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Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08
TO THE SISTERS OF THE SOCIAL
CORNER.

The interest will center this week
upon the Social Corner story by Ma"
entitled "Our Son from College" 1t
is a racily written narrative and will
be enjoyed by ALL
We have two new members added
to the Social Corner this week. "Necia"
speaking to us across the country from
Sarasota, Fla, and Duane" of &C.
neva, Ohio, who thinks he is an adopt
ed son, when it may be well to
make him an honorary member, to
which we might add Rural Delivery
for it seems to us that he is worthy
of the compliment, too
We are gald to note that The Cor
ner has members in a half dozen
states; and it is large enough to hold
all who may want to join in any or
all of the states in which The Bulletin
or The Courier circulates.
The next Social Corner story to be
printed will be The Editors Visitor
by "A Dreamer; and it has the merit
of being entertaining and humorous.
The author modestly withheld her
name until she learned whether it was
worthy of The Corner, or doomed to
crowd the waste basket. This story
made the Editor of the Social Corner
smile, and he has no doubt it will
please all the members.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08
Norwich.
SOCIAL CORNER APPRECIATED IN
FLORIDA.

Dear Social Corner Editor: 1t is my
happy pleasure too tell you that there
is the dearest Connecticut woman
here, who has lived in our town several
years. yet still looks forward to and
treasures the Norwich Courier as my
home paper"
Through her I have learned to know
The Courier and through my love for
her ask to be admitted to your circle
This time l want to thank you for
the nature quotations given in the is
sue of June goth. l love nature and
am always glad of any suggestion of
new beauties to find What profusion
is there in His work, When trees bios
soE: there is not a single breastpin.
but q whole bosomfui of gems: and of
leaves they have many suits that
they can throw them away to the
winds all summer long. What unnum-
bered cathedrals has He reared in the
forest shades, vast and grand. full of
curious carvings, and haunted ever
more by tremulOus music. and in the
heavens above, how do stars seem to
have flown out of His hand faster than
sparks out of mighty forget"
In this country of perpetual out OF
doors weather we have ample oppor-
tunities TO study nature in her various
forms.
Here where tall pines lift their leafy
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08
FRESH CHERRIES
AT CHRISTMAS.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner:
Herewith ] send a recipe for canning
cherries which l hope will be helpful
to some Sister who grows cherries and
can use freshly picked, selected cher
ries, since they are the best. The fruit
should not be oVer-ripe and should
have the stems on; wash and drain
thoroughly and pack closely in can as
picked; then shake the can and be sure
that no air bubbles remain after it has
been filed with COOL fresh water: then
fill to overlooking and Immediately
seal When opened the cherries seem
as fresh as when picked: and they GIN
be served at Christmas to the surprise
and satisfaction of guests who will
wonder where you got fresh cherries
In midwinter. They should be stored
In a dry. cool place.
Our Social Corner writer's are not
like the bird that could sing and would
not. The letters are all nice and help
full.
1t is so hot up this way that I am
going to lay up for repairs. Don't
know; but think the Waterford hen
hospital would be nice place for me.
I'm all aches Is not the hospital
nurse Who's Who?"
FRANK,
Moosup.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08
SOCIAL CORNER STORY
Our LOU From College
A Home Sketch by Ma

town, when he went to sell pumpkins
and things. They came to a quick
lunch place, and as father wanted to
do the trip up iii shape. he said:
Boys, amt you kinder hungry :?
Here is a nice place. We VIII have
something to eat
John s-ys: Father, do they have
table d'hote2''
Father exclaimed "What?'
Table d'hote."
Father replied: Il guess likely;
they have most everything"
On going inside, father said: Here
is a waiter! What's that you said you
wanted, John?''
"A table d'hote, father!"
Father said: Got any Of that,
waiter?"
Well. Manyburks said: I'll have
a plank steak
The waiter didn't seem to have eth
er, so the boys had to take something
else.
I guess everybody had enough, for
it cost father most so cents.
They said Some class" and ''This
reminds me of some restaurant q
couldn't quite catch the nance, it is
so different
They are real nice boys, I guess;
that is what the girls say I think
John is getting along pretty well in
college. for he writes home once in
a while. and says:
Dear father; 1 am getting along
fine in college. 1 have joined a new
frat, and an in the giles CLUB and
travel all over with them I am in
the baseball and football. I got a
prize in the running high jump, etc"
We keep sheep, and 1 heard John
say to Manybucks:
DO you know why those lambs re-
mind me of you? Because they gam
boz all day. Ha! Hal"
1 wish I could send you a picture of
his room. 1t makes me think of a
second hand store an old woman used
to keep in town. A red lantern on
one side of the mantel, a white one
on the other side; signs tackled up
everywhere, and on the bed; such as
Drink Moxie-It's Healthful,' Lydia
Pinkham Vegetable Compound
Pink Pills for Pale People, Lovers
DO Not Spit on the Floor Smoke
Warder's BIuejays,'' DO Not Hitch, y
Shoes Tapped While You Wait" and
others, too numerous to mention.
A couch with a Navajo blanket,
loaded with pillows; a shelf, full of
stems; flags, guns, swords, etc, on
the walls; cigarette boxes and cham
payne corks strung and festooned over
the bureau; fans, automobile wells and
all kinds of souvenirs from the
''proms'', posters of all kinds, and
To have a college boy in the family
is to have an up to date director in
all lines of youthful froilc and exub-
Grant life.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08

