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Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-19
THE SOCIAL CORNER COLOR.

Dear Sisters of the Corner: When Theeda told you of Ready's tattin les important other things that happened.
 We discussed the subject of @ So- cial Corner colGF, and decided on vel low, for this reason: It was a huge yellow chrysanthemum that Saman tha brought to the picnic, which graced the table of the first Social Corner affair. Another reason-the hearts of many of us had been made glad by pieces of yellow paper from the Bulletin office. There were nine present. We put it to vote and it was unanimous.
 Those of us who were not learning how to make tattin found out t4at those who made the most noise made the least tattin.
 Ma: Am going to answer your nice letter some day.
 Sally Sycamore: Is your summer home under 8 spreading chestnut tree? x and wouldn't part with it for three times its cost.
 Strawberry Acres: Yes, I will ad- init being an only child; but Ready thinks you have made the Social Cor ner conundrum when you ask me if I live alone. when am Married and Happy.
 Alberta: Too bad you don't live in this neighborhood. then you could go to some of the Social Corner parties we have here. We certainly do have
 Lfbbie I am the lady. I spent my time during the thunder shower look ing at the pattern book I bought a pattern the next day at ? D. m. I cut my dress out and the following day at p. m. wore it. How is that Have you seen me with the dress on.
 Hyacinth: Have you tried sour milk for ink stains? Soak the spot until all traces of the stain are gone. If this doesn't do the work try a strong solution of cream of tartar. Of course you will succeed better with 8 fresh spot than one that has had a good many tubbings.
 Eliza Jane: Glad to welcome some one from New London. That was my home for 8 great many years. I at tended the church with the two tow CTS.
 Samantha: Thank you for the card We do wish you could come to some of our tea parties.
 Hepatica: Did you know that MT Nj. & H. wore white duck surgeons coats?
 Thanking you all for your kindly interest I wish you all a joyful time cleaning house, for me, I prefer tc move, it is easier.
 MARRIED AND HAPPY.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-19
SUGGESTIONS FOR COOKING VEG
 ETABLES.

Dear Editor and Sisters: I am send ing you a few suggestions for cooking vegetables:
 All green vegetables, roots and tub CTS should be crisp and firm when put on to cook.
 Soak wilted vegetables in cold water to freShen them.
 Put salt in cooking vegetables when half done.
 A dash of soda helps green veg etabIes to keep their color.
 Cook delicatelX favored vegetables in a small amount of water.
 Cook young carrots and =beets whole. Tie caulif1ower and cabbage in a piece of cheesecloth. It is easy to handle and keeps it's shape.
 Salt tends to darken cabbage, cauli- flower and brussels sprouts.
 Wash a dozen pea pods to cook with the peas. This gives them a better flavor.
 Peas are delicious when cooked in the pod. The pods burst open and rise to the top; the peas settle to the bot tom.
 Vegetables ventilated while cooking are thought to be more wholesome and of better flavor.
 Vegetables should not be cooked in an iron kettle.
 Cook uncovered dandelions, spinach, green peas, caulif1ower. cabbage and brussels sprouts.
 Careful Trimming and thorough washing are essential
 Clean vegetables with 8 brush.
 If the sisters are as fond of parsnips as I am they will enjoy the following;
 Parsnip Stew-Scrape narsnips, cut in thin slices and cook until tender in as little water as possible; add milk as for oyster stew; season with salt and pepper and generous piece Of butter Just before serving break in several crackers.
 Creamed Parsnips-C1ean parsnips and cut into dice; cook in salted water until tender; drain and season with butter and pepper, and pour over a white sauce.
 Turnips, potatoes. cabbage. carrots and other vegetables are also good treated in the same way.
 White Sauce-Two tablespoons of butter, 11-2 tablespoons of flour, 1 cup scalded milk, 1 IA teaspoons salt, dash of pepper; melt the butter; add the flour mixed with seasonings; stir until thoroughly blended. Pour on gradually the milk, stirring until well mixed: beat until smooth and glossy.
 ELIZABETH.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-19
A LETTER FROM FLoRILLA.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis ters: As I haven't written for Qu1.e long time. thought I wo6ld write a line or two.
 Cherisette: forgot. all about your birthday; was going to send you q birthday card.
 Frank: What is the trouble that you haven't a letter for the Corner? Are you housekeeping?
 Lue of Canterbury: have tried that recipe for checkerboard cake. Have made two and like them. It is a very nice recipe.
 Ida: Must be that you forgot how to make peanut candy, or don't you use any sugar in it? Maybe l am wrong myself
 Gladness: I just read your recipe for apple cake. but couldn't find the apples at all. Did you forget them?
 Alberta: Are you sick. or are you knitting some more table mats? Hope you can get some more patterns for knitting, if you like to knit. Hope you will write another letter soon.
 Ceiinda: Must be you are house. cleaning now, as you haven't any let teFs for the Corner lately. But please leave off lang enough to write a line CT two
 < Sister Reaaxl | aee that t didast
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-19
REMOVING STAINS.

