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Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31
CHERRY BLOSSOM CHATS.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: have not written for a short while, but thought I would pop in again. You Sisters certainly have good times at the picnics.
 Crimson Rambler: Come and see me some time and see my crocheting. cannot beat you.
 Pontiac: Was sorry not to see you at the party; missed you very much. Hyacinth: I think your pen has got misplaced. Try and find 1t and see if it will write.
 Hoping you are all enjoying this good weather, I remain as ever, one of the Sisters.
 CHERRY BLOSSOM.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31
GREETINGS FROM THE LAS
 ROSE OF SUMMER.

Dear Editor and Social Cornerites: This afternoon I feel like writing to somebody, and although I owe two or three letters. I'm writing first to my own family-that's you, you know.
 School Girl: After reading your let ter l felt quite optimistic. I'm so glad you wrote it. We have one Sig thing in common-that we both like to read Sometimes I think read too much l read and dream and dream and read until I forget realities. Then I final ly fall to the earth with a bump that Is liable to hurt.
 Sometime I intend to ride horse back I've always longed to. It's all right to ride in an auto, or a car riage, or a trolley car. but I would had a, bicycle once. but during that time was liable to be in a black-and- blue state, so my bicycle and I shook hands and parted company.
 Robert: If I were a man and bald headed I would follow out your advice. I wonder.
 Gadabout: You are very welcome. Call again with a nice long letter.
 The Doctress: Isn't 1t odd that just on the day that I read your letter had brand new cold sore at the corner of my lips?
 Pontiac: I like you very, very much and I wish I knew you person ally.
 Diana: You wrote a lovely letter It read just as though you knew ] had been sick a great deal and that you understood. Sometimes am in- clined to think that people who are sick as you are have more influence than most healthy persons If you were not patient and courageous you couldn't have written such a helpful letter. Maybe you would enjoy these two verses, my fayorites: Because, dear Christ. your tender
 wounded arm
 Bends back the briar that edges
 long life's way; That no hurt comes to heart, to soul
 no harm:
 do not feel the thorns so much to-
 day.
 Because I never knew Your care tc
 tire,
 Your arm to weary guiding one aright; Because you walk ahead and crush the
 briar,
 It does-.sot pierce my feet so much to-
 night"
 send you my love, Diana, through The Corner.
 LAST ROSE OF SUMMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31
TO MAKE FILLED COOKIES.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis ters:[ am very interested in the Social Corner and I have enjoyed many good times. I am planning on going to Aunt Abby's picnic.
 Dottie wanted recipe for making filled cookies, so will send mine:
 Filled Cookies-One cup sugar, 1-2 cup shortening. 1 egg, 1-2 cup milk, I teaspoon soda, teaspoon vanilla, 3 1-2 cups flour, teaspoons cream tartar. Dissolve soda in milk and sift cream tartar in flour. ! Filling@One cup chopped raisins, 1-2 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon flour, 1-2 cup water. Mix sugar and flour to- gether, then add water and raisins and cook until thick. Roll cookies thin and put in tins and place teaspoon of filling in center and place cookie on top and pinch together. Hope some of the sisters will try this.
 BUMBLE BEE.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31
MOTHER A BoARDER IN HER
 OWN HOME.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis ters: We had been having a lot of company, and mother was all tired out and we felt she must have a change and rest, and as she did not want to leave home, we decided she must be boarder in her own home. We moved her and her best clothes into the guest room, made everything restful and inviting for her, and tried to keep the family from talking business to her, so she could rest from household af- fairs, and I think we did a good job, as she spent the last week in the country with friends.
 met friend Sunday and she said her daughter had been getting up mornings to prepare the breakfast, so she conId rest. Daughters. lookout for mother.
 SATURDAY EVE.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31

