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Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26
WAYS AND MEANS,

Dear Social Cornerites: The ladies of the Guild where my daughter is busy member. are the proud owners of a Liberty Bond. I will tell you the different ways. and how, by their own efforts, they earned it themselves They were reuested to each earn a dollar Some ladies baked food and sold it, some gave supper in their homes and invited four people who gave q quarter apiece. Some pieced quilt tops, a few together crocheted a rug, which sold for three dollars.
 As it requires coarse wooden hook to crochet them. one girls father made excellent ones out of apple tree wood, and they sold fer ten cents apiece
 My daughter, who is secretary of the Girls Friendly society in her church. was invited to meet another society, to teach them the art of making the rugs, and so a number of hooks were sold there.
 A large order was gotten up for soaps and toilet articles on a whole sale house, which added quite d sum toward the Liberty Bond.
 \ fine recipe for a pic was sold for live cents each. This recipe was as fol lows:
 Lemon Cake Pie: Mix in order giy- en: Nolks Of two eggs, small cup of sugar, grated rind and juice of one large lemon, one teaspoon melted but ter, two heaping tablespoons of flour one and one-half cups milk, and salt tc taste. Beat all together thoroughlv Last beat whites of eggs separately: l stir in lightly: one crust Put raw fiji. ing into uncookcd crust and bake ir
 a moderate oven.
 | ISARET F
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26
FIDDLE AND VIOLIN.

By Walter G. Doty. Grandfather's ancient fiddle
 And Ediths violin, Though both designed for music
 Are far from being Kin The violin, I fancy.
 Would scarcely deign to speak To the humble old time fiddle
 In it's shabby case antique. Full often from the parlor.
 With staid company gathered round The violin's smooth accents
 Overflow the house with sound. Its airs are mostly classic,
 With perhaps a ballad new: And the company. in set phrases,
 Voice the plaudits that are due. And the talks of touch and teehnic, And of soul and tonefulness. And we all agree the music
 Is perfection, nothing less. But sometimes in the twilight
 When no company is there, The fiddle starts to dreaming
 Der some half forgotten air Down On the Suwanee River" Or Ben Bolt or "Old Black Joe.' Or maybe Annie Laurie"
 Or some hymn of long ago. There isn't much of technic
 And the volumes thin and slight, But the music that comes floating
 Holds a pathos and delight; And there's that within the measure That will cause the tears to start AS it eonjures up old memories
 That were sleeping in the heart. And I hope I'll be forgiven When I own-no doubt a sim That I love the ancient fiddle
 Far above the violin.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26
"A LETTER FROM PoTLATcH.

Dear Social Corner Friends: Well, here I come again. Am sure interested in the pen names. Am clipping them out for my scrap book. Could never re- member them all. I nope others will tell us theirs. I am sure all The Cor ner people will find the subject an in- tercsting one.
 One Sister writes she has saved all the calendars she has received from where mine have gone. I keep them as nice as I can, and the next year l put on new calendar and give them to an old lady who has very little of this worlds goods. l know she looks for one each year, and you sec the one token gives two pleasant remem- brances.
 l used to keep all such little gifts, but as l grow older I realize one can often make others happy by passing good things along.
 To Sister Nema: I, too, have a friend at rest in the cemetery near Olympia. l passed by it last sum- mer when we motored to the Olympic highway. No doubt we will make the trip again this summer, and my thoughts will be with you; and of the dear ones whose graves are so far away from you. There arc quite a number of the G, A. Vets at rest out here but not near as many as in New England.
 The Veterans home across the bay from the |. s. navy yard. Bremen, is beautiful place, and all the buildings arc modern and convenient Just the right location for our old army men and their wives, and widows
 The Social Corner garden daisies wallhowers, primroses, pansies. daffo dills, snow on the mountain, carmel | and tulips. Roses just budding Wishing all a happy Easter, as ever SISTER POTLATCH. Seattle Anril 19th
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26
YANTIC

