Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-07
MARRIED AND HAPPY HERSELF
 AGAIN.


 Dear Social Corner Sisters: What charming picture Unmarried Yet Hap py drew of me-though she was not quite sure whether she was right. II might not be married at all! This next anniversary I shall have. written Mrs. before my name just one-ha1f my lifetime, cosy cottage home, husband and children, you remember, was a part of the picture.
 Yes, I have the cottage home, a de- lightful place six months of the year, husband whose profession takes him away from home six days a week, and of children only one, so you see the picture was all right some of the time
 Just now am busy getting ready 70 go into winter quarters which will re in Willimantic. where the Only One IS in the junior class in Normal school.
 I know you will all be glad. to know that am in better health than for three years, and living is really worth while. As I look back on the past three years think my interest in other peo- pie and my fondness for handwork was what passed the time away T6e number of articles I have crocheted and embroidered and hemstitched- they are countless. With socks and bibs and bonnets for the babies, with young girl friends filling hope chests, and other young friends getting mar ried there has seemed to be a demand for my handiwork which not only de- lighted my friends but gave me many happy hours of employment like Betsy Bobbetts view of many things, and have found that many times articles of clothing which you might pass on were spurned because they were not up to date, and the re- eipient did not know how to sew; and you do not always feel as if you had the time to repair or renake the gar ment.
 find housekeeping a succession of tricks. These same tricks are what makes a thing easy or hard My com pany dinner-a chicken one-and com pany only because there will be extra | to help eat it. is so easy that 1t IS | worth telling. have my chicken cut for. stew; | let it stand in salt water for an hour, | then wipe dry, dip each piece in flour and lay-in the dripping pan; put pieces l of bacon over it, cover with water, put oven. Boil and mash potatoes till ' light, pack in a conical ice-cream mould and turn out on pan, allowing | one to a person.
 Twenty minutes before dinner. put | the pan in the oven for potatoes to brown; open can of peas, rinse well, | put in a baker, stir in a tablespoon of | flour, salt, pepper and butter to taste, cover with milk, and put in the oven l at the same time as the potatoes. | ~NOW- ny Slet1InGQ pu0QlIB Id5 O6Gl | cooking all this time in my filV.ess. i My table is all set; the company come, I am all dressed for dinner. run out | into the kitchen, put in. my peas and | potatoes, go back and visit; in fifteen | minutes go into the kitchen again, make my pudding sauce and coffee, | dish my chicken, which has been bal1- | ing two hours, on a platter; pour over | the brown gravy in the pan, arrange my potato cones, which are like puff. 1 balls. around the platter. and put the peas on the table, and in less thar ten minutes announce dinner is ready to be served. T The guests all say the same thing: When did you do all this?"
 Another one of my tricks is to poul | boiling water on to my sausage lei stand a few minutes, turn of, and fry
 Another one: Butter the top crust o a loaf of hot gingerbread and sprinkle with powdered sugar Another: Use bacon fat in place oi butter when making salad dressing fol potatoes. Will give my recipe if want ed.
 Still another: Try coffee in place.-o.
 milk in makino fudge l have my fall sewing nearly done and shall have to leave it to you: Did make ends meet when I made a pan of sleeves out of a sash?
 Bright Ray: As soon as I get set tied you can come and. get me and will show you the way to Theoda's
 You should have gone to the wedding MARRIED AND HAPPY