Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 12, 1913, Page 14

THE WISEST ALWAYS HAVE A LITTLE FOLLY TO SPARE EVERY WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY. The Bulletin wants good home letters, good business letters: €ul letters of any kind the mind may suggest. They should be in hand by Wednesday of each week. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER, EDITOR, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conn. good help- THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $250 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to third. Award made the last Saturday in each month. S8OCIAL CORNER SONG. Speak Kind Wonrds. Do you know a heart that hungers For a word of love and cheer? There are many such about us, It may be that one is near. Look around you, if you find it Speak the word that's needed so, And yuurdawn heart may be strength- ene By the help that you bestow. Tt may be that some one falters On the brink of sin and wrong, And a word from you might save him, Help to make the tempted strong. Leook about you, O, dear sisters, What a sin is yours and mine I we mee that help is needed, ‘And we give no friendly sign. Wever think kind words are wasted, Bread on waters cast are they, And it may be we shall find them, Coming back to us some day. Coming dack when sorely needed, In @ time of sharp distress; Bo_my friends, let’s give them freely, Gift and giver God will bless. Chorus. #Speak Xkind words, they're needed, ‘Words of cheer to those oppressed, Words of love to those who falter, In the way where thou art blest. Sent by ELIZABETH. ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. " LUCY ACORN—Cards received and fmailed as directed. All right. No trouble to mail them. SWEET LAVENDER—The postage b plants, roots and seeds is one cent for every two ounces, or 8 cents the pound. ONE OF THEM—The feelings of #he Farmer and the Social Corner Editor were not dissimilar last Sat- urday morning. We are all human. POTLATCH—Please send the Editor & better address. Cards sent to you at Seattle have been sent back. STORY WRITER—When you reach the 13th page of note sheet paper it is time to think of writing “finis” Long stories have to be held until there is room for them on the Social Corner page. READY—Cards recetved and mailed as you directed. MA—Cards received and sent out as rdered. always = o DREAMER—Cards ™ received mailed as you indicated. and MAINE LOVER—Letter received and | mafled as you wished. REUBEN'S WIFE—Card received and maliled to Frozen. BALSAM FIR—Cards received and mailed as you desired. SALLY SYCAMORB—Sorry vyour letter came too late for birthday card shower on March 26th. We know ev- ery member wishesyou many happy Teturns. HEPATICA — Card mailed to Ma. POTLATCH—Card received and for- warded to Cherisette. (By the way, do not forget seeds for Potlatch’s Social Corner Garden.) Direct Potlatch, 3847 23d ave, S. W., Seattle, Wash. THE SOCIAL CORNER lost its head, and some other things, last week, but it was in pretty good form not. withstanding. We shall try to pre- vent a recurrence. TO FLOWER LOVERS—Joseph Doe is not competing for Social Corner prizes. The fleld is open to regular Social Corner writers. He has been specially engaged by the Editor to furnish a series of letters on garden- ing and flowers. A GOOD UNCOOKED CAKE FROST- received and Dear Editor and Social Cornerites: Every time the Saturday Bulletin comes it inspires me to want to join the Social Cornmer. The sisters al- ways seem glad to welcome a new comer, so I'm going to venture. ‘Wonder if Ready will let me have =& little corner of her woodbox, even if she does not know me? What a jolly set you all are; and what fun it is to guess “who is who.” Also to test the sisters’ good recipes. I made some of Elizabeth’'s ginger drop cakes, and I can assure you they were good. The only trouble with ‘when hubdy and the children find them). I want to send you a cake recipe; and when you treat your friends they will think they are eating genuine raised cake: Dough Cake—Two and one-half cups raised bread dough, 1 1-2 cups gran- ulated sugar, 1-2 cup butter, 1 egz, nutmeg and salt; mix well with the hang (you can’t do anything with a mixing spoon at first), then add 1 tea- spoon of Baking Powder in a little flour; then bdeat well with a spoon and add 1 cup raisins and a little citron if Hked. Put in a pan (I use a bread pan) and bake immediately in s moderate oven. -Busybody: You asked for an un- cooked