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Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23
CALLA LILYS RECIPES,

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis ters: l watched for Grenie's reply for poem on Willow Ware. but found il so much different than the one I know told me by an old lady who lived in Yantic. will give it here:
 Iron fence, sunshine on
 Apple tree with apples on
 Castle hall, little tree
 See the cottage by the seS.
 Two doves flying high
 See the ship sailing by:
 Iron idge-wiIlows over
 Three men going on to Dover.
 Clara of Canterbury: I tried your feather cake Saturday and had good results, making it. It is fine, shall use others later.
 Will send the sisters a few of my recipes:
 wrote the first letter when Social Corner was first opened, but not un- der this signature.
 Pepper Hash-Twelve green pep pers, 12 red peppers, free from all seeds, 12 large onions. about ? quarts put through coarse food chopper. Pour over all boiling hot water and let stand 10 or 15 minutes, then drain through cloth or colander; put over the fire 3 pints vinegar. cups sugar tablespoons salt: let it boil up, then add onions and peppers, let it boil 10 minutes, then seal up. Make ' pfnts; ftine.
 Poor Mans Rice Puddinr-tNo oggs) 5 tablespoons raw {uncooked) rice wash in hot water and drain; take 1 quart milk, and put over raw rice des- sertspoon of butter, 1-2 cup sugar, salt and raisins, nutmeg to flavor; put all in the oven, bake from 1 2 to ? hours Stir frequently until it begins to thick : en and don't settle; then let it finish baking.
 Apple Shortc ake- Delicious) Pare and slice fine ? quarts of apples; put over them sugar enough to sweeten put over fire and half stew them Make shortcake dough of cups flour, 1 large spoon baking powder, 1 tablespoon shortening, salt, wet with either milk or water and roll thin Have apples in a deep pan, grease sides and place crust over the half -stewed apples and bake all to- sether; when done turn on platter and serve with whipped cream, or thick ened sauce
 For Sauce-Use 1 cup sugar. table spoon flour mixed together; then cream in q piece of butter: pour over boiling water until clear: flavor with nutmeg or extracts to suit the taste Hope some of the sisters will try these recipes and report, as I use them. Have others will send you later; but as we are big family of sisters will not take any more space this time. CALLA LILY
 Norwich
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for canned string beans. I have tried it. and hope they will keep all right She did not say how much salt to put in the water. l made it so as to taste quite salt. Was that all right?
 Bee: l have tried your recipe for canning corn, and also gave it to one of my neighbors who tried it. This was my first experience in canning corn. Hope it will be successful
 Ma: What do you feed your chick ems on after they are two or three months old? Mine like steamed oats the best. They will not eat cracked cern very well unless it is mixed with meal and moistened a little. What do you give for indigestion in fowl? Two Of my chickens have been sick with what called indigestion, as there was food in the crop which remained there for several days. I gave two or three doses of castor oil and they got better in few days. The first case was quite a while ago, and the chick has seemed well ever since then. It was not what l should call crop bound, as the crop was not full and the chicks seemed to have sort of diarrhoea at the time
 1 have an excellent recipe for Mock Mince Pie made with green tomatoes which l would like to send the Sisters for if the frost took their gardens as it did ours l think they may have some green tomatoes to use Last year made up quite a lot of this and canned it. which was very handy to make pies of when wanted without any trouble for preparation.
 Mock Mirce Pe-One pint green to- Elatoes chopped. one quart apples chop ped. these ingredients to be chopped before being measured two cups sugar one cup molasSeS, one cup raisins, one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoon cloves, one half cup vine gar, one tablespoon butter three ta- blespoons of four. Boil one-half hour Enough for four pies.
 I use a little more sugar and less molasses, which I like better, as it is not quite as strong.
 PANSY.
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LoW.PRIcEp HEALTAFuL DIET.

