Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 1, 1910, Page 13

S Prices Paid for Produce and Prices Charged = ~ P i (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) The trouble is that the days ov indi- My New York paper prints, every week or so, an articie on the “News of the 'Markets” containing the retail prices charged consumers in that city for meats, filsh, vegetables, etc. The last one at hand has afforded me some interesting comparisons. I ‘happen to be in the territory from which Neéw York eity draws a part of its supplies. Buvers are not infrequent here look- ing up produce for the big market. Consequently I have a fair epportunity to know what prices we producers are offered for certain grades of goods. When I set them down beside the ces which consumers in the big city charged for similar goods, the re- is sometimes startling. sult For instance “orn is 40 cents a doz- en this weel But the buyers’ offer to me is 50 cents a hundred, or just a. trifi® four cents a dozen, for corn to go to New York. “Muskmelons are 15 cents each.” The buyers think they are generous if they offer me a dollar a hundred, or one cen apiece for first quality melons for this same market. abl@ges, leftuce and romaine are 10 cents a head.”” I have been offered $1.50 a hundred for cabbage to ship to New York, or a cent and a half per head. “Tomatoes are 15 cents a pound.” If T will furnish the crates and the bask- ets and pay the expressage, I know one commission man who will give me almost two cents and a half a poumd— i proviiled the tomatoes arrive safely, are just right, none too ripe and all ripe enough, none specked and. none bruised. Greening apples are In an ordinary are about eighty quarts, which would be worth, at this rate, $12. The apple b@vers reckon greening apples dear, here, at $1.25 per barrel. “Celery 60 cents a ten-stalked bunch.” That is just exactly twelve times as much as the dealers will offer me for it in quantity. “Meat 1s still very high, particularly the lines of lamb and veal. Racks of »mb are back to the old figure of 25 cents per pound.” So reports the New paper of the New York retail et. Day before yvesterday a buy- er for that market came to look over 15 cents a apple barrel i b my lambs. Said he: “You know that lamb and mutton are way down. All other meats are high but thes. “So I murmured, sympathetically. He crit- jcally examined my bunch of lambs, which will average about 75 pounds apiece, and—offered me a head for them, or four and two-thirds cents a pound! Now, do you know that sort of thing makes me almighty mad? If the prices whi are offered me are fair, then the prices charged the New York city con- sumers are outrageous robber: the other hand, the prices charged con- sumers in New York city are fair, then the prices offered the producer are pri- ma facie evidence of an attempt out- rageously to swindle him. There's rob- bery and swindle somewhere in the progress of those meats and vegetables from producer to consumer. Who gets the benefit of the pillage you can figure out as well as I; certainly the consum- er seems justified in his complaints about high prices; and, as certainly, 1 producer isn't getting any appre- ciable benefit from U;em | am not selling things o go w York or anywhere else at the prices which I have noted as having been offered to me or my neigh- Wors, Neither am I getting for them in my own market any such figures as the city consumers are paying. But, juet to make the thing seem substan- tial and concrete, let's suppose that I had s=old at the prices offered a thou- sand ears of corn, and a hundred muskmelons, and a hundred cabbages, and a hundred pounds of tomatoes, and @ barrz] of greening apples, and a hun- dred bunches of cele and ten 75- pound Jamb 1 should have got for the lot $51.25. The consumers in New would have paid for exactly at the retail prices This is a difference of ir profit. on an in- Put it another Of every §2 which the New k consumer pays for his track 51 cents goes for the stuff itself and $1.88 to pay the handlers in between. More than thres-quarters of the cost to the consumer is for somebody service eand somebody’'s proflt; less than one- quarter for the meat and vegetables he eats. Now | don't know how much of this three-quarters is taken by tha rail- roads for freight, and how much by the buyver, and how much by the “job- ber,” and how much by I do know tha here mighty rotten and the Unitad States of it costs three times a cabbage from 1tk farm much to get a on Podunk Flats to the kitch cond street as the cabbage itself is worth. 