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Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-13
A LOOK AT BOTH SIDES.

Editor Social Corner: ] was asked the other day for my opinion on young married people sharing their home with old people, and I think it is a question with many sides.
 ] have shared my home with my
 own parents and with my mother-in law at different times, and also with young married people, and I must say
 I have found the latter the most try
 ing.
 I think if the parents Cor at least an
 old lady) Is too feeble to have her
 own home it is more comfortable for
 both her and the young mistress if she
 has a sitting room of her own.
 think if they are able to have the
 care a. little home in the same house,
 or very near. is best.
 If the old person goes into the new
 home it should be understood the
 young wife is the hostess: but when
 tho home really belongs to mother, the young wife should be careful to keep
 her place. If she cannot put up with
 her husbands parents, If they have no one but him to depend on, she is not obliged to marry him.
 Many times old people are more con tented with friends of their own age than with theIr children You would not like the thought of your children neglecting you in your old age. Ii a man or woman has abused and neglected their children all their lives taking the small earnings TOT LnelI own use without providing comfortable food or clothing for the child, l see no reason why his home should always be made unhappy by their presence. I do not think a man has a right to take a person into his home who will insult his wife or teach his children sinful or degrading habits. If grandpa or grandma are in theiI right mind (even if childish) they will not intend to harm the children and lots of little ones lived under old 1 fashioned care.
 My father learned baby to be rocked 1 to sleep, and it made me some work ! but they both enjoyed it, and I an l glad. l pity the person who does not ! love and respect the memory of grand pa and grandma
 ] Most old people have a favorite 1 among children. and that makes trou- | ble; but il is one of the things to be l endured. It is much worse when Gas often happens) the parents have one As we old people get on the shady l side of life we forget our youth, and 1 the young cannot realize they vii ! soon be old folks. Can't We change 1 places once in a. while?
 ETTA BARBER. SOCIAL CORNER yw9bestF'tyt ytingC
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Hampton.
DEEPLY INTERESTED IN MIDJE.

