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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28
City and Country Life.

Social Corner Editor: The man with
the hoe is looked upon by many as
a hayseed or rnuddigger. The people
who make these remarks forget that
the farmer feeds the world. No man
enjoys more comforts of life than the
farmer who breathes the beautiful
country air and drinks the pure well
water from the old oaken bucket,
which cannot be found in the city.
The farmer sits at The First
Table where you win not find wiTted
sweet corn, dried up cucumbers. peas
and beans, also poor eggs and milk
which has been robbed OF the cream,
and poor butter the farmers will not
use Experience is good teacher.
and as we have lived in the city and
the country we know the difference.
The city has many attractions which
costs money and shortens life, while
the country has many good things
TO aprolong life namely fresh vegetables
from the garden, pure air, one of God S
greatest blessings. good water. good
company and good homes for rest
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28
The Wonderful Value of Leaves.

Editor Social Corner: Wishing to
add all the interest to the social cor
ner that I possible can. I wish to
tell all the brothers and sisters the
wonderful value in saving leaves. 1t
is as good as money in the pocket OF
the home gardener If properly cared
for this fall, these leaves will be valu-
able in the spring. They contain a
great deal of heterogeneous matter, in
fact a given weight of pear leaves is
more than twice as valuable as the
same weight of manure. Peach leaves
are almost as good as those of the pear.
The leaves of such trees as poplar,
locust. elm, or beech are ALL pound
for pound more than equal to manure
The forests are real treasure houses
for the man who is ready to go out
and get there the loads of leaves
that have gone to waste. The custom
of using leaves for bedding for the
horses, and cattle, and so getting them
mixed with the manure, is a useful,
and a profitable one.
MISS MARY CHAPEL
Rockville
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28
Dainty Sweet Bits for Little Folks.


Editor Social Corner: | wonder if
there are any of the S. C.'s who have
little folks clamoring for birthday
party? The following is delicious and
very pleasing to children. 1t is called
the
MarshmaHow Basket-Beat one-haIf
cup butter until creamy, gradually add
one cup sugar, two eggs, two table,
spoonsful of milk, flour to roll, which
will be about two and one-haIf cups
full, one-haIf teaspoonful vanilla.
First of all roll out the dough very
thin and cut il in diamond shaped
pieces which should measure about
four inches between the opposite long
ends Now in the center Of each of
these i place a marshmaIlow, then fold
the long points over it and press them
together. Bake in a moderate oven.
1t is in the baking that the transfor-
nation takes place that makes bas-
ket of your work. The marshmallow
Will swell under the heat. In cooling
off it contracts again.
Bread Sticks-Take some of your
bread dough, roll it out between the
hands until the thickness of a lead
pencil, cut off in three-inch pieces. fry
in hot lard, just the same as dough-
nuts. When cold tie three of these to-
gether with different coIored baby rib
bon and place on napkin at each
plate.
Cocoanut Drop Cakes-Take one cup
sugar one-haIf cup butter one cupful
of milk, one cuPful shredded cocoanut,
two cupsful of flour, two eggs, two
teaspoonsful of baking powder. Place
the cocoanut in the milk and let it
soak one hour, then rub the butter and
sugar together and add the beaten
eggs. the milk and cocoanut and lastly
the flour into which has been stirred
the baking powder. Bake in we'll but
tered patty pans. frost nicely and IN
the center of each place a small Amer
lean flag. This the children prize as a
souvenir, appropriate for Memorial
day.
NJ F NJ
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28
The Vacuum Cleaner.

Editor Social Corner: I have kept
house for fifty years. Every spring, in
the good old fashioned way. carpets.
1nattings, etc, have been taken
up thoroughly beaten and cleaned.
[ will confess, / looked forward this
spring with dread TO the usual up
heaval My daughter suggested that
/ have the vacuum cleaner do the
work and thus avoid all hard work
and confusion. ! thought about ii Il
couple of days, and then consented.
Two men came bearing this new
machine. They commenced in the
chambers and worked down TO the
dining room.
After / had watched them work a
while. 1 questioned whether that ap-
paratus was really taking the dirt up
as it claimed to do, or not. When the
work was finished ana the men were
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28
A Mans Opinion of Home.

