Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 16, 1914, Page 14

EVERY WOMAN'S OPPORTUNITY. Bulletin wants good home letters, good iv-nn-‘letuu;rmi of any-kind the mind may suggest. They shuuld be’in Wedresday of each week, Write on but one side of the paper. Addresa, SOCIAL CORNER, ZDITOR, Bulletiy Otfice, Norwloh, Conn. i THREE PRIZES MONTHL 2 = $2.5C to aret; $1.63 to secopa. $1.00 to thlrd. Award made the last Saturday in each montk. ~ Nearer Home, ——— @OCIAL CORNER POEM. / "©@%er the hills the sun is setting, And Blowly drops the gentle twilight, For another day is gone; ‘We are one day nearer homs. i Ome day nearer sings the mariner, * As he glides the waters o'er, While thé light is softly dving On his distant native shore, Thus we feel when o'er life's desert and sandal sore we roam, St ‘tis sweet to know at even’ We are one day nearer home, [Nearer home; ves, one day nearer To our Father's home on high, To the green fields and the fountains, To the land beyond the sky. For the heavens grow brighter o’er us And the lamps hang in the dome, And our tents are pitched still closer, _ For we're one day nearer home. AUNT not have such ad MEHITABLE Letter re- eefved and mailed to Dreamer. CRIMSON RAMBLER—C: ‘ards strictly confidantial. ANSWERS AND INQUIRIES, HULDY—Cards recelved and for- ‘warded. AUNTY NO, 1—Card received and meafled as you directed, JIM: Card received and mailed to writer named. MA: Cards received to thelr destination; SIXPENCBE—Cards ceived and malled as you directed. ‘Thanka for card. SILVER AUNT MEHTTABLE—Cards - DOOLITTLE—Card ceived and mailed as you directed. BLANT and sent to their destination, also the let- Cards received also the letter. eeived and sent to their destinatich. THE WAY WE DO. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: The know how checks many of the frets of life and I am pleased to con- tribute a few for Social Corner read- ers: Small scraps of bread can be toasted in a cornpopper, A galvanized tub should be cleaned with gasolene or keroseno and then scrubbed with hot water and soap, To remove coffee stains, stretch the napkin or the tablecloth over a basin and pour hot water through the cloth. Stained floorboards can be cleaned by scrubbing with chloride of lime, using a tablespoonful to a pail of wa- ter. 1f you drop grease on the kitchen floor, scatter soda on it and then pour boiling water. out easily. = A good Kkitchen table and large, The spots will come should be strong recipe books, pad and pencil for or- ders, etc. To destroy cockroaches, cut up green cucumbers at night and put them about where the Toaches are trouble- some. Lay hot pancakes on soft paper in | front of the oven if you wish to be | sure of their being absolutely free from grease. If chocolate is to be served with sandwiches, it should be made an hour beforehand and allowed to in _the double boiler. stand Pull bread is the latest thing to use with soup or bouillon. at home by cutting off the outside of a stale Vienna loaf. pieces, any size desired. Brown these It can be made Pull the bread to in a Eioderate oven until crisp and flaky. Brush your home-made bread with a plece of paper dipped in hot butter if you like thecrust soft. ——— Coughed for Three Years. “I am a lover of your godsend to humanity and science. Dr. King’s New Discovery, cured my cough of three years' standing,” says Jennie Flemming of New Dover, O Have you any annoying cough? Is i stubborn and won’t yield to treatment” Get a 50c bottle of Dr. King’s New Your medicine, Discovery today. What it did for Jen- nie Flemming it will do for you, no matter how stubborn or chronic a cough may be. stops throat and lung trouble. It stops a cough and or money back. 50c and $1, at your druggist. Bucklen's Arnica Salve for pimples. ——— Indigestion? Can’t Eat? No Appetite? A ent of Electric Bitters in- our appetite; stops indiges- tion; you can eat everything. A real stomach troubles. Cleans; liver, kidney and system and you feel fine. Eiectric Bit- ters did more for Mr. T. D. Peeble's stomach troubles than any medicine he ever.tried. Get a bottle toda; and $1 at your druggist. Bucklen's Arnica Salve for eczema. e ———— DR C. R. CHAMBERLAIN Y. 8Qc . Dental Surgeon 1n charge of Dr. 8. L. Geer's practice during his last illness, -McGrory Building. Norwich, Conn, _ ORDER IT NOW Ropkins & ver Co’'s Light Dinner Aly 3, ro- ceived and forwarded as you requested. TO INQUIRER—There is nothing eompulsory about sending in full ad- @ress. If cards or letters are -sent they remain in Editor's hands if we do ., which are Te- and forwarded re- with drawers for Hot water hio, Relief eS8 your whole | is also excellent to give a shine to the top of the loaf, Always sweep your room in the ‘di- rection the wind blows, This will help | Friends: the current of air through the room |ure to greet you. to carry out the dust instead of blow- ing it Dack, * HANNAH WHO. | GREETINGS FROM MERRY FARM- ER. Dear -Editor and Social Cornerites: lAs the nice spring weather is coming I must get busy and do my planting. But thought I would write a few lines while T have the time. Ialsam Bud: Have you called up toll line 55-2 lately? I will come and mi;ke ."