Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 12, 1917, Page 14

THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: — SOCIAL CORNER POEM. Your Flag and My Flag. Your flag and my flag, and how it flies today, In your land and my land and half a world away! Rose-red and blood-red the forever gleam; Snow-white and soul-white—the good forefathers' dream. Sky-biue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright— The gloried guidon of the day, a ehelter through the night. and, oh, how stripes Your flag and my Sag! much it holds— Your land and my land—secure within its foids! 5 Your feart and my heart beat quicker at the sight; Sun-kissed and wind-tossed—red and blue and white. The one flag—the great flag—the flag for me and you— white and blue! Your flag and my flas! and stripe The drums beat as hearts beat and fifers shrilly pipe! Your flag and my flag—a blessing in the sk Your hope ‘and my hid a lle! Home land and far land and half the world around, 014 Glory hears our glad salute and ripples to the sound! —W. D. Nesbit. Send it by POTLATCH. to every star hope—it mever D. INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS. L. A S.: Card received and mailed to Foxy. Your judgment was O. K. Things will siip by occasionally. DORINDA: Letter received and for- warded to Diana. AUTUMN JOY: Card received and mailed to Diana. FOXY: Card has been sent to L. A. L3 PLIZABETH: Letter received and sent to Honolulu. PRINCESS PAT. Cards received and forwarded as directed. SUNSHINE NO. 2: Card received and mailed to Rural Delivery. The new pen-name will be all right. AUNT ABBY though unconscious to this life is near transition to the more | abundant life. EVA G—Card fo» “Didn't Dare” re- ceived. PAPA'S BOY—Card for C. E. S. re- eceived and mailed to her. DIDN'T DARE—Please send in your full address. A card awalits it. BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS — Papa’s Boy celebrates Sydney’s today —the 12th; and C. E. S. passes her birthday the 13th of May. A NICE LETTER FROM POTLATCH. Dear Social Corner Friends: I réad with interest the letters suggesting many changes in the Social Corner. I for one hope it will not change its name. We have a woman's page in nearly evefy newspaper we read; but we have only one. Social Corner. The gossip side has been one of its charms for me. The little pen visits to one another and exchange of thoughts and usefu] suggestions, the pieasure of finding out “Who is who?" and guess ing who came next. You know the down east Yankee who Is 2 guesser ®0 it fits our Social Corner family all right. Let us not condemn another's views, although they are not of our way of thinking or doing. If a thing seems wrong to us, let us live as near as we can to what seems right. “The Madam” sees no wrong in card playing. I feel the same, although 1 have never played cards as many do; but it to me is just a pastime with friends, the same as croquet or any other pastime for pleasure. To gamble at any game scems wrong to me, and the great gamble of food, the worst of all. Yet the men who do it are looked up to and are often church members. I would not condemn the church be- cause of them. How often we meke wrong of what is good. I know of several wome: who are in ill health, overdoing fancy work. One, my next neighbor, is in bed with nervous prostration. 1 know 2 woman in our city who is so anxious to help the poor Japanese she neglects her home and children to do mission- ary work. Yet I cannot condemn the work she is doing. What the people need today is more love and justice. I believe if every newspaper in this country would print on its front page The Goiden Rule and less of war and murder, we should soon .have a change of heart and love one another better, and think less of the mighty dollar, and the power it brings Pride is, to my idea, our greatest sin. Yet pride is all right in its place— Iike ail else. Let us fael we are one big family: here for some good to ourselves and our fellow men: remembering God in His goodness will not misjudge one of His children, for God is love. You see, I am not like the ones Aunty No. 1 wrote about. I “dare to write,” and hope I haven't written too long a letter or hurt anyone by my chatter. POTLATCH. Seattle, Wash, May 1st. SWEET CHARITY. Dear Social Corner Editor: Have you any room for me? Perhaps I should Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA THERE 1s no advertising medium In RS IR RS OUT OF THINE OWN MOUTH WILL I JUDGE THEE EVERY WOMAN'S OPPCRTUNITY Tie Bulletin wants good home letters; good business letters; good nelp- fu) letters f any kind the mind may suggest. They should be in hand by ¥vednesdas of each week. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CONNER EDITOR, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Coun. $2.50 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to third. Award made the last Saturday in each month. |Tourth package macaroni into boiling | mever have written but for Charity's sale. | I=ith is the substance of things | hoped. for, the evidence of things not seen. Faith is the facuity of the mind and finds its most perfect expression in the spiritual nature and bringe wut the whole character in ail its phases. { Hope is our cheerful mentor in our daily lives; we hope for better things— prosperity, love of others and a better understanding. How often is it re- | peated in cases of illness “Where there is life there 4s hope.” Charity t0 me is_universal love, a disposition to think favorable of others and do them good. If we try and do g0od aud do it willingly how much it means to us and what must it mean to_our friends. If we haven't any- thing else to give, then give loving Jdndness, sympathy in sorrow, comfort in misfortune, and aid in affliction and we may be sure the more we give the more we shall receive. If we give srudgingly we may be sure what we give will come back to us grudgingly. Deep down in our hearts I wonder if some of us don't give because we want te be approved. God loves the cheer- ful giver. This reminds me of a German say- ing: I like to give villingly; ven I gives villingly it enjoys me so much, I gives it again! CHARITY. THE SOCIAL CORNER WOODBOX. So much has Dear Corner Friends: been said about the Social Corner woodbox, perhaps some of the new writers would like to know how it originated. A number of years ago a Social Corner Sister was living in a house which had a quaint, unusual woodbox. It was built on the side of the room and was not high but long and rather narrow, and had a cover, 60 it was fitted up with cushions and pillows and made a comfortable seat— the kind where there is always room for one more. This Sister, living in a remote cor- ner of Tolland county, invited any Sister to find her and sit on the wood- box and have a cup of tea, and they could take the cup and saucer home as a souvenir. There was much wondering “Who was Who?" but finally the prize was carried away by a Sister living many miles away, Sunshine No. 1, from North Stonington, and ever since the wood- box has stood for genulne. hearty hos- {piiality in that or any other Sister's home. In course of time. when another res- idence was acquired, a movable wood- box was procured and christened with a coat of Social Corner color and be- came solely a Social Corner acquisi- tien. THEODA. WHAT CHARITY Is. Dear Social Corner Sisters: Do you think charity has to do only with giv- inz to the poor? Charity is not in | givinz, but it rests in silence with ref- | erence to the need or poverty of otn- | ers. Have you thought you would not want to’ pecome subject to charity? Not one of us should reject it, for we meed it as we need the mercy of God, It has been said: “First daughter to the love of God is charity to man.” There is nothing more heavenly in buman character than kindly thoughts. We are made spiritual by finding our own faults, chiding ourselves and in- voking the mercy of Heaven upon us. Charity cxceeds faith and hope be- cause it covers a multitude of sins, and because it is divine. If we have not charity even our prayers sound like brass and tinkling cymbals. SARAH ANN TIGHE. WHAT HEZ DISCOVERED. Dear Soc: sort of les £ot home v 1 Corner Editor: I was so weary and sleepy when I that little was said, but 1en I woke up next morning I said: {ope, I guess the reason Mrs. Ga- zaboo called it a function was because there were three big bowls of punch there. T functioned all right.” “You'll never function azain when I am with you,” sald Hope, “You are too easy a victim to thirst. You were never designed to go into society.” f society calls me I shal| feel ijke said I, “I can concentrate on t end of it, and vou ought to get fun enough out of the @ . “We'll refrain,” said Hope, “for you know a bad habit when vou see it, Elez; and I do, too! I haven't a so- Clety meck if you have a society whis- le. So I can't wet my whistle again be- cause Hope's meck isn’t right for a Gazaboo function. HEZ HARMONDY. THE QUALITY OF MEATS. c An im- portant point about meats which every housewife should understand is that | the most expensive cuts do not contain | more nourishment, pound for pound, than do the cheaper cuts of the same animal. Of course meat where bone and fat predominate are poor economy and would be dear at any price; but the lean round steak, or beef contains as much nourishment as the choicest sir- loin or porterhouse, while from the humble flank, or -chuck, we receive more nutriment for the money_spent than we do for prime ribs. Money cxpended on “best cuts” 1s paid out for flavor and tenderness alone. These other meats with skilful cooking may be made tender and savory. KITTY LOU. TESTED RECIPES. Dear Sisters laneous recipes: Fried Cakes with Apple Sauce: Cream one-half cup sugar with two and one-half tablespoons shortening:; add one-fourth - teaspoon salt, one- fourth teaspoon nutmeg, one-half tea- spoon lemon extract, one-half teaspoon baking soda, one-half teaspoon bak- Here are a few miscel- | gether until d one-half cups ughiy, then add | dough. Rol fry in hot fat until browned on both sides. Drain and serve with apple sauce. < Enough for ten cakes. Lemon Sauce for Puddings: Blend one-half cup suzar, two tablespoons cornstarch, one-fourtn te n “salt; then add ‘one-half cup honey. one og& and one.cup boiling water, and cook in double boiler, stirring often. Cook un- til th, about 10 minutes. Befors remo) from stove add one table- |! Dbutter. : Macaroni with Gravy: Break one- t water; cook until thoroughly ten- r. Make a milk gravy from the drippings of roast beef. AAd the ma- caroni, . stir well; serve hot - EASTER LILY. | Huntington, L. 1. GOOD DEPENDABLE RECIPES. Dear Social Corner: I am glad Mountain Laurel liked my recipes. Be_ low you will find a few original frost- ngs: Plain Chocolate Frosting: One-half cup cocoa, one-half cup confectionary sugar, one-half