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Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

One of the Thames river stations so far unaffected by war property, is Breakwater, once a hustling site, now seemingly doomed to dry not and de- cay
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

One hundred dollars was realized at a cake sale held at the Crescent Beach cottage or Mrs. A. F. Shaw's, formerly of Norwich. for the benefit of the Mantle Red Cross.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

As usual the men at the Main street station of the New Haven road are keeping up the attractive beds of flowers opposite the station.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

The keel of a new steamer of $500 tons of the Ferris type has been laid in the Noank shipyard. This type of steamer is named after Theodore Fer ris, designer of wooden ships.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

THERE Is no advertising medium in Sastern Connecticut equal to The Bull e1R GzR &1siness 1esultA
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

At the masses in St. Patricks
 church. Norwich, Sunday, prayers were offered for the repose of the soul of James Joseph Shea, of Willimantic, Co. L. 102d Infantry. killed in action.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

At the Norwich Red Cross room much valuable work is being done on Monday afternoons in charge of Mrs William Trimm and Friday mornings under the direction of Miss Matilda Butts.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12
VARIOUS MATTERS

Light vehicle lamps at S.23 o'cloc this evening.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

Lightning struck on Court street Friday, making a gully over a foot deep. Men were working there all day Saturday and the gulch was rbped off Friday night, closing that street to travel
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

At Mantle fourteen valuable sheep were killed at Branford Farms Thurs day by dogs. One of the dogs was shot by the caretaker and is believed to have belonged to Irving Luce of Little Boston.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

Mentioned among those attending the fair of St. PauPs church Wind ham, were Mrs Oliver L. Johnson Miss Fannie D. Young, Miss Sarat Young, Miss Van Schaack and Mrs ". H. Frink of Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

Steady rain for several hours after midnight Saturday and during Sun day morning. added to the good done by Fridays showers.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

Although the gale in the shore towns attained a velocity of between seventy and eighty miles an hour on Friday. and left great destruction to trees and other property, nobody was reported injured.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

The Ballard family reunion is to be held at Nichols grove West Thompson, Aug. 14.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

The Meriden Journal mentions that Rev. Albert Jepson of Danielson. for merly of South Meriden, the son of MT. and Mrs. William Jepson of Bern stein Heights preached Sunday at All Saints church, Meriden.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

St. Susanna was commemorated in the church calendar Sunday. Today Is St, Clare's day.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

Edward L. Keay. of New Haven, and Miss Ella Hughes. of Deep River, were married at Hartford Wednesday noon. The bride is a daughter of M. E. Hughes, of Tuckahannock, Pa, but for many years was in the employ of the Southern New England Telephone Company as chief operator & the To- cal division.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-12

Hartford papers mention that Mrs. Watson Beach is the guest of Mrs.
 James L. Thomson of Kenyon street
 at Weekapaug.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
A Mental Physician
With Books for pills

Extraordinary care is taken in the Sc
lection of books for hospital; there
must be nothing morbid or unwholesonss
in these; neither must they be dull.
A bright detective story or a love tale
with they lived happily forever after
as the ending are the most Desirable.
The responsibility Of the hospital libra
rian is great. She acts as a kind es
mental physician to the patients a
man who has suffered complete Toss Of
memory is given thrilling detective sto.
ries or tales Of adventure which vii
keep him interested and prevent his
broodng over the question Of his lost
identity. a shell shock victim must
have less excitable tales, but the books
that he reads must De amusing
The service at the base hospital does
not end With the men who are able is
join the gathering in the big, sunny
library. Every day Miss Jones, the
librarian, makes a tour Of the hospital
wards, pushing before her a little ses
wagon laden with books This Is wheeled
in between the beds and thu sick msr
make their selections. Very few SO
called heavy books arc included
in the piles on that little wagon.
and poetry is considered the proper
mental food fer these invaltds. Di-vetl'-
they begin to convalesce. however, thci~
minds invariably crave something more
substantial and they are put Oh = Gle.
of history, philosophy or any technical
works in which they may be Interested
A wise hospital librarian can do 4
vast amount Of good. She can often help
j man to readjust his entire manner OF
living. There was a case of man who
had lost leg and received d bad wound
in the lung at Chateau Thisrry He had
been a contractor and builder but his
injuries made resumption of this type
Of work impossible. and he was very
low-spirited over his future The libra
fian aroused his interest in the study or
woods, and before he left the recon
struetion hospital he had received an ap-
pointment for the purchase OF lumber.
Can you sec the part the Library War
Service l5 destined TO play III the great
reconstruction period after our boys come
home from across the Rhine? And have
| told you enough about the uses Co
which that three and half million dol
lars are to be put to make you want tD
add your mite TO help in the work the
American Library Association Is dining
IF so, I am content.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Mr Grib>11oc
1''xttt,'te :: Is tt,' tt, -
1hl tile World of Women

