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Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-02
PATRIOTIC FERVoR GIVES A DIE
 FERENT VIEWPOINT.

Dear Editor Social Corner: On re- cent Saturday, after reading The Cor ner. I thought that would like to write letter, but have felt if really saftl the things I should like to. some Sister might think I was giv- ing The Corner bawling out---sailor slang. But today I've got a different viewpoint and I am willing to risk it. wonder if the Sisters think in this day of conservation that "a waste of conservation, what a waste of paper printers ink, and energy goes on whel' they send in recipes calling for ali kinds of things not to be had. For in- stance: Eggs, 75 cents per dozen. Rut- | ter, 62 cents per pound. Milk, 15 cents per quart Sugar two pounds a week and wheat f1our-not to be thought of not for it's price, three pounds for 25 cents, with an equal quantity of some other kind of flour, three pounds for | 25 dents but because the govern
 ment is asking us not to use wheat 1 four.
 If some Sister could tell us how tc make something good out of substi- tutes it will be worth while. A woman said the other day she had
 made good spice cake with corr
 meal and rye-graham is out Of it you know
 No one makes doughnuts because at l the fat to fry them in. Every ont
 serves the simplest meals-frst be.
 cause it is necessary, and second be
 cause everyone is 50 busy doing 1 things outside their homes that ther:
 is not time to do even the things WI | did a year ago.
 One of my friends said recently: C
 keep house avery other day. put m!
 house to rights. plan meals for tw, days, write. mend, and attend to III,
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flour, baking powder, and add alter
 nately with milk to the first mixture
 Add walnut meats, broken, and the whites of eggs beaten stiff. Bake in a
 greased and houred angel cake pan for
 one and one quarter hours.
 Farina Fruit MouIds. Bring two cups of milk to boiling point, and add two cups of boiling water, then
 sprinkle in a quarter of a pound of farina, add teaspoon of salt, and continue to cook for forty minutes Now add a teaspoon of vanilla extract f and four tablespoons of brown sugar;
 mix well, and divide into wet in1ent- cd or ring individual moulds and place in refrigerator for two hours. Turn
 out and fill with quince jelly. Economic Pudding: Soak two ounces of fine sage over night: strain and add tablespoon of butter suostitute warmed, three quarters of a cup of potato flour. with little salt, one teaspoon baking powder. half a cup of seeded raisins, one e-half cup entrants
 one teaspoon syrup, milk for stiff
 batter. Put in creased dish and steam
 two hours.
 EASTER LILY.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-02
OUT OF THE PANTRY.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: I hope to show the cost of living may be made reasonable even now:
 Walnut Steak: One cup corn meal. one cup wheat flour. one cup oatmeal, one and one-halH cups shagbark wal nuts or any kind of nuts, little salt and sage. Method: Brown meal, flour and oatmeal in the oven; then stir in the nuts, sage salt and pepper: pour in boiling water to make it the consis- tency of mush and boil three hours. Put away in a. cold place and slice off cold; or fry brown.
 EscaIloped Eggs With Cheese; Melt two tablespoons of codfat and blend in two tablespoons of flour. with tea spoon of ground mustard and a half teaspoon of salt. and one-half teaspoon of black pepper; add slowly one and Ione-half cups milk and stir until per- fectly smooth. Boil five eggs twenty minutes; then butter casserole and place a layer of eggs; then a layer of cheese; and cover with the cream sauce. Repeat until the dish is full. Cover the top with crumbs. dot with bits of butter and bake until brown in hot oven. This is a meat substitute land is nice served with baked pota- toes.
 EscalIoped Cabbage Wash, chop
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HOW PUMPKINS WERE PRE-.
 SERVED.


