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Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10
BLANCHE,
HOW TO BREW VERMONT ROOT
 BEER.

Dear Social Corner Friends: As I was moving beside the river yester- day l ran across large beds of wild peppermint, other hints and lobelia intermingled with night shade (of wonderberry fame), and then l won- dered if the other members of the Corner appreciated flowers, both wild and cultivated, as I do.
 Perhaps one of the most common of these herbs, on our river. Is the wild peppermint. It grows in rich profu- sion with its small clusters of purple blossoms, and it's wealth of green leaves. Its fragrance always makes its presence noticeable. This plant, when dried and brewed, makes one of the best old fashioned remedies for a countless number of pains and sick nesses.
 Lobelia was also counted a valuable asset to the old fashioned collection of dried herbs which once hung in every attic.
 Answering W. R-'s inquiry for "old l fashioned" root beer, the following is handed down and is superior bev- craze:
 Vermont Root Beer-One- handful of spruce leaves, one quart winter green leaves, one good handful o1 sweet fern leaves. one teacup of dan | delion root, half pound black birch | bark. Put roots in kettle with foui l quarts of water and boil all day. Poul this liquor (strained through chees- cloth), on to three pounds of sugar l Stir well and add two gallons of colo water. Boil the herbs again and adt to the first brew. Stir and sweeter to taste. Place in stone or earther crock and add a quarter of a yeas cake. Allow it to set until through fermenting, and then place in bottle. or keg.
 In place of wintergreen leaves a tea. spoonful of ginger may be used a, 1 flavoring agent.
 Other flavors may be obtained by adding proper quantities of sarsapa rilla root. sassafras bark or snak root.
 Received card from ma and will re turn the favor when I find an appro priate card.
 CO-SOLD.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10


 Americans eat less cheese than any other nationality. Cheese with bread is the proverbial food of the British workingman all over England. You take cheese as matter of course, just as much as you do butter. Stilton, Cheshire, Gloucester, Cheddar-there is no end of varieties presented to you, and the grazing shires boast of their cheese as they might of some triumph in arms.
 The case is the same in Scotland and Wales, and even in Ireland, cheese supplies the place of meat wherever you go. Cheese is an important item in the dietary, writes Marion Harland in the Washington Herald.
 Cross the Channel to Holland and they will give you cheese for break fast, as if there were not opportunity for it at the other meals of the day. Who can forget the display of divers cheese on the sideboard in a Dutch breakfast room-great rounds where any number "could cut and come again." The Pineapple cheese, the Edam cheese. the cheeses you find at Brock and Mounikendam and every where else you wander in the land of canals-
 When you go into France you enter the land of fancy cheeses, but even there the peasant and the workman rely upon cheese as standby in the dietary. This Is the same in Italy, in | Spain, in Switzerland, where you find cheeses that never cross the ocean, but remain delicious to the palate of the traveller.
 A-g I- Erie as 1t is found on its native heath | liquid and luscious on its bed of straw or ricotta, with the flavor goats milk cheese alone possesses, or the petit Suisse to be eaten with cream and sugar, and the Gruyere, widely known in this country as Swiss cheese, and inseparably connected with rye bread and mustard? Germany holds her owr in the matter of cheeses. not only with the ill-famed limburger, but with oth- CTS of less striking personality. Pass l ing out of Europe and on into Syria we find the cheese holding it's own All through the Bible we meet cheese and the unchanging east is true to il after centuries. The "leban' which is like our loppered milk, or the English curds and whey, is an inevitable iten in the oriental commissary and tho AraD IdVeieF carries lC W1Jn him OI his journeys, packed into a hard ball which is own brother to the New Eng land pot cheese
 I could go on proving the backward ness of America in the cult of cheese not the fancy Camembert, Philadel ph1a, cream, Neufchatel. Erie-whicl are served with dessert on state oc casions, and which. in spite of thei foreign names, are the product of do mestic factories; but the common 0 garden varities of American dair cheese, which we are informed by tn government experts is far more nutri t1ous than an equal bulk Of meat.
 Hear the words of wisdom from a, authority who reports "a pound c cheese has nearly the same food valu of two pounds of fresh beef, or an other fresh meats. The only way t account for the comparattyely finite
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10
HINTS FROM POLLY PEPPERMINT

