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Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-24

tween the sheet, cover over and roll tight, let lie over night. The next morning hang up to dry.
 Coats seem to be the part that bothers most people. They are lightly canvas sed nowadays. They usually have about six inches in width of canvas down She fronts Iand a 2 1-2 inch strip of cambric' at the lower edge.
 The canvas we use now is soft and light weight, never stiff. Shrink your canvas first. Dip it in quite warm water let it stay five minutes, hang it, then press with a hot iron when it is half dry. Cut it exactly like the coat fronts and the collar, then haste it to position k
 In collar canvas and material are scanned separately at the center back, each seam is pressed open, then the two are pasted together. The suit I am making at present I am not lining the collar with canvas.
 One thing you must keep in mind is that you can't be too careful about pre- liminaries in cutting. A well cut col lar is a little smaller than the neck of the coat, and it's edges must be. stretched before it is put on It should be stretched just where the shoulder seam will meet it. About three-eighths of an l inch of stretching on each side is re- quired in small collars, and the outer edge should be stretched az well as the neck edge. If the collar facing is too l tight the collar will. roll up. A 1 great many times an inexperienced seamstress will spread her collar flat when facing it, of course the edge will | curl up.
 The following is the proper method ot I 0n1l Tor aa "a 1 fronts are canvassed then the collar is 1 joined to the coat, the seAn being pressed open around the edge ! three-eighths of an inch of the canvas is trimmed off then the edge of the material is turned over it, pasted, pressed well, then stitch l ed. Then the facing is pinned over the | fronts and the collar along the line o1 perforation for the roll; the collar is rolled over and held the way it will bt when the coat is on, then the outer edge of the facing is fitted to the edge of the fronts and collar, turned in ant pasted closely, r~essed well and finally stitched. Should you cut. out the necl of your coat, it will make the collar stand away, so if your first fitting show: your coat is too low in the back piece it up.
 I always baste a piece of canva: or cambric around the arms eye or arm' hole Your, sleeve at the top must not have fullness even if you have to shrinl it out.
 To set a sleeve in hold the wrong sidt of the coat toward you and pin thu sleeve in at the notches, at the under arm seam and at the top of the sleeve now turn the entire top, of the sleev' out so that the sleeve edge which il l fuller, will be on top and the arm holt edge will be underneath it. Then i will be easy to distribute the gathe evenly. When tEls sleeve is stitched in press the top of the sleeve over a firm ! rounded cushion. moisten it, and use ; hot iron, working the point of the irol !, in the direction of the gathers, no across them. having shrunken the gather the sleeve is pressed.
 KITTY LOU
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-24
COUNTRY GONE GERM MAD

Dear Sisters: After reading Hygienie's last letter in the Corner, I sat down and pondered on the endless crusade that we all wage against, dust, dirt, flies and germs, especially the last two, and how we all sweep, and wash and funigate and sterilize, trying to keep everything in sanitary condition and ourselves and our families in perfect health. and don't succeed. In spite of all our care, disease creeps in and the world is just as full of sickness and suffering as it ever was. and at the last, like the old woman we have read of, we lie down and die, and are buried in dirt
 How did our parents and grandpar- ents get along in the days before germs were heard of? I can remember, as I presume some of the other older sisters can, when I was a little girl and mo- body had any screens. The flies came and went, at their own sweet will, but it all didn't kill us. The children hv- ed and -thrived, and grew up in those days just the same as they do now.
 I hate flies, they are a nuisance, but I doubt very much whether they are as deadly as modern science makes. out
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SOCIAL coRNiR POETRY. CLOSING A TRADE.

 In boyish days twas. fun to watch A pair of men a-tradinE. And hear 'em talk of. locating down" And holding out and shading; And always when they sold colt The buyer seemed to.sfalter Until the other felleri igrowled,. well; I'll throw in the halter" l used to s'pose when Uncle said To Ebenezer Gurney, ''I'u meet you half way, Eb," they both Was going on a journey; And when their talk a-got so strong It reproduced the psalter, They calmed right down if either one Threw In a webbing halter They used to split the difference" too, And that seemed awful funny; I've heard of splitting wood, of course ! But not of splitting money; And once went a mNeTto ask My sisters feller Waiter, A-what lt meant. Said he, Tt saves A-throwing in the halter" You've got to have some kind of cord To draw two sports together; You've got to have some closing speech In selling lace or leather;. pcrhans there ain't no better way, When traders pull and palter Than jest to sugar off the thing By throwing in the halter. And vet sometimes that closing word A-plagues you if you say it; They've worked you up to pay price So steep you shouldn't pay it; You're being "skiRned,r as Queen Bes;
 said
 The time the Dorridge scalt Ter. And what a lot of cutfcle Q
 Has vanished with the haiterl Daniel L. Cady, in Burlington Free Press
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KEEP UP THE CORNER LETTERS
 AND SPIRIT.

