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Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-21
My Trip to New York.

One day in June some friends of mine were going to New York in their auto and they invited me to go with them. l was delighted to accept the invitation.
 We started at s7 a. m. When we reached Bronx Park we stopped and saw all the animals. I liked to watch the Eagles as l had never seen one before. I also liked the Water Lions, Peacocks, Tigers. Lions. Monkeys and Birds. When we had seen all the ami mals we started again and reached New York at 12:OO.
 We then went along the Hudson River and when we reached a quiet spot we had lunch which we had brought with us.
 After lunch we rode up the Hudson to Yonkers.
 After seeing Yonkers we started home and reached home about mid night, very tired but much pleased with our trip.
 DOROTHY L. BARTON, Age Il.
 New Haven d.
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HUMORS OF THE DAY

Her Friend-what is your favortte part of the Bible? Telephone Girl-The Book or Nuin- l bers.-Stray> Stories.
 She gets her coL-plexion frem her mothers people
 An, indeed Are they chemists, then ?''-London Blighty. 50 you called on her to patch up your old quarrel. Bid yoH sncceed?"
 NO we found it easier to make a new one."-Boston Transcript. This bill of yours is lamentab1e as 1 regards syntar."
 Didn't we make that high enough anNlousls' demanded Senator SPdg.. Life.
 You talk as though you thought was a fool
 Then I have misjudged you. ] didn't think you would understand me so easily. Life.
 Percival-Gosh. Isn't it raining!
 Pansy-Never mind, boysie; take fathers umbrella, then perhaps he won't so much mind your coming back.-London Ideas.
 Mr. Newlywed-Did you sew the button on my coat, darling?
 Mrs. Newlywed-No. love; couldn't find the button, so I just sewed up the buttonhoIe.--Dallas News.
 Guide-would M'sieu like to see ane of the robbers stronghoIds, of which there are several in the neighborhsod7
 Tourist-No, thanks We've 6zed up at a hotel already.-London Tit-Btts.
 The CaIiers-Here you have been demobilized a month and we hzVeH,t seen you until now. .
 Poilu-Well I couldn't get away. Just think, my wife had all the goe- sip of four years to tell ne.-Le Pele Mele, Paris.
 Daughter-Dick is going to bs a good son-in Jaw, pa. He is making plans to help you bear the loss of your child. ,s
 Father-TI guess he's making plans for me to help support my lo8S.-San Francisco Chronicle s,
 Mrs. Downsta1rs-My husband was telling me that your husband has gone into the moving picture business.
 Mrs. Upstairs-Yes, we are house cleaning and I've had him shift the pictures around.-Detroit MeWB.
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Antoinette's Birthday.

Tomorrow was to be a,Antoinette's birthday and yet no one except An toinette wondered. would they think of her birthday tomorrow? Antoin- cite hoped so.
 The next morning very early a It, tie girl rose from bed and hastily dressed herself. It was Antoinette, It was her tenth anniversary today. Going down to breakfast everybody greeted her as usual.
 Deddy said good morning, dear" the same as usual; and mother gave her the same kind of kiss as before
 Sister Alice also greeted as usual
 "Oh' thought Antoinctte, why don't any of 'ena speak about my birthdayi We'll. I won't, talk about it."
 All day long Antoinette was sad, because no one thought of her on this particular day. and mother had not made any birthday cake at dinner time like she did to sister Alice.
 That day at supper time Antoinette said noteone word. Not ore!.~ Rut af-
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ter supper she said something for suddenly motheD said:
 Ar1foipette oasy1a hare fs,

ter supper she said something for suddenly motheD said:
 Antoinette, come here ninute."
 Antoipette weariiy oheyed. Her mother brought her to the parlor and what do you suppose was there. A large table with all sorts of things to eat on it and in the center a large cake with ten candles on. Around the table, sitting in due order were ten boys and girls. Five girls on one side and five boys on the >other.
 At first Antoinette was so surprised that she could not say a word. Then she said, with joy:
 "A birthday partyt"
 And what a lovely party it was. too. Antpinette never forgot it.
 -nigft as Antoinette kissed her mother and father and hugged sister Alice, she said:
 'I thought you had forgotten all about my birthday, but I see that it al- ways pays to wait and see. Thank you ever so much
 BEATRICE HEBERT, Age 12.
 Plainfield
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POETRY.