Editor Social Corner: Would like to help Perplexed, if I can. My problem is much the same IS hers. and l admit 1t is not an easy one. To begin with, It must be remembered that it is not wise to economize at the expense of ones health, and that an underfed man cannot do good work, besides breaking down the system and making it more susceptible to disease So I do not think it wise to eliminate meat en- tirely from the bill of fare.
 Instead, 1 would cut out entirely tea, coffee. cake, pies rich buildings, the eX- pensiVe cuts of meat, high priced fish, eggs, unless very cheap, an the ready cooked cereals and bakers goods. Then with milk, vegetables, small amount of fat salt pork, cheap cuts of meat, or low priced fish, various kinds of bread, oatmeal, rice, etc.. substantial and Sa atiSfying menus may be easily planned. Baked beans, stewed beans, succotash, pea soup. clam, corn or fish chOwder, hash, potatoes and meat gravy. soup, vegetable stew, and New England boiled dinners, are not very expensive and with bread may form the entire dinner, a simple dessert be- ing added if desired.
 Enough should be cooked for dinner to te repeated next morning, and that with bread, and either oatmeal corn meal or rye mush. served with milk and sugar, will settle the breakfast problem.
 For supper have bread and fruit rice with milk and sugar, and some times simple pudding, gingerbread or cookies. Some small economies that help are:
 To learn to make good bread with only flour, water, salt and yeast.
 To use corn breads in place of white flour, whenevsr possible.
 To make cookies, gingerbread pud- dings. etc, without eggs.
 To fry the pork to put into chowders and stews, and save the fat for short ening.
 Hope this will help not only Per plexed, but others also.
 ALINE. Norwich
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divorce. or continue to live the life of a drunken and dissipated mans wife ?
 I will leave this to the editor and sis terS to answer.
 NJ. Roena: I was deeply touch ed on reading your letter on home. That is the reason I write this letter. Just see the difference in homes. Some are so happy, and more just the re verse. How very lonely you must feel at times to see all those very pleasant memories vanish before your eyes, like snow before the sun. But, cheer up. and part with things that were very God is good" and the old saying is: He fits the back for the burden Still when one has happy home it seems very hard to have it break up. and part with thinks that were very near and dear to us.
 Certainly those dear children will often come to see you and they must not forget to try to cheer you up in your loneliness.
 I hope when you write again you may tell us that you feel better. and only had a fit of the blues when you wrote your last letter.
 CRIMSON RAMBLER.
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one corner of the fence, coyly hidden, a wild violet; over there, an opening rose which yesterday was only bud; a spray of honeysuckle hitherto un- noticed; the graceful swaE1ng of the pine boughs; a mceking bird swelling his little throat in raptlrous praise of the day. the while balancing hlmself on the telephone wire; and only to lift our eyes heavenWard, there seem ingly for our special benefit nature holding her palette and trying her col CTS one oy enc in answering appre- citation of our love for her-my words were stopped by this remark from my extremely practical friend:
 Do ycu know, it always seemed to me it was only children and the very ignorant people who take any notice of these tn'nSs2
 felt for .a lnoraent as if cold water had been dashed into my face, and answered:
 well, I am no longer child, so if I am ignorant, 1 pray God l may never grow wise"
 In the words of a great writer is found a belief of mine: Nature is mans teacher. She uifolds her treas ures to his search, unseals his eyes, illumjnes his nind and purlfies nts heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her exist ence.'
 To a college professor of our ac- auaintance who was suffering from severe attack of nervous prostratlon, a doctor once said:
 Go south and rest for month or two" Today he is a well man, and n telling of this in one of his books he writes: ''Southward (to Florida) l went but my rest was mainly taken in the great hospital of nature-the woods and fields of the region where I soiourned" How many times have l
 I ,e,t .raf in a air to see f my headache would leave yne-and when waves of worries would seem to engulf me drcp them all and walk and feel as Jonathan Edwards did when he wrote: Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that oH erawes our little anxIe- ties and doubts, the sight of the deep blue skies and the clustering, stars above Seeu to impart a quiet to the mind' Then I would return to my routine of duties with refreshed mind and renewed energy.
 It was a happy mind that llkened the blue violets to the little scraps Of sky that fell to the earth when God cut the holes in Heaven for the stars to shine through.
 ciert Saxon phrase which calls the burial ground Godsacre! It is just; it consecrates each grave within it's walls. and breathes benison over the sleeping dust
 ."The workman loves not to have his work despiseG in his presence. Now, God is present everywhere" All nd- ture in His work and I nope the years to come will develop my apprecia- ton and understanding so that even the smallest of Gods creations will be roticed and loved.
 Florida is tEe evidence of the smile of the Creator: and to Sarasota is giV- en lis choicest blessings, and the rich est gifts within His power to bestow.
 Sarasota, Fla. NECIA.
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JOHN.
ELIZABETH JOINS THE CORNER