or battleship. They went to Bremen ton and saw them They made a big showing. There were over 3, 1000 Shrin- CTS from Seattle, and over 30.00O in the parade. I did not get to see it as am so crippled it would have been impossible for me to get around in such a crowd have not been to see my daughter since last Christ mas, but plan to make her visit next week. She comes out to see me quite often. She and my granddaughters came out just before my birthday and took possession of my house. They brought out paper and paint and with the help of The Bach" papered three a swell dinner. I am all "spick and span" and ready to entertain any of you Social Corner friends who wish to make me a visit. I wish some of you could come.
 Potlatch made me short visit last week. She brought me a lovely bou- quet of sweet peas, roses and many other flowers. She tends them faith fully, has a hose so has plenty of water, which don5t have.
 You may think Wildwood is the name of this place. for my flowers are scattered all over it, with the ex- ception of the roses and honeySuckle which are trained all over the house on the front porch and looks very pretty.
 I have good luck with my house plants, as The Bach takes great in terest in them and cares for them almost entirely They look very cheery in my bay window when other flowers are gone.
 intend to call on Potlatch while in town.
 enjoy the Social Corner letters and like to try the recipes; am a typ ical Yankee; I like to try experiments in cooking.
 Best wishes for you all; and per haps you may hear from me again some time.
 WILDWOOD.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31
PRESERVING VEGETABLES ANu
 FRUITS.

Dear Social Cornerftes:-It has beer long time since have been able te read your interesting letters and have missed them greatly. Suppose great many of you are busy just now canning fruit and vegetables, so per- haps the following suggestions may benefit some one.
 Fruit and Vegetables for canning should be fresh and not over-r1pe Pick over carefully and wash.
 The best grade of jars should b6 bought as they will last for years, New rubber rings should always be used.
 For peas. string and shell beans pack the jar with the raw vegetable ate use Add one teaspoon of salt and fill with cold water. Put the rubber and top on. but do not seal Set the jars in a kettle of cold water and bring to boil Keep boiling steadily for three hours. The top should never be lifted after the water starts to boil, or the jars removed from the kettle before sealing. A kettle large enough to hold three quart jars and cover tight, is a convenient size.
 Black and red raspberries should be packed in the jar, raw.
 Make a syrup of one cup of sugar to one cup of water. Fill jars with syrup. put on the rubbers and top. set in kettle of cold water. bring to a boil and after one minute seal and remove from kettle.
 BIueberries and bIaekberries nre best sweetened as used Put fruit in shallow kettle with just enough water to keep from sticking When the berries are all heated through and begin to boil. fill jars and seal at once.
 Always set your jars on a heavy cloth, wrung out of cold water, when filling with boiling fruit and start slowly at first. You will never break a jar.
 For peaches and pIunns, make a of water. Seal the fruit and remove the skin and nearly all the stones from the peaches. Drop enough for one quart or two pint jars at a time into scalding syrup and as soon as it boils. fill the jars and seal. Care must be taken not to cork too long or they will be soft.
 Peas can be peeled and halved. cooked in a syrup of one-half cup sugar to one of water, until they ap- pear transparent Then put into jars
 One can of pineapple, cut fine. added to enough pears for six quart tarh give delicious flavor.
 Pears are also good for spicing and the small ones to pickle whole
 A good general rule for 1eH or all kinds is to have the fruit a little under ripe. Over ripe fruit will never jell. Add as little water as necessary and cook to a soft pulp. Put in a JeI bag, made of some heavy substance (heavy flannel is excellenD. and hang up to drip. Never try to squeeze out the juice. Measure your juice and put back to boil. When 1t boils. add equal measure of sugar for the juice and bring to a boil again. Skim and pour into glasses. Set in a sunny window
 These are only simple. general di- rections, which never fail. Everyone has her own favorite recipes for spec ial preserves and relishes.
 Beet Relish.-Cook as for table. peel, slice and dice. Boil vinegar and sugar (haf as much sugar as vinegar), add 1-2 bottle of horeradish. Pour over diced beets- Will keep unsealed and Is delicious with cold meets
 Best wishes to you alL
 MEG.
 Springfield
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31

cover these with the grated cheese and few grains of red pepper. Beat the eggs slightly. add the salt and milk. Pour this mixture over the hot oven.
 Bread Puddina-Three slices bread. one quart milk. one cup sugar, two eggs. one-fourth teaspoon salt. few grains nutmeg. Break the bread into the milk, add sugar. salt and nutmeg. Next add the yolks of the eggs. slight ly beaten. Bake slowly 30 minutes. When well Drowned, cover the top with the stiffiy beaten egg whites which have been sweetened with two table, spoons of sugar. Return to oven and brown.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31

