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Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-01
THE DREAMER's TWO IFS.

Dear Social Corner Friends; If I were man I'd take off my hat to display of marvellous ingenuity in the present Economical DressInak1ng Con test. How many hats are of?
 I heard of a mother who with needle out of & 'fsmile!" but. alas, she was not from the Nutmeg State, where the wo1nen's excellent household economy is never questioned.
 wish might add a hint or two to swell the list of home dressmaking ideas. Can't do it. but give my prom ise to put some of them into use.
 What I have in mind at this writing for Corner readers is the importance of encouraging in the home these two important eonditions-health and har- mony. The two HIS. I call them.
 A family of heaIthful individuals has few doctor bills; hence, good health comes under the head of home
 It is very important to know what to do for this and that ailment: but is it not more important to teach our boys and girls to strive with all their might to keep in good health, to aim for physical perfection, as well as mental?
 The boys and girls of a. school in Texas are being trained how to have good health along with the other studies They have prizes which are awarded for the best physical showing in school term. and rewards for go- ing certain period without colds
 When John or Elizabeth ask why they cannot eat "aIl the candy they want" or why they must go to bed when other children are at the movies or why they must do this and not the other thing. is it not the parents duty to explain that it is all for heaIth's sake that they may grow to be strong men and women, able to fight disease with both fists.
 The other His harmony, which is that something which prevails in the home where all pull the same way Of course, differences will arise, must arise. They are only wrinkles in the family curtain which when pulled aside will display naught but happi- ness. All the wrinkles are smoothed away when discord is turned to har- mony.
 Contentment breeds harmony, so let's teach our children to be content with: First simple toys; second, sim ple food and clothes; in fact, sfmplici- fy in all their ideas, which should con- form with the family purse; and let them see and understand the great curse of extravagance.
 In short, it seems to me the two Hs are pretty good chums to have. Here endeth my tale of the two H's.
 Ma: Let's shake. I'm from Missouri, too, where they have to show 'em." " Your story is splendid
 Nat: They're coming! Who? Guess you know who. and they'll be here ere you see this in print. uffragettesi Votes for women! Will you carry a banner?
 could write more, but always mean to leave space for the better letters.
 Perhaps when the national capita uuiets down. after the suffragists have fshoEn us' and we get accustomed to the nations new boss l may write again.
 Good wishes for all.
 DREAMER.
 Wash1ngton.- D. C.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-01
AUNTY SENDS DIRECTIONS FOR
 cROcHETED MATS.

Dear Editor and Sisters: There was a little omission in my last letter that l would like to correct.
 In putting braid on to the skirt baste the braid on the hem with the lower edge even with the haste thread; stitch the upper edge on the ma chine, and you have your braid on; turn hem down and stitch and it is done.
 Sweet Lavender: Take your cactus in the summer time. put it out doors in the shade, in a clump of bushes, and if not too dry q season never water it. Let Nature do it's work. l think they do better in 8 shallow granite pan. with plenty of surface room. the roots are short and the fronds have little fibres which take root If they come in contact with the dirt and do much better. l never have any trouble with mine since treating in this way. In winter have 1t if posst- hle at an east window: only water once or twice a week, according to the tennperature of the room Cnct11a win
Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-01
FINE MoLAssEs COOKIES.

Dear Sisters or the Social Corner: Howl do enjoy reading the dress making hints. do most all my own sewing, but don't believe I could pass in anything of real value to the Cor ner. There has been about everything in that line said I have found a great many hints.
 I will send in a recipe for
 Molasses Cookies-Put one teaspoon of soda in a common cup; then add three tablespoons of hot water and four tablespoons of melted lard then fill cup with moiasses; add ginger and any kind of spice you wish; then add flour enough to roll out easy. They are fine. GUESS.
 South Canterhury.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-01
THE USES TO PUT OLD NEWS.
 PAPERS TO.

Dear Editor and Sisters of the so- cial Corner: think I have kept still quite a while for me, and so I am going to write a little once more.
 I often hear the remark, 50 many newspapers 1 don't know what under the sun to do with so many.
 Now the uses for newspapers are many and varied and I am going to mention 0 few.
 There are many choice recipes to cut out and be saved after reading the events of the day.
 Another interesting plan is to cut out the pictures Of any prominent people or scenes of your home town and paste these into a book. Years hence 1t will be interesting to look them over.
 Newspapers are fine for polishing stoves. after blacking in the usual manner rub briskly with a crump1ed newspaper and see what shine 1t gives; they are also fine for polish ing lamp ehinlneys. All those who use air tight stoves in sitting rooms, after you have swept in the morning lay clean newspaper in front of the stove and see what $ lot of dirt 1t
Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-01
NOTES AND INQUIRIES.

