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Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
FeIIowship.

When q man ain't got a cent, an he's
 feeling kind of blue. An clouds hang dark an heavy. ans
 won't let the sunshine through It's a great thing. Q my brethren, for
 a feIIer just to lay His hand upon your shoulder in a
 friendly sort of way It makes a man feel queerish: it
 makes the teardrops start; An you sort O feel a fiutter in the
 region Of your heart; You can't look up and meet his eyes j
 you don't know what to say When his hand is on your shoulderS9n
 2 friendly sort of way. Oh. the worlds a curious compound, :,
 with it's honey and it's gall, With it's care and bitter crosses, but
 good world after all; An good God must have made it.
 leastways that is what I say When 2 hand is on my shoulder in a,
 friendly sort of way.
 James WhitcOTnb Riley.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
CHEESE READILY MADE.

Dear Social Corner Sisters:-An ex- perienced farmers wife says it is as easy for her to make cheese as it is to churn butter. She gets a packa ge of re:nnet tablets at a drug store. They cost only twenty five cents. For six to ten gallons of milk dissolve one rennet tablet in lukewarm water. Skim nights milk, add mornings milk and heat it until it is just blood warm. Add the dissolved rennet tablet and stir it thoroughly, set off to curd, then pour off whey.
 Cut the curd with a knife to let tEe whey escape. Let 1t set a few minute S then press it to get rid of all the whey. Salt as for butter. Next place an open ed flour sack in a steamed or straight tin bucket that has been punched full of holes. Have the cloth smooth, press the curd in firmly, fold corners of cloth across the top and over this turn a plate that just fits inside of the bucket and weight well.
 The next day take the cheese out of the press, shake the cloth, turn the cArd over and repack. Repeat on the third day. turning the cu-d zgain. On the fourth day take one curd out of the press, rub with butter and put it in a cool place. Turn it over each day and rub occa sionally with butter. The cheese vii be ready for use in from four to six weeks.
 This method may be new to farm CTS hereabouts, and prompt them to make a trial of cheese making for themselves
 JOHN FARMER
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE FAD.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: We have to show our patriotism now-a- days in every way from wearing red, white and blue hair ribbons to pur- chasing a liberty bond.
 You may be wearing the flag and the red cross symbol, but to be. in fashion you may wear gloves with the flag embroidered upon them in co1ors.
 And those who speculate upon pa triotism are putting forth white silk stockings whose insteps are elaborated with the national colors, also in flag arrangements. Then there are shields of the national colors which may be pinned to the hat, even though the Ia tter is of a dress order.
 Belts, sashes, jewe.ed pins hair ornaments, veils and, in fact, all man. ner of accessories are breaking out in red, white and blue variousIy ar ranged but unmistakably patriotic in their intent.
 The fashions and everything else seem to be keyed up to the tune of Hail, Columbian
 Why shouldn't we all adopt the mill itary step?
 JOAN OF ARC.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
GOOD FOR THE TABLE.

Dear Social Corner Writers:-If you want something that is good to eat try these recipes:
 This is called "Rice Rarebit," and it is good:-Half a pound of rich vel low cheese shaved fine two table spoons of butter half a cup of milk, one-half cup of boiled rice put through a seive, one egg beaten, a saltspoon of mustard, salt and pepper to taste and a dash of cayenne. Melt cheese in the butter, stirring until smooth. then gradually add milk, rice, egg and sea soning. Serve on buttered rounds of toast.
 Cabbage Salad-One quart of chop ped cabbage, 1 dessertspoon of salt i 1-2 dessertspoons of sugar, 1 dessert spoon of dry mustard. Mix these with the cabbage then take 2-3 cup of vim egar ? eggs, piece of butter the size kettle till boiling hot; cool. and pour over the cabbage mixture. Put in a jar and use as wanted.
 Pepper Hash-Take one dozen green peppers and 1 dozen red peppers (not sweet ones), and add large onions; chop fine. Cover with boiling water and let stand 10 minutes. Drain, cov- CT again and let come to a. boil. Then let stand again. Drain dry and add tablespoons of salt, ? pints of vinegar and cups of granulated sugar. Cook 15 minutes. Put in jars.
 IIEONORA.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
THE USE OF CORN MEAL.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: II will send in a few ideas suggested by Lei las War Bread recipe. I made some and we liked il. I reasoned that if corn meal was so good in bread, it ought to be in other things.
 1 took my flour sitter Git holds about a quart), filled it nearly full of flour, then put in one cup corn meal, then put in one cup corn meal, and pro- ceed to make baking powder biscuit by my regular rule.
 I have made dumplings and ginger cookies and put in corn meal, too.
 Keep the proportion of one-ha1f cup of corn meal to a pint of flour Cor nearly so), and use your regular re- cipes simply substituting corn meal for a part of the flour. We really like things that way.
 I figure that I save enough flour in this way to make all the cake we use. Some one requested a recipe for cooking mush. Here is one given us by our family physician and perfectly safe for even an invalid. It will not rise on the stomach"
 Mush-Have ready some boiling salted water in a double boiler Take one or two cups of corn meal and wet it up with cold water until smooth and then pour slowly into the boiling water and cook slowly for two and a half three hours.
 If there is any left, mold jR a bak- in powder can, and slice and fry for breakfast. It is delicious.
 ELNORA.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09

