Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 20, 1912, Page 10

UL RN T BN NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1912 EVERY WOMAN'S OFPORTUNITY. 0od home letters, good bus'ness letters; gond help- d the mind may suggest. ‘Write on but cne side of the paper. The Bulletin wants ful letters of any kin Wednesday of each week. YOU KNOW NOT WHERE A BLESSING MAY LIGHT They should be in hand by Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR, Builetin Cffice, Norwick, Conn THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $250 w first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to third. Awmrd made the last Saturday in each montt. SOCIAL CORNER POEM. My Mother's Prayer. (Sen: 1n Answer to a Request by Blue{ Bells of Scotland.) % i never can forget the day 1 beard my mother kindly say: “You're leaving now my tender care, Remember, child, your mother's pray~ er’ Chorus ‘Whene'er 1 think of her so d 1 feel her angel spirit near. A voice comes floating on the air, Reminding me of mother's prayer. 1 mever can forget the voice That always made my heart rejoice, Tho' [ have wandered God knows where, Stiil 1 remember mother,s prayer. o' years have gone, I can't forget 0se words of joy—I hear them yet, | sea her by the old armchair, My mother dear, in humble prayer. 4 I pever can forget the hour 1 feit the Saviour's cleansing power. My sin and guilt he cancelled there, 'Twas there he answered mother's preayer, Chorus Oh, praise the Lord for saving grace! We'll meet up vonder face to face, Yhe home above together share, In answer to my mother's prayer. L. H K ANSWERS AND INQUIRIES. DOLLY—We never heard of the book »efore and have no knowledge of it. QUEEN BESS—The original story, The Oak and the Dog, recelved and ac: cepted. It will appear in due time. MTDI—Have no accurate information where boxes of clothing should be ad- dressed for flood sufferers. SHUT-IN—Address has been sent to Balsam F PACKAGE received has been deliv- sred to Dolly. NEW LONDON—Your was mailed to Dolly. JANE GREY—The omission was an eoversight. You will receive due credit and reward. PROVOKED—The Editor is fully aware of the disappointments, trials and provocations of the Social Corner; but it is teaching him as well as others patience and self control. There are 16 senders ol excellent poems,, 30 writers of stories and 12 writers of letters, at least, who are wondering why their eontributions do not appear. and some may think they have gone into the waste basket when they are only wait- ing a chance. Tt is easier to write short letters than long ones and it gives a larger per cent. of the Sisters a_ chan The Editor makes no com- plaint has no favorites, and tries to manage the Social Cornor for the best interests of all who write and all who read postal card FARMER'S BOY WELL NAMED. MERRY Dear Social Corner Sisters: weuld say to Black Beauty: both indoors and out. fuitial H. B.” 1 I work Is your last W. and have you attended W. Papa’'s Boy: 1 shall be looking for an automobile when the mud season is over. Won't we have a jolly time? Wil you take a ride with me some I have a horse. Your letters are always I wonder who will get the cup saucer, 1 am frald you would buve to send me directions as to how to reach your place, as I am not used to the rozds where you live. Elizabet} I hope you wili write econ again as 1 enjoy ur letters., u laugh outright when you da‘s trip to Leonard Bridge? . 8. 1913 1 have attended a picnic at Riverside, and am acquainted ith vour aunt It is certainly a pleas- piace to spend a vacation. We don't consider Leon- ant Cherisett ard Brioge as lonely as Hulda describ- od it, do we? Didn’'t we have a lovely time at the second anniversary H. E. O.. If you knew Papa's Boy, 1 guess you'd lavgh. 1 guess she won't change bher mina and I agree with her. Tovacco is certainly a very bad habit. Best wishes to THE MER all, RY FARMER BOY. THE BEST INDIAN PUDDING. Bditor Social Cormer: Thers are some members of the Corner whom I would love to meet, since I recognize them as kindred spirits. Herewith 1 send a recipe for Pudding, the best 1 ever very inexpensive: Indian Pudding —Three rounded tavlespoons of Indian meal, 1 cup mo- lasses, 1 teaspoon butter, ginger or cinnamnen, and sait to taste. Stir in this gradvally one quart of boiling milk. When it begins 1o set, stir in one pint of cold milk. Add one or two eggs, if you wish. Indian tried, and MIDL FORGET-ME-NOT'S TESTED MEATLESS RECIPES. Bisters of the Social Corner: You will find these recipes economical and nourishing Potate Soup—Three notaloes slicel, I quart milk, 2 slices cnion, § table- spoons butter, 2 tablespoons flour, -2 teaspoons salt, 1-4 teaspoon celery sait, 1-8 teaspoon pepper, 1 teaspoon chopped parsiey. This may be made as a puree or the onion may be simmered in butter, then sliced potatoes added and soup thick- ened with flour moistened with little cold water: in this case do not siraiu I'hree tablespoons tomato catsup may be added just befors serving. Tomsto Soup—One can of tomatoes or 1 quart sliced fresh tomatoes, 1 