North Carolina Newspapers

. . troruin of S tliditilituifit Best Examples of Theme Writing Currently Done ih the High Schools of North Carolina N. B. A $20 cash ctize is award ed every month for the best composi tion ' published in -this department. Competition absolutely free. No con dition except school grade of "excel lent." Address State Bureau, Carter's THE PILOT'S SON TELLS ABOUT THE ANCIENT MARINER. f - r Frances Griffin 10th Grade Winston Salem High School (April Prize Competition.). "Grandpa tell us a story, " said - small Thomas,u'a scarey one, please." "No, tell us a true story", said un agreeing Jean. ! T "Well, for once I will pleases you both and tell you' a story both scarey and true. .."' "Long ago, when. I was a boy, "I used to go to sea! with my father who was a pilot. One moonlight night my father, the Hermit, and I set out to. sea in a small boat. The good Hermit sang hymns-which made the night seem very peaceful. "When we were only a short piece from land we came upon a strange sight. We saw si ship surrounded by strange lights which looked like trans parent ghosts and reflected in the wa ter. We cheered, but no answer came. Suddenly! the strange lights disappeared one by. one. "Tis a strange jthing they answered not our call," said the Hermit. Look, those sails are as thin brown skele .ions of leaves. SThe planks are all warped. ;; "Dear Lord! it hath, a fiendish look!. -,1 aura-feared," cried my fath er. ' and a peculiar old man stopped Jack." Mr. Bowyer: "What did he look like ?" First Wedding Guest with a shud der:.--- - ' - : .' ' ' "He almost looked like a wild ani- imal that' had been caged. His hair was white and hung 'down to his knees. His skin looked like a baked brick and his eyes glittered like balls of fire. His. hands were skinny and dried up almost like a skeleton and he had them stretched out a little way in front." - One in ,the crowd who had slowly gathered around: ' "What-did he do to Mr. Arnold?" First Wedding Guest: "He stopped .in front of Jack and touched him with his handV Then he started off, "There was a ship," but Jack told him to hold off and get away. The old man dropped his hand but Jack stood still and didn't even look towards us. We came oh1 so we would n't be late here and when we turned the corner we looked back and Jack was sitting j on -a rock listening just like a, threeyear old child to a fairy story." ; - One in crowd: " "What made him stop Jack and not all of -you?" Second Wedding Guest: "It must have been because Jack's face is different from most peoples. Oh! here comes the Bride!" Curtain. v . ; v RED CROSS NOTES. - . - 1 - ' ' ' Atlanta, Ga.April 19. Women in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, and Tennessee are so eager to learn: how to nurse and take care of sick t folk that many of them , are walking , four and five'miles for nursing instruction. "Many of them are farmers' wives." said Miss Jane Ven De Vrede, head of the department of nursing of the "southern division of the Red Cross. "They, not only- do their farm duties but find time to attend the nursing classes, of neighboring Red Cross chapters two and three times a week. Of course, soma of them have auto mobiles and others buggies or wagons, but our reports" show a surprising number who walk." ..) ; Miss Van' De Vrede says that the interest in the home nursing and care of the sick classes of the Red Cross has increased remarkably since the in fluenza epidemic showed the great need for one person in a family know ing what to do in time of illness. One of the goals of the Redi Cross is to, put a "home nurse", as it were in every family in the nation, and chap ters in the southern division are do ing their part in this phase of . the Red Cross peace-time program by holding the home nursing classes. The instruction ' is carried on by public health nurses or others authorized by the Red Cross. ." THE CAREER OF PHYLLIS DALE. But the Hermit, stalwart and fear less, answered, "Push on. nush on!" . "Weneared the ship and we heard a strange sound! It rumbled and rolled and grew louder, as apnroach - ing thunder does, but. seemed to be coming from under the water. "The evil spirits have a hand in this," said my father. "Never before have I seen or heard the like of this." Suddenly like a chap the ship went .