Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 5, 1917, Page 14

HASTY EVERY WOMAN INDIGNATION IS DEAF AS THE SEA AS FIRE 'S OPPORTUNITY Tie Bulletin wants good home letters: good business letters; good nelp- ful letters of any kind the mind may suggest. They should be in hand by Swednesdar of each week. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL COIINER EDIT ‘OR, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conn. THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $2.50 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to third. Award made the last Saturday in each month. SOCIAL CORNER POEMS. Cheering Someons On. Don’t you mind about the triumphs, Don't you worry after fame; Don't you grieve about succesding, Let the future guard your name. All the best in life's the simplest, Love will last when wealth is gone; Just be giad that you are living, And keep cheering someone on. Let your nelghbors have tke blossoms, Let your comrades wear the crown, Never mind the little setbacks Nor the blows that knock you down. Youw'll be there when they're forgotten You'll be giad with youth and dawn, If you just forget your trou And keep cheering someone on <insey, in Baitimore Plant and the World Plants With You. Plow for the war is coming! plant for : the war is he E { Ane the rich old earth it will give it H birth { To foods tnat will warm and cheer. ! Plow 1 you've got an acre; Plaw if : you've but a rod | Then get on your knees, with the corn and peas, And plent in the fields of God. Water and care and nurture; dig ve and weed and hoe, you can show to A Barvest In every row plant Plow if you love vour stomach: i€ you want to live And the food trusts s their “pi For them you'l no corner giv Plow or they'll surely get you; plant or you're sure to rue For the price next fall it is bound to gall, So, neighbor, up to you Sent in by HATTIE. INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS. FOXYCards received and will be forwarded to their destination AUNT JERUSHA—Seeds from Jn- seph Doe have been forwarded is the real We all wish her every good wish we can wish for our- selves. L. A. S. and AUNTY N, await your full address in of the Editor. VIRGINIA—Cards received and m ed as you directed FLAVORING HERBS. 2—Cards the hands Dear Social Corner of the common shouid be grown in even Yegetable garden. They are flavoring during the summer, and it is an easy matter to get a winter sup- Py by gathering and drying sprigs or follage in summer or fall. They will keep in any dry place for winter use. Hang them up In bunches garden herbs contain both an- husis and blennials. Among the most popular of the former are anise, used for flavoring and rarnishing; sweet basil, used in stews and for seasoning various dishes: dill, of which the seeds @re used largely in making cucumber pickles; summer sa: tother pop- tlar soup herb, and Tagetes lucida, srhich has much the same flavor as Tarragon and is used as a eubstitute for it Of the perennials, which after once being established will supply the gar- den without replanti season, there are caraway, widely used in cookies, etc.; catnip and sweet fennel, used for flavoring sauces; rosemary 2nd sage, which are easily grown, an used for seasonins; winter savory and thyme, aiso seasoning herbe. Sisters r culin: tal for Sow them in drills. Thin out to a few inches and give clean culture. Those of which the seeds are used should be cut and dried. when the seeds can be rubbed or pounded out and freed from the chaff by winr or singeing. owing EASTER LILY. HOW TO REDUCE THE MEAT BILL. Dear Edifor: One of the Sisters has gent so many recipes for cooking rab- bits that I think she must raise them, or she could not have so many to cook. I have had a little experience with raising rabbits, and I think it 2 good way ta reduce the meat bill. They are rot hard to care for and are much ¢cheaper to raise than chickens. I keep mine in boxes. The young ones I kept in a small movable vard. A cup of water should be kept in each ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE DOES IT. When your shoes pinch or your corns and bunions ache so that you are tired all over, get Allen's Foot-Ease, the an- fiseptic powder to be shaken into the ehoes and sprinkied in the footbath. It Swill take the sting out of corns and Dunions and ive instant rellef io tired, eching. swollen, tender ~ feet. Over 160,006 packages are boing used by the aliiea and German iroops at the ‘romt. Sold ‘everywhare, 35 cents. Don't accept any substitute. box. They will eat almost anything: Mine had nothing aH winter except potato, apple and turnip parings. Now they get a little graln, hay and grass {when 1 have time to pull it. Later they will get weeds and the green waste from the garden. Sometimes I cut bushes for them to gnaw the bark. The boxes should be cleaned frequent- ly. I put the manure in a barrel and save’ for use In the garden;. it makes one of the best fertilizers