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Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-09

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: am seanding in few recipes of can ned goods. They are a little different from the every day way of cooking, and while they take little more time to prepare they are well worth the extra trouble.
 Corn Chowder-This is an excellent hot supper dish. Cut one slice of fat pork in cubes and fry out. Add 1 sliced onion and cook five minutes. Strain fat into stewpan, wash and pare potatoes cut into small pieces, there should be 4 cups; parboil in salted water , minutes, drain and add to fat Then add 2 cups boiling water. Cook until potatoes are soft and add 1 can corn and 4 cups milk. Heat to the boiling point, add three tablespoons of butter. and season with salt and pep I, per Split eight crackers and soak in cold milk until soft, turning occasion ally; then add to chowder and when heated remove crackers. Turn chow der into tureen and put crackers on top.
 Salmon with Egg Sauce-Line a slightly buttere7 bread pan with warm steamed rice. Fill the center with Naked canned salmon, seasoned with salt and pepper. Cover with rice, set in B pan of hot water and Jet cook 45 minutes. Remove to a hot serving dish. pour egg sauce around it, and garnish with parsley.
 Egg sauee-Melt tablespoons of butter, add tablespoons flour and stir until we'll blended. Then pour on gradually one and half cups hot water. Boil minutes. add table spoons butter, bit by bit, little salt and pepper, Ia teaspoon lemon juice, and the slightly beaten yolks of two eggs.
 Huntington SaIsd-Open 1 can to- nTatoes Add teaspoon powdered sugar and 1 1-2 teaspoon salt; force through strainer then add 2-3 of a box of granulated gelatine which has soaked IS minutes in half cup cold water. Pour into small cups and chill thoroughly; run a knife around inside of lnoulds so that when taken out shape may have g. rough appearance, suggesting fresh tomatoes. Place on lettuce leaves and garnish tops of each with mayonnaise dressing.
 All canned fruits or vegetables should stand an hour after opening to become rsoXygenatsd.
 OLGA.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-09

You will help to keep our Corner y0Xng. I have 8 niece who is high sc;sool girl in Chicopee, so naturally I'm interested in you.
 Auntie: Thanks for your compli- ments. It's pleasure te know that our letters are helpful.
 The Sisters from Maine: In Wash ington, D. C., one night last week we heard several peals of thunder and saw 8 few flashes of lightning. The weather man doesn't even up the climate very satisfactorily, do you think? Forty degrees below sounds like a fairy tale, although I know it's a good healthy climate up in your locality
 Where is Ma? We need you In the Corner.
 Nat: Ii only shows what a good ef- feet the Corner has on you when you offer to shake hands with our suffre- gette captain through the fence. Be sure to remain on your own side. Is Jane Ann on your side yet? You're 8 jollier, but it's not really jolly to suffer with rheumatism, is it? You're clever man, for only such agree to dis agree"
 Best wishes for all.
 A DREAMER
 Washington n c
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-09
A DREAMER CHATS PLEASANTLY

To my Corner Friends:
 Frank: And so you would like opin- ions regarding women proposing?
 A very prominent woman in this city suggests that all unmarried women take the matrimonial reins in their own hands and after selecting their choice make the final proposal
 Should they take her advice. she thinks 1912 would be uneaualed for turning out happy married couples.
 Another prominent woman scorns the aoove idea as immodest, unwomanly, unbecoming to the female sex.
 nave read that women who are willing to marry must sit around and wait for the right one to find them, much the same as one receives a Christmas gift. But the time has pass ed for women to be married off to the male individual who has been picked out for them.
 Women's rights are everywhere man lfested. and why not regarding matri- mony which is the step that will either make or mar her future?
 1t has been truly said that the von en of today are too independent. so much better informed on all subjects than their mothers and grsndmothers. hence there ought to be happier mar riages
 But perchance our grandmothers, and even great grandmothers. were fully as capable of making wise selec- tions as their daughters when it came to choosing husbands. While not manv of them actually did the proposing. vet some spoke the words which led up to the final proposal.
 Didn't the modest maiden. Priscilla Molines, declare her rights when she answered John Alden in these words: Way don't you speak for yourself, John?'
 In vain he urged and pleaded the cause of his friend Miles Standish. and later on We read that he did speak for himaelf
 ] haven't given you my own opinion, Frank, on this subject, and you will not wonder why when 1 add that was married in leap year. But, honest. l didn't do the proposing.
 Allne; Your method of washing windows l pronounce the best I have yet tried,
 C. H. s. 1913, of Chicopee, Mass: Come i'm or course, you're welcome.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-09
ALINE WANTS A POEM.


