Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 13, 1919, Page 11

FOUR THOU! SOCIAL CORNER POETRY. THE HAPPINESS FLOWER. d you ever find the Happiness Flower? Tt isn't so hard to find; Bt opens wide at the.morning hour, | In the meadows of cheerful mind. \ % ‘But it sometimes; grows in the sandy i qust e i3 A That fills the:aessetst care, And down in the flelds.of parfect trust You caun always'find it there. 's sweet as Flower, Winter and summer the same— ©On the difficuit hills by troublous tower, t shines like a rosy flame. honey, the Happiness 1 If ever you find the Happiness Flower, And it isn’t so hard to find By ti~ rainbow’s end in an April shower Where the tears and the smiles are t twined. May it flourish fair in your garden zround, A’ glisten with joy's bright dew: May the sunshine of Love the whale year round Lie warm on your flower and you. INSIDE CHEER. In spite of the gloom In my little room, A plant, today, is in fragrant bloom. The rain, the wind. It does not mind, And sweeter flowers you'll never find. T1l whisper, dear, Its name in your ear— It's the iittle plant ¢ d Inside Cheer! Alice E. Allen. THE AWFUL TOP DRAWER. Dear Social Corner Sisters: ern humorist declared that King thur could invent a Round Table. he wasn't smart enough to invent but a top drawer In which a man and his wife d share the space without end 1 know has problem in a 0. y simple and effective way She bas divided the dra eral fancy pasteboard boxes those which hold handk Christmas, certain useful and others of that sort. H ) his If and she has hers, box is own contents—handker- collar buttong s'cove links. wrnflets, tie claspe ote. for the man, while the several hoxes for the wife are made eaually useful to cateh the d und one things which always vel in‘making the ordinary as though it W " as the saying is. the family to which 1 refer there g about or wrangli for, e Probably there are men not so orderly the husband jn this case; but I in general average Iman gnizes the advantaze of having the articles like buttons studs, cte.. j whére he can zet them when in a burry and in case a husband is not method- ical and orderly (maybe spoiled by some mistaken mother who waited o him too much) the right kind of a wife ca oon train him to habits of neat- ness and system. LADDIE. A NICE DESSERT. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: very Saturday | read with interest the different letters and s uggestions ch and 1 get many useful hints from ez and all. do 1 enjoy the cooking the various members or Nobody has sent in a like mine: so I want to 1y ¥ way of making Apple Pudding—Line a deep pie platé with sliced apvles: cover with one-haif cup sugar (here's honing you & it!). Beat one , one-half : . one-half cup milk, one and flour: udd vanilla and iking powder, Spread this crust over the apples. Bake in a moderate oven. Serve wita whipped cream YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER. sbon, Dec. 9tl A NEW GOLDEN RULE. Dear. Social Cornerites: Yor some time I have wanted to tell vou ahout @ dear good woman. a ueighbor of mine, who. although life has held many trials and sorrows for her, is like 2 ray of sunshine to those who go into her presence, When 1 asked her once why it was she was the friend of everybody, young and old, she, after a while, explained that years ago she had adopted a golden rule: “Do something for some- body every day. Never speak unless you can say something pleasant.” Now isn't her example worth cop—- ing? How many there are whose cou is just the onposite; who, in- stead of trying to be kind to some- GHTS CONTROL YOUR LIFE— CHOOSE WISELY Hadl, luhch by the roadside, We climb- || eg Jicobls Liadder and .at tho peak of AL body, take pleasure in being disagree- able. Then. too, we all know the so- called friends who will save unpeasant things to. say—to tell. Who will re- mark when you meet them: .