READY-Cards received and mailed IS you directed.
 DREAlTER-Cardsc came to hand and were promptly mailed as you indicat- Ad.
 BALSAM FIR asks if some one will please send her the words to the song called ''The Evergreen Chappie.''
 MUGGINS- sent a note to P M. of South Coventry asking him to remail Mas letter to you
 SUNBEAM-As child of Sunshine kFou have in the Quilting Party shown fEourself to be a precOciouS child
 RUTH-Cards received and mailed as you directed.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-01
Waterford.
A FEW THINGS ABOUT DRESS.
 MAKING.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: Once someone gave me for valentine box of diminutive stationery with an original verse of which I remember this much: Just use me for P. s., and things you forgot" So this letter I am going to tell you few more things about dressmalking.
 ] find that the pins with white heads that come on cubes to be the most satisfAetory-they are long and sharp and much easier picked up than the ordinary kind: while they cost B trihe more to begin with, the quantity lasts longer.
 TaI1orss chalk. both the red and
Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-01
HOW TO MAKE INSERTION
 WAISTS.

Dear Sisters: I will tell you the easy way to make waist of insertion and small pieces of goods one may have left over.
 First cut a pattern of paper, haste the insertion and strips on, cutting off every length as you go along. Then stitch on the machine and tear out the paper. There is no insertion wasted, or stitch-rippfng, as when the waist is cut after sewing the cloth and insertion together small strips may make a waist by covering each piec- ing with a tuck having tucks on the sleeve. back and front; or join with seam beading.
 Ida and Ba1sam Fir: Thanks for cards.
 MA.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-01
CHILDREN WHO ARE sIckLY.

Mothers who value their own conn fort and the welfare of their children should never be without box of Mother Gray's Sweet Powdarssfor chii- dren. for use throuEhont the season. fshness, Gonstfpation. Teething Dtsor- ders, Headache and Stomach Troubles: Used by Mothers for 22 years. TfIESE Drug Stores, 25c. Don't accept any sub ztitute. Sample mailed FREE. Ad- &ress, A S. Olmsted. Le Roy. N. '.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-01
Dressmaking Hints and Helps

easier to trim it off to the right length and put on some of the bias velveteen sold for that purpose.
 Always put loops on waists to hang them by (unless you have hangers, of course), gut ore at the top of each sleeve, at the shoulder seam. Then there will be no bad locking "hUmp" in the waist where 1t has hung on a hook.
 ATTAET SERENA
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FELLOW-FEELING MAKES US WONDROUS
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EVERY woMAN's OPPORTUNITY.

The fnl should Wedn of week.. on but one O
 EDITOR ohice Norwich Conn.,
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o Award ade the last month
Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-01
RECIPES FOR CAKE FILLING.

South Windham, Maine.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30

whole development Of art in the Low
Countries. AS we traverse the history
of painting we are naturally prone to
keep our eyes upon the high lights
which fall athwart the men of great
genius; but schools have their rise, Of
course, in the instincts of the people at
large. and this is peculiarly the case
where the present schools are con-
cerned. The picture by Teniers is a
veritable page from life in Antwerp or
Amsterdam three hundred years ago.
i, reminds us at once that those Old
burghers. sorely tried as they were, not
only by war but by a sea perpetually
menacing their dikes, were prosperous
by virtue of unfagging industry, and,
happily, had wholesome pride in their
rich estate. The successful merchant
was careful OF the clothes worn by
himself and his family and as careful
OF the background constituted in his
home. Living under gray skies and
amid cold winds, they craved the
warmth OF color, the subtle satisfaction
that lies in luxury, and TO their solid,
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30

