Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 27, 1912, Page 14

. BEST CURE FOR SELF-ESTEEM— SELF-INSPECTION EVERY WOMAN'S OFPORTUNITY. The Bulletin wants good home letters, good business letters; good heiy- ful letters of any kind the mind may suggest. They should be in hand oy Wednesday of each week. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER KDITOR, Builetiu Office, Norwick, Coann. THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: third. Avard made the last Saturday In each montt. PRIZE WINNERS FOR JULY First prime—$2.50 to A. B. S. of Norwich, for letter upon “Keeping Children Busy in Vacation.” Second prize—3$1.50 to Theoda of Willlmantic, for letter upon “Cool Sum- mer Desserts.” Third prise—$160 to Aunty of Willimantic for letter upon “Picnic Sand- wiches—Household Hints™ THE GOOD FELLOW ROUTE. By Berton Braley. H's brilant with lights and with laughter and song, But the song and the langhter don't last very long. And under the lights im their pitiless gy Stand ‘mw and Buin and Woe and Despair; Rlithe friends and companlions youll me: beyond doubt, M you Journey through Good Fellow Route! life by and a “King.” Who makes a big hit with this “Good Fellow Thing”; Whose wife and whose children are threg@bare and pale Becaiise ¢ this chap and his “glori- ous™ grail, Where the lackeys and sycophants loiter abont. To gather the cash on the Good Fei- low Route. In zrim prison cells and in padded ones, Loo, Are lots e boys who so merrily ow Along on the road where the Good lows g Fe ® park benches is many a are tagged as the Down and the Ot And who got to that goul by the Good Fellow Route. Its a trail that seems careless and happy and gay But to follow that trail means a big score to pay, You will cash in your youth and your health as the toll You will pay rour body, yeur mind and your soul; It may be worth while, but 1 venture to dou The fun of trip down the Good Fellow Route? in by Patlatch. ANSWERS AND INQUIRIES. J. E. T.. The card was mailed as. you directed. BLUE BRLI OF SCOTLAND: Have your initials correct Do not know how mistake happened Will see that address is plain in future. All confidences are honored. PAPA'S BOY: The picture card was mailed as you directed RURAL DELIVERY eard was mailed tended for. W. R writes: In looking over the Bocial Corner I find a good many re- cipes of different things, but nane of The souvenir to party it was in- bow to make the old-fashiomed root beer from the different roots What amount of each kind to use. This makes a good summer drink. The root beer vou get today is not like the old-fashioned kind. Janette writes: If any one has a re- liable recips for making grape juice and will send it in, I will greatly ap- preciate it and will send some dainty desserts in return BILLIE: BSouvenir cards réceived with letter and mailed as you re- quested. DAUGHTER OF LEBANON: Sou- venir card for you. Please send in full address, L. T. H. HAl-HA'S!! Dear Editor and Sisters of the So- clal Corner: 1 will try and muster up eourage to write a letter to the cor- ner; and will ray to Aunt Jurusha and C. E 8. you are good guessers, for George Milion is my dear little grand- son and 1 wish you could all see him; but 1 am not Blue Bells of Scotland, ®o den’'t want you to be scared, but Ruess again Blue Bells has the agaln, On reading the Corner letters last Eaturday, I had to go and see Blue Balls, before 1 went to bed; and we had a good laugh at your expense. Wigh you had been there, think we could have laughed at vour faces when introduced to Blue Bells. laugh on you ] came near writing to the corner awhile ago, when Jim wrote me for some yellow tomato seed; but no one ‘would help me write 8o gave it up and ment Jim a card about seed, and he was that scurod he never wrote again, Am sorry, but 1 do enjoy the Soclal Corner letters so much; and try lots of recipes sent in, I noticed a call for something to drive away black ants, so will venture to send & cure for them, Buy five cents worth of camphor gum and break in small pieces and put around on ghelves or floor where they go; and you will soon miss their presence, I will alse send a summer drink my folks like very much, and it cured a man of chonle diarrhea, A Summer Drink—Three tablespoons granulated sugar; a little nutmeg to taste: one egg broken and stirred in thorough; then add one tablespoon or more if liked pure cider vinegar; add one quart of celd water, Water ean be varied to suit taste, Would like to hewr how yeu like it, if uny one tries Bells has shown me the nice Clion of post uards feem Cermer I thiuk the last oue Rural cry sent ig just grand, 1 would i send him one of she will tell e where to sead It, as Blue Bells told s address was changed. Ty 1 like your letters so much, 1 hope yow'll write often, 1 think the older writers have waited long eneugh for all the letters te get out of that pigeon hole. 1 agked Blue Beils (o write