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New-York tribune., 1918-05-25
British Bag Zeppelin

LONDON, May 24.-Fisherman who
have arrived at Esbjerg. on the Danish
coast of the North Sea, say that
Zeppelin has been brought down in the
North Sea, Copenhagen dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph Company re-
ports.
The crew of the German airship was
rescued by British destroyer.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30
THE WAY TO DO THINGS,

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: Extra silver should be kept in canton flannel bags, with a small lump of calnphor in each. It will in this way retain its brightness indefinitely:
 To keep marmalade airtight, beat well the white Of an egg, with it brush over white paper and cover the mar malade pot with the paper while the
 preserve is still hot
 To remove fly specks from varnish- ed surfaces, use equal parts of water
 and skim milk warmed. Discolored china baking dishes car
 be made as clean as when new by rubbing them with whiting. A few. drops of lemon juice added to scrambled eggs while cooking will improve them.
 Grease marks on pages of books ma! I be removed by sponging them witt 1 benzine, placing between two sheet' Of plotting paper and pressing with { 1 hot iron.
 1 The white of an egg dropped into ; pot of soup will gather to 1t all tn l impurities. When it curdles remove il Mend clothes, especially starche' ones, before sending them to the laun i dry, so that when they are returned clean and nicely folded there will b l no HeeO Lo ulSdFTdnS0 anu cfuLupi them for mending purposes. Table linen should be hemmed b, hand. Not only does it look better an more dainty but there is never streak of dirt under the edge afte being laundered as with machine sew l ing.
 Teapots that are made of metal, i unused for some time, will often giv 1 musty flavor to the tea when mex used. This may be prevented b i placing lump of sugar in the teapo l before putting it away.
 RERECCA
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30
A BoUpoIR GAP.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: Those of you who do crochet work may find these instructions useful:
 Buy two balls of any color silk fin ished cotton and No. 8 steel hook
 Top-Make a chain of 8 and join chain and put in ring 15 double crochets, join chain and put one double crochet in every stitch with a chain of two between and join, then chain 15, put four double crochets in each space, with a chain of Is between, and continue the same around for nine rows.
 Band-Chain IS and make shell of S in the fourth stitch, chain 2: dou ble crochets in the fourth stitch, chain 2; a shell of 6 in the next ninth stitch and be sure to chain in middle of each shell.
 Chain 5, turn, shell of G. chain be- tween in middle of shell, then 4 double crochets, chain 2, then double cro- chets and a shell of G. chain 3, turn,
 Shell of S, chain 2, then double crochets in space, chain 2. then shell of $, chain 3. turn: shell of S, chain ', shell of 6, chain 5, turn.
 Shell of 6, chain 3, make single stitch in fourth stitch of chain of I, chain 3, shell of 6, chain and turn.
 She'll of $, chain ', shell of S. chain and turn
 Shell 6, chain 2, then double cro- chets, chain 2, shell of 6, chain and turn.
 Continue the above on band until you have 13 blocks, join band together, then sew top net to edge of band through middle of the shells. Get half yard of double width of white net (cut where it is folded and sew up the ends narrow); gather up one end together tight, then slip inside of cap and plait in the end on edge where band and net top are joined. Weave in ribbon in the band and make a rosette.
 SLY KNITTER.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30
CHRISTMAS GIFTS USEFUL AND PRETTY


