Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 29, 1917, Page 14

- . FIVE PRIZES EVERY MONTH OF ONE DOLLAR EACH. #made the last Saturday of each month. EVERY WOMAN'S OPPORTUNITY Tite Bulletir wants good home letters: gooa business letters; good nelp- fu) letters of any kind the mind may suggest. They should be in hand by Wvednesdar of each week. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conn. WOWWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, A0 b it £ Award SOCIAL CORNER PRIZES FOR SEPTEMBER One Dollar Each ¢ To Jennie for letter descriptive of To Ethelyn for story of Voyaging © To Little Spinster for report of “A © in Central Park, N. Y. her visit to Indiana. to South Carolina ana Florida. Vision of the Holy City,” as presented To Crimson Rambler for complete report of Lucy Acorn's party. To Diana for letter depicting “An Old Colonial Kitchen. - SOCIAL CORNER POEMS. My Altar. j I have worshipped in churches and chapeis; I've prayed in the busy street; I have sought my God end have found ‘Whers the waves of his ocean beat; I have knelt in the silent forest In the ehadg of some ancient tree; | - But the dearest of all my altars Was raised at my mother’s knee. B have listened to God In his temple; Tve caught his voice in the crowd: § have heard him speak when the . breakers ‘Were booming long end loud; Where the winds play soft in the tree- to; Father has taiked to me: 1 mever have heard him ciearer I did at my mother's knee. in my life that are worthy born in my mother’s breast, breathed into mine by the magic the love her life expressed. years that have brought me to ‘manhood Have taken her far from me; t memory keeps me from straying far from my mothers knee. 21 ] I g make me the man of her vison purge me of selfishness! keep me true to her standards d_help me to live to bles: hallow the holy impress the days that used to be, keep me a pilgrim forever ‘o the shrine at my mother’s knee! —John H. Styles, Jr. in the Christian Herald. f Eoff L] H THE WORD. { © Bastnt thou nast not any wind that blows ‘Which is not music; : thine Pressed rightly flows : wine; ! And every humble hedgegrow flower 3 that grows, © And every little brown bird that doth every weed of in aromatic sing, | Hath something greater than itself, and bears £ A _living Word to every living thing. Albeit it hold the message unawdres. | All shapes and sounds have something § which is not i ©Of them; a Spirit broods amid the i grass; | Vague outlines of the Everlasting Thought Lie in the melting shadows as they The touch of an Eternal Presence trrills The fringes of the sunsets and the hills. —Richard Realf. INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS, SWAMP APPLE—Card received and_forwarded to Great Grandma. GREAT GRANDMA passed her 81st | birthday, Sept. 22. Cards may be mall- ed to Mrs. N. G. G.. 761 Montauk ave- :mue, New London. PRACTICAL POLLY: Card recefv- ed and mailed to Great Grandma. | CHATTERBOX: Cards received and mailed as you directed. SALLY SYCAMORE writes: Greet- ings to all The Social Corner family. I am home from my woodland cot- tage. I expect to spend awhile vis- iting with friends. It will soon be cold weather and I shall be home for the winter. I have attended camp meetings _at Douglass and Williman- tic and visited Springfield, North Ox- . ford, Sterling, Hopevillé, Montville, and Westerly. Corner picnics at _ South Coventry, AWillimantic, Plainfield, Lebanbn and two at Norwich, and liked them all GREETINGS FROM PEGGY ANNE. Dear Social Cornerites:—How are you all this lovely morning? I eup- Pose the most of you are very busy with canning. I have canned over three hundred quarts and haven't fin- jshed vet. I think the letters lately have been very interesting and help- ful. Papa’s Boy: Congratulations on the latest arrival. What have youa named her? Bring her to Aunty No. 1's_picnic. Malvina: Why didn’t you and your mother stop and make me a call? Dorinda could have waited. Aunt Sarah: Didn't you make a mistake in birthdavs, G. G. N. had a birthday Sept. 25th. Tloise: Hope you can come in next time. Very exciting times we ars Baving over the echool question. Joseph Doe: I have had quite a few blossoms on the seedling dahlias; Put_some did not seem to open fully. the first blossom the first week August. The blossoms are very pretty, and are mostly single. Mella and Spring Chicken: How do like your school work this year? Bl ' beautiul location. Peep Jr. and Tiny: Why so ‘wilent? Best wishes to all Cornerites. PEGGY ANNE. 1 have attended Sociali PRESERVED FRUIT. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner:— These are tasted recipes which some one may appreciate: Apple Miht Jelly—Quarter apples and remove cores. Put into a porce- lain-lined preserving _kettle, add enough water to come to the top of the apples and cook slowly until the apples are thoroughly ‘softened. Drain through a jelly bag. Allow three cups of sugar to each quart of julce. Put the sugar in flat pans in oven to heat. Add " the crushed leaves and stalks from a bunch of mint to the juice and let cook twenty minutes. Strain in- to another kettle, heat to the bolling point, add the heated sugar and boil until ‘sirup jellies. A little green colof paste may be added to give color if desired. Turn into hot glasses and when cool cover with paraffin or pa- per. Apple and Barberry Preserves—Add tWo quarts of water to a quart of bar- berries and let simmer an hour. Strain through a Jelly bag. Pare, quarter and core ten pounds of sweet apples. Cook the apples in the drained bar- berry water, removing as they become tender, and' adding more water s needed. When all the apples are re- moved, add five pounds of sugar to the water in which the apples were cooked and bring to the boiling point, skim- ming as needed. Add the appies and cook until they have a clarified ap- pearance. Turn into jars and seal Pickled Pears—For this recipe there is used one pint of vinegar, one pound of sugar, a half pound of raleins with a teaspoonful each of allepice, cinna- mon and whole cloves tied up in a bag. ~ Boil into a sirup the sugar and vinegar with the ralsing and bag of spices. Peel the pears, dropping in- to cold water to prevent discoloration. Then add to the hot mixture and cook until soft but not broken. They should not be cooked too long as they look better whole. The raisins give the pears a fine flavor. ELIZA DOANE. THE CARE OF THE HAIR. Dear Soclal Corner Sisters: There are two things the hair must have in order to preserve its health and beau- ty: Perfect cleanliness and a good circulation of the blood in the scalp. Badly treated or neglected hair is not beautiful. It grows dry, dull, and brittle. Most people do not begin to think about their hair until a good deal of it has fallen out. Then they visit the hair dressers and procure a bottle of tonic. Then _they think they have done all that is necessary, after a few applications. . It is hard to say just how often you ought to have a sham- oo, and be sure it is dome often enough to keep both hair and scalp in a condition of cleanliness. It washing makes the hair too dry, rub in a few drops.-of olive oil after the shampoo. Do not put the oil direct- 1y on the hair, but massage it into the scalp with the tips of the fingers. It is 2 good plan to massage the scalp once a day. The massage should be vigorous but not rough. The free clrculation of the blood is the secret of the strength, the gloss, and the beauty of the human hair. For itching of the scalp, take a half tumbler of water, and one-half tea- spoon of carbolic ‘acid, it will not in- jure the hair: rub it into the scalp. Two or thres applications will stop the itching, applied every other day. DOM PEDRO. POTATO SALAD. Dear Soctal Corner Sisters: will be found to be a good recipe: Potato Salad: Six boiled _potatoes, sliced while hot and allowed to cool, one small onlon, minced fine; one- half teaspoon salt, two tablespoons of minced celery, one tablespoon parsley, boiled dressing, one-quarter teaspoon pepper, hard bofled eggs. Tor dressing use: One cup vinegar, two teaspoons sugar, one teaspoon mustard, five tablespoons buttef; one teaspoon galt, one-quarter teaspoon pepper, one cup milk, two eggs. Mek the butter, add the salt, sugar, mus- tard and pepper, then add the vVine- Zar and bring to a boil. Then stir in the milk. Stir constantly until thick. Remove from the fire and fold in the two well-beaten eggs. When ready to serve, line the salad bowl with let- tuce, put in a laver of the potatoes and sprinkle with the chopped onion, celery and parsley. Alternate in this manner until all the materials are used with a layer of dressing on top. Garnish with hard-boiled eggs in This celery. EASTER LILY. USES FOR SALT. Dear Social Corner Sisters: To re- move grease spots use salt dissolved in alcohol. It cleans glass bottles if put in water; relieves nasal catarrah if put in water and used to spray the nose and throat; brightens color in carpets if wiped up with cloth tity sprinkled on top of hot coals Will remove clinkers. S A handful of salt placed on an old newspaper, good. to _clean sticky irons; salt in your vase of roses will lengthen the life of them. ‘When planting potatoes a handful in each Rill will help; half a hand- ful sprinkled on each caulifiower plant kills the worms that form be- tween the leaves, and will help the cabbages and caulifiower to head up £o0d and