Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 18, 1918, Page 13

EVERY WOMAN'S OPPORTUNITY The Bulletin wants good home lett o) letters of any kind the mind may Wednesday of epch week. . Write on but ane side of the paper. THE VALUE OF WHAT YOU'READ ers; good business letters; good nelp- | suggest. They should be In hand by Aldress, SOCIAL COINER EDITOR, Biilletin Office, Norwich, Conn. —_— / FIVE PRIZES EVERY MONTH OF ONE DOLLAR EACH. wade the last Saturday of each month. Award ROLL OF HONOR Sens of Secial Corner Writers Walter F. Moran, of Norwich. Richard C. Moran, of Nerwich. Allen Williams Hovey Sterry, Union, Conn. Earl L. Sparks, of Norwich. Arthur T. Knewles, of Weth: Conn. Floyd Mitchell, Conn, Willard A. Madley of Lebanon. of ersfield, of Central Village, HAST THOU NOT STILL THY souL? Her; is a complete translation of| Victor iiugo's poem. What though this life for us so in- complete Upon this lowly shoal, She reed-like, vield and break ve- neath thy feet, Hast thou mot still thy soul? i Thy sou: that soon, perchance, shall #ing its way Far to the peaceful skies; And, haply, bear thee far beyond the sway ©f mor ! tears and sighs. Be lise the o frail $erenely sits and sings For theugh he feels the brangh be- neath him fail, He knows that he hath wi WOMAN. d that vine on so.ne i i | Yoy sa; you are but a Woman- Who sre so very wonderfui to iic, 1 ndeed that afl the world can see. | There are no batths on t'@ open| rlain | Thai 30u can fight as I, a man, con t, But who shall say your life is lived in ounces ip a pan; meit. Add the sliced | onion. Cook gently tilt soft and yel- low. Put in half a piat of stock or vegetable water; thieken with a ta- blespoon of flour or pea or lentil or Larley flour. Stir all the time till it ioiis. Drop in, ene by one, four eggs. Cook, and take out as soon as set. Put in a hot dish. When all-the eggs are done, scason the sauce with pep- per and salt. Pour over the eges and serve with mashed pbtatoes.: Salmon and Eggs: Boil six eggs till hard. Shell them: Keep hot. Bmpty a small tin of saimen; free it from n and bone. Flake it into. neat flakes. Drain off the liguor into a small saucepan. Make up to half a pint with niilk. ‘Seasan to taste with pepper, salt, and a little nutmeg. Cut the egzs in half, 3dd 1o the' flaked salmon, make hot gently, and serve jwith a dish of boiled rice and mashed 1otatoes beaten up together. Allow cight ounces of rice to two pounds of mashed potatoes. If hot things-are iiked add a pinch of curry powder to the salmon and eggs. This dish can <0 be prepared with tinned lobster, | tinned prawns, or shrifnps. American Eggs: Make hot a large tin of baked beans. Have ready a ed egg for” each person and a large boiled cabbage or two pounds Gf spring greens. Drain and press the reens Uil very gry. Chop finely and add to the beans; mix well, Dish up the poached eggs on tep, and serve with potatoes. Rice and Eggs in the Flemish way: Boil a pound of rice in some well- flgvored stock (or water) tili very tender. Fry two larze chopped on- lons in a iitUe fat. Drain the rice; add thie onions and season to taste with pepper, salt, and a very little mace or nutmeg. Add four - tnmly sliced hot, hard-boiled eggs and an ounce of &rated cheese; any old hard bits do for grating. Make very hot and serve. Inoush for six people. * RUTH. A FEW INQUIRIES. Dear Sisters of the Sogial Corner: Will you please admit me to your cir- cle? 1 have been much interested in the letters written by the Sisters and egs neclall§ by those referring to the to- bacco habit. I wonder how many_women of Nor- wich have read what Blaisdells or any other hygiene book has to say in va:n If ali my darkened days you have Kept light? Oh, litte woman heart, be gied, be gind, i Thai you are what God made yiut Well I know How you have served me when the! da; was sad And riade me biiter—yes e s0 | Be ve'y glad that you, in your whir2 buace, You: little bome with folded hunds i be = A sitenr influence to whose source i The little good there eve in e To be a woman is there any mo-s That you have need to be from du 0 day? How wonderful ycur store to have your hour and xept |1°8ard to the use of tobacco. It seems |strange to me that women. knowing the offect which \obacco has upon | man’s physieal and | should pre mps with * ing he Cannot . some- 1pful be given the soldier in- giead of narcotics, which are harm- ul'? 5 A priest. who recen 1y returied from “Many of the break away from Shall we not help Last year a little miss of nine years, aving heard that the soldiers of the [ Of purity and gbodnéss and to s il war were siven ratoms of 1i- “Ome that I love is nobler since i|GU°T: asked, “Why was liquor given .. 