--down.,' We saw a body floating on top of the water. We knew him to be dead, but the Hermit bade us to take him ashore to bury. :, "The waves grew wild and whirled around where the ship had gone down. vye could scarcely keep our boat in 4Jontitl. - . ."We rescued the body and put it m tne boat. The man's face was thin , and wan. His eyes were sunken and iiis hair long. ' - 'Providence has dealth roughly with him. But now, all is over and His soul is at rest," said the good Hermit. . i "We looked at him. From the ex pression on his face he looked as if he had endured much pain. The dead man! moved his lips as if to speak. My father shrieked and fell down in a fit. The Hermit raised his eyes and prayed, for we were afraid. I 5 "Suddenly the dead man rose , up, took the oars which my father had dropped and began to rowU , "I cried; Ha! ha! fullplain I See the Devil knows how to row." "Then for three' days I laughed and rolled my eyes as one gone crazy and cried, "the Devil knows how to row. Ha! ha- the Devil knows how to row.' "My mother and father thought I umx, my mind was gone but I ren covered as sane as I am now, my cmiaren. i TPE MISSING WEDDING 0UEST. i Annie Glass Roediger 10th Grade Winston-Salem High School. ' . (April Prize Competition.) ' " First scene: 1 - ,' Two men dressed for a wedding are hurrying up the steps of a large beau tiful house. Through the doors you can see a crowd of people in1 holiday attire. Several come running out as the men come up the steps. -First man from, the house: rWhere is Mr. Arnold?" ; - First Wedding Guests - f'He's coming." , Second man from house: ' "How soon?" 7 First Wedding Guest: -"I don't know.' But come on in the house and I will tell you what hap- (All hurry into : the house busily " Second scene: Large beautiful decorated room full S7 dressed people laughing arid talking. f In the center several, tables are covered with all kinds of food. Mr. ones; "Come it is twenty minutes onta. ceremony. iLet us hear the 'story." ' ' ' ' . Hrst Wedding Guest: "We were coming down Elm street Ruth Linney 10th Grade, North Wil- ke"sboro, N. C. (April Prize Competition.) Phyllis Dale was a country girl aged sixteen. However, that was not all she was.' She was smart ves Miss Rawlins, her English teacher, said so only the other day. She was pretty, the boys would tell you that and some of them were mean enoueh to insinuate that she was an awful coquette. But not every one knew that she was. a suffragist to the bone. "an ardent disciple of Josiah Allen's wife," she styled herself, or that she had higher ambitions for the' future than any other student of the High bcnooL . . .. . - - - Phyllis intended to be a great ar tist. Not as great as those ancient ones, Michael Angelo and others, ner- haps, but some one who's work would rank with that of Rembrand " and Whistler at least.' Her career -would be her life.- She hated that ridiculous Mid-Victorian piffle , called . society. And as for men and ever cettinc married why she despised the very signt of every. boy" in school! (The distant sight). And about marriage sne naa expressed all her views in one poetic gush of very irregular metre: "Never will I make any man a good . wife, I'd rather be a daubing artist all my life, . ' ' . A scribbler of dull prose, Or a school teacher with a long nose." ' :z All this was before she fell m Iova with Ralph Milholland. then" she realized that there were more inrnor- tant and more beautiful things in life than a career. People love as passionately at sixteen as they do at tweny-six, though 'not for as long. Ana Phyllis fancied that she loved Ralph Milholland. But it was a love that was unsought. Ralph Milholland had seen Phyllis every day, of his life for several months, but he had never really looked at her- and he didn't care to, all the girls were fairly tum bling over each other for his attention. So poor little Phyllis had to console herself with her "David Copperfield" and wisely "decided that her, infatua tion was "the first mistaken impulse of an -undiciplined heart." " Having broken her ideal that one's career is all things, Phyllis was in danger of slipping into that bunch of silly girls who are always sacrificing themselves, and their "career"' for some man or other. Fortunately, ishe had a few grains of common sense. Alsa she learned that compromise is a rather good word when you look at it right..; Thereare many famous women who ply two trades. Gptip Stratton Porter for instance, v and Phpllis resolved to be one of them. .' It takes a brave - heart fn l9rmi boat into the double sea of makirig a career for oneself and a home' for oneself and at least one other person,- but it' is the right thing to do u you meet the right man. Atlanta, Ga., April 19. Southern cities and towns, all of them growing and. waxing prosperous, are. showing a more decided interest in their own futures than ever before in their his tory, according to officials at southern division headquarters of the American Red Cross. inciuaea m tne peace-time program of the Red Cross is a plan for com munity studies whereby the people of any town or county, assisted by the Ked Cross, can make a thorough ex amination of their resources and their needs and, based on this survev.