Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 8, 1912, Page 14

THE LIFE THAT IS EVERY WOMAN'S The Bulletin wants good home letters, good business leiters; good help- detters of any kind the mind may suggest. NO TONGUE A SERMON NEEDS OPPORTUNITY. They should pe in hand dy Wednesday of each week. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR, Builetin COffice, Norwick, Conn. THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $250 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to third. Awwd made the last Saturday In each monik. SOCIAL CORNER POEM. High Lights and Shadows. Mave you gazed on & beautiful picture Where genlus had placed its seal? A ecanvas of beauty and grandeur, Every detail so true and so real? I so, did you pause and consider That the warmest high lights so fair Would lose all their charm and their beauty If the dark shadings were not there? The light and the shade make the ple- ture, Whate'er the aftist portrays;” Extremes often lend to each other A charm that attracts our gase; Behind the most beautiful rainbow The storm clouds are dark as the night. Our sorrows are often a background To throw our heart’s joys in the light. In the darkness, the flash of the light- il . ng Lets the wayfarer find his way; And the shower that swells the torrent Adds a freshness and charm to the day. Ia the dimmest of shadows; Our joys are oft mingled with fears; And often the smile that is sweetest Shines out through a mist of tears. light there ars Our lives are unfinished piciures— A mixture of shadows and lights— And Fortune's the name of the artist 1 pencils our days and our nights. *The highest soft lights are our pieas- ures and joys, The shadows our sorrow and care, The deeper the shading, the brighter the lights Stand out on the canvas there. ~—R. Duane Bromley. Geneva, Ohio. ANSWERS AND INQUIRIES. DREAMERThe souvenir cards were roceived and mailed as you di- rected. ALINE—The postcards were mailed aa direeted. BALSAM FIR—Cards received and mailed as directed. SWAMP APPLE—Souvenir cards mailed to Papa's Boy. DIANA—I have a souvenir postal eard from Balsam Fir for you. Please send in your full address. AUNT JERUSHA—If you will send your address to Miss E. J. Hyde, Co- lumbia, Conn., she will mafl you theé scng book you desirt ‘Happy Voices.” A CHANCE FOR WILD WEST, Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: 1 told vou sople weeks ago you would hear from e again in the future. My time has been much taken up in house- cleaning, sewing, and I have & dear sister who is a “shut-in,” and much of my time is spent with her. The Lord bless all the shul-ins, whoever they may be. What has become of Grand- ma? Do not let her drop out, by any means. She is a darling. How I shouid like to put my arms around her neck and give her a sweet kiss. Shut-Tn: I am pleased to know you can get out once more in the sunshine. ¥njoy doing so as much as possible. Clara of Canterbury: 1 think your table mat is very pretty, indeed. Thank you for directions. Aunty: I recelved the package and card all right. T am getting on nice- 1y, considering what little time I have bad. Please excuse me for not an- swering before. Do not worry. I shall not give you away. Some one of the Bisters asked for the poem The Dying Californfan. Will send it if they wish me to with pleasure. Farmer'’s Wife: Yes, you ‘shall have a recipe for egg omelette. I think you will ke it: Put a smooth iron frying pan on the fire to heai Meanwhile beat four eggs very light, the whites to a stiff froth and the yolks to a thick batter. Add to the volks four tablespoons of milk, dust pepper and salt and lastly stir in the whites lightly. Put a plece of butter haif the size of an egg into heated pan, turn it so that it will molsten the entire bottom, taking care it does not scorch. Just as ft begins ts boli pour in the eges. Hold the frying pan handle in your left hand and as the eggs whiten, carefully, with a spoon, draw up lightly from the bot- tom, l&fl% the raw part ron out on the pan all be equally cooked. Bhake with your left hand till the ome- lette be free from the pan, them turn with a spoon one-half of ths omeletie over the other, let it remain a moment, ‘but ')':lflnflt shaling, lest it adhere, toss & warm platisr held in the right hand or Mt with a broad fiat llw:td m‘l.'hzd omelette will he firm arous ¢ edge, but crea an s oy my and light Can anyone send In the poem enti- tled The Infant's Dream orplgnvm? DOLIIF, Norwich, A WORD FROM ALINE, Bistera of the Corner: Now, Sweet Sheteen, I tiink you are the best judge, But if vou do decide 1o change your real name, piesse retain yeur present pen name when writing te the Corner, ‘We might not recognize yot under an. other nams. Aunt Mehitable: Can’t guess who you are, P. U, T.; Why don’t you write? We like your cheery lniters, Balsam Fir: Would Hks the poem, please, and thank you, _ Now