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Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-29
EVERYBODY INVITED TO THE
 MAY MEETING.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis ters: AS the second Wednesday in May will be the last social gathering to be held in the ". C. T. U. hall. Wil- limaptic, we extend an invitation to all the Sisters and hope to have a large attendance.
 The hostesses for that day will he Club No. 8. All please bring lunch the same as usual.
 J. F. T. suggests We have a May basket and each Sister bring a small present not exceeding 10 cents in price. I understand scme of the Sis ters in Club No. ? expect to attend We shall be pleased to see all who care to come.
 Eline: I will bring the basket you wanted.
 Doctor: Cannot you came and bring your assistants, (Calla Lily, Mexican Primrose). Are you making fun of me.
 Ellis: Bring your hook and thread and I will bring some samples.
 Anna Nell: Were you a guest at our last meeting.
 Merry Farmer Boy and Charity: Wish you would try and meet with us in May.
 Samanthy: Be sure and come and bring Si. If you don't Polly Pepper mint won't enjoy the day. Saturday Eve and Primrose: Don't forget May the 10th.
 Photographer: Please come and snap some of our pictures.
 LONESOME PINE.
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RULES IN COOKING.

Dear Corner Folks: I wish to thank | all those who so kindly showered me ] with so many pretty Easter cards; | seventeen in all.
 Here are a few ideas that may be of help to many in the kitchen: First that the time required for roasting, boiling or baking meat Is as follows: Beef. mutton, and lamb, Is minutes to the pound, with Is minutes added to the entire time.
 Second, that green vegetables and young potatoes should be put into fast boiling water, salted. and boiled fast all the time of cooking. with the saucepan lid firmly on.
 Old potatoes should be put into cold water for a little time before cooking to make them become firm.
 Third, that the average time for cooking vegetables is: Old potatoes. 90 minutes; young potatoes. 20 min sprouts. kale, 30 minutes, old carrots, one hour new, 40 minutes; turnips from 30 to 45 minutes; green peas, Is minutes. To these last a lump O. sugar and by some springs of mint are added.
 Fourth. that a crust of bread toasted nearly black, and put into water in which cabbage Is boiling. will prevent that very disagreeable odOr of cabbage water.n
 Fifth, that fish should be boiled in . ! spoon to a quart: time required for cooking fish 10 minutes to the pound, except for very large, thick fish, as salmon or cod-25 to 20 minutes to the pound.
 Sixth. that fowl require 30 to 50 minutes. according to size, for roast | ing or boiling; turkeys from an hour | and a half to two hours. Old fowl should stew for one hour for every year of it's age.
 ! Seventh. that soot is a non-conductor of heat, and that if kettles and pots are coated with it, q much bigger fire will be needed to boil their contents. ! Eighth, that the grease which many empty down the sink would if saved in an old pail and used for greasing sticks to light the fire, make them burn up much quicker.
 Ninth. that an unclean lardeT may be a disease and death trap because decomPosing food is poisonous | Tenth, that uncooIed meat may b. kept sweet for a long time by paint ing all over with a solution of boraS 1 water. To make this. dissolve ar loUnce of boraX in boiling water, wher cold a white powder can be seen al the bottom, this shows that the watel can take up no more borax, and thi: solution is called saturated, and with. out practice Of strict cleanliness economy, punctuality and forethought no woman can become a good cook that good cookery requires method anC care. IL requires the cook to lInov how to measure and weight not guess her quantities, for cooking by guesse , will produce you nothing but messes-
 CRIMSON RAMBLER.
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INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS.

EASTER LILY: A packet of Jo- seph Does dhalia seeds has been mailed you.
 MA: Packet of Dahlia seeds from Joseph Doe sent you as per request. OLGA: Thanks for card received. ENID: Thanks for card received . EDDY: Cards received and mailed as you directed.
 HOPE: A souvenir card awaits your address in Editors hands.
 AUNT JUDY: Note received and the Joseph Dahlia seeds mailed to you.
 o. D.: Dahlia seeds from Joseph Doe have been sent to you.
 AUNTY NO. l: Card received and forwarded to Joseph Doe. Thanks for card.
 J. E. T.: Card received and will be duly mailed to Ormandine.
 TIDY ADDLY: Seeds from Joseph Doe forwarded.
 KEZIATI DOOLITTLE: Seeds from Joseph Doe mailed to you.
 FRANCES: Card received and for warded to Joseph Doe. The seeds will be immediately mailed to you.
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DIET FOR YEAR-oLD BABIES

