Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 16, 1910, Page 13

What Causes High'?fiéec—A Peep at Business Meth- ode Which Reveals Causes—ihe Hich Frices Not the Trouble, Eut the Abs:nce of the Square LCeal —All Tarred With the Helps Some. o / K Written Specially for The Bulletin.) Some time ago I remember telling rou a: experience of a neighbor who old King apples for $1.25 a barrel, ;‘m dater saw thegi—or some other ings just like them—retailing on the city fruft stands two for five cents, Jor st the rate of about $8.50 per bar- wel. A last month's St. Louis paper ells another story of similar nature. ot fall John Eldredge of Potosi, Mo ®old several hundred barrels of “Ar- Blacks” to a New York city commission man at $1.50 a barrel Ymter he bought an even dozen of those very apples, from a barrel bear- éng his own private mark, at a retail ore on Broadway,K Naw York, paying t'$1.26 for the dozen. He took them ck to Missouri and gave them to the immigration commissioner, as an it of possible interest to other issouri apple grewers. Now, do any of you highly intelligent | lks begin to sze the glimmering dawn an_ explanation of some “high i The other morning | asked the local theat man what he could give me for ty spring lambs, about four months old and weighing between sixty and ®eventy pounds each. He answared gbat he was getting all he wanted at | ‘ight cents, live weight. This means mbout sixteen cents, dressed. That same morning he sold a woman who S & summer residence near me a ‘eide” of lamb weighing fifteen pounds ~—just about what one of mine would | do—at 28 cents a pound, telling her "Mhat it cost him 2T cents. i Any other hint possible expla- | ation of “high prices” suggest itself ‘Ro you? A couple of weeks ago | priced a ®ertain manufactured article of gen- eral household use. It was held at $25. , Aand the price w: rigid. The dealer %couldn’t “shave it” 4 single cent; if he did he assured me he would instantly be deprived of the agency. Later it wwas intimated to me that, if I would take the local agency for the thing, Rhere “would be $9 in it” for me for ®very one I sold: -4 Once more, does any:- idea of the fTeasen for “high prices” begin to dawn on you? The other day | received a ‘confi- ¥ential” circular from some promoter | ©of a new industry. He must have| Been making the same ‘“confidential” positi to quite a few others, for was printed and the printer's mark ©on the margin indicated that it was a Fegular. form, for which he was hold- ing the plates. In it this benevolent | .@tranger wanted to give me a chance | %0 make much easy money, to get rich weal guiek, by taking some stock in a mew enterprise. It was the manufac- fure of some kitchen utility, no matter \.Swhat, and the promoter showad forth v a long erray of figures and com- risons with the prices of similarl @oods already on the market that his ] product. would meet a universal ‘sale it ten cents a package, ywhile another ilarly long column of figuras dem- strated that the entire cost of man- cture and marketing would be only ree and a fraction cents per package. ‘hat is, the manufacturer, whom I was onfldentially” invited te join, would ke almost seven-cents on every ten nt sale. MB"'" to gather any light on the igh price” matter yet? In my town there are five retail ores, to serve a total population of mbout 3,000 people, men, women and bies. Bach one of tham maintains & team and a delivery clerk. besides the regular store force. Two stores writh two teams " and two delivery wierks would adequately serve all the eeds of the rural community. The Wdocal consumers, most of them farm- ers. and all of them people of small incomes, are paying the cost of run- ming three nezdless establishments, in- mluding rents, heat lights, horse bills, Melivery cherges, and the living ex- | ses of three families. To secure lese unnacessary costs all five stores hava to charge at least three-fifths greater profits than a more economical z public spirited administration of retail business would require. 