Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 25, 1922, Page 8

THE SOCIAL CORNER DEEAT]SNO’I'!-MGBWASTEI;TOSOMEWG BETTER. SOCIAL CORNER PRIZE WINNERS FOR FEBRUARY To HOPE COBWEB for letter entitled Children. To MAY B. for letter entitled How to Make Corner a Success. To CRETIA for letter entitled A Trip Along Cape Cod. To MANDY for letter entitled Should Reach Beyond the Stomach. To CRIMSON RAMBLER for letter S0CIAL CORNEE POETEY, HOME. It takes & heap o' livin' 1n a house t' make homs, A beap o' sun an’ shadder, an’ ye gome- times have t' roam Afore ye really 'preciate the things ye lef’ behind, An' humger for ‘em somehow, With ‘om allus on your mind. It don't make any difference how rich, yo get ' be, - How much yer chairs an’ bhow much yer luxury; tables cost, It ain't home t' ye, though it be the placs of a king, Unt!l eomehow yer soul is sort o° wrap- ped round everything. Home ain't a place that gold can buy o got t' be some bables born, and then ¥ got t' bring 'em up en good, an’ men; goes on, part s ever used—they've laythings wore ve could ye'd keep the arks on the door. entitled How to Renovate Feathers you up over the phone any more. I hope you received the card I sent ypu. I am going in to see your sister the next time I go over street. Diana: I am sorry you are sick. I see by the paper you are better. Aunt Mary Jane: 1 am going to try your mock lemon ple some day. It reads as if it might be good. I must close now with best wisies to the editor and all the writers of the Corner. ‘WIHITE CLOVER. MEETING OF CLUB No. 3. Dear Social Corner Sisters: What a lovely time we all had at Club No, 3's meeting, Feb. 23, at the Lebanon Bap- tist chapel. The weather man agaln sent a gloomy day, but all was bright and cheerful within and such a busy time as we did have visiting, crochet- ing and sewing, though not forgetting 10 express sarrow wishing absent ones icould have been present. THe long table groaned be- neath its weight of good things. Chore Girl was on_ hand with gilt hatchets tled with the Corner colors as place cards, also Bloise with little cupids as favors. About noon who should walk in but Neighbor with a big kettle of clam chowder. Welll After singing the Doxology we sat down and the good things disappeared one by one. Funny, wasn't it? As a special treat we had Baked Beans and I'll tell you & for the sick and | Ye've got ' make It home, secret, she ate clam chowder just like Yo've got t' gh the rest of us. After dinner we all " watel de Joved one’s bed, an' | sampled the Washington valentine ple Death is nigh; the night t' see 1 come, T that smiled, an’ volce dumb. at grip the heart, are dried, home is dearer than it was, nctified ; at ve always are the pleas- Yere 2o An Even the ound the porch must blossom vear by year Afore they come a part o ye, suggestn’ *em long t’ run, so's they would get ago, an’ o trained ‘em fest Ye've got brick an’ stone from ceflar up to dome; It takes a hemp o' livin’ In a house t' make it home. Edgar A. Guest. Bent in by Jim THE BLUE SKY MAKER, The world is foll of beanty When the heart is all in tune To sunlit eyes, the weary flelds 8uT held the grace of Jume; And they who own the secret know When ekies grow dull and grey, There's nothing like a hearty laugh, o roll the clouds away Each heart o To shine whare'sr it will, The ghadowed places of the earth ‘With warmth and light to 1 For be the weather wet or dry We ¥now that come what may "There's nothing e a hearty laugh To roll the clouds away. Sent tn by Sweet Fannie. muet hold its own glad SOCIAL CORNER EVENTS. Mareh 1.—Club No. 2 has anniver- sary meeting at Buckingham Memorial ANSWERS AND JENNIE: Request INQUIRIES. has been complied JABE RUTH: The Social Corner mem- bership list has been increased by the addition of your name. It requires noth- g mor® than contributing an occasional to The Corner page SARAH Y and JUDIE C bave been added to the 1 Your names Social Corner BEATRIX: Your name has been add- e to the Social Cor: THEODA: Card forwarded as request- ANNA Z.: Your name has been added to the Soclal Corner list. TWO NEW Dear Editor o MEMBERS. the Soclal Corner: As 1 bave many f s who belong to the Eoclal Corner and they have asked me time and again to jo I would lke to 1f I may. WUl take for my name SARAH Y. Editor of Soclal Corner: I have been asked by a number of my friends who we members of the Cormer to join. Would be pleased to and #f I may wil lake the name of JUDIE C. BECIPES AND GREETINGS WHITE CLOVER. Dear Editor and Social Corner Sisters: 1 have been thinking of writing to the Corner agatf® So I will send some realpes that the sisters wish for. Sugar or Cocoanut Cookies: Mixe to- gether thoroughly one cup of land or bufter, two cups sugar, two eggs, one cup cocoanut. Sift two and one-haif cups flour with two teaspoons baking. powder. I not stiff enough, add more flour to roll out quite thin. Bake quick- ly. For just sugar cookles leave out the cocoanut and add one teaspoon lem- on extract. Four Egg Sponge Cake: Four eggs, sne cop sugar, four tablespoons celd wa- ter, one cup flour sifted with one tea- wpoen baking powder, one-half teaspoon Savoring extract. Beat yolks of eggs, end add sugar, then the cold water and the sifted flour end then the extract. Fold in the beaten whites of eggs. Bake n.a moderats oven forty-five minutee. Grandma H.: 1 am sorry you are sick. I hope you are much better by this time. A*s you the ons I gave the doll to at the time the Soclal Corner bhad Cheistmag box at Club No. 1 meetings? am going to send you 2 card