Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 25, 1912, Page 14

NORWICH WHEN FLATTERERS MEET THE DEVIL GOES TO DINNER EVERY WOMAN'S OPPORTUNITY. The Bulletin wants good home letters, good business letters; good help- ful letters of any kind the mind may suggest. They should be in hand by Wednesday of each week. Write on but one slde of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDIT OR, Builetin Office, Norwich, Conn. THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $250 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to third. Awerd made the last Saturday In each montk. PRIZE WINNERS FOR MAY First Prize—$2.50—to “Aunt Mehitable,” for “Practical Hints and Helps.” Second Prize—$1.50—to “A Young Mother,” for Economical Suggestions, Third Prize—3$1.00—to Ruth E. Barber for Timely Recipes. 80CIAL CORNER POEM Greeting to Jim. Thar's sumthin’ to be thanifal fur, no matter how things go, In summer time fur fruit an’ flowers, in winter time fur snow. Thar's sumthin’ sort o' pleasant hap- pens to us every day, Ax Mfe's a perfect picnic ef we look at it that way. Thar's always sumthin' purty fur our weary eves to see— The glory o' the Bunset or the blos- soms on the tree— An' 2lways sumthin’ tuneful fur our tired ears to hear— The children's voices chirpin' or the robin’s music clear, | Thar's always sumthin’ ready fur our willin’ hands to do— | Sum haltin' steps to help along, sum | job to carry through— No chance to be a-kickin' when our | feet are busy goin', | No time for idle growlin’ when we're plantin’ seed and sowin'. Thar's sumthin’' to be thankful fur, no | matter how things go— | No end to all our blessin's ef we only | count ‘em so. An' sven if you're out o’ sorts, or sick, or sad, or pors, Jest thank the Lord you're livin', ef you can't do nothin' more. UNO. Lebanon. ANSWERS AND INQUIRIES, BEF--The only writer under pem- mame of Shut-In lives In North Ston- fmgton. Duplicate pen-names are quite | eonfusing to the editor. We have two “Dollys,” three xperiencey,” two “Sympathys,” two “Ruths,” and so on. | It would be better if no pen-name was | duplicated, | MA-—The postal cards were prompt- 1y mailed as you directed. ELIZABETH—Cards were mailed as you directed. J. E. T.—Your brief and helpful let- ters dellght us, Will you piease send with your next your full address. TO ALL THE MEMBERS—Betsy Bobbett had a very practical sort of | & dream and is happily set off. The good will of it is enough to command the editor’s thanks. FLORILLA *writes: “1 have tried the never-fall cream puffs and had the best results.” The poem sent, “The Dying Nun,” will appear in its turn. BALSAM FIR—The souvenir cards were all mailed as you directed. €0-SOLID COMES FORWARD WITH FACTS, Dear Bditor Friends: Well, clalm more and Social here 1 am spuce in the Corner, I should think vou folks would get heartlly tired of this squabbling be- tween Sunflower and myself. Any- way, I'll try to introduce a new view the question this week. Bunflower: You have been advanc- ing your opinion of women's suffrage Corner again to mostly from a theoretical view, i as to the women bettering politic conditions, etc. However, as you a vised me, I have been investigating conditions where women actually do vote. In the first place, I have noticed no actual change in political conditions which might be credited to the women as voters, unless it be the general dls- satisfaction which scems to prevail in these states. For instance, In an April magazine | saw the picture of the wo- man mayor of a municipality in Kan- sas, with a great deal of print about the efficiency of women as city offi- cials. However, in vesterday's news- paper 1 noticed an article stating that the members of the common council of this city had revelted against the may- or and had threatened to resign if she ‘were not removed. Of course, you have heard that wo- men jurors are declared unconstitu- tiopal in California, the latest equal suffrage state. Instead of profiting by the experience of other equal suffrags states, such as Colorado, Utah, Wy- oming and Idaho, which have long ago found women jurors to be impractica- ble, the women of California immedi- | ately commenced to clamor for this | privilege. They got it, too, in four dif- | ferent cases. The first case was that | of a newspaper editor who publicly de- nounced women suffrage. He = was | haled into court before a jury of wo- | men on the charge of publishing pro- fane words. It 18 not known who pre- sented the charge, but you can imagine the verdict The next e didn’t amount to as much as the first one, for the court, immediafely after opening, ruled thai the prefixes Miss and Mrs. should be dropped, for the jurors were just plain citizens of the United States. In- stantly there were Important reasons why most of the jurors could not serve and the judge had to dismiss the jury because he could not get a dozen to serve under that condition. In the third case the jury disagreed with the judge and were flnally obliged to bring in a verdict contrary to their own opinfons. In the fourth case the jury acquitted a8 woman, accused of throwing a stone through a window, on the gronnd that if she had Intended to hit the window ould have hit something else, as 4 woman always misses her aim A% u result of these astonishing, su- purlatively unequaled verdicts, Attor- ney General Webb announced that wo- men Jurles were unconstitntional, In Massachusetts, where women do not vote in elsctions (and