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Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-18
WORKING IN THE GARDEN.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: Tte garden is good place in which to ir- crease knowledge and whatever may be accomplished there is done by work or play according to ones point of view
 Some people are so thrilled by their achievements in producing fruits and flowers that they regard the work as a pleasure, and others with less inter- est and blistered hands and sweating pores call it hard work and drudgery. Being right up against nature offers all the puzzling problems one wants to tackle and offers all the problems an active mind can handle. In the gar den things cannot be guessed at they have to be solved
 Blanche is notieeably an investi- gator and in locking for the why's and wherefoTes is kept busy. She will find | the beans are weevilled when grow | ing and they are killed in the bean | by oven heat. If the beans are kept | where the Weevils will hatch out they l will be ruined for food and for seed i If Betsy Bohbett had packed hel dal1lia roots away in earth she would not have loet 80 per cent. of hel roots. Dahlias will dry up under the best of care, and their keeping quail | ties depend upon how they have beer grown. Over stimulated roots are tht ones soonest to lose their moisture and the very finest varieties are the ones usually lost The temperature that will preserve potatoes and ethel edible roots will preserve dahlias. 1 l keep seeding roots in sand an6 although they may be small, lose yer, few of them.
 JOSEPH DOE. ! al,
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feet high to climb upon The soil should be stirred often to be kept loose, and pliable, and for exterminat- ing the weeds; but only when dry, since earth scattered on the leaves when wet with dew or rain will be liable to cause them to rust.
 Lima beans are very susceptible to cold and wet and are apt to rot on tine ground consequently they should rot be planted when the soil is wet or cold. If planted directly preceding a shower or before the ground has dried off after one, they will be lia- ble to suffer from it. This variety re- quires much greater care in this re- spect than any other. It is always well to plant an extra drill for SUD- | plying the places of such plants as fail to thrive. They should have plenty of room for growth. Some of the most successful farmers plant in hills five feet apart each way, with | only two plants to a hill, and one | pole to each plant. Poles six feet l high will be sufficient, and the run rers should be picked off when they reach the tops of the poles, also the side runners foot away from the l roles, which will cause them to be more productive, and the strength ot the plant runs less to vines. It is 1 considerable trouble and labor to keeE the runners back. but the additiona yield thus obtained well repays. Ii the pods are gathered before ripen- ing on the vines, or when green, bu well filled, the beans are much nicer for winter use, than when allowed t ripen before gathering.
 Best wishes to all.
 T I, B
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-18
GREETINGS FROM DIANA,
Norwich.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: If I do not write 1 enjoy the Social Corner especially. as of old. I am better, but do not feel as usual as yet, but hope to before long. We have had some warm days the past week, and everything is leokine beautiful. I love to watch from nav window the changes in nature each day. The trees are leayed out and the carpet spread over the earth is fresh and green. Soon the air will be nlled with the sweet fragrance from the blossoms of flowers and trees.
 We are thinking of our planting, and from now on until after having, work will be rushing. We will all hope for a successful year and good crops.
 I am now year older than when l wrote last for I have indulged in, g birthday this past week..
 Huldy Many thanlfs for your gift 1 take it that it is your work which makes me care for it the more.
 Uncle Sam's Daughter: I thank you for your stamp card and thrift stamp You was kind to send it.
 Blanche: I thank you for the flower seeds you sent. I will enjoy the flow CTS this summer.
 Auntie No. 1: thank you for youi birthday greeting.
 ' Lucille: As your letter came SC near the 7th of May called it a birth. day letter for which l thank. you.
 Married and Happy and all the other Sisters who have been sickI hope are getting well and will soon be able tc be about.
 I wish yeu~one and all very pleas. ant summer. < 6
 Best wishes, sI@.F ssy DIANA.
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off the thick solution in cold water
 when you remove the eggs and they
 will be ready for use; and they will crack when boiled unless you puncture
 the large end. Sometimes the eggs
 may not fry quite as well as a fresh
 egg, but on the whole they are en-
 tirely suitable for scranlbling, making
 omelettes, cake, custards or any other
 kind of cooking.
