Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 20, 1911, Page 12

GOOD MANAGEMENT‘IS BETTER THAN GOOD INCOME THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $250 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to third. Aws-d made the last Saturday in each month. EVERY WOMAN The Bulletin wants good home lét ful letters of any kind the mind may Wednesday of each week. Write on b Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDIT THE SOCIAL CORNER STORIES. To the members of the Social Cor- ner the special stories are of more| than common interest. There are a; half dozen beside the prize-winners, or enough for three months’ use. The story to be printed next week will he “Alice Alden’s Surprise,” by Patty Emerald. We have another story by Ruth; and stories by “Ma” and “E. T. C.” and “Experience,” and others which will appear in their turn. The eriginal story contest disclosed the fact that we have some very nice story-writers—that the Secial Corner | has attracted many able and enter- | taining contributors. A CHATTY LETTER FROM SWEET LAVENDER, Dear Social Corner Editor:—This is; Jlorinua morning and I am going to | write just a few lines. A few words to “Eudor? Your letter is nice on Friends. ndeed, a true. true friend | does mean a good deal: and your thougivs on Mothers' day are beau- | tiful. Yes; 1 am getting nicely sa!-l tled and am planning to give a small | At Heme dinner to a party of twelve on Fvkday. As it is eur third anni- | versary, 1 shall plan everything and | do evesything myself and shall be in my glory. Don’t you love to do for ot;nera? For “Just Us”: Yes, overeat; but as you say, everyvthing so | tempting has lots to deo with it. I just love codfish, potatoes and those John- we do often ny cales. Why, when I go by your| house I‘m Just €o; n for dinner. | Dear M. Roena: hanks for your nice note. Yes, I love flowers, fresh | aa- and those chiaks. My sweet peas| * ;lmh. Everything is spring- i te thank Frank of Moosup. I am —nlonn‘ who he or she may be, for T have several dear friends in your home town: but have not been thers for some time. I am alwm's much in- terested in yoyr writi rwieh. \VEE‘T LA\ ENDER. A RECIPE “THAT WORKED. THAT | Dear Editor and Sisters of the So ml] Corner:—1 wish to thark the aged ter who signed” Bomestiic,” for a rec pe how to use cascara bark and olive | ofl. It is just tne thing. It does its: work like a charra. T am 68, and I find | aged people and children do not need ! strong medical treatment at all times. Dear sister, do give us somme more. Help us ziong Norwich Town A H. A WORD FROM BUSY B. B, A. Dear Sisters of the Seocial Corner: — T have been reading the Social Corner mews, and was muéh pleased with my dream, and thank Ruth for making the Social Corner story so interesting | to m If we only could have such nice ireuns and have them come out | =0 d- it would be a great pleasure | to dream. 1 T alse want to thank Siweet Laven- | der for her recipe. I tried it and it was all right and very handy to have when eggs are scarge. | T have been very busy cleaning | could not find time to write; although | T toek time to read the Social Corner news. T have a couple of verses I think are nice fer the Social Corner sisters: Sisters! There's music here. From countless harps it flows, Througheut this bright celestial sphere No pause nor discord knows. Joy! I am mute noe more; My sad and silent vears, With their loneliness, are Sweet sisters, dry vour o'er; tears. B. B. " TESTED CAKE RECIPES. Editor Social Corner:—1I send you a few cake recipes that are very nice: Velvet .Cake—One and a half cups ot | eugar, one-half cup of butter, three | egg yolks, four egg whites well beaten, one-half cup of epid water, one and a half cups of fletir, cre-half cup ot eornsiareh, .twe level teaspoons of baking = powder. Flavor to taste: cream, bufter and sugar: add beaten egx yYolks.and water: mix and sift the dry ents and add to the butter and s ; lastly, whites ef the eges. White Peund Cake—Omne cup of su- gar, one-quarter cup of butter, whites of twe eggs beaten, one-half cup of milk, one heaping teaspoon of baking powder sifted in one and three-quar- ters cups of flour. Flavor with lemon ! and vanilla. Snew-hall Cake—One cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of sweet milk, two cups eof flour. whites of three eggs well beaten, one-half tea- spoon spde. one teaspoen of cream tartar sifted in the flour. Flavor with vanHla. Hermits—One and a brewn half te: half cups of | gar, one