Dear Editor and Sisters: have always wanted to be one of you, and since reading Dreamer's letter 1 though would write. l have daughters, one of Midge's age and we have always been good comrades.
 I hope that Midje has goor principles even though she may be headstrong, as we say sometimes and will make a good, useful woman.
 l think that her mothers oppOrtuni- ty to help her is past, for unless you grow along with your girls and keep their confidence you can hardly expect to get it after they are Afidje's age.
 l really can't see the harm in Midje's clergymen friend. It seems as if he might have an influence over her for good, and as for the young widow CT that wants to marry her, it seems to me that is another evidence that NIidje is a good girl, even though she has will of her own; and it may be she might fulfill his calling as well by being a good wife and mother as any one; and there is surely need of these.
 I hope Dreamer will let us know about Midje in the future as am greatly interested, and somehow I can't held hut have confidence in Midje.
 VALENTINE.
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makes you work So hard? Take it easy, dear, and enjoy your husband and home. l know the improvements made in the house made you extra work. Glad you have help now.
 Crimson Rambler: Your card re- ceived. Will mail some later, as I am all out now.
 Balsam Fir: Your judgment is good. Who coul6n't meet Crimson Rambler and just love her? l did the first time I saw her. and it was on the trolley, and I didn't know she was a Social Corner Sister until l met her later on.
 Poinsettia: l have thought so many times I would write to you. I have always thought I would like to live down in your section. Send me your address on postcard and I will write. J. E. T.: I came across the postcard you sent me. Did I ever answer it? Dc You see Joan this winter?
 Joan: I was home when you called but my doorben was off duty. Try il again.
 Billie: Your story was good.
 Dom Pedro: I am mailing that bow Hope you will like 1t.
 CAIIlA LILY.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-13
GREETINGS FROM cALLA LILY.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis -ters: Don't you enjoy the sunshine once more? What an awful spell of weather we have had! With plenty to do in the house, I haven't minded it; could busy myself with sewing and crochetinsy and answering letters, but it was bad for those who have to earn their living in the open.
 I just enjoyed Sweet Si2teen's let ter. She will be a wise and good housekeeper if she continues, as few girls of her age now know enough to stew an apple or sew an apron. Keep improving, Sweet Sixteen.
 Clover Blossom: Like you, I miss the old pen names. Yes, know a few who have changed theirs. I have wondered 50 many times if Ma of Wa terford has changed hers. I did like her letters. Met her at Aunt Abby's picnic. and to lose her is too bad
 Dottie: Your name belongs to some one who weighs about 100 pounds, not $50 pounds. Is this correct?
 Lucinda: Since you took a week $ vacation over the N. Y., \. H. & H. R R. you have been very quiet. Do you talk as much at the grange meet ing? You are short on subjects for the Social Corner. Have you eaten all the chow(ier up?
 Aunt Abby: I hear you have been Sick. Co hope you arc better. What
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each new matched unf1edged comrade. Shakespeare.
 It is good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is better thing 10 be beloved Of many frlends.-Euripidea
 The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.-Seneca
 Friendship makes your prosperity more happy and your diversity more asS-AnOnymous.
 We must love our friends for their sakes rather than our own.-Charlotte Bronte
 Convey thy love to thy friend as an arrow to 2. mark to stick there, not as ball against the wall to rebound back to thee.-Francis QuarIes.
 t is more disgraceful to distrust than to be deceived by our friend La RochefoucauId-
 A friend whom you have been gain ing during your whole life you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruoy; take care that you do not de- sttoy it in an instant against another stone.-Saadi.
 Friendship is usually treated by the majority Of mankind as a tough and everlasting thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment: but this is an exceedingly great and foolish error: It may die in an hour of a single un- wise word.-Ouida.
 If thou firmly believest thy friend faithful, thou makest him so.-Francis Quarles,
 True friendship between man and u1aD is infinite and iumortal.-Plato.
 Noble friends are a pledge to the noble of God and the future: true friends nor death, nor separating fate can divide.-Lavater.
 It is in the Good Book that we find the most beautiful expression of con- stapcy in friendship: ''Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from fol- loW1ng thee; for whitheT thou goest.. will go, and where thou lodgest will lodge. Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God. Where thou d1est. will I die. and there will I be buried. The Lord Go so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and r1e.@-Book of Ruth
 With gratitude for the opportunity of making friends in the Social Corner, and the hope that ali the friendships now forming therein may contain the elements of greatness and durability.
 AUNT AEEE1TAELE.
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JOAN.
HOW TO MAKE suEr PUDDING.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis- ters: Though 1 have been silent for a long time I have been an interested reader of The Corner. Turn to 1t the first thing when the paper is receiv- ed.
 Interested Reader: Was much pleas cd with the little calendar. Is the boy in the picture any of your relatives He looks very natural.
 As conUndrUms seem to be in order will send 8 few:
 Why does Uncle Sam wear Red, White and Blue suspenders?
 What are the hottest letters in the alphabet? Why is Massachusetts like an egg? Will close with a recipe for suet pudding which 1 think is fine.
 Suet Pudding: One cup suet, one cup raiSins, one and one half cups milk, two teaspoons baking powuer and flour sufficien4 to make 9, stiff batter Steam from two to three hours Dates may be used instead of raisins if pre- ferred, Think it full as good that way. Serve with any prepared sauce.
 Hope some of the Sisters will try this and report.
 MARIE.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-13
THE GREATEST OF THESE.

Dear Editoreand Social cornerites: This time I am sending in a poem, The Faith We Need" I know it by neart-it is such q nice comforting poem to repeat to myself. My fa- vOrite line is "A creed where the soul finds rest, whatever this life bestows.' g
 Charles Wagner has written: f'We must have Faith. It is the greatest of our treasures, the root of life, the way Of nourishment from the source of be- ing. Nothing great, beautiful, endur- ing, nothing human, is done without Faith Isn't that a beautiful thought about faith?
 Some people claim that Faith is greater than Love2 What do you think about it? St. Paul wrote: Faith hope, love, these three; and the great est of these is love" But just re- gently I read in a story about a girl who did not believe in God-the au- thor wrote: Faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is Faith
 Really it would seem that people these days are very religious that they can disagree with Paul. Yet we all have a right to our opinions. believe that Love is the greatest.
 SWEET SIXTEEN
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-13
NEW IDEAS ON SOUPS.