8 the Soldiers if it Is as hurtful as the One that lov s siology says Do you suppose SEERE e e better for 2ol cpfldren don’t think? May ther met A woman, Oh there is no groater |A5K the same aquestion Jn' regard’ to name g e May we each do our part, that wh That ever on mortal tongue shall | part, that when wake. ¥ #ll| the boys come home they may be —Charles Hanson Towne. INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS. POTLATCH—Card received mailed to Greatgrandma. CARDS received malled wood. GRANDMA — Card received and matled to Greatgrandma. RUTH & OTHERSCards received maild to Greatgrandma. HOW TO MAKE TRENCH CANDLES Dear Social Corner Sisters: may be women who cannot knit, and who would Nke these directions for making trench candles: Take one ‘rl of newspaper, eight columns in width, and cut along the columns. Be sure P8 even: then lay the ther one on top roll them in a tight third strip of paper - the others one at a. cm& ‘have been rolled, t; tie a string around It is pmtiy to rug irface, then sen: [ g ) they will the American Trench Candle association. Miss and to. Wiid- strong of will and muscle and clear of vision, for, to quote Blaisdell: “It is 5o mark of frisndship or courtesy to offer a persion & cigar or cigarette, for tually asking him to take what will be to him an injury instead of a benefit.” Should America and her allies lose this war, which God grant we may not, may it wot be hecause the sol- diers have been weakened physically and morally by the use of narcotics which the women at home have given them. NU KUMMER. Norwich, GREETINGS FROM DIANA. Dear Social Corner Sisters: If T do not write I cnjoy the Social Corner especially, as of old. I.am better, but do not feel as usual as yet, but hope to_before long. We have had ome warm days the past week, and everything is leoking beautiful. I love to. watch from my window the changes in mature each day. The trees are leaved out anad the carpet spread over the earth is fresh and yreen. Soon the air will be filled with the sweet fragrance from the blossoms of flowers and trees. We are thinking of our planting, and from now on until after haying, work president, and she re- themn. picks them over, throws parafines the over to our. T u';rtnnhn e game these candles are used poldiere use them for water, and cooking dome with them, Gaffny contributes of these candlés for E SEERmr o of O ‘Gepdrimens o Beitig ieave Iooked tor The Secial Cor. ‘when she wanted information. She BT SPY R 108 ints ey Shoueht i end quite a pleasant SAM'S DAUGHTER, AR WAR DISHES m ACROSS THE one or two ¢ ~rd s dobdl in'al will be rushing, We will all hope for a suceessful year and good crops. I am now a year older than when I wrote last for I have indulged in a birthday this past week. Huldy Many thanlis for your gift! I take it that it is yeur werk which makes me care for it the more. Uncle Sam’s Daughter: I thank you for your stamp card and thrift stamp. You wag kind to send it. Blanche: I thank you for the flower seeds you sent. I will enjoy the flow- A it R sl S untie No. 1: ank you for yo birthday greeting. - ° 22 o Lucille: “As your letter <came . so inear the 7th of May I called it & birth- day letter for which I thank vou, Married and Happy and all the other Sisters who have been gick—I hope are getting' well' and will €on be hps to be_about. 3 0 1 wish yeu one and all a'very pleas- ant summer. T Best wishes, # i ‘DIANA. N.H 20 P PEPPERS STUFFED WITH CORN. Dear Social Corner Friends; This is @ satisfying dish: bt s Green Stuffed With Corn: S cuns Gorn, hres {ablespuons. s cups_co) ree 5| 3 ter, en--mm'ap bomunh:. &m teaspoon salt, boil- w ‘water, one-l pepper. 'ith a sharp knife cut around three- I per,” teaving it “hingas fb\{nhna? ¢ 'lut %o‘z‘ Ahot |1 — i and inner membranes. Cover the )epper with cold -water, and bring it to a.boil. Drain off-the water, cover them with fresh bolling water and simmer until tender.. Drain, sprinkle lightly with salt, and allow to cool. Put two tablespoons butter . inte a frying pan and heat it, When hot add the green corn and turee tablespoons water: . Uook five minlites and 288 the cream:and Seasonings. Now cbok “slowly until quife Lhick, Let cool; fill prepared Deppers. ers, place in buttered disl r ‘over; bake 25 minlltefi. _ MAY MEETING OF CLUB NO. 1, Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: Those of you who were absent from the club meeting held at Willimantic ‘Wednesday, May Sth, don't know what 2’ good time you missed, for I was among those who were present and can give evidence. It being a pleasant ‘day, added much to the pleasure of the ‘occasion. A very good attendance of the Sister writers, with several visit- ors, was the leading feature. Of course, the dinner was up to date and needs no special .mention, for all know who attend these gath- erings that nothing lacks in a Soeial Cornér menu—everything substantial, gaod, and plenty of it. 3 From the first arrivals and up to the dinner hour the Sisters were busy with greetings .and introductions and get- ting acquainted, which 1 assume is one of