The Horse That Draws Yaur ceai. |
 the street Day after day. teiis with the coal you
 burn, willing am I that you should feel the
 glow Of cheerful warmth within your cosy Ay, more than willing, glad to be oi Doing my work in my own humble
 way. To spare me from the winters ice and
 snow, And let me minister unto your needs When streets are not frost bound, nef So frausht with danger that each on-
 ward step Iunperiis life. | cannot choose my way, And oft an unkind driver urges me Beyond the limit of my will and
 power Up hills a human would not dare to
 tread I must essay to pass. For am I not Pledged by my sturdy strength 10
 make the test Fer though d broken limb should
 wreck the load? So when you sit within the homes 7 we've made So full of comfort by our willing aid, My mate and I. grant us the pledge we
 ask Of bins well filled before returns
 again
 rain. This is our piea=ponder 1t weH, I pray, A horse can ask you in no other way Helen M Richardson. in Our Dumb Animals.
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Piainfeld
Switzerland.

Switzerland is a land of mountains and hills and valleys and beautiful lakes and streams. Every year peo- pie from all parts of the world go there to see the beautiful Swiss seen cry.
 Sometimes large masses of ice and snow mixed with earth. fall or slide down the sides of the mountains with a loud crash. As they slide they tear away rocks and trees and bury horses and Villages beneath them. These masses of snow. and ice are called avalanches.
 Snow falls all year round. on the tops of the mountains in Switzerland. As the snow falls down on the noun tains it never melts. but forms into ice, These masses of ice slide down the mountains, but very slowly. They are called glaciers,
 Switzerland live by keeping, cattle, sheep. and goats The houses are in valleys mostly. Tn spring when the snow begins to melt they drive the cattle to pasture. when they are to stay till the end of summer.
 There is a kind of goat in Switzer- land called the Chanois. It lives high up in the mountains. and it's flesh is good to eat, and its skin is made into leather. This leather is called sham made.
 The Swiss people use g great deal of dairy products for food. They also have potatoes, bread and fruit. They eat very little meat
 The Swiss children have to go to school when they are six years old. They go to school only eight months in the year. so they have four months vacation.
 After school the boys help take care of the sheep. goats. and cattle. The girls help about the housework. The children of Switzerland have some time for play. as well as for work One of their greatest holidays is when the men return with their hecks of sheep, goats or cattle. When they do come evaxybody is merry. The
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HeIen,s coodIuck Sparrow.

Ruth and Helen were on their way from school. They were talking about Easter and what it would bring
 Ruth said that she expected to have an egg hunt with her brother and sis ters She lived in a large house with every comfort.
 Helen's mother was very poor She did sewing for the people in the viii lage-- Every day, as Helen passed the candy stores, she stood gazing and wishing. How she longed for one o1 those cunning little yellow sugar chicks.
 On this particular afternoon she had stood there longer than usual.
 ..I wish I were rich like Ruth,' she said.
 Helen did not say much about he1 Easter but listened with wide opened eyes to Ruth. All of a sudden she spied a tiny. gray thing that looked very much like a stone, but it was not. It was a baby sparrow
 "Ohi what a lovely little bird! will take it for good luck
 So she took off her scarf and warn ped the shivering little thing in it When.~sfe got home she took her work basket ad made a bed for it and then she prepared supper.
 She had been given sugar bun for lunch and she had saved it. for her mother. She made some toast and then she sat down to wait for her mother.
 In few minutes mother came
 When she had eaten her supper Helen showed her the little sparrow. They gave it some bread crumbs. Soon it was fast asleep with it's head under it's wing.
 Tn the morning Helen went out as usual to get wood. She opened the door and there before her very eyes was a large ba sket full of everything good. There were many surprises and mysterious packages.
 After it was all unpacked Helen said: Mother, I do believe that it is fairy bird When I picked it up I said I hoped it would bring good luck and it did.
 ALICE JOHNSON. Age IL.
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The Nightingale and .oio~r~Serr.


 A nightingale. that all day long Had cheered the village with his song Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended. Began to feel, as well he might. The keen demands of appetite; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off. upon the ground, A omething shining in the dark, And knew the glowworm by his spark; So. stepping down from hawthorn ter, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm. aware of his intent, Harangued him, right eloquent Did you admire my lamp" quoth he, "As much as 1 your minstreisy, You would abhor to do me wrong. As much as to spoil your song; For twas the selfsame power divine Taught you to sing and me to shine; That you with music. I with light, Might beautffy and cheer the night The songster heard his short oration, And warbling out his appreciation. Released him. as my story tells. And found a supper somewhere else.
 William Cowper.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-21
UNCLE JED's TALK TO WIDE.
 AWAkES.
SUNFTOwER.

