Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 1, 1911, Page 12

THE NOBLER THE BLOOD THE LESS THE PRIDE THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: third. $2.50 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to Awayd made the last Saturday In each month. EVERY WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY. The Bulletin wants good home letters, good business letters; good help- ful lettérs of any kind the mind may suggest. Wednesday of each week. Write on They should be in hand oy but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conun. THE PRIZE-WINNERS FOR JUNE To Ma, of Waterford, and Fine Chicks.” first prize To M. E. M,, of Norwich, second wiches for Outings.” To F. C. C., of Lisbon, third prize of $1.00 for letter entitled Around Our Home.” of $2.50 for letter entitled “Old Mothers prize of $1.50 for letter entitled “Sand- “Birds TO THE SISTERS OF THE SOCIAL CORNER. The repetition of the Prize Winners for June because of an error of an- mouncement shows that the Editor «f the Social Corner is human; but since results are not th affected, the annoyance of the mistake is wholly upon him. He knows how it happea- ed, but that is hardly worth explana- tion since it precludes the possibility of the same mistake being made again by him. The sending out of the prizes was delayed until the error could be corrected. We hope The C that the contributors to Corner who have not done so will sénd to The Editor their true name with their pen-name on a piece of paper, that business may facilitated. The Editor is the possessor of these names and their possession may be of future interest to contributors in various ways. Rural Delivery has decided he can- not absent himself, and has favored us this week with a facetious letter which will be greatly enjoyed by all—it is a good story. R. Duane Bromley contributes an able and helpful letter on Rose Cul- ture, and the letters are, as a whole, most informing and entertaining.— EDITOR SOCIAL CORNER. USEFUL AND ECONOMIC SUGGESTIONS. be soie Bditor Socjal Corner: Spring house- cleaning usually brings to my notice a nead certain improvements that would save labor and fretting. I have put into practical use this spring some of these improvements, and they work well One is a door pocl made of a square of dark table oileloth, with two rows of strong crash toweling stitched on across bottom and sides, and a stitching down through the middle, making four good strong pocke These will easily hold a pair of s pers and rubbers each. I mark a name at each pocket. It is very handy and now, unless someone forgets, we never hear the question, Have you seen my rubbers? or Where are my slippers? I have tacked this on the inside of the back stairs door, out of sight, and yet right at hand when needed. Another improvement is a home- made wooden paper rack with one shelf. This fastens to the wall. On one end of the shelf are magazin opposite end Sunday school quarterlies and papers in the middle. No more time lost hunting for these when wanted. My next is a money ment. We usz a spite of efforts to the bills are large. last bill I resolved aving improve- gas range. and in economize in gas When we paid our that the next 30 years of Meritorious Use is your guarantee that ANORUFF_CURF AHD«HAIRTONIG. will rid the scalp of hair~ destroying germs, and invigorate and keep your hair in prime condition. 50c. and $1.00 Coke Liquid Shampoo Scleanses the hair and scalp. Delightfully Re- freshing — large bottle, 25¢. At all Druggists. THE KELLS COMPANY 1 Johaes SL NEWBURGH, N. Y. Be Good to Yourself and the world will be good to you. The way is to keep your stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels right. And youll find great help in BEECHAM'S PILLS Sold Everywhere. I boxes 10c, and 25¢ separata | month’s bill should be smaller. I set my wits to work to find out a way, with this result: Where it took four burners to cook four things, I now use one burner to cook four things. This is the way T manage: I place a stove | cover over burner and use four tin coffee cans. I cooked today for family of four, potatoes (cut in half), peas, coffez and a stew of meat. Evervthing was well cooked. It took a little ex- perimenting, but the results are very satisfactory. Hope some of the Cornerers will try it. It has been suggestzd to me that I send account of it to Ladies’ Home Journal, but I preferred giving tne benefit of my experience to Social Corner. / For the sake of tha “weak brotner” I never use liquor of any kind in my cooking—not even cider. I have been very