Dear Editor and Sisters of the Social Corner: One of the sisters wanted a recipe for taking out ink stains. Dip in boiling water, rub with salts of sorrel and rinse well.
 Coffee Stains-Lay the stained DOT ton of the cloth over a bowl and pour boiling hot water through it.
 Fruit Stains-Boiling water as above if intellectual rub with a solution of oxalic acid and rinse in warm water. Mildew-Wet with soapsuds. lay in sun, spread with a pastte of softsoap and powdered chalk, and sun it; soak in buttermilk and sun.
 Grass-If fresh use alcohol and rinse, or use Jovelle water and rinse thor oqshIy.
 Grease-hEoisten with a strong amo- mia water; lay plotting paper over and iron dry; use chloroform to restore color. or cover with powdered French chalk and iron.
 Biood-Soal1 in luke warm water; for ticking and thick goods make 8 paste of starch and weter; leave until dry and brush off.
 MUGGINS. So71tT1 CanterhTry
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-19

irs bringing about a Revolutionary war not so many years ago.
 Oh, you men. take care; take care. Now shall we talk about something else?
 l should really like to know why my bevy of uninvited--chatterbo in my last letter read ''berg?" Perhaps the typesetter thought I meant iceberg. We certainly shall need several up this way before long, as the city fathers have frozen out the icemen all right If it had been the women who got the city into such a box (not icebox, it must be hotbox) what a good excuse some would have to say: T told you so. Women can't run anything"
 Someone inquired for a name for her bungalow. Perhaps one could be selected from the following: Wych mere, Seaholme, Bide-a-Wee, Cliff mont, Anchorage, Cobblehurst, Bella mar, Rockledge, Hillhurst, Red Gables. The Antlers (have an eIks' head over the door), The I4i1acs. The Evergreens, Waukeets, Idle Hour.
 But I think I hear someone say: Is she never going to stop?
 ONE OF THEM.
 NTiI1iy,a
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-19
HOW TO MAKE DATE PIES.

Dear Editor and Sisters: It seems as if I'm too busy to write; but then a little rest and chat among you all will be good for me.
 Why don't we hear from Teresa Ann? Thank you for the Easter card. Please don't think I forgot you because didn't send that card; but If you knew how far out in the woods live you would surely pardon me. I am wait ing to go to the city and get a good likeness.
 Sister Elizabeth: I think it was you who had twin kittens, Dolly and Dim pie, was 1t not? Must tell you that my twins are separated. A gentleman and wife fell in love with one of mine and wished for it every time they saw it, so one day 1 let them have her, know ing it was such nice home and on a farm. A few days after she had her little family and is very contented, and have and he looks lovely as he lies asleep in his chair in the sun.
 Dear Aunty: I was so pleased to have such a nice letter from you. Will send you those pie recipes. I am always trying new recipes.
 Date Pie-wash well pound of dates. cover them with milk in the double boiler and cook until soft; then pass through a sieve to remove skins and stones; mix with pulp half cup sugar. yoIks of three eggs, a pint of boiling hot milk, and cinnamon to taste. Bake in deep pastry lined pie plates, and when done finish with a meringue made of the whites of three eggs, a little powdered sugar and lem on juice to flavor.
 They claim this is enough for two pies. I like kind of fat pies therefore found this about right for one.
 Will send my peach pie later on, as my letter is already lengthy Let me know if you have good luck.
 SWEET HAVEN DER.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-19
NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, APRIL 1e, 1913