1 dappen to know the private cost mark wused at one of these little stores. While the dealer makes oniy a small | profit—1i0 per cent, or so—on some | ginghams and sugar, then we who sell &hings like flour and sugar, I paid him {hay- and corn and potatoes hould 35 cents the other dav for a small can | have equal right to fix the price he ©of stuff which his own_ cost mark [must pay for them. What's sauce for | whowed he paid six and one-quarter eents for. Ar another one of these stores 1 was charged 60 cents for a wound of tea which T can buy by the chest, for 28 cents a pound. And T ~don’t believe that storekeeper pays more for his tea than a hays2ed like me would have to. But a retailer can’t live off the cus- %om of 600 people, if he doesn’t a-z' is “high prices” for at least a part of goods. In any other. so-called civilized eountry in the world you can send Same Stick—Orgenization goods in parcels up to eleven pounds weight each by parcels post at a cost of six or eight cents a pound. In these Tr pounds, and you must pay sixteen cents ound at that. B we can't be. allowed a decent parceis post be- cause, if we had one, the big express companies couldn’t continue to pay $ and 10 and 12 per cent. annual divi- dends, with semi-occasional cuttings of 100 per cent. to the favor- ed insiders. The exorbitant charges of the express companies must be added to the consumer’s bills on all the goods they handle. Which allows you to another knot-hole into “high prices.” “credit system” look through the cause of Our much vaunted has now reached such a vogue that half of us, at least, buy things on credit and have them ‘“charged,” and pay our bills with credit in the shape | of checks on the banks. When a bank cashier wants an automobile, or a ha- rem, or s stable of racers, or any oth- er little thing like that, he takes the money vou've put in to establish your credit with, and, sooner or later, you have to make it good. Moreover, when your storekeeper finds himself unable to collect his bills from some dozen or | two of “bad customers” to whom he has given ecredit, vou fellows who do pay your debts > to make good the | bills of these also. There comes in another chance to look into the way in which ‘high prices” come about. Right down at the bottom of the real explanation for the whole thing lies in the desire of a tremendous lot of us to get something for nothing; to get- rich-quick. “Get money,” says Old Business to Young Business; “honest- ly, if you can but—GET MONEY.” Too many of us see in a business transac- tion omnly an opportunity to get the best of some one else. We scheme and plan to get more from the other fellow than we give him. That dimin- ishes his store, of course; but it in- creases our surplus. he is trying, the same way, better of us—to give us less than he gets from us. So the affair degener- ates into a combat of cunning in which | the rewder or more unscrupulous wins at the expense of the other. it's a pitiful outcome, after nineteen cen- turies with the Golden Rule before the world’s eyes. ” It won't do, either, for us farmers to le, adopt a “holier-than-thou” and assume that we, better than those we < known of potato barrels going off a farm with a half bushel of little culls attit a class, in the middle of every barrel. I have bought baled hay from fellow farme- ers, to find the heart of some bales filled with dust and chaff and barn- floor sweepings. I have known a farmer to “put down” eggs when they were plenty and ck p, and sell the six months 1 s “strictly fresl at fancy pr I have h I'v boxes which had all the big ’uns he top. I have known ‘“heave-y”| horses to be doped into apparent | health to dupe a buyer, and b v heifers to be sold as orderly.. Oh, re all tarred with the same stick. Our own overalls are not so immaculate that we can afford to abusesthe man whose serge shows stains. Furthermore, it is wall to bear in mind that high prices are not in th selves evil. If we all get high g for what we sell, there is no hards in our having to ps what we buy. It ot but unequal prices-that hurt. n get ten cents a bushel more for my potatoes, I can afford to pay ten cents a bushel more for my bran. The spe- cial phase of trouble for us farmers is that the high price pendulum swings our way last, as a rule. We pay increases a year or so before we can begin to collect increases. Ou lack of organization in aen organiza- tion ridden age nat only @ the seller to charge what h but also enables the buyver to fix w prices he will pay us, for a tin least. This is all- wrong. If th who sells ginghams and sugar has the right to fix the price we must pay for the goose is sauce for the