Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 6, 1917, Page 14

LIMEJUICE WILL NOT ‘ful letters cf any kind the mind may Wednesdar of each week. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITO! THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $250 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to third. \ward made the last Saturday in eich SOCIAL CORNER POEM. Proposal to the Cook. Dear Little Duck: I've Mustard up Sut-Fish-ient nerve to tell you, weet, Sou ate just the needed Cup Of_sance to make my life complete. My Heart with love is boiling o'er, Tt Beets for you for all it's worth; I swear, by Ginger, you are more To me than any Bird on earth! Your gay French Gressing pleases me— T like the way that you “Ragout” You're so well-Bread—it's plain to see— z Your love I cannot be without. Those cheeks of Peach—the Radish hair— s Ah, you're the Flour of my life! You're really such a wondrous Fare, Yowd Butter come and be my wife. So come tonight, and Lettuce Ay Off to the Dessert—ah, we must! Your heart's the Apple of my eye, Your Creamy lips the tender Crust. We'll live in Mush-rooms by the sea, On Watercress and seaweed Stems. Dress in your best and fly with me! Be sure to wear your Graham Gems. Yours in a Stew TEA McARONL THE ANSWER. I Doughnut care to wed- To Yolk myself to you. You see An old and withered Cabbage-head Wouid never, aever do for me. Tm sorry that you're in a Stew, But_though a “Duck,” I cannot fly— I really Cantaloupe with you, For I have other Fish to Fry. Yours, with a pinch of Salt, SALLY LUN INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS. AUNT ABBY: torwarded. BDTHELYN, Begonia, Butt-In and Samantha’s Daughter: Cards received ara matled to Interested Reader. - PAULA: Cards received and mailed 1o the writers indicated. ETTA BARBER: Cards received and forwarded to persons indicated. AUNT MARY: Cards received and fcrwarded to The Cornerites named. THE SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR thanks Peggy Anne, Joan and Sweet Lavender for New Year's cards. ENID writes the Editor from Ha- vana, Cul Dec. 25th: “‘Greetings from -Enid this land of sunshine and flowers. I picked violets from our carden this morning. The beautiful pcinsettias are in blossom and I can- mot realize it is the Christmas season. Best wishes for 1917.” BATSAM FIR—Thanks for pretty cara. . POTLATCH—The name ivory pick and Washington _greens _received. Thanks for them and seasonal wishes. THE EDITOR through the courtesy of Dottle and Cally Lily of Club No. 2 received a fine box of cake and fruit, for which he extends thanks to ell concerned. IMOGENE GRACE—Thanks for the pretty hand colored calendar. It is a credit to the skill of the maker. Card received and SIMPLE FOOD. Dear Soclal Corner Sisters: It will be a long time before we can think of going camping but.it might be a 200d pian to keep these recipes handy for when that season comes. No doubt the general principles of cooking are the same in the open air as in the kitchen. Yet a good cook might find it difficult to emulate the feats of some unpretentious woods- man, if he found himself in a dark +forest, and he were told to get a hearty meal for a few hungry people @s guickly as possible. Under such conditions fancy dishes are out of Dlace. The simplest food is the most ap- petizing when camping and the best o eat. It should be simply prepared. When making tea at the camp the old household allowance of “one spoonful for each person and one for the pot” will not do: for some occult reason, more of the leaf is required in_open air cookery. The same is true of cof- fee made in the woods, which has. a different flavor from that made any- where else. Brook trout and potatoes may be rolled in wet paper and cook- ed in hot ashes. Fried fish are appe- tizing. Cleanse and wash the fish, re- move the fins, and rub them well over with salt, roil the fish in a mixture of flour, salt and pepper and fry them in plenty of smoking hot fat. Ham Sandwiches and chicken sand- wiches are both appetizing, but when one combines the two the result is delicious. Cream one-half cup of but- ter, using a wooden spoon, add one cup each finely chopped cold boiled ham and cold boiled chicken: season to taste and spread the mixture be- tween slices of buttered bread. Anything which 5 cooked in frying pan or kettle can be manased over the campfire, such as surprise muffins, omelet, plum duff, otc. Corkscrew Bread: Eight level cups flour, four tablespoons lard, two ta- blespoons baking powder, two tea- spoons salt, one cup milk, one cup wa- ter. Mix and sift flour, baking pow- der and salt into a bowl or pan, add /D((,t»l?I(?