Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 15, 1919, Page 10

BOCIAL CORNER POEMS, Far frem the Madding Crowd. It seems to me I'd like to go W'here belll don't ring nor whistles Nor elocks dc:on't utrflu nor gongs don't But wheu there's umlnes. all around. Not real still stillness; just the trees’ Low whisperings or the croon of bees; The drowsy tinklings of the rill, Or twilight song of whippoorwill. ‘Twould be a joy could I behold The dappled fields of green and gold, Or:in the cool, sweet clover lia And watch the cloud-ships drifting by. T4 like to find some quaint old boat, And fold its oars. and with it float Along the lazy, limpid stream ‘Where water lilies drowse and dream. Sometimes It seems to me I must Just quit the city's din and dust, For fields of green and skies of bl And, say! how does it seem to you? —Nixon Waterman, ¥ Thank God for Love. Though' one | heart alone Rmondu in true affection io ‘your "hough all beside unheedm‘g‘m you et ngm divine fllumes mk earthly Thanksgiving. Thank God for Lovel: TBank God for Life. Thouth roush’ the path you know, Though well acquaint Wwith ‘povcrty and woe. Wafle you at morn the earth’s falr face hehnld, While night still spreads her pomp ot | rose and gold— Thank God for Life! ‘Thank God for Death. After the sum- mer hours Beneath the snow sleep all the weary flowers: B¢ after all Life's pains and joys are st, past, Skall Death bring kindly rest for all at last?>— Thank God for Death! ~—Ninette M. Lowater. | INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS. THE SOCIAL CORNER EDlTOR‘ has a printed private letter for “Per- pléxed.” Let us know how it mv‘ rfich you. PAULA--Cards received and for- warded as directed. 4JIM—Cards received and malled.xazi wou d'rected. NELEH—Explanation perfectly gu.l—' istactory. l St HOME 18 THE KINGDOM -AND | LOVE THE KING. 1 o Perplexed Dear Social Corner | t 1 was interested in your let- | ter. You,asked for opin.ons from the readers, so I will say: “Don't give up the ship!” Even f you are capa- b of earning a living, to be separated from your family would not pay in the | long run. The occupation of being a wife and | miother is the most honorable callin on: earth. “No one can fill your pla for' your boy care for them. Teach them the value of an education so they can fill good | positions. Teach them ther duty as| citizens, and to leve and respect theur | parents. | The years will soon pass and they | will establish homes of their own, Show them how to make good homes and your influence will be more far- reaching than by deserting them ml thelr fate now. Thanksgiving day will soon be here. | Try and make it a happy day for al' | by having some extra treat. Then af | Christmas g.ve the boys as much fun as possible. Celebrate all holidays | and b.rthdays. | You should attend the Social Corner | mestings, where you will meet a band | of noble women and learn gauch that | i8 “heloful. You cany annlp a. glee club to sing at these meeungs, and so keep cheerful. Anyway, for the sake of the boys, resolve ‘t_u qm\ e to the | end; and., bles in-| your home will“all pnku al each one tries to be agreeable. Just think you are the happiest mother for hav- | lng‘ two nice poys. ry the new ideas, and sing all day “The way of duty is the way of hap- I new thoughts piness." There {s a_Lttle poem that has ‘these lines: “Home is (he kingdom and love is the king.” “There is 1.0 plzce like home.” With sincere good wishes, NEMA. LITTLE HELPS, Dear Social Corner Sisters: sending few recipes: Domostic Fruit Cake—Two cups of | dried apples so_ked over night; in the merning. chop fine and boil one hour; in one cup of molasses; then add one cup sugar, one cup sweet milk, one| cup butter, one bowl of raisins, or more. two eggs, four cups flour. one heaping teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cinnamon, mace, nuimeg, cloves, gin- ger and allspice. Little Helps—Take one teaspoon castor ofl for earaché ' Take one to two drops of sweet oil put on cotton, put it in your ear. This will stop the earache. For toothache take a few drops of paregoric on cotton put in a hollowed togth. It will stop pain. ¥or swelling arm or hand'put plen- ty of eastor oll on sWelling part. This will relieve pain and swelling, put cot- ton on swelling, tie -cotton cloth ateund. . For a cold take a cup of hot boiling mitk. Drink this. as. hqt as you joau. It will ‘break: up PAULL PARTING WORD!. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: 1 wiitched the lovely country side fade and sadden; and aem-r the early atumn Into’ the d ‘night, While the long ofithe comlhg win- ter .nvelmd the forests as if they pow loved them best: recalling urcon- .tuly to. the .responsive. heart: the dreams of long ago It ig alone th ling lines of green pines that i) the sinister ridges, and touch lernal fragrance and bunches of I am énjoy- ed> the shol'plnllty “} IMllrl,‘Ohli ‘n'-rad Betsey Bray, who.sutrely live in the Mgmosphere o the adventures of long NO MAN KNOWS WHAT HIS- WIFE: THINKS OF - HIM—CARLYLE. . i | short of and it is your duty t;“l { orly thing it seems for us to do is to ago. This is a home amidst the calm’| perfume and the.quiet memories of hearts long since: tx}!enmleep, wheral it would seem that earth’s batties have vanished, for;'the noiseof life comes not here o tbqam ‘silence; somre- | times the ring - wind wmdermn through the xong trees ‘and gra: But the fartive phantoms ot the past and the silentireveries of the. present are not wanting. Tokens 'of-the life, both tragic and serene, that once ex- isted have not been obliterated, and aptly speak the story of past activities more eloquently than any words of mine. But the years advance. while the ancient sun dial steadily ‘marks the unfaltering tread of time, pointing backward to the dwelling of which the story. has been_told. But the camp is where vague ab- stractions ‘aré vivified and the s:mple pleasurés’ more: thoroughly enjoyed. ‘The ddys"are -short-and night: comes swiftly on :‘this~ hillside.. My, sole companions by day were the springly squirrels, skipping from tree to tree, and the rustiing of the fluttering leaves; - by’ night ‘theé squirrels patter- ing and the nuts drapping on my cabin roof. ‘Thig is réal rest;’and each day brought a finer, thought and subtly prepared the ‘approach’ to the ultimate &nd. To be remembered was the automo- bile . teip .down the left bank of the1 Thames River, which I love so well, just when the sun was sinking beyond | the Lrangufl. hefghts on the opposite | shore: ", Syitfly we passed the little | groups-af dwellings, each place recall- | ing.“some Youthful sport, . and ; until | reaching the ~Submarine Base was'| there any marked ¢hange in the land- | scape - or .the contour of the unique | settlements since early remembrance ! At the entrance. -to . New London ‘harbor, around. Eastern Point, the long | | bars of the . Setting = sun stréamed , across .the water in undulations of silver and gold. wavering and spark- / ling—a ‘jeweleq. path onward—blending into the foammy reaches, until the gath- ering shadows mosed down - upon the | sea, In quithng T .wish to sineerely lhanl\l tho Corner Sisters who have express-| ed such <kindly words about THE-LITTLE SPINSTER. WHAT SHALL WE DO FOR SUGAR?! Dear 'Seeial | Cornerite: We are gar i werai e d out to us a pound at a two pounds, if we or-have the cash oor «u‘d discr ctlu- have it dol titee; buy or pourtd to the £ m dddition t tens of mii: af pounds be by the proii and that 1 not be pushed to do about it? r and a full supp We all miss our sweets nker does his be people s as the be d’ too ‘many 3 ive use of s for. the doc- [} ing compelled V(\ 1se either tem- a misfortune. +OLD SOL. | D THANKS AND CQNGRATULATIONS “Dedry Social ‘Corner 4 pagsed another mile it gives us much c when we learn we S0 many friends in the Social Corner Wwho Ye- minded us of birtbday with many beautiful c ch were greatly appreciated: and we v and all for the showe came as & great sur; We received c h to thank one of cards which from fi the fol- lowing Sisters of the Social Corner. Fir, Merry Widow. Ki Billie, Anna © Mell, Calla Potlatch, Joan, Snow Queen, Twice Twenty. We ' do not know the date of the birthdays of the Sisters of the Corner, so the quote the following lines: Congratulations I am sending to you today; May the happy light from your well- ! spent years Shine soft and warm o'er your way.' May the fruit of unselfish servlce‘ sweet, The ripened sheaves of a life thath cheers. Bring their harvest of peace and joy | to you Through many more beautiful years, loving and true, With best wishes to all the Social Corner family, RURAL DELIVERY. COOKING IS A SCIENCE. Dear ‘Social Corner Friends: Fears have been expressed that The Corner | would become a cookbook. It surely | would seem rather lonely without the recipes. Three meals a day is the average number, not to mention the betweens. Usually, when men and boys enter the house their first glance is towards the -dining table if there are no indi- cations of a meal in sight; the cry is ‘What is the prospect? Ain’t you go-| ing to have anything to eat? The orig'nal Samantha Allen wrote that she had thirteen dreadful years until she learned to set a few dishes upon the tahle. Callers will remark about different friends being such fine cooks and oth- ers such poor ones that they do not care to visit with the latter class. If the cook suddenly makes her exit home" i Hungry: old place until the vacaney is filled. hd s, oot -~ SPECIAL SUIT VALUES $35, $40, $45 Double and Single-Breasted models, beafltlfully tmlored gar- ments in a splendid array of fa‘.mcs—just were purchued months ago, whlch means ygu save from $5 to $10. ed, although they good style and'e money. _ wich. winter coats. here. Rich, soft, fleecy GE FROM $30 TO 'Good 0vercoats But remember economy lies in the Overcoat you ‘get and not in the price. Overcoat priees ‘are pretty much afl alike, but the coats are not—so we caution you before you buy be sure you get - all wool fabrics, good tailoring, good lmmgs, full value, and you wi Values SWEATER COATS, Our Best Overedat “Our Overcoats embody these features and are _guaranteed to satisfy you or money back if ' they don’t—so why take a chance—come here " where you can choose from a stock of Over- coats that is five times as large as any in Nor-. $30.00 to $50 00 Smart Ulsterettes, either half belted or belt all ; around— double or single breasted styles—con- : servative, genteel coats, fitted models and fur - collared coats are all represented n our won- derful showing of men’s and young men’s new B fabrics — fine X Meltons and Kerseys, all elegantly tailored and silk lined. Our prices represent the utmost value in Overcoats, and we guarantee to save "~ you from $5 to $15 if you buy your Overcoat FALL FURNISHINGS UNDERWEAR, SHIRTS, GLOVES, HOSIERY, NECKWPA*, in fact everything a man needs for comfort and style is here, and lt prices that spell real E-C-O-N-O-M-Y. ning days ahead even in small fami- lle& BLANCHE, EXPERIMENT WITH AN INFANT. Editor of the Social Corner: If some suggestions from our experience would help some other parents with - their first baby’s artificial feeding, we will gladly pass them on. As the authorities recommended, we began to give babe water from a bottle so that when weaning time came she would be accustomed to drinking that way—all went well until the day she made up her mind that she simply would not have that black nipple in her mouth again. A real bot- tle ensued but mother's persistence was overcome, I'm sorry to say, by Babe’s absolute refusal to drink that way, Consequently, when at nine months of age it was necessary to give her one. bottle feeding a day, that lupcH pe- riod came to be a dreaded time. First babe would have a little milk from a teaspoon; next a, sip from . a ° little glass; then when coaxing failed to en- tice her back to the spoon, we'd try to make her take a swallow or.more from the bottle (but never more than one swallow at a time could we get down), and then she woulq scream. The whole family came to. the . rescue. Grandma tried putting a few grains of sugar on the nipple to tell her on— 2and then some on . the spoon for an- ‘other taste; and so we alternated. In the meantime, babe was exercising. her lungs to the limit. After an hcur's work: about half of the re- quirsd amount of milk was on the out- side of her asg well as inside where it belonged. This happened . without many variations for a: week. One Sunday afternoon - Daddy as- sumed full charge with “Now, mother, can’t have the kind she wants—and I'll conquer her.” The array of ‘tempt- ing dishes—teaspoon, little tumbler, cup, big glass and bottle, each con taining . appetizing samples, was ar- ranged on the Kkitchen table. Daddy began to offer them one by one and babe began to fight and wail. Mother went to the living room and closed the doors. between, but they could not muffle ~the -ever increasing noise, so she kept making the intervening dis- tance longer. but if she had gone to New York Im sure she still would have heard that hungry voice calling her. Finally, after - an hour's constant yelling on the part of babe, and the same time consumed by Daddy in try- ing to carry out his good intentions, he brought that almost worn-out bun- dle of struggling: humanity outdoors to mother saying: “I'm afraid 'she'll hurt herself crying so hard. If you've got the ‘kind of ‘lunch ‘that ‘child wants, I think you'd better feed her.” So babe came back to source of sunply, had a good square meal, and was satisfied. The next'afternoon'I began the same kind of a performance with the usual, amount of kicking, shouting resistance when Daddy came rushing in with: “See these light colored nipples T just white), and put'it on the bottle, that. cherub of ours reached out her hands | eagerly for .it and drajned tho. con- tents to the last drop. . has loved her bottle with a.vielently, devouring admiration. . By the way; when we began; to give her : the 'bottle we’ thought 'we - must use-the new kind ‘with the wide mouth; ‘butrafter several had-heen broken, dur lw)se docwor told'us that the only way Cooking is a science far from being|you go where she can neither see nor to cieanse any. bottle is Ly boiling, .and. understood—tuil of details and plan- ge RSN e R L S hear yor and then 'she'll knaw she the cheaper, - old~ Ia.shloned. narrow- the' natural | Since. then she || !neckea ones could be cleaned that way ags easi¥ as the more expensive kind. At night we take the Thermios bot- tle