cup of butter, one- n of seda dissolved in two ta! of haot water, three eggs, a li nutmeg, pigch of salt one and 3 half cup: of seafled raisins, three and | f aups of in whieh one tea- apm of or temtar has been sifted and ong-qu cup of buttermilk: 'm‘, is just as good). Drop from the e€poon in disewnnected cak Cecoanut Ceokies—Three eggs, one | cup of "sugar. one cup of butter, one cup of ceceanut, three tamlespoons of | sweet milk, one teaspoon of baking | — - — Clear Brains and good spirits come naturally when the stomach is up to its work. the liver and bewels active and the blood gure. Better con- ditions always‘fellow the use of BEECHAM'S PILLS SeldEverywhere. Inboxes 10¢, and 25¢. SRR AR ek TT SE ! my short-comings and lack of grace, | tive 'S OPPORTUNITY. ters, good business leiters; good help- suggest. They should be in hand oy ut one side of the paper. OR, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conn. powder one teaspoon of vanilla, flour enough to roll. These cookies require | ahquick oven and must be rolled very | thin. Lebanon. “LOCISE.” RECIPES FOR CAKE. Dear Editor of the Social Corner:— Herewith I send recipes for cake: Drop Cake—One cup of brown su- gar, one cup of molasses, one egg, one cup of sour milk, one teaspoon of soda in milk, one-half cup of melted lard, four cups of flour, salt and spices. Drop with spoon on pan about two inches apart. Caramel Cake—Two eggs, one cup ot | sugar, one-quarter cup of butter, one- half cup of milk, one and a half cups| of flour, one teaspoon of cream tartar,! one-half teaspoon of soda. Bake in| two square tins. Caramel Filling—One cup of sugar, three-quarters cup of milk, butter the size of 2n egg. Stir and boil 15 min- utes. Beat till cold and flavor with| vanilla. Plain Cake—Half cup of molasses, one-half cup of sugar. one-half cup ot sour milk, (sweet milk will do,) one- | basket I may call again and chat with home is on the west side of Sound, one of the finest bodies of water in the world, with a fine harbor and a great deal of traffic; and we ‘have many beautiful lakes—three right in_the city. I have tried several recipes mention- ed in tite Sb6cial Corner. To Sweet Lavender: I found your oat meal bread excellent. Patty Emerald: social law, “believe our as all others, will be when <¢woman will be ‘when ‘women Vvote. Seems to me if a woman abides by or is punished by the laws. she should have a voice in their making. I cannot see how voting will interfere with household duties or make one less womanly. I voted at our two last city elections. Many women voted, and we were treated with as much courtesy as one could wish for. Wem- en pay taxes, and if mothers, wives, and sisters can help make our laws, I think there wiil be better conditions for the coming generations. I hope so. I am sending a recipe for apple sauce cake. It may be new to some of the sisters: [ A,nple Sauce Cake—One and a quar- ter cups of warm unsweetened apple sauce. To it add two level teaspoons- ful of baking soda, one cup sugar and three quariers cup of lard; beat till light: add two cups of flour, one cup of chopped raisins, pinch of salt ana spice to_taste. in a moderate oven. No eggs are used. If this missive don’t find the waste the sisters. Seattle. Success to you all. POTLATCH. QUICKLY PREPARED DISHES. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner:— I am sending a few tested recipes that are easily and quickly prepared, which I hope will help some of the busy Sis- trs who are at spring cleaning, or en- gaged in making flower beds: Five Minute Soup — Cut slices of stale bread into small dice; melt some butter in frying pan and when the diced bread has been nicely browned, add hot milk in proportion to the bread used: season with pepper and salt and serve as soon as it has boiled up once. Hard Boiled Egg Salad—Cut in teaspoon soda, small piece shorten- ing, che egg. one teaspoon cinnamon, one-half teaspoon cloves scant, a lit-| tle salt; add flour the same as ror\ gingerbread; bake in a moderate. ov en.