Jbtainable. Telgian hares are the most satisfac. tory in the end, though they cost more to begin with; but the white English |or the common spotted rabbits are ail right Yo raise, and when full grown will weigh as much as a good sized hen BETSY BOBBET. WHAT A FUNCTION 18. Dear Social Corner Bditor: I have found out a function is what my folks used to _call a party. Mre. Gazaboo laid herself right out— dancing for the dancers,sgames for those who couldn’t dance, three kinds of punch—plain, Gecorated and be- foozled—and music for all. I didn’t know how to play games or how to dance, so I tried all three kinds of the punch, but liked the befoozled best, and if it hadn’t been for Hope it would bave got me. e came along and she savs: . don’t be bowling here too long, or they may have to put you up for the night.” feelings were such that I caught on right away, and when Hope sald I needed exercise in the open air and started me for home I realized my own weakness, Mrs. Gazaboo felt sorry we must g0 Fome so early: and I felt sorry, too. but Hope said: “Duty before pleasurs"” was her rule, and excused herself in | goca shape. HEZ HARMONDY. DEFINITION OF MENU TERMS, Dear Social Corner Sisters: With this letter I wiil close the definition of menu terms: Maitre d’ Hotel—The name of a fla- ring butter, mixed with chopped rsley and seasoned with dlemon Juice, pepper and salt Mayonnaise—A cold salad eauce or dressing. Menu—The bill of fare; literally meaning minute detaif of courses. | Soufle—Literaliy “puffea u a | very light baked or steamed pudding, |an omelet. Tutti-Frutti—A mixture of various kinds of fruits or cooked vesetables. Best wishes to aill. | CONSTANCE. WAYS OF COOKING MACARONI. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: | Here are a few more ways of serving macaroni: Mexican Macaroni—Cook one onion In two tablespoons of butter until a light brown: add a few mushrooms, sliced, two tomatoes, a green pepper and a cup of hot stock; salt to taste; stew in this one-fourth pound of mac- aront for five minutes and serve very ot. Macaroni Croguottes—Put on to boil one-half pint of milk, rub one spoon of butter and twn of flour together and add to the milk, stirring continually nutil the milk thickens; then add six ounces of macaroni, previously boiled | and cwt in half-inch’ pieces, two table- | £poons of gratéd cheese, yoiks of three egzs and salt and pepper to taste. Cook one minute and turn out upon a plate to cool. When cold, form the preparations into cone-shaped cro- quettes, roll first in egg and then in bread or eracker crumbs, and fry in boiling fat. Serve with the following Cream Sauce: Melt one tablespoon of butter but do not brown it; add one spoon of flour, mixing until smooth; pour in | balf "pint of cream and stir unth it | boils; season with salt and pepper and | use at once. MADGE. THE COMING WOMAN. Dear Social Corner Sisters:—We are told the coming woman Is to be the woman who smokes. I do not know why a emoking woman is any worse than a smoking clergyman or temper- ance reformer. A college girl writes: marks that smoking is_on the in- crease in our colleges. So it is. It has originated in that spirlt of com- radeship that exists between a healthy man_and a healthy woman of the twentieth century. The empring miss of the last generation has been replaced by the girl who is capable not only of helping to shoulder the cares and worries of her mate, but who is able to share in his intellectual life and discuss with him the merits of the latest book over the contents of his cigarette cas Doesn’t this make you feel as if you were @n old-fashioned woman, and that the mothers of the past did not know how to give comradeship its real soul-binding ‘touch? Vice appears to be trying to ride in Virtue's chariot. MARIA MIX. SEASONABLE RECIPES. Dear Cornerttes:—The spring brings spring tastes and we feel the longing for fresh garden truck. Try these timely recipes: Asparagus au Gratin—Boil aspara- zus tips until tender, drain and to two bunches of tips add half a cup of dried fine bread crumbs, a gill of cream, two tablespoons _of mielted butter, pepper, ealt, two iablespoons of grated T=wp English cheese, and one egg. Mix together and bake a delicate brown. Rhubarb Jelly—One tablespoon gel- atin, pink coléring, 1-2 cup cold water, 1 pound rhubasb, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup boiling_water, 4 tablespoons lemon Juice, grated #£°1 lemon, whip- “Some one re- i ped cream. Soak gelatin in cold wa- ter for five minutes. Cut rhubarb in one-inch pleces, add sugar and boil- ing water, bring to & boiling point and let boil 15 minutes. Add soaked gela- tin, coloring, lemon juice and srated rind. Turn into fancy molds, first dip- ped in cold water, and chill. _When ready to serve, unmold and garnish with sweetensd whipped cream. S JENNIE WRED DO YOU KNOW THIS. Dear Sisters of the Soclal Corner:— Beetroot coloring is cheaper than cochineal in the