glad that so far recipes including these things never find their way into Social Cornar let- ters. ANNA. Norwich., HOW TO PRESERVE CURRANTS. Dear Editor and Sisters: 1 am very much interested. in Mr. Bromley's let- ters on Rose Culture. They will find a place in my S. C. Book. fa of Waterford writes very inter- ing letters. Billie of Stonington is indeed a mys- tery to me. I enjoy so many of the letters, T can hardly wait for the week to end, and Saturday I am the first to read Our Corner letters. Currants are- ripsning., so I send a few recipes I use when they are ripe: Currant Pie—Two cups currants, one and one-half cups sugar; stew a few minutes: pour into the crust on pie plate, sprinkle wzll with flour, cover with top crust and bake until done. Currant Shortcake—Make shortcake same as for strawberries, only add one quart of currants, crushed; add enough sugar to sweeten and let stand an hour or so: then pull apart the shorteaks and fill with the prepared currants. Spiced Currants—Four quarts of stemmed currants, two pounds gran- ulated sugar, one pint vinegar, one teaspoon cinnamon. cloves and allspice. Cook to a jelly; fine with meats, Currant Conserve—Put a quart of currant juice into a preserving kettle, add one quart of raspberry juice, oue pound of seedless raisins, juice of two oranges. Boil five minutes, add five pounds heatad sugar, boil unm it jel- lies, turn into glass jars. Currant Jelly—Put currants in pre- serving kettle; crush them with po- tato masher to start the juice and heat for a few minutes. Then strain and re your juice, I use a pint f sugar to a pint of juice. Put sugar in oven to heat. Boil juice about 20 min- utes, removing scum. Put in hot su- gar, boil up hard once and take from fire immediately. Pour into glasses. These recipes may help someone, and they arz all very nice, if you are fond of currants. In Lilac Time was very nice. almost say T couid I know who the Grandma was. I have in mind just such a love- ly person. And now I must say Good- Bye. MORNING GLORY. Norwich. HOW LOUISE WORKS AND SMILES Dear Editor and Sisters: I have been deeply int sted in the ‘letters published in the Social ner, and thought I would tell the sters how I marage on wash day, as it is much easier than the old way of washing, The first thing after breakfast, I put my clothes on to boil in cold wa- ler with about two tablespoons of Gold Dust to a pail of water. When they are hot and nearly ready to hoil add half a cup of kerosene oil and hoil 15 or 26 minutes; then suds, and rinse in bluing water, and your clothes will be beautifully white and clean. While this is going on I wash my dishes, sweep up the kitchen and din- ing room. do my chamber work, and then when the clothes are out, have an hcur or two to rest before® the preparation for dinner begins. 1 believe in smiles; a to esmile and keep smiling, “How smooths the rugged road.” An old man came home one evening, and his wife met him with a smile. She called him to supper with another smile. Evervthing sh> said was fol- lowed by a smile. Finally he said “0Old woman, before you go any fr taer, I would like to know what axre grinning at.” LOUISE. Jewett City. THE TAX QUESTION. it Sisters of the Social have been zomewhat interestéd by your discussion of the tax quéstion. It is a knotty question, and féew men tmderstard it, so it is not strange that women do not. The reason that wealth is taxed to maintain free schools is =0 that we may perfect a higher standard of cit- izenship and gain for all better gov- ernment and better protection. To put a head-tax cn the children of the poor would be to put a pre- mium upon illiteracy and to promote race suicide. It is a mistake to think that “the poor alien with fourteen children pays nothing but a personal tax.” He is taxed indirectly in a score of ways: and in the payment of rent and the purchase of taxed goods pays more in proportion’to his means than rich men. The free school is the glory of this Corner: I republic and lie one thing creditable to our nation is the support of ou free public schools: although, it is by the will of the majority who pay i Have any of the sisters who have xndfncc antud ot Mnct taxes that tg is n ldf the burden to et 5 S S; nnd ‘we should re; 1] conveyances and free schoolbooks and all sorts of inducement.s are offered to spread enlightenment and to make the people intelligent, prosperous and happy. s burdens of the poor; and as a prop- erty owner and taxpayer 1 feel glad to see the way of education made as in- viting and easy as possible to all. Norwich, JCGHN. COULDN'T KEEP OuUT. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: 1 have enjoyed reading the letters of the sisters very much. This is my first attempt at writing. 1 just could not stay away any long- er. Isn't it just lovely, the different ideas that the sisters can exchange? Sweet Sixteen, I should like to meet you, I know I should like you. Your letters are very interesting. And Faye Verna seems like an old friend. Billie, you must be proud of your pidther. It must seem so good to have a mother. Mine died When I was fourteen months old. Keep her as long as you can, Billie. 1 was very much interested in T. C. €., and 1 do hope she will write again. 1 shall lpok for her lettsr. Dear Blue Bell: Isn't the country just the place these warm days? Don't vou 'fesl sorry for the folks in the factories in the cities who have to work? How much of nature they miss. No city life for me. 1 was born in the country and I shall always stay there. MAYFLOWER small children given them clamp clothespins to play with? My chil- dren have played with them by the honr.. Théy can put them together and make lots of things out of them. Here is a German way to fix cucum- bers, and they are fine: To one quart of sliced cucumbers, one sliced onion, 2 tablespoons sugar, 5 tablespoons vin- 1-2 cup cream, ard mix all to- Here is a rzcipe for a good Bean Soup: One pint beans. 1 pound pork, 1 pound beef, four large onions sliced, 1 guart sliced potatoes. Salt and pep- per to taste. MAY FLOWER. THE SWEET JUNE BRIDES. Dear Editor and Sisters of the So- cial Corner: June, the dearest month to me in all the year, is almost gone; ‘but it has yielded 1ts harvest of pretty flowers, of sweet girl graduates and still sweeter brides. 1 wonder if any of the latter are readers of our Social Corner! Certainly few if any of them have written. Per- haps they imagine that they would feel out of place among so many sis- ters who confess that theif locks are already streaked with gray. My dear young sister, if you have felt this w just write and see how quickly you will be received into our midst. We will give you a hearty wel- come and with our vears of experi- ence we ought to be of real service to you. Most of us look with envy on the beautiful bride wno seems so happy in her néw home surrounded by everything new and beautiful. True, she is happy at first; but so many voung women enter upon the new life as though it were a play garden where she was to have her own way in ev- erything and be petted continually by her fond husband, that when they awake to find that all this was only a dream they are of all persons most miserable. I well remember that a dear friend icld me on the eve cf my wedding day that I knew nothing vet of real happiness. 1 thouzht she was mis- taken and that she and sweet Williamn had not loved as jokn and I did: but after something less than fifty years of wedded life I agree with her that each vear brings deeper and fonder affections between husband and wife. Now, my dear young bride, don't expect your John to be perfect be- ceuse none of us has found the one one who is. Try to exercise patience with what you see amiss in him. Pay no attention to the little departures from what you think is right, and hold out a helping hand to him in times of need. You will soen be re- warded by sseing him maore atientive to yvour wishes and many of the things that annoved vou so much at first will disappear entire] Remember that in a large measure you are responsible for the character and success of your husband. The Social Corner story, “In Lilac Time,” was much enjcyed and we just can't hardly wait to read “A Visit to the Social Corner Editor.” Also the one from Ma. ORANGE BLOSSOM. QUICK, COOL REFRESHMENTS. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: I would like to tell you how I pre- pared a dainty luncheon for a few young friends that dropped in un- expectedly last week. It was voted a success and may help others at just such a time. The fire was out and would take some .time: day was extremely hot, gested something cool to eat. 1 quickly creamed some club cheese, spread it over water thins and pressed half a nut-meat in the center. I then took saltines, put two together with a peanut butter fllling. served straw- berries with cream. and sponge cake: fresh, cold tea stood in a pitcher in the pantry. 