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Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-16

WANTED-Maid to assist with housework and care of children. Apply 27 Lincoln Ave. oct16d
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-16

FOR SALE or eXchange "a partJ for with lot and shed adjoining, shore and country advantages, boating, bathing, fishing, with pavilion and postefhce, on grounds; cottage is short distance from Mantle village, Crescent Beach, Golden Spur and Oswegatchie, near state camp. all available by trolley or launch; furnishings included in sale: touring car desired, of 1917 or IS model. electric lights. starter, good style, preferably new, dark green de- sired, blue or black. in good condition: owner of cottage has business interests which make further use of same un- available For further information, write to 53 Oak St.. Norwich Conn.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-16

WANTED - Second hand furniture; we pay highest prices in eastern Con necticut; we buy anything; largest sec ond hand store in state. Louis D. Ward. warerooms 30-S2 Water St. Norwich. Write call or tel. 361-13. je4MWS
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-16
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-191S Buick four cylinder sedan, used less than two months; good reason for selling. A. B. Ziegler, 106 Ocean Ave, New London, Conn. oct16d
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-19
RESULTS OF SIGNING HOoVER's
 CARD.

Sisters of The Social Corner: I
 signed Hoovers card and said, There
 is no way I can save, ] have Hoover
 ized all my life. and felt as if I could
 not do any more than I had done con-
 cerning saying.n t5!sff-z '7'- ,"-
 So set my mind to work. and the
 first thought was wIeF I could save on
 my yeast (which was thrown one
 sidel, I only used half the cake, then
 could mix the bread with water. in
 place of milk; there was eighteen
 cents a week. and in place of lard, I
 could use codfat; there was four
 cents, so in all had saved twenty five cents in one Week-one dollar a month. I had always bought lard Lard is s5 cents 8 pound, and I bought 70 cents
 worth of eodfat. and it made meone dollar and seventl-five cents worth of shortening. I had made a saving of $1.05, and I use this in place of pork 1 for a chowder; also. use it in place ot butter, where used three pounds oi | butter in one week, I saved now tw1 pounds, thereby saving 35 cents f0i butter, and, 35 cents a week for pork 1 I bake nay, beans with olive oil and l buy my own beef and corn it myself.
 l had always taken ice all winter 1T previous years. I had the man wht l helps me around the house build ms an ice box outside of my Kitchen win. dow; that saves me 30 cents a weel ] through the winter; and want you tt k know, to a person who had alWay
 fused all their potato parings, appl
 parings, squash seeds, coffee dregs tea leaves, orange peel, lemon pee
 grapefruit peel. I felt there wasn'
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-19
FOR TIE TABLE.

Dear Social Corner, Friends: These recipes will be appreciated by those who try them: :i Te
 Hot Graham Cakes for Breakfast: Two cups graham flour, one cup sifted white flour, one heaping tablespoon Indian mealS three cups huttermilk or sour milk, one rounded teaspoon soda two tablespoons molasses one teaspoon salt sifted with the four, two eggs whipped very light, one tablespoon melted butter. Put graham and salt ed white four into bowl with the Indian meal. Stir up in a little milk, melasses, soda and melted butter and while: foaming pour into the hollowed four. Work to a good batter and beat in the eggs already whipped to . froth. Beat one minute and bake at once. 4y7g- >..7
 Rice With Cheese: ,Reheat three cups cold cooked rice in a double boil CT. Butter a pudding dish and cover tie bottom of it with rice. Dot it with bits of butter and sprinkle with grat- ed cheese, seasoning with a little salt and pepper. Repeat until the dish is filled. Add one cup of milk, cover with onA-half cup cracker crumbs and bake 20 minutes. In all one cup grated cheese should be used.
 Date and Prune Gelatin: One pack age lemon jeile, one quart water, II dates one fourth pound prunes. Dis solve gelatin in boiling water, cool add dates and prunes, which have beer
 soaked over night. The water iron 1 the 6rnnes should be used, to dissolve 1 the. gelatin. Mold and garnish witt 1 whipped cream and maraschino cher. ! ry.
 Sour Milk Cakes: One quart of sou
 milk or of buttermill1. three cups O sifted flour, one cup of Indian meal
 one rounded teaspoon soda free iron Jumps, one teaspoon salt, two table
 spoons molasses. Sift flour, salt ant meal into a bowl In another bowl mi.
 the milk, Inolasses and soda. Sti
 these last to foam and pour into tn hollow in the middle of the flour. Worl kdown the flour into the liquid with
 wooden spoon until you have a batte land beat hard with upward stroke 1.-two minutes Bake at once. Thes
 are cheap, easy to make and goo
 cakes.
 | ..5-7 TyEONOPA
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-19
AFTER.