 Dear Social Corner Sisters: I thank all the sisters who so kindly mention ed my story l was surprised, as didn't think anyone would notice it. Rural Delivery: l enjoyed that straw ride very much. It was the first for many years, and reminded me of the times when we used to go to merry makings in the Florida where the pa per oranges grow.
 Queen Bess: Try wiping that chair, lightly, with a cloth dipped in alcohol. Do not rub as it will take off the var nish
 Jim: Why don't you write? Hope that dried apple pie didn't make you ill.
 C. H. S.: I had the pleasure of meeting you last summer. Isn't River side farm a lovely place to spend a vacation?
 Aunt Mehitable: I enjoyed your story very much. It also made me wonder if you are a normal school student. Won't you tell us?
 Cherisette: Yes, 1 do like kerosene to clean wndows, it makes them polish SO nicely. I have driven past your place many times, and believe 1 have seen Papas Boy there on the back piazza.
 Ready: AS you didn't answer my question about that woodbOx, I con ciude you do not want us to copy it. l have asked Who is Ready?" of a great many Hereafter l shall ask Are you Ready"
 Bee: If ammonia or borax will not soften the wash water, the trouble may be with the soap or washing powder you use. Why not try different makes for while and see if you can not get better results.
 Now, will some one send in. or tell, where can find the poem, "The Lights O London?' I have seen some of it's lines quoted and would like the whole poem.
 A
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-09
WHAT THE MAN WANTS WHO
 VOTES LICENSE.

Editor Social Corner: The man who votes for license wants drunkards man ufactured. He knows that alcohol is poison; that every drink man takes tends to shorten his life, to lower his efficiency as a worker, and that 1t makes a moral degenerate of him, and he sinks to lower level than a wild beast For a wild beast will protect and care for its young, but the drunk ard cares for nothing but to satisfy his craving for drink. The license voter wants little children to suffer from cold and hunger. He wants crimes in numerabIe committed. He wants jatls and prisons enlarged and filled. He wants more insane asylums, more homes for orphans. cripples and idiots. And if his vote wins he will get what he wants. For all this is the legitimate result of the work of the saloons.
 A E. c.
 Cwe hardly agree with A. B. c. What excesses of any kind yield is not what is wanted, but the wages of sin: Incorporate people are victims of vicious tastes and they would like to do as they do without any such results as YOU describe-The Editor.)
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paring johnnyoakes that will only give one:
 One cup cornmeal, one cup rye and enc of flour, cne-half cup molasses, pinch of salt, teaspoon soda mixed in one and half cups wetung. milk ia best, cream is nice to tone up with, and raisins are healthy also. l usually bake ours: takes less time.
 Sister Beccy: Think you call for Rhode Island johnnycaks. The white meal is better than yellow. One rule is three handfuls meal. one of flour, boiling water to moisten. cover to steam a while little salt and sCda add e6 to milk to thin the batter cakea should be half an inch thick, and fTy slowly.
 Sister Ego: Have tried the meal for pie crust and am surprised at the good result. Have heard of it bs- fore, but did not have faith to try. until 1 read your letter.
 Space will not allow to tell of the many helpful letters that I have been benefited by Thanks to all and may the good work continue.
 Sister Frank Much pleased to learn that you are gaining and able to write again. Valentine greetings to alL
 BLAN(,H
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-09
THE TWINS
By Rural Delivery