gander. The this only practicable way to secure parity of treatment §s for farme organize, as other businesses org I always prefer to coax my horses with apples or carrots. But if T had one too ungrateful and rdacint” be amenable to thes J use a whip—or a be last were handier. can’t understand -e and equity, they ¢ be induced to comprehend the ef- ficacy of compulsion. We've got combine in some w so that we ca2 apply the gad, if need be THE FARMER. bne May Overcome epnuuufion permanehtly by proper personal co-operation with the bene- Qcial effects of Syrup of Figs and appealed to his appetite. ably Chief Fuller’s Simsle Habits. The New England dai boiled pork and pumpkin pie It in Washington that the Fuller Satur- day night dinner was baked beans and nothing else, and this story is told “One evening, the ehief justice, pro forgetting that it was Saturday dinner beans, be: hes like and and other boiled co#l Bl of Senna, when required. The ;flght. a:ked a distinguished English ~ ¢ 2 z urist home with him. When the forming of regular habits is most im- | haans came om the Englishman portant and while endeavoring to | promptly declined them. Mrs. Fuller form them the assistance of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is most val- uable, as it is the only laxative'which acts without disturbing the natural functions and without debilitating and 1t is the one laxative which leaves the internal orgens in a naturally healthy condition, thereby really aiding one in that way. To get its beneficial eftects, the genuihe manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, and for sale by all leading druggists. Syrup ©of Figs and Hlixir of Benna:is never elassed by the wellinformed with medicines which make extravagant and unfounded claims to cure babitual eonstipation without persomal co-op- eration. ; showed some embarrassment, wt upon the Englishman amiably ‘Never mind, Fll make it up in next cours: ‘But., good Lord,’ claimed the chief justice. ‘there isn't any other. course!” and there wasnt.” In addition to being a very moderate eater the chief justice was a moderate smoker of modestly priced cigars. He was said to smoke the same kind of cigars, as far as they were obtain that he smoked when he was strug gling to establish a living law bus ness in the old days. He said he was attached to these cheap ci of sentiment and tender and that nothing else would good to him. taste so Springfield Republican, Asks No Aid of Congress. His 'Martian investigation enables Professor, Lowell to come forward ev- ery now and then and hold a canal celebration on bis owre account.— Washington Star. ted States you can’t send any par-| cel at all by mail if it weighs over four | “melon- | We assume that to get the | ices | have to to | was said | e . o R T e A R R | AS JOB JOLT SEES IT_ | The squash or pumpkin vine that has soil on the joints for a hun- dred per cent. more fruitage than if it goes unattenided to. ® 7 Cy Cymbal says the thirstiest critter God ever made is man. Some of 'em can carry off beer just as a camel car- ries water. The farmer who takes the corn-smut and burns it as soon as it is discovered checks present disdster and saves fu- ture trouble. The tiller of the soil who cultivates his corn or potatoes too late interferes with the erop. Amputated roots do not advance prospects. It is not too late to start bush squashes now. They'll yield a crop before a frost. Sariah is out pinching back her win- ter plants and doing things which indi- cate that the end of summer is not far away, It has been good weather of late for THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $250 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to third. Award made the last Saturday in each month. & o PR S . EVERY WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY. The Bulletin wants good home letters, good business leiters; good help- ful letters of any kind the mind may suggest. They should be in hand by Wednesday 16 of. each week. