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Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-11
SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS FROM
 DREAMER.

Dear Corner Friends:-We may give without loving, but can we love without giving?
 Just a little time and a little more to many a heart without expending much money.
 There may be a sweet old lady, or a dear old gentleman, who would be carried back to their youthful days by a Christmas letter full of some thing you know will interest and
 Even the common inexpensive Christmas cards if chosen with thought may convey a deeper heart message than the hurriedly chosen costly gift.
 For a comparatively small cost blank cards may be secured with only the mistletoe on them. On these verses or prose written in ones own hand take the recipient back to the days of auld laug syne.
 If you haven't an attic of your own in which to go browsing you may have a good friend or neighbor who has. and is not selfish with it and is contents Some attics-just things which if properly sorted out would make useful Christmas bundles for the poor family round the corner. Between the layers of a package of shredded wheat are sheets of thin pasteboard which make neat mount ings for a calendar of Social Corner recipes. Select various S. c. hints and recipes, arrange tastily and paste onto as many sheets of pastooard as you wish the calendar to have. The a picture suggestive of the woman in the kitchen, or anything else which would answer for a cover. If we have ten cents left after all
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SLIM JIM'S IMITATION LOAF
 CAKE.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis ters: Having had the pleasure of meeting so many of the sisters lately, I find I can keep silent no longer.
 Popover: Where are you? Have been watching for something from your pen for a long time.
 Aunt Hester: Are you too busy these days to write, or have you changed your name?
 Grace: We'll, at last patience is re. warded, You see.
 Tiny: Was very much surprised to see you at Aunty No. Is, and to find that you were a Cornerite.
 I am sending a recipe for an Imita- tion Loaf Cake, which is very good:
 Imitation Loaf Cake-Take 1 cup butter, cups sugar, cups milk, 4 1-2 cups flour, cups raisins chop ped coarsely, ? even teaspoons soda, even teaspoons cream of tartar or 6 rounding teaspoons baking powder, white of l egg beaten stiff, nutmeg, mace and cinnamon if preferred. This makes loaves and should be baked in a slow oven.
 With best wishes, SLIM JIM.
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DO NOT NEGLECT THAT COLD.

Editor Social Corner: I do not know
 whether the members of your large
 family need to be warned against the
 neglect of colds. A cold in it's begin
 ming is usually quickly checked by
 simple remedies always in the house;
 a cold neglected requires a doctor and
 is not so easily brought to a satisfac- tory conclusion.
 A cold in the head, taken the minute it makes itself manifest, may be
 checked by snuffing tepid salt water up the nostrils several times at inter- vals of an hour or two, or just when going to bed, or by the application of medicated jellies which come in tubes for this purpose and may be found in all up-tO-d date drug stores.
 When the first symptoms of a cold are felt, or even when through care
 lessness you fear you have caught cold, just drop eight drops of spirits
 of camphor in a tumbler of water and take teaspoon every 15 minutes for an hour and then twice an hour until
 there is a natural feeling re-establish- ed, when it may be taken once a day for two days, and you have knocked it out.
 It should always be borne in mind that salt water used to strengthen the eyes or correct inf1amed conditions of the catarrhal tract through the nostrils should not be brine, but salted water which may be drunk without hardly recognizing the salt. Over salted water
 may be relied upon to make this rem edy very disagreeable and not effica- | cious.
 i Dreamer: I am as much puzzled as i you be. l do not know why I never heard of you; or how it is you never heard of me. From those you do know l think you may be able to discover me
 after while. If you ever do get my | initials, I shall have to own up. | THE CRANK
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DOM PEpRo's THANKSGIVING.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis ters: Thanksgiving is now past and gone, and I hope you all enjoyed the day. It certainly is a great pleas ure to meet with friends that you see at such a gathering only once a year.
 The family reunion Is a good olden- time custom and should be kept up as long as possible.
 I think 1t would be very interesting if all the writers would tell us how and where they spent their Thanks giving.
 I am going to tell you about mine. A small party of us took the trolley here at New London for Norwich, We were met there by auto and taken out to Buttonwood, East Great Plains, where we were made welcome by our friends and relatives. At 12 o'clock seventeen of us gathered around the festive board to partalSe of a six course dinner, which was most thor oughly enjoyed from turkey to nuts, and sweet cider.
 After we had satisfied our FaVepouA appetitea there was a brief literary entertainment, which was followed by music, both vocal and Instrumental, and with tho help of @ phenograph, which completely filled the bill, our en- tertatnment concluded.
 At 5 o'clock we were again called to order and marched to the dining room. where we were served with foe
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SUGGESTIONS FOR DECORATING

