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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-01

said thoughtfully, Did I tell you about the time I was on listening post duty?"
 'No," answered Ted eagerly, whats a listening post?"
 "A listening post was a hole in the Eround-sort of a pit, I suppose you would call it, replied John. And a man would be posted in each pit to listen for sounds from the enemy"
 But how could you hear anything In a pit?" asked Ned, wonderingly.
 Through a telephone" answered John- There was in the bottom of each post Cor pit) a curious looking little instrument-round and fiat with a funny little top. And to this were attached wires running into the ground and also rubber-covered wires with ear plates the soldier could put to his ear. The lookout would go down in the pit and then put the ear plates to his ear. Through this, he could hear vibrations in the ground l which told him whether enemy troops were advancing and many other | things soldiers must know" But wasn't it awfully lonesome, 1 staying down in a pit all a1one?'' | asked Ned
 "Lonesome!" exclaimed John. "It's
 plain to see you never went to war! I should say it was lonesome! But ii
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-01

~HE materials necessary for the
 ~ shovel will not be hard to secure. G The drawing shows a handle Is not available, a piece of square stock may be used, in which case, however, the corners should be round- ed as well as possible with a jack knife. It will be noticed, also, that the cross piece at the end of the
 handle sets into the latter slightly. It
 is not necessary that 1t be made in
 this manner, though the finished piece looks better this way. If desired, the
 cross piece may be fastened without
 especially forming either piece to ob- tain a fit.
 The making of the part B will be the hardest part of the problem. This
 should be made of heavy galvanized
 iron for the best results. The pattern is shown in the lower right hand corner. Get out the stock first to the | overall dimensions, then mark out the patterns according to the measu re- ments shown. Note particularly the full and the dotted lines. The cutting | is to be done on the full lines, being careful not to go beyond the points indicated. The patterns should then | be bent along the lines shown dotted. | Following these directions we note | that the outside strip x of one-halt | inch is to be folded up at right angles | to the bottom, as is also the small half
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didn't make any difference what it was-some fellow had to stay there all the time just the same-that's war! You have to do what you're told whether you like 1t or not!"
 But you were telling us about a particular time," said Aileen coaxing- Iy. She was afraid that John would lose track of his story and that would be a pity.
 Oh, yes," laughed John, "this par tlcular time. Well, I was in one post and chap that had just joined us was in the next. I didn't know him at all as I did the other boys. We had been assigned to midnight duty, which we hated the worst of all.'
 Didn't you have any lights?" ex- claimed Aileen awesomely.
 "Oh, bit of candle-some etim es, !" admitted John, "but for my part I hated a candle worse than I did the dark. Crouching there in that tiny pit with a candle glowing right in front of me, could imagine the worst horrors you ever thought of! No, on the whole l preferred the dark be- cause nobody could see me so we'll.
 And so this night" coaxed Ned.
 "Oh, yes," laughed John, you folks are awfully afraid of your story! Well, it's not so much of a story after all perhaps. I was sitting, couched down there In the dark and l heard tap. Tap, tap, tap-tap. That way. It wasn't marching, I knew that; but what it was, I didn't know. I lis tened again and again I heard it. Long taps, short taps; I couldn't make a bit of sense to it.
 Finally I thought I'd count" con- tinued John, "so I began counting.
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But it was too irregular to mean any thing I decided. And pretty soon 1t stopped.
 T forgot all about it and for an hour all was still as a church mouse.
 Then suddenly I heard the words, ever get lonesome? Why don't you answer back?'"
 NO, I didn't really hear the words, the real words; but those words came to me. And then that tapping began again. I got really bothered. Then suddenly, just like flash I knew what it was. Of course! Stupid! Why hadn't thought of it!
 'qThe chap in the next listening post knew the Morse telegraph code and, hoping that I would know it too, he was tapping lightly on his listening phone a conversation to me-"
 "But how did you know the letters. John?" asked Ted You never were a telegrapher."
 Right you are son. never was, /" agreed John. But one summer when I was a kid learned the Morse code, and I never used it till that night That was why I was so slow getting on to what he was doing.'
 "And after that did you and the other soldier talk back and forth all the timer" asked Aileen. eve did not,' laughed John, "we'd have been thrown in jail if we had! No, those wires were for more important business and we knew enough to let them alone. But once in a while, when the night was very dark and when we were very lonesome, we would say sentence back and.forth." /" Well" said Ted with a big sigh as John went off to read, "I didn't know what I could do this summer. But now I know. I'm going to learn that Morse code so if ever there's another war or anything like that, I'll know how to send messa ges too."
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put down my apple and let them have 1t. After that I fed them every day. and they're just as tame as can be, and the big black one l brought from the Monument, his name is Mon- nie, likes to sit on the hearth when the fire is lighted and he chirps too cute for anything"
 Well, I declare" exclaimed Louis. ''They are cute little critters"
 "Yes, but very weak in the legs Dorothy sighed. -"I picked one up over there, see him? He's crippled, and I've named him Hippity-hop."
 "What'd call the others?"
 "Oh, there's Bob and Herman with white marks on them and those two little ones are Lightfoot and Sam.''
 What are you going to do with them?" Louis wanted to know.
 "Just keep them for pets,' answered his sister. I've been reading a lot about them and I'm worried about poor Hippity-hop cause now that he's lost one leg he may be hard of hear ing"
 'rwhy?" asked Louis.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-01
THE JUNIOR COOK