1 do know either that I ought to get mora for those greening apples, or that the consumer is paying about ten times | too much. And I'm begin g to think that it's » for a hig olution in the way ing foodstuffs from pro- ducer to consumer. If the resglt of our hundred 3 private busine: ars of enterprise, wher man_gets all he can and g = he must, is nothing better than sort of thing, it is time that some new theory \url«(.d out. of business were 'm not a soclallst. T have always had and now have a veritabi: aversion to the thing which is known by that name. Bygp I hate hogs and hoggish- riess even® more than crankiness and fdealism. It used to he a theory of economists that prices would always to the right level ndividual tition were allowed swing. e o Hale’s ‘Honey of Horehound and Tar Loocsens the Phlegm Allays the Irritation Arrests the Tickling Soothes and Heals Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in One Minute vidual competition have gone by. tically ever: trust or a combination or a pool, “individual competition” Prac- vthing is in the hands of a and has a ticket for the poorhouse in its hatband the minute it opens shop for itself. Or- ganization for vlunder must, sooner or later, defen that e and consumers believ as sol heads the idea that busin for pretext ting or pocketpicking. am wrong; perhap: portu not natur est a people got a bound to forever, where the biggest bull bz met b, Lots of wise folks tell e. ctivy e on nit, e is t rm ge packages. take will over, come. I own up that | dread the thought of al It's a poor way to try to make people good be do done. time, Law our be as bad as that cover regul 1 this by ne: la kezp on, in the present grab-bag game, involved and regulation o if that last thing comes be in so gentle and fatherly a fashion as the at organization for self- me e organization of producers impossible. 1 don’t I think it is possible, just peonle can get into thair s is an op- mutual vantage, and for mutual throat-cut- But perhaps 1 my idea of human perhaps we're unanimously and 0o ideal; with the long- ts the prizes and weaker the bruises and the empty If so—if things are really then we 11 have to so much socialism as n a public ight all bu in ation of railroad rates has Zovernment paternalism. W Futhermore, it can't ast, it never has been 1 All that law can do is to deter a part of the had men, a part of the from the hogs exploiting their badness. may make it harder or more dan- F3 us to commit crime, but it doesn't reform eriminal. You into their yard, can fence but vou can’t change them into humming birds, fence you never so cunningly. They'l1 remain hogs and they'll go through or under your fence, if they ever find the chance. your clover. What is wanted is a system of mu- tual organization and co-operation by which the direct agent of a bunch of consumers shall agent of a bunch of producers, making it possible for the producer to get all his produets are share of the small cost of transporta- tion, and the consumer shall get his money’s worth—less his equally fair share of transportation. need more law supervision to bring this al simply practical common sense to a prac- tical problem. full mear of One of the things that makes me most ardent operation least ing gdeeper : socialism. to 'avoid that tion. doubtful about the practicability or the value of co-operation. like the other farmers I know, share my dread of sacialistic govern- ment. And, even if Co-operation Har- bor isr exactly the port you'd choose, isn’t it better than to arrive on WASHINGTON COUNTY,R. I. it will Perhaps the reefs ger not only but the invaluable freight it U And stooked corn is It then it's good-bye to and your rowen deal with the direct worth—less his fair It doesn’t nor more government = It a practical appHcation in my advocacy of co- that it will present, at tend to prevent, our sink- d deeper into deplorable the only way I can see undesirable consumma- you may be a little t But, if youre you