Editor Social Corner: I'm a man,
and / wish to remark for the benefit
OF all concerned that a house cannot
be a Woman's pride and a mans COM
fort at the same time. A sensible
woman has written unat too much
broom too much hard wood. too much
order, and home-life is spoiled for the
average man." Home cannot be too
clean or too cozy- 1t can be too prim
1t can be made burning issue;
but when it is il is time to take down
the motto, Home. Sweet HomeI Some
women by a series of discomforts at
tempt to make home comfortable, but
they never succeed. The man who
finds home an inviting leahng place
and his wife d real comrade never be-
comes a club man or a cracker barrel
philosopher at the corner grocery. 1t
is natural to man to invite his soul
to loaf, and he likes to have his wife
invite hers to loaf. too, and to do
it at home during respite from labor.
A man who has to sacrifice himself
to business one part of the day and
sacrifice himself to his wife the other
half yearns for the freedom he dreams
of but must break away TO experience.
Norwich. FRANK.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28
AS JOB JOLT SEES IT

Parson Dawson says learning is not
| a happy-f1er. but that it lifts the
| masses up and pulls the classes down
Deacon Sproedor thinks his way OF
farming is the only way, but Bill
| Bangs says he knows % other ways
which seem to produce just as good
results.
| Caroline Caswen says the man who
| does a great deal and says little is the
model man. Caroline may be crusty,
| but usually she is sensible.
| The farmer who always wants to go
to town when it's pleasant. and who
can't work out when it is foul wealth
| err. needs a conservator.
| A mans shortcomings cali out long
| lectures in the quiet hours. Such men
are usually nearly talked to death.
A good hater is a bad man to him
self He always keeps himself on
tenterhooks.
Cy CymbaIfs no saint, but when he
says some of his pious neighbors do
things that tickle the devil, he doesn't
tell lie.
Worry and Fret are partners in wear
and tear, and they carry on lively
business for the doctors and the hos
pitfalls.
The farmer who cannot tell whether
his COWS pay for their keep or not,
would not believe a professor who
could prove it.
1 like a dog that can tell neigh
Dor from a tramp; but Sam Psalters
dog acts as if all other men were vii
Iains to him.
The men who feed the world do not
complain of the high price of living.
They are praying that everybody may
live high
The farmers daughter who knows
more about playing the piano than she
does about working the churn is out of
the rural matrimonial race.
The agricuIturist who derns the cut
worms instead of poisons them. wins
their gratitude and loses his crops.
I have known a few men who just
felt proud to think that they married
women who could support EN- Some
folks said it was a shame. but such
fellows never realize that
The Lord may love a cheerful giver,
but dern if 1 believe he has any spe-
cial respect for these fellows who give
other folks money away.
Miss Potts gets just as drunk on
gossip as old Potts does on whiskey,
and life at the Potts house is a
merry go round.
How much smarter is the human
who gets scared at the comet. than
the horse that gets scared at an auto
mobile?
1t does beat all how city consumers
find joy in a falling market on butter,
eggs and pork-there is no pleasure in
it for me.
The old hen turkey is strutting
around same as she did last spring
when she Matched 16 turkeys and rails
ed three of EN- Some folks who
have done no better step just as high!
I dreamed old Brindle had triplet
calves and that got a thousand dol
lars for them. Just as 1 was about to
clasp the money, woke UP. Such is
life.
If people in this country today are
voting as they pray, all I've got to
say is. there is a very large opportunity
for the improvement of their prayers
as well as their votes
JOB JOLTs.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