Editor of Social Corner: I have been much interested in this Corner for many months and have thought many times of writing just line to the Sis ters. thanking them for the various recipes
 I had never been successful in mak- ing raised doughnuts, but thanks to Mrs. E C. Jewett of Norwich, l can now make them round as a ball and light as a feather
 Louise of Lebnon and all the dear sisters, how I have enjoyed testing your recipes, with good results.
 Now. in return, will give a recipe which came to me without name. Will let some sister name it:
 No Name Recipe-One quart of peaches pared, stoned and quartered; put in baking dish, sprinkle with pow dered sugar, make 8, stiff meringue by whipping, to a dry froth the whites of three eggs with a tablespoon of sugar and the juice of half a lemon; place on top, bake in oven until delicately browned. Serve cold. with cream or with d Custard sauce made with the yollzs. Berries of bananas may be used.
 Ready of Leonard Bridge, we are neiekbors Let's have a chat over the dooryard fence-only ours has been re- moved; but we'll have our little talk over your fence.
 A Sister tells us Jim sings. Yes, he sings bass, for I heard him one Sab bath not long ago in the choir. Please come over, and we will go together and hear him again we have a Dobbin.
 do not simply read the Social Cor ner, but am much interested in The Farmers Talk to Farmers" and also in ''The Man Who Talks He has written us 8 fine article on the def1- nation of the little word Home" He quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes. who said: Home is the place our feet can get away from, but our hearts cannot" and in closing asks: Do we not find that home, like heaven. is within us 9" I think his ideas correct. What do you think, sisters?
 Good bye. I may not come again.
 ELIZA BETH.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23
NATURE sooTHES AND DE
 LIGHTS.

Editor Social Corner: It is said, You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you" How the poets must have loved nature, for there is poetry to be found everywhere if we wish to find it. Take aAwalk in the quiet lanes .or roadways in the coun- try with eyes, ears and heart attuned to nature and she will show you her beauty treasures everywhere. Nature is an AeoIian harp, musical instru ment whose tones are the re-echo of higher strains within us"
 One late afternoon, while walking to the gate with a departing guest, 1 exclaimed. What a beautiful sunset! Do look at those glorious tints in the sky and rapturously i began telling this friend of the many beauties my children and l find even within the limited confines of our lawn-here in
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DeHcately
 Formed

and gently reared, women will find in all the seasons of their lives, as maid. ems. wives and mothers, that the one simple, wholesome laxative remedy. which acts gently and pleasantly and naturally and which may be taken at any time, when the system needs laxative. with perfect safety and real. lr beneficial effects, is Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna.
 It has that true delicacy of flavor which is so refreshing to the taste, that warming and grateful toniug to the stomach which responds so favor ably to it's action and the laxative eff. feet which is so beneficial to the sys lem when, occasionally, its gentle cleansing is required.
 The genuine, always bearing the name of the California Fig Syrup Co, may be purchased from all leading druggists in original packages of one size only, price fifty cents per bottle,
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23
CLOVER MAKES GOOD EGGS.

Dear Sisters and Brothers: 1 sup pose you are all busy. This is busy time of year.
 telling how to raise calves. l think you have made it very plain, and l can think of no questions to ask. but if I do next spring I will remember you. I pasted the directions in pas COW scrapbock, and we will follow them. I will send you nest-egg gourd later. No, I don't always change the Outlets as early SIS September. l al ways have them settled before the end of October, for the April bullets should be laying then. but if I get a change before as I did this year l take it. I have just bought some fine new stock. expect to have a piece of winter rye soWn this month: also, some in all the empty runs, so the hers will have green picking all winter It also takes the impurities out of the land. l have plenty of clover, and
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23
WHAT MAS STORY REMINDED
 RURAL DELIVERY OF.