solid. inch of salt #Aded to your milk will help preserve it. If you wish to keep fish over night without ice pacie it In salt. It will preserve pork packed in & strong brine made from salt and wa- ter makes your salt pork: bes’ put in_salt and water makes corned beef. Fish packed in fairly strong brine pickles it. Cucumbers packed in salt brine for three days, washed and put in vinegar, makes piciles. Cabbage shreaded fine, packed dn salt and set in a warm place to fer- ment, then put in a cold place makes sauerkraut. Salt mixed with vinegar will clean brass or zinc. Lemon juice and salt will remove iron rust. Soak your handkerchiefs in a basin of salt and water will be much pleas- anter to wash. | Dandelions, beans, and corn cah be Kept all winter by & pack of salt. A teaspoon of salt in one quart of water will stop the nose bleed. ETHELYN. NOT EQUAL TO THE GAME. “If you had been equal to the game I should have been surprised. It makes all the difference mn the world Hez That kind of glasses people look thro'” “There's nothing political in _the glasses,” sald I, “the fellow wearing gold bowed glasses would see with one kind of specks as well as another, wouldn't he?” “Its all in their eyes, and the glasses magnify what they are look- ing for. Does Pete Plummer or Joe Jenkins say there is a science of gov- ernment in politics?” “They do mot,” said I “Pete says there is “dough” In politics and Joe says “there’s a chance. “They are all iooking out for Num- aren’t they,” says Hope. “There's where their sclence is, but the leaders must make men like you thinc they are looking out for your interests. They do just as far as looking out for you profits them. Poli- ticlans are all playing the same of life, but true men know life is too_se- rious to be regarded as a game. You get into that game, Hez, and any of them can beat you as easy as you can beat one at checkers. “I guess I should have to know a little more about the game than I do now before I venture, said 1" HEZ HARMONDY. DOMESTIC HELPS. Dear Social Corner Sisters: These directions may be valuable to some of you: To Remove Fruit Stains From Linen: Pour boiling water through the spot before washing. Rub. If this does quarters, and the white leaves of the | go not succeed, molsten the spot and hold under it ‘a’ lighted match. The sul- phurous gas will cause the stain to disappear, it is said. Should this not be satisfactory, molsten the spot, rub it with a little salts-of-lemon. Hang it in the sun for a few minutes. then wash out thoroughly. This is.good for extreme cases, but risks removing the fabric with the spot. Peach stains are especially obstinate, but will be found to disappear by degrees in the ordi- nary course of time and washing. To Remiove Mildew Stains: Soak in millc for 48 hours. Or, rub with lem- on juice and salt. The same remark applies to these as to peach stains. To Remove the Unpleasant Odor From Feather lows Hang them in a strong wind on a-cloudy day; do not put them in the sun. To Set the Color in Calicoes: Dis- solve 2 gills of salt in one quart of boiling water, and while hot, put the dress into it. Let it remain several hours; then dry it, after which wash as usual. Powdered alum is also used for the same purpose. To Remove Rust From Steel: Cover steel with sweet oil, well rubbed in. After 48 hours, rub it with finely pow- dered, unslacked lime, until the rust digappears. N. B—Do not let the lime touch the hands or it will burn them. Remedy for Burns; a raw potato: with it. renew it vals until mended. Grate or scrape cover the burned part As soon as it becomes hot, continue to renew at inter- relieved. Highly recom- MOUNTAIN LAUREL. THE TRIP TO LUCY ACORN’S PIC- NIC. Dear Social Corner Sisters: Sep- tember 12th was an ideal day for Lucy Acorn’s pienic. - We took the trolley at Willimantic called “the Thread City,” through the arch bridge, past the beautiful resi- dences on both sides of the street, to the entrance to the campgrounds. Married and Happy held the first Social Corner gathering there. Up In the grove are a hundred cottages buflt within the radius of a mlle. Only fifty years ago there were a few cloth tents. The large tabernacle, the boarding house, stores, electric lights and mail service are late Improve- ments. We pass through South Windham and cut across lots, through the flelds of corn and potatoes, past the Wil- liams and Gagertown crossings and enter Aver's Gap, a gorge through which the Beaver Brook runs. The mill pond used to run the oid Ayers grist mill that was bullt over two hundred years ag The top of Ayer's Mountain is cov- ered with laurel. On the northeast side is a series of cliffs making a to- tal height of about two hundred