Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 15, 1922, Page 8

THE SOCIAL CORNER | | WISDCM IS OFTTIMES NEARER WHEN WE STOOP { THAN WHEN WE SOAR. SOCIAL CORNER POETRY. THE FADED COAT OF BLUE. My brive lad he sleeps In his faded coat of blue, In & lonely grave unknown lies the heart that beat so true; He sank faint and hungry among the famished brave, ey laid him sad and lonely within his nameless grave. Chorus— No more the bugle calls the weary otie; Ana Rest. noble mpirit! in thy grave un- known Il find you, and know you, among the good and true, When a robe of white ls given for the faded coat of blue. Ha cried, “Give lttle’ crumd, Ané my mother she will bless you through all the years to come; OR! tell my sweet sister, 5o gentle good and true, That T'll meet her up in heaven, in my faded coat of blue.” me water and just a He mald: “My dear comrades, You can not take me home. vou'll mark my grave for mother, Ween I meet her up in heavens, in my faded coat of blue.” 3 Long. long years have vanished, and though he comes no_more, Yet my heart startling beat with each last adieu, But no gaflant had I see, in his faded ooat of blue. No wsat volos was there, breathing soft & mother's prayer ; here’s One Who takes the brave and ue in tender care— No stone marks the sod o'er my 1ad so brav d true, his lonely grave he sleeps im his faded coat of bize. Sent in by Phitisa end P. E. B. Bu SOCIAL CORNER EVENTS. Apri] 19—Corner Club No. 3 meets in Lebanon Baptist Chapel ANSWERS AND INQUIRIES. GLENWOOD and INTERESTED READER: Letter received and forward- od as requested. D V. B A and PHILISA: Changes have been made as requested. BLACKEYED SUSIE: warded o3 requested. KITTY LOU: Many thanks, greetings returned. Letter and cards forwarded as directed PAULA: Cards received and ferward- .o TO ALL THE CORNBER: May it be a joyous and blessed Bastertime for all the Corner members. RED CLOVER: Many thanks. ®ame in return TUTY: Your name has been added to Package for- The the Social Ci liet, INQUIEY REGARDING M. ROENA ANSWERED. Desr Editor and Social Corner Friends: When I have an opportunity to see the Eaturday Bulletin, I always look for the Social Corner and it so happen- ed that the anniversary numbder tame to me. 1 was glad to see letters from so many of the old Writers and very many new ones. Although we still have The Courfer &t our home, in order that we may not witogether Joes track of those we kmew r 0 many years, yst my work often akes me to distant parts of the state where 1 do not ses it for many weeks. I moticed an my mother. inquiry for M. Roena. She visited me at Cheistmas tier visiting Faye Verne in went to Camden, N. J., to our other sister. Just as she was for her Ohio home, she ill with grip which in a few ed pnevmonia and she has sick thers for over three She is now gaining slowly and up and I know she would o hear from any of the sisters, a3 she has aiways been interested in the Bocial Corner. Mail address M. Roena, 142 Cedar avenue, Woodlynne, Camden, N. 3. will reach her. 1 em sure the sympathy of the Secial “orner goes out to Jim and his daugh- their great sorrow. 1 enjoyed vour lstter & how to get the most out of life pry Bird: I took a trip through East Longmeadow while on my vacation last year. It is a very pretty place, and I *njoved your description of it. Best wishes to all. GLENWOOD. APPROVES THE .OLD FASHIONED MoOTHER, Corner Sisters: T would like to reply to Mandy's letter entitled 0ld Fashioned Mother. That was the kind 1 had and Oh, how her girls loved ber! We wers never ashamed of her. She was both mother and sister to us, thres ¢ Out shopping she was be- boating she was there with us, and since we each have am aute I never o riding that T don't think if mother was here how she would enjoy ft with She was never one to say any perron and if told it, would “I can’t believe this or that, they h nice people” Do we find the new mother of today saying that? No, e most of them ara ready to repeat it and 2dd4 2 whole lot to it and make hat person ten times blacker then paint- 1o Wio can see the impertect person, as I looked In the gossip shuf- ady to sta ake Dear Social fe. 1 say at If each person was tak- wn before a judge to prove things they sy. Could they pesitively and honestly prove the things they teil? No! In the 'ace of the sin peeple condemn not for what they can honestly prove against the person. So lat’s have more of the old tashiored Xind of methers. 1 wonder sow many mothers are like me. My son ays, “Ma, you have a big family and ‘he boys call you Ma on the street, and it the theatrs vell out, how's that, Ma? Among them are married men tamilies Who are just a Httle under my years and do it from hearing others. Tubby’s Chum is the only daughter who sas got the habit of calling me mother, nd in the whole 1 am mother to only e boy. 1 like it and feel as if I had wts of good friemds among those who sall me by that mame. Come again, \andy, your thoughits are good. Anna of Columba My mother has told me of Frank and Jane Green »nd thelr baskets. Joan could tell of e, Social Corner Sisters: T find T ean get the Social Corner. tadges with tho writ- s mame thereon in Norwich and i those who have asked for ome or these who want one wul eall or leave order for Calin Lily st 56 Broadway, Norwich, with fiftesn ocents’ for each badge wnd two omts additional f 1t 15 €0 be malled, | wilt sce that they get them. Please peite,piain_ a3 we have-ihed - mistakes B 5 AL~ which the order taker had to make good out of her owa pocketboak. CALLA LILY. SPRING AND ITS LESSON Dear Editor and Corner Sisters: The chirping of the birds tells us that =pring is with us again. ~The alr is growing iGer by the warmer rays of the sun. The days are lengthening and a feeling of activity and energy runs through every- one and nerves him to work with greater will and stronger endeavor with the open- ing of apring. The flelds will soon put forth their blades of grass and grains and the trees and buehes will send forth their buds and soon we shall behold all nature bright and beautful. Who will ever forget the apple or the cherry he has seen In blossom, mayhap, 1 nthe gone by days of youth as he play- ed around the old farm in the country. Then nature is growing day by day in cbauty and loveliness. The buds grow In handsome blossoms and the blossomy into fruft. The tiny erain shoots up into waving branches and in time comes an abundant harvest. How the heart is en- tranced by the study of nature—and how its thoughts rise from earth to heaven, when all this beauty bounty comes! Let us join in the hymn of thanksgiving whith all nature sings to God its Creat- - the Giver of all these gifts, The birds sing His praises. and the waving branch- s keep timo with their song. The bloom- Ing flelds hespeak the fuliness of His bounty, and the fruit and flowers seen on every side gladden the sense and sight of man and fill him with feelings of deev- est gratitude, which in a trus Christian Meart finds echo in fervent prayer of thanks. We cannot-leave thess thoughts without calling the moral they suggest. It is this: Since God remews nature every springtime, does He not wish to re- new our hearts as well? Hé gives to ‘the flelds & new life, will He not renew ths Iite of our souls Ah, Yes: this is what He wishes and will do it we allow Him: And so nature, which grows so beautital. €0 bountiful and so fruitful under His Qivine hand will be out-rivalled in us by that same divine hand, renewng and im- plantny in us beautiful thoughts bountiful virtues and fruitful deeds which will be the joy of the present and the glory and reward of our future life. Etta Barber: I was sorry I couM not g0 Friday. Ma of Greens Gables: I am like yon and think by letters are not mueh good. But they help 6 fil Lue page. Voay buca here I don't find much to write about only mature. Cady: Bometime I will write you a let- ter_on Blues. Best wishes for 2 Happy Easter. BLUE BABY ALL THE YEAR CANNINAG SEASON Dear Corner Bisters: Unly a fow years ago we spoke of the canning sea- son as a few months in the summer or early fall. At the present thme many farmers' wives, and also many villag® housekeepers, have extended this cafining period from January first to December thirty-first, to the mutual enjoyment and Increased good health of the family, also making & very decided decrease in the amount required in the family budget fdr buying food supplies. The war taught us many lessons; cold- pack canning was one of the most valu- able. During the war when canning schools were held in almost every littie town and hamlet, many women became expert vegetable canners and because of their sliccess with these, some of them have tried meat canning, with equally good success. There is no good reason why these jars should be working only pant time, hence the writing of this grown up fairy tale. As all fairy tales begin, we will say that once upon 2 time a fairy godmother had a lot of glass jars, jars, just waiting te be filled with good things to eat, and it was the first day of April, and the fairy god-mother commenced her canning with rhubarb. The first weeks of early spring and the merry month of May. gave her cowslips, dandelions and several oth- er varleties of greens. Beautiful June came along with luscious strawberries, to help fill those jars. July gave currents, huckleberries, ras:berries, cherries, other berrles according to locality, The August month was very generous to the fairy godmother, as many fruits and vegeta- bles were available this month, besides the culls from the poultry flock, these she canned by cutting in pieces, d packing in jars with a teaspoon of salt, added hot water, an dorocessed three hours, to be used later for quick chicken ples. or salad when company comes unexpected. September is just full of possibilities, all kinds of vegetables canned alone or in combinations, soup mixtures, succotash, corn and tomafoes in one jar to be used as_escalloped dish, or for corn chowder. Octobor brings many fruits and No- vember is a good time to kill the fatter steer, or buy a quarter or side of beef. This will be canned as stew beef = for meat ples. and sotn steck will-be put up for future use. Some of the best meat will be roasted and canned, and will not loss flavor or goodness in the process. Ap- ples will (be plenty at this time, 8o mince- meat will be prepared, and a year's sup- ply canned. Decenber is usually ‘the ‘month “when hogs are dutchered, and here is a chance to put ¥p a nice lot of fresh pork, sausage, and even some of the head canned and used for scrapple six months later. January the winter agples will need picking over and those not keeping good had better be pat in some:of these empty jars. aleo