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Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-01
WARTIME RECIPES FROM PEGGY
 ANNE.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: I am coming to chat few minutes with you this morning. Hope the sick ones are feeling better
 pathy.
 To the Sisters who sent me cards on my birthday, May 18th, I thank you all.
 Huldy: My son carried your card in, his pocket week before he thought to give it to me.
 Silent Partner: No, I do not use all barley in my bread. as it makes the bread too hard and has strong taste that I do not like. I use five cups of barley four and seven cups of wheat flour, one cake of compressed yeast, one quart. of water, two tablespoons sugar. one tablespoon of fat salt Mix and knead as white bread
 This quantity makes three 1oaves h making cake or cookies I use all bar ley, unless l mix some other, either cornmeal or rye flour with it. It all depends how much I have on hand when 1 do my baking. Biddy: Your date for your picnic is bad for the Norwich club Their last meeting for the season comes on that day. June 5th. Could you change the date conveniently?
 enclose a few recipes using sub stitutes I've had splendid success | with:
 Rye Gems-One cup of rye flour. enc cup of cornmeal (sifted), one-half cup
 of sugar. one egg, one teaspoon soda, | one cup of sour milk. salt, two table
 spoons melted fat.
 t Oatmeal Cookies-One cup of sugar, one cup of shortening, one egg. four tablespoons of molasses, one-fourth
 cup of milk, two and one-half cups of 4oatmeal, two and one-half cups flour q used barley f1our), one-half teaspoon
 cinnamon. one teaspoon soda. This
 mixture will be stiff but will be all right. Drop by spoonsful and shape. Dipping a spoon in milk and rubbing
 over the top of each cookie before | baking improves the looks of the cookie For anyone who uses entire wheat, a
 good recipe for quick bread: Whole Wheat Bread-Four heaping cups entire wheat four, one teaspoon salt, one-half coffee cup of molasses, one heaping teaspoon soda Dissolve the soda in little hot water and add l it to the other materials. Add milk | (either sweet or sour. I prefer sour) enough to make the dough as stiff as cake mixture. Pour into pans and bake until done. This makes two good sized loaves and requires hot oven. Entire wheat flour can be used as l white four or can be used with other substitutes.,
 Regards to all
 PEGGY ANNE.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-01
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

One tablespoon of turpentine boiled with your white clothes will greatly aid in whitening.
 Wet peach stains with cold water, rub on soap. lay in hot sun. Repeat until stain varnish.
 Scorched stains can be removed at once by rubbing with peroxide. Apply until it vanishes and then finish iron ing ; Turpentine and soap will remove ink stains from linen A clean. damp mop passed rapidly over mating removes dust and lint and saves much dusting of furniture. Cream that is too thin to whip may De made to do so by adding the un- beaten white of an egg before begin ming to whip.
 A glass of vinegar put into water in which salt fish is soaking will draw out much of the salt Twenty drops of carbolic acid evap- orated on a hot shovel or pan will help banish flies from room,
 In washing a light colored crepe de chine waist take crepe paper of a darker shade, and squeeze home of it into the final rinse water until the de- sired shade is obtained Dried in shade, the waist will look like new.
 BALSAM FIR. J Ivy Mills, Me
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become as efficient as pointer dogs.
 owned pet pig once myself. 4 clean, human eyed, appealing crea- ture. And he knew how to love like a Christian and how to hate like a Hun. Ben liked sincere people and did not like to be fooled with He didn't like me. but would bark at me the moment I came in sight. Ben was always confined and constantly cared for. And I liked Ben as friend bet ter than I liked him as pork. It was a sad day when Ben became martyr to human appetites. The neighbors used to say: T couldn't eat that pig, he's too human when he looks you in the eye" But Ben went the way all good pigs go and I had my share of him; but it did seem SC much like cannibalism to eat him that I have never eaten since home grown pork
 Ben in the pen was one Of the fam i fly, but Ben in Ale pork barrel seem ed to be out of rt4ce. We ate Ben anG l we have never been able to forge i him.
 | JOBS BROTHER.
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MOCK MEAT STEWS,