probably never will), 1 find that a great number of women are directly opposed to equal suffrage. In fact, there is an anti- suffrage club composed of mors than siztesn thousand women, in Massa. echusetts, which always sends del . §§tes 1o every congressional meeting, | more easily, and e e DR B g i v in which the subject comes up, to op- pose equal suffrage for women. Verily, believe some women are becoming sensible, Aline: No, I'm not that boy who dared to question a vote. ch a feat is beyond the extent of my valor. Mamie: Am glad to hear from an- other Hampton Cornerits. Aren’t your Initials M. P.? and don't vou live on he Hil w A CO-SOLID. MA’S REMEDY FOR DEAFNESS, Dear Sisters A person who of the Social Corner: has never heen deaf realize what an awful affliction it A few years ago I had a cold which lasted nearly a whole winter and left me deaf in hoth ears. I was cured with the following remedy: Remedy for Deafness—Hen's oil, one gill, and a sin; le handful of the sweet clover raised in gardens; stew it In the oil (no water), until the juice is all out. Strain through a cloth and t will be ready for use. I couldn't get the so-called sweet clover at the druggists, but got red clover. When deafness is recent it will be cured by putting three or four drops daily into the ear; but if of long stand- ing much relief will be obtained if continued a sufficient length of time. Balsam Fir: Postal received and one returned Peggy Ann: That horse on the card can go some—he has a mark of 16. Cherisette: I am well, thank you. Your hens are doing fine. I shall stop setting hens in a few days. Elizabeth: Yes; do appoint Nat as toastmaster; he's so eloquent. Waterford. MA. | SUGGESTIONS FROM GERTRUDE. Dear /Sisters of the Social Corner: Perhaps the home nurse would like to know how to give one-half of a drop of medicine, as sometimes prescribed by the physician. Take one drop of medicine and two teaspoons of water, hix, and glve one teaspoon of the mix- ture, Glve a young infant drink from a saucer insiead of a cup or spoon. The uncertain little 11 close upon it lips will e will be no slop- ping. From experience in nursing I have learned that the night sweats which accompany debility, or even advanced tuberculosis, may frequently be checlk- ed by a glass of milk containing a spoon of cognac, taken on retiring. Bathing the entire body at bedtime with tepid water and alcohol, is also of advanta le physical, exertion, mental t or and who find it hard work te sit in absolute idleness, when ordered to live out of doors and keep cheer- ful. When one is recovering from an atac of typhoid fever, for instance, or in cases of paralysis, In plain knit- ting no counting of stitches is nec sary and the monotony will prove re ful while the occupation is diverting Real recreation seldom comes to a naturally active man or woman through absolute idleness, GERTRUDE, USES FOR FLOUR BAGS. Dear sters of Social Corner: 1 wonder v many of you buy those cloth bags at the bakery shop such as they get their flour in. I n some shops you can get 12 bags for 23c, and some shops you get 13. Well, do You know it you can make many useful garments w th them, especially for the tle ones. I suppose some of vou will think this a queer idea, When these bags are cleaned and thoroughly washed, they are white and the cloth is heavy. For instance, these bags make nice dish towels, kitchen aprons, under garments, boys’ waists, lls, dresses. These garments can made, then dyed any color you choose. T was dyeing carpet rags and I pit one flour Bag in the last bath; It took a yellow and I made my small boy a fine pair of overalls. Well, with 12 bags you can make a number of garments at a low cost. Some of the Sisters try this, A YOUNG MOTHER. FAIRY GODMOTHER'S KINDLY GREETINGS, and Children: damp and r weather? vou all after the Maine I enjoved it very much; but I find T am not as young as I was a few ago. I think the change of air I caught a nk this morning it must have sat in How are 1 was children, Trust the necticut some time, and we must give them as pleasant a time as they did us. i With best wishes to all my children, I remain your FAIRY GODMOTHER, RELIEF FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS. ed to meet with my Maine ciety in Old Mystic has resolved into a rellef committee for the Mi flood suff They were ¢ clothing to send when a lady member—asked If they would accept money, and gave them $2. With (his they hought materfal (indigo-blue cal- feo at seven cents per vard), for two dozen dresses for children of two three years, hey will me and more lke them, and send by mail to the Flood Sufferers’ Relief Commit mittes, New Orleans, La. This address was sent them by Rand-McNally of the Christian Herald, i “Tha conditions in are such that will he very x this time"” Since panles do not carry as they ought, we shall have to send the donated clothing to 4 near point probably Kentucky. The postage on one of ihess little dresses will proba- Kly amount te twe cents, making the total cest about ten cents. Thinking there may be other societies or indi- viduals whe would like to share in this worlk, this relief committee makes the following offer: For twenty-five cents they will send the dress pattern, the ps{tern of a woman’s kimono jacket. which is also very quickly and easily made, and one of the dresses finghed and ready to wear, with the exceptien of button and buttonhole, Beme overwerked mother whe cannot de relfef work may