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Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-23

milk and add one-half cup hot beef broth n it's place,
 Albumenized Milk: One cup milk (sterile). sal. white one egg, tiavorin-. Place milk and eSG T a covered glass frqlt jar, sAahe upJl thoroughly blend ed. 1t may be salted and haVOrs add ed if desired. strain and serve imme- diately.
 Abumsnized Clam Water: One cup cold water, clam bouiiion. white one egg. To the water add the required amount of clam bouilion 10 make the strength desired, add the unbeaten white of egg. Place all in covered glass fruit jar and shake until thor oughiy blended. If cooled near ice, shake again; should it separate, strain.
 AIbumenized Orange: White one egg. sugar, juice one orange To the un beaten white add the orange juioe. sweeten to taste and blend thoroughlg Strain and set on ice 10 cool; serN e cold
 AIbumenized Grape Juice: Two ta- blespoons grape juice, white one egG, sugar, chopped ice. Put the grape juice in q dainty glass and the beaten white of egg and a little pure chopped ice; sprinkle sugar over the top and serve
 Custard Suited fer a Diabetic: Two eggs, speck salt, sweeten to taste, 1 pint milk; scald the milk and add the liquid sweetening to taste; pour on to the well-beaten eggs. Pour into dou- ble boiler and stir constantly until it looks creamy or it coats the spoon and | the foam has disappeared; then re- ! move immediately from hot water 1 Cool and add flavoring desired. l thank the sisters who answered my inquiry.
 Samantha: I should very much like a sample of your 'braids." I think know the Scotland sisters, but am not | quite sure of you.
 i Bluebells, will you think me import | inent if l ask, Have you a hubby? Best wishes for all. | QUEEN BESS.
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ISABEL TRANSMITS HELPFUL
 THOUGHTS.

Dear Sisters Of the Social CorDsy7 am not going to write very cheery letter tnis week: and yet, ] have be6r so helped by the little story ! am go ing to tell that l want to pass it co ss others.
 know the Sistsrs al seem to bs q cheerful. happy company. but sooner or later discouragement, pain and loss come to all of us, and we feel that the struggle is hardly worth while.
 This story was told by an evangaitst and has oheered and encouraged me many times.
 The eagle builds it's nest on tho high mountain. on the edge of precipice and here in this perilous home 1t rearr it's young. It takes couraee 10 make the young ones fly when below them vawns the great Chasm. but ss soon CT the mother thinks they are old enougN she pushes them from the nest. Being obliged to fly to keep from fzliins tha young birds do their best and struggle bravely, while the parent birds watch and guard them from the nest, and when they see their strength is failing down dart the biz birds 10 hy under and support them until they arc in safe position again. Sc God watches over uE, and in the dark moments cf our lives. when our courage fails, He supports and strengthens us. thcUEh We know it not.
 It must be q blessed thing 70 se . natural born optimist and always seq the doughnut rather than the hole. bus most Of us havs the "blJea' at ttrnea Hero is 8 stanza for uF to learn and repeat when we feel tho st-sck coming on
 Just being happy is 2 fine thing to eo, Looking at the bright side rather thar
 the blue
 Sad or sunny. musiue IS largely m the
 choosing.
 And just being happy !s brave wsYk and true.
 Our Editor may not care Co print a letter that has a sermon favor aH does this, but next time I wil 2hsnge the subject so tiU then gOod-hyr. lSABJl-
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THEODAs METHODS oF ECONOMY