feet. After we go through the gap on_the rizht hand road is the Dragon’s Den. There are several legends connected with this cave. The Indians wishing to find out what was within hired a Squaw to explore it, and for payment she was to receive a pint of rum. She went inta the cave and reported 11 passages opening off on the sides. When requested to go further a fear- ful scream was heard and the woman was never seen again. Up the left road a few steps is Bai- ley’s Ravine, an ideal place for fern lovers. People come from miles to this place for trailing arbutus and laurel. It 1s a mile drive to the top of Pleasure Hill. After crossing the meadows we en- ter Baltic. pass the mills, convent and school and down Main street. This large mill before it was burned was called the largest mill in the state. ‘e go through Occum and Taftville. where the Shetucket river meets the Quinnebaug, pass the compressed air plant on the left, speed on through Greeneville to Norwich, getting off at Preston bridge. A few steps and be- hold the Social Wormer colors, and soon reach Lucy Acorn, who is ready to greet us. There is a crowd of about Afty. Where is my lunch basket. I'm hugry. The is cream is fine, thanks to the Bulletin and to Lucy Acorn for the pleasant time we all enjoved. L. H. K. Wrung out of salt and water; will pre- vent pastry from scorching on the bottom if put under baking tins; in Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA drying corn it is just as good if oven is " too_hot. A handful of salt thrown on fire will extinguish a small blaze; a quan- RECIPES YOU MAY FANCY. Dear Social Corner Sisters: These are dependable recipes. Pickled Red Cabbage: Slice it into a collander, sprinkle each layer with salt; let drain for two days, then put in jar; pour bolling vinegar enough to cover, put in a few slices of red beet-root. Choose purple red cab- bage. Those who like flavor of spice will boil it with the vinegar. Cauli- flower cut in bunches, and thrown in after being salted, will look red and beautiful. ..Tomato Catsup: One gallon tomatoes (strained), six- tablespoons salt, three tablespoons black pepper, one. table- spoon cloves, two tablespoons cinna- mon, two tablespoons allspice, one and one-half pints vinegar; boil down on half. One peck tomatoes will make one gallon, ed. Cold Slaw: Prepare one-half quan- tity bofled dressing. While hot pour over one quart shaved cabbage, cover Glossiy: et sway ¢(lf cold. ~ Fed cab- bage may also be used. L. M. B. NIAGARA FALLS. Dear Sisters .of The Social Corner: The various leters @escriptive of travel were most interesting to me, as I be- lieve, “variety is the spice of life.” I enjoyed Aunt Mehetible's account of her yisit to Vermont, for I have been over most of that section myself, and it is certaiply a beautiful coun. try. No doubt many of you have visited Niagara Falls, and it is strange how the first sight differently appeals to each one. Much depends on our im- agination before we get there, and what we expect to sse. I have heard some say they were disappointed when they saw Niagara, but most people will express their surprise at its unexpected immensity. It has been my pleasure to see Niagara twice, and I should be delighted to see it many more times. It was a beautiful August day when I stepped from the rallway train, at the station of Niagara Falls, accom.: panied by a friend, we found it only 2 short walk to the park and to the edge of the Fualls. For several min- utes as we passed along the shaded paths we could hear the tremendous roar, it becoming louder and louder as we apprcached nearer and nearer, tll we stood in full view of one of the greatest sights in all the world. I was simply spellbound for a _few minutes. This beautiful vision of life appealed to me as a great power, but with sweet solemnity not an ansry torrent and not frightful. The sound of that great body of water to thel depths below, seemed to express such a mighty utterance, so steady and con- tinous. “As I looked Into the gorge and beheld that mass of white foam, and just above it the most glorious rainbow the great sun could produce in the mist, it appealed to me. I had never seen a picture, nor heard or read a description equal to this sight which now my eyes rested on. Tt seemed to me all the while such a solemn place. A place where one seemed to Tisten to the voice of God, and to real- ize a supernatural presence. It did not appear to me a spot for idle thoughts, or for any mirth or merry-making, but one glance into that mighty torrent, would signify Your fato should your body be thrust Within its torrents. In crossing the suspension bridge the view of the falls is broad: but on the. Canadian side the