Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 30, 1910, Page 13

W Written Specially for The Bulletin.) Horace Greeley is reported as having ‘once said: “Of all horned cattl> in a mnew. per office, Lord deliver me from " Horace was a gl{ g0od newspaperman in his day. ether the newspapers which he and man like him made were better than those made today is a question by it- ®elf and not for you and I to settle, off-hband. But the work of the best mewepapers now is done by college graduates or men of similarly wide education and training. It is very ‘doubtful if Grezley or Raymond or the elder Bennett, if they could return to Newspaper Row, would be able to get wt a single edition of one of the great Tetropolitan newspapers thay found- ed. The times have changed, whether #for good or bad: newspapers have changed, whether for good or bad; re- juirements for the work have changed, hether for good or bad, and different \qualifications are demanded in the workers. 1 am speaking now mostly of beginners, those starting in fresh mnd green. After any two men shall have worked side by side for a dozen years on any paper vou will find it hard to tell which started in with the %est equipment. The work itself is tnore educational than that of any wossibla institution formally devoted to education. I have known newspaper men who never saw the inside of a college, vet have become, under the grinding and planning and abrasion of editorial work, fully rounded ana wholly admirable sp:cimens of the highest education. But the fact re- mains that today the young man who enters a newspaper office for the first time after a course of real education is apt, other things being equal, to got along the faster and turn out, for a ‘while, the better work. All of which may be interesting or even important, but “What on earth Bas it i0 do with farming and farm- ers?” I fancy some of you asking. Well, in the old days—about the ®amza time that Horace Greeley was sneering at college men on newspapers —Tfarmers used to have just about the -same idea of educated men on the farm. They were lookzd at with sus- picion. watched with doubt, avoided whenever nossible. 1f a strange appli- cant for work spoke admiringly o “‘those fowls” instead of “them hens.’ the farmer promptly hedged. Neigh- bor Hoskins still holds by this ide ‘When a man applies for work he never @sks him if he knows the botanical name of pigweed, but s: “Show me your hands.” If they are more or les- cracked up and rough, especially . they are wzll calloused on the palms at the base of the fingers and along the 4rside of the thumb, then Hoskir takes an interest in him and perhaps hires him. Once Hoskins hired a husky looking chap who brought a trunk with instead of an old box— and a trunk half full of books. at that. Y never could learn- that he failed to 4o his work well, but Hoskins soon got rid of him. “W'r.” said he once, “that feller had a whole cyciepeedera in h trunk, ‘nd he useter to come in even- in’s with one pocket full o' rocks and "tother full o' weeds t up till 10 o'clock sometimes, a-huntin’ the Latin names for '‘¢ém. Eh? W'y, Yyes, he ¢'I'd milk well enough. Plow ? O. good's anybody, I guess. He could pitch. hay and hoe corn and dig pota- toes and cradle oats, but Hoskins was afraid of him all the while—afraid just because he was sufficiently edu- cated to make him interestedin know- ing about botany and geology. Ho kins was sure that this was an “out” and that the man was sure to turn intc e good-for-nothin’, sooner or later. That was the old id: ®s about many other highly practical arts: that theory was only for dudes nd the only real thing was practice. ome old fellows like Hoskins still tling to it. But I see a great ange In the last thirty or forty vears in this *espect. The simpie truth is that larming is a much more complicated nd intricate business nowadays than was when some of us weare young. he wider the schooling and the sharp- r the training and the deeper the arning of the man who begins it, the etter are his 2arly chances for prog- Tess in it. Of course. you can't make ) philosopher of a fool by sending him to college: larmer of one by teaching him botany. Ko more than vou Ppurse out of a sow's ear. But. start- ing with a reasonable 2quality of na- live intelligence, the youngster who kas had the best schooling will usually »utfoot