amusing themselves, how Does the mother know2 Does she care? We hope so, but are forced to the believe ss N5f IS s y@rg neglgent at Ii any th rate all know the kind I refer to.
 You have probably heard, or heard Of, mothers, busy, hard-wofkilagm moth CTS who say, Do run along and play, somewhere, so that I can do this work" As the child runs, 1t is dis missed from her mind.
 Little ones soon realize that they are in the way and act accordingly.
 Love in little tender hearts is hard ened into the belief that mother does not care. Where do they find com radeship-Why on the street. Here they learn disrespectfu1 words, slang, sWearingi and often things far worse.
 How many little ones> are killed in street accidents, who might have grown to lead useful lives. With good, christian teaching, 8 child after reach ing the ages of twelve or fourteen, does not so easily succumb to evil ways.
 Little ones must play and make a noise. Well, let them; at home, in your own yard, in your own house. Give them a room of their own to wIittle in to invent things, and in which to make noise. do not mean out1andish racket. Teach them not to destroy; or to kill helpless animals.
 Take time to tell them good healthy stories; even adventurous ones, for the boys. Even. if your work is not all done in 'so1d maid pri1n' order; see that your children are rlaying as they should, and your example will aid others.
 Talk with other mothers; tell them of the evil, which is spreading, instead of diminishing. over the lana, ana do your share to lessen it.
 Learn the character of the boys and girls in your neighborhood and help your children to choose their com rades, according to worth and morals
 Dear Sisters, do not consider this as preaching, for it comes straight from my heart, for I have little ones of my own, and tremble for their future. Shall we not watch over events that shape our little one's nor al future? And can we not be watch ful as dumb mothers are over their young?
 PiainfieId SHIRLEY
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-19
DOMESTIC HINTS FROM RIDDY.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: I hope the sisters will forgive my long crastinatfon-shall l call it?
 I have been so busy getting my Spring sewing done, and planning my housekeeping that really haven't felt as if I could take the time to write.
 I think the poem sent in by Eliza beth very toching. How many there for just one little kind word.
 I called upon a, lady yesterday who has been seriously. Ill from the ef- fects of her daughters illness. This daughter was obliged to enter a hos pita1 and underwent an operation. The mother worried so over her daughter that it threw her on her bed, and at one time they didn't think she would survive.
 I called twice on the daughter in house carnations. This so pleased the hother that when I called on her she couldn't thank me enough. She said when anyone was good to her her. simply. had to kiss the kind old lady; and her kind words I never shall forget.
 Glad to welcome you Eliza Jane.
 Do you like living where you are? We miss you very much. Wish your oldest was here now. Remember me to them all. Did you eat your Easter dinner with M------ In Shelton !?
 Reddy: Ou are not the only peb- b1e on the beach. I, too, can make tattin but not with the shuttle, Though. I did make 8 few little rings. My time is very precious now, or I would try it more
 Bee: In regard to the old chair. Can't you sand paper it down where the piece is out? If not I believe you can putty it and paint over it. It isn't necessary to, remove the old paint to fix it up. You can paint over 1t, and so cover all the old paint and then varnish it. I have an old chair that is painted green. I am going to paint it black with old gold trimmings. If you want the natural wood to 8 piece of furniture just go over 1t with a piece of glass, then sand paper 1t un- til all the old paint Is removed,
 You also, wanted to know of some recipes for sour cream. Here is a nice recipe for Sour Cream Drop Cakes, The recipe was given me by Auntfe
 Sour Cream Drop Cakes: One cup sugar, 2 eggs. 1 cup sour cram, small half teaspoon soda salt and about two and one-half cups of sifted flour into which tive teaspoons of baking powder has been sifted.
 Another way is te make biscuit Great care must be taken though naI
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-19
Sterling
MoTHERLY LOVE AND CARE.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis ters: May l come into your select circle and say a few words now and then. Have been reading, for some time, the nice helpful letters, which have been in the Bulletin each week. and have longed to be one of the sisters.
 Now l know you will all smile when you hear my reason for not coming in sooner. I am afraid Mater will, ev- er if the rest do not and I am just a little afraid of her, and especially of her opinions. Well, my only reason: 8 fine one. you must admit, was that did not know what subject to write about.
 Have at last decided to write few words on Mother Love-
 You, no doubt, have all seen little kittens play under the watchful eye of their mother, and called to her if danger threatened. Also, a Eaby calf jumps about unsteadily on it's wabbly legs, and all under the anxious, loving es'es Of mamma COW. How lew she calls. and how readily 1t obeys,
 Weli-snd have you also seen ei1it- dren Of human parents Supposed to be human1 play far from their moth er's sight and hearing. Children of four and i've na doubt. youngsr,
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-19
A QUESTION FROM MONTvILLE
 LASSIE.