quart water, 12 peppercorns, bit of bay leaf, 4 Cloves, I easpoons sugar, 1 tesspocn salt, 1-8 teaspoon soda, 1 sliced onlon. ook first six ingredients together twenty minutes, add salt and soda. birain and serve clear or bind . with two tablespoons butter and two tablespoons flour. Puree of Lentils—Pick over 3 pints of lentlis and soak over night. In morning drain and wash well. Put on to Loil and cook hard and fast until they go to pleces. As the wa- ter evaporates add more. Shred in a leaf of parsley, four stalks celery, two leeks and an onion, four ounces salt pork, Cover ito simmer until all are soft enough to rub through seive. Bind with 3 tablespoons butter, two table- spoons flour and one teaspoon sugar. Serve with slices of lemon in the tu- reen and small squares of brown bread fried in butter served separately on a plate. Peas, beans and lentils are legumes containing much protein, which is the same muscie and tissue builder as is contained in meat. I find bacon fat an excellent substitute for butter in binding the above soups to keep from separating. FORGET-ME-NOT. Putnam. KNITTED SHOULDER SHAWL. Editor Social Corner: 1 send for the Social Corner Sisters who knit the following instructions: Materials—large wooden or rubber needles and three and one half skeins of Germantown yarn. Cast on 118 sts 1st row knit plain. Second row, knit plain to the last 3 sts, then narrow and knit 1. Re- peat these 2 rows until you have but one stitch left on the needle, pull that through the loop, You now have a three-corner knitted shawl. Border—First row, make 1 treble in every other st. with one ch between around the two straight sides of the awl. At the point In the ba trebles with 1 ch between eac! Second row, 3 trebles in the first loop, with il ch in between each 1 tre- le 1 ch between through the row to the point 2 trebles with 1 ch between 1 ch, treble in treble 1 ch, 2 treble with 1 ch between, and finish like the first of the row. Third row, chain 3 1 d in first loop, ch 1 treble in loop, so continue to the point * put 2 trebles with 1 ch be- tween in loop, 1 ch * repeat from the star and finish like the first row. Fourth row, like the third roow to the point. then 2 tr with 1 ch between in second loop, where 2 trebles were In in 1 Joop, 1 ch 2 trebles and 1 ch between in 2 loops, 1 ch 1 treble in next loop, finish like the first part of the row. Fifth row, like the fourth row to the point, then put 3 treble with ch be- tween in middle loop. Sixth row, like the fifth row. Tie fringe in each loop with three pieces of wool a finger long. To fin- ish the neck, make a row of holes of two ch, and one treble. Then put a scallop of 4 trebles in in one loop and I dz crochet In the next. INDUSTRIOUS, Norwich, SWEET LAVENDER HEARD FROM. Dear Social Corner Editor It is such a long time since I've written to the Corner that 1 feel sort of bash- ful among 8o many new writers; yet may 1 be welcome. It is not because I have forgot any of you, dear sisters (and brothers), but I have been busy and not enj ing very good health. I have been very neglectful in all lines. So many of you have remembered me so kindly, too, that I feel ashamed. 1 am going to begin better. 1 have just returned home from a few days' visit among very dear friends and feel much better and rested. We both like our country home better cach day and have enjoyed go- Ing on straw rides this past winter, to church suppers and parties (house). I have sat on handy woodboxes, too, and wondered if I couid be in a So- cial Corner home. There was no way to know. now and do I've just had two callers. - Faye Verna, how 1 enjoy your notes, and M .Roena, I watch her le ters, too, with interest, 1 wa 8§80 sor- ry wnen 1 read of the death of one of the twins in the week-day paper. Then 1 looked for a letter from you on Saturday. 5 You speak of going to Ohio. Yes, you will find everything lovely there. "1 often get home for the city I lived in there—Cleveland. Will you be anywhere near that place? I am writing a long letler, but I must answer Llizabeth and tell you | your I am sorry, but you must guess again. I was not M. S, nor am I Mrs. K. now. Ha! ha. Please do me about Dewey and Dottie. What dandy stories we are having. 1 also like the poems. must close, thanking you all for ihoughts. You shall hear again soon from write SWEET LAVENDER. PEANUT BUTTER CAKE. Dear Social Corner Sisters: 1 have enjoved reading the Social Corner let ters very much. As I do not see any from Rhode Island, wonder if I will be weicome. My old home was in Connecticut near Norwich, and it is such a treat when hubby comes in at night with The Bulletin, Have tried many recipes and find them very helpful. Will someone tell me how to make Rhubarb Jelly? I have tried several times and failed. Have any of the sisters ever tried Peanut Butter Cake? 1 will send the recipe for those who have not Peanut Butter Cake—One cup sugar, one tablespoon butter. two eggs, one- half cup milk, one teaspoon vanilla, two cups flour, one teaspoon cream tartar, one-haif teaspoon soda. Filling—One-half cup