then lower the heat so cake can cook
 In very slow oven. Chocolate will
 scorch easily. If the cake is baked
 in two thin layers, it will need about
 25 minutes If in one layer. a little
 longer. Test by tapping the top with
 the finger, if cake is done there will be no mark left. Ice with white icing made by beat ing together: 11k cupful confectioner's sugar tablespoonful butter F teaspoonfu1 vanilla Cream to make smooth paste just soft enough to spread. 1 This is a very easy cake to bake and | is delicious for a picnic.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-01
IN THE LISTENING POST

81A OW tell us another!" exclaim ed E NJ the children as they sat around @ the dinner table and eagerly M k begged for more-and more stories. Tell us another"
 Now lots of boys and girls have uncles and cousins and brothers who went to war. But not all those boys and girls hear stories from the ex- citing days overseas, because most or the soldiers don't like to talk more than they have to about those days. But Ned's big brother was different Perhaps because he had been such a long time getting home and the hard part of the war wasn't talked about so much. For after the war ended John, that was Ned's big brothers name, went to work over in France and only a few days ago, much more than two years after his friends and mates had come home, did he come back to the family circle
 And of stories, he had plenty, sad and sober and funny, or so it seemed The children kept him busy telling about the days he spent in France. Every meal time they wanted more and every bed time more, till their
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-01

poem written while at college and two years after that, when he was but twenty years of age he published his first independent volume of poems. This book did not meet with the praise for which the young poet had hoped so for the next two years he strove to write verses which would ap- peal to the public. This collection, however, shared the cold reception of the first volume and the young poet was so discouraged that for nine years he could not find the heart to publish his works for fear his own judgment of his poems which proclaimed them good may have been false.
 It is strange that these very verses which the critics passed so coldly by have since become the examples of the finest and most beautiful type of English verse. Tennyson's was soul stirred by music and his poems ex- press the beauty and glamor and mystery of romance. The verses are
 so lyrical many of them almost sing themselves as we read them, and it is
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-01
ALFRED TENNYSON Born August 6. 1909

small wonder that when at the end of nine years unceasing labor Tennyson. with courage and hops revived, pub Hshed two more volumes the critics and the public acclaimed him Eng lands new king of poets." He was appointed Poet Laureate of England, and that same year at the age of forty he married. His life was not without it's early struggles, but once success came his way his future happine was assured. He settled after his marriage in beautiful country estate and spent his days weaving musical words together to form beautiful verses. He was elevated to the peer age as Baron Tennyson, of Freshwa- ter, and Aldworth, the counties in which he lived, and he ruled the lit erary world of his day as an undis- puted monarch of verse.
 When Lord Tennyson died, in 1892, he was buried in the Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey, London. and ac- corded the highest honors that a man may have.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-01

The six settled around their portion of apple and began sucking away at 1t while the shiny black one chose the other piece of apple.
 You see," explained their proud mistress, i've marked some of them sos I could tell them from the others. That fat one with the straight mark is Louis, your namesake."
 "Humph D grunted the brother, but he was interested in spite of himself.
 (Which one is Dorothy?"
 'None of 'em," replied the girl. 'I've decided that they're all gentle men because they sing" Don't lady crickets sing?" inquired Louis. And how do you know any way?"
 "we11, 1t was like this" said Doro-
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The Monthly Birthday Book
AUGUST

