Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 14, 1910, Page 13

Peter Tumbledown had full charge of them and they couldn’t look worse, Sariah says the farmer who jaws because his dinner fails to be ready once in a month, shows poor apprecia- tion of the 29 times he had it on time. Cy Cymbal says times would be bet- ter if there weren’t so derned many people ciphering up produce instead of growing it. 5 The well-harrowed lot is all right; but the persistently harrowed family produces nothing but discords. ‘Where the odor of vegetables comes strong from the cellar door fevers are likely to rage if they do not have a care. One clean-up is cheaper than ten doctor’s visits. The pup that chews up the doormat is not as profitable as a lamb frisking on the green hills. A honeysuckle near the farmer’s door pays in beauty and fragrance. A baim in the air is somethimes as satisfac- tory as a nickel in the hand. Nance Nearman sayvs the man who sells a calf for a dollar when a few days old was not cut out for a specu- lator. Bill Bangs says cattle do not know what to make of a master who is al- ways yawping at ’em! and he don't, either. - “On the level” is a good farm mot- to. A horse is not likely to get cast on a level floor, or a separator to work bad. A lamb that eats grain isn't injured by good cow’s milk taken from a bot- tle. Samantha Salter says the quick- grown lamb brings a fancy price, The farmer who makes any old time his time is not the one who takes pre- miums at the fair. There is always a market for good things, says Betsy Bounce, but other things go slow. A man who is city born can give a farmer more good advice than the par- son can, but it is not as valuable as the city feller thinks it is. It was not the robins that ot the strawberries this year. Jack Frost went for 'em, as Samson went for the Philistines, but with a different wee- pon! The man who cuts his horse with a lash because he is mad may ask God to forgive him, but the horse won't! A great many dumb animals live in filth because they cannot help it. They have too many Sam Snodgrasses for keepers. If an old hen has any lay in her a feed of cut clover and an ounce of meat a day will stimulate her. Do mnot work your land by the other fellow’s prescriptions toe much. It is a good sign for a man to experiment on his own land as the land invites him. A farmer who doesn't know his land doesn’t know enough. JOB JOLT. MUSIC AND DRAMA Lawrence D'Orsay Burke's leading man in early next fall W. see Bernhardt and make plans for her forthcoming American tour. A $40,000 theater is to be built in Richmond, Va., which will cater en- tirely to the negro population. HE F _TO FARMERS Order is Nature’s First Law—Aunt E'iza Jane and the Farmer Do Not Interpret It Alike—The Difference Between Cumulative Order and Handy Order—Or- der-Mad Folks See Disorder in Handy Order—We Should Respect One Another’s Ideas of Order. [/ room for debate. She can—and does— say a good deal for her interpretation. Perhaps I say less in advocacy of mine. But I'm just as ° in my adherence to -my way is to hers. Probably the wisest concl of the whole matter is that her way is best for her and mine is best for me. Whether it's wisest or not, we shall both continue to adhere to our own ideas, anyway! (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) Aunt Wliza Jane believes in Order— with a 0.” She spends a considerable part of her time setting the parlor and sitting room chairs be<ck im straight rows and carefully “squaring” the rugs with the lines of the floorboards. She also finds it essential to have the window shades ail drawn to exactly two and a half inches above the middle sash-rail. It wrecks her merves if the sofa pillows fail to touch each other, and destroys her appetite if thev overlap a fraction too much. She keens her household in 2 comstant state of suppressed terror, iest someone sometime lay down some- thing wrong side up or wrong end to. “Order is heaven's first law,” is a guotation canstantly on her tongue’s end. It is a favorite of mine, too. I believe in it. She doesn’t think I do, though, When she comes into my shop and sees the floor stacked with all merts of agricultural supplies, and the workbench just heaped with tools and poxes and small stuff of a hundred varities, and the baskets hanging in @l sorts of pesitions from all sorts of nails and knobs and hooks and pegs, ghe buries me in a flood of reproba- tion and castigation and admonition @nd warning. She thinks that shop of mmine is a veritable chaos of disorder— ¥m inclined to consider her house a rather uncomfortable temple of order- Eme-m-d. We bhoth ‘believe in the a Whichever side of the controversy you favor, dear reader, youll make a big mistake if you undertake to do even farming or gardening without adopting some sort of order in the keeping and care of your tools and sup- plies and seeds and so forth. I had a lad working for me, once, whose idea of tools was that when youhad