frosting that will keep moist for some time. to the amount of frost- ing you wish to make, take pulverized or confectionery sugar, and mix the right thickness with sweet millg then beat well into this a generous lump of soft butter; flavor to taste, -and spreag rather thick on the cake, Aunty: Wonder if you have found Hepatica yet? And have you had any dandelions? I have. I did not dig them, but a nelghbor did, and.was good enough to bring me a dishful for my dinner. My! but they were good, end tasted just like more, Cherisette: I, too, hops you will like your new home. You also have my d¢epest sympathy In your recent be- ‘Papa’s Boy. Hope you will writs again when u get settled in yeur ' home. careful don’t fall ‘the water. rouluwvbenxc carsless sometimes when they go fish. -Fbetter-siop for this time, for them is, they don’t keep (at my house |I I may want to come again. Best wishes to all Sisters and the Editor. ELIZA JANE. New London. MA HAS BEEN STUDYING BIRDS. Dear Yditor: Polly Peppermint in- quires if any of the sisters are study- ing the birds. I have been studying them, but strange as it may seem, not with the same pleasure with which Polly does, for I have been studying dead ones! on the hats and in the milliners’ windows. I saw a window full of snowy white aigrettes and I thought only of the millions of birds slaughtered every year to_ satisfy woman's vanity and sreed. It is hard to understand how any kindhea can wear b hats, d and thinking woman s or their plumage on MA. TESTED CAKE RECIPES. Dear Sisters: Here ed recipes: Apple Cake—One cup sugar, 1 2, 2-3 cup sweet milk; 1 1-2 cups flour; are a few test- § tablespoons baking powder. Bake in'layers. Angel Cake—Eleven ezz whites beaten stiff; 1 1-2 cups sug 1 cup flour; 1 teaspoon cream tartar. Drop Cakes—One cup sugar, 1 cup sour cream; 1 teaspoon soda; currants; 1 1-2 cups flour. Wwith cinnamon and nutmes, and drop from a spoon into a buttered pan. Bake in a qwick oven. GLADNESS. A WORD FROM HYACINTH. Dear and Members Social Corner: Seeing irst letter founq its way i the Corner, I guess Tl try my luck again. I want to thank Aunty for her card, and, also, Faye Verna for giving the directions for making a tie, I have started one, and am suc ful so fa I tried your recipe loped cup avor ditor of the for onions and was well pleased with the Tesult. ‘Well, it doesn't seem quite like spring vet. It seems queer to e snow in April. I for one emnjoy warm ‘weather. Perha I should, as I am | out all kinds of weather. 1 wonder if any of you can gucss my occupa- tion. I agree with An Observ that ladie should know how to driye a hor My chief delight is to drive a hors I like a horse that doesn’t need muc urging. Does someone know that will remove ink st of omething I have never found anything would take them out. Did you ever try the recipe for Cooken? Tt is nice for a kind of des- sert. Here it is Cooken—One. f cup sug: short ening half the gize of an egg, 1 e 1 cup milk, 2 iking pow- der; flour enoug slice rles on top, and with su, and cinnamon, or nutm 1 rve with cream, and a little s if preferred. Wishing you the members, rest of s for n, HYACINTH. A NAME FOR A BUNGALOW. Editor Social Corner: I noticed tl someone desired suggestions. f name for rside summ low. It might be named after tr the place. If there are it Oak lodge, or you have a nice ple lodge oring of pur n Ind hite Wate: is Spanish for river view ferns on the place it mi Yerndale or Fernbank. The tions are simply to aid the owner finding a befitting name. The Social Corner should be able to meet an in- quiry of this sort. I am glad to see leiters upon garden- ing in the Social Corner. Someone has spoken of sweet peas—they do make nice bouquets, but they are not an amateur’s flower. Sweet peas to do their best need to have the trench in which they are to be planted prepared in the fail. They should be planted early and deep and as they grow the soil ‘should be drawn over them for two or three inches. North and south is the best direction for the row to run, watered liberally and they should b at sundown in dry for more water th fali. They must be p at midsummer they and disinclination to bloom the soil should be firmed as you would firm it for a rosebush or a fencepost. Then if they don’t come sprinkle a little ni- trate of soda in the trench and rake it in lightly, which will stimulate them. Sweet peas are never happy unless they feel the sustaining earth press- ing their roots. Hoping these hints may be helpful to