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Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-12
THE. POWER OF PRAYER.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: Were you not interested in the letter of April 5th concerning the power of prayer? I was! And believe every word. and am glad to bear testimony.
 The lesson prayer taught me has never been effaced. With less than three days given me in which to decide to take "one chance in one hundred" thinking of my home and family. I simply did the only thing one can do. Cast thy burdens on the Lord," saith the Scripture, and He will sustain thee" The struggle was deep and sim cere, and I know. God answers pray CT, and helps the i'll to become well.
 Believe that ye receive and ye shall receive" Faiths was the stepping stone, and it never left me for one mo- ment.
 Each week I could perceive a gain in strength, and I grew to perfect health.
 Suffering is nearly always the hard road which leads to deep spiritual ex- periences. It is the calm, that works wonders. To describe all the beauty of its effects, would cover many months, but il was clear and complete In it. l was alone. save He-who was ever present.
 l am very glad of the opportunity tc express my loving admiration for the young woman who led the way for His benign presence to brins health and happiness to our afflicted sister
 Sympathy with all who are i'll.
 Best wishes for Social Corner friends.
 MEL ITH.
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EXPERIENCES IN A NEW YORK
 SitRNAY

Dear Sisters Of the Social Corner: If any Of my readers should wish to en- joy the thrills of a subterranean ad- venture, let them take trip in the sr.bways cf New York city, but be pre- pared to spend some time.
 While in Brooklyn last Saturday af- teronn, upon expert advice that the quickest route to my destination in New York was via the B. R. T. sub way from FTatbusn avenue which would make Times Square in fifteen minutes, I took the chance. l might mention that l had an hour or so to spare.
 The B. R. T made the trip in fifteen minutes, but it was at Times Square that the fur began. The conductoress vouched the stereotyped informa tion: "rollow the green line;" and I follow ed Many of my fellow travellers were also following the green line" and others were following the 'rblack line, # but the chase ir either case was a
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Dear Social Corner Friends: Here with l send 9 few household hints:
 When you wash fiannels, put borax into the water. Allow half teaspoon of powdered borax to one quart of water. You will be delighted with the results.
 Use laundry soap to stop the squeaking of hinges. It is cleaner than oil and equally as effective.
 Here is a simple way to clean boots: With a small cloth thoroughly rub a little glycerine into the leather. When this is almost dry. rub with a soft brush. The glycerine will also pre- serve the leather
 If the hot dishes leave a white mark on the polished table. rub it with paraflne, using a flannel cloth Then polish with alcohol
 A novel and handy sewing basket is made as follows: Select four clean quart berry baskets. line with pretty material and fasten them to form a square. Cover the outside and shirr around the top edge Now you have a basket with four compartments to hold all your sewing things and keep them in order 4 ribbon rosette in the center. with a loop about foot long, makes the basket easy to carry about when you go from room to room.
 MERRY WIDOW.
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TOMOWHOWTO SUGGEST IS THE ART OF
 TEACIING!

made us feel like one great family with a good purpose.
 It has awakened and interested the man of the house who used 70 say It did not amount to anything, was only a woman's gossip. It has been pleasure and profit to many far and near. It has furnished recipes which have put & smile on the face of the man of the house at breakfast, dinner and supper time.
 It has been sent to the soldier boys in the trenches who could picture out their home three thousand miles away. It has made friends who will be friends, as long as time lasts. It has had gatherings which will never be forgotten.
 The young and the old will always remember the delicious ice cream The Bulletin Co. has donated to picnics from time to time.
 The Social Corner has brought to- gether a large number of good people 1 who never would have met had it not been for it It has sent kind words of ] sympathy to parents who had boys in | the cruel conflict in France; it has sent tokens of love and friendship to the shut ins; it has sent sympathy to
 the family where sickness and death have entered, and flowers were not forgotten; ii. has had letters of all de-
 scriptions, and no doubt all were profitable to someone.
 The young housewife and others
 have been informed how to cook and
 arrange dishes fit for a king to eat.
 The Social Corner influence has beer so far and broad that it will never be fully known.
 We all feel thankful for what it has done for us and others. l RURAL DELIVERY,
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from them, stopping when they stop,