At the special business meeting of the Woman's guild of Grace church Monday afternoon the following off cers were reelected: President, Mrs. William E. Manning; vice president, Mrs. John Kilroy; secretary, Mrs. C. P. VanderWaart; treasurer, Mrs. C. D. Carpenter. with Mrs. Mary St. John Rudd chairman Of the executive board During the past year the guild has. purchased s250 worth of Liberty loan bonds, and another $50 bond of this issue is being subscribed for. The money thus invested will go towards the rectory fund. as a rectory is to be built at an early date. The many socials held during the year have given great pleasure and the reelection of officers shows the appreciation the. other members have of the co-opera- ton shown by the officers.
 Edward Smith and Charles Smith were in Boston Friday attending the parade of the Yankee division.
 Homer Peckham, one of the original Buffaloes, who recently received his discharge from the army. is at Blue Hill farm this spring.
 Mrs. J. Stevens spent q part Of the week in Bozrahville with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Falvey. Mir. and Mrs. Footc of Norwich fe gently purchased the newly erected cottage on the A. Frank Gardner prop erty and have moved into it during the week.
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found to render this service, know ing that they were saving helpless
 creatures from misery and cruel
 deaths
 l am. sorry for the person who
 never has known the love and sym
 pathy of well-fed. gently treated, in
 telligent cat. *s~I love all animals. but
 when l am sad and lonely. the loving
 little creature who creeps into my
 arms With gentle purr and loving
 touches. comes nearer to my heart than any other except human
 friend.
 One might dispense with cats in the city, as far as their usefulness is con cerned, but the farmer would find !-nothing to take their place in the country. Poison cannot be freely used, and traps are, dangerous to other ani mals in most places, but the faithful cat keeps the rat population from De- coming a menace.
 A eat of my own has brought in five large. live rats inside of two hours, and once when cat who had a three months old kitten was accidentally l shut out at bedtime. we found four teen .rats and mice just outside the door in the morning.
 These cats were always fed three square meals day, with dish of milk always ready for them. and cat hole which allowed them to come and ! go as they pleased. It is not neces- saly to starve or ill., treat a cat to make it d hunter, and I have never had but one cat which hunted birds and l chloroformed it.
 1, NORTH DAKOTA
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26
THEODA.
AN OLD ESTEAD-A CHARM.
 ING PLACE.

A house, 200 years old perhaps, weather beaten driveways on eithtr side, one leading to a carriage shed and mlikroom, tn other tC tho barn, a mar TOW front yard enclosed: by a low fence. flower beds, q large rcd rambler rose, cabbage roses, etc, in the enclosure, located on an automobile road-hun- dreds Of these passii-g. especially on Sunday: large garden across the street; beyond the garden haytields containing acres-a q,:iet restful spot
 Sitting just within the door, in the old fashioned hall. have watched tho farmer plant his garden. hoe it later, and watched the men having.
 Polly, the dog. always in attendance, usually wading around in q nearby bog, where cranberries used to grow, bringing out d big mad turtle once in while. Near the bog we found the eggs of some kind of a snake, we thought. I was sorry 1 didn't think to put them on the wall in the sun. possibly to come to maturity.
 We have the first of everything in the line of Vegeta bles. l never shall forget the dish of the first telephone peas that were prepared for me by the good farmers wife. the others having peas prepared for them to their liking but mine were so tender and sweet, they were delicious
 We walk down the old Noank road and ride. too-it is so pretty. A , brook runs along one side, in many places nearly covered with under i growth, wild flowers, vines, etc; in i ono or two places trout run; the air is moist and sweet and many a time l l have practiced deep breanIng there. l There is a large honeysuckle at the 1 side of the house, just under the win ] dow of my room." so-called by the i family (bess them) as well as by me ] and the sweet scent of it's flowers is waited 10 me as l lie in bed. remind l ing me of the sweet hope" of heaven. i I like to help pick the wineberries 1 These arc like red raspberries, only i they. are very tart They make a fine i shortcake and are good for the table il i they do require d little sugar. The vine can be bought at almost any nursery, is easily grown. spreading
 rapidly.
 1 We go huckIeberrying, too; ilarc work; but like the smells ill a huck
 leberry pasture--the sweet fern, bay. ! berry, etc: in fact. it makes me fee 1 homeSicll to write about it. but tha
 blessed time is coming again, thanks ! be.
 We pick blackberries - cultivated
 ones. of course; but my memories O
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26

friends to stay away. <. If I understand the aim of The Corner alright. it is to encourage each one to relate their diff fereht> experiences ill every day life and help to solve the problems that are troubling each other
 We are so differently constituted that what seems perfectly right for one would not be pleasing to another. While it is not so convenient for us many times to have callers in the fore noon, yet if we feel toward them as we would want them to feel toward us, is fir some reason " ehappen to call on them, or some one else, we will give them @ cordial welcome and plan the best we can for their entertainment.
 If we have smiles to give. give them today. There is enough of shadow along life's way; enough of sorrow and want and woe. so the thing to do is to be brave and true; and scatter sun shine where'er you go.
 With love and good wishes for all friends of The Social Corner.
 AUNT MARY.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26
PUNISH THE RIGHT ONES