peanut butier, four tablespoons sugar; with milk. Put chocolate on top layer. Salad Dressing—One-half cup vine- | gar, one teaspoon salt, one-half fea- spoon mustard, one-guarter teaspoon | pepper, one tablespoon melted butter, | one tablespoon sugar, three ites and yolks beaten se i double hoiler and cook thick as custard, until Mock Mince Pie—Roll two crackers, one tablepsoon butter, one-half cup sugar, one-half cup molasses, two tablespoons vinegar, one-half cup wa- ter, one cup raisins, spice to suit taste, a little salt, iwo apples chopped fine with raisins. LITTLE RHODY, GREENERY T T S ABEL'S METHODS CULTURE. Dear Sisters: As this is the season when our thoughts turn toward seeds and planting, I am going to write you a few suggestions which I hope will prove helpful for the Sisters who are flower lovers. It is so Interesting to study a seed catalogue, plant our own flower beds, and tend the young plants. It is time well spent, for out of door life 1s what we need after being shut up more or Jess for the winter. For covering a treilis or an unsight- ly place, we want rapid growers, such as the morning glory, the variegated Japanese hop or cobea. This last is a very rapid grower, with beautiful foli- age and large bell-shaped flowers, the blue being the showler. Give this a foreground of scarlet salvia or dwarf crimsen zinnias and the effect is beau- tiful. Start the seeds indoors in April and plant them singly in cans, placing the steds edgewise and covering with nearly an Inch of soil. Keep in a sun- ny window and water lightly. At plant- ing time, If the soil is quite dry, the plants may be slipped from their pots with no root disturbance. For a porch screen, or an arbor plant, scarlet runner beans alternately with wild cucumber seeds, and “as they bloom early by midsummer the effect of the scarlet blossoms with the fra- fnnt white cucumber vines is indeed lovely. The moonflower is one of the most beautiful climbers and has dense foli- age and fs ideal for porches. The flower is a curiosity inasmuch as one can watch it unfold in all its beauty. Late in the afternoon it opens and my neighbors often come to watch it with me, as but few people geem to have seen this rare flower. Nasturtiums all through the year may be had if early in April seeds are planted in & rich soil in a 12-inch pot. Thin out in May, leaving nine plants. Place the pot outdoors and train the foliage on twine fastemed to a piazza if you like. On Oct. 1st remove the pot to a sunny window by cutting back the plants and unfastening the twine, re- fastening it to the window. The blos- soms will continue until spring. T have written thus at length about tralling vines, for so many people who want a rapid climber always use the morning glory, and although that is Jovely, there are other vines just as much so and not so common, and if we are planting annuals we might as well have a varfety. ‘When preparing your beds for plants give them a liberal sousing of boiling water, If this is thoroughly dome it will destroy weed seeds, and put a speedy end to all insect life. After the plants are set give the bed a dressing with £and to prevent reinfection. /There are lots more things I wish to say, but my letter is becoming too long. Glenwood: Thanks for your appre- iation of my last letter. Yours are ays helpful. Cornflower: Your suggestions were fine. I have put some of them to use already. ABEL. IN FLORI- A FEW HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To Cleanse Linoleum: After washing linoleum, dip the mop in following simple preparation and pass it again over the floor, leaving the linoleum to be dried by the air. For a room ten feet square break two eggs, beat them | énough to partially mix them in about one quart of water. An old linoleum will seem almost new and look ag if it had been varnished. You can put out the flame of a gaso- line stove that has blazed up, as it will sometimes do, by putting a little flour on the burner. This will extinguish it at once when water or a blanket have been tried and failed. Put a little pinch of salt in gasoline to cleanse with and there will be no mark left around a grease spot. A teaspoonful of lemon juice to a quart of water will make rice white and keep the grains separate when done. A mowing machine knife makes a good scraper. A cob in the sink makes a good brush. HETTIE MARIA. J, E. T'S INGENIOUS METHODS. Social Corner Sisters: 1 want to teli You about something that has been quite a comfort to me the last few months. Not being very well, and our chamba-s on the second floor, with no furnace, T carried two soapstones up to bed with me a few times. They got on my corn, fell out of bed and were quite a nuisance. I made me what I call an invalid night dress. It is very heavy, striped, Turkish toweling, cut in three pieces, two in front, one cut into, and one whole piece in back—long old sack night gown, like our great-grand- mothers wore. I cut back breadth ten inches longer than front, turned gown up all around the same length, made four inside pockets of the long piece, stitching