from them, stopping when they stop, watching them narrowly.
 Those two young, foolish heads close together! What mischief are they hatching? How can best the police woman eircumvent them? is the thought in her active mind as she stands there.
 They are moving on. She cross es the street, getting near enough to hear scraps of their conversation. Now she understands. She steps to the side of the girl, takes her into custody, telling the "blue'' to leave town on the next trolley or train, or a "cooI place for the night will be his.
 The girl at her side, sully, fright ened, wholly surprised, offers no re- sistance; but walks along quietly home; one, small room, cold, cheerless, comfortless! Is the girl so much to blame? She is out for what she thinks "A good time" wages just enough to keep actual want away; hardly more. Even the movies her friends pay for!
 What can you expect? No home aiming; no one who cares! Sad thought!
 I met one of these homeless ones, one cold day in February, 1918 (that coldest of Winter). She, through no fault of her own had lost no very de- sirable situation, but it had meant a place in which to stay; and had walked until after ten o'clock the night. before trying tos find a room au|. .hg respectable people: finding none, she had returned to her former place to stay until morning. telling the woman she would stay there any 1 how, as she would not go to the sta i tion house. l The next morning she found a room with a woman who had but one. un- occupied: little more than 9 closet;
 q couch to sleep on; no heat, but re- | Hpectable and within her means, sait
 means, being the little she had beer
 able to save in past months. In thS meantime the girl must look for an other job.
 i She had been strong enough to re 1 sist temptations. for looking at mt
 with her honest brown eyes, she hat
 said: T cant be anything but good!' But pity 'tis, tis true" they are no
 all alike.
 i It is perfectly natural for youth tt
 seek pleasure, even action; and if nc
 where else offers, the street is alway' more or less alluring; but if sht knows the police woman is there anC l ''on her job" she realizes that sht ! must watch her step.
 1, Oh. Ye mothers is there nothing tt
 be done for those all but homeless
 girls? many of them not wayward just drifting (whereD?
 You mothers whose daughters ar' surrounded by loving care and pro 1 tection, what if one of them should l come to this? Where is your polic'
 woman, your community house, tha ! al, n are these things to help make ou
 Rose, your Rose, even more beauti l ful?
 D
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WHOLESOME DON'T,