 Dear Editor of the Social Cor ner: am sending you sam pie of the tomatoes 1 described in my last letter and which also helped me to win the prize of which am very proud, and for which I thank you.
 l. was a great surprise to me: and intend to invest that dollar in some thing that will always remind me of The Bulletin. @n
 Will now tell you how we have man aged with our pumpkins this winter, so as not to lose any. When we dis covered one beginning to spoil we peeled it, took out the seeds. then cut in slices about an inch thick, put a paper on the radiator, then the pump. Kin and covered with another paper, It dries very quickly and certainly looks good enough to eat Have not ] cooked any yet for we cut our last pumpkins last Saturday
 Keziah Doolittle: Have tried your graham bread and found it so nice have passed it on to some of my friends
 Dreamer: Hope you are not mapping again. wish some of the Sisters would send in true and tried recipe tor white fruit cake. TWICE TWENTY. (Thanks for those pretty clusters ot tomatoes nestled in parsley They looked like cherries and were as bret ty as a bouquet of roses, The editor will try to grow some of the same va Lriety if he. can procure the seed the coming summer.--E S. C.)
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-02
CROCHET AND RAFTING DESIGNS
By WINIFRED WORTH

next L, 10 {. over ch.. t in next [. 1 shell in shell, t. in ch. at end of shell. ch. 4. turn.
 3rd Row-Repeat rows 1 and un- til at end of 9th row, ch. 5, fasten in 1st loop of ch. 4, with s1 st. (for scal- iop), ch- 5, fasten in second loop of ch. with sl. st. ch. l, turn, 10 q. over ch. 5, d. over part of next 5 ch.. ch. 5. turn, fasten hack between 10 d. of scallop below with sl. st., ch. 1. turn, 5 d., oh, 5 d. over last ch. 5 d. over rest of 5 ch, fasten with sI. st. in top of last t. ch f. Make one row of work. At end of this make another scalloD. Repeat to desired length.
 CloYerleaf Insertion. PATTERN that never grows old | A and is very effective on wide A range of articles.
 Chain 30.
 1st Row-ons |. in lth st. from hook, 3 t in next 2 eh., skip ch., [. in each of next sts., ch. 6, t in ,6th oh. 5 in next ch., ch. 3, , l., turn.
 End Row-Chain s, 3 t, ch. 2, 4t ch. 6. q d., 4 t, 1 d. in each space of ? eh., ch.9 6, t, ch. 2, t. turn. 8rd RoH-Chain 8. 3 t., ch. 2. | t, eh. 6. t in center st. of middle petal. ch. 2, t. in same st., oh. 2, t in same st., ch. 2, t. in same st.. ch. 6. t., ch. 3, l.. turn. Repeat End and srd ! rows for length desired. ...s.s........
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-02
WARTIME SWEETS.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: With much delight the American housewife is beginning to discover the varied possibilities of sweets tfsat require
 very little or no white sugar.
 Following are several practical sug-
 gestions:
 Strawberry Coupe: It is not neces sary to give up ice cream beca use we are asked to. use no, cream, Top milk can be substituted and used with home canned fruit. A cup of sugar, cup
 and a half of top milk, a few grains of salt. pink coloring. Rub strawher- ries with their syrup through sieve Add sugar, milk, salt. and enough coloring to make a delicate pink.
 Freeze, using three parts of rdck salt. In a coupe glass put fresh or canned fruits, cut in pieces, using bananas,
 oranges. peaches. pineapple, strawber- ries, or whatever fruits are most con- venieflt. Cover with a thin layer of the strawberry ice cream and garnisf. with a whole strawberry and piece of pineapple
 Stuffed Figs: Let whole dried figs stand in grape juice for several hours
 until soft, but not soggy. Cut them open on one side, stuff with half a l marshmal1ow and a pecan mt meat: press together, roll each in brown sugar and keep in dry place. Fruit Cake: Use eleomargarine or other butter substitute in all cakes, in place of butter, and buclxwheat four | in place. of part of the wheat flour. 1 One-half cup oleomargarine, one and quarter cups brown sugar, two eggs, one-ha1f cup raisins. two ta- blespoons candied orange peel, one
 teaspoon orangea extract, one teaspoon
 vanilla, two tablespoons coffee, one 1 half cup buckwheat flour. one and
 three quarters cups flour, three and one half teaspoons baking powder I two thirds cup milk, one-half cup et
 walnut meats, one third cup cur
 rants, cream oieomar garine, add the
 sugar. yollSs of eggs we'll beaten. rais- ins. seeded, and chopped lne, cur rants, peel finely cut extracts and ! coffee. Mix and sift buclSwheai
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-02