kitchen. Pare a beet- root, cut up and place in a jam jar With enough water to cover, cover jar closely, and geither steam or cook in Svan ) (e beet 16 pale: strain juice wher cold, and bottle for use. Press cold baked beans through a colander; add two tablespoons _of horseradish to each cup of beans. Put between vers thin slices of brown bread with butter and a little pre- pared mustard. Cut in fancy shapes. A tiny pinch of carbonate of soda, well stirred into the milk as soon as it arrives, will heip to keep it sweet in hot weather. ke AN INQUIRY. Editor Soctal Corner:—The U. S. government apears to be overlooking one important stimulating factor in its call upon us all to be land-patriots. Why should one class of patriots al- ways have & brass band to stir their souls because they carry a gun, and the men with the hoe and the ger- micides be left to traln and combat their enemles without any soul-stir- ring strains. 4 It seems as it a mule might plow better If he could hear the sweet strains f the Star-Spangled Banner. Is the farmer to be left to his back- breaking drudgery without a band to keep his valor on straight? UNCLE SAM. WHAT IS CHARITY? Dear Social Corner Sisters:—T think we learned something from the dis- cussion on card-playing. It is good to express differences of opinion about things. How would a discussion of charity do for those who enjoy expioiting s jects. The Scripture saith: Faith, hope, and charity—the groatest of these is charity.” Charity is a big It is something we ought to con- thing. know more about and prac:ice stantly. Why don’t we know about it? It represents virtue, religion and good sense; but there has never been a book writer upon it. I have never heard of a eymposium being held this important subject. I wonder why it is greater cither Faith or Hope, since by we may remove mountains, and the aid of hope have heavenly visions. ‘Will some of you please teil me? THE CRANK. CABBAGES THAT WILL GROW. upon Dear Social Friends:—I have been a reader of The Corner for a long time and thought 1 would write. Anna No. 3: If you will try early Winnigstadt cabbage I thirk you will have good luck. Set them on new ground. ‘Wiil some one tel me how to make a meringue that will be light and will not fall when it is done? I think Prudy is right about govern- ing_children. Hope to be welcome. KATYDID. WAYS OF EARNING MONEY. 2 Letter No. Sisters: —The Dear Social Corner following ways of earning an honest penny may be useful: 1—Then there is the never fai way of getting half of the proceeds of a Larkin order. A ten dollax order is quickly obtained and five is reai- ized for the -work of doing: it. 2—There arc always a number of articles that can be donated for a rummage sale, which nets quite a sum. 3—Camps.of Camp Fire Girls may make the most of the opportunity of- fered by selling Camp Fire Girl Cocoa, an excellent product, and realize seven dollars on a hundred boxes, at no ex- pense. 4—There are a number of socials that in their name, bring in money. For instance a Rubber Social, asks for admission, a piece of rubber for ad- mission. A surprising amount may be obtained and sola to venders and clear profit made. To add to the fun the games or any amusement at the social may be connected with rubber, as guessing the various articFes com- posed of same, giving rubber prizes. 5—In connection with other socials or church suppers, various side issues for obtaining money are as follows: Put up a prize cake. Each pers pays five cenis for a guess om weight. The nearest one gets the cake, or a tie Givides it. A doll for a prize; sell home-made lolly pops (donated) with names wi ten on sticks. The name of the doll draws the prize. Pops sell for five cents each. Grab bag, articles donated, sel five cents each. Pop corn balls, donated sell for five cents each or according to price de- cided upon. Articles donated are auctioned off. In regard to the prize cake men- tloned above, a charge of admission for may be made of five cents, giving| everyone a guess, thereby. Any article may be put up as a prize_and various ways of obtaining the money are suggested as selling bolders at a nickel each, bags of pop corn or anything with a number on it to match the number on the prize set up. In a large organization, a tea set may be put up and various articles sold to realize the value and a surplus amount also. A fumber of names of patterns of dishes may be written on slips of paper .and pinned to article. One person or not .more than two should know the name of pattern on the set. From the above suggestions many | dollars have been realized in the treasury of more than one organiza- tion, and may be passed along to help swell the cash box of others. With best wishen for anyone's suc- cess. SUNBONNET SUE. A SIMPLE MOTH PREVENTATIVE Dear Soclal Corner: I know it is hard to pack away winter clothes, so here is a remedy that will surely help. A very good way to prevent moths from nesting in