and may- e that weuld be a signal for Rural Doy, | | does not like cutting hot. each | { | | write. close. $250 o first; $1.50 to second: $1.00 to ena, and the rest who were waiting to | With best wishes to you all I will L. USES FOR HUCKLEBERRIES. Huckleberry Pie—Line top crust. ripe. Hucklederry Shortcake—A rich bis- There's many 1 “Spender,” a “Prince” | cuit dough rolled thin and baked two layers in a plate with butter between | heavy ‘When baked butter bottom sprinkle well with currants the stones for part have been shorteakes. Huckleberry Slump—Take celain or granite kettle and art or more well sprinkled a little nutmeg and cover with a crust Two cups of flour, spoon of baking . mixed with sweet milk. A Better Way—Make a plate of nice baked made a little POW rich biscu them open and put in a deep dish. pour sweeten while an hot. of bu two heapin a cup of b Gingerbread—One cup of mol two cups spoon, he flour, ging: 1 like the high berries bet- Sk ; ter and prefer them not more than half again, h berries, ut es ( taken) follows alt, it a nd ing powder, m serri n make cover t on the ( blackberries, from which are all berries desser nd when butter eac! over t meg, ix es. it a on he Serve nice a 1 put h he spoonful of cream medium | | deep plate with good crust and fill | almost to the level with berries, put | over about half a cup of sugar and a sprinkle of nutmeg and put th por in break half a Stew the berries, biscuit Huckleberry Cake—One egg, onet cup a little and or two cups of flour, g ice cream spoonsg of bak- with sweet milk, add NORW son, George Milton. I will give them all over to her if any comes. Wishing vou all health and happiness, I am as ver i BLUE BELLS OF SCOTLAND. THE LAWN FETE. During the summer season the ever popular lawn fete atfords a variety of attractive money making schemes and is usually a successful device for any organization to earn a neat sum. In small communities there are always a few able and willing workers whose enthusiasm the hot weather fails to kil Of first importance is chgbsing a spot which will be central for those who may be attracted to the fete. Next let the affair be widely advertised. Two or three evenings (from 7 to 11) are usually required to make the lawn fete pay. In suburban places where a good crowd is attracted from the city afd nearby suburbs a lawn fete is sure to be a grand success. The chalrman of such an affair has a busy time getting her committee se- lected and overseeing a thousand: and one other matters, but if her assist- ants are hustlers, hunting for mnew schemes together, they can make the fete a big success, especially money- wise. z If the services of a handy man in the community can be secured for a few hours, the erecting of 2 few tem- porary booths is a small matter. Bunting and Japanese lanterns are the necessary trimmings. There can be as many helpers as there are volunteers. A few good money making attractions are as follows: 1—Ice cream and cake table, 2—Lemonade, peanuts and candy booth. 3—Variety booth. 4—Japanese tea party. 5—Fish pond or grab bags. The cake, lemonade, c: , fpney articles, small tables for the Japanese tea party, articleg for fish pond and grab bags are all donated by those in- terested in the cause. The gather in of donations requjres several goo solicitors who can smile when they are turned down. Tiere is a list of suggestions for car- { rving out the schemes mentioned: 1—Two long tables are usually found most desirable for serving the ice cream and cake. the former selling for 10 cenis a plate, and 5 cents slice for the . To do away dishwashing. plates and spoons are the only a w S tter, wooden tin things to use fcr serving the cake and cream. 2 2—The lemonade, peanuts and candy booth alw nets a goodly sum. A ‘crier” stationed at the entrance to this booth, announcing these goodie | for sale, attracts buyers and amuses Thre is the bag cent de candies, s of dainty boxes, sel Salted peanuts tak —Perhaps there is more prepara- tached the variety booth all the others combined. Fanc all d ptions take the e to donate some- | thing, if oply a_trifle, for this booth. Something novel to make money for this booth is found in « certain article, such as.an embroider ed shirtwaist or an umbrella. Chances { are sold for 10 cents each. This scheme will be found to net a neat sum for this booth. lead. tea h Jag | terns are suspended. Tea is served tiny Japanese (imitation) cups, acgom- panied by a Japanese napkin for each individual. the charge being 3 cents a cakes with the tea Grab bags have sort of tak i e of the fish po; as the I of flour, salt, ice cream s much work. For the grab hags ping, of soda, sifted in the vy material is used, making each er, cup of berries, mixing |bag about the size of a laundry bag. spoon of lard, wet with sour milk. | The services of several girls are re- £ i ired during the lawn fete, each pro- Griddiecakes—Two cups of