- Fruit Cake without Eggs—To ome! cup of sugar creamed with one cup| of butter (or good drippings) add one‘ cup of molasses and beat, then add one | cup of seur milk, and one teaspoon of | soda, and ceat again. Add cinnamon and clove to taste; pinch of salt and| three cups of flour. Beat well and | add one cup of raisins. Bake in a moderate oven. CLARA CF South Canterbury. A HANDY EGG-GATHERING BAG. Dear Sisters:—I want to tell B. B. A, CANTERBURY. why T was the first to arrive at the picnic. I am always on time, like Phileas Fogg. If 1 had an engag ment at 7.16, at just 7.16 T would wa! in. M. Y.Nella of Yantic: I am glad it| what T write about chickens is help- | {ful to vou, for you know that is the fourth prize! A handy bag to gather eggs in is made by cutting two ezg- | shaped pieces about half a yard long, | of common canvas or other heavy | goods. Make a dozen pockets on each, such as are on slipper cases; sew them together and bind. Cut a hole near the top large enough so it can be car- ried on the arm. Bind that also. One egg goes in each pocket., so there is no_breaking. You can put that on your Christmas list. If for a gift it would be cute to | outline seme poultry motto or design on it. If you see a design you want| to use a good way to get it is to hold | it on the window with a paper over it on which to draw the design. Baste| on to goods and tear out the paper| after it is outlined. ‘Waterford. MA. THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE. Editor Social Corner:—I suppose | each one has his (or her) nnll’nnn as | to the real “Head of the House.” P@T-, sonally, T think that title should be- | long to the wage-earner and should . | therefore count it a married woman's misfortune if she was obliged to accept that position and its responsibility. No true woman cares to be the head of her family if she can only be its heart, for it is her privilege to be the heart, | both of her husband and her home. \ Ruskin says: “You cannot think that | the buckling on of the knight's armor | by his lady’s hand was a mere caprice | of romantic fashion. It is the type ot | an eternal truth that the soul's armor is never well set to the heart unless a woman’s hand has braced it. and it is only when she braces it lonsfll\ that the | henor of womanheed fai Isn’t that responsibility enough for any woman? Let us each try to brace well our knight's armor so that it may | not fail him in the battle of life. Pl'SSY WILLOW. LIVING D/ DAY BY DAY. i Dear Sisters of the Corner:—When | the work that lies before me seems | more than I can do, when troubled over i i when ‘worrfed over daily needs, thought comforts and helps me: that | I can live only one day at a time: this day is the one I must account for new. Tomorrow I may not have. If through the Lord’s grace it is granted viill be just ome more day, li th ch day’'s needs the daily Strenfi'th e is sgiven if asked for. It is * to do today’'s work if we do not tomorrow’s. It is easier to be if we do not stop to thinn times we shall fail in the Let me quote a few heip some on dread good today how, many coming days. lines that I hope may “ “Lord! for tomorrow T do not pray; Keep me, my God, Just for today; and its needs | from stain of si Let me no wrong or idle word Unthinking say: Set thou a seal upon my lips, Just for today. So, fer tomorrow and its needs T do not pray; | But keep me, guide me, love ma[ Lerd, Just for today.” HEPATICA. i A NICE LETTER FROM SEATTLE. Editor and Friends of the Soci Corner:—Alay I join the band of ters of the Social Corner? I am a n daughter of old Connecticut, | though the west has been my heme= for many years. After living in several states, T find Washington just the best of all. Perhaps the many hills remind me of my New England home. Through the kindness of our Sister Hettie Marie, I am enjoying the let- ters of The Courier. Sometimes I find a familiar name; but many of my girl- heod chums have passed away. I have just been reading C. G.’s letter about | wild flowers. ell I remember: them all; and the pleasure it gave me . 0 search for them in childhoed's davs: There are many nice wild flowers in Weatern Washington. but nome pret- | tier than we used to find in Connecti- | cut. though the state flower of each is mueh the same. The earlier flowers | halves the hard boiled eggs and place ! tion of a true friend I am capable ot | sore trial or affliction through the love | expectation of reward are not as num- | | tent will | may come true. on crisp lettuce leaf, with a spoonful of mustard dressing. Another way ot serving is to cut the eggs lengthwise, take out the volks and mix with sar- dines, ham, or chicken, and refill the white boats and place on each a spoon- ful of dressing. Batter Short Cake—To one egg add one-fourth cup of sugar, butter size of an egg, one cup sweet milk, two | teaspoons baking powder and two cups of flour. This is flne for strawberries, toc, the Qq!no the mw: ‘white 'Mrchel grew. Wmit l;:::ry sl‘.ione walls ‘%z:‘v:'red