your clothing is to pack in the trunk or drawer where the same may be stored, a bottle contain- ing two ounces of chloroform. Have the cork of the bottle. fastened in firmly, but puncture in two ‘or three places so as to allow the fumes to es- €ape. This is not only a protection from the matured moths, but kills the eggs without injuring the fabrie or clothes. I know most of you sisters are clean- Ing house so I will send this little help: When lace curtains that have seen their best days must be laundered, it stands to reason thst extraordinary care must be taken if they are to be siven another lease of life. The first step is to make . a cheesecloth bag large enougn to hold a pair of the folded curtains. Let them soak over night in water in which a tablespoon of m has been dissolved. In the mo; wash by lifting the bag _and, Fently squcezing out the water. Take it's | i i ‘Hello! ‘Yes. hello! What is it. please?” ello, is this Siss & Twister?” “Yes, sir." my name's Springledotter, 5595 Brighton avenue. I bougnt some #oods there about three mouths agc, and never received any Diil for them.|ai I want to send you a check. If you will— ust a minute, please.” Click! Fellol WhstwatiL piegeT: “Hello! Say, my name's Springie- dotter, 5595 Brighton. I bought scme goods about three months ago. Never received any bill for them and—* “Oh, yes, Mr. Bingumslaughter. You want to return some goods?” “No—no. I want to pay for some goods.” “Oh, yes. Well, you want the audit- ing department. = Just a minute, please.” Click! “Hello! 'What is 1t7" “Wel,, my name's Springledotter, 5695 Brighton avenue. I bought some—' “What' bolter 2 “Springledotter—Springledotter!” that pameé again—-Fingle- “Oh, yes, I understand now. Just spell it wili you, pleare?” e “How's that—F-t—" “No—S—S—the first letter of ‘soup,’ ‘socks’ ‘sardines’ ‘sand- wiches'- “Ah, I have it now, Mr. Springhalt- er. You are at 5995 Brighton avenue " “No—5595!" £Ob, Jey-—5505 - Brighfon. what was it, please “Well, 1 bought some goods there ut three months ago. 1 never re- ved any bill for them. I want to send you a check. If you will look e e “Now, just a minute, Mr. Spring- halter, I'll ist vou talk to Mr. Br-r-r- r-umph-blur-r-r-r-r.” Click! ‘Hello!” Hello!" “This is Mr. blur-r-r-r-r." “Well, my name's Springledotter—" “Just how do you spell that name, Mr. —— “Springledotter—Springledotter! §- p-r-d-no; wait a minute—S-p-otte oh, dsg-gone it, I cant's spell it my: seif now. Springledotter—Springle- dotter—My! Gosh-almighty, man, can’t you understand plain English?" “Now, just a_minute, please. I let you tall to—" “No, you won't! T started out to be an honest man. You've made a crook of me for life. I'm going to the in- sane asylum now and climb into a cell and teHl it to myself. Good-by, for- ever!” —Chicago News. Now, Er-r-r-r-r-r-—umph- it through several waters in this way and blue and starch the curtains while thev are still in the bag. Pin an old sheet securely over the curtain friane and fosten the curtains to the frame in the usual way. This relieves the curtains of their own weidln. Hope all the Sisters success. MRS. KATSENJAM. GREETINGS FROM DOM PEDRO Dear Social Corner Friends: 1 have been on the sick list again, but am ay risht now and can go out. I went out yesterday and called upon two of my Invalid shut-ins. One of them has had several shocks and been help- less for many months. She could only speak two words, “Yes” and “Bye,” but she knew me, which was a comfort, for she had not the two last times I had called there. The nurse thought she was more _comfortable. I hope the Sisters will make friend- Iy calls upon the shut-ins. They are always to be found everywhere. Aunt Mary: T agree with you ehtire- Iy in regards to card piaying, espec- fally in the popular form of gambling or playing for prizes. Aunt Jerusha: My pink is dead. 1 tried to kee it through but it was no use. 1 think it was ths gas. Biady: How you must have enjoyed that concert that was in charge of D. P. I wish I had been there. How are you now? Prudv: Man s+ thanks to you for your sympathy. If you could have seen my river view before it was obstructed you would agree with me. Good luck, and good wishes. DOM PEDRO. DOMESTIC HELPS. Dear Social Cornerites: Have no- ticed manv new members writing late- Iy so thought I had better come in with the crowd so as nmot to attract too much attention. The Social Corner pags is always the first one I turn to every Saturday and gain many little helps and_hints. I will in turn pass on a few I have discoverea. Spring housecleanine is with us again, and one room is all spick and span.” That is, all but the two shades. and they are all finger prints. soiled and weather stained at the bottom. Just take down the shades, unroll full length, take out the little tacks and stitch a_hem at that end (on the ma- chine) deep enoush for the curtain stick to go through. Now rip out the old hem and and tack this end into place on the