Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 21, 1910, Page 13

F FARMERS TALK TO FARMERS Back to the Farm—Springitis and lts Hallucinations— The Dream of Farm Life Differs Somewhat from the Reality—The Call of the Country May be the Call of a Siren—Sound Your Subconscious Depths and if You are what You Think They will Make the Change— Look Before You Leap. (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) |tudes and natural tendencies count for If I were making an almangc for | Very much in life. city folks, I should put in the “weuw.Ter predictions” column in May these words: “About now expect attacks of Back-to-the-Farm fever.” This is the time that the thing which fs knowm as “the charm of the coun- try” begins to get in its work on dwell- ers beside the asphalt. By the way, what is your idea of that ‘‘charm of the country?” The city Mr. or Mrs. or Miss means by it, ordinarily, the velyety green of the young meadows, spreading and rolling in lawn-like ver— dure to the hills, themselves gay and Snwiting in their clean dresses of fresh leafage. The contrasts in greenery, Tunning from the vellowish tints of #he white birches and willows through ‘eharacteristic shades which belong to the oaks and beeches down to the al- most gloomy darkness of the pines, the whole punctuated here and there wvith vivid splashes of crimson and A slim legged, high spirited, pure- bred racehorse could, doubtless, be used to plow with. And old Dobbin ould be put on the race track. But it would be a misfit in both cases. Old Dobbin is worth three prize-win- ning three year olds at the plow. But he couldn’t get third money from them on the track. One man, if an inch of snow falls on the sidewalks, wants it shoveled and swept off at once to make the streets passable. Another man laughs when a foot of snow surrounds his farmstead build- ings—pulls on his lumberman’s boots and wades <through it without a thought of shovel and broom. If you're used to the street cleaning brigade and all the things that go with it, you want to think twice be- fore you o to live a hundred miles beyond their beat. scarlet where young maples are glory-| 10 all of use there come times Sng in their firat loaves —all these af. | Wihen the other fellow seems better off than we are: and some other ford a delight to the color loving eye. ¥t is all so trim, too. The roadside mveeds haven't yet grown big enough to e ragged and dirty; the trees still show the symmetrical shape of their Pranch systems, which summer foliage pviH hide; the fields havent’ the un- combed look they will wear later, with wuneven clumps of grass and blotches of stray sedge or golden rod. And it €s all restful to the eye. Nothing is glaring or straining ito the vision. Tven the tilled flields, with their soft «coloring of natural khaki, only faintly place seems blesseder than the one we are condemned to. The ambitious country boy is always in this state of mind; he’s sure that the city is a hap- pier hunting ground than the dull old farm. Sometimes and in some cases he will find it so. Dthers make the mis- take of their lives in attempting the transfer. Of late the tendency, espe- cially among older people, is rather the other way. They want to escape the city’s cares and frets for what seems fo them the happier outlook of in I have noticed that it is the man of sense who has least trouble in thi world. . " Samantha Psalter says it's suspected Halley’s comet is the old star of Beth- lehem. Not by people who read true the old, old story. Cy Cymbal wants to bet a heifer that there’ll be a frost every month this year. I never knew Cy to win a bet! Hannah Hornbill has more bad symptoms than anyone I ever knew. How she ever got to be three score and ten I can’t tell. Bill Bangs told Parson Dawson that he was the author of every darned af- fliction he ever had and that he wasn't mean enough to charge ’em up te the Lord. Be careful, Brother, be careful, said the parson. Many a farmer who can tell you all about the north pole can’t for the life of him tell where last year’s bean poles are to be found. ‘The banker’'s business looks just as easy to the farmer as the farmer’s does to the banker, and both think the other has a soft smap. Sariah talks to me about the wisdom of doing things at the meteorological moment, but she is sure I never see it until it is past. I do not like neighbors who always borrow and never have anything