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Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-02
A STRAW RIDE TO COLCHESTER

house who has met with an accident,
which causes all the noise?'
He said: why, that's my Sister
Sall singing MY Sweetheart's the Man
in the Moon"
told the boy to tell Sail IF the man
in the moon don't hear her it won't be
her fault" and we drove along.
In due time we came to Colchester,
and stopped at the home of Glen
wood, where We had an old fashioned
Old Folks Concert, which all took part
in, and it was greatly enjoyed by all.
When some Of the pretty girls Of Is
came out with the fashioned
dresses and false gray hair, I could
imagine that great grandmother had
come back to see me. The sisters gave
as fine an entertainment as We ever at
tended.
Glenwood made US all feel at home,
and must have expected company, for
she served a fine oyster supper, which
was prepared by her own hands. 1t
was during the cooking of the oysters
l was asked to get some wood, as the
fire was burning brightly. I went to
the woodbox, and there sat Ready with
about a dozen other nice looking sis
tiers. I had to ask them to excuse ME.
and to take a reserve seat, as the oys-
tiers needed more fire.
1t was 1880 when the concert was
over.
Then there was much talk about the
growth Of the Social Corner, and its
/ help to the many readers of The Bulle-
tin; and the kind editors ears must
have burned, for they talked about
him for an hour; but the talk was all
good, and some of the young ladies
would say:
Il wonder if he's single?"
| After thanking Glenwood for enter
| tanning US all so nicely, all Joined in
singing wait for the Wagon and Wei
/ All Take a Ride"
| It was in the small hours OF the
morning when the strawride was end
ed. and we shall never forget the Ole
Folks Concert at Colchester.
! RURAL DELIVERY.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-02
TESTED RECIPES.

Editor Social Corner: Will you well
come another newcomer into The Cor
ner? I have read the Social Corner
with q great deal of benefit. VIII
send a few tried and true recipes:
Lemon Pie-Two slices of bread,
half an inch thick (remove the crust),
one cup boiling water one cup sugar,
pinch Of salt, piece Of butter, juice
and rind of one lemon, yolks Of two
eggs. Bake with one crust; use the
whites Of eggs with two tablespoons
powdered sugar for meringue, brown
slightly.
Doughnuts-Two eggs, one cup su-
gar. one teaspoon salt, one-half tea
spoon nutmeg, few drops vanilla,
tablespoons hot lard, one and one
half cup milk, one half-cup water, 3
teaspoons baking powder, flour to mix
stiff; roll as little as possible.
Apple Cream caks-One egg and
yolk Of another, one cup sugar, 2 ia
blespOOns butter, One-half cup lGilk,
one teaspoon cream arrar, one hall
teaspoon soda, cups flour and pinch
of salt, bake in tins.
FiIling-One large or two small sour
apples grated, white Of one egg, l cup
powdered sugar; beat al together well
till white and stiff; flavor with vanilla
put between layers and on top.
Chocolate cake-One cup sugar, ]
tablespoon butter, yoiks of two eggs
cup milk, 2 cups flour. 1 teaspoon
cream Of tartar, IL teaspoon soda
half teaspoon lemon; bake in layers
Filiing-W Whites of two eggs, two
third cup powdered sugar, teaspoons
of grated chocolate, flavor with va
nilla; cook in kettel set in water
about eight minutes, stirring most OF
the time; spread between and on top
COOK OF NORWICH.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-02