the last of this month, and the first of Febroary the winter squashos will have to be watched carefully and ;hm. canned which show signs of spoil- ng. And in the windy month.of Mareh the fairy god-mother will bake several big pans of beans, and can them for those days next spring or summer when: she gets a chance to shop in the city for the day to attend the state federation of wo- men's clubs or maybe to hear some noted lecturer, provided she ocan hastily pre- pare some thing for dinner or lunch for those at home. T assure you that this fairy god-moth- er after twelve months preparation will not need to miss any good times, or fell embarrdssed when an exirg gued: or auto load of friends drops in unexpected- 1y. GRAND JUROR. _ FAOW TO START YOUE FLOWER GAR- DEN. Dear Editor and Cornerftes: This fine Weather just makes me feel like getting out into Mother Earth. There is soms- thing soothing about it: I eould live in it from now till autumn, Cady and others would like experi- ¢nces in gardening from others and I would love to give vou mine, but I knew It would take too much room if I told it all in one letter. Of course the first to ocmsider 18 soll. and § vou are deter- minéd to be successtul you will take great pains with this, If you are golng to plant perennials (which are the best in the end) select partially shaded and sheltered place, (and let it be a smail ona if it is the first time you are planting perennials, so you will be sure and get it right for your seeds). Now maik a space for seeds and hava another twice as large to transplant into. The seed bed (four by ten feet s » good sized one) I epade and them ex- cavate nine or ten inches to make room for six inches of old stable manur:. Pul- verize it and mat it Gown with the back of vour spad: then put back = laver of airt without sifting it, belng careful to|Teady to start out op ome of his trips keep out mll stoes and pebbled. Then|With a palr of new boots hung on a stick sift on & good layer of dirt for the top of | and swung over his shoulder bed. rearly that. firming with a board. the peach bells which are furesque also, when in bloom. list of the easi but just as sure. Ysu can mark your rows as near four inches apart. a knitting needle sticks or stones at edges. every day to see enougn. germinate. come up. For those who only wish to plant in a seed flat get as rich a soil as you can, as you cannot use any fertilizer other than plant food. Sift the top soll and you can grow anything you wish, and it I began growing hardy perennials in flats with splendid success of annuals from seed. Beed to be sown out of doors now are annual larkspur, poppy, annua: 1t you have planted flats and sprinkling seems a diffi- cult task, just use a clothes sprinkler. Also, if you transplant try the paper pots which can he sunk into the soil to rot and the plant keeps right on growing. Well, I guess 1 better stop, but I would llke to Is mot too late. and have grown all kinds phlox, marigold and others. keep right on. Deliah Deal: T hope the package ar- rived in good shape. Persis: I Hope you will succeed with I have and you would those perennials. believe me if you saw them. Little Siste: not in places, but all over. you suggestions about annuals transplanting next time. CANTERBURY BELL. THE BEAUTIES AND BLESSINGS OF NATURE. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner Sitting this afternoon where I can see the beautiful sunshine and see the trees as is Dlenty coarse enough to mark the rows. Remember, these fine seed must not be covered, but sift the soil over the others, sow as thinly as possible and just firm With & board. When all are planted and the eoll is moist just cover the bed with thick brown paper and hold down with Look under 1t they are molst When dry sprinkle with a fins spray and hold it up well above the bed or tiny seed will be buried too much to Roll the paper back as they Did you have luples? T am glad my suggestions have helped you. [ wish every, one loved flowers as I do. The world would be beautiful with them. Wil give and @nd his Now it should bo six inches or|baggage packed in his boots. Many a more above the level ground, so firm it and eift until it is raised six inches or Your seive should be made of galvanized mosquito net and the larger it i the faster you got along. Dc your If your sofl is any fair garden soil you are ready for a good variety of hardy perennials, includ- ing my favorites which are biennial and very ple- Here is a ones to grow: lupinus, gaillardia, foxglove, sweet William, hol- Iyhock, delphinium belladonna, platy co- don, campanula medium and persicitolia or peach bells. Those germinating first plant at one end of the bed and the slower ones at the other end. The first of this list are foxglove, lupine hollyhock and Canterbury bell, larkspur, peachbell. galllardia and sweet willlam are slower, time when I have gone from .place to place feeling encumbered with bagzage and budgets and bundles T have thought of Tom and envied him his freedom in traveling. No bother with him about baggage or trains or. timetables and us- ually sure of a welcome where night overtook him! He had eome money—a few hundred dollars, I think—when I knew him which was in the care of a re- as_conservator. He really could sing very well. Old Dog Tray was a favorite and Rest For the Weary also. If anyone found