the objects of these meetings, As this had been my first oppor- tunity to attend a meeting of this kind since the annual picnic of last June, it was certainly a pleasure to see the faces of those I had previously met; also to receive a handshake from others whose pen names 1 was familiar with, The W. C. T. U. rooms were prettily decorated with the Social Corner coler, the ‘deep golden crepe paper in evi- dence. The long dining table was prettily decorated with bouquets of ~golden flowers, as well as the vellow paper streamers, and laden with the tempt- ing food which was duly appreciated when we were invited to partake. The hot escalloped potatoes and steaming baked beans were especially good, as also followed other items on the bill of fare. Pickles, olives, cheese, pies, variety of cake, bananas and last but not least excellent hot coffee. Everybody seemed happyand will prevailed. The hostesses pothing undone for a good time. With Eliza Jane as chairman, after dinper we enjoved an entertainment consisting of vocal and instrumental music, but resret I am net able to give. the names, of contributors. Most everybody knows Amy and that she can well perform her part in recita- tions and readings. Her selections were up to the minute this time, when she favored us with a reading entitled “Conserving Daylight,” and it was a fitting time for, a good laugh, after a hearty dinner. However, she was not excused from her post until she pro- duced two more numbers that fol- lowed two more applauses. As it was rather a warm day, and necessary for the door to be open for a little more outside air, we were zlad to be led in imegination upen a skat- ing pond, where Selinda was taking her first lesson in skating. We know right well how pretty she looked in that home-made costume appropriate for “young skaters, which she so plainly deseribed, and we sympathized with her failures in the unsuccessful attempts in the art of skating. As this was the final indoor meeting of the season for Club No. 1, the at- tention will next be ziven to the an- nual picnic. in which all are expected to participate, and of which dye ne- tice will he given later on. -Best wishes to all. g00d left JENNIE. WORKING IN THE GARDEN. Corner Sisters: Tte 2 good place in which to ir- crease knowledge and whatever may be accomplished there is done by work or play according to one’s point of vie Some people are so thrilled by thair achievements in producing fruits and flowers that they regard the work as a pleasure, and others with less inter- est and blistered hands and sweating pores call it hard work and drudgery Being right up against nature offe: {anl the puzzling problems one want: to tackle and offers all the problems an active mind can handle. In the ga den things canmot be guessed they have to be solved Blanche is noticeably an investi- gator and in locking for the whys and wherefores is kept busy. She will find the beans are weevilled when grow- ing and they are killed in the bean by oven heat. If the heans are kept where the weevils will hatch out they will be ruined for food and for seed. If Betsy Bobbett had packed her dahlia roots away in carth she would not have lott 50 per cent. of her roots. Dahlias will dry up under the Dbest of care, and their keeping quali- ties-depend upon how they have been grown. Over stimulated roots are the ones soonest to lose their moisture, and the very finest varieties are the ones usually lost. The temperature that will preserve potatoes and other edible roots will preserve dahlias. 1 keep seedling roots in sand and although they may be small, lose very few of them. JOSEPH DOE, Norwich. TO PUT DOWN EGGS FOR WINTER USE. Dear Secial Corner Sisters: The seagon is at hand to put down eggs. No one can predict the precise moment when eggs will reach - their lowest level. :I was able to get mine at 48 cents a dozen and bousht 90 dozen, and have preserved 70 dozen eggs. 1 prefer the infertile eggs as preferable Wwhen they can be obtained. I preserve mine in water glass— Add one quart of water glass (coml mercial) to nine quarts of water that has been boiled. Add water glass to the boiling water and let cool together: 1 allow about 8 1-4 cups of this mix- ture for each three dozen eggs. For my two crocks of eggs 1 used two quarts of water glass to 18 quarts of water. T use strictly fresh, clean eggs, with good sound shells. 1 do not use eggs over a week old, and never wash them before. preserving, as they will not keep, Any egg that floats when drop- ped in this solution I remove at onge. These eggs I use up for cake, o They are all right for use, but not to preserve. I put the eggs down in an earthen crock. 