handsome furniture they added the
grace of pictorial art. Painters could not
but flourish in that picture loving world.
The scene depicted by Teniers must
have been enacted daily. The portly
Connoisseur in cloak and sword to
whom the dealer at the table respect
fully shows his wares figures in himself
a large and indispensable class of
patrons. He it was, or some one IKE
him. who commanded a Rembrandt or
Halls 10 paint his portrait and his
wife's portrait. And he ii was who,
commissioning a picture from the stu
dio or buying one at the dealers, in
nine cases out of ten disclosed a pref
erence for subjects taken from the life
about him. The artists responded to
his wish They were not invariably do
Cile. Religious and even NEUROLOGICAL
themes not infrequently engaged their
brushes. But Dutch and Flemish art,
taken in its length and breadth, is
nothing if not a reflection of Dutch and
Flemish life. 1t is intensely human,
and that. as it happens, is one q the
prime sources of its strength. The
pictures in this exhibition give the
spectator only the more TO think about
and To enjoy as he apprehends them
with a feeling for their substance as
well as for their style.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30
(From the portrait by Hals)

1t is a little disconcerting to turn
from these three masterpieces and to
realize that they are only three out OF
a portentous company. How is one 10
reproduce. under ordinary conditions,
the multitude of impressions received
from so large and so brilliant a collec-
ton? The task. discharged in detail,
would be pretty nearly hopeless. One
can only indicate the more salient
pieces, the leading categories. Yet the
temptation TO linger is a little more
than strong. Take, for example, the
two portraits by Halls. The Young
Woman" arrests us merely by its virtu-
osity, by the beautiful painting of the
blacks in the dress and of the great
Spanish ruff, but the Sara Andriesdr,
Wife of the Pastor Michel Middel-
hoven," shows the virtuoso doubled
with the master of human documents.
The face, painted with a fairly grand
is memorable even in this
artists work for the SYM
pathy with which it is studied. and the
hands, old gnarled hands ingrained
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30

house piously reads aloud, while his
wife, fast asleep, escapes his eye, ana
the maidservant looks on as she goes
about her duties, respectfully aware OF
the humor in the scene. In the Draw
ing Lesson" the same painter gives
us n glimpse OF his studio Throwing
in, by the way. some amazingly paint
ed heads in plaster. Metsu paints a
comely, well-dressed bourgeoise paus-
ing 10 receive letter as she pats her
lap dog. Pleter de Hooghe, In The
Young Mother" shows us his sitter
feeding her child, while the cook comes
TO consult her about a fowl. So, in one
picture after another. we are made to
realize how the old Dutch and Flemish
folk dressed and how they occupied
themselves from day TO day In their
clean. comfortable houses.
We make no pretence OF enumerat-
ing all the episodes in the panorama
thus unfolded Description, in the cir
cumstances, would mean good deal
Of rather wearisolne repetition, and It
is enough TO state that the De Ridder
pictures, being all Of high quality give
a uniform sense of the skill with which
the Little" masters did their work,
the artfulness with which they lighted
up their compositions, the Jewel-like
brillance which they gave TO their
color. and the humor with which they
studied the faces and gestures of their
commonplace models. Yes. common
place" is the word. and sometimes, as
in the peasant pictures OF Ostade, We
dip into the toughest prose. But there
are moments. too. In which this school
rises 20 a plane Of the purest mundane
polish. In n portrait like the Herr
Jan de Graaf" OF Terborch the dis
tinction Of the model. wearing his en-
broidered garments, his lace and his
prncely locks with the courtliest air,
is matched by the artists delicate
workmanship and his serene, fastid
ious style. There is only one phrase
that fits these many little master
pieces; they are gems. II Is the old
story. So much depends, in art, upon
the way in which the thing is done.
The human motive in Nethcrlandsh
painting is precious, as we have shown.
but alone It will not win the day.
There needs 10 be added to ii the
touch Of artistic genius. and when that
genius is authentic, when that touch
is sincere, beauty is achieved, even
in the absence of creative imagina-
ton.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30
Prints, Paintings and Some
Other Objects.
Prints,