to lend. The farmer's girls have filled every important place in this country a girl can fill, and they're going to do so some more. The farmer’'s wife who would feel thankful if she was treated as well as the hired man ain’t being used as well as she should be. Hen Hornbill’s boy was cut out for a merchant. Why, that boy could seil smoke if he could just hold it longz enough. Zeb Doane says a smart wife is worth more on the farm than four yoke of oxen. Mrs. Doane cannot truthfully return the compliment. The cracker barrel philosophers down to the Corners say that life is a hard row to hoe. They ain't any of ’em used to hoeing. Mabel Psalter has got home from the din referring to the farmer calls him often do we hear them called “hay- seeds!” fully of the farmer. cannot realize where their bread and ‘butter comes from. the pure fresh farmer’s enjoy the made by the farmer's wife? of my country friends ever go to the THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: EVERY WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY. The Bulletin wants good home letters, good business létters; d help- ful letters of any kind the mind may suggest. They should be !?‘!)nnd by Wednesday of each week. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conn. EDITORIAL REMARKS. ‘Will the letter writers please bear in mind that only one side of the paper should be written on, and the lines kept well apart so that it may be properly edited. An inquiry has been made if a writer can send more than one letter per week. If the letters are short we might find a place for two. Mrs. L. Maynard of Mystic, in acknowledging the receipt of the first prize for April, expresses her thanks to which she will contribute letters as often as possible. is becoming more and more prevalent. ‘We feel very much encouraged by the number and quality of the letters This has been the banner week and several little ones that were heéld over until next week. ‘The Bulletin extends thanks to every contributor. being received. come late A Welcome Newcomer. Editor Social Corner: I beg the pri ilege of coming into the Social Corn 1 am not a farmer, neither am I farmer’s wife, but 1 love the country I honor the farmer, 1 admire the farm-— er's wife. Half of my life has been spent in the city, but the “best” half has been the years that I have passed in the country. I love the pure fresh air as it comes from these New Eng- land hills, I admire the beautiful scen- ery, I am an ardent lover of flowers, and where can we cultivate these more abundantly or more successfully than in the beautiful country? One writer “our country cousin. Yes, and how 1 think it must be a very thoughtless n who would speak so disrespect- They certainly What is nicer than vegetables from the rden? and who does not ome made bread and butter Did any $250 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to third. Award made the last Saturday in each month, remark, untll she has allowed herself z-.. become careless and untidy in The results not good. Her chil- dren have gro up selfish and con- ceited. They never expect thelr moth- er to accompany them on pleasurg ex- cursions or to social functions. “Mamme does not care for dress and soclety, they say, and her husband finds in hi daughters’ company what his wife re fuses him. Her music was laid aside in early married life not to be resum- ed. A finely set table and an abund- ance of rich food is her great ambi- tion, and she has drifted into being a household drudge. Now she sees her- self set aside with a thoughtlessness which she feels keenly at times. Thiy fond mother has always been a slava to her children, but she has riveted her own chains. Another of the mothers I have known combines the virtues of both these al- réady described, and is still the first thought and care of «children and grandchildren. Her wholesome ro- straint and discipline were always quietly adhered to, and her decision was law. I well remember saying to her on occasion of asking a faver “Perhaps Marian may not like | “That makes no differenc was the reply. “It is right for her to do it, and she will.” How proud her oldest daughtes was when she spent most of her firsl term's salary as t her on a sealsid coat for “mamma with equal pride, could have had the coat before thai time had she so desired. What racer she would run with her oldest son ¢ reach the front door first when the door-bell