-maT v 9 XT out definite courses to pursue for their improvement along educational, phy sical, recreational, social and smritual lines. It is much the same idea, save that it is smaller and simpler, which such big cities as Cleveland, Pitts burg, Atlanta and others have car ried out with city planning commis sions. ' As proof of the ambition of south ern communities to better themselves, Red Cross officials point out that with in the last few months workers from headquarters have "assisted eight towns and counties to make these studies," while requests for assistance have been received from a score of others where there are Red Cross chapters. Where the community stud ies were made, definite plans for fu ture progress Were mapped out and in several instances trained workers were retained to supervise the launch ing and operation of such plans. Pittsburg, Kans., April 19. A mob estimated to have numbered 1,000 per sons late today surrounded the iail at Mulberry, near here, seized a negro identified as having attacked a. young white girl this morning, "and hanged him to a telephone pole. ! Start Tomorrow and Keep It Up Every Morning Get In the1 habit of drinking a glass of hot water before breakfast. ' v. ' Hot Springs, Ark., April 16. Bren- nenam Cameron, of Statesville, N. C. late" tonight was elected president, and Mitwuwiv, v., was seiectea as tne 1921 meetin&r TriaA of tfc Ta-vuA National hway .Asation which is holding its annual convention here. We're not here ion sr. iafa mJ our stay agreeable. Letus live well eat well, digest well. well, and look, well. , what a glorious condition to attain, and yet, how very easy it is if one will only adopt the murmug msiae . Datn. ' Folks who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy, when they arise, split ting beadache. stuffv fmm a , 1 m wiu, 1UUJ tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach, can, instead, feel as fresh as a daisy cue Bimces or tne system, eacn mornine and flushing whole of the internal poisonous stag-1 Everyone, whether ailing, , sick or well, should, each morning, before breakfast, drink a glass of real hot water wun a leaspoonful of limestone phosphate In It to. wash from the stomach, liver and bowels the previous cay s : Indigestible waoto and poisonous -toxins; thus cleanslne sweetening and purifying the entire alimentarycanal before putting more w siomacn. i he action of hot water and limestone phosphate on an empty, stomach ia vigorating. It cleans out an the sour 7t. r: sases, waste' and SSSSl-?1 on- ft splendid appetite for fcronlrfaef Ttrvfiv -Z SPSS r&t the . water a - large volume - of water from : the XW!;na.,:gpiung.:read7-, for. a -"viuusu . uusmng . or all - tne Inside organs. ' ;- .. . - - - u The millions of people who are pothered ? with: :- constipaUon - bllioui ?fCIBf r BMjmacn trouble; others who nave sallow nW-na i Y sicwy complexions are urged to get a . - liiueswmo pnospnate Mttl?. but,isj.8umcient tq make "J"a a yivuuuncea .cranK out the "-"j"- uiwue-rauuflg oezore break, fast .' , - ... - i- V'!.- ' ; vi v .-:...v -;, .v : " , -,. Pdes . Ji M' . Jrairsible : ) - Apply To'-Yoin? : Once uppn a time there was a little car, and it had a short cir cuit in its ignition Now this is a very, serious ailment if the case is not properly diagnosed and aremedy administered! The owner of this little car was verv much' distress nA it to the hrstiAuto Hospital he came to, ano! unfortunately 1. l I i 1 II 11 1 a r . i - J was piacea in unsKiiiea nanas. Alter several days with no im provement the owner heard of a place where thev emnlnv ro. sponsible workmen and immediately called an Auto Ambulance and had lit taken to the S & S. MOTOR GOMPANV where the trouble was located in'a very short time, And if you don't hpllPVP that act fVa mon rkx k JX LCa . -11- . 1 ' . .1 " - w im w uiuii uljiv ft l . - r vw all I l I I w w - w l w OT r-i -m .a. a. i t w... , , uw vai i cpan cu at ine - . , . - , ... ) . . . .,).-. ; - . . .. Meter Coo Ninth I Street North Wilkesbbro, N. C. y ; . .-. . . . - : '. ' .3 I I ? .il in I : Z , Edison's history-making phonograph Do you want your own . proof of the marvelous art of Edison's new phonograph the phonograph that achieved such a dramatic triumph at Albany, when on November 25th, it perfectly matched Mario Laurenti's voice in a test before 6,000 teachers ? E.et us give you the Realism Test. Takes only 5 ; minutes. A delightful experiment. It deter mines whether you experience the same emotions m listening to the New Edison as when you hear a human artist. fflie NEW IMSilN Yc&xtnbny pour Ijd Exn oh t&e'JBtitiget Plan riU Phonograph with a Sou? Te instrument, with which Mr. Edison developed the He-Creation of music, cost him three million dollars for research work. ' . -r - -'':: '-r'-.Y-. . Ts ph6nograph the original Official Laboratory Model j and the duphcates of thu original that Mr. Edison make? are the only musical instruments Hch cbmpete with the human voice. , ;. , ; - ,. :: - . piete that he dares such drjistic tests as that given in Albany ore.fiOO .teachers, principals khd officials of the New S?te.PMUlc schools, l He had the New Edison match :..T,,7vrtAA iiano juaurenua voice againrtXaiirehti's I . ' feng yoice humaa ear fond itself unable to fifld any Come ia axMlemprim TcrL - Jost received a sew liire of Hats, tha ix.- , . L i Gexette Wists. : V T""0' -Keaay.iwear, and Stafford Building MISS TAYLOR " ' rK . ' ..