‘;):"n.l{isit soon, - now! : Received your card. Mam: thanks. Will return-it soon. 5 Maple Leaf: Yes, I am busy plow- Would like to -exchange cards with You if you wish, Wiggle: Where are ‘Why haven't you written to The Corner. Suppose you are all throu, plowing. How is your incubator coming along. __Crimson Rambler: You think my initial is either A. or J. Perhaps it is: but T won't tell you for sure. Guess again and see if you can find me out. Papa’s Boy: Suppose you are all hrough farming. If vou are you have got ahead of me. Bad time for autos. Biddy: You must be very ‘busy scl\"!;tchigg this weather. Ma: Suppose you are taking care of chickens. I haven't any as Yit, but will have soon. Must close and get to work. With best wishes to all Social Corner read- ers from you” MERRY MER. Norwlgh. TR BEST WAYS TO SERVE BEETS. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: New beets will soon be due and va- rious ways of serving them may mnot come amiss to young housekeepers: Cream of Beet Soup is as ubusual as it is_delicious.. To make it, chop well-cooked beets fine and simmer a cupful of them in a pint of mutton ;Stock for fifteeri minutes. Then rub them through a sieve. Mix two tea- spoonfuls of flour with two of butter and add to the mutton stock and beet puree. _Heat thoroughly, stirring con- stantly,"and add to a pint of hot milk. Season with salt and pepper and serve A Delicious Relish is made of equal parts of grated horseradish. prepared Vi Vvinegar and choppe i Fiteoxihees: pped boiled beets, Small Whole Beets or slic. larger bests can be used to garnicn salads and cold meat dishes. They must, however, be used somewhat swp;ringl_\'. A little beet goes a long Small beet dice arranged neatly about a mold of veal a.spig, for in{ stance, are good. A Good Beet Salad Is Th beets and remove thé tops. Allow one b.eet for’ each person to be served. Stand them on white lettuce leaves and hollow out the centres with a sil- ver spoon. Chop the whites of hard boiled eggs and crumble the polks. Mix the chopped whites. cold boiled or canned peas and mayonnaise to- gether and fill the hollow beets. Gar- nish with the crumbled yolks, = JANE. TWO NEW RECIPES. Dear Sisters of the Soclal C, 2 Those who like something new in the \ay of nourishing food may find some- ng 001 JOm: i thing_ e in the following Cornmeal Fishballs—Two cu; i en) s, one ep, org ke ‘eddgd codfish, one tablespoon but- ter. Pick over the codfish and soak it o remove salt, if necessary. Combine the ingredients and drop by spoonfuls into hot fat. Drain on porpus paper. These codfish balls compar® very fa- ,‘;?:::"y ind taste with those made with 0 and are more : 5 yotato und easily and quick. Philadelphia Scrapple — Take fiv. pounds of fresh Dok (a Smil frove shoulder is nice for this purpose). cover with water, add one handful of salt and boil until the meat separates from the bone; remove the meat from the kettle, strain the liquor and return to the }'ektle. Then add enough water to make about {wo and one-half quarts. To thic add one chopped onion and a little sage, If desired, then stir in enough cornmeal to make a mush that will’ slice- when cold. Vkhen the meal has been stitred in hdve the meat, chopped not too fine, put in the kettle, and boil all together for one hour or more, being careful not to scorch. When thorguehly done. turn out in'a square pan and when cold cut into slices and fry. These are wholesome dishes. - CORDELIA. CARE OF THE HAIR. Social £orner Sisters: hair is important and something eve: woman should be well versed in, : Boil e | hair needs frequent shampooin; vit !wxuer and soap. Some ha.lrgs‘t‘zu‘: clean with a monthly shampoo. Dry shampoos agree with other kinds of hair—a shampoo accomplished by ru: bing orris root into the hair and brush- ing it thoroughly out. The brush must always be kept clean. One authority says that if a clean brush is used e ery dayg-that is to say, if a woman has two' brushes and