Dear Social Corner Sisters: The fol- lowing recipes for mock meat stews meet the requirements at present of our English cousins:
 Potatoes, Carrots and Onions: Peel and wash pounds of potatoes, scrape 3 pounds of carrots and wash a bun dle of leeks and half a pound of on ions. Cut leeks into one inch lengths. Put from one to two ounces of fat in a stewpan, melt, add the on ions, and cook till soft and yellow; don't fry. Add all the other vegeta- bles. dusting in two tablespoons of seasoned barley flour; add enough stock or water to just cover. Cook slowly for half an hour. Add a cou- pon's worth of meat; let the whole simmer till the vegetables are done; take out the meat; keep it for next days dinner. Add a little more thick ening to the stew if required and pep per and salt to taste. Serve with mashed potatoes and greens. This stew tastes strongly of meat and is
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That Morning Lameness

7--7---7--ssss 5.5s<S s7s7s.z,fa If you are lame every morning, and suffer bladder .illss tAeres must be- ! cause: Often it weak sqSfdness. To strengthen the weakened kidneys and avert more serious troubles, us& DoaIss Kidney Pills; You can relyson Nor wieh testimony
 Mrs. Henry Bfaynaan. 4S3s. E. Main St. Norwich. says: For about, Xear II was so bad with backache that I Fcouldn't get out of bed mornings with out being helped. When I satdown it was the same way, had to. be helped up At times felt as though,I were paralyzed from my hips down. My feet swelled as much that I had to take off my shoes and it was next to iEp- possible to get up orsdown the statFs- I got so couldn't do a bitsof house work, not even washing my dishes When I stood a. short timefI was so weak and dizzy that 1 had to sit down. i Specks fleated before my eyes and the pains in the. back of my head9and neck were unbearable. I doctored but got no relief until l finally used Doan's Kidney Pills. All swellings and pairs left and my kidneys became normal. Two years have since passed and there hasn't been a sign of kidney trouble since"
 Price soc. at all dealers.1 Dodt sim ply ask for a kidney remedy-get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that Mrs. Brayman had. Foster Milburn O., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. %s5
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A WORD FROM DOM PEDRO.

Social Corner Friends: I wonder if I have been missed from the circle? |? It is several weeks since I have con- tributed to The Corner In the first place, I had a severe cold. Then I have had three ulcers on two of my teeth and could neither eat nor sleep They are very much better now.
 I have been very much interested in the letters of both the old and new writers. I hope to be able to meet with them when the gool old summer time comes once more. I met Married and Happy last week. She has been quite ill., too but is able to be out again. She said she had not seen any of The Corner people for a long time.
 I was very. much. interested in the letter signed Jennie, who gave such a | fine description of the Club No. Is May meet in Wiilimantic I wish I could have been there. Diana: Glad to hear your health is | improved.
 should be delighted to receive a call from any. of, the. writers who should chance to visit New London l this summer. Remember, 29 Masonic street
 That we may all live to see the end of this terrible world war is the wish of
 1 DlOAF
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A LETTER FROM WILDWOOD.

Social Corner Sisters: I write to thank you one and all for your kindly remembrance of me, on my 18th birth day with nice cards. I received 1T from club members and. quite few from outsiders. ; sure enjoyed them.
 I am at, my daughters on visit, the first time this year. am feeling fairly well, only quite lame; but am glad to be able. to get out some
 I left the Batch to keep house and see to his garden, which looks nice, but somewhat backward, as we have had quite cold weather for this time of year.
 My flowers are coming on slowly, but shall have plenty after while. have some lilies and some roses and hope to have warm weather soon, so that all the stuff will flourish. I have seen Potlatch since I came. She is not extra well and her flowers don't look as nice as usual; but she will soon have plenty.
 I had a nice long newsy letter from Balsam Fir and enjoyed it. I answer ed it and hope to hear from her again soon.
 I wish I could answer all of you who so kindly remembered me, but shal have to thank you in a bunch; shall be glad to hear from any of the Socia Corner friends who care to write, al though I don't know whether you car read my letters if I should write. I think the Editor is very kind tC bother to send cards and also calendars Hope he will live to enjoy many re turns of the anniversary of the Socia Corner.
 Everyone nearly is interested in war especially the Red Cross. I pieced { quilt called ''Potlatch" and sent it tC the club in our neighborhood. The! will sell tickets and turn the none. in. It was all I could do to help as am so near blind.
 Kindest wishes to all Corner Sisters
 WILDWOOD.
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THE GHOSTS OF THE LUsITANIA

