Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 2, 1913, Page 14

NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAT. YOU KNOW NOT WHERE A BLESSING MAY LIGHT EVERY WOMAN! 'S OPPORTUNITY. The Bulletin wants good home letters, good business letters; good help- ful letters of any kind the mind may suggest. They should be in hand by Wednesdsy of each week. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER, EDIT 'OR, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conn. THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $2.50 to first; $1.50 Lo second; $1.00 to third. Award made the last Saturday in each month. SOCIAL CORNER POEMS. Song. Just the sun on a slope of heather, The long blue wind and the open sea; All the cares of the world in tether, And nobody there but you and me! That's my wish in the golden weather; Love, you echo the wish with me? Come, then, ho, for the slope of heather, The long biue wind and the open sea! —Clinton Scollard, in Ainslee’s. My Garden. A pgarden is a lovesome thing, Geod wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Fern'd grot— The veriest school Of peace; and yet the fool Contemds that God is not— Not God! in garden! when the eve is cool? , but I have a sign; very sure God walks in mine. —Thomas Edward Brown. The Vanished Cares, The little cares that fretted me 1 lost them yesterday Among the flelds above the sea— Among the winds at play; Among the lowing of the herds, The rustling of the trees, Among the singing of the birds, The humming of the bees, The foolish fears of what may happen 1 cast them all away Among the clover-scented grass, Among the new-mown hay; Among the husking of the corn, Where drowsy popies nod, ‘Where i1l thoughts die and good are born, Out in flelds with God. —Anon. ANSWERS AND INQUIRIES, ALL CARDS awaiting addresses have been mailed as the senders di- rected. NIC. Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis- ters: Wish you could all have been at the pienic at Coventry. You would have enjoyed it. I did very much and hope there will be another this summer. Theoda: Paper didn't wait for work the first of this week. Aunty: Trust you reached home =afe. Papa’s Boy: Where were vou and your auto? Saw you and mamma go by my house this week in your auto. I hear the Brown Bee of New Lon- dom, s soon to join hands with a doc- tor and go to Maine. Why not all send her a card? Sisters, did you ever use a small scrub brush when washing the men’s overalls and shirt bands, or anything that needed hard rubbing? It does the work much easier than the old way of scrubbing with the hands. Will close by sending a good cake recipe: -.Cake—One cup sugar, 1-2 cup thick sour cream, 1-2 cup sweet milk, 2 eg; 1 1-2 cups flogr, 2 level teaspoons bak- ing powder, 1-4 teaspoon soda, salt, vanflla. Sift flour, sugar, baking pow-. der and soda threc times, then add cream, milk and yolk of og, beat well, fold in the beaten whites at last. Good in loaf or layer. Norih Franklin. SEASONABLE RECIPES, Dear Editor and Social Corner Mem- rs: 1 enjoy reading the Social Cor- ner items and often wish I might join Your merry circle. I have tried a great many of your recipes and found all of them fine. I am sending a few I hope the ladies will try: Raspberry Filling for Cake—Put white of one ezg in a deep bowl, add one cup of sugar, one cup of red rasp- berries crushed and juice drained off. Whip until stiff and light. Sweet Cucumber Pickles—To five hundred small cucumbers take three ! quarts of cider vinegar: add two ounces {each of cinnamon, allspice and cloves, three pounds of light brown sugar and few small red peppers. Let the ickles stand over night in salt and ater. then put them in cold vinegar nd let come to a boil, and boil two “r three minutes: seal. Currant Jelly—Five pounds of cur- rants and one pint of water, then let it come to a boil: strain it; add one pint of water and let it come to a boil, then add three pounds of sugar, let <ome to a boil; if jellied take off. Baked Clams—Open clams and let the juice drain out, but leave the clam in the shell, make a dressing using the clam juice for wetting, add pepper and minced parsley (do not use salt) put it in the shells, and add a small piece of pork to each clam; bake twenty minutes in a hot oven. When I open the clams I give the shells a twist whigh breaks the hinge and the shells will' stay closed. AZALEA. Tolland County. TO CAN STRING BEANS. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: 1 wasn’t intending to write again for some time. There is a saying: “A wise head makes a still tongue;” but after reading the reports from those who enjoyed themselves so immensely at the real Social Corner picnic, the display of yellow, and the intense in- terest the Bulletin and Editor showed | make a day which will be long re- iembered as one of enjoyment and vicasure; and the written reports om each member were so enjoyable, interesting letters from Glenwood 4 M. Roena, of whom we haven't reard in a long time were fine, Susanne: The way I put down beans: Pick In the mo: and do up the same day, String, break and wash them, flll Into one quart light- jars or two quart jars; shake and # dgwn with a spoon till fllled; teaspoon of salt to one quart Jars yith cold water; be sure to have good rubbers, put on covers with the fastener over them; put down the last fastening snap, put a little coarse hay on the bottom of wash boiler. I think its ten one quart jars I set in a row at one time— put in cold water, say a fngers length or little less from tops of jars. Set on stove and boil good for three down’ the fastning snap and boil slow a few minutes; cet off boiler to cool and then set jars in a cool, dark place. The good point in this way, if not all used they keep! 1 have no trouble. When wanted for use I pour off the water and boil; in preparing one can season to liking with butter or cream, pepper and salt; or boil with a fewslices of pork and potatoes. dozen or two jars dom’t come amiss in the winter. I have some now of 1912 just as nice as right from the vines. Put old towels be- tween jars when boiling. 