Don't be jealous of your friends be- cause her daughters beau is a little higher up in the social scale than your daughters beau
 Don't be puffed up because you run an automobile which cost 8 little more than a fiYer.
 Don't envy your neighbcr because she has 8 new spring hat and you are obliged to wear your last years hat on account of the high cost of liv- ing.
 Don't worry too much over the hard times" Remember life is un- certain"
 Don't hesitate Remember the di- vine command to turn the other cheek
 Don't make fun Of the personal ap- pearance of another. Remember we are all as the Lord made US.
 Don't take offenso at every little thing which you should regard as trif1es Tight as air"
 Don't sheer, for a sheer is the most unbecoming expression q person can wear.
 Don't tell even white lie, because it don't pay.
 Don't call anyone a fool" until you have taken time to think over your own acGlonS, past ana present.
 Don't try to keep your neighbours door step clean, because dirty wa ter has a way of spattering.
 Don't blame anyone for not being able to sec himself as others see him Remember that you are nlirrored in the eyes of everyone who looks at you
 Don't use the muck rake. Rather spend the time in doing something for the "uplift of humanity"
 Don't seek to "clean up" the lives of others unless your own life is clean"
 Don't cultivate the pessinaistic- look on the bright side.
 Don't put foot in your neighbor's S house until the carpet is well worn.
 Don't do anything because someone else does-you will be made fun of if you do.
 Don't repeat everything that is said to you. It is best to let history" do that
 Don't repeat what they say" for what they say is usually untrue.
 Don't get mad if your friend says something that hurts. Remember
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THE BOYS ALL COME HOME.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: I thank you for the lovely messages of good will that l have received the past week. Yes. indeed, you were sharers of my sorrow and now hasten to re- joice with me.
 Peace: You said truly that Christ had broken every chain." and your words of cheer inspired me to write ths letter
 Uncle Sam's Daughter must not think for moment that I have lost in terest in the Social Corner. Far from 1t; but you know. de1r sister, that I have been battling with the Gods of Fate" for some time. and I believe if you could have taken peek into our home the other evening and seen my four husky lads who had returned af- ter doing their bit for their country you would say that the victory was mine. Mothers more worthy perha ps were denied this blessing, and to God alone belongs the praise
 Wonderful story telling has enter
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BECCY'S pENNAME.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: It has been so long since l have written The Corner that I feel almost like a stran- ger to you all, although I have read with interest all the letters each week I thank Interested Reader for the pretty calendar 1 received at Christ mas time, very pleasant reminder of the whole year. and so nice to be re- membered.
 We have had a very mild winter with just snow enough to make good sleigbing and sledding, and we are very thankful after the long. cold one of last year
 Diana and O. H. O.: am owing you both letters and will try and answer them in the near future.
 Before l was so lame I used to en- joy writing letters. but it is getting to be almost a thing of the past with me now.
 My penname is one that Hubby gave me the first year of our married life, thinking that it bothered me: but I soon got accustomed to it and rather enjoyed being called
 BECCY.
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LITTLE ECONOMIES.

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: I think the following will be helpful to some housewives:
 Don't throw away pockets: The pockets from discarded trousers or coats make excellent kitchen holders for hot dishes. Stitch across the raw end of the pocket on the machine, add a brass ring, or tape loop for hang ing it up, and you have a new holder which otherwise would have gone for rags.
 A child presents a most untidy ap- pearance when underwear is Topped or punched under the stocking. A narrow tape sewed on each side of the bottom of the garments ,"legsrng like" keeps the underwear from slipping up when the stocking is pulled on and gives a perfectly smooth surface. This device saves the mother time and patience, and helps the child in dressing at an early age. Hope some mothers will try these and find them helpful.
 Best wishes for the Corner.
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APRIL MEETING OF CLUB No. 2.