the mate who has been through e other training than that got behind he plow handles. Is it any practical service to ma to =w that the pesky weed commonly led “sorrel” i= the “Oxalis Corni- rulata” of Linnaeus? Or, perhaps. the “Rumex acetosella?” Well, not so ver much. in truth. But why “Oxalis The word suggests oxalic acid. And eorre] is certainly sour. Is there, per- hape. a relation between the two? My smattering of hotany results in an ap- peal to my smattering of chemistry, about farming, and T find at oxalic acid gets its mame from this very weed, which is full of it.. Indeed. the old nama of oxalic acid was “salt of sorrel.” I am also aware, thanks to the aforesaid smattering of chemistry, that oxalic acid is a poicon and that its proper antidote is some form of alkali, like lime. Now comes in the question: If lime taken into my,system will nen- tralize the salt of sorrel. why shouldn't lime. added generousiv te a sorrel- Infested garden, neutralize the acid in the soil which nourishes the waed? We try it and e find that in a couple of years the only worrel on the limed patch is sparse. stunted, sickly. starved to death looking stufff, while that on unlimed land beside it is quite as thrifty looking as-ever, Now here was a case where one working farmer found practical value in knowing a very little botany and a wvery little chemistry. Perhaps I might have found out hy accident in the eourse of vears that lime will kill sor- rel. But I'm confident that T got at the useful practieal knowledge a good deal quicker. Then there was the case of “The Little Lot Under the Hill.” That's the name I knew it by as a boy. After a good many vears’ of trial. my father discovered, forty years ago, that com- mon land plaster was a valuable fertil- izing agent on one end of the narrow fleld, while it gave absolutely no re- sults on the other end. I presume it cost him a dozen tous of the stuff and several season’s work to reach this conclusion. Walking across the field one day with a neighbor, who is also an amateur geologist, I told him about it. Out came his little mmer. and he began investigating the ledges which cropped out behind the pasture. All the rocks toward the south end, were of Hmed?'?o:‘ all “those toward the north end a hydromica schist. The s=oil derived from the latter would tain no lime: wm\n the former Y if } 1 mora good on | found that plaster did c the north end than the south, id Mr. Geologist, “because the soil mads from the degradation of limestone can supply hasn’t an Youwll notice t the scientific t practical conc ey, and a lot find out what closed in half | § able to tell W big differer to burn up in to a hundred sand and gra buy the farm, ence. me, a little u knowledge wo. was thought goc 1, v the br business or the pro rmer of today need of all the knowledg n whatever subject - source. It is true that lly take the place place on well _to- Each limitations. take the place of hould be asked eighbor Hos- of hard there's of the family to run the far were put into sions. The fa can make use can absorb, o from whatever theory. ¢ of practice. | gether as on supplements Neither can the other, and to. There's kins® apprecia earned praetic theorizing there’s no one to flout rea t one to pull on A two legged 1 !a mile faster ponent. We f; ignore or negt from any sour ambly thank ted us great forbears could TOLLA M ev. and Field—Death chinson. i Mr, and turned to her chester after their farm. company of ¥ can make a wsilk |nw duties the first of the week. Miss Edna H. Bidwell of East Hart- ford at her well's. Mr. and Mr Haven were Jane B. Sumn Death of Mrs. Mrs. Maryel her home last week Friday afte Mrs. Hutchinson was born in Bolton 78 yvears ago last June, the daughter of Measles. . is one is. ing to th no session of t held for two w The aid effort to furni preparatory to Mr. and Mr: iguests of Garvey, The ladies a cial Wedne: cream wa: EAST Mrs. M. Cus room in the the Buckminst ing every r house well can be prayer George brid Hanly of St him. Wednesday vere tkunder much needed, ing up 2 plajn farmer several years, If | were buying a farm in the Con- necticut valley 1 should be glad to be locks which showed over its surface were dirt-covered ledges, or “drum- lins,” or “Kames.” It would make a | Just thin skins of turf over rock, sure or drumlins of hardpan That’s one way haps, less