appreclate this offer. Made of crinkled seersucker, the dresses would not need froning—another saving of labor. For cooler weather they could be cut a little lower in the neck—large enough to slip over the head—and worn with a little guimpe of white cotton crepe. The kilmono jackets will also be good to make to send away, not requiring much postage. For the dress and two patterns send the money (25¢ In stamps) to They will also accept gratefully gifts of money, small or large. COR. SEC'Y RELIEF COM. 014 Mystic, Conn, ALL WORTH KNOWING. Dear Shut-In: I must admit the Soctal Corner sisters and brothers are all worth knowing, and when Nat, Glenwood and Shut-In, with others, get to story writing, they are all that could be_ desired. I shall purchase a book so as to save the stories from year to year to have them i% book form so as to read when I am short on literature. Must thank the person who kindly sent me suffragette papers; and per- haps it would please and interest them to know I have subscribed for a while. With love and good wishes to all, will close, NIAL EQUARE. CENTE. MEMORIAL DAY, The Civil war ended 47 years ago. and even now our young people, and older people, too, regard Memorial day as a pleasant holiday for visiting and a ball game. A few go to the large cemeteries and the small yards are visited by one or two delegates any time within a week of the day. Few of the public school children and not one-fourth of the Sunday school chi dren march and the flowers are few, while other graves in the same yard are loaded with choice flowers which make the small bunches of lilacs and swamp apple blossoms look even plainer by contrast. It is unusual to see choice flowers on a soldler’s grave unless they are put there by his family. The u: 1 orator is some young law- yer or minister who was not born until years after the war was a thing of the past, and his address is about the same that every schoolboy and.girl learns in history, and about as interesting to the w men left “who were there’ 'as the i Buffalo Bill books are to the famous scout. Now this could be changed. The school and Sunday school teachers could Influence most of their pupils to march and the parents should see that they are neatly dressed. And every town has plenty of flowers in the vards and gardens to cover every sol- dler's grave one day in the year, As to the address, not one of the few old soldiers left but could tell a story worth listening to. They would like to tell those stories, and some of the people would like to hear them, and, unlike the history we hear every vear, these personal stories will soon be forgotten unless someone writes them down. Ang if there is a wife or widow who was a wife in 1865 she should be with her soldier-husband or | his comrades and if by chance the town contains an old father or mother who gave a son to his country, see that they are the honored guests Grant, Sherman and even Lincoln could not have saved the nation with- out the common soidiers. The little yards can be cared for by | the school children and neighbors, May 30 just as well as any other day. Who would celebrate July 4th a week later? Can we blame the boys for taking the ay for a ball game when the sons and daughters of the old friends and neighbors negiect to honor either dead or living soldiers? ETTA BARBER. WHY WOMEN SHOULD READ THE PAPERS, How to Dear Social Corner Friends: this city ver, forded the pleasure of hearing the lec- ture, but it couldn’t have been any- thing but exceedingly interesting. The question is asked many times: “Why don't more women read the newspapers?” Admitting that the woman with a big, or a little, household to manage cannot very readily see where the time for reading the daily news is going to come from, yet every tematic wom- an has each k laid out according to hich her household is recently. g the newspaper? Then when someone as you read that article in about So and So, or some imporfant happening in such a place,” you can at once begin an interesting conversation with the questioner. The newspaper over the fiction 123 one advantage storybook, which is this: In the daily news we read about real people and real places. In one sense it is a story of what the other part of the world is doing and how our brothers and sisters accompl this and that. How to read The Courler and get the best out of it is what I'm aiming at. First—No cau woman is loyal e if she doesn't at leas Social Corner through as soon as the first opportunity comes to her after receiving her paper. Then at another time she will read every letter throngh and isn't it surprising how many new methods of doing things there are? No matter how well we m think we can do a certain thing, we are sure to find someone who has a newer and better method than our own. Second—I never understood, or, rather, 'rightly understood, the high of living question till T began to dy the good plain views in The Farmer's Talk to Farmers, and, being ki ing, T must bear the hardness of gh pri or go back to the farm and become producer. Third—Never fail to read what The Man Who Talks has to say, and if one of his paragraphs doesn't Interest you, some of the others will. He talks on so many helpful subjects, always bringing-out some new thought in such a concise way, you will surely be wiser for having stored away his ideas. Fourth—A religious crank once re- marked that he would not allow a newspaper to be read in his house on the Sabbath. The result was his