Dear Social Corner Editor and Sis ters:-The Christmas season, which to many means the homecoming of loved ones and the giving of gifts, will soon be here.
 One sister has told how to make the plum pudding and others have given timely suggestions for gifts. Fossil bly a few suggestions for decorating the Christmas table may not come amiss.
 Ropes of red corn. made by string ing the grains on stout cord make ef- fective decorations when hung from tall centerpiece across a white ta- ble cloth, or hung in festoons around it.
 large pumpkin cut in half. the center scooped out and filled with polished red apples and grapes, makes pretty Centerpiece.
 Another centerpiece is a fruit cake with a white icing in the center of which is placed a tiny Christmas tree, gayly lighted with tiny candles.
 Wind two wooden barrel hoops with strips of white muslin and decorate with holly or evergreen. Fasten the hoops together at the top with rib bon, so they can be spread and made to stand in an upright position. From the center top suspend a string of red Christmas bells, and hang. fes- toons of bells around the table. Ropes of holly or evergreen laid di- | agonally across the table. forming a cross in the center and hung in small l loops around the edge make a very effective decoration with little work Wind wooden barrel hoop with white muslin. then alternate with mar row green and red ribbon. Suspend from the ceiling over the center of the | table. Hang small red cheese cloth stockings filled with candy and pop corn all around the hoop, and decorate the table cloth with festoons of red paper stockings.
 Make a tiny house of cardboard, cut windows and doors and paste red pa | per over the openings; cover the roof with cotton to represent snow. put a | his pack filled with candy. and place | a lighted candle within the house. This decoration vii please the chill | dren.
 pRINTPOSE
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a crippled child whatever he may need for his own amusement. This may be pinned with safety pins to a screen and be placed near them; or with hatpins be attached to any upholstered chair and pushed where they can help them selves. This device will save hundreds of steps every day and make the invalid feel self-5epenGent and save no end of friction on both sides.
 These things are inexpensive and their usefulness is apparent at once. I hope many of your readers may be helped as I have been by these simple suggestions.
 RIJTH
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A CHAT FROM NEE BEN.

Dear Cornerites:-I hope you all had a very enjoyable Thanksgiving. Starlight: I had my boys and girl home and am thankful that we were all together another year, and if the dear Lord is willing we hope for a good many more happy ones. l agree with you. children like to see their mother look nice and neat. I know mine do.
 Joe John stone: Yo ucertainly jump ed from the frying pan into the fire. Dreamer: Honesty is the best policy. I believe in children respect ing the rights of others and should not be brought up to expect reward for returning things to the rightful owners.
 Si: I am glad you had such a grand time- How many red ears did you find?
 Lonesome Pine: Where are you? Hope you have not pined away. Met your sister last week.
 Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
 NEE BEN.
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Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: Just a short letter on this bright win ter morning.
 Fringed Gentian: Glad to hear there is a letter on the way.
 Uncle Jerusha: When are you going to the next gathering?
 Aunt Jerusha: Hope to see you soon Dew Drop: Has your pen rusted. Polly Peppermint: I saw you at a medal contest and you were one oi the judges, but didn't know me. Hope to see you at a gathering and then see if you can guess who I am. shall have to close by sending in . recipe for
 Ginger Drops-One cup light browr sugar, 2-3 cup butter, 1-2 cup of colo water. 1 egg, 2-3 cup molasses, 1 large tablespoon ginger. l large teaspoon soda, and flour to make a thick bat. ter, drop by teaspoon on a wei greased pan, bake in moderate oven Best wishes to all
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APPROPRIATE PRESENTS.