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR, Bulletin Office, Néorwich, Conn. WHY NOT 7 “Jerusha,” of Preston, desires to know why members of the Corner cannot write upon house-keeping problems with a view of dissipating the chronic idea that house-work is drudgery. The suggestion is a good one. drying hay—that's why huckleberry e 2 T T Drudgery is of She mind more than of the. occupation. Many people who begin their industrial life in distasteful oqccupations just regard them as The man who strings cords on the | iepping stones to something higher.and better, and they work Into some- lima bean poles knows how to accom- | {hing more to-their liking and more profitable. This opportunity is not open modate the vines and the | increase | crop. to the house-wife, but good cheer and system help lote. To know how to rest and not to worry are two achievements which improve the comfort of every mother. To think of one's self as oppressed, or as a drudge, or as a menial, is a wrong and wicked use of the mind. Let us have a series of letters from experienced house-keepers on the subject How to entertain small children and to train them so that they wili be of least cara ought to be a fruitful subject for mothers who would write for the Corner.—EDITOR SOCIAL COEKNER. Parson Dawson says: “Life is most | enjoyed when courted least,” but Sa- | mantha Psalter says she knows that's not so. Four months' more growth for ‘the hardy things, and then they'll get five months of rest. Bill Bangs wishes he'd been built on these samge lines. ! A tramp got confident with me once and said he carried consolation in his hat. He showed up, and it read: “The { Lord will provide.” Parson Dawson’s son says he is go- ing to work for the Lord because he won’'t have to fill oumt a time-card or We must have The Poor City Boy. Bditor Social Ceorner: 1 suppose that I was a poor city lad such as some of your good-hearted country let 'riters are expressing so much pi or, and I wish to assure them the little city bo¥s are not as confined as they think. Twice a week we walked four miles to a swimming hole, although we had salt water bathing a pleasure in doing it some system in or to make it easier. If we do each day each day's work there will not be so0 much to do at one time. A voung lady who was staying with me a while sald: “I always thought housework was mere drudgery until I came here, bul you seem 1o enjoy it, and It .has made me much more inter- | 3 withir - . -alk | ©sted.” It seems to me to bz not only | Men who profess to be g00d, I no- | water creek for -the same purpose; | One of ihe highest spheres given to P i A ) e | women. read’ of an old lady who, tice, can do mighty méan things some- | WO SFg T Wik sit milgs In the Bern-. | o )e) "one came to die, said she had ing to the huckleberry pastures, and bring back pails and baskets of the berries on foot at night. We knew where the early apple trees were lo- cated on the farms for miles around and we used to pester the farmers to death by stealing the apples they wanted to market. We were not con- fined to city streets for we knew the countryside for six miles around. and times. not done much good in the world, for she had a large family of children to train and it took all of her time. What more could one do? This' is not menial labor, but a work that will last through eternity. I heard a woman say a few days ago: "I have washed dishes three timeas each day for three hundred and sixty- If Amanda Jones knew how to get up and dust as often and as thorough- Iy as the chickens do she would be a more valuable asset in the family. It is well to try and keep the weeds from seeding, but since one chickweed : plant can seed down an acre it is a | where the best berries grew and where | iVe days” Why look at it In that difficult job. the wild birds nested and the daisies | W2¥7 We have only one day to live . waved in early June as far as the eye at a time and if we do that day’'s work Some men say that there is a thou- | coyld see. We were venturesome, well the others will take cara of them- A 3 selves. “Content to fill a little place, sand dollars’ worth of plant food lock- J\\l'):nl:é::a&?:g'atl‘i\!;ltix;exlx?t“;ex Bi::lo ’t:iel if God be glorified” I do not believe ed up in the poorest acre of land, and : any’ woman who dislikes housework before we reached respectab.e man- N OLD BOY. should marry and take on her the re- sponsjbilitias of housekeeping any more than a man should study for a profession that he disliked. If we can make 2 home pleasant and train our children to true manhood and woman- hood, so they may look back on their childhood as one of the bright spots {in their lives, we have in a measure accomplishad