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Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-06
FISH DISHES.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner:- These recipes may help some of you.
 Fish Chowder-Slice fish in pieces about six inches long; add slices of fat pork. little sliced onion.=a few pounded crackers (ship biscuit), a cup of milk, salt and pepper to taste: add also a spoonful of flour and one of butter, mixed together, and a little chopped parsley. Simmer this gently in a covered kettle for one hour or of any kind stewed in this way with mushrooms and spices make a good dish.
 Macaroni and Oysters-Scald one pint of oysters in their own liquor and drain. Cook four level table fuls of melted butter until delicately Drowned, then stir in gradually the oyster liquor and one cupful of sweet milk, season with a dash of red pep per and one-half teaspoonful of salt and cook until thick, stirring all the time. Remove from the fire, and stir in the oysters and two cupfuls of cooked macaroni cut into inch pieces. Place in a we'll buttered baking dish, sprinkle with two tablespoonfuls of grated cheese, and one cupful of but tered bread crumbs. Bake until bEown in a hot oven. Serve at once.
 Louisiana Skrimp and Rice Two tablespoons beef drippings, one onion finely chopped, three tablespoons of flour, one cup stewed and strained tomato, one and a half cups stock or water, one teaspoon salt, one quarter rice, one cup cooked shrimp cut in pieces. Cook onion in fat for five minutes, add flour, and stir until well blended; add tomatoes and stock, and stir until smooth; add seasonings, rice
 LOAN OF ARC.
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ially for the purpose of taking the place of the welT-kept saloon, winch is closed according to law. and continue the sale of liquor as long as there is a customer, at any hour any day, or any night, with Sunday as the harvest day. There are a bunch of these fake clubs in New London. where any
 person who as the price can buy drinks, and it is about time they were wiped out. It is up to the commits sioners to do that thing.
 Some time ago a committee com posed in part of saIoonnen was se- iected for the purpose of enforcing the liquor laws. That committee has Teen dormant ard it would seem that now is the opportune time for the committeeman to be up and doing There is not a member of that com mittee who does not know the name and the location of every fake liquor licensed club in the town, the proprie- tors thereof. and also the location of every kitchen bar room, and there is no valid reason why these men should rot come to the front and centre and aid in closing up, these illegal places, which are a detriment, not only to the community, but a direct and unfair competitor to those who conduct a legal business in a legal way The promised to give their best endeavor to put an end to the illegal sale of liquor in the city, and they now have tine time to show their hand and make good the promise.
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RECIPES THAT HAVE BEEN
 TESTED.

Dear Social Cornerites: There are so many ways to cook things that the 1 subject seems to be inexhaustible. Milk Soups, which are really milk thickened and favored with some veg etab1e, fish or other food to give flavor a. little flour or stale bread crumbs. ars both nutritious and appetizing. They furnish also an excellent means of using up skim milk. Those who wish to bring down the cost of food should remember that skim milk, a cup of which contains as much protein as a cup of whole milk. is far too valuable food to be overlooked.
 ScaIIoped Potatoes a baking dish we'll. Put in a layer of potatoes, sliced thinly. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and dredge with flour. Add top layer. Add bits of butter. Bake in the oven until the potato is soft.
 CoddIed Apples = Pare and cut in quarters any firm cooking apples. Make a syrup of one cup of sugar and one cup of water. Add a little cinna- syrup and cook until the apples are clear but not broken Remove from syrup and boil the syrup down until thicker. Pour over the apples and serve.
 Sweet Peppers may be canned thus: Take sweet red peppers, put in a greased pan, place in hot oven for remove and plunge into cold water, and peel off as scalded tomatoes would. sCut off stems, seed and rinse well, pack into fruit jars, cover with water and little salt to taste. let cans get heated through in a boiler and seal. These are exactly like those bought in tin cans in stores.
 MARY JANE.
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SOUPS.

Dear Social Cornerites: This is a fine soup:
 Family Soup: Time, 6 hours: 3 or four quarts pot liquor, 1. e., the water in which mutton or salt beef has been boiled Any bones from dressed meat, trimmings of poultry, scraps of meat onions, one turnip, two carrots. a lit- tie celery seed tied in muslin, savory, parsley, five cloves, mace, peppercorn, pepper and salt to taste. Put all meat, bones, etc, in stewpan. Stick onions with cloves, add with other vegetables to meat: pour over all the saucepan liquor; set over slow fire and let simmer gently, removing all scum as it rises. Strain through fine hair sieve.