flour, | 11T e one cup of berries, sull[, fce cream | \ded with a grab bag containing nu- spoon soda, mix thin with sour milk. im”m‘f‘ Smallistfelcs, They xo i) . | the crowd selling their wares for Johnnycakes—Two cups of Indian|cents a grab, Th dives his meal, one cup of berries, salt, mix hand X_nlu the ba he brings with boiling water, HMow | Can Huckleberries—I like the blueberries best half green, but use the | blacks in the s them over and put them in my kettle low me w: ay. pick | forth is hig for a nickel. of the lawn fete can be | amusing, as the larg This feature made st packages ally contain the smallest articles. Some of the funny grabs could be a colored doli baby, a toy eleph: * houn’ cup of water And two cups Of BUEST | Vase cakie of Soap or cabtrne ont and let them boil until the juice is a itthoto her didlitaars ny. ats little thick. Pour hot water in the |, i ierest in the fete the cteirmen cans and put in the berries while the | B 'CRESt 17, e fete the chairman dadainet Have e ru[l)h--rfl ;_m,ri el the table or booth netting the large any spoil 18 N e BARBEE ¢ |sum. The person in charge of a hoo POty 1 G winning a b arranges that matter e to the satisfaction of her help If A GOSSIPY LETTER FROM BLUE‘”-“‘!'YI are money, these connected with the booth receiving a prize car BELLS. | readily agree as to the division of the ; Dear Editor, Brothers and_Sisters: £y L DR have been readi from the Corner writers answering them, | 7O KEEP THE HOUSE COOL IN Wwaiting for tho zet out where it 1 » in the pigeonhole“to as a little warmer, SUMMER. and who should come to me but my| Dear Social Corner Sisters: Wasn't {riend telling me C. E. 8. called at her | tne Soctal Corner picnic a grand house and said she was Blie Bells, - 3 5 and that was why I had not writter | SUccess? How did the manager of that because she had been away taking care | crowd ‘ever remember to look after us of her little grandson. Ha! Ha!! Ha!! [all? I enjoved looking after those A pretty mess that was putting me in, | ¢ inc \cith Faye Verna and 5 but I hope some day to see that dear| "\ "iLh Fave Verna and the rest. little grandson of hers, George Milton, | y,pron ‘et Yo haye all survived one for "Ltk fhig ssme of Georgs ivery | S [o2L SRSl L want o tell the much, s a fa y N3 vi = < = 1 ot Bl el oy, aie witheme |0 gy family more comfortable dur- Many thanks for the nice cards from | Mg, those hot days. you. Will at your piac not Never min weturn favor soon. d. I am, long guess again. your friend L. H. K.? How are the huckleberries | e? I am surpriged at you | knowing who have known me so To begin with, I live in the country and it is easier to be comfortable there than on burning city pavements; but maybe, the city sisters would find help o a by frying these suggestions on keep- Where ig | 108_the house cool: 1 miss her let- Keep the windows open all night ters very much, but perhaps she is|@0d after airing the hedding in the thinking up politics now/and wonder- | MODIng. close all the blinds and Ing if Teddy will be elected; or else |S0Me Of the windows to keep out the trying to find out where the third |SUn 2nd hot This will also help grade in school is coming from that | i° exclude flies, but should there be Weall had the promise of when the [2DY Present place a sponge in a sau- schools were consolidated. What is | °¢T. Of hot water, to which has been the matter with the principal teaching a higher grade, with music and draw- enough to i ing? pay schonls or els, Or isn't there money her for the extra studies? 00 bad fo keen such talent as she has in such a dull place, and parents have to send their children to Willimantic learning when they should keep right on with e stop several other branches of study. blame is attached to the teachers. What do you say, Saman your heart trouble is better. I was asked the other day where all people were, and I told them getting ready to vote no- Was that all right? our W, C. licen: T » this fall! I hope 8o, anyway, 1 J. B. T.. What do vou think friend told me? you over ber s the You nice and cool all night. I told her I was glad the line was I am sorry one of our writers ean’t use her eyes or hands to read or time, but hope her busy, write for so long a slght may return. Where art thou and thy Pup: 'y By allomobile”” [asn't (he weathier been | the foundation siones, so it will come|ch, to a treble in third st. of chain; Warm enough yet o go ont riding? | over the center of the window, when |repeat until yvou )m\f:'?flsn Hpaces: Brace up und come along und | will | You Ut 1t up, mnd fasten §t to the|chain five, treble on treble form to tuke you to elther 1/ H, K., . ® S, |house ubove the window. Make the|more spaces ihe same, - then four Aunt Jerusha's, or my friend's, huckle. | Wire 8 fool longer than necessary to|trebles in fourth space, three more berrying if you will bring Ready, May- | draw it up straight, and {i will