rang, and how haeartily she entered into all the children’'s merry- makings An aged lady told me within a fea and her appreciation of the Corner, This kindly spirit days that she felt that she had fail as a mother because she could n bring herself to a level with her chil« dren in their plays and amusements She certainly succeeded 4in winning their love and respect, however, for i her old age she is tenderly cared for and her opinion is considered a final decision, even now, though she is ¢ great-grandmother, Mothers have no right to set them- selves aside; it is an injustice to thely children and not an advantage, Don'( do it, mothers. Maintain a proper re- spect for youselves, and so retain the SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR. of the purple finch, and when he sits and sings in the spruce tree, with ori- ole and bluebird flitting around, three or four goldfinches after one dandelion blossom gone to seed, one can truly say “fine feathers make fine birds.” Such a wealth of color among birds! All I lack is the scarlet tanager. I never knew of his visiting this yard but once. Last vear I saw (in our own yard) over sixty different kinds of birds. If - * space permitted I could tell you lots | TeFPect of your boys and givls. about my neighbors. Before I finish, 1 s P g i e A n . >, Robert, “There’'s such a difference in wish to make a plea for their lives. It cats were shut in at night, at the nesting season, it would save lots of mothers.” HANNAH HOMESPUN. Norwich. birds. - Perhaps if people who keep cats just thought of this, they would | e do so, or some might. T have had Cheice Recipes. quite a nuinber of nests torn down and | Editor Soclal Corner: It affords me birds taken by cats, and always in the | much pleasure to submit a few tested night. To a bird-lover this is a terri- [ recipes for the 5. C ! ble calamity, and to one who is not it Fruit Cake—1 1-2 coffee cup "dark is the same, for we all know the birds | Sugar, 1 cup butter, 5 egg®, beating to @ cream; 1-2 cup milk In which dis- solve 1 large teaspoonful soda, 1-2 cup molasses, 3 cups flour, 1 pound stoned raising, 1 pound currants, 1-2 pound citron, gill of brandy, 1 _table- are very necessary to the welfare of the country from an economical point of view. It behooves us to do all we can to protect such beautiful and use- ful creatures. streaked or mottled as yet with just- | the country life. Sometimes and city a: Peors the: daintily soread spoonful cloves, ¢innamon and nut- mpringing crops, are in harmony with | SOme cases they find the change a for- [city wearing a hat that Sariah says | famie op ;::Ir ity '1rfega‘stwéet Reorn, | “Do you ne'er think what wondrous|Mes: bake in & moderate ovem 1 1-2 mll the rest. I don’t wonder as I look | tunate pe. Others learn, too late, b, " "plp v 1o s h : ,, o T, 2 - hours, : that 'S vedaced the s “a fright! t is enough to scare| peas, beans, cucumbers? If you hav beings these? . wut of my window this gray morning at it hasn’t reduced the temperature fiad then you can go back to your country | Whose household words are songs in Rhubarb Meringue Pie—Mix 1 eup- ©n the graclous and spacious beauty | o Jump from the frying pan into the X home and be thankful vou live on a many keys, ; ful finely chopped rhubarb, with 1 egx avhich the reluctant spring is slowly | fire. A hard drinker makes a crookeder| farm. Did you ever notice how appre- | Whose habitations in the tree-tops | Well beaten, 3-4 cup sugar, line the spreading over knoll and intervale and RSP track through life than a fox makes | ciative the country people are? Little even pie plate with a rich paste, brush over ewamp and mountainside—I don’t won- [ | have some mighty unhappy coun- 4 kindnesses mean much to them, and | Are half-way houses on the road to| With the white of an egg, fill and der that my city cousins yearn tow- |try neighbors. Part of them were born | when chased by a hound. S R P A S ne e o8 Theaven . ® bake; when done cover with the white where they now live, and never found out that the city was the place they should have gone to. Unlucky beings, they were really born in exile—in an environment foreign to their central souls. Others have come “back to the land” under the impulse of a tempora- of 3 egzs, beaten stiff with 3 tabl spoonfuls powdered sugar; return teo wrds it. The hired man who thinks that the end of the world is near at hand Is so full of expectancy that he has no room for push. .The person who longs for summer cold water given in the name of Our Master. The pleasure we receive now, the reward hereafter. God bless the farmer and his famijly, and the editor of this paper, who has a warm place in his heart, and a So- AVIS. Niantic, R. T. Glad She Never Had a Man on Her Hands, Editor Social Corner: the oven and bake a delcate brown. A But let them remember that spring comes but once a year. Before they surrender completely to her evanescent and annual temptation, I beg them to N Way to Serve Tomatoes— . 