just as I got over street. Jar Whoa: I saw some flowers going house last Sunday, I hope you r by thig time. Theoda: I hope you will bring .another ple to the next Social Corner ‘That one was fine. : ‘Where are you now? I have not from you for e long time. think I met you at YROM \ | - - and all drew a valentine. At the quest of several sisters will send doughnut recipe: Raised Doughnuts: One pint milk, one-half cup butter, heat milk and but- ter together, let cool, then add two and one-half cups sugar, three eggs, org nutmeg, one cup of white potato and two compressed yeast cakes. Mix all to- gether, then add flour enough to make a good dough. Let stand in a warm room wuntil light and then roll out and lat stand untll nice and light and them fry. T have started these doughnuts at 10 o'clock in the morning and had them all ready to fry at 4.30 in the afternoon. As T haven't written for so long per- haps the goat Will get this. Best wishes for the success of the Corner. Te- my HARRIETTA. WILL GREATLY MISS THE DEPARTED Dear Editor and Sogtal Corner Sisters: I suppose you are all loking forward lo the March meeting, which is out annivers- ary. It wil bemy first anntversary meet- ing and T hope to meet all of the sisters there that day. I hope we may have a nice pleasant day as some of the sisters have such a long way to come. As my thoughts go baock gver the past year, I am thinking of the Jear sisters that have passed on to a higher and nobl- er life. We do and shall continue to miss them at the Corner meetings. My sympa- thy goes out to all of the homes of the Corner that have parted with their loved ones. Sweet Fannie: I was much ‘pleased when I read your piece on the Corner page, also glad you had became a mem- ber. I like your pen name very much as I know where you got it from. - Send in a letter every week. 1 don’t care if vou do write about that red sweater, that was some night. Ask M. She will say it was. Red Rose: Glad you recelved the pattern o. k., if I @id send it by the hired man. Hope to see you soon. Calla Lily: I was glad to get the re- cipes for colds and cough. They are both stmple, but I know they are good. I hawve put them away for use in time of need 1 think my mame i3 on your list for the March meeting. ~ Best wishes, RED CLOVER. KEEPING ON. Dear Soctal Corner Friends: Many thanks to the Social Corner editor for the prize check received last week. The letters have been very interesting, and I enjoyed Hope Cobweb’s letter and hope that she will write often, and I think children is the most important subject. For the children will soon be the citizens, and it will depend upon the training they are now recelving whether the world condftions improve or grow worse. How strange it is that we do not use the same thoroughness and up-to-date- ness in human affairs that we do In material things. In inventions and dis- coveries how quickly all new ideas are Py Into use and improved upon to get best results, and the greatest commerdial values from them. But In the most important matter of all, the training of children, parents are left to find out by experience most of the principles that should be used. To learn by experience means usually that you do it wrong. and then when you have learned the best way you do not have the chance to use those ideas. The principles of child training are as unchanging and exact as those of any soence and should be as well known and as universally used as the principles of electricity or anything else. When I was of school age I tried to copy a small painting at home and was succeeding fairly well except for the sky and fleecy clouds, which bothered me unt{l, patience giving out. I said *“I shall have to give it up.” My mother said: “0, no! Never give up. Keep right on and it will be all right” And so en- couraged by her I did “keep on” until the work was finished and creditably. Her admonition to “keep right on and it will be all right” has helped me over. many difficult places since, and stiil comes to my mind in every time of dis- couragement. And I think of her advice when I knew of failure to get the best results in home | or school training. We must “keep on” tatking and writ- ing of better, ways until no other way is known or used, and unti] every one un- derstands the right principles. There is just one principle that is more fmportant than any other in training children. “The child must make his own decisions.” It {8 the parents and teach- ers’ business to explain facts and ideas and conditions so that the child knows the consequences and results of his de- cislons before he makes them. There are so many more dangers and temptations than there used to be for evervone that no time or thought onght to be wasted In useless commands “to do this or that or don’t do this or that” It needs all the child’s attention to grasp the plain everyday facts and to be equal fo puick and right decisions. Every child should be trained from the frst to declde everything by the reason, instead prejudios and impulse and whims. Every obild should be forewarned and prepared to meet the dangers of life. ‘The slow. solid, thorcugh-minded boy or girl and the quick-witted, careless, su- perficial boy or girl often get exactly the home and school, to the No "\ all kinds of work. A preparatory school teacher of much experience said that some of the mqst thorough and promising mdmf.; falled to pass coliege ons, and many of those having the most superficial abili- ties a1l right. nmflu should be tests of the different kinds of ability and honors for