round|sprces, chain flve, form (o spaces, four be Aunt Jerwsia and . E. 8. will show |out from the glass. The wind passing | tripls In next space, now make three you the teese und where the (ies were [ between the vines and ~the window | more spaces; now proceed until you | eut and fence boardsg It is a lovely | muke it cool: and just to look at such|have the diamond of spuces and four place, " |a curtain makes one more comfort-|irehles ns large as you wish; then de- Where is Blue Rird? Write again, |able. crease sles and increase spaces un- please. To keep the house dark and eoel;|til you have ens cluster of trebles and Well, T guess this long Jetter will | simplify housework in every pessibie|three spaces each side of elusters of | mike up for not writing before and | 'way and live outdoers all one , will | treble; will gatisly my triend make a het spell more bearable than it| Now, sisiers, don't think this Is hard, I won't claim the cards intended for Ready, Fapa's Boy, M, Re»dscengratulations to her for her grand- It jus tha? Hope,| That she talked with 'phone and when she read your way for sleeping on a rub- eet with a sheet wrung out of water over you, sald she tried to get You again, but line was busy, and tell you if she was there when you were comfortably in bed she would pour on the rest of the pail of water to keep No added a teaspoon of oil of lavender. This will give forth an odor of vio- lets: but flies and mosquitoes will not remain where it is, if they can elsewhere. for a few cents’ worth will Jast a lon time. In rooms like my kitchen, which cannot be kept dark all day, T wait till |4 oclock, which is the hungry time | for files, and darken the room except one narrow ray. Set there a plate of poison paper and sweetened water; shut the door and leave them to their fate. A simple and good way to keep a room cool in extremely hot weather is to dip large, heavy towels in cold wa- ter, and after wringing slightly, dark- en’the blinds and hang the towels in windows and doorways. The room will soon cool off in this way. In rooms on the first floor, if one | does not dare leave the windows open all night, in the early morning open wide every window and door for two hours, Then close the doors, leaving each window open about six inches, and draw the shades down close to the edge of the opening. The rooms may thus be kept cool by shutting out the sun and providing a circulation of air. A pretty and unique way to keep a room cool 18 to pwnt vines under the windows, Take a plece of fence wire netting 18 inches wide. Fasten it above g0 t otherwise would be, ISABEL, put | 11 ancing off a | This is a cheap fly remedy, | ICH BULLETI SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1912 “Good morning! I hear your folks have company,” I said as I came along by Uncle Sol Peters from the post office. Uncle Sol was clipping along the wall in the house-lot. He chuckled and says he: 3 “Yes! and then agin, no! We have and we aint!™ Then he shook his | head and chuckled; and I knew by the way he leaned on his scythe a story was coming, so settled myself com- fortably on the wall and waited. “We did have; and we have!” says he. . “Hows that?” We'll, Tl tell you. Quite a spell along back we got a letter from round Boston saying as how some school was going to eommence and invited us to see it commence, writ jest like an invite to a marrying, and in it was a card with M. L-u -1-e, S-m-y-t-h-e. Now we couldn’t make head nor tail to it . After a few days, long came a letter to Maria from her sister Lucy explaining that Lucy Maria Smith had | jest got through school, instead s | that there invite said. You know | Lucy married off there and he died | and left her pretty fore-handed. “Lucy was pretty proud and high- toned and a good manager, too; and they lived like grand city swelis— ya’-a's. Why, Maria went down once when the older gal was rharried, Such doin’s you never seen. House dread- ful vlish; but when they come to the wedding, want cheers enough for all the company (probably wedding P cost so much want nothing left to buy think | cheers) say, what jest took all the made um all stand up. was latest style , Oh, Arterwards they had supper, 3 want plates enough ,an she jest whisked 'um o flung um back, company jest joked and laughed, like they was used to it; and Lucy set there and never turned a hair! Maria was dreadful cut up | about it. | “Now, Lucy Maria If you'll believe ft, that there card was for Lucy Maria Smith, named her Grandma, mother and sister. | Her ma said 34s how it looked more high-toned with that away. Seems this commencement’s sort of | dress parade to wind up school. Its | nip and tuck with the gals. One who has best toggery is right on top. T suppos I interrupted, niece was an honor scholar.” 