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Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-04
BUFFET LUNCH PROPOSED FOR
 READY BY BILLIE.

Dear Editor and Sisters of Social Corner: I'm sending a few recipes that l have used for a buffet lunch
 l would suggest that Ready will do likewise at her wood box social. It will save so much time and give US more time for games and chatting.
 The nice thing about all this is she can prepare it the day before, and then she will have time to rest before we get there; and she will look fresh and charming to meet us.
 The amount of these goodies" will serve twelve abundantly.
 Cheese Loaf-Three packages of cream cheese; one small bottle of stuffed olives, chopped fine; one teacup of English Walnuts, chopped fine; a dash of Cayenne pepper; moisten with liquor of olives, or cream. I prefer cream; mold into a loaf and set in a cool place. Chicken Sandwiches-One can of chicken, minced fine; one-half cup of celery. cut up fine; moisten with may onnaise. Two five cent loaves of bread, crust trimmed off before cutting into thin slices. Spread a small DOT tiOn of butter on each. Spread chicken mixture on. Cut them diagonalK across the center; place on platter; cover with damp naukin until time to set on table.
 Russe Cream-One quart of milk: one ounce of gelatin, soaked; yolks of four" eggs, one cup of sugar Beat these together and put into milk. Cook ! in double boiler, when thick beat whites to a stiff froth and pour it in
 to mold Set away to cool
 Fruit Gelatine-Two ounces of Coop CTS gelatine soaked in one pint of cold water two minutes; add one quart of boiling water, one and one-half cups i of sugar; stir until dissolved. Add | juice of three lemons strain through l jelly bag and put into 8 mold.
 The day needed stir in the follow | ing fruit. Four bananas cut in slices ! four oranges. pltted and cut in small | pieces three-fourths pound of gs cut l up, one half pound malaga grapes | seeded and cut in half. Return to 1 mold, set away for a few hours. Punoh-Eight lemons. four oranges, 1 sweeten to taste. By putting sugar and | some water on stove gently warm, will 1 cause sugar to dissolve. Add as much | water as thought best. Cut up four | bananas, two oranges and some pine | apple, put all with half bottle of claret or grape juice into large punch bowl.
 Drop Pound Cakes-Six tablespoons | of butter, two cups of sugar creamed l together, eight eggs beaten separately,
 two tablespoons of milk, three cups of 1 flour, two scant teaspoons of baking l powder, two teaspoons of vanilla In making pound cake there seems to be
 some secret in mixing it with the ! H h everything to congeal. Drop spoonful
 on wax paper which has been put into pans. BILLIE,
 North StOnineton.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-04
A FEW WORDS FROM AUNT ME.
 HITABLE.

Dear Sisters: AS 1t is but a short time since rather a long letter from me was published, I shall write but few lines today
 Aline: You are very kind to in- Fite me to call. The infoExnation that you live within sight of WThmantio is welcome; but fear l cannot find you without something more definite. No. my last name does not begin with E. I will be very generous and give you some helpful information. TherN are eight letters in my last name but F is not among them, There is one E fin my first name.
 Married and Happy: Thank you so much for the invitation to a thimbls party. I shall be there. Do you know, imagine that Married and Happy looks quite like my adopted hrothen Perhaps you will show me his picture for I suppose he will not attend tho thinble party and let me see if mp supposition is correct
 What splendid stories some of the Social Corner sisterhood write.
 With many thanks for your kinf messages and with best wishes t( all.
 AUNT M1DHTTABI4E
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-04
SOCIAL CORNER POEM.
Let Us Pause.