1 must close. time of night. 1 sign this. Moosup. TO MAKE BAKING POWDER. FRANK. Dear Social Corner Editor and Sis- : Here is a recipe for making ng powder. I hope it will be use- Baking Powder—Eight ounces of bi- carbonate of soda, one ounce tartaric acid, one package high grade corn- starch. Mix this all together and sift thor- oughly five times. Keep closely cov- ered in glass jars or tin boxes. MOUNTAIN LAUREL. Hast Norwich, GERMAN SAUERKRAUT. Social Corner Editor: This is how to cook sauerkraut the German way: Take three quarts from the barrel, wash twice in ecold water, slice five pieces fresh pork, two pounds; lay in kettle, put sauerkraut on top, cover well with cold water, some pepper, no salt, cook slowly. We put warm vine- gar in after done a little, Another way for summer time: Wash and put in kettle, simmer on back of stove about an hour, fry four slices lean salt pork, after you have freshened it a little by placing in spider with cold water and boilin~ up. Throw water away, fry pork crisp, cut in tiny bits, put sauerkraut on top, cover tight, stirring often for half an hour till quite brown. Serve with pork on_top—quick and nice. AEET G Yantic. INTERESTED READER OWNS UP. Editor Social Corner: Ma has called me out again, and certainly has me smiling as broadly as Pa possibly can I am open from ear to ear. convinced that Mrs. Ma is a sleuth for a detective and her description of In- terested Reader is so true that I am afraid some of the others will now identify me. It was foolish of me to have chanced calling, but curiosity to see her chickens (?) will account for that. I am sorry now I had not in- vited Ma and Pa out to an automobile ride—had I thought they mistrusted I would have revealed myself. Ma is too modest by half. Ma need not feel embarrassed be- cause she sent me a rooster flatiron holder, for it is all right. It is all the nd of a rooster I can afford to Keep d I thought it was a model of her black minorca, only the underneath shape appeared to indicate that he was built to set on three dozen eggs. I was thinking of presenting it to some museum, but now I shall have to give it to some confirmed bachelor girl to keep her hand frop blistering on hot irons. 1 felt very grateful for it, and put it among my collection of art works. My sister smiled when she saw it and said nothing—she must have been too kind to open my eyes to my error of judgment. I am glad the ice is broken and that Ma knows me, and she must be pre- pared to take an automobile ride the next time I come that way. I shall no longer be so diffident, for it is up to me now to be frank and true. There is no harm done, anyway. Is not the incognito of the Social Corner its principal charm? there is a Social Corner picnic the fellow who sits in the corner and reads will be the Interested Reader. Do not forget this. INTERESTED READER. | | | | | TIMELY RECIPES FROM JANET. Dear Social Corner ters: Is not this trying weather on the milk? In spite of the fact that we place it im- medtately in the ice chest on receiving |it. we many times find it turnirg sour by tea time. | Do not throw it away, for many ex- cellent dishes can be prevared from it. 1f you have but a pint, place it on the back of the stove until the whey and curd separate, drain through a cheese- squeezing out all the whey, a little butter and salt and ou have it a little cream to moisten, m into small balls between the Ims of the hands and place in ice est to cool thoroughly. Arrange crisp lettuce leaves on dish: on this place vour cheese balls with a few | strips of sweet red peppers, dus !cheese with paprika. and you have a dainty dish that well repays you for your trouble. Sour Milk Graham Gems—One tea cup sour milk, one egg, one-half tea- 8poon soda, one-half teaspoon salt, two | tablespoons of sugar, one and one-half | tablespoons of melted butter; add gra- ham flour sufficient to make a batter | 50 thick that it will not run from tne spoon. Bake in gem pans in a hot oven for 20 minutes. Sour Milk Cookies—One cup butter, two cups sugar, two-thirds cup sour milk, two eggs, one lemon rind and | juice, one teaspoon soda dissolved in | two ‘teaspoons cold water, flour to quart sour buttermilk, one tablespoon sugnr, one level tablespoon salt, three tablespoons of butter, ons teaspeon of 80da and two and_three-fourths quarts of flour, This amount makes three ®ood sized loaves, Weat the butter- milk to the boiling, peint, stir it fre- quently to prevent curdling, Put the sugar'in a large Lowl and peur milk over