 Soups of Dried Peas, or 6eans: Pick
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| exactly the same that you will need for picxled pears. plums and crab.

exactly the same that you will need for pickled pears. plums and crab apples.
 Syrup for Sweet Pickles Seven pounds of fruit, four pounds of light brown sugar, one pint of cinaEar, one- half ou2ce of ginger root, one teaspoon of ground cloves. two teaspoons of allspice, two teaspoons of cinnamon. Tie the spices in a bag and boil with the sugar and vinegar until a syrup forms. Ad the fruit. whatever kind 1t may be. Bring to the boiling point, cook 10 minutes. The next day drain off the syrup, reheat until it boils, pour again over the fruit and continue this for nine days. The last day boil the liquor down until there Is just enough to cover the fruit.
 Sweet Picked Psaehes-One-half peck peaches. two pounds brown su- gar, one pint vinegar, one ounce stick cinnamon, cloves. Boil sugar, vinegar and cinnamon 20 minutes Dip peaches quickly in hot water, then rub off the rough part with a towel. Stick each peach with four cloves. Put into syrup and cook until soft, using one-half at time.
 Pear Conserve-Cook six large pears and mesh and strain through colander. Allow one cup of pears to one of su- gar, one pound figs or raisins, one large orange and one lemon, cut in small pieces. Boil 20 or 30 minutes. Add one pound English walnut meats, cut fine, just before taking from fire.
 HANNAH WHO.
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Dear Social Corner Sisters:-The devils pulpits and devils dens and devils basins all over New England memoria1ize an age of superstition as does the Dragons hole at Bailey's s Ravine traditionally referred to by l.. H. K. last week.
 I have been in the Dragons hole, slid in on the ice on a cold winter day when out with mineraizing party. It is dark hole filled with damp and penetrating atmosphere, in which the devil himself could not stay long with any comfort. It proved to be the shallowest and least interest ing of any cave, or den I ever entered. The Indian squaw may have seen eleven holes there if she had a lively imagination re-enforced with a drink of toddy. It is not an inviting shelter even for animals since it would be simply a trap to them.
 In this day of electric torches it is a simple matter to explore this hole in the cliff.
 OLD SOL.
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USES FOR SALT.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: One- | fourth of a teaspoon of salt to one cup worms when child has fit of coughing caused by them. A handful of salt added to your foot bath relieves tired feet. Salt sprinkled on nuts and bananas helps greatly in aiding digestion. Place a lump of rock salt in the stall and tie it where the cows and horses can get lick at it. Salt sprink1ed on hay when put away preserves it and the cows and horses like 1t.
 The bright colors of green vegeta- bles can be retained by the use of salt.
 A large ham can be kept fine if the side which is being used is kept cov- cred with salt.
 A pinch of salt added to boiled icing will prevent its sugaripg.
 Add a little salt, to the flour to be used to thicken graNies, soups, etc, be- fore it is wet and 1t will not lump.
 A pinch of salt will make eggs beat quickly and cream rapidly, and makes your cake much lighter.
 If soot falls on the carpet, cover thickly with salt for a while, then sweep thoroughly.
 Mildew can be removed from clothing by moistening the spots thickly with salt and soap, then lay the articles on the grass in the sun until 1t disappears. ings are washed will prevent crack.
 A little salt in the rtnsing water will prevent blueing from streal<ing-
 Salt in starch prevents it from stick ing.
 Common salt rubbed into the roots of the hair will remove dandrun and prevent the hair from falling out.
 A poultice with salt moistened with vinegar alleviates the pain caused by the sting of a wasp or a mosquito bite, etc.
 ETHELYN.
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NEW YoRk's AWAKENING BELLS

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner:- On the stroke of midnight last Sun day every church in the City of New York pealed its bells as a preliminary announcement that the second Liberty Loan drive was on. A call to the people of New York to subscribe to the second. Liberty Loan bond issue of three billion dollars, the largest amount ever asked of a Nation.
 Above the silent pavements of the worlds financial centre. down the narrow vista of Wall street, ringing through the duslky corridors of the de- serted office buildings, the famous chimes of Old Trinity clearly inton- ated in a series of patriotic songs, as if ushering in a day of rejoicing, the advent of the second campaign.
 From the tower of Grace church its chimes rang out the same tale over the sleeping city.