some of the Cornerites, I will close. SOPHRINA. cail ther as they P close, and ed show weakness | READY A FULL-FLEDGED TATTIN s have Dear Editor and Soclal Corner ters: Since you hdve heard 1 taken a lesson in tattin I suppese vou | are anxious to know hew I made out, On arriving at Auntie’s I knew I had found a true Aunty as soon as I leok- ed into her kindly face, 1 was pleased to meet with Theoda, Strawberry c and Happy and Biddy's cackling was music to my ears, 1 was pleased te present at the initiation of a new S ter and was loath to leave such a charming place without meeting Aunt Mehitabel. Aunty makes tattin beautifully and rapidly.. She makes it so easily I could not help but see threugh it at once, The lesson over, we were sent into the dining room, and there we were served nicely to a yellow tea. Aunty proved herself to be a charm- ing hostess as well as a proficient teacher of tattin I began to think the wey things were working in the merning I should bring up at Aunty’s in the rear as [ did-at Married and Happy's. I rode threugh mud aimost up to the wheel bubs end en wrivieg at ths statien ihe train was only one hour and twen- ty_minutes late. When 1 arrived home that evening aideto me was: “Can you make tattin?” “Certainly I can!” said L “Let me see you make some.” Just as soon as 1 could remove my hat and coat I went to work. After watching me a few minutes he said: “Is that the way you make tattin? “That is the way 1 make tattin.” “What are you going to make it for?" he said. 7 - “Why, I expect to make enough to trim a waist,” said I. “I guess you will have enough by the end of next year, by the speed you are making at it now.” “It will be tattin when I get it done.” “O, ves, it will be tattin whenylt is donef™ 1 knew by the doubtful tene in his | voice he had mo fafth in my ability as |a tattin maker; but I have come out |just a_little ahead. I have enough | made for one waist and le‘i before this letter is in print .I sBall have enough to trim another. His doubtful tone did not frighten me any, us I have been acquainted with the man of the house some years and I know all the tones he can put into his voice, Three cheers for the Social Corner, for through it I found Auntv. Three cheers for Aunty, for through her kindness I am now a tattin maker, Best wishes to all. - SISTER READY. CHERISETTE LEAVES LEONARD BRIDGE. Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis- ters and Brothers: While absent from The Corner these many months, 1 nave not forgotten you (one and all) and I especiaily want to thank Jim, Rural Delivery, Elizabeth, Black Pansy, Theoda, Balsam Fir, Montville, Faye Verna, Ma, Papa’s Boy and Nat of the ocial’ Corner and many friends out of it for their beautiful birthday cards. Ma: I think Pa is very good na- fured it the photo on card is true to ite. Through changes which have come to me 1 am not dealing so much in passe hens as before. Have a little flock just to remind. me of the farm, I hope our Edijtor will stand a little jcke. He was so interested in our re- Ccipes, hints and farming on a small scale that the picture intended for another i page was given to us. Is it all right? Many a woman can carry farming on | successtully. | I wish to thank all the Sisters who | have so kindly given me parts in their social functions. Henrico: Welcome, newcomer. 1 think 1 know who you are, Jontville: Have you béen writing { under another name, and is it Joan? | “Ready: I saw your friend you visit in Lenanon today. I wish we might | mect again in the railroad station. | What a coincidence that was. I was sorry to leave the pleasant spot of Leonard Bridge, but owing to the changes that have come to my home I have changed my address. CHERISETTE. | Lebanon. WOULD LIKE TO EXCHANGE i sLIPS. | i Dear Bditor of the Social Corner: Herewith I send a few tested recipds: kerboard Cake—Cream one cup with butter size of 1k into this two eggs and beat to- with €gg beater; stir in p sour milk; beat in two cups sifted, with a level teaspoon of . and a pinch of salt; turn one- the batter into another bowl and tabiespoons of cocoa wet with :nd one teaspoon vanilla; add a teaspoon of lemon Checl | W par ct. Use small tins and with vel- |low butter, teaspoon at a time, make |a ring a litile more than an inch Wi Inside this ring lay a ring of batter and fill in center with . Make two of these layers, one with dark batter on outside ring This is to be the mid- ayer cake is put together. with half pound confectioner’s r, wet