Dear Cornerites:-One of the Sis ters requested some Christmas Sug-
 gestions, so as the mother of several small children of various ages I ven
 ture to answer for the Riddles as they,
 of course, come first on the list at
 this season of the year.
 For His Highness the baby, there
 are sweaters sets, sweater, leggins,
 cap and mittens; either one of which
 would make a most acceptable gift
 crocheted sacques knitted toques, a handmade bonnet, a padded coat
 hanger, small sachets to be put among
 the babies clothes. a clothes tree, an
 angora bonnet, white woolen stock
 ings, bootees, shoes, slippers, small
 robe, box of talcurn powder, a bottle
 of toilet water, for the child a little older-there are the cute little dress
 es for the girls, suits for the small boys, a bathrobe, bread and milk set or individual china of any descrip- tion. The children are always proud
 and glad to use something at the ta-
 ble entirely their own. A silver spoon, cup or mug, rain capes and coats,
 umbrellas, books and games, doll fur
 niture and my children always take
 more pleasure in playing with small toys than the large iron and stuffed
 ones so common in the stores. They cost no more and are taken care of more easily, and have the advantage of taking up, much less room, an item | to a busy mother with a large fami- | ly.
 Blocks, soldiers. trains, Noah's ark and Lotto, seem to head the list for ! the boys and the girls are always de- | lighted with a doll, and anything to play house, a pretty dress made with train to dress rip in, is always greatly appreciated.
 | It always seems to me that those in | the country have a large variety of gifts on hand to choose from, for their | friends in the city (although I did | not think so, when I lived there my | self). Since I have become a resident | of a large city I have learned to ap-
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HOT DISHES FOR SUPPER.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner:- It is no easy matter to think what to have for a variety to continue appetiz- ing hot suppers. I submit a few good reipes which may help:
 creamed Dried Beef-Two cups of milk, heaping tablespoon of flour and a lump of butter stirred together in a frying pan until a smooth cream. Shred the beef in small pieces and stir into the cream. Use pepper if you wish, but no salt.
 EscaIToped Potatoes-Make some of the cream sauce as above. Peel and cut into small cubes enough raw po- tatoes to make a little over a quart and boil five minutes. Drain and turn into buttered dish. Add sauce sea son to taste cover top with crumbs, put on a little butter and bake.
 EscalIoped Fish-This can be made of leftover fish from dinner or salt codfish freshened. Flake your fish, add cream sauce, salt. pepper and crumbs on top with dots of butter and, bake.
 Corn Chowder-Two slices of salt pork cut fine and fried brown. Two onions and two potatoes sliced thin and boiled. Take lan of corn, or six or eight ears grated. add quart then your potato and onions. Add water if too thick.
 Cream of Lima Beans-Cook one pint of lima beans with one or two onions until tender. Press through colander and add quart of milk. Rub together and add quart of milk. Rub together one tablespoon of but ter and tablespoon of flour. Season with salt and pepper and serve piping hot. These are good luncheon dish es or substitutes for meat. A Plain Corncake-One and one half cups corn meal, same of four salt, one tablespoon shortening. one | half cup sugar, one teaspoonful soda | in one and one-half cups sour milk, or use sweet milk and two teaspoonfuls cream of tartar.
 HANNAH WHO.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-11
SOCIAL CORNER POEM. ALMONDS AND RAISINS.

SOCIAL CORNER POEM.
 ALMONDS AND RAIsINs. Twas an Almond and a Raisin In a dish all silver bright, A Raisin dusky purple, And an Almond creamy white. Said the Raisin to the Almond q was once as full of wine As a dewdrop is of sunlight, And a glossy skin was mine.' Said the Almond to the Raisin, And I've a tale to tell I was born inside a flower, And I lived within a she'll" Said the Raisin to the Almond ''We are both from Southern lands And we come once more together. Having fallen in English hands" Don't you think we ought to marry am sure 'twould be as well. Though you have lost your juices. And I have lost my she'll" Said the Almond to the Raisin Tt is my dearest *wish*,' That's why you always find them Side by side within the dish.
 F. w. HOME. Sent in by Easter Lily.
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the finishing touches are completed to our Christmas giving let's invest in
 These little seals are the bullets which are being used to fight that terrible enemy the white plague, and should we not recognize in this little seal, the message of the true Christ mas spirit-the helping of our suffer ing brothers and sisters to health and happiness.
 The merriest of Merry Christmas and the happiest of Happy New Year for the Social Corner family. DREAMER
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bake thirty minutes. Serve with any

