Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 23, 1913, Page 14

OTHER PEOPLE’S FACTS ARE STUBBORN : THINGS EVERY WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY. 7 \ The Bulletin wants good home letters, good business letters: good help- fo? letters of apy kind the mind may suggest. They should be in hand by Sedmesday of each week. Write on but oze side of the paper. ‘Address, SOCIAL CORNER, SDITOR, Bulletin Ofiice, Norwich, Conn. THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: Award made the last Saturday in each B SOCIAL CORNER POEM. Angels. In the old days God sent his angels oft To men in thrashing floors, to wom- en pressed With daily tasks; they came to tent and croft And whispered words of blessing and of rest. Not mine to guess what shape those s wore, Nor tell what voice they spoke, nor, with what grace They brought the dear love down that evermore % Makes lowliest souls its best abiding place. But in these days I know my angels well; They brush my the common way: They take my hand and very softly tell Some bit of comfort in the waning day. garments on ARd though their angei names I do not ken, Though in their faces human love I T "hey are God-given to this world ot men, God sent to bless it in its hours o1 need. ©Child, mothers, dearest wife, brave hearts that take The rough and bitter cross, nd help us bear #ts heavy weight when strength is like to break, God bless you all, our angels un- aware! argaret E. Sangster. The Best Game. “I's easy to cry that you're beaten— | and die; It's easy to crawfish and crawl; But to fight and to fight when hope's ot of sight— ‘Why, that is the best game of them all” ANSWERS AND INQUIRIES, BLANCHECard received and for- warded as ordered. READY—Cards receicved and mail- ed as you directed. ENID—Card received and Aunty, as you desired. ELIZABETH—Card mailed to Aunty No. 1 MAINE LOVER—Yog cards receiv- ed and mailed as you ®ished. GRACE—Cards and letter received | and forwarded to destination. SPRING CHICKEN—Your cards re- ceived aid sent to destination. CHATTERBOX—Seven _cards re- ceived and mailed as you directed. GOLDENROD—Please send in your full address. A card awaits you. THE MINISTER'S DAUGHTER— Card recefved and mailed as you di- rected. C AUNTY NO. 1—Your nice story was sent to received and received too late for this week. Will appear next week. BALSAM FIR — Card received. Thanks. Not a July bird—first looked out on a snowy landscape. BLANCHE—Hope some one w'fll“ @uess your next birthday and send in the date, so you can have a card shower. They are “pleasant to take!” A_SOCIAL CORNER TENT—The Bulletin will have headquarters for the Social Sorner writers at the New Lon- don county fair, where agreeable cour- tesies will be extended to all members who call S8OCIAL CORNER COLORS—Since chrysanthemum yellow is not definite emough, will those who originated the éolor please say whether it means lem- on yellow, orange vellow or bronze yellow, for the chrysanthemum comes in all these colors. A medley of yel- lows is not as good as a positive coler. Please define our yellow. THE ADVANTAGE OF A LITTLE COUNTRY HOME. To the Editor of the Social Corner: 1 have never written to the Social Cor- ner, but thinking of this back to the land movement thought I would write & few suggestions to prospective farm buyers, 5o someone might benefit from my experience. The country is a good place to live — 8Suffered Eczema Fifty Well, Seems a long tims to endure the awful burning, itchinz, smarting, skin- disease known as ‘“tetter—another name for Eczema. Seems good to realize, alse, that Dr. Hobson's icze- ma Ointment has prevea a perfect el . Yoare—Now ure, Mrs, D. L, Kenney writes:—“T ean not sufficiently express my thanks to you for your Dr, Hobson's Eczema Ointment.” 1t has cured my tetter, which bas troubled me for over fifty years” All druggists or by mail, 5oc. Thé Lee & Osgood Co. PFEIFFER CHEMICAL CO. St. Louis, Mo. Philadelphia, Pa. Mothers! Have Your Children Worms. Are they feverish, restiess, nerveus, frritable, dizzy or constipated? Do they countinually pick their nese or their teeth? Have they cramp- g:“ irregular and ravensus ap- 7 ese are all signs of worms. ‘orms not omly eause your children suffering, but stunt its mind and growth, Give “Kickapoo Worm Killer” I3 It kifls and removes the % -“i.provu your child’'s etite, stomach, liver and bowels. . oms disappear and your $2.50 to first; $1.50 10 second; $1.00 to third. month. L —_—— if you are worried on account of the high cost of living and your income is hardly sufficient to make both ends meet. I have provided a family of two with food outside of what a small farm has_produced for an outlay of $42 since Jan. 1st to Aug. 1st, 7 months and that (included Jamp “stove, too. - Lwould not advise going too far back from the depot or town as it is a dreary existence after a time, and too much work to get anywhere. Try and locate on or near a main road. The best proposition I know of is within a five cent, fare on trolley line, or near it, to a-city where the head of the family ‘can earn his salary; and where you can have a small farm that will keep one or two cows, a pig and say one hundred hens, and a good garden. This will provide a pretty good living for an-ordinary family. 