Dear Social Corner Sisters:-Fders I am back again with some new ideas on soups.
 I keep what I call soup jar. In il I put left over bits. vegetables con sisting of peas, corn, beans. etc, meat veal, lamb, beef and even ham. Save this mixture until you have enough to serve as many as you wish-my limit is four. If you use all the above, cook slowly on back of stove, strain, and add seasoning.
 Recently I had one cup Of steHed tomato, and 1 cup fried ham gravy ' strained and thickened the tomato. added my gravy and enough hot vAtel. to make the proper consistency. This served four people.
 Bean Soup-One cup red f-i6us,- beans, soaked over night. four Cups cold water, one small onion shaved fine, two tablespoons butter, salt. pep per, celery if you wish, Worcestershire sauce to taste; thicsen with flour. strain and serve.
 Chicken or Turkey Soup-Take ths carcass and break the bones, put iIl kettle and cover with cold water Sim mer all day on back of stove Take bones out and if you have chicken gravy add ii, also salt and cayenne. Strain and serve. You can substitute any kind of bones for chicken or tur-
 key have used, lamp. veal, and ham.
 i Celery Soup-Cse celery not suitable for table such as leaves and root. Two cups celery, one quart of water two l slices onion, four tablespoons butter I two tablespoons flour, two cups hot milk, one teaspoon salt and a little l cayenne. Chop the celery and cook in ! water till tender. Cook onion in milk and strain; melt butter: add flour and l lseasonings;; combine celery and milk ! mixtures, thicken with butter and flour 1 cooked together: cook i've minutes
 and serve.
 Cream Soup-This is very good i when the stock jar is low. One cup
 bread crumbs grated fine, one small ! onlon grated fine, One-haf cup thin cream, one tablespoon butter, three ! cups boiling water, salt and pepper l and one pinch of turkey seasoning or 1 sage. Let it all boil for one minute
 strain and serve.
 Old Fashioned Soup-Take a three | pound piece of beef, round or neck, 1 cover with cold water and simmer for ! a day or two, then set away to cool. ! When cold skim off most of fat. Put on stove, add onions, potatoes, cut meat in small pieces. Season with 1 salt and pepper to taste. This makes 1 a good cold weather soup.
 | was so sorry to miss the meet ings of the Social Corner Club Mum Der One; but as I wrote 10 the Eagle vile Sister, Saturday is the one day it is very hard for me to leave home. Theoda: Married and Happy and I
 are coming to see you some day when
 my horse gets over being quite so gay. We don't want a spill. Aunt Mehitable: I have been by your house twice this week but didn't see anything of you.
 Sweet Sixteen: Did you attend the l basketball game in Putnam last week" :" ! Your girls will have to hustle. Did
 you play? If SC look out for l BRIGHT RAY,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-13
WITH STALE BREAD.

Dear Cornerites:-I am sending a few recipes which I think may be of use to you sometime:
 Bread MuFfTns-Cover cups of bread crumbs with two cups of milk, and let stand Is minutes. Beat to a paste and add the yoll1s of eggs, beaten; S-4 cup flour, 1-4 teaspoon salt: ? teaspoons baking powder, and a tablespoon melted butter. Fold in the stiffIy beaten whites last. Bake 20 minutes in muffin pans in q, quick oven.
 Bread Monkey-Soak one cup bread crumbs in one cup milk Is minutes. Add l tablespoon melted butter, 5-4 cup grated cheese. When the cheese is melted add the crumbs. 12 tea spoon salt, and a few grains of cay enne. Mix well together and add a beaten egg. Cook minutes and pour over thin hot puttered toast. Serve at once.
 Brown Rread-One and one-half cups bread crumbs. soaked until soft; add 3-4 cup molasses and 12 cups each of graham flour, cornmeal, and rye meal, 1 1-2 teaspoons salt, , tea spoons soda End 1 1-4 cups sweet milk. Turn into buttered mold. Steam hours and bake 1-2 hour.
 Ham Timbais-Put one cup milk and 1 cup Of bread crumbs into a saucepan and stir over the rire untll smooth paste is formed, add l 1-2 cups cooked and chopped ham, table spoon butter, beaten eg"s. season with salt and pepper Fry as you would omelet and serve at once.
 Royal Bread Pudding-Six ounces bread crumbs. 1 cup cream, half a can of apI1cots or neacbes, which is pint, IA cup sugar, teaspoon vanilla extract: ? eggs and a pinch of salt Whip up cream until stiff, add yolhs ot eggs salt, sugar and the vanilla. and whites of eggs beaten stiff. Butter a mold and dust with bread crumbs put in a layer of bread crumbs, then apricot, cream mixture, etc, continue until mold is full. Bake 30 minutes Turn out, and serve with sweetened whipped cream. Try this for it is de- 1 licious.
 Huntington Puddina-TEo cups bread crumbs, l quart milk; melt squares chocolate in small sauce pan, placed over hot water; 1-3 cur sugar, 1-4 teaspoon salt, and eggs (beaten). Turn into a buttered bak- ing dish and bake 1 hour in moder- ate oven Serve with hard sauce. Bread Tartiets-Line gem pans with
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-13
AUNT INEVITABLE WRITES OF
 FRIENDSHIP.