each kind, instead of the same memory test for all. Affer a child is taught the foundation ideas he takes these principles and does his own work in his own way, each a little ddfferent from any other. It is just as easy to train a child into =2 sunshiny personality-as to allow him to form the habit of fretting and fault-find- ing all the time “Aunt Bessle,” as everyone called her, was one of the sunshiny characters She kept boarders and loved to take care of the children, too. Ome little fellow used to be left with her a good deal, and when with her would play around all day, good and so happy; but when his mother re- turned she would start trouble with him right away. If your child is antagonized by com- mands, try giving him reasomns instead and see how scon he hecomes “entirely different. JEREMY. VARIETY IN OUR COENER PAGE. Dear Social Corner Sisters: From the criticisms which lately have been rather pointed regarding The Corner page being turned into a cook book, I want to say a word or two. And now you good sis- ters who do not approve of that use be- ing made of it just don't waste your time reading my letter, but skip on to some- thing else you do enjoy, as you'll find plenty, as the old saying will prove true in our Corner page, “Varlety is the spice of life.” A little time ago one of the sisters wrote she was troubled about the merin- gue on her ples pulling aways from the edge of the pie and becoming tough after a little while. I was told and have found the two or three times I have tried it that if I used granulated sugar (about three teaspoons to one egg white) in- stead of confectioner’s sugar, and brown quickly, it did not trouble that way, and kept very tender and light for a day or two. Also I have found that in making roll cake if I use cream tartar and saleratus instead of baking powder in the sponge cake it”seldom troubles about cracking when you roll it. I use chocolate, cocoa- nut and nut filling sometimes for the filling as a change from jelly, and when making cookies I often sprinkle over the top of them when rolled ready to cut out eithery nuts or cocoanut run through the food érlnder to make them fine and then mixed with a little sugar. Run your roll ing pin lighly over, that the sugar and nuts may stick on, then cut out and bake and I think you'll say it makes them nictr. I sometimes sprinkle the nuts and sugar over sponge cake before baking and it makes a lovely crisp top crust. We think it nicer than an icing. Interested Reader: Was pleased to get your nice letter. Yes, if you will call at 2 Soule street almost any day you'll be sure to find me. I think you must be a Yankee. Hope to be able to meet with you all March 1st, and I'll bring a new collar I just made to show to Tatting. Perhaps it may be new to her, made of linen color silkeen and it's tatting. I want to express my sympathy to the relatives of our twe Social Corner sisters who left our circle last week for our Father's home above. I want to send the first and last verses of The Parting Hour as they have been much in my mind late- ly, and I realize morq and more how true the sentiment expressed as the years slip by. ! | There's something in the parting hour ‘Will chill the warmest heart. TYet kindred., comrades, lovers, friends, Are fated all to part; And this I've seen—and many a pang Has pressed it on my mind— The one who goes is happler Than those they leave behind, God wills it s0, and =o it is: The pilgrims on their way, Though weak and worn, more cheerful are Than all the rest who stay; And when at last poor mortal one Lies down to death resigned, May they not still be happler far Than those they leave behind? I don’t think I ever met Shuggie but I have Whippoorwill several times, and now with best wishes for restored health to Grandma H. and any other sick sis- ter, and kindest of remembrance to all ial Corner sisters, I'll say goodbye for this time. DELIAH DEAL. CORRECTED RECIPE Dear Editor and Social Corner Sisters: I wish to correct an error in tha recipe for sweet mil koughnuts sent in last week. I hope none of the sisters has tried it and made a failure, & Sweet Milk Doughnuts: Ons egg beat- en light, 1 cup sweet milk, one-half cup sugar, 2 teaspoons melted lard, 1 tea- spoon soda, 2 teaspoons cream tartar, a little salt and nutmeg, sift soda and cream tartar in with the flour and use flour enough > make a soft dough: Crimson Rambler: I live about minutes’ walk from where the trolley stops, and it passed just a few yards from my home, but when you get ready to come I will give you the exact directlons S0 you can find me very casily. Best wishes to all. INTERESTED READER. LETTERS AND GIFTS BROTGHT COMFORT AND CHEER Dear Editor and Social Corner Sisters: Grandma H. as yet is not able to sit up 50 I will write and thank Club Na. 1 and Mrs. Lamb for the lovely potted plants, al- so the Franklin Missionary and Ladies’ Aid sdcietles, Lancashire Witsh, Aunt Mag and Fluffy Ruffles for the beautiful cut flowers they sent, which gave her much pleasure. Grandma H. was so pleased with the letters, cards and walentines from Olive, Althea, Maine Lover, Freida, -Scot- tle, Elsle, Effie, White OClover, Aunt Sarah, Mrs. Gardner, Betty, Dabbie, Ar- mile, Mrs, Chase, Jim Crow, Bugenia, Lu- cille, Wiltwryck, ' O ° Glary, Franklin North West, Annie, Barbara, Phillp, Selin- da, Dellah-Deal, - Sadie and Frances. Dear Sisters your letters and cards so full of comPest and chesd were wery much aphreciated by Grandma H. and family. Lavender: So sorry to hear you ars il Hope soon to hear you