1 should be sure my water supply was ample and convenient and drainage good so it would be healthy.” If you have wood on the place so much the better. It does not take very long to get ber- ries started and a few fruit trees, if they are not on the place when you buy, and all those things are healthful to eat and help out on the living ex- penses, It is an uphill job to live if you get too far back and are depending en- tirely on the farm. There are many outgoes ‘and not much coming _in. Sometimes when buying I should buy at_the lowest possibie figure, one nead uever be afraid of beating down, for if vou are buying through a real es- tate agency they are gettifg a good thing about every time. By careful selection as to location and price and using good judgment, one. can secure a farm at a reasonable figure and the man who buys today is making no mistake, for land values are bound to increase. The rise of real estate will pay good Interest on your investment every time, besides helping to give you a good living and a chance to save if you are so in- clined; and wherever you are it is well to remember a penny laid by for a rainy day should be a motto for every man, woman or family. LORBETTA. BOOKS WORTH READING. Dear Editor and Sisters: I agree with Iola, books are indeed the best of companions. In these days they may always be on hand when most needed. They may be chosen to suit individual tastes so that a lover of books may have congenial companions under any circumstances. As there are all kinds of people, S0 there are all kinds of books—humor for the fun-loving, travel for the trav- eller, essays for the serious and fiction for all. Nor is all fiction to be scorned as some seem to think. On the contrary there are a great many writers of good fiction; some who write simply to entertain, but many who write with a purpose. Sometimes it is to depict the life of a certain person or place with a view, perhaps, to reform it; sometimes it is to emphasize certain moral truths which the writer con- siders important and which he feels he can impress upon the minds of more people in this way than in any other. For this reason Harold Bell Wright, author of The Winning of Barbara Worth, and other books, gave up preaching. A book which inspires one to be bet- ter, more kind and loving, more gen- tle, more forgiving, is a good book. A book which does net leave one a better man or woman with higher ambitlons and mnobler impulses is not worth wasting one's time over. As a’child the Dinsmore books, The Wide, Wide World and Queechy were very fascinating. Later, omen, the Lamplighter, and ) Wiggins® books were great favorites and T rec- ommend them to any voung girl today. Mrs. Whitney's and Mrs. Burnham’s books might also he included. Recently 1 have been much interested in The Wind Before the Dawn, by Dell H. Munger. It is a sort of Uncle Tom's Cabin for women. I am inter- ésted to know how many sisters have read it. 1f vou haven't, try to get it and read it aloud to your husbands. It _will do them good and You too. Yours for good luck I, ELIZABETH'S APPLE FRITTERS. Dear Social Corner Friends: I will stop work just long enough this warm day to send my regrets to Pezze Ann. Should” have enjoved attending your lawn party, but the week was full: hope some time to meet more of the Sisters. Aunty gave me a pleasant surpri how rapidly we talked. Am lool forward to another call, Aunty, whe g n vou can stop longer. My dahlias are not blooming quite so freely owing to the dry, hot weath- er. but hope to have more later. Sister Grace: 1 am_not mistaken in my second guess. You are correct in the initials and vour is K. We have spent pieasant hours together. Through the Social Corner we are renewing old acquaintance. Here iz a recipe for Apple Fritters—One-half cup flour, one teaspoon. haking powder, milk, 1 egg well beaten. salt, cut in small pieces: drop by spoonfu into deep, hot lard: when cooked drai ‘on paper, sprinkle with sugar and serve hot. ELIZABETH. OUTING AT LAKESIDE HOME. b = \ Dear Social Corner Friends: The fit has come over me, and so I will write you, Have been very busy since I wrote you last, but enjoying all the good news on The Corner page. Haye moved, for we were burned out where we were llying, and bave a much nicer place now, Have had company. like everybody elss, Went to the Lakeside house and stayed a few days, and, talk about fun, well, 1 wished eve member as well as reader of the Social Corner could have been there; hut de you know the ber- ries are all dried and burned up on the bushes for the lack of rain, It is such a beautiful ride from this place te the farm, We went with a team, as a twe-seater for twe or thres days oaly costs 32, and there was our | erep ef hay in the barn—I leaye it to 4 light and oil for! s k him te the lake and 1 ha,x‘f. 1f. After he