teaspoon butter, one |- pinch salt, one-half teaspoon vanilla and bolling water enoush to wet to a running consistency. But first be sure the sugar and cocoa are thoroughly mixed. . Plain lcing: One cup confectionary «ugar, one pinch salt, one-half tea- spoon’ butter, (to keep frosting soft), one teaspoon flavoring and bolling wa- of every housekeeper to h resourc away, @ time as this is nothing short of a erime.” declared the agreeing with the professor. there js rice. Rice is such a good food that it should never be thrown away. 1t contains so much valuable protein— isn’t it protein that Anyway, If there is a spoonful of rice left it should be made into a pud- din; and then suppose a spoonful vudding is left over, what then good investment. making it is a_couple of pieces of old toast, a cup of vanilla. and a whank of cornstarch and if it isn't eaten— which most likely it won't be—you are not out anything because you can malke-a darned good poultice out of it anywe “At the present time it is the duty usband the of her larder—ouch! get off observed the professor to his nothing such y foot, rellow boarders, “to _throw because wastefulness at “Nothing should be thrown away, Rintate. - S “Now, rice contains? retorted the lusty boarder, “Yes, of the “Puddings are wasteful, anyway, in- sisted the boarded who knew it all, ‘all except bread pudding, which is a All you need in ter enough to spread. Be sure and have frosting run a little then it will be_smoother. Boiled lIcing: (Handy to use when you have no confectionary sugar)— One cup sranulated susar, onme-half Gup boiling water, boil until it threads (put spoon into mixture and let it run out of spoon about a foot over the dish, watching the last drop to see if y threadlike appears). While the syrup is bolling beat two egg whites stiff and when syrup threads beat to- cool encugh to spread, then add a pinch of salt and flavor. Best wishes for all. WRS. KATSENJAM. GOOD THINGS TO KNOW. Dear Sisters of the Socia] Corne If you want a nice light featherv pi low, cut cotton batting in_ small squares; bake in warm oven 30 min- utes. A red hot iron will soften put it may be removed. If it is on a wi dow pane put a cloth over and steam it. Stove Polish when mixed with tur- pentine, will be more giossv and dura- ble than when mixed with any other liquid. A handfui of flour or salt bound on a sore will stop its bleedinz. A Cake Cooler, on a folded brown paper is a convenient way for receiv- ing doughnuts after they are fried. Cement for China: Into a thick so- lution of gum arabic stir plaster of paris until the mixture assumes the consistency of cream. Apply with a brush to_the broken edges, join to- gether. In three days the article mended cannot be broken in the same place. A Good Salve: Equal parts of tur- pentine, sweet oil, mutton tallow and beeswax melted together is good for burns, cuts, boils, or sores of any kind. ETHELYN. EXCELLENT RECIPES. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: These are excellent recipes: Corned Beef and Onions on Toast: Slice eight or nine onions and fry. in butter until a delicate brown. .Season with salt and pepper lightly. Grind sufficlent cold corned beef to make two cups and place over the onions. Let simmer on the back of the stove for a few minutes before servinz. Then mix all together and place on well- buttered toast. Orange Pudding Orange pudding is a rather thin corn starch custard. Cut or shred four oranges, and stir in the custard. This juice shou quite thin; then whip in w fork the stifffy beaten whites of the eg2s to which a little suzar has been | i added. Prune Whip: Beat the whites of two eszs until stiff, add a small bowl of pitted prunes, beat a few minutes with egz beater, place in oven for 10 min- utes. The sauce is prepared by using the juice from the prunes, adding milk |t or water, sweeten and flavor to taste, |t and add volks of eggs as soon as it romes to boll. t MOUNTAIN LAUREL. PREPARING COOL-LOOKING BED. | ROOMS. . solved to do little things well. drain in the water-the vi clected make troubls later on. methods for doing work may be a help water and v how quickly rewarded with a crop but with a recov- ery of health. ‘Amateurs should not commence gar- dening in the expectancy of accom- plishing great things. but simply re- There can be no spurts in gardening. It is just steady, diligent, inrc®ligent work, the smallest details of wiich cannot be nezlected if satisfactory results are expected. Do not think you are too feeble to do a Jittle bit of work out of doors if you are able to get around. It will do you good to dig a little in_ the dirt. JOSEPH DOE. BEWARE OF THE GARBAGE PAIL. Dear Social Corner Sisters: The gar- bage can is often a temptation to waste little left-overs. There is no reason why any good thing should be wasted. Save all scraps of meat for souffles, and vegetable scraps for -croqucWstes. If you happen to have a slice of beet or turnip left over, put it in a warmed- over potato. A spoonful of peas is delicious in an omelet. If your biscuits are stale, wet each one in cold water quickly, put in paper bag, twist tightly and put in oven. Wash your eggs and save the shelis for coffee. If you wish to use the white and not the yolk, why cover with cold water ard it will not dry. “ If one happens to have bread pud- ding left over, put it powder tin and some day cut into a baking it in slices, dip in egg yolk and crumbs, fry