Could we go back through all the past, We'd find full many ghost, Full many an unrequitted crime And many a tyrant's boast, For bSgone wrongs stiIl haunt the
 world,
 A somber spectral host. For the souls of the departed Are ground in Gods great mill, And those who die wanton death It's written by His will, Shall cry aloud for justice,
 Shall cry and not be still. They are calling, calling, calling For justice that they crave, The men and women and children Who went to watery grave, When the Lusitania met foul fate And sank beneath the wave. At last we've heard them calling, They call for long in vain, Their country to uphold their part Through sacrifice and pain, . That retribution comes to those Who bear the mark of Cain. Though they were weak and helpless Their number was but few, AS sure as rlSnt at last prevails As sure as God is true, The German tyrants yet shall quail They'll hear them calling too. For the lives of all the living
 Are ground in Gods great mill And those who choose Unrighteousness It's written by His will, At last shall come to justice
 For justice ruleth still. We give of OUT blood and treasure For cause of so much worth, That through the Armageddpn
 The world shall find new birth, And tyrant rule by right divine
 Shall perish from the earth. We're gathering round our banner, The flag that stands for right, With grim determination
 We gather in our might And the gbosts of the Lusitania
 Go with us as we fight
 Walter Stillman
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A GRAND OLD LADY.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: While on a visit in Massachusetts a few weeks ago l had the pleasure of meeting a very interesting old lady and enjoyed the call so much that I feel just like telling someone about her: and as we have Grandmas and Great Grandmas in our Social Corner do not know of any better place to tell it than here. My people have known her for several years so I have often heard her spoken of.
 She keeps house all alone, is eighty four years old, does beautiful fancy work and informed me that she has never had to wear glasses yet.
 When I was there she had just fin ished a pillow and sheet sham, it had a wide and beautiful insertion of Mex ican drawn work and the edge was finished with a very pretty design in tattinE.
 She also showed me some tatting she was making of number one hun dred thread.
 i She introduced a new idea into our heads by going with us to a remnant store where you can buy the knitted material for undervests by the pound
 Take a piece the required length foi vest. crochet a yoke for one end finish off the other with button hole stitch and behold what a pretty gar
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WELL TESTED RECIPES.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: These recipes will be found to be well worth trying: Tomato Rabbit: Two tablespoons butter, two tablespoons flour, three fourths cup milk. three-fourths cup of stewed and strained tomatoes, one eighth teaspoon soda, one pound of cheese, two eggs. slightly beaten, salt, mustard and cayenne pepper. Cook butter and flour together, add milk, and as soon as the mixture thickens add tomatoes and soda. Then add cheese, eggs and seasoning. Serve on toasted whole wheat or graham bread. Italian Maearoni and Cheese: One cup of macaroni broken into small pieces, two quarts boiling salted wa ter, one-half onion. two cloves, one and one-half cups tomato sauce, one half cup or more grated cheese. Cook the macaroni in boiling salted water with the onion and cloves. Drain, re- move the onion and cloves, reheat in tomato sauce. and serve with grated cheese.
 T T.
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ment you have with very little cost if you have the time and know how to make the yokes.
 She belongs to several different lodges, takes a very active part in them, and does not mind bit being out till eleven or twelve o'clock two or three nights a week.
 She is also doing her little bit for the soldier boys by working two or three afternoons week at the Red Cross rooms.
 She has house full of antiques, many of which are very valuable.
 As a remembrance of her she give me a mans collar which is abcut one hundred years old. It has never been worn and is in perfect condition. prize it very highly as it makes a nice addition to the collection of antiques which we already have. I think she should be classed with the grand old ladies of New England Don't you?
 TWICE TWENTY,
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ECONOMICAL DISHES.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: If there happens to be small place vacant for me I will gladly chat few, mo- ments. I am a new Sister and hope may be admitted. ar s- a
 I am five feet in heighth, have blue eyes, dark hair and wear glasses.
 I have been very interested in the recipes that have been sent in.
 Any Sister who lives out of town may Hooverize. yet have a very palat- able stew without the aid of good sound onions.
 Onion extract. or the tops of old withered ones may be cut of, washed and boiled. Save. the stock. Chip ur carrots and put on to boil in this va ter Fry ham fat. or good pork. and pour in. using small chunks of lear ham or pork. Soak out one cup o1 dried sweet corn and add: lastly chiI up potatoes. Season well, and a piece of butter may be added $ if one hal plenty. Milk or cream will make | rich. Toast bread in place of crack CTS and one can have very inexpen | sive dish out of little thinking.
 All of the ladies must have flower
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-01
sHIRRED RUGS.