horse- shoe shape, and irregular form, as it crosses the river. This is generally con- sidered the best view. Best wishes to all JENNTE. BREADLESS DAY RECIPES. Dear Social Corner Sisters: I sub- mit a few good recipes: Corn Meal Loaf: Cream one-fourth of a cup of butter; gradually heat in three-fourths of a cup of sugar, then two eggs beaten without separation, and alternately one cup of milk and one cup of granulated corn meal, two cups of flour, one-half teaspoon of salt and four level teaspoons of bak- ing powder sifted together. .Bake in a loat about twenty-five minutes. Oven Johnny Cake: One tablespoon sugar or molasses, one tablespoon of melted butter, one egg, one cup milk, one cup corn meal, one cup flour and two teaspoons baking powder and a littie salt. These are both good tried recipes for breadless days that Old Sol spoke about. Another wonderful help on the econ- omy side is to put a small handful of fine corn meal in nearly all your puddings. It is delicious. ‘Was real sorry I could not attend Lucy Acorn’s picnic. I heard so many stories about it that I think I must have missed something. I heard there were three donkeys there and they had their pictures taken. I reqlly wonder what. has become of Eliza Jane. I miss her very much and also her writings. DEARIE. A GOOD SUGGESTION. Dear Social Corner Sisters: For the conservation of wheat bread, instead of two days why not omit bread one meal, six days, or each day of the week. In this way the plans of the house- keeper would not be discommoded and be more agreeable for the fami- 1y. At present there isonly a small mar- gin in price between wheat and brown bread. The fireless cocker is convenient for canning three or less cans at a time. Vegetables require from two to three hours’ boiling; allow them to bofl for fifteen minutes then with a hot radia- tor place them in the cooker to re- main four or more hours. When re- moved to the stove boiling will com- mence usually in five minutes; con- tinue for ten or fifteen and seal. Have canned four kinds of vegeta- bles and all are keeping well so far The cooker reserves the space on the stove for other work and saving of oil or gas. My pen name has been busy among the canning industry, but the diction- ary drops the last letter so it is ex- empt. Katydid: Trust for Improved health and tell us of the sunny climate when the snow king Is with us. BLANCHE A STORY ABOUT MY GARDEN. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner:— I am golng to tell you about what I nave been doing the past week. I have harvested my crop from the gar- den and have had about one bushel of bush beans, 1 peck of string beans, and 1 bushel of tomatoes. I have had lettuce all summer and beets, rad- ishes and cabbages. I have dried parsley. I raised about $17 worth of garden of the dirt is removed, leaving | there inches a level surface on Which to set th bulbs. . To fill the bed with bulbs, first set a row of early flowering tulips, such as potbakker scarlet, - crimson scarlet, bright red; set these six to eight inches apart. When the row of early tulips has been set in place set between each bulb of early tulips and in the same row a bulb of some Da:- win tulips, of a_different color, sucn S after and. knew. where he was going. . His owner had trained him to be driven with a loose rein and required him to stop only when he- pulled ‘the reins tight. So fthe horse was not really to blame, but 1 did not know this until after' I had finished my ride. I know that it was in direct an: wer to my prayer fof wisdom that I :n.z what to do and had strength to o as Clara Butt, a eoft pink. In wet- ting the second row, set the Darwin tulip first, so the Darwin tulip in tho second row will be in the same posi- tion as the early tulip in the first row. A Darwin tullp in the second row placed exactly in front of an early tulip in the first row. When the Darwin tulips have been placed in the second row, set an early tullp in the same row between the Darwin, so tao early tulip ih the second row will be exactly in front of the Darwins in the first row. Then you see my bed of tulips. I shall place crocus bulbs and scilica si- berla and snowdrops in between the bulbs. After placing these bulbs in your bed, eaid an instructor, care- fully replace the topsoil that has been removed 50 as not to disturb the po- sition of the bulbs. After the ground has frozen cover with straw. Vase and flowering plants protectel from early frost will look well in thc fine weather that usually follows. Newspapers spread over the plants and tied or welghted with stones will protect them. Calla lilles should be started from dry roots and I suggest the Godfrey everblooming calla as a very free