moss, called the White Bath, which is
too good to be left out.
L also. through an oversight, in my
instructions on roofing rose cutting S,
failed to say that the box placed upon
the bare earth should be raised up
three or four inches allowing the heat
to get underneath which is important.
To An Observer / would say if you
wish a white rose that will bloom I'M
til autumn you must select a hybrid
perpetual, which never grows to be
large rosebush. So I would advise you
to get two. Either of those I have
mentioned are good.
/ have been having my annual va
cation, which has given me ample time
to write the articles on Rose Culture,
etc, and if / have given to those of
the Sisters who are interested in rose
growing any new hints which may be
of use, I shall have been well paid,
for I have a warm spot in my heart
dwelling there seem to me more like
my kindred than total strangers.
Somewhere. sometime. | have read the
following lines:
There is land where the sun shines
brighter, the flowers bloom fair
er. and the birds sing sweeter.
That land is thy native land.
That coutry is thy home"
And this is true with most of us,
and is due to the fond associations of
our youth and the tender recoI1ections
that seem to cluster around our earlier
years, when the type that pressed upon
memory's tablets was new, and the ink
was fresh.
DUANE.
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TO KEEP A CLOSED HOUSE
HEAITHFUL,

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner:
Ii IN closing up your home for a va
cation trip you expect to be gone for
any length of time, it is well to take
such precautions that you may be sure
of finding it sweet and healthful on
your return.
Have rugs cleaned and packed away
the same as other woolens Take
down. clean and put away all draper
les. If you have upholstered furniture,
give it a good beating and brushing.
Have the house thoroughly swept
and busted; have the floors in kitchen
and pantries washed with water to
which has been added a little carbolic
acid.
Shortly before leaving the house
flush the plumb ing with hot sa1-soda
water, as soda is cheap use it gener-
ously especially in set tubs and sinks
Water to the depth of a few inches is
supposed at all times to remain in
each trap. but when the plumbing is
not used for some time this water
eFaporates and sewer gas pours into
the house To prevent tn. evancratia,
OF the water add a few spoons of
sweet oil to each trap Have everv-
thing in the way of cereals, candles
matches ana so forth, that might be
a temptation to mice, put into metal
or stone receptacleS.
If you have carpets on the floor.
strew along the edges bits of cotton
on which you have poured oil of cedar.
| think it well to use this all over the
house. On your return you will find
every place perfectly sweet and free
from even an insect.
How man.- times you hear people
say. would love to go away, but it
is SO much trouble to get ready: and
L really do not know what to do with
my plants.
BY taking common bricks, put them
in the bottom of tub, pour water
over them, set a palm or plant on
each brick, you will be surprised to
see how fresh they are on your return.
The brick soaks the water and the
flowers absorb enough moisture from
the bricks A TRAVELE
Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08