that which He intended we should. We cannot all be missionaries in In- it is man’'s stunt to find the key and unlock it. None of ‘em say they've found the key yet, Mrs. Par%on Dawson says ministers need a sight more attention than other men and like to lie abed too late in the morning. She must be an author- ity on the subject. It is not the hafseeds in the state hood. Norwich, The Rearing of Children. Editor Social Corner: The desive of parents to make life pleasant and easy for their children does rot bear good fruit. - If parents only realized that the most useful life is best—be- cause it is most profitable and hence the happiest The family in which | - legislatures that bring scandal upon | children are petted and over indulged | gia or fill some great place in the ‘”‘in P e buf 2he Hen wphc is not -producing the ideal citizen. | world, but we can be our own true B s tonis cais s » Parents who think that they are do- | selves and do the best we can where | make fun of them. ing their best in training their >n'!- | God has placed us. “He who gives the dren are often doing their worst for them. Over-indulgence leads direct to selfishness—too much backing and assistance destroys self-reliance—the strenuous bird is not reared in a nest of down. The development of a rus- ged. sensible manhood requires inbred self-reliance and persistent endeavor to excel in the dutles and compeii- tions of life. The boys and girls who make their own in life are the masters in all of life's walxs it s ¢Hddling that makes the moilycoiidies --the do-nothings of our ovi'_ur]vencd c.vitization. A FATLIER Jenett City. sword and shield chooses for us the battlefield.” I presume most of the women of the Social Corner are housekeepers. Why can't we have mores letters concerning the metho of doing what must be done under any circumstances—house- work. May God’s richest blessing rest on | every member of the Social Corner, |and may we all learn to cast all ofir | cars upon Him, for He careth for us. 5 JERUSHA. The man who doesn’t see that the | barn door is locked before he goes to | bed is the one who is liable to wish | he had rather unexpectedly. A political road supervisor gets the place by influence, and the commis- sioner gets cursed for his poor work by the supervisor’'s backers. My old schoolmaster used to tell me not te let doubts and fears worry me— they were only made to test fools. Water Is better for babies at times than a drink of milk, but they seldom get it. It is a good thing to be careful what you write on paper; but it is just as | important to look out what you write | on your heart. The tablet of the mind | should not furnish evidence agairst us. | JOB JOLT. Preston. The Moving Picture Question. | Editor Social Corner: I like moving | pictures. To me, they are extremely interesting, and imany *times fascinat- ing. But, at the ten-cent shows into which small boys ecrowd so eagerly, and which ought to supply healthy amusement for *“all sorts and condi- tions of men,” I strongly oppose the depiction of scenes that are harrowing, or brutalizing, or de-humanizing. I | decry deathbed agonies, cruélty and torture, and all phases of vice and crime. Sure in ‘Thistorical events, non-brutal athletice, processions and pageants and coronations, in great in- dustries, heroic rescues, and no less in the daily lif2 of different classes of people, such as the and navy, miners, 4 i perimente 3 thousands _of others, wtories drdnatic Choice Tcn-d. Recipes Editor Sccial Corner I send the Corner a few choice, tested recipes Cream Puffs—I cup hot water, cup butter; stir in 1 cup sifted flow dry; take from the stove ard stir t a smooth pasgte and after this coois, stir in 3 eggs (not beaten); stir fi minutes; drop from tablepscon on a greased tin; bake in a quick oven minutes. Be careful about opening on- ly when necessary, Makes 12 puls. Do not let them touch each viher in the pan. ¢ “illing for “Cream Puffs —Ous cup water, 1-2 cup sugar, 1 egg. 3 tab spoons™ flour; flavor with When this and the puffs are cool open the puffs a liitle way with a sharp knife and fill with the creani.. They never fail to puff. Blackberry Jam—Allow 3-4 of a pound of sugar to pound of berr.es. Put the berries in k tle, mash them until enouzn juice flows to prevent burning, then nheat slowly and mash until all are broken. Cook 20 