 I have just ememeneed canning my
 rhuhafb. Last year l put it up in
 water. This year I am taking tWe quarts of rhubarb to one cup of sugar
 and let cook in a double boiler about 30 minutes. I do not peel it, but wash it thoroughly. I have already canned two dozen cans. I want about six
 dozen cans and think I shall have them.
 I am salting down dandelinn greens, which are quite help in the winter time when you want something bitter.
 I put up seven pecks last spring, but did not put them up until they were cheaper, I found by the time they were cheaper they were tough, so l have begun putting them down while
 tender. Put layer of dandelions, then q layer of salt, until you have your crock filled. Then place a plate over them, jam down hard, and put a stone on top; cover with a dry cloth and put on the cover. Be sure your greens are covered with the brine. ETHELYN.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-18
THE GROWING OF BEANS.

Dear Social Corner Readers: In
 these strenuous times more beans
 than usual are being cultivated. Beans succeed best in a sandy loam, mod
 erately manured, although they will
 do well in variety of soils. If the
 soil is too rich the growth will be
 mostly in leaves and vines. In garden culture beans should be planted at intervals throughout the
 season for a succession of crops fin- ishing the planting about the first of
 July.
 For bush beans, make the drills two
 inches deep and two feet apart, planting the beans three inches apart
 in the drill. covering not more than | two inches deep.
 Pole beans should be planted in hills according to the variety, from three to four feet apart, and five to six means to each hill They do best when planted with the eye downward. When the plants are we'll establish ed, thin out to four plants to a hill. They require poles from six to ten
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cold winter just past How our hearts should respond in like manner in thanksgiving and praise to ot1r Heavenly Father for the loving kind ness with which He has watched over and kept us from all harm; while there has been so much suffering and many, many deaths in some parts of the world.
 It seems very strange to me that while we would feel ashamed to re- ceive even a very small gift from an associate or friend or even a stranger
 without simple thank you" we are constantly receiving untold blessings from the bountiful hand of our Hea- venly Father, without even the slight
 est acknowledgement of thanks. Can we not learn lesson from the birds. Last evening while reading the account in thee dailies of the sudden | disappearance of an interesting young 1 woman twenty-four years old who had for some time been known to i have frequent crying spells which were not accounted for I could but | wonder where her mothers hearts in 1 terest was all this time. Had there 1 been the close companionship be- 1 tween that mother and daughter that
 there ought to be between every
 mother and child the daughter would
 have confided in the mother and her | life might have been saved. Every 1 true mother will be such a loving con | fidant of her children that when they come to her with their (to her) i childish condolences while young, she will be very kind, attentive, and sym
 pathetic to all they tell her and never never betray one of their little confi- dences, or make light of them.
 l No mother should ever let any out 2 cI6 int nCfr 4oIr 'I attention that she may be led to ne T glect the best interest of her children ,l How that mothers conscience must
 reproach her now for not so eneir- T cling her daughter in the arms o1
 mother love that the daughter would
 have immediately confided in hel
 whatever was troubling her.
 think l have written before now of the young woman that was work
 ing in an office and her employer be-
 gan to take more notice of her thar
 one day: T hope you are not one wht
 tells anyone what you hear in the of
 flee"
 I She said: q have dear friend tt , whom l tell everything that concerns . myself, and that is my mother" i. It is needless to say thereafter sh,
 was not annoyed by his attentions : The above was taken from the Uniol \. Signal
 Oh. that every mother might realiz the danger that surrounds the youn: people not only the daughters, but o : the sons of today. If every paren ! for the past fifty years had properl. trained their boys and girls and beel 7 a good example for them to have fol lowed in their daily life. what a vas ] difference there would be in the stat
 of society today.
 The Social Corner is growing bet 7 ter every week, and the influence fo good that it exerts is helpful
 r. I think Practical Polly's suggestion is a very good one. I am willing t
 Go as she suggests.
 p Was very glad to hear from Re K l member Me. She and her husband [ l am sure. have the sympathy of tn e Social Corner family.
 !, With good wishes for every one C Il the Social Corner friends
 e AUNT MARY.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-18
HER WAR GARDEN.

Social Corner Sisters: ! thought would leave my war garden awhile and spend short time in writing few lines this week.
 I have twelve long rows up in the garden and have them all hoed-beans as well as late and early peas, onions beets and lettuce.