fault with the weather Tom would say “Mustn't find fault with the weather; ‘it is the Lord’s weather.” He was invari- ably polite in the house; would open. the door it he saw ladles about to enter and at the table would pass a dish of food be- fors helping himself. Poor Tom! as we say! He was simple but never meant any harm to anyone. A short time be- fore he passed on his conservator secured a pension for him as Tom had been ona of the boye in blue, in the Civil war, though he never really got into the fight- ing. I doubt it Tom would have known how to fight anyone. Fighting was not in his simple nature or creed. He passed on a ffew years ago but I know many people who yet have a pleasant word to say of Tom. I have known him to walk miles to see 2 sick friend. I think he “did the best he could” with his limited intelligence and I used to have a teacher who offen told his scholars, “Do the best you can; angels can do no more.” I well remember Ira Bentley, though everyone callea him “Archibald.” I think that may have been his middle name. He could “fix” a refractory clock and he did just love to play a few tunes on the fun- ny instrument he carried with him. I don't know the name of it. (Perhaps it had no name). After he would get the clock running and played - a’ tune he would say “How's that?’: before follow- ing with another tune. Like everybody else he liked a word of praise or appre- clation in his case, for his musical efforts. When I knew him he owned a little home flable man in Perryville, R. L, who acted | SIn€. NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1922 for an address as T am anxious to get rid of them. Hope to sce ome soon. © Grandma H.: Was sorry to hear too day that you were not feeling as well hope the bright sunshine of spring will call back your health as it does all things we Iove so well and that makes life worth living. | Amy: Hope you will be able to be at our next meeting as I understand it is to,be the best one in the hall this season. Biddy: I think you have a very prom- ising songster in your little chick, Who was with you, April 12. She certainly can Well I will close wishing all the sistecs & haopy Faster and that the aay wll be air. 7 Hope the sick will soon be back to good health and happiness. - GENE. A LOOK BACKEWARD Dear Social Corner Sisters and Old Timer: I read your letters witn much n- terest for I once lived in Norwich and it is a pleasant memory for me. I used to g0 down to the wharf and see the fishing Doats come in at night. There I ate my first porgies and thought them the best fish I had ever eaten. Eighty-six years is 2 a long time to be here and as you look back over the years and see the changes that have taken place it must almost miraculous. And how, our have changed, too! Tn your earlier years there were “good mothers of lsrael” A wo- man's first thought then was her hus- band and children and home and how hard they tried to fullfil their duty. Now, shall T say it? Their first thought is money to spend and movies to attend. I hate to say that about my sex but I see so much of it that I am compelled to. You can not take up a paper but there is recorded 50 many divorces and all sorts of marita] trouble that one will almost ex- claim, What are we coming to? It is a groat problem, surely. It may not all be the fault of the woman but I am inelined to think the greater part is. . T'H send my recipe for lemcn pie: . Letnon. Ple: Two cups water, little plece of butter; yolks of two and ons white, cup of sugar, juice and grated rind of - one lemon, about -2 -1-3 spoons of in Westchester, Conn,, and as he had married T could hardly call him a “knight of the road” but he did travel about, “fxing” clocks and he certainly under- stood their mechanism. After a time, for some reason, his wife left him and I remember he felt badly about it. I know nothing of his later life but know he passed on—went the way of all the earth—many years ago. It seemed almost strange to me that a sister way out In Seattle knew of him. The earth is small after alll I closs with the wieh that all the Soclal Corner sisters and the editor may ewoy & nap- by blessed Easter season. May the blessed joys of Easter be yours the whole year through! CLAIRE. MORE RULES FOR RUSTY SINKS ° Dear Cornerites: 1 have been reading putting forth their tiny buds with some | considerable of late about what different already to burst forth in green leaves, I ones had to say about rusty sinks, Now thought how glad T am that I have been [ If you will allow me I will tell you what glven sight to see all the beauties of na-[to do, and I do not think you will be ture, and a soul that can sense them, for | disappointed. in the first place if the unless you have a being that is sensitive | sink is very rough and rusty scour and 2nd enjoys the work of nature you do not | &Crape it as smooth as ses it, nor can you feel the grandeur of | Which wash it with your 1 was talking to an elderly woman a short time ago and she said I have al- ways been a_member of the church and belleved in God, but I don’t think God answers prayer and I have lost faith in God and don’t think any prayer I ever it offered was ever answered. Now, I believe if she should be placed where she could ses sunshine, see flow- ers, hear birds sing and see grass grow she could 'see a great many things that she could count