Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-27
DIANA
THE CORNER MEANS A LOT

Dear Readers of the Corner Page: I find Faith has included my name among the delinquent writer's 1 have not meant to be negligent, for the Corner means a lot to me. For some tirpe my mind has been filled with anxiety over my dear ones and I have not felt l could write any thing of interest. Our troubles would not look well in print and you know, laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and yta,1Sep alone" I don't like that old adage for friendship is trouble that most of us meet on the road. It is there that we need the love of our friends to brighten and tighten the load.
 do realize that The Bulletin cannot afford to give us that valuable page, un- less we try and make good use of 1t. We are all apt to wait for the other fellow We are each one supposed to do something for the sending in of names should not mean alone. the introduction to the good times to follow. I am aSraid we lost sight of the fact that through the inte- rest in the Corner page and the efforts of our editors, have come all our pleas ant acquaintances and jolly times. Writ CTS old and new get busy! Let us try l to make it the best ever, and something our departed editor (whose interest to the last, was to keep 1t up to bis high standard.) would approve of You see there is some con solation in giving others call down when you have been reprimanded your self
 ! My letter will be "reminiscences of years ago. My good father-in-law had hobby of attending auctions and the | treasures thus purch 15ed were iHany 1 of them taken to the attic and added te thbse that had accumulated for thirty ] years or more, so when I entered the family. the floor, the whole size of the house. was literally filed There were tables of many styles and ages. bureaus some with brass handles, others large | glass knobs. 8 dear little willow cradle i with hood of the same which cosely re 1 sembled the modern baby carriage, bur so low that mother must have kneIt to at tend the little one. It was great fun and not little exciting to draw out 9 box from under the low caves wonder ing what you would find. One contained ! hats worn years ago, little ones the size of ? tea plate and about as flat the uptrimmed poke, trimmed as wher | discarded. whole pieces of beautiful lacy straw that would turn our milliners green with envy but tender with age | remember two mems hats were included | One quaint little low crowned derby | and the largest and tallest stove pipe ha l ever saw. It would go completely ove | my head the, brim resting on my shoul ders. It figured in many parades and tab leaus. There were almost innumerabll I jugs brown ones and white ones, mus jugs and good smelly jugs, for most farm CTS made their own wines. Tucked awal safely were two beautiful lamps witt glass prisms and cut glass shades ,ant l one day I unearthed large blue an,
 white platter. Spinning wheels had thei
 places and a mirror with a painting
 at the top was consigned to the offic at the barn as of no use, together wit
 some old arm chairs. On going to tn
 bottom I found a blue and white bet spread, different from any I have eve
 seen as mine is light blue instead O
 dark. My children had great fun with
 rocking horse made from one flat boar
 painted white with dabs of black t
 make a "dapple gray" It's head wa
 hanging with a broken neck, and on
 could almost count the hairs in man
 and tail, (real loose hair by the way
 but the worn rockers bore silent test
 mony of the miles he had travelled.
 have always regretted making
 bonfire of a box of old papers, state an
 town pamphlets. A relative who is
 the capitol told me when too late, tha
 no doubt there were many of great valu
 to the state if not to individuals. H
 did take several old books to add to tn
 library there. A change of homes an
 lack of room necessitated the dlspos
 of many things that I have wished man
 times since that had kept.
 Now, sisters, what my letter lacks
 quality I have made up in quantity. am trying this time at least to leave le.
 room for those advertisements that a
 too often on our Corner page. They dor
 icok well ''Go thou and do likewise PRACTICAL POLLY.