bake thirty minutes. Serve with any sauce,
 Baked Apple RolI-Make a dough of one quart flour. one teaspoon salt, two teaspoons baking powder, two table spoons butter and one pint milk. Roll out one-fourth inch thick and spread with chopped apples. Roll up and pinch ends together to prevent juice from running out. Place in a baking pan with one-half cup butter, two cups sugar and three cups water. Bake one and one-half hours. This makes its own sauce.
 Tn A
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THE MOST USEFUL THING IN THE LONG
 RUN: BREATH!
EVERY woMAN's OPPORTUNITY

OPPORTUNITY good business letters; good help They should wedn feachw week.. c Address Bulletin Norwich s5o rt $5o second 1oo to third Award made the S each month
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INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS.

LOS ANGELES: Card received for Blanche and mailed to her.
 BOX received and forwarded to Blanche
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.KITTYS GINGER DROPS.

LOREILsA
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26
Old Games for Christmas

From the Tnllauelpnla PUBIC Ledger.
Between the dark and the daylight.
When the night is beginning to lower
There comes in the days occupations
A very bad quarter Of an hour.
This is not the way the poet said it,
exactly but it's the way think he would
have said it if he had been entertaining
a houseful of children on Christmas day,
for there is a. time, late In the afternoon,
when the turkey is but memory and the
toys have lost their first newness, when
the children haven't the faintest idea as
to what to do with themselves. This is
the physiological moment at which some
nice big sister should start up an inter-
esting game. Now, all children just love
to dress up and to make believe" So
dc you know what would be q nice thing
to have them do? Why, let them act out
the Ruggle's dinner party You yourself
can be Mrs. Ruggles and can use her
very words: Lets start in at the begin
min n act out the whole business" The
baby can be Baby Larry and the tallest
girl will be Sarah Maud. The straight
haired girl can be Peoria, and freckled
boy, will be glad to be Clems understudy
You can pile them all into the room ad-
joining. and they will be glad to pile out
again, first in ough-and-tumble fashion,
and second in flock step, Indian file ;"
Just as the Ruggleses did. You will be
astonished to find how well they really
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know tho story. and many a group OF
children will be able to so through the
whole scene where they get their 'trainin
In manners without q rehearsal. Cos
trmes will be easily arranged. and, re-
member, only plaid shawl was needed
to dress Baby Larry kind O. Scotch
STYLE
II you want to act out the second scene
the dinner itself. it would be a good idea
to let the children have some real "eats.
as they call them. which will serve as a
light supper and ell that they really need
after tho substantial meal that they had
in the middle Of the day.
Another story that they love to act out
is ''Alice in Wonderland 1t is very
easily gotten up, as very few properties
are needed. A square paper hat for the
carpenter. cardboard crowns and long
white shawls for the ret and whits
queens. a tall hat for the halter. q tir
sword to do for the "vorpar' sword Of
Gabberwocky fame-all these can be got
ten together at short notice. A children
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26
Do Movies Spoil an Actor?

Walter Prichard Eaton in the American
Magazine
What is of more vital interest is the
effect of the movies on the actors art
on the art, therefore, of the drama. l
think it may be stated with very little
qualification that this effect, on the whole,
Is probably bad. 1t is bad on the ancient
principle that you cannot serve two mas
tiers.
The other day l was talking with one
of the most skilled and versatile of the
English actors now regularly appearing
in America, and he told of going to see a
certain actor perform whom he had not
seen for several seasons.
II watched him for a while in amaze
ment," he said, for his style had
changed so radically, and for the worse,
that / could hardly believe it was he.
Then I suddenly realized what was the
trouble. He had been in the movies''
Did you ever try the movies?" /
asked.
Once he said, land never again, so
help me. | went down to Havana with
a good company. mostly legitimate play
erS, to put on feature film. For a few
days it was rather good fun, as well as
very good pay; but after that it got more
and more terrible. till I could conceive
of nothing more deadly. Silent mouth
gesticulations, the most child-like pam
tomine to express a little story which
was of no Importance. and could be Of
no Importance without literature-spoken
dialogue-to help it out! Between the
merciless realism of the backgrounds
against which you act and the utter lack
of any intellectual stimulation in the
stuff you are acting, motion picture work
to player with a grain of real artistic
feeling and ambition is a beastly and
stultifying thing. Never again for mine."
The utter lack of intellectual appeal in
the movie drama, the complete absence
Of speech to develop the~player's facul-
ties for nuances of expression, the stri-
dent insistence on exaggerated gesticu-
lation and facial play, the bald. unin-
aginative realism of the background,
above all. perhaps. the nightmare brew
ity of the scenes" forhidding the sus-
tanned creation of a mood, the slowly
wrought, carefully built emotional effect,
cannot help being stultifying to the play
er. and injurious to his art.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26
HEARTS CONTENT. ;