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis ters: Now that my fingers and ink nave thaWed out and the weather con- ditiOns allow by brain to act I will let AunLy know, before 1 freeze up again, that l am still in the ranks.
 Thank you, Ready. for your thought of me. 1t is true, as you said. it braces one Up Go be remembered" Your message to Us last week was very helpful This would be different world if every one tried Co make others happy. to Tighten their burdens by d kindly word or deed, instead of think ing what will please themselves most. When l come to Leonard Bridge l will make 8 house to house call to ind you.
 Here is another one interested in patchwork. l enjoy doing it as well as using pieces that accumulate and seem too good to be thrown away. An easy way to make them On the ma chine is in squares or in brick nattern Make the strips the length of the quilt of blocks four inches wide by seven long and sew the strips together.
 Greek cross pattern is pretty and easy.
 Aunty: have used that browT bread recipe for some time and wonder if you gave It to me.
 These lengthening spri lg days art just the ones to remodel last seasons garments and make a new supply oI shirtwaists and house dresses. It is s good plan to make two waists like thu skirt, as the waists soil sooner anC wear out more quickly. Waists may 1 be quickly and easily made by thu | seamless sleeve pattern, as there ar' 1 but two seams the under arm, ant may be finished square or round neck and close at the left side and finished with a bias band or plain contras int hand around the neck and down rh | front or side closing. Gather the bot
 tom in band or if preferred cut lont enough to go below the belt
 i Garments that are no longer usefn
 may be used for rugs. Cut in strip | and braid and sew the braids together or seWed as carpet rags and knit ] crocheted or woven into rugs.
 ! Garments of good material am ] quality can he made to do service fo the smaller members of the family O | for some needy neighbor's child.
 We are interested in the emergenc dishes. as that time comes to most o
 US. Here is one add to the list:
 Mock Clam Chowder-One-h half GU
 salt codfsh picked in pieces and put O
 to. cook in cold water When the wate
 boils add one pint of sliced potatoe
 and two sliced onions. Cook till ten
 der, then add one pint of milk an
 thicken a little with four stirred i
 cold milk. Add butter pepper and sal 10 taste. Serve with crackers.
 THEODA
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nutmeg, salt, enc cur raisins. one tea spoon soda, one cup sour apple sauce, two cups flour.
 Coffee Cake-A big spoonful of shortening. one half cup of sugar one half cup of coffee, one-half cup of molasses, two and one-half cups of flour, salt, two and one-haf teaspoons baking powder. cinnamon, aiispice and nutmeg and one cup of raisins.
 Cookies-One egg. one cup of sugar, one big spoonful of butter, cream. or cottolene, one-half cup sour milkl one teaspoon soda. Flour for a stiff dough
 For fruit cookies, add Iaisins, cur rants and spice.
 Best Cool<ies-One up cream, one cup butter or ccttolene, two cups su- gar, two eggs, one teaspoon soda, salt and nutmeg. Very stiff dough. Pound Calle-Cne cup sugar, one cup flour, three esss. one pig spOonful putter, One-halt teaspoon baking pow | fer, nutmeg
 Plalnleld. ETTA BARBER.
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Moosup.
TESTED EGGLEss RECIPES FROM
 FROZEN.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis ters: When hens are on 8 strike try these tested recipes:
 Water Cate-One cup sugar, half cup butter, pinch of salt, one cup of slightly warm water. one teaspoon va nilla, two and one-haf of four, three teaspoons baking powder.
 Apple Sauce Cake-One cup sugar, quarter cup shortening, one cup apple sauce, one cup raisins, one teaspoon salt one teaspoon saleratus dissolved in hot water. one half teaspoon cinna- mon, cloye, nutmeg each. two cups of four
 Gingersnap aps-One cup molasses, one half cup butter, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon ginger, flour to make a stiff dough.
 Cookies Without Eggs or Butter One cup sugar, one cup sour cream, pinch of salt, one level teaspoon soda, one-half teaspoon extract: flour to roll
 Seed Cookies-Two cupfuis sugar, one-half cup of butter, four and one half cups flour. one teaspoon of soda and caraway seed; roll about a half inch thick and bake in quick oven. Where is Sweet William keeping himself? Hope we shall hear from him soon.
 Rural Delivery: I hear you are in- | terested in the violin. When I have more time will tell you how a blind friend of mine picked it up and what he can do on It, in one year Best of wishes tn all.
 FROZEN
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A TALK WITH YOUNG MOTHERS.

Dear Young Mothers: It is that you may profit by my mistakes that I tell you about them.
 Che of the greatest mistakes that 8 young housekeeper, or mother, can make is to lose time
 For a year or two after marriage the loss is not so great as fl Is later on. when the little family beeins to arrive, It is then Q mother has her hands full and every minute counts. Three or four little ClCs make a
 great deal of extra work, and when a ! ne,ghbOV passing by just drops in for
 a minute, and perhaps stays for half 1 aD hour and another calls in the aft 1 ernoOn Tor a social chat, and another | hour, perhaps, is lost We find when Saturday night toglG5, many things are undone: ana as Mrs Margaret ! Sangster says:
 | It isn't the thing you do dear It's the thing you leave undone ! That gives you bit Of a heartache I At the setting Of the sun { I was many times embarrassed in ] this way until ' hit on a plan It was 1 this I kept OH my sewing table a 1 basket containing some articles to be l mended or made. Scissors, needles and 1 thread were there also, and when
 anyone dropped in l would take my 1 basket in mv lap and find something ! that had to be done right at my hand
 without having to look for il. It was l a wonderful help.
 If I went out in the afternoon when ! could. Iay work bag was hanging on my arm; and ] spent pleasant time i as well as a useful one Those. are only little things, dear but you will l find that they all count.
 One other thing l would like to say
 to mothers is: Try always to be wei shod, for a woman that is on her feet all day cannot walk around with un butt0ned shoes or crooked heels. You
 will seon fDd that the fragments ei
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WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT A
 FATHER.