expensive in the end. The time has gone by when the 1 1 never whe But earth where the two the modern farm. the other's up would do better to combine their ideas and make a double fair horses, one to walk work ahead of the plow than one can. Former Asscciates Rugeles is in Litch- field at the Hotel Berkshire. Carlos Ruggles left today for a six trip to Seattle, Washi ; Katherine Vaughn of tford < ting friends in town. RNobert C. Northam of East Hart- ford who has been sightseeing in New York, joined his wife at their cousir Charles N. Loomis’ the first of the weck. Mr. and Mrs. . A. Converse of Worcester, Mass.. were recent guests at Walter Howe' T. Roy Carpenter nor can you make a good | plovment at the Pope Manufacturing of William and Nancy Keeney. she married J. Caivin Hutchinson Gilead, who died in 1886. Onme sister, Mrs. Jane Spumner, one daughter, Mr: Eva H. Warfield and two sons._ Calvin | Hutchinson of Bolton and Doctor John | Hutchinson of New York survive her. The funeral was heid Sunday after- noon. jurial was in Gilead. MANSFIELD DEPOT Two Chandeliers Purchased by Young People for the New Church—Bible School Holds No Session on Account A little daughter Sylvia, was recent- ly welcomed to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Durkee. The young pec two chandeliers lighting of the new church. department their Tay = hous: ledges has already in it all that plaster | while lime this schisty in it, to speak hat the plain farmer and ; heorist reached the lusion. But it took mne mon- of wasted hard work to a geological hammer dis- an hour. hether the rounded hil- whether the things were every summe drought, pe fifty feet thick, or Kames of | vel. Of course, I could | and find out by experi- | But, scems to se of a little geological uld be handier and, per- fool gh | nou there’'s no go so quite neither on in n of the value experience; al reason in Neighbor Sherman’s belief in to ¢ son, howe he other perimentation: er, for either wisdom. Both team of 'em. Two he furrow and ide, do better the land man will ordinarily cover than his one legged op- armers don’t do well to ect any heln we can get ce. Let's take it all and God for having permit— er privileges than our claim, THE FARMER. ND COUNTY. BOLTON rs. Roberts Entertain in China Mission of Mrs. Maryette Hut- who were as Mrs. Robe China for twen- unday the guests H. v from an Levey ¥ automobile and Elm Finley were of the week. ams has re- r home in South Man- several weeks spent at has secured em- lartford, and began his father’ Arthur M. Bid- rs. Philip Pond of New ent guests of \rs. er. Hutchinson. di tte Hutchinson In 1 of the .R. H infantile three- e prev he | € Rev. Mr. Newton will preach at the Baptist church Sunday morning and | will be present at the evening servi ! le and ha | | is making sh the audience dedication. S, astabrook daughter, an room the Peter are Mrs id held an ice cre. evening. De ious WILLINGTON hny n has painted every r ho | planned | provements I have no doubt that the “or—to-mo- bile’ in the hahds of a fool is a devil's wagon. gk I have noticed that some folks are most unreasonable in their ideas of reasonable speed. There are very city folks who would be willing to pick huckleberries for 14 cents a quart and take their chances with 'skeeters and snakes. When you come to talk about folks. by jingo, I like the generous fellow who declines to give his friends away. The Farmer says we are all tarred with the-same stick, but I notice some folks seem to be mostly tar. If the study of' mankind is man, says Samantha Psalter, it is queer that they take such an undying interest in the women. ‘When Parson Dawson told his con- gregation that to smile at a jest which | plants a thorn in another’s healt, is to | become a principal in the mischief, I felt derned guilty, and I guess the whole crowd did, too. Some folks have one phrase they harp on. There's Bill Bangs, who on all oceasions rings in, “What's. the use?” There would be no use if every- body was like Bill. Cy Cymball says he should judge from the smell which comes from some of these motor cars that they were bought with tainted money. Sariah says when I argue any ques- tion I seem to convince myself a great deal quicker than I can anyone eise. I told Sariah that was what so many people argued for. They say you can’t drive a square peg in a round hole. You can