Norwich bulletin., 1913-06-28

costs more by the slice than the whole ham, but at this time of year a cua ham will only mould and spoil in . small family unless they live on that exclusively till it Is gonei and wa rfety is the spice of life"
 think with many of us the meat pf6H1efn Is the worst one to settle at present. for that Is one thing | can't strike out of the bill of fare. We sfaeu1d miss 1t more than anything else and the prices are certainly ruinous.
 In cold weather soups and stews of various kinds are seasenable and not expensive and will do for several meals every week; but in the heat of ths summer we don't care for them, and I have never found any economy in buying cheap, tough meat any mora than have in cooking food after such saving recipes that nobody wanted to eat it. which. as an old lady once aptly remarked, lis what victuals are for.''
 Some say we should live largely on cereals. but everybody don't like them. What is one mans meat is another mans poison is Q good rule to re- member; and others will say that we must pay cash for verything when we buy it or go without; but a good many would either go hungry or starva to death before they got anything if they undertook to follow that rule, aAltl we ANtVe 8UL 10 eat III OT0or to Iive,- and keep on working. and many are so situated that money don't all ways come at regular and stated times; and there are a thousand and one unexpected calls for money in this world that can't be reckoned on with any degree of certainty ahead. Cloth Ing and shoes win wear out and have to be renewed. whether it is conven- lent or not.
 Sickness and accidents come upon us without ever saying; By your leave" Also the black winged angel of death sometimes; and althosTh money seems sordfd and earthly thing to remember in that connection stlll We have to remember 1t when the undertaker's bills come in, and if we. can hardly afford to live. still less can we afford to die If we can halD II. So l have come to, the conclusion that It Is best to take all the rules for cheap living with a large margin for allowance and work out our own saI- vation according to our own ideas. al- ways remembering that what will he just the thing for some might not s,Iit us at all.
 Meanwhile. we keep on hoping that when? S
 I wonder if any of the Social Cor ner friends who love gloxinfas have tried raising them from seed To he sure IL IS rather a fuSSy job, and thev won't blossom till the second sum per, but we cannot have everything In this world without some trouble and when they blossom you will be glad and forget the time and the trouble 1T you have time to spare can't exhort every one to try it regardless of circumstances. as I recol1ect that 1t is eleven or twelve years since r made my first experiment. with tbern and sickness and the cares of this world have prevented me from mak- ing another till this summer.
 sowed a five. cent package of seed m April and now have more tiny plants than I supposed there were seeds. which look like a pinch of hIacL( dust. so fine they are. You sprinkle them as finely and evenly a2 possible over pan of fine light sofl, just wet through and keep in a warm. close place for week with a daxnp cloth (preferably black one1. over the pan. and when specks of green begin to show set in miderGte light with a glass over them, showed aside at one corner to keep from dampfng off They win probably come up in little caunps and have to be carefully picked apart and reset as soon as you can handle them with pin or a wood toothpack They Will probably need transplanting twice Tn the summer as they grow and crowd each other and by fan thev should be large enough to pot separ- o~SSAJ A44 <eAAobAA POIS UT bln cans, WnICn are even better. only remember to make one or two hoses in the bottom with an awI or sharp nan.
 When winter comes set them away in dry. frostproof closet. if you have one. and don't water till spring: then they will start growth and bloom all summer.
 They need a<warm, close air in the summer; scorching sun and winds are disastrous to the soft. velvety leaves, so never put mine outside I don't know how this years crop will turn out, but the first ones I raised were indeed beautiful and people came from miles away to see them. I had as many as thirty five certainly and of all shades and combinations of red blue and pink tigered and spotted and self coiored. with white throats, ox white edges; and one snow-white kept them all in an empty northeast room which only got the morning sun.
 l may never have as good luck again but hope to have some fine glodnas next summer if am m the land of the living, and no accident befalls them be- fore that time. LOLA, Lebanon.