Dear Social Corner Editor and Friends: We exclain: What is home without a mother2
 God bless our home" Why not God bless our Dad2 He gets up early, lights the fires, boils an egg, and wipes off the dew of the dawn with his boots while many mother is sleeping.
 He makes the weekly handout for the butcher. the grocer, the miIkman and the baker, and his little pile is badly worn before the day is half spent. If there is noise during the night, dad is kicked in the back and made to go downstairs to find the bur glar and kill him.
 Mother darns the socks, but dad bought the socks in the first place; and the needles and the yarn afterwards. Mother does up the fruit-well, dad bought it all. and jars and sugar cost like mischief.
 Dad buys chickens for Sunday din- ner; carves them himself, and draws the neck from the ruins after every one else is served.
 What Is home without Q mother ? Yes, that is all right; but what is home without a father? Ten chances to one it is a boarding house; father is un- der slab, and the landiady is a wld- ow.
 ! Dad, here's to you You've got your falIlts-you may have lots of er1- 1 you're all right. and well miss you 1 when you're gone.
 ! Well ! never, I was introduced the other day to 3 lady who had just come 1 over from England the way, she | was 8 suffraSette. and naturally our i converse ton Was mostly on that sub i ject. She did all the taking Among l ether things. she mentioned that she l was writing up some bylaws for "her iparty," and asked me ii | wouldn't like to hear them.
 i I, of course. sm good listener, but 1 she talked so fast, and as ] did moi have my dictionary all learned by | heart, I told her it Was so rare a. docu- ment I wished she would submit it to ms in. writing. So that my wife could
 get a chance to study it and be pre- l pared to live up to its teachings. told her l thought it was good enough for men, and l wouldn't wonder if il was made part of the constitution
 some day. In giving me this, she re- marked:
 This is only preliminary. What ] will follow may not be quite so mild: l Tn pr0Enulgaung our esoteric cogita,-
 ti0ns or articulating our superficial
 Sentimentalities, or philosophical, psy-
 ch0l0gieal, l,psychophysical observations
 we will endeavOr to beware of plati-
 tudineus penderOsity; eschew all con- glomerations of fiatulent garrulity anc suppress babbIement. Buff we art
 very Iasch VRpFessed-Put up thS
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-23
CENTENNIAL SQUARES CORN
 BREAD.

Dear Sisters: Here is my way for making Corn Bread:
 Two cups of sifted cOrnmeal, one half cup of flour and one teaspoon of salt mixed together. Mix in smoothly two cups of sour milk, then two table spoons of melted butter and oue-half cup of mOlasses or sugar; then two well beaten eggs, and lastly dissolve a level teaspoon of baking soda in a little milk and beat thoroughly all together. Bake in a 9x12 pan in a rather hot oven 30 minutes.
 Dear Blue Bells of Scotland: No, I have never used Crisco, but have seen 1t demonstrated in one of the largest stores in Boston with good results. In fact, have never used any substitute for lard or butter. I do not think it
 good enough for our stomachs. 1 go to the big market. Faneuil hall, and get leaf lard, rendering it oug myself, 80 as to be sure I get pure lard. Since writing you about the fireless cooker. l had the pleasure of seeing the Jewell cooker demonstrated and think in some respects it surpasseq the other In fact, all others we seem to know about.
 How this column grows. and is it not fine way for women to exchange ideas, besides getting nice reading as well?
 Write often to
 CENTENNIAL SQUARE ! R SN-fI1a
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SOCIAL CORNER POEM.
The Willow Pattern Plate.