Of all the varied products of the
farm. our son from college is in best
demand. There are not enough sons
10 meet the social requirements of the
town. There is a corner, so to speak,
IN the community.
When he comes home the girls give
"prorns," corn roasts, card parties, etc.
We named him John Henry Smith,
after his father, SO if you should read
in The Bulletin that j. Henri Smythe.
might not know who it was, SO 1 will
say it means him.
A friend Of his, a Mr.. Manybucks.
comes with him. They say he has all
kinds of money.
| heard them telling of a new res
eve and that he paid S100 for four
seats at a table for just what they
ate.
I said: You must be awful big
eatersi''
They said: 80. G." and LATED
John always brings his English bull
dog. Mike" He is undershot and
has screw tail. He wears red
spike collar and red leash-..very
classy"
John says he has been offered 200
bucks for him; but "nuthin' doin'.''
with baseball, football and glee club
pastors OF. which he always has
checked; but his banjo case rides be-
side him. always. while he smokes a
ripe with the college initials on it. He
has an aviator hat very Classy. I
haven't seen any here, yet; striped
caps, checked caps, little round ones
the size of a saucer, little dinky ones
like the Hall Room Boys wear
slashed with ribbon run through, and
pinned with a frat pin.
Well, the first night after the boys
arrived here, they got all fused up
with striped vests, little hats, and pins
of all kinds till they looked Ike cham :
pions of some kind.
They started for the prom given
in their honor by the girls And this
is what we heard next morning:
Say, Manybue1ks, did you see the
waltzing with? She was all fused
up-'''
Say, Henri, did you see the peach
with the harem skirt that I was
Waiting with? Wasn't she a dream ?
Some class. eh?''
Next day the boys had to call on
the girls. so they wanted to go in
style. and they took our horse we
called skinner"
They said he was some horse
We told them they mustn't trot up
hill, or they mustn't trot down hill.
AS it is nothing but hills around here
they said:
IF we can't trot him up hill, or
can't trot him down hill, when will
we trot him ?''
One day father took the boys to
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08

Dear Editor of the Social Corner:
Herewith l send recipes for cakes:
Currant Cake-Four eggs, one and
one-haH CUPS sugar, IL cup butter,
IL cup milk, 8 IL cups flour, 1 IL
cups currants, 8 teaspoons baking pow
der, extract of lemon.
Date Cake-One cup fine granulated
sugar, IL cup butter creamed, 2 eggs
(beGt whites, add yolks) and beat, salt,
mix we'll; IL cup sweet milk; don't
stir until flour is put in; two cups
flour. 1 hearing teaspoon baking pow
der.
Down Eas. Cake-One tablespoon
melted butter. one cup milk, cups
flour, teaspoons baking powder Bake
in sheets in a hot oven, and eat hot
with butter.
French Cake-OEe and one-Taif CUBS
sugar, IL cup butter 3 cups flour, 2
teaspoons baking powder. 8 eggs, J.
cup sweet milk. Bake in a slow oven.
CLARA OF CANTERBURY.
South Canterbury.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08
A HOUSEWIVES APPRECIATION
AND CRITICISM.

Editor Social Corner: L want to
thank John of Norwich for his letter
on the tax question last week. l had
in mind to say something of the sort,
but he has did it much better than
could.
Only One: Your children must be
more orderly than mine, or you would
not give them the freedom of the bed
rooms. Mine have a big attic to play
In, and that has to do.
No. | haven't six, but still there are
enough to keep me busy most of the
time. Pleasant days they find enough
to do out of doors to keep them occu-
pied. 1t is only on rainy days, when
they must stay in, that all amusem ants
fall upon them.
Now, 1 would like to know why reci-
pes for picnic sandwiches require to
have the crust trimmed from the
bread? To me the crust on bread
properly baked and kept after baking
In the best part. Why waste it? l vote
to leave it on every time
HOUSEWIFE.
Columbia.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08
Colchester.
REApYs CURE FOR THE BLUES.