 Solemnly the bells from the stately churches on Fifth Avenue and neigh boring streets tolled out their appeal, until the whole city was thoroughly awakened to the beginning of the sec- ond Liberty Loan invasion.
 Out from the depths of these towers rang the cry: Awake! Awake, Fail not people of America to respond to this appeal and support the princi- ples of your Nation! Fail not in your
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primes to be one of the imnumerable rost who have undertaken to make the world free! Fail not to give your financial aid to help equip our boys in the trenches of Frances, who are willing to give their lives for your freedom! Fail not to make good the greatest offering that has ever been put before the American people. Fail not to do your bit to crush William I1ohenzollerp who has been respon- sible for the greatest suffering and the perpetration of the most horrible crimes ever known or conceived In the history of the world! Fail not to lend your money to help the Gov ernment in the greatest crisis that this Nation has ever experienced! Fail not to help your country in this hour of need, the end of which cannot now be foreseeni Fail not to do your part! Buy Liberty Bonds!"
 And to you beyond the warning of these pealing bells. my pen repeats the ringing cry. Fail Not!"
 THE LITTLE SINISTER.
 New York City.
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they are an improvement that denotes the mark of progress and prosperity; other changes signify loss. ruin { and indifference of owners of property and buildings; also, their non success on account of misfortunes, and adverse circumstances. We rejoice over the former happenings and sympathtze and are grieved over the latter oc- currenceS.
 surely extend my hand in welcome to all the new writers, our family in- creasing fast, but we do not want to spare one so let the older sisters, q do not mean in age), take pen and paper and write as often as in days past. for we want to keep in touch with each sister.
 Best wishes to all.
 DIANA
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BULB PLANTING.
ETHELYN.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: I thought you might like to know how I potted rience with bulbs and I had splendid results.
 As soon as the pots were filled, set them away in a cool, dark cellar, keeping the soil from drying out by giving water when necessary: but not keep the soil too wet. When. the pots are filled with roots the plants can be brought to the light window in the living room; but do not he in too great haste to bring them to the light. enc pot full that had fixed. The pots may be put in the corner of the gar den and covered with earth which may require moistening from time to time to keep them from drying out.
 I tried the first plan and I think it took them about eight weeks.
 When the pots are first brought in from the dark, place them on the floor in a dark spot where there is light overhead. An ideal place would be the cellar, where they will have tenn perature of about 6S degrees during the day with not too strong light. The plants will draw up to the light, i'm cluding the lowering stems.
 A Dutch steamer arrived last week from Holland loaded with 26.000 cas- es of bulbs, which were the only car go; and another ship1oad of bulbs is expected soon. I have sent to get my
 
 bed; 90 tulips for three rows and 12 crocuses for border and IF large hyacinths for forcing in pots. All for $1.
 I hope I won't be like a Friend heard of, who planted a vegetable. the original cost of which was s2.25; spraying materials. s1.7o: fertilizer, S35o; labor one and one-half days a week, and the value of the vegetable she raised was $1.75. The time she n l- mated in dollars and cents. I believe the failure was attributed to plant lice.
 Plant scillas one and one-half in inches apart and scillas three inches apart; jonquils and tulips three in ches deep and four inches apart; hyacinths and narcissus four inches deep and six inches apart. Lilies five inches deep and twelve inches apart. wanted to see the new dahlia from the type Mandiana. The flower is large, of a deep magenta. borne apparently close to & the main no,t stem' , the joints d1,t dahlias are quite pretty and the pom pons are beautiful, they have such a wide range of colors. It is strange the yare not more popular. I have seen dahlias canary yellow with pink back petal, that were handsome.
 There Is a dahlia called King of Autumn rightly named, a very large salmon cream dahlia. I am going to look out for my veg etable garden in tha spring. arrang- ing beds. etc., for they do tell me that even if the war should close now, 1t would be several years before the warning countries abroad can produce their normal output of crops. Prices
 KITTY LOU.
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GREETINGS FROM DAISY.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: I come once more. I have given my pen quite a rest. I thought I would take it up and try and see if I had forgotten how to use it.
 I had a pleasant time at Lucy Acorn's picnic and was glad to meet so many Social Corner. Sisters. The 12th of last month was a fine day for it.
 I would like to know if R. H. of Fox Hill has written yet I have looked every Saturday but have not seen your name.