uses a clean one every day, cleaning them on alter- g::llth days—the hair will remain keep all hair healthy. ageable, invest something in a sys- soft and bright and _easy to manage. Sprinkling orris powder on thé hair and then thoroughly brushing it out constitutes a dry shampoo: but this cannot accomplish what-the egg sham- Poo or the shampoo of pure soap and hot water can. Where thick dandruff covers &calp. a little extra atfention is need- ed. This means.the rubbing and mas Care of the | The hair must be kept clean, Some ! saging of the scalp with vaseline or Partiols of ‘the sohy. tie water, ¢ y remaining ‘which dries on the scalp is hot—eggs can ‘well as inside the shell. In drying the hair, seek the fresh ;ylunlhtne if the weather is air ane Smers S -, really sluicing the fatal to It this is ting in front of a radiator, a fire or steam heat. CORN. Dear Social Corner HOW TO GROW AND CURE POP- Editor Once more-it is my pleas-| . a roaring And then shake Keziah Doolittle I am sorry if you} thought I did not appreciate the wood-| en spoon for I certainly did and the, inscription on the handle of my Social Corner ffiends. I many of! also was | much pleased with your well written | letter of the Dream. It was well done; was glad to learn liked Mrs. R. D.s cakes. kindly give it on a joyi Jolly party Plainfield tended an oyster supper and here, and on_their return took cake along for lunch? Aunt Abby: Did you say | party -could be held at your home the coming summer. If you do ing. But haven't planted my oats yet. | Well I know the sisters will take hold and help you all they can, brothers can be worked in to vantage. Crimson Rambler: liked the rat story. mind the good times days come back to us ceive cards from our reminds me of an old we are young there is Lassie: when which yvou say you have sown. for horses are sown, oats and oats but pop corn must be planted over four kernels to the hill $ 1-2 feet wide three fertilizer to each hill should the corn is two feet high. in the fall cut and put in shocks of 20 to 30 hills. ing. before popping. for popping the second year. House cleaning is at it's for his collar button, shirts Corner Sisters to hear you angel without wings. How the sisters smile when cowslips for dinner. key is for one and all. Sterling. Dear Social Corner Sisters: have a scowl on his face, or wi without openin Glenwood: Where are you? you survived that awful day. Elizabeth; Glad you wret Hettie Mar: It was my last week; this year, Brown Beaut £relnted. Do Here is a which is very nice: I think we ou? times one and one-half cups ine poyvder. one tablespoon of melted bu the same auantity of der. | tablespoon of lemon juice and in a double boiler; an orange, one teaspoon of bu heaping tablespoons of sugar yolk of an egg. Wil close now. for another galiop when my ne s taken down. ¢+ THE SOCIAL CORNER P lovel, more, and today ging overhead. E. T. - You really I could not help but you wrote about i and favor you with to my card. don’t you There are Iots who motion, I know. I will for one Married and . Happ, Have serted? punished for desertion. | You come back again to our mi |7 JAK: regard to the Social Corner pi {one, and, as you say, have | enough to be recognized at a 1 tance. narrow and some wide. be fine, for all would be alike. with a blue monogram of (Bulletin Social Corner) or blue ground with monogram. Snowball: Just as the Why «on’ maple leaves. Maple Leaf: Come up and maple leaves. and begin to giye shade al Merry Farm lost your way, or are you stil furrow ? ‘Wil you | just a little clue, was e one evening with a Was glad you| How fresh to our | of our young| friends, which saying. ‘“When lot's of fun.” A word about pop corn itween the hills—a handful of keep the weeds out by hoelng until ‘When ripe ‘When well cured in October it is ready for husk- The corn should be well dried It is. much bDetter and if you have a man who can lars, and put up the stove pipe with; out saying words not fit for the Social I must take up any more space as the latch| RURAL DELIVERY. A NICE ORANGE CAKE. come again. and guess Mr. Editor will | my letter in the waste basket this time heard from you for a long time. You have been absent quite a while. but I haven't seen very many in companison Wwith yours. must te again. Pe; Ann: How is little Miss Peg- gv? 1 hope I can see you both again rhclpe for an orane cake| Orange Cake — -Sift together four I want to be ready | I remain your faithful horse, BLACK BEAUTY. Dear Social Corner Friends: What weather we are having once the little birds are Your letter received and very much pleased at the con- | ‘write_very ‘Tinny.” 