 Dear Social Corner Sisters: Here are some suggestions for Christmas: Basket Hair Receiver: A basket such as pictured can be purchased for five or ten cents. Select ribbon wide enough to reach from inside bottom Of basket to about three inches above top, join ends, tack lower edge to bas- ket bottom. and finish top with casing aud draw ribbon.
 Twin Pin Cushion: Make cushion Of silk or cretonne twice as long as it is wide. Stuff it loosely, then tie ribbon i tightly about middle as pictured Handy Clipping Holder: Cover two 1 oblongs of bookboard with cretonne or 1 denim, and join with ribbon hinges. Tn this portfolio place 12 rnanilla en- vcelopes, little smaller than the case 1 and attach ribbon ties. Lingerie Safety Pocket: Shape like | usual safety pocket, only make this of ] nainsooi1 an-over lined with white ! china silk. Finish with white ribbol. Japanese Penwiper: Cut and pink circles Of chamoise, fold these in half i and to the top attach a small Japan csc doll dressed in ribbon. Whisk Broom Holder: Cover square of boo1board with cretonne; to the l front attach with ribbons and eyelets a strap to hold broom.
 1 For Lingerie Pins: Make heart shaped cushions and outline it with narrow shirred ribbon.
 Lingerie Pincushicns: Make like hat cushion herein described, cutting linen in oblong instead of circle. Practical Work Bag: Gut large cir Icles from cretonne, and a seconS cir cle four inches smaller; bind edges of both with tape; lay smaller circles on large so the centers are identical, stitch at regular intervals from center out ward as far as edge of smaller cir cle, this stitching forming sides of pockets. Put casing near top of large circle and insert draw string. Then draw up.
 Darner for White Hose: Make bag
 of nainsook all-over, trimming top
 with narrow lace. In this put skeins
 of white alarming cotton and a white
 linen needlebool1. Hang bag and q white celluloid rings run with white
 ribbon.
 Dainty Garters: Get hose support
 CTS of good silk elastic and on the elastic shic satin ribbon; finish loose
 ends with bows and sprays of tiny
 ribbon flowers.
 Sewing Table Stand: Base and sup port are of wood, top of cardboard, al covered with ribbon oi. cratonne: tor
 is a pincushion, long nails inserted ir
 base to hold spools.
 I Compast Sewing Outfit: A pad o1 wadded silk, two inches wide, four inches long, bound with ribbon, and l having usual sewing implements in
 small size attached
 Odd Hat Pin Holder: Cover strips
 CT stiff bonnet wire win ribbons, tic
 them together 8 little way from one
 end; then weave two shades of rib
 bon basket fashion. Insert small bis que doll, thrasting hands and feet be-
 tween ribbon. Tie wires short dis
 tance above her head, and finish with
 ribbon rosettes.
 Holder for Collars: Gut circles of
 cardboard, and three-inch~ band wide
 enough to reach around the same
 cover both with cretonne and over
 hand together.
 1 REAOEP
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30
STARTING RIGHT.

Mv Dear $o9.el Corner Sisters: Waetrer GfA is hard or easy with any or us ee7en,is much upon whether we started iight or are thinking right.
 One way housework is made easy is by choosing a man for your hus- band who is orderly about the house Knowing something about his bring ing-up. Find out if his mother Sand sisters waited on him continually. Tn his own home, does he read the news. paper, drop it there? Does he throw his soiled collars on any convenient chair for some one else to pick up Does he look at the partnership of marriage on a fifty fifty basis, exact. ly as he would consider q business partnership, or does he just want tc get married?
 Has his mother taught him to cal what is set before lliIn or has she ! pampered his appetite?
 If you want to be happy though married, and not become n house hold drudge. examine carefully the home out of which the prospective bridegroom comes to you and decide before it is too late. whether the mantle of iove is strong enough tc stand the strain of unexpecte6 ] shocks Of selishness, cultivated habits of carelessness and disorder and old-fashioned narrow notions oi ''woman's sphere"
 Never marry a man to reform him and if your husband is q hard one dc not think he is the worst man in the world for he isn't likely to be anv- where's near it.
 MARY ANN TTGHE.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30

origin and answer the question of race by saying I am a descendant of the Romans.' They are a simple, pastoral feople, not given to robbery or brigan- dage. Their l,ri4n.tive lt.e viilagrs of stone are frequently seen in the mountains, often perched near hign summits A large colony = them, known as Vlchs, live cn the slope of the Pindus mountains in sigh; of Liascoviki, but far away across valley and gorge.
 From the heights where they graze their f1ocks in summer the Rumani descend into the valleys in winter; and on the road men, women an children, surrounded by their hundreds of sheep end goats, in search of grazing lands, form picture Of nofnad life that re- minds us of the days of Abrahm.
 "There are said to be some S0,O09 of these Rumani; but who really knows their number, scattered as they are over hundreds Of mountain peaks, in inaccessible villages or caves, and moving from place to piaee?l
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30
SUNDAY SUBJECTS
Greetings to all

