Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 16, 1911, Page 14

EVERY WOMAN'S OPPORTUNITY. The Bulletin wants good home lét ters, good business leiters; £0od heln- ful letters of any kind the mind may suggest. They should be in hand by Sednesday of each week. Write on but one of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR, Bulletia Office, Norwick, Conn. N THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $250 to first; $1.50 to second: $1.00 to thira. Award made the last Saturday in each month. SOCIAL CORNER POEM. Tired Mothers. A }tile elbow leans upon your knee, Your tired knee that has so much to bear: dear eyes are looking loving- ] Crochet or buttonhole with pink but- tonhole twist over the rings. Gather sides and sew and gather top of bag for draw string. Insert Aarrow ribbon and you wiil hay a very dainty bag. for drawing crochet thread through when working, the ball being inside, or for the long kniiting needle to come though if too lengthy to be placed in- side bag. I have seen very preity bags made of lavender ribbon. This bag is A chil From underneath a thatch of tangled 7ou do mot heed the wvelvet Ot warm, moist fingers holding yours o tight; 3 _ | not cheap, exactiy (6 cents), but it is o R e 8 Jovely ¥ifl, and costs betweon 3 and b o T e - | §2 SWhen purchased In the shops. My g 8re to Pray | ibbon is about five inches wide in bag foundation. | Think 1 shall make some | place it in pretty boxes and send the sweets around to some of my friends who are 100 busy to bother to make sugar plums themselves, But it is a blessedness! A year ago I did mot see it as I do today. e are all too thankless and t0o slow To catch the sunshime 'till it slips away, Z PR Merry Christmas to you all. T e o | POLLY PEPPERMINT. That while I wore the badge of | ‘motherhood A STORY FROM REAL LIFE. 1 &1a not kiss more oft and tenderly | The Httle child that brought me only | good —Exchange. A long time ago there lived in what was then called the “far west” a fam- Uy of besutiful girls. The eldest one married with the heéarty approval ot ber parents a well to-do farmer, who was a widower with a number of chil- dren, the two oldest ones being near- |1y as old us the young wife. |,.She had a lovely disposition and & |true and loving heart. She took those motherless children to her arms and her heart and gave them a mother's care. And so today all but two of those children are living, and the name | mothe: is sacred to them. | Unto this young wife were born sev- |eral children. Two little boys arrived at her home the same month, the same day. Theso frail little ones she folded €0 Her breast and gave them the warm®~ st and tenderest love; but with all the care and love that a fond mother and 2 devoted sister could give, one of the Httle ones passed away after a few brief months. The other one is liv- ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Ready—The Shut-In. Lucille Drew—The pen name will be used—preferred in the Corner. The Poem—We print Hall Caine's celebrated poem today by request. It #Bould be pleasing to many of our sis. fers. It may sweep away “A Dream- e’s” cobwebs. _ Papa’ Boy—The Editor must keep sisters in the Corner. That is his duty. Jane—Our Christmas suggestions are = Mttle late, but they will serve their Purpose ancther year. F. E. P—Papers were promptly for- note was mailed to warded to Aunt Jule ing, aud has developed into a grand, = == jmoble man. I know if his mother was JANE ANN HEARD FROM. | tiving it would be with pride she would look upon him and say “My son.” Bastor of Social Corner and Sisters: | A daughter marries, and to her is As Nat is away todey, 1 am Eoing to| born zughters. Two of them die oy you!” to the sisters for n in the other four grow up wanting to hear from me. {and are a'comfort to their —uarents. I Nat will not like it when They all marry youns. e I have been writing, but his To the next oldest is born twins— “bark is worse than his bite.” so I am ' boy to risk it He was awful pleased he found he had got the prize. ng two b 1 have been trying ever sice to think | the jsmal pool, buried together I shall spend the rest of my 2B With Christ, raised together to walk after 1 get his paper and|In newness of life. We leave these two I aid think I'd_get some| Young boys in the hands of their Mas- Bright red cloth or some of the Fitch- | ter, hoping and praying that they may ville factory remnants, and trim my |be o blessing to their parents. black waist to wear with his spotted | A few weekg ago there came to the vest and -purple stockings: but Nat home of our baby girl twins—girls: says that If I won't burn up any more | two of the cutest and prettiest Hitlo victuals be will get me a new dress . things you ever looked upon; and when when be goesito the city. during the| they look Into my face and smile o mark-down sales, if he can get one for | Sweetly, as much as o say, “Grandma, & dollar. So guess I'll have to get a7 know you love us” it is with & lace collar and gay ribbon to wear | zrandmoiher’s love that I fold them to ter Sunday T had the pleas~ s enter together with it The rooster feathers on my | my bosom, and say “God bless you hat look fine, If they are “passe” | botn. Nat ain't troubled with dyspepsia, so| If vou wish to see Ruth and Rose, X doubt if he would like your crustiess | You 1155 Lawrence pie, Ego. He likes to have things, & proud mother will glad- and rich. |1y receive you and tell just how sweet I used to think Leonard Bridge was ' and cunning these little ones are. Bitle out of the way place, but what M. ROENA. a time they do have trying to find| Ready. | Elizabeth, where are you? Have you | | changed your name? Nat scared me so when I tried to! good Camden, N. J. QUICK RAISED CAKE. Dear Corner Sistes 1 have heard write before that I can't remember |of people living u b {of p = upon one meal a day, Fhat the dish was | was trying to|and just at this seacon, how many G- same. tra hours could be given to the holix JANE ANN. PAPA’S BOY IS JOLLY. Dear Edttor and Sisters: day gifts; but it is not the fashion or fad come to pass as yet. But I am making Raised Cake without taking «”!m;wn time and work as the old Pliles | cal) for. 1 saw last week that two more sisters joined the| Raised Cake—Dissolve one Magic Oager-. | yeastcake or one-half compressed, in| Battercup: Yes, 1 think yon and I, threé-fourths cup of warm water for | Bave played together at recess. 