Dear Social Corner Friends: Thurs day, April ,, was a very comforta ble spring day for our April Social Cor ner meeting. 1 had hoped to see sev- eral writers from Windham county on the car but was disappointed, and was joined by only one at JeWett City. She seated herself in the seat just in front of me, and we were so busy wis iting that we did not notice who got on to the car at Tafts. and the first I knew someone came and gave me good loving hug.
 quickly looked around as I am not in the habit of being saluted that way on the car. and l looked right into the smiling face of Married and Happy She had come from Taftville where she had been on business, and she felt sure that she would find me on that car. We had a jolly visit into the city.
 As we alighted from the car st the Buckingham Memorial we saw Joan coming with her arms fuIl of geod things for the dinner, and we had our arms so full that we could hardly get up the stairs.
 The CorneriteS kept coming until dinner time well laden with good things for the table.
 At 12 o'clock the long table covered with It's SnCN-Nh1te CICt2 carefully iaundered by Nellie Bly's willing hands was go filled with the inviting food brought there by the Sisters that it seemed as; if it could hold TO more Heaped up dishes of delicious baked beans, escalloped corn, meat loaf, diff ferent kinds of pickles. ohvesi fluffy biscuit. all kinds of cake, custarti pie, apple pie, coffee and tea and cheese an abundance of all kinds.
 After singing Praise Cod From Whom All Blessings Flow, ample jus tice was paid to the good things pro- vided for the fifty guests
 There was 6 sadness Taing;ing with our happiness because Dottie or Man dy, who is usually with us and a will ing helper iii all of the duties Of the day, was absent OF account of the death of her mother who was laid to regt that very afternoon. Meth;1ll.a that many silent prayers were offered that the Dear Heavenly Father would be very near to Mandy and let her feel the Everlasting Arms of Gods love around her, helping her to bear all her trouble with Christs own faith and love. <... .
 We were all giad to see Aunty No 1 and Slim Jim, but were very sorry not to see Grandma H. and her daughters, for they add so much to the
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game of hide and seek. We frequently met face to face. and unexpectedly | turning corners, disappearing into un- I derground paSSageways and laby- irinths heretofore uneXplored, would | stumble upon each other in a genuine 1 loop the loop or circulari2ing perfor- nance: but still blinking away at ! anXiouSly, with an agonized look, Scan- <, ming the guide placards for those me
 morable green and 'black" lines. 1 One might wonder how those ingen-
 ; ious engineers worked out such an eX
 l peditious scheme in their skilled nuts i (eXcuse the slang. for under the cir
 i cumstances it is most fittingl to con- i fuse the travelling public. as the ave
 1 rage New Yorker has anything to | spare but time.
 I was still following the green line" ! (and trying to remember that il is better further on'') when in the dis tance sign caught my eye, Interior
 ough trains down this stairway" and was making one headlong plunge in l that direction, when a benign guard stopped ms withe outstretched arm, You cant go through here. Go round that way, get another ticket, drop it , ip the box over there, and then go that way. Follow tho green line" iOoheu tiiS GtSl5hCe-AHolneFi SeNera blocks to traycl-tllought something else than poetry, but follow the green line" 1 must. l gave him a whitening glance with the suggestion "Hhen 1 have that ticket presume i you will flash up the green line" and he joyfully said he wculd. I presume i he tells that same story all day Still following the green line' and by way of information and accostirg several other bland guards. i actual l ly descended a stairway in front of an ! Interborough train. and breathed the i deepest sigh that I have for many a
 l day when I found myself really bowl
 ing up Broadway on a west side sub-
 way.
 1 It was a thrilling adventure, but l
 made the trip in less than half an hour all explorations inciudcd-Which is going some''
 1 TIFF. LITTLE SINISTER
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tained the household since their return and the boy from lover there" could write volume, stories too sad and lengthy for me to write about funny stories, stories of the soldiers devotion to each other, an instance of which I must relate:
 It was cold night in February that our lad was wounded A German shell had shot away the greater portion of his coast and his steel helmet. One of his comrades assisted him to the stretcher and immediately took the coat off Of his own back and wrapped It around the wounded lad, also know ing there was no opportunity of him getting another. But what did he care? He had given comfort to his wounded caum; and it was for just such sacri- ices as this that the noble young hero, Irving Rogue. is sleeping in a soldiers grave in France today
 Another chap tells interesting stories of how he spent the holidays at Coco Solo in South America among the Jamaica negroes, where the climate was unbearahly hot. and the natives wear scarcely any clothing. They subsist principally on fish. cocoanuts and bananas. The jungles are alive with hissing snakes. many boa con- strictors, sloth bears and the funniest things, much resembling the lizard. with body about two feet in length and a tail, of from four to five feet, which they wind around the limbs of the cocoanut trees and hang head downwards. Portions of their bodies are used for food by the natives. Before closing I must tell you of what he called his little bit of heaven. 1 It happened at Corinto, which is To- l cated in Nicaragua. As soon as they had gone ashore young Mexican I about five years old, naked ran up to them, shouting: La Ropa! La Ropa!" meaning he wanted their laundry. He carried in his hand a bottle of wiHte ] shoe polish which he wished to use on the Yankees shoes, which were all black. The label read from Charles Osgood, Norwich Conn. No exquisite painting, he said, could have satisfied his souls desire as did the label on that bottle. He tried to find out from | the young native where he got it, bui as neither understood the language o1 | the other. he satisfied himself with the idea that he must have procured il l from someone on an American shiE that had touched this port the week previous.
 This young lad is one of Uncle Jed's many nephews and at present an in- Structor at the Gyro Compass schoo 1 located at the base. and at the first | opportunity he is going to write the | Wide-Awake circle about some of his travels.
 I will now close. although I could write much more.
 JANET.
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HER FAvoRiTE SPONGE CAKE.