Let us rest ourselves a bit Worry wave your hand at it! Kiss your finger tips and smile h farewell a little while. Let us pause, and catch our breath, On the hither side of death While we see the tender shoots Of the grasses, not the roots. Voyage off, beneath the trees, Der the fields enchanted ~N'as. Where the lilies are our sails, And our seaguIls, nightingales- Where no wilder storm shall beat Than the wind that waves the wheat And no tempest burst above The old laugh we used to love. Lose all trouble-gain release Lsnguor and exceeding peace, Cruising idly OCT the past, Calm mid-Ocean of the past, Let us rest ourselves a bit! WoSy wave your hand at it. Kiss your finger-tips and smile It farewell. a little while.
 James Whitcomb Riley. Sent in by Jim.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-04
A REPLY TO sUNFLowER.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis ters: I had hoped not to bother you any more with my letters. have been interested in most of the letters, though.
 However, I see it is necessary for me to come into the limelight again.
 Miss CD Sunflower: 1 am much obliged to you for condescending to notice my last letter. I see that you answer most of my questions in in- terrogative form. Not very specific, certainly; but think I see your stand point on the subject. I would like to discuss these points a little further, just to show you why 1 oppose wo- mans suffrage.
 First-In high school, women have control. You concede this much. Why don't the boys speak up and suggest that either the cumulative or the limited vote plan be practised?' q think this is quoted correctly. My answer is that the girls nave them so thoroughly under control that the boys hardly dare to even second a motion for adjournment. I know this from experience. 1 also remember an incl dent when one of the boys ventured to question a vote. Were you present, also? Talk about monopolies; we would certainly be well monopohzed, if the women had control.
 Second: I doubt if woman's suffrage would affect the hquor question much. Look up the statistics concerning states where women do have the vote and see if they've presented any bills, or passed any on this subject. This is not one of my strongest reasons, anyway.
 Third-Polittcs are corrupt and wo- | men can correct them, with emphasis on the can" As a eoGnterpoint, ] maintain politics are corrupt and men l can correct them a great deal better | without the help of the women. l don't think that a good definition of 1 woman could lack the words vain 1 jealous" HLtNthat's simply private | opinion and doesn't bear directly or l the point in question. I still maintain ] that politics is in just as good shape | as 1t possibly could be under feminine | control
 Fourth-The husband of the suffra. gette certainly must suffer. Consider | his suffering after the suffragette has returned from the polls and has found 1 that he broke a cup while washing tn, dishes, or allowed the cookies to burn On, l pity the husband of a suffragette | especially if she is in good health Her return from the polls will be en. | tirely different than his return iron the clubrooIns. some hours later. But this is not all suffering man. kind will have to undergo. The gen. tie Sunflower is breathing vengeanc, against men who uphold the liquo business and tobacco trade, before sh, even has hopes of casting ballot There certainly will be an abundanc, of suffering throughout this countr, if suffragettes get the vote.
 A CO-SOLID.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-04
ANSWERS AND INQUIRIES.

SWEET LAVENDER cards were promptly forwarded to Ma.
 sTDLPATHY-Poem for Elizabeth received. She will express thanks.
 SAALANTHA-Th cards sent for transmission to Queen Bess were i'm nediately mailed.
 GLBNWOOD-Tha for kind ana sympathetic letter. The editor finds pleasure in the Social Corner and Is hot taxed by the exchange of courtes- ies.
 AUNT NEHITA BEL-The story at lI-bUed to you should have been sign Bd "Jane Gray" The writer is a Nor Fich lady, and it will please her to bnow that you wish you were capable )f writing such a story as A Dogs Life"
 A. V. R. and 'Curfew 5hall Not Ring Tonight" sent at the Ncquest of Elizabeth, has been mailed ind she will thank you both for your lourtesy. The poem is too long for he Corner.
 WILD WEST of Leonard Bridge, Lndly offers to find if possible poems .esired by members of the Social Cor Ter. of course. we cannot print them sI for we have a half-year's supply u hand now.
 BALSAlI FIR-Thanlls for the pret- y booklet illustrative of Lake NIinne- iouka. t is a very enHghtening little york.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-04
BLUE BELLS OF SCOTLAND FREES
 MIND,

Dear Editor, Brothers and Sisters of the Social Corner: 1 have not written for a couple weeks, hoping that those letters in the pigeonholc could come out and welcome the lovely spring weather after being shut in so long.
 l am so glad spring is here In all its
 beauty. The birds are so happy and
 gay that it must cheer the shut-ins,
 and they teach us all 8 lesson if we
 will but listen. God is love, and how
 happy we all could be if We but trust
 the dear Father and greet all with
 song and cheer, as they do, instead of
 discord and envy, and coveting that
 which is not for us. but for someone
 else's happiness.
 could not help smiling when the
 pastor recently was reading Thou
 shalt not Covet," and had just heard
 a couple saying what pretty dress and hat so and so had-Wished she had it herself. l don't think either of them
 remembered much of the sermon that day.
 C. l.. E.: Am sorry ] am so poor a guesser. but will say you can guess again, as the big tree does not stand in front of my house. There are trees near my house, and I begin to wonder | if you haven't had some big ones cut near your house. Is there any autos
 going past in summer time? If so, | come and see me and we will call on
 l.. Fl. K. I think your hubby belongs
 to the c, E,
 J. E. T.: How are your tomatoes this spring? Shall remember your recipe | fer bowel trouble. l know it must be | good. for l have used raw flour and cold water for dysentery with good re- 1 suits, and the egg is better than water. l I used one tablespoon of bread flour and cold water enough 10 drink good I about two or three tablespoons and ! stir thorough and drink at once. What ] has become of all those nice cake reel pes of yours? When Fleur De Ids gets 1 back she wants me to call on you with 1 her. if I have guessed right
 | CG-s0lid How much longer would a | woman nave to leave home 10 vote l than many of them do now calling CD | neiehbors. just 10 gossip and talk l about others affairs, or going to church ] and leaving little ones crying at home 1 with the man of the house who is tired
 and believes fin the good Rock whore it l says. "SiS days shalt thea wurb and
 Esst sa LAe ssFsAIA,' AaK AAeA Test
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-04
J. E. T. TELLS HOW TO DO
 THINGS.


 Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: My friend rung me up and said:
 Can you make or mix dry mustard? want some for dinner. Company has come-am all out of the prepared.
 l replied: Take three large ta'0le- spoons mustard three of boiling wa ter; make & paste melt one teaspoon butter; add to paste; teaspoon white sugar; pinch fine table salt; stir thor oughly, thin with vinegar, All ready!"
 Fac -Sinile-BoiI some long. rather large potatoes in the skins; when cold, peel carefully, slice rather thick: one third inch Qengthwise); be careful not to break the slices; put a little milk in granite pan-a shallow pan is best-then tiny pieces of butter; dip each slice Of potato in the beaten white of an egg: lay in the hot milk and butter till the milk goes away; don't attempt to turn them. Have the yOlk boiled hard; take wide griddle turner and lift one piece of potato at time; place on warm dish; with wooden toothpick put little dots of the hard yOlk here and there oyer each piece of potato; then break a tooth pick, rub with the yolk and stick on largest end of dotted potato, one each side or more to the front. It will look like a spechled trout Two or three lettuce leaves beneath makes 1t more showy.
 Busting Cap for Morning Hurry or Frowsy Heads-One-haf yard percale or gingham. Take kettle cover or large pail r inches across each way; mark round with lead pencil-that is the cap part; turn the littlest hem round outer edge. then cut a piece from the circle left, about an inch wide clear round, turn each edge over a little baste one inch from outer edge of cap (wrong side) stitch down. Where the ends come together, leave them to run your elastic in. Pin wide elastic round or flat, measure of your head take 21 1-2 inches, but lap one-halt inch and overcast over edges so not to hurt the head
 Gantic, J. E. T,
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-04
Norwich.
READYs CUP AND SAUCER NOT
 TAKEN YET.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis teTs; l think We all try to be gener- ouS, but how we anXiOusly wait until we hear from our members who have not written for some time. We do not take into consideration how busy they may be.
 It does seem good to read letters from Dollie, Ma and Sweet Lavender again,
 p. '. T.: I do miss my neighbor very much. l have to talk Social Cor ner to the man of the house, and I presume he thinks he is a perfect martyr; but he is quite patient about it.
 forget Me-Not: We shall remember you. Write often.
 Aunt Jerusha: l would be pleased to | show you my pictures. Am sorry you | are one of the shut-in class. 1 en- joyed your letter very much. Queen Bess: Had l been called on to read your letter in public, and then | been asked to follow it with @ speech, l should have done so and said-ditto, Married and Happy: shall be . pleased to exhibit tattin made by my own shuttle but l know not how to use 1t. Just think. one of the Social Corner Sisters has sent me some Wasn't that lovely? c. H. S. 1918: When you are at Riv- ersldo again do not fail to call on me | to see the woodbox. You are in the race for the cup and saucer Papa's Boy: Am glad your eyesight | is good, for you will need good sight | going around corners, up and down hill ana lodging teams and things. You l will have to show Merry Farmers Boy, Kentucky Bell, Black Beauty and a few others the way to the woodbox. Little RnOdN: Please call agaIn We shall be glad to hear from you again. Hulda: Had l known you were at the | station, l mig1l have engaged a back | seat on one of those wood teams and 1 spent part of that lonely time with l you. l could have taken some lunch along and my knitting work. We l could have united our bonnet strines ! and talked Social Corner l think by 1 the time the S.22 train arrived the sta ] ton agent would have heard something l shout the Social Corner. | Aunt Judy and Uncle Peleg did not ! stay long enough to carry off the cup l and saucer Call again, when you are not in such a hurry. '-, H. R.: Am glad to get those l verses. l did not have them. I never l taught school. 1 cannot answer to the 1 initials Y. B.
 J. k. T.: You always have such help | ful ideas on hand.
 Blue Bird: You shall have a place i on that W0odboX. Am glad you are not l going to keep silent any lcnCer. Blue Bells: Thank you for the kind ! ly greeting l am to have when I meet | ycT
 Rural Delivery: What a sad story!
 such things ogght not to be. l Peggy Anne: I am sorry I am so far
 away from everyone. l wonder -who | will carry off the cup and saucer? With best wishes for all, l remain
 your Social Corner Sister,
 READY.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-04
STUDYING AFRICAN DESERTS.
Sudanese and Libyan Waste Placed Explored by Carnegie Institution Partly with View of Learning Hsu to Make Them HabitAble,