grown-up Gaughter went to a neigh- a bor's house to read her paper. It's my opinfon this religious crank had never read The Parson’s Sermons, else he would have seen that these religious talks in the newspapers only give a clearer understanding of the teachings of the Hible, Fifth--Don't skip the editorfal para- graphs. They contain individual opin- ions which may help us to form an | on an imy it polnt about which we may never even had an opin- ion before. Hesides, they help to straighten out many discussions on different issues, Sixth—If you want to be truly amused, read the editorial notes. They hit evervthing and everybody, and they do it in such a polits manner that no one can he offended, Seventh—The general news will help us to keep polished up on geography, one of the city folks who do so much | BULLE‘TIN SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1912 A NEW DEPARTURE Well, sisters, I finished up my heuse- Cleaning the other morning, and when stwas all done I sat down in the willer rocker I got at the tradin’ stamp store, to rest and knit a spell. Knittin' wogk is real hendy: Sort ¢’ keeps your handls busy and leaves your mind free to travel ‘round the neighberheod. My mind generally keeps step to the click of the needles, so it mestly has te hustle some. Well, I'd reviewed my own cleanin’, and then traveled on to my neighbors, “Seems to me the Social Corner sisters must all be pretty nigh through with | thelr spring scrubbin’,” thinks L “What a pity the BEditor’ bein’ a man, ain't got his office all slicked up, too, like the rest of us folks.” Just then an idea struck me. An’ it struck so hard I pretty near dropped & stitch, to myself, right out loud, “why don't You get two or three of the sisters and £o clean up for him? Like a8 not he'd be real thankful to have, you. Might as well tell him he can have a day off, too, an’ we'll edit the Corner for him this week. He must be kind o' tired and might relish a change.” Bo I started right off. I got Mrs. Robinson, and Ready, and A Dreamer. They all agreed to be ready bright and early Wednesday morning, and Papa’s Boy sald he'd take us over in his auto. We thought ’twas reai good of him, especlally as he said he’d take the Ed- itor out to Clara of Canterbury’s for lunch, and take him ’'round some to see the folks, and then bring him back before dark, o as to take us home when our work was done. ‘We all thought that four of us was enough, as too many cooks spoil the broth, too many editors might spoil the Corner, and anyway they was liable to disagree. ‘Well, now, the Editor did look con- siderable surprised and not extra pleased when we walked in an’ told him what we was calculatin’ on doin’. But when we told him we'd thought 'twould be a good chance to give him a day’s Test and clean out that pigeon- hole into the bargain, somethin’ must have pleased him, for e sort o' grin- ned all over his face, and said: real kind of you, ladies, and now I'll leave you in charge and you may do jubt what you please, only I'll ask you to be kind enough not to look in this (Twas a big book and we sort book.” o’ guessed it had the sisters’ names in it) Of course we promised (kept ¥, too), and he went off whistlin’, and pretty soon we heard the auto chug chugging down street. It didn’t take us long to do the cleaning. It wasn't real dirty, only lit- tered up, same as men generally do scatter things. So we soon had ev- erythin’ slicked up fine, and after put- tin’ some vases of flowers on the win- dow sills and pinning up on the walls some pretty postcards that had come in the morning’s mail, we set down to do the rest of the business. 1 thought maybe we'd better tackle the pigeonhole first, but the rest said they thought we'd better look over the mornin’s mail and pick out the letters that have just got to go in. So we di- vided ’em into four piles and each of us took one and got busy. It was slow work at first. I ain't much used to readin’ writin’, but when d to the different pothooks the I found the letters were real interesting and things went swim- mingly. I read my pile all through, and then read ’em all over again, as I couldn’t seem to find any that I thought might be left out a week or so. The rest seemed to be in about the same fix. Finally we thought maybe we'd out some of the letters down, an’ put ‘em all in; but then again there was an- other hitch, for if one was willin' to cut out some of the recipes, the rest wanted ’em left in, and while part of us thought we might leave out some of the remarks on woman suffrage to ad- vantage, the rest were sure they'd prove the most interestin’ part of the paper. So after a while we concluded to let the letters wait a spell, and do the rest of the jot > begun to think wasn't quite so easy as it looked. er considerable talk «A borrowed coat is seldom a good “Why, Betsy Bobbett,” I sald “Tt's we picked out fit” as a metto for the headin'. It did hit us some, but we theught maybe ne one would think of it. - Then for the poem we put in eone called “What the Minister Said.” When it came to the “Answers,” we each agreed to write ene and let it go at that. Mrs. Robinsen wrotet “Nat—Yeur story-letter was fine. Now that your mind is epen to convictlon, please leave it open a while lenger, till we suffra- gettes get a good chance at you.” Dreamer wrotei “To All Correspond- | ents—Don't be discouraged because your letter wasm't printed fhis week. It wasn't the Editor's fault (nor mine). He has asked you times enough ‘Please make your letters short and sweet.’ If you don’t this fate youll meet—side- tracked in the pigeonhole.” Ready had this to say: “Remember this is the Saturday Limited and NOT an excursion train. WIIl the sisters please limit their contributions to one hundred words or less for a few weeks and give the Edftor a chance to dis- posa of those long storles he doesn't know how to get in?” This was my contribution: “To Walt, and maybe others—We enjoyed your letters, but take warning—this is no matrimonial bureai.. Send us your ad- dress if you like and we will forward you & copy of the ‘Heart and Hand, but we calculate to keep a close watch on Sweet Bixteen, Silver Bell, C. H. B. 1913, and the rest of our young folks.” ow then,” says Dreamer, “what will we do ebout that pigeonhole?” “Well,” said Ready, “we promised to clean it outy but what's the use if we fill it right up again? Let's take three or four letters from the top of the pile, uge a very short story this week, get in all this week’s letters and then hope that the sisters will forget to write un- til the Editor can get things straight- ned out again” Which aavice we pro- ceeded to take. Well, we'd got the headings for the letters all written, and then we each sat up with a sigh of relief. “Well,” says I, “that job is dome. Hardest work I've done this spring. Isn’'t extra well done, either. Don't be- lleve I'll tackle another man's J?b again very soon; anyway, unless I'm | asked. “fiold on” says Mrs. Robinson. “We've forgot that this {8 the week for the prizes to be announced. What will we do about them?” We hadn’t any of us thought about that, sa we was some tnken aback for a spell. Then Dreamer and Ready rose to the occasion, nobly, as always. “Let's give the prizes to the best of the letters from the mew writers this month,” says Dreamer. “That will en- courage other new sisters to write. “Why not for the very short letters? said Ready. “That will encourage the sisters to make their letters shorter. Can’t expect short letters “fhe'n all the prizes go to the long ones.” “But what if the long ones are the 7 gays L ome of the short ones are just as ood,” says Ready. S”Tell you what” spoke up Mrs. Robinson. “Let's! pick out the best letters, write the names on slips of paper, shake ’em all up in a box and draw three. First one-drawn gets first prize. The last gets the third.” We finally concluded that was about the easiest way, and maybe as fair as any, for we all held different opinions as to which was the best, and we { couldn’t seem to agree on any three. We had just finished drawing the slips when we heard an auto stop in front of the office, and then the edi- tor's step on the stair. You may be sure we was mighty glad to see htm back, and we asked him to forgive us for thinkin' we could take his place for even one day. But he said there was nothing to forgive. {He'd had a real good time. Papa's | Boy was one of the most entertaining girls he had ever met and he hoped we'd enjoyed ourselves as much as he had. Which we hadn't, and we told him so. Then we said “Goodby” and went home. The ride calmed us some, but when we'd got home we vowed we'd v there, as troubles enough would come our way without our going abroad to look for 'em. l BETSY BOBBETT. it we now and then hunt up a town we mnever had heard of before, or a river_ or mountain or island. When & new ‘word or a new phrase confronts us and we fail to find the meaning in our own reference books, if we keep hunting till we learn what we are after, then we will have added one new thing to our memory, maybe sev- eral new things, that there must be many new things ise we were all chil- because many of us have children of our own, should com- pel us to take interest in The Wide Awake Circle. They are striving to steer clear of the same old ruts which we stumbled into during our school- days and which (alas!) we have never entirely crawled out of. may learn some things from the Wide . y—Did you ever notice that the some people give for not read- ing the news is because the papers are so full of ters and other people’s troubles? Well, well; if we didn't know that there were troubles worse than our own, how narrow-minded and unsympathetic we would grow. late Clara “We ought not to cons us on the other side of Jordan, you know, while there’s an unsolved hous- ing problem so near home.” She was referring to the tenement house la “I'd neglect chu she sald, “Td neglect religion, to get our vile and unwholesome sglums all swept away.” It's the practical, * unselfish peop like this grand woman who accomplish great thing If I put in a good word for each Cornerite (as T wonld like to) I will use too much valuable space, o here's health and prosperi to all A DREAMER. HINTS AND HELPS FROM MORN- ING GLORY. Dear Editor and Soclal and God's sunlight upon them. This is delightful weather for a long walk; a mile a day as a start, and then go a little further the next. Do this as often as you can. Deep breathing is a good habit to get into, especially in the open air. Practice deep breathing and see how much better you will be. Be cheerful, and if you have chil- dren try to make their little lives as bright and happy as you can. Teach them to help ‘you and you will be surprised by all their Iittle hands can do for you, As they grow older these things you have taught them come easy and you will be well re- pald. Ready: T thank you for vour pret posteard. How Is the basket qu getting on? You