it. Now gradually sift into the but do not! hours, then raise boiler cover and put| You can’t guess the 1 am | The next time | rour | jthlcken. Roll out and bake in quick | oven. - | Deliclous . Buttermilk Bread—One | wfi;‘me quart fleur, stirring all the e. Beat well, cover and let s over night. In the merning dissol the seda in three tablespoons of water and add to the batter together with salt and melted hutter. Beat thorough- 3, then gradually beat in Yhe remain er of flour, reserving a llttle for kneading: Sprinkle the board with flour, turn the dough upon it. knead well for 10 minutes, divide into three loaves, place in“pans and bake imme- diately. Time about one hour. 8Sour Milk Doughnuts—One cup su- gar, one egg, buiter size of walnut, one cup sour milk, teaspoon soda, nut- ineg, flour to rell out. Fry in deep fa very nice. : A WORD FROM GRACE. Dear Editor and Sisters: I enjoved the reports of the picnic so much. You must all have had a jolly time. It really shows the Social Corner is no farce, but a genuine thing. I worked real hard wll day, the day of the picnic, so not to dwell too much on my disappointment, only I hope nothing will interfere with the next one, Aunt Hester mentioned the Draw- bridge. Our family spends & day there every summer and have for years, One would find it a good two mile walk from the trolley line to the bridge. I know some of the Sisters could never walk that far. Rainbow: I have often found my- self wondering how the different sis- ters look, and where they lived. Sev- eral I have found out, and a nicer looking company, and better house- keepers and home makers I would not ask to meet. Above all they are not hiding their lights under a bushel, but have them on a candlestick where it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Not only in their own house do their light shine but wherever they !go their works do follow them. Do |you ask for better sisters? I don’t. Dear M. Roena: How good to see'a | letter from you. I hope it will be so | you can visit me before long. I will manage to have you meet Aunty No. . { You two will be the best of friemds, | T know. | Welcome back Faye Verna and Glen- wood. Come oftener. Sgall I see you at the fair? Polly Wintergreen: Was sorry not to meet you the other day, but the horse {would not stand still. So there was a truly live man at the picnic. How good of him to come and watch over you all. No doubt Biddy kept watch of him. Ha, ha, Biddy! how goes it? Rlizabeth: Will you please send in your drled apple pie recipe. I am right after all, and am so glad. Keep guess- ing—we will meet some day and laugh over who is who. How many have tried this old, old-fashioned recipe for gingerbread: & Old-Fashioned Gingerbread—One/cup of shortening (butter best), cream to- | gether with two cups of granulated sugar (add the sugar gradually), when |light as possible, add 1 teaspoon of | ginger, 1 cup sweet milk, add gradually |4 _cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of soda | sifted in the flour; all the huckleber- ries you want to put in; bake in drip- ping pan; spread the batter very thin; bake brown in a moderate oven; cut these into 2 squares while hot and take from the pan. We are very fond of them for breakfast. GRACE. i | | Yantic. SUGGESTIONS TO HOUSEKEEPERS Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: { The best meal may be spolled by con- | tusion in serving. Lay wvour table | properly, serve in a quiet and order- |1y manner and you will add much to { the comfort of your family and guests. Individuality may be expressed in | the selection and arrangement of flow- !ers, put the .charm of a table is the | precfsion with which the dishes and |silver are placed. | I am_sending a good general rule | which T hope will prove helpful to housekeepers, or their helpers. Lay a knife and fork for each per- | son, the knife at right side of plant, | sharp edge toward plate, fork at left tines upward, both even with edge of table. Place spoon or spoons at left of fork and on a line with forl, butter plate at left, napkin at right, drink- ing glass at right of knife. In placing plates to correspond with number to be served place exactly op- posite each other if possible. |~ Do not lay plates around table for | dinner, but place in a pile in front of { host. | Place cups and saucers at left of | hostess, sugzar bowl, creamer and cof- {fee pot at right. The same manner of acing should be used for tea or cocoa if served hot. When serving ecold | drinks always substitute glasses for | cups and saucers, The host should serve all substantial | dishes, meat and vegetables: the host- |ess tea, coffee, salad and dessert. WILLIMANTIC. TIMELY RECIPES. Dear Social Corner Iditor and Sis- jters: T am glad you had such a pleas- jant time at South Coventry Lake. T wish I had been there. I had a picnic there once and had a fine time. T am sorr: but I cannot help ihe sister who asked about preparing | smoked halibut. and alse what to do for feather pillows or cushions that | smell ag if they were heated. T am sending in a few recipes { which may be useful this hot weather. Orangeade—Impregnate a few lumps of loaf sugar with the oil of orange by rubbing into them as much as you jcan readily from the rind of four oranges. Roll ag many oranges as you design to use, squeeze