of socialism and endan- the good ship of state, carries? "TARMER. SQUEPAUGH Fall Gathering of Seaweed Begins— Visit ors and Travelers. Amos H. Kenyon has gone to Paw- tucket, the American Telephone company. Hon. funeral of General Charles R. Brayton, Robinson Dr. Her| weed R. A. bert for Judith. Mrs. Nett ited her daughter here Sunday and Monday. Mrs. Annie Kelly and friend from Mystic a . L, s A5 to work in the office of Ken W. son attended the sea- from Point is drawing Kenyon ie Perkins of Wakefield Kenyon entertained Miss few days last week. Peter Longe is working at Point Judith. Mrs. Esther Kenvon has gone to Arctic to visit her daughter, Mrs. Fred Clarke. . Mr_and Mrs. Cahoone and two chil- dren have gone to East Greenwich to visit Mr. Cahoone’s mother Ch: Donnelly has gone to Jamestown to visit. his sister. Delegates Appomied to Attend W. C. T. U. Convention Summer Visitors Return Home. At the last Ocean meeting Mrs. WEEKAPAUG. M P.eon delegates to conve: and 6 Mrs, Blalke: Maco weelk slee, nbie farm ntion th. H. retur w. w Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Knowles are spending a week at Bethlehem, N. H. Mr. and of Saunders- * | town spent . C. Webster's. Mrs. Ida M. Kenyon has so far re- covered from her recent illness to be able to ride out Miss Minnie Webster spent a few days last week with Mrs. Abbott at ‘\j\ st King®on, returning home Sun- ay. Mrs. R. S. Knight spent Tuesday with Mrs. O. W. Sherman at West | Kingston. in Woonsocket— tew -W. C.-T. Chase A. Loofhoro Bliven were attend the fourth di in Woonsocket, Oct. 355 and appointed rict Sth Robinson and Mi ho has been gues for the nast three ned to their home im Hart- ford Thursday. Mr. and Mrs, Sidney M. Gladwin have closed their cottage Ellvyn Bould- ers a nesday Wil nd ¥, liam returned H to Hartford Wed- Cope and fami who have occupied Wyneote m'mnp during the =1 Media immer o returned to their Tur\%rlfl\ home in L AR BOCKVILLE Little Happenings of the Week—Per- Her Falls, W, esterly and M#¥stic Beveral from this p bert N: X, Lydia Lt ght fr sonal Notes. Q. Eidredge of Hoosick was the guest of his auni, E. unde recently e Euldul returned Sun- with friends at o ce attended the funeral of Mrs. John Jerue at Wood River Thursday. nphear of Wesi- her sister, Mrs. Kenyon ig at Kingston, " LeRoy Kenvon and daughter are zuests friends in Providence. Mrs. T, unders of Mapie Dell [ AS JOB JoLT | ford If folks asked more questions they might know more about things and about folks. Cy Cymbal says he wishes the har- vest season lasted forever. He likes to <eal with results. Bill Bangs says that sheep killed by dogs always bring a good price and the loser of the sheep is not so carefgl about counting as he should be. Samantha Psalter says she's going to join the suffragettes, for she is con- stious she has been a force for some time. The neighbors are all conscious of it, too. When the corn crop is too big to handle and you cannot get help, it is a source of worry. The farmers have their guns loaded with buckshot and when the season opens they will cooper the state’'s tame deer. A bird in the bush is better to the farmer than two birds in the hand. Sariah says I have too many brain- storms; but derned if I don’t think that she creates more'n half of them. Parson Dawson says the man who thinks everyone else is dishonest is a safe man to suspect. The reason old bachelors lack in- ventive power is because they have no partners to prepare excuses for. It takes a genius to keep a woman fooled most of the time, The Parson has married a great many people for better or worse. and he ain’t wise enough to tell which. Some people think that they are su- perior to an interrogation point, but they do not always find their place as accurately. If some neighbors <all too often, just try to borrow $5 of them and they will steer clear. Ebenezer Psalter always spends his energy on pumpkins, and he has a pumpkin crop that excites a city like New York. The man who is good to animals has good animals. Human meanness will beget meanness in a dog. is entertaining her sister, Mrs. James Eldredge of Old Mystic. Mre. Church of Barrington guest of Miss Lottie Burd ARCADIA Cook and T|I|mghast Nommated By Democratic Caucus. is the Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kennedy