 Dear Editor and Social Cornerites: I wish to thank Ma for her kind words of welcome after my first letter
 Aunt Serena: How I would like } visit your garden this summer, and beg a bunch of flowers from you. I love flowers, but where we live it is impossible to raise many. Have you any favorites? Mine are roses.
 Eliza Jane: I also am a newcomer So let US join hands, and with a lit tie practice, we may be able to creep in on some of the SociaPs good times, even if we have to crawl through the window.
 One of Them: Used to live in your town when l was a freckle faced snub- nosed girl. l suppose it has changed in six years.
 Will Etta Barber, or some of the other sisters tell me how to make a dancing or party dress? Have some pretty pink silk and would like to have you advise me as to how l should have it made. Please d6.
 Best wishes to all. fren a
 MQNTYHLE LASsIH
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-19
WORK IN THE GARDEN.

Editor of the Social Corner: Moth ing depends more on work and good judgment than gardening of any sort. The more thoroughly the. soil is dug and made fine and properly fertilized the greater will be success.
 It is useless to plant seeds when the ground is too cool and wet. This spells failure often.
 After small seeds have been sown it is well to firm the soil, as the closer the fine earth presses the seeds, the more likely they are to make roots This may be done with the hoe care fully, or with a, board.
 It is not so much the hard work as faithful attention that makes any garden thrive. Doing things at the right time promotes thrift in any di- rection.
 The more flowers you gather the more you will have-the aim of the plant is to make seed, and if you let it make seeds it will soon stop mak- ing flowers.
 JOSEPH DOE
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-19
SENSE AND HUMoR FROM RURAL
 DELIVERY.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: The birds are coming back from the sunny south the peeping frogs are in the lowIands in large numbers, and those who live in the rural districts know it is time to hustle.
 In laying out work for the com ing season the flower garden for the good housewife should not be forgot T have no time to work on flower gardens, they don't feed us or bring any returns While this may be true, a good flower garden is just as pleasing to the housewife as a line pair of young horses are to the man of the house. To make home com plete flowers should be grown as well as vegetables. A good TOW of sweet peas will add much to the beauty of the flower garden.
 This is the season of the year when many are ordering machines to make their work easy to cultivate the soil. They should remember machines can be purchased to make work easy in the kitchen and the sewing room. A good washing machine would be much help Monday, and a good set of fiat irons will help out on Tuesday,
 There was nothing frozen in Fro zen's surprise party. It came from the heart brim full of kind thoughts.
 It is very pleasing to take a trip to surprise parties and other enter tainments with the sisters of the So-
 
 grand time whether we go by land, sea or air.
 To the young writers who love fun will give few jokes:
 Bill said: MT. Doughhead. when the E. F. D. man comes around this morning tell him I want to see him, will ye? I'm thinking of getting some Of them new fangled parcel posts the governments selling for that new fence around the chicken run. They say they come about two cents a pound and that's cheaper'n cutting 'en1.
 Kid: T want to ask you a question: . Sisters Beau: What is it, Kid ?''
 When you were a little boy and the fallers called on your sister, did they ever give you nickel to go out and play"
 Manager: *Where is Jones ?" Office Boy: "He isn't in. His wife sent him word that the baby was asleep and he's gone home to see what 1t looks like"
 Did youse get anything?" whisper ed the burglar on guard.
 ''Nawi De bloke whot lives here is a lawyer replied the other in dis gust.
 pats hard luck" said the first. Did youse lose anything?'' RURAL DELIVERY.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-19
ANSWERS AND INQUIRIES.

c. S. P-Copynghted poems can not be legally used without the con- gent of the author.
 FROZEN-Cards received and mail ed as you directed
 J. E. T-Card received and for warded as you wished.
 POTLATCH-Your card received and forwarded to Sally Sycamore.
 INCOGNITO writes the Editor: Will you kindly thank Elaine for me through the Social Corner columns? Her kindly interest and Information about the bees was much appreciated.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-19
A WORD FROM CRIMSON RAMBLER