 I have planted eight hills of melons I have small bed of Everhearing strawberries which look fine.
 Last year I raised two quarts of beet seed and sold some.
 How refreshing it Is in the early morning to get out in that garden oi mine, all damp with dew on each leat in the cool air and all is so still, while we can look up to the Giver of al light and joy One who is ready tc listen to our thoughts of that better land.
 Try it, my dear Sisters. by lifting your heart on the joys that never fade for it' will help us on our way II the storms of life.
 MRS. c. H. c.
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Canned fruit syrups may be substi- tuted for fresh fruit juice.
 Orange Water Ice-Juice of six or anges, two teaspoons extract of or anse, juice of one lemon, one quart of water, one pound powdered sugar. one gill rich, sweet cream; add all to- gether and strain; then freeze.
 Raspberry Water Ice-Press rasp- berries through finest sieve to give three pints juice; add one pound pull verized sugar and juice of one lemon with one teaspoon raspberry extract Freeze.
 EASTER LILY.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-18
HOW TO SELECT POULTRY.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: Here are few things you should know in the buying of poultry.
 It is safer to buy poultry with the heads and feet where nature placed them. Once an opening has been made into the body cavity of a bird or the head and feet cut off. the moist delicate tissues are laid open to the air, fairly inviting the invasion of bacteria. These bacteria impair the flavor of the meat, even if actual de- composition does not set in. The feet and head tell a good deal about the age of the bird Young birds have clean, smooth legs and feet while old ones show a rough, scaly condition with the development of spurs.
 Some poultry specialists also claim that a fowl with yellow legs is of bet ter flavor than one having black legs
 The head of the bird will tell the fact plainly as to how long it has been killed Sunken eyes, darkened neck and a greenish- blue color near the bill, all show that the bird is no longer fresh.
 To order a bird over the telephone 1 is to trust entirely to ones market man. It is much better to make the selection in person and to have the l duck or chicken or whatever it may be, drawn in ones presence, stipu- l lating that it will not be taken if there i is a diseased or unhealthy condition 1 Those who handle poultry for mar llet should not feed it for twenty 1 four hours before it is killed. The intes- tines will then be empty or almost so and will be round, showing tiny bright red veins. If the entrails ar, full the birds have. not been proper ly prepared or may have been fet food mixed with sand to make weigh more heavily.
 If the intestines look f1attened to gether and seem to adhere in a mass if there is a slimy condition and re pulsive odor, it is an indication tha the birds Were not thoroughly coole' after they were killed
 Meat foods from which the anima heat is not properly removed decom pose very quickly.
 Dry picked chickens are preferabl to those which have been scalded. 1 scalded chicken has very few hair about it. these being readily pulle away with the feathers. Sometime chickens are dry picked immediatei after they are killed. and to haste the cooling process they are allowe to stand for time in very cold wate in order to remove the animal hea This objectionable also for a chicke cooled in water absorbs more or les of it, which is paid for at food price: The skin of such bird has whit look which has been described a "powdery." It has a thick look an is inclined to be rather shiny. A properly dry picked, air-coole chicken has a loose, clear-lookin skin: there are sure to be short hair which it is necessary to remove b singeing, and the papillae or qui sockets show plainly.
 , It is easy to learn to dress poultr at home. Ten CT fifteen minutes a the most is all that is needed to pre- pare a good sized bird for cooking and there is a great deal of satisfac tion in knowing exactly what yo have got, Besides if you want thin well done, you take greater interes in doing it yourself.
 Best wishes from
 MOUNTAIN LAUREL.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-18
5 MAY MEETING OF. CLUB NO. i.

! Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: Those of you who were absent from l the club meeting held at WilliHaanttc Wednesday, May Sth, don't know what | a good time you missed, for I was among those who were present and can give evidence. It being a pleasant 4day, added much to the pleasure of the occasion A very good attendance of the Sister writers. with several visit Esers, was the leading feature.
 lsa Of course, the dinner was up to I date and needs no special mention, for all know who attend these gath eriRgs that nothing lacks in Social | Corner menu4everything substantial, good, and plenty of it.