Dear Social Corner Sisters: Here with send an ideal diet for a baby from 12 months to IS months:
 Aged 12 months: { meals at 6, 10. ?. 6, or similar convenient hours One or two ounces of juice of sweet orange, or pulp Of six s1ewed prunes, eieht ounces of milk. three or four ounces of well cooked and strained cereal, barley, rice or arrow root: salt to taste. Sugar is not necessary.
 @ Eight ounces Of milk with zwieback, plain crackers, stale bread, or toast
 Cs) Four ounces of broth Cbeef. mutton or chicSen) with one or two tablespoons of vell-cooked rice or barley. or two ounces Of beef juice. eight ounces of milk, apple sauce, pulp of baked apple or prunes. if necessary for bowels.
 co Three or four ounces of ce- real as at breakfast: eight or 10 ounces of milk at 13 months.
 Add macaroni and spaghetti, alter mating with rice, at the ?. m- meal At fS to is months: Add soft Doil- ed eggs (two or three q week.. Best given at 2 p. m, in place of the broth or beef juice; add thoroughly baked potato. alternating with rice. maca- roni or spaghetti; at D. m-. add small | amount of butter on bread or potato Stop straining the cereals. | Two tablespoons-1 ounce. 1 One glass; ounces. l Hope you all had a pleasant Easter FARMERS DAUGHTER.
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A CHAT FRoM LUCILLE.

Dear People of Social Corner: Am getting much pleasure from letters I've been reading since l wrote my first and would ike to communicate with a few. Individually.
 Bluebird-I enjoy your "war0ling aa you are a good change from snow birds" You express my thoughts in regard to the movies" I thoroughly enjoy instructive and entertaining pie lures. but seldom ever attend when I don't wish some of the pictures had been left out Would like to meet you.
 FroZen-Y0ur letters catch my at tentfon for several reasons viz.: wonder how it happens that you, away up in Maine, read The Bulletin Have you ever lived in this vicinity Your trip across the country is just what I am longing for. Two years ago l 5pent two happy weeks near Augusta with friend who Is a nurse in that vicinity. Are you a nurSe2 I visited some of the beautiful lakes. taking trolley trips to them Think Maine a delightful place for a vacation trip. Would like to know more of you
 A School Giri-If you have ever been a pupil of mine, of course I remember you. How did such an appropriate qrrgtion ever occur to you? I doubt if you really know me. More please
 Iadlcane-Lets attend the next gath ering of Club No. 1 in May. I have never been present at a meeting yet The regular attendants say. Its lots of fun"
 Aunt MehitabIe-How .ery like you are your letters-and that's why I en- joy them. Have looked for back num- ] bers of Bulletin" and read all of your | Contributions" for a year. By this time. perhaps have you guessing. ] am sure you enjoy the game I could say much more to. you, but I might give myself away Sometime you'll know. Kindest regards to all
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-29
BROWN BREAD.

Dear Social Corner Friends: AL though I do not know many of the Sisters, I enjoy the helpful and Inter esting letters. I lived a. Mansfield Center two winters. four or five years ago. Perhaps I know two Sisters who write from there.
 Helena: Who is who?
 O. H. O. is in my telephone ex- change.
 Photogra pher: I look for pictures every week. You have a very pleas ing talent.
 will send a recipe that I use every day.
 Brown Bread: One cup each of flour rye meal and corn meal, sifte6 together will prevent Jumping. One half cup molasses. one teaspoon soda dissolved. two cups of milk. have used some water. but milk is better: galt. and bake in moderate oven one hour
 Best wishes from a new sister.
 WAITSTILL B.
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THE CARE OF BABIES.
Norwich.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: I am sending few hints on the care of ba- bies for the young mother.
 Don't make baby's clothes too long and too heavy. Don't make them so that it is necessary to continually turn the child over and over. Don't make them too tight for the neck. Don't make them to put on or to fasten be- hind with hooks or buttons.
 Don't feed the baby too often or too much. Don't let him be longer than 20 minutes at the breast or bottle at one feeding. Don't let him have an emp ty bottle to suck. Don't give him a pactfier, mothers comfort or anything of the kind to keep him quiet. He will not need them if properly cared for and fed.
 Don't let him suck his thumb. It spells the shape of his mouth.
 Don't let him go for days or even a day without drink of water. Give him a teaspoonful occasionally.
 Don't let him sit on the floor on cold days, especially if there is no carpet, unless there is a blanket or pad un- der him.
 Don't let him sit in front of an open window with a direct breeze blowing on him; or allow him to sit in a draft between an open window and door.
 Don't let him play with matches, pins, scissors or sharp pointed objects. Don't urge him to stand on his feet too young. for if you do he will become bowlegged.
 Don't give solid food before one year and then only sparingly. Don't give him candy, chocolate and sweet things. Don't let him lie in a wet diaper. Don't let hands and feet get cold. Don't let his nose get stopped up. Don't give him tea and coffee, beer whiskey, gin or any drink containing ! alcohol.
 Don't give him medicine or drugs without the doctors advice. Don't let him stay up all hours oi l the night. 'Undress him and put him i to bed promptly at every night. Don't pick him up every time he | cries.
 l Don't walk the floor with him.
 Don't let anyone kiss baby on the mouth. Much disease is carried 1T this way.
 Don't take him out in wet weather or on very windy days, or when there ! is melting snow on the ground. l Don't handle him too much. It i: | bad for him. | Don't pin band or diaper too tight 1 about the body as it may cause de.
 formity and often is the cause of vom.
 iting.
 From one who has had experience. l UDEILE
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just as efficient as if you mixed your own dose. They are ten cents a box
 School Girl: Glad to see your letters again. I thought you had changed your name.
 Can someone send in a recipe for Highland cookies? Just about a year ago one of the Sisters sent in a re- cipe and I cut it out and tried it. I esteemed 1t as a favorite cookie re- cipe, but now can't find 1t anywhere. remember the name, however-High- land cookies.
 Do any of the younger Sisters go to Willimantic High school? should be glad to know if you do.
 Here is a rather unusual muffin re- cipe:
 Prune Mufffns: Cream one-half cup butter with one-fourth cup sugar; add one well-beaten egg. Add two cups flour, three teaspoons baking powder one-haR teaspoon salt, and three quarters cup milk. Stir in one cur prunes which have been stewed. stoned and cut in pieces. Best wishes SWEET SIXTEEN, that was.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-29
EXCELLENT RECIPES.