bloomer; also Little Gem. Will a sister of The Corner of the editor please tell me what the flower or plant is like. I know it is time to plant armaryllis bulbs now, but I have lost mine winters ago Last fall I pulled up my geraniums and hung them in the cellar. This spring I set them out and they havs bloomed all summer. I am going to set out narcissi if I can find any. Last winter was my first experience with hyacinths, and 1 had fine luck. Will some one write their experiences with their gardens. as I think it very interesting. KITTY LOU. TO FIND AUNTY NO. 1. Dear Social Corner Sisters: I have had several inquiries as to how to get to my place Oct. 3. As the train go- ing north from New London on the C. V. has been taken off, all I can ‘say is those not having any Way of their own might hire a_buss that will carry a crowd from Norwich. After leaving Yantic a little way out turn to your left and come towards Lebanon, about three miles, a straight road. You will see the colors flying in the breeze. Purdy: As I understand ycu are in or around Norwich you may follow the above directions. As plain as I can give them no one is any more SOITY than T am abouf the train as it wiil keep me from meeting with the Sis- ters this winter in Willimantic. I hope all who wish to come here to the picnic can surely find a way to get_here. o HODINE to ses a larss erowa Oct. I am as ever AUNTY NO. 1. A COMPLIMENT TO THE SOCIAL CORNER, Dear Cornerites: How fine the last two Social Corner pages have been. It would seem as though we all must be glad of the new custom as regards the prizes, for the travel letters are s0 interesting and instructive and will broaden our minds and outlook. The letters from Ethelyn and The Little Spinster were especially good. I wish that it had been my privilege to attend the Festival of Light and Scng but the description of it made me feel aimost as though I had been there. Mountain Laurel: Your recipe for onion chowder is new to me and it sounds so good that I.plan to try it very soon. Jullette: Your suggestions were very good, particularly the “fireless ironer.” May I make a suggestion about our plenics? Usually after lunch we all try to wash our dishes, It makes much confusion and may be very try- ing to the hostes: I know that it would not always be easy to carry a soiled dish or platter on which a con- tribution to the feast had been brought; but the number of people having such dishes is comparatively small. Therefore, T suggest that they be given the privilege of washing them In the kitchen of the hostess end the rest of us wait until we get home. This ought not to be difcult if each one will bring plenty of pa- per to put around her dishes. It could be further simplified by using paper plates. They are lighter, unbreakable and can be thrown aWay after using. As they are not very substantial I use two together. After lunch I throw away the top one and, economy being the order of the day, eave the lower one to be used again. It is very kind of Aunty No. 1 to again write us to a picnic her home. I do hope to attend this one. Each former year there has been something to prevent me from going. Hoping to meet many of you at Aunty No. 1's on Oct. 3. Cordially yours, -* AUNT MEHITABLE. ANSWER TO PRAYER. Dear Social Corner Friends:—I hav been thinking _that an account of a thrilling ride I had seven years ago might be interesting to some of you, and it will help expiain why I 80 firmly belleve in direct answer to prayer. ‘While visiting a niece in Oneida county, New York, she invited me to ride out with her to another farm they owned where there were quantities of nice pears. Any one at all famillar with the roads in Oneida county know that they seem to have been made over and up and down the steep hills for which that part of the state is noted, in- stead of going around them. As we were on the top of a high hill she pointed to the residence of a relative at quite a distance on another high hill. Just then, as she had her hand raised pointing, the horse stepped on a rolling stone (we suppose) and stumbled and the jar of the stumble threw her out of the buggy, between the forward wheel and the horse. The horse was frightened and be- gan to run down the hill. The reins were dragging on the ground. I was entirely helpless as to guiding the ‘horse. My first thought was to jump, as I had no reins to drive with, but I knew I could not hope to jump out and not get badly hurt. I prayed with all my heart: “Oh Lord, show me what to do.” Instantly I knew the thing for me to do was to brace my truck and feel quite pleased as I tended the garden myself. I have pulled the second crop of beans today. They were all' blos- somed, but I thought