and serve with hard sauce. Cornstarch is fine. too, only before -molding re- heat, stir in more cornstarch to make it firmer. Steam up cold gingerbread and serve with foaming sauce, or stale cake with a bit of jelly or an orange. In making pie crust save the pieces and bake on inverted pans, and when . needed fill with whatever you have and take the top from your milk and whip, pile on top. Hot drop cakes are nice with preserves, too. Janet told us how she saved and used the water spinach and onions were boiled in. Vegetable saits of real value are too often poured down the sink ezotal boiled in, oy Yours for economy. JUSTICIA. . DOMESTIC SUGGESTIONS. Dear Cornerites: Little things ne- These to_some of vou: When making children’s colored clothes several patches should be neatly sewed to the inside belt. so that in case of need the patch will be the same shade as the garment, hav- ng been washed - as many times. One mother puts a fold in the hem, which can be let down out makine a fright of the dress. at will with: The easiest and most satisfactory method of getting cheese mixed with sandwiches - is to cnt the cheese in hick strips -and pour ot water over hem in a dish. Lift them out of the e a table fork to mash will be surprised to find it will be done. Two teaspoons of almond meal placed near the root of a fern every wo weeks will keep it in a flourishing hem. You 200 condition. . Do not nut the plant out e Bl e _ | of doors: keep it arained well ana on T Sisters: A SOM- |an ordinary plate. Air It half an mour fortabie, pretty cooi-looking bedzoom goes to the heart of the summer Loard- ere and lingering in the memory lures one back for a second or many more seasons. For comfort the chief things are good springs and a good mattress; and |} therein should lie the greatest expense | | in furnishing the room. The bed.may be a cheap one of white iron or a wooden one, old or new, but the mat- |5 tress should be of excellent quality hair, feit or silk floss, and will pay for itself in years of service if it is trequently aired and sunned. It should be protected by a pad just the size of top of mattress—a quilfed one.of plain |t white sheeting with cotton inside may be bought in the shops now at a mod- erate price, or be made at home. The sheets need no trimming, but | should be long enough to tuck in wel at the foot and turn back six inches or more at the top. The pillows should be of live geese feathers. An elastic |t pillow is more to be desired than em- broidered pillow cases. The covers should be light weight, large enough and easily washed. The best kind of spread is, luckily the cheapest and easiest to wash. It is is light as a sheet and requires no Ironing. These come all white and in white with colored stripes. each doors looking reen and prosperous cooked slowlv Shave stir hour to cool. ether, ammonia, powdered borax and let stand for 24 hours. Use this ror scrub- Bing: made of crinkled dimity or seersucker, “;"l’?”'\‘fl e Bl L LEL P T only up the colors. a; if you would keep a fern in- Apple sauce cooked a long time and in covered earthenware < entirely different and much riche: than by the hurry un method of the ndifferert cook. purner of the The simmering ®as range is the hesw answer for this good old apple sance. HATTIE. HOW TO RENOVATE AN OiD CAR PET. Dear Cornerites: An excellent way o brighten up an old carpet is to crub it with the following mixture: one pound of good white soap. put into a gzallon of boiling water and tir over the fire until completely dis- olved. Take from the range and well, the n leave for half an At the end of that ime add one-half ounce sulphuric one ounce alcohol, two ounces one and one-half ounce: the whole then rinse well with cold water with a rough cloth. cleans the rug, This not but brightens If vou are fond of wearing white PAULA. |crepe de chine or plain silk blouses — and wish to keep them from turning THE SOCIAL CORNER COLOR. |vellow. wash them in cold water and a hard, white soap. Cold Water and Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: | 60ap will take out the soil as well as We have a Social Corner color—the |warm water, only it takes a little color of the check representing the |more time for the work. Rinse well prize won, and much more for, in a|in two waters and roll up tightly In spiritual sense yellow symbolizes good- |2 Turkish towel. Press on wrong ness. Why should we not have a Social|i Corner character? Have you ever |l tried to agree to disagree, to not only bear one another’s differences of opin- fon without irritation but to respect all honest differences of opinion? An_ opinion is nothing stable. We all change our opinions many, many times in life, and the opinion we re- gard as very serious today we may be | i laughing at next year and be wonder- [ng how we were weak enough or fool- ish enough to entertain such views. Do you ever think what poor Iis- tenerd and what poor thinkers we be? We are ail doing the best we can, we think, but would we mot be better i we learned to respect the opposite opinion? RUTH. i A CHANCE FOR INVALIDS. Dear Social Corner Editor: It is a fact that many an invalid who started | i e little garden as a diversion has by working a little in the sunshine and then a little more has not only been b . writ a fireless_cooker for hours. world in the way of a breakfast is a corn or corn and wheat gem correctly made. side before dry, with a moderate hot