 From the first arrivals and up to the dinner hour the Sisters were busy with greetings and introductions and get l ting acquainted, which 1 assume is one of the objects of these meetings. As this had been my first oppor- l tunity to attend a meeting of this | kind since the annual picnic of last June, it was certainly a pleasure to see | the faces of those I had previously met also to receive a, handshake from | others whose pen names I was familiar l with.
 | The w. c. T. U. rooms were prettily l decorated with the Social Corner color the deep golden crepe paper in eFi- denee.
 The long dining table was prettily decorated with bouquets of golden flowers, as we'll as the yellow paper streamers, and laden with the tempt ing food which was duly appreciated when we were invited to partake. The hot escalloped potatoes and steaming baked beans were especially good, as also followed other items on the bil of fare. Pickles, olives, cheese, pies
 variety of cake, bananas and last bu
 net least excellent hot coffee.
 Everybody seemed happy and goot 1. will prevailed. The hostesses lief nothing undone for a good time Witt
 Eliza Jane as chairman, aftel
 dinner we enjoyed an entertainment
 consisting of vocal and Instruments music, but regret 1 am not able u
 give the names, of contributors. Mos everybody knows Amy and that sh can well perform her part in recita tions and readings. Her selection were up to the minute this time, whel she favored us with a reading entitlei l Conserving Daylight" and it was fitting time for, a good laugh, after hearty dinner. However, she was no
 excused from her post until she pro duced two more numbers that fol
 lowed two more applauses.
 7 F. As it was rather warm day, an necessary for the door to be open for little more outside air, we were gla ? to be led in imagination upon a ska t ? ing pond, where Selinda was takin ' her first lesson in skating. We kno1 l right well how pretty she looked i that homemade costume appropriat t for young skaters, which she S 1 plainly described, and we sympathiZe
 with her failures in the unsuccessfr
 attempts in the art of skating.
 As this was the final indoor neetin
 of the season for Club No. 1, the at tention will next be given to the an = nual picnic. in which all are expecte
 to participate, and of which due no Q tice will be given later on.
 , Best wishes to all.
 JENNIE,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-18
HOW TO MAKE TRENCH CANDLES

Dear Social Corner Sisters: There may be women who cannot knit, and who would like these directions for making trench candles:
 Take one sheet of newspaper, eight columns in width, and cut along the line between the columns. Be sure and cut the strips even; then lay the first two columns together one on top of the other, then roll them in tight roll; over this the third strip of paper Is rolled. and then. the others one at a tiEae until eight have been rolled, holding them tight; tie string around to hold them It is necessary to roll them on a hard surface, then send them to the Red Cross, and they will ship them to the American Trench Newspaper Candle association. Miss 0affny Is the president, and she re- ceiyes them, picks them over, throws away the loose ones, parafines the osheFs and sends them over to our boys foF use in the American trenches where our boys are learning the game of var; and these candles are used abroad. The soldiers use them for heating shaving water, and cooking can he done with them.
 am told Miss Gaffny contributes tane of thousands of these candies for uzs among the poor, and still, supplies sandies for New. York tsnements.
 make them and parafine them.
 Hilsside: Our department Is getting Quite a reputation I heard a lady say she always locked for the Social Cor neT when she wanted information. She thought there was new writer, Hill side. who had fine ideas and she eni jcyed her letters as much as she did the letters of a writer by the name of Kitty Lou. The little talk about the cake seemed to interest quite a fev. and they thought it ended in a pleasant manner,
 UNcIE SAMs pAUGHTER.
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Dear Social Corner Sisters: The
 season is at hand to put down eggs. No one can predict the precise moment
 when eggs will reach their lowest
 level. I was able to get mine at 4S
 cents a dozen and bought 90 dozen, and have preserved TO dozen eggs. I
 prefer the infertile eggs as preferable when they can be obtained.
 f I preserve mine in water glass; Add one quart of water glass (coml
 meFcial) to nine quarts of water that
 has been boiled. Add water glass to the boiling water and let cool together. 1 allow about 14 cups of this mix ture for each three dozen eggs. For
 my two crooks of eggs l used two quarts of water glass to IS quarts of water. I use strictly fresh, clean eggs, with good sound shells. 1 do not use eggs
 over a week old. and never wash them before preserving. as they will not keep. Any egg that floats when drop
 ped in this solution I remove at once.