1 also think you have beeen hers at some glals: and haven't we beem to pienics the wetting, and make the cake Just like anv other. I raise mine in the { cooker over night, by putting a hot sn.npslouel at khel bottom with bowl of warm water on it, then the cake, cov- eed with the cushion. In the morning mix one-half teaspoon soda in spoon of water and stir into cake; turn in | baking pan and set to rise over an l;r‘?: or }‘(IYIKL: \::bbl:es come on the top. lace cake at e back of v frst half hour. e Another way is to mix a teaspooi Cherisette: When I get my ferret|baking powder in the flour at p:xgl?n‘.’t an@ hunt rabbits we will have that | _Sister Pegg: Anne's chocolate pud- dy's wood- | ding is all right; like all of the good things in the Corner. , Best wishes to the busy workers. CHE. You had better hurry up| write a Christmas letter. Dolly: I think you must be writing under another name. Are you? Did you get vour pigpen fixed @id Jane Ann call you away your lovely letter? I thought uld be one to get a prize. Hur- i H Norwich. to all. © e HRIETMAS RECIPES. 2 : Here are afew Jgcipes for Christmas ‘cakes and can- dies HOW TO MAKE A BAG FOR KNIT- TING. Almond Fruit ' Cake—Cream three- auarfers pound of butter with . one | pound powdered sugar; add the beat- | {en Solks of ten eggs. add one pouna our, dried and sifted and mixed with ore pound almonds, blanched and cut | |ia thin strips: one pound seeded rais- | ins, half a nutmeg, grated, and a quar- ter of a pound of citron, . shredded. | Then add juice of a lemon and beal weell, and finally stir in carefully the | juell beaten giltes of the caxw. Buie in two loaved Ice thickly with & white | i¢ing, flavored with bitler almonds. #00d articies on so many are found in our Corner: very pleasant to be one of | not written for a long time, may be sure that I have eages read the Saturday Bulletin with its letters. Sweet Sixteen: You are a dear, dny- ; and some day, perhaps, ] may know you. Dont vou think fun not to “really know" until | draw string and opening above rings. the 21 inches remaining on the long to_the rings. Turn over e | The zings serve candy, | | other chain stitch and make one chain | HOW duty to attend. I imagine that after a few years of ‘votmg it would get to be an old story With most women, and they would !soon have something more important to do than attend elections or town ings. ~Well, I guess I'd better take a back seat and wait to hear my blessing. £ 4 ALINE. WHO ARE THE CITIZENS? Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: reading Social Corner -letters I no- tice the different opinions of the Sis- ters in regard to voting. According to Section 1 of the last article to the amendments to the con- satitution (which is the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not e denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state, on account of race, ¢olor or previous condition of mervitude), every citizen is entitled to vote. Next comes the question: “Who or what is a citizen?” Section I, article XIV, one of the amendments to the constitution of the United States, an- s&wers it plain enough for anyone who can read. 1 do not see any reason why we do not vote, except we never have made it our-nabit. If anyone knows of a reason, legal or rational, why we should not vote, I should be pleased to be informed. I know the men do not want women to vote, for fear some of | their would have to o, | namely, the rum shops and all con- rected with them. % M. Roena 3 and_ your daughter have my sympathy. May God bless and give you strength is the wish of AN OBSERVER. South Canterbury. CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS— HOME-MADE CANDY. Dear Editor and Sisters: T am inter- ested in the Corner and enjoy the let- 1ers very much. 1 notice Buttercup asks for hints for ristmas gifts, so will send a few | which I hope will be helptul. Collars, jabots, books, stationery and calendars are all pretty and useful Very pretty calendars can be made awhome 1f one has a camera by mount ing a photograph on plain gray card mount and pasting a calendar pad be- low the photo. There are for sale cal- cndars all ready for the photograph. Postcard albums, burnt wood boxes, handkerchiefs, baskets, boxes of home- wade candy, nuts or frult make nice altts. The shirtwaist patterns which come ir a holly box with a Christmas card, =ofa pillow tops with silk to embroider are among gifts which will be appre- ciated. T will send two recipes for home- made candy: Cocoa Fudge—Two cups granulated sugar, two tablespoons cocoa, three- fourths_cup of milk, one teaspoon va- affla. Stir until thoroughly mixed. Add a small piece of butter and boil without stirring eight to ten minut ERemove from stove and stir until it bardens. Pour into buttered pans and when cool mark in squares. Cocoanut