1 know of one person who put her eggs down in a sgalvanized pail— because it was easier to handle. When buying crocks be sure and get them with ears. A 40 quart container holds 30 dozen eggs, but I prefer putting mine down in a 20 quart container holding 15 dozen. Be sure your liquid is at least two inches above the top layer of eggs. Cover the container to prevent evap- oration and store in a cqol place, but ayoid freezing. You cannot use water glass the second time. This_year water glass is 10 cents more a quart than last seagon; but that is cheaper than paying 75 cents a dozen. Last spring I put down 65 dozen apd they just carried me through with one dozen fresh eggs 2 week to put to use when I wanted a fresh egs. These will keep g;md for 10 or 12 months.- Do..not feel alarmed if your water glass forms a whitish jellied substance fourths of the stem end of each pep-!in the bottom of the can. Just rinse CH BULLETIN, B nents were ‘whateve: being ransacked tem, tiie Flemish clock-maker. SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1918 CRE THERE IS NO VISION THE PEOPLE PERISH Once upon a time there lived a near- sighted and obscure elock-maker in an ancient town in Flanders. It was in fourteen hundred and something, at about the time when new continents were being discovered and old cantc‘.- or might serve to enrich the |life of Europe. We cail it the pe- riod of the Renaissance, and this is the story of the remaissance of Au- Anton was apprenticed to an old craftsman who made clocks to hel. e The old clock-maker was glad of the return of 8o ood a workman, and re- | ceived him joyfully. Then Anton told his. story—how he had louged for something to satisfy his soul, how he had . failed to find it even among thd good gray monks, and how the words of the legend and perplexed him. Then spoke the wise old clock-mak- er: “A Vision,” quoth he, “is scme- thing good and lofty and desi whica the soul may see, and having not, may reach forth to oblain. Without a Vision the body may live very mich people to know the time ol but the soul is starved. It is deata in day. No one but the rich could af: sistanz, but 2 hand, but they served of benl people he didn’'t know. His was restless sort of goul, ford to buy clocks in those “lays, so the clock-maker needed but one as- They were crude clocks wilh the pirposs. Anton, however, had a soul in his body, and he became very tired ing' eternally over his work- bench, making one-handed clocks for but a starved life. Men may cat, and drink, and sleen, und laugh, and work, and quar- rel and beget children, and die, but all tc no purpose. They might as well die in the first place, and £0 the Wise Man saith, “Without a Vision, the peaple perish!” “And what may T do to get a Vi- sion, that I may live?’ asked Anton. ™| “He taal seeketh, findeth,” replied the ci¥cl-maker. one, and it didn’t know how to snoe Anton the way to better things. So Anton deaided to find out for himseif. As he went about the s'reets “Where shall T seek?” asked Anton. “At_thine own work bench,” was the answer. “Thou hast been to the men- astery of the good gray monks and of a Sunday he heard of the good gray monks that lived beyond the hill. He wag toli that they were wis® and kind, no Vision there. Thou mayst travei tne world over, and no Vision and that and much fasting, They were they made sure their en- tranc: inte heaven by many prayers s0 will reward thy search. Look with- in thy beart, Anton, even into its hid- den corners. Whatsoever thou findest that is good and worthy, examine it. pod that they had time enough left Thus wilt thou find thy Vision. Do arly pursuits. an iceal that eravings of his sou In short they to ths monastery monks. of the good garden; but he was skilled with tool altar was much cunning. Cans't thou carve legend for the front of the altar?”” ‘I can, Father," said Anton. ing e brought to Anton this: ple peris carve the legend. Now Anton posses: ed enough of the craftsman’s s well, and he spent many days took ‘irfinite pains. ed he said the words over and over rom tneir prayers to engage in schol- tived kind of ezistenee und ov ton thought would satisfy the So one day Anton ieft the old clock- maker and journeyed eover the hill aray They took him in 9s a lay brother and set him to weeding the soon they learned that and they gave h'm the task of building the new in the chapel. When the altar carly finished’ the abbot of the monastery came to Anton and said: “My som, I perceive that thou hast Seo the abbott sought for a legand that wouid fit the space on the front of tha altar, and after much search- “Where there is no Vision, the peo- Antor aecordingly sought a piece of hard, close-grained nak, and began to 1 to make him strive to earve the legend and And as he work- ed he raid the words over and over to thy daily work Anton, and let thy Vision find thee working. Thep shalt thou te ready to receive it, and the meaning of thy life and work will be made clear to thee! Anion marvelled #t the words of the wise oid man, and pondered them in his heart as he went back to werk at his bench, and every day he talked