At Park Congregational church,
 1O.90 a. m. Preaching by the pastor
 in the church building.
 The subject at the Christian Science meeting will he Ancient and Modern Hypnotisr1, Denounced.
 At the A. N. E. Zion church, preach ing ii a. m. Sunday schoo! at noon. l Christian En7eavor at ' D. Tn. Preach ing at 7.45. Holy communion.
 At the United Congregational
 church. Morning service at 10.So a. m l Frea ching by Rev. Mir. Kellogg of New
 London. Sunday school at noon. At the Church of the Good shep- herd. Universities, Rev Joseph r. Cobb will rreach on the subject. The Smile in Words. Sunday school at | noon.
 At the Spiritual Academy. Park street, Dr. Wllman c. Whitney of Springfeld. speaker and psychic will
 lecture and give psychic messages at and 730 o'clock.
 At St. Andrews EpisconaI church. Central avenue. Rev. William H
 Smith, rector Holy communion 10.30
 q, m. Sunday school at noon. Evening | prayers. 7.30 '. m.
 At the First Congregational church the pastor, Rev. c. 1T. Ewing. will | nreach at the morning service upon
 The Long Arm oF the Church. Y. P.
 s. c. E. at 6.3G p. m.
 At Grace Memorial Baptist church.
 preaching morning and evening by
 Rev. Walter Gay, D. D., of Hartford. Union Lyceun1 meets at p. m. Com munion after the evening service. At Waureuen Congregational church, "Ton1nv's Pe!ioon and the AVeraqe Mans irreIiaicn,' will he the subject af the sermon at morning worship. Church school at 12 Interesting pro- eramme at the Christian Endeavor
 meeting at 6.So.
 At the GreenvilIe Congregational
 church, Sunday morning there will
 be preaching by Rev. C. Fl. Strouse The Sunday school meets at 12 O.
 clock. The pastor will conduct a
 preaching service at Long Society at 3 D. m. Subject Forerhnnars Of Christ. Christ church and Trinity church, Rev. Richard R. Graham and Rev. J. Eldred Brown. rectorS. united services in Trinity church. All seats free At 1o.30 q. m. holy communion and Ser mon Sunday school at noon and ev-
 ening prayer and address at 7.30 p. m.
 At the First Baptist church, George Henry Strouse, minister, Rev, c. A. Ricketts will preach in exchange with the pastor at the morning service.
 Sunday school at F o'clock B. Y P. U. at 6.30 At the evening service the raster will preach and the Lords Sup. per will be- observed.
 At Trinity Methodist Episcopal
 church, Rev. P. A. Legg. minister. 4
 Sunday morning worship, sermon by | the pastor on The Church, the Indi :. viduaI and the New Age. Sunday 1 school at F o'clock; Epworth League at 6.30. led by Leroy .Fieiding. The
 attendance contest will begin toni ghtl At evening worship the pastor will
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30
THE LATE SEASON.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: These are ideal days for November and although the trees and shrubs are bare of their leaves, the lawns are beautifully green. I have noticed nu-
 nerous 7dandelion blossoms, unusual so late. and I thought how they. with nature to assist, seem to persevere in shining among the spears of grass just as long as possible, apparently in defiance of Jack Frost. I felt, as walked along one day beside gener- ous number of these golden eyed flow CTS, that are really among the earliest Of spring. somehow intended to show their thrift, under difficulties.
 How unlike some clements of human nature, which wilt under the first cold shoulder, or a piercing glance. Some physical beings are so sensitive, they are misunderstood, simply because they do not extend one ray of their true light.
 Perhaps we should not compare the simple dandelion to a higher life, but there it is:
 Dainty little dandelion, | Smiling on the lawn,
 Sleeping through the frosty nights, Waking with the dawn. Greetings to all. 1 IENNJF
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30
WHEN THE soYs COME RACK