Biscuit—Whites of two ecgs beaten stiff, one-half cup of sugar, one-fourth cup of flour, one-fourth tea- spoon of baking powder, one-half tea- ! snoon vanilla, enough = cocoanut to make quite stiff. Drop on oiled paper and bake in quick oven. LORODOR BROAD HONITON EDGING. Make a chain as long as required. First row long crochet into every cbain stitch. Second—One long and two chain stitches, missing two on the work. Third—Double crochet. Fourth—Eight chain and two double crachet stitches, missing two on the wark. Fifth—Six double crochet stitches in- | the chain. Then four chain. Sixth—Jour double crochet tha six. Then six chain. | Seventh—Two double crochet stitch- | ex_above the four, then eight chain. | . “Eighth—Double crochet. above Narrow French Edge. Make a chain as long as needed. First row—Open crochet. That is one long. One chain, miss a chain. Second—Two double crochet, then seven chain, missing three chain stitches. Third—Two double crochet stitches above the two in the last row, five chain, one double crochet into the cen- ter of seven chain, then five chain. Narrow Brussels Edging. Make a chain as long as you wish. First row—One stitch into every stitch between each long stitch. Second—Make & chain of six and jomn it to the work on every fourth and fifth chain stitch with two double crachet stitches. Last row—Double crochet thto every stitch. INDUSTRIOUS. MAKE THINGS. Dear Editor. and Sisters of the Social Corner: Saturday has again come around. With ail the extra work the day brings, the cleaning up for the doy of rest and an extra supply of yiands to be cooked to last over wash av, TOo CHRISTMAS had just taken an apple pie from tha oven and removed the crust to sea- sou it when in came The Bulletin and my interest in and enthuslasm for the Snetal Corner is So strong that the ap- pia pie was forgotten and my mind was wholly occupied with the written thoughts of other people which I eager- Iy _peruse to my own edification. T have been one of the silent ters of these columns ever since it was started, and now M. Roena has called me out, and I want to express my heartfelt sympathy for her. How glad wa all are to hear from her again. She has been greatly missed. What an unconsclous influence these letters have on the reader. We catch a glimpse of the real personality of the writer. There are those we would Itk toclasp hands with ang call friend— and it now looks as if séme were going to mt Leonard Bridge. 1 think those who are tired of seo- ing recipes in these columns have no me for them except to sample after the coaking is done. Don’t stop sending recipes. There are some choice cooks around this table. Black Fruit Cake—One pound but- ter, one pound granulated sugar, grat- ed 'peel of two lemons, ten eggs, teaspoon each cinnamon, cloves, m: nutmeg, two of allspice, confectioner's lard. enouch when cold to cut easily with a | time.” It is like the feeling one when a Christmas package mark: “Not to be opened until Christmas, ne ! and ‘one gill | px = 't F ery = ‘Nathaniel: Can’t you be very gener- (g AL _jew’ “fore Christmas, and give Jane { were made thus: At noon scald one and The Raised Doughnuts I made today and a half cups of milk, let cool, dis- solvye one yeast cake in one-half cup of lukewarm water and add with flour for a sponge. At night. when' risen, da one cup suzar, ome-half cup but- i a journey. of chamois come inside the bag, which side one-half inch below the upper edge of ribbon a plece of seam binding and fasten the side together. Then run in tha narrow ribbon to draw the bag to- gether. 2nd tiny flat powder puft which may e found at any drug store. i : 8 Then He knew. w That the female of the Then tie knew throughout the ages, That the female of the species would ‘When he cast His Children from Him, Doomed their seed to eat their life-bread Then He knew where paths were reddest down Then the female of the species would When He dowered the man with dust, With i Then He knew that in the whirlwind Still the female of the specles would When He banished them from Eden for the sin S i egan, i 5o A ; that putiy long as man should tell the “be temptress to the male. and by primal vow, the sweat of blood and brow, he ‘line of labor's be slavemate to the male. i passions, when He formed him from the wilderness of instincts, with its burden of distrust, ‘manhood of his ‘wastetul gale, be subject to the male. When He ordered that the woman, both as mother and as wife, Should obey her law of being as the Then He suffered it to happen, least That the female of the species might vehicle of life, the generations fall, be “deadlier” than the male. But when the Lord of the Creation gave the woman to the man, In that blest but brief existence ere the rule of ill Then He willed it that, if sharing in man’s fault and in his fate, She should therefore be his equal and the partner in his state. Not to govern or cajole him, not to court or speak him smooth, Not to snare or to enslave him, but to Not his temptréss, not his slavemate, But his helpmeet and If He cursed the man with labor as He provided that for woman his work If He dowered the man with passions He reserved it to the woman to uplift 1f He ordered that the mother for the cheer, inspire and soothe, not his subject, not his squaw, his angel, by the right of God's own law. the human lot's alloy, it T eotbte. indiincts w! move, Bis Tust to Jove. children of her womb Should dare her death by travail and fight till crack of doom, He ordained that by She should gather Nurturing, nursing, guarding, guiding, Paying toll in pangs to nature which Dauntless from the God who made