the juice, al- lowing eight to one quart of water. Throw the skins into a half pint of water as you squeeze them_ let them stand a short time, press them a little, and add this water to the other juice. The very highest flavored oranges {should be selected; and if not found |sour cnough to impart an agreeable acid, lemon juice mayv be added, with the caution that it must not be used freely enough to impair the distinct flawor of the orange. | The oil should only be sligh {bed from the oranges. Allow about | one-half pound of sugar to the quart | of -orangeade. Grandmother's Sweet Cream Cake— | This is an_ inexpensive and palatable | cake, and the recipe has stood the test of three generations of use. Place in lcup two eggs well beaten, fill it up with sweet cream; add one cup sugar | and one cup of hot water and two cups | flour in which is mixed two heaping teaspoons of baking powder. I‘ T would be ve! glad if the sisters , would Kindly send in a recipe for mak- ing elderberry wine. ;}!x LAUREL. { MOUNT. Bast Norwich, A WORD FROM DIANA. Dear Editor and Corner Sisters: | Your letters have acted as a tonic to | me. In spite of our efforts to make ithis a successful season, failure thus | far has attended us. I think rain has | been more plentiful with you than in | | this vicinity. For about six weeks we had no rain; consequently the berry and pea crop was very light, and in jmany places a total failure. This comes hard on us, for these crops are | our money crops, and it was necessary | for us to do well this year—but so it is. (We are very thankful that rain has| { come at last and everything sesgns to | have renewed life, | Joan: Through the Corner the Edi- tor has told you of his finding the missing coin. = Although he had re- | placed it 1 was glad he sent it for it | pleased me to see how prettily you had i tied it on the card, It was welcomed {and filled up a little niche (procured | some little want), | Biddy:; I am serry you have been sick; received vour card and was glad te know vou had net forgotten me, Theoda: Many thanks for the Corner colors; vou and all may think of me as wearing a bow of yellow ribbon, 1 thank Editer and everyene who | meal. | dle of a has sent me stamps, and alse for in- ulrmf‘ after Sister's health. She is still lame and her lameness inter- feres with her work and causes her to feel mere tired than she etherwise would. 1 am anxloeus to know about the Cor- ner plenic. I was present in thoughts, and you had my best wishes for an enjoyable time. Maybe some day some of you will spend your vacation at some of the many summer resorts in this vicinity. We as citizens of glu‘ little town feel proud of eur beautiful scenery, walks and drives and the various fine beaches and recreation resorts in close proximity fo us. It would take one a long time to explore and Visit the many places of interest. Many of the towns and nearby city ‘contaln many historic spots and for such are interesting. I enjoy the nice looking carriages drawn by sleek looking horses, but I must confess I do not.like the autos on account of the noise and dust; and you would not if you lived as near the street as we do. It is impossible to keep the rooms free from dust if one keeps the windows open. I shall come again some day. glad there are so many of us. 1s room for all and more. . - Brana. Am There New Hempshire. THE CARE OF AND USES OF BREAD, Sisters of the Social Corner: Did you ever realize that the amount of bread wasted, or thrown away, is greater than any other article of food? If you ‘will stop a minute and think I am sure you will agree with me that it is a fact. This is unnecessary and may be prevented by a u]fie carg and fore- thought. Always make bread so good that it can be eaten and relished. Do not bake until the last is nearly gone, and use the old before cutting into the new loaf. Bake often and in quantities pro- portiongd to your family, especially in | hot, damp weather. Cut less than will be used rather than more, or serve from the loaf at the table. If any slices should be left over, wrap them in parafiine paper or put them in a covered dish instead of tossing them into the bread box. If they are not to be used for toast be sure that they are eaten at the next Bread that is sour, or so poor that it cannot be eaten in its first state, is not worth wasting time or other ma- terials over in the endeavor to make it palatable in some other form. Better throw it out at once and be more careful next time. Put all the crumbs made when cut- ting bread and those left on the bread plate, together with broken pieces and any crusts, into a pan and keep it in the hot closet or a moderate oven until thoroughly dried and crisp.. Do not brown them, merely let them dry. Roll and sift the crumbs and put them into a glass jar. These crumbs will not mould, but will smell musty after a time; so use them as soon as possible. These crumbs are nice soaked in milk as a substitute for crackers or bread. They may be used for anything which is to be dipped in egg and crumbs and fried—cutlets, croquettes, fish ete. Dried crumbs absorb a great al of milk, so cannot be used for griddle cakes, bread puddings’ or escalloped dishes. Bread crumbs that have not been dried should be used immediately and are suitable for stuffing meat, fish or