Editor Social Corner How we did smile when we read Mas story of the horse trade with the minister,
 l think 1 made a good trade with Pa: es we we're both satisfied with the swap. which is very uncommon, as ter of the trade.
 Pa and Jim must have had quite a time putting on the auto-fat and mak- ing the white face a beautiful bay color. While they were at work, I can ina zine lhe horse was humming the tune, oh Give Me Another Shade, a Color That Will Never Fade
 We never were much a horse trade. We had a fear we would be like the man with the boots Sam John son had a nice pair of boots made at the shoemaker's, which cost him six dollars. After wearing tbem a few times there was a blister on the lefl foot about the size of a haIf-dollar and Sams red hair began to rise. He said:
 "Marinda, I am going to walk to town tomorrow, to do some shopping, I meet"
 After going about mile he met a man. Say, stranger said Sam, how will you trade boots ?''
 The man said: Give me 62 cents, and it's a go!" ana the trade was made.
 At first Sam thought the boots fitted him good; but as one little toe did not have room he was ready for another trade. He soon met a man who was a trader and another swap was made, Sam advancing one dollar.
 When Sam got into the city, the boys would say: Hello. Boots Where YOU going with the old cnap9" As the boots were rather large. Sam got out of the city as soon possible; and when nearly home he met man who was limping, who said:
 Wish I could trade boots with you"
 Sam gave a glance at his footgear and saw the boots were new and by the payment of one dollar the trade was made. As he reached home, he said:
 sMarinda, I have had a pretty hard days work. doing shopping and trad ing boots. and I'll be gum, if one of these don't hurt my foot as bad as the first pair I ha d made: but they are new, and l think I have made a good trade.
 Marinda took look at the boots as Sam took them off and said: Why, Sam, them are the same boots you had
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23
GRANDMA'S COUNSEL
 TO THE YOUNG.


 Dear Editor of the Social Corner: Thank you all for taking such a kindly interest in my pet ivy. I am experi menting with it and will write later how it thrives.
 l want to have a little chat with the young members and readers, especially those who expect to go to homes of their own in the near future.
 In the first place, don't ever marry a man just to please your parents or friends, or for any other of the many reasons that oftentimes influence a girl to accept a man she does not love in order to gain a coveted position of wealth. honor, or a leader in social af- fairs. Better a thousand times remain single all your days than to become the wife of man you do not love.
 Remember you are taking the man for better or worse." and unless you honestly feel that he. and he only, is the one who can make you happy. wilt you be ready to promise to love, hon or, cherish and obey till death do you part
 I hope you will be going to homes of your own. for it is much better for young people to be by themselves, es- recially the first years of their married fife.
 Learn to cook and sew, even if you do expect to have all your work done. for the time might come when you
 
 Low to do such things.
 Above all things. do not get into debt. This is one of the great mis- takes of young married people. They expect to begin where their parents leave off instead of beginning at the foot of the ladder and working up as their fathers have before them. Live within your income, if possible, and if with the strictest economy il is not possible to keep out of debt then you have no right to marry on so small an income
 Learn to be not only a good house. keeper, but be a good homemaker. as well Try to have place for every thing. and everything in it's place but Go not sacrifice yodr own health and comfort and that of others to attain that end. Be content and happy and remember
 There's never a day so sunny
 But a little cloud appears: There's never a life so happy
 But has it's time of tears: Net the sun shines out the brightest
 Whenever the tempest clears"
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Social Corner Song.

Peace and Good Will is the order To which we all belong;- Peace and good will the burden of the Corners every day song. Our ainl-to make no useless trouble; To give in no way needless pain; To strive all gladness to double; To try this again and again. To overcome evil with goodness; To do good unto others alway; We are here to make the world better, By doing Gods will day by day. Take this te your heart as you sing it Each to a tune of her own; Sing and smile away bother, And be glad you are not left alone.
 WIDOW. -srI,
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23
FOOD FOR FIVE ON se A WEEK.