of New York are guests of Mrs. Kennedy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William T. Barber. E. M. Cook of Pine Hill was nomi- nated for senator and E. M. Tilling- has for representative by a democratic caucus held At the town hall the 19. T. H. Barper and G. B. Reynolds went to Providence Tuesday. Col. Frank W. Tillinghast and family of Iuhnslon R. 1., passed through this place calling on friends Sunday. William Lewis has gone\to Noose Neck Hill and is working for Willis A. Ca The political contest promises to be very interesting in this town and state this fall. HOPKINTON. Hon. E. R. Allen last week Thursday ble visit in South Willington and a pleasure trip to Hartford, Springfield, Mt. Holyoke, Mt. Tom and the Hoosac tunnel. News reached here Tuesds of the death of the wife of Rev. Jokn Jerue and of John F. Bitgood, both aged res- idents of Norith Hopkinton. It is reported that Victor H. Cran- dall and family will occupy November 1 the tenement soon to be vacated by Rev. L. F. Randolph. Samuel R. Avery of Hope Valley was here Tuesday. . E. P. Mathewson occupied the of the Wood River Junction Congregational church last Sunday morning. MUSIC AND DRAMA A road company of “Alias Jimmy Valentine” will be organized by the Libelers and the original company will remain in New York. and wife returned from an enjoya- Madame Bertha Kalich will open her season in a new American drama by Samuel Shipman, entitled “The Wom- an of Today.” Craig Campbell tenor soloist at the Little Church Around the Corner, is to appear in @ new musical play about November 1. John Cort is to producz a musical comedy: by Joseph M. Leveyne, with music by Miss B e Boniel. It is ‘called ‘“‘Mamselle o J. Forbes-Robertson is to appear for two week beginning October 3, at tt's theater, New York, in Passing of the Third Floor “Naughty Marietta.,” by Rida John- Young and Victor Herbert, will be produced at the Manhattan opera house.on October 17. The star of the performance will be Edna Trentini. The Boston i§ announced, this symphony orchestra it will be larger than ever season, owing to additions to the woodwind. For the first time the players will number more than 100. “The Glassblowers,” the latest comic opera by John Philip Sousa, the libret- to of which is by l.eanord Liebling. will be produced in Novembe with a company of metropolitan favorites. A new Viennese Barefoot Dancer.,” will be presented in November with a cast in which will appear Ruth Peebles, Josie in- tropidi, Harry McDonough and other favorites. operetta, “The The remarkabl> success of Adolf Philipp’s musical sensation, “Alma, Wo Wohnst Du?” from a financial as well as an artistic point of view, was the one big surprise of the past theat- rical season. Madame Nazimova wi plays to her prepertoire: “The Fairy T Arthur Schnizler, which she present for the first time in the English language, and Sudermann’s “Johaunisteu add two naw The announcément that the founders vl th: New Theater, New York, will give a geries of four plays during the fa. and winter at prices which the puorest lovers of good dran can af- to pay has beeu with hearty approval .:‘an)\‘hme The musical attractions to be pre- eented this coming season under the Mrect management of the Messrs. Shubert, will range from th> revival of ““The Mikado" {o the latest thinz in American musical comedy. and will alen include American presentations of notable German and English successes. life and duty. It is part of a par- o o 5 # ent’s duty to instruct and advise chil- |Of fare from evervday 'E’D‘O.':I",'i lfl‘\,“ dren for their own good, but they can- |evervday people. et b iy not he compelled to live the life an- |t0 learn is how to ha‘vfi a zood Thanks- At s hem. The force |8iving dinner on the average wage, | other has planned for them. The force |Siving dinner on {he average wage, E{e:ao‘!:x? prefers, Wkere There is No\love. All is Fau'ls THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $250 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to third. Award made the last Saturday in each month. ~EVERY WOMAN’'S OPPORTUNITY. The Bulletin wants good home letters, good business leiters; good help- ful letters of any kind the mind may suggest. They should be in hand by Wednesday of each week. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conn. SHALL WE BROADEN THE SOCIAL CORNER? The Social Corner is going to invite the chatty young people to join. It may spread itself into a family circle and invite the men to do a little domestic writing. This Corner is like a motorbus in which there is always room for one more. A gossipy letter upon “The Color of the Moon” is just as acceptable as one on “How the Doughnut Came to Be Modeled "Round a Hole.” The recipes for Fall preserves make the Corner spicy enough Just now, and it would be somewhat improved by a jollier or two. In its prac- tical helpfulness the Corner has more than met our expe@tations and it has merited the commendation it has received from contributors; but this Social Corner must be made one of the best family departments in print, and we can accomplish this by keeping alive to its various needs. The letter writ- ers alould not be afraid of crowding our space. Vacations Are Over. |dom have colds. Colds result from Editor Social Corner: The vaca- Ph‘ : ties and are not so tions are over which have been a xposure as we think. MARY ANN. Home Helps. great pleasure to some and Sorrow to others, and our friends are returning to the city, the village and the coun- try homes to resume their different Editor Social Corner: I have found occupations in life. the household helps in The Corner The long evenings will soon be here | money-savers to me. It tells how to afhd one could not pass off the time | help one’s self in so many ways. Since any better than writing up something | I have masticated my food well and interesting for the Social Corner. We are following the writers weekly, and reading their letters with much inter- est; but we cannot follow all the re- ipts we read—if we did, the house would be full 01 everything from “devil ham” to “angel cake.” Whiie we do not understand cooking we wil] give the readers of the Social Corner two reccipts which we know to | be good and hope they may be use- slept in airy rooms—lived for health— I do not need to send so often for tha doctor. I submit a few things for tHe sisters which T know will serve them well Here are two good recipes: Potato Buns: Boil four large pota- toes. Mash and rub through a sieve, and add two cunfuls of milk, three cupfals of flour, well sifted, with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Shape ful to some of the readers. in small cakes and bake on a buttered A Cure for Erysipelas, from an old | tin. Indian doctor, which cured my mother Creamdd Lima Beans: Boil a quart when all other remedies faile. Take | of the $helled lima beans in salted three new oyster shells, put them in | water until nearly done: drain and the stove until they are red hot, then | put them in a double boiler with a put them into a pint of cold water; | cupful of milk, a bunch of aweet herbs when cold take the shells out and use | and a litilé parsi Let them simmer the water several times each day, the | tilldthoroughly tender. Then add half oftener the hetter. This mple rem- cupful of cream. beaten up with the edy cured the erysipelas in my moth- [fyolk of an egz. Stir till the sauce is er's face which was spreading daily fhot; do not let it boil. Season with in_spite of all the doctors could do. [salt and pepper, and serve immedi- How to Cook a Husband: Use a |ately. preserving kettle of porcelain: see that Here * are three household helps the linen in which you wrap him is | Which I can recommend: If a baby's ankles are weak, dissolve a hdnd ful of sea salt in a quart of raig and bathe them every morning nicely washed and mended; tie him in the kettle with a strong silk cord call- ed comfort. (Like lobsters. you have t0 cook them alive). Make a clear, steady fire, out of love, neatness and A mnl > remedy for sick headache is a. drink made by squrezing the juice of a lemon into a half glass of cold water. cheerfulness; add a littie sugar in the | v form of kisses, but no pepper or esar on amy account. Do mnot pierce adding a pinch of sugar and a half him with fork to see if he is ten- | teaspoon of ba soda. Drink while der; stir Him gently and watch him | it is efferv, closely and you will not fail to know { I suffe 1 when he is done, If thus treated you | ine and mon juice in equal parts will find