them lengthwise, and put but- tons and buttonholes down the front. When in bed, I put my feet in two of the pockets and was warm all night. I also put two small pockets on the breast and clean, soft handkerchiefs in cach, 1 did not have to turn myself it I needed a handkerchief. It looks like any night dress outsi A good use for leaky hot water bags: Make a hole at each corner of the bot- tom through each thickness, tie a strong string Into a loop each side; then cut hole large enough to insert glass pint jar; hang up on head of bed, small end of rubber bag down, get a white rubber tube, if you have not got one, from some other leaky rubber article. and put in vour jar one end: cut another small hole near top of jar in bag: pull tube through, have small cork in end, and fill jar with water. Yov can drink anv time of night and don’t nced to get un or dis- turb anyone. Put a jar rubber on top of jar and tie tube to it and tube can- not fall out of jar. Thirsty little ones are supplied easily in this way and no water spilled on them or the bed clothine. J.E T Yantic. P, U. T'S ENTERTAINING CHAT Dear Social Corner Sisters: Ready emerged from the pigeon hole as bright as ever, didn’'t she? We are all sorry that she is losing her friend and neighbor. We'd gladly go and cheer Ready up if we could only find her. But we're going to discover her soon, for we shall follow the course f that basket quilt pattern after it reaches Leonard Bridge postoffice. In Mother’s instructions to us on ironing she omitted to say that when ironing embrolderfes they should be placed right side down on thick turk- ish toweling and when finished the embroidery will be seen to stand out beautifully Ruth, dear: TI'm afrald you've come to the wrong locality to search for Nat and Jane Ann, in Occum but ! that’s where you'll find me, and right where the people whom you thought were Nat and Jane Ann live too! Where vou called one summer after- noon with J, K. I have seen you often since then, or a girl who resembled you very much, I couldn’t be sure. Married and Happy of Willimantic: You haven't forestalled all questions, Aren’'t your initials 8. T. I am com ing to find you and to see that pretty waist which you are embroidering. Eleanor: That was a beautiful des- cription of a spring lanscape. It was so vivid that the water, the lovely path, the flowers and the tall aspens at the end were fairly before the read- er's eyes. You are fortunate {o bave the memory of such a lovely scene and it was very dear of you fo share it fth us. T hope that we shall hear | from you again. Like Shut-In, Dear Edito: 1 am not in the best of health and some- times have to spend a week at a time in bed. 1 always read the Soclal Corner and the The Man Who Ta'ks, the first thing Saturday mornings. But no one that calls has yet asked me if 1 ever read the Social Corner! Fer- Something quite out of the usual order had certainly occurred, and T ‘was quite excited about it. ¥or had I not seen Peleg and Aunt Judy Simp- son drive away very early in the morn- ing, with “basdbox and bundle,” and had not even heard of anyone being dead, either. Next morning I returned the cup of salt I recently borrowed, and found Aunt Judy only too glad to tell me all about it. “Yes,” says Aunt July, in answer to my inquiry, “when 1 read that story of Hulda’s about going to Leon- ard Bridge. I nearly dled a-laughing— and then I had an idea—didn't know what Pa would think about it—but 'fore he got in to supper 1 had it all planned, and Peleg knows when 1 makes up my mind 'tain’t no use to try to change it. “"Wel,’ I told Pa, says I, T've saved the egg money for quite a spell; I've always calculated sometime to take ride in one of them ortomobiles. Now I says, ‘let’s take that trip ourselves. Let's go to Leonard Bridge and have an ortomobile take us around and call on all the Social Corner folks, T've been dreadful curious about them Leonard Bridge folks for quite a spell, and thirty miles riding in that there ortomobile will take us over Some country.’ ““Where's your ortomobile coming from? says Pa, ““‘Now, says I, T won't trust to luck. The only ortomobile I've heard of in Leonard Bridge Papa’s Boy has got, and boys and men, too, most generaily likes an extra penny all right. I'm going to send a card to the editor to send Papa’'s Boy and see if he won't take us around; and, then, he knows all the Social Corner folks, too. “‘Well, says Pa, ‘'twill cost a lot of money, and I've got too much to do toi go galivanting on any such fool | trip? ‘Why, you needn’t go if you don't want to,’ I said; ‘I wouldn't wonder a| mite if Mrs. Peabody would just love | to go along.’ “If you must go trapsing 'round I s'pose I'll have to go—to see you don’t get killed or nothin,’ says he, and he went off muttering ‘Fool and his mon- ) e “Good Lord!” says Aunt Jjuly. I)| knew you couldn’t keep that man to home; but Pa has to have his growl— don't hurt nobody—and does him a lot of good. “Papa’s Boy wrote back a real po- lite card and said he'd be real pleased to take us around the next Thursday —weather and such being favorable. “The day before 1 baked a lot of stuff—Pa said 'enough for a Sunday school pienic’ 1 cooked a hen and fried some turnovers, made a jelly roil and sandwiches and put up some cof- fee; then I packed some arnica, cam- phor ind some bandages and court- plaster in my bag—no telling what might happen, I told Pelg, and I was going to be ready for what come; and he allowed no doubt that was so. “Then I run over to Miss Peabody's and burrowed her ortomobile veil her niece sent her Christmas. 1 thought at the time 'twas dreadful queer—her having an ortomobile veil without an animal on the place, let alone an or- tomobile, but seems like it was prov- idential, now. I was up afore light, packing that lunch and heating a soap- stone, 1 took along some extra shawls, I told Fa I'd heard tell ortomobiles | was dreadful cold. And he said shawls would be handy to pitch a tent if we broke down ten miles from Nowhere on a side-hill. “Pa was real sarcastic, but, shucks, I didn’t care; I knows Pa. “When we got to Leonard Bridge, Papa’s Boy was a-waiting. He stared some when he seen our luggzage. I §'pose we did look curious—and some hefty, too; but he packed us in some- how—and ‘fore we started I told Pa- pa’'s Boy (on the siy) that Peleg was dreadful long-winded, and he said if we went around the Leonard Bridge route and called on the Social Corner folks we must make short stops. “He started north a ways. I hadn't learned to balance myself on that seat before he said ‘Here's Ready’s,’” and he rode right up to her door. “She was real glad to see us, made us come In and set on the woodbox | while she give us a cup of tea. We hadn't drank half of it 'fore that horn tooted; and off we went. I took a tack in that veil, but Land alive! I had to hold on my bonnet with one ! hand and grasp the seat with the oth er. 1 was scared most to death; and I heard Pa muttering things above the chug-chug of the machine, “Didn’t sense a thing I seen on| the road, when we whirled into anoth- eryard and the driver shouted ‘Chef's and stopped so quick I nigh pitched on to the front seat. “Chef treated us to some fine coffee, and by hurrying we got it down, and scrambled into the machine, “Sweet Willlam had gone to Willi- mantic 50 we didn’t see him. “Pa tried to visit some with Papa's Boy, but after shouting a spell he give that up. We went up and down hills and ‘round corners. Say! I've heard some about speed limit, but, my good- ness! he didn’t limit his speed none. “We picked up Kentucky Bell along the road and carried her quite a piece. ‘When we turned & corner by a school- hou. Peleg lost his hat. “While he was hunting for it, Papa’'s Aunt Judy’s Automobile Trip Boy sald Guess Who was sick, and Buttercup and Snowflake was away. 1 was real sorry. “When Pa got his hat he asked if that darned tginl couldn’t go a little mite slower—he wanted to see the country, “l scen he was getting mad, so I hushed him up a little. But, land of libertyl we didn't see no country, for it took all our time to keep our seat and wonder if the next minute would be our last. “Betsey Burdock's family was quar- antined with something—measies, 1 believe—but she came to the door and waved a handkerchief to us; yvou see, they ail have telephones, and 1 s'pose they each called up their neighbors and told them we was coming. “After pretty nigh running down a cow and dodging a couple of teams, we whirled ‘round a corner and up to a house ‘Here's Cherisette,’ says he, It looked like there wa'm't any- one to home, but Papa's Boy said he guessed she was out to the henhouse. Sure enough, in a minute, out she comes with a setting hen under her arm. She took us out to see the new henhouse and passe hens; everyvthing right up to date automatic feeders, etc. Shouldn't wonder if they had come contraption to run in the eggs. “We was off again afore we'd seen half enough. Merry I"armer’s Boy was off fishing, and had Black Beauty with him; bui his mother brought out the quilt he'd pieced to show us; done well, toe, for a boy. “We ciimbed some more hills. 1 thought once we was stuck sure; but finally we made it, although Peleg asked if he nadn't getter get out and push. “We rode up to another door and saw a little old man going to the barn with a vail. Papa’s Boy called to him and I knew right off this was Nat. “‘I'm all-fired glad to see you,' says he, ‘jest goin’ to feed them hogs—come elong and see if they ain’'t pretty hef- ty’ He called to Jane Ann to bring out scme dried-apple pie middiing quick, as the folks was in a 'tarnal hurry. She showed me the new silk dress ard asked if the sleeves was in the latest style. We took the pie in our hands and run again, “Papa’s Boy said Jim, of Yantic, was not far off; and he would switch around there, We went down and up some dread- ful hills and along some fine maples. I got so by this time I didn’'t hold my breath all the time, “Jim, he gives us some canned music and brought out a punkin pie. . “We found Elizabeth just finishing hovsecleaning. Why, my land! 1 hain’t begun. She saié if we'd stop and spend the afternoon