Dear Editor and Sisters of the Social
Corner: I suppose when you pick up
the paper and see who has written you
will say: We'll, if Ready is not here
again."
If anyone should ask of me what is
good for the blues. / should say at
once, Become a member of the Social
Corner" 1t is easy to catch the spirit
of the writer's, for they all speak of
good will and good cheer to all II
seems as if in it all needs are well
supplied. l always feel like another
person and feel as if / was living in
another world. after reading the letters
Wednesday afternoon L am not con-
tent to enjoy these alone so l share
them with my neighbor.
Dear Billie: I enjoy your letters very
much. How nice to have your mother
with you. 1 trust she may be spared
to you a long time yet. What busy
life you must have!
Sister Frank: l admire your black
eyes. You and / are sure to be good
friends as black and blue always are.
| am trying to be true to the trust Goo
has given me.
Dear Housewife: I should like to see
your lace. There seems to be but one
way to see it. and that is to go to th1
Willimantic fair. You can see what
an interest in things the Social Corner
is creating.
icNeSI oiXl6cIl- w Z OluSf people we're
all sixteen once and know just how
YOU feel; but we enjoy youth. and il
GOES not harm youth to enjoy older
people. Am glad you are going TO stay
with US.
Dear Centennial Square: You have
my heartfelt sympathy and with it I
offer my hand and friendship. / know
in part what YOU have passed through
for only a few short years ago I lost
a kind and gentle mother. 1t was hard
to bow my head and say Gods will
be DONE But His way is always best.
Efe knew what was best for me, so He
sent me to this lovely spot where tired
mind and nerves could rest. May G,'d
bless you and keep you and cause His
face to shine upon You, is the wish and
prayer of READY.
Leonard Bridge.
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fish or use canned salmon; arrange it
in pile in a dish with quarters OF
hard boiled eggs, alternating with
lemon quarters around the edge and
mark the fish with mayonnaise.
Orange SaIad-Take seedless oranges
and cut into slices. Arrange in a cir
Gle, the edges overla piping, and put
walnut half in the middle of each
piece. Watercress may be arranged
in the center of the dish or not, and
put French dressing over all.
Banana SaIad-Cut banana in halves
crosswise and lay on lettuce or by
themselves on a fiat dish. Sprinkle
well with dropped peanuts and serve
with mayonnaise dressing.
Peach SaIad-Drain canned peaches
and wipe dry; put a spoonful of may
onnaise made with cream into the
middle of each one. ApricotS may be
used instead of peaches.
CLARA OF CANTERBURY.
P. S.-Wil1 some of the Sisters please
send me the recipe for making coffee
'iLnqI9lueO ulnoS
. no D tUB9Io 30!
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08
DUANE JOINS THE CIRCLE
SHALL HE BE AN HONORARY
MEMBER

To the Editor and Members of the
Social Corner: It is with some hesta-
ton that | send this fearing that
may be considered an intruder; and
yet, | feel as if | was member of
the family by some sort of adoption.
| wish to say that while / find many
things of interest in the Weekly Bull
letin, especially in the items from the
many towns in New London county
the Social Corner page, containing the
Sisters letters, is always perused with
interest by myself. And my other
three-fourths (being woman) and a
thrifty housewife. wishes me to say
that she thinks the letters are NICE
the recipes good. and joins me in COM
pEmenting Ruth upon her story of
June 10th, and the lesson so nicely
interviewer in the lines.
| wish to thank Janet for her timely
instructions. Mrs. B. whipped the
cream the next day for the shorteake
and made it behave nicely. (The
cream. 1 mean.)
1 also wish to tell Ma that I am
poultry fancier and am always in
terested in what she writes about
chickens.
l am raising a now breed this year,
called the Limpies. They have one
long and one short leg, so they cannot
scratch out the flower beds or trouble
the neighbors, as they are obliged to go
around in circle, and cannot ge*
away from home
[ have read with interest of the BIZ
centennial of Canterbury church. as
1t was there ] first attended Sunday
school; and I also have a souvenir of
the schoolhOuse doorstep, and have
kept it Very choice these many years.
Yet it's only a broken nose.
L have been asked by correspondent
If there are no white birchas in Ohio :?
] will say that | have never found
them, either in western Pennsylvania
or northern Ohio. | also miss the low
bush huckleberries, sweet fern and
stone walls: and if there are any oxen
they are never seen upon the high
way.
l think the members are doing right
in concealing their identity The more
ones curiosity is aroused. the more
interest will be manifested by both the
writers and the readers
wonder If Billie ever saw any white
birches during those gladstone youth
iul wears spent in the EuckeSe State?
In my list of roses last week 1 neg
lected to mention perpetual white
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08

lines in silhouette against mellow
southern skies; where radiant days are
numberless, and not the faintest film
fecks the stainless blue; where the
music of the waves, as the crisp wind
washes them into ruffies of foamy lace
against the rocky coast, is the tender
est; where the Gulf of Mexico spreads
broad and bold before the eyes and
announces in colemn grandeur that
the voice of the Creator dwells in that
mighty tone-then when the calm
comes again and the surges dying in
murmured peace at our feet, we feel
constrained to say, with the poet, that
this land of Sara De $3.50 lis peace
ful-it is beautiful
Some time, if l am admitted, I will
send you the legend of Sara De Soto
as written by brother writer.
With all good wishes to The Courier
and each one in The Social Corner.
NECIA.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08
Sl0O Reward 500