him very digestible, agre | thoroug and pour on the affected with you and the children. and he will ver with cotton batting and keep as long as vou want unless you | Pour some of the mixture on the coson become careless and set him in \\141}7"“"'|Eh to soak through. Don't re- cold a place. moye the cotton, but pour the mixture RURAL DELIVERY. on three or four times a day, as long | Dinielesn: as the itching continues. It is Poth soothing and healing. SARAH JANE. To Remove Grass Stains. Dear Sisters of the Social Corne SR e i It is a duty to be kind toward eve body—the whole world around us and | . A,s“gg"""" Sl o] the whole world within us are ruled | Bditor Social Corner: Will vou al- | by law. To the sister who would like | 10w me to make a suggestion? If so to have a recipe for srass stains. They | here it is. Why can we not make our are dissolved by alcohol; if on white | Circle’s first Thanksgiving a memora~ goods, cream of tartar and water will |[Ple one by exchanging ideas and remove them; if on any delicate color menus for our Thanksgiving dinner. | use alcohol and afterward iT think a great many of us prepare about the same dishes, and in the same spots with a clean white cloth, molst- . ened .with water, then dry. Green | nanner, vear after year, and we all stains: from ‘grass -or vegetables may |Know Jjust awvhat our dinner is to. be alfio’ be removed with molasses, then |long before it is served. Now if each Washed in eold water. I've just taken |one of the circle should tell how she | a grass stain out of white cloth that |PT¢ her dishes, many of could was ground in badly, and dried in, by | °BJoY a 8r fier yariely, ”_"f’“l X “]‘f'r"’ the use of molasses spread on an. let | the same only prepared n @it lie #jii-sonled through. apd washed in | [SreNt~manner. Or why mot offer the cold water twice and W again | principal; prize toithe, one sendink in Satthi mbatia i then hot o irana ““xm‘ bfes( menu to c.)s:ma gnspn t 3 d rubbed again. When |80¢ for a given number o £0ns dx;{:(‘ljgrl‘lo él.:g:,‘d “r::bwdbl:g:;e". you to suggest the amount, also the Success to all of the Soc Corner- |number to be served. I think we ; FRANEK, | Wwould all enjov the rivalry as well as Mdsaup 3 gaining knowledge. One of our mem- R o bers asked for 2 receipt for removing TR rass stains. Here is a very simpla! - A Wife's Duty. e R e S s Editor Social Corner: I find my-lon the stained parts and let stand a self quietly asking myself what wifely |short time: wash in the usual way. duty is? Tt seems to me that it lies | This can be used on white or colored tprincipally in good self-government |glothes MARIE. and efficient home service. Living for Norwich. the elevation of myself and for the e R Y . a0 and’ comfort lof . others, T con- [The editor of the Social Corner has ceive that each member of a family | been contemplating such a plan a lit- must map out a career and live it gov- | tle Jater on. and the ladies maj S erned by the principles inculcated and |as well begin to prepare for it. What we shall want is the best dinner for the interpretation each one puts upon five for the least price. We want bills | of good example is sometimes benefi- cial and sometimes not. My husband does some things which annoy me and Social Corner.] I doubtless say and do things which HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS. disturb him. [ have ceased to nag| REditor Social Corner: It gives me him. I will not have him nag me. I |pleasure to mention, the use of one haye learned the value of silence |method in the problem of household where other men and women voice |econimics, which has proved of critical remarks which lead to family |practical value in the art of house- disturbances. We are two individuals | keeping. T have referred to keeping a with different tastes and must jive ou separate lives as we w them, not as they are viewed by another My duty 1 find is to live according to n best light and to preserve a harmoni- account of all receipts and | expenditures in connection with the household. A debit and credit item- | zed account, to be opened on the first, balanced and closed on the last day of nmn(h]_\‘ ous relation to my family and social [the month. Such an account is easy circle, T am not a governor of any |to keep and any