as blessings that she had not prayed for that had been given to And perhaps her prayers were selfish and she did not pray in faith, believing if so she surely would know that there must be some law that holds the universe in hand. Prayer 1s to tho aching heart what cold water 18 to the parched throat. The still small volce of the great over seul must bring solace to many aching hearts that with- out the knowledge of the great soul above would ‘be more discouraged than now. Some need more faith than others, but In each person's life there comes a timo when to lean on something higher helps to lighten the load. for in the thought of that her freely without asking. the poet, “Earth has heaven cannot heal.” no sorrow MANDY. GRANDMA’S LEMON PIE. Dear Social Corner Sisters: none of you were sick, after the meeting. Hope all had enough pie. about it Duckey? ner and help Bonie. Lo: I thank you for sending the angel cake recipe. I made one today and used Looked pretty I am going to send a 1 can “I don’t think it will be good,” when they read the yolks for frosting. and tasted good. lemon pie recipe. It is real nice. hear some of the sisters say, it, but try it. Peace: Be careful if you try it. not ‘have good luck, I like you. Why not let me know? . Marcella: We missed you. too mear the undertaker; we need you. Grandma’s Lemon Ple water, add pinch of salt. get more juice out of it. with the Whites of the eggs. A happy Easter to all. CELIA LOUISE. MWORE - RECOLLECTIONS OF TEAV- ELERS. Corner Dear Soclal Editor I hope last How I guess we all had a nice time, but let us all try and have something for the eoclal hour, after din- T had three slsters tell me thelr tomatoes done up my way came out fine, and others did So, Peace, be still. Wish I knew who you are. Don't get Remove crust from two slices of bread, each half an inch thick: pour over one cup of bolling one dessertspoon of butter. and beat with a fork, until smooth; add julce and grated rind of one lemon, one cup' eugar, volkc of two eggs, well beaten, | Mix well and bake with one' crust. Pour boiling water on lemon, and let stand a few minutes. You will Frost the top possible, after greasy dish- water (no matter how greasy it is) don't use kerosene, don't scour it and _don't wash it with clean water and soap. I wish the sisters who have trouble with thelr sinks would try this every time they wash thelr dishes for a few days and report. Of course we know there is much differ- ence in the casting. Some will never be smooth. I had one of that sort, which caised me great vexation of spirit, espe- clally if I tried to be nice to it. Now I have on€ of ‘satiny fmish, but only if I adhere strictly to the given rules. 1 would say to E. L. M, that Tam quite sure thers is no Social Corner elub between Ashaway and Noank. Tom Grinell was 2 native of southern Rhode Istand. He was a son of Sanford Grin- ell and lived in Perryville. I never saw but have heard our family tefl much aobut “Liz Letson.” I have enjoyed “Mandy’s” lgtter vefy much and I thought of the boy who coulan't have “an old fashioned mother” in company with others who were telling how far back they could remember. Ho said he could remember when he was born. There was no one there but he and his grandmother, his mother had gone to the club. “Don’t Worry”: T have never heard be- fore of a_silver sixpence - flower. Per- haps it may have same other name. There are quite 2 number O different colorsd phlox. Some are very beautiful. Among the hardy plants are peonies. delphinium. dicentra. pinks, iris, daffodils, jonquils, yucca lilies, chrysanthemums and a great many other kinds. T am almost scared when I see how much I've written and I will stop imedi- ately. DOROTHY BRADFORD CABBAGE SALAD Dear Corner Slsters: This is the recipe for cabbage salad that the Social Corner sisters asked for: Chdp cabbage to make three pints, add tw tablespoons of sugar and one table- spoon of salt. Boil one cup of vinegar, add .2 heaping tablespoon of butter, then add slowly two well /beaten eggs. and then the chopped cabbage.: Stir well, re- move from the fire and cool. It desired, one-half cup of sweet ‘may be added Serve with lettuce or'in-cups made from hollowed peppers, tomatoes or' cooked beets. - PLEASANT GUEST. A HINT ABOUT CREAM PUFFS Dear Social Corner Pals: I want to say to those who have had poor Tesults with cream puffs if you'll have a good hot oven and leave them in it at least 25 minutes before trying to see if they are.done you will have better surpess. They mmust bake long: enough. ~about 45 wnutes. Have tried the recipes sent in f§; §* Corn- er and they were fine. We are indebted to Pauta for her val- uable point in regard to sand, etc., be- and | ing washed down the sink pipe. Friends: When 1922 came in I did mot Am trying Cady’s method “How to make any New Year's resolutions (later[start tomato plants’ and may let vyou to be broken) but at the Christmas sea- son I did join the Social Corner with the Soctal Corner meetings with regularity in the future, but, “alas, for the plans cZ mice ‘While many- good things n lite pass me by grip never does and this 1t shut me in for weeks and its after effects have still shut me in from attending any of the meetings so far in 1922, only as I am ‘Wednesdays come around. I read the letters of course than others, to be sure, as I think is the case with