put a square meal in a round stomach, and not make much of a fuss about it, either. Parson Dawson’s boy says that when a fellow thinks he’s as good as he can be it is easy enough to find some one «who has a poor opinion of him. Man is the only critter I've ever heard on who can be a poor miserable sinner and only a little lower than the angels at the same time. I never feel afraid of snakes, but 1 have learnad to steer clear of picnie chowder every time. It too often hits a man below the belt. If every man hoed his row in this world there would not be so many men trying to hoe two rows at the same time. ) Abagail Lashme says that men carry as many brands of flattery with them as there are brands of whiskey, and that some of it is about as intoxicating to women, too! Many a man who despises the man in jail has reason to wonder how on carth he ever kept out. Some women can talk more fascinat- ingly than other women can sing, and they make a fool man somewhere think that he wants to be their slave, when he doesn'f. They say that Experience is a good teacher, but I have noticed that man's experience with woman never has seemed to teach him much. ‘When Joe Jolt got into politics he got out of about everything else but trouble. Hired help is getting so that it ex- pects the highest wages and the least work possible for the money. If the farmer could sell his poorest vegetables at the highest price that would do. The poise of a lady adds to her style, but avoirdupois doesn’'t. This is why the latter is not popular with women. JOB JOLT. WILLINGTON Pastor Gardner preached Sunday morning from 1st Samuel 14.-29; topie, Eating Honey by the Way. Dr. Converse is on a vacation of twe weeks at South Coventry lake. Dur- ing his absence Dr. Hanley of Stafford Springs takes his practice. Miss Lucy Eldredge had a bad day or two last week, but is more comfort- able at this writing. They are finding difficulty in procuring a housekeeper. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony of Mansfield motored to Cozcroft on Sunday. hilip Ryder spent Sunday with George Brown and family in Norfolk. Rev. Mr. Darrow, who returned home Friday, occupied his pulpit Sunday aft- ernoon and gave a helpful talk, speak- ing with much feeling of his apprecia- tion of the sympathy of his people in the deep sorrow through which he had recently been called to pass. He was assisted in the service by Mr. Newton. Miss Copeland of Chicago, a guest at Rest cottage, sang a solo with great sweetness. A large delegation from the Endeav- iety at South Willington visited Union society on the Hill Sunday evening. The leader was Miss Genevive Gard— ner. There was a solo by Miss Cope- land. There were several West Wil- lington people present and the room was well filled. The Hill society hopes to return the visit soon. The regular meeting of the local W, C. T. U. society was held with the pre: ident, Mr. Holman, Saturday after- noon. The matter of the placing by the local union .of a public watering trongh between the Hill and West Willington, to take the place of “Cold Stream,” thrown into disuse by a grade of the state road, has for some time been under consideration, and the un- ion has now decided to undertake the much needed movement. A survey was made last week- near Cold Stream to find the most feasible point for piping the water to the proposed storing tank of sheet iron to be placed in Glass Fac- tory village at the corner leading to Sharp’s Mills and South Willington. A hygienic drinking fountain is also for. “The estimated cost will be about $ The local W. C. T. U. have not this amount in the treasur: but will commence the work in goo faith tha tthe much needed improve- ment will be helped through. The soliciting for the parsonage im— has met with a _cheerful m people in every instance = Willington affiliations. Each s accompanied with the sions of gratitfication at to give some definite the expression of love and appreciation of | old opportuity town and the old chureh, and -rs of the three pegple not able time to respond the the were just as | [kind, and their messages were appre- EVERY WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY. The Bulletin wants zood home letters, good business letters; good help- ful letters of any kind the mind may suggest. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conn. Wednesday of each week. First Prize of $2.50 to Cooker.” Second Prize of $1.50 to entitled “Be a True Helpmee: Third Prize of $1.00 to “F. Domestic Helps.” “Blanche’ le: of C." How Do You Save? It might be of interest to Corner readers to learn to economize—how to sava pennies, dimes or nickels. Have you in your home any special plan for saving? If you have write the Social Corner a letter telling of your pian. Tell the story of the way in which you eaved your first $25. Th2 major prize for August will be given for the best letter on this subject. —Editor Social Corner. how Timely Recipes and Suggestions, Editor Social €orner—From what I know of the readers of the Social Corner I can say that many have com- menced Social Corner scrapbooks and are saving for use and reference many of the good things contributed from week to week. I have some timely recipes which I am pleased to contribute to the mem- bers of the Corner because they are refreshing: To make Ham-Slam—To some chop- ped ham, flavored with mustard, add a small amount of butter and flavor with onion extract. Mix three eggs lightly with the ham, then turn into a frying pan and scramble. Serve on toast. A readily made Bean Saladi—Cut a quart of wax or string beans into halves. Boil in slightly salted water until tender, then drain; add salt and pepper to taste two tablespoonfuls of vinegar and four tablespoonfuls of sal- ad oil or three heaping tablepsoonfuls of fat bacon that has been cut into dice and tried out. A few drops of improve the flavor. onion juice will Serve cold. Little out of door lunches are good at this season of the year, consisting of w meat, nut, cheese or salad sand- ches, deviled eggs, fried chicken, ed tea or milk, or anything that one’s fancy may suggest and pocketbook afford, can be prepared in the morn- ing and the housewife, free of cares in the afternoon, can partake of the supper in a true holiday spirit. Such a holiday can be easily arranged by the busiest woman for the pizza, lawn or nearby grove, pondside or river- bank. MRS. HUSTLER. Plainfield. Nuts as a Substitute for Meat, Editor Social Corner: The high price of meat is leading people to seek nourishing food to the exclusion of meat, a thing which is likely tqg im- plruue the general health of the peo- ple. The use of nuts as a substitute for meat is not so well understood as it should be. I submit a couple of reci- | pes which may, be welcome to readers of the Corner who do not know how to use them. To make Mock Chicken Cutlets— Grat four ounces of nuts, Brazil or any other kind, melt half an ounce of butter, wdd to it a dessertspoonful of flour, and when well blended one gill of milk. Add also one teacupful of crumos, a teaspoonful of owmwon juice, a little mace white pepper, salt or celery salt to taste.” Cook all well to-~ gether, then stir in the nuts and turn out on a plate to cool. When cold shape into cutlets, brush over with egg, toss in bread crumbs and fry a nice golden brown. A little lemon juice may be added with the nuts. Serve with bread sauce. To make a delicious Walnut Pie— Run four ocunces of walnuts (shelled, or course), through a nut mill; this will give a teacupful. Have ready some bailed rice (as for curry), and put a layer of it in a buttered pie dish. Put half of the grated muts evenly on the top. then a laver of tomatoes seasoned with grated onion. parsley, salt and pepper, a pinch of mace and a little ketchup. Repeat these layers, cove? thickly with bread crumbs, p some melted butter over, and bake till a nice brown, If at all dry pour some tomato sauce, diluted extract. or a lit- tle gravy over. Serva with tomato or other sauce. The same ingredients may be put in a buttered basin and | { steamed, or the whole may be mixed together with & beaten egg, ihen made into one large roll or a number of 7~ tle rolls, piace in & bakinz tin. and cooknd in the oveu with a little butter on the top. basting and turning theiy now and then. These appetizing dishes will Le pleasing to all who have a desire to enter upon a cleaner—a fieshless dfet. MERRY MARTHA. Preston. Little Stories from Aunt Mar Editor Social Corner: I will see if I can write something to please you. I saw the comet im 1835; had a fine | view standing on a small bridge near imy home. - My grandfather was in | the Revolutionary war as a musician |1 had two uncles in war of 1812; they | saw no fighting, but were in camp at | New London, When the cook was | getting soup - for dinner_ stirring it up with his pitchfork a hog came in and the cook took his fork and struck | the hog, saying “Whee! Whee!"” then put the fork back into the kettle. Gne uncle was very neat. It Jdid not help When | ciated. The intelligent interest and ! pig appetite . for: the soup. gulated timely ice of - Gardner Hail, | 30y "Sldest wonh was in the army of meetings { Colonel Hall and'the ladies of the fam- | the “rebellion, & member of the Fif- ges is quite sic Dr. | ily has made very great improvement ' teenth = Massachusetts regiment. He afford Spri attends } in the plan as first proposed in dura- | was. wounded in the. battle of Balls bility, in utility and in beauty,and their | Riuff in the lég below the knee. Doc- night as ance was the more appreciated ‘tors orobed the wound but could not she f Corn ledves were curi- ver e rain e was a se- | was | for its spontaneity. This is inded a musical community. Five pianos on the brow of the Hill, He came home on a returned to the %hd him and hurt fl;!dnfllrn l:.“)l, sho urioy army. His fook. Deeds are Fruits—Words But Leaves THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $250 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to third. Award made the last Saturday in each month. PRIZES AWARDED FOR JULY. Tharity Sweet” We all welcome “Aunt Maria™ to the Social Corner. gian learned it, because I had to or n- Tl oY o Yantic, July 25. : To Make a Good Listener—Corn Salad. Editor Social Corner: To be able to be a listener the mind must be under control, which it cannot be un- less it Is well cultivated. The reading of things worth while and thinking about them will enable one to forget one’s self. If we would count for some- thing we must not become s by the wayside. Everything worth havin, in the world costs something. Menta laziness and lack of will power go hand in hand. Striving to command self is the cost of supremacy. Never give up and say the task Is too grea but press hopefully on. Achievement is never anything less than the fruit of endeavor. This is & tested recipe for corn salad ready for use at any time and thought by my family to be v nice: Corn should be cut from one dozen ears of green corn with a sharp knife one ordinary head of e, four sweel peppers choppad fine—I put these two through a meat chopper—one coffee cup of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of salt, two scant of mustard, three pints of cidar vinegar. Put all together and boil fifteen or twenty minutes. Put in jars hot. I prefer the hrn-m lightning jars and the black rings for all round use if one has to buy new. w, Moosup. They should be in hand by J. Keep Your Lights Trimmed and Burn. ing. Sisters of the Social Corner: Do we fully realize the importance of having our lights trimmed and b 7 Avery wife and mother should he t of the home. Let your light n: first in the home, but do not confine it there: let it shine brigh make other lives happy an t. A few years ago I lived in the suburbs of one of our New England ciies; a part of the city that was not well lighted. I used to keep a light burn- " of Norwich for letter entitled “Fire- of Central Village for letter “Little " of Moosup for letter entitled | him to step on his heel, and the bul- let came out there. | My uncle took me'in his lap and | [0 Ity ¥ JUNGE room wwindow: and X told®me the story of the soup and the | 5517 yghe At another time X lived in hos. 1 can tell stories of long ago A L e I the country, leave the place a nelghbo said "% ehall miss you; I shall also miss your bright light.” "Let us not draw all the tains in our hom It Is like Duild- ing a high wall around our flower beds. if my strength holds c A MARIA. 