with sweet cream and va- tract. Bake cake layers in a te oven. Gingerbread—Cream one-half butter with ome-half cup of add one cup of molasses with a il of hot water, one-half cup of iwo well beaten eggs, one level oon of ginger, one teaspoon of e mixed and two shallow Are | @ark of South Canterbury: H. T. and have you your initials H little son, D. T. ; 3 would like to. exchange slips with of the I have got aniums S FOR FLOWER GROWERS. iitor Social Corner: Flower grow- who do not have cold frames can start their seeds in a glass-covered < in the house or out of doors. The uth should be composed of rich loam nd growth. The following plants are favorites for shady places: Achillea, Alyssum, Anchusa, Anemone, Arabis, Alpina, speruld, Aster, ~Bachelor’s Button, .’ ‘tuberous-rooted, Chinese mrose, Calendula, Canterbury Bell, santhemum (apnual), Columbine, opsis, Daisy (English), Esch- zia, Feverfew, Phlox, Forget-Me- Foxglove, Godetia, Larkspur, andia, Mignonette, _ Mimulus, | hera, unia, Pinks, Pop- pdragon who are_think window or porch boxes can make them up of the following plants: Box No. 1, row, Kochia, Tricophylla; mid. Red Riding Hood, Zinnia; front, | ox Grandifiora; box No. 2, rear row middle, Aster; fronf, Petunia rear row, Japanese Maize; Jacqueminot Zinnia; front, (tall or trailing). 05 are laying out borders to lawns in the or at country places will find the following arrange- ment of plants pleasing and satisfac- border planting is meant the planting of a strip against a back- ground such as a fence, a row of trees or rubbe; or a house. This is gen- erally laid out with an irregular line to the front, and is planted in a mass, with tall growing things in the rear, | arading down to low plants along the |front edge. Shrubs, perennials and annuais may me used. Have a border of annuals while waiting for shrubs | Here is a Tall Canna, Cosmos, Hol- lyhock, Spider Plant, Sunflower, 3 to 4 ft, Ostrich Plume, Cocks- comb, Dahlia, Xochia or Summer Cy- press, Buphorbia (Snow on the moun- tain), | "2 {6 3 ft, Four o'Cleck, Marigold Genothera, Perilla, Salvia, Zinnia, 1 to 2 ft. Aster Balsam, Calenduis, Coreopsis, Larkspur, Lavatera, Mourn- |ing Bride, Poppy, Salpiglessis, | 10 to 12 in, 'Ageratum, Alyssum, | Butterfly Flower Esehseholtzia, Migs | nonette, Dwarf Petunia, Phiox, Pinks, Verbena, | The foreed Easter bulbs er plaats will never equal their first flowering, After the forced bulbs have compieted |iheir flowering they should be kept | erewing until the foliage has yvellowed, !whi: will indicate a ripening of the bulbs. They may then be planted out lin the flower garden immediately or {held until fall before planting. The iellowing yvear many will bleem in the garden. Roses, azaleas and eothes similar pef ted plants should be severely cut back shen the bloom has faded and heid in sand so they -may make a stout| he first thing the man of the house | | [ tell? | pretty soon, so that won't be no news. | done for themselves or anybody else? | None! A‘_'- “ And for boys (! The Corner girls thi; Is for Cora, Clara, Catla LIl e & is for Diana, But what's in a name? How oaim that name sounds— . she dwells at the Bridge where quiet abounds. is for Frank, Farmer’s wife and Frozen, And another baker’s dozen. is for Inocognitp, ldisr and is for Aunt Nancy is for Quesn Bess No other can | guess. is for Silver Sixpence, Si's And Sixteen, so sweet is for Paye Verna Who is a shert sejourn. < a8 HYV DO WO ZEEERMMET®O= M is for William, the sweet, A emiie from him is a X Y Z To complete the Social of the Social Cormer By MA . ‘Afien, and Am, cfiqmme ‘Billis, Bon Ami, Buttercup, uzzl. the weather's warmer, You'll find them all in Potlach’s bower. Doable Faschia and Doollitts, is for Hyacinth, Hepatica, Hettie Mari Housewife, Hannah Whe and Huida the choir. ¥ is for J. E. T, Jan® Grey, Jans Ann, Aunt Jule, Aunt Jerusha and Jim—a Man. hnluh.y y ’s and Farmer’s) them charmers. ly and Cornflower is for Girlfe, Grandma, Guess and Granita, For auggestions for the laundry none beat her. Interested Reader In calendar making shs is a leader. is for Kitty Katnip, a Corner beginner, And in March, 1910, a first prize winner. is for Sweet Lavender, Lucy Acorn and Luella, And Leonard Bridge, where the S. C. is dweller. s for Morning Glory, Myrtie and Many Mothers, Mehitabel, Muggins, Married and Happy and others. and Brother Nat Who sells his best hay to buy Jane a hat. is for an Outsider, Only One, Observer, O. H. O.