all for all are not equaily interested T have been interested - in the memories nf the “knights of the firm intention of attending the and men!” time was. no exception. there in spirit when the 'and they interest me; some more in every subject. know the resulflater. Trust all enfoyed orr meeting Aopril 12 and for one I wish 3 thank Alfara and committee for the appropriate favors. Am wondering if the recent member who tock fhe same idea in mind as mysel? and wifl it conflict or confuse the future Social Corner family as to identitying theso two menbers. Deliah Deal: This is original. One slice pineapple on lettuce, four or five dates stuffed with peanut butter, two cherries, two English nut meats, salad dressing. Best wishes to all for 2 harpy Faster. HOPE COBWEB. read” Several have mentioned Tom|BEMEMBERING DUTY TO THE Grinnell. I have seen him many times. CORNER When T first saw him years ago I did| Dear Social Corner Sisters: 1 have not know his ways and when he loft the house of friends in Rhode Island whera I was then staving he shook hands with 1 supposed he had gone away for a long stay but in a couple of hours or so I found it was only one One wrote “Tom won't hurt T think that was very true, He certainly was very harmless. He was He used to worl on farms but liked to take a trip off People knew him and al- most everyons seemed to give him a wel- come in the form of food and shelter on Hale's Christmas at Narragansett, he refers to Tom, calling him by name and saying he is the singlng gaberlunzie who looks in to the Hale's summer home was at Matunuck. R. L for all. Tom was back. of his ways of being friendly. that he used fo say anybody. not always on the “road.” now and then. his trips. * In _Edward Everett on everybody from Point Gilmans at Norwich Town. Judity " (M many vears) I have scen been trying to get up courage to write the Corner for three or four weeks and told one of the sisters so at the gather- Wednesday and che told me to go into one of the Corners and do so at ence, but T eaid T would wait until I got home. So here I am with not much to sy but We must do our duty to the Corner page. 1 wish to thank the hostess for the cute littlé chicken T received. I have put it in its nest upon the buffe: to keep my flower company which I got at Norwich March 1st. 1 also wish to thank the sis- ter, who made those favors, for the one I got. It is rather late bist better late than never they say. Now I am going to ask the same favor I asked before for the ad- dress of some hosoital or Institutue who advertises and asks / post card maga- zine & anything in thau line. I have qulre a few such cards that I have had sent to me and I have pasted two together Tom when'and I have been waiting and watening corn " starch . wet, with .little cold water. When the water boils put this mixture in and bring to a boll, and put in crust. which I bake first. ‘Then when. it cools & little beat up the “Lher white of egx and add sugar and sread on ple and brown in oven. LORBTTA. AGREES WITH PRACTICAL POLLY. Dear Edior and Corner Friends: 1 do not know even one member of the Bocial Corner, but look upon all 2s a | body of friendly, and helpful souls, will- ing to learn from another's experience, and helpful in all ways. It seems to me that when one has unwittingly given offense by something one has written, the better way is to acknowledge it, and beg pardon. One can never know just how much that means, untll one has crossed the Ru- bicon. Practical Polly’s idea that many could “wish a string were attached to some of their letters that they might be re- " was truth. Not all know the rules of the game they are /playing, hence indiscretion creeps im, and be- cause of thelr mistakes many unkind quips appear, which leave scars. It is well to forgive, not always easy to for- get- I was pleased with Jim's letter, and have since learned that he, too, had known sorrow. My sympathy goes out to_all. Everywhere one looks signs of spring greet the eye. And it is interestting to watch the development of the home beautifying lawns, all seeming to vie with each other in artistic beauty. My ‘pen nam was the pet name given me by a dear brother I have recently lost, and who was a compositor all the early years of his life, and editor of a ®ood Tepublican paper for many years. Best wishes for all, and success.to the Social Corer. NELEH. GREETINGS FROM AUNT JERUSHA Dear Soclal Corner Friends: Just a few lines this lovely morning. Hope all are gaining who are sick or ailing What a lot of nice letters we have in the Corner page now! I want to thank Eliza Jane and Anna Mell for my birthday cards. Was pleased to receive them. 1 don't know Eliza Jane, but have met Anna Mell and I promised to save her some of my lovely double hollyhocks seed, which T did, but have not been to the Cormer since. Will send them soon, or in time to plant them. so You can transplant them. They won't blossom this year but will next if they do right this year. They are Ught pink and doudble as can be, and look like tissue paper. My son sent the roots to me from Pomiret, when he worked there. Yes. Tola, that was Rev. J. Nigkols, and the man tht took the poison wae Horace Beers. The Varnum house, as well as the other one is all gone. We go by it when we go to Brooklyn. There are mot many houses standing in How- ard Valley that used to be