poultry, for bread sauce, bread griddle cakes, bread puddings and wherever bread is to be used as a thickening material. Whole slices may be dipped in beaten egg and milk (one egz to one cup and four slices) and browned, in hot butter, and served as egg toast, or with a sweet sauce for dessert. Other slices may be toasted and used as dry, | water, milk, or cream toast; or they may be served as a basis for poached eggs, asparagus, minced meat, fricas- sees, etc. Rolls, biscuit and unbroken slices of stale bread are much improved by steaming. Arrange them in the mid- large covered steamer (one having holes all over the bottom and that fits tightly over a kettle of boiling | water), cover and steam until heated through, about five minutes. Spread each slice with butter, lay them on a napkin and serves at once, or make a white sauce as for toast and pour over the hot bread. Cut stale bread into slices and toast nicely, Serve immediately, dry, or| spread with butter, or dipped in hot ! salted water and then buttered all| over, or dipped in hot milk and butter boiled together, or dipped in hot milk and served with thickened milk or cream made as for white sauce. By using the following recipe no one need fail to have good sweet bread: Good Sweet Bread—Two quarts of flour, one-half cake of Fleischmann’s veast, one tablespoon sugar, one quart of milk (or milk and water) and a tablespoon of butter. If the milk is | scalded let it cool until lukewarm be- fore using. Mix to rather a stiff dough, beat 10 or 15 minutes, dust with flour and set to rise in a warm place over night. The first thing in the morning knead, rise and bake. This will make | three loaves of bread or two loaves | and a pan of rolls or bi: it. GRANDMA. l Norwich. THE HABIT OF READING. Dear_Editor and Social Corner Sis- ters: It seems to me that I have read in the Social Corner letters and articles on every other subject under the sun except on reading. Surely in the large number of sis- ters there must be some who are as fond of books as I am, although per- haps T am unusually 50, as I can't re- member the time when I didn’t devour everything that came In my way that was at all appropriate for children or young people, and perhaps a good deal that was not; but “all was fish that came to my net” and reading matter was not as plenty and as easily ob- tained as it is now; and T am afraid that the young foll of today do not appreciate their privileges in this age of many libraries, and when maga- zines and books from the great pub- lishing houses arrive at our doors so easily by the many and frequent mails. Years ago the arrival of the weekly paper was an event. Nobody in coun- try towns thought of taking a daily newspaper and it wouldn’t have been of much use to them, as the news would have been two or three days old before they ever got it, aad even now in some remote places the box for the rural delivery is placed at some distance from the houses and not always visited every day, and as I know well it isn’t easy for everyone to visit a library, although I have driven from three to five miles sometimes to one, | and in bad weather and traveling at | that; and all towns don’t have them, although I think they are few—at least I hope So: and when it has been more convenient to go toone in an adjoining town than to the one where I lived I went to that. I have been very thankful many times that I was born with a love for reading, for it has passed off a great many sick and weary and lonely hours that otherwise would have hung heavily on my hands. Many a tedious and wakeful hour have I begulled with the calm and peaceful stories of Rosa Nonchette Carey, or traveled in jm- agination through stretches of Eng- lish and Scoteh country as depicted Th Willlam Black's ;Strange Adven- tures of a Phaeton, or followed the canals of Hngland in his Strange Ad- ventures of a Houseboat, and 8o vivid are his descriptions of scenery that we can shut eur eyes and see it all like a picture befora us, Queeehy, Bay and Seal, and Wide, ‘Wide Worid, were friends of my child- heed and girlheod days and I love them yet, Nebody knews or eares much about any of these boeks now; and to be sure, in the rush and Lustle and hustle of the present day they | anxious boy have no part and if they a publie library at all you will find them tucked away In a far eorner, there be- ing ne call for them; but they are sweet and restful and if a trifle over- drawn, as some claim, and the char- acters too perfect for any human be- ing, that is a fault on the good side. Josiah Allen’'s Wife is ever popular, as with her beloved “partmer” by her side she goes on “pleasure ons” here and there—and if the truth was told many pleasure excursions are more an exertion and a weariness than a pleasure: and who that has read ‘Will Carleton's poems hasn’t smiled over Elder Lamb’s Denation Party, where “all things unappreclated found that night theif true vocation in_that museum of relics kaown as Elder Lamb’s Donatlon.” | Not 50 many years ago a donation party used to be the way of helping pay a country minister's salary, -when the parish gathered together and/gave him all the things they aidn't want themselyes, and that he didn’'t want either, but had to accept with such grace as he could. Then they ate up most of the eatables they had brought