roller, you have a pair of nice new shades for vour immacu- late windows, as a shade is never puli- ed down to its full length, and the soiled part will never show. I have just “hit” upon a new way to open Mason or screw-cap jars. T have a regular far wrench but haven't muscle enough to use it in taking off the caps. It is all right for tightening. Just pull or tear out the rubber ring (they can’t be used again) and the caps may be easily turned. The last five or six jars T have used T opened that way and had no trouble at all with. How many of you mothers are trou- bled with constipated babies? I was, until about a month ago. I began let- ting_ him have about three graham crackers a day and they work splen- didly. He is seven months old and ve’ tried orange juice, but it didn’t seem to acree with him. He enjoys munching on the crackers, they are a nourishing food in themselves, and not a constipated day for over a month now; and before that I had to give him a dose of Castorla two or three times a weelk. % 1 don’t know if they'would have the same effect on an older child, and I don’t suppose you could give them fo a baby under five or six months old, but they certainly seem to be just the thing for him. Have three darling kiddies to love and care for, so will just sign muself TRIPLETS. AN ECONCMICAL SOUP. Dear Social Corner Sisters:—T want to tell you how I supplied a family of six with a very satisfactory meal one day recently. I had spinach for din- ner. 1 drained off the water and saved it in a farge, pitcher. Next day T bofled asparagus, also some Bermuda onions ,saved the water from both as well as the water in which my potatoes were bolled for this occaslon 1 pared the potatoes for din- ner, an extravagance 1 do not practice usually, since potatoes have become such a luxury. Next day I put the water that the varlous vegetables were boiled in on the stove and added a small can of tomatoes and a quarter of a pound of vermicella, added salt and pepper (a little Worcestershire sauce may be added if liked) let boll an hour and serve. Think vou will pronounce this soup as delicious as it s economical. The water in which vegetables are boiled sometimes contain greater nu- triment than the vegetable itself. 1 wonder if any of the Social Corner Sisters have had_experience in turkey raising. If so, I would be glad to hear of the adventure. JANETTE. FLOWERS FOR THE PORCH. Dear Social Corner Sisters: The containers for the flowers on the porch or windows should be of the same col- or as the house, or else of a harmo- nious shade. The plants should be thickly set in the box and the colors should be an excellent contrast. The porch box should be rarely deeper than nine inches, from nine to twelve inches wide, and of any length. It will he much easier to handle a box not longer than three feet. The boxes should be made firm, -They may be bracketed to the porch. Round urns or hanging baskets aro preferable to most boxes which must stand on the porch. Porch hoxes or hanging baskets are easily made. ‘White pine, red cedar, or cypress are the best woods. ‘They are less injured by the continual molsture required in a box of this sort. When finished they may be painted to match the house or they mav be cov- ered with cedar or other bark. They may be slightly decorated by using crosspleces of fine twigs. Excellent hanging baskets arc made from the heavy ox muzzles. Bend the muz- zle so that it is flattar and more basket shaped, attach three wires or chains, and the basket is ready for use aft- er Jining with pieces of moss so that s0il may be retained. Special hang- ers may be bought which can be at- tached to the ordinary flower pot, con- verting it into a hanging basket. They are useful for specimen ferns or trall- ing plants. The nasturtium is incomparable for filiing urns or for porch decoration. For a northern exposure the tuberous begonia is excellent. Vinca or peri- winkle, a variegated green and white vine of exceeding long growth, is ev- erybody”s favorite. A little plant use- ful for the more personal porch boxes is the forgetmenot. All boxes should be raised a little ahove the base or £ on which they rest, otherwise both bax and sill quick- Iy rot Best wishes from MOUNTAIN LAUREL. TESTED CAKE RECIPES. Dear Social Corner Sisters:—You will find these recipes dependable and nice: Lemon Sponge—Grate and peel juice of one lemon, 2 ezg yoiks, beat ‘sep- arately: 1 cup sugar, a little salt, cup of milk, the white beat to a stiff froth, mix al] together and put In a crust and bake in a hot oven: Corn Muffins—One and one-balf cups flour, 1 cup of meal, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg a little salt, 1-2 teaspoon soda, 1 tea- spoon cream tartar; sweet or sour milk may be used; make as stiff as cake batter and bake in a hot oven. Caramel Cake—One-half cup of milk, volk of i egg, 2 squares choco- late: boii together until thick; 1 cup sugar; 1-2 cup milk, 1 cup sugar, one