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Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08
RECIPES FROM PAULA.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: am sending a few recipes:
 Rhubarh Pudding: Place a layer of
 rhubarb cut III small pieces in the
 bottom of an earthenware baking dish
 sprinkle with sugar, cover with thick layer bread crumbs dotted with but ter, then more rhubarb and sugar and so on until dish is nearly full: pour
 over one cup of water, cover tightly
 Bake in oven until rhubarb is tender Rhubarb Combination; Prunes and rhubarb, raisins, figs and rhubarb are excellent combined in sauce or pies
 Stew the fruit until tender before i adding rhubarb, then simmer together
 This makes a good combination fol pies.
 Prune Cake: A half cup shortening
 one and one-third cups brown sugar or one cup corn syrup. half cup milk one cup rye or barley four, half ol three-fourths cup white flour, three teaspoons cinnamon, a half teaspoon nutmeg, a half pound prunes (washed stoned, cut into pieces). Cream short eTing; add sugar or syrup and milk
 nix well, add flour. which has beer sifted with the spices and baking pow der, add the prunes; mix well; bakt l in greased loaf pan in hot oven 50 tG 35 minutes.
 Gooseberry and Rhubarb Marina 1 Jade Stem, wash and mash the goose. berries, add any proportion of young rhubarb desired, place the mixture ir a preserving kettle. add enough water to cover the bottom well and allow it to simmer slowly until the fruit il soft: add as much sugar as there is | fruit and continue the boiling slowly 1 for twenty minutes longer; pour into 1 jelly glasses and cover with melted paraffine.
 Canned currants Syrup Method Remove all foreign matter from thu entrants and wash them carefully Drop them into sterilized jars, shak, them down gently, put new rubber in place on one jar, fill it to overflow ing with a heavy boiling syrup ant seal it at once. Proceed likewise witt l the other jars.
 Spiced Currants: Make a syrup O
 one and half quarts of sugar and { pint of vinegar. Skim the syrup anC add three quarts of currants on, pound of seeded raisins chopped fine boil the mixture thirty minutes; thel add a teaspoon of salt. half teaspoon each of cloves. allspice and nutmeg pour the spiced entrants into jell, glasses and cover them with melted
 parafine.
 PAJTLA
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08
HUMOR OF THE DAY

Plain Heiress-rd give a good dea just for myself.
 ImpecuneLHm, yes! Well, abofit how much?
 BluTer-Yes, when I was quite a young man determined to get ahead in the world.
 Miss Pert-Where did you go--to >a cabbage patch?
 Cats have their feelings as well as people. We recently heard of one that was so hurt because her mistress bought a mousetrap that she left and stayed away for three weeks.
 Housewife-I've nothing hot for you; but I can give you little someS thing cold.
 Tramp-Al1 right. mum: make t a little cold cash, if yer will.
 A golfer called to friend playing another hole and asked him how hs was going.
 First rate" was the reply; "alI need is six twos for an eighty"
 They say Dick married beneath him.
 Yes, the girl lived in the apartment below"
 When Stephen Crane was reporting the Greco Turkisk war he had oc- casion to write of battle in which the Turks turned and fled before the enemy. Crane watched with disgust the Turkish censor toning down his manuscript, and finally that worthy came to the word routed "This won't do," he said: ;<we must have a euphemism here. What would you suggest ?"
 If I were you" said Crane sar- l castica1ly, I'd simply say that the indomitable Turks changed front and advanced.
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greatest power on earth, for it is the force which designs every useful thing and backs the will to make yis- ible and useful the concepts of the mind.
 Thought is the foundation of happi- ness as well as the harrasser and tor mentor of the mind "As a man thinketh in his heart,' saith the sage, "so is he!" It is thought which keeps Q smile on your face or throws you into convulsions from fear.
 You think things and conditions do it. but it is your conception of the conditions or things which really har- rass you. You are surprised to see reavement, and how calm Ada is in any crisis, but they in thought have simply put themselves in the best and truest and safest relation to things which can distress no one without the aid of wrong thought. There is a dirk for yourself in the thought you can not endure conditions, or that the shameful conduct of loved ones will
 be the death of you. They will be il you, so elect-they cannot be if you refuse to become a victim to you1 feelings and realize that The Com forter is guard of every human
 soul.
 The difference between happiness and misery is thought, and humanity is endowed with power to be as com fortable or as miserable as they thinl they be.
 A little discussion of this subject
 might be real help to many who arc misusing their minds by the evi character of their thoughts.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08
POETRY
CLEAR THE TAY,