0-0, guess not, she’s all style and | clothes, don’t believe she had no time | for honors. She’s got all tuckered out sewing and worrying for fear her rig | or r wouldn’'t be first. Had to)| have two or three rigs, and Lucy Ma- ria vowed she'd have the best, or none. you Luce chairs E 's graduated. | Well, between her and her Ma, 1| guess she managed to git up a stun- | ning rig. Her M sald as how 'twas | dreadful close call *tween h other gal, but they finally agreed the ribbons on M. Lu ) was a mite the | wider and a leetle finer than the old er gals, so that settled i “Now I reckon her Ma didn't in- tend to wast all thera clothes, so they were going to the shore for a spel Likely she expected they'd git a rich man for M. Luciley. Well the strain | of that dressmaking was too much for the gal and the doctor said she mu rest with Nature for a spell. Lucy didn’'t say why she didn’t go to Nature. Maybe cost too heavy. Anyhow ghe | writ Maria for her to come here &nd | nd an- E: | was all a fluster, and most H fixed all over; and | and I through our | Sald we must wear our coats | in, fol-de-rol! and not to pour our tea in the sasser and blow it to cool it ;amd said as how we must eat with a fork and thus and so. 1 balk- ed at the coat, but lowed I'd try to drink a mite stiller! W-1I, the woman cooked for nigh twe days ,then she | moved all the gew-gaws in the house | into the spare room. Jay fore yesterday M, Lucfley comed, Maria had that spare-reom fixed jim-dandy ,and a bang-up sup- per ready, M, Luciley said them gew-gans wan't sanitary, whatever that might be, and the curtains blew and made her nervous. Se her aunt had to take um all away while she rocked and bossed the job. When we sot to eat she couldn’t eat & ned thing we had, but some berries, She brought some | canned sawdust and patent shavings, | which she eat in milk, “She got her aunt up enee or twiee in the night, Say! Once for a tree- toad, Next morning she come down stairs on some high-heeled shoes sed to kill, had more hairn I er seen afore. She was quite So- | | ciable,-told the kids about her clothes, | ete. After eating her saw dust, said | | teetering AUNT MARIA’S NERVOUS NIECE By Lucretia “your | i | ed, or eaten up or er constitutional. We finally made out she wanted to walk. ‘Well, her aunt looked at her shoes and dress, and thought she better walk she must take down the lane, 'twas clean there. She started off with a red parasol; in less than a minute I heard a shriek; Iwas jest putting the hosges on the machine. 1 runned and when I got In sight of the gal I jest roared. One of the oxen old Bright, was over the bars in next lot, that there red parasol was too much for him, so_he stuck his head over the bars, M. Luciley was backed up agin the wall tuther side of the lane. She’d shake her parasol -and sob: “Go way you ugly thing!” Then old Bright 'ud shake his horns as much to say, “Go way yourself!” Well, I took her to her aunt. She | sobbed and cried a spell and Maria got her in the hammock and went back to work. In a few minutes she let out another of them yells, and Maria_ dropped the tea kettle and burned her hand. Jimmy! what you think? A measley little yaller cater- piller had crawled onto her sleeve and she was In the middle of high-strikes. They gin her a tablet and moved a big chair onto the plazzy, and with pillows Zot her settled agin. “Now Old Dan gits a notion once in a while he’ll show off if you don’t harness him jest according to his idea. He'll kick like sixty, walk right along and kick till he gits rid of that har- ne: Now likes as not that there Sam (he’s a limb) jest as soon stir him up as not. Any how, Maria jest got to washing dishes, when clitter to clatter went that there old hoss right und the corner by Luciley’s rocking chair, mere hrieking, erying, nerves!—bosh! Well they put her in the parlor this rap and s all the doors. Maria was get- got in over her brain-storm, g long arternoon toward night, the kids coaxed her out in the lot where weo's getting hay. She got to acting real quite fol Finally yme the thought she'd better got laughing, itten. s I your com- t rightly know what did it, s Sam (the imp) got that them oxen hawed off on a If that load slid nd the kids, jest little side f with like sliding down hill. there was, but I'll be jiggered gal didn’t lose part of her top ped brush hed the whole thing, jest as he got righted he picked up that there d-gear on his fork, and says he, emn as a judge Cousin, guess you lost all he somethin’ " Of course the kids and the hired man jest roared a laughing. M. Luciley looked around, tore her nd shrieked. You dreadful boy.” ' “Well, her aunt rubbed her and gin d ‘twas brain-storm, seen for some time, my opinion a good wholesome trounsing, done in the old fashioned way done mors good than her box of pills and things. She had her aunt up a good part of the night, and I seen by the set of Maria’s mouth morning that M. Luciley’s s telling on her. jest driving out to ther lot come out with her hat on “What time the next train ve was o