are very much bet- ter. 4 Scottle: Your letters were good. Come again, also Lucille and Olive Grandma H. sends love to you one and all. Yours for the Corner, BACHELOR MAID OPPORTUNITY. Dear Sisters of the Social Cormer: I hesitate in being too frequent.a. writer, but if somebody does not contribute of their thoughts, or offer suggestions to The Corner page, then the advertise- ments will make up'‘the deficlency. It seems we are hearing a good deal about “opportunity”. from various: sources- and as the sentiment was expressed n last week's Bulletin in the .usual ‘space that prefaces the columns of Lhs Roclal Corner it bears out a wide rarze of thoughtful consideration. Opportunity is en every side, but we are mot always on the alert to ses it and act for our own densfits ce the assistance of others. I fual often ro- minded of a quotation I heard some years ago from a favorite pastor of mine who said, “Do that duty v¥hich lles tne nearest to you. then it will work out.” Some people are looking out beycni the home circle for opportunity to help gome- one, and yet those in nearest associat'on need encouragement or good ahcer just as the - according to the \ case requires, age, gither- the chl'd:en or the eldemiy ! have Both have been useful in their|ones. Circumstancss vary with “vs ::;k-’lm and it 1s the same with chil- | but however we >Sut “opportunity -1s dren. We need all kinds of pecple to do | knocking at our por. Lo Some peopls consida: that small thir do not count for mush and g neglse® or refuse to give a trifle, when remiy tnnee few words of cheer. a smli¢, A hearty handshake, would be¢ much appreciated and long remembered. Thos: of 2 scnsi- tive disposition feel most keenly when opportunity presents to ~another that whereby they might be helped but are simply passed by unobserved, so it would seem. et Such experfences are lessons to be acted upon when opportunity is reversed. Most of us live busy lives. Every.day has its work, and we may feel we have no time to consider epportmnity, but to define our subject from the dictionary it means just: “Fit time, fit place.” For example, when the letter carrier-calls to deliver the mail it will not require addi- tional tfme to bid him a pleasant “good morning;” it will cost us nothing. ' It may, or may not, mean a trifle to him, 'but opportunity stands in the sdoorway. The same with our newspaper boy. ~He {s faithful to his daily duty and as we see ‘him oocasionally to speak with him it will take no extra time to ask him “how he is getting along in school,” and if -he does some-little favor not to forget to say “Thank you.” = Children are apt to notice wasted opportunities fully as much as grown-ups. Our topic might be compared with the sands of the sea. and it is useless to enumerate a lengthy list, for each knows their own condition and ability to carry out ideas. However, in conclusion I would com- pare these ideas of opportunity with the suggestion that was given on The Corner page preceding last week: “Count that day lost in which we find no worthy action done.” JENNIE. LONG LIVE THE SOCIAL CORNER Dear Social Corner Friends. As it iIs most time for our anniversary, I thought I would write a few lines. How san I for- get the kind-hearted editor who wns so thoughtful of others. Snow is three feet deep om a level to say nothing of the drifts. I am still feeding the blue jays. Great Great Gran Aunt: Your poetry was fine, and I am pleased to say I have not had any of those kinks as yet . sums of money to help lift the burd from ‘the ‘shoulders and minds of | members and make many happy ones by | With canned frult or with firash - straw- so doing. Ay & So many have asked what is done |CUD of strawberries with 1-3 cup uf pow- With it I thought why not send it to the Corner. ‘A full record of it all is kept | ©88s until stiff; stir in that ons-third cup to’ the penny. at any time. birthday of our late editor, Mr. Pear- ly appreciated by the family where there was sickness at the time and they thanked us Mr. Pearson, for or’In times of need the club has donated | another hard bolled egg Strawberry WHip: This' may “be made | | l6s when avaflable. one sugar. Beat the whites of 3 large : ther I have the records and |Of Sugar (powdered), . 1-4 teaspoon . of | removs, 't cold wat they are open to all Club No. 2 members | CTéam of tartar, and beat agaw.. This|and rinse - thoroughly. -Drain — ané The flowers sent on the |2C!S 2 2 mineral food as well as aweet. - | squeeze out all water ‘possivle. - Shake Cocoanut Cookies: ‘Cream a-third | ang hang in the shade in the wind te son, was a pleasant surprise and great- |Of OUP of butter, add: tojt the yolks of | gry. " It will require about two days te eggs, and 3 tablespoons of .milk. Add|4ry them. They will be light and fluf- the grated rind. of half a femon, and stir | ¢ 'snq free from all unpleasant odor, our thoughtfulness of |1 & quarter of a teaspoon i to- 3 gether 1 1-2 cups of flour, A I shall expect all those wh baking powder, and add:to the. other to help me and as many o ':::DMQ“ gredients. - Drop in well-ofl -pans, kesping assist as I fear we will find do at the March first dinner. 