The merry Christmas tide is past, The chiming New Year bells are
 stiii;
 And yelled by memory's circling mist, The old year passes down the hill. On to life's lotus-land he goes
 The time of youth, when all was
 fair: Already seem his sorrows less,
 His pleasures great beyond com pare. :; ht And often in the future days,
 Remembrance of his sunny hours win make us sigh for gladness past, As Autumn signs for springtime fiowers.~ .E But now we turn from him away
 And gaze adown the path that lies Before us, bright with fancy gfeams Beneath hopes faif uf1clouded skies. But ever through the songs of mirth This minor, sad refrain we hear: Sometime a glad New Year will dawn, And I. alas! shall not be herei' --Ninette M. Lowater.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-19
HOUSEWIVES SUGGESTIONS FOR
 WARTIME. r

Dear Social Corner Sisters: l have taken a tablecloth worn in the corners and crocheted piece diamond and set it over the hole; then cut out under meath, buttonhole around the piece, and it looks like new.
 A very. nice apron to work in: Turn up the bottom on the right side to form a generous pocket, stitching up the center to hold in place. When put ting house in order, these aprons are handy to put little articles in that are misplaced.
 When bedspreads are worn too much for use on the beds, cut some long strips and put straps on the end for back washers, or you can make bath towels. |
 Use the small disk in your meat grinder to grind coffee.
 You can take your potato. peelings, wash in soda and water, then rinse, put through chopper, then dry; place in container, label potato dried, and it's uses.
 To clean bottles, take one tablespoon of dried potato and fill bottle with water, and your bottle will become perfectly clean within few seconds To clarify grease, take few dried parings and place in grease. One tea spoonful inc little water will clean a coat collar. One tablespoon in water will clean a black silk. k.---------s----==z \
 One cupful with a little salt will broil a steak. They are also a good food value. Potato parings cooked and then the outside skin removed makes a de. licious soup, with three tablespoons oi grated cheese, one-half cup of squash l seeds and three tablespoons of cod 1 fat. Save all potato water and rice water l to make gravies.
 Never throw away coffee grounds l These can be used to make childreI bags to play with in place of the bear bags; also will fill pincushions by mix 1 ing with a little whiting powder. l A small steel crochet needle kept il your machine drawer will be found in valuable when pulling hastings, rip ping, catching the under thread an. other details incidental to sewing.
 UNSIGNED.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-19
J. E. ITS WAR RECIPES.