/ ANTISEPTIC POWDER FOR RICHES EVERY WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY % The Bulletin wants good home letters; good business letters; good felp- QUENCH THE THIRST suggest. They should be in hand by R, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conn. month. lard, rub them into the dry insre- dients, add milk and water graduaily, and mix to a dough that can be hand- led_easily. The dough must be rather stiffer than for biscuits baked in a pan. Have a good bed of coals and the usual two forked sticks to hold the cooking utensils. Take a green stick an_inch or more in diameter, and wind the dough around it. Rest the ends on the two forked sticks, and turn frequently until brown and crisp on all sides. Pull out the stick and the bread is ready for eating. Sufi- cient for eight to ten persons. Camp Griddle Cakes: Four cups of flour, four teaspoons baking powder, one 'teaspoon salt, two tablespoons esz powder, one-half cup evaporated tilk, one and one-half cups water, butter and maple syrup. Mix flour, baking powder, salt and egz powder and sift into a bowl, add evaporated milk and water and beat to a creamy batter. Do not have the batter thin. Fry in a hot pan, which has been greased with a piece of pork fat. Serve hot with butter and maple syrup. Suf- ficient for twenty cakes. Camp Bread: Two cups flour, four teaspoons baking powder, one tea- spoon salt, two tablespoons lard, one cup milk or water. Mix flour, baking powder and salt together and sift into a bowl, add lard and rub it lightly with tips of fingers, then add water and mix well. Grease a frying pan and turn in the batter, and bake very slowly over the fire. Be sure to loosen from the pan_ with a thin knife as soon as crust forms, so that it can be turned over and baked on other side. Sufficient for four person: Camp Corn Bread: Two cups flour. w0 cups corn meal, four teaspoons of baking powder, one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon sugar, two tablespoons lard, two tablespoons egz powder, six ta- Dblespoons evaporated milk, ‘one and one-half cups water. Mix flour and cornmeal together, add baking pow der, salt, sugar, lard, melted, esg vowder mixed iwith evaporated milk and water. Mix well and pour into a well-greased pan. Bake in a_mod- erate oven for 40 minutes. If the campers have no oven, bake same as Camp Bread. Sufficient for eight to ten persons. EASTER LILY. NEEDLE WORK NOTES. Dear_Social Corner Members: Here are a few needle work notes for housewife: A pretty card table cover Is made of heavy white linen, with a spread pack of cards in each corner embroid- ered in black and red. Boudoir caps are good gifts for the young girls. A new embroidered sort is made in the style of a Dutch cap, with the embroidery in deft blue or in _Dblack on a sheer white muslin ground. For the women who travel a corset bag—a long, narrow, washable, em- broidered with the word “Corssts”— is useful. These bags can also be used to hold corsets- in the burcau drawers, or closet shelves. A case for a nightsown can be made with a pretty piece of material. Last Christmas I received a pretty comb and_ brush bag made with a piece of white material and the front had a square piece of crochet set in. The bag was threaded with pink rib- bon and a bow at each end. It was homemade and I was very proud of it. For the young housekeeper a useful gift is a luncheon set, all in one piece, consisting of centerpiece and four plate doilies attached in the form of a | tle gifts. Greek cross. This is embroidered in va- rious designs and in either white or|in the near f» colors. those less fortunate than ourselves. Fringe is_in fashion, and some of | My idea was for each onc to bring Which_would | something to be given away. A little the new sofa cushions, make admirable gifts for the boy or |bag of vegetables, apples (those who girl away at college, are of heavy tan linen or crash embroidered in conven- tional designs in bright colors and fin- ished with wide tan cotton fringe. Princess Ladies’ Crocheted Bedroom | Would be quite a help to some family i Two | this cold winter. Slippers: Materials required: Princess Pearl Crochet Cotton, No. 3; one steel crochet hook, No. 15; one pair pearl quilted satin soles; one | other. 7 ribbon for |to those in need. What do you think and one-half yards No. bows. Explanations of terms and abbrevia- tions used: ch. st.—chain stiteh; s. c.— single crochet; d. c.—double crochet; tr. _c—treble ‘crochet; h. t. c—half treble crochet; L. tr. c—long _treble crochet; o—over; D.—picot; sl st— siip_stitch; b-loop. Make a chain of 16 stitches, as shown in Fig. 86, which “ will allow you one stitch for furning. | bunder hesiets And T fnd that T vee First row—One s. c. stitch in_every | casionally blunder now. Second {1 stitch, one chain and turn. row—one s. c. stitch in each of stitches (taking up the back stitch; you will then have formed 1 rib of vamp), 3 stitches in the Sth, 1 s. c. in each of 7 stitches, 1 chain and turn. Continue making 21 ribs, or 42 rows for vamp, increasing 2 extra stitches in center of each rib (or every other row). g Turn over and around slipper. Work 20 single crochet on the side, then make a chain of 17 stitches for turnove join_on wrong side, taking up stitches of back stitch of side vamp. This will make a neat join- ing and will not show on the