ron. Too hot ‘an iron will spoil th ooks of the silk. Georgette crepe should nmot be ironed till perfectly ary. MANELL WHAT HIS WIFE DOES. Editor Social Corner: Since war s producing a_world-wide famine we must look at the situation as it real- y is, not as we think it is. me: wife puts corn jmeal mush in about four The -very best thing in the biscuit _for A friena “The people’ will have to eat a lot of mixed corn and wheat flour this vear whether they want it of not and they might as well learn how to cook corn meal, so they will never want to give it up.” The proportion of white corn meal may be carried up to one-third the amount of wheat flower used, and the TO SAVE MONEY If_you haven’t a whank of corn- stareh you can substitute a half la- dle of Chicken's-head jelly ~sug- gested the brilliant boarder. “Substitution is more ~expensive than not throwing things away,” in sisted the lusty boarded, “Tt—— “But it's 80 much fun” enthused the pretty teacher. “It's so exciting and so thrilling to have to call all your resourcefulness Into action. Peo- ble who have laid in big supplies of everything never will know the joys making something else do. ‘Now there's where you get your real extravagance,” declared Stews, the worldly wise. “Did you ever hear of a fellow saving money by buying cigars by the box, prunes by the ton, spuds, by the acre and garlic by the ream? No? Well vou never will. The bigger supply you have on hand the faster you use it, the more you lose through spofling and accidents and the more coin you lose when the bot- tom drops out of the market and the more the neighbors borrow.” The landiady, who had heard all in a gloomy silence, was moved to speech at last. “You've said it!” she declared. e —Exchange. baked product will be most nourish- ing because of it. There is nothing more nourishing or healthy than corn meal, and its com- pulsory use will prove beneficial A . LOVER OF CORNCAKE HOW TO MAKE CANDY. Dear Social Corner Sisters: Try these candy recipes. I think you wiil tike them: White Taffy: Better known and ap- preciated by the name of Circus Taf- ry.—Three pints of sugar, threec Cups of boiling water poured over the su- gar, one teaspoon of lemon julce or vinegar, one teaspoon cream of tar- tar. Let stand after mixing thorough- Iy over warm, not hot, water. Place on the stove until it is perfectly clear. _Then place it where it will boil, but do not stir when boiling. When it hardens in water it is done. Add one teaspoon of vanilla and pull it until it is white. Pull out in long picces with a pretty grain and cut before it hardens. Six-inch pieces wrapped in oiled paper will make a correct imi- iation of circus taffy. Al sorts of flavorings and colorings may be add- ed to the recipe for plain white taffy. Chocolate taffy is especially good. Fig Cream Candy: Ingredients—Two medium sized cups of granulated su- gar, half a cup of hot water, one tea- epoon vanilla extract and half a cup of chopped fizs. Stir the sugar into the hot water, put it on the stove and watch until the mixture boils, then let 1t boil rapidiy for three minutes. Re- move from the fire, add the vanil'a, and beat for several minutes, or until it is creamy. Rub the pieces of fiz in powdered sugar, shaking off the sur- plus, and whip these into the cream. Form into balls and put on wased or greased paper to cool. These will be iess sticky to handle if rolled in pow- dered sugar before they have thor- oughly hardened. MADGE. THE INVALID WITHOUT AN AP- PETITE. Dear- Sisters of the Social Cormer: When you desire to send something pleasing to a sick friend without an appetite you think you are up against a problem. You think and sweat and wonder what under the sun you can concoct to tempt her appetite. You better leave that to the doctor. Na- ture is the best restorer of the appe- tit e sure and hold in your heart strong and hopeful thoughts for her and send something she likes, a plant, 2 flower, a bcok, a queer postage stamp or trinket of any kind which will amuse her and take her attention trom herself. The mind is likely to furnish good and safe medicine and appetite usually responds to good cheer. People die sometimes while we are asking oursclves what we shall 0. THE CRANK. LOOKING UP TO HEAVEN. Editor Social Corner: Too many of us are satisfied to look up at the heav- ens in wonder at night when we might ook up at them in the joy of knowl- edge. The northern lights are seen when 500 miles above the earth: and shoot- ing stars are seen when 100 miles high. There are two comets in the sky now: Mellish's, discovered March 19, now in the constellation Cetus and fast disappearing; and Wolf's comet which will remain until September, being nearest the earth Aug. 21. Saturn is the evening star for May; and Jupiter the morning star. The brightest, stars visible at & p. m. on the fifteenth, are Castor an Pollux in the west, Capella setting in the northwest, Procyon low in the southwest, Regulus a little west of the meridian and south of the zenith, Spica in the southeast, Arcturus high in the east, and Vega rising in the north- east. From one who LOOKS-UP! FARMING. Dear Social Corner Friends: While T em not a farmer, and never thought I could be, T surely have a lot of enthu- siasm this spring in regard to home gardening. We have an asparagus bed in the back yard, and being so piggish T have taken a slice from that for to- wmato plants, have lengthened the gar. den along the