MT. Editor and Social Corner Friends: I hope you win pardon my seeming neglect because of my long silence in acknowledging the kindly remembrance from so many of you. The nice birthday cards I surely ap- preciated, and wish I was able to re- turn the compliment, but I thank you one and all for thinking of the old lady out here in far Washington who is almost a shut-in. I received 90 cards, several nice letters, and other tokens which showed I was not for gotten.
 Two little tots next door came over early with a pretty card, and their mother took some kodac pictures of my home and surroundings as her birthday gift. I wish you all could see it.
 I have a very nice garden with nearly all kinds of vegetables fit to eat Have had peas. beans, spuds and beets since the middle of June. The berries were very early and nearly gone about the time they usually com mence to get ripe. especially straw berries. Now we have red, yellow and black caps Logan, raspberries and we have some early plums that will soon be ripe. We have apples that will cook in ten minutes called the 20 ounce pippin, and they surely weigh 20 ounces. We can cook them when nearly half grown. We had cherries, but not large crop; shall have plen- ty of apples, pears, prunes. and have two peach trees that are loaded, so we shall not lack for fruit and veg etables for winter use; but money is very hard to get hold of in this coun- try. The climate can't be beaten even by California and the flowers are a mass of beauty all over the country.
 The ShrinerS are having the big gest kind of a time here this week in Seattle. They are from all over the country and see many new things. Some from the middle west never saw the salt water, steamer, navy yard
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31
A F1RELEss COOKER FOR FIFTY
 CENTS.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Friends: As have fireless cooker, I am wondering how many of the Sisters have one. If you haven't any, will tell you how you can make one that will be a great help to you these warm days.
 Cover the bottom and sides of a large crock with asbestos (such as comes for covering furnace pipes), sealing the seams with sealing wax or tire tape. Have the asbestos extend five inches above the top of the crock. The lid
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31
A CHAT FROM c. OF c.

Dear Sisters and Brothers: It has been quite a while since I wrote to the Social Corner. I enjoy reading it more and more every week. did not get the paper Saturday. I miss ed it awfully.
 What has become of Lucy Acorn Why don't she writer
 loan of Yantic: Where are you ? Hope you are well; also your family, should have liked to have gone Ito the picnic at Coventry, but I went away that day, the 18th of June.
 Best wishes.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31

missionary meeting held at one of the homes on Lebanon road.
 Aunt Sarah: That is fine horse you drive; wondering if you would not take me with yop on some of your trips. see you go by quite often. Stafford Daisy: I was very much interested in your letter of July 24th. Lonesome Pine: I think we have met. Are you not one of a family of four girls7
 Peggy Ann: I know you and have eaten some of your good cake.
 Best wishes to all.
 DOROTHY PERKINS
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31
Foops FoR lNvALIps.

Dear Social Corner Sisters:-You will find these foods for tinvalids al- ways reliable.
 Flour Gruel-One quart milk. tea spoon of flour. teaspoon of salt Re- serve 1-2 cup milk and put remainder in double boiler Mix four with re- serve milk stir 1t in the boiling milk and cook 30 minutes. Add salt Take
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Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31
A WORD FROM DOROTHY.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis h your circle? If so I should like 10 become one of you. The Social Corner sheet Is the most interesting part of Saturdays Bulletin to me- 10 so enjoy reading the many good etters and recipes sent in by the sis- sers.
 Aunty No. I: I think I met you at
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31
A SUMMER DESSERT,

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: think some Of you may enjoy the following:
 Summer Dessert-One pint of milk, one tablespoon of cornstarch, one tea spoon vanilla and a little salt. Cook in double boiler. When cold cut in pieces and put in glass dish: Pour over cut up peaches. serve very cold
 HOPE
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31
A CHAT FROM PONTIAC.

Dear Social Cornerites: I was glad to see so many new members in our club. The more the merrier you Remember Me. Always room for one more"
 scottie; Hal za, I have found you
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31
BETTER THAT FEET SLIP THAN THE TONGUE
EVERY woMAN,s OPPORTUNITY

 full . each Address SOCIAL EDITOR Norwich THREE PRIZES Award drnadei the astsa n
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31

Prize $25o t3-
 To Molly for letter Prize $1.5o
 To Aunty Third
 To Dorothy for
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Norwich.
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.ccondnned on Rage ls.l
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27
About Girdles.