outside; finish with cord around the turnover | MUFFINS, as follows; take up one stitch, chain 3, then take up next stitch, chain 3, cross the first 3 chain stitches over the last, and 1 s. c. mext to the last 3 chain stitches just made. Continue in like manner all around. Use two threads in making the cord, first chain of 3 |half cups flour, three made with one thread, second chain of | teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon three made with second thread, etc. Carefully sew the crocheted top to the satin soles of the correct size, and [spoons melted butter, finish with a neatly made bow of sat- in Ribbon on each slipper. These slip- pers may be made in shades. Best wishes from MOGNTAIN LAURBL. BPONGE CAKE—LOAF OR LAYER. Dear Social Corner Sisters: Another | gradually the susar, Now work back and forth | ed beans pressed through a sieve, two on 36 stitches for 35 ribs or 70 rows, | Well beaten egas, one cup of sugar, a 20 | little salt, spice. one cup of milk and and | bake like squash pie. many pretty | the milk, egg and butter. 1 2 auxygum.t:tin. is a true saying. the good times it has made possible enjoy and it will have fice ey s = mw ,;: Tor s Weslce vt T 1 to T a 's bankrupt and a law euit coming on very prosperous year. Sarah Ann_Tighe: your ietters. How much your thoughts are like my own, and work, too. It is so interesting to read how others d How many little heips we get through The Social Corner letters and gather- ings. Interested Reader: Many the pretty calendar. It was fine. It is so mice to be remembered. I wish you a very Happy New Year. Ethelyn: Should like to have some of those china berries. Will send as ‘you directed. Cream Sponge Cake—One cup sugar, two' eggs in a cup well beaten; fill cup with cream; one and three-fourths cups of flour, half spocn soda, one spoon of cream tartar; lavor, and bake in qfick oven. It is either loaf or lay- er. Good both ways. Hoping you all had a Merry Christ- mass, and wishing you all a Happy New Year. SELINDA. MEATS AND STEWS. Dear Social Corner Sisters: The fol- lowing are appetizing wavs of cooking meats: z Baked Veal in Crumbs—Dip a fresh veal cutlet in beaten egg. then in fine cracker crumbs, and lay it in a baking pan. Cut thin slices of bacon or. salt (pickled) pork, and lay them over, the cutlet, so that it is fairly well cover- ed. Bake in a hot oven for about half an hour. A thick slice of cutlet gives the. most satisfactorv results. Serve ‘with mashed or creamedl potatoes. Ham Mousse—One tablespoon gela- tin, one-qusrter cup cold water, two cups chopped cold boild ham,, one tea- spoon mixed mustard, few grains cay- enne, one-half cup heavy cream, one- half cup hot water. Soak gelatine in cold water and dissolve in hot wate: add to the chopped or ground ham. when cold andd mustard, cayenne, and the cream beatcn until sti Turn in- to a mold. previously dipped in cold water. Chill; remove from mold to serving dish and garnish with parsley. Fried Tripe—Place in a frying pan a piece of butter. When brown add | the tripe and fry brown. Just before taking from the fire add a teaspoon of tarragon vinegar. Spanish Stew—Boil two pounds of | lean pork, cut in small pleces three hours. Add one cup of tomatoes, one onion, sliced thin, one clove of garlic, salt pepper, and papri to suit taste. One-half a teaspoon of ex-| tract of beef, and one cup of rice. Stew for an hour or more. Pork Salad—This tastes much like chicken salad. and is a good, way to use up small pieces of pork. Cut in small pieces, add half a cup of beets and the same of chopped celery. Mix with a boiled dressing. Potato Soup—Boil two large potatoes | until soft. Mash and add two cups of | milk, a tablespoon of flour dissolved in a littie milk and boil cne minute. A Happy New Year to all! HANNAH WHO. | A FINE SUGGESTION FROM TIDY ADDLY. = ° Dear Cornerites; Now that the hur- | 1y ana bustle of Christmas time is | over, will try to write a few lines F!r!st| to thank all who remembtered me with | cards and gifts. I received forty-four Cards and” twenty-saven were from Social Corner Sisters. I send hergwith recipe reauested by “Ginger,” C. E. S. and others so long ago. This was given me by Satur- day Eve, but I have her permission to send it in. Inquirer: T did not make a veal loaf, and to my knowledge, none has been served at Social Corner mestings: and I generally sample the good things. Perhaps it was the Salmon Loaf re- quested, which I give you: Salmon Loaf — One can salmon, three-fourths cup milk, cne tablespoon butter, one-fourth teaspoon pepper, one teaspoon salt, two eggs, two-thirds cup cracker crumbs. Beat salmon with eges, add the other ingredieats; | beat all together. Steam for one hour. T use the steak salmon, and some- times add a little of liquor in can. Papa’'s Boy: Sent salad recipe to address sent me. Now we have such pleasant gath- erings, with table loaded with good things, and occasionally exchange lit- 1 was wishing we might sometime ure do something for live on farms could