I would get the garden ready for tulips, hyacinths and other autumn bulbs, that should be set out in October. I had the gardens spaded up and am going to put fertilizer on it and have it epaded in again, then I shall make a mental survey of the garden, decide what shape and size the beds shall be, estimate the quantity of bulbs and varieties wanted and plage in_my order for early delivery. I think I will plant tulips, hyacfths, feet against the bottom of the dash and hold on to the seat with both hands for dear life. I did not know the horse’s name, but I kept saying, “Whoa, pony. Steady, pony!” = It slackened its speed some, but did not stop trotting. ‘We did not meet any team or see any one at the houses we passed un- til all at once without slowing its speed it turned into a gateway and sSteered for a large pear tree, where the ground was covered with large ripe pears. I only gave it time to get one pear before I was out of the wagon and had hold of the lines turning the horse around and starting back to early tulips, Darwin tulips, crocuses and narcis Careful planters make their beds early—that is, dig them up and work in the fertilizer and allow the beds to settle. At planting time four or five find my niece. I did not know wheth- er she was hurt or not. I met her. She had run herself almost to death trying to overtake us for fear I would try to jump out and getcbadly hurt. The horse had often been driven £ sl e N Ll e R i . AUNT MARY. MENUS FOR A WEEK. SUNDAY. Breakfast. Half Orange Ham and Eggs Cocoa and Buttered Toast Dénner. Pork Roast ¥ Canned Corn Mashed Potatoet Lemon Ple Coftee 4 Supper, Cold Sliced Pork, Apple Sauce Cake Plain Tea Bread and Butter MONDAY. Breakfast. Sliced Bananas and Milk French Fried Potatoes Country Sausage Baking Powder Biscuits Coffee Luncheon. Creamed Pork on Toast (meat over) Cracker for Salad Fruit Salad Canned Peaches Dinner. . Oxtall Soup Canned Cracker Lamb Chops Creamed Carrot White Bread -and Butter Cup Custara TUESDAY. Breakfast left Stewed Apple Cooked Cereal and Cream Creamed Bacon on Toast Coftee Luncheon. Stewed Kidney Baked Potatoes Rolls and’ Butter Sliced Oranges Tea Dinner. Scalloped Potatoes Mashed Parsnips Brown Bread and Butter ‘Banana Pudding Black Coffee WEDNESAY Breakfast ~Stewed Prunes Scrambled Eggs and Bacon Browned Potatoes Rib Roast Baking Powder Biscuts Milk Luncheon Shrimp Salad Cracker Banana ‘Whipped Cream Cake Tea Dinner. Hamf Loat Bofled Potatoes Tomatoes Bean Salad French Roll and Butter Lemon Water Ice ‘Waters Black Coffes THURSDAY Broakfast Sliced Pineapple Hominy Plain Omelet _ Toast and Butter Coffee Lunocheon Cold_Tongue Parker House Rolls Potao Chips Junket Tea Dinner Pork Chops Browned Potatoes Warm Slaw Sliced Peaches Black Coffee FRIDAY Broakfast Hajf Grape Frult Ham Omelet French Fried Potatoes Cocoa ‘Toast and Butter Luncheon Asparagus Salad and Mayonaise Cottage Pudding ,r(mnl and Cheese ‘en. Dinner Baked Salmon Summer Squash Friea Egg Plant ‘White Bread and Butter Pears Coftee SATURDAY Breakfast Baked Apple and Milk Potatoes_Puff Cocoa. Crab Salad Cold Boiled Ham Rolls and Butter Tea Dinn Potato Roast, Brown Gravy Mashed Potatoes Green Peas Cookies TIMELY RECIPES. Dear Soctal Cornerites:—These timely tested recipes ‘may be found welcome at the present time. Carrots au Gratin—Cooked in_boil- ing salted water till tender young carrots need not be cut, but old ones should be cut in large dice or thickish slices. Arrange in a baking dish, pour over them a sauce made as fol- lows: Melt half.an ounce of dripping in 2 saucepan, stir in smoothly a level tablespoon of flour. Add half a p:n: of equal parts of the carrot stock a milk mixed. Stir over the fire until boiling, and eimmer for ten minutes. Add two tablspoons of grated cheese and seasoning of salt and pepper; shake a little more cheese over the top, and brown In the oven. Milk and Vegetable Soup—One quart skim milk, one cup bread crumbs or two large slices stale bread, small amount spinach or outer leaves let- tuce (not more than four cunces), one emall sliced onion, salt. Cut the vegetables into small pleces and cook with the bread crumbs in the milk in a double bofler. If a large quantity is being prepared for use in a school, for example, put the vegetables through a meat chopper. In this case slices of bread can be ground with the vegetables in order to ab- sorb the juice. Stuffed Peppers—Six green peppers; one onion, finely chopped; two table- spoons butter, four tablespoons _any left-over vegetable; half cup brown sauce; three tablespoons bread crumbs, four tablespoons lean raw ham, finely chipped. Cut a slice from stem end of each pepper, , remove seeds and parboil peppers three minutes. Cook onion in butter three minutes; add vegetables and ham and cook one minute, then 2dd brown sauce and bread crumbs. Cool mixture, sprinkle peppers with salt, fill with cooked mixture, cover with buttered bread crumbs, and bake ten minutes. Serve on toast. MARY JANE. THINGS WORTH KNOWING. Dear Social Corner Sisters:—These home helps may prove to be of value to_some of you: Egg stains on table linen should be soaked in cold water before be- The Highest Clas Machine in oan CLEAR AS $50 $110 $135 $250 #Honota Phonograph ales Company, Ine. Georgo E. 