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: Seeing that our jovial editor did not consign my last to the waste basket, thought I would come again.
 Papa's Boy: Yesterday l heard the chuG-chuS of an automobile at our door and thought perhaps it is Papa $ Boy coming to take me out for a ride; but as I opened the door I was much disappointed. for 1t was a large black machine instead. It is just lovely out here this morning. to hear the birds singing, and the air is so refreshing
 Many thanks. dear friend from '.F'itchville' for the visit paid me last Sunday. Hope to see you and your friend. R. M, out here some time in the near future. Why don't you write a letter to the Social Corner?
 I was much pleased to see a letter again signed Faye Nerna. and hope she won't forget to come often, We do not want all the older writers to drop out.
 Sally Sycamore: I think all your hints are good, for I knew of a great many of them and have found them tried and true.
 Joseph Doe: I am glad to know there is another flower lover joining the dear old Corner.
 What has become of Ready's wood box? I have read many an article with pleasure concerning 1t. I had com pany last Saturday, and, of course, our  friend asked me: Do you krow this Ready?'' I told her I did not, and she said: What do you suppose she has done with her woodbox? ?'' I told her we should have to invite Nat and Papa'S s Boy to help us to find out, and if they knew nothing about It we would get Billie or Jim to. for if Ready has lost it, it would require some help from the >"de&r boys" to help us to return it to her.
 Nat: How are little pigs selling out your way Our way they are five dol lars apiece and very scarce at that. If somebody don't produce some Of them before long I am afraid we won't have much to enjoy this fall at hog killing time.
 l cordially extend an invitation to our editor and each Of the Cornerites to pay ffie a visit in the good old sum- mer tifae.
 Best wishes ta ali.
 CRIMSON RAMBLER.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-19
HAPPY HITS FROM ONE OF THEM.

Editor and Friends of The Corner: Dreamer asks if I am a, suffragist or suffragette, or both. A sentence from a letter by c. B. Montgomery in a re- cent issue of The Bulletin will state exactly where I stand on that question. He says: T have always been an ar dent advocate of equal rights between the sexes. for. if understand the con stitution right, woman suffrage is pro vided for. and is theirs by right, not by concession
 think it is a sense of the injustice of the thing which stirs me more than the wish to be allowed to vote. ! be- lieve every intelligent person who pays taxes, regardless of color or sex, should exercise the right of suffrage if he or she wishes to.
 Persnally I am not dying to be as the parody has it.
 A sufragist and with the suffragists
 stand,
 Hiking, fighting. smashing for a vote
 within my hand.
 Oh, to join the suffragettes, that fierce
 and Warlike band,
 That is now marching through Eng
 CHORUS.
 Hurrah, hurrah, a suffra gist to be, Hwrah, hurrahs a suffragette for me Hiking off to prison that all the world What we will do in old England.
 I do think, however, that the laws which govern a people should be made by the people. whether they wear pan ta1oons or petticoats; and all the tWad- die about women staying at home to bake, brew and tend the baby is get ting tiresome.
 To begin with, there are millions of women who haven't any home in which to bake and brew. and no babies either, and what about them? Also he .1T,1 J whose babies have grown up?
 I do not see that it necessarily fol- lows, if a woman is allowed the ballot that she is going to lose all interest in home and it's duties and rush out into the streets to loaf and talk politics.
 believe the main reason that men are opposed to women voting is be- cause they arc afraid of what she will do to clean up and clear up some things sadly needing it.
 No, don't believe Pm a suffra- g~tte, as that seems to be the name applied to the women of England who ' surely do not care enough about the ballot yet to break anybody's head or windows, or make bonfires of my ne2ghbor's property. or make a fool of myself after getting into jail for in dulging in the latter pastime by re- fusfng three good meals a day when offered me.
 To sum it all up, an intelligent be- ing who pays taxes should have the right of suffrage as provided by the constitution.
 It is galling. though. to be told to shut ourselves within four walls and rock the baby. Poor thing, how the changes have been rung on that theme If 1t gets all the coddling advised for it, think its brains must be addIed by this time.
 But I near someone say: Well there are lots of women who don't want to vote."
 We'll they don't have to, any more than some men. It's a free country ia1most). Women everywhere are reading, thinking, organizing for civic, for temperance, for benevolent work and thousands of them know what be- longs to them and are going to get it some lime,
 eeeans to me I've read that 1t was a aunaN nnatter like taxation with. ut epressnkatlon that wss anstrnsnsntsj