when the g and axed left ‘Says T 9.10. a. m. I get th says she. es ma’am,” says I like lightening nd got right off th machine, Maria, rather weak. our nerves, what will your moth- er say!” “Don’t are!” gays she. “Tll be kill- carried off i they said was with a sob, “I want ‘here its nice and quiet,” the beatest,” says Sol, its all your life is worth to cross a street. Why there's so much neise, bells ringing, car toot- ing you can’t think, Maria was game. into the kitchen, adful place Unel She followed me and says she Sol T've got ready for company, Do you step into the stere and telephone Cougin Sallie te come out for a couple of days and we’ll have the minister in to suppen—ain’t going to waste all that good cooking; and says ihe, “She's come, and they are there tuther side the house under the ap- ple tree piercing quilts; drop in see all um: but vs he, coming little nearer the wall, “Yeu knew Maria has some i notions about the kids being educated, better steer clear of higher educatien, yes, and nerves, teo! She's a lettle sore on those pints 'bout now. 1 of the Spclal Corner: | any people have mulberries and cur- | ants go to waste. Just try my way:‘ Take qual parts of each, if you have | | them, elther white or black ones (black are best); put in preserving kettle and cook very slowly back of | stove; when done pour in quart and seal, and in the winter make pi Dear Sisters | | of them.” If yon want, you can add a |little water and a pinch of flour and a | cup of sugar. Don't put in any water | or sugar while ccoking. | my way of making Shortcake: Mix as for griddle cakes with sour| [ milks, only have very thick, and pour on griddle and cook rather slowly | | (they should be about one-half inch thick). When done put on plate, and butter, and while another is cookine | pick over some strawberries, put on sugar and mash with potato masher; Ithen add cream and pour over your griddle cake; then add another cake | and serve likewise. | 1 think them superior to a shortcake | aked in the oven. In winter time I stew cranberries and pour over; also stew huckleberrie: | and sometimes I used canned raspber- | { ries. | In summer I never build a fire for | shortecake. 1 divide the crust into two | pieces, put on pancake griddle on ofl- | | when_hot rub thoroughly with | pork; then put on one-half my | cake angr mash flat; then a layer of | butter; then sprinkle on flour; then |add the other half and flatten that. Every little_while I turn, so it will |not burn. Cook slow.: When done | part and butter and add your fruit.| | We like them fully as well as when | | baked in oven. HALLIE, HOUSEHOLD HELPS. Dear Sisters: To separate postage stamps, place stamps that have be- come glued together under a thin piece of paper and run a hot flatiron over them. The stamps will come apart casily, and the mucilage will not be soaked off, as if put to soak in water Now for a_narrow lace: Ch, 14, turn for I've made it, and It i pretty, but ALL OF A FLUTTER. Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis- ters: I had a glorious time in the pigeonhole, and now I am out I am all of a flutter. I expect to be there again soon or late. I for one am thankful for th geonhole. It is like the emer- f in the pantry. The week ters are too busy to write and the | the letters come in slowly, the Editor knows where he can turn to get some- thing good for us. To the new members I will say T am glad to see you are getting out of the reading class into the writing class, Do not feel discouraged if vou do gel in the pigeonhole. The Editor will not keep you there longer than he can help. He will take good care of you while you are there. To, the older members I will say 1 ank vou all for being so kind and gentle with me when I was so shaky and helped me along with your words of encouragement until T was on gure ground. I shall be one year old next month. One day this week I picked up a Courier dated July 5, 1910. There were eight letters in all. The writers were Eliza Jane, J. E. T., Lydla, Sally Lun, Lone Flower, A Woman, Bill and See how we have grown since then. Best wishes to all. READY. J. F. TS WAY OF COOKING GAR- DEN VEGETABLES. Social Corner Editor and Sisters: I wonder if any of the sisters ever cook garden vegetables as grandma used to say, for instance, boil one-half pound mixed salt pork ten minutes, or long- | er, in water that was cold when first put on; then add a quart of tender stringbeans, cook one-half hour; add quart of peas, four potatoes and teaspoon of white sugar; teaspoon of pepper. I add a little but- ter at the last. My folks call it glean- ings, but like it, just the same, I wish would send in a recipe for Rhubarb Wine, or drink. To Mother: We bought our girls white cotton crepe at Taftville mill, or store. 