o'er h and creepi Where juicy hncklebi’:gfle- BTew. So shiney, black and fine, The odor of the sweet fern 1 well remember, too, Tt always seemed so plenty ‘Where the milk white birches grew. The sweet pond lilies grew upon ‘The margin of the streams, The red schoolhouse, swing, The oxen with their load, And the milk white birches growing Along beside the road. I dwell upon Lake Erie’s shore, The scenery is sublime, ‘With beauty spots that would no doubt Inspire the poet’s rhyme. The country’s nice and level, Yet "twould fill me with delight, To see a stony hillside Covered o’er with birches bright. the s‘rapevine The grass is green, the flowers fair, That by the wayside grow, Perhaps the birds sing just as As in the long ago. ‘We have dainties for the table, And breakfast foods galore, But they only make me hungry For a Johnny cake once more. I long for “huckleberry jam,” And cider ‘“‘apple sass” That's been kept in a wooden tub Made out of sassafras, Rye biscuit, made with buttermilk, And a good fat Johnny cake, A double-crusted yellow one Like mother used to make. I'm on the down hill side of life, Yet fortune's been most kind, I have my home and loved ones, And little fault to find, But my cup of bliss will ne’er be fuli TUntil once more I go To my boyvhood home, where Johnny cakes And milk white birches grow. ROBERT DUANE BROMLEY. Geneva, Ohio. [We do not intend to print poems in the Social Corner; but this one is gooa enough to print anywhere and we know it will please the sisters.—The Ed.] BLUE BELL'S WAY OF HOUSE- CLEANING. Dear Editor of the Social Corner:— May I join the Social Corner? I enjoy the sisters's letters so much that T would like to join heart and hand with them. I like what “Eudora” -has to say about “Friendship”; just my own thought is that we should be more The true and noble way to kill a foe is not to kill him; you with kindness m ay so change him that he shall cease to be a foe, and then he is slain.—Aleyn. Kind words produce their own image in men’s souls: and a beautiful image it is.—Pascal. Kindness is the onfi' charm permitted the aged; it 8 the coquetry uf white hair.—Feuillet. raspherrie s or currants, and is little! trouble to make. Saturday was my birthday and my hair is streaked with gray. I was not born with a silver spoon inmy mouth, or with a May flower in my hand, but, dear sisters of the Social Corner,I am rours in flowers, yours in fun and yours in every good thing under the sun. Moosup. FRANK. WHAT 1S TRUE FRIENDSHIP. Editer Social Corner:—I wish to thank the sisters for the kind words they have written of me; and I must con- fess that I feel most unworthy of | them. “Eudora” wants me to.tell her how to know a true friend: and the reply is not so easy for me to make. We have acquaintances and companionable neighbors and social playmates and | some of us call them all friends—and they may be; but they are not the friend in need who is a friend in deed. The human heart is always able to | recngnize a true friend. 1 intimated in my former letter that through Christlikeness true friendship is wrought. Now this is the best defini- giving “Eudora”: “A true friend is the friend who cemes to us in time of and inspiration of God, not from any human motive—comes whén all who we thought were our friends have been ‘tried and found wanting. She imperils hersel? to help us and in amazement we recognize that we are not able to suitably pay or reword her and that | she wants neither pay nor reward. This is when the heart says softly to us: “This is true friendship;” and we feel that a tie has been established which can never be breken. Inguire how she came to_do it, and she says: “I felt that I must do as I would be done Dby.” Having a Friend herself she feltim- pelled to be such a friend; and it seems to"me as if Christlikeness some- times visibly manifests itself in such a way as this. These hlessed people who do the nicest things for their fellows without erous as they should be, or held in| such high esteem as they deserve to| be. Some of the sisters may be able to da‘ much better than this for “Eudora,” and T hope any one who feels compe- offer their ideas upon this subject to her. RUTH. COMMENTS BY RURAL DELIVERY. Editor Social Corner:—We wish to thank the editor for the prize for our | little =tory in the Social Corner. Wa shall keep it as a “souvenir’ from The Bulletin, as it .the first money we ever received for an article frem a| paper or a magazine. We were very much pleased with| the story. “Peaceful