flan, where the men can read or study
IN quiet surroundings, which is inpos-
sloie IN the huts, where the phohouraph
Is never silent. Pelham Bay has such
library, with rows and rows of book
shelves, big brick fireplace and com
Portable Windsor chairs flied from 9 in
the morning until TAPS" sound at night
with men in blue sailor blouses.
What sort OF books do they read?"
| asked Miss Galloway, the librarian.
Every Sort she replied, ''but only
about 80 per cent are fiction. You would
be surprised at the books they ask for.
Poetry is extremely popular, and there
are calls for all sorts of technical books
Here are the requests which we had yes
terday," and she gave me an enve]ope
containing slips Of paper on which the
men had written the titles of books that
were not on shelves but which thew wished
to read. They included Rileys poems.
Masefield's poems, n book on steam
fitting, trigonometry, Greek gram
mar, book by Hehty,s s"More of Zane
Gray's works" and a treatise on en-
balming
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

ing kindergartens and quoting bits Of
Froebel, we had pictured Germany as the
nation that most appreciated and gave
the greatest care TO childhood After
the first drive we knew that, while they
began with the child in order to build the
kind of men they needed for Der Tag"
they were also learning that the most
efectuaI way to annhiate a people is by
breaking or extefminatine the children.
just what training in cruelty has
been given their soldiers is not known.
About tho end Of the nineteenth century
Plosser wrote that for years it had been
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
No Red Tare Binds the
Travels Of These Books

To my mind one of the most admirable
points about the work of the Library
Mar Service is the absence of red tape.
If, tor instance, a man in Camp Merritt
or Pelham Bay wants book to cram
for an exam, he notifies the librarian;
she telephones in to the 'dispatch office"
IN New York, and in less than a day
the volume is in the mans hands.
A man in the service who is going
overseas can go into the Eagle Hut in
Bryant Park and select from the shelves
any books which he would like to read
on the voyage. lie can return these at
the Paris headquarters of the Library
War Service, or. If he prefers, he can
pass them on to his comrades So long
as the books are kept in circulation the
Library Association is content
Red Cross nurses, Y. NJ C. A. workers
or members of other war ,lief organiza
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

entered the service were engaged in vari-
Gus trades keep up 50 date in their OWN
line Of work by reading the latest tech
meal books on the subject. And beside
all this hundreds Of men who have never
read to any extent before, stimulated by
the example of their comrades, become
veritable Oliver Twists, with mental ap-
petites that are never satisfied.
So much for the service which the
American Library Association is render
ing our men who are still in active SER
vice, but what Of those who have been
disabled by gas or wounds or she'll
shock. and who are doomed to spend
their days in the long white wards Of
the military and naval hospitals One
need go no further than the base hos
ptal in The Bronx for an swer to
this question. The big. cheerful room
IN the Red Gross house which is used
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

that tears were not far off when. he told
of cne little curly haired boy. THAT lit
tie kid" he said "was only nine years old,
but he talked like an old man He had
lost his father and mother in the first
German drive, but would never tall, about
them. OVr crew bought him a sailor suit
and he was just about the proudest kid
you ever saw when he went away with it
on. A few days later he came back with
out it. He had sold it for something to
eat. His appearance showed how hun
CRY ne had been At first he wouldn't
eat with us, because he explained in his
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Blessed Be
Drudgery