Dear Social Cornerites: These are my war recipes:
 Lunch Pats-Small cup bran, two tablespoon pastry flour, full teaspoon baking powder, tablespoon sugar or molasses; rub two tablespoons short ening into this, salt, enough milk. to mix together. Drop in spoonfuls on pie tin; pat down thin; allow space to swell. Don't grease tim. shake four over tin, and turn tin over to let most flour off. Have oven hot at first.
 Brown Bread Crust Pudding-Grind crust fine, one cup two cups sweet milk; skim milk will do if dish is greased heavily; two tablespoons mo- lasses or usgar, cinnamon; use any kind fruit cut fine or not.
 Griddles-Two cups fine mashed po- tatoes, one cup flour, cup of butter milk or skim, and a spoon, of fat, two- thirds teaspoon soda, salt; beat we'll hot spider. lef Scout Drint-Toast one ear fiel6 corn, cob and all, over coals; poul boiling water over;i no sugar or milk one large cup,
 Comfort strips-Stitch strips of olt ] stocking legs on to cardboard, lengtf of window stool, will save draft an6 | coat and sometimes colds; placed tigh | up to window frame on stool. good al
 night before curtains are pulled
 down, where your machine is and vol r sit to seW.
 Days it can be put in closet, if pride will keep you warm. Boxes that suit.
 or cloaks come in are good for this.
 Substitute-Two cups dry beans, on, i cup dried peas, soak together ovel 1 night; cook same as all beans witt salt pork or suet Cheaper than al beans and better
 CORNER SISTER J. E. T.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-19
houRIsHlne DISHES.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: The following dishes will be found to be economical and nourishing:
 Potato Soupi Four large potatoes, one onion. boiled in two quarts of wa ter; press through sieve, add one pint milk one tablespoon butter, salt and Pepper, Let it boil up, and serve i
 EscalIoped codfish: Pick the fish iii small bits. taking out all the bones. Butter your baking dish, put in first layer of bread or cracker crumbs. sea soning with pepper salt and bits of butter Continue this until the dish is fplL having crumbs on top. turn on good rich milk until 1t comes nearly to the top of the crumbs, place in the oven and bake a nice brown. If pre- ferred, sliced potatoes and the fish may be used alternately, with crumbs
 Puree of Split Psas: one-half cup split peas; four cups water or ham | stock. two slices onion, one cup hot | milk; one eighth teaspoon pepper, one i tablespoon bacon fat, one tablespoon four. =Sealsf peas overnight in cold waters and drain;s add water or stock, and enion,A and: simmer about three hours or until peas-afe soft; press through a sieEe; add milk and pepper and thicken with bacon fat and flour blended together. If water is used in place of stock, add two slices bef bacon and one and 3 quarter tea Espoons of. salt gts
 s4 Oysters on Toast:p Twenty five me Edium- sized oysters s-sone- rounded ta-
 blespoon butter, one rounded table spoon four, one CUP milk, one teaspoon
 salt, a few grains of. red pepper or z little white pepper, 8 small piece o whole mace, six thin slices of toasted
 hread:r Drain the oysters, put in shal low pan oFer.1quiek fire; as soon a:
 the gills curl over with sauce and bei
 three minutes. Sauce is made as fol flows: Put ablitter iIlto; saucepan ovel
 fire, and, when melted, remove iron Efre; addff1our and mace, and stir un til smooth, return to fire and add coit
 milk slowly, stirring until smooth ant thick; add salt and pepper; remov'
 the mace before serving. Serve Noi
 toast garnisheh with sprigs of parsle. } and dusted with paprfka.
 ). .'sS MARY JANE.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-19
AUNTY'S COOKIE AND BREAD
 RECIPES.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: I have read all your letters with more or less interest, and have found so many good thoughts as well a recipes in them I thought it about time reappeared my self. !
 I want first of all to thank Interested Reader for my lovely calendar. I ap-t preciate it greatly. don't remember. ever seeing the picture of the boy Jesus just like that before. -----,--- North Dakota: I know I sent you a letter, but was not aware I seth eny :, thing else. Please inform me. I don't want credit that belongs to someone else. I know I am guilty of doing things unawares, for only a few weeks ago I wrote a card to one person and addressed it to another one; separat6 families, too.
 Crimson Rambler: Did you receive the card sent you while you were on the farm?
 Enid: So pleased to see a letter from you once more. I thought surely you had forgotten us all I thought | of you especially on your birthday but didn't know whethAr you were this side or still on the other. I prefer land to place they would have had chance
 
 | to endure the water.
 l M. F. Boy: Here is my molasses l cookie recipe, and they are soft and will remain so if you can keep them The recipe calls for one cup of mo- lasses but since these war times find one-half cup of either nelassee or sugar will answer just as well as a 1 whole cup, not quite so sweet, to be sure. They disappear in my house.
 Moiasses Cookie-One-ha cup mo- lasses, third cup lard, one-fourtS cup cold water. one heaping teaspoon soda dissolved in the water, one- third teaspoon ginger, one-half teaspoon O. salt, flour enough to roll one -fourtf inch thick; cut in squares or round ant bake quickly. + I use the same recipe, only not qlLtI | so much flour, for drop cakes. I us, ) wheat middiings that you buy at thi
 grain store a good deal for all kind ; of dark cake; use one-half of mid , dlings and one-half of white flour. I
 makes fine bread either raised o quick. Use one=haf of each kind 0 ] four.
 . This is the way I make my quiel bread: One and one-half cups of mid
 dlings, one and one-half cups of fioul
 two tablespoons of sugar or naolassei
 one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon sod
 dissolved in one and one-half cups Q
 butter or sour milk; put in a wAai s greased bread tin and bake not to k fast for one hour. Raisins added to e makes a great improvement, g Middlings at SS per 100 pounds ar . much cheaper than the wheat fou t But remember there are other kinds ( = middlings, standard and Red Dog, bu e the whole wheat is what I use., nl Mandy: You have my heartfelt sym
 pathy. I am so sorry for you in you great loss.
 J. E. T.: I hope you will find th
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-19