Preams,” by Ruth. If she should dream it twice more it Let us hope so. If we seemed somewhat embarrassed ! in the dream. it should be remember=d | that Father and myselfwerethe only | men folks there, and we could not be! expected to be very entertaining o the | sisters of the Seocial Corner, as we| would not understand the correct style | of the nmew skirts, or the spring hats | that turn up and down—mwhich have | come to stay—and are something like | a dream. The Social Corner letters are more and more interesting every week; and we can hardly see how The Builetin could get along without the; many good thinzs suggested by the W\'lters Has John, Jim or Charles sthat flewer zarden ready vet wh)ch vill make the place mere like home @han a place of hard work with peer p@yv? RURAIL DELIVERY Daniclsoa. { them then. careful what we say to our friends, so as not to hurt them in any way; also what we say about them. Friendship is to do and say the kind- est things in the kindest way. Perhaps it is rather late for house- cleaning hints; but I think a good way to clean house is to clean all the closets and cupboards first, so that when we come to a room that has a closet or cupboard opening ,out of it we have not got to stop and clean I think that I can save time by doing this way. Also, finish the room that we are cleaning be- fore we begin on another, so as not to have but one room to think of at a time. 1 must tell “Eudora” that I have read her letter over and over. It was such a nice letter, I think that she wrote it for me. May I come again sometime? Norwich. BLUE BELL. A METHOD FOR HOUSECLEANING. Dear Social Corner Editor: —It seems good to be able to talk with you and the dear ones of the Social Corner. Muzh has been said of friendship that is helpful. “The only way to have a friend is to be one’” is my special guide on the subject: with it has come a belief that perhaps something from my own book of experience may help a sister. So many have helped me I wish I might give in exchange some- thing worth while. Is it too late for a few words of suggestion relative to housecleaning? First of all, feel fit yvourself. Choose pleasant days and limit the work outlined to what vour usual strength admits. Do one room, or at most two, at 2 time. I do the closets, trunks, boxes, dresser drawers and all other closed things, first. These done, clothing aired, sorted, packea away and sealed in newspapers: now for the room itself. Pictures are careful 1y dusted. glasses washed and polish ed, frames gone owver with crude oil, bric-a-brac cleaned and laid away, windews washed on the ‘inside, cur- tains aired and brushed or washed as needs demand,—then rest. The next day take up rugs or carpet’ and have same beaten or cleaned with vacuum cleaner, which is best of all. Wipe ceiling and walls with soft flan- nel bag or broom, sweep floor very carefully, having previously removed and thoroughly cleaned each movabl article of furniture. Go over wood work with damp rag, then with oiled. Serub floors with goed strong ammo- nia ‘water: when dry return rugs in place, settle the room and before vou realize it, it is done. and a sweet sense of comfori _gteals over you to think that roem is clean. Days vou knew will be the busiest, have hubby carry his dinner to work, ; or where that is impossible, plan a “left-over dinner, such as a stew warmed up or a meat pic cooked in the oven that requires no watching. Above all, take time to eat and forget the | vexations Meat Pie—Put through the meat grinder two cups cold meat, beef, lamb or veal, ene cup bread er cracker crumbs, two tablespeens fiour stirred smoeth in milk, about one and half | cups milk er 'water. Season high. Now | put this mixture in a deep baking dish; using potato ricer: potatoes, Ietting potatoes drop on the heef. Season potatess with salt, pep- per and buiter. Pour gently one-quar- ter cup we milk on top of pie and dot top with buiter. Bake 25 minutes in slow ecven. Bran Bread — Two cups of bran, not sieved: one cup wheat’ flour, salt, one teaspoon baking soda, one-half cup meolasses, one and a half cups milk or water, (ene egg if de- sired: it adds much): Bake three- quarters of an heur in mederate av. Hoping seme of the sisters will try the recipes here given, I will clese with in cedar shavings or wrapped rice six or eight $3. Balance of our Sais at Wash Suits and Dresses 08 flellly redueed prices. Special lot of Ladies’ Hats at. 51.90 to $5.90 Ladies’ Sailors 98:,»751_4.'25, $1.50 sw| Children’s Hats--Sp:cial