—then some. is for Peggy Anne, Potlach and Peppermint Polly, And others just as sweet and jolly. is for Rural Delivery, Roena, Ruth, Rainbow, Rosemary, (And all the other. roses we know. wife, Salemite, and bright. is for Tirza Ann, Theoda, Tabitha Tabby Kat, The heroine of Dreamer’s story—you read that. is for Uncle.Linus who had a dream, And was only awakened by a Sunbeam. er. treat. Last, but net least, comes X, Y, Z Corner’s A, B, C. has become settled; then plant them in the garden. The hardy specimens can be left to grow continuously in the garden, but the tender plants | must be wintered in the cellar during | the cold ménths. There must be planning and system | in creating a pretty garden. | JOSEPH DOE. AUNT SALLY’S DISCOURSE ON SUFFRAGE. Mary Ann: Hello! Aunt Sally, T've come over to tell you a piece of news. Aunt Saily: Welcome, Mary ' Ann, now what on ’arth are you going to I've heard you was a-going to that young apothecary feller marry Mary Ann: Oh, no, not that, Aunty, it Is something far more serious and important than that. Aunt Sally: Do tell; quiver. Mary Ann: Well, you know there has | been a great deal of lécturing in this town lately and I've been to most all the lectures end talked with import- | ant ladies, and I have decided to join | the Suffragettes and mareh with them | and I may_ be able to give lectures | myself on Votes for Wemen. I feel 'm all of a| it to be my sphere—my duty, Don't; you think it is a grand cause, Aunt! | Sally? | Aunt Bally: Well! Well! of all the — sphere! duty! humph! Here, Mary Ann, you just sit down there and eat one of my fresh deughnuts, and I'll ! de a little mite of lecturing myself; | it will be straight, plain talk if netn- ing mere. Mary Ann Green, you just set this Suffrage and Votes for Women notion out of your head, marry this feller, what can give you a good home and | who loves you, and you'll be doing a far grander duty than parading Vates | for Women. Be one of the noble moth- ers that every woman can be if she wishes. Make a heppy home, God | knows they are few, but might be more if the women would stay there more and try and make them so. What good have the Suffragettes Only made themselves ridic- ulous and stirred up & lot of rioting and turned the heads of many nice voung girls, just like you. This coun- try don’t need a lot more votes of any king and description, but it needs more intelligent ones. Women could put their emergy and influence to far Detter use if they only would. Why I saw”in the paper only this morning how that the men in the legislature were going to make some laws 8o the women would have to wear more de- cent dress. Just think of it, woman hasn’t common sense enough to wear respectable clothing, apd the world is growing immoral because of it. So-the men have got to make laws to keep the women’s clothes within decency’s bounds, Bhameful! ‘Women better make themselves some clothes and refuse to wear the out- rageous things whioh are now the fashion, You will notice that most of these Buffragettes ars women who haven’t anything olse to da, You don’t see women with three or four bables saying mueh about it, They haven't time;j their plase and work is in the hems, where every geed and true we- man's eught ta b, Heme is wegan’s spherej and when she gets sut of it thews is sure o be treuble, Y¥eu knew we sannet de twe things at the same time and de beth well; just se sure as_we try it ene must_be ceted amd that is the, way it is with the home and suffrage; and the hemes -aze peing negleeted, Take my adviee, Mary Anmm, and let it alone, and do more to make a happy heme. = QUEEN BESS. ECONOMY IN “TRABING, Dear Bdites and Sistess: i been written in tRese. economy, but hew have learned the _has | have paid thirt, | there are houses where goods | [/Cereals in cartons of three package: | dollars’ or at other special sales, standard goods may be bought at a reduction. | For instance, 1 o; bought three pounds of good raisins for twenty-five cents. A day earlier ok later I would three cents. Then may be bought al wholesale price each may be bought at a saving of from 5 to 10 cents; all kinds of canned ang salted goods, teas, coffees, crac ers, molasses and soaps, at a greater or less saving. To encourage large orders some firms offer with each ten worth of goods twenty-five ugar for one dollar, etc. considerably cheaper < and may pounds of Sugar _is the hundred pound sac be so obtained from th wholesaler. There is a difference in the sweetness of sugar, so “cheap sugar” is not al- ways