There is another Muirhead Bone ex-
hibition in town, one at the Hahlo gal
lery, where thirty-four of his etchings
and drypoints have been brought TO-
gether in remarkably fine impressions.
We have already spoken Of his effec-
tiveness in the treatment of architect
ural subjects. He owes it largely to
his skill in generalization. He knows
how to draw great structures as
painter would draw them, picturesque
ly, with a feeling for composition. The
AYR Prison" is a striking example.
The massive old building is raised 20 a
higher power through the artful man
ner in which 1t is silhouetted against
vast sky. Mr.. Bone is fond Of these
contrasts. Frequently in his plates the
salient building or group Of trees is
kept well to one side of the design, the
rest of which is dedicated to compare
lively empty space. So often, indeed,
is this expedient used that it almost
suggests thickness. One must acquit
the artist Of a meretricious purpose,
however, his general tone is so sincere.
After all. a man of his imagination
and he has agination-hardly needs
to lean upon a formula. He is one Of
the most interesting Of the younger
men, and this exhibition does full jas
tice to his distinguished f not extraor-
binary art.
There will begin at the Anderson
Galleries next Tuesday evening a sale
Of the collection formed by the late
I. Remsen Lane. 1t is composed Of
New York views and historical engrav-
ings Of American interest. At the gal
leries of the Merwin Sales Company
the print collection Of Edwin n. Lap
ham is TO be sold on Wednesday even
ing. Etchings by Whistler and Sey-
mour Haden are especially conspicuous
in this group of about a hundred pieces.
At the galleries OF Crosby e. Co. Miss
Elizabeth Gulland IS making an eXhi-
bition of her mezZotints after portraits
by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Raeburn, Law
renee and other eighteenth century
masters.
\ loan exhibition OF paintings by
Edouard Manet has just been opened
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30

with personality, are worthy OF Hol-
bein. Not Rembrandt himself could
have surpassed Halls in this detail or
this portrait. There are two notaple
portraits by Rubens. Both are inter-
esting, the "Frans Francken' for its
robust, direct quality and its vivid
lighting; the Young Lady, Supposed
TO be Helene Fourment," for its suaV-
ity. its elegance, which is, to be sure,
shade Flemish and heavy, but still un-
questionable. Neither Of these por-
traits. however, takes us quite as close
to Rubens as we are taken in his
Landscape" and his Christ Triumph
ing over Death and Sin" In the lat
ter. a small sketch for an heroic COM
position, we have his fuency. his 6Ti0,
at its best, and, into the bargain, an
exquisite note of color. In the Land
scape" we see him as he is almost
never seen in this COuntry-the painter
of the great "ROnde' at Madrid, the
ardent lover of nature, interpreting her
sentiment almost with the tenderness
of the Barbizon school, and, above all,
yielding to her glamour of mere beauty.
In the tumultuous stagecraft of his
typical huge alegories and historical
subjects Rubens has no time for rev
erie. no time TO caress his work. But
when he paints a landscape like this
you know that he is painting quietly
and ioyously, 10 please himself. Ihe
picture is a perfect souvenir of his
genius in its most refined aspect.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30
The De Ridder Collection OF
Old Masters.

The late August de Ridder OF FRANK
fort. was a business man with an ar
tistic hobby. In his hours Of ease he
collected pictures. In this pursuit he
followed a familiar course, buying at
the outset the works of his own day
but ultimately giving all his attention
10 the old masters. He had good taste,
good advisers-and good luck. Con-
fining himself to the seventeenth CEN
tury Dutch and Flemish schools, he
contrived to assemble about fourscore
examples. nearly all of which are of ths
highest quality. DR.. Bode catalogued
them for him, and thus put on record
rich body of historical fact and critical
opinion. authoritatively confirming the
authenticity and value of the Jealous
amateurs collection. When Herr de
Ridder died in May. 1911, his pictures
were lent TO the Staedel Institute. at
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30
The Landscape Painters and
the Little Masters" "