Girdles which used to encircle mi
lady's dainty waist are not to be found
in that region this season. They have
moved upward most of them. to give
the new high-waisted effect. From
this high position they are apt to wan
der in and out of draperies. often
a part at the front or back of the
hem One pretty girdle had three long
loops falling directly under each other,
and in the end OF each loop was
caught full-blown pink rose. An
other girdle of sulphur yellow was 50
completely hidden by the chiffon over
waist that you could only guess at its
presence on the dress.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27

stitches made of heavy white silk
adorn the crown. and single row fin.
ishes the brim-edge. A band of velvet
ribbon confines the crown, and but
tertiy of white crystal beads suggests
a bit of frost painting. This is a beau.
tiful and unusual development of the
picture hat.
Suited to the matron as well as to
the younger woman, the sailor hat OF
white corduroy and satin. faced with
black velvet. is of the sort that may
be worn anywhere. The upper brim
and top crown are of corduroy. and
the side crown is covered with satin
laid in folds Odd new ornaments o.
beads and curving ribs of feathers. o.'
"feelers." as they are called, are ao
piled to the crown.
JULIA BoTTO,lLEY.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27

Created for those whose needs de-
mand hats for the period between two
seasons are hats made for the warm,
bright days of early autumn. with an
eye to the frost that may overtake
them in the midst of their usefulness.
Here are three of them, in fashionable
black and wEite. They will solve the
problem of the woman who feels that
IT is too late for the purchase OF sum-
mer hat and altogether too early to
wear one belonging to wintertime-
She will find these Just suited to
bridging over the interval between two
seasons
Very popular with the younger peo-
pie, small turbans are made In combi-
nations OF black velvet with white
silk or satin and trimmed with fancy
feathers or wings. The pretty exam
pie shown in the picture has coronet
OF velvet and crown of satin. White
wings. in the smart pose, on the
crown. are the only trimming used and
all that is needed.
One of the new wide and dropping
brimmed shapes may be made of silk
or velvet or of the two combined. 1t
reflects the fad for needlework in its
decoration Parallel rows OF long
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27
WOOLLEY, MONEY-MAKER

Being Kentuckian, born in the
blue grass. and later resident of Vir-
ginia. mere money-making never in
terested Robert Wickliffe Woolley
overmuch. But now. in his mature
life he has become one of the fore
most moneymakers of the world
He is director of the mint of the
United States. in charge OF making
the metal money OF the country, and.
also, the metal money of various 9TH
er countries. So. while he counts his
makings in terms of millions. they are
not for him. He is no money grubber.
Literature and horses really are
the things to which he always has
been most devoted, and they are di-
rectly responsible for his becoming
a moneymaker of first Importance
in the world. Here is the chain OF
connecting circumstances that brought
him to his present occupation: He
so loved horses that he could not re-
frain from writing about them; so
well did he write about them that
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27
WOMAN AEROPLANE BUILDER

Mrs. Maurice Hewlett, wife of the
famous novelist. has large aero
plane factory working day and night
on the production of military air.
craft She is the only woman in
Britain, and probably the sole repre-
sentative CT the fair sex the world
over who occupies the unusual role
Of aercplane builder. Few outside
those connected with aviation know
of the valuable work this lady has of
recent years carried out for the ad-
vancement of British aeronautics.
During the last three years she has
quietly studied aeroplane constru-
tion, and has spent small fortune
on equipment for her factory, so con-
fident was she in the aeroplane as a
military machine.
She was the first woman to- take
flying certificate in Britain, and she
learned the art of pilcting in the early
days of aviation when going aloft in
an aeroplane was about as hazardous
task as one could hope to find
In the aviation world Mrs. Hewlett
regarded as mascot where flying is
scores of aeroplane flights, both as a
with the slightest mishap.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27
HE HAS SPENT s5O,ooo,ooo