her, Hers has been the old earth's burthen, that impulse, still the that suffer in her pity to her breast. , without fear Saviour of the weak and helpless, first at birth and last at death. Since the Lord created woman, she became a living soul, and the Dest, giving strength with heart and hand; no man may understand, to draw her breath; age on age, from pole to pole. Hers the conflice, hers the conquest, hers the flag of life unfurl'd, Welcome every fool and coward, only Room, sirs, Toom within your counciis For behold, Hers the sorrow, hers the suffering, hers the love that moves the world. Therefore why should man, the incrate, when he chooses to confer, close the door on her? bare your foreheads if you cam, ‘without your portal stands the mother of the man. top around the meck of the doll, all tha bag with cotton. From colored bordered handkerchiets o e made sweeping caps, aprons, Provection Cuffs and numerods things: 2n make the protection cuffs, fold a handkerchief diagonally and fold the pomt over again about five inches and cut off. Cut the blas plece in two. The long point is the top of the cuff apd where it was cut in two arrange ithe small triangular plece for a turn- back cuff, and sew up the Inside arm seam. Aunty: Will you tell me how to play donkey fiinch? Merry Christmas to all. THEODA. ‘Willimantic. MR. BROMLEY ON WINNING SIDE. Mr. Editor and Members of the So- cial Corner: Belleving you are all more or less interested in the cause of temperance, I wish to tell you that after a three weeks' battle against the ll%uor dealers’ association, here in Ashtatula county, we have had the satisfaction c¢f winaing out. Three vears ago, after the Rose law went in- fo effect.’ we wom by & majority of The three years were up this fall and they petitioned for amother vote. We von again by 2,652. They nad carloads of whiskey ship- ped in to celebrate their victory, but sent in back. No saloons in old Ash- tabula county for another three years, at least. Having had the honor of do- ing a little work in faVor of the “dry” side, I naturally wis: to tell the good new With a Merry Christmas to every member of the Corner, I am, as ever, Geneva, Obo. _ ‘DUANE. HOW ONE OF THEM GETS BY. Editor of Soclal Corner: ‘As some of our number have expressed a desire for more Christmas suggestions, they may be interested to know what I did one year for my class of little girls in Sunday school. There were ten of them and all must be treated alike, of course. One is often puzzled to think of something inexpensive yet pretty and different from the regulation card or_booklet. T knew a little about basketry, 50 took some of the smallest reeds and made a dozen tiny baskets with han- dies, no two alike, using Ted, black and partral colored raffia. Then I bought a pound of those tiny twisted sticks of red and white candy for sale during bolidays, breaking them into small pleres and filling the baskets, tying on each handle a bit of holly ribbon. They certainly were cunning and de- lishied the little meids. For my older friends I made others 10 be used for emery and thimble bas- kets. One day in a Hartford store 1 found some emery balls made in the form of chestnuts, hearts, etc. The chestnuts were of brown satin and these I put in the baskets woven of natural raffia with brown edges and handle. In others I put a thimble, t. ing the pink and white silk heart- shaped emery to the handle with holly ribbon. The handle and edges of these were of red raffia- It took four or five hours to make a basket and the em- cry balls were but a few cents each. it one can manipulate the pretty crepe peper so easily procured, cunning bes- kets of this can be made instead of refa. For a girl of 15 or 18 years of age let me describe to Buttercup one or two simple gifts. The first is a powder Puff bag so many find use for when golng to a party or damce, or even on Materials required are one vard narrow ribbon, circle of chamois Skin three and one-half inches in di- 2meter, 11 inches ribbon.four and one- half inches wide, Dresden or Persian sibbon is very pretty for this. Feather- stitch one edge of the broad ribbon with sewing silk one-half inch over the edge of chamois, letting the edge thus makes the bottom. Sew on the in- would feel the times were out of joint if the jar was not filled with her favorite date cookies- You see we are quite an up to date family in some respects. One more suggestion for someone who may chance to have charge of a missionary meeting in December. I strended one where the programme was varied from the regular order a little by the Introduction of a Christ- mas nowspaper. The outside cover was @ picture of the Madonna and Chiid and its contents printed matter gath- ered from various sources were pasted on its several pages. There was a Christmas story, two or three Christ- mas poems, with items and articles re- lating to the observance of the holiday in this and other lands, and a fine ed- itorial on the same subject. At the clnse an originel acrostic beautifully printed by one of the members of the soclety was given as a souvenir to each one present. ONE OF THEM. WHAT MAY BE DONE FOR CHRISTMAS. Dear Social Corner Friends: ~All the writers to the Corner scem to have the Christmas spirit. . There are many simple things that are always acseptable. A true friend values the gift for friendship's sake, not for the money price. All cannot give presents; but we can all write & chesry little note and tell them something you know will pleese them. Buttereup: Give your girl friend » book, Madonna, or statuary in plas- ter, a pretty jabot, perfume, or a set of padded