t the old clock-maker, and strove to learn, until at last the light broke in upon’ hn, and he understood. For the meaning of the legend appears only through much thousht and self-exarn: ination. A day came when the old clock- malker arose no more from his bed, and Anton took his place as master of the shop. “Now,” he said. “T will see if I can‘find a way to work with a vision, for 1 know it is better than to work without one.” Every Sunday he went through the market place anq_talked with his fel- low townsmen. He found that there wero many_things good and lofly and desirable that were lacking in their lives; but he could discover mo way to supply them. FHis soul was reach- ing forth, but it had not yet laid hold on a Vision. One day in his shop, however, a Vision came to him. It was a little Vision, to be sure, but it was a be- ginning. a to himse't: “Whe: ple perish.” He found himself wondering his perplex he c¢ouid contain himself no and he went to the abhot. “Ho'y er,” s3id he, “I am much troubled hast eive: N me to carve.” So he made answer lightly. “Ti my sor, are the words of the i Man of old. guidance which saves and which comes onl er and ffasting.” men’ threugh an{! no visien had eome to him. B 5 plain the words to him, but they cou! not salisfy him, and Anten ne went mad in the endeavor to undei stand. When the and carving was the altar finished, compe: looked about him and saw th feasting and fasting, _prayirg working, but he could not to what purpose. OV people perish,” he know not what a n is.” So gradually he became fied with the monotonous lif good gray monks, and thefr ti prayers and fastings to sav souls, until at last he could stand Ai the vows, he left the monaste: was then that he bethought himse ¢ worked in the town. how wise familiar shop. there is no Vision, the peo- what thes: words meant, and as h: carved grew upon him. At last lonzer, 1th - know the meaning of the words thou the abbot had seleeted ti:¢ le- gend without great thought. It sound- ed well, and it was the right l.ngth. They refer to that divine But Anten had prayed and fasted sked his brother monks to ex- Anton _found no more work that interested him. He monk and | bhuild “Jf it 1¢ true that without Visioq the said to himéelf:l no longer, and, never having taien the old clock-maker for whom he had He remgmbere: he was and he sovghr the “I cannot bring bread to all the poor or bring happiness to the miser- able” he said. “I koow only how to make clocks. So I will make a clock for the people, that they may have what orly the rich may buy.” So he set to work and built a huge clock, with two hands, like one he had seen that came from the soath. Its face Wwas two cubits across and it was fashioned to run in all weathers. Re- neath the face he carved and painted a legend: “Where there is no Vision the people perish.” In twelve months the clock was done and he received permission to place it on the tower in the market place, where all men might see it and read the time of day. Many came and saw and learneq to tell the time from the figures on the dial, and the clock he- came famous throughout Flanders. But there were many in the coun- tryside who seldom came to the town and never were benefited by the clock, and it occurred to Anton one day that the reason for this was that the roads were so poor. He wa: man of substance and influence in the town, so he went to the burzomaster and told him that he ‘would like to better roads for the country people to use in coming to town. It took him a long time to the fat burgomaster see this but at last he succeede: o 3 o te er{ “shail we all not perish? Not even the |shot of the matter was that in a few good gray monks, and their tiresome|years there were fine, smooth roads running in all directio Anton’s fame pread throughout Flanders. and to make a long story » |short the king at last sent for him ir|and made him a counsellor at the it royal palace. This zave him a chance to” broaden his vision. greater and happier Flanders, with the people prosperous in trade and in- dustry and art, and when he died, full of years and honor, a better place because of his vision. JESSIE. He saw a It of off the thick solution will be ready for use; and they w the large end. kind of cooking. rhubarb. ~Last vear 1 put water. This year I am quarts of rhubarb to one cup of suz; it up 30 minutes. it thoroughly. two dozen cans. them, which are quite a help in the wint, did pot put them up until they we: cheaper. were cheaper they were tough, so tender. Put a your crock filled, over them, jam dewn hard, and put stone on top; and put on the cover. greens are covered with the brin BETHELY HER WAR GARDEN, Social Corner Sisters: T, thought would leave my war garden awi lines this week, beets and lettuce. strawberries which lock fine. seed and sold some. How refreshing it Is in the morning to get out in that garden in