1 If so, you know you can be Why don't| {a pin made round or yellow enamel would _be ! Hope to hear more from members in regard to this question, I know 4 great many in favor of it. - Air baths keep Some hair in |y Wiggle: Where arf thou? Why don't g00d condition, and, of course, help to | you et busy and mail some cards? 1l ‘members Massage does wonders for any hair, | $hought, when the warm days would It yours is thin and stiff and unman- | arrive, that you would melt and fade away. You keep in the tematic course of.treatment in mas. |Shade, where it isn't so warm? Come sage, The hair wil shortly become |UP and I will give you a seat under the They are fully opened ready. : I fear you must have fine and | that you | who at. o a cream the lawn | not feel | and the good ad- we re- wind with not | in rows feet be- good be used, standing hejght nt and col-| have an you say not | Here 1| ill throw | T hope | Haven't { e again. birthday You must be | of flour and one and one-half teaspoons of bak- | Beat well two eggs, add | one cub of sugar, one-half cup of milk, | tter and | orange juice; | then"the sifted figur and baking pow- | Bake in a square, shallow tin.! ‘When, cooked, split oven and fill with | a cream made as follows: Into a cup squeeze the juice of one orange, add a hot wa- | ter to fill the cup; put this on to cookl thicken with one tablespoon of cornstarch wet with cold water, and add the grated rind of half | teer, two | and the w saddle ICNIC. amus- laugh at a call a little later, when I receive an answer | Wh set the {ball to rolling about those pictures?| ill second the! e. you de- | fdst? | I for one agree with you In| n. Think | ™Y | each member would be pleased to have | it large | ittle dis- | By such an emblem we might | ! recognize one another when we meet. { In revard to the vellow ribbon worn at the fair, some light, some dark some A pin_would | I think 8. C. yellow see our ! 1 in the ‘We are just as busy as we can be. Hustle soas to be able to go the {to the Social Corner picnic that is bovked for Aug. 15.) T will stop now to give others a ihance. _ CRIMSON, RAM ém‘ multifl for the honeysuckle—growing "and blooming their ned as for ms, and Live ‘walks: the tender grapes trellises gave forth a goodly smell. I had no. play-fellows, but May weather birds, on the 23 it was mid- bees and butter- flies roamed and basked with me in was fragrance and sunligh! twelve years old! I knew the modations ‘who loved to ¢ loiter lazily len alleys. no objection to a country girl that it ‘ered by a shaded the pig pens. Miss Betsey Crump's pigs lived bet- ter—the gossips said—than some of human neighbors. living water ran through the inclosure which was littered down with clean straw every day. her haps, section overlooked by my all stretched out in sloth after the momgorge. proportionate blossom ends. trunk. 1 was deep in the interesting chapters when I heard yoices Aunt Betsey, sunbonnet on the back of her neck was Mx, Jeemes Cocke, planter and widower, was staring side- Both leaned on the top scaning the pigs. ways at her. then ey-basket rail of the sty. He was a tall, loose jointed, slab- sided man of sixty, and still wore a wisp of rusty crape on his left arm b‘—-l.ndA I There were, twenty sturdy swine in nde, and the accom- certain sprawling apple tree -for a climber even. better than to It was A stream of per- the reading digestivi The tree was hung thick with apples, no big- ger than green silk buttons with dls- I pelted the dozing animals with these for a few minutes, by their impertudbality, book and settled down satisfiedly in a curving crotch, my back against the discouraged reopened beneath me. on arm, cat” y Ugh-h thought so. In a twinkling of an eye she had drawn back to give her arms more power and had slapped him on both tallowy cheeks. “Take that, and that, ness!