Dear Social Cornerites: Lo, here cOmeth another to join your ever-in- ,reasing circle. Though silent a long .ime. have always enjoyed reading tho Social Corner page
 Now l know many of you. and wonder if Unome Golden Glow? Where Is Henrico's pen?
 Am very much interested in crochet and tatting and have made many pretty things.
 A neat litsIe edge for handkerchief or collar is made: Catch into material with s c, oh and catch again into material making slack loop. Continue around. Now oh : and picot and oh 8 and C into middle of loop on first row. Continue.
 Here is the recipe for my Favorite Sponge Cake-Six eggs, one cup sugar, one pinch salt, one teaspoon vanilla, one-fourth teaspoon cream tartar, one cup flour. Beat egg whites, sugar. salt and vanilla stiff; add flour and cream tartar (sifted three times) Grease pan. then flour it, before put ting in mixture. ATWIN.
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DROP BISCUIT AND HOT MILK
 CAKE

Dear Social Corner Sisters: I have enjoyed your helpful hints and have had good success in using your reel pes.
 l have had fine luck with the recipe for Love Cake sent by Buttercup. l have a few tried and true recipes which you might like to try. Drop 6iscuits-Two cups flour. four teaspoons baking powder, one-half teaspoon salt, two tablespoons fat three-fourths cup milk. Drop into oil ed muffin tins. Bake in hot oven 12 to 15 minutes.
 Hot Milk Cake - Two eggs. well beaten, one cup sugar, one teaspoon favoring. a pinch of salt. one cup of flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one-half cup hot milk added last Beat hard and bake
 l hope you will welcome me to your delightful Social Corner.
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THE NOTE HUSBAND CARRIED.

Dear Social Corner Members: Just a funny story of the war: A married man of draft age who couldn't read asked his wife to write a note to the board stating that his family was de- pendent upon him. Here is the note his wife wrote, and the husband pre- scented it to the board:
 Dear United States: My husband ast me to write you a recomment that he support his family. He can't read, so don't tell him, just take him! He ain't no good to me. He ain't dun nothin' but drink lemmen essence and play a fiddle since I married him eight years ago, and I gotta feed seven kids of his'n. Maybe you can get him to carry a gun. He's good on squirrels and eatin'. Take him and welcome. I need the grub and his bed for the kids. Don't tell him this; but take him."
 BLANCHE
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faithful are the wounds of friend"
 Don't "holler too loud'' if some one tells you the "unvarnished truth" Think it over first
 Don't get "s0 mad" that you tell a person aXactly what you have thought of him and his family all your life.
 Don't threaten unless you have the means to carry out your threat.
 Don't tell half a truth-it's the meanest kind of a lie.
 Don't be down on your luck. Re member it's a long lane that has no turning.
 Don't talk too much-at this day and date. To mind your own busi- ness and keep your mouth shut is the best policy.
 Don't entertain your neighbor's husband after nine o'clock for what God hath joined together let no mar put asunder-"saith the preacher" GOOD ADVICE.
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THANKS FROM GREAT GRANDMA

Dear Social Corner Writers: The surprise I received on April third of a nice booklet and twenty cards and letters was a great comfort and pleas ure.
 Oh how my heart went out in love to you all. I just wanted to meet you and give 8 Godloving handclasp to each one.
 The tie of social love seemed strengthened and may your deeds of love he continued to others. God S blessing be with you
 I thank you all for the plants and flowers sent to cheer me along life's pathway.
 My pen-nam means: Great, repre- senting age, Grand, goodness, Ma, the greatest mother, love.
 Fondest regards for you all.
 GREAT GRANDMA