the cool air and all is so still, wh we can look up to the Giver light and joy. One who is ready land. Try it, my dear Sisters, by for it wHl help us on our way the storms of life. MRBS. C. H. C. WATER ICES. Dear Social Carner Sisters: Boil one quart water and one pint sugar five minutes. Add_one-eighth box gelatine soaked in cold ‘water, stir until /dis- solved and_chill;' add one cup lemon juice and freeze. " All water ices are made in this way, in cold water when you remove the egss and they crack when boiled unless you puncture Sometimes the eggs may pot fry quite as well as a fresh egg, but on the whole they are en- tirely suitable for scrambling, making omelettes, cake, custards or any other 1 have just cmemenced canning my taking twe and let cook in a double boiler about 1 do not peel it, but wash I have already canned I want about six dozen cams and think I shall have 1 am salting down dandelion greens, time when you want something bitter. T put up seven pecks last spring, but 1 found by the time they have begun putting them down while layer of dandelions, then a layer of salt, until you have Then place a plate cover with a dry cloth Be sure your and spend a shert time in writing a foew 1 have twelve long rows up in the garden and have them all hoed—beans as well as late and early peas, onions, T have planted eight hills of melons. 1 have a small bed of Everkearing Last year I raised two quarts of beet early | mine, all damp with dew cn each leaf of all listen to our thoughts of that better lifting your heart on the joys that never fade, Canned fruit eyrups may be substi- tuted for fresh fruit juice. ill| Orange Water Ice—Juice of six or- anges, iwo teaspoons extract of or- ange; juice of one lemon, one quart of vater, one pound powdered suga; ill rich, sweet cream; add al gether and strain; then freeze. Raspberry Water Ice—Press rasp- berries through finest sieve to givé three pints juice; add one pound pul- verized sugar and juice of one lemon, with one teaspoon’ raspberry extract. Frecze. one to- in ar EASTER LILY. THE MAY DAY PARTY. Dear Social Corner Sisters: Those of you that could not meet with us at the May Day party don’t know wh good time you missed, though we were not as jolly as usual, thinking of the funeral ‘services for the G. A. R. man on the otlier side of the building. Many loving tributes to his memory twere given. e was so obligi and thoughtfui to have the room comfort- able when we were going to meet at Buckingham Memorial. Was glad to meet Silver er e 1 a Locks at Sycamore: were very nice. Missed Rock M 3 Hope to meet you all again. Thank Club No. 3 for invitation to meet with them in Lebanon, May 15th. SELLE, Joan's beans T B A TASTY GRUEL. Dear_Social Sisters: I have enjoy- €d reading your tal on the different nooks you have read. I 2m never lonesome if 1 have a good hook to read. Twice Twen! y: Was pleased {o have me on the you call ‘phone Sunday. Do voy want any more proof? Jennie: Think that letter must haye gome astray you was to write of | v Addley: Why so silent? We e Received your let- How are the sweet peas? to ter. Tast Rose of Summer: Hope to see you in K— soon. Here is something One cup oatmeal. one quart water; let for the sick: come to good boil, then strain and salt. When ready to use put two tea- spoons of cream to each cup of gruel. . KEZIAH DOOLITTLE. GOOD COUNSEL FROM AUNT MARY. in Dear Social Corner Friends: How it does cheer our hearts to hear the singing of the happy birds these de- lightful mornings, as they warble their varying the proportion of: sugar ac- |gratitude to their Heavenly Father for cording to the acidity of fruit used. their preservation through the long now 2 iy tal cold winter just past. How hearts Should respond in’ like manner in thanksgiving and praise to our Heavenly Father for the loving kind- ness with whith He has watched over and kept us from all harm; while mer; h;a beeg stt:hml:ch suffering and many, many deaths in som e ama some parts of t seems very strange to me that while we would feel ashamed to re. ceive even a very small gift from an associate or friend or even a stranger without a simple “thank you” we are constantly receiving untold blessings from the bountiful hand of our Hea- venly Father, without even the slight- est acknowledgement of thanks, Can we not learn a lesson from the birds. Last evening while reading the account in thesdailies of the sudden disappearance of an interesting young woman ' twenty-four years old who had for some time been known to have frequent crying spells which were not accounted for, I could but wonder where her mother’s heart’s in- terest was all this time. Had there been the close companionship be- tween that mother and daughter that there ought to be between every mother and child the daughter would have confided in the mother and her life might have been saved. Every true mother will be such a