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is . t least
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that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is
the only positive cure how known 10
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being
a constitutional disease, requires a con-
stitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby. destroying the
founda ton of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in
doing it's work. The proprietors have
that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure Send
for list of testimonials.
Address F. j. CHENEY & CO. Tole-
do, O.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
nation.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08

strength and courage we take up the
old routine of life.
The quotations last week were fine
and helpful. How true that one from
Emerson: 1T depends upon the mood
of the man whether he shall see the
gentleman that has many beautiful
flowers around his home, but he has
not seen one of them this summer, and
he is not blind. either. only to the fact
that the joys and pleasures of this life
are not counted by dollars and cents.
Yes Sister Ready, Glenwood and
Faye Verna are sisters, and two of the
dearest and best little girls in all New
England.
1 will send two nice recipes for
luncheon Or picnic:
Filled Cookies: One cup of sugar,
one half cup of butter, three cups of
flour, one-half cup of milk. one egg,
one teaspoon of soda. one of cream
tartar, one teaspoon of vanilla.
Filling: One cup of chopped raisins.
one-half cup of water, one desert
spoon of -four, one-half cup of sugar,
cook on the back of the stove until it
thickens, roll cookies very thin and
sprinkle with sugar, put filling be
has hole in it, so I use that one for
the top. If the cutter is plain, put a
nut or raisin in the center
Drop Sponge Cake: One cup of SUI
gar, one-half cup of butter, two eggs.
one tablespoon of milk, one and three
fourths cups of flour, one spoon of
baking powder, one of vanilla drop
on a we'll creased dripping pan one
half teaspoon of the batter far enough
apart so they won't run together:
bake in hot oven. These are both
delicious Try them. With best wishes
for all.
M ROENA.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08
MENTAL AND PHYSICAL
FOOD FROM M. ROENA,

Editor and Sisters of the Social Cor
ner: A short time ago. | received q
card from a very dear friend with
these words on it: "Thinking of YOU
The pleasure and joy that came with
that message is hard to describe How
happy We should be that we have the
faculty OF thinking. Some have bet
ter. happier thoughts than others Let
us all cultivate the gift that the Lord
has given US. Have we absent loved
ones; let us be free TO express to them
that although we are separated from
them we still cherish their memory
A short sentence like that penne(i ex-
pressiy for US often changes our feel
ings for a whole day. With renewed
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08
Dear Editor of the Social Corns
Herewith l send a few odd REGIMES:

Dear Editor of the Social Corner:
Herewith I send few odd recipes:
Chocolate and Vanilla Ice Cream
One quart light cream, one halle pint
milk. two fresh eggs thoroughly beat
en-. two cups graduated sugar, dessert
spoon vanilla. Have the ice very fine.
Usirg one quarter part very coarse
salt.
Chocolate Ice Creann-One quart of
cream, one pint milk, two cups sugar.
two eggs beaten light. five tablespoons
grated iCColate rubbed smooth in a
little milk. Heat the milk to near
boiling, pour in slowly beaten eggs and
sugar. ther chocolate. Cook until i
thIckens. stirring constantly. Cool.
Beat in the cream and freeze.
Strawberry Ice-Put one quart of
fresh strawberries in a bowl and over
then sprinkle two cups of powdered
sugar. Let them stand two hours.
Press them through a fine sieve adj
the .uice of two lemons. a pint OF
water and strain and freeze
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08
ALWAYS HAS A HOBBY.

Editor Social Corner: I saw by the
Tuesday Courier I won the third prize
in The Social Corner. I was very
much surprised. and delighted, too, as
I had only written of things common
to me, THE Study of Birds
If your readers would be interested
in articles on Ferns, or the Constella-
tons as they are to be seen in the
evening sky at present, 1 can write of
them.
| always have some hobby going
/ thank you. Yours truly,
F. C. c.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08
SIX FAvoRITE SALADS.

Plain Caufiflower Saiad-Boil a nice
caui1f1oWer and break up into fiowerets,
serve very cold with French dressing.
Beet Salad-Boil some beets and
cut into dice; add salt, pepper, a little
oil End viz egar, and let them stand
an hour. Arrange in piles on plates
and add tablespoon of capers and as
many cut up olives and serve with
nayonnaiSe.
Fish S@-s5-Pick up any cold cooke j
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08
A Peek Into His Pocket.

would show the box of Bucklens Ar
MICA Salve that e. S. Lopez, a carpen-
ter. of Marlla, n. Y, always carries.
Il have never had a cut, wound, bruise,
or sore it would not soon heal" ne
writes Greatest healer of burns, boils,
scalds, chapped hands and lips, fever
sores, skin eruptions, eczema, corns
and piles. % at Lee & Osgood Co.