1 4 good smooth tomatoes, cut in- As a self-en- | to 8 parts, not all through buf wo that consider whether it is just this aspect e ‘most ’ tertaini -relia Ve 1| they wil cu nicely; set on A of the country which draws them, just TV mental derangement, and now |in winter and for winter in summer }3‘ 'Sx‘:"‘[:;lx.'l::nerh?nd‘ mse:fi:l‘.em Paper r::‘lfi"l‘.—,lflgu:g';dr :gl\ger‘-,'g:;\; Yo oy al; ?rnvsvpl‘:flru:: e )inm"th. c‘.,fi'" Sounty rame Gt (N e (W the e T wondering What onearth to 4o [time is never caught longing for work. M. ROENA. |on my hands to reform. A spinster | of each tomato, rice 1 small table- ik ik adkbol Ry i e | ORI friend once asked me, “Why is it so | spoonful English dairy cheese. This faces to turn upon her lovers. She is|ry for both these classes—just as sor- of the men who are halfway |is a very attractive dish. s as I am for the born farmers whom many at times alluring sweetheart and |T: taken to wearing standup dickies look i 2 L e R R e e o p dickies loo AR L iy bright need reforming? That is about | Poiled Salad Dressing—1-2 table- quette. She is also at times capable|ment in fenced cities and walled-in | 11k the old-fashioned deguerrotypes of | . oo ho "8 8 PP Sesiios Witk 'rM only kd‘“d ‘g,‘d‘ ""i";fi”"ed to care | spoonful salt, 1-2 tablespoonful mus- u - , e 2 3 e 2 or us, and we not believe we cou i) of nagging lke a common scold, of | streets. It's too bad some kind fairy | half a ‘century ago. vou in the presence of this enlivening | make a man out of nothing, as o fi‘,‘{:,;,,:, 'b,':.l}',';f”?m;'."}‘ Fobh e Ll L flatly denying all her fair promises like | cannot arrange our births, so that the Mose Martin’s cow knows more than | season and all its opportunities. Our | many of our friends had tried to do, | meited butter, 3-4 cup cream, 1-4 euy & common liar, and of bludgeoning all | countryman shall always be born onj,., - deligh irds’ ~ X = TSy 7 - s 2 ¢ bigeent Mose does. She can always ears ght in the birds’ sweet songs | to their sorrow. We have certainly | vine, 3 your hopes inio hopeless pulp like a|the farm and the city man in town. [ Mos An always find thel -nd with pleasure we behold the flower | escaped belng | dragged around from | vinokar- W Mix in order given. sdaing common ruffian. Unless you are sure, | Since that pre-natal favor hasn't been | way home and she is worth something| aovered fields. We have waited for oo e £ B od g pillar to post by a man that drinks and spends his time and money every place else but in his own home” T do not know whether the men are worse than the women, and if they be, boller, stirring constantly until mix« ture thickens; strain and cool. M. B M. shown us, however, and since we must depend upon our own election to de- cide our habitations, it behooves us very carefully to consider both sides beforehand, that you can enjoy her amiable moods just as much as if you didn’t have to endure also her ir- ritating tantrums you had better “go to the family when she gets there. the robin and the bluebird and the cherry blossoms before obeying the summons to sow the seed; now the packets of seed from the seedsman are Suggestions and Goodies. o e nbas o fecrn o | o8 e prapssition “petore wo. make| THE SOCIAL CORNER. |2eckets of seed from the scedsman are | worse'than the women, and if they be, , weountry in May—but "how about next | final decision T O by and by everywhere the farmer and | much more idle time on their hands. Editor Social Corner: Again T hm December and March An Example of Practical Economy. the gardener and even the children of | The old proverb still holds good: Sa- | Pulled the latchstring and ente your midst to have a cozy chat witk the members of the 8. C. Would it not be nice if we all could have a pic- nic once in a while and all get per- sonally acquainted with one another, and also have our young