loving con- fidant of her children that when they comeé to her with their (to her) childish confidences while young, she will be very kind, attentive, and sym- Dpathetic to all they tell her and never never betray one of their little confi- dences, or make light of them. No mother should ever let any out- side interests so take up her time and attention that she may be led to ne- glect the best interest of her children How that mother’s conscience must reproach her mow for not so encir- cliing her daughter in the arms of mother love that the daughter would have immediately confided in her whatever was troubling her. I think I have written before now of the young womarf that was work- ing in an office and her employer be- zan to take more notice of her than the case called for. He said to her one day: “I hope you are not one who tells anyone what you hear in the of- flice.” She said: “I have a dear friend to whom 1 tell everything that concerns myself, and that is my mother.” It is needless {o say thereafter she was not annoyed by his attentions. The above was taken from the Union Signal. Oh, that every mother might realize the danger that surrounds the young people not only the daushters, but of the sons of today. If every parent for the past fifty vears had properly trained their boys and girls and been good example for them to have fol- lowed in their daily life, what a vast difference there would be in the state of society today. The Social Corner is growing bet- ter every week, and the influence for good that it exerts is helpful. I think Practical Polly's suggestion is a very good one. I am willing to do_as she susgests. Was very glad to hear from Re- member Me. She and her hushand. T am sure. have the sympathy of the Social Corner family With good wishes for every one of the Social Corner friends. AUNT MARY. HOW TO SELECT POULTRY. Dear_Social Corner Sister. are a few things you should the buying of poultry. . It is safer to buy poultry with the iheads and feet where nature placed them. Once an opening has been made into the body cavity of a bird, or the head and feet cut off, the moist delicate tissues are laid open to the , fairly inviting the invasion of bacteria. These bacteria impair the flvor of the meat, even if actual de- composition does not set in. The feet and head tell a zood deal bout the age of the bird. Young birds have clean, smooth legs and feet while old ones show a rough, scaly condition with the development -of spurs, Some boultry specialists also claim that a fowl with yellow legs is of bet- ter flavor than one having black legs. The head of the bird will tell the fact plainly as to how long it has been killed. Sunken eyes, darkened neck and a greenish-blue color nea the bill, all show that the bird is no longer fresh. To order a bird over the telephone is to trust en to one’s market- man. It js much better to make the clection in person and to have the duck or chicken or whatever it ma le, drawn in one's presence, stip: lating that it will not Le taken if there is a diseased or unhealthy condition. Those who handle poultry for mar- ket should not feed it for twen four hours before i led. The intes- tines will then be empty or almost so, and will be round, showing tiny. bright red veins. If the entrails are full the birds have not been proper- ly prepared or may have been fed | food mixed w and make it weizsh more heatily. 1f the intestines look flattened to- gether and seem to adhere in a mass, ir y condition and re- s an indication that Were not thoroughly cooled were killed. Meat foods from which the animal removed decom Here ow in | | to s are preferable those which have been scalded. A ded chicken has very few hairs about it, these being readily pulled awa e feathers. Sometimes dry picked immediat: lled, and to hasten ing process they are allowed to stand for a time in very cold water in order to remove the animal heat. is objectionable also for a chicken of it, which i The leok w “powdery.” is inclined t A proper] air-cooled cken - has a loose, clear-looking there are sure to bo short hairs to remove by nd the papillae or quill ow plainly. It is easy to learn to dress poultry at home. Ten or fifteen minutes at the most is all that js needed to pre- pare a good sized bird for cooking, and there is a great deal of satisfac- tion in knowing exactly what you have got. Besides if you want a thing well done, vou take a greater interes in_doing it yourseif. Best wishes from MOUNTAIN LAUREL. | described has a thick look and shin: THE GROWING OF BEANS. Dear Social Corner these strenuous ijmes thin usual are being cultivated. Beans cceed best in a sandy loam, mod erately manured, although they will do well in a variety of soils. If the soil is too rich the arowth will be mostly in leaves and vines. In garden culture beans should be planted _at intervals throughout the scason for a succession of crops, fin- Readers: In more beans r bush beans, make the drills two inches deep and two feet apart, planting the beans three inches apart in the drill, covering not more than two inches deep. Pole beans should be planted .in hills, according to the variety, from three to four feet apart, and ‘five to six 1aeans to each hill. 