to run it. That, to me, is a silly and
foolish argument.
No! Put the blame for such a state
Of affairs where it belongs-at this
door Of the indolent and shallow and
selfish woman. Don't sweep it into
the door of the woman who thinks
and reads and would vote-if she
could. Is it not because she has the
welfare Of this home so deeply at heart
that she wishes to vote? To have the
right to say who shall teach her chill
dren in the public schools or whether
the saloon shall flourish like a green
bay tree within the boundary Of her
town or city?
Are not these the reasons why nina
out Of ten women long and hope for
the day to come when il will no longer
be d question Of petticoats or panta-
looms, but all shall be declared free
and equal
In the meantime, friends, let us do
q little thinking and writing on the
subject. Let US put aside our chick
ems and calves, our rhymes and reci-
pes, our pies and patchwork, the
weather and the woodbox, and talk Of
something worth while. Let our
praiseworthy attempts to find out who
is who be shut up for a season in
the aforementioned woodbo1 and let
as spend a little time finding out what
Is what!
Let US try to realize what an op-
portunity is ours when given once q
week page of The Bulletin with ita
wide circulation, to discuss this and
many other questions which are agi-
tating Tor ought to be) the minds OF
thinking men and even women today,
so when the day of our emancipation
dawns, as it surely will, we may be
prepared and ready to meet its re-
sponslbilities.
ONE OLE THEM
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-02
FROZEN ENJOYS HER FuRs.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis
ters; am very glad to see another
member from my state. And she Is
calling for a johnny cake recipe
Beccy: l am glad you agree with me
that it is slightly cold, but Just ths
climate to enjoy your furs. [ never
took SO much comfort with mine as I
haVo this winter. Here is a johnny
cake recipe to try, and one that have
fine luck with:
Johnny Cake-TWo cups yellow meal,
scalded add two teaspoons salt, one
quarter cup sugar, one and one-hsf
cups flour. Fry on the griddle.
Lucy Acorn: Come right along, II
you want jolly vacation. We have
plenty of room, good hurting and fish
Ing. II you enjoy that sport. Bring
along an acorn so I will know you
Potlatch: l don't know but ! should
like your climate, II the snow don't
last any longer. When It comes here,
It stays all winter. From the prospects
now 1t won't go away until July.
Blue Bells of Scotland: 1 would like
to shake hands with you. Your idea
about dressing chickens is all right
and worth knowing, although I never
| dressed them so myself; yet It will be
a tip for one that has to. You will
have to guess again what my father
does.
Ready: Where are housekeeping or
| frozen up? I don't believe Il agrees
with you to go off on auto rides. Why
don't you tell us tho fun you had.
NEaJnn
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-02
RUTH CALLED OUT BY C. A. S.

Dear Friends of the Social Corner
wonder if there is room for me in
the Social Corner to send my greet
ings to the members. l have for a
long time been gazing with envious
eyes on the Social Corner, and not
until I saw c. A. SIS letter from Chic
opee, Mass, was I able to muster up
courage. enough to write.
G. H. s., 1918: do not go to high
school, but I attend a commercial
school, and no doubt have just as
much fun. You are right, there is
nothing like "the dear old farm"
have spent many happy days on one.
wish you would write again; for
would so like to hear Of your esca-
pades at school.
Shut-In: / hope you will soon re-
gain your strength so that you Will
be able to go out, for the good weather
will soon be- coming, and no one can
afford to stay in, in the springtime.
know how pleasant it must be down
your way in the spring, with the ap-
pie trees all in bloom, and birds al
singing. 1t makes you realize the full
sense of that line, Cod is In the
heaven. ais right with tho world"
Aline: l enjoyed your story very
much. I should like to have heard
the Quartette composed Of Jim and
Billie and the two others. Can't you
get jim to have his favorite song
printed iii the Social Corner, so We
can all sing it together? l can't sing
but I'll whistle it.
I hope The Corner will always be
kept full. either by Puss or some Other
person. I send with my best wishes
this motto, Don't stop, but keep righr
on
RUTH.
NAvyvjch
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-02

sick. | missed your letter. We can
not spare you from our Corner. The
man Of the house says l may take an
auto ride with you. but l cannot go
skating
Lucy Acorn: If you spend your vaca-
ton up in Maine be sure and find
Frozen. l think you will find her en-
tertainingi full of life, up and doing
most Of the time.
Montville: I enjoy your letters very
much. Hope to meet with you some
time.
Dear Frozen: A snowdrift only three
feet high does not frighten me at all.
(l guess you do not know how big
feel) / called on my neighbor yester-
day afternoon, and l was afraid l
should get stuck in the mud. Please
go easy. This is leap year. That
woodbox is just the real thing. Come
to Connecticut and I win meet you at
! Boston. You can carry a flag and 30
| can I.
Balsam Fir: I am pleased to read
something again from your pen. l do
all my embroidery in white. using
Peri-Lusta. 1t keeps white, does not
turn yellow.
Beccy: l trust you have not forsaken
| us SO soon, DO not be a silent mem
| Der.
Blue Bell and Fleur De Lis: When
! stay at home someone tries to make
| believe I have been somewhere. When
l travel no one asks me If / am Ready
! or member Of the Social Corner. Die
| either of you see the man Of the house
/ and L? The man Of the house picked
| up The Bulletin and he said to the
! man Of that house:
DO you read the Social Corner"
He said: ooh, yes"
When he was asked if he knew
| Ready, he said: No" and do you
| know there ! sot. am in somewhat Of
a miXup. l received a card and l an
! lost
Dear Dolly: What is the trouble
DO please write just line. I trust you
are not sick.
Cora of Norwich: Your letter was al
right You will be welcome at the
! social at any time. I have worn quite
a few badges.
Elizabeth: Just at present we are
| having an ice storm. Yesterday was
! so warm was in hope we would mo-
! have any more cold weather l will
| answer card soon.
Airline: Thank you for putting me il
| your story. It braces one up to be re.
| membered.
! Merry Farmer Boy: Welcome! NJ
| one has been here yet to have a cup o.
| tea or sit on the woodbox. Wonder
| who win be the first A cup anC
| saucer to the first one calling aftel
| this letter has been read by the Socia
| Corner members.
! Good wishes for all. READY.
| Leonard Bridge.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-02
AN EMERGENCY DINNER.