must let us know. Mamie: Here is a recipe for Fried Pies—Two cups flour sifted with two teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon ‘sugar, one egg, plece of but- ter tQe size of a walnut, about one- half ¢ of milk, or enough to mix so you can roli easily, salt a pineh. Roll out about the size of a saucer, put a spoonful of stewed apple on each piece, wet the edges with milk and press firmly together. As soon as one is and we almost decide Therefore we As the ons awaiting Corner Friends: It seems a pity as you walk through different parts of the city to see so many sitting by closed windows or on steps. How much better it would be for them to take a walk in the open air and get the ozone into_their bodies filled d@rop carefully in a kettle of hot lard; then get another ready and put in. Roll your dough out thin. Have the fat hot as for doughnuts and be careful not to burn. This recipe makes eight good sized ones. You can also use mince meat or stewed apricot. I like stewed dried apples best. MORNING GLORY. LETTER FROM AUNT MEHITABLE. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: Once more the indefinable charm of the Social Corner is upon me. I shall have to postpone darning vour Uncle Zol- val's stockings and chat a while with o, my initials are not F. M. vin. 1 will help you. There 7 ¥ in my name, but there are Your practical sugges- tions for k room and for pre- the venting smalipox and diphtheria were s excelle I think you must be a nurse or a doctor's daughter. You were v | kind to send me such pretty posta I will write again before long. Hannah Who: Your recipes*for meat- es were fine. 1 agree with you that it would be both more and more healthy to eat s. less meat. 1 enclose an assorted Iot of hints and hope that the Sisters will find them as heipful as I have If you have a hat that is sunlk in or | bent around the crown, get some of the ready-made shaped collar stiffening that is sold by the yard. Cut a plece | the size of the cro put between hat and the st g at top and bottom to the hat. If there are holes in the crown, mend them by fastening the edges of the holes to the stiffening. Replace the trimming in a way that will cover the holes, If you will remember to always put your pins through the hat in the same places you will not be troubled with holes. Do not be destitute of a pocket when it s so e to put one in your petti- coat. Ins it In & seam on the right- hand side, about twelve inches from the bottom of the petticoat. If your skirt gets wet, put all the pleats carefully in place; if it be a dafk skirt, pin them; if a light skirt, baste them, to avolid rust stalns. Lay an old sheet on the floor and spread your skirt thereon, with back eof the skirt next the floor. Keep it as smooth and flat as possible. Let it remain until dry and, If your work has been well done, the skirt will not need to be pressed. If g coat or jacket which has pleats gets®et, pin the pleats into place, put on & coat hanger and hang where nothing can rub against it. Those who do not care for low neck- ed and short sleeved walsts can ecor omize on washing by making white and delicat ored walsts with de- tachable ¢ and ¢ vhich but- ton for half their leng changing the collar frequently and keeping the | cuffs clean the waist can be worn longer. When doing anything at home which might soil the cuffs, unbutton and turn them back. I make two or three collars of the same materlal as the waist and in a variety of patterns which can go into the weekly wash. I also make some of lace, linen net, and Eo forth, and launder the most delicats dnes myself. Of course, there are occasions when of your hat and Hning. fasten a stiff linen collar is the but by wearing them only one i8 not obliged to buy new pay the laundry man so frequently, ‘With kind regards te all the Secial Corner family. AUNT MEHITABLE AUNTY'S FRIED PIES, Dear Editor and Sisterst Here I am again—it is hatd to stay awav. How I do enjoy the sunshine after so much rain. It inspires one so to sit out under the blue skies and watch God's handiwork, The trees leaving out, the different vegetation taking on new growth, everything springing up and telling us that spring is here. How beautiful the fruit trees are in bloom. It makes eur hearls respond with the Scripturet! “Surely there is a Ged in Israel,” and just as sure jfhere is a resurrection. Ready: Are your initials M. 8.7 And did you move from Willlmantic to where you are now? Bamantha: Add me to your singing skule with the hymn, “Count Your Many Blessings—Name Them One by One.” Queen Bess: 1 find & very good way to punish a child (and net always the small_ones, either), {s to deny them something they want mest. A good methed is to have a slate handy, right in eight, where they can see it, and have it understood that every time they do wrong, or disobey, it shall be writ- ten down, so as to be remembered; and then when said child wants to go somewhere, or wants something very bad, just point the slate and remind them; and as many times written down 80 many times denied. This works very well with older ones, for some- times a plonic or baseball game comes in; but you must be firm it it keeps vou home yourself, While I don't be- lieve in sending a child to bed sup- perless, I do think it can be denied the tull course, say just bread and but- ter, for instance; but be sure and let them know why you do it; and that you will do so every time. A child doesn't want to sit at the same table