Captain Rainsford of the s07th D. has. written msIShing song for hl regiment, which < largely Irish, ehti tied ~Eaugh.,sa-L,4llagh." which is Iris the regiment carry blackthorn stick as emblenls of their loyalty to Ire land The song, which has splendii swing. reads:
 There's a Blackthorn Regiment belong
 to Uncle Sam.
 And it's heading out for trouble an!
 day.
 Be it France. or Greece. or Russia,
 doesn't give a damn,
 Only start 1t on its road, and cleai
 the way.
 So clear the way before us when ou
 marching orders comet Cant you hear the flies a.screamffit
 and the throbbing of the drum And the roar of marching feet
 Down the crowded city street, 9 Past the avenues of faces? It's thi long good-by for some, It's the price we gladly pay To the Resurrection Day. sg | Let us pay it as we play it-Faugh-A Ballagh! Clear the wayi We have never faced barrage. ani Though we've done our duty decen 1 up to date, | But we're strong on stumps and snow fields, we're hyenas for the mud | we'll be ready when we hear theii | hymn of hate.
 1 We've debt that's due to England We've a price to give for France We've score with God Almighty
 we would pay.
 1 We have. talked and we have daliied while the others staked ouI chance, It is time we drew our cardS-st l clear the way M There's length of battered trenche. | where the trees are torn and dead, V
 With the reek of rotting horses Ii
 the air; te Where through the blinding fog q shells come wailing overhead,
 And it's waiting for us now ovel there.
 | Where the yellow mud is spatteKet from the craters in the snow, Where the dice of death are loaded
 let us play. 70 I We have pledged our word to Free II would go. With the strength that Freedon
 gives us-clear the way!
 Clear the way to No Mans Land, Eitl
 bugles shrill and high. 1s Clear it to the lid of hell, with nag against the sky. o1 II Clear the way to Kingdom Come, 2f II give us glad good-by. Al We've blow to strike for Freedom
 clear the wayi s-
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08
GREETINGS FROM SILVER LOCKS

Dear Social Corner Sisters: It is 8 long time since I have written but rest assured you are not forgotten.
 1 enjoy reading the letters so much. I remember one in particular that was written a long time ago which said: Speak the best of everyone, and if you can't say good word for them, say nothing" How much there is contained in that sentence. How often one person will go to another and say some little thing about someone, not meaning any harm, and that person will go to another and tell the same thing and add little more to it, and so it goes from mouth to mouth and finally it becomes a mountain made out of mole hill
 1 was in friends house recently and saw post card which read: If a person does wrong once they will hear of it a thousand times; but if they do good a thousand times they won't hear of it once" How much easier it is to speak of peoples faults than their good qualities. If we look for the good we shall certainly find it.
 Thanks to Scottie for reminding me of the day and date of the next meet ling. I will surely be there if possi- ble
 Eliza Jane: Where are you? I re- ceived your postal and will answer soon.
 | Do any of the Sisters knowNwhere 1 can get a singing book: 'The Sabbath School Bell'
 The conundrums I sent: What is that which belongs to an automobile is no use to it. but the automobile can't go without it? (Noise)."
 What is it everyone is doing at twelve o'clock noon every day (Growing older)." Best wishes to al1 SILVER LOCKS.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08
NICE RECIPES.