Editor Of the Social Corner: I think
Daughters" hasty dinner and Cora
of NorWich's'' quick meal both fine
and good enough to "set before a
queen" I should be puzzled to say
which was the best: but l think have
a menu which surpaSses either one
for in this instance the writer had no
canned goods to depend on, and the
good meal was made out of so very
little that think we would all be puz-
zled if our "city cousins" should walk
in on us with no more IN the larder
than this one woman had. 1 will give
the story in her own words;
Al Emergency Dinner-The hens
were on strike, the COWS driving up
and where we usually had plenty Of
pork on hand, this year we had only
a few pounds Of salt pork bought from
neighbor. To be sure. we had some
vegetables, such as potatoes, onions
and turnips, and q few cans of toms-
toes anu some fruit, It was fish day,
but the fish dealer failed to show Up
This mattered little to daughter and
myself, for Father who had gone
away for the day, would be sure TO
call at the meat market on his way
home, and there would be plenty the
next day, So I went cheerfully about
my work and had just set my kitchen
to rights when my little girl ran to
me with the information that some
one was coming down the road. A
hasty look, and my heart sank into
my boots.
Johns cousins-Mary and Kate!" I
gasped. What on earth shall 1 have
| for dinner?"
How was going to get dinner out
salt pork and a few vegetables? But
did. II you could have seen those
| city folks eat, you would have needed
10 other proof of its success.
| The menu was as follows:
Tomato Soup-Croutons
Turnip Chops Pork Crisps
Mashed Potatoes Dreamed Onions
| Pickles
| Feather Biscuit Pie
| Coffee
Tomato Soup-TO one quart can to-
! matoes add one-half pint hot water.
! Let come to a boil, add a pinch OF
| soda and when through foarning add
/ one pint OF milk. Then season with
/ salt. pepper and a generous piece Of
butter. Serve with small squares OF
toasted bread.
Pork crisps are simply pieces of salt
pork fried brown.
! Turnip Chops-Pare four good sized
I turnipS, cut into oue-half inch slices
and boil in sailed water When tender
dip IN -four and fry in hot fat until a
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-02
A WORD FROM FRANK.

Dear Sisters Of the Social Corner: l
think it a most delightful plan tosdo
something every day in all the year
TO make somebody else glad we are
living
Please keep on telling of all the help
ful things You know, sisters; but
fear I know nothing new to you.
When the cover Of your teakettle or
ether kettles lose their knobs, as they
are apt to. just put a screw up through
from the inside and on this put a cork
Of the right size to form knob. AS a
nun-conduCtOr Of heat, cork will serve
you well I'm such a service, and be
found to be as good as new without
cost.
sister Bee. There is no water like
rainWater il one can catch II to wash
With. Borax added TO hard water will
make 1T soft. DID you ever try sal
soda7
Dear Sister Shut-In: / am one for
life so far as 7 can see. No way to
get out Of it: but are we not glad to
5e able 10 talk with our brothers and
sigters through the Social Corner.
Should you knock at our door some
evening you would be welcomed and
ushercd into a big room. on one side
Of IL is an old fashioned homemade
lounge YOU could rest comfortably on
end sip coffee and eat Of the good
things made from the recipes Of Clara
of Canterbury and others. Pink Roses
Johnnycake. perhaps.
Dear Aine. ] enjoyed your story
and the others. Hope Rural Delivery
will tell us about that concert soon.
Ready, Dear: Our kind editor will
keep his eye on the billygoat and see
that he doesn't push open the gate and
let YOU out 1t would make me lone
some 20 miss any OF you, for / enjoy
the letters of all the Social Corner
folks
FRANK.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-02