Dear Social Corner Editor: Instead of punishing the people who care for their cats and protect them, by fore ing them to expose their cats to cer- tain danger of death by torture. why not punish the people who turn help les animals out, homeless and unfed to misery and starvation? Let the law impose a fine on anyone who aban- dons or fails to care for his animals. No one has a right to allow a kitten to live, unless he intends to give it a home, food, and protection It is as tonishing to see the number of per- sons who pose as too tender hearted to chloroform kitten. yet do not hes itate to turn it out to certain misery and probably cruel death
 I have lived in towns where many homeless cats came to my door many, no doubt, dropped by their owners. l never turned one away, but fed and cared for it with certaN that it was homeless. then put it fo sleej with chloroform.
 l think each town should have a place. d city should Have one in each ward, where cats will be taken in and cared for until it is certain no one claims them, then given painless death by chloroform, I am sure that enough truly humane people could be
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26
KINDNESS REeETs KINDNESS.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: 1 would prescribe for Aurela this good herb: White birch formed into q weapon the shape of q long stick and applied to your husband externally by your lunch hooks. put t on him so thick that Le will be careful when he sits down.
 Nr17a; was glad to read your jet ter. | guess CatspaW will change her opinion of The Corner if a few more Sisters write. wise person changes his mind7-a fool never. l am always glad to receive a friend.
 l will say to the person who an swered Kitty Lous query that she is more than grateful to you for taking notice of her question. for it had both cred her q greater part Of the time so she asked the Social Corner Sisters about it. and you were the only one to answer. As ye have done it unto ,he least of these. ye have done it unto Me"
 Year sago Daniel Boyington proved to the cowboys and others that there was a better way of tanning horses than the brutal way. At first he was jeercd and booted at. and the news that Uncle Dan was coming was the signal for the larking cowboys to get t"sether all of the outlaws and con- Gcmred horses or miles around. anttci- patinS great sport iu seeing them do up the old man. When they saw Dan go into the corral without whip. rope or hackamorc, and subdue, pet, sad de, bit~and, ride the most vicious horse
 ill the bunch within three or four
 hours; when they had seen tho trem-
 bling outlaw rub his nose against his
 shoulder and eat out of his hand. they
 said it was hypnotism or magic. They offerei E,in biS bribes to reveal tC them what charm or medicine he used Uncle Dan only laughed and an- sWered: The only charm I use boys is the Golden Rule and that same medicine can be used for a eat. Treat 9 cat as you would like to be treated if you were cat yourself. and if you don't want the cat around and don1 want anyone else to have it tha' would abuse it. you. could chleroforn l it which would be more human thar tying tin cans on pussy's narrative ol other modes of cruel treatment
 1 don't know what kind of treatmen i they expect to deal out to poor puss. Rosa Bonneur bought from the own CT of a menagerie a lien which he de clared untamable. She tanned the lio1 and when old and blind he died witt l hl,s great paws clinging to his mistress READER
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26
GREETINGS FROM DELIGHT.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: Greet ings to you all this lovely morning. presume nearly every one is busy cleaning house. Mine isn't complet- ed. but am through the worst of it.
 Scottie, mother and I were having our turns with severe grip colds at the time of the last meeting: Shall try and attend the next one on May 7th.
 Bob White: l missed our usual chat last time, you were so busy;3 but we will make it up at the next meeting. Merry Widow: Sorry I wasn't at home when you called. l hope you will en- joy your new purchase these nice spring days. Conundrum: agree with you about the cats. It is cheaper to keep cats than rats. We usually have about six. 1 know from experience the rats did so much damage in one of my rooms when we first moved to our present home we had to employ carpenter to repair it.
 Best wishes to all the Sisters. .t
 DEF JGHT
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26