sachets for her bureau drawers, or a fascinator. I have made pillow covers with hand-made lace on edges. A hop pil- Jow, a pine pillow, with “Dreams of the Forest” worked on it, pin cushions, needlebooks, ani handkerchief case; &lro holders, I thank you, Ma, for your kind words. T enjoy all the letters, I also send the page to a dear d far away who enjoys it as well 4s I do. Best wishes to all for a merry Christ- mas. MORNING GLOKY. RECIPES FROM MARIGOLD. Dear Editor and Sisters of the Soctal Corner: The onclosed mixed recipes some of the Sisters may like to tr: when the experimental mania ove: takes them: Eggs in Paradise—Boll fo 5 nards: when 'cold, chop whitcs fne: Lave four bolle! onions chopped:; make a mauce with two tablespoons of bu'- ter and one and one-haif of flour. Mix with one and one-half cups of milk and cook a little: stir In the chapped whites of eggs and onlon, season with zalt and pepper (a little nutmeg if liked). Pour this mixture on slices of r}‘:nalred toast; :ldflgl Qbfil yolks over & top sel table with thi slices bt Thcon: s Shrimp Wiggle—One cup peas; if canned, wash 4nd n;© heat m siightly salted water; drain again; add one spoon butter, a dash of pepper and cover to keep warm. Two tablespoons flour (even), one tablespoon butter, well mixed in saucepan; add gradual- ly two cups of milk and stir to keep smooth. One €up shrimps (20-cent size), drain and add to white sauce; cook’ 10 minutes; pour into serving dish (on buttered crackers If liked); Leap the hot peas on top and serve at once. Banana Pie—Line a deep plate with a rich crust and bake a delicate brown. Filing: Take a scant cup of sugar and cream into'a teaspoon of unmelted but- ter: beat in the yolks of two eggs and twao tablespoons of flour; add one cup boitng water and cook until thick; after this cream i= cool, slice Into the crust a layer of bananas, alternate with a layer of cream; there should be two layers of each; beat the whites of two eggs with two teaspoons of sugar and ‘CHRISTMAS CANDY RECIPES. Dear Editor and Siste Such a lovely miorning as It ist. Why not plan to have our Social Cormer picnic it it is to be s0 warm and nice: -or if that plan dowsn't suit, let's see if we can find Ready. It is too bad that she hasn't a ‘phone, for then we could Jet her know Wwe were coming, and she'd have the tei hot and a nice Toogbex all clearsd, ready for us to| sit Elisiveth: Ia it possible that you and I are acqvainted? Is your 'phone nuniber 187-15? Ices your husband have peaches to sell; and didn’t we Zet some there this full? If 1 am right please give a clue, Pupa’s Léy: Aren't your imticls L K? Crusce: T'd like to shake hands with you. You express my ideas ex- setly i vour letter. I wonder if you were at:the Grange hall, Thursday eve- ning; and ald you enjoy the play? I send a couple of candy recipes suit- able for Christmas, or any other time: Salamagundi—Take one pound sugar and one-half cup cold water and boil together tntil it becomes brittle when dropped In cold water, Do not stir until the sugar melts. "Butter a shal- low tin and cover closgly with al- monds, hickory, pecan, and hazel nuts, then strps of cocoanut, sioned dates and bits of flg. When the candy is doge add to it a tablespoon of lemon juice snd pour over frult and nuts. Mark In strips or squares when cool. Mince Pis Candy—Take the white of an egg and mix with it powdered sugar until it forms a creamy mass stiff enough to mold: Into this press nuts, raisins, chopped figs, dates, and some of the different spices used for mince ples. Pack in a tin box lined with paraffine paper and leaye it to ripen, then cut with a sharp knife in- to cubes the size of caramels; wrap them in paraffine paper and pack in a fancy box, laveled “Mince Ple,” on the ctyside, Brown Betties—Two cups of brown sugar. half a cup of milk; boil about four ~ minutes, stirring constantly; when almost done stir in 3-4 cup of chopped blanched almonds; remove from the fire stir until it grains and locks sugary, then pour into a well- ofled tin half an inch deep. ’ LOUISE. QUERIES FROM ISABELLA. Dear Ststers of the Social Corner: haven't written In guite a long tim and as I have a few spare moments, I will write a few lines. L. H. K.: Do you think I am a 1 am, but—are you? you ever go huckleberrylng in Scotland? How xn you ilke your new home. I heard & ‘s ago that you had moved. Now that you have a chicken- less chicken rpie, and an appleless ap- ple ple, couldn’t you send a pumpkin- less pumpkin pie re:ipe? Hope M. Roena is foeling better, and will soon write again. Blue Bells of Scotland: Haven't T ever met you? Do you live in Scot- land village? What has become of Clara of Can- terbury ? ISABELLE. EVERYBODY IS INVITED TO SIT ON WOODBOX. Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis- ters: Good morning. How are you all this lovely morning? A fine morn- ing to go calling. Wish I could hear 2 knock at my door and on opening it find a companygof Sccial Corner folks. To the editor and Social Corner memters: I extend a cordial Invita- tion to come and see the woodbox, sit upon it, and have & cup of tea. I trust no one will feel slighted, All are welcome. Sister Dolly: Do not give up. We shall meet if we have to meet Some- where by appointment: and each of us carry a flag so we will know “Who is ‘Who.” My Christmas things are near- ly finished. 