2 good sized crowd of Club No. 2 and visit Willimantic, March Sth. There ls | always & good time there. Think it over :nd say yes. Scottie and I are planning o go. CALLA LILY. CREPE PAPER ROPE? Dear.Social rner Edlitor and Sisters: | f0F the first time. Good morning ull. Did you ever stop to think that all of us are artists at heart? | COUIAN't be on the job. but T find there & We love the joy of creating something | A1Wa! that our brain has concelved and that our fingers can execute. something from which we can apart and say, “I have do: th: have the power or the skill in execution to practise the great arts. For us are the |béen a-clamming, one day's as good as Chief among these ars em- | another for you, and c%e month, as anoth- broidery, with stenciling a closa sacond |e€r. hey? lesser ones. But no one form of decoration quite sat- isfles all the needs within e home or our differing tastes. Accordingiy we wel- | 0n® she made, and I'll say it's good. come avery kind of our art work by which we may make beautiful and us~fu’ things for our home: and provide our- selves with an outlet for our creative ¢o.e pulses, such as making things with cfepe paper. Rope and crepe paper sound oddly di- verse, one is assoclated with strength and the other with fraflty. plenty to [ I Think it over girls, and let's get up |0 P8 We love to produca | Will” passing on to - the world ~ beyond : stand | she laved her sons:-so much, worked for wheth. | them and taught them to be good boys. er we have made something orizlnal, re. | They surely will retam a golden mem- combined old forms fmto new, or only |0y Of her, and my sympathy goes out to copled a beautiful model. Not all of .us |her lonely mother. Yet out of the|ber, sent me a valentine shower, just the frailty of the latter comes the strengih of | kiddest ones they could buy, and didn’t REGRETS DEATH OF 'méob WILL Dear Social Cornerites: T suppose you are all wondering why 1 am keping 50 still. Well I have been {lI'for the' last three weeks and went out of doors today use quills an inch and a. half .leng :;n.m!;::l' ;::m ‘sufficlent alr to Xeey " ys some one to fill our places. + I was so sorry to hear of “Whip-poor- fne—a good B fat"—And I am surely. making the eaying a true one.” © ‘How true to iife thdt dream of Ma of Greene Gables: So you have ::nyefl_ B-h‘“v":.-‘fl am sure own' us Calla Liy lar, she couldn't correct]y, as each one sgeems to. try and outdo.the other in sociability. It is sad that some of us must with those we love. I was so sorry te hear of Shuggie being £0 suddenly. taken from among us, and how true it is.“In the midst of life we-are in death.’ How #ad I am we sent her the little sunshine basket. T have known her for years and I can ees now how pleased she was when someone -did -2 kindness to her. 1. 3. B.: Necla and I have not forgot- ten our promise to. come up, but T think Somechody sald something- about Made- line’s raisin ple. “Well I'had a plece of ¥ Silent Stranger: 1 think we hear of each other quite often through a mutual friend of ours, that Is when'the wires are w. Tiice Twenty: T @id enjoy that ‘cider barrel, last Saturday and have clipped it for my scra> book. Do you know that the Woman's club, of which I ama mem- the former by the following simpic de-|I enjoy them; Well I think tfiey did me vice, as much good as the doctor’s visit. How We are all acquainted with crane paper. [tree it Is that the little inexpensive gift ‘There is a new varlety on the marke: now, | bearing a real friend’s message 1s.appre- we shall walt unti] you have some more beans from the Soclal Corner and we shall come for supper. The thermometer Says 40 this morning. It cmes the nearest to being a thaw that we have had yet. Could some one please send 1n a sugar cookie recipe? Best wishes and long live the Social Corner. BALSAM FIR. ANOTHER CORNER MEMBER. Editor of the Social Corner: Through the kind invitation of Sister Wetona I ‘visited the Soclal Corner Feb. 1 and I had a very pleasant time. I would like very much to become a member. I will take for my penname BETTY G. CREATING OUR ATMOSPHERE. Dear Corner Sisters: I agree with Hope Cobweb, children are an old, yet ever new subject and here are a few points from odbservation. One boy in bis school ‘room was di- rected by a highly nervous teacher in poor health and the six hours weré not happy. As he entered the grade next door to his, he said: “I could be good and study harder if our class room look- ed like your's, it Is always decorated with pretty plctures, drawings and cut- tings appropriate to the month, and al- ways a plant in blossom or a bouquet on the desk all the year.” ‘This is what I call atmosphere. Per- haps most of ug think of weather con- ditions outside, but sisters, each of us are builders, and we are able to make our own condition, atmosphere, or heaven on earth, right here and now. ‘We can all think how we are attract- ed into certaln people’s atmosphere, while others repel us, and we withdraw. Like the gchool room I spoke of, I heard a superintendent say, “I love to visit this room. I llke your atmosphere, I am at eass and feel rested in a few minutes.” So it is With children as they go about. They like to go to Edward’'s house, his ‘mother is not continually naming the don’'t family, absolute freedom relgns, as the right appeal was made at the right time at an early age. Edward ra- 4 dlates good to his little friends. “Au ’'go on! TI'm not going to Jack's, his mother would tell us to stay out be- fore we could get inside.” Another ra- diation. You see Jack's mother has had ex- perienves of having the youngsters en- ter, and not imbibe her atmosphere, but just go from attic to cellar leaving doors open, and playthings strewn everywhere. That was his idea of atmospheric free- dom. He reflected abroad what he was in the habit of doing at home. Tatting: I am glad you favor the recipes and, lfke some of us, prefer the tried and true, such as