 Way back in the 40is there were twin boys born at the home of Isaac and Huldy Babson.
 They looked very much alike and could not be told apart only by their parents. One was John, the other Jo- seph.
 When they had reached the age of 21 they left the homestead to the father and mother and started out in the world for themselves, John going to California and Joseph to the far west, and it was many years before they met again.
 At the age of SO they made arrange ments for a meeting at the old home stead It was in the early spring when they started for their native state, 'the land of steady habits" After a long and tiresome ride, once more they met at one of the dearest spots on earth to them-both the home and playground of their childhood in good old Connecticut. While 1t gave them much comfort to visit the old home again, it also made them sad to think their old parents were laid away on the hill in the family cemetery, near bS where they spent their useful lives.
 The home was old and decayed, and no OIS uau llN6Q LlACl EOA oOAAAO SAA1ASs The green ivy twined over the door where the two boys bade their parents goodbye many years before.
 John was very saving from boy, and at this time had a good bank ac- count in his native city.
 Joseph was more for having a good time, if it did cost him a little some thing.
 While they stood there by the little running brook, which passed by the old home, Joseph said:
 John, do you know what l did with the first penny ever hadT'
 John answered: ''No!"
 Well, I bought a fishlhook with it. and fished for trout right where we are standing now
 John asked: What do you think ] did with the first penny ever had%'
 Why, you put it in the bank and have it there now" replied Joseph.
 As they sat down in the warm sun shine to talk, John said: Do you ever hear from any one in the east these days?'
 Joseph said: T have neiglbor who came from Connecticut, who takes The Norwich Bulletin, and there is a page every week called the Social
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-09
A MOTHERS APPRECIATION.

Editor of the Social Corner: Two of the letters in the Social Corner of Januarv 20th interested me so much that I have been trying ever since tO write to the authors.
 A Mother. You wished that moth CTS problems were more discussed in the Corner So have l. but did not give expression to the wish as you did. How the sisters have been re- spending!
 Sickness has kept me from writing sooner. I think you have had two very good answers to your problem Mine is much like Alins's. and Is q switch that will not injure, but will sting. The child will learn that pain follows the playing with fire. A low Ing mother talk after, and sometimes a prayer, will keep the child from har- boring resentment l know, for thiB was my mothers way.
 There are the moral problems, too, so often seemingly ignored. For in- stance, truthfulness is not exalted. Children should never be told that Santa Claus really is a person who soes over roofs and down chimneys. They will enjoy reading or hearing Santa stories just as much as though they thought them true There Is ab- solutely never an occasion when a child should be told an untruth. I wish more mothers would write on thls important subject; mothers who years ago saw a vision of their chil- dren growing up 10 be true and pure and strong in the Lord, helping the right and fighting against the wrong; and who have come to a realization of that vision. Teil the younger moth CTS something helpful
 And young mothers with the vision, come often to the Corner and talk it over with each other and with us older mothers. Make the most of the pres ent however, for our future is simply our present time going on and on to make our past.
 Queen Bsss: l did SO much like your letter which appeared Ianuery 10th, even If I do believe in suffrage for women. l have never felt called to fight for 1t and l will never follow where Mrs Pankhurst leads in her efforts to gain her rights. But if the right to vote ever comes to me I will vote, and will especially rejoice to be able to vote NO on the license quss- ton. believe that there are 80 many good Women in this country that their votes. added to those of the God-fear- ing men, will overthrow tho saloon power. Let us keep ourselves as well informed as possible. SO that when we are allowed 10 vote we can do 1t in- telllgently We can help our boys, toe, if we know ourselves You have three coming voters to influence for the right. For awhile you have enough to fill the heart and hands of any mother.
 An l know how those verses come to ones mind. All of us need to he stirring to overcome.
 Cora of NerWich am another tacker fer you Your child should obey you. even if you have 10 choose between that and the friendshfp of uncle and aunt
 FscSM A WoTHERH EEART.
 SegsEck
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-09
ELIZABETH MEANS TO KEEP IN
 TOUCH.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis ters: The Social Corner is full to overnowing with nice, breezy letters every week from so many sisters I do not wish to take space-yet wish to be one with you, will write occas- ionally, and so keep in the list
 Variety is the spice of life" and that is why our Corner is so interest ing. The dear sisters express their minds upon the various subjects which interest them.
 We enjoy the letters from our dear suffragette sisters, even though our views run in another channel We can, like Nat shake hands through the fence,' and sit on Sister Ready's woodbOx.
 How many of the sisters began house cleaning March 1? I had a carpet flying 10 the breeze. and 1t was cer- tainly fine time to remove all the dust.
 Sweet Lavender: What has become of you? If I am not mistaken, you and your friend were guests in my home for several days in the fall of 1895; and yo1r initials were M. S., but have changed to R. Your story of the twins interested me much. I thought of writing you of Dewey and Dot
 