Have you ever thought of a plant as being an auto-machine. and so much more wonderful than the automobile that there Is no comparison between them?
 Every single plant in the garden has energy. speed. capacity mad purpose.
 The purpose of every plant is the production of seed for continuing the life of it's own species.
 The plant has to hunt and select it's own food, defy competition, and strug- gle to overcome it's enemies, which may he plants or raVagias insects.
 You are acquainted with the sum flower, or sunrose, as they call it in England, true American plant-yel- low, orange or re6-and varying ia size from to 12 inches in diameter It grows F feet or more high in g season, and each plant produces thou sands of seeds. and it averages a growth of three inches a day. and in all its fine work there is design shown and speed.
 And some of these plants color their seeds sbiaek. some brown and some striped gray and white. Each kind makes it's seeds ia the same form and color. and with Iaterals makes from 50 to 75 feet of stalks in 20 weeks.
 It is the favorite flower of the American yellow bird, or wild canary, and these birds feed upon its seeds, and know how to test the flowers for ripe seeds; and it can stand on the face of the flower as the climbing birds can stand on the trunk of a tree.
 What useful plant this is. The seeds are good food for fowls, and the seeds are baked in European countries and used as a substitute for coffee; and the oil from the seed is used to adulterate olive oil. to which in eual- ity it is only second; oilcakes are made of 1t for the cattle. and the long flores are woven into mats and baskets. and the leaves even are valued as a fer tilizer.
 How true to pattern and te every purpose this flower is. It is a thing of beauty which automatically produces what other living creatures need. THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS.
 1-Alice Johnson of Neryich-The Boy Scouts Afeet in France.
 z-Norman McFaII of voIuntewn- The Navy Boys Cruise With Paul Jones.
 s-EIlen Borevieka of West Willing
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-21
SUMMER DANGERS OF FAT PEOPLE Liability to Collapse, Heart Failure, Suns,roke
 Apoplexy and Other Serious Ailments

Why continue to suffer with summer heat because you are bloated with fat? Apart from the unsightlihess and dis comfort you are risking your life.
 If you are oyerstout you should de- termlne right now that you will take off ten to sixty pounds--whatever you need to-and become normal in size. with the beneft Of better health. cheerful disposition. attractive appear anee and the joy of knowing that you have conquered great victory in comparative@E easy manner.
 Eat all yen need: don't take tedious exercise or sickening medicines. but go to the drug store and get a small box kake one at each mealtims aud oas
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-21

when going to bed; also follow the simple rules that come with the box. Or you may obtain a free book. which will come to you in plain envelope, by Station P. New York. N
 A reductten averaging one pound sally Is often reported by this system while in ebstinate cases the fat does not disintegrate 50 rapidly. A guar antee of $l00 is offered that the use of oil of kerefn and observance of certa in simple rules will reduce your weight ten te sixty Doands--just whatever is necessary to bring yea down to 2 good figure. Make this a happy summer Surprise aEfd delight ysurs>lf and your
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-21
Birds That Can Talk.

Birds seem to be the only animals in all the world that can be taught to talk Who ever heard of a four footed animal that could utter one single word or even one clear syllable?
 A dog can bark, horse can neigh, and a, pig can squeal, but can any of them say even much as s'Polly?"
 Dogs, we know. are very clever, but did any dog, big or little, ever. say so much as "Puppy?" And we have seen and heard of learned pigs that derful things: but did any pig ever say Pretty Piggy. Piggy wants cracker" No, all pig can do is grunt.
 Those four handed animals, the monkeys, can chatter ana make faces. and even go so far as to learn to chew tobacco and smoke pipe, but with all their smartness was there ever monkey that could say even so much as "Oh!"
 Then there are those curious ani- mals the seals. that live in the sea, swim in the sea and look like fish. swim like fish. but are not fish. Some Of them make a noise in their throats that sounds somewhat like Pal" But suppose they do say Pal" Did any one of them ever say Maj"
 Was there eyer an insect that could talk? Bees can. buzz, mosquitoes can sing, but they do not talk.
 But a parrot can be taught English. German, French, Spanish, or any other language. The, raven, which is to be found almost everywhere in the world. is a very good babbler. He learns very fast, catches up a great many words. takes in long sentences, and remembers them well.
 The gray parrot which comes from westerns Africa is the best talker of all, unless it is that the Mino bird does even better than the parrot.
 There is one thing that some birds can do, that no other animals have ever done. They can learn to imi tate very clearly the words which men speak. ~A
 ELLEN BOROvICKA, Age F
 West NNiIlir1 etnn v
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-21
Learning to Farm 1t.