Dear Sisters: If have not written. have thought of you all and read the let tarv md enjoyed them as usual I have been poorly ever since before Thanksgiv- ing. but ] hope that as -spring is here the improvement this timeswill continue and before long I shall feel nearly as usual. was grieved to learn of our editors death. He was indeed good man and his kind words to me I shall always cherish. I extend my sympathy to his wife and son who must try to think not Of their loss but of their, dear ones gain. We do indeed extend our hands to our new editor and wish him success. and we will cndeavor to heed his suggestions. etc Let us both old and new writers write often Co our dear old Corner Let us send in helnful suggestions andt recipes. We all like 10 try new recipes and many times one helps in telling of some savory and nodrishing dish thatpissnot expensive which We are glad to hear about in these trying times ~L
 The Mayfower buds are out and soon the air will he filled with the sweet scent or the fragrant blossoms, I presume you are an very busy housecleaning etc. Don't overdoi have read of your good times at the meetings ard it seems so nice 70 think that so many of your have be- some acquainted with each. other. thank s1ch one who remembered me at Easter and those who have written me through the winter
 Let us all write when we can and fill this column and make 1t. what our late editor wished it to be- Ii, Will be a me mortal to him for us to vsrite and do our best. and even our best will be apt to be iu'uerfact
 think the other sick gshut-in ones will say as ! do that it is worth your while to write even if only we ate. benefited fol these letters amuse, entertain and giv, us ideas which we use and prevent oul thoughts from dwelling iop ,our dwelling pm ourselves. and the Sisters who -arc well can put Into practice your recipei and suggestions
 Best wishes to all.
 f~ DIANA.
 NH tt
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-24
THE SOCIAL CORNER
Life I. Constant Readjustrnent to Surroundings

in performing these acts, a physician should be consulted, for unless there has been a prolonged sickness or the baby IS very poorly nourished, and cannot do these things at the required age, he prob ably has a disease affecting the bony
 tissues, called "rickets," or is mental
 ly backward.
 In connection with the development of
 the baby it is we'll to know when teeth
 should come. The first teeth to appear are usually the two lower ones in front
 at or 2 months of age. The baby
 should have at one year; teeth, at one and one-half years, 12 teeth; at two and
 one-half years 20 teeth. Often healthy
 children do not cut their first teeth be-
 fore ten months of age, but delayed teething is aften due to rickets and it also occurs In babies who are poorly
 nourished from birth Teething often
 lowers a child's resistance so that he catches cold easily or becomes suscept- ible to intestinal diseases Therefore, during the ver:- warm days of summer the milk mixtures of bottle fed babies should be made about one-third weak CT than ordinarily.
 I wish to thank all the sisters who
 sent me cards while I was sick, forty in all.
 Neb Ben: Your card received Would send you one in return but do not just
 know your address. Is 1t Yantic, R. ID No. 9? I also know your last name, but ! not your initials.
 Rural Delivery: Your nice letter re- | ceived. Many thanks for the kind mes sage it delivered to me.
 CRIMSON RAMBLER.
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This country has gone germ mad, same
 as: it does over every new theory that
 comes up, and there is some good in
 all of them and some i'll if they are pur-
 sued too far, We can't be .'mejums" as Josiah; Aliens Wife" says. Theoda: I have pleasant memories of you, and your remark of my being stranded in a far off lapd just fits the case. |, have indeed felt that way ever since I landed here. The people here l are very nice and friendly, nobody could wish for better neighbors, but Milton is not only ten miles from a lenon," as the old saying is, but from everything else. No stores, only a little grocery store, no movies. no library, and how l 1 do miss that. This is not much of a reading community, and perhaps it is lucky for them they are not, being so far
 from eves<sling, and many is the tiI1E 1 I have wished I had some of the old
 magazines and journals stored away in attics and sold to the, junk man. If, you i are acquainted with this region you l know it's limitations. The snow has bare i ly gone now and there are still patches 1 left in the woods and shady. corners, and April has been so cold that it was a | disappointment, after the long and bit ter winter, The grass in sunny places shows faintly green, but winter hates l to let go it's grip. Those who follow the
 timber business follow the gypsy trail a. often say, and so we shall probably l take up our abode elsewhere before ] many months. [ am hoping to drift bacl I to the east again, where I can find m!
 old friends again and perhaps meet witt the Social Corner once more. At pres ent The Bulletin and letters from friend are my only communication with tht 1 outside world.
 1 With best wishes to all,
 LOLA. |.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-24
THOROUGH WORK
How a Norwich Citizen Found Free
 dom From Kidney Trouble