 Now, guess who I am
 BarmeFfs Wife: Your menu for emergency dinner was fine The farm CTS wives are at a loss sometimes just how te meet the emergency when the butchers cart comes only once week.
 Sister Ready: I certainly hope to give you a call but fear I shall lose the cup and saucer, as my better half is shut in with grip. My woodbox has been visited frequently the past two months. Fortunately it stands close by the stove.
 Sister Betsy Burdock. We will cer- tainly give you a call when illness comes. Aren't you first cousin to Nat? Welcome
 Rural Delivery: How we did enjoy that ride to Colchester and Sister GlenwoOd's oyster supper, and the Old Folks concert. The Social Corner can't be beat in a swell chorus.
 Merry Farmers Boy: You are ina terested in patchwork. I pieced a swastika last winter, when the other dear sisters had theirs completed.
 Rural DsiiFsry will give us s$rsR
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-09
FAY VERNA SENDS SAD NEWS.

Dear Editor and Friends of the So- cial Corner: As we review the past two years that our Social Corner has been in existence, we cannot but real ize how much of pleasure and profit has come to us through new friend ships formed and new ideas gained
 The letters in the Corner are good to cheer up on Saturday, morning, the busiest of all the housewife's busy days.
 Sisters, let us join in congratulating the Editor for piloting us through two such successful years in the Social Corner
 Peggy Anne: You will have to guess again. The baby girls do not belong to me, although they are in the fam fly. You will be sorry to learn that one of the twins was buried on Wash ingtons birthday. Hope you are shut-in no longer, but able to go out in the beautiful spring sunshine.
 Dear Billie: As this is leap year. it is proper for me to say dear isn't it? How I smile when a Sister refers to you as him; but am rot so wise as I might be. I wish the same birds that fly down your way with news would bring some back, for I must confess that 1 am still guessing Who's Who?
 Three of my sons were i'll, and one seriously, with a contagious disease at Thanksgiving time We were released from quarantine in time to enjoy the Christmas festivities. Your last letter was good as ever. Come sagain.
 Rural Delivery: enjoyed your story and wished that I might have been one of that merry party of Social Corner members who enjoyed the straw ride to Colchester that beautiful moonlight evening If you should happen to come this way again, sing a Social Corner song as you pass the door so we can all go along and enjoy the concert.
 Where has Sweet Lavender gone? If anyone has found her while trying to be friendly with new neighbors. please report. Perhaps she may see this and be induced to write again.
 Sister Ready: It would be well for us all to learn to do small things largely. Really, I do try to be con- tented doing the little things that lie in my path, because I believe the little things may be made stepping stones to a larger and srander work.
 If Blue Bells of Scotland cannot help write the pastors sermons, she might be able to wash the dishes in the pas tors kitchen. or relieve the weary watcher in the sick room, so that the pastor would have more time and 6 clearer brain to prepare the sermons. Your suggestion of egg shells for seed cups is a. good one. Think I will try a few. Gail around some Saturday even- ing and we will study the Sunday school lessons together.
 With best wishes for health and happiness to the Editor and friends in the Social Corner.
 FAYE VERNA.
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name for so small & girl. Am right?
 Papa's BoY: Many thanks for card. Hope to meet you and Ready this summer, for you can run your auto and put on the same sign you had when you all went to Colchester with Rural Delivery. 1 think he was so kind to go-hope he will take you all again to camp meeting, 80 we can all meet you.
 Frank: Was glad to hear from you. What has become of M. Roena2 Hope she is not i'll again.
 Grille. where art thou? Did I guess right? Don't be scared; for mum's the word. When are you going to have a supper in the new social club nall? Wish you success.
 Centennial Square: You are all right to vote for better times and ex- plain how.
 Sunflower: You are just right in what you wrote last week. Good luck to you. Write again. Best wishes to all.
 BLUE BELLS OF SCOTLAND.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-09