lot--50¢, $1.00, $1.75 Children’s Straw Bonnets 98¢ to $1.98 Memorial Day will soon new suit and hat. gains and buy today. be here and you will want a Take advantage of the above bar- every good wish for the cheery Social Corner and all it includes. JANE. WHOLESOME, INEXPENSIVE FOOD Editor Social Corner:—I started out to give you a list of food for each meal for seven days; but found there were too many ways to prepare the same piece of meat. and have it entirely different. Do you ever say: “I don’t know what on earth to cook or have for dinner?” It seems to me there are 80 many dishes we can make, we might leave that question out. I will tell you how we have lived for past years: For breakfast it has been different cereals, such as oats, cream of wheat, grape nuts, bread and buttter, fried potatoes, doughnuts, cookies, postum. ‘We have meat once a day: all the vegetables we can get in the season. | I make lots of -puddings, such as rice, Indian, sea moss, cream of wheat ana grape nut, cracker and bread pud- | dings. I have eaten dainty desserts that were good, but not wholesome and nu- tritious and too expensive for a large family. For supper I taught the children to have cracker and milk—all they want- ed. Plain cooking always on hand. Until they were four or five they had little else; and their bedtime was 5 o’clock until five, and went to bed on a full stomach and no indigestion. The older ones weuld eat with us, and 90 times out of 100 they would have crackers and milk in preference ! to_sauce and bread and butter. If there were any extra pennies they were always spent for milk, which they more than relished. Our milk bill is more than our meat bill, as I consider it a food as well as drink. I give them all the eggs we can afford—not for | breakfast; they are served for din- ner. I make different kinds of bread— first one, then another—wheat, oat- meal. graham, entire wheat, brown bread and Indian, and entire wheat gems and Johnny cake. These are all good, when made good. I seldom ever frv meat or make pies. I think fruit ‘is wvery healthy buy it when I can. We eat canned fruit. What we cannot buy I stew and make myself. I send various bread recipes: | Brown Bread—One cup sour milk, two cups rve and Indian meal, one cup molasses, two cups boiling water; add teaspoon saleratus and salt. Entire Wheat Bread—One quart of water, two quarts Haxall flour, one quart entire wheat flour, two table- Spoons sugar, ome-quarter cup mo- lasse: salt, two tablespoons lard, | scant, ome and. half Congress yeast cake. KINDLINESS BRINGS SATISFAC- TION. ! Dear Editor of the Social Corner:— There are so many questions dis- cussed in The Corner that one never tires of reading the letters, amd it seems to me the sisters show a ! breadth of mind in the various dis- cussions ihat is at least refreshing. ‘Whatever accomplishments may be | credited to man in the commercial world and the werld of learning, after all woman's influence is the greatest factor in the real progress of the world. Let her do all in her pewer to further justice and uphold 'the right and many of the puzsling social questions which new cofifront us will be settled forever in a dignified man- ner. I would like to cite an instance in the experience of a friend of mine: A woman who supposedly has reached the age of discretion had a fancied grievance against this yvoung friend of | | mine, and instead of going to her in| a quiet and refined manner and asking for an interview, which would have been the Christian and womanly solu- | tion of the problem, she decided to! arrange for a party to which she would invite everyv one in the little community but the young woman against whom she had the imaginary grievance. Result: Much unfavorable | comment. On her undignified action, many little stories of past like actions | on her part, unkind criticisms of her| husband. who presumably knew of her intentions, and many kind remarks of | and abeut the young woman. Now, | who was the gainer in this incident? | Certainly mnot the older woman who | harbored unkind feelings in her | | heart. | Life is so short. and we must all| come te the last day when, as we re- | view our life we shall recall with ! happiness the gaod deeds we may have | done and with regret and pain remem- { ber any unkind acts. I like to think of what a friend said recently: “Did it ever oeecur to you that one of the mest beautiful things about Nature is the very evident har- mony of her laws and the all-pervad- | ing peace which impress one when in | solitary communion with Nature?” { Man is a sociable creature, and in or- der to live peaceably 'with those about us it is necessary to live according to the wise precepts of the Golden Rule. Storrs. PATTY EMERALD. THE BRIGHT MAY SUNSHINE. Dear Ed r and Sisiers of the So- cial Corner:—Hbw our litile worries | and cares disappear befere the bright | .ee, May sunshine! It seems as though ine one whe is observing the wonder- ful changes taking place hourly be- fore us can long remain unhappy. ‘What is rarer than a day in June! is an old question.