him, and went home feeling well and happy in their minds that they had done” a benevolent deed, and at the same time got rid of a lot of stuff that was in their way and of no use to them; and why they should imagine anyone ‘else would want it either is more than could ever be told, any more than we can tell why our an- cestors always saved up and stored away every old and worn out thing, and filled the attlcs, and storerooms and cubby-holes full of them to stum- Dble over and gather cobwebs and dust. They always said “Dort throw it away, it may come in handy some time.” It mever did come in handy and no one ever really expected it would; but the old New England habit of sav_ ing everything was strong. Perhaps now we go too far the other way and throw away too much—the pendulum swings from one extreme to the other and many of us being limited for house room couldn’t stow away all the cast offs and discarded treasures if we wanted to, 5o that gets us out of the habit. o those of the sisters who are rooting cuttings and transplanting seedlings, I would say that I have found an’ ideal soil in an old sawdust bed, which has_decaved for several years, till it is black and spongy. It dries, out quickly and needs attention and watering often, especially in the open air, but I haven't lost a slip or plant set in it yet and they are grow- ing in a very short time; fine chip dirt is also very good. Slips and seed- lings need a loose, light soil that the tender roots can penetrate. I have started a hundred little gloximias started from seed last spring nearly Jarge enough to transplant into pots, and any number of musk plants in bloom also raised from seed. IOLA. Lebanon. TESTED RECIPES. Dear Social Corner Editor and Sis. ters: Here are a few tested recipes: Penuchi—Three cups of brown sugar, one half cup milk, and butter half the size of a hen's egg. Stir togeth- er in pan or spider and boil. When syrup makes a soft ball between your thumb and finger it has cooked enough. Remove from fire and add a teaspoon of vanilla (if desired). Stir till creamy around edge of spider, then add chopped nuts. Empty into buttered pan, and leave to cool. This is a very fine candy for receptions or parties. Chocolats Fudge: Two cups granu- lated sugar, one half cup of milk, a piece of butter, three teaspoons of cocoa. Cooked the same as penuchi. (If vanilla fudge is desired, use one teaspoon of vanilla.) This is all for this time. A SPRING CHICKEN. WHY PAPA’S BOY DIDN'T GO TO THE PICNIC. Dear Editor and Social Corner Ones: Though a long time I have been ab- sent from the Corner I have been one to read Saturday’s pa- | per. How I should have enjoyed being at the picnic at South Coventry lake, but my auto_was hired for another way. Polly Peppermint: Did you go to the picnic? Saw your little sketch in the paper Saturday and read it. Merry Farmer's Boy: Our haying is done, So let's go to South Coventry lake to see what it is like. Let me know before hand so my auto won't be busy. . Cherisette: The water was lovely Monday and Saturday. Thought ot you many a time, as 1 skidded the deep waters. My gerden seems to “Come with the hoe.” Good bye all. Lebanon. be calling: PAPA’S BOY. A LOVER OF FLOWERS. Dear Editor and Soclal Cornerites: I have read with much interest the letters on gardens and gardening. I have dozens of perennials, over a hundred rose bushes, many hardy bulbs and some shrubbery. This was my first year growing gladiolous and I planted 100. When the first giant childsi opened 1 was amazed. Flowers as large over as a cup; and on stalks four feet high. I grow several kinds of annuals from seeds. The garden begins bloom in March with arabis, and I have blossoms till freezing weather. The teas and hybrid teas bloom till they freeze solid at night. I do all my own gardening, and I have plenty of fun fighting insects and weeds. I grow a good many roses from slips. I grow flowers in quantities of each variety rather than a few of one kind and another. I like to read about the success the cornerites have with flowers. The letter about gloxinias was fine. 1 have grown them and stheptocarpus, cinerarfa and_calceolaria. These last are a flower I have never seen excepé in my own home. They require a warm, dry air. Lucy Acorn and Sunbeam: Thank you for kindly welcome. The dis- tractions are as plentiful as ever. When I go fishing I am never able to get even a pumpkin seed. I fish up a fat old turtle or a slimy eel. 1 can’t catch fish. Did_any of you ever try to catch a pig? We had seven little ones in a pen next to thejr mother's one sum- mer, and one day while all the men were away at work they got back home and found out their mother didn’t like them any more. I went in after them with confidence and a beanpole. They played ring-around- the-rosy with their mother and me till she was going to eat us, so chased one into a corner and scooping him up in a pail turned "him out into his own pen. But I had forgotten his entrance hole. He came out at once and I took him by his curly tail which promised well for a grip. But the kinks in 2 pig’s tail are not permanent. I had to pour feed in the trough for them to busy themselves with, and then they lay down, and when the men came they put them back. I was berrying a short time since and “sicked” the dog on what I thought was