Gardening will never be quite the thing" declared the sensible boarder, until the style authorities have had time to figure out chic and fetching gardening costumes, and this takes time
 1Geel That's a pretty conceit!" laughed the cynical boarder. Imagine people soIemnly putting on gioves, overalls, shoes and official gardening hat as a preliminary to gardening!
 Don't you know that a person never deliberately, cold bloodedly, premed- itatingly and with malice aforethought goes out and gardens? It's against all reason; it wouldn't be human.
 'It's more like this: A fellow all dressed up in patent pumps and best suit of clothes is engaged in manicur- ing his fingernails when somebody calls from the garden for him to come and see how high the hyacinth is and then he stroIls out, and while among the posiee he notes that a petunia's out of tune or something, and he starts to fix it, and then he pulls a weed or two, and soon he is groveling in the di1s with his newly manicured fingers, toil- ing in the sun without the official hat or any other head protection and drag ging his patent pumps in s.e nire."
 "Oh, well, that doesn't make much
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
DISHES FOR YOU.

Dear Social Corner Sisters:-These recipes may meet long felt want in your household:
 Graham Sandwiches Chop very fine six olives, a tablespoon of mus tard pickle and a few sprigs of par sley. Beat three tablespoons of but ter until creamy, add the chopped mixture and spread between thin slices of graham bread.
 Date Pudding-Mix two cups of bread crumbs, one cup of flour, one cup of chopped suet, two cups of chopped dates, half a cup of sugar, tNo eggs, two teaspoons of baking powder, and milk to moisten. Turn into a covered mould and steam five hours. Serve with hard sauce which is made by creaming half a cup of sugar with a quarter of a cup of butter and stirring in a teaspoon of grated nutmeg.
 Corn Chowder-Boil ten minutes four cups of raw potatoes, add a can of corn,s three slices of bacon cut in pieces, and one small onion. two cups of milk and one cup of four split crackers.
 peas, stewed until very soft: put a layer of peas in a baking dish, then g. layer of cracker crumbs with bits of butter, salt and pepper. When all are used put layer of grated cheese on top. then add the liquor from the peas and almost enough milk to cover. Bake until a crisp light brown on top. Greetings to you al.
 AMELIA.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
TIMELY SUGGESTIONS.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sis ters:-Here are a few recipes that may be of use:
 Try this reminder of food in the oven.'
 The busy housewife, who has many things on her mind, sometimes for gets the food placed in the oven to bake. To save that waste. which might come from letting dishes burn up through forgetfulness. use an alarm clock Set the alarm at the hour the baking should be finished, so it will be heard wherever the housewife may happen to be. The responsibility in this manner Is off the mind.
 An Economical and Nutritious Meat Dish-Two pounds flank steak, 1-3 pound salt pork, cup water, four to thicken gravy, 3 thinIy sliced raw po tatoes, a good pie crust. Cut steak and pork into small pieces; put into a covered agate pudding dish with cup of water three hours before the meal. After two hours of rather slow cooking take from the oven and add three thinly sliced raw potatoes. Sea son well; add flour to thicken gravy Put on a. top cover of good pie crust and bake for the last hour
 A "Baked In One Pan" Dinner:- Four lean pork chops, 6 medium sized peeled sweet potatoes, 6 onions, 6 ap- p1es, peeled, cored and halved: 1 1-2 cups stock or boiling water.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
MINISTRY.