! Dear Social Corner Sisters: Pretty rugs can be made from old pieces of flannel, cashmere or any kind of dress goods. no matter how old or moth eat en they may be, and these rugs will
 wear for years. Cut goods into bias
 strips about an inch wide and gather
 through the center with a strong
 double thread. Use more and more
 goods until it is shirred quite tight, then twist the goods round and round the thread, this is so it. will not fiatten but stay fluffy and thick It takes about five pounds of these shirred strips tc
 make small rug; but ten pounds would make nice one, nearly tive yards long.
 Any carpet weaver viii weave these strips the same as rug carpet, bu'
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-01
PET PIGS.

Dear Social Corner Editor: The pet pig Balsam Fir told us about was q cute fellow. The pig in the pen is not the real pig any more than the horse in the harness is the real horse The pig is keener and cleaner animal than most of us think. It is quite cer- tain that he does not roll in the mire because he loves to, but because he has to under prevailing methods of keeping him.
 It is not so long ago that educated pigs used to pick out letters of the al- phabet as commanded, and do sim pile sums with figures; and in the snake country south where dogs can : not be used to hunt, because of the
 moccasin snakes, pigs are trained by the sporting class and are taken to the fields to locate birds and they
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-01

Of. Lieutenant Goddard's courage on the day of the fatal battle his captain wrote: He was so thoughtful and | considerate. not rash or impetuous, but~cool and collected, ready for any emergency. willing for every duty"
 Of him Rev. Mir Dana writes: "In his grand young strength he fell fight ing for the country, and by his death added another name to the list of those of whom Norwich has just req son to be proud. The regiment was complimeHted by Brigadier- General Burnside for heroism in this action and as it returned from the field was cheered by the whole brigade"
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 Dear Sisters. of the Social Corner: Is there room in. The Corner for Just Me? I have read the letters every week. and enjoyed them very much. Here are two good recipes for Gra- ham Bread:
 Graham Bread (with sweet milk)- Two cups of graham -four. one table spoon lard. one cup of sweet milk. one egg, two-thirds cup of brown sugar, two teaspoons baking powder.
 Graham Bread (with sour milk)- Two cups graham flour, one-half cup | wheat four, one and e-half cups sour milk one-tnird cup of sugar, two 1 tablespoons molasses. one level tea spoon soda and one level teaspoon of salt. Aunt Mary: met you at a social i gathering not long ago. Didn't we have @ good time?
 Betsey Bobbet: When you take UT your dahlia bulbs in the fall. leave al the dirt on them, and not shake then as some do I think it will help yol to keep them.
 $ JUST ME.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-01

Dear Social Corner Folks: Try my Fruitti de Guess. I have it for lunch three times week, as I am a lone luncher-the man of the house claims he don't owe his stomach any grudge. Make sour milk cheese first Put in one-half inch layer in saucer little sugar, a layer of thin sliced banana, more sugar, then cheese and banana, and plump out some tiny raisins to put on top, and cream if you have it; whip and cover. One could hardly tell what the mixture is, only good
 Ivary it by beating the white of one egg. and sweeten a little and cover ton and put in oven till slightly brown.
 J. B. T.
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SOCIAL CORNER POEM.
THE CLOVER.

Swaying and nodding gaily With every wind that blows, The happy, red-cheeked clover Down in the meadow grows. The rains but make it fairer, The winds but make it strong; The bees which steal it's honey Its fragrance bear along. When stricken by the sickle It rears its head anew, To meet again the sunshine, To drink again the dew. The tender, hot-house darlings, Shielded from sun and air, May scorn it's rosy blossoms, And deem themselves more fair, But all the world is brighter, And all the air more sweet Because the sturdy clover
 Grows humbly at our feet.
 -Ninette M. Lowater.
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Yantic.
SPRING AND PROSPECTS IN
 NORTH DAKOTA.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: I fear you will forget me if I do not drop in sometimes and say, "How do you do?"
 We had lovely April, but May is rather cold and unpleasant. We have very few rainy days here. but it can be uncomfortable, even without rain. Tonight, the sky is blazing with Northern Lights. so. I suppose it will be cold for few days.
 Some of the hardier vegetables are up in the garden. and the prairie is green and growing bright with flow
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in bloom and be enjoying this wea-
 ther
 E Sticks sharpened out and drove in
 crossways is a good substitute for
 wire if one hasn't any on hand. When the flowers have grown the sticks may be stored away for further use. should like to change plants. bulbs
 or, shrubs with anyone who wishes to secure new plants ' Best wishes to all PEACH BLOSSOM
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ROLL OF HONOR
Sons of Social Corner Writers