Dear Social C5rnerites: There was never Thanksgiving witnessed like the Thanksgiving of this year, Nov. 2S, 1918. The whole world is rejoicing over the grand success of our boys helping to bring the kaiser to his knees. The war will soon be at an end. There has been great reioicinS al over the land, and millions upon millions have celebrated the victory, wearing a smile on their faces which will not come of. All seemed to be happy, but no one in the great throngs of people were so happy as the moth efs of the boys who were spared to come home.
 What a rejoicing there will he when the boys return? There should be no limit to the pleasure old and young can give the eoys when they do come home
 To the mother we will say: '1Wher your boy does come home, words can not express your feelings, the joy will be 50 great; and when your hoy once more goes 10 his room 10 retire he left many months ago and lies down to ees% what a change 1t will be to him
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30
MY RuaTEar HOURS.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: Just a few lines to tell you the details of our fair. First were the preparations. Well, we must get at least one hun dred names for our autograph quilt, if not more. I started in holding every living person up in the street for 10 cents to have their name on the quilt, and l got it. When I got through begging for that quilt I had the sum of $IS.40.
 Next we appointed committees for the different booths, etc l was sent begging again, for they had put me on a witch's kettle, grab bag, and 1 had to get money enough to buy my grabs with. Then I immediately started around town asking each one met for a quarter, more or less, to help my table, and I tell you everybody had my number by the time I had 75 cents, just the same by hard work l obtained
 s3.95.
 At our next meeting I agreed to move the dishes, tables and chairs from the church to the town hall, where our fair was to be held. Some moving, believe me! One day I asked how many dishes we needed. Why, about all of them, I guess" ," ] was the reply. I knew from that moment that I was in for it. There were five shelves packed full of dishes. I began one day to pack them at 12.45 and finished at 5.10 p. m. I had packed two barrels | full. Oh, yes! I remembered the dish
 pans, soap powder, soap, ice cream
 servers, and-Oh, the serving trays. Well, that finished it.
 ! On Tuesday morning we loaded the l dishes on a one-horse team to the thu hon | got. 1 opened the door and went in. l Goodness! They had held a dance in the hall the night before, putting meal l on the floor to make it slippery. Yes, 1 1 should say so! How those barrels did slide across the floor.
 That afternoon l began unpacking l having the luck not to find a broken l dish.
 At last Friday came and still there | remained two extra large tables in the l church. "Yes," I thought to myself ''I'll go and borrow Bill Sweets wheel barrow and bring those tables up.'
 Easier said than done, After I had l gone little ways I began to think l they were little heavy. But I kept
 on going until I reached the hall an6
 after I got there, too. I went home tired. but satisfied to think that every. thing was ready.
 l Saturday dawned cloudy but pleas
 ant l saw ahead of me half day 0.
 rest. Four D. m. found me in the hal l attending to my table, dressed like ! i witch and feeling like a hoodoo Al l of sudden I realized I was attend 1 ing to two other tables besides my own. But as the evening sped on my burdens began to disappear. But Oh 1 how thankful I was to see my las | grab taken. Then, naturally, count ed my money and Oh! to my surpris,
 found I had taken in $765 on my owl | table.
 At 1 o'clock Sunday morning I wa
 just going to bed, saying to myself
 My busiest hours are over"
 For my finishing sentence I will sa,
 that we took in $179.7S, clearing SI44.4 4. SNOW QUEEN.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30
RECIPES WORTH TRYING.

Dear Social Corner Friends: These are recipes think you will find worth while:
 Peanut Butter Soup: Save the wa ter in which a cabbage has been boil ed and add enough more 10 make three pints. Sift two potatoes (boiledl into it and Q cupful of the boiled cab bage chopped fine. Take one quarter pound peanut butter, add hot water and beat until it is creamy. Add a lit- tie water at time until it is soft like whipped cream, then add to the rest and heat up. Season with little salt and pepper. I have made this soup with carrot water and chopped car rots, too, and we all like it for sup per.
 Irish Potato Cakes: Boil your pota- toes, mash them, add salt, a little lump of butter and work in as much four as you can. Not drop of milk or baking powder is used. Roll out, cut in squares and bake on oi.e side first and then on the other. over a slow fire. I bake mine on a buttered iron frying pan; split while hot and but ter, and serve while hot, and you have genuine potato cake.
 Vegetable Hash: This hash is very NItFdp to IHdke. Dul IS very QeilClOuS. Take four Sood sized beetS and car rots, ono large turnip, five or six po- tatoes and q small onier, peel them, then wash and slice them quite thin and place in q kettle with enough wa ter that there will be about two inches Of water above the vegetables. Add a piece of pork two inches square and a litce cooking soda about as big as a pea. Boil three hours, but not di- rectlv over the fire. Put the kettle on the cover of the stove, for if it cooks too quickly it will burn on the bottom. When nearly donn add salt and pepper to taste. When done it will have a thick gracy.
 Walnut Bread: Two cups milk scalded. one half cup releases, two teaspoons salt. one fourth yeast cake, one-fourth cup luke warm water, two cups white four. four cups graham flour, two cups chopped nuts. Mix . milk, molasses and sal. When luke. warm, add dissolved yeast cake, sift- ed white and graham flour Beat well Let rise until almost double it's bulk | then beat again. Add two cups chop. 1 ped nuts. Put in bread pans. Bake ir 1 oven which is not so hot as for white 1 bread.
 HANNAH WHO.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30
The stranns Rumani.

One of the most picturesque groups of people in all Europe are the Ru- mani, who inhahit the mountain fast riesses of Albania. Tho National Geo. graphic Society has issued a war geo. g1aphy bulletin on this strange peo- pie, the information being based upon q communication to the Society from Brigadier General George P. Seri;en U. $. A. It says:
 Among the A1banians lives q frag- Inent of @ strange people who eall themselves RuInani, said to be de- sccndants of the RennansAef that fifth Roman legion which dispersed and was scattered along the old highway stretching from Durazzo to Constan- tinople. This great road of ancien; Rome (via Egnatia1, called at its be- ginning the Appian Way, passed south east through Italy to Brinaisi; begins again at Durazge. runs thence througl Ellbasan By Lake Ochrida to Krussla and On to Monastir and Fodena thence to Saloniki and beyond to Con. stantinopIe.
 "The Rumani are very proud of theil
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30
Every Woman Want.