AOGUSI 1, 17s1. George Ticknor, historian. 2, 1760. Pope Leo XII. 5, 1892. John Henley, orator. 4, 1792. Percy Shelly, poet 5, 1850. Guy de Maupassant, author. 6' 1909. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet. 7,-1742. General Nathaniel Greene. . s, 1561. Dominic Bandius, jurist, 9, 1881. John Dryden, poet 10, 1910. Cavour, Italian statesman. II, 1887. President Carnot of France. IF, 1774. Robert Southey, poet. 1S' 1743. Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier,
 chemist. 14, 1860. Ernest Thomson Seton
 writer of animal tales. Is, 1769. Napoleon Bonaparte. 16, 1879. Catherine Cockburn, dram
 atist. IF, 1894. Benoit, composer. IS, 1880. Francis Joseph, late Elm peror of Austria. 19, 1908. James Nasmyth, engineer. 20, 1883. Pres. Benjamin Harrison. 21, 1725. Greuze, painter. 22, 1877. John B. Cough, temperance
 orator. 23, 1854. Moszlzowski, composer. 24, 1S10. Theodore Parker. 25, 1889. Bret Harte, author. 26, 1819. Prince Albert, consort ot
 Queen Victoria 27, 1735. William Woollett, engraver. 2s, 1749. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 29, 1909. Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet
 and author. 30, 1743. Archdeacon William Paley
 theologian. 31. 1923. Gustav Carl Richter, painter
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-01

inch strip Y between the outside strip and the part that is fastened to the handle. Strip Y should be bent first, then x, the small half inch section at the end of the latter strip, then being bent to fit against Y. Solder these corners, for 1t will be noted that there are two operations like the one just described, one on each side.
 If you have followed the directions carefully. you will have a shovel measuring four inches wide by five and a half inches long, with a strip in the middle at one end measuring one and a half inches long by one and five
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eighths inches wide. This latter strip is, to be bent to shape and fastened to the handle. Note the drawings care fully regarding this. Use brads for fastening the handle to the metal part, letting the brads extend through on one side and then riveting them. It will, of course, be necessary to punch holes in the metal to receive the brads, the size depending upon the brads used.
 The result of your work should be the production of very useful little tool for the work it is designed to per- form.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-01

great literary taste and he undertooh to give Alfred his early literary eouca- ton. Alfred had five brothers ana they were all brought up in a DOCK ish atmosphere" and encouraged to set their thoughts down upon paper Both his elder brothers, for he was the third son. produced verses of some little merit and Alfred determined to follow in their footsteps. TWO years before he went to college he ana ms brother Charles united their efforts in the publication of some verses. The little book which has since become very valuable was published under the title Poems by Two Brothers. Al fred was but sixteen years or age at this time but his verse venture in literature whetted his desire for larger literary work and his pen was seldom idle after that. TWO years later he was awarded a medal Tor
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-01

mother put stop to bed time war stories and set limit of two for after each dinner. Perhaps you might think that even John might run out of stories at that rate, but it wouldn't have mattered if he did, for the chill dren liked to hear them over again almost as well as they liked a new one.
 On this particular evening, John sat very still for a minute and then he
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-01

"They have ears in their legs honest injun!-and they sing with their wing covers." was the reply.
 They watched the little insects drink the apple juice, then they went in and lit a little fire in the open fireplace and came out again to find Monnie. but that sly fellow had retired into his hole. This did not seem to bother Dorothy who went and got a piece of
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-01

PICNIC CHOCOLATE CAKE Put into a mixing bowl,
 rounded teaspoonfuls of cocoa F teaspoonful salt
 1 teaspoonful vanilla
 1 egg
 1 cupfu1 granu1ated sugar
 tablespoonful butter or butter
 substitute Beat together till creamy. Dissolve A teaspoonful soda in cupful sour cream. Add to the former mixture. Sift teaspoonfuls baking powder with cups four Beat into the cake mixture. Bake in hot oven for five minutes
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-01

thy. After you went away I began
 being very lonesome and one day l
 was sitting here feeling blue when little cricket came and hopped right on my foot, and then up on my dress, and then on my hand, and began eat ing my apple which I'd brought out to comfort me. It ate and ate, then I looked down and saw several more looking around sort of hungry-ish, so
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-01