-and without wish- and } feathered warhlers all unite in a mag- nificent chorus of song, pouring forth their joy and thanksgiving to the great Creator. scene of fresh beauty and lovelinese, for the earth, refreshed by the show ers which visited us while we slum- bered, seemed even, more beautiful than yesterday. e fresh earth- smell, combined with the fragrance emitted by hundreds of blossoms of trees, made the air exhilarating in its sweetness, and our own heart joins the song of the birds in thanksgiving to our Heavenly Father, who has given us such a beautiful home here. Colchester. GLENWOOD. Too Talkative. The following story is told of the famous painter Makart: The artist was a very passionate chess player, but he did’not like his adversary to utter a single werd during the preg- ress of a game. A stranger who was very anxious to get on intimate terms with the famous artist thought to be able to achieve his object by means of the royal game. After many tries he succeeded at last in getting an infwo- duction to Makart, and one day the latter consented to play a game with him. Being well aware of the fact that his adversary was very much averse to any talk during the game, not a word was spoken, and evem the word ‘“check” was never spoken. All the stranger dared to de was to touch his adversary’s king when he put that | piece in check. The game ended im Makart being mated, when the stran- ger quiefly said “checkmate.” Makart rose very excitedly, threw the pleces off the board and, giviag his opponent a fierce look, got off his chair, turned his back to the stranger and exclaimed “Prattler!” Curious Way of Cooling Water. The average native woman in the in« terior of Nicaragua may appear ener- vated and listless, but her method of cooling water is stremuous indeed. She fills a hailf gallon earthenware jar about two-thirds full. The jar 15 made of baked clay and, not being glazed, is partially perous, so that it soon be- comes moist on the outside. By means of two leathern straps firmly attached to the neck of the jar the woman causes the same to retate swiftly in the air. The mouth is wide open, but the centrifugal motien keeps the water from flying out. The endurance shown by the Nicaraguan women of the poer- er class i this form of calisthenics is said to be marvelous. When, in the opinifen cf the operator, the water is sufficiently cooled she stops the move- ment by a dexterous twist of her wrist and hands the jar to the person that has been wafting to quench his thirst. By this process tepid water can be re- duced to the temperature of a very cdol mountain spring. — New York Press. An Unmanned Lightship. There is stationed off the island of Islay, on the west coast of Scetland, at the Otter rock an imteresting light- ship. It is unmgnmned, yet it can be relied on to display the warning Mght to guide the mariner on this dangerous coast. It is a very ingemiously con- structed vessel and the only ome of its kind. Im its two steel tanks sufficient gas can be stered to supply the vessel for several months. Experiments bave shown that the light may be depended upon to burn centinueusly fer months at a time. The approximate duration of the light can always be predeter- mined, and there is po danger what- ever of the light being extinguished by | wind or spray. The light is visible at | a distance of from eight to twelve miles. The lightship also has a bell, which is made to ring autematically by means of an ingenious device that utilizes the gas as it passes from the tanks to the lantern to work the bell clapper.—Harper's Weekly. AT FOUNTAINS: HOTELS, OR ELSEWHERT Get the On inal and Genuine HORLICK'S MALTED MILK Otfictsae Smitalions 'l'lwel"omlH!:inkfom&lle'fil lumx.wmnmmm ing to detract anything from the glery of a2 June day. I vet wounld ask: What ear_he more charming than a morning in May? Almost before daybreak the m A ist on ICK'S" ' h- LA HGRL This morning the sun rose upon a,