economical. Cocoa at retail is usually twenty five cents a half-pound; but in some | | places it may be bought by the five pound can for eighty-five cents. Any retail dealer will make quite a | reduction for cash on goods bought in_ five or ten dollar lots. Housewlves should welgh and meas- ure goods sold in bulk to be sure that | are | than short | reduced prices rather in getting they ng a bargain - measure. should get alse be eonsidered. ¢ be beught in bulk in sealed jars and packages. The packages insure cleanliness and first quality, but usually eest mere. JILL. or MONEY CONVEN- IENTLY. TO CARRY Social Corner Edirior and Sisters: | To carry money I cut a black silk bag | two inches wide and four long, stitch it twice, round three sides, sew two ! flat, snap-fasteners on the top inside (such as ene uses on dresses), then I sew a plece of narrow elastic (black hat elastic) to each top corner, leav- | ing the elastic all in one piece; fas- ten center of elastic, two inches above bottom of coat, or packet, left sleeve inside, under arm" part. Have your bills folded, to fit, flat; pull the bot- tom of bag with right hand out, when Dbills are needed: let go and the bag returns to place in sleeve. The bot- tom of the bag must be two inches above sleeve bottom. Tor small change T cut a piece of old kid glove, a little larger than a silyer dollar. sew on outside of the palm of my glove or mitten, fasten with one snap. No pocketbook lost, or laid away {0 hunt for. This is my own whim. Many thanks to Interested Reader, for very pretty Easter card; will re- turn one when the spirit moves me to_do so. It is pleasant to be in the nice So- cfal Corner stories. I look every time to_see If I am among the number. We old ladies llke attention, same as the younger, and more worthy ones. Be good to the aged sisters—you will get there some time, Very much yours ~ J. B T. TYantle, IN THE OLD ATTIC, One day after the rest of the house was in comfortabls order Nannie Dayten went up to the old attic, On the seuth was a roughly finished room and en the nerth was just “attie” The reem was empty and the attic had been swept and the rubbish taken put, put there were old chests and boxes, barrels and old wheels, a leem and other things, tee Rumersus to mentien, There was an eld disk which she moved into the chamber with an old chair:*he baby’s eutsrewn eradle and go-cart _and Lucy’s plavheuss, A green shade and muslin curtain at each windew ard an old piece of o4 e® made a quiet litte pest, n an old chest was seme linen sheets—home-made. Twe were goed and were laid in a daintily lined white box. with two.pillow cases te match, a set for the bureau, commodes and stand—one for herself and one for Grace. The first went in the box and ;vu ,';:és'}‘ thé ?pue reom ou,bou: or s occasion. - b There were atso two good home- made white woel blankets, and two old ones. Tkese she divided with Grace, putilng her own good one away There were, ‘also, two home-made lnen tablecioths, end six towels, which she divided. Then oame two home-wove o and white, and red and white. The biue would cover her bed “: winter and the red would be for A \hm;m_d yallow dd ‘nnq;; gray” was Grandpa, and one “indigo blue and red” was claimed by the little boys. As herbs caune In season they were hung in tbe attic and catnup, hops and Indian tobacco (of everiasting) "was spread on papers to dry for pil- lows; also, a bex of dried mifk weed pods, and Grandpa’s home-raised 1o- bacco. . The windows were and shaded, and Nannle and' Lucy tied quilts and made rugs and “found thisgs where they left them.” An old tall ciock was given a place in the upper front hall, and the old house combined the comforts of both the “old time and the new.” The kitties made beds In the attic that ventured and caught the mice out; and the baby kittens found a safe playground. ETTA BARBER. HOW TO MAKE PEANUT BUTTER. Dear Sisters: Thoughts tarn to flowerbed making, and seed planting: but thre is time enough for most seed, vet Sweet peas do well to plant early. A very pretty way to plan‘ nastur- jums is this: Take an old cider, or vinegar barrel, and have it filled with an inch and half or two-inch auger holes, then filied with rich dirt. About tweniy holes will do. Then put one seed In each hole and some in the barrel. ~ This certainly does make a pretty sight in the summer. Delicious Cake Frosting—One cup full of powdered sugar, rolled fine, three tabiespoons of sweet cream; mix well together and add one tablespoon of cocos, and