“Why; Sarah Jane! Have you been sick? Seems to me I never saw you look s6 peaked!” Or who will unkindly remind you that you are‘looking shabby or ofd or fat. or overdressed or ‘bilious! Do something for somebody—always say something pleasant, How different life would be for, most of us.if every acquaintance were- to carry out that new Golden Rule, OF THE BLUE MORTALS. RACK OF THE COUNTER. Editor of the Social Corner: I.have traded on,4nd off.in Norwich for a good many years, not because I'have thought it ‘was the best market, but because it was. the handiest. G an) 22 1 have always found the service in’ the stores very unsatisfactory because there was too little pen back of the counter, or anywhere el In a score of years of trade I have met a dozen smart salesmen in the ‘stores. There is a sort of a.silent, staring, what-do- you-want aftitude back of %counte;. and if one does not know exgctly wnat he wants, I defy him to find{out. The glad-to-see-you trade spit is missing in half the stores of Norwich, and in too many stores only the old and readily recognized customer gets immediate attention. £ A town set on maore hills and in more valleys than Rome .ever-knew should not become known as:a sleepy old place, at least. in its businéss guarters, in less than three centuries. It is being waked un by new ‘blood and new enterprise, and heaven knows it needs to be. A good third of the bu- iness center.is mow owned by enter- prising aliens who have settled here and who are making real estate boom where it seemed. to be. destined - to molder: and decay. Do you' realize 75 per cent. of the births are of alien parentage, and that here in this dozing eity all things are becoming new? ‘A new business e-a s dawning, and let:us hope there will be pep in it. What we need is coming to us; and bringing conditions not so co: ' GET-UP-AND-GET. Norwich, December. 1918. RISTMAS A SUGGESTION FOR CH SHOPPERS. Dear Social Corner Editor: Many a time « I have. felt like writing 10 The rner, but you alwe¥s seem:io pave such a number of interesting writers plan- whichy}, about? ¥ P In the city where T.used.tq live thers lv\ :s 4 rich old géntleman, :Unole Wi~ liam. suppose we call him, who had:a number of nieces, ¢éach oné expecting some Christmas gift from him. He was liberal and kind; but it soon grew quite a task ‘to sclect presents.tor so many; so what did that clever old man |do but begin buying gifts. by thi dozen. When he saw-anything which SOSTUE; WOrth - thirking, pleased his - fancy and - which+ he thought his numerous 'nieces each girl knew on Christmas morning wealthy relative was not one whit bet- her cousins. scheme and could be carried out in case of a smaller number of relatives, couldn't it? - ONE OF THE NIECES. MARY FRANCE'S TRIP TO AFTON, - NYA Dear Sisters of the Sacial Corner: It is some time ‘since I have written, but :T look for my page of The Norwich Bulletin every week. really see my friends gathering around the bountifully spread table of Zood- ies, and T can 2'most taste the delic- ious food brough by our good house- | keepers. T can s ¢ the tomato mince pie and chill sauce. As many of the Sisters know, T have moved to York state. About the last of August my better -half engaged Wrinkle’s Son to take us in his com- fortable Cheyrolet. e started onm Aug. 30th, Saturday, 5.20 a. m. The moon was shining and it was. chilly. My little niece who had been with me rt of the summer and [ ' hugged close to keep warm, The scenery over<Avon ‘meuntain and along the river was fine. We drove through Albany about -11 o'- clock. Out in the country we stopped and ate a lunch we brought with. us. At 6.10 p, m. we had covered 250 miles. As we drove, into the dooryard of my niece’s home her father came out to greet us. - Such an affectionate hug as it was, for Papa had not seen his little daughtér for just two months. We rested oyer Sunday. ; - On Monday Mr, C and 'hubby and T started for our home in the Nutmeg state at 7.30 a. m. It was a perfect NEW KEROSENE coaloil LIGHT Beats A H.CHAGNON Phone, 1877-32 Electric or Gasolinc Five times as efficient asthe | butmmdwick,?&aflsa% , B.& H., etc), ' lampt (sllldln?yq, only about one cent te oper. Rours. - Feads fucl e fihquh; sofhany times during the days would | [.never ‘should get my table sot like, he just bought the gifts in quanti- | §leared. “How I wisbed 1. could af- ities. Then there was no jealousy. for | 9ne. of the, many kinds of tea wr ter or worse than the gifts received by | imperfect. It _ptoved a satisfactory | attic, found When a dinner ‘is announced T can |off when .