Dear Social Corner Sisters:I have quite a number of very good recipes, which use constantly. If any of the Sisters care for them I will write them for the Social Corner a few at a time.
 The following Is an excellent cook ing recipe:
 Sugar Cookies-Two cups sugar, two eggs, one cup sour milk, in which one teaspoon of soda has been dissolved, one cup butter or lard, little salt, and one grated nutmeg, flour enough to make soft dough. Roll about a quar- ter of inch thick. cut out and sprin- kle with sugar, bake in a quick oven. For variety omit nutmeg, and use va- nilIa, about two or three teaspoons and place a raisin in center of such cooky.
 CornmeaI Cake-One and one-half cups cornmeal, one cup pastry flour, three-quarters cup of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, two teaspoons baking powder, one egg, and little salt Bake about twenty minutes, this is very good served with baked beans. We have it it in place of brown bread quite often.
 MADGE MORTON.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-29
THE HOME LIBRARY

Dear Social Corner Friends: have been very much interested in all of the articles written about books. have started q library so that when reference books without having to go to the public library.
 Books are the only thing that I al low myself to buy on the installment plan. A good set of books comes very high and that is about the only way that a family of moderate means can get a good collection. have bought a set of eleven volumes. each volume taking up a different set of subjects and then I have a set of five volumes, in sort of encyclopedia form.
 My latest addition to my book make and a size which Is easily han died.
 It will be some years before my children will need such reference books, but I intend to have many more added to my collection by that that I can add a section as I need more room.
 One of my neighbors has a daughter in high school and she comes in quite often to get material for compositions
 She said it saves her so many trips to the library. and often when she did go there some of the other girls were using the books she wanted and then too their compositions are all about alike while she has something quite different. So I think that my chil- dren will find their library quite val uable.
 Hortense: Received your letter. think that you are very smart.
 Roxanna Vince: Did you forget that you owed me a letter.
 Hope all the Cornerites had happy Easter.
 NAN.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-29
GOSSIP FROM WILD OLIVE

Dear Sisters: What a good time we had at our last gathering in Willi- mantle. l am anxiously waiting for the next.
 Iadleane: If you attend once you will no longer be a stranger. P. U. T.: Try and meet with us next month.
 Cherisette, Peggy Anne and Papa's Boy: Many thanks for cards received some time ago.
 Dorothy Perkins No. 9: Aren't your initnals L. S.?
 J. E. T.: I think Captain warren's Wards by J. O. Lincoln a good book; and am going to try and get Cap'n Fri when I have a chance.
 Chore Girl: Please play for me again some day?
 Kitty: That letter must be lost. Bushy Tail: I wonder if we have ever met.
 Snow Flake: Where are you Ready: Hope to meet you some time. Loretta: Your lemon cake and fill ing sounds good. I will try 1t and let you know what luck have. Best wishes to all.
 WILD OLIVE.
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meat is first put in; then keep 1t at an even beat and haste frequently.
 Tn broiIing have the gridiron hot be- fore putting in the meat, turn it over as soon as it sears. Do not salt meat until nearly done.
 Meat should not be allowed to re- main wrapped in paper when pur- chased.
 Always put a pinch of soda in the water when cooking corned beef, and when cooked enough leave it in the liquor to cool.
 Huldy: Your prescription for sne blues is a sure cure.
 Kitty Lou: After looking over Hub by's old shirts, find there is not much to do anything with, for Hubby de- clares he must have his money s worth first.
 Sister Ready: Can't say if you have guessed right. Guess at the next gathering.
 Best wishes.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-29
MARKING LINEN HANDKER
 CHIEFS.