bring water in sufficient quantities from it's abiding places 50 far below the surface. And few probably re- member that MT, Holliday was a Com necticut man, and the first windmill was built in the old machine shop in South Coventry. Mir Holiday believ- ed in his invention. but I do not think he had any idea of it's value and effect on the future of the country,
 At the present time. motors can be, and sometimes are, used to pump the water from deep wells. Tho cost, up keep, and liability to get out of order is iHfavorable to them, and most far mers fear the danger of fire from them Fire is the greatest dread of the farmer in the northwest. The grass and ground is so dry neishbors are so far away. and the almost nan- stant strong wind carries it so swift 1y. there is little chance of saving buildings if it once starts But the windmill is safe, and always ready. One farmer remarked. My windmill is the best hired man I ever had all ways on the job, and asks nothing but a little oil"
 The land in the northwest is thinly settled, and will be. probably, during the life of the present generation. Each reels that n6. neeqS aE ieaSl tHFee- quarter sections of land for successful work-one quarter for buildings, gar- den and grain crops. one for hay land land one for pasture The native grass is very sweet and nutritious. does not die in the fali but cures on the stem, so that horses and cattle keep in good condition on it, unless the snow gets too deep. or. what Is more to be feared, 1 it becomes covered with ice
 It grows very slowly. and needs two years to mature and grow sufficiently Ito cut for hay. So they cut only a part of the hay land yearly, and need more land for. it. Nearly all the work 1 is done by machines. so it is necessary l to put in more land to make it pay te use them, Potatoes are ploughed iI and plpughed out corn is sewed and covered by the. planter. Only the huslting is done by hand, and the stalks are fed where they stand, Ever Ethe hay is stacked by a stacker or ithe land where it grows. and is hauled 1 to the barns as needed, during ths winter.
 l When I told one man about some farmers in another state, whom
 knew, and how they made a good liv'
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-02
SAYING TIME IS BOOMERANG

,-I wonder whether the Sisters will appreciate some of my gleanings from the field of suggestion, and thus allow me to repay a few of the benefits de- rived from the Social Corner Sisters letters
 A wise old proverb says A duty put off soon returns with twelve fresh duties at it's back.'' At least, that is the substance of the saying and isn't it true?
 It is just as true that there is nc more efficient method of saving time than by attending to small needs as soon as possible.
 There is another trite adage, more common than the one quoted, that @A stitch in time saves nine" and we are sure a timely stitch saves ninety and nine.
 I have friend who makes a very pleasant home for her family of five keeps a needle case with threaded needles in the drawer of her kitchen table, and then, when one of the little folks comes in from play with a smal rent in his froclz, she is all ready tc take the stitch which will prevent tht 1 necessity of taking any more. It would be quite impossible to com. pute the time and toll needlessIy los or wasted in families where littl, things are neglected. For instance, Mondays wash come down in the dirt, because a broker hook has not been replaced, and tn, l old one could not sustain the weigh of the line which belonged to both 1 the window shade must be careful, rolled up morning after morning be cause the spring needs bit of repair 1 ing which five TninlTtas woI1ld eazii, accomplish; the back step must b pushed in place twenty times in a da. 1 to prevent somebody falling. l I have only noted few items a I they come to me; you could all multi | ply them many times, if not in you own homes, then in some home 0 which you know.
 If it were possible to make the com putation of time lost by such neglec ,. should like to place it beside tn time actually required for. attendin to these little things at once; no othe 1 argument would be needed
 KITTY LOU.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-02
REASONABLE RECIPES.