Dearly Beloved Sociable Sisters: For at least two months I have been trying to write a letter to you. Two different letters actually were started, then sidetracked on account of impor- tant and urgent matters. It now seems probable I shall be able to finish this one.
 A number of the Sisters have written so regularly and entertainingly that those who have been silent should be very grateful.
 Sis Wife Mandy: I have been much amused by your stories of your own and Sis experiences. Certainly you have the. gift of seeing the funny side Of things.
 Diana: Your letters have been both enjoyable and helpful, and your stories very pleasing. The one entitled Little Samuel was especially good It sound ed like something which really hap pened. If it were not 8 real occur renee. your making 1t seem like one was good writing.
 Ready: It was good to see a letter from you once more. Will you be kind enough to send me your address again? (? have stupidly lost it. believe you have mine.
 Bright Ray: Thanks for your. nice reply to my note. It was too bad that we could not meet on Jan. 18th. I was glad to hear from your mother. Please remember me to her when you write
 
 fine-for an old lady. But. my dear, have you not aged remarkably fast? If could grow young as fast as you have grown old, our years would be so nearly the same that we might become very chummy.
 Biddy: Aren't those turnips done yet? You led us%to think that when they were you would again write to The Corner.
 Enid: I am sure that others besides myself thought it fine to have an ac- count of Christmas in Havana Nancy: Welcome to the sisterEood. When you have a little leisure, write us another nice letter. I quite agree with you in thinking that it Is very worth while to make new frien0s. Someone has said: He who has a thousand friends has not a enemy vii; meet him everywhere' A Chinese maxim expresses it: There are plenty of acquaintances fin the world, but very few real friends Schiller says: We can never replace 1 a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several he finds they are all different. No one has double 1 in friendship"
 l q The following quotations arc also 1 Interesting:
 man affairs concerning the benefit of 1 which all agree-Cicero. Friend is a word of royal tone. 1 Friend Is a poem all alons.-A Persian Poet.
 Let friendship creep gently to a height: if it rush to it It may soon run itself out of hreath--Thouas Full Ter.
 The friends thou hast and their adrpticu tried grappIe them to thy soul with hooks of steel, but do not dun thy palm with entertainment of
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-13
SELECTED RECIPES.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: Some aS the Sisters have asked for fash 1oned' bean porridge. I vii send my recipe which I think Is genuine.
 Bean Porridse: Put over the fire three or four pounds of corned beef in cold water. Cook slowly. In sep arate kettle put about two tea cups of white beans, do not turn off or change the water; cook in consi6era- ble water to prevent burning or stick ing down as they need to be cooked all to pieces When meat IS done well, take out and put the bean water and all into the meat liquor. Stirr well together, tbicken as you like with bolted meal. Have it as salt or frasFa as you like by adding water which ened. Be careful about getting too thick. Put a few spoons of meal in a dish and wet with cold water thin, add to poITidge part at q time while tt is boiling. Stir all the time to pre- vent sticking on the bottom. When you like, use more meal and stir well from the bottom When done poup Into pan or crock: do not let it stand in an iron kettle Some like milk in it when they warm 1t up; also pepper. Do not cream up more than in needed at once as Il will sour easily if not scalded.
 Canadian Apple Pudding: Put ens quart sliced apples, one third cup sugar, one third cup water, nutmeg in pudding dish and cook twenty min utes in oven or on top of stove. Cover with crust made of one pint flour, one teaspoon soda two teaspoons cream tartar, one half teaspoon salt, t~o level tablespoons sugar, one cup 1raSTh, one beaten egg and one half talbiespoon melted butter. Cook twenty minutes in hot oven. Eat with hot or cold sauce.
 Fruit Rolls and Dunnplines: 4 fruit roll Is nothing more than d short-cake
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A SOCIAL CORNER TABLE.