1 commenced early—did not have to hurry ard now I shall not have to worry. Aunt Hester: If we cannot have a face io face talk. we will enjoy a talk through our Corner. I never 1 a. Wild Cherry: Why aid you your thinking cap on before t00 late for Nat'’s husking? know about a husking bee is what I have Leard on the phcnograph as given by Uncle John. They seemed to en- Joy it Papa’s Boy: You are nearing the goal. The initials are not right. Guess Bgain, Shail he pleased to hear you play. Bring sister with you, then she will not feel so badly over the loss of ber pansies, Blow the whistle three times, then 1 shall know who has arrived. I will appear at once. Sweet Willlam: Where are ‘you? You must write again. Set work aside a few minutes and write a letter. Aunt Jemimy: I wonder if we know “Who is Who"? It is so hard to tell. Your letter was short but sweet. ‘s motto for December 6ti new “mu in my mind, of 18 the esteem ‘women are held.” By huving to vote, will women weaken of ot tion—this esteem more than silver and nted there are women who are ly as broad minded am some men, are, fore, equally qualified to have a voice In the laws our our country; bul, if womén ure granted these rights.’ will there Pe more di- vorces, will our homcs suffer, will the ahlu;m grow up like Topsy, as Crusoe uch has been written of late re- garding- the “growing discontent” of the present gemeration. Nowhero Iy this more noticeable than in the large citle: ‘Where are the cozy sitting rooms of olden times, with their happy family groups, eich member co: ver Ledly rewd- ing or writing, or all discussing some subject with keen interest? There aro momo left, we hove, for which we are thankful, but not as many as there ought to by Now, 1t Is theateis, mov- ing pictures, clubs—anything just so we are afforded somewhere to "Ko. To remember that we are alive and to keep young and cheerful does not pecessitate that we shall be “amused” We know that “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” Lut surely “ail play and no work" breeds discontent. Crusoe argues that woman wos cro- ated more sensitive, more dellcate, more refined than man: that hoth wili become antagonistic If put on the same level. The quiestion is, Will they? If ‘Women'’ Rights is golng to cause more misery and strife than we see all around us now, then let us walt Lefore we climb the suffragist ladder too_ra ly, If we were only sure that all women would act wigely in this movement, that our homes and children would not suffer, then the cobwebs would all be cleared away. I hate to think that my cobweb is “fear.” But when women vote, the bad and the good will be associated together and, on account of this, will woman lose the high esteem In which she is_now held? T'm confident that someene will try to brush my cobweb away and if no one can, then I shall be content to be just what I am— DREAMPR. Washington, D, C. * AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM POTLATCH. Editor and Friends of Social Corner: Will the editor please accept my thanks for check recetved. It was like gotting money from home. 1 was cer- tainly surprised to receive the third prize, for & poor excuse of a letter. And T am going to return a part of it, Ler another yesr's subscription for The Courier. Perhaps Fettio Maris will forget me this Christmas, and I enjoy Secial Corner so much I Late to give it up. Beems almost like visiting friends of long ago to read the let- ters from you all here are many New England peo- ple in Seattls. They have a club here. 1 never joined the club, but visited them once. The president of the club told me I was the second person ever to registér from Connecticut. Trere had Veen many visitors from Massa- chusetts, Maine, also Rhode Island. 1 made the remark that old Connecticut must be i pretty good state to live in; in fact, T have met very few people from Connecticut anywhere in the west. Vil pot write of my visit to Vashon new; but when I mako ancther trip you ‘may hear from me. “I'm nox, going o teli you “Who is Who"; bul the lady I Visited there once had a brother, who was sherift of New London county for many years. Some time 1 will tell you about Whitby island, the largest of the many in Puget sound, and the first one set- Ued by white people. Coupeville, the county seat, was my heme at oné time. Morning Glury: was good, Pansy:~ Your mock mince ples have found favor among several of my friends. Sweet Lavender: twins are so much car: Ma: My very dear friend, is a man, knew him long ago. We have never fargotien each other these many years. He 1s a grandfather, now. S0 you see we ere not sixteen. though he is some oMer than I, €hut-In: T mailed you some pos- tals—hope to send you more later, Aunt Jule: Your idea is a good one. I Bave always found someone close by that needed a Christmas cheer, and try to do a little to help them ilong. 1 am glad the Ststers in Connecticut are getting interested in woman's rights. Have found in Seattle many working for ths advancement of wo- wankind, I think we women should do our best and vote for better con- ditions. _Thero seeris need of it. 1 Jknow certain conditions have improved in our city since women have voted. At our last city election many women went to the polls with their husbands, sons and daughters, Say, it looked good to me. T hegrd one man re- mark that election, with a bunch of women around, would be like golng to Your little story Am. sorry the church, Perhaps the fellow hud for- sotten his mother; at least, he icoked torsaken. 