Betty in the kitchen broke a willow pattern plate. I spoke to her severely, but ] sDoke moment late To save these little people from very dreadful fate Whose fortunes told in blue upon the willow pattern plate. Two blue little people come running together, Across blue bridge in the sun shiny weather, They run from a garden, where stands a blue tree Above the blue house of a wealthy Chinee.
 The one is a maiden, the other her lover
 A blue weeping willow hangs half the bridge over, Behind, in pursuit. comes papa, with a whip. But they're over the bridge, and aboard the blue ship That her lover has moored by the strand of the sea With q shove off the shore, from his wrath they arc free. Now deep in the water the oars they are plying While high in the heaven tho blue doves are flying. To his blue island homo her lover will wait her, And there they will happily live eyer after. This is the story of the willow pattern plate, to please be very careful-though its only one and eight Ind remember that you have in hand very precious freight, When you carry from the kitchen 6 willow pattern plate.
 -HORACE HUTCHINSON
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BUSY5ODY MISSES THE OLD
 WRITERS.
Yantic


 Dear Editor and Sisters of the So- cial Corner: Ii is with great interest T have read the letters and stories of the Corner. There has been a great change in the past year, SD many of the old sisters have dropped out. Why is this so2
 Where is M Boena with her cheery letters. aud Faye Ferna, Silver Belle, Morning Glor5 and others l cannot re- member.
 How we have switched off from one subject Co another! Surely we Go not have @ chance to get passe if we read the Corner
 Nat. Your letters just make me roar they are a good tonic. or course, | don't believe you are half as bad and gtingy as you would have us believe Fun is fun.
 Jane Ann: ! am 50 glad you have a new silk dress.
 Mrs. Robinson is surely as interest et in Nat aa the rest Perhaps she may share the more serious side Of life in the Corner. While i cannot agree with all she writes, l do think she gives a great many good points to think upon.
 The High School Girl voices my sentiments entirely. l am glad the day
 
 believe the most important Of all is | to speak tor our Heavenly Father ev- 1 eryWhere we have the opportunity, and be guided by Him, whether it leads us out on the womans rights line or not. We surely cannot go far astray ! if our eyes are fixed on Him. i Centennial Square: l have tried the paper bag cookery and find it o. K, but to my sorrow when cooking roast beef the bags bursted both times, and l had nothing but gravy. Have aiso used Cisco; there is nothing like ii for French fried potatoes, eggs, etc.
 Ma: Where have you gone to? 1 miss you so much. Come Oh. come back to the Corner. l am so busy myself do not find much time for writing; al ways read with one child or other iI my arms Trust I have not taxed youI patience too much, so will close fiji this time.
 RTTCvROTOV
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A KNITTING BAG PATTERN ASK
 ED FOR.

Editor Of the Social Corner: At Christmas time I saw, among the Christmas ideas Of the different writ CTS for the Corner, directions for mdk- ing a bag which was to be used for holding knitting or crochet work As my memory is rather hay as regards this bag, l am not at all sure that I can give an intelligent description of it.
 The bag was made presumably, of silk ribbon or pieces. The peculiar ity which l remember most distinctly Is that there were one or two small crocheted rings in it somewhere, through which the yarn came from the ball in the bag, the rings also being used to hold the knitting needles when not in use.
 am very desirous of securing the directions for making this bag, but do not recall the name of the writer; however, If she recognizes her own Idea in this vague description. I will be very grateful to her if she will give me the directions either through the columns of the Social Corner or through the editor
 DESIRE.
 XVjII{upaOfiC
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Maine
pATlENCE'S WAY OF MAKING
 THINGS.