a half teaspoon of va- nilla. If this rule is followed the frosting will never be too hard or crack when cut Peanut Butter—Two quarts nuts shelled and freed from skin, run through meat cutter, with fine knife, and mix to a paste with four table- spoons of melted butter. This makes one pound. French Mustard—Mix one table- spoon of sugar with three of mustard, beat one egg untiy) perfectly smooth, add one cup of vinégar very slowly to prevent curdling; cook in a double boiler; stir constantly; add salt, a tablespoon of olive ofl or -butter, a ittle at time; mix thoroughly. I mede some of your Cookies, Guss, and they were good. I had a good time in imagination at Maine Lover's Surprise party, any way. IDA. MUGGINS FARED WELL. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: What do you think of this weather for cleaning house? -It is snowing good, now, but I suppose we must ex- pect all kinds of weather this month. 1 have one room cleaned. Mater: Would be glad to exchange slips with you, as I like to get differ- ent kinds. 'Am very fond of plants. Ma: I am slow. only have one hen setting. Gues; Your drop cookies. M. G.? C. E. S.: T think you are right about getting stalleq and having to call on vou. I can smell those pies now, as ou took them out of the oven, and : T think T have eaten some of Are your initials my mouth did water for a piece of that pork ple. When I get stalled | again T hope T will fare as well as + I did that day. Will close for this time to go to | work. MUGGINS. South Canterbur AUNT SERENA’S LO\-/E OF FLOW- by | ERS. rner Sisters: About it makes ne differ- be warm or cold, I approach of that to womankind—the Dear Social this time of year, ence whether it begin to feel the { malady common house-cleaning fever. No doubt, most of you already have s0 you know ell, I've been very bi but I mean ji W v with sewing, to get at the ning 1v quic a: By the middle of April, or before, if | 1 can, T want to be iree from the extra { houseworle and ready for gardening. Am planning to have more flowers than | ever this year; but think I shall re- | strict myself to two varieties, as, for ! example, sweet p and asters. They will make a good showing In the gar- ive quantities for cutting. eaking of annuals, of course, plants, wiil n fine showlng, and be perennials; and I intend add a number of varieties to the s I already have in my hardy bor- that most people d ntion to the hard d_altogether too | much on the annuals for their flower: To me it seems much better to plan: | each year as many hardy varieties as the purse will allow; and in a few ars cne will have a garden that will give a profusion of flowers, from the | snowdrops, crocus and daffodlls of ear- ly spring to the hardy chrysanthe- mums that will bloom almost unti] the snow flies. When it is possible, it is best to buy seeds Instead of plants, as it costs so” much less; and & five or ten cent packet of seeds will glve quantities of | plants. Also, T buy different varietles in mix- ture, Instezd of buying each color sep- arate; and so save the price of several paciets. Many of the hardy flowers wil] blos- som the first year from seed. The sec- ond year, being well established, they wiil bloom earller, and if the border is kept free from weeds, well-hoed and fertilized, the clumps will grow larger and stronger each year. Some of the sweetest flowers, to my mind, are the old-fashioned ones, such as our grandmothers raised. These we rarely see catalogued, but many of us may be lucky enough to find them in some neighbor’s garden; and most people are usually willing to exchange. Bvery garden should have clumps of the sweet-scented day lilies, both yel- low and white, southern~wood, grass pinks and peonies, spider lilies and tiger lles, sweet willlams and for- get-me-nots. The columbines, double white and double blue, are lovely flow- ers; also, the monks hood, bleeding heart, fever-few and polyanthus. Hardy phiox, to my mind, is more desirable than the annual phlox and a reot of the golden glow will be a oy forever, Thess are all perfeftly ardy and are all worth planting, There are many more hardy varie- ties which the plant lover will enjoy ferreting out in the catalogues for the perennials are not all listed together, for feme are listed as seeds, some as plants and some evem are put ameng the animals, Am afrald the Mdjter is frewning at this Jeng leiter, but I de want to ask Ma, if her initials are B, ¥, M.? Am I right? 1se, Ewperiense, are you (he one whe wrete the letier pignad Who?