1 hope, dear sisters, you will give this suffrags question serious thought. Dear Dreamer: Dream again. Your letter and stories are all interesting to me. Thanks; I will do what I can to 611 the bill. EDzabeth: When you form your company into line, have the Yantics and Lebanons together and perhaps some of the Norwich fojks would lke to join in and see the fun. Jim: I have mo ‘'phone, I am sorry Your letter pleasod If the company 18 too large for me. one sitting on the woodbox we will draw nugabers so all can have a chance. I guess the short people will not have to call in the aid of a stepladder or sit_on the floor. Pink Rose: You have added a pret- ty color to our Corner. I am one with =pread on top; brown slightly and serve cold. Mince Pie with Apple Meringue— This s delicious. Cover a pie plate with flaky pie crust; Ml -with mince meat and cover with thin crust and Place in this a little powder Another article which is ‘usetul is made of a piece of Persian (or any color) ribhon 24 inches long, 5 1-2 nches wide. Cut this in half and sew pieces together at both edges till balke:; kwh.;nlr‘-dy i ssevs, cover with a_thiel ple meringue, sprinkle wit <hopped nuts and place in a cool oven until the merinse is faintly browned. Apple Meringus—Peel or grate one large apple (or two medium _size). sprinkling over it one cup powdered sugar to keep from turnine black as it you for hearing from our former mem- bers. I will add & few names to the list-—Alwilda, Interested, Constant Reader, Tolland County, Edelwetss, P. U. T., Samantha, Jessie, Laurle. ‘With good wishes, I must close. Sweet Lavender: I trust the times are better. Trust you will like the new hous>. READY. Leorard Bridge. WHO'LL BRUSH “A DREAMER 1t may help the coming generations. The edltor rocetves so many lotters 1 tear T am imposing on good nature, ®a will wish you all a Merry Christ- mas and a Happy New Year, Beattle, POTLATCH JIM ON DRIED-APPLE PIES. Dear Editor and Soclal Corner Friends: The evening was so pleasant tonight, and the Social Corner with its cheery light and warmth seemed #o in- viting I could not resist the tempta- tion of calling again. Dear Nat: I am glad you won first prize, for I think you deserved it. T think your letters are brimful of hu- man nature. Am sorry you missed that old, time husking bee this year, but plah for one another season, and do remember to mix in some red seed at planting time. Don't tell Jane Ann about i, You might tell her that the croppled crowned hen is not for sale, though I suppose fifty cents is a high ce for her. You see it iy th she is the homliest fowl of the whole bunch of my Buff Plymouth Rocks, but she’s the best layer. Then she had an unfortunate lent when young. I had just got home from town one day, COBWEB AWAY? when 1 heard a hubbub among the chickens, and I ran out to find a big | abhor, Getest, dempiss, abominte dricd pple plos. 'i like good bread, 1 lie iheet; ‘ar aayihing shat's good te eat, but all poor grub beneath the sikies, the poorest is dried-apple pics. /Glve me the toothache or soro eyes in ference to muoh kind of pies. The takes bis gnurliest fruit, ‘s ormy, Ditter and hard to boot: they leave the hulls to make us cough, ani don’t take half the peeling off on a dirty cord they are string, sn from some chamber window huni, ai thero they merve a roost for flies, it they are ready to make ples. Tread on my corns, or tell me lios; but don't, please, pass me dried-applo pios What a dellghtful day Thunkswivin duy was, this year, and what a ploas ant time we did have at the home gathering; but the crowning day of all the year is yet to come, Let us wiop d think w moment, why it is ever one is o happy and merry at Christ why we " glve and receive p 1 have to turn to the good | find the answer in John i1 Though it was not our privilego t hear the beautiful music the ang sang on that first Christmas morn. us not forkat the words, “Glory to G in the highest, and o th pea £00d will toward men.” Ls and make it a joyous Christm: clally for the Mtte folks, for once a boy. M Cliristmas to the Soclal Corner friends, 1 Editor JIM Yantie, HOW TO GLORIFY A CHRISTMAS TREE. Dear Sisters: Is it not a prob) Christmas tUme to make our mone ®0 as far us possible and give as mu pleasurc as we would like to give from @ limited amount? I think one of the firat serve 1% to give what Do not run into debt. quire weeks of from. Let our gifts be appropriate given cheerfully, not grudiingly cause you know Mrs, So o give you, and you suppo give to her, Such giving | tone of Christmas joy Let us remember thit we are we send happiness to ot r, the lonely, the discouraged rules to That sacrifice to n aftor will re rec as P sick. To imitate must go about what brimgs true happiness tc during the beautiful Christmas fo val, Do you want your Christmas (roe Took as If it wan covered with ice snow? If mo, dissolve four pounds of ulum in half & gallon of bolling wat put this in an ordinary sprinkler Spray your tree with half the o i After twenty minutes let der como to a boil and spray again. Then sprinkle the troe a with pulverized starch and it wi a thing of beauty, JANETTE the r FANCY BAGS AND TOWELS Dear Sisters: Having recelved many £00d ideas by reading the in n letters in The Bulletin, I wish t i my mite by telling you how to make one or two Christmas presents Very pretty fancy bags are oa made in an evening by busy One bag requires three-quart yard of five inch, ribbon and « 1 one-half yards of narrow ribb the draw-string, First make o he each end of the wide ribbon, one-half inches deep. Then places for draw-strings by acromss the ribbon with fine stitches one-half inch be stitches. Now fold the ribbon in center and bring the fold up to edges of the homs to mako i ‘bags, leaving the hems the « and the center of the ribbon Overhand the edges of each b both sides with silic matehing the bon. Cut the narrow ribbe Run ono plece through e k the L b in the c bags and then run the other around from the opposite side, Tio the ‘a