“ she spluttered, as he reeled, his eyes bulging. “When'll I set the wed- for your sassi- ? When Jeemes river runs up ! And I've years for this!” To my horror an into a shower of tears. While I sat, trembling ang conscience stricken, on my perch, ashamed that T had seen her weep, the slow great ding day? @ill and the Almighty puts brains into neads where they don’t grow naturally. ‘When you get to have common sence an’ I get to be a raring, charging, out and out ripsnorter of a bdrn fool! Go ‘long home an’ stop to look in the graveyard to see if the teeny crop of wit you buried with your wife has sprouted yet. Wedding day! A-a-ch- The confounded wooer retreated with more alacrity than I had imagined him capable of, scrambling over fences in a bee-line for home, never once look- ing behind him. Aunt Betsey sat down at the root of tres, quivering with agitation. she sald aloud, any more that no man ever looked at me like he wanted “I can't say marry me. waited fifty-one & dismay, she burst and a dusty band on his hat. His|drops that seemed to heave ‘up her jaw dropped when he was silent and { camé up as if on stiff hinges when hel hyster! He had @ stub nose a nar- his ” in Tlow spoke. row forehead and lantern jaws; hair was like “hem’s nest grass. color and dryness, and his green eyes had an uncomfortable trick of rolling wp under the upper lids in v the most unexpected manner, as if cord had siipped from a pulley wheel He had inherited a below. large plantation and many negroes from his father: his family was good. his dis- position amiable and his wits all to loose ends, when he was at his best: My aunt discoursed volubly the points of her famous and he seemed to hearken, the end of a red bandanna handker- chief he had taken from his hat. Pres- ently she turned so abruptly orbs disappeared into cover. “Maybe you don't care much for the new breed o'pigs?” said she sus- piciousl; Well, 1 don’t take so much interest| in ’em as I mought in some other sub- | jectks,” Tejoined Jeemes, stuffing the y. bandanna to the far corner on it for punctuation points. upon Berkshires chewing upon him’ that the pupils of his lack-luster of his| mouth, and dealing intermittent bites | “I find | it mighty hard for to fix my intelleck on_most things, no day: He sighed ponderously and a big Berkshire, unclosing one eye, respond- ed sympathetically, so exactly in the —seems if—" | same key that I gigeled inwardly. ou're b incisively. Followed by salts-senna, jalap. ““Tain’t changed the bandanna to end of the thin-lipped mouth. want of congeniality, that's what "tis! | And sympath: I go down to the ter- ious! bilousness!™ the said_Aunt Betsey ‘Calomel's what you need. or maybe, Jeemes | other | T baker fiel early in the morning. Plenty of terbaker, onions, and a | few wriggles, making blieve pull ’em | off, but not a bit o' sympathy. to the stables and pat the horses and No eongenlality thar! T go to the pastur 'n count the cows ’n sheep 'n lambs 'n.try to furget my troubles the calves. feed the dogs. in rearin congeinalty thar!” point. danna and meandered on. “Thar's whar you make your mis- No more in the chicken-yard. Though O will say I've got as fine a lot o' poultry 's I ever see. Seventy! oung turkeys 'n twice o’ many chick-+ ens, 'n forty young Muscovies, to say take! nothing o' puddleducks— perserverance. Nothin' o' Miss Betsey! strikes, you? ‘twill strike 2 Of course 'twill, you looney didn't suppose ‘twould strike his flatby hold. He grabbed that had clutched the key fancied with it. “O Betsey Crump, can’t you onder- W’y it come to me {at 1 o'clock last night, when I herrd You're one by your- self in your house, 'n I'm one by my- | Why can’t us two | hitch horses—be made one—j'ined in | ‘Blest be the tie that | bin’s, the hymn book says. It's "cordin’ to Scripter, you know. stan’ my feelin's? my_clock strike. self in ‘my house. heart 'n in han'? have me, you'll have me!” Never in my life, have T seen such another €ountenance as was bent upon Her nostrils dilated and she literally gnashed her teeth upon insensitive the gnawed bandanna around in his hand to find an unbitten corner, and grinning sheepishly. “I—have—you! the suitor. the out, noddle? on!” speech. I have—you! in the fjss Betsey? impulse ~ man, “You ought to raise geese! might help some.” Jeemes held on his way with ominous feebly at the fingers N “I should think there would be!™ Aunt Betsey struck in dryly at this i i Jeemes ground steadily at the ban- | That that kind ken help me, laying a lean hand on the firm sunburned one that grasped the uppermost rail of the sky. “Miss Betsey, the clock struck 1 jes's 1 got to your house. Next time it You did 3‘. b What in the name of o’common | ‘s month. sense has got into you Jeemies Cocke?” cried the irate spinster, throwing off basket. now Jeemés resumed drawlingly. “W’y you see 't happened this way, r a right smart while time I was gittin’ an- other pardner, Amandy bein’ deceased nigh on to six mont! liket for so long that T'd cogitated on -I've knowed that ’twas hi the subjeck for two or tI more'n ten years ago whe that spell o’ fever you rem 24 fyarly made up. man to take, you some o' a turning years. In fact I stuck up my stake by you she had ber. But with all that