My home is in Brooklyn. N. Y.. but am staying with my friend on a farm this summer. 1 have learned to drive two horses, ride the horse rake build a load of hay, and help mow it away in the. barn: and to feed tur- keys, guineas. geese. ducks, chickens, pigs and calves. I pick huckleherries and 5blackber = ries.
 There are five of us, and we have nice time learning how to farm it.
 WILLIE EMMEI. Age II.
 Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-21
STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE
 AWAkEs.
The Exact Truth.


 Two young masons were building a brick walf-the front wall of a high house. One of them, in placing brick, discovered that it was a little thicker on one side than on the other.
 His companion advised him to throw it out. .eIt will make your wall untrue, Ben,v said he.
 "Pooh." answered Ben. s"What diff ference will such trif1e assthat make You're too particular"
 My mother" answered he, taught me that truth is truth.' and ever so little an untruth is lie. and lie is no trine.'
 oh" said Ben, that's all very well: but am not lying, and no intention of lying"
 Very true; but you make your wall tell a lie, and have read that a lie in ones work is like 8 lie in his charac- ter; it will show itself sooner or later, and bring harm. if not rum
 "I'Il risk it in this cask" answered Ben and he worked away. laying more bricks, and carrying the wall up high CT, till the close of the day, when they quit work and went home.
 The next morning they went to re- sume their work when. behold! the lie had wrought out the result of all lies.
 The wall. getting a little slant. had toppled ever in the night .obliging the masons to do all their work over again.
 RUTH sABRowsKI, Age IS.
 Norwich.
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Foxes Got His Turkeys.

I will tell you what I have in my garden: Beans. potatoes. squash and turnipS.
 I had lot of nice chickens but something come one night and took them out of the coop, and I only have twenty left.
 I have a nice flock of turkeys, but the foxes have taken two of my old ones.
 1 am learning to get hay in the barn. can drive two horses help build load and mow it away in the barn.
 CARL A. PLYMOUTH. Age 10.
 Norwich.
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bells. ring and flags wave. and sing ing is heard everywhere.
 In Switzerland instead of King they have a President just as we do.
 One of their greatest men. was Will liam Tell. They loved him just a S we love the name of George Wash
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THE HOME ROAD.

I tread the paths in dear, fans1Siar
 places. N The greenins leaves are swRying la
 each tree: sst see again the well remerabeHed Oh! the home road is the suniit road,
 and the only road for me. Somehow. amid the eity's crowded My heart turns back to rest sn hi1l A month, year. what matters it how
 long?
 For the home road is the shaded road
 and the only road for me. Why care. If birds sing or soft falls. the Sometimes tIs autumn, sometimes
 sweet spring we see; i' My joy in life is to return -aEntn To the home road. sunlit or shaded
 road, 'tis the only road for me.s -C. A. Pinciney.9 Summeiviiie, S. c.
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always think ot mother. A minu1e| later the train was off, But Peter never forgot this ad- venture and he needed the gentlemen's' last words of advice to him.
 LORANDA HEBERF. Age fl. Plainfield
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POETRY
rMDFAw wAMrs,

Ye say they all have passed away.
 That noble s'nee anA- brave; That so 1heir afr Igst tss eSsEtss esRoas haze @sS s That ,InLd the foHests where thsy There rings ing no hanter,s shout, fA But their. nafne is on yonr wntera. '.A9 Ye may not wash 5t opt qs 'Tis where ontario's F1illoNi, a.i vvL btks ,osesns surge ds c1s,a.lse - g, The echo Of the world, FM Where red Missouri bringetb 4ks Rich tribute from tho Weet D, And Happahannock sweeJY 4sleenp ,syl On green Wirginia's breast. ~ Ye say their cone like cabins. VI That clustered o,er the vale, E Have fled away Like Hfthered Leaves si But their memory iiveth on your kailS. Their baptism on your shore, Your ,r, everiisYstine rivers speak
 Their dialect Of yore. @ old Massachusetts wears if
 Upon her lortily crown,
 And broad Ohio hears if
 Amid his young renowns " Where aeasohe her fnT aniet wrSiac ecliaFe waves And hold Kentucky breat hes i< hoAFNe Through all her ancient eNvea. V Taehpsett hides It's lingering voice 7 Ni-d Alleghany graves its ton3 St
 Throughout his lofty chart: . Mopadnock on his forehead hoar ,.vn. Yonr mountains build their nnonunAenk, Though ye destroy their dust. Ye call these red=browed hpetbreR . The insects of an hour. - .aa Crushed like the noteleSs worm Adz14
 The regions of their power; ,. Ye drive them from thedr faep9As' Ye break of faith the sesa. But can ye from the court of HeRxaH
 Exclude their last appea1@ g Ye. see their unresiating tribes, ...t With toilsome step and slow, V On through the trackless desert pAes. A caravan Of woe;
 Think ye the Eternal Ear Is deaf?
 His s1eepIess vision dfrn7 E Think ye the souls blood may not HF1 From that far land to Him.
 Lydia Huntley SigourrAy.s
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How l Helped a Dog.