1 filled cups half full of this, squeezed in the juice of half a lemon, put in a few pieces of broken ice, sweetened to taste, and filled the cups up with cold water. All was pre- pared in about half an hour, and I could sit right down with my friends and enjoy their company. SWEET SIXTEEN. THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME. Editor Social Corner: We wish to thank the editor, also the Sisters of the Social Corner, for their kind words and the invitation to remain a mem- ber of the Corner, where there seems to be room for one more. Tt is pretty hard to leave “Home" and friends and we have felt very much at home in the Corner ever since it started with its little band of writ- ers: and as the family has got to be so large the ties of friendship have been growing stronger every week and we feel that it would be zoing away from “Home"” to leave the Social Cor- ner circle, s6 we shall eontinue to write occasionally as in the past, hoping our letters may be of interest to_some one. We take off our hat and thank the ladies for their desire to have us re- main in the Social Corner, which haz given us much pleasure in the past. to build it besides, the which sug- RURAL DELIVERY, Danielson. MOST TIMELY RECIPES FROM LOUISE. Editor of the Social Corner: T send you a few recipes that are good: Cherry Butter—Wush and stem the cherries; boil until soft; then rub through a colander: to each pint of pulp add a pint of sugar: beil until thick, C(an or keep in closely covered jars, Cherry Roll—Make a rich biscuit dough- roll out into two squares., In center of square heap cheiries (or any desired fruit) and two tablespoons of sugar. Pinch the ends and edges to- gether as vou fold over. Bake in a moderate oven. Serve with butter and sugar creamed together. or with cream and sugar. Cherry Pie—Line a pie plate with There is no reason for increasing the. How to Set Out Roses, (Written Specially for Social Corner.) Climbing roses aras generally set where they may be trained up the side of the house, or along the porch. Should such places be too shady, do not try it. A sunny spot should be selected, where they can ba trellised and still show well from the street. The hybrids should be set in the garden in rows four feet apart, the plants every three feet in the row. This allows room for one to cuitivate the ground around and between them. And when they areé grown larger it will be more convenient for a lady to get in among them. A rose bush up against the fence, among the weeds, will grow and bloom in_season. but the flowers are small, inferior and unattractive. Fruit trees need care, such as prun- ing and cultivation, to produce perfect fruit. The vegetable garden requires much care and labor, or one gets poor returns, and the same rule applies to flowers. One cannot fertilize a rose bush too highly, if done in the proper manner. When thay are young, there can be, for two or three seasons, something else grown between them in the row, such as tuberoses, gladiolis or lilies, anything that will not shade them too much. After the plant has s2ht up new growths of good length, and these have bloomed, they should be pruned down to two or three buds, early the next spring. This, to an amateur, seems wrong. but it is ths way to get the very best results. A hybrid rose branch has in a spray of leaves jus! five. Should a growth appear having a seven-leaf spray, cut it out, as it will be stirile and never bloom. The most desirable hybrids possess the three following requisites: First, they should be hardy enough to stand zero weather; second, they should have a long, stiff stem; third, they should be slow in opening, for than when fully opened they remain fresh so much longer. The long pointed bud and waxy foliage is also highly prized. I give here the names of fiftcen pos- szgsing to a great extent the qualities mentioned: Avoca—crimson searlet. Blumenschmidt—a grand yellow rose. Rehea Reid—vivid scarlet and double as American Beauty. Alice Roosevelt—salmon pink. Chateau Des Clos Varigeat—called the black rose. Mavflower—creamy i white, laced \larv Miller—coppery vellow, peachy shadings. Olivia—deep rosy red. Mrs. Potter Palmer—apricot pink. Mrs. Robert Pzary, or Climbing Kaiserin—beautiful waxy white. Cherry Ripe—very large, bright pink. White Killarney—the grand white Irish rose. Etoile de France (or Star of Francy —clouded velvaty crimson. Byl.Dmneinmlcy cdflvné and &rnm‘e- Frau Karl. Druschki—or white American Beauty. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt—creamy white, blush center. There are many others, but these arz among the best. 1 would advise any- one adding to or starting a new rose garden not to put out too many dif- ferent ones, but to select ten, if you havs room for twenty, and get two of each. Then when wishing to gather a few roses you will be more apt to have one or more of each color that are fully opened. Luther Burbank, the horticultural wizard, se it is said, crossed 75,000 seadlings before he succeeded in get- ting a rose to which he would give his name. I have one of these, four years old. It is a pinkish crimson and a very free bloomer. I counted over forty buds upon it last fall when the ground was frozen hard. Now this is a beautiful thing in the garden. yet the stems are weak and short, and the buds open one day and fall apart the next. I am in favor of putting the plants out in the fall, as they get a hetter start for ths fellowing season. They should be well mulched with straw from a horse stable, or if leaves are used take a narrow strip of poultry netting, eyt in lengths of three or four feet and draw the ends together around the plant, fastening them well together. Into this crowd the leaves firmly down. These holders will last for several winters. Careful mulching will give vou fine roses. A “Bower of Beauty.” Set three posts seven or eight feet high, in the form of a triangle, each one nine feet from the other, with one open side facing the street. IFasten any kind of common wire fencing across the other two sides, two feet from the ground. Facing this from the street, set a crimson rambler at the left hand post, then a white rambier (Baltimore Belle is a good one), next a violet rambler. Thus you will have the national colors. From this set a yvellow, then a Dorothy Parkins (pink) and another crimson one at the right hand post. As these grow, train them in and out through the wires, always toward the center. After the second year, add another section of the fencing, which should reach above the posts, and train the growths carefully the third year. cutting out nothing but the dead wood. The fourth yvear you will have a Bower of Beauty that will cause people to starz with admiration. I would sug- gest for the crimson the new ever- blooming, or Flower of Fairfield. I have a mass like this now in full bloom (minus the blue, as it is too voung), and it seems to be very at- tractive to owners of kodaks and their friends, as it forms a beautiful back Eground or a place to hide all but the ace. trees.—John Muir. a fairy tale.—John Lubbock. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Natures peace will flow into you as sunshine flows inito Nature brightens life until it becomes almost like Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends upon the mood of the man whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem.—Emerson. good crust, fill it half full of rlpe.' stoned cherries; sprinkie over them a good cup of sugar and a teaspoon of sifted flou Dot over a few tiny bits of butter: now fill the crust to the | tep with cherries; cover with the up- | per crust and bake. Strawberry Pie—Line a pie plate with ‘rich bise dough; prick the bottom to let out the air and bake. ‘When cold fill with fresh strawberries, well sprinkled with sugar (powdered). Spread over this a meringue made with the whites of two eggs and two tablespoons powdered sugar; put in the oven just long enough for the ber- ries to set—but not cook. Lebanon. LOUISE. TO PROPAGATE ROSES—TO MAKE LEMON SHORTCAKE. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: We have a crimson rambler twenty- five feet high: also a Dorothy Perkins twenty feet high. After they get through blooming take a slip five or six inches long that has bloomed this vear; set it in a pot as soon as cool Wweather comes, bring in the house|and keep through the winter. Towards spring they will begin to send up sprouts from the bottom of the pot. After all danger of cool nights is past, say June, set them in the ground, and they will bloom the next year. We have good luck and have-slipped quite a few. Now we have a new one. The name of-it is A Thousand Beauties. When it blooms it ig a beautiful pink; also white roses and pink and white all on onz bush. Ours has bloomed for the first time this year; it is just lovely. K Blanche's way is all right. I wish to thank Louise of Lebanon for her ginger snap receipt. It was nice. Lemon Shortcake—Make your short- cake same as biscuit only a little rich- er. The juice of 1 !lemon (remove the seeds), 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 table- spoon corapstarch, 1 cup boiling water: stir in the sugar and lemon; cook this mixture in a double boiler: split the shortcake and put the filling be- tween the layers and on top; very nice. How to Keep Eggs—Ten quarts wa- ter, 1 pint table salt, 1 piece of lime big as a common