in lttle tight bows. This m . double bag for the handkerchiof gloves for a party. Pink Persian ribbon in ¥ or darker, rich colored ribbon 1 more admired. Guest towsls are very three-fourths yard about 15 inch hemmsiitch encl row cross-stitch pink on both ends, or and scallop the other, using wh colored D, M. C. cotton. Work g large dot in_ satin stitch just a the divisions between the scall work a smaller dot just above Pinic scallops with pink dots look Initigls on one end and u little wreatl or vase of flowers worked in color canvas in cross-stitch,then the threads pulled cut, make pretty towels T think that Dolly's sister and I us 10 go to school together to make cream and ple.” With best wishes for mas, prett of > for and huich one, ¥ s nd border in b hemstite 1 a Merry Christ ROSARY. —_— HOW’S THIS? We ofter One Hun ward for any cuse of Catarh that ca not_be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure ¥, J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O We, ‘the undersigned, huve know Cheney for the lust 16 years, an hi_ perfectly honorable in & Business transactions and fina able to_carry out any obligation ma by _his firm. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN Wholesalo Druggists, Tolsdo, O Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken int rally, acting directly and " 'mucous Testimonials upon t par bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for con pation. Best on Earth.” This i the verdict of R. J Tracy, O., who bought Foley's and Tar Compound for his wife case was the worst I have ever and looked like & Mure case of con sumption. Her lungs were sore and she coughed almost incessantly and her volce was hoarse and weak. Ioley's Honey and Tur Compound brought re llef at once, and less than three bot tles effocted a complete cure.” Les & Osgood Co. Ho Hone: He A Terrible Bluader to neglect liver trouble. Never do it Take Dr. King's New Life Pills on the first #ign of constipation, Dillousness or inactive bowels and provent virulent indigestion, jaundice or gall stones They reglate 1i stomach and bow s and bpdld up your health. Only 260 at Leo & Osgood Co.'s. Conn. State Board of Heallh ANTITOXIN jeast thirty-seven cents to spend? tw some very pretty hat trimming shops, marked down irom forty to thirty-seven. Think the mat- may be had here by physicians on order signed by the Health Officer. DUNN'S PHARMACY, 50 Main Street rat_dragging this chicken into the woodpile. 1 done up her mangled leg ith surgocn plaster. and it got well again, but she has always been a crip- ple since. It was her kind, y ‘ways, I suppose, that got her name mixed up in that pumpkin ple poetry. o Just bexun to wet, had 18 little orphan {knife. Fine to use. in making date, /ter. one egs, sait, nutmes and flour walnut or chocolate cream! lu-nkneaéd; let rise. In the morning Buttercup: Not knowing your a's| TON and ‘cut out and raise on the stes, T think 1t wonld be rather harq Deard: fry ip hot lard; shake in @ bag o suggest a gift. If she is frivolous, [ J/th pulverized suger. @ pretty collar. jabot, or. handkerchief { Buttercup: You could make like the one 1 have. Perhaps| Woull ~be nicc.” If &he is quiet and ' friend & sallor collar from & preiis of the vounger members may | rather domestic, maybe she would like handkerchief with embroidered scals make one for a Christias gift. | the materials for a bit of faney work, loped cdge; cut the neck out und put are materials needed: One and or how would « bath set do, crdeheted, or 4 lawn binding: or a jabot can’ be Fards plain ribbon and three- | wash cloth, embroidered towel, and a wiade {rom one by folding and cutting yard figured. (Mine Is pink | cake of her favorite toilet Soup? _in a triangle and sewing the bias side s Pe n stripe for the center.) Ready: Was that you? | to & plece of insertion nine inches long | brass rings, about an inch or so| Aunty, and tie othicr suffragettes: T|or s long as desired. A pin cushion two yards narrow ribbon | hupe that all the women who wani to| made from a plece of silk, some cotton To make, cut the 11-2|vote ma$ soon have that privilege,|and & doll's Bead i odd. Cover & two equal pleces. Place You are not like the busy woman Who. £9URd plevs, of pasteboard about thres In center and stitch or | didn’t want to vete, as she thought If in dlameter with silk,j gather 3 Leave about|there was one thing that men could d6 | and oyerhand aFound the cdge of it o ne, they had beiter be allowed to do| 1lia same material. six inches eep and . ~ I'think. insi¢ad df being n vot- ' 1 Before sathering the o e abeut half way down, leaving the re- matnder hanging with sides open and cnds fringed, about an inch deep. This makes the covers for two leaves of fannel which are put inside and held in place b a row of featherstitchine on outside of. ribbon through the middle. Tutn over the upper edge of ribbon. featherstiich it down, run In the nar- row ribbon to draw it together and you have a hag for selssors, embroldery i1k, spools and thimble, with needl bonic attached. Dear Corner Friend: ‘When we see a cobweb on the wall or cefiing, we fre usually able to remove this “eye- i grated. Break into this two egs whites and beat constantly for 15 min- utes. Fussy, but good. Walnut Wafers—On, prown sugar. two one_teaspoon bakmg powder, four. heaping table- spoons flour, three-quarters cup chop- ped walnut ‘ments. :‘v::g ?,); tgnsmoon ‘Wwonder if the sisters have madd, scant cup of for hoiding knitting or erochet your on buttered tin. A Big G—Hygienic Coarse Flour Prepared with Bran. ks, to wiop 1 wiop fn some at your house, and have a 20c & puckage.