when I came cross the talk the marter over with you | I couldn’t ,;:y l‘a“ ;u' mind was s, a step ©* a o T'a "though o to fell bim Won't you Please say She spit the words | what—under—the—canopy—ever | —put—that notion into your-—cracked Well, I reck- Something too hot for utterance seemed to get in the way of further She'd been de- . on ‘count f many “Courted chuckled, sobbingly. geniality here! tough joke on the Berkshires!” l CA.NNED DAl been Cannin, ically. over the pigpen “He found con- heart with them, she began to laugh she 1 must say that is a -_— : —4«] take pleasure hhvfifi‘dulh- Dear Bditor and Sister of the Social | —l want to congratulate ths Editor and all the members of ~Oue | 5 factory. sick girl Diessed Corner” for the success of Deeti 8. very our anniversary number, and allow me improved to say, if it is late; Three cheers for The Bulletin and three cheers for our | &a:‘:‘:llgm flag, the Editor was so as to plac Bt Cut place on the Social “From the abundance of the heart | the mouth speaketh!” and ; heart | eeling & thousand times better. is in my little bungalow, who eoud | 80d o m‘“ ‘!o-’ Sibect me to write about anything | —Miss AMELIA JAQUILLARD, glse. Ever |since I have been old | houpitoulas St., New Orleans, La. enough to realize the Sweetness of the | Word home, it has been my desire to' St Clair, Pa. — “My mother was thay (he of my own planning, one| plarmed because I was troubled with could call mine. It looks now | i d had back s though the savings, the planning, | SUPPression an o i the desires of my heart are about to | 2nd side, and severe headaches. Ihad Lb: J;"‘-:fid I;m;: otg'ei :ru):n: of m}; home | pimples on my face, my complexion was n: AT was disturbed, I had months I shall be occupying it. . |~ s 'I‘I:ep oy .ndl bad I want this letter to be a practical | R€TVOus spells, was very tired gne. Onefeo be an incentive o others, | 10 ulnb:flm Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg- remember that to get the | etable Compound has worked like mc*;!: out of life, you must have a home | charm in my m-nd.;umg:fludm: T'wish I could tell of the pleasures— I Worked in a mill among hundreds of yes and the disappointments, too, that = girls and have recommended your medi- } ;:‘gex:.leync:d ::\ se[lectini: al lo(;a.unn. cine to many of them.”’—Miss ESTELLA e set on the lot now Clair, call mine; but I found it took more| MAGUIRE, 110 Thwing St., St. Clair, Pa.; than money to get it, as it meant the | dividing of a homestead that was for | sale. Tbey didn't want to sell part! but all of it. It took patience and | perserverance, and a little taffy, too,| Were restored to health by Lydia E. I guess; and really I think they let Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound should ;fiyh:fi'ew’; ‘tfo ge'hfldfl"f e, but this be glesson to others. The same remedy o our heart is in our work ithis is within reach of all. of the NDELIONS AND RHU- BARB. Dear Hditor and Sisters: As I have Dandelions, I wonder it isters ever can them? I prepare them as for cooking, boil about one hour in clear water, then flll the fruit. water. 84 all time. Egol 80 we | cailed balls.” phor, large down My way. shown “mi! of the know fine isav low. H it Elizabeth: you up on the 'phone some day. are busy days just now. Married and Happy: I suppose you will be coming home before long now. Why not let us hear from you? I'm wondering if you 1 was 39th day. teaspoons well done. but thls is delicious, Love and best wishes to all. SIL wt Silyerbell: jar, pressing down; safe water boiled in, while hot, then place In a boller or large pail (I used pails), placing something, a rock or teapot rest, in the bottom; fill up with water the same temperature as the jars and boil hard for three hours. have done ten quarts this way. 1 use the Economy jars, but you can use the others by not putting on the rubbers until the last 15 minutes of boiling. I Can Rhubarb by cutting in small pieces and letting boil a few minutes, Jjust long enough to be surs the whole is boiling hot; then can as any other I like the flavor I use no sugar. Aunt Sarah: received the card I sent you? out of the kind I wanted that hear. moth pinned ent from those already contributed. use Camphor gum, which is certainly more agreeable than many of the so- destroyers, and I don't blame the moths, for giving some of them a wide berth, especlally “moth- fill up with the I much better than when canned in cold Great-Grandma: I am sorry I made it scem that you had two birthdays. I see how it might be. I am glad Eliza- beth gave us the right date. I am thinking of calling These Betsey Bobbett has a birthday the 19th, Polly Wintergreen the 23d. ‘With best wishes to all. AUNTY NO. L SURE MOTH PREVENTION. 