The scientific expedition sent out to the Sudanese and Egyptian deserts to study the conditions there on behalf of the Carnegie institution of Wash ington, has returned to London. DT. D. T. MacDougal and his companion, Godfrey Sykes, first conducted theiI Investigations in the Red Sea province of the Sudan and afterward spent sev- en weeks in the IAhyan desert. '-HhA ultimate object of our preliminary in- vestigations" said Dr. MacDOugal '1e to discover if, and by what mean1
 the desert spaces of the world can hS
 f,eb derets habitahle.T ReferrinK to
 the work of the last expedition, Dr, MacDougal said; Half oHr time waA spent in the exploration of the regioN between Port Sudan and the AtbsRaS n desert which in It's climatic and
 physical condition resembles the des-
 erts of North America. It seems cas
 pable of immense development, and I
 think, in fact we may look for great developments in the Sudan generally,
 From the Sudan we went to the Lfbp- van desert. where the work was muck harder. The conditions arc very dif- ferent from those in the Sudan deSertt as the Lihyan desert is not charaoaer- ized by any regular rainfall or hiEh relief All development hore. there- fore, must be in the nature of improv- ing the oases by means of engineering.
 Our investigations lead to the belief that in the unexptored parts of the Libyan desert we may discover new and fresh supplies of water. In the
 Libyan desert we and our caravan of twelve camels and seven drivers trek
 ked from oasis to Oasts ovor & region so barren that we had to carry food
 both for ourselves and our camela sufficient for the whole journey. The
 differences of temperature were tFe- mendous-intensely hot days with very cold nights-and we suffered much from sand storms, being compelled ta
 stop and shelter in our blankets. Some of the natural phenomena of the dse ert were very interesting. For instance in one place we passed along a nar- row "sogag'-a road made entirely by the wind, varying from quarter and half a mile in width and extending Tor | fifty miles. IL was just like one Ions l street hanked by dunes of fifty to sixty ] feet in height. and it took us two and l half days to cover it. Continually
 we came across skeletons of camels
 and little heaps of stones indicating 1 the last resting place of desert wan i derer Our most westerly point WAS | Dara1sra, which do not suppose haS 1 been visited by a dozen white men. i The people were not unfriendly, but | they were suspicious and retiring. We were not permitted in any house or even In the date orchards, The prin-
 olpal feature of the place is a SenUssi
 monastery whose buildings oovar an ! extended area, We could learn noth- 1 ing about them, Although 20 near the 1 Tripolltan frontier. we saw no signs
 of the smuggling of arms or anmsni- ! ton 10 the Turks. and the people did
 not seem 10 he unduly excited about ! the war"
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-04
& SOCIETY NEWS.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: The most brilliant affair of the season was the dinner given last Wednesday in honor of the Social Corner club at The Bluffs. the home of Cherisette. Those who assisted in receiving were Busybody. A Dreamer. Aline, Morning glory Cora, Farmers Wife, and Ready As the lemonade was being passed Nat was chosen toastmaster, to which he gracefully responded with the fol- lowing.
 Here's a toast for the host, and toastess for the hostess. May your hens be healthy and live to old age as did these on the table now garnished with sage"
 Among those present were Potlach, Frozen. Rural Delivery. Papas Boy Farmers Boy, Dollie, Frank, Balsam Fir. Aunt Mehitable, Grandma, and others whose names The Bulletin re- porter was unable to obtain.
 MA. Waterford.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-04
Waterford
SAMANTHA WOULD START 4
 SINGING SKULE."

