Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-27
PRACTICAL POLLY IS DOING HER
 BIT,

Dear Social Corner Sisters: I sup pose you are all busy like myself, canning and saving for the coming winter.
 We have a real garden this year from which l am canning the sur plus; but my little back yard gar den of last summer was much more of a success than the first year. My tomato plants furnished enough for the table. some for the neighpors. and all needed for canning
 I planted snake beans Cor Kentucky Wonders), around two clothes poles eral meals. of delicious string beans. My five hills of potatoes and three of pairing, yielded well. My beets were about the size of walnuts tas my first planting did not come up), but pickled every one; all these with Swiss chard and a few cucumbers re- paid me for my first years failure. My motto is still, Try, try again.
 That little garden seemed to be a joke with my neighbors. My morning greeting from one was always this: Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?' You see she knew my name and disposition.
 We have heard of Toad Stools
 
 cabbages in a forenoon. 1 had left ev- cry thing in a f1ourishing condition one morning, and was amazed to find at noon five nice cabbage plants add l ed to my already well-flled garden. ! tried to find who the donor was, l but was unable to, but I warned each suspected party that I should expect the surprise would be finished with a nice piece of corned beef when each | cabbage was harvested. My dreams of i those boiled dinners did not material ize as the worms spoiled them all. was given all sorts of advice and sugge si ions. One was to put salt on them. I tried it without result. We were told when children that we could catch a robin if we could sprinkle a little salt on his taiL Per haps that rule holds good with the cabbage worm-catch him first.
 Another suggestion 1 saw in a paper was to use the soapy washing water and it added no matter how dirty. , 1 Now 1 imagine that rule was written by a man who lets his wife empty her own tubs and so did not know how unwholesone that water would be af- ter a washing Of soiled clothing. could not enjoy dish of cabbage ii II had been soaking them from week to week with filthy dirty warer. imagine it was the soap solution that was needed. Why not use it plaiT without the addition of dirt and germs They say, to be real patriotic. one should keep pig. so we have q pig II think I hear some of the Sisters say (who know of my limited space, I wonder if she Keeps the pig in tht parlor?" No, piggy is in the countrl where there is plenty of milk. H. was only six weeks old. and yer! cunning pet. When a little lad O the family enters the pen he will rul and jump in his lap to be fondled lik' a kitten.
 RaIsam Fir tells of her kissing pig Their little pink and white nose would certainly be more invitingwhe1 they are small than the muddy one fresh from foraging in some puddle when fully grown. for piggy does no grow old gracefully. We can con sciensciously consign him to the porl barrel as he grows older. and show his fondness for a daily bath in som mud puddle, not because he prefer ! that to clean water. but as Joe Brother says. because he adapts him self to the environments. All crea : lures love Gods pure sunshine an clean surroundings.
 am not farmer but it seems [ me that we cannot be too particula in the cleanliness of anything tha l is used to nourish our bodies. even it happens to be pork and cabbage. PRACTICAL POLLY.