large ‘cup flour, 1 tablespoon butfer, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1-2 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon cream tartar; etir the cooked mixture in last. Raisin Pie—One pound of raisins, quarts water, 1 cup of sugar, 1 tea- spoon cinnamon, 2 tablespoons corn- starch, bake in two crusts. Will some of the Sisters send the poem of Paul Revere's Ride? will thank them very much. SWAMP APPLE. in 1 A FRIENDSHIP QUILT. Dear Social Corner Sistern:—Sis- ters, what do you think about making Dlocks for bed-quilts? Do you all like to_make them? I started one today after one of Mountain Laurei's patterns. I took the pattern at the bottom, think they are all very cute patterns, but I picked out the one at the bottom of the page for this quilt. Well triends I should like to start a friendship quilt and have it from you Sisters, that is, if you all would care to make me a block. As many as would like to make me a block, kindly tell me at the next picnic May Sth, and if you are unable to come to the picnic please drop me a card. I wHl give you each a pattern and tell how I want it put together. I do hope you all enjoy sewing blocks for I will be ever so pleased to Lave a quilt from you Sisters. Hope to see you all next Wednesday at the hall. I do hope it will be so I can attend. Tiny: T hope your boy is much im- proved. Am glad he liked my small it Best wishes. POP OVER. FILURY CHATS. Editor of The Social Corner:—I should like to ses Aunt Jerusha’s calla. My mother used to have a large tub of them, and I thought they were beauti- ful. Have often thought I would get some, and mean to, s, me day. I have a pink that was given me by a friend, last Fall, and it has had at least one or two blossoms on It nearly all winter. The blossoms last about two weeks. Thanks, Anna Mell, you sent me. (o ope to see you at the next mest- ng. for the letter FILURY. GREETINGS FROM OLGA. Dear Soclal Corner Sisters:—A long time has elapsed since I wrote, but I have enjoyed so much what the oth- ers have written. And also, have at- tended the meetings in Willimantic; and at Sisters Liberty and Lucinda and Scottie and Sunshine No. 2's. Did I have a good time? Well, if you could only know the quantity of love and good cheer I carried home with me, you would never miss a gath- ering. Then too, I recefved many lovely cards at Easter, and thank you for those. I have just had a birthday, and want to thank for lovely cards Sisters Huldy, Selinda, Primrose, Olive, Elo- ise, Lucy Acorn, C. E. S., Kitty, Eliza Jane, Frances, Aunty No. 1, Delight, Anna Mell, Remember Me, Tidy Addly, Peggy Anne, Ready and Popover. The cards were beautiful and I had no duplicates. Aunt ‘Abble: T do hope you mde im- proving, and will soon be ablo to meet with us again. Just a word in regard t, pictures. I enjoy the goo and forget those that offend. Since learning the saloons are great losers by the movies I feel they are moving pictures (going a good work as well as siving’ ¥ Ppleasu; re. Hope all the sick Sisters are on the road to-full recovery. Good night. OLGA. A PANSY BED. Dear Social Corner Sisters:—How to make a pansy bed for the garden: Prepare a bed in this way: Select the foot of your garden if partially shaded to locate it. Pansies delight in a somewhat cool and shady spot. Shade is a requirement of their nature. Care- fully spade and mellow the soll Spread with well-rotted cow manure and mix well. There will be no dan- sor of to0 much mellowing and mix- ing. After a rain sow the seeds. I am supposing now that you expect flowers the following year. s may bo sowed at any time during the summer. August sowin unless dry weather prevails, will give fine spring plants. But the seeds to germinate weil need moisture and warmth. During the winter months cover the plants with leaves and straw. First put small brush, then leaves and straw about a foot deep. Take covering off the last of April or first of May. A space of garden six feet by four, prepared as I have above described Iiberally sprinkled with seed should give many plants and a profusion of flowers. The plants will thrive until hard frost, awaken early from winger sleep and get to work in good seas,n. Through the early and late spring and on through summer they will bloom and bloom. It is surprising how many friends wili find you out. It 1s_advisable to sow several vari- eties of seeds. The pansy is not a difcult flower to cultivate. It giv large returns. There is one secret in its giving. The flowers must be free- ly gathered, not allowed to ripen seed, if one would have succession of bloom. M. GREETINGS FROM MALVINA. Dear Social Corner Sisters:—I en- Joy reading the different letters sn much that I thought I would like to be one of the Sisters. Aunty No. 1: I don't know the joke (f any) about the wood-box, but I am one who sits on the wood-box sometimes. Dorinda: Here 1 am! vou said. Hope I shall meet you at some corner meeting before