 Take: 1/6 of an Asiatic country. 2/9 of town in N. J. 2/5 of town on the Hudson River. IFS of one of the British Isles. 2/7 of a lake between U. s. and Canada. And find a famous English poet.
 DIAMOND My first Is in safety first. My second is sorrow. My third you are trying to do. My fourth is a girls name. My fifth is in heaven. ANSWERS BIOGRAPHICAL POET-T-urkey. EN-gIeuood. NY-dcE. S-cotland. ON. turio. TENNYSON.
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-01

RLFRED TENNYSON was born & at Somersby Rectory, in Lincoln
 E shire on the sixth of August 1n / A1S09. His father was man or
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-04-26
H|LLCREST M. f. Church
WELCOMES NEW PASTOR
Members Give Interesting Pro-
gram Of Musical and Literary
Numbers.

Members of Hillcrest Methodist Eplsco-
pal Church held a reception last FRIDAY
night for their new pastor, Rev. NJ. ID.
Nutter. who was transferred from Chesa-
pcake City, Md, after n service there OF
seven years. An interesting program con
sisting of musical and literary numbers
was presented. James Taylor, member
of the official board, welcomed the pastor
in behalf of that body
The reception was attended not only
by the members and friends of the church
but by several local pastors, including
DR. Robert Watt. Rev. l.. NJ. Broadway,
Rev +. H. Collins and Rov. John I.
Otis Rev Otis, the former pastor OF llill-
crest, who is retiring from tho ministry,
bade farewell 20 his congregation and wei
coined the new pastor.
Miss EtIic Crcwson made speech OF
welcome in behalf of the Ladies' Aid Of
the church. and Herbert Fullmcr spoke
for the Epworth League and the Sunday
school Mrs Mack Pace opened the pro
gram with vocal solo, followed by a
piano solo. Mrs. Pace and Miss Ehsa-
beth Smith rendered scvcrm enjoyable
duets James Tavlor entertained with n
solo and Frank Patchcn gave recitation
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-04-26
BUREAU FOUND HOME
FOR HOMELESS CHILD
One of Many Instances OF Good
Work Done by Local
Organization.

Esther, about six years old, has no
parents Her mother died when she was
young and her father was killed in an
n ccident while at work The lndustrie-
Accident Board has granted her compenl
sation to be paid each week until she is Is
wears old. As there were no relatives TO
take Esther. the Orphans Court asked the
Chidren's Bureau TO find home for her.
She has home now in the country where
she can romp and play and enjoy the big
out-of-doors "Auntie, her foster mother,
gives her every care and attention, as she
would her own little girl Part ofEsthers s
money is accumuating in the bank. and
when she is old enough she will be able to
use this for her education, perhaps to go
10 college.
A similar case was that Of Herbert,
whose father was also killed. The Indus
trial Accident Board asked the Children s
Bureaus assistance in making plans for
him and supervise the expenditure OF the
money coming to him. The Children's s
Bureau discovered that he had younger
sister in charge of an excellent society in
Maryland This society offered to take
charge of Herbert and place him where
he could be near his own little sister.
The Children's Bureau investigates
cases throughout the State. Through the
courtesy and kindness Of the Red Cross
Motor Corps 10 has received invaluable
assistance. The Motor Corps girls are
volunteer workers and give four otter
moons a week To the Bureau, not only
driving in town but 10 many places that
are not easily reached
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-04-26
LOCAL ADJUSTMENTS.
THE sTAGEA
Geraldine Farrar Mt The Playhouse.