a woodchuck under a bush. Tt was a skunk and I haven't forgotten him, yet. TERTIUM INID. THE ATTRACTIONS IN THE CITY OF HOMES, Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis- ters; We have been having a little shower, It has helped some, but we need a good steady rain, The garden looks well in spite of the dry spell, The longer I stay here the better T enjoy it. There is one thing 1 no tice, one 1§ net respected for th p The zoo, the exhibit comprises over 20 species of an- imals, and there are 130 specimens; the great new attraction is a pair of African lions. They are beau _ The plaza in front of the B s lovely spot. At the right are the pheasant pens where can be seen six varieties and forty specimens. Be- yond is the greenhouse, restaurant, the bear pit, and wading pool,. At the left are the prairfe dogs, foxes, eagles, and there is a large ostrich. They have a couple of pens of rabbits, There is a large athletic fleld. where sports of all kinds can be enjoyed. There s a playground for the chil- dren. A merry-go-round, tables and benches for picnic holders (an ideal spot for Social Corner members). The drive through the lake region is great. The natural stream is allowed to Tun in its course and blue for-get- me-nots bob back and forth and are v.fi attractive, e Pecousie brook and Barney es- tate on the Connecticut river at the southerly entrance to Springfield is beautiful. There are 15 miles _ of drives and walks in this park. 'The skating pond on Meadow drive in the lake region is lovely. In the deer pasteur there can be seen thirty speciments, most of them bred here. They are €0 pretty. Adjoining can be seen the elk and buffalo. There are many little gray squirrels running around. These are qufte tame. There are tennis courts and roque grounds and these are lit up until 10 P. m. every evening. There are sanitary drinking fountains and I have seen more than one get a good face wetting. The lily ponds are beautiful. The lilles were in full bloom when 1 drove through. There are rustic seats everywhere, I trust you will find this interesting. The beauties of the park my pen can- not fully portray. Rose of New England I thank you for letting me be at the wedding. 1 feel so thankful to Aunty that she made it possible for me to add a Tow | of tatting to the wedding gown. Calla Lily: Next time you visit the city take a Walnut Street car, get off at Orange street. 1 will be there with my yellow bow. / Ma: Just a little bit of ambition aboard. Love to all. SISTER READY, CROCHET WORK. Editor Social Corner: How many nice letters, useful recipes and helps we are having from week to week. I am sending a few directions for crochet ‘work, ag I am interested in this handy catch-up work. I crocheted covers for some large glass buttons for my white jacket that I think are pretty. I used 3-4 inch Sitka ivory rings, over these I cro- cheted 100 single crochet stitches, join to the first stitch. 2d round—*Chain 6, skip 7, single crochet into next st, repeat from * until you have 15 loops, join. 3d round—*5 chain, join in 4th stitch of loop, repeat from * 3 times around and draw over button. The pretty glass button shows through the ring. I also covered a large top hatpin the same way. Another More Solid—Chain 3, join into a ring, 12 single crochet into ring, continne working around In single crochet, increasing as' often as neces- sary to keep work flat, a little bead can Dbe added to the center if you lke. Crocheted Wheel for Yoke—It can be used as medallions or to fill in between larger wheels. Chain 5, join. 1st— Chain 1, 1 2doubles in ring, join with a single in first double. 2d—Chain 1, 2 doubles in each double of last round, join. 3d—I double in first double, * ch 4, 1 double in last stitch of 4 ch from needle and 1 in same stitch of wheel that the chain started from, miss 1, 1 double in next stitch, repeat from * around the wheel, forming 12 picots in all; join to 1st double. This com- pletes a wheel. Join succeeding wheels by 2 consecutive picots, ar- ranging to fit any desired pattern. AUNTY. Echo Glen. A SERVICEABLE FLOOR PAINT. Dear Editor and Friends: It is a long time since I have written, but I have been quietly sitting in The Corner en- joying the letters and stories every week. I have been pleased to be of some service to the Social Corner do- ings, and T thank the writers for the mention of me. The stories are all so interesting. It was pleasing to know about the real picnic, and I am glad it turned out so good. Someone inquired about a durable paint for floors quite a while ago and I was waiting to hear what others had to say about it. but did not see any answer, so I will say someone I know used deck paint such as is used on the decks of boais. and it worked all right. At this season we can have Creamed Cabbage—Boil cabbage two hours, or till tender, in salted water. Drain, mince the cabbage and add a cup of milk; when hot, thicken with a little flour wet with cold milk; add pepper and butter. Kohl rabi and on- ions mey be served the same way. Where is Clara of Canterbury? is some time since she wrote; Etta Barber. Best wishes. FERN. DOMESTIC HELPS. Dear Editor of the Social Corner: T send a table for cooking of vegetables: It also Asparagus, 20 to 25 minutes; beans (string), 1 to 2 hours; beets (new), 3-4 to 1 hour; beets (old). 