Dear. Social Corner Sisters: send herewith few recipes:
 Dried Cherry Cake: Beat to a cream one cup of sugar with one-half cup of butter, add one-half cup of sour milk, one cup dried cherries, one teaspoon of soda, spice to taste, and flour enough to make a stiff batter. Bake in paper lined tins in q mod crate oven for about one hour.
 Minute Pudding: Let one quart of milk come to boil, add a little salt then stir into the milk four table spoons of flour, and three beaten eggs; cook for or 5 minutes.
 Cherry Sauce: One pound cherries one tablespoon flour, one ounce butter one-half pint water. one wine glass port, little grated lemon riud, foul pounded cloves, two tablespoons lem on juice, sugar to taste. Stone tho cherries, and pound kernels in 2 mor- tar to smooth paste; put butter an- flour into saucepan: stir them ovel the fire until of a pale brown, theT add the charries, the pounded kernels the winefi and the water. Simmer thest gently for a quarter of an hour, O. until the cherries are quite cooked. ant rub the whole through a hair sieve add remaining ingredients. let thu sauce boil for another five minutes and serve.
 Baked Fish: Scale and clean fish leaving the head and rub with salt Make a dressing of a bowl of bread o cracker crumbs, a quarter of q pount of salt pork, chopped fine, a smal onion or a tablespoon of choppe' parsley. salt and pepper to taste. Mi, l thoroughly and put in the body of tn fish Cut gashes along the back of tn fish about an inch apart, into eael | gaShs place a small strip of fat porl securing them in place with smal fskewers; tooth picks will answe nicely, put the fish in the ran an ! dredge with salt, pepper and fioul Put a cup of water in the bottom c the pan and bake for about an houl basting frequently. If the water i the pan evaporates, add more.
 1 French Fried Potatoes-Slice col potatoes (new ones are the best) an put in a frying pan with hot melte
 butter: fry until brown and stir t keep from scorching. Serve hot. | Vienna Rolls Sift two or thre times one quart flour. two teaspoon baking powder, one half teaspoon salt WOEh III one IdDlG6pOOn fDutbCis ou one pint milk, stirring into a dough C the usual consistency roll to tn thickness of half an inch, cut into cir cular forms and fold over once, mois
 tening a little between the folds,
 necessary to make them stick; butte
 the baking pan we'll, and do not le
 the rolls touch each other when place
 thereon; moisten the tops of the roll
 with little milk, or butter melte lin milk, and bake in a hot oven.
 MOUNTAIN LAUREL.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-02
OUR EMPIRE OF THE WEST.


 Many years. ago, yet not so many that one needs to be really old to re- member it, the geographies used in the public schools had a large, vacant place in the northwestern part of the United States, to- which was given the name, The Great American Desert. In the books now used. this space is now named Montana, Arizona, Coloraef, and the two Dalzotas..
 At the close of the Civil war there were a few settlers along the rivers, but it was not believed that the land back of them could be used for any Ithing but cattle ranges; and even the cattle could not live there. during the sloughs, but they became day by the first of July, and there was no water available for man or beast until snow came. Now there, are many towns and railroads, thousands of homes and countless herds of cattle, in what was so lately a lonely. barren, .unoccupied part of odr country
 It is still semi arid, that is, there is | little rain in summer compared with other localities. The farmer depends for his crops on the moisture left by the heavy snows, and the heavy sum mer dews, more than he does on the l two or three often inadequate rains of the year But every homestead has a driven well and a windmill, which provides water plentifully- for the fam- | fly and the animals.
 l This great expanse of country, once ] believed almost useless, now one .oi our most valued possessions, is the | gift of the windmill to the United States Edison lfever invented any thing of greater value than did MT l Holiday when he invented it---for only ! the driven wen and the windmill car
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-02
INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS.