fence for other vereta- bles, and 1 have beets, radish, lettuce. carrots, parsnips. summer squash and cucumber seed planted. I shall keep track of what I pay out, and then in the fall will report as Keziah Doolittle suggested. We shall not have trouble In get- ting. rid of vegetables as all are fond of them. SATURDAY BEVE. DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THE BIRDS? Dear Social Corner Sisters: Some among vou are interested in birds, and it is easy to increase your knowiedge of them. We all know the crows, blackbirds, the robin, English spar- rows, bluebird and most of the birds like the phoebe, the chebec, Eob White, and others which repeat their own names. The kinglets are tiny, olive gray and dull white, fancy caps; the golden crowned veilow and black striped; the ruby crowned as named. The brown creeper is tiny, long tailed, rests its tail on the trunk; no white on back. The nuthatch, black capped, blue-gray and white; does not rest its tail. The hermit and olive backed thrush- es have spotted breasts, are larger than an English sparrow, with rather long bills. The former is distinctly ru- fous on the back. The thrasher is very rufous, has a long tail, is spotted on the throat, and to ler, ‘mo spots on breast; the mmfi has lines on head: the latter is ine whike, thratad And whiis crown. 941- fox m is the larger, bright o 5 ;nm streaks, and big spot on The meadow lark is marked on the back like a sparrow; yellow with black crescent on breast; shows white tail feathers when it fli frequents larger than a robin. The turtle dove is a drab colored wila pigeon; wings fllea: Te Kilideer is long lexged and winged; rans on_ sround: = fies and ewiftly, and calls dee, des, is larger than a robin. Keep a sharp lookout for the birds. BIRD LOVER. REST FOR WORKING WOMEN. Dear Social Corner Sisters: It is of exceeding value to know how to rest. Much discomfort results from eve- strain which not only produces head- ache but general discomfort. Medical authorities assure us the eye was not made for near. but for far-sight and that its steady employ- ment in reading, sewing, embroider- ing, etc. in time sadly _effects ths nerves, hence if they will close thy eyes for a few moments while occupied at intervals they may save themseives from affliction and acquire much need- ed res A physician says: Make trial of this yourself. If your work is near vision work, shut your eyes every little while, You do not need to keep them shut long. A few seconds at a time—a minite at the most—should be enough. Discofort so easily overcome ought to be inviting to the afflicted. SUSANNA. ECONOMICAL WAR BREAD. Dear Social Corner Sisters: In these days, when housekeepers must pay $14 6r $i5 a barrel for flour, 1 want them to know about what my househald calls cur “War Bread,” so econmomical, nourishing and palatable that I think we will never care to go back to the whole white flour bread agein. Here is_the recipe for three loaves: Two quarts wheat flour, one pint of white corn meal, bolted, one large ta- blespoon each ‘sugar, salt and short- ening one Magic yeast cake. Luke- .warm water sufficient to make a sponge. Pfetnod: Thoroushly mix the meal ana flour together. I mix the dough over night, and knead it in the morning. Bake three-quarters of an hour. White corn meal is much cheap- er than flour at present prices that this use of one-third meal is bread- making means a big saving, especial- ly in a large family. Fe find the Iy in a large family. We find the than ordinary white bread, also. Try my recipe, Sisters, and see! LEILA. ENGLISH WAR PUDDINGS. Editor Soclal Corner:—I notice that the English papers give a recipe daily for the berefit of thelr readers, four of which 1_send you. as mattter of interest to Social Corner reader. Golden Pudding—Mix flour with siightly more than its quarter of finely-chopped suet; add one or two beaten eggs, with third to half-glass of milk, and pinch_ of eait, and mix all thoroughly. (reise pudding mould and put in two to four tablespoons of golden syrup, pouring batter on top. Tie cloth over, steam or boil for three hours, and serve hot with sweet sauce. Chocolate Pudding—The welght of an egg in margarine, sugar, and flour. Mix the margarine and sugar togeth er; then mix In t egg and add 2 ounces chocolate puwder (or ch late) first worked to smooth paste with /.blespoonful of miik. ~ After- wards mix in the flour, to which Jea- spoon of baking powder has been added. Put into greased basin and steam for an hour. sy Pudding—Rabbit, onion, 2 ounces grated cheese, two tablespoons of breadcrumbs. teacup of rabbit bofl- ings, and a lif!le margarine. Stew the rabbit slow ¥ untl] tender, remove all bones, and cit meat Into small pieces. Mix in grated cheese, onion (either fried or parboiled and chop- ped), liquid and seasonings. Turn in- to pie-dish, sprinkle some bread- crumbs over, and put margarine on top. Bake in moderate oven for one hour. . Beef Straws—Cut meat into strips about 3 inches long and an inch thick and wide. Rub with little pepper and, salt sprinkie with Worcester salice and dip Into frying batter. Fry In boiling margarine antil batter is golden brown color. These recipes are issued by the Na- tional Econbmic League for the bene- fit of the Zeople. VICTORIA. WITHOUT EGGS. Dear Social Cornerites:—Fggs are so high that ezgless recipes of any kind are appreciated by most house- wives. Here lers without eggs. will make