much else I could econonize on; and to tell the truth. felt little put out when asked to economize more.
 Do you know think now if Hoover should hear of me he would be jealous and have me jailed for being so fierce to conserve food. for now l will say one thing right here, would not be able to live out of my garbage can: unless I eat the real, out and out taudy, wormeaten, scabbed-over, fer mented, garbage; anl yet. if I should sign another card I might find some thing else I could save on. without mentioning these same articles that save $9.20 a month from. I found by warming my corn meal and milk, it does not require so much raising powder, and that by dispens- 1 ing with milk and using a little more eodfat, for my brown bread. saves me about 24 cents a week; and by using marshmaliows as sugar substitute and putting cornstarch in the sugar, will piece out a bit. i My milk bill used to be $4.66 z
 month; it is now s3.6o a month. IT
 be sure it is only $106; but the $1.0t and the AS cents on corn bread, added 10 s9.20, makes s1o.74.
 So you see it's worth the while u sign a Hoover card. even if you d.
 not deem it necessary.
 MOWERS FRIEND.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-19
PURPOSES OF COOKING.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: Cooking, of course. destroys many germs, and that Is one reason why cooked foods are better and more wholesome than uncooked. Cooking renders food more capable of mastication, and conse- uuently of digestion. It does this both by changing Its actual structure and by making 1t more appetizing, thus stimulating the flow of the saliva and the gastric juices. The importance of good cooking cannot be overestimated. A good meal. we'll cooked, and dain- hly served, has a certain subtle moral effect not to be disregarded in this age of nervous haste and Haunting ma terialism. If we are but what we eat We are also in a very real sense the product of all the influences that play about us as we eat
 The child, contented over his oat- meal, is mindful of the cleanliness and order of the table at which he sits, and the orange or cocoa have the fragrance of honeysuckle waited through ar open window.
 A poor meal, served in slovenly fashion. will upset many a hee:thy mans temper for the day.
 After all, one's philosophy is largely a matter of what one has/had fol breakfast
 EASTER LUY
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-19
THE COMFORTER.

Silent is the house. I sit In the frelight and knit, At my ball of soft gray wool Two gray kittens gently pull .. Pulling back my thoughts as we'll From that distant. red-rimmed hell, And hot tears the stitches blur As 1 knit comforter. 'Eomforter' they call it-yes, Snch if is for my distress, For it gives my restless hands Hessed work. God understands How we women yearn to be Doing something ceaselessly- Anything but just to wait Idly for a clicking gate!
 So knit this long gray thing Which some fearless lad will fling Round him in the icy blast, With the shrapnel wbistling past; Comforter" it may be then, Like a moter's touch again, And at last, not gray, but red, Be a pillow for the deadl S. =.
 Anne P. Field, in the New Yorl
 Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-19
MIME. SARAH BERMHARDT A
 JOAN D'AaC.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: On Sat urday afternoon last l had the pleas ure of seeing Mime. Sarah Bernhardt in her interpretation of Jeanne d'Arc as a witch in her famous trial, before the relentless Duke of Bedford, the. Eng fish Regent, Queen Catherine, the Bishop of Beauvais and their escorts at the tribunal of Rouen. France.
 As the curtain lifts Joan d'Arc stands before her magHifcently robed accusers with her hair cropped, her hands in chains and a dark vestment over her coat of mail-a, striking pie ture of a girl of nineteen.
 As she tells in all the wonderful pathos of the French language the dramatic story of the destruction of her home; of the daily scenes of death and desolation in the streets; that she heard rlle cries of war pursuing her day and night. and that when she was only thirteen did she hear the voices calling her and her childhoods life was over and a new life has daWned, the
 great bishop breaks in mortified and in an awed voice says: Voices! Gods voice! Do you think yourself a saint ?" As the Maid of Orleans declares her divine mission, her tragic appeal is
 met with misses and yells by her saint l ly accusers, and in the midst of the confusion the Duke of Bedford calls | for the eXeedtior[r, and tells him to l first break her thumbs and fingers. l As this wonderful woman stands as Joan d'Arc. a girl of nineteen, before 1 this tribunal pleading for her life, one could easily forget that sFonlan of
 eighty years was speaking and play | ing this tragic role.,< Her impassien cd voice without a break or auiyer l except. that of, strained appeal. could l be distinctly heard in every part o1 | that vast theatre. and as the execu- l tieneF drops his bag at her feet, the
 sigh that only a broken heart could
 utter was carried to the hearts of that vast audience; and as Queen Cath crime steps forward to intervene. the Duke of Bedford under the spell of tht queen stops the eXecutioner, and the sigh of relief that comes from tht l lips of the Maid of Orleans and echo ed by the audience is that of reality. I But so long as ignorance and super
 stition remain upon earth, and so Ions as there shall exist, beliefs and GUS l toms that dwarf the spiritual ant
 mental visions of childhood and bring a physicia night upon humanity, ant sc long as there shall prevail a sys tenn that complicates a destiny tha
 is divine with human fatality, so lons as these things are possible, Bern hardt's interpretation of Joan d'Ar
 will not be useless.
 l THE LITTLE SINISTER.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-19
GREETINGS FROM CRIMSON
 RAMHLER,