Dear Corner Friends: Polly Pep permint has surely been away, as x r 2 has told you; but as to its being on a vacation I would hardly call it that, by choice. However, I am at home once again.
 I haven't seen any letters from Only One or Another Normalite for some time Are they writing under other names?
 Peggy Ann: Are huckleberries plen- ty in your locality? We have seen on- ly few about here Would like to take my tin pail, dcn sunbonnet, and go with you for a berrying.
 Salads are such helps now when one wants something more than the usual cold meat and fried taters for sup per, that I'll send on my recipe for
 Salad Dressing-Qt Is easy to make economical, and always comes out "good.") Beat one egg slightly, add two heaping teaspoons of sugar anC 1 1-2 of mustard. Stir well with 3-4 cup of thin cream or cup rich milk Set over boiling water. Stir until vel heated and dissolved. When hot anC smooth add a quarter-cup of vinegar Thicken' with teaspoon of corn. starch dissolved in a little water. Pu in salt or not as you like.
 1 saw a very pretty brown bag, tht other day. and the owner told me tha she had made it herself from tn, wrists of her long doesl1in gloves. Tn, fingers wore out, and she took tn, wrists for the bag after cutting off strip for strings. The bottom of bal below stitching was slashed up int, fringe.
 Next time l go on a vacation IT have one, too, perhaps.
 Why can't Ye have 2 truly Corne
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10

does. Friends come to friendly folks.
 How much of yourselves do you give to help those who haven't very good time in life7 It doesn't take much just a flower put into the hand. which is doubled up with passion against the world; only a tender touch to brush away the tears which stain the cheek in time of sorrow-simply a bit of comfort and encouragement at the right time. These are enough to make everybody you meet say of you:
 What a good man or woman they are! There couldn't be better one in the world"
 This does not cost much. The world Is hungry for such little bits of serv- ice. Give out of yourselves every day give freely. The fountain will never run dry-the more you give the more there will be to give. And in blessing you will be blessed.
 Good wishes from, FROZEN.
 Maine
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10

Dear Editor and Sisters: I have not written for quite a while, but can not keep still any longer, as I want to tell Rural Delivery I will wave to him when he goes by. but not when on the train, as I cannot quite see it
 Blue Bells: Yes, you must not for get to come to call on me. Be sure to bring c. B. S. with you, as know she wants to find me. I think you have a son George. I cannot forget the night you had a supper when your husband was representative, or how your little son came in and call ed the company-"S "Supper's ready" Am I right2
 c. D. S.: When I have my kitchen repaired will have one of those hang ing shelves put up. The flower seeds are coming on all O. K.
 Blue Bird How are those chickens 1 getting along. Hope you will have enough for a chicken pie for Thanks giving.
 As it is nearly time for sweet corn I will send in my recipes for
 Corn Chowder.-Corn chowder No 1.-Cut the kernels from a dozen ears of corn; peel and m1nce two onions and fry brown in three tablespoons ot butter. Put the corn with four or five crackers broken up, and one-halt | dozen potatoes pared and sliced. Sea son with pepper and salt, cover with a quart of boiling water. Let 1t al cook for three-fourths of an hour then stir in slowly a cup of boiling milk thickened with a tablespoon ot flour; add lump of butter.
 Corn chowder, No. 2.-six goot sized potatoes cut into dice, one large onion fried with large slice of pork; one quart of corn; salt and pepper to taste; boil and when done add z piece of butter and as much milk al desired.
 TT D
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10
MARCUA
SAMANTHAsA HEART BEATS
 TRUE.

Editor of Social Corner: That story of A Maine Lovers was good. But l think my pie" letter must have given a wrong impression. as greedy and selfish my partner certainly is not if he does like pie.
 Guess I shall have to be put in the same class with Ruth, as 1, too, be. lieve in equal rights. But if could vote 1 presume 1 should get caught trying to put in more than one vote against the liquor traf1c. And may be I should vote the socialist ticket.
 MT. Hearst's papers have some fine editorials on suffrage. I cut out one that had a picture over it of some one trying to roll stone up hin, and thought would read 1t at the nsIt meeting of our society. Wen, when I went to get my clipping a pesly mouse had got In the drawer of my desk and chewed 1t all up.
 The next morning Thomas Jefferson said: tMa, had kind of creepy foel- ing in the night when was awakened by my banjo strings hunming (hiH banjo stood in a corner of his bed room), and then I decided it was that mouse running on them what trted to down women's rights by eating what was printed in favor of them. tives under that turned down tin pan I wish you could have seen that bed room. It looked as though one of them western cyclones had struck it.
 Black Pansy: Change your name fl you wish. but imagine there win re- main some literary earmarxs that ] can guess you out by-
 Blue Bells of Scotland: I guess you must be mistaken in the person when you ask about my heart trouble. ] have no heart trouble. My heart beats just as true for Josiah as 1t dlo years ago.
 SAMANTHA
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10
REASONABLE WINE RECIPES.