. Dear Social Corner Sisters: Here is
 a little article l read a few days ago and 1 am sure it would do us a world
 of good if we would only try this re-
 cipe for dog days
 The Ministry or the Laugh:-A
 sense of hunlor is a pretty good thing
 for Q woman to have. It is like oil,
 and 1uhricates many a squeak in the
 domestic machinery. Il is like sun
 shine, and scatters the clouds Of gloom
 with the gleam Of smile As long as you can see the funny side Of thing, it's tragedy will not oyerwhelm you and when things have gone about to the limit and you are all ready to go to pieces, it is astonishing how a laugh at some ridiculous happening will change the whole aspect of the mat ter
 We read a good deal about the min i istry of the smile. but there is just as much need of the ministry of the laugh. Laugh, right out loud so folks can hear you! Throw back your head, open your mouth. shake your sides. and laugh. Lots of folks never get be- Eond smiling-and everybody needs to i dc lots Of laughing. Teach yourself to
 see the funny side of things; learn d l few clean, funny stories to make other folks laugh.
 i The world loves it's humorists, be-
 cause it has so few of them. MlNNE-H -HAHA, r
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26
HOUSEHOLD HELPS.

Dear Social Corner Sisters These household helps never come amiss:
 Steam rice by adding one-half cup of water to one cup rice. Steam two hours.
 When making beef loaf add one and one-half cups of steamed rice to your beef loaf, and the loaf will be moist and slice firmly; and it also adds de- licious flavor.
 Mix salt with the flour before milk or water is added in making thickening for sravies, etc. and thereby prevent lumpiness.
 Keep Q tincan to put your pairing knife in at the end of the sink.
 Stick pins through the cork of the bottles containing poison and you will never make a mistake. Steam your potatoes, turnips and spinach; also onions are nicer steam ed than any other way you can cook them.
 To make a light and dark cake first make the dark part, then bake it. When almost done pour the light over it and bake quickly. For Custards-AIWays keep clean | marble to drop into your saucepan when cooking cUstards. or anything made of milk. This eliminates stir i I have also discovered that dredging sliced bacon lightly with flour before frying imparts a delicious flavor no1 | attained in any other way, and pre- vents that greasy appearance.
 If You dampen a cloth with vinegar and wrap around cheese. it will keer the cheese moistened for days
 When frying oysters, croGuettes tripe or any other foodstuffs that art 1 dipped in egg and crumbs, if you Gil i your foodss first ill flour. the egg ad 1 heres better.
 To extract onion juice you use lemon squeezer. Slice off the root o the onion and proceed as with one half lemon. using a glass lemon ex tractor
 ETH Fl TN
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26
MAKING LIFE PLEASANT,

Dear Social Corner Friends: I was very much interested in the letter of Nema. I can imagine just how eager she was to begin that washing. How quickly she washed the breakfast dishes and tidied up the rooms so as to begin that washing. I think she was wonderfully blessed in hay ing strength enough to grab that wash boiler of boiling water and carry it to the sink and empty it into the sink safely and to lift a tubful of soaking clothes and carry it to the pantry alone. It was something not many of the Social Corner Sisters could do so quickly. I have no doubt that she had very happy day visiting with her friend as return for her unselfish disregard for her own plans.
 Many times I have found my way hedged up from doing something that I had planned to do and have always found it best to submit cheerfully to whatever seems to call for our atten- ton first, knowing that our Heavenly Father knoweth what is best, and that He is teaching us.-
 The Social Corner Sisters are social, loving and kind, as Catspaw suggests, and the Sister who wrote about her callers that hindered her was only tell ing of her experience. not warning her
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26