long. MALVINA. FARMING IN NORTH DAKOTA. So remem- Dear Soclal Corner Sisters:—It Is spring again, though a snow storm comes occasionally. One came last night. April 23, “lest we forget” how 1t looks. Everyone is working In the flelds, sowing the grain which will feed the nations next year. Work {s done very differently hese from the way it is done in the Bast. There is no hand work in farming here. The “man with the hoe” has no place in this country. All work is done with a team—aimost all the ma- chinery is made to be used with four horses. Even the hay Is stacked by a stack- er. The hay lie= ag it was cut, and horses are attached to each end of the stacker, which passes over the hay and y¥aws it a'ons. When the stacker is fudi, they drive to the stack. and the hay is raised by the machine and thrown on the stack. The stacks made are long and low, compared with those where the work is done by hand, but it keeps well, and much time and man- power is saved. The gardens are planted in rows and cultivated, instead of being hoed. It is mot unusual for one man to put in and care for one hundred acres of - -ersified crops here—alone, except for a very few days when two are re- quired. Stacking, for instance, re- Quires two drivers. Aunt Mary asks how 1 can endure the cold of 10 degrees to 50 degrees below zero. She makes the mistake which most eastern people do, of sup- posing that 40 degrees below zero means the same here that it would in Connecticut. 1 have suffered more from cold in Connecticut when it was 12 degrees below than I ever did In the west when it was 30 degrees be- low. In Connecticut the air is so damp it feels like a wet blanket wrapped around one: but here it is so dry, that one hardly feels it. In Wisconsin, I have seen children too young to go to school, sliding down hill and playing all day wfth the mercury 25 degrees below zero. Aunty No. 1 sent me some tatting patterns. I shall be glad to exchange with her again or with others. NORTH DAKOTA. THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: Before using tea spread it on a sheet of brown paper and place in a warm (but not hot) oven for from 10 to 16 minutes. The tea will go much far- ther and the flavor will be much fm- vroved. By this method there is a saving of quarter of a pound on every pound of tea, To remove panes of glass lay soft soap over the putty which holds them, and after a few hours the putty, how- ever hard, will become soft and easy to_scrape away. Marks on woodwork made by scratching matches will disappear ‘when rubbed with a cut lemon. A piece of lace or net starched and put under a hole in a lace curtain and then pressed smooth with a het iron will scarcely be visible. MARTHA. A QUICK PUDDING—A NEW SALAD Dear Soctal Corner Friends: When you are short of time just try this pudding: Mix well together one-half a cup of : Ask For and GET HORLICK'S THE DRIGINAL MALTED MILK Made from clean, rich milk with the ex- tract of select malted grain, malted in our own Malt Houses under sanitary conditions. infan hildren thrive on it. Agrees with R Siowtsh vok the tnackld o7 The aged. Needs no cooking nor addition of milk. Nourishes and sustains more than tea, coffer, e Should be kept at home or when traveling. A nu- tritious food-drink may b prepared s o o glassful hot before retiring induces refreshing A o Sk cabiot fon for business men. ubstitutes Cost YOU Same Price Take a Package Home clal Corner Sister wanted some write how ‘to make mone nice for any one who live to make to sell: To granuiated sugar, I low is uncertain in his jdeas as to to the best fowls to keep, and at the same time, not knowing whether he is keeping fowls for profit or the fun he gets out of it JOHN JENKINS. |ing water to .merely sugar; add one-quart < CAKE WITHOUT EGGS. cream tartar. Place the vess a slow fire and boll unt! t Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: | little thread. Into this a4 e fi Bggs are so dear many people cannot |2 plece at a time, leaving afford to use them. Following are two | moment In the syrup. Lif tésted sweet bread recipes that have |, knitting needle and - » been tested and not found wanting: |of waxed paper. Eggless Cake: One cup sugar, one- | Flowers arg candied in th half cup shorfening (butter or lard |except they may be throwr - and butter mixed), one cup seedless|ful at a time. Berries raisins, bolled and et cool, adding jnst enough water to make one cup of juice; two tablespoons syrup, one tea- spoons soda, one and a half teaspoons ground cinnamon, one teaspoon ground cloves, two and a half cups ped in and taker Insta rants,- raspberries, Place a wire dipper. 