7 I thank Ina for pretty card, sent one back. Blue Bells: Where 13 the bushel of huckleberries? I have just sold my eggs. squesks one Have Tad to hen to make the dozen. Teng@minutes later two o0ld friends .n—fi‘ In to dinner, and on Monday —riearest store one mile, butcher comt Ing noxt day. I have it: A few small astrakdng under one tree: Pot . Apple Pie! Why not?>—A cun of brgWn sugar, milk, a little piece of butteff @nd two peach leaves. The leavé€ faken out before serving up: this:fér sauce on pie, after cooking it that piazzy, and | Such & laugh- | but | | | | | | | ter; green ,a lump of alum; gray or brown, a little ox gall; tan or linen |good, hay water; reds and pinks, use {compared with some other foods: | utes. Pork, roasted, 5 hours and 15 min- | {utes, Corn bread, 3 hours and 15 min- utess. Wheat bread, 3 hours and 30 min- | utes. a few minutes. Then I baked some powder biscuit; opened a can of corn, added to some left over baked beans some pepper, salt, water, and cut rind from ?Smm pork; and cut into dice succotash; made some fresh tea, strong, and strained it; put one-third cold water and lowered into well while 1 rolled'and cut a lemon in thin slices. Iced tea, one slice lemon on top, & little sugar. % Ah)ar‘e bouquet of bachelors buttons in center of tsbla; clean napkins and cloth, All ready. 7 JE T Yentic. THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED. Dear Editor and Social Sisters: It has been a long time since T wrote to you and so thought I would send in a little cheery word to the Sisters. Auntie: You may think Kale {8 nice, but I don't believe I want any. Yes, I live northwest of Willimantic, but guess again. Hepatica: I think it a good thing in regard to having a Secial Corner department at the county fair. I will exhibit, for one. Theoda: I quite agree with you about not eating a lot of rich pastry, doughnuts and fried food. We eat a lot of fruit and berries in their sea- son These hot days one must take care what they eat. Aunt Mehitable: I quite envy you your cool place out on Long Island. Why don’t you try bottling up some of the breeze spoken of and see the result? I spent eight days at the sea- shore not long ago 2Ind just enjoyed it, In washing summer fabrics, if you follow these suggestions the articles will not fade: In washing anything blue, put a handful of salt in the wa- { a little vinegar. ing and trying. I wonder if the readers know that rice is the most digestible of all foods. A physician has ted the time re- quired for the stion of rice, as This is worth know- dig Rice, boiled, 1 hour. Apples, sweet and mellow, and 30 minutes, 2 hours. boiled, 2 hours. A boiled, 2 hours, Milk, raw, 2 hours and 15 minutes. Eggs, raw, whipped, 1 hour and 30 minutes, 1 'hour hard boiled, 3 hours. fried, 3 hours and 30 min- Stewed oysters, 3 hours and 30 min- utes | Roast beef, 3 hours and 30 minutes. Fried beef, 4 hours. Corned beef, 4 hours and. 15 min- | utes. Potatoes, Irish, boiled, 30_minutes 3 hours and Potatoes, Irish, baked, 2 hetwrs and 30 minutes, Cabbage, boiled, 4 hours and 30 minutes. bage, raw, 3 hours and 3 min- The table is a good one and every housekeeper would do well to memo- rize it, H Rice will digest better if eaten with | butter. | It is a good scheme to keep a cro- chet hook In the bathroom to draw out threads or hairs from the waste pipes which stop the overflow of wa- ter. In closing, just let me tell this little story: | A Great Feat—Fannie was eating | an apple, when she suddenly cried out | in pain. | “What is the matter, darling? asked | her mother. 1 stepped on my tongue with my teeth,” said Fannie, BIDDY, Tolland County. RECIPES FOR BITES AND STINGS. | Dear Editor and Soclal Corner Sis- | ters: I was wondering the other day if any of vou on the farms wouldn't like some Tecipes for bites of mosqui- | toes or spiders and the stings of wasps and bees. The best application 1s a_solution of common salt or water of ammonia, sugar of lead, or laudanum, tincture of | fodine, | If none of these are at hand at the moment, cover with wet parts of earth. Tincture of arnica s a good applica- tion, Bites of Venomous Snakes: Either in- stantly cut out a piece from the bitten | part or apply a dry cup to prevent the absorption of the poison. Suction with the mouth will sometimes answer the same purpose. After doing one of these things, touch the part wlt\h‘ caustic potash. Internally give Fow- ler’s solution—20 drops in a litle water every two hours. Also purgative in- | jection, stopping the arsenic whent purging is well established, or drink freely of whiskey. | For the bite of a rattlesnake the only known remedy is alcoholic drink: taken in large quantities and immedi- | ately. Gin or whiskey are believed to be the best. Iill the system full; when | the poison has begun to take effect enormous quantities will be borne be- fore intoxication can be induced. Keep the whole person saturated until the symptoms decline. Maine Lover: I enjoyed the picnic so much. Hope you are not all tired out. I certainly should be pleased with