sized hen's egg (slacked). T have Kept them three months with this receipt, LOUISE. Pequonoc Bridge. A DAY’'S DRIVE IN JUNE. One fine morning in .the month of June we hit hed up our most faithful horse and started out for a day’'s drive through the country. There had been a shower the night before, and there wag never a better time to drive, as the early morning air was scented with grapevine blossoms and the beautiful roses 3= we passcd now and then a hon As we journeyed along throuzh a piece of wood we came {o three roads, and as we were meditating which road to take, a long, lean, lant- ern jawed boy about fourteen came along, and we said “Good morning!” to him. He stared at us with his great blue eves and said: “How fare ye?” We asked him if he could tell us which was the best road to take, and he said: “Whichever one you go on you will wish vou took tether.” We inquired if there were houses on the right hand road, looked to be most traveled. He replied: “Well, ves: the first one you come to i= a haystack, the next is a barn: then you come to old “Hotch- kiss' " house. You might meet his gals. The tarnal, romping critters, they go all over the neighborhood. Dad sets the dog arter the shes and me arter the galz, and the w T make the ghort gowns fiy is a sin to snakes.” “1 see one of your legs is shorter many which than the other; have you met with an dent ? “Go on! I was born so at my tickler request so I could plow on a side hill and not lop over.’ We said “Good-day” to him, as had a long drive before us. He pulled up his short leg to a de- sired angle and said: “That's a slick horse of your'n.” We drove past old Hotchkiss' house, and surs enough there were three romping girls near the house which would make good pictures for comic valentines. Then we came to a small village, and as we drove into the cen- ter of the place there were three large touring cars well filled with ladies. We inquired of a fine looking old gentle- we man if they were going for a day's journey, as the weather was fine. He said: “Oh, no; they are going up to a large house at the top of nw hill to a Social Corner meetin; call it 1 think they mean a praj eting, for they are such a good looking lot of ladies.” As we left the quiet little village and came out into the country we had gone but a few miles when we met a man with a bright looking boy who said to us: “Hold a minute, mister.’ “Well,” I said, “little fellow, what can I do for you = He put on one of those boy smiles and said: ad and me went down to New Londsm to see the warships come in. I said to Dad ‘What is a warship? He told me it was a man-of-war. And pretty soon a great big ship came in sight, and Dad said ““There she comes!’ “When I got home I said to Dad: “You told me the big ship was a man- of-war. What did you say there ‘she’ comes for? What did you say there for? I gave the boy along. As we journeyed towards met a man with a bile which seenr to control, fear he would take up the whole road, he stopped the machine as we came up to him. He said ‘she” comes a quarter and drove home we runabout automo- “‘Say. stranger. this is the hare - bitted horsz I ever drove. I live back here in the village and e been sick for some time. The doctor told me to get a runabout and go out in the coun- try and get the fresh air. So I bought this fire-red machi I think the doc- tor gave it the right name—runabout —for it will run about anvwhere it has a mind to. The first day I tried it I went down Main street and knock- ed all the ash barrels off the aidewalk | into the stre>t. except one, and a fel- low cried out: “‘You needn’t come back. Tl tip that one into the street for you. “He thought that was my busine knocking ash barrels into the street. As we journeyed homoward we met three rural carriers. We asked then if their routes were paying them well and their reply w “We handle twice the mail we did a vear ago, since the Social Corner coi- umns were open free to all in The Bui- letin.” On our arrival home we were much pleased with our day's driva through the country in the beautiful month of June. RURAL DELIVERY. Danielson. HENS WITH LIMBER NECK. Dear Sisters: 1 don't suppose, manv of you who keep hens have ever secn one Avith limber neck. If you keep only a few you would not be liable to. But as I have about 200 hens, and most of the yvear thev have the whole farm to run over, it is different. I have had a few that I have always killed, as th= disease is very contagious and I didn’t think T had the nerve to lr\ the remedy I thought that bhest. Tast spring 1 had a very nice hen that I didn't want to lose, so I tried iI, ed to be hard for him | their b hm m: uuned by tlu fowls euun‘ putru m!