finished ‘hoeing the corn patch, you should lean the hoe against thie nearest fence and ‘begin something else; when you had finished weeding the onioms, you were to drop the weeder at the end of the last row; when you had got the swamp lot fence fixed up, you were to leave the axe lying on the ground wherever you threw it iast. Some days later, when I suggested to him that he’d bet- ter hoe out the beets " reply, plaintively, “I can’t find no hoe. ‘Whereupon, it was up to me to do some detective work. After much ques- tioning and a deal of head-scratching on his part, we'd at last arrive at the reasonable suspicion that he must have used it last on the corn, and that, as he began by the fence on the east side of the patch, he must have finished by the apple trees on the west side. So ‘he would wender over there and finally return in trlumph with the hoe; pretiy rusty, as a rule, and taking some time to scour up so it would do decent work, but the handle still fairly good—not wholly rotted awa; ea. I'm willing to grant ‘her perfect onesty and sincerity of purpose, though she is not equally charitable fowards me. But in the practical working out of our conceptions, we are es far apart as the comet and the ink order is whol- carpenter’s rmnn and the mason's plumb. If it s, then heaven after making order its first law. proceeded forever after to it. For one sees nothing in mature outséde of a few rare crystals, o exsmplify r larity and per- dicularness, v, do you know, 'd rather take heaven's interpreta- #ion of its own law than Aunt Eliza Jane’'s? We men set out our apple orchards in rows. so that the trees Itike 50 many men on a checker- of pines and hemlocks and maples and birches and hickories in an order no mathe; find a geometric rule for. That kid hasn’t any sense of order of any sort or description. If he ever un- dertakes to be a farmer for himseif, he’ll waste all his possible profits in buying tools to replace those he's lost or mislaid or spoiled carelessly. He'll find lots of company in that class, when he gets into it too. The number of farmers I know who keep their rakes in the orchard and their plows at the edge of the woods is too great. That there are so many of them is one ex- planation of the fact that so many farmers are always in debt and out of money. There are other explanations, of course. But the agri ‘who ‘has a place for his tools and keeps them in their place and knows where that place is, other things being equal, is apt to do more work and better work and get more returns than his hit-or- miss neighbor who lacks all sense of order. If | were asked to define “Order,” ac- cording to my understanding of it, the reply would be as hinted above—just the old phrase, “A place for everything and everything in its place.” But there’s room for wide variation in choosing es for things. Years ago the hand- est place for my box of tenpenny and eightpenny mnails was on a projecting bit of shelf under one end of my work- bench. The box just fitted there and was out of the way. I soon grew used to finding it there. Later, as I came to need a greater variety of nails, I put the spikes in a box on the floor, under the same end of the bench, and the shingle-nails in another box on the floor under the other end. Now I have also box-nails and tacks and brads in a sort of cabinet made of old cigar box- es, standing on the back side of the bench, about the middle. Aunt Eliza Jane can’t see any sense in such a mix- ur. b don’t you have your nails all together, where you can find them?” she wants to know. Bless her dear ‘eart, they're where they are just so that I can find 'em. I had got used to finding my fence nails in a certain place. When I came to add spikes and tacks and fourpennies and brads, etc., why should I change the tenpennies to an entirely new place, where I wasn't narcissus or daffodils, bulbs so that the center of each one falls exactly under her garden line. is to be “Mrs. Billie Dott™ gtr they . zmdvel to be yardsticks stuck on When Uncle Ezra or one of the boys herts a finger and wants a bit of cowrt-plaster, then you see Aunt Eliza Jame’s sense of orderiiness perfectly exemplified. She keeps evervthing in baxes and boskets and drawers, and always in exactly the same order. As the alphabet is almost instinctive with all of us, she takes to an alphabetical agrangement. When the court-plaster is called for she knows just where it iz. It is in the box marked “Ban- dages,” 'n the drawer marked “Medi- cal” So she pulls out the drawer, takes up the box and opens it. Then she lifts off the small box of Arnica piesters. and the bottle of Balsam lin- iment, and the package of Cots —A B C.you’ll observe—and then of course comes to the Court-plaster. She re- turns to the kitchen where the patient vietim is holding his thumb hopefuily, and picks up her work-basket. She lays down the Aniline dyes packet, and tha Button-box. and the Cropchet silk, and the Doilies, and so on down to the