 Primrose was lucky to get a pretty red rose, but I did not dare to stay long enough to get one because I did not want to miss the trolley. Hope to go to more picnics next year.
 Blue Baby: Are your initials M. c. of Canterbury?
 Best wishes to all
 DAISY OF CANTERBURY.
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meet at Buckingham Memorial hall 307 Main street. There will be Bible study. on the subject, Thy Kingdom Come. The service will be held Tn the afternoon at the usual hour. At the Mt. Calvary Baptist church there will be preaching morning and evening and Sunday school at noon. The B. Y. P. U. will meet at the usua! hour and in the evening the pastor will preach from the subject Mercy.
 At the Preston City Baptist church there will be service at II in the morning. After the service delegates will be appointed to the state conven- ton which meets in the Second Bap- tist church, Suffield, Oct. 15 16, IT. A special offering will be taken for the state work.
 At Park Congregational church there will be preaching in the morning by the pastor, Rev. S. H. Howe, D. D. Tn the afternoon at the vesper service will occur the monthly musical service with a brief sermon by Rev. Brownell Gage. At noon the Mems Bible class will be resumed.
 At the ereeneviIIe Congregational church there will be the usual Satur- day. evening service. Sunday morning the pastor will preach on A Word for the Boy Who Can't Go. The Sunday school meets at 12 o'clock The Long
 
 day, will be held at o'clock.
 At the Mckinley Ave. A. M. E. Zion church there will be morning service with sermon on A Real Gift. There will be Sunday school at noon and in the evening the subject will be rhe Great Questioner. There will be the celebra- ton of the holy communion and also baptism at the evening service.
 At the First Baptist church, George Henry 'Strouse, minister, at the morn ing service the Lords supper will be be Is Jesus Standing the Test? There will be Sunday school at noon and a meeting of the B. Y. P. U. at G.20. The evening theme. will be The Author of Eternal Salvation.
 Sunday Is Rally Day throughout the United States in the Unversalist churches. It will b9 observed at the Church Of the Good Shepherd, at 1O.8o a. m. The pastor, Rev. Joseph F Cobb, will preach on the subject: Is the Uni- versaiist Church Worth WhiIe7 There will be Rally Day exercises in the Sum a special Y. P. c. U. service at 6.15 o'clock.
 At the Federated church, Rev Ar thur w. Burdon, pastor. there will be morning service at 10.30 a. m. Rev. topic will be The Stone That Broke the Image of Nebuchadnezzar. There will be Sunday school at noon and meet ing of the Junior c. E. at 3 p. m. The C. Ewill meet at the usual hour. There will be preaching in the evening on the subject of An Open Door.
 At Trinity Methodist Episcopal church there will be services morning and evening. At the morning service the pastor will preach on A DoorkeePere Rather Than An idler. At 12 the Sun day school will meet and at 6.30 the Young Peoples meeting will bs held, with Mrs. F. M Newland leader. Srb- ject, The Story of the Silver Crown. The subject of the sermon in the. evening will be Behold a LadGor.
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Dear. Sisters. of the Social Corner: These recipes are worthy a place in your scrap book:
 Cranberry Fritters-Beat one egg and, stir in one and a half cups of milk, one tablespoon of sugar, one cup of flour in which has been dis solved a tablespoon of baking powder. Mix well and stir in one cup of cram hot buttered griddle, and serve with butter and powdered sugar.
 MoIasses Bread Pudding-One pint molasses, a quart of huckleberries or other fruit a teaspoon of baking soda. a teaspoon each of powdered cinna- mon, ginger and cloves and one and a half cups flour.
 Put the molasses in a bowl, dissolve soda in a little water and stir into the mo1asses; add spice, fruit and flour and pour the mixture in the pudding mould Tie the lid on and set it in pot of boiling water for three hours.
 Sultana Scones-One-half pound of four, one ounce butter, one ounce su' gar, one-quarter pint of milk. a few sultanas, one-quarter ounce cream of tartar, one-eighth ounce carbonate of soda. Rub the butter into the flour, cream of tartar and sugar. Dissolve the soda in the milk and stir 1t into the flour, etc, with knife. Roll it out and divide it into two rounds, each round being quartered. Bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes.
