Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

enced Sisters some of the ways m which to make easy the transition rom winter 10 summer living.
 The first step is to banish pies from the menu of family meals, with 1udl- cious discrimination between the wholesome and inexpedient, cut out fritters. fried griddle cakes and fried vegetables, except upon cold days and clustering nights that demand fires up- on the hearth and extra blankets upon the beds and relays of human calorlo to keep the mechanisms that are sore in working order. For perhaps two days In the week fish broiled, boiled or baked is the piece de resistence of the dinner. or a baked omelet plays the leading part, supported by vegetables and salad.
 This menu is not amiss as a sug- gestive sample of spring dinner;
 Corn soup (without meat stock), Spanish omelet, young beets, new or canned, creamed carrots and canned small peas, mixed stewed rhubarb, and sponge cake, black coffee, or for June dinner when sunshine lies so still over the face of the earth that even the aspen leaves do not tremble and the flowers are asleep upon their stalks: when the blood creeps slug gishIy and the head feels thick and the feet and heart are heavy. Nobody has so much as g. symptom of appetite, yet we must eat or strength to bear up against the weather will not be forthcoming. Hardest task of all in anticipation-we must eat hot things Our Canny mother comprehends that the languid stomach must be aroused to it's business by lively warmth. Some women would lend an tndulgent ear to the pleadings of her flock for iced bouiI1on, jellied meats, chilled sal ad, sandwiches, ice cream and-here the boys are importunate-'al all the iced water we can drink"
 Here is a menu for mid June day: Creamed tomato soup (without meat stOck). hot and spicy; broiled halibut steak; mashed potatoes, whipped as light as a meringue; green peas, fresn- Iy picked; radishes; crisp lettuce heart with French dressing, eaten with but tered slices of brown bread cut thin; strawberries; light cake; for drink, from the fish course onward, ginger ale and mineral water punch; black coffee for the elders of the party.
 Punch made of mineral water: The punch Is worthy of especial notice. Put into the chilled punch bowl cupful of granulated sugar and leave in the ice until dinner time; then add three peel ed lemons, sliced thin; stir hard for a minute and take into the dining room; i add to the lemonade in the bowl a quart of cracked ice and pour from a height upon the ice a bottle or two of mineral water and the same amount of l ginger ale. Stir and pour in glasses, or you may leave out the mineral wa ter and drop into bowl a handful of 1 fresh mint sprays, washed and cold 1 then pour ill ginger ale, holding bottle 1 high and letting the sparkling stream l fall directly upon the cracked ice. The | ginger takes hold of the stomach in | fine style and insures 1t against the | risks of chill-a peril too little regard 1 ed by bibulous Americans. The coat | of the most useful and delicate organ 1 in the keeping of the human creature cannot act when cold. The lad who dashes into that organ eight or ten | ice cream sodas per day in warm i weather is laying the foundation for ! dyspepsia of the most aggravated l type
 So the woman who feeds her flock | upon cold meats, sandwiches, salads i and ice cream, washed down with CO., 1 pious draughts of iced tea, when June 1 heats are at their height, invites the
 alarming rate of mortality she depre-
 cates as one of the mysteries of what had she ever heard the story-she
 would be disposed to call with the col ] ored preacher "an interruptions Provi- | dence." She is not alone in her dread 1 of the fairest month of the twelve 1 Physicians pronounce it the most dan | gerous of seasons to young childrer | and to adults of weak digestive organs The night dews are heavy; the moons are scorching, and the long afternoons
 sultry and sickening. Yet I firmly be.
 lieve that neglect of the little things 1 we have glanced at has more to dC
 with the general good for nothingnes!
 to which a majority of even fairll ! healthy people are a prey during thu
 crucial change Of seasons than we ar' 1 willing to admit.
 Wa do not wait for the orders of tn,
 family doctor before We exchange win
 ter f1annels for lighter, nor ask hi permission to let the fire go out il
 the heaters. Why not decide for our
 selves that the alteration in table far,
 should be as wise and radical?
 1 Back to the soili" is a cry of do
 mastie and social ecenernEst, which ou