many up-to-date cook books, as you call them, do. not give. Let's gee, it's fruit salad of gelatine you prefer: Fruit Salad Supreme: One envelope of Knox Sparkling Gelatine, one-half cup cold water, two cups boiling water, two cups mild vinegar, two tablespoons lem- on julcs. one-half cup sugar, ong tea- spoon salt, three cups fresh fruit cut In small pleces. Soak gelatine in cold water flve minutes, and add bolling wa- ter, vinegar, lemon juice, sugar and salt. Strain, and when mixture bdegins to thicken, add cherries, oranges, bananas, alone or in combination. Turn {nto mold, first dipped in cold water, and chill. Re- move from mold to nest of crisp lettuce leaveg and accompany with mayonnaise or boiled dressing. Have a number of salad recipes of va- rious kinds, also a number, of good sand- wiches for lunches. Yours with good wishes to all, NEIGHBOR EVEREADY. WHAT CLUB NO. 2 DOES WITH ITS ‘ MONEY. Dear Corner Sisters and Friend March first is the meeting day of Club No. 2. I would like to ask those who have knives that they have put aside to use.no more. if they wanted to donate’ them to the Corner Club No. 2. Quite a few responded to' the first call for them, but we still lack enough-to piece out for the table room. We can use any- thing usable. Black Eyed Susie: Why not make that dream come true? If I remember right you live near Annnesette and May- fare. By the way, What has become of them? We miss them every meeting. Come and auction off the food after din- ner ‘Mayfare. I need your help. Why don’t you call up? Crimson Rambler: It seems as If they all must know me for I'm always shouting for the eats for the next-meet- Ing day. Never mind, we get them and have plenty. Hope we will have on March first. Wish some one else would take my place. I feel ag if it was too much with Calla Lily salling about with all salls set. Hope dear Grandta H. is Improving. We. miss her. Perhaps some would 1ike to know what Is done with the extra money we have left over from dinners. I wiil gay that all money above $10 (that is used for dinner expenses, if not enough money is taken {n at a dinner and not used for anything else) is called the Sunshine Fupd. I we know of a member of Club No. 2 who s sick, we send 2 box of cake if we have any and o $2 biil laid on top for the sick sister to use for fruit. flowers or for any dainty she may like feeling she should have what she pre- fers. Sometimes it 1s a pot or bou- quet of flowers delivered by a florist. ‘We have sent out a number of these gun- shine boxes in the past year and it has cheered and pleased them afl to-think some one thought of them. On the death of a Club No. a little softer and more flexible than the old kind. rope work, and comes in all colors, Now for making this roll into, crepe | Put it In the oven just before you leave paper rope half an inch In diameter cut the roll into strips ten Inches wide; for a quarter-inch diameter, five inches wide: for_an eighth Inch diameter. two and a half inches wide. Thes: widths make make the rope. some object, then walk away with the oth- er end, stretching it to its greatest pos- sible’ length, form a loop in the end of at the lower end with the right hand and hand, twist the pencil with a wrist mo- something so that it will not untwist. Twist a second strand in the same man- ner and then, attaching both ends at the er by tusning the pencil in the opposite direction (toward the left.) Always turn the same way until the strands are com- bined. Then torn in the orosite direc- strong as the ordinary twine, Two people, one on each end, make the rope quickly and easily than one person can, as you twist pull the crepe gently. so no kinks will form. These directions mresuppose that you want to make this for rractise, or to ob- tafn some unusual color combination, oth- erwise you can buy it already made up. “But,” you protest, ‘“why g5 to all this trouble to make the Tope or even to buy {t? What can we do wih {t? Ah. therein lies the charm! Suppose you need a handkerchief box to stand on your dressing table the kind you want costs $2 in the shops. The aiternative seems to be an empty candy box. Orepe paper rope to the rescue. Got it in the coral tint to match your room. Use the box as foundation, cover it with rase. shellac it and rejoice at the dainty and useful result, if you have a jur just the right size and shape for yaur garden flow- ers but of ugly pottery, the rope prop- erly applied will conceal all blemlshes, or if you need a ecrap basket for tie living room and thoss of Jdpamese wicker are ‘too costly ; or you would like a table waste basket or jardiniers for your potted plants, or a ing basket, for your your sewing materials or appropriate fav- ors for a luncheon party, or a tray for afternoon tea, or baskets or gifts, or lamp shades, but why mention all its uses. They are limited only by one's ingenuit: The process is very simple. First, you must have your form. This may be a box a can or you can make your form of light mat stook, which is like cardboard. With just a lttle effort you can make really beautiful models. To fasten the form piec- es together you use a cloth adhesive tape much lke a passe—partout binding. Next line the inside with crsps paper. fitting the plece carefully and turning the over the outside, secure tho lining in its place with “cico.