7 Brooxlyn. Monday—Washing Day. ; Editgr Social Corner: I have al-| You know the scriptures tell us “Neot ways wondered why Monday should | to hide our light under a bushel” T be the popular wa g day, and it | have been out at night, come to a farm seems to be a case of washing as | house and all would be dark. What mother did for the girls, just as we |a lonely, dreary feeling comes ower find many of the boys voting as fa- | vou. Perhaps the next house would ther did. It is easier to follow suit | be well lighted—what a change in you: than it is to think why it should wot | feelings. It sends a thrill of joy ibe so. A thinking woman declares | through us and we think of that pace that a Monday washday means sort- as “Home, eweet homs. On ~ the ing the clothes on Sunday and risifg | mountain top there is light, down In early Monday morning with both the | the valley there is darkness—may our washing and over-Sunday house- | lights burn so brightly that the valleys cleaning for the day’'s task. If Mon- | will be illuminated and Mves there be day is devoted to setting the house | made more cheerful and happy. If you want a plant that fs useful as in order after the Sunday rest, mend- well as ornamental for your diming ing the linen and preparing it for the wash which is to be done on Tues-|room, plant a few seeds of sweet day, the week is begun without hur- | mignonette in a flower pot. The fra- he s. Now, what do the sis- | grance is sweet and delicate, the plant think of this? It sounds both [is pratty, and it is sald will keep away sible and reasonable to me. flies, and T helleve it. I planted my How many readers of the Corner |seeds in February. In April I had a know that an Irish potato is one of | beautiful table plant. My wish for the the best remedies for a burn? Cut | Editor of the Social Corner is “Sucoest a potato into halves, scrape out the | and happiness. ~ M. ROENA. inside and bind this finely scraped pulp on the burn. It relieves the sting immediately. If the burn is very deep twd or three applications may be needed. I have found the Corner very help- ful to me. I hope that it will con- tinue to be readable, instructive and helpful. CLARA DAY, Attawaugan. Colchester. Good Advice and Good Ice Cream. Editor Social Corner: Here a minister's daughter to say “t: is a constant rsader of the - ner and enjoys the Interesting and helpful letters that are printed each week. I have reason to bellewe thut most of the Cornerers are a religious, church-going people, d I none of you who are ng health have been tempted to remain at home or take a trip to the shore instead of attending church these past few warm Sundays. It is so discouriging to the pastor, after taking extra time for the preparation of a sermon that will be interesting and helpful to his hearers, when all the attractions seem to be in the great out of doors, to ve at the church on Sunday morning to find S0 many empty seats. Then he has an added burden through the week to call on the absent ones and find out if they are il and need hie sym; a Corner: was very much pleased to see my letter in print last week. This letter is for Aunt Hannah. I think your beans, also brown bread, must be so good. Hubbie and I think Saturday night supper is pretty siim if we don’t have beans and brown bread, and I almost al- ways do. I know each are better the longer they cook:; but since I moved to my new flat I have a gas range (Jewel) and it's true to its name, too. ‘I would not want to nart with it; yet, I do miss my big range, at tim receipt for brown Editor Social 1 have a nice bread, and It needs to steam four |prayers. How ths Sunday school hours, but as I bake my beans aM |es the children, too! T‘{o widsawake superintendent s studying continuelly to find some way to keep up the at- tendance through the summer season, Parents, won't you all lend a helping bhand? If your particwlar Sunday school is not doing all you thimie it ought to, just be frank with your eu- perintendent and tell him so, and ad- vise as to ways of Improvement. Now come, please, one and all, t on your best thin clothes next S morning and go to church and Sunday school. You will have the afternoon for rest, or to spend in a pleasant, quiet way with your family. If it really is impossible to go to church in the morning, then go in the evening. Go both times if yom can, 6 a sacrifice if you must, and believe me when I tell you that you will fesl wall paid for all your efforts and will have the satisfaction of duty done and i fluence used on the side of right. afternoon, I plan to bake my brown bread which I find is equally as good, being baked one hour or so, as it is steamed the four hours. Have never tried the fish pie; but shall some time. Did you ever try this egg sauce for boiled cod or some baked fish? But- ter size of an egg, one large table spoonful flour, smoothed together, ti on boiling water little at a time until right thickness_stirring all the