minutes, then add the sugzar, ccek tem minutes longer, put in'o lui- biers, and seai. Cake—2-3 AMERICAN CADETS IN LONDON. | British View of Our Young Sailors Now On Their Practice Cru Between the showers of rain that spoiit Saturday as a day of outdoor sightseeing for visitors to London, the busy Strand was the scene of a curious | exchange of courtesies between a com- | pany of boy scouts and a handful of might enough to Interest and hold and thrill the most exciting au-— dience. Moving pictures of vice, and brutality are far more disastrous in their influence than any written story can possibly be, because they are more vivid and appeal directly to the eye. They leave an indelible Impres- sion upon the mind, and these impres- sions often repeated are sure to re- sult in deeds of brutality and crimi- nality, for it is' a fact that every evil deed committed takes form first as a picture in the mind. On the other hand, many of the wisest and sweetest lessons are taught by means of pi tures. The beautiful stained glass windews of old-world cathedrals have been the picture-books of generations and have taught many a child all he has ever learned of religion and art and beauty. Norwich. the American naval cadets who jour- neyed from Plymouth on Friday on a flying week-end visit to the metropolis. ieaded by a band and a small drum- | major wielding his silyer staff, the | boy scouts came" swinging along the Strand. H&ughg]y and naughtily they smiled at all the policemen on point - : duty, for they were masters of the | Iellc.uus Ginger Cake2-3 vehicular situation, and they success- |Iutter or lard, 1 eup sugar, ° - 0o, fully disorganized the fraffic on one |lasses, 2 eggs, 1 tablesp fmex, & - ea % sinnamen. little n side of the road. Attracted by the | leaspecns cinnamon. —Ho S T | sound of tartial music, the American |*ali 1 cup ik, & CuPS GOST % cadets hurried out of their hotel, and [i2zether. —Just Belots PO Iae, O, 000 | were amused to see how effectively a | 8T SUT ‘B P TG | number of boys could “hold up” the |'R I0€ WLE o o s traffic in a busy London street. EIREBRn it “Ain’t that just fine!” said one of the cadets to his chums, as they stood in a line an the pavement. “And they're playing a bully tune,” remarked an- other. “I wonder what it I1s. Let's get to know.” There was a merry-eyed policeman standing near the cadets, and he en- lightened them. “That's.a well-known | tune over 'ere, sir.”” he said. “Been all the rage for months, and T must say it sounds well played as a march. They call it ‘Has anybody 'ere seen Kellv?' " “Kelly?" queried one of the cadet “Who's Kelly?” and then the police. man. wishing to have his little joke. replied, “Why, Kelly of the Isle of Man, of course.” All the cadets laughed out of sheer politeness to keep the policeman com- pany. although none of them, perhaps, saw the point of the joke. Then as the company of boy scouts passed, the band still plaving the popular air and the small drum-major still wielding his mighty staff, the cadets saluted and went back’ to their hotel. There were hundreds of these yolng fellows seeing l.ondon beiween the showers on Saturday. They Feturned yesterday to join the Massachusetts, Towa*amd In- diana, the battieships that make up the ‘U'nited States squadron lying in Plymouth harbor. The most striking thing about them is their dre: which is of the simplest description, the.unf- form consisting of a perfectly plain dark blue jacket, with trousers of the same material. relieved by a few streaks of gold braid on the cuffs and collar. Among the sightseers was a son of Admiral Sampson, who earned f - at Santiage.— London Daily of cup Thanks to The Bulletin. Editor Social Cqgner: How nice it is The Bulletin gives space to the So- cial Corner writers who should “thank The Bulletin” for such a fine chance, free of cost, to get acquainted by writ- ing and answeripg letters from the members for miles around: it gives us much pleasure to be one of the little band who a few 4months ago began to write letters for the Corner; and it is plain to see that the Social Corner family will soon be a big one and will without doubt be a drawing card for the paper as well as for the writers. 