Dear Sisters: J. E. T. asks for 6 fecipe for Rhubarb Wine I am send hg that with others, thinking the oth- Ar sisters will be interested.
 Rhubarb Wine-To each gallon of luice, add 1 gallon of soft water in which 2 pounds of brown sugar has been dissolved; fill a keg or a barrel with this proportion, leaving the bung put, and keep it filled with sweetened water as it works over until clear; hen bung down, or bottle as you de- bre.
 Here is another, but more for pres )nt use: For every four pounds of Ehe stalks, cut fine, pour on one gall lon of boiling water, adding four lbs. brown sugar; let stand A hours, hav- Ing also added a little cinnamon, all- Epice, cloves and nutmeg, bruised as may be desired for flavoring; then strain and let work for a few days, and bottle.
 Tomato Wine-Express the juice from clean, ripe tomatoes q mash the fruit with a potato masher and strain through cloth, putting a weight to get all the juice), and to each gallon of 1t, without any water, put four lbs. brown sugar; put in the sugar imme- 6iately, before it begins to ferment. Let the wine stand in keg or barrel for two or three months, keeping a piece of muslin over the bung to keep out flies, then draw off into bottles carefully avoiding the sediment.
 Blackberry Wine-Mash. the berries and pour one quart of boiling water to each gallon; let the mixture stand 24 hours, stirring occasionally; then strain and measure into a keg, add ing two pounds of sugar, and good rye whiskey, one pint. or best alcohol 1-2 pt to each gallon. Cork tight and let 1t stand until the following Octo- ber. It in invaluable in sickness as g tonic, and nothing Is better for bowe. disease. use this recipe for straw berries or any fruit, omtting the whiskey or alcohol
 Grape Juice-To three quarts ot clear grapes add one pint of water; bring to boil in porcelain kettle; straiI without pressing. Return the juice to kettle and add one coffee cup o. hot sugar for each quart of the juice Bring to a boil and bottle while hot l wet bath towel in hot water, place the bottles on it so they will no break when the hot juice Is poured in; put corks in and dip in melted paraf1n to seal
 Aunt Jerusha: can answer for on, Ma.
 Bon Ami-My chicken that plays il the band is like Bon Ami. "hasn' scratched yet"
 Nat: Got card all right; thanks Have heard of that picture. but hay, never seen it.
 Maine Lover: Your story was good certainly got the worst of that argu ment.
 Waterford. MA.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10
PUT SERVICE INTO LIFE-eET
 BLESSINGS OUT.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis ters; Reading sometime ago a short article 1t impressed me so much that l decided later on to give in to the sisters, as near as I could remember 1t.
 Some folks are always worrying be- cause people do not think as much of them as of others. They don't see in- to it: they think they are just as smart as the others; they know how to appear, and all that. Still they never seem to have any real friends. What Is the trouble with such folks Let us not be harsh, nor find fault with them; but may we not just ask them few questions?
 How much ,of yourselves do you really give to make the lives of oth- CTS happy? You know about this bet ter than anybody else. Be fair in giy- ing your answer, because it's the one who gives most, that gets most. Give smiles, and bright words and YOU will get them back again in full measure, pressed down and running over.
 Cheery faces win where nothing else
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10

demand for cheese Is on the be2is of custom and lack of knowlsdre."
 Isn't this 8 reflection upon tho in- telligence and the up to datenesS of the American housekeeperf
 Here is a receipt for
 4 Temperance Welsh Rsbbft -zGsek q tablespoon of butter in a double 5oties and put with 1t gill of hot water and half pound of soft cheese, either grated or shaved. Let them melt to- getheri when they are done or val blended, season with a teaspoon ef celery salt, pinch each of dry mua- tard and red pepper and beat in three eggs whipped light; cook about three minutes longer, stirring all the time, then add a teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce: serve at once on toast This is delicious rabbit and will nsv- CT become str1ngy. If you prefer the stringy kind, or variety, omit the eGgA. CENTENNIAL SQUARE.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10
ANSWERS AND INQUIRIES.