had and stoed in water as long as he cared to he would then come eut en a white, sandy beach roll, showing his ap- preciation of his part of the outing. There were four of us—the man of the house and my son and his wife from New Haven and myself. We cer- tainly had the time of our lives. I ate blueberries until they rolled out my meouth; the raspberries were not all gone by, and huckleberries, too, were quite plenty. Kept table set all the time and some one of us was eating most of the time. Every time any of us went into_the house our stomachs were empty. Had the use of boat all day for thank you, and never had to lock doors, as there is nobody to trouble things. Percie and wife went fisliing, but the sun was shining very warm, so they never got a bite. We went in bathing and 1 wore & yeilow cap and when I ‘went to the house I forgot and left that on the shore; later after a lunch we went boating again and I hung the same yellow cap on the bow of the boat and sang “Only a Vision of Home, Sweet Home,” and “Mother, Down on the Farm.” . I tell you that was living. A lady brought us cucumbers and a gentleman gave us string beans and we could hardly wait until they were done, they smelled so good. I don’t believe there Was & member of The &grmer I did not think of. 1 was glad to hegr from Sister M. Roena again. I know just how glad she must feel to get back to Connecti- cut again; but not for mine.. The Pine Tree State for me. Some of the Sisters write how plain- ly they can see my new home from my description. I know the Editor would lose ten years of life could he enjoy what 1 expect to in the near future. Go back ten years and be a boy once more, Well, we had our photos taken in and out of water, on the veranda, and a number of different ways. Potlatch and Maine Lover have cele- brated their birthdays this week, 15 and 16. I would have sent you cards, but was so busy. Now I will close with best wishes to all. BALSAM FIR. HOW THE MINISTER"S DAUGHTER WILL DRESS. Hello, Central! Give me the Social Corner, please. On account of my be- ing so very far from either, boat, train or trolley care service, the privilege of attending both the picnic at Coventry Lake and at the lawn party of Peggy Ann’s has been denied me, but I think of you all often, and really envied those who had the privilege of attend- ing those pleagmgt Social Corner gath- erings. B! It was very kind of The Bulletin to do so much toward making the picnic at_Coventry Lake a success. It seems to me that & good time and place for a real Social Corner reunion would be at the New London county fair, where so many of the sisters g0 every year. We will look for Crimson Rambler in_her blue suit and yellow ribbons. 1 expect to be there the middle day, and will be dressed in white and wear a yellow ribbon. Brown Beauty: I am going to try your recipe for marshmallows when I have time, for I dearly love candy and ice cream. X When I go away on my vacation it will be part of the contract that ice cream be served at least three times a day. With best wishes to all, and hoping some time to meet the editor and sis- ters of the Social Corner. THE MINISTER'S DAUGHTER. REUBEN’S WANTS THE SHADE OF YELLOW. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: I think we must decide just what shade that ribbon is to be, as we will go to the fair and half the fun will be find- ing out “who is who.” I want to thank Mountain Laurel for the recipes. 1 am going to try them, eyery one. : Crimson Rambler: My mixed family is young, about six weeks old. 1 see you are to wear blue at the fair, so if 1 see a blue and crimson combination 1 shall know “who is who.” Where is Florilla of Moosup? I thought she went to Rocky Point re- cently and rode on the Rockies. How about it? Own up. g 1 think Etta Barber must be making herself a new dress for the fair. She is so quiet. Look out and don’t get it too narrow, as I know you approve of them. Eliza Jane: My two year old daugh- ter tried peroxide on my colored apron and it took the color all out—it will |remove almost any stain from white | gooas. Reuben will soon be in to supper, so will_say goodby till fair time, when I shall wear a yellow bow. REUBEN'S WIFE. Moosup. A Glue for Mounting Plants. Dear Editor and Siste A little chat with leave good old Norwich. Crimson Rambler, no I am not pick- ing huckleberries, but1 am picking up every single thing in the house and packing it ready for a move—have sold our house. Was glad to see your name a prize winner. This is not my sister, and I don't live near the county home, vou will have to guess again, thanks for post- als. Ready: You beat me, I can't read the paper without glasses. In fact T wear them all the time. What a fine time you are having. Ready, little did 1 think when I had so much to say about vour wood-box, would be my fate to have one: but T am go- ing to have the genuine article, Blanche—So vou have been pick- ing_blackberries out of your garden. Nothing nicer in my estimation than blackberry jelly. Ulue for Mounting Ferns—for a fine glue with