well out of sight of the house 1 re-
paired to my chambers (where my
neighbors would not drop in and see
mel and got down on my knees, IL
/ am over seventy years old, and pulled
the carpets and mating away from the
mop boards looking for dirt. To my
surprise / could find none.
Now I'm not advertising the vacuum
cleaner, but ] will say 1t is a great
labor saving device, and ! am willing
and ready to drop the Old way for the
new. SARAH ELIZABETH
Danielson. Conn.
Room for Little Ones In Gods Country
Editor Social Corner: Going into
my garden this morning and seeing
the leaves just coming up into the
light, it made me think of the poor
little babies in some of the large cities.
How those dear little ones would like
to be out here in Gods country with
the flowers and birds! What a joy IL
would be for them. whose only play
ground is the city's streets. And who
never see a flower unless it Is in
one of the city's parks, and those they
must not pick. But the buttercups and
daisies Did you ever see a child who
did not love them? Making daisy
chains and holding the buttercup un
der the chin to see who likes BUTTER
To think of so many little boys and
girls who are Observation-Disclosures children
who get their food where they can,
huddled together and sleep in alleys
anu celldTE, lney 40 not seem TO De-
long to any one.
What a great good 1T would be If we
could only take them from the streets.
How many criminals do you think
could be saved in that way? Just
think of those little babies who live in
dark tenements in dark alleys, who
never have what we would call pure
milk and what a blessing IL would bs
if there were more fresh-air homes Hike
beautiful Mount Lawn that was found
ed by the late Dr. K1opsch here in the
state of Connecticut. There is enough
land and plenty of empty farm houses
lying idle that could be used for such
a good cause, if some of our rich men
would only share their gifts OF money
with the fresh-air homes, instead OF
giving all to colleges. l am sure that
those very babies would, when grown
to men and women, always blesa them.
How those little boys and girls who
went to Mount Lawn used to love DR..
KlopSchl How sad they will be when
the home opens in the summer and
they do not see his facet I wish we
had more such good man as DIR.
Klopsch. AS Jesus said: Suffer the
little children to come unto me, and
forbid them not. for of such is Il
kingdom of Cod"
A MOTHER.
North Stonington, Conn.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28
A Common Pest.

Editor Social Corner: If there is
one pest worse than another it is the
ants which outnumber all other in
truders ten to one and whether small
or large are always nuisance. There
are many methods for freeing the
house of them, some of which do not
work. This is the way I have man
aged to make the ants seek a living
elsewhere: Put a large piece of alum
into a pan; set on the back of the
stove until it has all dissolved Then
take a feather-and after scalding and
cleaning the shelves well with the
feather. put the hot alum on the table
legs where the fruit is on, the edge of
the pantry shelves and on the door
sill so the ants will not enter.
This is worth trying; and / think
it will everywhere be found effective.
1t is a joy to feel that one has tri-
umphed over such a plague.
MERRY MARTHA.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28
ARCADIA
Farmers Finishing Their Planting.

Farmers hereabouts have nearly I'm
ished their planting.
Mrs. ]. r. Perkins is in feeble
health.
Mrs. Celia Kenyon is i'll, requiring
the services of physician.
Mrs Jane Hadfeld, who has been
i'll for a long time, is gradually i'm
proving.
is making his annual call on friends in
town.
Mr.. and Mrs William It. Barber have
gone on a lengthy visit with relatives
and friends in Providence.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28
ROCKVILLE

Miss Phebe CrandalI has returned
from a lengthy visit in Mantle and
Westerly.
The seventy fourth session of the
Seventh day Baptist eastern aESocta-
ton is being held with the church here
this week. The meetings began on
Thursday morning and will close Sun
day evening. The programme was
given in The Bulletin on Friday.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

Yet many men who would never
think of jumping hot-foot from one ac-
customed avocation to another I'M
learned trade think they can make
success at farming without any study
or apprenticeship. l know one man
who thinks he can live in Florida dur
ing the cold weather. drift UP to New
England along in May and make
enough off a farm he never saw till
two years ago to pay his Florida hotel
bills the following winter! And he has
been a lifelong lawyer who doesn't
know today that apple trees ought to
be set before June. He doesn't know
a Shorthorn from Jersey, and has
no idea of balanced" or any other
kind of ration. But he is sure there
must be money in producing milk and
selling it at three cents a quart-be-
cause on his railroad journeys he has
noted that the fences on dairy farms
are always well kept up,
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28
saIenite on Children and Jelly Rolls.