AUNTY-Three cards received and mailed as you directed.
 MAINE LOvER-Letter and four cards mailed as you wished.
 sAMANTHA-Card forwarded to person for whom 1t was designed. PAPAS BOY-The card was mail- Sd to person designated.
 JTM-Sam Walter Foss poem is all light. Will appear in turn in the Cor her.
 BEE-The first Social Corner Bulle- Hn was that of Saturday, March 5, lS10.
 PINE TREE GIRL-I wish some of he sisters would tell me how to make } rice pie.
 RURAL LDELIVERY-Cards received Ind mailed as directed.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10
A DISCOURSE FROM MARCUS.

Dear Editor and Cornerites: As have aF home In the town where The Bulletin is printed, I have an interest in the paper, and | am helped in some way every week by the letters written by the Cornerites.
 Kindness of heart must prompt the writers to send such kind words and to give helpful knowledge acquired from years of study, work and expert ence, to the Social Corner. All this, given of their best. to make the lives Of unknown others brighter. happier, and more useful, will surely bring its reward in due season.
 Words of kindness are like seeds. Plant them, and they in time will beaJ flowers and fruit for us and otherA If we would only think twice before l speaking, many unkind words would | remain unspoken. as the tongue Is un- ruly, at times, and tongues helpoA along by feelings of envy, jealouHy and misunderstanding, have ruined many friendships. homes, lives and souls.
 We hear about people stealing mon ey, and we express our opinions in strong terms about thieves and the punishment which they should receive. | How about the thieves of things which are of more value than money? Should not country nave severe laws of punishments for such offenders, in or der to crush out the worst gysterns of robbery in the world?
 I might mention the saloon for ons system, and for another system the different methods used to ruin the character and life of some person. uppose some one should steal mon - ey from church. That is a dreadful deed, but it Is far worse to steal souls from the church and their rightful place in the world.
 Suppose one of the fairest and most promising of the flowers in one oh Gods gardens ( a church. was grad ually choked and crushed out by what were thought to be flowers, but when they were analysed by the expert bot 4 anist, who searches the hearts. proved to belong to the weed family of envy, jealousy and misunderstanding
 Let us search deep in our hearts Social Corner friends, to find out if we have been, perhaps unconscioisly, thieves in any way, and, if so, let us strive earnestly and prayerfully to re- place that which was taken. ] With best wishes for all the Corner writers, I must say ] Good-b bye.
 MARCUS.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10
SOCIAL CORNER POEM.
Rnae of New EnaIand.

Rose of New England. Rose of New England may thy namN Be written in a million flowers. May all thy hills and valleys fair Bloom rich and fragrant. fairy bow CTS. May rose blooms cover all thy scars Their fragrance fill our homes with peace. Where beauty reigns, no discord dwells;
 Who plants a rose, bids turmoil cease. Their fragrance soon will fill the earth, And at thy feet all men shall bow, Rose of New England, of the world, When rose wreaths twine about thy brow.
 Louise Franklin Miner,
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10
PAPA's BOY HAS HAVING DONE

Dear Social Corner Sisters and Edi- tor: My having is done and so I can again get time to write.
 Blue Bells of Scotland: Thanks for card. l will return 1t some time. now know your address
 Cherisette: Have you picked any low or high berries? I picked 8 few and am going again.
 Jim: How is your daughter B.? When l go by your house I will stop and hear your canned music. Do you allow boys at your home? F Merry Farmers Boy: Have you and your father got through having yet? Hurry up, so as to write some more K Y. E.: Welcome again.
 Wild West: How do you like to be wild? If were you I'd prefer tame east"
 Ready: Be on the watch!
 Best wishes to- all.
 "PAPAs BOY" Leonard Bridge
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10
BEE INQUIRIES AFTER ABSENT
 ONES.

Dear Social Corner Members; Billie Your card received. Surely time is money with most of us.
 B. c. T.: You have my sympathy in your recent trouble. Hope to see a letter in the corner from you soon.
 I suppose all you sisters are busy preserving the various fruits as they come to hand. I have rhubarb, straw berries, cherries and blackberries and red raspberries so far.
 Hope the sister who had such bad luck with her swing shelf last vear will have a better place this year
 would like to know the da-e Of the Bulletin that had the first "social cor ner' in it. BEE.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10
GAN SCALE MT. M'KlNuEY.
That Much Was Demonstratsd hv
 HerseheI Parker Expedition.