| t1k.AftI > CONIENI.
~ Ralph Henry Barbour. With illus
trations in color by H. Weston Tay-
Tor. Decorated by Edward Stratton
Holloway. ]. b. Lippincott company,
publishers, Philadelphia.
Humor. beauty, love and happiness
re the outstanding remembrances aft
fter reading this fascinating tale of
unusual love affair carried on by
n unusual but altogether bewitching
over in small summer resort in
lew England. Allan Shorthand, a gem
eman, a tramp, a poet and withal
be happiest of happy men is the hero;
feryl Vernon, as pretty as the ripple
her name. is the heroine. Two more
harming personalities are seldom
pund within the covers OF a book. It
hard to make comparisons so the
eviewer predicts that the readers of
he gentlor sex, unless perchance they
re already claimed, will fall deeply in
bve with Allan, and the men (of this
9 is sure, being one himself) will
lscover Beryl to be the lady of their
reams.
is heels, pipe in his mouth and
song in his heart, Shorthand came
Alderbury, the little New England
illage. He did not have to carry a
hcll, nor smoke an old brier pipe
is father was rich enough to allow
i'm to drive in limousine and to
|noke the best Havanas-but Allan
r nd IA
rance, the sense of freedom. He had,
owever, another purpose; in fact,
Evo, and for them he had travelled
bore or less over three continents. He
ished to find cottage. cottage of
reams that existed in his minds eye
nd there was somewhere the girl
hose face he had seen agleam in the
Moonlight that long remembered even
1g many years ago on the Grand
Rnal in Venice. His hand had fallen
hers when he had warded off her
ondola and, when she had passed, he
Pund that he had carried off her seal
ng. The next day he advertised for
be owner, but in vain. He still pos
essed the ring, and the remembrance
Reryl was rather startled that warm
lne day in Alderbury in looking from
ie veranda to see a stranger looking
yer the gate admiring the garden
he did not care for men, Had not an
nhappy love affair of the year be-
re cast blight over her entire life ?
he was sure that it would never,
over be cured. But. reader, you must
scover for yourself how Allan came
realize that Bery1 was the fairy
rincess of the Grand canal and that
cottage in Alderbury was the ideal
pme for happy people. Beryl was
artled at her own feelings, but after
was all over and the marriage date
I'd been set we felt that she had a
ght to congratulate herself upon hav-
g been able to say mo- for almost a
onth's time to the compelling love-
akfng Of this fascinating hero.
This is story to pass a happy hour
Hsit is something in addition 1t tells
happiness, of the value of ebeing
hppy and of making those about you
hppy. You will read it and find hearts
Pntent, and you will pass it on as a
essage of love to your friends. In
Edition to the text the illustrations by
Weston Taylor and the designs by
S. Holloway are beautiful and
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children in the party and give one to
each child.
Blindfold each of them In turn. spin
them around u couple OF times and then
start them off for the chimney The
enid who succeeds in perching Santa
Claus right up on top of the chimney
gets the prize.
Ii you have a big room in which the
children can really run. play stoop tag
It's lots OF fun One child Is 1T, and
starts 20 chase the other children. The
ores who are being chased may escape
capture by STOPPING. but this privilege i,
only allowed three times during the
course OF the game. After the third time.
running is the only way out, Other good
running games are three Deep" pass
bali and eat and mouse. Nearly all chill
dren know these games and will teach
yoi how to play them. The chances
are you will enjoy them as much as they
and VIII find that you have gotten
through that bad quarter OF an hour"
very pleasantly.