Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 2, 1922, Page 22

12 HOME ECONOMICS INSTRUCTION FOR WOMEN OF NEW LONDON COUNTY (Continued frem Page Four) ter. In September one day was given to the group in Uncasville on tailored @inishes and trimmings. New London. Millinery project was carried on in January with a group of 13 women. Fourteen hats were made at this time with a saving of $86.04 to the group. In September Miss Mason, the clothing spe- cialist from Storrs, met with the group 2o give a demonstration on tailored fin- Ishes and trimmings, North Stonington. es meetings have been held in ng dress forms with a group in the lage of North Stonington. There were <0 three meetings on the home nursing project in April. In June 2 meetings wers held on the nutritional project at which time talks were given on foods for' eonvalescents and foods for the fam- In August an annual field day was with a very good attendance. In « morning demonstrations were given for the women in judging of canned gonds, cakes and breads to help them their fair exhibits. In ere were sports for ev- Norwich. One demonstration was given at Nor- ng of dress forms Weaver as leader. were held with the to make dress forms. The clothing project wobk 2 promised to this group. Norw the millinery work has n once in January and s r. Twenty-five women - rk, making 31 hats at € Arrange- n na have the milli- v r iary. 0la Lyme afternoon was spent rich had been working to demonstrate 1 finishes and dec- In this project was meetings dresses 1 day Preston. was given for the grange on » of fircl Twe frerent n ¢ these forms for neighbors after the dem- onstration. In April a home nursing course was given with three meetings. In June two meetings were held on the nutritional project. In December the loom was loaned to the group for rug weaving and work started. , Salem, In January one day extension school was held at which time the making of home made fireless cooker was demon= strated and a taik was given on foods for the family. In May the clothing pro- ject was started. Nine meetings were held during which time dress forms were | made, pattern drafting and dresses made from the patterns by the group. Sprague. The elothing project which was start- ed in the fall of 1920 with two groups in Hanover was completed in January. In June the millinery project was carried on for two days. In Baltic the clothing completed in January also. In April the home nursing course of three meetings was given with a very large attendance at each meeting. The rutrition work was given in June, Mrs. Dakin meeting wth the group two days. Arrangements have been made for two more clothing groups to be held in Baltic and one more in Hanover, these to be started after the beginning of the new year, project was Stonington, Four dress form demonstrations have been given in different parts of the town of Stonington. Arrangements have been made to give work on the clothing pro- Ject soon. Waterford, Through the request of the school nurse in Waterford assistance was given in starting school lunch the Jordan school in Waterford. Talks have been | given at the Quaker Hill and Jordan| schools on/foods and growing children. The dress form project has ,been asked for and will be given and arrangements are being made for this work. The an- nual field day was held in Waterford in August with a very good attendance. Demonstrations were arranged for both women and children and a very gool programme of sports was carried on in the afternoon. a woman declares that she is When homely she doesn’'t expect a man to believe she believes it. POULTRY CULLING DEMONSTRATION, FARM BUREAU WORK Capital | BANK AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS IN JANUARY The following calendar of band and public holidays which will be celebrat~ ed in January in the states and coun- tries and on the dates enumerated be- low is furnished by the Guaranty Trust Company of New York: *Sunday, January 1—A holiday in every part of Europe except Bulgaria, Engiland and Ireland, Greece, Jugo- slavia, Rumania, Soviet Russia, Serbia, Ukrainia, Turkey and Armenia, (where it is observed by foreign banks and merchants); in all of the European col- onies in Africa and in Liberia; in ev- ery country and colony in North, Cen tral and South America; of Asia except Hejaz, Mesopotamia, Palestine and other parts of the for- mer Turkish Empire, and China (where it is observed by the foreign commu- nity); and in Australiasia and Ocean- ifa. In the United States: In every State and Territory, in the District of Columbia and all colonial posses- sions. Monday, January 2—Ceylon, Chifa (Treaty Ports), Germany, Japan, Mau=- ritania, Victoria, Windward Islands. Tuesday, January 3, China (Treaty ports), Japan. Friday, January 6—Argentina, Aus- tria, Baltic States, Brazil, Canada, (Quebec), Canary Islands, Columbia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Fernan- do Po, Finland, Germany (Catholic States), Guatemkla. Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Peru, rofand, Portc Rico, Spain, Sweden, Uruguay, Ven- ezuela, Saturday, January 7—Cyprus, Greece, Jugoslavia, Rumania, Soviet Russia, Siberia, Turkey, Ukrainia. Sunday, January S—Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Rumania, Soviet Russia, Sibe- ria, Turkey, Ukrainia. Monday, January 9--Ttaly, ifa, Siberia, Ukrainia. . Thursday. January 12—Persia. Friday, January 13—Persia. Saturday, January 14—Bulgaria, Cey- lon, Cyj Greece, Jugoslavia, Ru- mania, Soviet Russia, Siberia, Tur- key, Ukrainia. Thursday, January 19—Bulgaria, Cy- prus, Greece, Honduras, Jugoslavia, Rumania, Siberia, Turkey, Ukrania. In the United States: Alabama Arkansas, Ruman- Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Norih Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Friday, January 20—Brazil (City of Rio de Janeiro), Rumanio. Saturday, January 21—Dominican Republic. January 23—Newfoundland. January 24—Brazil (Ste and State Pernambuco). of Piauhy W dnesday, January 25—Bulgaria New South Wales. day, January 26—Bulgaria, New South Wales, Queensland, West- ern Austr: Hawaii, tlements. Sunday, ia. Monday, January 30—Bulgaria, Chi- na, Federated Malay States, Hawaii Hong Kong, Siam, Straits Settlements, llung I\m‘g Siam, Straits §e(- January 29—South Austral- ¥, January 31—Azores, China, Federated Malay States, Hawai Kong (British), Madeira I tugal, Portuguese Fast Af tuguese West Africa, Si Settlements, Vi *When New Y day, usually it lowing Mond A CHEMICAL COINCIiDENCE * Here is the cold geogr fact: contemporaneo s Day falls on Su observed on the phical mounts group of the ~But here also is a fairy tale science, a happy chemical coincid —THE— Washington Trust Company WESTERLY, RHODE ISLAND Offers you favorable terms for active or inactive checking accounts. 