folks become acquainted, t0o0? And when we meet I have three friends who three different ideals, along thi One frankly admits that he the country and country ways. His business in the city, his home is there, he is prosperous there, content- ed anad fairly comfortable. He will the family will be very busy burying seeds out of sight—the brown seeds that hide so much of beauty and promise. An atmosphere of hope and trust comes over us as we watch the sprout- ing plants, and the swift and beautiful tan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. I prefer to be a womanly woman all by myself to being the lackey of a partner I never could re- spect because of his own lack of re- spect for himself. SOPHRINA. Putnam. Editor Social Corner: the attention of the S. C.s to some- thing thrown away. I helped carry a soiled narrow mattress to the rubbish or refuse heap-to burn, and through some holes noticed that one side was covered with coarse hair; later I took I would call Far be it from me to lay one need- less obstruction in the path of those who are bound back to the farm. Nor do I want to be understand as sneer- ing at or in the least undervaluing the sentiment which lures city dwellers stay there—and he ought to; it’s where he belongs. A second said to me once: “This is my idea of real comfort, to live, as we do, in a small village. I dor’t want to be shut up in a city, and I couldn’t earn my salt on a farm. Here I think I get all the real advant- ages of both with few of their evils.” Again, this is the case of the garment fitting the career. third, who was born and brought up in New York city, but s now lived twenty or more years in the country, sa ‘I couldn't get for any money in New York city one-half the solid satisfaction which I have here. 1 know, for I have tried ity to the green fields. But there are all sorts of places in this world and it takes all sorts to il them. If you were born or have shaped yourself so as to fit a rectangular tenon in city life, you'll never be wholly comfortable try— ing to be a round peg in a country gimlet-hole. The couniry wants those ~who belong to it—wants them all, more than it is getting. What I am anxious to do is to suggest to vou who may happen to have a bad case of “spring fever” in your blood, just now, that you'd better be sure it will hold to and through an arid, parching summer, and ® dreary, sombre winter. A few excessively “advanced” so- ciologists have suggested the wisdom of “trial marriages.” The world hasn’t taken kindly to the suggestion, and it isn’t likely to be adopted among men and women. But no one f anarchism or immorali suggest that the city man who feels himself suddenly enamored of a coun- iry life and of a home on a little farm would do well to subject his affection 10 a full year's test of his charmer be- :W;_rf‘ he attaches himseif to her for ife. There you have the situation. It vou are of the mind of this last man, and are sure of vourself, don’t let any thing stand in the way of your escape back to vour real home. Come where you belong. Buy a farm, lease one, rent one—anyway to get one. And then yowll learn, at last, what it is to i 1t don’t, I beg of you, take some spring fever for anything Don't imagine that new sur- will bring you happiness, happiness with Make sure that you can chronic. roundings 4 unless you bring the you to them. “You don’t mean to say that city|enioy the gray days as well as the people have no -troubles?’ asks one.|Sunny ones, the splendid desolation of “Don’t we have blue Mondays and de. | @ Wintry landscape as much as the pressing intervals of dull rain, ang|lush greenery of v the feel of the soil under your coarse working boots as truly as that of the graveled under your automobile stifiing summer heats, slush sludg; sloppy, Haven't we ; orrows, and aren’t we also acquainted with grief?” Bless you, of course you are: everybody is. The point T want to is that troubles and count @re quite different in character call for different constitutions to meet In other words, look before you leap. Make T you can fetch the oth- er bank. sure that the other bank is where you really want to be. them successful o far as I know, | Mak that it is where you be- sudden death i only thing we |long. 1ke sure that there are no can’t get more or less used to and live | strings tied to vou to bring you up through. But, just short of that, are|short in mid-leap, and drop