Herbert C. Hoover is the Ameri.
can who. of all the Americans, has
played the most important part in the
great tragedy being enacted in Eu-
rope,' said cabinet member recent
ly, and yet comparatively few persons
know who Herbert c. Hoover is.
To put is briefly, Hoover is the
man who. at the head of the Belgian
relief work, has directed the ex-
penditure of $50,000,00O in recent
months. Among the few men who
really run things In the civilized ma
tions-and a few of the uncivilized-
he is regarded as Americas s foremost
citizen of the world. Princes and po-
tentates - financial and political =
know MIN on terms of intimacy.
Only few years ago he was a
farmer boy in Iowa. He worked his
way through Stanford university, be.
came mining engineer and, after
much experience in this country and
Australia, gained great fame by open
ing highly productive mines in the
oct IN, To- de-,
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27

Fascinating boudoir caps are made
by crocheting heavy silk thread in an
open design. They are shaped like
the caps made for infants, and fin.
ished with crocheted shell or seal
lops about the edge Ribbon is run
in them about the face and across the
back. 1t fits the cap to the head and
decorates It at the same time.
Crocheted hats are made of silk
fiber, chenille, or wool, and are very
smart for motor wear for travelling
and for the street. Fine wire is used
in shaping them, and they are made
by professional workwomen who un.
derstand how to conceal the wire in
the crocheted stitches.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27

Now that industry has become fash
ionable and everyone is knitting or
crocheting or doing some sort OF
''keep-busy" fad blossom out In all di-
rections. The family. from baby to
grandma, revels in pretty things in
the way OF dress accessories, and the
house is decked out with fine spe-
cimens of needlecraft.
Among the most successful of all
the articles Knitted or crocheted. baby
bonnets. hats for little girls. and Dou-
doir caps and hats for grown-ups tes-
tify to the adaptabillty of this kind of
work to headwear. Baby bonnets,
either knitted or crocheted of silk.
have long been among the coveted
iuxuries that each mother manages
somehow to secure. They are very
durable and very beautiful. Crocheted
one must either have the time and
knowledge OF the work required, to
make it. or be prepared to pay the
price which elegant. handmade things
will bring.
The small knitted hat OF silk shown
In the picture is moderately priced at
four or five dollars. 1t is knitted of
heavy silk thread in cream color. and
consists of cap which covers the
crown of the head. and frlIl of lace,
knitted of the same silk as the cap.
IL is finished with tassel made of the
silk.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27
saby's Everyday Dresses.

To make everyday dresses for baby
purchase white washable crepe. Make
the little garments plain. with a
sleeve that goes to the neck. Few
seams are required and but one but
tonhole. Time and labor are saved
in laundering. too, as no ironing is
needed.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27

WedkneSs. 1 spoke
to three doctors
about it and they did
not h elp her any.
Lydia E. Pinkham $
V eg e ia BILE Com
pound had been Of
great benefit to me,
so l decided to have
her give it a trial.
She has Iaken five
bottles of the Vege-
table COMPOUND ac-
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27
Goodl

In that new banana which Burbank
has evolved the skiddy skin is omit
ted. This may be gain for the
banana and the public. but it's a pain
full loss for the professional funmaker.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27
These United States.

The United States has 100000
square miles of territory, 1903, 100000
acres of land. There are $4,000, 900
acres of land in the farms of the coun-
try, but 47s,O00.O0O acres of this area
are unimproved and unproductive.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27
tanner OF STRIKERS

Eugene F. Kinkead. sheriff of
Hudson county. New Jersey. has
doomed large in the public esteem re-
Gently. He is the man who showed
Bayonne how he could tame strikers
until they clamored to eat out. of his
hand, and could then send them back
to their jobs with assurances of high
er pay and better hours
Seldom in time. of peace has an
American community faced a more
menacing situation than that in Bay
onne. Still more seldom has situa-
tion so fraught with peril been SO sue
cessfully met by the courage, skill
and diplomacy of civic peace officer,
without the aid of state troops. That
is why Eugene F. Kinkead is the
man of the hour in New Jersey and
why many of his admirers are boom
ing him for the next governor.
Kinkead has been a man by no
means unknown even before he pulled
the teeth of the most dangerous strike
of the year. During six years of an
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27


buhe his
years old
always been ardent in
ne was tne captain OF the Democratic congressional
and head OF the National league Mr. Knkad
and
poca played
could depended
also lot of
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27

Some horses are better mud runners
than others. 1t is so with human be-
1ngs.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-27

Red Cross Bag Blue makes the laundress
happy, makes clothes winter than snow.
All good grocers. Adv.