1 think after one h: written for the Social Corner a number of weeks they begin to feel it almost a duty to keep on writing. It makes one feel mors home-like. better acquainted, a warm feeling from the heart towards each other whieh will be lasting, and mu comfort to all; and as the years go'by perhaps some timz in the future the Social Corner may have an “Old Home day.” which would be one of the great- est times of our lives. While The Bul- letin is a grand newspaper, having correspondents from many towns and states, whan the Satyrday paper con.es all the members of the family are as anxious to see the Social Corner col- umns first as a young lady is to see the first spring hat. Yes, readers al the Social Corner, to The Bulletin we should say Thank you! RURAL DELIVERY. Danielson, Conn. THE WAY l-‘.\!{E}. An Ideal Wonian. Editor Social Corner: I have known a woman who was the chum of the boys and girls and the adviser and confidante of grown -folks, and she eemed to me to be the ideal woman. She never lald down the law, although a woman of deep convictions and strong opinions. She did not care to be praised, but she did endeavor to make herself understood. She was never guilty of sweetening her con- versation with sloppy compliments. She was always well poised and never self-centered She was not a great talker, but she knew how to listen and how to inspire others to talk. Her in- terest in others made her charming. She was a woman who was always ready to do her part and appeared to be capable of saying the right thing at just the right time. It was not Ja gift,” for it was her purpose to be what . she was—as admirable as she was helpful. SALLY LUNN. Preston. Resclve to Do Things Well. Dear Young Wives of the Social Cor- ner: This is to beg of you to be really Interested in your housekeeping and home-making and to work to see how well you can do things and not to get through, so as to do some Inconse- quentjal .thing, or to go somewhere. Do not shirk necessary work—or do it in a half hearted way. You can do things The Problem of Home-Making. Editor Soclal Corner: The Social Corner has been so interesting me News. that T would like to enter. How’ often : PRI BN, AL g A well and do them qulekly also; do = we. _hear weomen, complain of “thely . "oy at all events—make that Public Given the Depe. drudgery hyusework. 1 would like babi As you grow older you Nobody seems to think it worth |10 88Y & word in faver of that which so be glad that you made that your while to suggest that Jeffries may have rule of i been doped.—Pittsburg Chroniels Telegraph. many diglike. T know every woman is 1 born housekeeper, but [ we are interested in our homes we can c¢ditivate a taste for home-making. 1 do not believe there is a= much variety in the work of the sten er, typewriter., bookkeeper or not & na do think i PERIENCE. Little Domestic Helps. Bditor Soctal Corner: We are al- ways looking for some way t) ef- fectually destroy the odor of onlons in the breath, especially this time of the vear when the liftle spring oninps are so tempting. Try dippiog a sprig Vice Consul Chester Arthur Davis of Colombo, referring to literary act- ivity in that British island colony, says that during 1900, 422 books, mag- azines, etc., were printed and regis- tered in Ceylon. - of mr-ur in vinegar and tuen slowly chewing it; it is far better than chew- ing col grains or tea leaves, If er eating onions the flavor of still remains in your mouth, it does for some people, for onlons do not agree with all, use a mint or place a pinch of salt on the gue. Never put a knife that has been used onlons away with just the hing. Put it immedia in hot waler rub with sand soap. . this is done you'll not have to puzszie your brain about how the oniin taste got into some other dish. We shall soon have new cabbage and this is a nice way to use it. Chop fine a sm head, or half a head, of tender cabbage and boil down in a pint of water. This takes about 30 min- utes. Drain well, then stir in a pint of hoiling milk a tablespoonful of but- ter, one-half cup cream, salt and pep- per to suit taste. Serve hot or ¢ol with crackers. Dumpijn P Boiled JFruit quart of prepared flou dblespoonsful of shortening, stir in enough sweet milk to make a dough, roll out into a sheet a q Ler of an inch thick, and cut crust into squares of desired size, In center of each square put cherries or berries of any kind, peaches or appl Fill con- ter with fruit and granulated sugar. Fold pastry about it pinching the ends in a