49/, interest allowed on savings accounts FOUNDED IN 1800 $500,000 Surplus and Profits $550,000 in all parts|. fl | those far-off days, ihberally, like the days of Genesis. The B | pot-holes and labyrinths of the coral; President, H. H. 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GALLUP suggests * Scene two might of show p me hich o the box naries iaive the to to a second geographical fact| ‘The s nt need- Na s phosphate rock | e state for \u]“ to Iaumeral Lava’ ulphu e bulletin continues g information about the | ees that grow on stilts where mis- | s have gone, and where we may | fertilizer—information extracted | from a communication to The Society Rosamond Dodson Rhone: uru, or Pl ant Island, is almost ¢ the jumping-off place of the world; is not ctly ‘East of the sun and! t of the moon,” but it is almost the thest east, being only thirteen de- west of the international date and it is a half degree south of! quator,\It is one of tne Line fore it fell to Germany it knew no white rulers, but was governed | by its own immemorial laws, enforc- cd by its own cihefs; but white in- i fluence had impinged upon it for many . Whaling ships from New Eng- called there and traded fire- | .}]vigs u was rather a poor island in before its great | wealth was discovered. It had no san- dalwood or tortoise shell; no peals or copra was not made in the Pacific beche-de-mer; not even copra, for before 1872 and cotonut oil was not an article of commerce, “One day Nauru, lily> Aphrodite, arose dripping from the sea. The date of this emergence cannot be more near- ly indicated than ages ago, and the term day is not limited to twenty- four hours, but is to be construed island may indeed have been thrust into the air, with all her lovely polyps gasping and shriveling in the trop-| |ic sun, and scarelt fishes and long- |armed octopi leaping affrighted out of the exposed caves to the safe shel- ter of the sea, while slow-moving sea urchins and mollusks perished in tha! or the process of elevation may have been gradual llife in the coral dying gradually at lhe emerged top, while, it remained in full vigor just beneath the level of low tide. “At any rate the upheaval was com- plete, when the fairy towsrs and pin- nacles and the unsunned caverns of the sea had been lifted into the blaze of the sun, life at its base beneath the sea continued unabated and the fring- ing reef was slowly extended around it. ‘At this perfod the island must hav. looked like those fantastic artificial structures which we see in equariums ‘o product of man'’s construction could be more extravagant in conception than these pinnacles, towers, bridges, fly. suggesting architectural fantasies up- ing buttresses, their shapes always reared into the air. There it stood, bare and bald as did the earth on that day in Genesis when the dry land first appeared. “Then came the sea-birds, millions and millions of them, feeding on the abundant sea-food, nestling in the co-| ral, hatching their young in ever- creasing multitudes, and depositing the waste of their bodies in the coral till the lower crevices were filled and a gradually rising body of guana attain- ed at length a level with the tops of the pinnacles, and then rose above LOSSES PAID SINCE ORGANIZATION S. ALPHEUS GILBERT HOME OFFICE BUILDING 59-61 BROADWAY the shore hel tr occurred is | ation)—vegetation appeared, | chiefly phosphoric acid and nitrogen; |limited in coral chiefly lime. Somehow, by |specimens the them and lay in a level platean across the island. “On the margin the rains, the winds and the breakers, spouting high against the coral, washed away this deposit, so that ramparts of bare pinnacles stood up and still stand nu around the contents; but mercantile risks, churches, schoolhouses, and public property wnll also be OVER $1,000,000 DIRECTORS WILLIAM H. PROTHERO FRANK A. STEVENS SHEPARD B. PALMER JAMES K. GUY WALTER F. LESTER CHARLES R. MARVIN EDWIN A. TRACY OTTO E. WULF NORWICH, CONN t safe the treasure. Came|is guano raised to the nth power. It|is no vegetation there is no populae l:_"p;'_':unullwx’ day (I am aware I am fling- | had now become ahard rock, odorless| tion. | ing days about as ally as the au- |and generally colofless, aithoug | “The vegetation owed nothing to one ght disclose o"(hhr of Genesis). The sea-birds were |Specimens show fine, ¢ k stratifica- | the th of pk l"~xh1 e beneath it n Polly Smith dropping pennies | gone; not a keep red eve or swift-|ton and take a high p Phospr e in water. It 1 ake to Sunday Schooi|diving wing w fi; gone, immemor nother day—perhaps the sa e * to send to missiona- |ially gone. How or ihy is a mystery.|—(it is startling to see how 3 5 ronverts it int 7 t s follows the Genesis storj { t ‘Then in the alembic of -ansformation married least one close act. the guano hanged into hosphate of con became | people of e, which | have been the order, for where '.r.cr(‘[olh;r man. C. P. ECCLESTON, President J. L. LENIHAN, Secretary and General Manager Are You Going To Build This Spring? If so, it will pay you to get our prices on materials — Lumber, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Brick, Lime, Cement, Paint and Varnishes, Roofing Paper, Etc. ASK TO SEE “NEPONSET TWIN SHINGLES” WESTERLY LUMBER CO., Inc. Cor. High and Oak Sts., Westerly, R. L. 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