™ Now apply a good coat of paste to the outside of the form and caver with crepe paper of the same color as the rope, the form is completed. Now starting at the bottom glue the rape round and round form until it is covere. The ends are tucked and glued under. Use a liquid fish ghie, not a paste. When it is dnished eImly two coats of shelaec. This makes it waterproof and dustproof, and gives it durabillty and fine irfilt of wibker ware, The first coat should be applie¢ freely and allowed to dry thoroughly before ap- plying the second coat—white shellac is colorless and may be used on all delicate work, Orange color shellac daritens the color of the rope, but it is rich in its ef- fect, especially when used on reds, greens and browns. Buy the extra heavy shel- lac using one pound to one quart of wood alcohol. Use a soft brush. You can make such pretty gifts, you will enjoy doing it. KITTY LOU. BARBO COMPOUND. Dear Soclal Corner Sisters: I am not 2 member of the Soclal Corner, yet read the letters and have even done so since the Corner was started. I wrote two letters some few years|t!o join The Corner and after visiting at ago, but my name was not added to the|the Febpruary meeting and enjoying the Corner list, &0 I got cold feet, I guess.| cordial greetings I decided 1 would like Peace: 1 was foolish enough to try the Barbo compound and can say it is ke many other such things—worthless. 80 much as turned the halr yellow. It I am welcome will come again. . reading the Social Corner letters better than writing. I am In hopes to go to the club meetings soon so I can get bet- ter acquainted. I have tried a many of the recipes and find them O. K. DOUBLE ' FUSCHIA. AFLPS FROM BABE RUTH Hello Sisters: Have read all your pieces often and just simply can not resist. Now I wonder if Canter- bury Belle will know me? “Mum’s the word. Lknow from experierce are good. Bscalloped Finnan haddie with to bits and combine with 1 pint of thin It is made especially for the |roses sent for appearance sake. ome strand; two strands twisted together | cheese; sprinkle salt and paprika cver Fasten one end In a drawar or tle to| er with milk and melt three tablespsons crepe and insert a mencil, grasp tae pencil { band of yours. All the men I ever saw steadying the strip o® paper with the left | habit we women keep using two tlon umtil the crepe is tight an1 firm. Do | planning we may serve combinations in not let it slacken, but fasten the end to| one dish, that are ampetizing, satisfy- same point, twist the two strands togeth- | SUGGESTS GREETINGS FROM ALL tion, when finished this rdpe is quite as|Ppossible that it was 18 below zero on I tried it for thres weeks and it has not | flour, one-half teaspoon baking powder, Thave a couple of nies recipes which 1| entirely removed by rendvation. 'Th A M B e B " 11-2 Ws. of fil haddi Make 2 bag of oth or thin i ts:‘:lnhatwnh: m::“m u.:n:f,” x,.‘_ sacks, stitching it all around with thé “Well. “nuf sed.” Goodbye unmtil the anniversiry meeting March 1st s 3 . CHOCOLATE. THE STURDY OAKS. Dear Soctal. Corner; Friends: Was # not Enid who asked the sisters to tel something about their home town? Well this isn’t exactly a town. but it s pretty, and worth describing. A few nights age there was a fire not mo far from us, and great quantities of cholce vegetables and seed for spring planting were _ entirely destroyed. The flames cast a pinkish gSow” over the snow. and the automoblles ciated more than the bunch of hot house Here's something good for supper: for the afternoon club meeting. Put in a buttered baking.dish alternate :avers of sliced. cooked, or raw potatoss and grated cheese; use a gemerous layer of potatoes, and a thin sprinkiing - cf each layer of cheese and potatoes, cov- of butter, mix with cup of -bread or cracker crumbs and.spread on top. Evelyn Burr: Try It for that hus- and people on fo’ made a weird re or - P " three merving difaeswhen By a litie | EATL” The great oaks that abound ‘in theee hilis remind ome of Joyce Kilmer's beautiful poem. Trees, and the squirrels that seem to find a home. in- them call @aily at our fear door for the nuls sc gladly, handed cut to them. We Jove tc see them scuttle séross the lawn’'in par- su't of each other, as they.are very play- ful. ' MAny of these grand old oaks have succumbed .to .the - wnadman's axe. - clear the 1and fer a nretty park, within'a stone's throw of our door.. -The a'r is - vigorating, and‘the supsets are giorjows 1nz, and.a good dael less work. GRAND JUROR. FOR ANNIVERSARY. z Dear Editor and Corner Sisters: On this bright mild morning. it does not seem Saturday morning. Let us hope it is the last of the helow zero weather we shall have. Anyway, we can comfort our- selves that if we do have any more cold weather that it will not be.a long speil. I presume you are planning yeur spying campalgn and will be ready-for the work which awaits you in the early spring. I wish to thank Club No. 1.for my val. entine gift. It was very waicome, for I have been down sick ‘the greater part of the winter, but am glad to say that L'am some better (but not as usual) and ouit on the couch again. - I wonder if you have had the good The evening shadnws Naturo seerng .t ¥ A qu'etiall pervagie “Kneels within. our As we think of, 157 A-down the flig 1-ngthen, st For the, loye that e h-th And trust in Him to rmide the way That leadcth on to lleyen. iver sleighing that we have had here almost | . ’ NELEA since Thanksgiving? Our ‘snowstorms| ... ~ 1 . ———= i have been many, but no long or real bad NELFS Frov 4 E T drifting storms. . . - n Y The Corner family must be very large. Some of our dear sisters have passed on, but the increase has been larger than tue loss, and I often wonder how many ‘we are. We like all the letters-but don't