One day while I was out walking in the field I heard something moan ing I ran toward the direction the noise came from and found a poor helpless dog lying on a bed of thorns He had been-eaught in Farmer Greens deer trap. I took his leg from the trap and dressed his wound and car ride him home across the field Grace,-was afraid of him, but after a few feelings the dog became very fat and gentle.
 I hope all boys and girls of the Wide-Awake Circle will help the ones in need For kindness is better than gold.
 FLORENCE McGovERN. Age 1s. / GlaSgo.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-21

No picture is hung in the Louvre, in Paris. until the artest has been dead ten years.
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CHE WIDE-AWAKE CIRCLE
Boys and Girls' Depastzneat

ten--rhe Nsvy Boys in Long Island Sound.
 1kapipe Lebsr of PlainAeld-Mil- dred's New Daughter.
 s-Hesuthy L. Barten of New Haven Camp Fire Girls at 0aaway House
 6-Nfitiie Emnaei of Norwich-With TraRpeF Jim in the North Woods
 7-<Ruth -eeheeMetei of Norwich-Boy ehums Cruising in Florida Waters.
 s-Faeps0ee Me4evern of voluntown -Fhe Boy Scouts Down in Dixie.
 The Mfinuers of prize hooks living in the city may cell at The Bulletin bus mess Q1ace for them at any hour after IS a. n. on Thursday.
 LETTERS eF ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
 Rese DriseeH of Nerwieh-I received the dandy prize book you sent me en- titled FussbHdRetss Folks and I have enjoyed 1t greatly. It is a lovely book and I wish to thank you hundreds of times for 1t.
 Geri A. kSnaeeu1h of Norwfch-I thank FoN very much for the prize book you sent me 2 few weeks ago. I am pleased with it.
 RAatha Maeenber of voiuntown-I received the prize book entitled Mary Lee. the Red Cross Girl. I have read it and thank you very much flor it. 2
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ington,

STELLA GAsKA. Age 1. Jewett City.
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Rulss fer Young Writers-
 1. Write plainly en one side of the paper only, and number the pages. 2. Use pen and ink, net pencil. g. Short and pointed articles VIII be given preference Do not use eSer 25o words. 4. Original stories or letters only will be used.
 $. Write your name, age and aa- dress plainly at the bottezR of the story.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-30
Close-Ups and
Cut-OutS
: BY Weir,

nUSTlN FARNUM admits "life
j is reel" Many things in
Omaha point to the oppo-
site.
Knock knees prevent many from
entering the movies, Directors
contend they are unable to pose
them straight.
Too many wigs will spoil any
movie love scene.
One trip back and forth from
the studio in Ford coupe got PAN
sy Moss, the movie star, hundred
dollar raise. None will longer con-
tend that Ford isn't a money-get-
ter.
]. Warren Kerrigan will shortly
be seen in role totally different
from anything he has attempted in
his entire career. His forthcoming
Brunton production is an adaptation
Of Honore Balsac's "The Wild
ASS Skim" and will be tentatively
titled THE Dream Cheater."
Sex" the new ]. Parker Read,
! Jr. production featuring Louise
Glaum, is from a story by c. Gard
ner Sullivan, which affords the star
many opportunities for effective
Characterization, will probably be
the last story to leave his hands be-
fore his departure for Europe on a
two years vacation.
Earle Williams has practically
completed THE Fortune Hunter"
Winchell Smiths successful stage
play. All outside scenes were taken
within 40 miles of Brooklyn.
George Randolph Chester, produc-
ton editor of Vitagraph, has started
the scenario for big special feature
having to do with the famous fiction
characters, "Get-Rich-Quick Wal
lingford" and "Blackie Daw." Mr..
Chester will have Mrs. Chester as
collaboration.