do this), or a can of something—anything the mind sug- zests, that would be of use—just a little from each one, but all together it Either tc be given to some charitable soctety, or as you think best, instead of gifts to each Let's have one meeting to zive“ of this idea, Sisters? Best wishes. TIDY ADDLY. BAKED BEAN PIE. Dear Social Cornerites would occasionally say My mother to me when And I find that I oc- Last week inquired for recipe for mak- ing “Veal Loaf.” That was rot what I wanted at all: but by the way, there was a fine one 1 this week from and we will have a try at it before long. What I did want was the recipe to make a “Salmon Loaf.” like ‘the one you had at Willimantic some time ago. I think that is all T want this time. But I have something for you to try? Baked Bean Pie—Two cups of bak- INQUIRER. WAFFLES. SHORTCAKE, GINGERBREAD. Dear Social Corner Sisters: are tested recipes One Egg Muffins—Three and one- and one-half These £alt, three tablespoons sugar, one and three-quarters cups milk, three table- one egg. Sift together thoroughly the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; add gradually Bake in hot buttered gem pans 25 minutes. Twin Mountain Muffins—One-quarter cup butter, one-half cup sugar, one egg well beaten, three-quarters cup milk, two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder. Cream the butter, add then the egg. vear has rolled a way, and we are|Sift the flour and baking powder to- making new resolutions; but. Gh, how | gether thoroughly and add to the first | and baking powder together thorough- of the very. ‘that ought 1 thank The Bulletin very much for |out on this thanks for | Of shoes down to the office, as he was i der, one teaspoon salt, one-quarter cup & hai 3 due today, house rent due my mother-in-law coming my partner nearly gee! I'm go- for next month. Ob, ing 1 don't care to take a vacation. wkat happens!™ So he called up his wife, and asked her to send his khaki suit and a pair going to spend a few days at his friend’s camp. Then he happened -to think of Henry, so he pressed a but- ton and called him. Henry, the colored tutler, who had been in his fathers employ up to the time of his failure, was given a_posi- tion in Tom's office to clean it up, wait on customers, and make himself tseful in attending to Tom's want and many a secret passed be- tween the two, for he had proved him- self a faithful and a trustworthy per- son to have around. If he answered the 'phone when Mrs. Tom asked if Tom was there, Henry would shut his cyes, and reply, “Deed Miss Rogers. ah don’t see him in here. Then he would turn and wink to Tom, and both understood. Tom was pleased imore than once with the way that Henry had settled affairs for him, so now he called him to give him a few parting instructions. “Now, Midnight,” as he had nick- named Henry, “I'm golng aw " ‘es, sah.’ “And if anyone calls up, tell them that I ha: gone to the middle ef Africa to be gone a couple of years and there might be some delay in my cetting back. “Very well, sah” “And I don’t care what happens while I'm gone, don't you dare tele- phone or telegraph me, or. send me any word at all. need a rest. I want to forget & good boat and plenty of fish. Tl come back when I-get rested and ready for work. You understand, Mid- mght.” es, sah! Mistah Tom, deed ah dces. ‘An Tl tell the missus dat you discombobulated yoself and yo em- porium needs regeneratin and for a slight recuperation you vanished en- tirely, sah.” “Yowre the stuff, Midnight, so long. Fiere's a five &pot s0°you can go to the_movies every night “Yes. sah! Thanks, sah! So Tom arrived with provisions to keep him comfortable. He fished and rowed around, smoked, and the fresh country alr, took long walks and climbed every hill he sa built a fire i n the fire-place ccoked his own meals, and had a lone- Iy but hilarious time of it. realized the awful necessity of a shave and a haircut he began to think he would have to go back to town. | When he thought of that lawsuit he | decided he must go back; and when he ran out of clzars to smoke, then he had to go back. Two weeks of rcughing it put him back on his pins again and he felt tip-top. I'm worn out and I, that | there is anything in the world except | inhaled | and | Yhen he | Pl on L. o3 Bhab s S0, e e Entering his office he looked around, the mm that were ] "ollld.'m see you sah, glad to see you back, deed ah is.” “Well it is somewhat of & change and relief to feel civilized once more, {anybody hurt?” | | 1w How's everything? So-so, I expect?” “No, sah.” % t a thing, huh, no news, well 1 might have staid another week. Not a thing happened, Midnight?" “Well sah. only the trifiing fact that vo dog died, sah “That so? What wi with him 7’ ‘He got run over, sah, by an auto truck. Killed him dead 'in no time.” “Poor iittle doggie. Who was the man who ran over him? Did you get his number “No, sah, ah didn’t look fo the num- ber, but it was a fireman, sah, who was on the way to the fire, and he come around that