 Editor Social Corner: I herewith send detailed account of the expense for family of five one week for $9:
 Rent sa.50; barrel of coal s1: bag flour S5c; pound tea sec Benefit brand); pound coffee 28c Benefit brandl; lbs butter soc; doz eggs soc (western) ? lbs meal Sc; IA ID baking powder 10c; salt Be; Karo 10c; matches and oil 13c; lbs lard 25c; ? ats wlite beans 20c; ? lbs flank suet 12c; peck potatoes soc; peck apples 25c: ats sweet skim milk daily 42c; sugar s1; compressed yeast 4c; total $9.00.
 Mornings -Griddles, coffee. gems or hot biscuit
 Noons-Poor mans omelet, eggs, 3 tablespoons flour, 1-2 cup milk; mashed. potatoes, fried; eggs, all forms; apple pie, apple sauce, jell from peelings.
 Night-Baked beans. brown bread, white bread, one-egg cake, rolled jell cake, sugar cookies; baked beans with suet.
 Yantic, Conn. J. E. T.
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Forced To Leave Home.

Every year a large number of poor sufferers, whose lungs are sore and racked with coughs, are urged to go to another climate. But this is costly and not always sure. There's a better way Let Dr. Kings New Discovery cure you at home. Tt cured me of lung trouble writes w. R. Nelson, of Gala mine. Ark, when all else failed and I gained A pounds in weight. Its sure ly the king of all cough and lung cures" Thousands owe their lives and health to it. It's positively guaranteed for Coughs, Colds, LaGrippe, Asthma, Croup-all Throat aQd Lung troubles. soc and $1.00. Trial bottle free at Lee & OSgood Go.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23

Editor Social Corner: It is bad habit of thought which makes people think meat is the most nutritious and sustaining food and that health and even life depend upon it. Chemical analyses have shown that porterhouse steak contained 50 per cent. water; and all meats and fish contain a high per centage of water as we'll as vegetables, while butter contains only II per cent and the edible nut meats less than II per cent. hence the food value of the lest porterhouse steak is LILO while that of butter is 3,605. and English walnut meats $500. The nutritious quality of butter is three times as great IS that of porterhouse steak, and over seven times as nutritious as any kind of fish. This is what makes bread and butter the recognized staff of life. The nopular idea of the sus- taining qualities of food is very ,ar- roneous. Rroiled chicken has a food value of 505 while broiled pork chops are 1.5S0--or three times as valuable for fcod This is a subject it pays one to study.
 THE CRANK.
 ruyiob
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23
A CHINESE LOVE STORY.

 Social Corner Editor: I send a song of the willow ware that Widow Sutmir asked for: So she tells me g legend centuries old. Of a Mandarin ricn in lands and gold, Of Li-Chi fair and Chang the good, Who loved each other as lovers should. How they hid in the gardeners hut
 awhile, Then flea away to the beautiful isle. Though the cruel father pursued them
 there And would have killed the hopeless
 pair, But kindly power by pity stirred, Changed each into a beautiful bird.
 Description Of picture.l Here is the orange tree where they
 talked Here they are running away. And over all at the top you see The birds making love alway.
 LOUISE LEE. Norwich. Sept IS. 1911.
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 this morning when you left home-see the marks on the stra ps where I mark ed them so you wouldn't have them stole.
 Sam took one sorrowful look at his boots and said: Gosh all fishhooks! What a fool I've been-got the same boots back again and paid $2.62, and had a days tramp throwed in! Now, if the Social Corner folks ever hear of this it will he in The Bulletin, spite of fate. Marinda, if you won't say anything about it, I'll buy you whole bladder If snuff Christrnas! and he did.
 During the long winter evenings, when Sam would sit by the fire oiling his boots with neatsfoot oil so he could wear them the next day, Marin da would say to him: Samuel, I'm awful glad you made that boot trade, for this snuff is powerful good!
 RURAL. DELIVERY. n2n al Conn