she'd leave oft right where she was. But Papa's Boy said we got to keep hustling to make the train, so she brought out some pirg-pong crisps, and off we went, “We passed two ponds on trip—one had some little houses, right on some islands—looked real cute. “I was real disappointed not to see Aunt Jemima, but they said she was a-visiting her first husband’s daugh- ter. Reckon I used to know some of her folks. “While we was brushing along the edge of Lebanon we brought up to Antique’s. She was done up with rheumatism, but sent out some Ris cake and grapejuice. The last part was areadful wild country, Went by a house set right in the woods, with a flagpoie and flag, like 'twas Fourth of u st thing I knew we was back at the station; and, my stars! what do you think? I had clean forgot to have our dinner. And even Pa—once in his life—forgot his dinne What with holding ¢n to my hat and cling- ing to seats. and expecting every min- ute would be our last, dodging teams and children, dogs and hens, and be- ing shook most to death, had shook about all I did know out of my head. Of course, with folks treating us all the way, I was so full I couldn't eat anything, any way; but, good land! 1 never seen no man what could find a place for more. “Well, I give Papa’s Boy a coupie of handfuls. and the station agent, and along come the mail carrier. He look- ed a little peaked, and he went home with his hands full. “I will say Papa's Boy treated us real randsome, took us ail around and wouidn’t take a cent for it, either! Well, the train come, and we got home alive, thank the Lord! When I got my dress changed and a fire, I says to Pa: Those Leonard Bridge folks are real nic+ folks and what nice homes they've got, s Pa, ‘wimmen folks are well enough, but I never seen a dumb man, but Jim and Nat might have seen some good country if we'd had time to look. Hang it says Pa, T've been hanged and shook around that infernal machine so I don't s'pose I can get down to milk a cow for a weelk, and when we go anywhere agai he, ‘Judy—you hear, do you? 1 drive the old mare if we spend a week doing it and I had nothing to say. “But,” says Aunt Judy, “ortomobiles may have a place in the world; but they ain't sociable, and 'tween you and me,” says she. “I shouldn't want to say out—you dont get me in one of thew things again.” MATILDA ANN. haps there don’t very many around here read it. They don’t inuch re- semble the Leonard Bridge people, do they, Ready? P.J T Occum. MA’'S CLOVER FEED FO RHENS Dears Sisters: Last fall we cut some nice clover rowan, and every day last winter had it run through a clover cutter and gave it to the hens. { How they did enjoy it! It is a great | thing to make them lay also gives the eggs a god flavor. It is good steamed but is a goadl deal of work. If one has mno clover | cutter it could be cut fine enough in & | hay cutter, or even scraped from the | edge of the mow, where it breaks up | fine. Now, while the weather is so cold, and before there is much green 1 give it to the little chicks to scratch in. Frank: Received the handsome card. Thank you. Glad you are bet- ter. Somebody: No, I don’t keep geese. 1 have guineas. I think they make as much noise. 1 like to hear them. | MA. | ‘Waterford. HELPFUL HINTS FROM | DAUGHTER | Dear Social Corner Sisters: 1 no- | tice Cornflower suggests tying little girls braids with flat elastic. 1 find { No. 8 rubber bands more convenient | as they can be wound around the | braid without tying. Five cents worth purchased at a stationer's will last a long time. 1 i My girls used to be much annoved { bv havingz their braids, when hanging | down their back, catch onto the but- | tons that closed the back of their | { dress, until 1 substituted snap fast- eners which did away with all annoy- ance. I had a couple of waists,—the sleeves and collars worn beyond re- pair. From one I cut the sleeves and edged with narrow lace, and have n\ pretty high necked corset cover. H From the other waist | made a | dainty tea apron. Rip out the tucks’ and cut from the front a small apron with round corners put on a pocket edge all around with lace, cut from backs, the band and strings or use lawn. I had twenty yards of narrow white velvet ribbon I had ripped off a dress because it was soiled. Whenever 1 thought of consigning it to the raghag my economical bump ached, so I pur- chased a package of diamond dye and colored it a pretty shade of red, hung it dripping on the line, and let partly dry and then finished the drying pro- cess by drawing it across the side of a | moderately hot flatiron thus steam- | ing and smoothing at the same time, consequently I had twenty yards of good as new. Cost 10 cents. 