night after night and eat bread when the others, perhaps, have strawberries and cream, or other dainties that are quite soothing to the child's taste; but by all means let a child know that when you say “Nol!” it means “Nol” I would lilke to have the sisters write thelr experience with a child that will repeatedly do the same thing after being punished for it, Mamie: This is the way I make my fried ples, and never have any trouble with them: Fried Pi Take 1 quart of pastry flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1-2 teaspoon of salt, sift together; mix into the flour 1 teaspoon of butter, wet with gweet milk so as to work in the hands; take a plece the size of an egg, soll out as near round as possible, and thin as ple crust; put in your apple (which has previously been prepared), 1 ta- blespoon on one-half of the dough, fold over the other half, turn the edges up a very little, like a binding. press down with the hands, fry In hot fat as you would doughnuts. In put- ting into the fat be sure and put in with the up side down. In cooking this side first they are not so apt to sput- ter; turn, and remfove from the fat with a skimmer; never plerce them. Aline: Can you answer to the in- itials C, G.7 suital or Pink Ros I smee you are being found out. Dollie: Let me hear from you in some way. Did you receive the pack- age and card & sent you? With best wishes. Willimantic. AUNTT, A DUST CLOTH BAG. Dear Soctal Corner iSsters: Here is something pretty and sometimes use- ful: A dust cloth bag. I had one given me—very pretty—two white mull or sheer handkerchiefs, large size, with either colored border or flowers. Mine is both. One is laid flat on the table (square), the other has hole cut in the center large enough to put the hand in. Bind the hole with ribbon, same color as border or flowers. Place on top of other handkerchief crosswise so a point will come between each straight side; stitch down. Then sew four small brass rings around hole. After they are crocheted with a sflkateen the color of ribbon, fasten a piece of rib- bon, white or colored, to rings, to hang up bag by. This can be used for vells, gloves, dust cloth or a piece of em- ‘broidery. J. E T. Yantie. SAMANTHA’S VIEWS. No, Balsam Fir and Aline, I haven't words of any of the songs I mentioned, One Sweetly Solemn Thought is a grand hymn. But as I said previously I think such poems rather grewsome. I have kum to think that lvin’ and doin’ it right is a much more solemn thought than dving. Alice Cary sartinly did write sum good poems. I think her Nobility is my favorite, in which she advises mor- tals to “do each day that goes by sum little thing and not dream of great things to do by and by.” And then sums up the hole matter of livin' as “just doing and doing as we would be dun by—that's all.” I allers do feel sorry for a young mother who cannot sew, as there are 0 meny ways of usin’ small pieces in little garments. A good way to put a ruffie on a skirt is tu make a quarter inch tuck where the top of your ruffle will kum, put the gathered top of the ruffle under the tuck and stitch down over it. I am making a scrapbook of Soclal Corner recipes. Our temperance workers are thi n' of tryin’ to raise sum money this way Every member to bake the thing she konsiders is her specialty, and put in a package a sample (to be sold for ten cents), with the recipe enclosed. One lady sed if we du try that skeme T shall make banberries, and I had to konfess I never even heerd of such berries. It any new and deliclous eatibles kum to my notice the Corner shall hear of it SAMANTHA. WOULD CHANGE PEN NAME. Dear Aline: T thank you for re- membering me. T still claim member- ship this delightful Corner. Have been silently trving to solve a problem: perhaps vou can help me, T am growing older and wiser now, and don't yon think I shovid have a more mature name? This being leap year, perhaps it would be a good time to make the change. What say? SWEBET TIMELY SUGGESTIONS FROM ALINE. SIXTEEN, Sisters of the Soclal Corner: I won- der how many of you have theg pleas- ure of owning a kitchen garden? If you haven't one already, then I ad- vige you to start one this spring. Have the man of the house plow and harrow a small spot as near the back door as you can conveniemtly have it. Then do your own planting and caring for it. Have your rhubarb and horseradish there, currant and gooseberry bushes, a few strawberries, if you ltke, and raspberry and black- berry vines. BHe sure to have some cultivated dandelions, sud mustard and cress, If you ralse your dandeliors you can spend the time on vour garden thal vou used to spend in digging greens. As this is your own especlal property yon can put in flowers also, and mix them in beside the vegetables, If you ke, After you put In the things that are to stay, you can fill up the garden with anything which faney may dic# tate, or the glowing deseriptions in the seed catalogues may induce reu to_buy. Here jg an ldea I got from these AtFountains & Elsewhere "HORLICK'S MALTED MILK say “HORLICT'S. Not in Any Milk Trust same seed 1 am seving the colored plates, L cut out the veg- etables, like tomatoes, cornm, apples, etc. Cut a mmmber of leaves of paper like each, use the colored vege- tables as a cover, tis fogether with narrow ribbon and have neat litte booklets into which to copy recipes. Have a number of temato recipes for the one with a tomato cover, corn rech- pes for the corm-covered booklet, and Then I strall