0| ‘Dear Editor and _Social Corner Sis- ters:—As this theMseason for putting away furs, woolens ets, I will add my mite, for “variety is the spice of life” My idea is a little differ- I keep all winter goods in chests, and trunks, in the attic, amd after the garments are nicely cleaned and the place well aired, I fold and lay every article_and when each chest or trunk is full I drop in a small piece of cam- in a bit of cloth, just enough to roll it in and shut the cover. fur coat is saved in the same I have used this over 20 years, up le stone” number. the date ery nice method for and not a moth has Yet. I wonder how many of us will pass on our life journey, Dear Great Grandmia: your anniversary. One of my dear old friends was here 1 yesterday and she had just passed her 1 am very fond'eof old peo- Dle, probably because I have been with them the most of my life; nearest and dearest are waiting for me, just through thes pearly gates. T think the Social Corner pin is a idea, and shall await with inter- of , 1 egg, ER SIXPEN! I am supposed to be one Am glad to but est the resuit of the conference. add the Here DOMESTIC SUGGESTIONS. Dear Social Corner:—Have finished reading Social Corner. Found the letters all very interesting. Won- der if 1 can put the Sisters wise to a few good hints. When washing silks of any kind al- ways put in a dark place to dry, as|nine and one-half inches in height this will prevent from turning Yely|from the bottom band to the upper Rye Cake—One cup sugar, 1 cup but- ter, or butter and I milk, 1 heaping tablespoon baking powder, meal to make a soft batter, not tco| thick. Bake in a moderate oven until | I am not a lover of rye, 1 cup flour, 2 3e | ofa. Just To remove mold from hams rub with i lard. To keep Flowers—I have no doubt that some of the Sisters have poppies | 1,500 tons, will be able to excavate' growing in their flower gardens and | have discovered that they soon fall to actual operation on the jthmus. pieces after being picked. After always put them in hot water, and you will find they last longer. To have hot irons run smoothiy without sticking rub a bit of soap on | to George the iron. ¥ Glenwood: Where have yvou goné we” asks the London -~ Outlook, we will hear from You mext|have a monument of Washington ‘in You too, have failed fo this and we go after what wo want with a | ermination we shall succeed. { _ It you want special advice write to When Icommenced my letter I in- Pinkham Medicine When I commenced my letter I fn- % {‘,’:&‘.1')’ I ',l.-. yurm‘r‘i‘fi: be read and answered by a Z:n:;. Tu I‘ti aee‘ms to me that the lot | s Jo . i een af.the first import- | woman and held in strict confldence. ance so I will tell first about that. The street is called Liberty street and runs north and south. My lot is on the west side of the street, giving me an east and south front. The lot is forty feet by one hundred and sixty seven.” The is set on the north Iine so as to give me a little side yard on the south with a plot of green grass to_be hedged with beautiful flowers. In the rear will be another plot of grass, for what is more beautiful to look upon than the green velvety victims? Then let us be logical for ;)hmellnd erectd::othar ‘monument to e late President Kruger. Bqually with Washington, he had the two nec- essary qualificatio was the mortal enemy of England, and he per- secuted a tish population., What more is requisite® FOREST NOTES. Redwood sawdust is being uscd by v'neyardists in Califormia for pack: ing fresi tab's grapes. It tikes he 1 c-rk used for im- apes. Hyndman Peak. Idaho, the highest named peak in the state, is more than 12,000 feet high. Several unnamed, peaks near it are of about the same elevation. All are on the divide be- tween the Sawtooth and the Lemhi national forests. A two-year-old plantation of Doug- las fir on the Oregon national forest shows 94 percent of the trees living. Extensive plantings of young trees in Washington and Oregon are costing only $8 an acre. Direct seeding of lodgepole pine has been successful without exception on the Arapho na- tional forest, Colorado. Several of the areas sown two and three years ago show from 5,000 to 10,000 seedlings per acre. Tass. This is the beauty of my lot. The fruit trees are large enough to bear, and from the abundance of blossoms it looks as though I would have fruit enough and to spare. There is one large cherTy treet, one