Yet many hundreds of English girls
and young married women Of high social
rank are gladly rendering this form of
service at the Y. A. y. hospitals and
other nursing institutions at home and
in France, and are quietly pursuing their
humdrum, wartime task of housernaid,
kitchen maid and general" without the
decorations, mentions and social fame
which come to other classes OF war
workers.
The heroism of the girls of gentle
-.Tth and breeding who have deliberately
undertaken to work on the domestic stats
has so impressed Miss Tennyson Jesse,
who has been studying the various as
poets OF wonnen's war service in France.
that she thinks there should be a special
medal for girls who have worked as gen
eral servants during the war without
as she puts it-"a thrill Of romance to
support them
All the voluntary camps I have seen.
all the hostels, the rest stations, and
many hospitals, are stated by voluntary
domestic help, says Miss Jesse in THE
Sword Of Deborah the book which con
tains her frst-hand impressions of The
British Women's Army in France. "and
the girls they wait upon, the drivers and
secretaries and suchlike are eager in
recognition Of them. But that seems to
me about all the recognition they do get:
they get no 'snappy parts no photo
graphs IN the picture papers. no songs
are sung OF them. no reward is theirs in
the shape OF medal or ribbon, nothing
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

too-old way we needed all the food we
had, but he would take the pennies We
gave and buy food in the village.
Some of the boys saw him staring
While they were talking to him he said,
The water looks like a good place to restn
Oh! I'd have given all my pay to have
taken care Of that little Kid" Then the
boy sailor froze up again.
Germany has sent consignment of
toys to the children of America She also
has 1nartyred thousands Of helpless chill
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

dren in the bombarded villages of BEL
GUM and France. She has replaced the
wonder of childhood with nameless terror.
One American woman who went into
these villages to care for The children
says that they averaged between two and
four years of age and most Of them will
not know their own names when older.
The hands that tore away these children's
natural protectors are the hands that
have made in past years the toys that
brought joy to the children of the world
everywhere.
Germany has murdered and tortured
childhood wherever il has ssood in her
path. Can we bear It that the same
hands should offer JOY to our children
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
The Dignity Of Dietetics

,zh- befuf1ed, be-s1ippere5, cld-vonan-
ish man playing tiddlywiriks in a rocking
chair.
Housekeeping isn't tiddly " INKS by any
manner OF means, even in peace. Mar
ketinS brings You in touch with the real
economic problems of the day, and sym
pathetic but intelligent dealing with your
retailer means better food for less money
and rial contribution to the solving of
our desperate problem of food distribu-
tion.
The servant problem, has it's root deep
m BolAhevikisnl, and is part of the
woman In industry" problem and the
whole feadjustment Of GUY attitude tow
ard domestic service" Endowing die
tetin with dignity will attract a very DIFF
ferent class Of women to domestic ser
vice. See the servant problem big, III re
lation to the whole, or you can have
neither the patience nor the wisdom to
cope with it at all.
And the food itself. The oldtime dreary
round Of three meals a day and dish
washing now means, if one raises ones
eyes above the dishpan. vision of starv-
ing children to be fed all over Europe
and also throughout ones own state and
in ones own city. In the home it means
choosing food that insures energy and
efficient living for the gtown-ups and
building strong, vital bodies for our chill
drsn, bodies in which their minds and
spirits can live happily and serve others,
unfettered by nagging physical en-
vitonment Building children's bodies
Alright is the carrying on Of woman's
NEST highly specialized job. Ali these
big possibilities arc in the market basket.
along with the milk and butter, spinach
and cheese, if we have The insight TO see
them.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
A Rev View of an
Old Job