vou, ker- various discqmforts which bear some- | fiunk, into the middle of the brook. what unevenly on different people. It's| Then, when you've make sure of all en old @another aying that “ome man’s meat is . run and jump for all you're vison.” The ailment which =ends one man to hed and makes him moaning nuisance for a week, another man straps down under his waistband ang fights to submission whiie doing his accustomed work. If's a matter of mental makeup. The first man, per- haps, couldn’t do what the other ac complishes—couldn’'t bear in silence what the other endures. Natural apti- this, tak worth! THE RMER. He Thinks It So Abeurd. No Englishman ever shows anger at foreign criticism. On the contrary, he | laughs at it and is amused.—Town | and Country. How Fine It Would Be. How splendidly everything would be done if every man could do his work as well as other people think they could do it. GLENN'S ' SULPHUR SOAP England’s Royal Academy. The Royal Academy of England was founded in 1768. The building, in London, in the Renaissance style, was erected by Smirke in 1868-69. for skin diseases. Un- equaled, for bathing and toilet purposes. Sold by all druggists. ‘Whisker Dye, re S0c.. A Dry Man. A dry man 15 like a dry stick, lia- ble to fail when you lean upon it. Sap 1s as necessary to the one as to the other.—Denver Times. Tribute to California Cherries. A prominent manufacturer of glace fruits sdmits that the cherries of Cali- fornia are at least as good in quality ‘as the French varieties { buttons or Jjiggers on covered side; the scissors and ripped away the top covering and took out the hair, car- ried it home and placed it in a cotton fiy net, made into a bag, and hung on a line over night. I made two pillows, one 24 inches square and one 18 inches, filled with hair, stuffing corners full. For want of material to cover, I used the back of a man’s old gray discarded sweater; covered one side, turning tiny edge in all around; then I cut twelve pieces of red from old woolen waist little larger than compressed yeast cake and three smaller sizes and put on top of largest pleces; took some twine, put in darning needle and put through one piece at a time and com- menced, finger from corner, putting each end of twine to uncovered side, and tying. There were twelve cloth = ¥ i t t! then basted on cover for the other side, covering strings, run around outer edge with red thread twice by hand, cro- cheted round edge with hook and coarse silkiteen, like buttonhole stitch. The smaller cushion I covered with lower parts of yellow silk from a man’s undershirt and finished same way and sold one three days later for one dollar. J. B T. 1l Yantic. t can be made of On the Half Shell in Alaska. Up in Alaska the nearest approach they have to the oyster is the sea urchin. The redskins up there love the brutes. They catch them all day long, crunch them in their fists, gulp down the orange-colored cluster of eggs and fling the thorny shell back into the ocean. Sea urchins have been the chief delicacy of Alaskan Indians since time out of mind, and it shows, what will go in a pinch. t tl o h a He Approved. Three-year-old Tim had admired the clouds for a long time, but never thought to inquire into their origin until a few evenings since. His moth- er explained at length how God made the rain fall on the earth and then took it back into the sky, to all of which Tim listened attentively, and then patronizingly observed: “Pretty dood stunt for Dod, isn’t it?”—Han per’s Magazine. s n Early Showed Greatness. P Andrew Jackson was a marvel of precocity. He carried a flintlock mus- ket, as a soldier of the revolutionary army, at the age of 14. At 23 he was appointed by Washington district at- torney of Tennessee. He was a United States senator at 30. He did not reach the presidency until he ‘was 62.