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis
tiers: 1 am very glad to know there are
SO many who agree with me.
X. Y. e.: You~seemed to understand
my idea exactly.
An article which 7 find very handy
in the kitchen I make as follows: Take
two holders and to q corner of each
fasten a piece of tape 16 inches long;
fasten the other end of the tape to an
other piece which is long enough to
tie easily about the waist. You will
find it nice to have these holders close
by your side, especially on baking
days.
Can any Of the sisters tell me what
will remove a white ring from a chair,
caused by setting d hot dish on it2
With best wishes for all.
QUEEN BESS,
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-02

piecing bedquilts to request pattern.
Am sending it to you.
Frozen, Maine: Thank you for the
invitation to attend your skating par
ty. 1 have skated on many of the
ponds in and around my childhoom
home and my skates, which belonged
to the generation before me, have had
the honor Of skating on the Thames
river Quite old timers, but trusty.
The Merry Farmer Boy: We like to
welcome the boys to our Corner, and
I see we have some pretty smart ones.
Those who piece quilts and play the
piano and sing in the choir, etc. May
be l viii run across you some time.
At any rate, be ready for the wood
box social, for it is no joke.
Shut-In: 1 am sorry for you, and
wish I might call on you to relieve
the lonesomeness. Although I live in
the country, it is far from lonesome
here, as it is on the corner of a main
road, intersected with another road
equally well travelled. Then with the
telephone and near neighbors it Is a
pretty busy place.
Aline: Your method Of washing
windows and mine are similar. new
er have used kerosene on the glass
Do you think it enough easier2 The
different lines" make a dust, all right
I like newspapers to polish glass with
like to clean closets and cupboards
and glory holes beforehand, and most
every one has such. Your story this
week was a great hit.
J. E. T.: Wish you had sent your
method of keeping vegetables from
freezing before this dreadful cold snaI
came. A great many will have chilled
potatoes this spring.
: will close, wishing all the Social
Corner sisters success.
CHERISETTE
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-02
HER OLD HOME TOWN IN MAINE

Dear Beccy and Frozen, Of Maine:
Do let me shake hands with you, for
you seem like old friends. I was born
and bred in the old Pine Tree state,
and though I have lived for years in
Connecticut, yet / love Maine better.
Three years ago, after an Sbsence
CT many years, l revisited my old
home town, Machiasport, Me. I found
many changes had taken place, and as
I stood looking at the spot where once
the dear old home stood that had shell
tered me in childhood, and where
had spent SO many, many happy hours
my Heart was filed with sadness, and
tears flowed unchecked.
Dear c. H. S.: Welcome to our
Corner. I think there is something so
interesting abs ut schoolgirls. have
two that will soon DO in high school.
Hope to hear from you again.
Aline: Your Social Corner story
is fine. Did Ma tell you how many
eggs she was getting?
Like Elizabeth, was not especially
interested at first in the Social Cor
ner, but now when the Saturday Bull
letin arrives, I turn Immediately to
the Social Corner page, and am never
disappointed in what ! end there.
A MAINE LOVER.
Mansfield.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-02
WOMEN SHOULD KNOW THEIR
RESPONSIBILITIES,

Dear Dreamer: I am a suffragette,
but / believe in the necessity for
great awakening CT women to their OPP
portunities and duties and to their
rightful responsibilities in the conduct
Of affairs. Nine-tenths of the money
of the lower classes and three fOurths
of the money of the well-to-dO is spent
by women.
Women have much mere need for
expert knowledge in expenditure than
men have. The women need as much
to know how best to spend as the
man needs to know how best to earn.
When a man gets married, we all
wonder whether he is able to support
a wife. There should be little more
consideration Of the brides ability to
administer his income. Right spend
ing is more important than saving,
and it must be the woman's task. The
saving looks out for the rainy day,
which may never come: the daily
spending, year in and year out, not
only feeds the family, but houses and
educates and clothes them as well.
More families are poor because the
wife is unframed and wasteful than
because the husband does not earn
enough. Very often women say they
are not supported properly, when, as
a matter of fact, they get quite
enough to spend. Their complaint
grows out Of their ignorance, their
wastefulness, or their unreasonable
ness.
The fault OF the American woman
in general is that she has not known,
figuratively speaking, that the stove
has hampers Incredible quantities of
coai of all sorts are going up the
oh Of A 90
you see why we must be more active
Women can do almost anything they
want to in this world, and these prob
lens Of the cost of food and of its
quality and the surroundings and the
method of its handling-these are
certainly matters they can control by
making a complete boycott
CENTENNIAL SQUARE.
ReadyilIe, Mass
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-02
Moosup
KENTUCKY BELL JOINS.