Dear Sisters: I have kept quiet sum time for me. as 1 like to talk and just now l feel inclined to preach, jest a little.
 ] enjoy most of the Corner letters; but it has seemed to me that few of the letters sound ruther dolefuI. When l wuz a child I used to be sung to sleep with Bury Me Not in the Deep, Deep Sea- The Dying Califor- nian," A Soldier of the Legion Lay Dying in Algiers," etc. Since then have never had much craving for dis nal things.
 Perhaps we don't alers feel like singing "Yankee Doodle but l reckon we can sing something kinder hopeful. Perhaps 1 had better start a singing skule. If I de- the first two numbers will be All the Way My Saviour Leads Me- and 50 Long Thy Power Hath Blest Me. Sure IL SuH Will Lead Me On"
 Who'll join in?
 SAMANTHA.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-04
LIVES WRECKED BY DISOBEDI-
 ENCE.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: Having just returned home from a short but pleasant vacation, the first thought that came to my mind was, I wonder if anyone has saved my Saturday morning Bulletins. But Hubby knows my fOndness for the Social Corner folks and has hace them carefully put away for me; and for the next hour or two l am lost to the world, for the stories and letters of our dear sisters are always so entertaining and pleas ant that l come to the end regretfully
 l am always sorry to see @ sister sign herself a shut-in, and it seems to me we have quite 8 number consid- ering the size of our circle
 l have often thought that I would like to tell you about a dear friend of mine who was a shut-in for four teen or fifteen years, but became @ healthy and useful woman after sne had learned to live right. She had means to live well and it was this that made her an invalid.
 One summer she spent with a fam fly that lived on two meals a day, and meat was an unknown luxury. She was thoroughly disgusted and if there had been any way for her to return to her home she would have done so: but, as it was, she was compelled to live like the rest of the family and 1t proved to be the greatest blessing of her life.
 Life is much to be compared to the ilI-fated Titanic.
 A beautiful body, Gods masterpiece, is born into this world. the same as the beautiful ship is launched upon the sea. God gives to it will power for it's captain. IL is cast upon this sea of life in hope of reaching a safe harbor; but we disobey Gods law we do not keep a strict looKout for the icebergs of gluttony and wrong living, and long before the rtme that We might have lived we are called Maker and give an account of our stewardship.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-04
Her step is slow and weary
Willimantic.
WHY HE NEVER FORGAVE HIM.
 SELF,

Dear Editor and Sisters:
 Blue Bells of Scotland: Thanks for card. Got any chicks yet?
 Cherisette: Have your two hundred chicks matched yet?
 Ready: Has your neishbor moved :?
 Elizabeth: Aren't you the. one who joined our party in huclleberrying time and l came and got you in my auto and brought you to my house last summer? 1 have mv eye on you.
 Merry Farmers Bcv: | am going to add little verse at the end. and I wen1cr If you have done the same
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-04

saltpeter has been dissolved. Dry out slowly by the fire. When thoroughly dry take a small quantity of the leaves and place on a shovel or dust pan and set on fire. Inhale the smoke, and one suffering from catarrh in head or throat will be instantly relieved, and believe permanently cured. This prescription was much used by my father in his practice, and hope it will be beneficial to Bees friend.
 With best wishes to all readers of our Corner from
 TEIFE DOC7rORrS DATTGHTEP
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-04
AUNT NANCY.
A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY
 EARNED.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: l wonder if many of you do your own sewing and find it a big saving.
 We'll l for one, do all my sewing, and find it a big saving.
 This spring l made an everyday dress for my girl and all it cost was 5Jc-three yards of cloth at 10c a yard, 5c for buttons, total 35c.
 l went shopping a few days ago and l saw dresses the same make as the one l made and the price on them was SL0O. and l got three yards of heavy cloth and made two pairs of overalls for my boy and they cost me 30c-three yards at 1Oc.
 Well, at the store they ask 25c Lair.
 1 got l 1-2 yards of gingham at 10c and made a blouse for the boy. We'll, it came to 15c and if bought ready made it would cost 25c; so l saved 95c on these few things by making them myself. A cent saved is a cent earned
 A YOUNG MOTHER.
 E7,~aYo
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-04
A QUICK RELIEF FOR cATARRH,

Editor and Friends in the Social Corner. Because 1 am an interested reader of the Social Corner and have profited bv many of the letters sent in I feel it a duty, as well as a privilege, to pass on anything that would be helpful to other members.
 Sister Rec has asked for something to relieve d catarrh sufferer. Pur- chase one ounce of belladonna leaves. one ounce of stramonium leaves and one ounce of saitpeter at druggists. Mix the two kinds of leaves thoreue hiy and saturate with water ia which ths