Under war pressure we are getting an
active consciousness of what these things
mean. We are having 1t brought home
to US by seeing that our nation wide
thrift, not sacrifice. can feed whole ma
tons, and we realize what spendthrifts
we have been. The lessons Of war car
ried out into times Of peace, when the
abnormal demands no longer need to be
met, would make some Of the desert
places ia our cities blossom like the rose.
It will mean much IL we can only keep
this feeling Of responsibility when the
war is over, this larger sehse of profes-
slonal, civic housekeeping, and rot
"slump" back into our ola narrow ruts,
seeing only our own isolated bricl, Of ser
vice, with no vision OF the great structure
into which it fts.
With the coming of the vote women
will have chance to "dignify the art Of
dietetics" to the point Of assuming re-
sponeibility for every hungry, under.
nourished child in the community. We in
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

harder for a foreigner to visit their pub
lie schools than their Reichstag.
An American sailor, looking about
eighteen, who had stayed in a port cover
there" for some weeks, was asked what
had impressed him most. Instantly the
boy froze into the fighting man and
snapped out, "The Children"
He gradually thawed and told of brave
little fellows who are trying to take care
Of themselves with what is given them bv
American sailors. He melted so entirely
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Shall the Hands That Murder
Childhood Make Our TOYS?
BY JOSEPHINE BENNETT SCOTT

BY JOSEPHINE BENNETT SCOTT
TIME world stops to smile at the
perfect trust of the French child
in our American soldier and sail
or. Their complete understands
ing seems not in the least affected by
their not speaking the same language
both knowing the language of love-
When we were so rudely awakened
from "our deep dream of peace" our
greatest shock came from the German in
vaders' treatment of children. Introduc
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Housekeeping at the Front

both in its literal and lis broader sense,
at d time when SO many nsw calls are
sounding alluringly in women's ears. and
some of the new fields seem to offer big
Der, better jobs only because we have
done our special work in such an anna
teurish way in the past. Home economics
and dietetics-these can tax any woman's
ability to the utmost if she has any COM
prehenson of their possibilities.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

tlons going overseas are urged to carry
all the books that they can for distribu
tion to the men at the front. The
transports are supplied with libraries in
rather novel -..anner. There is al
ways at least one war worker. a Y. NJ.
{. A. man, member Of the Salvation
Army or Of some kindred organization
on board, and he is given as many cases
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

Of books rs the government will allow
him TO carry. These cases are fitted
with shelves on which the books are ar
ranged. They are placed on the deck
of the transport the covers unscrewed
and the men invited to help themselves.
On the last day of the voyage the man
in charge collects the volumes, screws
down the covers and the cases are ready
to be sent to the men in the trenches
The American Library Association
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
Gently Bred Women as General
Servants

"HOSE Cinderellas Of women's war
work, the girls, many Of them
gently born and highly educated,
who have cheerfully slaved as general
servants since the war, in hospitals and
hostels, washing the dishes, scrubbing
the floors, sweeping and dusting and
cooking the meals, have at last found
champion. To drive the wounded in an
ambulance under fire is thrilling ad-
venture, nursing them in hospitals ap-
peals to the ministering angel in woman,
but the daily round and common task of
the kitchen is phase of war work very
necessary, but certainly lacking in the
picturesque or the spectacular.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

does not pretend to supervise the read
ing Of The men whom it serves. 1t does
not even attempt to improve their taste
IN literature, but it sees that nothing
but clean. wholesome reading matter
finds a place on its shelves or in its
packing boxes. And yet the educational
work which is being fostered by the Ii
brary War Service is incalculable. Bows
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

brafy on every transport; 3,O11,5l0 sec
ond-hand volumes have been collected and
placed in circulation; nearly 100000
new volume shave been purchased, more
than 100000 copies of periodicals have
been distributed to our men in the SER
vice, and there is library service in
charge Of a trained librarian in every
military hospital.
MIR. Raymond B. Fosdick, in a letter
to the officers of The American Library
Association, writes:
"Just back from France, want to
express my keen appreciation of what
the American Library Association is do
ing for our troops abroad. | found your
books everywhere, from seaport bases to
front-line trenches. I found them in
hospitals and dressing stations. in scat
tered villages in the training area where
our men are billeted, and in remote parts
OF France where our forestry units are
carrying on their lonely work.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

whose college courses we're interrupted
by their going into the service find time
III their leisure hours to carry on their
studies by means Of the books which the
Library War Service provides for them.
Thousands Of our men are studying for
eign languages, French, Italian and
Spanish, and thousands of others who
speak English with difficulty are I'M
proving their knowledge with the help
of these books. Men who efore they
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