about 50 delicious crullers: Two tablespoons butter, a little sal and nutmeg. one and one-half cup: milk, one cup hot mashed potatoes, one and one-half cups sugar, two teaspoons baking powder, and flour to make just stiff enough to handle. No-Egg Fruit Cake—Five cups .of is a recipe for making crul- These ingredients flour, 2 of sugar, 1 of molasses, 1 of butter, 1-2 cup of lard, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon of. soda, diesolved- in a cup of sour milk, 2 teaspoons of ground clove, 2 of alispice, 1 of mace, 1 pound of chopped ralsins, 2 ounces of citron siiced thin. 7 MTRIAM. THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW. Dear Social Corner Sisters:—WHpn rugs do not lie flat the fault is often in the way the rug is made. The car- pet is drawn too tightly some place when the strips are fastened together or when the border is put on and lit- tle can be done to make them lie smoothly. Tf the sizing is out of your rugs the best t'/ng to do is to send them to professional cleaners and have them resized. You cannot do a good job at home. You might try a thin coat of paste or a very thin coat- ing of glue. Of course, the/rugs must be absolutely clean and dustless be- fore the dressing is put on. Scarfs or cretonne are neat and especially attractive for a girl room. The pin cushion and nap pli- low should be covered to match. A scarf made to fit the top of the dresser should be scalioped all around, but one that hangs at the sides need have only the ends scal- loped, the eldes being hemmed. Rather heavy embroidery floss should be used for working the scal- lops. The heavy floss not only facili- tates the work but is more in har- mony with the materfal than a fine cotton would be. 5 DAKOTAH. WANTS TO HEAR FROM CLUB NO. 2. & mocking bird. ! e %"’;iu- and ’ma sparrows are | ties. had missea her rrom ‘Lné out again. whistle when it | Can:p Ground, Pher dis- t card. 18 80 1ll. We Corner. ?"fi@:"nu ned Olga: Thanks fo Bosry o heaz. Aus Abuls, Glad to hear Popover is dbie o be Hoping to hear from some of No. 5 e SCOTTIE. May $th, 1917. %% FLORADORA A SHUT-IN. & Soctal Corner Sisters:—Al- though it has been some time since I ave written 1 have not lost inter- est in The Corner. > Belng shut' in for a time, I find the lettors cheerful. Several of the Sisters have calied and have remem- bered me with cards and gif I wish to thank all who have con- tributed to my happiness at this tim: With best wishes to ail. . FLORADORA. Willimafitic, - Conn. CLUB NO. 1's MEETING. Editor and all Corner Sisters:— 1 want to tell you all what a nice time we had at Club No. I's gathering, it being our last meeting ac the W. C. T. U. hall this spring. The morning being had a large gathering, good time. %35 We were sorry thers to visit us from Club N ed you all. Tidy Addly: Were sorry you were on the ‘sick list, this being the first gathering that you've not been with us and we greatly missed you. The Hostesses did hear their part in having the day a day of pleasure and | were successful. There were several songs by all, and solos by Biddy and Aunty No. 1. There were recitations by Selinda, BEnoch Horton and Alfaretta; and a letter from Diana. 3 There was a large display of antique articles, some articles nearly 200 years old or even older. The tables wers decorated with the bright daffodils and as usual were Jaden with good things. I could not begin to teil you the different things which made us all bave a rousing good appetite; and I guess we ail did jus- tice in testing ali the goodies. At any rate, 1 for one did my part. After the program was completed they took a vote, whether we should stil] continue having the gatherings if everything. proved favorable to us at the hall next fall, beginning in > vember; and there was an unanimous vote ir. favor. Nex: were plans for the gatheringw to be hetd at the Lake tn June, and a!l were In favor of having the dinner ordered, of which, of course, notice wil! be given late: Sympathy was extended to all who are nn the sick list; and to those who have had sadness in the loss of dear triends by death In the past vear. Hope to meet you all at the next gathering. Best wishes for The Corner. C.EB8 -FOR YOUNG HOUSE-KEEPERS.- favorable, we and a grand were none up 2. We miss- Dear Bocial Cornerites:—These hints may be of value to young hcuse- keepers: ' In making soups always put the meat In cold water. Corned beef and ham should be put in bolling water. A tablespoon of vinegar put In the pot ill make tough meat or chicken ten- er. To roast beef allow 20 minutes to a Ppound. All vegetables should be put in boil- ing water. Cut hot brownbread by putting a string around the loaf the right thick- ness for a elice and draw quite tight, Anything mixed with water requ'res a hotter oven than anything mixed with milk. A dlsh of cold water put in the oven wili prevent cake from burning. In making tea allow one teaspoonful for each person and one for the pot. Allow one tablespoon of coffee for each person and one for pot. Always pare frult with a knife. Always sweep carpets the way the nap runs. If new tinware is rubbed over with fresh lard and then thoroughly heated in the oven before it s used it will never rust afterward, no matter how much water is used in it. silver MAMMY. WEBSTER CAKE. Dear Social Corner is a good recipe for Webster Cake—Two cggs, 1 cup of sugar, 1-2 cup of butter ,beaten well, Sisters:—Here 1-2 cup of milk, 