thal vacetion is plmost hers, 1 lope we may hear from Polly Pepper- mint and Qnsdur Normalite agatn, Aunty: know a number of gond eople whe answer te those initlals, v glad you think 1 hd:? with them, agree with you in regi to :: ren, Haven't you three Do 1 knew you? children, and do yeu llve nevth of Wil. limantie? ALINH, I glve up, GREETINGS FROM MAMIE, Dear Editer and Secial Coraer Sis- teyw: How are you all this het weath- er? nu-s[i‘ Glary, Parmers Wife and AURLF thank yeu ail fer the fpied i lmeq you gent jr, Have tried -+ them very muck _ Oe-Sallds N, my initials ses ned M. P. Neither do 1 live on the Hill, Are your initials W. J., and do you live south of the Hil - rozen my last initial is not P, ave cousins living in Bangor, Me, do not think of anyone else in Maine whom 1 know. Balsam Fir: What a nice time you must have had at that Social Corner party at your house. I should have liked to have been ther . Where are you this nice Still so busy eating johnny cakes you caunot find time to write? T would like to send separate mes- sages, but as that would take too much room, will ring off for this time with best wishes to all the Cornerites. MAMIE. Hampton, AUNT MEHITABLE RESPONDED. Kditor of Social Corner: Secretary af relief committee would like to give Aunt Mehitable a good hug for the two pretty pieces of cloth and the friendly card. It is the only response she has received, but that more than repays her for the effort involved. The ladies meet to sew this week and the crepey material will make a nice kimona Jacket with facing of blue sateen, and the flannel is just the thing for a bady’s sacque. 1 afn so glad that Shut-In's name no longdr fits her. I have for many years realized the force of the curse which Wwe inherited from our first parents, “Dying, ve shall die.” Now I am clai ing the gift of the second Adam, come that they might have li and thut they might have it more abun- dantly.” “The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water, spring up into eternal life.” Farmer's Wife asks for a recipe for Omele tes from then add two > egZs to the volks. Beat separ- ately, then together, add seant half teaspoon salt and e t tablespoons cold water, two for each egg. Have a frying pan hot enough fo brown htly one tablespoon butter, pour in the omelet anl with a broad bladed knife raise the edges to let the un- cooked part run under. When set, put in the oven a moment to cook the top, or if using an ofl stove turn the flame low and cover the pan until cooked. Then roll on to a warm platter and serve immediately on warm plates. A few dry bread crumbs browned in the butter helps to make a nice crust. Do all the Sisters put down eggs for winter use? I did so last winter for the first time, and found it such a great saving that | am doubling the number this summer. U i 01d Mystic KIND OF RELIGION WE WANT. Dear Editor and ters Social Cor- ner: We want a religion that softens the step and ttines the voice to melody and fills the eyves with nshine ‘and checks the impatient exclamation and h h rebuke; a religion that is polite, tial to superiors, courteou: and considerate to friends; a n that goes into the family and keeps the husband from being cross when dinner is late, and keeps the wifi from fretting when the husband trac the newly-washed floor with his mud- dy boots, and makes the husband mindful of the scraper and the door- mat; Kkeeps the mother patient when the baby is cross, and projects the honeymoon into a harvest moon, and m;i]igs the happy home like a fig tree, bearing in its bosom at once the beau. ty of the tender blossom and the glory of the ripening fruit. We want a religion that shall inter- pose between the ruts and gullies and rocks of the highway of life, and the sensitive souls that are traveling over them. Balsam Fir: Card,was received and 1 feel I am in touch with you. May we know each other better by and b: FROZEN. to Maine. MA’S EXPERIENCE WITH FERNS. Dear Sisters Social Corner: I want to tell you about my fern. When I lived in the city I paid 50 cents every time T had my fern dish filled, and that was often, for in order to use a variety and make it look pretty they had to be crowded and didn’t last long. After moving to the country, for a time, 1 got small ferns in the woods of as great varlety as I could find and crowded them so as to look pretty. Naturally these didn’t last any longer than the city-filled one. & One day i spied some ferns growing on a rock which had soil so thin [ asily carried it home, crowding littie pleces anywhere to make them look as pretty as possible, thinking it would last no longer than the others. Bu my surprise it has lasted over a year, and this spring has lost all the old leaves and got new: ones. It is hand- | some—truly forever! Annt Mehitable: T have a sailor hat that had hoies from putting hatpins through, 1 mended as vou suggested, sewed.a piece