but the sense cf dish properly cleaned
OF rugs duly swept under
Miss Jesse instances the case Of the
Hotel Bristol at Boulogne, the headauar-
ters of the British Red Cross, where all
Red Cross people going on leave or az
rivlng IN France via Boulogne have to
report Practically all of them want a.
meal and many of them bed
In addition, the permanent stafF
amounts to nearly $50 people and the
bulk of the domestic work is done By
seventeen young Volunteer Aid Depart
ment girls. The average number Of
meals served is 900 week.
The Spirit Behind
the Task
-Four or fve girls act as waitresses in
the dining room, and three are always in
the pantry, which must never be left for
moment during the day." she says; $50
it will be seen that the headquarters of
the Red Cross is sort Of hotel except
that nobody pays. There are French
servants to do the toughest work, but
the girls have plenty to do without that
The house staff begins work at z o'clock
IN the morning; At 1880 in the evening
they start to turn out the forty-two Of
fees, which they sweep and dust every
day. They wash ali the tea things fnot
the dinner thingsl and clean all the silver
and glass. they make beds and do all the
waiting. a pretty good list Of occupa-
tions Is 1t not. carried out on such Il
huge scale?
The girls are we'll looked after. for
it must not be forgotten that some OF
them are not more than eighteen and
their parents in England have a right to
demand that these children should be at
once guarded and cheered. No Red Cross
girl is allowed out after 9:30 o'clock in a
restaurant, and more IS ever allowed 10
dine out unaccompanied by another girl.
The domestic staff at the Red Cross
Hotel for TIE relatives Of wounded at
R. consists Of cook, parlor maid and
tweeny' with ore chauffeuse." IA
"tweeny," by the way, ranks between a
housemaid and psrlor maid. There are
fine distinctions in rank in service" in
England.l They have troubles of their
own, too, members of that staff. In the
big kitchen, where among the dishes on
the table a pink hyacinth bloomed, the
fair-haired cook SO busily working was
Just back from a leave in England thai
was to have been a marriage leave, had
not her nance been killed the day befors
he was 10 join her. Now she is amonfr
her pots and pans again. and srnilins
stiii, as can testify. The stweenv'
VINO also describes herself as boot-bos
Is young war widow
Drudgery is digni6ed as we'll as blessed
ywnen we DO with our might what cur
quality of ceaseless everyday snrv,cs. as
should bring finer folks to it. Anether
lesson perhaps to wiring erom our wa,
struggles-British Bureau Of Infos,n,o-
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
The American Library Association and the Soldier

fSUR the past year and hall the
IA American Library Association
J. has been hiding its light under a
bushel 1t has been plodding steadily
along, performing most important ser
viee for our fighting men. modestly re-
tanning from proclaiming its good
aseds, quite content to let It's work speak
~ Itself But its days Of seelusion are
sysr and the time has come when it must
,suae out from behind its bookcases and
s.ssive the plaudits Of its grateful fel-
nm ssuntrymen.
Te be sure. we have all known in a
.,oue sort Of way that the American
Library Association was supplying read
ios matter to our men in the service.
IL have seen the poster of the soldier
cith the huge pile of books in his arms
vhieh adorns the steps of the Public
library. Inspired by his smiling coun-
..nance, we have depleted our book
,hsIyes to add to his store. fAnd in this
sahnsetion take tho liberty of hoping
tEat the phianthropic soul who sent
fuIl set of "The Elsie Books'' and 'srThe
yeung Mothers Guide" for the delecta-
lion Of cur fighting men was not among
sur gentle readers.")
The fact that it is one of the seven
important civilian war work organiza-
lions included in the United War Work
Campaign which begins tomorrow
morning shows the Importance attached
10 ts work by the War Department.
Three and q half million dollars is the
AMOUNT for which the Library War Ser
visits striving. Maybe at first thought
ttis seems a great deal Of money 10 put
iss8 books, but if you could realize the
isaieHlable amount of Joy that it
viii bring into the lives Of the boys who
are serving with the colors on land and
YEA, that three and half million would
se oyersHbseribed in just about three
and half minutes.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

American Medical Association" for put
ting the proper emphasis on this branch
Of woman's work. Feeding the family"