 Oatca<es as Bread Substitute-One- half pound fine oatmeal, one-half pound ground rice, one-quarter pound whole meal flour or maize flour, three teaspoons baking powder. one dessert spoon brown sugar, two ounces lard or drippings We'll mix the other ingredi- ents before rubbing in the yard. Moisten with water. Roll out into two rounds. The paste should be made as moist as possible, and can be dusted with flour to prevent it sticking to the board. Bake on sandwich tins for about 20 minutes.
 HAPPY HE.I xEINE
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LIKES AUNT MARY's LETTERS.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: After l years rest, will try and write.
 In September went to Lucy Acorns picnic and enjoyed the afternoon very much. I met several new Sisters.
 I have been looking for letter from a lady I met at Lucy Acorn's.
 Itenjoy the letters from Aunt Mary. What has become of Chatterbox? Blue Baby: Are your initials R. C.?
 CLARA OF CANTERBURY.
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(The Corner has had only one Great Grandmother on record, an excellent writer living at Leonard Bridge, and the confusion resulting from a dupli- cation of a pen-name was feared by the Editor. If we knew when our first great -grandmother's natal anni- versary occurs we should be delight ed to give her card shower. Mis- takes in kindly acts of this kind are followed by no sad or regrettable con- sequences-S. C. Editor)
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and soak split peas, green peas (dr1ed) or black or white beans over night. Drain, measure, add four times as much cold water; to each quart of water, one-half onion. Simmer slow ly till soft. Rub through sieve. Return to fire, season with salt and pepper; for each quart thicken with one tea spoon butter and flour. Boil a few minutes. Black bean soup should also have a pinch of mustard and a little lemon juice added. and slices of hard boiled eggs.
 EASTER LILY.
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DIANA.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: - thank you all for the birthday cards, and the beautiful thoughts expressed.
 I think there has been a mistake somewhere; Peggy Anne found one mistake and Great Grandmother.
 She received quite a number of cards that she thought she wasn't en- titled too. so she sent them to me, ae it was my birthday instead of hers.
 If I have done wrong in receiving the good wishes intended for another, I beg pardon. and hope you will all forgive me, for it wasn't my fault.
 Lovingly,
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SOCIAL CORNER POEM.
Hats of the Bowl

The circumstances which induced the writing of the following touching and thrilling lines are as follows:
 A young lady of New York was
 in the habit of writing for a Phila-
 delphia paper on the subject of
 full of pathos and evfnced such
 deep emotion of soul that a friend
 of hers accused her. of being
 monomaniac on the subject of
 temperance. Whereupon she wrote
 the following lines. From an old
 scrapbook; author nots.given9
 " L. A. S. A. Go, feel what have felt; Go, hear what I have borne: Sink meath the blow a father dealt, And the cold proud worlds scorn- Then struggle on from year to year. Go, weep as have wept, Der a loved fathers fall; See every cherished promise swept, Youths sweetness turned to gall: Hopes faded flowers strewed all the
 way -t- That lea me up to woman's day. Go kneel as have kneIt; 1mplore, beseech and pray; Strive the besotted heart to melt, The downward course to stay; Be cast with bitter curse aside Thy prayers burlesQued, thy tears
 defied. Go. stand where I have stood And see the strong man bow, With gnashing teeth, lips bathed in
 blood,
 And cold and lfvid brow; Go. catch his wandering glance and There mirrored his souls misery. Go. hear what I have heard The sobS of sad despair. As memory's~ feeling fouHt hath stir
 red, ,S Have told him what he might have Had he the drunkard's fate foreseen. Go to thy mothers side, And her crushed spirit cheer; Thine own deep anguish hide, Wipe from her cheek the tear; Mark her dimmed eye. her furrowed
 brow,
 The gray that streaks her dark hair The tofl-worn frame. the trembling
 limb,
 And trace the ruin back to him Whose plighted faith, in early youth, Promised eternal love and truth, But who, forsworn. hath yielded up This promise to the deadly cup. And led him down from love and
 light, From all that made her pathway
 bright And chained her there mid want and
 strife That 1owly thing-a drunkard's wifei And stamped on chi1dhood's brow, so
 mild That whitening blight-a drunkard's
 child! Go, hear and see and feel and know All that my soul hath felt and known, l Then look within the wine cups glow l See if its brightness can atone: | Think if its flavor you would try If all proclaimed, 'Tis drink and die I Tell me I hate the bowl? | Hate is a feeble word; 1oathe. abhor. my very soul By strong disgust is stirred | I see. or hear, or tell Of the dark beverage of hell! Sent in by Ruth.