Ribbons and the Scissors. When Lew Fields has engaged Kate Con- don, Ada Lewis and Fitz Williams for important roles in “The Summer Wid- owers.” Tyrone Power is to be made a star next season. It is said he will be seen in a new play by Charlote Rann Kennedy. Louis Waller is coming to this coun- try next fall to appeer under the man- agement of Harrison G. Fiske in “Hen— ry V.” and “Monsieur Beaucaire.” Kyrle Bellew has sailed from New York for India ‘where he will spend his vacation. He was born there and the way of other things, just to have | spent his early days in Calcutta. the mnail department of my business she gets them, she is ready to cut off a | .. » ” w “p, siice_of the plaster and apply it—it i N P o B D e s e e e o ine thinge| When one’s sense of order becomes|with “PHlars of Society and “Han- meantime. Then she puts the things back in the basket, Scissors first, then Ribbons, and =0 on back to Aniline dyeas, and also restores the Court-plas- ter to its place in it box, and that box to its place in the “Medical” drawer. By this time she needs to begin get- ting Atnner—if the accident happened fairiy early in the morning. When | want an axe er a half-inch screw or a crowbar or a piece of string, I walk into my shop and grab it, the first motion. Whatever it is that I want, it's right there, on the bench or on the floor or hanging up against the wall or from the ceiling. T oan go into that shop of a dark night without any light and lay my hand almest at once on the thing want. Aunt Biiza Jane finds my shop a hope- I|1 and untidy confusion. To me it is in apple-pie order. Which shows, améng other things. that Aunt Eliza Jame and I aren’t the same kind of peesimmonsa. As to which of us has the most correct idea. of orderliness, ®s an abstract preposition, there's a fetich, which he must worship and cbey at the cost of convenience and comfort, it's meither heaven’s first nor forty thousandth law. It's just a dum nuisance. And when one becomes so wedded to his own pet order that he insists upon compelling others to imi- tate him, then he becomes a dum nui- sance! If you have your own place for your own things and keep them there, ig doesn’t lle in my mouth to blame you for what may seem disorder to my eves —always provided you'll kindly let me have my own things in my own place. ‘When I borrow Aunt Eliza Jane's scis. sors, I am careful to put them back under the other things, just as I found them. They're her scissors and in her basket, and in the place she wants them. When I put them back there she knows where to find them. Her sense of order may not be mine, as mine is not hers. But we've each an indefea ible right to our own opinions—and no right to annoy each other by selfish disregard. THE FARMER. nele” on her trip to the other coast. Now that Anna Held has retired from the satge it is said that Flo enz Zeigfleld is to start Eva Tanguay in her place. He has plans for a new musical show for her. Madam Gerville Reache, for the past_three years leading contralto at the Manhattan opera house, has sign- ed a contract for an extensive con- cert tour during next season with Haensel & Jones, New York managers. ‘When Bessie Abbott appears in New York next autumn in Mascagni's new opera, “Ysobel” she will have with her a dozen beautiful American cho- rus girls who have been studving with Mascagni in Paris during the last year. The recent apearance of Francis Macmillen, the American violinist, be- fore Princess Henry of Battenberg. a sister to King Bdward of England and mother of the queen of Spain, for whom he played by royal command. is worthy of special note, in that it marks another epoch in the rise of American artists in Europe. Greater Dreamland will swing wide open its gate today (Saturdav), May 14, and inaugurate its Coney Island season completely changed, with more new shows, more novelties and the greatest collection of laugh-makers ever placed in New York's big plav- ground. General Manager Gumpertz has sought the wide worid for novel amusements and he is more that sat- isfied with the result. ‘biles and the amount of money that's invested in them. The very fact that such a large force is required to look after the state registration of automobiles is in itself an indication of the large busi- ness automobiling has become. Much Clerical Work ‘The force in the auto department has to write anywhere from 50 to 100 let- ters a day through the state, and then there is a lot of compiling and tabulating that would do credit to a fair-sized bank. At one time the de- partment ‘was a little affair with a desk or two in the secretary of state’s main office, but last September the thing became too large for the force and the room and a big new room was secured. Here the workers are u- ally being overcrowded already, and it is not at all unlikely that by next year the force will be increased. There is a lot of detail about handling the auto- mobile business as it comes to the sec- retary of state’s