4 to 6 hours: beet greens, 1 hour or more; brussel sprout, 15 to 20 minutes: cab- bage, 1-2 to 1 1-2 hours; carrots, 1 hour or more: caulifiower, 20 to 30 minutes: celery, 2 hours: corn, 10 to 20 minutes; macaroni, 20 to 30 mis utes: onions, 3-4 to 2 hours; parsnips, 1-2 to 3-4 hours; peas, 1-2 to 1 hou potatoes (white). 20 to 30 minute: potatoes (sweet), to 25 minute rice, 20 to 30 minutes; squash, 30 to 45 minutes; spinach, 15 to 20 min- utes; tomatoes (Stewed) 10 to 20 min- utes; turnips, 30 to 46 minutes. Blackberry Jam Cake—One cup su- gar, two eggs, one and one-half tea- spoons baking powder, one-half tea- spoon clove, three-fourths cup butter, one and one-half cups flour, three ta- blespoons cream. one teaspoon cinna- mon, one cup blackberry jam. Bake in layers, using blackberry jam as fill- ing. Maple Sugar Cake—Two cups maple | sugar, one cup sour milk, one-half cup butter, two egss, one teaspoon soda. Stir as stiff as possible with flour be- | cause the sugar dissolves. Bake in a loaf. ELLA OF CANTERBURY. TOOTHSOME CAKE. Dear Social Corner Sisters: with I send a few recipes: Date Cake—One and a half cups of brown sugar, one and a fourth cups butter, two eggs, one-half cup milk, one and three-fourths cups flour, three Jevel teaspoons baking powder, one- half level teaspoon cinnamon, one-half level teaspoon nutmeg, one-half pound Dromedary dates, chopped. €ream but- ter and sugar, add the, well beaten eggs; sift the baking powder, cinna- mon and nutmeg with the flour and add alternately with the milk; beat all tegether for three minutes and add Here- the floured dates, Bake 35 to 40 min- utes in a moderate even, Date Bread—White bread dough, one | Sarsap nut and fig flling ing teaspoon flour, ange julce, grated e aparilla Acts directly and peculiarly on the blood; purifies, enriches and revitalizes-it; and in this way builds up the whole sys- tem. Tzke it. Get it today. In 1 liquid form or in chocolate coated tablets called Sarsatab= cup Dromedary dates, two tablespoons sugar, one large spoon butter. dates, cut in halves, add sugar and butter and work into the dough. Put in pan, let rise and bake in slow oven. It may be served hot or Pit the cold and makes excellent sandwiches with a Fruit Turnovers—One cup Drome- dary dates, one cup sugar, ome-heap- one tablespoon or- ted rind and juice of one lemon. Beat until the sugar is dis- solved. Roll rich pie crust thin, cut in four-inch squares, put a tablespoon of the mixture on one half, turn the other half over, press the edges tight and bake In a modérate oven. These may be varied by using one cup chop- ped Dromedary raisins and one-half cup Dromedary currants in place of the dates. VELVET. Plainfield. BULLETIN'S PATTERN SERVICE 9669-—9655 AN TP-TO-DATE AND 1 POPULAR SUIT MODEL. Ladies’ Blouse Coat 9669 and Ladles Skirt 9655 are hers combined. Blu volle with facings of green saun are used. The coat fronts are crossed and the closing is at the left side. The skirt has a shaped front, with planted insert. The back shows a group of tucked plaits. The coat pattern is cut in five sizes—84, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inch- es, bust measure. The skirt in five sizes—23, 24, 26, 28 and 30 inches, walst measure. It requires seven yards of 44-inch material for a medium size This illustration calls for TWO sep- arate patterns, which will be mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents for EACH pattern In silver or stamps. Order through The Bulletin Company, Pattern Dept., Norwich, Conn. HUSBAND TIRED OF SEEING HER SUFFER Procured Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, which made His Wife a Well Woman. Middletown, Pa.—“‘I had headache, backache and such awful bearing down peins that I could not be on my feet at times and I had organic inflammation so badly that I was not able to do my work. 1 could not get a good meal for my hus- band and one child. My neighbors said they thought my suffering was terrible. ““My husband got tired of seeing me suffer and one night went to the drug store and got me a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham’s. Vegetable Compound and told me I must take it. I can’t tell you all T suffered and I can’t tell you all that your medicine has done for me. I was greatly benefited from the first and it has made me a well woman. I can do all my housework and even helped some of my friends as well." I think it is & wonderful help to all suffering women. 1 have got several to take it after see- ing what it has done for me.’”’—Mrs. EmMA ESPENSHADE, 219 East Main St., Middletown, Pa. The Pinkham record is a proud and hon- orable one. It is a record of constant victory over the obstinate ills of woman —ills that deal out despair. Itisanes- tablished fact that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has restored health to thousands of such suffering women. Why don’t you try it if you need such a medicine? If you want special advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confl- dential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence. WE SERVE THE BEST ICE CREAM N THE CITY you tried it? If not drop in and try an order of any of the following flavor Neapolitan Vanilla Maple-Nut Strawherry Cherry-Bisque Pistachio or Chooolate THE WAUREGAN HOUSE The Parker-Davenport Co.