| I¥s;a cheap:and easy rule. to follow, ould see for many S N‘ , la’d?er we ‘were homeward llwund. m‘;—k v re.at §.30 p, m. It was n e %}fi‘ahu this trip as I often have-been. when traveling by rail We: stopped at, a- Westfleld restau- rant.and-had a good roast beel din- ner. ' R T S = My father-in?law. wished us to re- ‘and take care of his little daugh- te) He ‘has' had smany . experiences with ‘Housekeepers since my dear sis- ter passed.away last January. We had a“house full of relics, some expected would g0 in the -woodpile, bt 'to my' surprise ‘they - brought coth's from dealers: in' antiques. ' We finally got our worldly goods down te one‘autotruck ‘full. - On Sept. 23, Hub- by ‘and the: goeds started at’4.30 a. m, He had -the family pet Toodles in trawberry crate on the sideboard d'a crate'of Plymouth Rock hens on the rear.. They -had a terrible thun- der storm while out ‘several miles from a" habitation. They got through to Cobbleskill the next:afternoon. The steering rod broke, when they were on-a level road.” Think of what might Have happened on those mountains? I | most .think the chauffeur was glad to halt as’ the failr was at its height in that' town. They telegraphed to.Hart- ford and “they telégraphed to Hart- a man to bring the part needed. He arrived Saturday, 3.30 p. m, repaired the auto. truck and at 4 they started for/our pretty town of Afton on the Susquehanna -river, arriving at mid- ight. oo ‘Hubby is not one to linger on his trips, so on Friday. left cat and chicks and came on the noon train in time for dipner. -1 had thought of being economical’ and. riding on the truck, dut- wheri-T. saWw' the seat and three men on it, T thought best'to come to my honte town. ifi style. - So I took the Cenfral’ Vermont ‘tran ‘to T, and Boston and -Albany to “Afbin and Delaware and Hudson to my destina- Gons e Since being here T tool: Binghamton, the parlor city; also to Johnson, City and Enscott. One of my cousins of a shoe firm there gives each school child,a pair of nice shoes: a year. .. As Photographer wrote ‘T was 16 and about -to'graduate, perhaps I will receive a pair of-shoes. T-hope all spent a pleasant Thanks- glving. - Best wishes from all, < MARY a trip to FRANCE. + DELIAH DEAL'S TEA-WAGON. Dear. Social Corher Sisters: It has been a long time since I have written you, and-much longer kince 1 liave met you-at the Buckingham. The last time [ was there was at the June meetins. I miss the good times and helps T re- ceived from you all; but since Lne duy has been changed 16 Thursday it is not so 1 .can go often. 1 am, however, planning to arrange to meet with yoy at the anniversary meeting,.if I have to make u strenugus eflort to do so. I think of you whom I have met and wish I might know. the many new cnes whoge ‘letters I rcad each weck, A few weeks ago in one letter I read these words:, “Notonc loves a fut san” and I wondered supposed 1 bad friends s net a_ few, who loved ‘me, ‘but i ‘S!mzr: was right who wrote tha 'and alaek! T hu'o;—.g ta the stoil “1 ~with me toat is not so, that up go now 1 have hesi,xa’;kfli"_ t Shom 1 lgve in this time; of ! oliddy - shepping 1 | 4ok T atout, o wondeif il reuld-net he . naper iy a Jetter fromn ried apd bus¥“Uornerite:to know. of w Yich which 1 enjoyen 1 {40 eould, £ay Amen! to, Ik what would 1 do thess d Whon oveft the mast necessary sty Aare 4 burden te me, if through a dear old Jady. 1 had not-learned in u meas. precat least “tonlst my head save my heels! And' T thought I woud write and . tell' you of something which I made three or four years ago which has been a great heln to me. I had had to take every. sten witn tre 1. 1 of a:crutch and only one hand to i d ~rd % Eaw advertised, but as that was .e- that what she had received from her [¥0Rd my means I'resolved to make one-that wWould do the work. even 1t So I made a visit to. my a stand which belonged to an oak chamber set, 21 1-2 in-hes lér‘:g By 16 1-2 wide top, and a shelf, inches from. the floor, a little small- er; some picture moulding, some qra- pery, a bracket (wooden) and a cur- tain- pole, all of oak; two small wheels from a disearded tricvcle, two casters to, use on the front legs, then I sot & man: (fatk ‘of ‘all’ trades) for a few hours :and he ‘worked while I directed, We put_the moulding around the top and shelf edges s0 nothing could slip using it; the castors on the front lezs. the two wheels, using the iron axle that belonged on them at the back: end, fastened the wooden brack- ets, sawed ‘a niece of the curtain nole off . the. rizht,length and