2 cups of flour, 1-3 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon of cream tartar; take haif of batter, and 2 ta- blespoons of molasses, 1-2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1-2 teaspoon of nutmeg, 1 cup of raisins: and cook 20 minutes; then add the top part. With best wishes to all. BVA G. GREETINGS FROM PAPA'S BOY. Dear Social Corner.Sistera: —Just a line to thank the Sisters who remem- bered my birthday. Popover: 1 am planning to be at the iake next month. Let me know the date. Rural Delivery: 1 think you are owing the letter. i Bo-Peep: Some hens! How do vou lke J.'s Overland? . Tiny: I was sorry to hear of, your sickness, but hope rou and sénny are better. . Best wishes to all. . PAPA'S BOY. HINTS IN SEWING. DPear Social Corner Sisters:—The woman who is skillful:with her needls has her ways of finishing work. When ehe makes a skirt for her mother, who is inclined to be stout, she cuts the hips one inch lower af the top than the front and the back one and a half inches lower. Thus she prevents the skirt from poking out to front. : Sho finishes the meck of an.outing flannel garment with a buttonholing of white or delicate colored floss to avoid facing it. Then she Is able to 2dd 2 narrow edging or scallop to fin- sh it. And when she Is making aprons she careful finighes the meams so that there is no wrong side. She makes a pocket on each side, and thus she is able to turn it about and get double wear aut of it. n place of the custowary colored ribbons it is better tlfla.{: use the three-quarter inch width of silk faced black velvet ribon as ties and bow for the corner or pocket of an apron. 01d kid or chamois gloves make ex- cellent protectors for the points of scissors and shears. Cut out two pieces a shade larger than the points, stitch or buttonhole them together and slip on. MARY JANE. TO MAKE COMFORTS IN SECTIONS Dear Social Corner Sisters:—Did you ever make a comforter in sec- tions? Four comforters the mize re- Dear Social Corner Sisters:—When I read the paper and saw no notice of a Club No. 2 gathering I was disap- pointed, it is so long since we have met. 1 hope ‘the Corner Sisters are not losing interest. After house clean- ing time perhaps they wiil get to- gether again. . T wished fo attend: the Wilimantic quired for a chiid’s bed may be joined fogether to make one for & full sised bed. Make the edges that are to be Buch a comforter can sections thus making and - general handlin forter made in tw four may be exsil gle bed. Did you ever make with hems at both ends wear beiter and used 100k prett at one end. Another prett make a piiiow the point t turn broldered or trimmed with e Dear Social Cc you will find these recipes Asparagus Salad mold with aepic J with quarters hard b paragus .tips When set turn with bolled over a mayc per from seeds meat steak, half a pou and fwo peeled bread crumbs ped parsle; seasoning, a chopper with and cook ome ho sauce. Garnish w parsiey and siiced t with brown sauce Parsnip Bails One masked parsnips crumbs (scant) 1 e onds. APPETIZING SOUP Dear Social Cornerite s0ups do not come a of the year. Mixed Vegetabis haif gallon of tum-sized po ird cup_of r salt, two he: ter‘and a cup « Put this on to boil Scup hen strain of flour with f, of cream and st on_tho stove and let it Spanish Onion Soup onions and fry brow Ing a -teospoon of sugar pour eight cups of a bay leaf. haf a doze and a_tabiespoo of ley. - Simmer . serve with a r bread. Carrot Soup chopper one pint of green aweet three pints of wat through a sleve, add o one tablespoonfu 4 smooth with one of according to thick to taste with sal meg. A half cup of ful of nut bujter is AN INQUIRY Dear Corner there is some one | will tell me what I child to help hi tried oranges. 1 medicines. Would Ifke mothers nurses liveiy and happy nothing and grows With best wishe LIVE ON PLEASANT S The Socia! tiful May morning I thoug write a few lines remembrance sake Tn these very ut have to be careful w ing about Despite the make it lfe's to live on short dista enue.” . It ocer do this and still the old home in ing. Test hard time Ple regards Yantic SPRING HELPS. Dear Social Corne . helps will be found t How to ciean gas tle ammonia in the wate the ordinary way. T . to n more easily prevents them from t Here is i nod ed bath. Wring water and spread hard. Get fresh B takes without injuri fact, it freshens it Scraps of woap together and saved fair am, Then meit a and make them up togethe soap ball It sand is mixe them, these @oap bal . for removing stains fror Copper and brass utens made to look ifke rew them with a soiution of sa egar. Use as much salt a will dissolve. Appiy wit rag. rub vigoreus pulverizea « then look like At the recent st paper men in Ohlo were alect ernor, Heutenant governor.state urer, ‘state auditor and aft eral. Trouble Fathers and Entirely mo child with a chront K " cough Wannaska, Minn., writes years my cough. Every time she coid it~ aggravated the tried many medicines, bu daughter had a lapped a little thinmer than the others and baste them together. with a ehort running stiteh.. .. i & ol The making ‘itselt;is much_easier as a small comforter can be readily and does not necessarily' re- tried Foley's Floney and Tar thing produce any great rofie few days the trouble entire peared and _has never Foley's Honey and Tar for colds, croup, whooping cough quire the use of a quilting frame.|Osgood Co. Disappeared. cougns Lee &