one can try it. At one else, hence. the peace is conserved |the end of the month. various amounts and 1 find considerable enjoyment. paid. on items of the same kind may Piainfield, CLARA. be condeused. The items can then be v classified and with the n;i}’m’:l'ntdlfl)l' . : each one, entered under the headline A Homeshiadentough Remedy of monthly statement. This will give Fditor Social (forner: Now that cold weather is coming. it is well enough to have on hand ready" remedies for colds. in a brief form the total expense for the month. The practical use of the A coli promptly attended to will soon | St "”a"r;'“s“.’r"pfv‘""a‘}-‘" “‘":“li'w:s’? ‘:2;‘. be oared “‘h(’,'l;‘:l;"'!',fl‘ ;“’“’I‘}”’_"_‘f‘ 'f";'lf is very practical household economy. e e A G ety cough, | A_monthly statement of current ex- e of sllpper}’ ahn. i flasaid and panse is useful for comparison, and mdmu Soak & gill of whole Xsoods | DOt detrimental in any way to the f:gha'lf et got boiimote fluxsests | nealth. prosperity and happiness!of the another dish put ‘a cupful of hrol "\‘\‘f”"\:l:\hhuuwk(e.... A. T, W. bits of slippery elm, and cover this, | ° el D alko, with boiling water; s o h stand for two or three howrs, thea PIES. strain each through a muslin cloth tats Sisters of the Sdcial Corner: 4 saucepan containing a gound and a | Wonder if there is any on: who does not like pies? Yet pies are one of the of indigestion. I have tried! and baking powder in the crust, half of ;mnulmed sugar; all the “fea ou can frow the bags and sur into the s all.is meued Then boil umll it Turns |but Hubby decided that he must give tw candy; after it has cooked “=n min- | them up. So he suggested a substi- | utes, add the juice of two lew; tute. for the ¢ . We tried it and the mixture. When it is cooked s find it wor all right Now the clently, pour it out on greased grocer delivers it at twelve cents a or into a shallew. well gre pound. Just graham wafers, or crack- an’l mark off inte squares hef ers. It much time and labor hardens. Good for the childrer iland they * We use them coughy ‘ only for lm\ er crust. For the filling, {Thy, who do not over-eat or who nearly all kinds can be prepared. as buh face and neck in cold water sel- for any pies, only make it more firm | tu 1 a cut in squares to will be - dr course square tins a) ing. I have the foundation fourth of an inch “unfired” food does nicely. dates, a pear and a ang’ no sugar. good. I have numerous names for the little ples. Time to close my letter, Norwich. [CHE. MEETING CHRISTMAS HALF WAY. Editor Social Corner:, Christmgas does not come but once a vear: and to many people of limited means that is often enough, for it is a severe tax unless methodically dealt with, When a body begins to prepare for Christ- mas in October, the work is more complete, and more easily accomplish- ed. To begin early to plan and to do makes the task much easier. So many little things can be gotten together during the next few months, and hav- ing them on hand will save many a weary hour later on when the work of the season crowds. Many pretty things can be made at odd times, and at little expense; and odd things may be bought very much cheaper in the stores than when the stock is fancy, and the prices ar2, too. One who has tried this plan where m2ans were short, declares that it is the ideal way of accomplishing the work easily. Those who would lighten up the bur- den*might give the plan a trial. RUTH. Danielson. TO PROPERLY WASH TROUSERS. Editor Social Corner: There are so many ways of doing things that the better w: is often lost sight of, al- though that is what all are seekipg after. It might be a help to yvoung women to know how to properly wash trousers, as a professional does it, for they look more ship-shape when done. First shaka or ‘bruch out all dust and lint, then wash thoroughly in warm (not hot) soap suds, rubbing and squeezing with the hands. Do not rub soap on any part, except the worst spots, which should be treated befora the garment goes into the wash, rinse through two rinse waters. not wringing, but allowing them to drip as vou squeeze them. After the last rinsing, turn wrong side out and hang out of doors in a perfectly shady place, pinninifiv.hem to the line by th> waistband, ing enough pins so they may hang