there. Once it was quite a little place with its shod- dy mill. How I would liked to have gone to the March meeting, but could not very well. Hope I can go to some of the picnics during the summer. Best wishes to Grandma H., hoping o hear she is out soom. 1 have- not been ‘kept ‘home by sick- negs, but have stayed in.more on ac- cotimt of poor traveling, as'I live on a cross road, but *hepe to improve my time when roads get passable. I have three bed quilts all tled and finished and. one. more .all .pieced and another 1 am going to piece a few more blocks for. Guess.that will do for this season. ‘With best wishes to all the sisters and the “editor, a5 always. AUNT JERUSHA. CARING FOR PLANTS. Dear Soclal Cormer: More than & year has gone since I've written and T'm busier than ever. So many have asked about plants that it has stirred me to fill the gap. I have two windows cach ten feet long, filled With growing things, so you may know I'm a real flower-lover. One has o have a real love for things to teke the trouble to do for them — in anything. I'%e crochetted. done all sorts of fancy work, raised chickens and canaries and bees, had amateur photography, and mow I want 2 radio outfit. Am teaching achool (grandmother as I am) or I'd fattend some of the club meetings. That pleas- ure is in store for me when vacation comes. My sucoess with begonias leads me to tell how T do with them. They iike the 26id il of well rotted wood. I dig un- @er the chip pile for the soil mext to the ground, getting half sandy loam. And T let all plants get dry before the next watering, and then water from the bottom by filling saucers till moisture shows. on top. For saucers I use the flat salmon cans or any such receptta- cle. There is no trouble changing plants from 2 small can to larger when you unsolder the little Tound piece from one end and put ¥ on ome a little larger, inside before filling with oil. It makes good drainage and you simply press the plant upward from the bottom in erder to remove it. I aveld pots unless they can be set in a jar or greenhouse. There 2re twenty-two sorts of begonlas in my windows. The coleus is as handsome 25 any flower and 50 easily grown, and it it freezes you do mot feel it as 2 rreat loss. The single petunias are ever blooming and imagine my delight at 2 little morning-glory seed that wound its way up a rubber plant and now is opening its fresh glories every day. The koye or wax vine is b E at enwry foint mow, and will scon All the house with fragrance. Am always glad to glve us I am to receive mew cuttings or plants. T wish T could find = Easter Values EXCEPTIONAL PRE-EASTER OFFERING IN OATS-- WRAPS - SUITS {ikhit it from All-Wool Tricotine, Twill and Tweeds, long line, medium line and box effects. Values to $39.75. The Coats and Wraps — Fash- ionably designed in the most approved styles. Mannish Coats, Ripple Back Capes, and wrap effects, richly embroidered, in contrasting col- LEV sl begonia I had long ago. Each leal gréw from the root like an umbrella plant and was eight or ten stalk hairy and red. My & nice surprise. Thanks, Dell CARRIED SUNSHINE AND CHEER. Dear Editor and Social Corner It s With heartfelt thanks and d preclation that I wish to acknowled little remembrance that the sist kindly sent me from the last meeting at Buckingham - Memorial. ‘When Chocolate walked into my home with the little sunshine box under her arm, and handed it to me, I was quite surprised, and if every one of those box- es has brought as much sunshine and cheer to each heart that has ever recelv- ed one, as that little box did into mine, 1 assure you they are never sent in vain. Chocolate has been a great friend tome the past winter. Afflited herself ‘in some ways, yet she is always doing for someone. else who needs sympathy and help. T am sure these little acts of kind- ness we may do perhaps lighten some other person’s load, will always come back to us, “pressed down, full and run- ning over,” for we are told to “Cast our bread upon the waters, and it will return to us after many days.” I am reminded of a hymn We 50 often. used to sing in my old home church at West- minster. 1 camnot remember all iho words, but two of the verses run some- thing 'like this: There are lonely hearts to cherish, ‘While the days are going by, There are weary souls who perish, While the days are going by. If o smile we can renew, As our journey we pursue, 0. the good we all may do, While the days are going by. There are loving links that bind us, While the days are going by, One by one wo leave behind us, While the days are going by. But the seeds of good we sow, Both in shade and sun will grow, And will keep our hearts aglow, While the days are going by. What 2 beautiful world this would be if everyone would just make their lives correspond to these lines! ‘With best wishes and success to you all BLUE BELL. A FLOWER BOX THAT TAKES LIT- TLE TIME. Dear Friends: It we all did as Cady suggested, what an interesting page we ‘would have! She said there must be some ome thing each one of us can do Detter than another. Why not pass it on to the rest of us? I don't know of anything T can do bet- ter than anyome, but I will offer a sug- gestion. I read somewhere of one housskeeper that loved flowers, but had no time to devote to them. That is ,a great deal of time, So she had a flower box built right outside her