which to mount ferns and | sea-weeds will be of interest to those made collections of beauti- specimehs from woods, and sea- side during summer. Five parts gum arabic three parts white sugar, two | parts of starch to this a little water is |added, and the whole is bofled until { white 'and thick. u all before I LUCY ACORN. CAKE RECIPES. Dear Social Cornerites One and All: Thought 1 would write this week, as T haven't written in a long time, but have enjoyed reading the many help- ful letters sent in, and also enjoved reading about your picnic at Coventry lake—wish I had been there, too. I didn’'t know about it. Diana: I received your postal, but have been so busy I haven't had time to_answer it—will write you soon. J. E .T.: Have you been huckleberry- ing this year? I have. Got 33 quarts done up. Am going to do up some Pears soon, as mine are ripe .now. Jim: 1 shall try vour salmon cakes as I am very fond of it. T will send in my new Cake Recipe— Two squares of chocolate, yolks of two eggs, one-half cup milk: put this on the stove and cook until it thickens; one cup sugar, two large {ablespoons of butter creamed fogether; then add one-half cup of milk, one teaspoon of soda dissolved in one tablespoon of boiling water, one cup of flour; bake in layers, -using the whites for the trosting, . | Spenge Cake—Four eggs, yolks whites gach beaten separate, one and cup sugar, one-half cup petate flour, one teaspoen baking powder. 1 think this is very. nice, i N¥IOLET. The day always comes when we are asked the why of things, and it came unexpectedly to Mrs. Anna Atwell when her little daughter Lily came running inte the house on her eleventh birthday | to ask why she had been namey “Lily.” Mrs, Atwell was surprised, and ex- | claimed: “Why, Lily, how came you to think of such a thing as that?’ Lily said she had been in the gar- den, and when she saw the tiger lilies growing in the border it popped into her head that she was named for a flower, and not a single girl of her ac- quain! was; and it seemed s0 strange {o her that she thought she should like to igaow how it ever eould have happened. . “My child,” said Mrs. Atwell, “have you never known a child named Rose? “Oh, yes,” replied Lily, “there is Rege Roland who belongs in the next clase to mine at school.” “And from Rose came Rosalie,” said Mrs. Atwell, “and they are two pretty names. I named you Lily because the Lily is my favorite flower, so pure and sweet and fragrant; and it has been calied ‘a royal flower’ because those who study plants claim to have dis- covered the Lily has mno poor rela- tions.” “That seems nice,” said Lily, “and 1 am glad I asked you.” “It is also a Bible flow: ind is there referred to. The lily of the fields and the lily of the valley are spoken of. The Saviour on one occasion said: ‘See the lilies of the field, they work not, neither do they spin, yet Solomon in all his glory was not urrayed like one of these.” Thus pointing out the pow- er of God to adorn his creatures; and, also, that beauty is of God, not man. “I did not know there could be so mlllch to a flower as that,” remarked Lily. 'he beautiful white lily which prompted me to name you after it stands for purity in,the floral language cf the world: and I hoped when I gave you the name that my little maid might ever be as pure and sweet as her name,” continued Mrs. Atwell. ‘“Perhaps I can be, if I try real hard,” said Lily. “And the lily of the valley with its little bell-shaped flowers, hung in a pavilon of tender green, has been called ‘Ladder to Heaven,' because through it it used to be thought the angels brought back to the human soul happiness. Around the lilies, child, cluster tender memories,” “And how came you much about them, Ma?’ “I have studied them and loved them and they have had such a charm over me that I would have borne the name myself if I could. The lilies in floral language seem to stand for every good quality—for majesty, purity, sweet- ness and gaiety—in appearance they are slim and delicate, in form and col- or they are beautiful. The poets write of them as being as ‘fair as the angels’ and as ‘pure as the snow.'” “But wouldn't you like to have a flower named for you?” inquired Ldly. “There are lilles which bear the name of Washington, St, Bruno and Victeria, | the Queen of England, whose name fits the greatest water lily that grows, with lily leaves so large upon the water that to know so : o By Ruth. a man may stand upon them without fear of their sinking. “Flowers, also, have been named for people. 