'They do best when planted with the eye downward. When the plants are well establish- et, thin out to four plants to a hill. They require poles from six to tep feet high to eclimb upon. should be stirred often loose, and pliable, and for exterminat- ing the since earth scattered on the when wet with dew or rain will be liable to cause them to rust. cold and wet and are apt to rot on tile ground, consequently they should 1ot be planted when the cold, shower dried off after one, they will be lia- ble to suffer from it. quires much greater care in thi spect than any well to plant an extra drill for sup- ?lylm;: the places of such plants as ail plenty of room for growth. the most successful farmers pl hills five feet apart each w: o vole high will be sufficient, and the run- reach the tops of the poles, also the side runners a foot away more productive, and the strength of the plant runs less to vines, considerable trouble and labor to keen vield thus obtained Everyone now and then becomes mfd. and question arises—what to use. _ areaction. Saline waters are rapid in action but do no more. jmuwflhmd&unflmflqufi‘n p!mtm.mhobmindbythemdxmhmmé name of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. It acts gently, without griping. ltisnapcdaflyidfllmndicinefird:flhn:. women, old people and others who find purges too powerful. Only a teaspoonful is required, and by morning the move- ment is free and complete. Abetthinthl:m_nis.inm-u for the whole family against constipaffon; indigestion, aches, flatulency and other digestive ills. .. The druggist will refund your money if it to do as promised. %.53‘,‘ o= %" NO INCREASE In spite of enormons incroaped Taboratgey osts due to the War e mamotacturess of s e res is ‘war_taxes, sO Bie s iy laeative remain s} the w%m.nij; e B Lond The soil trade for the past three years. be kept In 1917 the farmers along the West River in Kwangtung and Xwangsi provinces, who raise the straw used in the manufacture of mats and mat- ting at Lintan, Hong-Kin, and other matting centers, saw that reduced trade was inevitablé and planted less straw than usual. Another result of this change was the fact that the farmers found that they could do bet- ter with their land when devoted to other crops, and it is unlikely that the supply of matting straw in m‘a'I to weeds; but only when dry, leaves Lima beans are very susceptible to il is wet or preceding a ground has If planted directl or before * the This variet: re- re- vs near future will be more than actually enough to supply the trade at good prices, if indeed, it is that much. Exports of matting during 1917 on the whole fell off less than had been antscipated. Thq total exports of mats and matting are placed by local exporters at 98,833 rolls, as compared with exports of 107,332 rolls in 1918 and as high as 526,500 rolls in 1812, a normal year. Of the exports in 1917 the United States and Canada are credited with 70,996 rolls, compared with 38873 rolls the previous year, while Great Britain took 23,860 rolls and the continent of Europe 3977 rolls, compared_with 66,227 and 2232 rolls, respectively, in 1916. Of the 1917 ex- ports to the United States about 45,- 009 rolls were from South China and 25,000 rolls from Indo-China. ANTFISEPTIC POWDER FOR PERSONAL HYGIENE Dissolved in water for Jdouches stops other. It is alw: to thr should have Some of They nly two plants to to each plant. a hill, and one Poles six feet rers should be picked off when they from the them to be reles, which will cause It is the runmers back, but the additional well repays. If the pods are gathered before ripen- ing on the vines, or when green, but weil filled, the beans are much nicer for winter use, than when allowed to ripen before gathering. Best wishes to all. J. L. B HONGKONG MATTING TRADE REDUCED. ‘War conditions and especially high freight rates have so interfered with i i the export of matting from South ;‘;‘;’m“‘““"“b"“w“fi " China and Indo-China that a more or || Betion. Becommended by L i less permanent change in the trade || A healing wonder for masal catarrhy has resulted, writes Consul General |12 15 8 WOREer | pryisacive ) George . Anderson, Hongkors [f#2 Aoy hephei British China. High freight rates ”ampm’d‘“,fim.,.fl ko yd i have, been reducing the volume of |\l T P 3 N.S. Gilbert & Sons SUMMER GOODS 6 ft. $4.50 7 ft. $5.50 Sizes 5 ft. Prices $3.75 8 ft. $6.00 Piazza Chairs and Rockers WE HAVE ADDED LARGELY TO GUR STOCK OF Furniture and Carpets AND INVITE PURCHASERS TO VISIT OUR NEW STORE Majestic Building Opposite Laurel Hill Bridge