. Jomes—We 2re coming over to pas you tonizht, old man. Smith—Goo , but don't wear her new costume. mine t; see it just now. Jones—Good Heavens, that's tha very reason we are coming.—The DBulletin ez your wifs 1 don't wan | “See here. doctor. me was pretty stecp.” that bill ys>u sent {ing your wife she shou'dn't to Paim Beach this winter."—Buston Transcript What makes you so lat> with tf these mornings?’ 2sked Mras, Be angwered 1 't allow a t3 the beleve 1 he. lit | Edinburgh Scotsman. | Pop. what is the difereuce = ar call In | vention Johi D. Rockefeller tovk vcland to ride in his car ¥ seated hiers would you ittle There do 3 Mr. Rockefelle in hiz eves . | nlira enough ts taks you th Globa KALEIDOSCOPE The first Dutch church in America was built in 1866 in Breuckelen, now Brook- Iyn. England is dependent for six-seventas of her bread on foreign sources of & geman ha | missioners in Lot At midday on the moon, Professor Very has demonstrated that the temper- aturs in the equatorial region reach.s 356 P. So long, does it take the light to travcl | that the pole star might be extinguished fifty years before we Were aware of the fact. In some parts of China ho-ess are shod Wwith straw shoes, and hundreds of | Chinese obtain a livinz by eollecting the | cast-off shoes on the highways. A Scotchman has invented a cyli cal concrate chimney for residences ted with a fireplace that can be rotated to warm an yone of four roams. A tortoise belonging to 4 South Af- rican museum, which died in 1920, bad 1 been under observatior since 1834, When it was already of gigantig size and of un- know: age. A female tortoise belong- ing to the muvseum has been known since 1843. It still lays eggs. A plaything for cats has been pat- | ented by Edith F. Kettle, of Medford, Mass. It is a small, short metal cylin- der with perforated ends and is meant to contain catnip. The end Dieces ars merely paper dises easily inserted In . ring-shaped openings provided for them, The toy rolls about, and for that neason 1s' attractive. The ecatnlp invites by its | smiell, and pusay manages, after & while, | to claw through one of the paper ends | and get at the contents. Why is the raimbow so frequently seen durlng summer and so seldam during winter? Its formation, we are told by Professor W. J. Humphreys. the eminent meteorological phywicist, requires the coexistence of rain and sunshine, a con- dition that often oceurs during local conventional showers but rarely during 2 general cyclonic storm. and as the for- mer are characteristic of summer and the latter of winter, it follows that the oc- ourrence of the rainbow correspondingly varies with the seasons. “An oracle for some; a game for oth- ers” is the legend on a small pasteboard box now selling downtown. Within a square piece of stiff paper, divided into sixteen parts, with the names of four stocks in each, making sixty-four names in all, many of which are speculative favorites. On a pivot in the center s an arrow, waiting to be spun. With this new method of picking ‘em, fuily as re- liable as some now in use, comes the an- nouncement: “All the fun of Wal]l Street Wwith none of itg dangers—New Yerk Evening Post, St. L THLE TS RG-SR 1S B » <