Dear Social Corner E.ditor:-I no- tfced someone suggested that the word Ministry was as worthy of discussion as Charity. which is true
 The factory and the mines and the railways minister unto Us as much as the church: and how those under the systems which make things cheap are compelled to make sacrifices that oth- CTS may profit and still others enjoy ccn%orcs the delivers never know.
 There is no independence, for our means of living and our enjoyments 8lI depend upon something beyond our ken CT care. Money is paid for serv- ice. but connected with al faithful service are ministries which money cannot pay for.
 We are most of us engaged in doing
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09

used repeatedly by pouring off the water after washing, and adding fresh to keep it from blowing about.
 Rinse hands in warm father soap, and after drying rub in corn meal (dry bran). Dust them, and finish with rubbing with cold cream, well into the skin. This effectually re- moves the roughness caused by house work, and should be used every day. First remove the ink stains or vege- table stains with acid.
 Almond Paste to keep the hands white and soft-Beat four ounces of bitter almonds and add them to three ounces of lemon juice, three ounces of almond oil and enough of alcohol and witch hazel to make a paste. Ap- ply when retiring.
 To Soften Hands-Keep a dish of Indian meal on the toilet stand near the soap, and rub the meal freely on the hands after soaping- them for washing. It will surprise you if you have not tried it, to find it will cleanse and soften the hands, and prevent chapping.
 RYE B.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
SOCIAL CORNER POEMS.

The Easiest and the Hardest Thing Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try Prayer the sublimest strains that:reaeh The Majesty on high. Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, The Christians native air; His WatchWord at the gates of death He enters Heaven with prayer. Prayer is the contrite sinners voice. Returning from his ways; While angels in their songs rejoice, And cry, erRehold he prays!' Restraining prayer, we cease to fight Ptayer makes the Christians arInor
 bright;
 And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees 0 Thou. by whom we come to God The Life. the Truth. the Way; The path of prayer Thyself hast trOd;l Lord. teach us how to pray
 Montgomery Sent in by JIM
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
KEEPING DOWN THE HIGH COST
 OF LIVING.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: wish to thank all who so kindly sent me birthday cards. They were very pret- ty and I appreciate your remem- brance.
 How fresh and beautiful everything looks after our long rainy spell.
 Everyone is busy with shovel and hoe, ard if the weather1nan will favor us we should have an abundance.
 While you are waiting for potatoes to grow, try these recipes and sugges- tions for an occasional substitute:
 Rice Cakes-One cup boiled rice, one egg, one-half cup milk, a little sat and four enough to form into flat cakes. Fry brown.
 Johnny Cake-Mix desired quantity of corp1meal and a little salt with boil ing water and fry on griddle.
 EscaIloped Macaroni-Put alternate layers of boiled macaroni and onions in a deep di$h; season with butter and salt and fill dish with milk and bake slowly.
 Plain Boiled Rice, or Macaroni, served with meat, are very good; also fried corn, mush or hominy fried brown or white bread are also very nice for breakfast.
 I have tried them all, and I find that they help to keep down the present high cost of living.
 HULDY. .
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
GAMES Fca YOUNG PEOPLE


 Dear Social Corner Fr.~rEa. T.rr~ Of you who have young people .I rn. tertliu most often feai urr..FErl n. find ways uf ertertaiui-= -rru.
 Here are two Ittie -amaa wrr may serve for a bi-thdaI uIr'-
 'Aly Gra1nie D1es1t iit. Tra an old game. The plH-rr. circle and one goes around each in turn. "Aiy Erauu-a 1rrr~r tea. what wi y1s give herr T point is. yOu se- that rrf.H.a H drink anything that has fne 'rt-Hr in if. SO if anybody Harr ufrr r- would be oil right but if -horl a.r is wrong that drink ur.uE -re desired letter The old IHdv r"lT or so refuse water or rCtaa.u -.l"s any liquor spelled with NHt UH" must not tell the secret uf One until most everybody has 1arH
 Another game that ur01I r= fun is played with light dlwuE fe-. CT. The guests divide fn~T7rI "re .- to sides and sit on L1e floor wH- string in the midd uf -hr rr.rr . tween tO mark or fne rrrrIf.~. H- longing to each faction. Tho frrr-- ie blown with thc oujcr. 0f art..rr over to the other eide. tle member. which blow with lu rbrIr u.-rf keep it away.
 Tt is not stunts hut ITgrTr"- makes a social game r0 10 me-~
 Yours for fun.
 SARAT AN Te.fe
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
DOMESTIC HELps.