office. It ja believed that there are some 10,000 operators in the state or several thousand more than there are care. ‘The reason for this is that many own- ers of several came will take out an operator's license for each of their chauffeurs, this being especially true of the dealers COUNTING AUTOS. New System of Numbering in Vogue in State Secretary’s Office Up in the state automobile depart- meént—that may seem a funny discov- ery, but there’® such a department— y say the nember of automobiles in Connecticut is between 6,000 and 7,000. can’t tell just how many, '!;:. state Tmmmfle departm ent branch of the secretary of 1t occuples a whole state ocapitol, and a force of nine peo- is the chief clerk with him are one young women. Members. i Veteran Firemen’s Association. A meeting of the honorary mem- bers of the Naugatuck fire depart- ment was held Saturday night to dis- cuss the question of forming a per- manent veteran’s association. Such an association been agitated from time to time but has never been formed in the borough. The committee elected to have charge of the preMminary work reported a list of twenty-one names of those who have signified their intentions of Joining. Not Their Fault. - James Bryce says Americans don't know much about their own scénery. ‘The bit'board flends will not give them a chance.—Denver Republican. Korea has 118 active gold mines, 109 _graphite, 34 goal, 29 ”Tr' 7 sil- ver] 3 zine, 2 mercury and various. Japan has now more than 200 tel- ephone ex more than twice the number that it had two years ago. 8. Connor has gone abroad to .that person I would say—buy one and THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $250 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to third. Award made the last Saturday In each month. EVERY WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY. The Bulletin wants good home letters, good business letters; good help- ful letters of any kind the mind may suggest. They should be in hand by ‘Wednesday of each week. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conn. A PLEASANT WORD WITH ALL. There is a manifestation of timidity on the part of our contributors, and the Editor of the Social Corner is earnestly requested not to use the real name of the writer. The initlals or pen name signed by the writers is the name that will appear, and the real name, which is only known to the Editor, is forgotten by him, and the record destroyed every month as soon as the prizes are awarded. There is no cause whatever for nervousness in ;‘;m;ection with this department, for it is to be conducted sub rosa and on nor. Here is a good word we have received for the Social Corner from F. H. R. of Washington, D. C.: “I enjoy very much, and the ‘Social Corner is full of good reading, and I hope the young people will profit by such good advice as T see given. So many girls are given too much to society and live for their own pleasure, rather than make sacrifices for their dear par- ents and friends.” “The Bulletin wants some earnest volunteers in this work of helpful and suggestive letter-writing.—Social Corner Editor. Many Thanks for Appreciation. The Successful Spuds. Editor Social Corner: We wish to Editor Social Corner: “We raise in thank the editor, also the readers of | this country something over the Social Corner, for their apprecia- | hundred million bushels of white, or tion of the little work I have done | Irish, potatoes every year,” remarked to help make the Social Corner a suc- | & farmer-looking party, and their av- cess. It has been a great pleasure to | erage value is about fifty cents a me to read the many interesting let- | bushel. In addition, we raise about ters The Bulletin kindly gives space | forty-two million bushels of sweet for the fast growing family of the So- | potato worth twenty million dollars. cial Corner for thoughts and plans of | Some people thiink the white potato the past and the future. It is a grand | was called Irish because the potatoes chance for one and all to do much | came from Ireland, but that is not good by writing letters of interest. The pthe reason. They are called Irish be- field is long and wide for the Social | cause the Irish are so fond of them— Corner and letters may be read with | they are the national dish of Ireland, as much interest in Florida and Cali- [ as it were. Just where the original fornia as in our own native state It | potato came from is not known, but may be like a “Message from Home,” | it was first known to Europeans after to some wandering boy in a distant | the discovery of Amerfca. How it land to zet The Bulletin and read the | got to the western continent is not Social Corner letters. If we have writ- . recorded that 1 know of. It is believed ten anything that has been helpful to | to have got its start from Chili_or any one we are thankful and will say | Mexico. It me to Ireland from Vir- let the good work go on. ginia in 1565 and Sir Francis Drake RURAL