Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-26

been able to make, DeCduSS lney Wolo wise enough to do ye nexte thynge. They did not wait for money to come to them; they made it where they were.
 For examples: At a hotel on the Maine coast, several small boys called regularly each morning, offering punches of sweet peas. nasturtiums, asters, zinnias and other blooms in their season. These were bought not only by the hotel management but by the guests. From the hotel and an mex the boys made the rounds of the cottages. Nearly every one furnished a customer; the bright flowers were in demand to adorn the table, porch or doorway.
 I learned that this was the enter prise of a widow, whose only avail able means of making money during the summer was to raise these blooms to sell to the summer guests. Her rev. enue must have been considerable throughout the season, while tending the flowers was labor certainly not heavy.
 An active girl l met was able to ac- cumulate nice little fund by catering fashion.
 Since the time of the outcry against "embalmed' food, city peaple have de- veloped a strong desire for home made things. So this wise damsel prepares each summer glass after glass of jelly, currant, blackberry, apple, quince, crab-apple and the like. as well as cans of red tomatoes. the little yellow tomatoes which everybody likes, pep pers in several forms, preserves, curd cheese and other tempting things, sell ing them to the city visitors for inn mediate or later consumption. She has regular customers and has estab- lished a trade which leaves her at the end of the summer with a good profit for her work in utilizing fruit and vegetables which otherwise would go to loss on her fathers big farm 1t was desperate woman who needed cash who thought of stringing dried kernels of sweet corn-yellow to their art value; but they were a. the bare doorways of summer cottages. Possibly there may be question as to their art value; but theye were a novelty and sold well to those who have money to exchange for odd things in the country
 A tired teacher in a New England college made up her mind that she could just not return, the following Fall. It was then early in July. What could she do? "I could not dig!" she said, in telling me of the birth of her enterprise. ito beg I was ashamedI But I simply had to hustle to get a liv- ing"i
 The family home was a rambling old country place. fortunately on the well travelled post-road between two big cities.
 Tt has always been a proverb' she said, that when a man was unfit for any other business, he opened a tav- erni Ha, ha! Just the plan for me! determined to start a tea room! And so she did. A quaint and an cient sign was procured from an inn cellar and painted up gaily; the long, low rooms of the house and the deep | f1re-places were put in order for vis- | itors; a varied collection of pieces of old china, dainty as well as practical baskets, boxes and baskets of candy, and various other things which motor parties buy were secured, the major | ity on credit. Everything was made | fresh and dainty and attractive, quaint | flowers from the old grandmother's garden filled jardinieres and vases and | the tea-room and gift shop opened | for business.
 I had a dinner there myself, so
 gained a good idea of what the wo- | man served her patrons. There was | tender lamb, roasted to turn, mint | sauce, mashed potatoes, creaned caulifiower. sweet pickles, bread sticks which somehow always seen more | appetizing than common bread, all | though no more trouble to make than | an ordinary 1oaf-sweet, fresh but ter, tomato salad and for dessert, old
 fashioned Indian pudding with sauce
 of whipped cream. She charged q dol | lar. her patrons paid it cheerfully
 and went away to advertise how good | her dinners were-and how filling
 which is an important item with | hungry motorists!
 Nearly every visitor bought sone-