1 find the long handled dry floor mop fine for dusting moulding, top of doors, windows, picture frames or any place vou have to stand on a| chair to reach. Now, I will pass along something I read in a popular magazine. Boil a cupful of rice in two quarts of water thirty minutes. Let stand night then strain through a cheese ! cloth. Soak iron rust spots in the| rice water for four or five hours and then rinse in clean water. No mat- | ter how old the stains, they will be ifectually removed. This certainly is worth trying. Success to the Corner. DAUGHTER. SHUT-IN'S GREETINGS. Dear Sister Cherisette: Thanks for nice postal card. Should like very much to have you cail. Sister Balsum Fir: Editor may send address | pear SUNFLOWER'S INQUIRIES FOR CO-SOLID Ty Dear Social Corner Sistens: I do mot know wether It is Master, Mr., Miss or Mrs. Co-soli ‘Which shall 1 call her? It gives me great pleasure to answer your inquiries of the 30th ult, for 1 see that your head is sadly twist- d on some points, and I shall be glad to set it straight 4 First: Four girle to each Very strange, indeed, where did receive such information” There are to be sure, more girls than boys; but there are certainly not four girls to each boy. Considering the boys as the minority party, as you have done, why don’t they speak up and suggest that either the cumulative, or the limited vote plan, be practiced” That was Just my point in my last argument. The boys lack common sense and “backbone. Second! From what did you take that quotation (if [ may ask)? Yes, allowing your statement (that minors cannot obtain lquor om Sa- loon-keepers) to be true. I still stand back of the statement that mothers have a right to protect their helpless children, etc. If minors cannot obtain HNquor from saloon-keepers, but they will procure it in some undabout way just so long as there is license. Besides, the children are very often abused and disgraced by the father who comes home drunk. Thirdly: Politics are women can correct them. corrupt ‘Vain,’ and R | | | ous’ you must tell me about before 1 can answer that. Fourthly: In what way does the husband of the suffrageite suffer, suf- fer, ‘and suffer” Does he pine away for his wife, while she goes to the polls to vote? SUNFLOW A MAINE LOVER MAKES A GUESS | Greetings to the Social Corner list- ers, every one. Presume most of you are housecleaning, so the “ditor may | get a chance to dust out that pige hole. Dear Beccy and Frozen: Wasn't I surprised to hear that you had lived in Mansfield, though I do aost think I have ever met either of you. When you come to Mansfield aguin do give I wonder if you ure sisters, ‘Will give initial letter to caughter first names. R. and E. I think ©ne of you have a little daughter wvho: itials are M. M. Saw letter in e Bulletin which won a book written by her. Balsam Fir: Do you live near Wil- | limantic, Maine. If I can get « rd of South Windham, Conn,, wil send it to you. ra of C orwich: the salad dressing recip it | soon. Made some Monlk Faces this | morning, they were fine. | | Thank you Will try for Ready: I want to come to the wood box social. May 17 Papa’s boy: Why don’t you t auto trip through Mansfie! mer. Shall keep my eye maroon and black ¢ “Hulda’s Pleasure Now I'm golng to guess who is who. Hulda: Does your initials spell the name of a domestic animal? Also did you not spend a week at my home | once and haven't I eaten chocolate pie | at your house? How ¢ - like | the new place? Why don't you write to the Corner? Do, and tell me If 1 have guessed right. I'll keep dark. the stories and letters so 1 enjoy much. 1 had to laugh right out loud when I read what Balsam Fir does when the Saturday illetin _arrive for 1 do the sam f. That Sc cial Corner page tractive than wo 1 wil close w! and happiness. out for a p" was fine my hing all good health A MAINE LOVER Miansfield. AUNT JERUSHA MAKES A GUESS. Deac Editor and Social Corner Sis ters: 1 am so interested in reading the letters I can hardiy wait for come, The letter last week from A Mother did please me, as it reminded me of an old maid who worked for famili the town of H some forty ago. She aiways tal to herself a when not talking she was singing “Oh e! Oh e! Oh e!” over and over and when it came to ironing she pounded out the count every strok as herself, have b but it brought bac thoughts to me wi ironing in that way The recipes are all such nice ones 1 hardly know which to call the best, for all are good. How true: “Honor father and thy mother.” I have known ju: years, its of such little she mentioned such a | find certainly more at- | $ in | When You Cough There is nothing better than Hale’s Honey Of Horehound and Tar {'ontains no opium nor anything injurious. Sold by Druggists. TRY PIKE’S # Toothache be in this progressive age. In time gone by a woman started in by getting down on her knees, taking wup her arpet, carrying it out into the yard, many times beating it herself, and after ashing windows and then tack it down, and that was come pleted; another room was commenced and finished in the same way until all wera done and poor tired mother's back would ache for a week after wards. . But dear sisters, I hope none of you house-cleaning this way now. | it a very good plan whilg the weather is still cold to open up the house, to clear all closets, burea: drawers, trunks, and so forth. Then when theweather is favorable t hire a vacuum cleaner for the day costs but a dollar and a half) and will ciean all