1 dln net think swmv;lyl“m { Bouncing Betsy, or ® or Jobnny Jump-up add anything. inter- esting te a flower.” < ] flewers have such names as those?” asked Lily in surprise. “Oh, yes, my daughter, there is a Hoopskirt narcissys, and there is a beautiful white buttercup that is pop- n “The Maids ularly know: as St “What else are flowers named for?” asked Lily, eager to-know more upen this interesting subject. “They are named for almost every- thing under the sun, my child, replied Mrs. Atwell, “and some of the names are pretty and some are not. The ray- ed daisies are named after the stars, and poetically referred to as stars of earth; and flowers are named after in- sects and birds and beasts and rep- tiles and rocks. There is the butterfly weed, bee-balm and flea bane; the cuckoo flower, ‘crane’s bill and pigeon berry; the tiger lily, the horsetail and leopard bane: the snakeroot and toad- flax, and rock-pinks and rock-jasmine and rock-candytuft. There are water flowers, earth flowers and air flowers. There is a never endi pleasure in a knowledge of flowers: flowers, Ma 7’ “Only those who love! flowers can grow and describe them properly. They have been called by great writers ‘Love’s truest language,’ ‘Smiles of God's goodness,” ‘God’s thoughts of beauty, jewels,” “Voiceless preachers'—each cup a pulpit and each leaf a book.” Tt is real mice to be named after a fine flower, such as the lily?” “It is if we know how much the name means, and we try to make a name as pure. A poet tells us— “The stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.” Then Lily ran out to play and Mrs. Atwell resumed her work, but she could not help thinking of the garden which inspired her with love of flowers in Her youth; or the play on the grass and the little teas at sundown, or the blessed mother who used to repeat to her Miss Henshaw's beautiful little poem: “Baby, what do the blossoms sa¥, Down in the garden walk? T can hear them talk! They say, ‘Oh, darling baby bright, We're going to sleep! goodnight, good- night! The gentie breezes have come to sing How God takes care of everything.’” Mrs. Atwell was aroused from her reverie when Lily came in to tell her that she had been thinking about what she had told her, and that she was going to try to be a real good girl and grow up to be a good woman like mamma! And Mrs. Atwell felt the tears run- ning down her cheeks when she re- plied: “Say grandma, please.” WHY SWEET LAVENDER HASN'T WRITTEN. Dear Editor and Sisters: It has been such a long time since I have written to any of you. I have not forgotten you by any means, and know you will pardon me when I tell you that since the 1st of April we have moved three times up to the 1st of July with goods about ruined, little unbroken furniture, a lost pet cat, a sick ‘“better half” and the hot weather I have had my hands full, indeed. It seems like beginning life all over again. About six weeks ago we came where we are now; within that time my hubby has had a severe operation and is gaining some now.~ Our pet cat jumped from his basket off the moving van within 8 miles of here. We have tried,all ways to find him—have not given up yet. Now Sisters, aren't you going to forgive me for not writing? I want to thank you all in remember. | ing me in the nice pleasant stories; also those that have been -inquiring for me. I am glad Aunty had good luck with the date pife. WI1ll send in some more ple recipes soon. 1 am going to do better now in writing you, as I am settled in a cute new built cottage on | a farm of the summer home of a very wealthy family. They have their win- ter home in Boston. I am making jellies now, have en- Jjoyed myself picking and canning blue- berries, also huckleberries; have about 15 glasses of blaékberry jell which T think is our favorite; and 12 glasses ; of apple jell. ‘Was so glad to hear from Faye Ver- na, Glenwoed and dear M. Roena was glad to read from your pen. I am expecting a visit from a friend in Ohio next month. I thought of you the day of the picnic. How I should have liked to have been among you; but was like Sister Ready in the state of Massachusetts. I must close and get busy as I'm to make “rocks” and do ironing before dinner. If any of you want a nice re- cipe for “rocks” just let me know. SWEET LAVENDER. A SOCIIAL CORNERTJIEET AT THE| FAIR. Dear Tditor and Sisters of the Soctal Corner: This would be an ideal sum- mer morning if only we could have the much needed rain. That little word “only” bling block in our lives. our happiness! The sunshine that brightens our ev- eryday life is chiefly of our own mak- | ing, and the joys we miss as we jour- | mey through this life we could have for | the simple taking. Judging from the number of absent letters in the Social Corner last week, | some of the sisters are off on fheir | vacation. Mine is passirg swiftly away. | 1 can scarcely relalize that I have spent the week in Conmnecticut. They haye been happy weeks spent with loved ones. i I have been wishing and hoping that | we might have a Social Corner picnic | in “our corner” of the world before I| leave Connecticut. I know it is hard | to arrange one to suit ail. How would Gardner Lake, or even Norwich. at the county fair, do?| Would that be a convenient place to meet? We might then have the happy | privilege of having the editor and his | wife with us. Wouldn't that be jolly? | What do you say? I am yours for a good time. OENA., is a stum- How it mars.