forget that the recipes and . household helps can be put to practical use and are prized by the majority of members. We want variety, and can have it because we are such a large family. The Corner's anniversary is at hand. I hope wa shall have a few lines from all its members, especially from the older sisters. We hope and trust that many such anniversaries will be observed, and that when we pass on the younger mem- bers wil never lose interest in our dear old Corner and that it will forever re- main a permanent institution. Best "wishes, Dear. Editor and Corner, Ones:. Here few wrinkles T-haye seen and Hoid your sewing needie 'n front of s whits. cloh: or paper and It makes-the needls eve look larger. +A shelf put between two cleats on eaek end can be pullel out cold nights wher il of plants: Push up & chair to holé the outer end of the shelf. or hetter mtill have wooden buttons screwed to the waij on each side of the shaif for it to rest on. Theére will then be no hunting for papers on a cold night to put Between the win- dow and the plants. Under the center of the ehelf can be placed a smail drawer for fertilizer, ammonia, meat skewers for loosening up the dirt or making holes In the dirt in which to n[lll a little powdered sulphur to kill the fies and bugs. Burning a sulphur match will belp where spders have gotten on planta Fine sifted coal ashes beat anything for such things. They are also fine for hen coops or to powder fowls with. I wish CaMa Lily ‘would get me a badge and I will settie with her at the anniversary meeting, which I hope to. at- tend. - Joan: DId you see the groundheg? 1 only saw some two-legged one and didn’t look In the glass, elther. What DIANA. GREETINGS FROM BLANCHE. Dear Soclal Corner Sisters: In the fall I had a goodly number of piants but the coal gas and woolly aphis nearly de- stroyed the coleus; the aphis have to be removed by hand or a brush. The only way I can save them s to root the slips in water, then in the soll, in order to have a few for the flower bed. iyt iy My asparagus fern has one frond six g . feet long, and another one on the way, similar vines. Quite sporty. RECIPES FROM MADELENE. Mangy: We were pleased to read a let. ter from you. Do not mislay your pen again walnut fpdge which are very Francena:/If all is well, shall try ala-| Seur Cream Coskies: Two cups su- bastine this spring. gar, one cup of sour creajn. one cup of Trottle: Your letter was fine. It car- | butter, two. eggs, one of sods. ried me back to the old farm. Grandma had & foot stove with a basin for coals and I had doubts about its keeping the heat very long. Grandma was taught to spin when she was 5.years old. standing on a box. When she had finished her stint then playtime came. Keeping in mind a kst of unfortunate ones and helping in some way to cheer them, makés the hours less lonety. Greetings to al. one-half teaspoon of sall spoon of vanflla,’ flour thin and bake. Walsut Fudge: Cooi sugar, one cpp of mIM, of butter. When ‘sugar four or five tablespoons and boll 15 minutes. = Take add one teaspoon vanilla, creamy, poufr on buttered plates, cut im squares, plece a walnut on each square from stir BLANCHE HOW TO MAKE POUND CAKE.: Dear Editor and Soclal Corner Sisters: I have been asked by several members carefully and dry befors putting away. It the cogs are aliowed to get wet grease will come off on the hands, the beater will Wear out. . in. half usual time, * For stilns dn tinware or teacups &ip a ‘cloth: in‘common soda’and rub briske ly. Wash and wipe dry. Tatting: I wis glad to know that you like my recipe for raisin ole. ~ . Black-Eyed Susle:)I'am going to the and: the to become a member, 1 am sending recipe for Pound Cal One and. one-halt cups one cup butter (cpeam together with hand), one cup sugar, four .eggs. Beat oy oggs and add sugar slowly and then the | YOUr recipe for ¢ream’cake sommietime, Tt T T s ANNA z. |flour and butter. One-half teaspoon:of eounds gool. I wonder . who you sr& —_— vanilia, one-half teaspoon lemon. I find{ Do ‘you live on the ‘;:u side FINDS RECIPES 0. K. | tnis 0. K: O [awm street, m& e1a? Dear' Soctal Corner Friends: I enjoy| . "' take a8 my penname ~ f ta -- - BEATRIX. HOW TO RENOVATE FEATHERS. Dear Corner Sisters: As it Is coming near springtime and it won't be long till house-cleaning time, I am . sending you Instructions how to renovats feath- ers. In order to keep feather ‘pillows' light and fluffy, they should 'be reno- vated once in three Bometimes they give off an/ unpleasant oily odor that cannot be -removed by simply curing them. This odor can be | WORK FOR_STORMY DAYS. | Dear Soclal: Corner Sisters: We: faivs womien of the east have::to . reconell ourselves to many stormy - shutin days during winter. - Such days may ‘be % [ time of rest or of ‘thefe ‘lonely shut-in days is a thorough gbing over-of ‘wil_sorts-of “househivld ac- cumtflatioris. - True, ‘thess . things “are gorerally " stored *Irf ‘eold- closet and-at” , but it {s°68ly ‘a moment's” werk work should be done on a Wright day exception of a hole In one end'in which white sauce, one coarsely chapped hard|to put the feathers. Turn wrong side’ aii boiled , 4 few grains of cayenne, one | Out and Tub the entire sirface with’'a cm@g of minced parsley and 1-2 tea- | Bood. quality -of bar -o-p-nd thén turn spoon of lemon juice. Transfer to an ofl- | the bag right side out.” Rip.a hole in @ casserole, cover with 1-2 cup of ground | the pillow the size of the hole ‘fn the 3bs, mix With two tablespouns of | bag ‘and sew . the edges of the two to- bread.