one of your home views. I have al- | l | should come | siek person against the cloth, |appreciated by the recipient ways regretted that I mever took snapshot when I been out with the camera Generally went down tic to Ver- P HOW TO MAKE POTATO CANDY. Dear Social Sisters: I wonder it of you have tried potato candy? have, and like it very much. Potato Candy—To one-half cup of sified boiled potato add the unbeaten white of one egg, flavoring, and mufl g‘ovlderod sugar to form into bal uts or fruit may be added. Another way is to sift half a cup ef bolled potato and knead it stiff with powdered sugar, adding any flavoring desired. This may be rolled thin and cut into wafers, or either kind may be made into balls and dipped in melted chocolate, Aline: I should never have guessed who you were if you had not cailed for letters from Polly Peppermint and An- other Normalite. Polly {s away on a vacation, 1 think. Another Normalite to Leonard Bridge. 1 have been here a little over a week and have already become affected by the Social Corner germ. Housewife: Why don't you write again? We miss vour useful sugges- tions. Cornflower: Your letters are always welcome, (‘ome often. Betsy Burdock: 1 want to congratu- late you as a prize winner. Sea Green: Why give up so seon” T only remember ohe letter from you, and that was a long time ago. With best wishes for all. X. Y, Z Leonard Eridge. e HOW TO MAKE A BED HAMMO®N. Dear Sisters of the Socfal Corner: 1 am gending in-directions for making a bed hammock. 1t i8 a simple but re- freshing change for the slck when pil- lows refuse obstinately to lie easy or have grown hotly wearisome. Take a plece of very stout cloth a vard deep and four feet long, after a double hem has been turned two inches deep across each end. Sew a long length of webbing stoutly to each of the four corners. Take two light rods 'h a yard long, a small broomstick makes excellent ones. Put a stout | screw eye in either ends of both rods slip them into the hems pass the web. bing through the eyes and your ham mock is complete. To use this bed hammock, all that i required is to fasten the webbing (o the bed posts on each side, then the can recline at ease The hammock can be shifted in almost any form. 1t may be padded with cushions or left cool and single. Tt is a wonderful change and relief for the sick. AUNT NA 13 £ VACATION OCCUPATIONS FOR CHILDREN. Dear Sisters of the Soclal Corner Like all sensible mothers, I want my little folks to be out of doors as much as possible during the summer months, but what about the ralny days, or the days when the heat is intense There's always plenty of mischief for idle ands, 8o I try to keep ahead of mis- chief by furnishing interesting employ - ment for those ever active little mem- bers. The following are some of the devices I've tried with good success: 1. Christmas List and Box: Pach child, with mother's help, prepares a st of persons whom he or she wishes to remember at Christmas ,and after each name is written some appropri- age gift, to be the child’s own work. The little people do their very best to make something “lovely” for each per- son named. he results are some- times amazing, if not beautiful, but it is all “best work” and as such is duly Some of the things they make: Tiny sachets, kitchen holders, pen wipers, matel scratchers, shaving balls, booklets of neatly mounted magazine pictures, col- lections of the funniest cartoons, joke ‘books complled from all available sources, fascinating paper dolls cut from fashion magasines, kites, bean bag sets. bead chains, etc 8 each gift is finighed it is put carefully away in the “Christmas Box" kept for that purpose 2—~Making Collections: Work for both pleasant and rainy days. Chil- dren from nine to eleven years of age enjoy starting collections for “their very own,” and which they may proud- ly show to their friends Under these come pressed Jeaves, wild flowers, stones, sea mosses, shells, buttons, wa- ter marks in paper, and trade marks. On rainy davs these “specimens’ may be labelled or mounted and catalogued in a notebook provided for that pur- pose. i 3.—Making Blue Prints: Delightfu! and easy to make are blue prints of pressed leaves and flowers, For these | we need some blue print paper, pho- tographic printing frames, the speci- mens, and bright sunlight. To make them, remove the back of the printing frame, and place specimen on the glass; place a sheet of the paper on the specimen—yellow side toward front of frame; fasten on the back; hold in bright sunlight until paper becomes nearly white Put paper in cold water and let stand until perfectly clear The (Continued on Page Fifteen.) 194 Main St. one-third | some Social Corner writer | | SUITS DRESSES The Maurice Sample Shop Wauregan Hotel A CASH: PRE-INVENTORY SALE OF Our Entire Stock OF MUST GO Regardless of Cost. This Is a Small Space BUT A BIG SALE You Cannot Afford To Miss It. COATS SKIRTS