fastened to them, covered the shelf with table oil- cloth, the ton with nretty cretonne laid a window glass over so I could set- hot; dishes on it, and T hz wagon, . it.cost me was $1.and 1 have had the use -of it for four or five vears, and feel T could nét do without it. . -.One can never realize the steps it saves until they have one, For my family (of three) T can set my entire tablle with ome trin from the kitchen. and remove everything the same—one trip from. dining room to kitchen. T wish every ome of vou had a tea war- With best good wishesuf6r the holi- on. even,if it is only like mine—home made. x day season, I will say z0od nizht. DELIAH DEAL. A SIMPLE METHOD. Dear ,Social Corner Friends: I was greatly interested. a short time since in 'séveral’ letters. in- The Corner re- garding the ease with which the care- less woman can fall into fiesh. . While I .am thin enough myself, I have several.times heard it said .that oné sure way . to keep from getting too fat 'isto ‘make a practice of standing or walking: about for-at least a half hour &f a meal. 2 ¢ observation. many of my ve lost ‘their figures for good because’ ther have grown into the lazy; habit of sitting too long and tdo ofien. 4 I think’you, will ‘notice that the wiry, Maybe almost-slab-sided. woman of theér type which:the stage folks pic- ture as a regulation New Englander is the' one ‘who will ‘say “when night comes: *“Dear-me! I've'been on my feet this’ whole day long!” Isn't that a preity. good “explanation’ of why she never gets over-burdened with flesh? according to. the notion of i £ ISABELLA. - A.GOOD CRANBERRY PIE. _..Dear Social’.Corner. Sisters: I have attended several: of your gatherings and enjoyed them. all =0 much, that I ‘would. ll'%cy‘, to ‘become one of this hap- ‘While :the ‘gatherings large there more.’ are always /seems ‘always room for good pie recive (very good time’of thé year): Cranberry Pis: One eup of cranber- frl8g° chépped fine, 6ne-half cup of. °é . “oné cup . cold water, one cup, sugar,” butter the size of ,a walnut, two heaping tablespoons of flour, salt, Makes one pie. - . ' \ Seai;isweet Shortcake Prepare some Sealdsweet grapefruit and orange pulp free from membrane; mix in the proportion preferred and add sugar to taste. Have ready a sponge-cake baked in baked in two layers. on one layer; add the second layer on top; place a round, deep tin and split or Spread half the fruit mixture on this the remainder of the pulp and serve. The {ruit for the top layi moved -in unbroken orange alternated in er should be, preferably, re- sections, with grapefruit and arrangement. Free Book, ** Florida's Food-Fruits" The ahove is one of the scores of recipes contained in book, “Florida’s Food-Fruits,” free copy of which you may sccure from your dealer Citrus Exchange, 631 Citizens Bank Building, Tampa, Fla. or by writing for it to the Iiorida The co-operating growers of Florida who produce fruit are tree-ripened these delicious food-fruits are pledged to allow them fo remain on the trees until fully matured. In the mellow sunshine the health-giving juics stored and sealed in the superior Sealdsweet citrus fruits becomes full-flavored, sweet and good, so they need little if any sugar. Sealdsweet oranges and grapefruit are thin-skinned, and the tender pulp is filled with fruitmectar, ex- tracted from sun and soil and rain and dew, by Na- ture’s inimitable processes. The Florida Citrus Exchange, an organization of sells Sealdsweet oranges and ‘grapefruit to wholeSale fruit houses that in turn supply retail dealers. Your fruit dealer’or grocer can fur- nish you Sealdsweet fruits and will do so if you insist. thousands of gro This is the second in a series of eight ad- vertisements, each emphasizing one.of the . points of superiority of Sealdsweet oranges and ' grapefruit—the third will appear in this space one week from today. To get all the good of a Florida orange, extract and drink the juice. First eut in half, cross- wise, preferably using a sharp- pointed knife. Then squeeze out the juice, with a glass’ fruit squeezer, serving {rom glass, gran- ite or carthcawarc ~conlalncr— aever uss Lin, {BCRERY MAKING THINGS FOR CHRISTMAS Dear Social Corner Editor: Perhaps some of the readers might be interest- ed to know of these simple and ir pensive Christmas vemembrances 1 am making: 2 For the