Dear Social Corner S.-t-r. fe 11. want to remove burnt r-.Hr from bread use flat zrnt.r
 Salad. Dates and EnrIen .r. make delicious sandwich w.rf.r. Chop and sprinkle Che miEr bread which hHa been sp-rrd rlr cheese.
 Tn washing potatoes add a lIf-'s H-f to the water and lot them rf.r. fr minutes, wash pour boiling WafFr .~ before putting them iu t1C Eerr5a. will not stop the water n1.l-r E.. soda cleans them nice.l lt ls a.Hr E- to wash rice.
 To ascertain if your rr-lf Is rrsT to go into the oven. press rour on the dough. If the Iw lrrreIr- .r. uains then it will not rirr art wrr n # disappears, it fs nor r-a1 Eake
 An Irish Stew: si& large rot--e-- peeled and slic-d. tVo orll-s. -.a large slices of fat per Jag Hrt.a. and onions tn c1sser.Ie. rlrrr rI. milk. season with salr 1rf ururr lay slices of pork O1 the fou and .a in moderate oven until porzr.e r-. done.
 Fer the Fern Place a -av eg.f-r close tc the roots ol tha csru .rr -.. place the soil. Rcpeat tlls o. ally and you will have a lratrr form The oyster is food for Che plant ar. makes ferns IcoS fine.
 ETHTT-T.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
DANDY BOSTON BROWN BREAD.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: I am another new conner, but I got so in- terested when I saw Leila's recipe for War Cake. I just had to write This recipe my mother used ito have under the name of Canadian Cake; and had lost it and had never been able to find any one knowing it until I read Leila's recipe for it in the Social Cor ner Saturday. Many thanks to you Leila.
 I also should like to shake hands with Ethelyn for her way of house. cleaning as I thought I was the only one who did mine that way, It helps me wonderfully although my house and family is small; but it keeps my house practically clean all the time and does not tire me as much.
 am sending in what I call a dandy recipe for Boston Brown Bread for those desiring brown bread without rye meal: One and one-half cups of flour, one and one-half cups yellow corn meal, one cup molasses, one cup milk (do not dissolve), beat all well together and put into a well greased two-quart pail and steam three hours: and see if it isn't great. Wishing good luck to all the Sisters.
 SNOOKS.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
ALUMINIUM HAS ITS LIMITATIONS

Dear Editor and Sisters rs:-Almost every woman's paper one takes up has an article extolling aluminium as the perfect kitchenware Now, I like aluminium, but since I have had few articles of that material I find it has it's Limitation For instance: the first aluminium dish I bought was a quart stewpan and about the first use l made of it was to boil eggs in the she'll Result: a very much blackened pan and disgust because I hadn't re- membered that egg shells contain lime.
 Lately I have been using an alum mum basin to keep cream in, and find that it discolors both the brtter ard the buttsrmilk. So now I keep cream in an enamel basin and have nice vel low butter.
 But my memory is poor, I think for one night I left aluminium spoon in the cream I was stirring, and in the morning when I finished churning. found that the spoon had spoiled the looks of the butter
 Also, if there is a trace of lime in the water it vii soon spoil any alum mum dish.
 My oatmeal boiler has been in use only a short time, but it is impossible to keep it bright and the inside is eaten in many tiny holes, looks as bad as a rusty tin pan. Indeed for many things I like tin better than aluminium.
 If taken care of it lasts for a long time, and the difference in price will buy enough new ware, as needed, 10 last lifetime.
 BETSY BOBBET.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
HOW TT STRIKES BILL,

Dear Social Corner Editor:-was there ever such a cry for economy as at present? How the women are be- ing appealed to in the interests of the public veal, and how the extrava = gapces of the men are overlooked. Most women do nothing else but sail in shallow water, and they are good navigators, too. A mother with a family of five and SIP a week to keep them on, has no chance to get recl1- less.
 I know men whose personal ex- penses are greater than the whole up- keep of the family; and one whose cigars cost more than SIP a week. When it comes to extravagances the sexes cannot break even, for the men have the larger opportunity and the women get their reputation upon too snsall a ca pital
 We should all eat less and wear less and swear less. Compulsory restraint along these lines can do no harm.
 RITI.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09