| Colchester. THORNLESS BLACKBERRY. Dear Corner Folks: Have just re- ceived a letter from a nursery com- pany., They have the thornless black- Derry: not entirely free, but compared to_other varietles quita thornless. Joseph Doa would be just the one to tell us the best month to set fhem out, If I was going to move many mliles away from Norwich on a farm, as I know_one of the Corner Sistery will soon o, 1 should murely g6t some of those bushes and have them near my home, When she gets settled, or be- fore, hope to get a series of latters telling us all about the new heme and ceuntry life, | Success to ail. PN £33 £ 8ISTER READY CAN'T KEEP STILL. Dear Editor and Soclal Corner Sis- ters: It is quite impossible for me to keep quiet since reading the Social Corner letters this week. From start fo finish I found the letters Interest- ng. I have been pleased with the reports of those that attended the picaic. (Three cheers for Biddy!’ and the rea- sons others could not attend. The Social Corner has done more good than anyone can imagine. For every week someone voluntarily testi- fles to the goodness and help received from the letters. The testimonials from week to week are guarantee enough to warrant the Corner guccess. It is such a pleasure to have this per- sonal correspondence. The enjoyment derived from it is worth the price of the paper in my estimation. Diana: Your story was fine! tertaining angels unawares. Ma: Am sorry the chickens have not been such a success this year. I trust it was not blamed to the Sodial Cor- ner gathering at your home May 1ist. O. H. O. That is right, show your colors. T never would pass by a yel- low bow without speaking. L. H. K.: The postals of the muni- cipal bullding are fine. I have been En- through one-half of the building. Am j glad you are well. Theoda: Am glad you have told us when it ig Aunty’s birthday. I trust she has a large shower of cards. Reuben’s Wife: This is a lovely city. Perhaps yvou have resided here. No one can be lonesome here. Too many things of interest. Peggy Anne: I trust you will have a pleasant time at the Jawn party. Was so glad to read a letter from you. Re- member me to Cherisette and Papa's Boy when vou see them. Joan: Your letter was very interest- ing. Write often. Brown Beauty's autotruck ride was great. Have seen an autotruck party several times since 1 lived here. One can go from Court square to Riverside park for a quarter in a taxicab. Can go down on the steamer Syivia for ten cents and on the trollsy for five cents. Riverside park has all the up-to-date attractions. Aunt Mehitable: Am very sorry it was a_headache that kept you away from the picnic. A headache Is so hard to get under control. Best wishes from SISTER RBADY. POLLY PEPPERMINT CHATS S0- CIALLY. Dear Editor and Friends: Vacation time™is nearly over for some of us, so I will take the time to write once more before I am in the work for an- other year. The articles on Reading by Diana and Iola were most interesting to me. Truly, what could we do without books! Yes, Papa’s Boy, I really did go to the Social Corder picnic. How does the automobile work this year? Patty Emerald: I wonder if you are sitting out on the lawn tonight while Patty Emerald the second entertains you with delightful piano music? How is Paderewski? Does the warm weath- er call for dips in firewater as of yore? Thank you, Biddy, for the card. I trust we may meet again in the near future. Do you attend camp meet- ing? Too bad, Peggy Annme, that I was out of town oh the anniversary day. X. Z.: Where are you? Don’t you ever come to this part of the town any more? Do you go cross lots up to the woody playhouse nowadays? Enid: Have you returned from the West Indies? "I would indeed enjoy seeing and knowing more of the bird- lite of Havana. I did enfoy watching the return of the songsters this sprink, Polly Wintergreen: Hope to meet you agaln when<hyisit in your home town, Aunty Ne, 1: Do you go to camp? Bhall wateh out for you, Yes, KEliza Jane, Tl hunt yeu next time I travel south of Ilgve thought of it many times. Many thanks to the friends who have nllowed me to figure in the Cor- ner storfes, It is pleasant to be re- membered. Best of wishes for each and all, POLLY PEPPERMINT. up here. “What else can you tell me about|- Baitor and Soctal & ters: are a few tested and hefpfui hints which I would like to share with the Sisf of the Cormer. ‘The first two have proved very When many others have failed. Rheumatic Liniment— best aleohol Tm_%; :g musted. Mix well. Rub in thoreughly. parts borax. Mix together well. Take a level teaspoonful of mixture to nearly a cup of luke warm water and use in nasal douche each morming. Can be used for a gargle. ¥ Amanda Smith's Beet Root Tea for Cough—(To allay irritation) Put two Ted beets in 4" Baucepan and boil them till done, using the water in which they are beiled A Cotton Jacket can be made by ‘basting two layers of cotton wool in- si an undershirt. Oil silk is basted on the outside to prevemt evaporation of the moisture exhaled from the skin. Carbolized Oil—Add to two ®wunces pure olive oil 1-2 drachm of pure car- bolic acid, (or 1-2 teaspoonful.) A few drinks for the sick room. Apple