close bunch, Tie up eqch dump- ling in a small floured cloth V- ing a little room for swelling, and boil for an hour. Then remove the cloths and serve hot with sweetened cream or butter, or hard sauce, one choses. These are very nice, Moosup. ¥F.J C s—Into a ork two ta- Be a True Helpmeet. Editor Social Corner: I was amus at Eliza Jane's letter, complaining of her husband, who uses the “brute” In speaking of him. It minds me of lots of other men who pend almost entirely upon their wives to help them out; and, Mr. Editor, there is a world of comfort in the thought that your husband needs you ~—~that he would not know how to man~ age collars, neckties and things with- out your helping hand, Now, when my husband comes in to the house with a rush and “Come, help me quick! T hav fifteen minutes to catch the train, and I must change this shirt!” 1 just drop everything and one could bardly tell which of us was going on that train. It ia really a pleasure to feel. I am helping, and when he goes out I am brushing his clothes every step he takes. His good-bye kiss pays me all my~ trouble. Be careful and put collars, cuffs and ‘such things in & particular place; put them there.ev time, and, Eliga Jane, your husban will never think of looking anywhere else for them, because they will sd- ways be there. I know some men are unreasonable, but sometimes thelr wives are just as bad, and I am speak- fng from experience when I say & wife must bhe loving, and patience mugt be a prominent virtue. There are S0 many things worse—yes, & thousand times worse—than helpin your husband find his clothes, an getting theyn on right. Think of the women who see their husbands onty at meal time and never expect them home before 'midnight, and then usual- ly the worse for liquor. Woman was made of finer texture, of a gentle, lov- ing disposition, and every man r spects and honors a good woman even rule more than her hus- band s a rule he knows her worth and feels perfectly safe In leaving his best interests in her hands. Don't 1t us forget that we promiged to “honor, love and obey.” If there is “love,” the rest comes easy. CHARITY SWEET. A Nest Egg. That nest egg of about $150 for the Fourth of July, 1911, left over from this year's account after paying 1 ‘bills, means a bigger and better cel bration than Meriden had this jcar, and that was some observance, The committes did well to deecife to keep the balance as a fund for the next affair of the kind, for it would have been a difficult and thank! jcb to attempt to return it pfo 1 10 tne subscribers. The Feurth of July committee has certainiy made an enviable resord. It was not appointed until after the May meeting of the common council and was not organized for work until about Jume 1. It not only gave Meriden the vest Fourth of July celebration it cver had, an1 ore that ecompared favorably wiin any in this section of the coun- try, but it paid all of itg bills, wrovrd up its business and was discharged ¢ week after the celebration, leavinw 1 sub«iantis] balance and a reputation fo- acing things right that will ba an ianentive to all future commitiess ef the sort.—Meriden Journal The College Boy. My boy's back from college.” ‘How does he take holt on the farnt?” “I hain’t seen him make no cane rush for the woodpile yet."—isnsas City Jorunal. Ye told his wife he could beat the races And was going to place some star bets, But out on the lot with the family ‘%fi | He sneezes and blows the dust from throat— And humbly beats the carpets. —Chlg.uo Newa. ——— PLUMEBING AND GASFITTING. JOHNSON & BENSON, 20 Central Avenue. SLATE ROOFING Metal Cornices and Skylights, Gutters and Canducltou, and all kinds of Jobe bing promptly attended to. Tel. 719. The Vaughn Foundry Co. IRON CASTINGS | furnished promptly. steck ob patterns. No. 11 te ‘erry Bireet sanz3d T. F. BURNS, Heating and Plumbing, w“92 Franklin Street. S. F. GIBSON Tin and Sheet Metal Worker Agent for Richardson and Boyaton Furnaces. 65 West Main Street, Norwich, Conn. dec7d Do It Now Have that old-fashioned, ununm plumbing replaced l{ new and - t will re you in the increas of doctor’s bills, Overhaullng and fitting xhorou;hly done, Let me ve you a figure for replacing all the old plumbing with the modern kind will keep out the sewer .'u % work will be first-class and J. E. TOMPKINS, reasonable. 67 Wast Main .fi.‘ suglid