—Sunday Magazine. o One of Fashion’s Fellies. A lady came on an odd-looking bag the other day in one of the fashion- able London shops. It was in expen- sive leather, and seemed too large for an ordinary hand-bag; also it had a curious opening cut at ome side to- wards the top. “Ladies use it for carrying their little dogs,” the sales- man explaived h progress of the season. til June one may have a new scape, colors of the bursting leaflets changing from day to day with the scent of lilacs, makes the or- chard a 'bower of bloom, brings birds back to their nests, and the cow out to pasture be put to a better use than to encour- age the children and induce them’ to better the preparation of the soil and more abundant and delightful will be seedtime a farmer, it seems to m one above all others who ought grate— fully to enjoy the return of spring. The bleak winds and the cold days take a good deal of the poetry springtime everywhere the losses there is still a wealth of en- joyment. often by aenxieties at the opening of course. Under some cannot help feeling anxiou cut off with suddenness the springing grain or expanding leaf, and small calamity that in one cold n labor of the year may e rendered of no avail, which is sad and discouraging for the farmer; but there now and then an unfavorable season. may not these interruptions lead to re- flections about the cause of all, and our dependence on a superior power. terest the readers of the S to_hear about my neighbors? one will say. the very nearest is a song spafrow, whose home is in the honeysuckle at the door. Then <hirpping sparrows hat eat from the ing their crumbs there, will come into the kitchen; they keep their monoton- in, P head, his little bod then, I say creature; ers’ robin has a nest in a pear tree, and a | few steps farther away the tree swal- lows have a home in a box put up for them. vard, but those mentioned are at the very door. in the vard that don’t have their nests From now un- land- The May time fills our dooryards the looking for the new ‘weet grass. Everything awakens from ts winter quiet. A little patch of ground can hardly mprove opportunities of planting. The he more judicious ithe culture, the he result. With the bustle and hopefulnes of is out of the in this climate, but for hose who can look for compensation instead of dwelling upon But a farmer’s life is accompanied he year. Only uncertain calculations its progress and hrough all the advancing weeks of he season uncertainty attends its such circumstances a torm of hail or,an untimely frost ma it is no ht, r one stormy hour, almost all the hard will come ‘et if the temperature and its c re not always favorable to h Brookiyn. My Neighbors. Social Corner: Would it in- ocial Corner Editor What! Talk about your neighbors; ot a pleasant sounding subject, some But my neighbors are lovely ones, there are the little iazza floor, and sometimes not find- if each member could wear soms sort of a badge we would know each other. I think it would be fine and I would suggest that the letters on the hadges Two Good Things to Know. Editor Social Corner: I like the Social Corner because it is going to| (or pins, perhaps, would be better), ‘be so helpful in many ways. It will | wou1d be N. B, 8. C., which stands for teach us how to help others and in- | Norwich Bulletin Social Corner; or, spire us to help ourselves. Perhaps some of the S. C.'s woulMd like to know how to make nut-bread which is wholesome and hearty as bread and meat, Here it is: Sift together four cups of flour, one teaspoonful salt, four teaspoonfuls of baking powder, add two cups of sweet milk; two well-beaten eggs; one cup sugar; one or more (two) cups_ of ground nuts, Grease pan well. Let batter stand in pan for twenty min- utes; then bake half an hour. This makes two loaves. I usually use half the recipe and then put in a whole cupful of ground nuts. For persons of constipated habit there is no better food than bran gems. These may be made as follows: One pint of bran, one-half pint of if liked better, R. O, N. E. 8. C., which would stand for Rose of New a Social Corner. P it woul be better. I hope to hear something next week from all of the writers. Here is a good recipe for aponge drope and they are nica for the lttle folks to carry for lunch: Three eggs beaten well, one cup granulated sugar, and flour enough to make a batter that will just drop from the spoon, and use either lemon or vanilla flavoring. Drop by spoonsful into a shallow buttered pan and bake. They are deliclous, To relleve a cough take the julce of half a lemon, 1 teaspoonful of pure glycerine and the white of an egg beaten and put all together, and take v\;,heg the cough bothers. Success to the 8. C. flour, small pinch of salt, six table- 3 re spoonfuls of dark molasses, one full | [We do not want to dampen C. V.» cup of sour milk, one level teaspoonful | ardor. but it shou 9. Temembare that the S. C. is a teddling infant, of sod sift flour into bran, mix in the molasses, dissolve the soda in the milk and add to the other ingredients. Bake in a moderate oven until thor- hasn't its eyes quite open yetf, and Is not big enough to sped plenic. When the Bocial Corner members have become interested In one another as Thes i v ¢ osition migl - 3 T H anflh(;h.;yarliulhrlz:;*g!cnn?lg:'[h knowin®: | taking care of the Social Corner fust economy. now is enough of a pienic. It rr;uu i V. > v get out of the nursing period before Sprague. HANNAH' HOFFMAN. it distributes badges.