haturally without sagzing. . Watch closely and as fast as the water collects in the hems press it out with a cloth between both hands. Before they get quite dry, carefully press them with a hot flat- iron on the wrong side, afterwards turning them and creasing down the front of each leg. If these directions are followed they will look like new, %ith no apparent shrinking. Another way of drying them, or rtather get- ting the water out of ithem ‘pre- paratory to drying them, is to begin at the bottom of one leg, roll it up, smoothing as you go to avoid wrinkles, and as the cloth is rolled tightly and saueezed between the hands, the water is pressed out. When both legs have been rolled, treat the body in the same way. then hang out to get nearly dry and iron with a hot flat iron, pressing heavily. This will prove to be most satisfactory if the rules are closely followed. ANNA LAURA. Preston. TOLLAND COUNTY. STAFFORD Vacation Night at Grange—Plans for Harvest Home Evening Programme. At last wesk’s meeting of Stafford grange vacation reports of the mem- bers made up the programme. Amus- ing and interesting anecdotes were given by all present. T. A. Lasbury” gave a solo. At the next meeting, Oct. 4, a harvest home programme will he presented, consisting of seasonable readings and mu An _exhibition of the product of farr field or kitchen will be shown., every member contrib- uting or paying a fine of five cents. Misses Alice and Lucy Matthews of Hartford spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hough. . Joseph Reed Is clerk in the store f, Jenkins. am Preble and Mrs. Sidney Watson of Madison, Me., are guests of Mr, and Mrs. F. A, Lasbury. SPRING HILL Mrs. B. M. eSars has returned to her home after a month's stay at Atlantic City with Mrs. C. Havens. Mrs. C. C. Davis and daughter Frances attended the 25th anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Gurley’s wad- ding in Lebanon on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Gurl formerly lived here. Monday evening officers and teach- = of the Baptist church Sunday school met at Superintendent W. P. Wildes' to talk over church matters. A. Cadwell, of the firm of Stern- burg & Cadwell of Hartford, the con- tractors for the state road, has pur- chased a new automobile. Pastor and Mrs. Smith and Mrs. W. P. Wildes attended the Ashford Bap- tist association in Brooklyn on Tues- day and Wednesday. Owing to the rain not =0 many as expacted were present. BOLTON The Ladies' Sewing society met with Mrs, Charles N. Loomis Thursday aft- Sperry of South Glaston- ing her sister, Mrs. F. E. John Quinn, Miss Katherine and Miss Bessie Murphy have to Hartford after spending months with Mrs. J. J. Quinn returned nearly two Sweeney. J. J. Sweeney and family have re- med to their home in South Man- chester after having spent the sum- mer in Rev, William J. McGurk's cot- s | tage. London was Mrs. Rev. A, recant W. E. Goff of New guest of his daughter, Howell. New Bedford's Growth. New Bedford, a cotton manufacturing city, shows a decennial population gain of 54.8 per cent., while Fall River, also a cotton manufacturing ecity, also with tidewater location, shows a gain of only 13.7 per cent. What is tha reason for this great difference in favor of New Fedford? Tt is obviously con- nected in some way with the cotton manufacturing business. but does it He merely the fact that Fall River works on the coarsar line of goods while New Bedford specializes witl the finer grades? I this is the cases why did Messrs. Aldrioh and Lodge in the last tariff revision increase the rates only on the finer goods, which were evidently less in need of more protection than the line of produet prevalent at Fall River? The latter city would seem to have a grievance against the late tariff revisers from New England. But cofton mill men eepecially those located at New Bed- ford—claim that that city has ‘a cli- mate more favorable for the manufac- ture of fine cottong than any othr place in America. Its atmwosphere is s4id to approximate in dampness thot which is enjoyed by the Lancashire (Fng.) nameacturers.—sSpringfield Re- publican. H. For More Than Three Decades Foley's Honey and Tar has been 8 houschold favorite for coughs eol and ailments of the throat, chest ga lungs. cCuntnhu ne opiates.