Dear Cornerites: Here I come for just a little chat. How many of you lad your skates sharp in time for the past ice?,
 Bob White: I thank you for your kind remembrance, which received in due time. Think it very pretty.
 Lucy Acorn: How kind of you to re- member me with the pretty token. Please accept thanks.
 Interested Reader: I thank you for pretty calendars; both are very pretty.
 No, Rural Delivery, I have not laid down my pen; just resting from lazy streak that I was seized with. l was glad to see you still survived the cold wave that lasted so long Wasn't it intense?
 Biddy: I am glad those things reach ed you all right, and that could do a little bit for you. Call again if neces- sary. Your letter received.
 Helloi Blanche: Glad I met you that day in the Boston store. What a nice little chat we three had-Calla Lily included. Am sorry to hear Si is or | the sick list. Hope he is better by this time.
 l CRIMSON RAMBLER.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-19
GREETINGS.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: I'm still on earth, even though the weather man has tried-to freeze me to death for the last month.
 think our old writers are becoming backsliders. did so love to read let ters written by. Lonesome Pine, Bach elor Maid and Olga. Perhaps my rea- son for enjoying their letters more than others was am intimately ac- quainted with the three Sisters I don't mean that they are just Social Corner Sisters, but the real thing.
 Interested ReadsP: thank you for my pretty calendar. .,
 Aunt Sarah and Remember Me: You both have my sympathy and hope to hear soon that the sick folks are on the gain.
 Bob White. I enjoyed your account of the last Norwich gathering in Buck ingham Memorial. I am going to try and meet you all there in the near future.
 Goodbye until I call again. DOROTHY PERKINS NO 2.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-19
WAR ECONOMIES.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: I have read the interesting letters in the So cial Corner and thought I would write one myself, telling how women can help the country during the war.
 First, they can practice economy in the home by not wasting any food which can be eaten.
 A food chopper is just the thing to grind stale bread, left over meat and vegetables which can be made into sayory dishes for the next meal.
 Bread crumbs can be used in mak- ing buildings, crequettes, breeding fish, etc.
 The kinds of food of which house. wives ought to use sparingly are su- gar, wheat, fats and meat which can be sent to our soldiers and the allies
 -Moiasses, syrup and honey can be
 used in cooking instead of sugar. We could do without cake and cookies
 where sugar has to be used as sweet eHing, and eat less candy. Gingerbread and Inolasses cookies
 are nice and easy to make. Good cake | can also be made with corn syrup. Wheat can be saved by using one
 part white flour with other Hours ir
 making bread, such as whole wheat rye, barley or graham, oatmeal is { good addition to bread; and I make
 johnnie cake quite often by using hal
 white flour and half cornmeal. l Lard, erisco, eleemargarine and ami
 nal fats should be used for frying ant shortening instead of butter I We can eat fish. poultry and gam, Il to save the meat which is needed fo l our army.
 I We should eat plenty of fresh frui and vegetables in season, and ,4ca. them so as to have them in winter a I well as summer.
 I We should use all the milk we ca, ;i as it is perishabie. ] Eggs are a good substitute for mea T if one can get them...
 I II housewives would cut their brea \ at the table there would be less vast
 from stale bread
 T Serve small portions of food and tn
 members of the family should hay
 clean plates before leaving the tabl;
 we should eat for health rather tha
 for pleasure as long as the war last: women can save money by carryin home their own supplies instead ( having them delivered: and if the order in large quantities instead (
 small parcels the expense is less. Every man should have a. garden f HIS own 1T ne can. II only a corner
 the backyard where vegetables can | grown to help out the table; and there is an orchard of fruit trees the !: can be made to help fill the cellar wit preserves. Last years dresses, hats and coai ean be made over and worn again ! save buying new ones. Some women are spending the
 spare time knitting for the soldier and it is a good way to keep busy. N ! like to read the letters in the st n cial Corner, and find many useful r cipes.
 f R. NJ. W. h Mansfield Depot.