Editor and Social Corner Sisters: I will just drop in for a few minutes and have a chat.
 First of all, I must tell you what a big surprise I had when I received the yellow slip. 1 was like many of the other Sisters, I never expected to be one of the lucky prize winners. I know we all appreciate the kindnesses the Editor extends to us and prize them very highly.
 am sending in directions for a Social Corner table. a very pretty or nament for the parlor or the guest chamber. Take three old broom han dies and saw them off the desired height you would like your table; fas- ten them together firmly, then get some thin pieces of boards from old boxes and saw out a round piece for the top; or, better still, get a round OOoden cover that comes on 20-pound butter or lard tubs; nail it securely to the broom handle legs, take white crepe paper and cover the round top, then make a, frill of the white crepe paper around the table and tack it on to the round top with common tacks; then take a piece of orange colored crepe paper, say four or six inches wiGe and long enough to go round the top of the table, over the tacIIing of the other, and on one side make a pretty bow with long ends to hang down. The bow should be made of the range color.
 These make a very useful little ta- ble for a great many things in the fancy line or for albums or small pots of ferns.
 We are having so much stormy weather at the present time, perhaps you can set the man of the house in terested in making the table for you, and then you would not have very much trouble in coverinN it your selves.
 Make one and see if you don't have a very pretty and inexpensive little table for a COSY. corner.
 Best wishes for the Social Corner writers.
 SISTER C F S
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a rich pastry. Put l cup milk and 1 tablespoon butter into a sauce pan, >pring to boiling and pour over a. pound of bread crumbs, add table spoons sugar, tablespoon lemon juice, beaten eggs and tablespoons entrants. Put a spoonful of this mix ture into each gem pa.n and bake Use beaten whites for meringue.
 Bread Crunb Fritters-One-h half pint four 1-2 pint bread crumbs, 7 eggs, l tablespoon sugar, , teaspoons baking powder and a pinch of salt: milk to make sufficient batter. Drop by spoonfuLs in hot, smoking fat.
 ecCOI-NS-rRN ALALIn .
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AN INQUIRY FROM PONTIAC.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis ters:-I have read your letter each week for a good many months. and have decided to write myself, if you have no objections. You are all strangers to me, but I hope will know some Of you soon. I have en- loved the letters and stories very much. I guess I know one of you. School Girl: Are you not the one I staid with the other night?
 What kind of soap is best for wash ing hair used peroxide soap last time but do not like it.
 I will not take up too much space the first time but will write again. Best wishes to all.
 PONTIAC
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-13
SOCIAL CORNER POEM.
The Faith We Need.

The Faith We Need. Too tall our structures and too swift our pace; Not so we mount, not so we gain the
 race.
 Too. loud the voice of commerce in Not 80 truth speaks, not so we un. derstsnd. Too vast our ocnquests and too large
 our gains; Not so comes peace. not so the soul attains.
 But the need of the world is 8 faith that will live anywhere: h the still dark depths of the woods, or out in the suns full glare 4 faith that can hear Gods voice, alike
 in the quiet Slen, Or iu the roar of the street and over the noises of men. And the need of the world is 6 creed 5 that Is founded on joy; A creed with the tuTrets of hope and trust, no winds can destroy: "A creed where the soul finds rest, whatever this life bestows, And dwelIs undoubting and unafraid, because it knows, it knows. And the need of the world is love that OuTnS m the nS8IL llhS udUleS A love for the Givsr of life, in sor-
 row or joy the same; 4 love that blazeg 9 trail to God,
 through the dark and the cold, Or k~~-s tho path way that leads to
 Him clean. through glory and gold. For the faith that can only thrive and
 grow in the solitude, And droops and dies in the marts of
 men,
 That is not faith at all, but the dream
 of a mystic's heart; Our faith should point as the com
 pass points, whatever be the chart. Our faith must find it's center of peace
 in a babel of noise; In the changing ways of the world of
 men it must keep its poise; And over the sorrowing sounds of
 earth, 1t must hear Gods call; And the faith that cannot do all this
 that is not faith at all.
 ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Sent in hJ- SWEPT SJXTEF5h