SaIen1ite on Children and Jelly Rolls.
Editor Social Corner: To say that /
was pleased to hear from "A Mothers
Heart" again is expressing il very
mild indeed and l was also pleased and
surprised TO know that she is native
of Salem L agree with her, too. in
the matter of deceiVing the children.
There never can be an excuse for tell
ing the children an untruth. 1t is just
as easy to coax them with pleasure
that we can give as it is 10 make
promises that we know we cannot
fulfill. We must be careful, though,
and not bride too much, or our chill
dren will lose the power and desire
have our children happy, yet at the
same time well behaved, we must study
them continually. The punishment we
administer to one will not do for the
other. Some children may need spank
ing occasionally, but 1 believe with
the majority of children a quiet talk
with mother is best. She can help
them to overcome tendencies to do
do right. Do not let US make the mis-
take of expecting too much of our
children. or try TO make grown ups of
them because all too soon they will
have to bear their part of the burdens
of life. We should endeavOr to fill
their young lives with sunshine and
love, striving to make the most of our
surroundings and the things at our
command to make life for the whole
family happy and complete.
My recipe for jelly roll is so good
and economical L am going TO send it
to the Social Corner sisters: Two
eggs well beaten, one small cup of
sugar, four tablespoonsful of cold
water, one teaspoonful of baking pow
der sifted in one cupful of -four Bake
in quick oven and turn upside down
on u clean towel, spread with jelly and
roll, keeping the towel folded about it
TO hnId in nj
SALEMITE.
Colchester
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

Florence Reed. daughter of the late
Roland Reed. who has made a hit as
the psychic girl in Seven Days" has
abandoned a starring tour for next
season to remain with Wagenhals &
Kemper, who will place her in a new
Broadway production
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

Eight Geisha girls. singers and
dancers who recently arrived here
from NagasaIxi, Japan, have been en-
gagged as one of the opening attrac-
lions at Hammerstein's Roof Garden,
which beings its season May so.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28
THE PRIZES FOR MAY.

it
ca matte to ava he arei o
of the the write
First pizeJ t. Yanic Continuance Hard Times $3.50
Second f. NJ Tfdbts
Mother
will full address
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

George Wright has been engaged by
Henry E. Harris for the part of Dan
ie1 Johnson in WinchelI Smiths new
comedy, Bobby Burnt" which opens
at the Republic theater, New York, on
August p.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28
Felt Perfectly at Home.

A man who Travelled in a small dry
goods box says he experienced no
great Inconvenience. He had probably
been used to travelling in the upper
berths of sleepers.-Grand Rapids
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

Self confidence is a fine thing, but
self conceit, especially when accom-
panied-as it usually is-by ignorance
is not SO admirable. I think I've once
mentioned Rankin, the Missouri mil
lionaire farmer. He's the only million
aire l ever heard of who made it by
farming. His dictum is that farming
requires closer figuring and more at
tention than, any other kind of bust
ness" To succeed at farming one
must know a tremendous lot of little
things about soils and crops and ma
nures and seeds and cuItivation; he
needs and will have to use every day
d degree of skill which comes only
from long practice; he must be con
the job and all over the job all the
time; he must know his acres summer
and winter. in drouth and in deluge, in
grass and in grain; he must have an
experts delfcacy and certainty of
knowledge regarding a thousand seem
ingly triiing details; he must join
with this microscopic eye for little
things a telescope sweep of vision into
the future. ! know one or two farm
ers of whom it might be said with the
poet that in them
odd experience doth attain
TO something of prophetic strain"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28
EVERY woMAN,s OPPORTUNITY.


in
Wednesday 0
OfHce Norwich.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28
MUSIC AND DRAMA

The open door policy adopted last
week by the southern theater man
ayers has created IremepdoUS enthu-
siasm throughout the south.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

The three Booths-Junius Brutus, Ed
win and John Wilkes-app at the
Winter Garden theater, New York, No
vember 25, 1864 in Julius Caesar"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

most of us. ri is the childless spinster
VINO always knows just how to bring
up a baby. We all know how to run
newspa per better than the editor. /
am beginning to think that farming
must go into that same category with
baby raising and newspaper making
those who have never tackled it seem
to know so much more about it than
We farmers.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

wagenhals & Kemper have post
poned the London production of ''Sev-
en- Days" until next season, when the
Rinehart- Hopwood comedy will be
done there with an all-American cast
including some of those now at the
Astor theater in New York. OF these
will be Georgia O'Ramey.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