Rembrandt Halls and Rubens make
a group by themselves in this eXhibi-
tion. allied to which are certain fine
portraits and other pieces by Van
Dyck. Covert Flinck. Ferdinand Bol,
Adrian Key, Jansens Van Ceulen.
Jacob Backer and others; but these
latter things, good as they are, may
not unreasonably be noted only in
passing. The landscape painters po-
tently draw us away. The two Ruys-
daels are beautifully represented,
Jacob with four examples and Salo-
mon with two. The delicate art Of Van
Goyen. the sparkle OF Jan van de Ca
pelle. the luminosity Of Cuyp. the ro-
mantle flourish Of Wouvermans, the
winning realism and the extraordinary
atmospheric delicacy Of a whole school,
seem to open window after window
through the walls. And dominating
the landscape wing. if it may be so de-
scribed, is Hobbema's great 'Farmyard
Amid Some oak Trees i'm Bright sun
shine" There was a streak of for
mality in Hobbema. His most re-
nowned picture, the Avenue Of Mid
dleharnis," sums up IN its stately per-
fection his characteristic ideas Of COM
position. and it illustrates, too, that
precise touch which in his more pedes-
trian mood makes him seem rather
dry. But at bottom his predilection
was also for the very SAVIOR of the
soil, for the fat, comfortable traits Of
the old Dutch farmstead, for the lazy
little streams, and the trees i'm their
fullest LEAKAGE. Never was landscape
more domestic. more saturated in the
landscape in the hands Of Hobbema
This is what he gives US in the pict-
ure now under review, and with it he
gives us in abounding measure the
beauty of light and air, Of rich color,
Of workmanship as facile as It is firm
Of a sturdy, individual style. Again
we feel as we feel so often on this
occasion, that we are in the pres
ence Of an outstanding masterpiece. a
lare and superb work of art. And
at the same moment we come back to
the point from which we started, to
the intimate, human quality govern
ing the entire genius of the school
Hobbema, like Rembrandt, Is utterly
Of his time and his place, the true
and most admirable realist. the artist
who in interpreting fact illumines It,
1t is in the works Of the Little"
masters that the very form and move
ment of Netherlandish Society find
their ultimate expression, Rembrandt
puts before us the individual. A Steen
or Terborch puts before us the type.
From the pictures here by them and
by divers Of their contemporaries the
representative Dutch or Flemish
household of the seventeenth century
might be minutely reconstructed. Oc-
casionally it is seen quite obviously
Group" (No. 7S) of Gonzales Coques,
but as rule these painters had little
TO do with such courtliness and such
pillared classical "brag" as we note in
that performance. In general the do
nestle interior was painted from the
simplest point Of view. In The Siesta"
Jan Steen portrays family seated at
peace in the arbor. The man Of the
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30
Drawings by Sir Thomas Law
renee and Richard Cosway.

\ mild sensation was produced in
London last spring by the appearance
in a single exhibition Of sixty drawings
by Sir Thomas Lawrence. This collcc-
tion has since been brought to the
United States, and for several weeks
may bc seen at the Scott x Fowles
gallery. 1t is delightful and instruc-
tive. Lawrence was strangely un-
even painter. While still young man
he could make the enchanting full-
length Of Miss Farrcn which figures I'm
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30

at the new Durand Ruel gallery. The
Olaf Brauner, Susan Ketcham, Anna
VI. Upjohn and others. The Snedecor
gallery is making its annual exhibition
of an "all American" group of pict-
ures. Paintings by j. Campbell Phillips
are on view at the Enrich galleries,
making the first exhibition of modern
work TO be shown at this place. The
Lotos Club gives next Sunday, Mon
day and Tuesday the first of its winter
exhibitions. filling its gallery with
American paintings from the collection
Of DR.. Alexander c. Humphries. At
the Ackermann gallery there are
water colors of old English gardens
by Miss Lillian Stannard and others
Of Scottish and Devonshire moors by
Charles Lee Britain.
An important exhibition opens next
Saturday at the Ederheimer gallery
II is composed OF drawings by the old
masters, divided into three groups, the
first being given to the Primitive
schools and the masters Of the six
teenth century, the second to the seven
teenth century, and the third to French
and English artists of divers periods
The fascintion of the subject, often
pointed out in these columns, is unique,
and from the catalogue it is plain that
Mr.. Ederheimer has assembled a guam
tity of very interesting material.
The new Cottier gallery is devoted
at the moment to sculpture. The ex-
hibition there Is of the bronzes Of
Antoine Barge, the collection contain
ing about seventy rare proofs of his
work
The American Art Galleries an
nounce several sales. One, to occur on
the afternoons of December 3, A. IS and
6, will dispose of the old English fur
niture, old china, plate, tapestry and
other objects, forming the stock of
Cooper & Grifflths. Another sale.
scheduled for the afternoons OF Deem
Der 8, 9 and 10. will be given to the
antique and modern Oriental rugs and
carpets forming the stock of John T.
keresey & Co. On December 2, after
noon and evening, there will be sold at
these galleries quantity of books
belonging to Gerhardt & Co., together
with a portion of the library of New
York lawyer, whose name Is not given.
On the evening OF December Miss