The energy with which n Yankee girl
will 40 after something she wants
when finally She has made up her mind
she wants IL is proverbinl. and has been
shown time and again In tho career of
Geraldine Farrar, who will appear In
concert Mt The Playhouse tomorrow
evening.
IL is illustrated by nm nnecdote told
by the mother of Miss Farrar, when
the prima donna was first in Paris, only
II years old. She wanted to have an
interview with Madame Nordca and
day after day she went to the latters
apartment and waited two or three
hours at a time, all to no avail. Madame
Nordica did not know who Geraldine
Farrar was and had just finished u
firing season of opera and did not want
to he bothered ut that time with some
unknown American girl *ho wanted
to be n prima donna.
Finally. making up her mind that
she could not get To the great singer
hy calling on her. Miss Farrar changed
her tactics and went to the Bois de
Boulogne. knowing that Madame Nor
dica usually drove in the Park in the
afternoon. she waited until Mime Nor
dica came along and then running out,
she jumped on the step OF the carriage
and snatching from her neck a loeket
containing n photograph of Mime. Nor
dica. tossed II into the lap OF the as
touished singer. IL wns n coup which
carried"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-04-26
JFWELRY AND PATCHES.
Green Spots on Arms and Elbows Sign
Of the Painted Lily Mt LOngchampS.

The agc-old Hindu maxim that moth
ing is perfect suddenly has hccomc the
slogan ~ Paris society A. fashionable
IonrChamps today harbarous Jade lCwclry
and black and yellow plasters like beauty
spots marred the imperfcction Of the white
ya,lnr arms, limbs and shoulders. which
following spring fashions generally are bare
Nile Spinclly whose limbs arc world
famous wore a circular green spot an inch
lrenrath each knee while slender Jane
Renouardt who is Of the Spanish type
wore beauty badges on the left elbow
and right shoulder
Among Americans VINO adopted INC
fad was seen Mrs Christian iIemmtck.
who was Alice Rarnry. She appeared clad
i, erni-Oricutal carh OF black crepe dc
rbinc with a string ~ Indian beads and
bright yellow sa>h---faris Cor tlnTlhhab n
ENQUIRER
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-04-26
OVER Sl,OOO,OOO TO
RUN CITY SCHOOLS
According to Budget Prepared
by Board of Education for
the General Assembly.

Following the meeting Of the Board
OF Education last night. the revised
school budgets. as required under the
new State school law, made up by Cliff
ford ]. Scott. superintendent OF city
schools. were made public They are
for the school years 1921 90 and 1929
and are in tho shape in which they will
be presented 10 the Legislatures cd
uCational committee at Dover next Fri
day.
AZ special merting OF the Board Of
Education. held Monday evening. April
70. when the budgets were first presented
for consideration. Dr. Scott was au-
thurized 10 make several minor changes
IN them. which ne did.
In the budget for 1921-1922 the
various items total s1.145.24S.25. as
compared with s1.223.415.O0 for 1922
1928. Changes made after the budgets
were accepted at tho special meeting
Included an increase for bonds from
$4,000 to $4,000. architect fees increase.
Insurance increase. raising the amount
for new buildings from $500 to 10000
and the raising of the miscellaneous
contingent fund from $4,000 to $4,000.
Both budgets itemized. are as follows
For the school Year. 1921 1920.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-04-26
DIR. KINSNIAN TO LECTURE.
Former Bishop Of Delaware 10 Speak on
Converts.

New York, April 26.-Dr. +. ]. kins-
man, former Episcopal Bishop Of Della
ware. whose conversion TO Catholicism
caused wide interest will make his first
n,blic address as member Of his new faith
in lecture inthe ball room OF the Flaza
Hotel this evening.
Dr knsman WAS ono Of the most con-
sn,c,IoIls students and teachers IN the
EDiscoDal Church. hrs speciality bcing
instruction in church history. the chair
bc held in the General Seminary ~ the
time Of his elevation to tho }lshopnc
His topic tonight viii bc st Augustine
the Convert and thc lecture will he
delivered under the auspices ot the Con-
verts' League. with q conspicuous list ot
patrOnCSsCs.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-04-26
BIG PL ANT THREATENED.
Fire Destroys Carpenter Shop of American
Car and Foundry Go.

The Jackson & Sharp plant of the Amer
lean Car and Foundry Co, was threatened
by fire, which last night destroyed n
carpenter shop in the south yard of the
plant, between Seventh street and the
Christiana, with an estimated loss OF
81 800.
The fire was discovered by night watch
man George Wahl, who noticed the room
full of smoke while on his rounds shortly
after Z O'Clock. He ran across the yard
and struck the alarm from box 4l2. The
district fire companies soon had the blaze
under control. In the excitement someone
sent in n second alarm so that additional
companies arrived, but found their services
were not needed.