Social Corner Sisters: How many housewives have attempted to mark fine linen handkerchiefs with indelible ink, only to have a blurred, indistinct name when completed. Try this when marking new handkerchiefs: Starch your handkerchiefs and iron smoothly, and then mark them. You will be agreeably surprised. for the name may be made very small, but will still be distinct.
 OdorIess Gasoline Cleaning: When washing articles in gasoline pour in a few drops of oil of sassafras, about five drops to quart of gasoline. This will destroy all odor, and the garment can be pressed and worn as soon as the gasoline eVaporates, thus elimin- ating the lengthy airing process.
 Guide Card for Curtain Hens: Cut a guide card the width desired for the hem paste it to your left thumb. No picking up and putting down of the guide. It is astonishing the rate of speed you can sew.
 COT NFNROD
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-29
TIMELY RECIPES.

Social Corner Sisters: Here are a few recipes:
 Curried Rice: One cup rice, two quarts boiling water, one teaspoon salt. one teaspoon curry powder, one cup White Sauce. Dilute the curry powder and combine with the white sauce; add r1ore salt if necessary, and pour over the drained rice. Serve with veal or mutton.
 Pan Cakes With Rice: Two cups boiled rice, tablespoons melted but ter. one-half cup milk, one-half cup flour, two eggs. Mix in the order given. beat thoroughly, cook like grid dle cakes.
 Poor Mans Rice Pudding: One cup rice. IA cup sugar, 1 quart milk. 1-2 teaspoon salt, 1-4 teaspoon cinnamon. Pick over and wash the rice mix all the ingredients and bake slowly for three or four hours in a we'll buttered pudding dish. Keep covered until the last fifteen minutes. when the pudding may be Drowned on top. Stir twice during the first hour of cooking. It should be creamy and not dry when done. Grated orange peel may be sub stituted for cinnamon.
 Rice Peach Pudding: To each oupful of boiled rice stir 1 tablespoonful but ter. tablespoonsfuls sugar, egg. Butter a pudding dish, put in a layer of the seasoned rice, one-haR inch thick. then a layer of pared and sliced peaches. Sprinkle with sugar and rice alternately until the dish is full Rake 20 minutes. Have rice for the last layer. Turn out and serve with va- nilla, cream or any other pudding sauce, or cream and sugar. Canned peaches may be used instead of fresh. Rice Snow Balls: Boil pint rice until soft, in 2 quarts water, with a | teaspoonful salt put in small cups. and when perfectly cold place in a dish. Make a boiled custard of the yolks of eggs; pint sweet milk, and l teaspoon cornstarch; flavor with lemon. When
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-29
RECIPES FOR THE SICK.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: Here are q, few good cookery recipes for the sick. Always prepare food for the sick in the neatest and most careful manner. In sickness the senses ara unusually acute, and far more sus- and mistakes in the preparation and serving of food than when in health.
 Corn Meai Cruel: Mix one table spoon corn meal one-half teaspoon of salt. 9nd two tablespoons cold water. Add one pint boiling water, simmer slowly one hour. In serving bowl put two tablespoons cream, one lump sugar. strain in gruel. stir for a mo- ment, and serve. Flour and arrow root gruel is made in the same way, hut cooked only ten minutes.
 Farina gruel is made with mill, and cooked one hour in double boiler
 Boil oatmeal gruel one hour and strain.
 Barley Water: Wash two SbIe- water, boil five minutes. strain. Add two quarts cold water, simmer till re- duced one-half. Strain, add lemon juice to taste. Good in levers.
 Wine Whey: Scala one cup milk, add one cup wine, cook gently till it wheys. Strain through cheese cloth.
 Beef Tea: Chop fine one pound of lCdil bct4 iOulin SONtI Wlln OUe-NdlI pint water. Stand in cold place one hour. Set over hot water, stir till liquid begins to turn color. Strain, add pinch salt. To reheat, set cup in pan of hot water.
 Restorative Jelly: Put in glass jar one-half box granulated gelatine. one tablespoon granulated gum arabic two cloves. three tablespoons sugar two tablespoons lemon juice, one cup port wine. Stand in kettle cold water heat till all is dissolved. Strain into shallow dish. Chill, cut in one-halt inch squares.
 Best wishes to all
 EASTER LILY
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for Walt Mason's poem. Not any time mentioned for cooking or meals. The following is a sample for one days work. Cleaned the pantry; scrubbed and polished the stove; cleaned ceiling, walls, woodwork, win dows, floors and furniture; next the porch was cleaned; Jack helped me clean the cellar; we took everything out and did away with all the rubbish. Cleaned fruit jars, secured shelves, cleaned cooling room and aired the whole place well.
 Ready: Pleased to get your card. Joseph Doe: Dahlia seeds received and planted. Accept thanks.
 Best wishes to all.
 BLANCHE.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-29
WANTS TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED

Dear Social Corner Sisters: Is there room for "cnn :nore" suppose most Of the Sisters are busy, clean Ing house, so perhaps there will be room for me, in The Corner. am fond Of corners, fc they are not too dark, and dirty. and the Social Cor nor" seems to me. to be a pretty bright place.
 Silent Partner: Have you got rest ed from your shopping trip? It is tiresone to go so far to shop.
 ,. F. T: How did you like your phcto? I laughed when I read Pho tographer's description of you. for I know just how you look now. and how you looked forty years aEoI Some changes since then. Have you learn to ''Tat" yet? Too nnd ai6r't know, when we were nsighoors, twenty years ago, that you wanted to loa.a, I fiight havo taught you. r. ie t,a-i 70 lAa-n. but you a-n bright enouyh. You see irnCw you well
 Enid: Was g;ad to see --or- na;uo again. I used 70 sec you when we 7I-n"e girls.
 may cniI again sorac time, fc- i TEHt s1C photo taken.
 HACKS wrFE3"
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cold. pour over the rice balls half an hour begore serving.
 Rice Cake One cupful of butter. of sugar, 1-l of rice four, eggs, the juice and rind of a lemon Beat the butter to a cream; then gradually beat in the sugar and add the lemon Beat the yoIks and whites separately. and add them to the beaten sugar and butter. Add also ths rice four. Pour into a shallow pan to the depth of about two inches. Bake from 30 to 45 minutes in a moderate oven
 With best wishes. from
 MOUNTAIN LAUREL
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DOROTHY PERKINS NO. 2.
WHEN WE FEAR WE SHOULD
 DARE.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner:- As I attempt to write again, the thought prompts ne. that I am not addressing al strangers this time, for only a week ago, it was my pleasure to meet several of the Sisters and re- ceiye most cordial greeting from tEem. It was my first attendance to a club meeting held in Willimantic. where every face was new to me, but every hand was friendly, and fully
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-29
AN INQUIRY.

Dear Ktttie Lou:-You must be a bureau of information, so I am going to ask you something that perpiexes me greatly. My family are all very fond of roast beef; some like it well done and few like it rarely done. I am going to try next time to have 1t betwixt and between Gust pink)
 Kindly tell me how many minutes to a pound of beef from the time 1t Is put in the oven. will be so grateful to you for an answer soon.
 SUSAN JANE.
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AN UNUSUAL MUFFIN RECIPE

Dear Social Cornerites: I noticed that some of the Sisters are telling Barbara Lee their recipes for a sul- phur, cream of tartar and molasses tonic. There is much more agree able way of taking sulphur than by mixing up your own dose. You can buy a box of sulphur and cream of tartar tablets st your druggists, which are really pleasant to take, and are
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-29
AN INQUIRY.

Dear Social Corner Sisters:-Tt does look as if we were in for few April showers but cheer up. Springs here.
 Aunty No. 1: Are you waiting for a, pleasant day, or one of these April showers before you test your soap re- cipes that I saw Hopeful had for you?
 Kindest regards.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-29
9uG 1EsT1CNa rO7 COOKING
 MAk%S.

Denr S.,csAl Corner Sisters: Here are q few suggestions on cooking meats which may prove beneficial to =oYntA
 SaH meats end meats used for soups should be nI! to cook in cold water; but otherwise fresh meat should be put on in boii:ng water as cold water extracts the juice, while hot quickly coolg the outer surface and so re- talns the juice
 WhSn LI7sstinq nass: ta the oven, the cvall should [5e Tca1 hot when the