1 dip them again and spread on a wa ary. . Peaches are cut lengtitwize of the seed, 1t flour. The raisin juice takes the place | einhihy . are quariered (aleo lens of milk or water. May be baked in a | wise) Dears are aliced ve loaf or in davers. If the former, it e should be baked slowly. A e B Bakers' Molasses Cookies: Three|juice and the finishe A cups molasses, one cup brown sugar. | spongy. one cup shortening, one cup sour milk, | Citron and wate n fwo teaspoons soda, two teaspoons &in. | easily candied (bt ger, one teaspoon cloves. Knead in|ing), then cooked down ! enough flour as for cookics, and let | myrip, pound for 1 stand over night. In the morning roll | melon’ and Sut and bake. This males a large |ns it quantity. can cand w HANNAH WHO. |floxsoms a v a s they retain TO MAKE AN INDIAN BAG. o £ i L Dear Social Corner Sisters: You who have lefsure and know how to use the o Ter e ol hook may make a very pretty| AN EXPERIENCE WITH hag if you follow directions: I used 2 3 spools of deepest pink I could get, 2 spools of black, I think you can feil the amount yoi need when you get to it. T used 1 spool of each of the oth colors. 1 made it Jarger than dirc tions. T made 4 c until there we about 150 stitches instead of 75. Y. must widen enoush to have points come out even when you get to them, then I crocheted as directed except ds to number of stitches. Carry cotton along under side until not using color again for a_while, then Jjoln in again when needed. 1 lined mine with white china silk, and for cord around top I used_3 colors, black, green and vel- low. Made chain stitch and finishcd with tassels of same colors. ] RUTH. ermitted to g nter wtk rted hers. 1 ster—a ~xperience. ing when T bo moulting. For t 824,00 s33 SELECTING A GARDEN SPOT. Fditor Social Corner: Since there to be more amateur gardening t usual this year a hint or two may be amiss. Any old plot of ground will not dc. | The sunniest spot in the backyard |'l should be selected: and this sual the mpot the woman of the house s she must have to dry her clothes The sunniest spot well dug verized and fertilized and cultivated—kept clear of weeds —if it is only 14 by 14 feet square, will srow more than any other plece if twice as large. The kitchen not in nd pul- onstantly | £i2d to needs lettuce, radish beets, beans—bush and poie—toma- toes, Swiss chard, etc.. which on good sunny soil are easy to Erow. . Tt isn't an idler's job to run a gas- den. It menns constant attention to = - the needs of the plants and a contin- R s uous combat with their enemies. Very much more kitchen gardening ro might be done and fresher table vege- , thoatly "W physicisns. tables be enjoyed. caiy JOSEPH DOE Mass. house. No barsh . methods. L. Bookle: ¥R sealed). - Telephone 675, Norwich, Cos 0O YOU MAKE YOUR OWN SOAP?/| | gaaND VIEW SANITARIUM, Nerwich, Conn Dear Social Corner Sisters: There _——_ 1s no skill required to make pretty good soap. A good Hard Soap: Take one gallon of water, five ounces of sal soda, one box of Iye, four pounds of grease. Put in kettle all together, let come to a boll and boil till it drips from the paddle like honey. A fine soap for general use: To three cans of lye add three gallons of wa- ter, let the lye dissolve then add fif- teen pounds of grease. Stir until the grease is eaten up by the lye, then add one gaflon of water. Remove from the fre and stir five minutes, Set aside to cool. MARY JANE. CANDYING FRUIT AND FLOWERS. A So- DR. C. R. CHAMBERLAI! Dental Surgeon McGrory Building, Norwic STERLING Real GERMAN Draught at the DEL-HOFF HOTEL EUROPEAN PLAN HAYES BROS, Props. TelepHone 1227 2-28 B ALE BEER Dear Social Corner Sisters: —p— flour, one-quarter of a cup of sugar, two teaspoons of baking powder and a pinch of salt. Then mix in two (un- beaten) eggs, beating mixture only enough to make it smooth. Bake in a hot oven five minutes. Turn out on to a paper sprinkled with sug: spread over it a layer of jam, jelly or fruit sauce, previously warmed. Roll up quickly. Serve with a sweet sauce to which some of the fruit ssuce is added. Cook flve minutes. Russian Salad Dressing—One-half a cup of salad dressing, one level tea- spoon of chopped pimento, one and one-half mblespons chill sauce, one teaspoon chopped green pepper, one: fourth a level teaspoon paprika, one. fourth a level teaspoon salt, two ta- blespoons olive oil. Beat the oil Into the salad dressing. Beat one minute, and then add the pimento, green pep- per, chili sauce, paprika and salt. Pour over head lettuce. Serve immediately. RUSH ABOUT. MAKING HENS PAY. Dear Social Cornerites: Hens cannot be made to pay by neglecting them. Suitable housing and good variable feed are necessary. When the egr yieid is unsatlstactory, It is not a bad idea to lay off a day and try to locate he trouble Draughts in a poultry house whic flirt around birds when ou the roosts soon upset the best of calculations of the most optimistic poultryman. The more you can keep the fowls” feet from the cold, damp ground, the better will be the production of eggs. Having ample litter for the fowls to scratch in and to keep themselves busy, is a practical step in the right direction for eggs, and plenty of them. ‘The uncertainties of pouitry RKeep- ing are greatly increased, when a fel- CLEAN UP! Yes!