of velvet ribhon on each underside and tie in a how at the back a thing of heauty and a Jo of the neck. It:keeps the hat on, saves further wear, looks well, hesides being fashionable this season. How many of the Sisters have tried sficking court plaster under after mending kid gloves? It saves them from tearing again. Wet vour hand and see how easy it fs to swat the mosquito and flea! MA. Waterford. VIEWS FROM SWAMP APPLE. Dear Sisters of the -Soe! Corner; Isw't this delishtful weather? Makes one feel as though there wasn't anv- thing to do but just enjoy it. < And my favorite flower ig in hlsom— swamp apple, or wi just revel in them wh & few memenis to gather the Cherisatie: Tihe mystery snateh ns! Fop tell me o aslc Aline how 1o find vou; and, alas! alack! how am | (o find Alite ine, won't is targle? ling U “the ! nearty spoil fve me nigh ed my day dreams d and with fre < L am mare inste hreadiin fo eggs, separatingd But to | | tiing | { that .auto? Do be careful when you come to give me that promised ride. Antlque: The Hickory Nut Cake is as fine as the Leaf Cake. Send us some more. Euflrsfllt Friends: It was my pleas- ure not leng since to meet a delightful woman and converse with her abeut an hour, much, going about among cultured women in all parts of - the United States, belonging to a fraternal order and meeting many women of reflne- ment (by no means neaglectin, her family, as she was a widow with chil- dren married), she is in a position to glve broad views on the suffrage ques- tion. She sald among all the inany women it was her pleasure to meet very few indeed wished for suffrage—rather were obposed to it. She felt if the suffragists would espouse the temper- ance cuse they would be doing much more efficient work. But not Carrie Natlon-wise, or get the false idea that the ballot was going to do it—far from it! Are we as a class using every means in our power to advance the cause? Is it not deplorable that so many women of wealth, calling them- selves the aristocrats, are doing much, very much, in this line to ruin young men—yes, and women, too, serving al- coholic drinks at all social functions— many times in concoctions of which these young people, who i many cases have been instilled with temperance principles, who in ignorance partake of the drinks and desserts served up at these people’s tables and . social gatherings. Such women do nrore than anyone dreams to hurt the cause. SWAMP APPLE. ABIJAH YEARNS FOR FLAKY PIE- CRUST. Editor Socjal Corner: I am Hard by nature and by name. I am, more wild than tame, for I don’t think 1 can get into the Corner; but I am writing to see if Sister Cornerites can- not learn my wife Keturah Ann how 10 make flaky plecrust. She is a model ccok'in many things, but such pesky piecrust I will not eat. I told Keturah Ann I would buy her a silk dress if she would learn how to make flaky piecrust. She will make the nicest biscuits, if the cows don’t go cn a strike, for she’s got to have cream to wet them up with. Custards—you can’t beat her, if she can get maple-sweet to sweeten them. She puts grape juice in mince pies; it gives them a fine flavor that just suits my taste. She puts lemons in dried-apple pies. If some of the sisters could teach her how to make flaky piecrust I shall be very grateful, You will know when she has learned the art, for I will come around in my red auto and call on the Leonard Bridge folks. I will see. she sends pies to the county fair if she can make the crust good and flaky. Keep a good Jookout so you guess who we are. P. S.—When Nat kills some of them hogs, let him make some sausage by Keturah Ann's recipe, which is for ten pounds of meat, 5 ounces. salt, 1-2 ounce sage, 1 ounce black pepper and 5 teaspoons red pepper. ABLJAH HARD. Jumping-off Place. can MONTVILLE ENJOYED NAT'S STORY. Mr. Editor and Social Corner Friends: It has been many weeks since I have written; but I have read ali the nice letters—never think of go- ing to bed without reading The Bulle- tin. Balsam. Fir: Thank you for the verses you sent. They were just what I wanted. Yes; I have been very busy with spring work; but the mud has dried up. Nat: Your st was fine; I had a good laugh. Write some more. Aunt Jerusha: You are just my kind; wish I could shake hands with you. Kind regards to all. MONTVILLE. CALLA LILY'S WAY OF DRIVING AWAY RED ANTS, Editor and Sisters of the Social Cor- ner: Seeing a request in the Corner prompted me to write. Will be good and try and make my letter brief, Farmer's Wife: Won't you try egg omelet and report? It does puff up and then fall down, like plain omelet. Balsam Fir: See you inquire Montville. If she is who I think is, her hearing is bad, and when in garden among the flower: my not the for she her she couldn't attention to anything but Oh, I know Montville, your initials E. A, and don’t your son keep a store lite friends. Egg Omelet—Three egss, 