Walter F. Moran, of Norwich. Richard c. Moran, of Norwich. Allen Williams HoVey Sterry, of Union, Conn.
 Earl L. Sparks, of Norwich. Arthur T. Knowles, of Wethersfleld, Conn.
 Floyd Mitchell of Central Village, Conn
 Willard A. Madley of Lebanon.
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From tb. 12th to +he 4s.h # M,

From the 12th to the 18th of May the regiment was engaged in battle at Fort Darling. where the Union forces were repulsed, and the gallant Cap tain Mccall, who had won his promo ton from lieutenancy for bravery at the capture of Fort Huger, was in stantly killed by a shot from the en-
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INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS.

READ ''The Empire of the West" :" by one of our Sisters. It is inform ing.
 THE SHUT-TN Ready called our attention to for a card shower is Ar nelia, not Amelia as printed
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SOCIAL CORNER PRIZES FOR MAY
One Dollar Each

To Hillside for Do Spring Papeing
 To Little spinster To Jennie entitled Meeting of Club No l. To L. Ribbons worsteds To Uncle sss pauahter for Paper
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these are thick and fluffy. and after wears tof wear can be beaten and look like new. .s
 Make several strips of black for border and make two strips just alike, one for each end. This makes the work of weaving easier and makes sure of the rug being alike at both zroI-S-srx1N J.AITRET,
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THE DICTAGRAPB.

Many woman,s tongue.t lis kept busy trying to get her out Nof the trouble it got her into.
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WE CAN BE AS MISERABLE AS WE THINK
 WE BE
EVERY woMAN's OPPORTUNITY

Rulet They should be in hand by side of the
 Office, Norwich.
 FIVE PRIZES EVERY MONTH OF ONE DOLLAR EACH Award nadet the elastsa Q each month
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-01

~Young Goddard had returned from
 the Sandwich Islands, where he was
 engaged in business, on purpose to
 enlisf in the defense of his country
 His Ardent patriotism gave him nc
 rest tntil he could return to his native land and share in the honors and
 rerils of her defense against intestine foes. He received a commission as
 first lieutenant in Company B in July 1S52, and was assigned to duty or General Harl3 nd's staff
 Later, at his own request. he was able to reioin his company and served
 in the ranks with distinction up to the time of his death.
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NORWICH AND THE VALoRoUs
 EIGHTH

eWritten Specially for The Bulletin.)
 It was in, December, 1S62.l that prep arations were completed for the disas- trous battle of Fredericksburg, under General Burnside. The Eighth reSi- ment, of which Edward Harland of Norwich was colonel volunteered to lay the pontoon bridge and assisted by others, speedily accomplished that task.
 On the 18th Colonel Harland took his position with his brigade below the town, while his own regiment servedS as the picket line, until the whole force was ordered to recrcss the the Rappahannock It fortunately sus- tained but slight loss.. Connecticut troops suffering less proportionately than any other state which had regi- ments engaged.
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In further advance made under Gen. Burnside in October, some se- we're fighting took place, gin which Capt Charles M5 sGoit- seISapge on the staff of the brigade. comma nsier, vas severely wounded.
 The regiment maintained it's well earned reputation for daring and f. deity to the end of the war; and was mustered out in December. 1885. with ! brilliant record fo4 efficient service l in the field -----------e---
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The bodies of these two brave young men were brought to Norwich for burial. The city and military author ities as well flo c'tizens generally.
 ,ined personal friends in honoring the patriot ueau. 4-.s Asos sOldiers had fallen in all the vigor of their young manhood, leaving the record of a no ble patriotism and brave service On the field.