May 18, 1917. 
N OR TH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 23 
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WHISPERINGS 
of THE BREEZES 
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Diary or A Home GuARD(ENER) 
Saturday, May 12, 
All the morning it rained 
And I worked in the Trenches ; 
And already have a fine crop— 
Of Blisters. And while I dug 
Trenches to bury one-eyed 
Murphy’s, my alleged comrade- 
At-hoes was shuffling and 
Dealing Tens and Twenties, 
And then I knew what 
Labor has against Capital. 
On Sunday I went to sce, 
On the land where the trenches 
Were, if anything was growing. 
And the Green Grass Grew 
All around, but the spuds 
Weren't up yet. So, I guess 
It must have been too early. 
I am going to buy 
An alarm clock for them. 
We started drilling in 
Town Hall on Monday and 
Now we are going to 
March and grow thin. 
Hay foot! Straw foot ! 
Hep! Hep! Hep! 
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3ritish labor leaders are coming to 
America to advise U. S. labor, we are 
advised. Pretty soon we'll be hearing 
about home rule for the 3. A: 
x—x—x 
It may be true enough that “it is an. 
‘ll wind that blows no one good,” but 
it is equally true that “there is no sun- 
shine but hath some shadow.” For 
instance, this evil war that encumbers 
us about may make us plant. more 
potatoes, but the sunshine that our 
garden needs is apt to be kept out by 
shadows in the shape of chickens and 
hens from our neighbor’s yard over 
yonder. For heaven’s sake, neighbor, 
keep your hens to home! Just be- 
cause I have been willing that they 
should be allowed to jump over my 
stonewall or poke through my fence 
all these years is no reason why I 
should consent to letting them have a 
free right of way. These are wat 
times! We are following out the 
mandates of the President and trying 
to get Germany and all the other en- 
emies of the country—potato barons, 
food kings, etc., etc——on the run by 
planting a garden. It is sunshine we 
want, not shadows. Keep your 
darned hens in your own yard! 
Dispel gloom! 
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Home gardening proves beneficial 
not only to the health of the amateur 
gardener, but often to that of others. 
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A case in point is that of the presi- 
dent of the Manchester Woman’s 
club, Mrs. Edward S. Knight. Last 
week Monday Mrs. Knight was en- 
gaged in the cultivation of her little 
garden in the rear of her home on 
School st. (for she is a firm believer 
that it is a patriotic duty of every 
man and woman to help increase the 
food production) when she heard a 
cry from the vicinity of the brook at 
the end of the garden. Hastening to 
the scene she discovered the nine- 
year old son of Thomas Baker strug- 
gling against the swift current Ortne 
brook which was flooded by the re- 
cent rains. While playing on the wall 
he had fallen in and was being swept 
toward the deeper water of Central 
pond. And here is where the garden 
tools came in handy. Mrs. Knight 
used a rake to bring the little fellow 
‘n reach of her hand. She*then as- 
sisted a badly frightened, wet and 
shivering “Thomas, Jr.,” to dry land 
and a new convert was made to the 
cause of planting backyard gardens. 
Little Thomas is thanking his lucky 
stars that it is considered just the 
thing for kind ladies to be using long 
handled rakes in tilling the soil these 
days, and incidentally he is going to 
wait until the bathing season opens at 
Singing Beach before he takes an- 
other swim. 
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The United States is in a man’s 
size war. and believe us, she will be 
taking a man’s part before it is over. 
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What is $7,000,000,000? C. D. 
Hamilton, of St. Louis, has figured 
out what $7,000,000,000 is. Accord- 
ing to him, there are more dollars in 
such an amount than there have been 
seconds since the signing of the 
Manchester, Mass. 
Declaration of Independence. If the 
United States mints began to turn out 
the dollars they would work contin- 
uously day and night until 224 years 
had passed. If you spent a dollar a 
minute it would take you only 13,318 
years to spend your money. If you 
had it invested in the bank, without 
interest, and you drew:a check for 
$1,000,000 a day for 22 years there 
would still be $26,000,000 untouched. 
If it was invested at six percent, at the 
end of seventy years of spending 
$1,000,000 a day there would be twice 
as much in the bank as when the ac- 
count was started. To count the 
money would take fifty years work of 
fifteen men if they worked eight: 
hours a day and counted a bill a 
second, but at the death of the last 
counter, there would still be enough 
left to give every man and woman. 
and child in St. Louis $500 and leave 
a balance of $120,000,000 to be dis- 
tributed to those who may come here- 
after. 
Now do you know what is $7,000,- 
000,000 ¢ 
CHE FRAS'T oF THE Little LANTERNS. 
It is at the Feast of the Little Lan- 
terns that you will witness he great 
sorrow of the Princess Chan turned 
into a greater joy by her Chinese 
maidens and a Japanese juggler girl. 
There you will hear of the terrible 
laws which the stern Ow Long would 
make in China, especially to punish 
Wee Ling; while oriental scenes, mu- 
sic, and dancing will take you to a 
land of beautiful gardens and. terri- 
fying dragons. You will find them 
all in the Manchester Town hall, Fri- 
day evening, May 25, at eight o'clock. 
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