babies, a soap doll of Turk- ish toweling patterned after the fash- ion of mother’s “gingerbread mer about eight inches long,. with black stitches for eyes, nose and mouth, a few strands of yellow worsted caught to the top of the head for curls, and a slice of Ivory soap sewed inside to form a substantial and useful body. Baby has lots of fun with it in the bath tub. For children of the next age, rect- angular bibs of Turkish toweling. Cut the top a little rounding for the neck, hem the ends, 'sew on tapes to tie with, outline some chickens or bunnies in color and crochet a simple edge to match across the bottom. Only a few minutes are required to make an at- tractive bib, easily washed and need- ing no ironing. For the housekeeper, a loaf of hot ; milk cake with the recipe. It is quick to make, cheap, keeps moist and I'm always sure of it's coming out fine grained. It can’t be told from sponge cake but uses only two ecggs and ¢ tiny bit of butter. Put half a cup of milk on the stove.to heat. Beat two i ng bowl, add one cup su- gar and beat well. Add vanilla, salt, one cup of flour with ene teaspoon baking powder sifted in, and lastl the scalded milk with a scant teaspoo of butter melted in it.-Bake about half an hour in a moderate oven. This is our family’s favorite kind. Christmas boxes of brown sugar cookies (if anyone would like the re- cipe, I'll gladly send it), cut in fancy shapes, and Brownies, and boxes of home. made pennucci please sev- eral grown-ups, I expec For some of the girls, plain fine lawn ten-cent handkerchiefs with the sim- plest tatted half-circle edge in color and an embroidered initial to match are not costly, but will carry the spirit of Christmas with them, Sincerely yours, \ CHEER UP. ENJOYS THE SOCIAL CORNER. Dear Social Corner Sisters: It is with interest that I read The Social Corner. Through its pages, we ob- tain different recipes, ideas and va- rious information, and meeting with the club members, it is unnecessary to subscribe for any fancy work, maga- zine. Some of the most keautiful work I have seen at the clubs, ali kinds, and everyone so willing to instruct you. One meets the different writers, young ang old, each and all witp a smile for everyone. Grandma H. and Aunt Ma the most beautiful would wish to meet. I was greatly interested in * Per- plexed’s letter, and think she has been given excellent advice from Aunt Mary and Stillwater. While writing I have in mind a friend who had an insep- arable friend who was the means of parting she and her husband. They do not live in town. He left her with three small children; but she stuck to her children, and workeq hard to bring them up, 'and today they can look upon a mother who cared for them through struggie and storms. We all have trials which are hard to bear; and every heart knows its own sor- TOW. What a great thing it would be if we could treat each annoying experi- two of characters one ence as the oyster treats the grain of cand that gets in its shell, and which it cannot exclude, cover it with pearl and make it as beautiful, or comfort- able as possible. When trouble, sickness, sorrow, or financial disastér comes to our homes, and it seems as if everything was go- ing against us, how hard it is-for us to see the sun shining above the clouds. We feel as if everything was coming to an end, that there would be no more comfort or happiness for us. Yet, how few of us set down-and count our blessings and health and our children. Are you going to let your troubles and trials, which are many, down you? Are you going to allow failure on your husband’s part to worry the life out of vou; and so devitalize you, that you cannot do the greatest thing you should do—stick to your children? Re- member they are God’s children, loan- ed to you for a season, and in a twin- kle of an eye, He could call them home. 2 SWEET CHARITY. AN ENGAGED GIRL'S TROUBLES Dear Social Corner Sisters: So many of my acq aintances and friends find good helps through the columns of The Social Corner that' T am ‘going to ask some of the wise writers to ad- vise me a little. T am,as good as engaged to a very nice young man. of whom, of course, T am very fond, and T am sure he loves me dearly. But do you think I would be happy if 1 were to marry him? It is not a fault, to be sure, that he i worships his dear mother; but the