3 dessert- mall” tablespoons flour; a pinch of salt, 1 cup milk. Mix flour with a little of the milk; put yolks in when thoroughly mixed; stir in the If so, we are ! rest of milk and when smooth add the white beaten stiff: have your frying pan (or spider) ready, quite hot, with Cover. In a few minutes peep in, and if it has risen to the top of spider and set, take a knife and run around edge and turn half over on the other; cover up and let alone a minute; then turn over on platter carefully. If it should fall a little, it will be nice and light. This makes a good sized omelet. The first time I made it, T thought what a lot of trouble; but after mse ing it is very simple. Please report. To the sisters who are troubled with small red ants: I tried borax and everything told me, finally I sprinkled on window sills, shelves, etc., ground cloves ,and for two years not one has troubled me. ‘Wishing you all a pleasant and long remembered summer. CALLA LILY. A CURE FOR CROUP AND DIPH- THERIA, k- Dear 1 send Editors of the Social Corner: ou this recipe for the cure of dipht] It may be a-help to some- one—it is so easily trled for croup. 1t originated with Dr. Delthill, who reported the discovery to the French Academy of Medicine. He found that the vapors arising from liquid tar and turpentine would Gi=solye the fihrinous exudations which choke up the throat and are =0 preva- lent in cases of croup and diphtheria. His method is described as follows: lows: He pours eaual’ parts of liquid tar and turpentine into a tin pan ard gets fire to the mixture; a dense smoke arises which obscures the atmosphere in the room. The patient, says Dr. Delthill, immediately seems to ex- perience relief, the choking and ra stop, the patient falls into a pleasant slumber and seems to in- hale the smoke with pleasure. The fibrinous membrane soon be- comes detached and the patient coughs up microbicides. In the course of three days afier the patient entirely recovers, v HETTY MARIA, LITTLE THINGS THAT ARE NO TRIFLES, (Conely The cauny hovse mother will not wail until the long hot Juge days wn Lhe symploms she would Early in May 6 eurtail the meat bills_and to select from the buteher's wares such as will not overtaz the digestion or add to the effele matier lurking in organs thit sheuld be clean and free, 1 will She is one who is trayeling | indeed, | ! of butter, and turn the mix- | ! cannot act when cold. . In June of 1884 we decided to visit acquaintances who had gone to Min- nesota several yvears before and taken up a homestead clalm. So, leaving Hartford one Monday night, we traveled via Niagara Falls to Chicago, and reached —our destination, tired and dusty, on Thursday noon. Our host met us at the station with a span of large western horses and a heavy two-seated wagon which he call- od a buggy., We drove from the sta- tion about one-half a mile Into the pretty village of Fairmont; then two miles further over roads of black olay (that pack s=o hard that they seem like pavements) we turned from the main road into a long lane, bordered with cottonwood trees, that led to the house. Our host explained that cottonwoods and willows were the only trees they conld have, as the strong winds counld bend them to the ground without breaking. We found the house in the center of & small cottonwood grove. And as we looked off across the pral- rie we could see other such groves of trees far In the distance, and were told that there were houses wherever we saw such trees. 4 P It seemed strange to me that with all the large forests in northern Min- nesota, lumher should be so scarce and costly in the southern part of the state. The farmers had very small buildings on account of the price of lumber. OQur host owned 360 acres of land, had a large number of acres of corn and oats growing. But had a barn only just large enough to stable the stock and store the grain for them. The hay was all left out in stacks. And as hay was the only fuel they could afford, & stack of one hundred tons (heavily weighted down to keep the wind from blowing it away) was placed near the house, and called their wood pile. The hay was burned in a special hay burn- ing stove, which had two cylinders going back from the fire box. The cyl- inders were stuffed with hay and a disk fitted into the end of each, with a spiral spring behind it to push the hay up to the fire box as fast as it burned. These cylinders had to be re- filled every fifteen minutes. We had taken this trip thinking we might locate in Minnesota; but when we were told weather in winter, and thought of keeping warm by those hay fires, we decided we would not stay for winter. We, were told that the farmers had sometimes burned corn to keep warm, but that there was then a law against burning it. 3 People who lived in the village Falrmont burned bituminous coal, but that was very expensive. The soil was very fertile. by driving