use them onext Christinas instead of tuck-in cards to go with the Christmas gifts. ALINER. ROENA WRITES FROM PMILADEL. PHIA, Dear Editor and Sisters of the Soctal Corner: This morning when I took up my Bible to read my morning lesson I tufned to thig verse: “Come, let us g0 forth into the fleld, let us lodge in the village.” As these words were uttered by the “wise man” we must accept them as being right and good. They especially appealed to me at this time for several reasoms. First, because I love the country. To me there is nothing so beautiful as the Woods, the meadow, the grass, the flowers and the singing of the birds, made by God's own hand; and the sweet memories of my childhood home. and agaln, just at this time, when a specialist has ordered me to the coun- try, that I may regain my health and strength after a very trying winter and 8] 3 At the present time T am with a dear friend in the City of Brotherly Love, one of the prettiest and cleanest cities 1 was ever tn. As I look out in front, as far as the eye can see, are nothing but massive structures of brownstonse fronts—'Beautiful!” they say. I pre- fer to sit at the rear windows, whers the backyards of two streets for one whole square are thrown in one mass of green, separated only by ornamental wire fencing, making it look like a beautiful park surrounded by lovely homes. The grass is so lovely and green, the flowers so beautiful to look at. I see the wives, the mothers of these homes, out with the lawn mower and rake, taking care of them. It makes my heart glad to see them in- terested in the home; and at night when the husband returns after a busy day in office or store or shop, to see them sit out on this beautiful lawn with their children playing around, making a happy plyground for them. All seem 50 happy and peaceful that 1 think there is found real home happi- ness. My mind wanders back to another backyard that I was privileged to enter about a year ago. [ went to see a dear friend that was convalescent and found them in the backyard among the beau. tiful trees and flowers, where they could see the vegetables and flowers growing from seeds planted by their own hands; ‘and they sald. “Whers could we go that we can rest and have the comfort that we can have right here at home?” Memories of thet vieit in the back- vard still linger to cheer. But there are unsight]y backyards. Of cotrse we don’t expect to find them among homes that are representsd in the ner. A few hours’ work will make the backyard of a place the pride and joy of ita occupants, instead of being a disgrace to a home it may be made very attractive. Wishing our Pditor a restful som- mer, and peace and happiness to all our Sisters, I am your Sister son_on. ROENA. Phfladelphia. BEE WAS DELIGNTED WITH ME! 8KY RIDE. Dear Members of the Soclal Comery To those who have sent in remedies for catarrh I send thanks. The remedies will be passed on, Peggy Ann: 1 am glad you tried my cream puff recipes and had good sue- cess. 1 made some this morning. They were fine, Sometimes I bake nearly a haif-hour. It all depepds o the oven. Shut-in: While T have never had any desire to take a trip in a fiying machine, the “Sky ride to Maine” was perfectly delightful. Who ever sald Bee was buzzing hit the nail on the head, all right. Shut-in of who I_thought 8: TYou wondered you were. I thought vou a Mrs. C, C., with & grown-up son, Do give me a clue, although I may not know you Little Rhody: What part of Rhods Island do you Hve in? Are you near Westerly ? My heart goes out in sympathy to all the shut-ins who do not enjoy g00d health, as that i certainly ome of the greatest blessings one can have, I think all who sign themseives Shut-in should say of Shut-in of wherever their residence may be, thea we won't get them mixed. As T read the story last wesk T 1 wondered which Shut-in wrote it. am afraid T have buzzed in the Corner too long, so now will go into the kitch- en, as it is nearing noontime, GARDEN FURNITURE. Dear Sisters of the Social Cornerr Now that the question of the hour seems to be the beautifying our our lawns and back yards, perhaps, a few words on garden furniture would net be out of place. Garden furntiure {s something that we cannot always buy at the storas, and where we can they are quite pensive, but with a few tools and a little skill, furniture can be made that will mark a garden with a very desirable individual character, I had the pleasure last summer of visiting with a friend who had a large old-fashioned back yard. In one cor- ner where tall hollyhocks grew wn‘ lon, placed a bench about three feet and fifteen inches high; nearby was large, heavy, comfortable chair—both were painted white, and the contrastg of the white furniture against the green foltage made a charming resting’ place. Perhaps some of us have apple shade trees around which with Httl expense rustic seats could be bulit, Flower boxes ure simple to make for those who are fortunate enough te have pahas or large plants te put In them; the only thing to look out fer 18 to see that (he betlolus are screwed on with two-inch screws and not mere than three inches apart, to prevent warping. Pretty bird boxes most any one cam make, snd the addition of & straw roof made from two boltle protectors sweh as come wrapped about bottles of olive oll, make priny. orngmental houses, that, no doubt, any bird occupanmt would be proud of, HULDA, Only nfm‘r;h.d' man can ful praciate heaven if thers are n:” daya or houss