Dear Social Corner Sisters:-It is a good idea to keep a few packages of the common spices in your medic seA chest.
 For gas in the stomach drink gin ger tea. A half teaspoon each of gin ger and soda, taken in hot water after hearty meal will often prevent an attack of indigestion.
 Ginger tea will often break up a cold if taken in season; and it is ex- cellent to drink when one has been out in the cold and gotten chilled.
 A teaspoon of cinnamon in a glsee of hot milk is excellent to take, in case of diarrhea or dysentery.
 Pepper poultice is most excellent for toothache. Put on the outside of the face and it will soon ease the pain. The writer has tried this in a very bad case.
 Put pepper and salt around edges of carpets to drive moths away.
 To many the smell of moth balls ie very objectionable. so in place of these, mix spices and put in little bags. Place these in chests. drawers and the pockets of coats that have been put away
 For nausea and vomiting a poultice made of mixed spices and noistened with alcohol, and applied to the stona- ach is excellent
 BATISAM FIR
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
THE sEWILcERED BROTHER.

Dear Editor and Sisters:-I think there will be q larger number than usuaI' this year to synpathize with the bewiIdered brother, who cannot tell how to garden because gardeners disagree. He will probably have to learn for himself, by experience IS man kind has always done.
 Keep up your courage, brother. Perhaps this years sowing may mean a bountiful harvest for next years reaping for I notice one scotsman says not 4o get diScoura ged if seeds do not grow as quickly as expected, as he has known seeds to lay dormant for a year after planting. So, if you really planted radish seed and not glass beads or pebble stones, you may some day get a radisll.
 find seeds do not always germinate according to schedue. My beans and corn have been from IT to 24 days and longer n coming. Other seeds
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
GARDENING TOGS

difference" replied the sensible board CT. He still has the nice gardening boots that have never been worn in the garden, and he can wear them in stead of his begardened pumps. All of which shows that, after all, you do need gardening togs to wear when or dinary apparel has been soiled in the garden.
 Gardening togs come in handy. even though you never wear them in the garden, and the less you wear them the handler they are, and if you don't wear them at all they are handiest or all, because you always know exactly where they are and can put your hands right on them when you get up in the middle of the night to cover the little tomat toes and cabbages when they are cold and shivery in their frosty beds.
 Frost has a way of sneaking up Tn the night, and as every well regu ated gardening family keeps a hat. pair or gloves and a pair of gardening boots on the back porch, these things can be picked up without any groping around. You get all the groping around you want feeling for the vegetables. You get all the cool air you want, too, be- fore you have placed the official gar dening hat on the last cabbage head and put the ast of the tomatoes in the last available sl1oe."-Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
HOW THE BRITISH coNTRiVE


 Dear Social Corner Sisters: When it becomes necessary to conserve food to ward off famine there is real ardor in the work. These English recipes are something the people never ex- pected to be compelled to produce:
 Substitute For Potatoes: Two table spoons of oatmean. two tablespoons of chopped suet or drippings, small onion chopped finely teaspoon mixed herbs, pepper and salt, cold water. Mix i5 gradients and leave standing two or three hours. Melt little drippings in frying pan until blue blaze ariSes. Drop mixture in spoonfuls hot fat, and fry until brown on both sides Drain and serve hot.
 Stuffed Breast of Mutton: Remove bone and surplus fat, and stuff with bpead crumbs ard chopped suet sea soned with parsley. pepper and salt. and moiStened with little milk. Roll and bind meat; and bake in steady oven over swedes.
 Pigs Feet: Place the feet in cold salted water, and just bring to boil. Scrape them well, and put Into pan with enough hot water to cover. Add onion. carrot half turnip sliced, six peppercorps. blade of mnce. 9prig of thyme. Simmer meat until 1t is tend
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
THE GARDEN CROP.

Dear Social Corner Editor: No one will venture to deny that a garden is a school of experience and in it everyone senses that the fools cap and bells are easily won.
 One of the important crops of the garden is the crop of disappointments, and they are large every year.
 In a garden of any size something new is coming to light almost every day. and ones intuitive ability is chal- lenged all the time. What to do to circumvent pests gives constant eX- excise to the inventive faculties.
 Those who do not get a satisfactory crop will get the experience; and ex- perience is what eventually makes the master hand. One of natures chief duties seems to be to quicken mans wits.
 God placed man in a garden first because it is the place to learn in dustry, economy, patience and to keep ever mindful of Him.
 JOSEPH DOE.