from sleeping in the trenches, where mud and rats were plentiful" He sure y will drop & tear of joy on his pill low when he fully realizes that the boom of cannon will no longer disturb his slumbers.
 As he boys return the fathers will receive them with open arms; but no enc can take the place of Mother, ' when the boys come back.
 All of us who did fighting with Lib erty bonds and war stamps to make our homes free once more will be ready to greet our soldier and sailor boys with open arms! Let us all join and sing The Star Spangled Banner! Long May it Wave Ger the Land of the Free. and the Home of the Brave
 Mothers and fathers, it will be one of Gods greatest blessings "When the Boys Come Back!"
 Best wishes to all Social Corner Friends.
 PTTpAJ nT7T IZ7E-pY
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30

 cabbage leafe and roll it up like q croA duette. This will make one dozen domes. Put a piece of butter on each dome and pour little milk over them Then rut in buttered pan and bake for one hour in a moderate oven. Serve with creamed potatoes. I find this teo b very nice luncheon.
 Hot Oyster Cocktails. To one pint of oysters allow one-q quarter cup of minced celery, one-half teaspoon salt cayetne as desired, one-quarter tea spoon paprika, five teaspoons butter and two sherry glasses sherry. Drain oysters and heat liquor in sauceg pan, adding cne-half cup cold water Skim, and when it is bubbling add the celery, salt, pepper and butter. When these ara hot and well mixed add the oysters. AS soon as edges curl add sherry, stir in quickly without furth- CT cooking and serve in hot boufller cups.
 TRUE BLUE.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30
ROLL OF HONOR
Sons of Social Corner Writers

Walter F. Moran, of Norwich. Richard c. Moran, of Norwich. Eugene Campbell of willimantic, Conn.
 Allen Williams Hovey stsrry, of Union, Conn.
 Earl L. Sparks, of Norwich. Arthur T, Knowles, of Wethersfeld, Conn.
 Floyd Mitchell. of Central Village. Conn.
 Willard A. Madley of Lebanon. William Howard Gordon, Subma- rine service. U. $. N.
 hyron ]. Rineland, of Norwich. Royce E. Mccall of Leonard Bridge. Calvin H. Mccall of Leonard Bridge. Walter Robinson, of New Haven. Floyd C. Knowies, Camp Devens. Milton Perry Pendleton, Niagara Falls. x. '. 5t Samuel L. Mitchell, Manchester, Y. H.
 Frank E. Medhury. Of Canterbury. Frederick H. Race, Jr, North Frank lin.
 Herbert R. Hoffman, North Franklin Clifford 5othsm, Mansfield Depot
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30
Nor EvERY pAY REcIpEs.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: Those of you who like to try recipes Of merit not common, should make something paiateable from these:
 Cabbage Denaes: For one pound of hamburger steak take two-thfrds of a cup of rice and cook in double boiler for a half an hour in salted water. Then take 3, small head of cabbage and cook in sahed water for one-haif an hour. When rice and cabbage is boiled let it cool enough to handle. Then grind up meat. and mix with rice, add one egg, small piece of but ter, little onion juice, a pinch of salt and pepper. Mix thoresglliy, take a leaf of cabbage and put one heaninr tablespoon of the mixture into the
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30
SOCIAL CORNER POEMS.
TIE MOTHER WHO sMIEs.

HE MOT HER WHO SMiES. l am so glad you smiled at me When we said our last good bye; lt warmed and cheered my aching
 heart
 To see you more brave than I. It took me back a score of years To where ]. a timid child. Turned, halting, on my way to school And you waved me on and smiled. I've brought that smile across the sea And your look of courage rare; They'll give mo strength to meet tho
 foe
 And the heart to do and dare. [ know I'm in your constant thought, That you often kneel in prayer, EntTeating God to spare the world And your first born over there" God bless the mothers, every one. And comfort their hearts the nile 1; But pour a double blessing on Those rare, brave mothers who smile.
 Sarah r. Dusinbury. Sent in by Aunt Mary.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-30
INK STAINS.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: To re. move ink stains from paper or the leaves of books, first Jest to find the nature Of the ink by moitening with water, and taking up as much as pos sfble on clean plotting paper If the stain is that of gall or 1ogwood ink apply spirits of salts diluted with five or six parts of water, and rinse in clear water as soon as the ink disap- pears.
 Or use saturated solution of oxalic, citric, or tartaric acid or salts of lem on. None of these will affect print CTS ink. Apply with eamel's hair