pear, two plums, one quince, four grape vines, gooseberries and black raspberies, and I am going to add a strawberry bed this fall. It shall have a nice vegetable garden, and a small chicken yard—several of my friends have hen's setting for me. Well, you know, I must not count chickens before they are hatched—will tell you the rest late The Editor has lots of patience but, T remember he did tell us he was tried sometimes with “Our Auntic’s.” Wear a smile on your face Keep a laugh in your heart Let your lips bubble over with song. *Twill lighten ur load, ‘As you travel life’s road. And help some others along. I am your sister. Alexandria, Ohio. M. ROENA. PLANNED TO HAVE A GLADIoLus! DON'T EXPERIMENT BED. S RSy You Will Make No Mistake if Yow e COrer Wiciiee: - As T Follow This Norwich Citizen's by a place where some one had a Advice. mighty purty bed of Gladiolas, and 1 made up my mind then and there that 1 would plant a good big bed of them posies for Ma next summer. So this| spring I sent for a box of bulbs, and when I went to the Pust Offis yester- | day I found they had arrove. It wuz| a middlin large package, and when the | fellers standin’ round saw the name | of the seedman on the package, they | “began to ask what kind of _garden | truck 1 wuz goin’ to try now? And| when I told them they wuz posey | blubs, I'll be hanged if most every feller didn’t have to tell me the best | way to plant them. One feller sez the bulbs must be peeled before plantin’, another that I must dig trenches, put in sand and set the bulbs on that as soil would rot them; and one sed I must start *hem sproutin’ in the house. Now my way would them in about the his ‘taters’ and jest about as deep. please Mr. Doe won't you tell which is right Best wishes | jally the gals ‘Billie,” “Frank”, Never neglect your kidneys. If you have pain In the back, urine ary disorders, dizziness and nervous- ness, it's time to act and no time te experiment. These are frequently symptoms of kidney trouble, and a remedy which (s recommended foy the kidneys shouid be taken in time. Doan’s Kidney Pills is a good rem- edy to use. No need to experiment, It has acted effectively in many cased in Norwich. Follow the advice of a Norwich citizen. Mrs. Margaret Brown, 336 W. Maln St., Norwich, Conn., says: “My bacl was In bad shape and I suffered sever. ely from dull, heavy pains across my kidneys. It was almost impossible fox me to get out of bed in the morning and I felt miserable in every way, 1 tried different remedies, but wasn'{ helped. When I read of Doan's Kid< be to plant | me soil Pa does | So | me | or all the writers ‘spec- ich as “Papa’s Boy “Jim” and the oth-} ers. ney Pills, I procured a supply at N. D, THOMAS JEFFERSON. Sevin & Son’s Drug Store. They made 1 ;o —— — me feel like a different woman, re=- Singularities. storing my kidneys to a normal con- Curious nicknames are applied to | ditiom and removing the pains in my vessels of the British navy. The |back Ariadne is known as the “Hairy An-| For sale by all dealers. Price 8 nie” or “Hargy Agony”, the Narcis- | cents. .“cster-Ailburn . Butfas Sus as “Nasty Sister,” fhe Cressy as | New York. sole agents for the United the “Greaser.” the Inconstant as the | States. “Inkstand,” the Iphigenia as the “Silly Jane,” the Lucifer as the “Match Box” the Hecate as the “He Cat” or*The Tom,” and the Neptune as the “Jew's Harp.” Tn the American navy simi- lar nicknames have been used to some extent.~ The Sassacus was known as {the “Sussy Cuss, the Miantonomah |“My Aunt Don't Know You” the | Wissahickon as the “Widow Higgins” | the Winnebago or perhaps the Wy ! lusing as “We Know She Goes Slow. | No fewer than thirty-four men can find standing room in one of the dip- canal Remember the name—Doan's—and take no other. Y > SPECIAL TO WOMEN The most economical, cleansing and germicidal of all antiseptics is Paxtine A soluble Antiseptic Powder to be dissclved in water as needed. - As a medicinal antiseptic for douches in tr:ulng catarrh, inflammation or | pers of the new Pan: that are now being completed. Three | dippers of each of these mammoth dredges measure no less than ten feet edge of their maganese steel lips. They have & capacity of fifteen cubic | ayd it is expected that each | dredge which has a displacement of bout 300,000 cuble yards a month in | Medicine Co 2 The dredges are designed to dig fo a depth i e | ot afty feet. Resn {, Some Englishmen do not take kind- H women, Iy %o the suggestion that a monument should be I placed in Westminster aboe: Are | 1o | the ab] but none to t ' 3d children wWho.