— the disceverer of the fourth prize? Mentville Lassie: I am net so old But I like flowers aad yeung felks (they, 8o 3 It seems to me s enough at but depe 1 thoughi how disagreeable it is. | i when put out of | To Restore Good Health The first thing to do is to cors s it by defective orirregular action of theorgans of digestion and elimination. 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Dear Socfal Corner Friends: If B - and the others, too, onl knew F both large and small, mouths aro to fil] in the Dreamer 1 wouldn't wonder {f you aske “Where does Mrs. Dreamer fir timé to write to the Corne Well, I'm not going to tell her vou many there are of us, nei sha tell you where I find the t to you all. I will, howcve we are seme family, injun truth is I do n wrile any letters, eith & Bocial Corner; but simply because do not e the time for letter writing makes me more determined than e to write; so about once in 8o ofter play that little game of “Rob Pele Pay Paul” Have any of you ever | ed it? There, now, T wasn't going to tell you where I found the time to write to you: but It's out. Where's tha woman whe can keep a secret y an. 'here seems to be a campaign days upon Wastefulness, or rather Woman's Wastefulness; and I mus admit that women can be wretchedl waateful in more ways than one; bu some of the newly married women shew that they are mot to be classed among the wasters, I'm going to cite an inetance: A friend of mine who has been mar« ried less than a year bids fair to be a first-class economist, but her economy fails to please her negro wash woman who was lamenting to her mother that my friend was ko saving she made the family eat their garbage. ‘Deed, they does eat thelr garbage,” declared the negro woman to her mother. “Why, my lan's, Ma! Miss Hattle (meaning my friend) grinds the stale bread and uses it to roll oyatere meat, cakes, ete., in before frying, She saves all the Jeft-overs from dinner to warm over next day for lunch, and she even burns the potato peelings, ‘cause she says it cleans out the grate in the range, 1 declare, Ma, 1 can't slip a morsel home for you and the kids, ‘cause I tel] you they eats their garbage.” When ‘my friend related this in stance I surely did have a good laugh for it went to show this particular negro woman had not been accustom ed to working for families who their garbage; but rather she had be. accustomed to see in garbage ca quantities of dry bread, bits of odd and ends of this and that which migh have been turned into a tempting unch for the family. Evidently some housewives have inclination to be classed among tt savers. Perhaps it hurts thelir feel ings, or ruffies their pride to be called garbage eaters. If I'm not mistaken there is great need of more familles in this city knowing how to use thel sarbage. I'll bave to admit it takes grit to be come an economic housewife. Whe: I frst commenced housekeeping, £r was a bump which had not developed to any great size. But the high prices have helped my bump of grit to grow by leaps. Many sre the times Iv been done—cheated, imposed upon but Fm learning to be slert—to ge my momey's worth. Quite recently ordered a pot roast. When it came the grocory eclerk handed it to me. paid him, end, the hall being dark, I didn’'t open the wrapper and examine it, as I usually do, When I took it tc the kitchen and locked at it carefulls I found it was 100 fat, and in the cen ter, hidden from view, was a bone. promptly sent the roast back, with a note attached asking the grocer t please remove the waste. It came bac with fat and bone removed and eigh cents in _cash. Once I would not have dared to do such a thing; but I felt that I r ed eight cents worth of grit more eight cents’ worth of bone. If this can be called Woman's Righ then I crave for more of it. And so it goes. If we do not demand o money’s worth we will not get it. The Golden Rule is not in evidence, ar it 10oks like it is: “Do others before they do you!" If the editor should name my letter “Tid-bits” I shall not squeal, for it ls sort of made up‘of scraps. Anywa Cornerites, when we write to the Co ner, no apologies are ~demanded I handwriting; for regardiess of tI tracks we make with pen and ink,whe our letters appear in print, don't thes always look good to us? It Just occurred to me that in jus- (Continued' on Page Fifteen.) UHs;le’! ' y Hone ©Of Horehound and Tar I For Coughs and Colds Contains no opinm nor anything injurious. AiDrs Try Pike's Toethashe Deaps