willow sticks Into the ground a few inches apart around an cre of ground. Those willows became rooted, and when we saw them five vears after setting were nearly fifteen feet tall, with branches so closely in- terwoven that no pig could get through them. enced Sisters some of the ways In which to make easy the transition from winter to summer living. The first step is to banish pies from the menu of family meals, with judi- cious _ discrimination . between the wholesome and inexpedient, cut out fritters, fried griddie cakes and fried vegatables, except upon cold days and blustering nights that demand fires up- on the hearth and extra blankets upon the beds and relays of human caloric to keep the mechanisms that are sore in working order. For perhaps two days in the week fish broiled, bolled or baked is the piece de resistence of the dinner, or a baked omelet plays the leading part, supported by vegetables and salad. This menu is not amiss as a sug- gestive sample of a spring dinner: Corn soup (without meat stock), Spanish omelet, young beets, new or canned, creamed carrots and canned small peas, mixed, stewed rhubarb, and sponge cake, black coffee, or for a June dinner when sunshine lies so still over the face of the earth that even the aspen leaves do not tremble and the flowers are asieep wupon . their stal when the blood creeps slug- gishly and the head “feels thick,” and the feet and heartrare heavy. Nobody has so much as a symptom of appetite, Yet we must eat or strength “to bear up against the weather” will not be forthcoming. Hardest task of all in anticipation—we must eat “hot things.” Our canny mother comprehends that the languid stomach must be aroused to its business by lively warmth. Some women would lend an indulgent ear to the pleadings of her flock for jced bouillon, jellled meats, chilled sal- ad, sandwiches, ice cream and—here the boys are importunate—“all the iced water we can drink!” Here is a menu for mid-June day: Creamed tomato soup (without meat stock), hot and spicy; broiled halibut steak: mashed potatoes, whipped as light as a meringue; green peas, fresh- Iy picked; radishes; crisp lettuce heart with French dressing, eaten with but- tered slices of brown bread, cut thin; strawberries; light cake; for drink, from the fish course onward, ginger ale and mineral water punch; black coffee for the elders of the party. Punch made of mineral water: The punch is worthy of especial notfce. Put into the chilled punch bowl a cupful of granulated sugar and leave in the ice until dinner time; then add three peel- ed lemons, sliced thin; stir hard for a minute and take into the dining room; add to the lemonade in the bowl a quart of cracked ice and pour from a height upon the ice a bottle or two of mineral water and the same amount of ginger ale. Stir and pour In glasses, or you may leave out the mineral wa ter and drop into bowl a handful fresh mint sprays, washed and cold; then pour in ginger ale, holding bottle high and letting the sparkling stream fall directly upon the cracked ice. The ginger takes hold of the stomach in fine style and insures it against the risks of chiil—a peril too little regard- ed by bibulous Americans. The coat of the most useful and delicate organ in the keeping of the human creatura The lad who dashes into that organ eight or tem jce cream sodas per day in warm weather is laying the foundation for dyspepsia of the most aggravated tvpe. So the woman who feeds her flock upon c¢old meats, sandwiches, salads and ice cream, washed down with co- pious draughts of iced tea, when June | heats are at their height, invites the | alarming rate of mortality she depre- | cates as one of the mysteries of what —had she ever heard the storv—she ' would be disposed to call with the col- ored preacher “an unscrupulous Provi- dence.” She is not alone in her dread of the fairest month of the twelve. Physicians pronounce it the most dan- geroug of seasons to young -children and to adults of weak digestive organs. The night dews are heavy; the noons are scorching, and the long afternoons sultry and sickening. Yet I firmly be- lieve that neglect of the little things we have glanced at has more to do with the general good-for-nothingness to which a majority of even fairly healthy people are a prey during the c¢ruclal change of seasons than we are willing to admit, We do not wait for the orders of the family doctor befora we exthange win- ter flannels for lighter, ‘nor ask his permission to let the fire go out In the heaters. Why not decide for our- selves that the alteration in table fare should be as wise and radicay? “Back to- ihe poll]” i8 a cry of do- mestic and secial econemist, which our 'A Summer in Southern Minnesota By' Samantha of the 30 below zero | A pigpen had been made | e — In another directlon from the village were three chalns of lakes, the chains ‘being about one-half mile apart, mdt