your carpets without taking them off the floor, besides all mattresses, plush furniture and drap- eries, My son of fourteen does all this for me. The rest of the cleaning is easy work, and a woman is not all worn out jt when the house-cleaning season is over. OLGA. Norwich. HOW BLANCHE PATCHED EGGS Dear Editor and Social Corner Friends: In the past few years, we have had three hens with laying rec- ords only taking two or three weeks vacation in the spring, just when 1 wanted tp save their eggs for hatch ing; but managed to have four saved one time, and the shells were so thin at the small ends, they would surely zet broken. So fitted egg shells over the ends, ng shellac to stick them on,Hubby d that the hen that sat on them was wasting my time, but at the end of three weeks, three chicks were hatched from them. This spring a hen badly cracked an ee days before due for hatch two pieces of courtplaster, ! of paper, and with mucilage mend dried and placed under a small A lively chick was hatched marked it and named it Betsy Bobbitt; but now think it is going to be a Dan Patch. March and even April chicks, if the coops are made warm, need extra heat e them grow faster. If the ature Jjs below freezing, as ring has been, lanterns are the and two gilis of kerosene will twenty four heurs if the wicks iurned rather low. If chicks get us ed, hen burn are hilled they surely will die. We use the lanterns only when chicks are small according to the weather conditions. If a snowstorm 18 raging, we know they will be comfortable. A hook in the center, at the top of the coop, is the best place to hang .the lantern then the hen cannot tip it ov ind it keeps cleaner. Glenwood: Your story was fine, showing much thought and having no idle ones in the family. Am very fond of music and have helped many imes in the chorus. I have much sympathy for the shut-in. The af flicted old lady Line Soeur wro! about. Can do many things in rug line, with a hook—could draw ir rags with a burlap indation, or also knit coarse twine, or nts. Kind wishes to all BLANCHE. YOUNG WIFE braid mats cultivate y hing to happen myself is heartless son to do it; wit I but “when rum is in that is about so. much good to vote put what they vote Such foolish things they If it is nece is don't think for make laws sary to have sucl s, why put them in force, or the are no good. If I were a voter I should want to have things done as 1 voted. I like the Suet Johhny Grandma wrote about made of cornmeal. Clara of Canterbury you did not live in Day think we have met Should Iike to mect you a send in some recipes just I always use. I am not ver maker of fancy dishes a good dinner from hope we will have a bette gardening this summer. | a garden, and it is © t pie. How interestin iast visit to Grandpa’s have heen for the little but it does happen a oo T wis Cake that 1 like all things May il 1 mes Y arden, M. ROENA MISSES COUNTRY LIFE. Dear Editor and Sisters of the S Corn Lo, the winter is past. T rain is over and gone: the flower on the earth, the time of t i singing of birds is come most How 1 the sin is m To me, this is the season of the year. springtime! The the green velvety gra the birds. Robin redbreast vorite bird. How stately he the soft green grass, and how he sings his song . lighten beautif ched robin's song of praise weary hearts and creates within us a desire to hear that “new so t sung only by the redeemed ones I am wondering if my little birds will come again this spring, and will they miss the warm welcome they e received, or will a stranger welcome and make them feel at home’ The English sparrow is about only bird we see here in the clty had hoped to he in the country enjoy ing these brizht ng days in the maple grove in estern e, but these frail bodies of ours oft avent us from doing what we desire but believing firmly as 1 that t Lord guides and directs our the T n pi most in life, I cannot but trust him and fee that all things will be for t t When davs seem dark and clouds jow, T loo blue and know and deep, and wh appointing now v well. With best w's the writers and 1 I am yours sin¢ Camden, N UP-TO-DATE HOUSE-CLEANING is broad ‘ms dis- sure, jods’ to me s end, I am you my Thanks for vour kindness | Sister Ruth: I, too, hope when it is| spring to be out once more with the birds and flowers. Sister Frank: 1 should like very much to go in and see you. We should have a joily time, I know. Sister Bee: Can’t think who you can be. 1 have a family. Who did you think I was? Where is Peep of Sterling? Where are you now? Write again. SHUZL-IN. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: Now that the house cleaning time has come I expect that almost every sister has turned her thoughts in that direc- tion. House-cleaning of today is not the tiresome task that it was in our mother's day, at least, it should not BPREAL TR e DA S - SAVED FROM HOSPITAL Tells How Sick She Was And What Saved Her From An Operation. | Upper Sandusky, Ohio.—*‘Three years ago I was married and went to house- q keeping. 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