corner so quick ah just couldn’t get the dog outer the way. “Poor Spot! Tl miss him. What Anything of import- the matter was the fire? ance? “It was you barn, sah.” “My barn! What! my barn burned? How did it get afire?” “Well you see, sah, some sparks frum the house jess careless like fell or._ it 2 “Good Lord! The house on too! Tell me quick, Midnight.” “Yes, sah! The house burned first, fire, How on Was this is awful, man! earth did the house get afire? “Well. one of the curtains got fire when it blew againat one of the can- les.” “Candles! What are you talking about? We have electric lights. We don’t burn candles. You must be crazy “Well. ah was just zoin’ to tell you it was one of the candles they had at the funeral, and— “Funeral? What in mean 7" “Why Yo _see— “Holy smoke, is she dead? Well, T should say things had harpened.” at did she die of. do you know?” geShe dropped dexd, san, very sud- e “Well. why didn't you telegraph me, Midnight?" “You told me not wlat happened, sah. “Well, so I did: but.T didn't think the world was going to turn upside down if 1 went out of town for a fow Gays. So my mother-in-law is dead. Pcor soul, 1 must go up and com- fcrt my wife. Was it heart failure, Midnight? You said she dropped dead.” _“Ah, don’t know abonut that, but she died right off quick. You see it was such a shock.” “What was a shock?” “Why, she dropped dead when she found out that your wife had eloped with the cheuffenr.” “Oh. Lord, Midnizht” . VADA WILCOX. time do you yo , muder-in-law’s funeral. to, no matter mixture alternately with the mil aPke in hot buttered gem pans 25 minutes. Breakfast Muffins—One-quarter cup butter, one-half cup sugar, two ezg yclks, one and one-haif cups milk, three and one-half cups flour, three and one-half teaspoons baking powder. ;\_H’( and bake as Twin Mountain Muf- rs. Rice Muffins—Two and one-half cups fiour, one cup of boiled rice, three tcaspoons baking powder, one-haif teaspoon salt, one cup milk, one ezg. well beaten, one-quarter cup melted tter. Sift together thoroughly the ur, baking powder and sait, add the rice, working *in with the tips of the fingers, and gradually the milk, egg and butter. DButter mffir rings, place i~ a buttered pan and fill two-thirds full with the mixture. Bake in a moderate oven 25 or 30 minutes. The same mixture may be baken in gem pans. Queen of Muffins—One-half cup but- ter, one cup sugar, two eggs, well beaten, one scant cup miik, three cups four, three teaspoons baking powder. Cream the butter, add gradually the sugar, then the eggs, sift the flour and baking powder together thoroughly and add alternately with the milk to the first mixture. Bake in hot buttered gem pans 25 minutes. Corn Muffins—COne cup cornmeal: one cup flour, one cup boiled, three teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon salt, one-quarter cup sugar, one and cre-quarter cups hot milk, two egzg: one teaspoon melted butter. Scald the meal with the hot milk and let stand five minutes; add the boiled rice and the flour, baking powder, salt and su- gar siftéd together thoroughly; ade the yolks of the eggs beaten until thick, the butter and the well beaten cgg whites. Bake in well buttered gem pans 25 minutes. Rye Muffins—One and one-quarter cups rye flour, one and one-quarter cups of flour, two and one-half tea- tpoons baking powder, ons teaspoon salt, one-quarter cup molasses, one and one-quarter cups milk, one exy. well beaten, one tablespoon melted tutter. Sift together thoroughly the ‘Four, baking powder and salt; add gradually the milk, molasses, egg and butter. Bake in hot buttered 'gem pans 25 minutes. Sugar may be used in place of molasses if preferred. Graham Muffins—One and one-quar- ter cups of graham flour, one cup of flour, one cup sour milk, one-third cup molasses, one and one-half teaspoons baking powder, one-half teaspoon so- da, one teaspoon salt. Sift together thoroughly the flour, baking powder, soda, salt; add the milk to the mo- lasses and add to the first mixture. Bake in hot buttered gem pans 25 minutes. Squash Muffins—Two and threc- quarters cups flour, two-thirds cooked squash, three teaspoons baking pow- sugar, one cup milk, one egg, well beaten. one tablespoon melted butter. Add the milk to the squash, then the sugar and eggs. Sift together thor- and add alternately with the milk the first mixture. Bake in Wash- -igton pie tin. Cool, sprend thickly with sweetened ; fruit. Cover with whipped cream. Strawberries, peaches, canned quinces, may be used. Dilute the cream with some of the syrup in- stead of milk. Soft Mclasses Gingerbread—One_cup niolasses, one-tlird cup butter, bne- Iy t a rather enough to There is a difference in the thicken- will be about three cups. The compliments of the season to S HANNAH TIGHE. HEAVY SNOW IN MAINE. Social Corner Friends: — Many thanks for the kind remembrances. I have been very busy for the —past year. But although out of eight you Surely have not been out of mind. Lakeside has been a very busy place tie past summer. Company all of the time; and then in November a friend came and was married here; there was more work for everything was left for me to decorate with autumn leaves. 