latter is, I think, quite too dom- ineering. Tor example. we were all at a dance not long ago .and when it' came to opening grand march, that mother sted that her son go as the partner of his sister, although I W in their box. The young wman came back and he and T had the first dance together, for by that time he had provided his sister with a part- ner. But wasn’t 1 justified in feeling hurt at the mother’s way of ruling her son in that fashion, T was per- fectly willing to have his sister with us,, for she is a lovely girl and T am vetly fond of her; but she, too, has o walk the chalk mark as her mother directs! Won't some of the experienced Sis- ters of The Corner advice me, for I have no near relatives of my own in this state, whether T_am going to he happy, if T risk having such a wo- man for a mother-in-law? She insists, too, that when,we marry we must make our home with her, although the son has a fine salary: but he is her only boy, adored, although she has three daughters, two married and liv- ing away from thei rhome town. Sometimes I am almost tempted to break our engagement, although the young man is handsome;-of good hab- its, and to marry him ,means much to me in a social way. ARLENE N. CRISP GINGERBREAD. Dear 'Social Corner Sisters: - With the high prices for all food stuffs, it is. fast becoming a puzzling question what the poor housekeeper can find with which to feed her family—yet, of course, she must do just‘so much cooking all the time, let the ingredients be costly or not! - Tew of us feel like using eggs at $1 a dozen to make cake, but some kind of sweet food is expected to' come reg- ularly to the family table. ‘Butter is nearly as expensive as eggs; however, I find it desirable to -substilute the following recipe for = some other cook may find it useful. Gingerbread: Melt one cup of butter in two cups of molasses, pour it hot upon one quart of flour; dissolve onec teaspoon of saleratus in a little hot water and add it. Put in flour enough to roll it out neatly. Make it very thin, cut in rounds and bake quick- ly. These cakes.are*very crisp. SALLY LUNN. GRANDMA PASSES TO THE MORE ABUNDANT LIFE. Dear Social Corner Friends: Again the Social Corner Family circle has been visited by the Angel of Death. I presume that not all who read the obituary notice in The Bulletin taken from The White Ribbon Banner of the passing from the earth life to the heavenly of Mrs. Emina P, Brown knew that she was our beloved Grand- ma of the Social Corner Circle. She did not write very often and had not written for several months. But her helpful and con- tained wise counsel and good advice. 1 always enjoyed reading them and shed that I knew the auther, scemed to be something that eminding me of someconc own: but I was not quite lable to place her, While attending a Tri-County W. C. my ‘usual cake rations, and trust (hatl’]‘. meeting at W ye I was very glad to meet Mrs. Brown whom I regarded as a very dear friend. She greeted me by my, pen namec and told me that she was Grandma of the Social Corner.’ Then I knew why I had.enjoyed her letters so much, although I had not been able to guess who the writer was, She was one who councilled us to not withhold loving care and kind deeds from those with whom we come in contact until they were dead, then bedeck their casket with costly flow- ers which they could not enjoy or ap- preciate. She was a very genial, cheerful woman, one whom it was a pleasure to meet at all times. In the W. C. T. U. work she seemed to be very happy, and was always very efficient and faithful, Truly it could be said of her, She hatn done what she could. limantic twe I was very glad to read Great Grandma's letter short time ago in The Corner, and hope she will' be spared to write many more. t the December mecting of Club No. 2 we were disappointed in not see- ing Grandma M. and her daughters. They always add so much to the en-, joyment of the day. We had a very enjoyable gathering Dec. 4th and were very glad to wel- (Continued On Page Eightcen) $150 to $500 $50 to $150 MUFFS $15 to $125 gingerbread for g At e R R Ot MACPHERSCN’S “FCR QUALITY* AT CHRISTMAS NOTHING WILL GIVE GREATER PLEASURE TO A WOMAN THAN A FUR SCARF AND MUFF MAKE YOUR SELECTION NOW WHILE STOCK ARE COMPLETE. FUR COATS FUR SCARFS J. C. MACPHERSON QUALITY CORNER Opposite Chelsea Savings Bank