- mal matter. It is necessary be confined so as to keep them mm tge original cause, and that the prem- ises be diligently searchad for dead fowls, animals, etc., and when found that they be burned and the immediate location be thm’nuthy disinfected and birds dying from limber neck should be burned at onca. I gave nothing to eat at night and the next morning I poured turpentine down the throat to moisten the entire inside of the crop. About- 15 minutes after giving the turpantine, pour warm water down the throat into the crop until it is completely filled, then hoid the bird by the feet and gradually work the entire contents of the ecrop through the mouth. Repeat this wash- ing several times. Then give two ta- blespoonfuls of castor oil and two of Keep in quiet place and feed with mashes. She got well right My box of envelopes is gztting pretty full, so T expect to make a scrap book of Mr. Bromley’'s letters. I have a book advertising L.a France roses that is just the thing, as it has roses all over the cover. Sweat Sixteen, are vou really only sweet sixteen? ' I think you may be jollving us. MA. Waterford. HOUSEWIFE REPLIES TO DOLLY—" THE USES OF SODA. Editor Social Corner: As 1 havq Seen zny response tu Dolly's query, am going to try to help héer: and hope I can make the directions plain enough to be easily understood. First, draw threads to the width desired, then layv the hem even with the edge of the drawn threads. Hold the work, and take the first stitch as for plain hem- ming. Then put the needle under a few threads, from five to seven—it i not necessary to count. Bring the needle up through, then put it back under the same threads, this time bringing it up through the hem, and draw the thread tight. This makes a stitch around a little bunch of threads, and holds them together. Do the next in the same way. When you have fin- ished hem-stitching the hem, turn the work, holding the hem towards you, and hem-stitch the other edge of the drawn threads, taking up for each stitch just the same threads that are in each opposite stitch. This makes what is called spoke stitch, and is very pretty for table linen, bureau scarfs, ete.s An especially pretty stitch for hand- kerchiefs is the zig-zag stitch. In this, when doing the inside edges of the drawn threads, take up half of one cluster of threads and half of the next cluster, to make one stitch. I wonder how many of the sisters use baking soda for anyvthing besides cooking? It can be bought in bulk for three cents a pound, and is as good for cleaning as many of the washing pow- ders costing two or three times as much. Tt is good to wash and scour dishes. Milk dishes and strainers should be rinsed in cold water, washed in hot soda water, and well rinsed with boiling water, and the milk will keen sweet much longer. A little soda add- ed to rhubarb on currant sauce, when cookinug, takes off the acid taste and takes Jess sugar to sweeten them. Use strong boiling hot soda water to flush out the sink drain and clear it of grease, also tHe bathroom pipes. It is an invaluable kitchen aid, and also has its place in the medicine cab- inet. HOUSEWIFE. Suing the Mate. With 142 divorce cases on one day’'s calendar in the Supreme court in this city, suspect New Yorkers might be a little more chary in making sneering remarks about Reno and some ether Western places.—N: York Herald They Can’t Vote, Mayor Fitzgerald, of Boston, has just discovered that the old maids of Boston are willing to marry, but the old bachelors are not. Tt is very un- gallant of him to let out such a deli- cate secr shville Tennessean. Not Even a “Run for the Money. Horses in various parts of the coun- try are dying of a strange “walking disease.” We now know how it hap- pened. we lost that $4 at Pimlico.— Washington Post Hope of the Trust! - Perhans Judge Gary is in favor of a new antitrust statute because he ex- id it would take the cou ansther 25 years to construe it.-—Rochester Herald, Shipwreck Safer. Tt is getting so that it is safer to he shipwrecked on the ocean than it is to be a passenger in a skidding automo- ircuse He The Next Reform. Now that the sane Fourth is well es- tablished, some one should start a sane millinery movement.—Cleveland Leader. Modern Ethics. Do not kick a man when he is down. Turn him over and feel in the other pocket.-—(Galveston News. Escaped With His Life. “Twenty-one years ago I furnd an awful death,” es, H. B. 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