 Dear Social Corner Sisters: These are nice recipes:
 Cinnamon Rolls: Sift four cups flour into bread mixer and add half a cup of sugar. half a teaspoon of salt and hait teaspoon of ground cinnamon. Scald one cup of milk with one-fourth cup of shortening, and, when cooled to tepid heat, mix with two lightly beaten eggs and half a yeast cake, dissolved in a quarter of a cup of tepid water. Gradually blend the li- quids with the four adding a little more flour, if necessary, to form d dough that can be handled. Knead for 20 minutes. then set to rise over night. In the morning roll out into a sheet, cut in rounds and lay in greased pans. Press into the centre of each a few bits of shredded eitron and when they syrup made from milk and sugar. Dust with ground cinnamon and bake about twenty minutes.
 Date Dessert: One and one-half cups dates, one and one-half cups of milk. whites three eggs, one-half pint heavy cream, one teaspoon vanilla. Stone the dates, cut in thirds. add milk, and cook in double boiler until the dates are soft Strain through a puree sieve and cool. When. ready to serve, beat the whites of the eggs very stiff and fold into the date mixture Serve in sherbet glasses and decorate with whipped cream.
 Olive Sandwiches: Use the small stuffed olives and chop finely. Add tc each half cup of the olives two table spoons of minced celery tops and one chopped hard boiled egg. Moister with either a boiled or mayonnaise dressing and use between alternate slices of buttered white and graham bread. Cut into rounds.
 Best wishes from
 MOUNTAIN LAUREL.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08

into cool water, and put them away in "a cool cellar for the night. In the morning bring them to the room where they are wanted, and flowers then will easily last for three to four days.
 If the white fly attacks the daflias in mid summer, it produces a stunted, worthless growth. It sets on the un- derside of leaves and the moment you touch the plant jumps jumps off. and returns when you are gone. It inereas- eS every seven days one hundred to one, so that in short time a whole army exists. Tou can tell when they are on the plants by going to them and shaking them; if they are there you will see them instantly, for they will fly off. If you inspect the leaves you might find the young ones as they have no wings and must stick there. The very appearance of the leaves al- so indicates their presence as the edg- es turn yellow, others curl up, and again others grow so small, that they are not natural. Whenever the white fly infests a plant, that plant is doom ed, for even if it blooms the flowers are not perfect. It seems that the in- sect poiscns the plant. To overcome the white fly spray the plants with Alpine so that the material will reach the underside of the leaves and stem as well as the upper side of the leaves. Follow this application up ev- cry two or three days until you have rid the plants of the white fly as one application will not do it.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08
THE JoY-klLLERs.

Dear Social Corner Editor: Someone
 is always taking the joy out of life.
 I am one of the women who smoke. I fail to see how the struggle for ex- istence has been intensified or the millennium retarded by our doing SO. If persons who object to women s
 smoking came down to vital subjects they would see that the puff from a wonan's cigarette is far too insignin- : cant to cloud the horizon of freedom in the least. No woman with a nor nal brain would ruin her constitution by smoking or by any other means. Then why worry about her? We have sanatoriums for the abnormal.
 As regards a womans being inn
 moral because she smokes, all l know is that morality is the observance Of a natural law Break it and you are inn moral.
 Occasional smoking does not ruin the physique. The harm it might do
 physically is overbalanced by the good 1 it does psychologically. It is the won1- an who sits hour after hour with an embroidery frame cooped up in the house who complains about the virihty of womanhood. I have noted that the woman who smokes is usually the one l who can play a good game of tennis or golf.
 And it is the man who spends his week ends with ''the lowest type of ] woman" who is noisiest about protect | ing the purity of womanhood He gets
 so nauseated with seeing the other kind of woman smoke that he wishes to keep his friends and sweetheart l from it. not because of the harm it might do them, but because he wanta
 the society of apparent innocence as a dry and parched weed requires the refreshing rain. Let him keep pure
 for to the pure all things are pure. | JERUS1A.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08