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To heat dishes quickly don’t put them into a hot oven, but let them lie for a minute or two in hot water. To prevent patent leather shoes from cracking, warm them before putting them on. Warmth renders the leath- er soft and pliable. To remove hot water marks on ja- panned trays, use sweet oil. Rub it in well till all marks disappear, then polish the tray with dry flour and soft cioths. Scorched fireproof dishes should Be soaked in strong borax water till the unsightly brown marks upon them can be rubbed off with a cloth. JOAN OF ARC. A LETTER FROM DIANA Dear Corner Sisters: I suppose the most of you are back from a vacation, and I trust that you have all been greatly benefitted by the change and rest. ‘What a lot of picnics you have had— a good time all by yourselves, but now T imagine many are busy canning, pickinling, ete. September with us has been cool and the frost on the 1ith and 12th has ruined very many crops this way; beans and corn. You can’t be too thankful that your season is earlier than our. People will realize as never before the chances the farmer has to con- tend with. He plants and sows and takes the greatest of pains with his crops, and for all that is at the mer- cy of the weather which he cannot control. His crops can be damaged and even ruined by too much rain, drouth, hail, winds and frost, in a very short time. The fact of the case is, he is never sure of his crops, no matter how well they look until they are har- vested and stored away for winter consumption, and surely I read once “he earns all he gets, but does not as a general rule get all he earns.” For the past few years the weath- has been warm and fine all one could wish, but the nice pleasant days can- not restore the frost bitten crops to their normal state. The failure of the crops not only cur- talls the farmer's income, but it means less food for the natlons who are lookign for food supplies from the United States; but we will hope that in other sections of the country that large crops will be harvested. I just enjoy the Corner, but I do wish that the old writers would con- tinue to write. Am pleased to extend my hand to GOOD DOUGHNUTS. igters of The Soclal Corner: 2 hint to the wise is sufficlent Here 12 a tip for young brides: If you wa to keep the honeymoon shinnin brightly, make your doughnuts i the following reclpe: Doughnuts. Two eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of sour mill,, one-half teaspoon soda, one teaspoon salt, half teaspoon of nutmeg. Three cups flour, two teaspoons of baking powder tablespoons of melted lard. I beat th eggs and sugar together, then add th milk_ with the soda stirred in it; it will be very foamy; then I put in half the flour and mix thoroughly with the two tablespoons of melted lar Then the rest of the flour contal baking powder, and the other ingred lents. If this does not make d stiff_enough to roll out well, I add much flour as necessary to do so. roll the dough to the thickness about three-quarters of an . inch use an ordinary doughnut cutter f the holes, and I don't use one of tho little ones, either. Mine s abo three inchés in diameter. I like large doughnuts better than the small one The main thing about frying the Tt must too cold, I some of the om the cen 1t 80 a second or so. That's about all is in having the fat be elther too hot or usually test it by tryir little holes, the part cut ter of the doughnut down and come up the is about right. there Is to it, Is to have the fat risht I'drop the doughnuts in, and let the puff up and get a golden brown I turn them over and brown the othe side the same way. CRIMSON RAMBLER Should Be Made Costly. ‘With ghe advance of everything else ther in price, it is time to make the pro- German’ talk of American traitors equally costly.—Milwaukee Journal. American Diplomacy. The American method may be called shirt-sleeve diplomacy, but New at York Teast it's a clean shir Tele- graph. Another German Industry. Lying appears to have been as well developed in Germany as industrial efciency.—Rochester Herald. 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