1 went up Crystal lake and got_a whole boat load. . Then more company for Christm: but now the holidays are over I must think of work. ‘We have had very heavy snow falls with drifts in yard six feet deep and two feet on level, but I love the beau- tiful snow. 1 was sorry to learn of so many in sorrow. You all have my sympathy. Z 1 was delighted with my calendar from our friend Interested Reader; many thanks for same; it was very kind of you to remember me. Joan: 1 was sorry to learn of your not being well. : It was very kind of you Auntie No. 1 to mot forget = you have a Sister away down in Maine. Our snow storm was fierce, snowed ebout 48 hours—sometimes hard, then not so hard—but anyway we were buried for a few days; and the wind Llew a gal Aunt Hester: Your letters thank- fully received:" also, Dom Pedro's. Crimson Rambler never forgets me. 1 guess she still remembers our visit two years ago last December. Wishing you all a Happy New Year I will close with best wishes for the success of our glorious Social Corner; aiso, long live the Editor. I'm prompted to inquire for M. Roena. We never hear from her any more. I trust she is well and happy in her cosey home and wish I had been with our good Sisters Calia Lily and Dottie. BALSAM FIR. Dry Mills, Me. POP-OVER'S WAY OF GROWING HYACINTHS. Dear Social Corner Sisters:—Just a fcw words to you as I am very busy. L. H. K.: I read of your way to grow hyacinth bulbs. This is = the way I grow mine. I started three, the ing qualities of flour, but the amount required tween one and two inches high. 1 Line a glass dish with pretty moss then put in some pretty stones and shells, then put in the bulbs having them on top of the stonesand then put pretty shells all around the edge of the dish. Fill the dish up with water and keep it full every day. ‘When you put the water in hold the dish under the faucet and let the dish tun over and that runs out all scum, or the like, that rests on top of the water. Now when you first plant your bulbs keep them in a dark place un- i' they commence to sprout, but don’t half cup milk, two and one-ha!f cups flour, two and one-half teaspoons baking powder, two teaspoons ginger, cne egg, well beaten. Melt the butter und add to the molasses; add the miik, then the flour, baking powder and gin- ger sifted together thoroughly, and the egg. Beat vigorously. Pake in but- tered cake pans 35 or 40 minutes. MADGE. STILL ALIVE AND HOPEFUL. _Dear Social Corner Brothers and Sisters: Although absent from The Corner for many weeks, I assure you L at it is not from lack of interest. The letters are just as interesting as ever, and so helpful in every respect. I enjoy trying the recipes, and am niuch interested in the crochet instruc- tions which appear from time to time, L think crocheting and knitting are very fascinating work. Interested Reader: The pretty calen- dar arrived in perfect condition, and is a beauty in every sense of the word. Please accept a good big “Thank vou!” I hope that you en- joyed your Christmas as much as I did_mine. That each member of the Social Cor- ner may enjoy heaith and happiness tkrough the New Year is the wish of THE MERRY FARMER BOY. BEST WISHES FROM _Social Corner Friends: A Happy New Year to you all. Interested Reader: Thanks for the calendar—the best ever. L. T. L.: Many thanks for just one verse of that old sonz. I have the tune written for violin and piano— have played it for over forty vears. The words sound like a serenade. Thanks to all the writers who sent me cards and gifts on Christmas. Keziah Doolittle: Please tell me where I was when you heard my voice? You have me guessing. JOAN. Best wishes. JOAN. GREETINGS Dear Social Corner Sisters: Many thanks for the different ones who re- membered me. I do not write often, but remember you all the same. Ethelyn: I want to thank you for your sending the suggestions how to cook onions—“The Humble Onion.” It was fine. 1 have tried it; ever so nice. Wish you all a Happy New Year. Kitty Lou: Where are vou? Write. BETSEY BEROWN and it is THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU HAVE TIME. oughly the flour, baking powder and salt, and 2dd to the first mixture; then add the butter. Beat thoroushl"' and bake in hot buttered gem pans 25 minutes. If intended for luncheon or tea, one-quarter teaspoon of cinnamon, nufmeg or ginger may be added. Waffles—Two cups flour, two tea- spoons baking powder, one-half tea- spoon salt, one cup milk, two eggs, one tablespoon butter. Sift together thor- oughly the flour, baking powder and ealt; add gradually the yolks of the eggs with the millk well beaten until thick, then add the butter and the whités of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Fry on a hot, well greased waffle fron. Serve with maple syrup. Fruit Shortcake—One-quarter cup butter, one-half cup sugar, one egs, well