Water—Slice a half dozen sour red apples into an earthen pitcher; add a tablespoon of over all a quart of b " closely stand till cold; then add ‘enl:i_on juice and sugar to taste. Serve col Orange Juice—Take a sweet juicy orange, cut into and squeeze out ail the juice with a lemon squeezer; strain or leave some of the pulp in as pre- ferred. Set on the ice until thoroughly chilled, then serve in a thin glass, crys- tal clear; set on a little china plate with a small doily between glass and plate. Grapefruit is refreshing served in the same way, adding, if desired, a little sugar and a teaspoonful of sherry. Tamarind Water—Mix preserved tamarinds with boiling water, cover and stand aside for half an hour. Strain, sweeten to taste and chill. Pinsapple Eggnog—Beat an egg slightly with a silver fork, add three tablespoons pineapple juice freshly ex- pressed, a little sugar and as much water as is needed to fill the glass. Strain and chill. Barley Water—Barley water is both refreshing and wholesome. Put a scant quarter of a cup of barley into an earthen bowl and cover with two quarts boiling water. When cold strain, smeliten, add lemon juice to taste amd cl Rice Water—Two tablespoonfuls rice add one pint cold water and cook one hour, or until rice is tender. Strain and ditute with boiling water ,or hot milk, to desired consistency. Season with salt. Note: Sugar may be added if desired, and cinnamon if allowed may be cooked in and will assist in reducing a laxative condition. Qatmeal Water—One tablespoonful oatmeal, one of cold water, a speck of salt, one guart boiling water. Mix oatmeal and cold water and stir all into the boiling water. Boil three hours, strain through fine sieve, as cheesecloth, serve cold. Sufficient water should always be added to make drink almost as thin as water. Toast Water—One cup stale bread crumbled and toasted, one cup boiling water, galt, cut bread in thin slices and m one inch squares. Dry thoroughly, measure and break into crumbs; add the water and let it stand one hour; strain, season and serve hot or cold. The nourishment of the bread is eas- ily absorbed in this way and valuable in cases of fever or extreme nausea. Milk, or cream and sugar may be add- ed. Beef Tea with Oatmeal—Mix ome teaspoon of well cooked oatmeal with two tablespoons of boiling water. Aad one cup of strong beef tea, and bring to the boiling point. Salt and pepper to taste. Serve with toast or crack- ers. Rice may be used instead of the oatmeal. Beef Tea and Extracts. The best pieces for beef tea are the round and rump, as they contain the most and best flavored juices. Beef Essence—Mince finely one pound of lean juicy beef from which all fat has been removed, put into a wide mouthed bottle or fruit jar. Cork tightly. Set the jar in a kettle of cold water over a slow fire and let it boil for three hours. Strain and season with salt and red pepper. Beof Juice—Select a piece of meat from the rump or upper part of the round. Broil or warm slightly one or two minutes, to set free the juices. Then squeeze out the juice by means of a press, lemon squeezer or potato ricer, into a slightly warmed cup; salt if necessary and serve at once. Pre- pare only enough to serve as it does not keep well. Serve In dainty china cup to disguise color. Beef Essence—Put one half pound steak through a meat chopper, put into fruit jar with one tablespoon cold wa- ter. Place jar in kettle of cold water. Heat gradually. Keep just below boil- ing point for two hours, Strain and press the meat to obtain the juice; salt. Note: A small piece raw beef broiled slightly, cut up and added to above, gives a better flavor. Beef es- sence given ice coid is often grateful to a fever patient. Raw Meat Diet—Scrape pulp from a good steak, season to taste, spread on thir slices of bread, sear bread slightly and Berve as a sandwich. Scraped Beef—Cut a piece of ten- der beefsteak half an inch thick Lay it on a meat board and with a sharp knife scrape off the soft part until there is nothing left but the tough, stringy fibres. Season this pulp with salt and pepper. If allowed, make it into little flat, round cakes, half an inch thick and broil them two min- {utes. Served on rounds of buttered toast. HOPEFUL. A BACHELOR GIRL'S HOME PICNIC Dear Social Corner Sisters: to tell you all about a picn attended I wgnt L which of a recent evening, which was under large trees in our back vard 'and suggested make-believe Wwoods. The picnickers were just a lot f old maids and some young maids too, all near neighbors, and the ma- jority being wage-earners, felt we could not spend the time or money for a days' outing and so we decided to pic- | nic at home. A table was carried out, covered with Japanese napkins and the menu consisted of crackers, cheese, pickles, bread and butter, creamed po- tatoes and cocoa. The affair was very simple, but everything tasted so good eaten out-of-doors in the sweet eve- ning air; and our enjoyment was un- diminished when we discovered twink- ling eyes belonging to some small boys glued to the knotholes in the fence and some invidious remarks about “an old maids’ hen party.” When at our invitation the owners of the eyes scrambled over the fence and partook ot the simple fare with us, our pleas- ure was complete, for there is no pic- nic quite perfect unless enlivened by children, Papa's Boy, of Sacial Cyrner Fame: I don't mee muny letiers from vou lately in the Corner. | hope you are net stek, But you ean easily tell when a boy is 11, If he's drowsy and keeping still; Bu!l ('}xe' Corner would be—God bless his neise, > A dull eld pluce If there ware ne Pa's Boys, A BACHELOR GIRL. 