think there were six lakes in chain, the outlet of one forming the inlet of another. As we learned of a boarding place near one of these lakes before coming back east. This house had been built by a rich Engl: 1 at great expemse. The front of the house was two storfes high and faced the prairie, while toward the road and lake the roof sloped nearly to the ground; being bullt that way to escape golng over in the high wind. We paid { two dollars a week board, the menu consisting of plenty of fresh fish, wild zeesa, turkeys and prairie chickens, and graham griddlecakes with honey, ete. Quite a party were staying at this place for the hunting. The span of large horses would be hitched up and we would drive through grass as high as the horses’ backs, the degs golng ahead until they found game, then waiting for the team to get near be fore scaring the prairie chickens up, up, when the men would ~hoot them from the wagon. The lake we were nearest was a mila and a half acros We a large rowboat that would seat twelve people. I (then a girl of sixteen) learned to row it, and we could go out and in a short timo catch a tubfull of pike, perch and pickerel. One day the men wanted to go out on the lake, shooting muskrats. So a party of three men, a lady, a little boy, and myself, went out. I rowed, so the men could shoot; and they had a dog 10 swim out and bring back the game. ‘We were so interested we did not no- tico the clouds until we heard thun- der; and as we were at the further side of the lake we started for home; it did not seem more than five min- utes before the rain came down in tor- rents. It rained so hard it was Hke |a thick fog, and we could not see where we were going. The boat was filling, so while two men rowed the others dipped out water. I had worn a hat that I did not want to get wet, so when the storm began I put it under the seat and tried to keep it dry; but it was not long be- fore I was using my favorite hat to aip water with, It is evident that the boat was rowed in a circle, as we were out in that storm three hLours, try- ing to find the landing. After reach- ing the house it took some time to get dry and warm, and the rain had run down the tiling obimneys and | filled the stoves, After the storm was over the men skinned their muskrats and stretched the skins. These pelts when dry brought only one cent apiece, At that time corn was worth ten cents a bushel and oats fiffeen. Hay sold for two dollars a ton. We meas- ured heads of herds grass that were fifteen inches long. Taken all together we had a pleas- | ant summer, but, “Taking the vear all | 'round, my dear,” we decided we pre- ferred the climate of Connecticut. political leaders are taking up in vari- ous parts of our country. I borrow it with a changed significance. I am not a vegetarian in the accepted meaning of the word. 1 do maintain that it would work miracles of healing in the minds, bodies and estates of the Amer- fcan people if we were to look directly to_the soil for our daily food. We eat tefi times as much meat as we should —notably what 18 known in the ver- nacular as ‘butcher’'s meat.” We are stupid learners in the demonstration classes maintained by the nations of southern Europe as to the values and possibilities of the “kindly fruits of the earih.” If I use the phrase over and again it is because it appeals to me as no descriptive sentence of man's devising ever can possibly appeal. June, the poet’s and painter’s darling, comes to us with her hands full of the sweet and succulent foods rich in value and possibilities. What use do we make of them? CENTENNIAL SQUARE. ISABEL’S USEFUL REMEDY. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: I have been much interested in the home remedies sent in by Ma. Balsam Fir, and Witch Hazel, for by using them we may help to relleve pain and also cut down the doctor's bill Thers is no disinfectant better than carbelic acid; and I keep on hand a bottle of it diluted, one part acid to ten parts water; and if scratched by tin, etc., apply this at once. This may often save a case of blood pols- oning. I learred this valuable advice from a doctor: If one gets accidentally burned by carbolic acid, an immediate application of alcohol will stop the pain and there will be no scar. In this spring season, when house- keepers are so worn out with extra duties, if any of you get “too tired to sleep,” as we sometimes say, bathe the temples, and back of the neck, particularly, with hot water. This seems to relax the muscles and the veins that supply the brain with blood. Iie down to sleep with peace, for it will surely come; or, if tried in thg daytime this same treatment is won- derfully refreshing. o Cornflower: Where are you with your helpful letters? Best wishes to all, ISABEL, BON AM! WILL BE WELCOMED. Editor Social Corner: -May a stran- ger to you, if not to the goodness of Social Corner, come in