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third las n mont
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

The tolls on the farm are many times
quite hard, so it is with the many
average business man at his desk VINO
works many hours when the farmer
is reading his daily paper.
More and more farms here are be
ing taken y-oidy people every year
who enjoy the country life with the
fresh morning air from the western
hills which needs no straining to
get out the smoke which they find
in the city. There was a time when
it seemed that everybody was going
TO the city to live. Many are tired OF
city life and are returning every year
to the old New England farms for a
quiet, independent life. where they
have good gardens and can go out and
pick STRAWBERRIES which are not cover
ed with dust from carting and vege-
tables fresh from the vines. These
kind of people know that the farmers
have a good living and do not call
him a ''hayseed."
RURAL DELIVERY.
nan falc
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

Why in heavens name should they?
There isn't one of them who would ex-
pect, if he gave up his lifelong work
and started in brashly on an utterly
new trade, to get rich at it. Would
a bookkeeper really think himself ca
pable of successful shoemaking without
any training or slowly acquired skill
Does the carpenter who can't make big
enough wages to suit him at his trade
really think he could earn more the
first summer he devoted to watch
making? Would you expect a horny
handed farmer who doesn't know do
re-nli'' from a door mat to rise to af-
fuence in a year as a piano tuner?
In regard to most avocations, most men
accept the fact that one must learn
his trade before he can practice it sue
cessfully- Yet men who don't know
where hens teeth are expect to make
money from hens, and men who don't
know humus from a hole in the ground
expect to beat old farmers raising
crops, and men who couldn't tell pig
weed from pOrtulacca, or clover seed
from wild mustard, think they can buy
a farm in April and begin depositing
profits from it in August.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

Po1iare, the French dancer, called
"the ugliest woman in the world has
refused to come to America to appear
at Hammerstein Roof Garden this
summer. She was supposed to have
sailed on the Kaiser Wilhelm H. last
Tuesday, but Wednesday Mr.. Ham
merStein received a cablegram which,
translated, says: Break contract of
America. Leave not Kaiser. / TN
derstand have cattle and sheep where
am to appear. Refuse play in garden
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

Signor MareschaIchi has obtained,
with Signor Gatti Casazza, manager
of the Metropolitan opera house in
New York, Il three-year contract for
his pupil, w. w. EIinshaw. beginning
the first of next November. AS basso
his will sing the first roles MephiSto
-.Faust''-in French, Kothner die
Meistersinger'' in German, and the re-
mainder of the parts in italian.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28
Arnong the hig new ttings at Dream

laIIIUII5 tIIV Dis INV tIIIIIt5o dL JT tdIII-
land, Coney Island, is a Borneo Will
age, Joe's Alligator and Crocodile
farm, a reproduction of F1orida's ever
glades, with 1900 living specimens j:
f'The Devils Thumb" a black art
show; and Alias Kid Allen, a specta-
Gle of events in the life of a convict
The Glaciers and "Trip to the Pole,
the new ride in Dreamland is the larg-
est and most picturesque on the Island.
Bostok's Arena has 200 wild beasts
and 100 tanners; popular Creation
again attracts, as does THE Canals of
Venice" MT Blanc" and the Great
Divide" There are. 20 diving Venuses
the "Rigmarole," Ocean Waves and
countless others
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

"Old experience doth attain
TO something of prophetic strain"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-28

I've a few neighbors who have been
bamboozIed into buying farms by these
exploiters of good luck. They have
read story after story of wonderful
profits from onion growing in Texas
or broiler raising in Rhode Island or
potato growing in Maine or melon
gardening in Colorado or apple orch
arding in New York. They have come
out to the country, expecting to dupli-
cate, right off and all the time, these
cornetary effulgencies of phenomenal
fortune. Some of them have failed
diSaStrously and are really suffering.
Some, who have surplus enough to
prevent actual need from visiting
them are mildly wondering why things
are as they are, and not the story
books made them out. Some with still
more capital are steadily sinking it
year by year and endeavoring to teach
US slow going old hayseeds the advan-
tages Of modern methods" But I
don't know one of them who is getting
what he expected to get and making
what he expected to make from his
farm.