'fm&hnstnngm. )} orange and three pints of water. Let it stand three hours, then strain it upen three-quarters of a pound of powdered sugar and stir until dissolved. Serve an hour. If you want semething novel:in the pickle line, try salty, put in a colander and pour cold ‘water through them. Pilace in jars and cover with boiling vinegar seasomed with pepper, a liitle hruised ginger, a bay leaf and enough sugar to take off the extreme acid of the vinegar. When the pickles are colfy put in jers and MOUNTAIN LAURHEL, East Norwich, N. Y. tie down. GOLDENROD’S WEE ONES, Dear Cornerites: Just a line to greet you all. Aunty No 1: It was a.bit fox goldenrod the day of the picnic, but if your hirthday is the 1Sth of this month you may think of me enjoying mine, too, as it comes on the same ‘Gate. 1 am just 28 and have two dear wee ones, and they are the joy and puszle of my life. Weill enough said. 1 must away, but before I go I will send in & nice recipe for -Apple Sponge Cake—Place two-thirds cup sugal, two teaspecns baking pow der, quarter teaspoon salt, two cups flour in mixing bowl and add three beaten eggs and one-baldf cup milk, :I’:vofln; and three large apples sliced n I hear my wee ones having trouble From 80 good luck to all GOLDENROD. AN AIR FLIGHT. Dear Social Corner Sisters: One morning very eazly, before the dewr was off the flowers, I flew off my perch went out in the garden for worms, for you know it time; also, I thought I. few fiies and maybe some food ‘which the cook ance in a while out the night I crept slyly through the long grass, for I didn’t want anyome to see me, as they never +in the garden, haired, g ?gia i threw down on that flower, from the ground. roots and all, opping as fast as ot spring enes). When they saw what I hiia they caekled and orowed and fought just as hard as they oeuld to get it away from me. But, oh, ne| spring ehickens are stronger than others, se it was no use, 1 flew upon a post ano there i perch- ed for an hour or so. Finally a hawk which was saamg over me flew down and caught me in his talons and took me (where do you suppose?) why, to Peggy Anne's lawn party, of course! and he dropped me right’at her door, by I still had my beloved flower. T All the Sisters, when thay saw me, ran to greet me and wexg@@rprised to ‘see my flower. “Now 1 wonder,” exclalmed Pegey Anne, “who this can be?” All’ the Seclal Carner Sisters and Editor were puszled. but finally one of them sald: “Why, Amalea, of course!” “Certainly,” remarked L “T. picked her up an the way. Wasn't T lueky?” N e bing her eves, D awake, “but mext tme I'd rather ride on ths train, instead of an old Eawk” and I sald the same. A SPRING CHICKEN. Tolland County. AUNT NANCY'S WHIPPED CREAM DESSERTS. Dear Social Corner Sisters: Here @irections far making a few Cream Desserts. are so and light that they are ideal for weather eating. If you have pla a whipped cream dessert and cannot get the cream there are se substi- tutes that you ean nse in its place, A Thin cu'ha.r'td m?y bemx:hsflm i any desserts for cream. h‘;akfl: Lg,e custard of half a pint mill beaten with the yolks of two it over the fire in a double boiler ane stir it constantly until it is thick creamy. Cool it and use im ‘whipped cream. L her Substitute is made from w:i:.e“ of egs-beat it well until it is | stiff, then remove the beater-and slow- 1y pour over the egg a very little. hot water. This cooks the egg a little and makes it look much like the cream. Charlotte Russe is one of the easiest whipped cream desserts to make, Line tall stemmed sherbet glasses with halved lady fingers, then whip the cream, sweeten lightly and add a little vanilla. Pile a couple of tablespoons of it in each glass. J g ¥ you want to vary the dish. sprinkle over the eream a few chopped -nuts. Ancther Easily Made Dessert—RBeat a pint of eream and four ounces of [ powdered sugar with the grated rind of thwee lemons und the julee of ene until they are thiek. let this cream stand ¥4 heurs, then draln and, serve, It is an edd dessert but very nioce, Falry Cream—Seak an aunce of gel- atine in & wine glgss of mawmschine, When (he golatine is thovewghly dis- selved dip sectious of lusclous poaches inte it and with thewm line a meuld, When (hey are safely fasténed to the meuld whip two cups af zma.~“d the remainder of the gelatine and the juiee of one-hali lemen which « has been beiled for five minutes with a teaspesn of sugar. Then chill, Serve this eream immediats ¥ { AUNT -NANCY,