 These eggs I use up for cake, etc 1 They are all right for use, but not to preserve.
 I put the eggs down in an earthen crock. I know of one person who put
 her eggs down in 8 galvanized pail 1 because it was easier to handle. When l buying crooks be sure and get them
 with ears. A 40 quart container holds | 30 dozen eggs, but I prefer putting
 mine down in 20 quart containel l holding 15 dozen.
 Be sure your liquid is at least tive | inches above the top layer of eggs Cover the container to prevent evap- oration and store in cool place, but | avoid freezing. You cannot use water glass the second time.
 This year water glass is 10 cents more a quart than last season; but
 that is cheaper than paying 75 cents a dozen.
 l Last spring put down 65 dozen anG
 they just carried me through with one i dozen fresh eggs a week to put to use | when I wanted fresh egg. These will keep good for 10 or 12 months l Do. not feel alarmed if your water l glass forms whitish jellied substanc, | in the bottom of the can. Just rinst
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ounces in a pan; melt. Add the sliced onion. Cook gently till soft and vel low. Put in halfs a pint of stock or vegetable water: thieken with, a ta- biespoon of flour or pea or lentil or barley flour. Stir all the time till it ] ooiis. Drop in, one by one, four eggs. Cook, and take out as soon as set. Put in a hot dish. When -alE=the eggs are done, season the sauce with pep Der and salt Pour over the eggs and serve with mashed potatoes
 Salmon and Eggs: Boil six eggs till hard. Shell them: keep hot Empty small tin of salmon; free it from skin and bone. Flake it into. neat flakes. Drain off the liquor into a small saucepan. Make up to half d pint with milk. Season to taste with pepper, salt, and little nutmeg Cut the eggs in half, add to the faked salmon. make hot gently. and serve 1 with a dish of boiled rice and mashed ] rotatoes beaten up together. Allow eight ounces of rice to two pounds of mashed potatoes. If hot things are | liked add a pinch of curry powder to the salmon and eggs. This dish can also be prepared with timed lobster timed prawns, or shritnps.
 American Eggs: Make hot a large 1 tn or baked beans. Have ready a oached egg for each person and . large boiled cabbage or two pounds CT spring greens. Drain and press the greens till very dry. Chop finely ane add to the beans; mix well. Dish UT the poached eggs :. on top, and serve with potatoes.
 Rice and Eggs in the Flemish way; Boil pound of rice in some well, favored stock (or Hatarl tiiI ,,nr, tender Fry two large chopped on ions in little fat. Drain the rice, add the onions and season to tastt with pepper, salt and a very Iittlt mace or nutmeg. Add four tninly sliced hot, hard boiled eggs and ar ounce Of grated cheese; any old har( bits do for grating. Make very ho and serve. Enough for six people.
 RUTH.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-18
A FEW INQUIRIES.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: Will you please admit me to your cir eIe?
 have been much interested in the letters written by the Sisters and es. peelally by those referring to the to- Dacco habit.
 l wonder how many women of Nor wich have read what Blaisdell's or any other hygiene book has to say in regard to the use of tobacco. It seems strange to me that women knowing the effect which Aobacco has upon mans physical and moral nature. should present the soldiers leaving for camps with 'smokes." Cannot some thing helpful be given the soldier in- stead of narcotics. which are harm ful? Es A priest, who recently returned from 2 training camp, says, Many of the boys are trying to break away from | the tobacco habit. Shall we not helr them?
 Last year little miss of nine years having heard that the soldiers of the ClVll war were given rations of H- Guor, asked, Why was liquor given the soldiers if it is as hurtful as the | Physiology says?" Do you suppose children don't think? May they not ask the same question in regard tc smokes ?"
 May we each do our part, that wher the boys come home they may be strong of will and muscle and cleal of vision, for, to quote Blaisdell: "It i. TO mark of friendship or courtesy tt offer a person a cigar or. cigarette, fol 1t is virtually asking him to take wha Will be to him an injury instead of { l benefit
 Should America and her allies los, this war, which God grant we ma, not, may it not be because the sol | diers have been weakened physicall, and morally by the use of narcotics which the women at home have givel them.
 NU HUMMER. | Noruriah