—Soclal Corner Editor.] Home Hints. Editor Social Corne. I have en- Joyed reading in the Social Cerner of your paper and felt that I would like to add a few helpful words. Perhaps some of the readers have not thought to fumigate the cellar this sprin which is a very healthful thing to d and often keeps off diseases. Wil the bottom of an old pan with ashes; then put on a shovelful of live coals, and put in a safe place in the cellar, then have ready a half-pint of sulphur In a paper and throw on the coals and leave the cellar immediately. Tt will burn slowly and the fumes will pene. trate every part of the cellar, ify - ing the air, Close all the cellar win- dows while it is burning, If you are painting and some of the paint spatters on e wimdow glass, rub a penny on the glass and you can remove it, Linseed oil rubbed over a stove when closing your house for the sum- mer will prevent it from rusting. I live in the country and it is d lightful to go out some of these beau- An Assortment of Mothers. Editor Social Corner: Recently in this corner some one wrote a word of advice to mothers. Let me tell you of a few mothers I have watched from my corner. Little Robert kept a journal of which he was very proud. In it he wrote one Last nite I went with May to v's home after achool and we did not come hoam till Supper time. Mays mother scoldid@ bur. My mother spankt me. Such a diffrunce in moth- iy His conclusion was correct. Every neighborhood shows a variety in mothers. One in my range of obser- vation has won my admiration be- cause of her companionship with her daughters. The two ginls and their mother are such good chums. Quite well grown now and each one taller than their mother, they still show their preference for her society over that of all others. A busy woman she must be, for she attends personally to her housework and sewing, but evidently she is never us little song going all day. Some- times, after the song sparrow has giv- en his beautiful song, and chippy starts I say to him: “There! there, Chip- , I would not attempt it after hear- ing that!” But he will hop up a little higher on the wisteria, throw back his and it seems as if he would burst | He looks so cunning, ing away, happy little we can’t all be great sing- Just a few stepg from the door a Other nests are around the A great many different birds come ere, though I genmerally have about ten nests each season. A favorite too bu to dewvote herself to her daughters whenever the opportunity offers. She never appears to interfere with their younger companions, and every occasion is all the better if “mamma” is at hand. Her dress is not slighted to pro- vide finer clothes for her children, but they seem us delighted with her taste- ful costumes as in thegr own. She has the advaniage of good training in music, both vocal and instrumental, and the three spend many an hour pleasantly at the pilano. A greal contrest is afforded in my neighbor acroes the way., She also has two daughte to whom she has been greatly devoted. Her time and strength have always been spent in thejr behalf. Her pride in thefr ap- pearance has increased in fhe same ratio that it decreased in regard to her own. “The girls want entire new |ulation of 543,000, has outfits and my old sult 18 welll engines, and the {osses enough for me,” has beem her common year oniy tiful mornings and enfoy the fresh air and listen to the feathered songs- ters which is pronograph invente rings with their sweet maiody. Perhaps the sisters would Ilike to try some of my recipes. I like this one for a johnny-cak One-half cup sugar, 1 egg., scant half cup cottolene or lard, a pinch of salt, three rounding teaspoonsful bak- ing powder, 1 1-2 cup of flour, 1 cup corn meal, and full cup of milk, to be eaten with butter. Cold Water Cake—1 1-2 cups suga 1-4 cup butter, 2 1-2 cups fowur, 3 e 1 cup water, teaspoonsful bakl powder, Flavor with lemon or vant HELENA. Birmingham, B