full of hot water upstairs sotha will heat babe's breakfast bottle in a pail without our getting up. Sometimes when we have been off in the maching on long day 'trips, ‘we | have very satisfactorily used the little “Stefno’ ‘canned heat outfits on' the ruming board-to warm her milk when lurich time “found us away out in the country. CHEER UP. FOUR P'S FOR PERPLEXED. Dear, Social Corner Sisters: If I had a chance to speak-personally to .the wife who signed herself Perplexed, in the Saturday Corner, I would suggest these remedies for her troubles I.. Patience. Very few wives know the trials and temptations which their husbands have. to stand - during course of a day. The grouchy man in | this case may have an un just or over- bearing or fault-finding boss; he may have irritating associates. Maybe he is going through a dark time because of the unhappily large number of un- worthy women who haunt shops, of- fices and stores or. waylay men on their way to.and from work. This man found in the drug store. Det’s try,|DIS wife. ;i them.” Do vou know, as soon as we | . 1k Pride. The mother of a man's had boiled ‘one (making it almost |iWO. children.ought to.think long and |'serfously before being willing to have the world know that for her marriage is a faflure, and that she and her chil- dren -are ‘homeless outcasts, IH. Poliey. Cannot this disgruntled wife think of somie; faise- friend who 'is ‘ready to rejoice in ‘the wife's disap- pointrhent? ~Maybe: to.take the- place (i the household which the wife seems so ready to:-ledve? ‘And’is mnot_this Woman' who“calls herself Perpiexed very silly if she does not disappoint that scheg.h;z second woman? ‘the | may be keeping some such trials from | er. ’!'kere are few ai,hu Do ‘vou know, that, as a home—father, mother and children (living in “concord and unity. When= ever this wife gets tried and: discour- |aged, I wonder if she has thought of going aside and kneeling -to ask for patience in her trials, for strength-to surmount the present difficulties? think - of the future years when, her childten grown up, they will need a {father’s care and provision? Y i Perplexed has said nothing about her husband being" dissipated or extrava- gant; so that lie has those two good peints in bis fuvor. Possibly, if she had to spend her time with an intem- perate or immoral man, she would see {her own little trials as very insignifi- {cant in comparison with - those of res of other women who bear. their woes in secret. SALLY LUXN. DO YOU KNOW? Dear Sisters of the. Social Corner: We all like to d» thines in ‘a2 proper way. but in several small thln"s many iof us:fail.. No Jater than last week, the whole world-=that’ € tite' world . 'of . social usages—emiled when the wife of a.man i who revels“in: mlllloflg‘ in reply fo an i tation, signed her Jetter, we . will . “Mrs.iJames S, Jones.” .Of course me correet form , was_ Mary . Jane Jones. { Mrs: James-S: Jones) Do you know that ¥ou should never say or write Mrs. Judpe Mudge Mrs. Lawyer Small, Mrs. Doctor Biank, ete.. but Mrs.’ Mudge, wite' of . .!mlle' Mrdge, ete. | " Do vou know, fhat jtiis.the most awfulexamnle, of social fznorarcs to, actually cmxgr:\tulale a girl whose en- gagement hns 'just been announced, or 2 bridé” The manSis the one fo-he wngr&tuhted ~~to express good ‘wishes or best: mwa for her happiness, etc. Loty Does she look beyond the day . and] | “women 'one 1s to |- 85 Dleasing 15 the ever of tho)GLaator Tam -aurs ot o ol tot ) Th cttin aie such glaring mistakes in this paper— all the gifts are supposed to be the bride’s? In case , the bridezroem's friends present - him personal gifts, nothing is' sald :about those; any and all gifts. which are received are f« the bride. Do you know ‘it was In. Chlmsn. where ‘separations are frequent,: that.- an awkward gnest wished the. groom “many happy returns .of . the . day?? There it was taken as a joke: but [ have heard people hereabouts make Just as bad breaks. To teil the truth, too: of talk without thinking hs(nd of. cpeak. ing only when we have something to say, and then suying it éorrectly. It is sad to see a woman:ilorded .down with rich furs, vjewels.idollell . up in coptly. garients and /the Tike. ‘when, because of her limited-socldl or edu- catlonal advantnges in Youth she w1 better da thinegs-more simpl ing somebod ot Hotaay: HERRS tni n'aznv FUSS-AND-FEATHERS. North: Washinston Street. 1, UNCLE JOE"’COULD FIND THE d BEAR. neu Soctal Cofner’ FHends: After 1 had read tha letter by Perplexed 1 said ‘to Mirandy: “That's'a tart lefter {n'the 'Socfal Corner upon family aftairs: Do you suppose'*Per i Ju!t tooling or that ‘the milirtié M:rind.y looktd my" way and -lds "Jofigvh, f -you hhd the sensn of 4 Woman® ¥ou " world know thete's two sfdes to tapt 8tory, and “there’ teNing wbk'n-one m‘x\rried‘ the fool 1 beir s ot -ufi\- ‘Thfll -&e‘mm dooer-‘t