Corner, in which there are a number of writers. I do not know who they are by their pen names but I believe they are the grandchildren of some of the folks we used to know when we were boys. I read their stories with much interest. Some are trying for a prize that the paper offers. I can inn agine the anxious looks on their faces as they look for their stories to come out in print, and the troubled look on the editors face to decide which writ CT is entitled to a prize. Newspaper men here are much more liberal than they are in the west; and the same in California; they don't give prizes with us: but want their subscription money much in advance.
 we need to be proud of good old Connecticut, with it's liberal editors and up-to-date newspapers; also Of the fine fields of the best tobacco for our good cigars, which grows so nicely along the Connecticut river, and the many busy manufacturing plants
 One of the noted little articles made here is the little Seth Thomas clock. which has been sent to all parts Of the world.
 Well, we will stop talking about newspapers and clocks, and look the old place over again And at 1t they spent some time.
 First, they visited the graves of their dear old parents in the family lot; then the old homestead and outbuild- ings, which reminded them of many ! happy days when boys. The butter nut trees were still living, and the stones are there where they used to crack the nuts in the fall; the old 1 playhouse back of the corncrib was in | fair condition. the stones were covered with moss: the old well-sweep was gone. but the well looked natural, and 1 a trout came to the top of the water 1 after a fly as they looked down the well, where they used to drink better water than they had ever seen since they left the old home.
 ! As the sun was sinking over the western hills they made their way back to the village hotel to spend the night. l The next day they started for their i homes, one in California, the other 1 to the corn belt in the west, and as ! they clasped hands to say good bye | they said: Let us not wait 90 long l again before we meet. We are glad we once more visited our boyhood home and how true it is FBe it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-09
SOCIAL CORNER POEM.
When the Chickens Come Home

When the Chickens Come Home. You may take the world as it comes
 and goes. and you will be sure to find That fate will square the accounts she
 owes.
 Whoever comes out behind: By all things bad that a man has
 done,
 By whatsoever induced, Return at last to him, one by one, As the chickens come home to roost Sow as you will. there's a time to
 reap
 For the good and bad Ss well. And conscience, whether we wake or
 sleep,
 Either in heaven or hell: And every wrong will find it's place, And every passion looSed, Drifts back and meets you face to face, When the chickens come home to
 roost. wðer you arc over or under the
 sod,
 TAe result will be the same, You cannot escape the hand of God, You must bear your sin and shame; No matter whats carved on a marble
 siah.
 When the Items are all produced, TsuiI find thet old Peter was keeping
 the tab And that chickens come home to
 roost.
 Sent in by CHERISETTE.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-09
A WELCOME HELPER.

Dear Editor and Social Corner eis- ters: l am another new one. Hoping to be registered as Sister of the Cor ner.
 I have decided to give two reeires and in this way to do good.
 To Frozen, who seems to get burns frequently from the stove, I would say: Take ons-hah pound bseswa1, one-haif pound mutton tahow. one half pound rosin and melt all together. working 1t like candy. Then cut 1t up in convenient lengths heat 1t at the stove, or lamp, and put 1t on cloth and cut the plaster the size you may de- sire. This salve is excellent to use any place on the body where there is pain. It is good for burns.
 To Sister Beccy, who has been look ing for a recipe to make good old style johnny cake, will venture to gay: You must have good meal. made from good sound corn, and scald it with boiling water. Let the water be very hot and have no doubt you will be successful.
 Before close I would wish success to all of the Corner Sisters.
 Biissful immortality when we shall cross the narrow sea.
 WATT OF THE HAMMERS.
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ANswgHs TO CORRESPONDENTS

ACNTY-I1stter has been forward cd to Pink Rose
 F. E. P.-Papers have been mailed as directed.
 MONTVHIEi-By the courtesy of Veil We have in hand Mrs. SigOurney' s poem. Tine Atlants's Bell, which we will print next week.
 HT'IDA-The story, "Hulda's Pleas Ure Trip" received and will appear in due time.
 BAllSA14 BTR-PoStal has been mailed to Pink Rose,
 A Hold -up-When the pigeonhole sCntains letters from Ready, Rural Delivery. Swamp Apple and other such writers. it is painful to us, although 1t does no harm to have lots of good things on hand.