in casserole
 Cheese Crust Pie-cut and toast four large slices from a stale loaf. Butter with any kind of fat. Place in a greased pie dish. Dust with grated cheese. Beat up ofei egg fresh or dried with halfaa pint of milk. Pour over the toast. Sprinkle the rest of oz. seheese on top Bake in moderate oven
 till set and golden brown on top, and serve.
 Potatoes Roman Fashion-Peel and
 boil l ib. waxy potatoes till done. Drain. Cut into neat thick slices. Grease a pie dish well.s Have ready
 oz. of well cooked and drained rice. Put in a layer of potatoes, then lay CT of rice Sprinkle each layer thickly with the grated cheese. Season to
 taste with pepper. salt and nutmeg Repeat tiff dish is full Let top layer be of cheese, OF. in all. Sprinkle with oat crumbs. Put few tiny bits of margarine here and there. Add q dust of pepper. salt and nutmeg. Make hot in moderate oven till golden made with butter beans or haricot
 beans and rice when waxy potatoes
 cannot be had.
 Cheese Salad-Half pound of bread soaked in vinegar and WaterA Squeeze dry. Add pepper. salt. mustard and Worcester sauce to taste. Add oz
 grated cheese and beat up well. Add heaped dessertspoon of minced shal- lots and a bunch of well washed chop per watercress. Mix well. Serve.
 Those who are fond of cheese will l find these recipes acceptable. HANNAH WHO.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08
TO MAKE WAFFLEs.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: These recipes may please some of you:
 Waffles: Sift together one cuart flour, one-hah teaspoon salt. one tea spoon sugar. two teaspoons baking powder. Rub in one third cup butter. Add three eggs, whites and yolks beat er separately, and milk for batter Cook in hot greased waffle irons
 Rice Waffies: Into a batter stir one cup rice, free from Jumps; cook as for soft waffies.
 Seft Waffiss: One quart flour. one half teaspoon salt, one teaspoon Sugar, two teaspoons baking powder, one ta- blespoon butter, two eggs, one and one-half pints milk Sift flour, salt, sugar and powder; rub in butter cold; add eggs and milk mix in smooth bat ter. Have wafle-iron hot and greas- ed; fill two-thirds, close it up; when brown turn over. Sift sugar on them. Serve hot.
 dolly-boys: Three cups rye meal, one cup corn meal, one fourth tea spoon cinnamon, one-half teaspoon salt, two baking powder, two table spoons sugar, Add egg, two table spoons molasses, cold water. Cook brown. -..--r-.z .z---
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08
His Clothes Came Home From Camp -s Today.

His Clothes Came Home From Camp f Today. His clothes came home from the camp
 today, The clothes he had on when he went
 away. The jacket and trousers the school
 boy wore, Things that the soldier boy needs no
 more His mother took them and put them away In the room upstairs where he used
 to stay. His clothes came home from the camp
 today. The cap that he waved when he went
 away. The coat that he snagged and mend
 ed with care, The bright colored scarf that he liked
 best to wear. She held them close to her heart to- As she knelt alone in his room to
 pray. His clothes came home from the camp
 today, The shoes where the prints of his feet
 still stay; His mother, seeing them through her
 tears Thought of the baby boots kept
 through the years; And, with the relics of yesterday. She put her soldier boys clothes
 away.
 By Med Ransom in the Southern Wonans Magazine.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08
THOUGHTS FROM AUNT MARY.

Dear Social Corner Friends: I think this year the Memorial day services had a greater significance and seemed to mean more to the young people of today than for the past fifteen or twenty years.
 Many times in the past years it has seemed as if the young people re- garded it more as a holiday for a general good time for joy rides and other amusements unsuitable to the proper observance of the day.
 This year the Memorial day all over this broad land from the Allan tic to the Pacific there were not many hearts, either old or young, but felt that Memorial day, service was some thing sacred. something that meant something to each one who gave their service to their country and offered their lives as a sacrifice Gf need bel for the good of the nation.
 So many now have dear ones that are in the service offering their lives as a willing sacrifice for the good ot the whole world that the hearts of the young people who are left at home are stirred as never before with a realiza- tion of the magnitude of the sacrifice that Memorial day commentaries and honorS. love drawing all classes nearer to- gether, moving all hearts to do honor to the heroic soldiers whether of the past or of the present day.
 Memorial day services should be ar object lesson teaching love and devo- tion to ones country and respect and appreciation for the sacrifice and ser vice of those who so freely gave theil lives for their country's good. Me thinks some of the sad lessons this terrible war is teaching this people were needed. We shall all learn how dependent we are upon God and how i helpless we are without His guidance and support, and that we cannot con stantly disregard His commands ant ordinances and prosper.
 AUNT MARY.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08
THE GROWING of DALLAS. ]