DELIVERY. introduced it into England in 1585. At o bt first the potato was not of great value Contrivance in Hard Times. as a food vegetable, but Sir Walter ‘Editor Social Corner: Three ladies | Raliegh developed it and popularized from the city called without notice | it so in Ireland that its use spread to and said they should stay for lunch. |England, where it became known as No butcher that day, no baker, no fruit | the Irish pota The firet potatoes man; the store miles away; one long | that reached Europe were sent to sigh, and “Oh, dear, what am T to do?” | Spain from Peru and were called “b: Well, T had three slices of lean bacon | tatas.” They were our sweet potatoe: fried, and a piece of cold steak the |so-called. The world couldn't get along size of a man's hand; and a big ham- }'very well now without the potato, and bone, and scraped every bit from bone | there are potato farmers who have and put all three kinds of meat through | made fortunes on its production alone. the meat cutter, placed in two quart | Some of the greatest, if not the great- baking dish and set aside; sawed ham- | est, potato farms in the world are in bone in twe twice, put in sauce pan | the irrigated districts of (‘o.lors.do. with a little water and pepper; cov- CULTURE. ered and let simmer till T could peel, boil, mash and season a dozen potatoes Mock Cream Pie. the eize of a duck’s egg. then poured Editor Social Corner: Let me tell water from bone over minced meat, | the S. C.'s how to make a mock cream placed the hot mashed potatoes on top | pie: Roll out the upper and under crust with a little flour between and bake a delicate brown. Then as soon as baked slit and set them away to cool until wanted for the table. When wanted, fill them with a custard made of one pint of boiling milk, thickened with two eggs, two-thirds cup white sugar, two tablespoonsful of flour, salt to season, and scald together until thickened. When almost coid, fill the pie. This has been tried and is very nice, I think. of meat and some little pieces of but- ter, and milk over potatoes; browned in ‘the oven; took two cups of pre- pared flour, mixed wsoft with milk, rolled an inch and a half thick, cut out with tin spice box and baked light brown in quick oven; scalded meat cutter, put some cabbage through it, salted and poured hot vinegar spiced over It, with strong graino, cream, su- gar and butter. I told the ladies the meat-dish was “grub hunters’ pie.” Never caught napping! JET MRS. L. MAYNARD. Yangtic. Mystic. A Labor-Saving Device. The Home Makes or Mars. Editor Social Corner: In these days the successful man, whether farmer, mechanic, or business man, is ever on the Jookout for that thing (machifie |dren. only the pupll is very likely to r tool as the case may be), that wi % 0 be e O A Tt o T the | 0T Herva Hupod: To His-Geice 9: b least time. It is equally so with the housewife. “Man works from sun to sun, But woman’s work is never done. If this is so, how important, ho necessary, that the busy housewife should have everything possible to make her work easier. Of the many excellent labor savers on the market the vacuum cleaner is. 1 think, the best. Many women think sweeping the hardest part of housework. After dusting and removing all but the heavy furniture from the roomi to another. and by so doing upset two reoms, one must then don a dust cap (often burdensome on a hot day), for the most careful sweeper will raise some dust. Then for a balf-hour, at least, while sweeping, one is forced to breathe more or less germ-laden dust. After the room is swept and dusted the furniture must be brought back. How different where the vacuum cleaner is used! Beginning with one breadth of the carpet (first removing furniture to second breadth), clean first crosswise then lengthwise and in a very short time that breadth be- ing cleaned and furniture back in place, vou will be ready to start on the second breadth, and so on until you have heen all over the carpet. There is little if any dust. A cap is not needed. The work is done in a better, easier and surely more sani- tary way. Many would have a vacuum cleaner if it were not for the cost. To Editor Social Corner: How the fact is overlooked that the manner of the parents is the manner of their chil- who stare at you as if they woudd like to know you, and others who stare at rou as if you were a suriosity, in- stead of a human being. If you should meet their parents you would have no difficulty in discovering the cause of what is now spoken of as their ec- centricities, which is a very neat cover for a lack of good breeding. Children d by their parents will deceive children yawped at by parents wp at their playmates. It is the calm, even-minded, gracious control which produces charming little folks, There will be more of them when par- ents realize that the home is a school to make or mar the rising generation. MARY AN Preston. How to Sow Fine Seeds. Editor Social Corner: After the 15th of May it