this are not so pleasant, for mosqui- toes bit your ankles, the vines scratch your hands and arms, and the big black and yellow spiders are too many for my peace of mind. A half hour or so of this work is all that I can stand.
 Pusley grows so large and thick-its the worst weed l ever saw-we pull it for the pig; he grunts before he sees us; guess he smells what's coming.
 We ride around q little( but Hiram is so old and lazy. although a faithful old fellow, that he refuses to go out of walk, taking it as an insult if we urge him into q minutes trOt.
 Riding through the old Noanl1 road
 Hiram can go as slowly as he likes.
 We like to jog along. taking in its beauties, in June. 1 get out to pick wild strawberries on the roadside; ill July and August to pick the flowers; goldenrod the last of August, always reminds me that the dear. summer is nearly over-six weeks to frost is the remark I always make.
 On Sundays the 'bys" come home with wives and families, and we have merry time; chicken dinner that can't be beat, and salad supper that makes you glad you are Irving. Very often automobile parties camp round about here. some come to the farmer asking permission to camp on his land, which is readily given. They run their automobiles right into the field, pitch their small sleeping tent, spread rather thin mattress on boughs of trees, cut from trees and large brushes along the roadside; then 1 they build the smallest of bonfires, make coffee. buy milk. eggs, etc. They are as brown as berries and look fat
 and well.
 i One party came from Montreal. l Can, coming through Vermont and New Hampshire. reaching Boston.
 from there to Providence, through to 1 Westerly. and were on their way from 1 there to New London when night over : took them-consequen their camp at i the farm. Next morning they started with Bon voyage" from us, for New
 London and New York.
 l One of the boys goes a-fshing now
 and then. and digs clans off Mason $ i Island; and so we have fresh fish and clam chowders; and-whisper it-a 1 lobster supper, once year only. Once in a while the telephone bell 1 rings and we are invited to go automo- = bile riding. Oh, joy! U sually to Vest
 erly and Watch Hill; sometimes we branch off and go to Weekapaug; car
 " our supper, eating it sitting on the
 rocks. looking off over the ocean. The
 air there is enough to make a persor ] hungry who hadn't been able to eai for a month; but if he can resist roast lamb, bran bread. cottage cheese, pick
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26
SOCIAL CORNER POEM. SWEET HOME FACES"

When dusk has brought rest to the
 weary.
 And the troubles are over that tire. In the hour of silence and shadow I am seated alone by the fire. And out or the red glowing embers. When the fitful light wavers and
 dies, Like angels that come to watch OCT Sweet beautiful faces arise. What though I am far from the loved
 ones?
 Their presence | feel in the room, And q tender and silent communion z We hold in the gathering gloom: While there rises within me a longing, The exile alone understands. Till I sigh for the sound of their voices, And l yearn for the clasp of their
 hands. Oh. the sweet and unselfish devotion Of those eyes as they look into mine, In the luminous, soft depths reflected, There is love that is almost divine; IL is love that is pure as the angels; It Is love that would keep me from
 wrong Such bond as death only can sever. So lasting Is it and so strong, Ion. tender and beautiful faces That come in tho firelight's glow, Like stars shining out through the darkness. You light up my path where l go. God grant that the future may bring you.
 No trace of a sorrow or pain. Till He who hath parted our path
 ways,
 Shall bring them together again.
 Unidentified.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26
SOMETHING ABOUT CATS.

Dear Social Corner Friends: Lately saw seven cats on a roof, and they appeared well cared for.
 There is a single woman in our near seacoast city that has 25 cats. How she must have worried about the prospective tax, She ought not to be lonely, as they are sometimes called the next treacherous things to men. l have big grudge against enc that caught d three weeks old chicken, although kept under wire. They will manage to find a small opening for freedom, and woe to the little chick if a cat is around.
 When one sees cats and kittens in misery with the mango and fleas, one wishes the owners could be made to pay a big tax, or to put them out of the way.
 BLANCHE.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-26
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 Sterry, of Union. Conn.
 Earl l.. Sparks, Of Norwich. t Arthur T. Knowles, of Wethersfield, Conn.
 Floyd Mitchell of Central Village, Conn.
 Willard 4. Msdley Of Lebanon. William Howard Gordon, Subma- rine service. '. $. N.
 Myron ]. Rinsland, of Norwich. Royce F. Mccall of Leonard Bridge. Calvin K. Mccall of Leonard Bridge. Walter Robinson, of New Haven.
 Floyd C. Knowles, Camp Devens. Milton Perry PendIeton, Niagara Falls. x. Y
 Samuel L. Mitchell, Manchester. N. IT..
 Frank 2. Medbury. Of Canterbury. Frederick H. Race, Jr., North Frank lin.
 Herber. R. Hoffman, North Franklin. Clifford eotham, Mansfield Depot. John Wini'c.d Scott, L. <. Navel Air Station. Norfolk Va