 THINGS.
 Dear Sisters: It's a gloomy day. so I am going to write 10 the Social Cor uer, think when things are sad and gloomy if only we will try and think what we can do to help to tighten an others burdens, it lightens cur own
 Now, Sisters, when you are cuEtng any kind Of a dress for yoEr children, save all the pieces, no matter how small. Cut in strips, crosswise or lengthwise all that will make a strip six or eight inches; if calico one-half inch wide; other materials to make the same thickness. Put in paper bag, and as each stocking is discarded com- mence knitting at the top. Start in @ little on the slant and cut round and round clear to the toe, and put in an other bag. Take all the old clothes, even little children's waists and sleeves, for the shorter the pieces the prettier the effect, Take old black cambric. old black dress pieces too short for anything else. and when you get a bag full commence 10 sew, hit or miss: the more the variety the bet ter (hut don't forget to mix plenty of black in. as it gives 1t a richer looll) Get large wooden crochet needle and commence by a. chain about one foot 1 long: turn and put needle in each stitch (sinEle crochet at corners), two in same stitch with one stitch be- ! tween-that is, if you wish square cor her; if not, keep pust plain, adding a stitch now and then to make fullncss i After you have quite & few rows done, put in two rows of black and white 1 skirts. then thE same as before, and i af inc etlve ne E47Fe tO put fOHT. OI. five OF more rows Of black stockings for finish make them all shapes, and they are very handsome.
 ! Now the little tiny print pieces put i in a bag for stene Wsli Quit (oi which there is none handsomer): save all shapes and sizes. If you should have a piece about threc-quarters of a yard. cut a strip three Inches wide for ruffe and stitch between two pieces cut length 0f broom and 8 iiJ- 1 tie wider: run a pull string in to sliE over broom, to clean ceilings and walls.
 One can also cut size of tea apron and cut another half way up and stiteh on and bind for Clothespin Bag.
 Both of these makes nice Christi mas present. I cut all such things in- to something. roll up, put in peach basket. put a label or each, what it is an whom l wish to give it to.
 do think anyone appreciates 6 Christmas present we have made much more than a bOughten one; at least do.
 Always keep a piece of white mus lin among your mending things, and when your sbirtwaists are soiled look them over. and if there are any tears
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or small breaks to the lace, or muslin, darn them with ravelings from the muslin. If you are sllillful they will look like the original cloth ] have a faVorte waist that has 26 places darn ed, and I'll defy anyone to notice them unless they are shown to them.
 l also go over all breaks in my mus lin curtains; take quite d large place and l can darn it, but never wait un- til that-Temember a stitch in time saves nine; and when rufdes are worn out I cut them off and make new ones and put on, as by careful meuding the curtains win outwear two rufhes.
 PATIENCE.
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Dear Social Corner: So should like to shake hands with Beocy. from Maine: and does she mean she has been in Union. Me, several times. or in CnfOu, Conn. You know thers are lots Of towns 6y the name Of Union. # you mean Union, Conn. yOu have got me s-gUessing As 10 who you ara. as much as they are guessing Who'a Who used to live not far from tho ruins Of an old gristmll where m father sometimes had grigt sroznA iH years past.
 Do ariv of the Social Corner BsSterH belong 10 the Homastead club?
 think we will all be glad to 800 tns fruit trees bloom again and bear ths birds sing.
 Union. OHIO.
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4. 5. oIs TAoUeHr oF Ir.

Frank: Have you thought about who are the recruits for the army of drunk@rds? Comparatively few, per naps, with a hereditary thirst The saloon must have boys. and teach them and tempt them to drink t isn't Ihe boys who want the saloons: it's just the other Way. B. q.
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your limbs are strained, and when you grew cider it will all come asainst you
 How many women when they reach the age of fifty will feel that they can take a fivemile walk? Notice as you go along the streets nov many women go hoppling along. You can tell by looking at their faces that their feet trouble them, and all bscause they did not take care of their feet in thelr younger days.
 A MOTHER
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Cream Cake-One cup sugar, 2-3 cups of cream and 2 eggs; beat it to a cream; salt to taste; sift tea spoon soda into 11-2 cups flour and stir all together; flavor to taste. Sweet cream can be used by adding 2 tea spoons cream tartar.
 Cranberry Pie-One cup cranberries and 1 cup raisins chopped together; 1-2 cup sugar, 1 cup boiling water, 2 tablespoons cornstarch This makes one pie.
 If I see this in print I will call on you all again.
 Hope the Social Corner sisters will try them. They are very good.
 FLORILLA.
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BLACK 5EAUTYs PERTINENT
 INQUIRIES.

Dear Brothers and SasbuRs Of ths Social Corner; dp not Wrlts much I am not an expert Ike Papa's Roy. and besides. ] haven't sny auto te Es riding in,
 What Style is sh.S SStS. I'd hCa eo EuOw?
 wonder If Merry FArmsfs Boy and Papa's Boy are twins. Merry Farmers Boy: Do you like to cook? I see you have some recipes in your letter. Do you work in the house or outdoors most?
 BLACK BEAUTY.
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words, inclosing what an old school mate of mine years ago wrote in my autograph album. Dear girl. early in life she was called higher She was a victim of the dread disease. consump- ton:
 Poetry ] cannot write, And prose, about the samei But here, for your dear sake. l will subscribe my name.
 JIM. YantiC
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SWEETS TO THE SWEET"

Walnut Dainties Take three cups of light brown sugar and cream with one
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