is time to plant flower seeds of tender annuals in the open ground. Thers is always more or less difficulty in sowing fine seeds like petunia and poppy by hand. As an amateur I have found that flower seeds put into an old pepper box can be shaken out and planted more evenly than in any other way. No attempt should be made to cover the seed with dirt. Take the hoe or trowel and press the seed into the soil; ang the soil having been damp- ened before commencing operations, the seeds will sprout in a few days if the weather is favorable. The larger seeds of four o'clocks and nasturtiums may be put in now in good mellow sofl and they will come Tright forward. These w have to be tramsplanted lat- er, and, like the balsams, do better be- cause of the change. The canary bird flower is a little climber which ought to be more popular. Dahlias may be grown from seeds planted in the open then rent it; by the day or hour. Now just a word of warning: Do not rent vour cleaner to any and every ome. You will get yvour money back quicker, it is true, but your clean- er will be ruined. Rent only to those of your friends and neighbors whom vou know would be as careful of a pos! A medy 2 e says: eard many cases consump - tion cured by mullein and IHJY heard that mullein made new rich After trying mearly fifty rem- edies for hoarseness and &’r‘r’l of the throat, 1 thought T wi exper|- ment with mullein. The result was a complete cure and—I have never had neuralgia since. Before trying the mullein, every slight cold nearly drove me crazy with neuralgia. Get two 5- cent packages of mullein at the drug gls Break it up well in a two- quart saucepan; pour on hot water nearly to fill the pan. Cover and sim- mer for several ho Strain through cheesecloth and d two pounds of brown sugar. Simmer down to a sirup. Dose: A tablepoonful three times a da, If preferred a small sip may be taken at frequent intervals, In the summer the mullein may be gathered in the country. It is a velvety leaf and two quarts of the green leaves may be used instead of the two pack- ages. Not a difficult thing to pro- cure or an expensive thing to try. Preston. PHILO, Begin Each Day Cheerfully. Editor Socfal Corner: A cheerful morning greeting 1s just as important in the family as the robin’s song in springtime, I do not know what to make of folks who get up in the morn- ing in a grumpy condition and do not want to speak or to be spoken to be- fore breakfast, and who never con- verse at table. I was brought up where the day began with pleasant greetings ‘and some piety, although fear it was the kind that is repre- sented by vague hopes and great per- hapses! But my experiemses in life make me feel that the old home was the most heaven-like place I have ever known on this earth. One would thinik it cost time and trouble to pleasantly greet people, so seldom is it indulged in even in some homes. Teach the children to have a cheery good morn- ing for pa and ma and for one an- other, A real good morning all around is a good start for any day. OLD-FASHIONED. Preston. The Expenses of One Woman. Editor Social Corner: In these days of low wages for women and high prices it may be interesting for the single women who read this column to know how one ten-dellar-a-week spinster lives in the city. 1 keep a flat of four rooms, pay 38 per month, gas 63 cents per moath, pay on a $500 insurance, do a business which requires $4 per month advertising, live well, have good clothes, do my own work sewing and making, take a daily and Sunday paper and put $10 every month in the bank. I am nearly 63 years old. When 61 years old walked two miles to my work every morning, returning at night. T helong to no society, nor spend my money for candy, vet am very comfortable. I1f you can find another person doing bet- ter than this I would like to hear from that person, BUSINESS. Norwich. Cultivate Agreecableness. The happy gift of being agreeabls seems to consist, not in one, but in an assemblage of talents tending to com- municate delight; and how many are there, who, by easy manners, sweet- ness of temper, and a variety of other undefinable qualities, possess the pow- er of pleasing without any visible ef- fort, without the aids of wit, wisdom or learning, nay, as it should seem, in their deflance; and this without ap- pearing to know that they possess it?——Cumberland. Always Time for Courtesy. That there was always time for comr- tesy was a law of life indeed with those rare and kindly spirits who belonged to the golden age of American life and lterature, but in the storm and stress of modern life and money get- ting the situation is more as Whittier expressed it in his consideration of the spiritualism of his day: “I sometimes say with Shakespeare: ‘O for some courteous ghost,’ but nothing ever comes to me.”