beaten, one-quarter cup milk, one cup flour, one teaspoon baking posvder, frult. Cream the butter. add gradually the sugar and the esg. Sift the flour Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: At times we all feel that in the mat- ter of eats we want to try something new. From the following recipes may come your chance: Banana Pi Take three bananas, one quart of sweet milk, the yolks of three esgs, three spoons of cornstarch, one teaspoon of vanilla. Sweeten to taste. Cook until it thickens and then ueglect to water them. After they commence to grow keep them where they will be in the sun. This way of planting them makes a very pretty and attractive dish. I hope some of the Sisters will try my way sometime. % POP OVER. GREETINGS FROM J. E. T. Editor and Social Corner Folks:—I wish you all a very Happy New Year, filled “with health, and good-will to- wards all. May this be the best year of our lives in every way, and may war and strife cease, and peace reign instead. May the Social Corner have many helpful things and each of us strive to give our very best thoughts, and suggestions. I had a nice Christmas and many g00d presents. My favorite Social Corner Sister sent me a pair of yellow skirt hangers beautifully done by her own hands; and today I received a splendid 1917 calendar from an Interested Reader. 1 hope her dear hands will always be able to do such nice work. Many thanks. Also a delicate and dainty booklet. ] L ET RECIPES FOR PIE-MAKINGA Dear Social Corner Sisters:—Here are some pie recipes you may like to try: Squash Pie—One cup stewed and sifted squash, 1 pint milk, scalded; 3 tablespoons pastry flour, 2-3 cup sugar, 1-2 teaspoon ginger, 1-2 tea- spoon cinnamon, 1-2 teaspoon salt and teaspoon molasses. Line a deep pie plate with paste, fill with the squash mixture and bake. Lemon Pie—One cup sugar, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons flour, 1 cup milk, juice ond rind (grated rind) of 1 iarge lemon and a small plece of butter. Mix sugar., butter and yolk of eggs to- geiher; add lemon and milk, iast of °I; stir in the white of eggs beaten fill the ple-piate lined with paste and ‘bake. Extra good. n Pie—One cup cranberries cut es, 1-2 cup raisins, chopped; 1 cup sugar, 4 tablespoons flour, 1-2 cup hot water, 1 teaspoon vanilla and 1 tablespoon butter. Mix the sugar and ficur, add to the hot water; then add cranberries and raisins. Line a plate witn paste, add the ulling, dot uver ‘with the butter, cover with strips of raste and bake. ® Mock Mince Pie—One cup cracker crumbs, 1 cup raisins, 11-2 cups brown sugar, 1-2 cup each of molass- es and vinegar, 3 cups of hot water, butter the size of an cgg, spice o taste This makes three pies. . SOCKANOSSET. SEASONA™L GREETINGS FROM RURAL DELIVERY. Dear Social Corner Friends:—An- other year is at hand and the Social Corner folks are up and armed with the pen which is said to be “mightier than the sword,” many new faces are add to this the sliced bananas. Pour in a shell already baked and beat up the whites with sugar to frost. Cocoanut Pumpkin Pi One pint of pumpkin pulp. one tablespcon butter, one pint goed milk, one-fourth tea- spoonful salt, three eggs, one-half tea- spoon ginger, one-half cup grated co- cocoanut, one teaspoon vanilla, one cup sugar, one-half teaspoon mare. Mix the ingredients together thor- ourhly. The whites and yolks of the eggs should be - beaten ml.l‘lel’. Pour into pastry tins and e. Apple Gelatine: Dissolve three ta- to be seen in the Social Corner fami- Iy added the past year. The new as well as the old writers are anxious to see the Social Corner live and pros- per. It ehould be remembered the Edi- tor needs your help to make The Cor- rer interesting. Aunt Abby: Many thanks for the fine card received Christmas morn- 4 » Interested Reader: Many thanks foi the calendar just received. Some class to the Social Corner calendars. Potlatch: Your very beautiful first of October and they are now be- | peach. Many thanks. Pill Roller's story of the man who saw himself in the glass was good. Licky his wife was & good burglar hunter. Begonia: Your Christmas card re- ceivea. Many thanks for your kind rememberances. Keziah Doolittle: Where, oh, where , have you gone. The Editor informed us the Social Ccrner family is constantly increas- ing it's register list. What a large family it is getting to be. Any one who has never been in The Corner family will never know what they have missed, for they are a jolly set, and oh, what cooks! There are no poor dishes. -1f ‘any one doubts this statement let them attend a Social Corner picnic and they will see plenty of pies and cakes such as mother used to make. Wishing th> %ditor and all the So- clal Corner family a Happy New Year, RURAL DELIVERY. Sterling. WE PASS THIS WAY BUT ONCE. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner:— 1 trust we are all grateful for ‘the privilege to bid welcome to the new jear. And, as the old saying goes: “We never pase this way but once,’ then we should by all means profit by our experfences of the past, and thus help to build up the new year with sply covered with What canz1do? 1 can’t rest, T can’t sleep, and most of all, 1 hardly dare go out, for when it stants itching, 1 simply /. no matter where | am, of Resinol Soap Ointment. rections and | am sure you will be all right in a few days.” aueto scratch “Don't worry a\bit-—=just get a cake 2 jar of Resinc Use theln aceording 10 ¢ prompt relief, and that your skin Rasinol Soap a0d Ointment 26ld by all druggiets BULLETIN'S PATTERN SERV many improvements. 1t is evident. we are never able to judge, or condemn another, for some mistake they have made, ‘unless we should be placed under the same cir- cumstaznces, then we would know why that failure occurred. For an illustration: We hear the young mothers say, of certain amuse- | ments and other things, that their children shall not be permitted to g0 when they are older or grown up; but in many cases, when the time ccmes, that same good mother gives way, and does not resent it, for she views the situation than differently. On the other hand, the young daugh- ter of the househoid, cannot see, why mother should be so tired at night, and why she does not havs more time to make calls, or to rcad more books, and why is it, she is sometimes “fretty?” O, no, the young girl does not realize fully these conditions. in her youthful days, but her experience comes later on then to look back, only to say “I understand it now. in, “we never pass this way but and 1 feel quite sure, we do not care to, even if it were possible. Our aim should be to accomplish the piost that will be helpful to others, as tc ourselves, ond ever mindful that the days are swiftly rolling by, and trat which we would do, must not be delayed. - Impossibilities are often true causes for regrets, and circumstances that coud not bd avoided. However, if we are on the alert when opportunity comes or- way, we mneed mnot be prompted “to be silent, when it is golden,” or to speak when justice de- mands it. Perchance we make a mis- take, sometimes it's never too late to mend, for we spend our years as a tale that is told “we never pass this way but once.” Best wishes Year. to all for the New TN A FEW PUDDING RECIPES FROM THELMA. Angel Pudding—Two tablespoons sugar, tablespoons ccrnstarch. salt, cook until thick; fiavor to taste, add the beaten whites of 2 eggs. 5 Sauce—One and one-half cups milk, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, 2 tablespoons sugar, salt, yolks of eggs and flavor to taste; set pudding in cups where it is cool, with sauce over top; add a cherry or ground nut meats. Bread Pudding, Strawberry Sauce— Soak 1 pint bread crumbs in 1 quart of milk, 20 minutes; add 1 cup sugar, 4 well beaten eggs, lemon extract, bake forty minutes, serve warm with sauee made of 1 quart strawberries, crushed through wire sieve, 3-4 cup sugar and 1-2 pint cream. Date Pudding—Three-fourths cup sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 1-2 pound Gates, stoned and cut up. add gra- ham flour enough to make a stiff bat- ter, steam 3 hours, serve with va- nilla uce. Fig Pudding—One cup chopped fi=. 1 cup milk, 1 cup molasses, 1 1-2 cups graham flour, 1 1-2 teaspoons soda, moisten with hot water, steam 3 hours, serve with lemon sauce. THELMA. NIE. cups _water. AUNTY’S MOTTO. Dear _Social Corner Sisters:—A Happy New Year to you all. I am rather late to begin with. but let the wish extend the year through. I thank Interested Reader for my calendar, a whole sermon in jtself. 1 shall endeavor to make it my motto for all time. The words are: “And they followed Him.” Ethelyn: The berries received. T thank vou very much. I am well pleased. You are very generous with them. I shall soon make them up. Pill Roller: Now you have certain- 1y given yourself away. How about the hills and valleys? Aren't they rleasant? JIsn't there lots of pleasure riding or (walking) over them? That story wis fine. “Methinks” T can look i that glass now and see the reflec- tion of the one you mean. Not my- self. not quite so near home. Come again with your hills, but don’t roll anv for me please. | ‘Tiny: How about hints or plain talk. Papa’s Boy: T am afrald our visit bas fallen through. Cold weather and 2l T am thankful for all the pleasant times I have been allowed to enjoy the past year: and 1 hope it will be cur privilege to meet many times this ccming year. With the wish of health and pros- perity and all good things coming vour way, 1 am as ever. « AUNTY NO. 1. To Be Expected. Regular army men never were in- clined_to gentle criticism of the mili- tia. Generals Wood and Scott express a long felt sentiment in regular army circles.—Louisville Courier-Journal. ‘What We Need. _In view of present price quotations it looks as if this country needed a good deal less advice on salesmanship and a good deal more on buying— Cleveland Plain Dealer. 3 British women are taking up the culture of herbs. 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