Dawson, r IT.. Aug. s.-The four members of the Herschel-Parker ex- petition, which explored the eastern slope of Mount Mckinley and attain ed an altitude of 10000 feet, only to be turned back by a storm near the su n . init, departed for Seattle on Monday. The party not only charted a larEs area now blank on the maps. but dem- onstrated the possibility of reaching the top of the great mountain by the northern, or Muldrow glacier, route
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10

Elizabeth, Swamp Apple, and some of the other Cornerites are, that they don't write. Thought the class prophecy by Sweet Sixteen fine. Success to the Corner.
 MAINE LOVER. Mansfield.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10
Kodskins Ysehtsmsn R.I....d.

Ktel, Germany, Aug. s.-ThN nvs English yachtsmen who were arrest ed on August 1. at Ecl1enfoerde, in Schleswig. Holstein. on the charge of espionage, were released today They were accused of taking photographs of Holstein coast. Including the harbors and bays. but the police admit now that the suspected men seem only 10 have been guilty of 'foolharIiy pho tography, of which they knew the risk.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10

picn1c7 The imaginary ones are good, but the real article would be better.
 POLLY PEPPERMINT.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10
YOU CANNOT PUT A GREAT HOPE
 INTO A SMALL SOUL
EVERY woMAN's OPPORTUNITY.

letters; of eachw
 Address SOCIAL Bulletin Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10

Waterbury.-Senator Alsop of Avon has arranged to have Colonel Theo- dore Roosevelt speak in Waterbury on Labor day after an earlier addrM1 q ha Rdyen in HsrEforA
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10

THREE PRIZES secOnd third Award madeths hs Saturday in each monbA
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10

Alexandria, Ohio.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10

Norwich Town
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10
HOW TO MAKE CORN cHowpER

Leonard Bridge.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10
AMERICANS NEGLECT CHEESE.

Mansfield
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-10
PLAN PUBLICITY
 FOR BIRMINGHAM
Unique Advertising Campaign Being Worked Out for the Big Dallas
 Convention

A conference was held yesterday by the members of the committee which Is arranging for the special advertising plans to be put into operation at the Dallas convention of the Associated Ad- vertising Clubs of America.
 It is understood that some absolute ly unique ideas are to be worked out lin advertising Birmingham at the Dal- las convention although the plans have not been disclosed. It was felt that the coming together of hundreds of expert advertising men from all parts of the United States would afford an ex- eeptonal opportunity to give Brming- ham some valuable publicity if some plan could be hit upon which would at tract the attention of the delegates in d forceful way.
 Yesterdays conference was held at the office of John Sparrow, president of the Birmingham Ad Mems club. and in addition to MT. Sparrow, those work : ing on the plans include r. B. Glenn ems of the News, John R. Hornady of he Ledger, and c. M Stanley of The Age Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-10
FIND NEGRO GUILTY
 OF KILLING GREEK
Will Woods Is Given Twenty-Seyen Years in Penitentiary
 for Crime

I've. ithe jury, find the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment. and fix his punishment at 27 years in the penitentiary," was the verdict of the jury in the case of the state against Will Woods, negro, charged with the murder of a Greek cook employed at A restaurant near the Terminal sta ton The case has been on triad in the first division of the criminal court since Monday, going to the jury yes terday, resulting in the verdict as stated above. The state was represented by Assistant Solicitor F. Winston, assist cd by White Gibson of the firm of Da- wis X Gibson. Jere King represented tho defendant
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-10
INTERSTATE HAS
 ANNUAL MEETING
Over Che Hundred Stock holders Present at Ses-
 siOns Held Here

The Interstate Casualty company held the offices of the company the ninth floor of the First National Bank biuld- ing, but after remaining in session a short time there adjourned to the. large account of the fact that there were lnare than 100 of the stockholders of the com. pany present and the offices were not large enough to accommodate this mum. Der.
 Henry E. Gray president of the com- pany. submitted the first annual report. which shows the company to be in ex- cellent condition and that the business during the past year had increased near ay 70 per cent.
 The Interstate Casualty company, al- though only two years oldr has r.ade great strides during that time and Is { growing in publicofavor every day. The company now has a capital stock oi s250,000 reserves and surplus of s199,a01 30 and cash and amounts due from agents s7I979.95. It is one of the new com panies in the south, but it has demon strated the fact that there is derand for such an organization and the outlook for its future is regarded as exceedingly bright. f5st
 During the two years that it has beer