—Vernon Murray. Influence of a National Anthem. “After the siege of the Pekin legs- tions a dozen Russian soldiers bent on loot and outrage raided the house in which one of my band boys lived with his mother and sister,” Sir Rob- ert Hart said at a dinner at the Au- thors’ club. “The boy snatched his violin and played the Russian national anthem and the looters stood at at- tention. Then they left the house without molesting anyone. A Debtor’s Woes. “The worst thing about owing peo- ple,” sighed the woman, “is that it seems to give them the right to ask us such personal and impertinent ques- tions about things that really should be none of their business. I never stave off my piano man, for example, that he doesn’t ask how it is that T can afford to pay so much for my flat.” Talking All Languages. It pays to be a good waiter in the old country and a man will often re- main a lifetime with one house and even at one table, commanding the respect of those he serves. He al- ways speaks four or five languages, and it is astonishing to the American abroad to hear his waiter passing from ! table to table conversing easily in Ger- man, French, Italian and English. rented article as they would if it were their own. After your vleaner has paid for itself, yvou can then “make a Jlit- tle something.” Many in and about Norwich have tried this plan with gratifying results. The vacuum clean- er for cleaning heavy upliclstered fur- niture and mattresses “can’t be beat,” I have learned from Norwich. “EXPERIENCE.” ground after the 15th. From seed sow- ing to bloom is about seven weeks. Amateur gardeners will find much pleasure in them. AGRICOLA. Norwich. A Paying Investment. Editor Social Corner: 1 think the writers to this corner will be capable of helping one another a lot. The economies of life are a family problem, and they cannot be solved all at once. I take a good newspaper, a religious paper that suits me, a medical maga- zine for a dolar that saves many dol- lars every year, and an opthnistic magazine or two which just reek with good cheer, and T think it is the best ten dollars T spend, for it returns a hundred per cent. in dividends and a thousand per cent. in satisfaotion. We can learn to take care of ourselves just as readily as we can learn to grow | flowers and to make good things for the table. All-round efficiency is wihat we all need, and it is what makes us the more valuable in any emergency. The art of knowing what to do is a source of constant satisfaction. ONE WHO KNOWS. Economy. Bditor Soeial Corner: Wishing to add interest to the Social Corner, I will tell the sisters who are trying to hel to buy a home and how to econ- omize to get the weekly or monthly payments ready how I have planned. I have always tried to save something each week and not break a bill until very necessary. For us city people the wood to start the fire is always getting scarce. 1 have hit on a very good plan to save that expense and still have a good fire. T save all the old rags that usually go to “the rag man,” take the cloth, roll very tight- ly into a ball, and tie with wrapping twine or any string, then saturate thoroughly with kerosene oil and place on, the range grate. I have ready more balls, in an old pail or hod. T very often use no wood at ail getting breakfast or s v Another trouble is the children’s shoes., Try to buy a good shoe, so that when the sole is worn thin you may have them soled over and over again. When the shoe seems to be getting short, have the shoemaker cut the new sole one size larger and put a toe cap on to fit the sole. The shoe will always lovk good and give geod wear. This plan worked very good: with my bey’s shoes. Norwich. Qualities Plant. Editor Social Corner: The primitive man doubtless had an instinet for cer- tain medicinal herbs, just as have the birds and the animals, A diseased dog cannot pass certaln grass without ting it for reliof, nkither can a va ignore the hLealing virtwes of catnip, but civilized man w=alks over all the herbs without recognizing their worth or beauty. ere is the of a Medicinial Common Norwich Lin Passion and Pride of Man. Quarry the granite rock with rs- zors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk; then may yon hope with such keen and delicate instruments as hw- man knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the pas- sion and the pride of man.—Cardinal Newman. To Thine Ownself Be True. Take it not grievously if some think of thee, and speak that thou wouldst not willingly bear. Thou oughtest to be the hardest judge of thyself, and to think no one weaker than thyself. If thou dost walk right- eously, thou wilt not much welgh fleeting words.—Thomas a_Eempis. e —————————— Years of Suffering Catarrh and Blood Disease — Doctors Failed to Cure. Miss Mabel F. Dawkins, 1214 Lafay= ette St, Fort Wayne, Ind, writes: “For three years 1 was troubled with catarrh and blood disease, I tried sev- eral doctors and a dozen different rem- edies, but none of them did me any good. A fri tol@ me of Hood's Sar- saparilla, I took two botdes of this medicine and was s ever. I feel like and recommend fering from cal Get i