kitchen window, and had flowers growing so she could enjoy them as she sat at the table, peeling potatoes, or doing her baking, and even while hanging out clothes. I plan to do the same thing. How easy to open the win- dow and weed the flower box and what & source of enjoyment for the children to watch the buds blossoming! Before the |one of Taumadge's ser: summer season comes I would like tolday to this 1 can remember parts of that know of a remedy for tiny red ants. Do |sermon and the text any of you know of anything to place around the places they come from? May- be it's the certain kind of wood I have in my pantry closet, but they are so ag~ gravating. They're so smail Blue Bell: Hope you can be with us next strawberry time, Hope you can find basket design. That was so pretty. Sincerely, CHELSEA. MEETING OF CLUB No. b. Dear Soclal Corner: April 7 was mot “falr and bright” but a real April day with a little sunshine, a little rain and plenty of clouds, so I felt a little anxious in spite of the cards and letters received until Sally Sycamore appeared so cheer- ful that she seemed to bring the sun- shine with her; then a bright red car drove up and E. M. R. C. P. came in, fol- lowed by my neighbor across the strest and later by Hinkely. We enjoyed every moment—not one was lonely for none of us are deaf and dumb or tongue-tied. E. M. R. C. P. gave the club an invitation to an outing that she and her hubby have planned for us this summer with free transportation both ways and you can be sure we accepted. > During the afternoon I received a card from Aunty No. 1 and a letter from Eve- Iyn Burr, saying Calla Lily gave my In- vitation to No. We shall meet again May 6 i nothing happens in the same place, when we shall serve a basket lunch and arrange a pro- am. B hope E. L. M. will go ahead and form Club No. 6 even if she begins with four for they have everything to gain and nothing to lose as they can go to the big times just the same. Jey BTTA BARBER. HOW I SAVE TIME AND STRENGTH he Social Corner Family: It seems w‘::e‘me Social Corner grows better each week and the person must be hard to sult who does not find samething to heip along the way. The letters are so varied, hel>- rul and cheerful 3 The reminiscences of the unfortunates who wandered about the country have been most interesting. I have a faint recollection of Charlie and Dolly White- house. An aunt (by marriage) used to tell us about she “Darn Man” coming to r home.. She said that when young the e Man' was very bright and prom- {sing and engaged to marry the woman of his choice. On the very day they were to be married the young lady died. l‘i'; death made the young man “queer he wandered about insisting on always wearing what was to have been his wed- 2ing coat, darning it to make it hold to- gether. and from that getting his name. My grandmother and grandfather thought §: almost a erime to turn any one from their door who came asking for food and shelter and I've heard my grani- father say in a casual manner. ‘Ol Holloway and his dogs stayed in the barn last night.” There is one incident I remember o well that happened while on a visit to them It was well afternoon when a man came 10 the door asking for something to eat. My grandmather put a good dmaer on the table and the man ate, talking all the while in a rawbling erratic manner. After finishing his dinner he ook & news- paper ciivpiog from his pocket and satd he wanted to rend to us. It proved to be I wonder if any of the sisters have m trouble in finding the days too short for the amount of work they want to They tell us how hard our great grand mothers worked and T've no doubt did, but I doubt if they ould change places with the modern woman who tries to keep up with the times and “who loo well to the ways of her household certainly knew knothing of calories vitamins and balanced meas. And we have to learn to vote intel¥gentls Here are some of the things 1 to save time and strength. Firm I try never to handle things but once; I 1 use the egg beater I clean it and hang it where it belongs Speaking of agx beators how many of the sisters are still using “he small size one? Just try a largo size tel size” I think they are calied and 244 another help to your list. My family is small and I seldom make but one ple at a time, but often bake & shell at the same time and them in & few days make a filling and have a des- sert_quickly made. When mixing flour and water together for gravy use a fork instead of a spoon. Keep bandages, adhesive tape. stc. in 2 box handy to the kitchen and be ready fo rthe smergency we hope won't happen. If you haven't a pencil sharpener it's well worth the price to have nicely sharpened pencils without black fingers. Tl tell the rest next time for I think I hear the editor say .“Enongh” V.B A —_— THE LETTERS THAT INTEREST Dear Social Corner Mambers: It has been some time since visiting the Cormer but I have enjoyed reading your letters, especially those about the old times and placeq. arqund Carderbury and Westd minster, also Beach Pond, thinking each that T would be sur> and write but am very busy and the times goes by and Wed- lesday comes and the lotter is not written, Dew Kirt: 1 am sending the words of e old song. The Faded Coat of Blue, & beautiful old song. Don't Worry: Thers is a bridge in horse shoe. i Eepg il i s g AT i !_fi:!iaizggifi