 DocTOR-card received and for warded to Interested Reader.
 THE SOCIAL CORNER SISTERS may not know Janet's son was the hrEf soldier from the Rose of New England to De wounded and that he is among half dozen Connecticut soidisrs severely wounded in France. Most of you do not know of Janet. She had family of to care for. 2 sons i1 the service and more like ly to be and still more sons who will be in time to take the tactics. She was one of our best early writers, was the winner of many prizes and is held in warm regard by the Social Corner Editor as one of The Corners most active and devoted members when it was solely in need of members In this day of uncertainty and anxiety she hes our sympathy and prayers.
 Read Married and Happy's letter and let us know if we can have list of your soldier boys. for the Anniversary number.
 DELIGHT - Letter received and mailed to BumAle Bee.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-02
THE READING OF BOOKS.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: Imagination has, it's influence, and be- comes fascinating to all of us who study and observe There are frequent letters in the Social Corner regarding good books to read, No douht nearly every lady does enjoy ain interesting story, it always reyives the mind of Nuties and cares. for the time being anyway, and we can forget that we are tired. and uneonseiously gain rest with recreation. These, results are most helpful, but after all what is the read ing that we select. and what subjects in our literature are proving worth the time we give to it's attention? With us whose days are taken up with necessary work, most of the time, and we feel we cannot neglect much l for reading story books, yet. we will 1 devote the spare minutes, I would suggest we select something by which we may learn a lesson Of helpfulness tq character. gain some point on pa- tienee, or sympathy, observe the re- suits of others failures, which the au- thor may describe. .e
 l It appeals to me as a waste of time to read something that has little or nc | basis. when the book is closed, nothing of value to be remembered. I always observe the motto that is a. prefix ir l the Social Corner column. and quite recently the text suggested. Choose an author as you would choose 3 friend"
 It is reasonable that we enjoy g variety of topics, and not always con- fined to one line of thought. There are some favorite hooks that will evel finger in our minds. according to oui individual tastes We may detec something that others do not observe thus they prove helpful to US.
 In mind at present would sugges a book which read some years agt as a most interesting, wholesome, tru. to life story. Perhaps many of yot Ehave5 read it. if so, trust you may agree with me, Barriers Burned Away by E. P. Roe, the leading character Ia young man who dared to do what wa; right under H-eireumstanees and sui
 fered with much ferbearance.
 To those who enjoy poems just reai
 the varied selections of Lucy Larcom
 also a book of her life found it in Itensely interesting.
 consider Scottish Chiefs, dees
 and strong narrative, in story form
 with historical basis the noble an,
 patriotic life of William Wallace.
 To learn the modes of living in tn
 early days of Palestine no better stor.
 can be found than Titus a Conrad Eos the Cross, written by F1orences N
 Kingsley. It is truly worth readini
 twice. over.
 l Tn these modern days a most prac I tical story is Charles M, Sheldon' TENNrrr
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-02

butter lsubstitute), three dessert
 spoons of milk. one square of chocp- :
 late, one cup four, one teaspoon of
 cream tartar; drop on buttered stin;s
 bake in moderate oven. melted the
 chocolate in the milk. It sounds
 strange with only cream of tartar, but try it. Twice Twenty: I should like to see your tomato vine and taste the fruit. I wonder if I could guess where you iivea Tidy AddIy: believe you owe me a letter. Aunt Jerusha: Are the sick. all well at slast Should be glad to get a letter from you. Who is Who?
 LAST ROSE OF SUMMER. :
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-02
THE USES OF SALT.


 Please move over Dear Social Cor ner Sisters, and; give me the oppor- tunity to talk a little. I do not write very often. Hearing the question asked one day: What article of con- sumption is most necessary to the welfare of man?" felt tempted to reply salt. I then fell to considering the different uses to which it may be put, and thought my ideas might be interesting and perhaps helpful to The Corner.
 Rubbed on with a cloth, salt is ex- cellent to clean stationary bowls, and it is good tooth wash.
 Salt will fix the colors i; in black stockings, ginghams, red tablecloths {; soaked in the solution before wash ing. g,r fs ~ Fine salt used as 8 cathartic: Two teaspoons in cup of water; as an emetic, Q little dissolved in warvr wSter.
 Its is strengthening to the eye. Bathing in hot salt and water 1. good for neuralgia. g
 Rubbed on cups, salt removes staisys Salt mixed with lard makes plas ter for inflammation.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-02


 the German way, which is convention |al to the remotest smile. Everything is graded in Germany as vegetables are graded in canning factory.
 And what strange thing it was that Christine should with all her simplicity find her affinity among the German Jlnkers, and that he helped the little alien enemy escape becomt1g a prisoner at last
 And in the role of an American girl Christine didn't 80 down in our es- teem. In the game of pretense she was 2 match for the sentinels who would have prevented her from reaching Switzerland and freedom and mother There will doubtless be a sequel to the book since more light is needed to make the life of Christine and Bernd complete. OLD SOL.