Dear Editor aud Social Corner Sis
ters. I enjoy the letters. have
thought OF writing a shert letter.
wonder If the Editor and Sisters will
welcome mo 10 their interesting Cor
ner7
Pspa's Boy: I have enjoyed your let
ters very mucn and also the others
Give q clue, so I may find you.
therisette: ] wonder IF l don't know
YOU. Haven't you a daughter who
plays the piano Be on watch, for |
may drop ia to see YOU.
Elizabeth: l have enjoyed your let
ters very much. What very cold
weather we have been having
Dolly. Give a clue. for want to
know you. You haven't written for so
Ions. Have YOU been sick?
VIII stop now and let the other
SiEters write n letter.
Rood luck 70 all
KENTUCKY BELL.
Leonard Bridge
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-02

Dear Editor Social Corner and
Friends: 1t was after the cold north
winds had ceased to blow and the
birds were returning from the sunny
south, and the man in the moon could
be plainly seen, We thought We could
give some of the members of the Social
Corner a surprise. We got our big
wagon out and put in q dozen bundles
of clean rye straw, which We're we'll
spread out in the bottom Of the wag-
on; sign on either side of the wagon
which read as follows: Social Corner
Members: Free Strawride to Colches-
ter"
First I hitched Tom and Jerry to
the wagon. and TO make sure no one
would be left behind / put Bess and
Nell on lead. I started out to see if l
could pick I'D a load of Social Corner
members, and ! had good success. The
first place 1 stopped was at the home
of "Aline.' where the surprise was on
me, for she had caught on to my plan
and had the whole grand company
there waiting for me. 1t did not take
long to get my load, some climbing
over the wheels to get a good seat in
the straw.
When they all thought they had re-
serve seats we started by the light of
the SllVery moon. II was one OF 1le
most sociable four horse loads of peo-
pie that ever went over that road.
They were all talking at the same
time on different subjects, which re-
minded me of a flock of blackbirds
when they come back in the spring
to try to tell US how they passed the
winter At first l felt a little timid
with such a company of ladies, as
was the only male member, but "Aline'
said:
"Be not afraid, for we are all your
sisters"
Then 7 felt better. AS We journ-
eyed along the country road we came
to fine looking place where there was
a fearfuIly shrill scream coming from
the house Thinking someone was In
trouble we held up our horses, when a
young boy came to the door and / ask
ed: Us there some one in the
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-02
A HELPFUL LETTER
FROM ISABEL.


Dear Sisters Of the Social Corner: l
wonder how many Of the Sisters do
their own sewing and have begun their
spring and summer shirtWaists, house
dresses. etc, this February when there
is a lull in housekeeping? l find it a
good plan to get my sewing done up
before spring cleaning begins, and
want to tell you a few things that l
have found useful.
First Of all, there is a simple solution
that l use to set the color in calicoes,
percaies and ginghams, for it is dis
couraging to make a pretty new dress
and have it fade after the first wash
ing.
The solution is simple but effective:
Dissolve one tablespoon, each of salt
aud turpentine in two-thirds pail of
water and let the goods soak in this
for a little while. When washing
dresses that l am especially DESTROYS
to keep fresh. and children's clothes
which 50 often require washing, | add
either salt or vinegar to the rinsing
water in the proportion of a tablespoon
to q quart Of water. As a general rule
the lighter colors take salt, the darker
vinegar; but when in doubt l use
both.
OF course, it is some extra work to
do this, but everything that is worth
while causes extra effort, doesn't it?
Lucy Acorn ! don't wonder you
thought that loaf cake recipe was
wrong if it was printed without the
sugar or egg ingredients. One cup Of
sugar is needed but no egg. ard there
in il differs from most rules for loaf
cake, and for this reason it is nice to
make when eggs are as high as they
are this winter.
A Dreamer: Your letter on Social
Corner helps was fine and principally
because it is a reviver l made up my
mind to write for the Corner. I fear
I cannot be of much help to other
members.
Rural Delivery: Was glad that you
wrote Of the pleasures of country life,
for some city people seem to have the
I idea that living in the country is like
/ Icing buried alive. J used to think 50
myself before | left the city for a
farm, but for real Informal jollity the
country cousins take the lead. Your
/ grange must be a live one. | should
/ like to visit it some evening, as I
know two of your most prominent
members.
/ l fear l have written too much for
a new member, but brevity is not my
strong point. ISABEL.