time; put one hard boiled egg through a veg- etable presser and salt to taste, Hubbie thinks this “best ever. Am to have the huckleberry pudding for dinner tonight that was sent in by Mrs. L, W. Maynard of Mystic. SWEET LAVENDER. Norwich. Teach the Boys to Do Things. Editor Social Corner: When a boy wants a hatchet or a hammer to play Perhaps you will think this is too with, it is time to encourage him to|much like preaching for Saturday p morning, so here is a recipe that will make little things of wood for mtother or himself out of old boxes which storekeepers are glad to get rid of, instead of letting him hammer and whole family = delscious treat on Sunday afternoon: Take two quarts of thin eream, one quart of "k at random, doing damage to the | milk and put into an ice cream freezer. :‘::;l; and fences of meighbors. The | Put five or six bananas (accordiog to boxes which will push under couches, | size and te) through the fine meat ' Mways handy | cutter. . Beat two large cups of or other furniture, are always handy| TASET. ESCL U0 oulp and 60E 48 maks the for putting things in, and th 4 t ar ¥ Sovereq with linen, denim, echintz or | milk and iAo i - mmh‘d any material desired. If the box fs|frecze in the usual way. Sekas uite large, put on muslin, as on the| One ga lon of ice cream. treat s : kind occasionally will keep the e at home and help to cament G! ffection. S DAUGHTER, inside, basting each piece first to the outer covering. Then put on the two togther with small jacks, or, if desired, you may first put gn the muslin, hold- ing it in place with a tack in hi corner until the outer covering is put on. Carry the outer covering over the edge of the box and tack it neatly in- side. Finish the lid in the same way. At the bottom turn the material under | and tack it on the bottom of the box tacks for pen ties of family MIN Colchester, Deli cately Formed Be sure to use very small | this. A If the box 18 o be kepi underytneand gently reared, women will find n Bt Gt o wover it with paper. In | all the seasons of their lives, as maid- this s 1 other useful boxes | ens, wives and mothers, that she ons may ? A ., | simple, wholesome laxative rem: » A few ves to be serewod against | 810 edy, the wall books is of sim- | which acts gently and pleasantly and | ple constr : nd is easily ;:.»sug;..-l.l naturally and which may be taken at A bulil Show interest in e chil- . fren Tand temch them o do useful | aBY time, when the system needs a | things. Enersy may be thus conserved | laxative, with perfect safety and real- ather than wasted. ; A PARENT. |1 beneficial effccts, is Syrup of Figs Norwich. and Elixir of Senna. It has that true delicacy of flavor which is so refreshing to the taste, that warming and grateful toning to the stéomach which responds so favor- ably to its action and the laxative ef- fect which is so beneficial to the sys- tem when, occasionally, its gentle cleansing is required. The genuine, always bearing the Had to Learn the Lesson. Editor Social Corner: This warm weather 1 try and make my blue flame stove cover every kind of cooking. I have baked beans most every week, but never take over three hours for the cooking of them. Put them to soak Friday night; boll next morning until almost soft; put pork in canter, weil down, pepper top, and to two quarts of dried beans add three tablespoons molasgses, a pinch of mustard; never pour sny water off, rather add to; let| Bame of the California Fig Syrup Co. beans bo’l after putting pork in' till| may be purchased from all leadin rind is soft, then bake in tin oven | gruggists in original packages of one quite hot, two hours —sometinas less; my beans never distress even the Dea- size only, price fifty cents per bottle. The reason we all feel that house- work is never done is because, like = everything else, there is too much red b St oA AR R D Library Tea Store but beo Grade Teas and Coffees ot Pure Spices and Ex- Highest lowest prices. tracts. 164 Main Street. IYTTTUS - old sayiug Dow't always follow the crowd The hurry only our overdo it. ny ou would see the cireu and fret is what kills bodies but our ambition, Telephone 267-3 not Everyvthing looks wrong when we ar ” tired: drop it just then, and try some- .:_%" to put v.o.u Dums- | thing new——if oniy for a few minutes; | afam botter M rest your bead or mind, 1 have just e. celumus { :