and have a chat? I have been fond of reading the interesting letiers of the Corner. I have been impressed very much by the sympathy and kindly greetings that have run through the heart and minds of so many. I have noticed the promptness with which all requests have been responded to; and good cheer has reigned supreme. Would not dare attempt to write a letter for pud- lic reading, if I had not the assur- ance you would think kindly “of the siranger's letter and grant me a little piace fn the Corner. I was pleased with the Memorial day letter written by Ella Barber. I feel quite pairiotic, as fiva of my family answered the call in '61. When I see the muit of blue, brass buttons, and the G. A. R, badge, I feel just like touching my hat. But the boys in blue of the present time cannot stand as straight and as erect as they did in '61. The sphn that has gone is tell- ing on them, and the ranks are thin. ning, BON AMIL Turnerville. HOW A SILK QUILT WAS MADE. Editor of Social Corner and Sisters: 1 found my young friend in tears witn flushed face, and discontented. Her sister, who lived a short ways from ber, had a real down satin quilt, and Alice did so want to keep up with her; said she had saved every penny she could and pay their bills. I knew that she worked hard, so I sald, I will help you to have a quilt as pretty and nice as Agnes has, if you wish, We bought two remnants of sateen (ons of wood shades and tiny pink pin ‘stripe, with pale graen small vine runnlng down lengthwise), six |and ons-half yards, The other was grass green with small white flowers and very dark green tiny stripe—seven yards, We cut four pleces four and one- quarter long and made the %est in ruffies; hemmed the ruffes by hand— iwg loug ones fo the gides, two shory we doeclded to stay there a few weeks | — top of quilt at gath- rt of ruffie lfke the rest of ::m; up on chair and gave it a shake 1l done! I covered e all up with it; and one more weman happy at -price, s eays she will trade. Nix, says Allce, go you and do lke- wise. B& The Social Chrner sisters have wi hearts If not quilts. Let's do our best fot others, and be haj Toutle, d PRy onuolvo;. ered st CO-SOLID ADHERES TO FORMER CONVICTIONS, Dear Soglal Corner Friend I had just closed up my arguments on the Wwoman's suffrage question, and was hoping to retire from the Corner, for a few weeks, at least, when 1 was dis. turbed by & communigeation from Ma.- filndu. C. Butler Ro m, 1 don't ow whether this was intended as a vihdication of her own opinion of the Kansas case (I will admit that it was that of Hunnewell to which I referred) or a challenge toward my ideas con- cer equal suffrage. However, [ think It calls for a reply. Marinda C. Butler Robinson: I do not remember having seen your name in the Bocial Corner before; but I appreciate very much your statistics concerning Mayor Wilson of Humnne- well, Kansas. Nevertheless, I think that your attitude toward me concern- ing this particular case is entirely unmerited. I am willing to concede that Mayor Wilson is a good, honest woman, etc. 1 didn't intend in my last letter to Take any statements otherwise. As to the situation in Hunnewell, the rea- son I mentioned it was to show that the only evident results of having equal suffrage were the general signs of dissatisfaction. As the only re- marks in the papers concerning these results were simply that there was a great deal of commotion in the city, and that the councilmen were on the verge of a strike as a result of the eiection. I think Hunnewell is a typ- ical case to bring out my point. Hven ir my own town, where the women have no idea of ever voting for presi- dent, there is equal suffrage as far a8 certain school matters, in which the mothers are vitally interested, are concerned; but as for having women act as selectmen, or town representa- tives, that would probably, be a fail- ure. Perhaps, it would be better for one who wishes to gain statistics to re- s'de in the states where equal suffrage prevails, but I think the statistics thus gained would be rather narrow. The unblased opinions of several peo- ple, and several newspapers from dif- ferent states, amounts to more than the ideas formed by one person who #eeks only to uphold his view of the question. As to my informatiom, it 15 gained from reliable newspapers and from the individual letters of residents in the suffrage states. 1 still maintain the opinfon +hat there has been no apprecfable advan- tage gained by allowing equal suffrage to_women. Please write again on this same guestion and also state your address. CO-8SOLID. Hampton. »“BE CAREFUL! DON'T BREAK the PLASTER!” No need to worry if your walls and ceilings are lined with Compo-Board. It can’t crack, chip, crumble, or fall down. Water can’t leak through and stain the paper. Any one who can drive a nail can put it up. 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