Dear Social Corner Sisters Dahlias prefer an open, sunny situation, light and rather poor soil, and at least three feet of space between the plants. No manure or fertilizer should be : ern- bodied with, the soil at or previous to time of planting. The plants should be set out and carefully watered and for the first day or two they should be shaded from the bright sun. CuItiva- ton around them every day. gives bet ter results than all the artificial water ing in the world. Each plant should have a support. to which the main stem is carefully tied. While you do not add manure or fertilizer to the soil, you can add it to the surface after the plants have attained a height of IS inches or more, and either Inoist4 efi 1t or fork it lightly into the soil. To make dahlia blooms last& after cutting, follow this suggestion: Cut howers late in the evening, and piunze the freshly cut stems into hot water for a few minutes. afterwafds
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ing and says: Cheer up, Brace up!"

ing and says: Cheer up, Brace up!" sSo am trying to do so.
 2 I am very fond of birds and I plant plenty of sunhower seeds every year to feed the birds who stay with us during the winter. They soon know their friends and become very tame. They were a great deal of company for me during the long winter while was a shut-in. l fed them every day and each morning would find flock of them on the backyard fence, one on each picket, waiting for their break fast. It was pretty sight and well worth the trouble.
 If everybody would help to care for the birds, there would not be so many bugs and worms to destroy the crops. Remember Me: You have my sym pathy in your trouble.
 H1II .DY
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WAUREGAN

Congregational church. Rev. William Fryling, minister The subject of the Sunday morning sermon will be The Prfceiess Pearl of Big Wages and True Riches. Church school with Bible classes for men and women at 12 Children's day concert at 5. Children are to be baptized.
 Midweek service Thursday at 7.SO. Boy Scouts Monday at 8.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08
A SOFT GINGERBREAD.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: I have thought so many times I would write to The Corner since I was invited to one of the meetings, and had such a good time.
 I shall try to go to Biddy's picnic and I hope to meet Mary France and Theoda there. I shall have to take my little girl to all the meetings, as I cannot leave her at home alone.
 I will send a recipe for
 Soft Gingerbread.-One egg, one cup molasses one-half cup water .(scant), one and one-half cups of flour (scant), one-half teaspoon cinnamon, one half teaspoon cloves, three-fourths tea spoon ginger, one teaspoon soda. Eat warm with whipped cream.
 This don't have any butter and I think it is very good. Try it.
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Charley kunzeIman finally retired from the saloon business and engaged in the business of tinsmith and plumb ing at which he was expert. He was an extremely liberal and kind hearted man and these characteristics finally led to his failure in the saloon busi- ness. He made a lot of money, did big business, but his coin and his goods were ever at the disposal of those he supposed to be his friends. He was not of the makeup of the average saloon keeper of today, who seem to have a knack of saving their profits in the business.
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srArE oF nHIn. CITY or rnIEnn

Lucas County, ss.
 Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co.,, doing business in the City of Toledo, County and state afore- said, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
 FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence. this 9th day of De- cember, A. D. 1886.
 A. W. GLEASON, (SeaD Notary Public. Halls Catarrh Medicine is taken in- formally and acts through the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials. free. F. ]. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, o. Sold by all druggists. 75c Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08
OUR FRIENDS, THE BIRDS.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: Greet ings to all, and many thanks to those who so kindly remembered me on my birthday.
 I hope all who have been i'll are better and able to enjoy this beauti- full weather.
 The country is very lovely now, as Mother Nature is at her best.
 The hills with their background of shaded green and the fields with their busy workers. dotting the landscape here and there, are pretty and inter esting.
 The birds sing merrily all day long, and friend Robin comes every morn
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08
WHAT THOUGHT IS.
SOPHIA.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: fear too many of us are enjoying a dreamless sleep, one Of the best things on earth to enjoy, but a paralyzer of hope if it becomes a ha3it. 'jurious if we do Tiot-n make the right use of it.
 Thought is our servant, and it is a good or a dangerous servant in accord with our conception of 1t. It Is the
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08
SOCIAL CORNER POEMS.
The Place Of My Desire.

 Through many weary years.
 From dawn to sunsets fire, bEe sought, with pain and tears, The place of my Desire. Perhaps they told me wrong, Perhaps l missed the road; Still with a purpose strong
 1 seek tn&c eAir abode. | see it in my dreams
 How pleasant, and how fair! Its towers, with golden gleams. Shine through the cloudless air, There is no hated task,
 There only friendship stay; There are the joys I ask,
 The year is always May. O, Place of My Desire!
 Since but in dreams take The path which leads me higher, Q, may I never wake!
 p~ -Ninette NJ. Lowater.