If you suffer from backache-
 From urinary disorders
 Any curable disease of the kidneys,
 Use a tested kidney remedy.
 Deans Kidney Pills have been tested by thousands.
 Norwich people testify.
 Can you ask more convincing proof of merit?
 Mrs. Jennie L. spauiding, 21 Tanner Avenue, Norwich, says: "Exertion of any kind seemed to make my back tired and achy. Dizzy spells and head aches were frequent. I used two boxe. of Doan's. Kidney Pills, which I got d Utley & Jones' Drug Store. and wa cured. haven't felt any need of kid ney medicine since" Price COG, at all dealers. Don simply ask for a kidney remedy-ge Doan's Kidney Pills - the same tha Mrs. Spaulding had. Foster Milbur Co.,. Mfgrs.. Buffalo. N. Y.
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2 Social Corner Sisters: In preparing a meal do not let soiled dishes or pots and pans accumulate. Wash up as you go along is an excellent motto If there isn't time to wash and put things away, at least fill them with soapy water and let them soak.
 Before washing, scrape all dishes thor oughly and arrange in neat piles. They have to be sorted before they are. put away in the cupboard, so why not sort them before they are washed.
 Put the fiat silver to soak in lard pail kept for that purpose, fill it with hot, soapy water.
 Have a large dish-drainer on the table If the dishes are properly washed and rinsed and then stood in the drainer they will require no wiping. This is a great saving of toweling.
 Have dishpan filled with boiling hot soapy water. If there is no hot running water have a pan of clear boiling water for rinsing.
 Have dish mop for washing dishes Water that will permit of ones putting the hands in the pan and handling a dish-cloth is not quite hot enough tc cleanse dishes properly.
 Wash the glasses first and dry then while they are hot with clean dry glass lOW6L WnlIe lIle SidSS6S dlS USlile washed put a small pile of dishes to soal in the pan. Each dish should be washed and rinsed separately and stood in tht drainer If the hot water is hot as i should be they will dry instantly The! will fook bright and shiny, and will no have streaks such as are made by no having the water hot enough and wipint with damp dish towel
 Pots and pans should be cleaned al soon as you get through using. You cal | fill them with hot, soapy water if yol can't wash them at once.
 Ordinarily it takes one about as loni | to dry dish as it does to wash it i When all the china is dried by hand means that almost twice as much tim | is spent every day over the dishes as really necessary, and you are savint your washing and buying of dishtowels I have wire brush for washing pot and pans. It fits into all the corner and creases and allows one to work wit | boiling water.
 | ETH ET ,VN
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-24
WORKING UP BITS OF SOAP.

Corner Members I have often won dered what the members of the Corner do with the leftover bits of soap With the piece of kitchen soap it is to be ex- pected. that you put them in the soap shaker and use them in washing dishes, but that is of course rather an expen- sive way of using toilet soap. I have a better plan than that. l save the left over bits of soap until I have quite a cupful; then I put them in a small stewpan with a very little hot water and set on the stove until the bits of soap have thoroughly dissolved in the boiling water I pour this into square mold and let harden, and when it is thorough | ly cold it is very satisfactory cake of soap Sometimes, if I am going to l shampoo my hair the next day, I use more water with the soap-quite a good | deal n1ore-and when it cools it is a jelly | instead of a solid bar of soap. I pour this jelly into glass jar and use it for shampoo mixture It will keep satisfac- l torily, and a little poured on the scalp, then massaged in thoroughly, will pro- l duce a thick father and form an excel lent shampoo.
 Besides using the bits for soap jelly, I | also fill one of the soap shakers and hang it by the bathtub instead of by the kitchen sink. When the tub is fdll of | good warm water for a bath I plunge my soap shaker in and paddle it back and forth and around and around until the bath water is as soapy as I want it. | like it much better than using soap or my bath cloth or sponge
 NORMA.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-24
SHOULD HAVE CONFIRMED SPIRIT

Members of the Social Corner: It is of course human nature, but isn't it queer the way we want things we haven't got 2 If we are mothers of families, we wish for more freedom. If we've no children we envy the mothers. If we have one kind of work, we wish we had another. If our household furnishings are of one va riety or period, we think that some other style would be much nicer. We envy Mrs. A her clothes, Mrs B. her car Mrs C. her friends, Mrs D. her ability to turn of work.
 The most foolish thing of all though. is envy of anothers success. How many of us are guilty here? If life had moi wrought thus and so with us :" If things had not been against :" eff we only had tne1r pull always some giant 'ff" in the way of our own endeavors.
 "f' is one of the very silliest excuses that haunt the mind. There's always an if in the way of anyone's success. The very thing which has brought to others what we crave is the conquering of the individual if" We cannot see it but we can be very sure that there was one Lacking the courage or the industry or the initiative to conquer our own whoT1 should we blame but ourselves?
 A contented spirit is one of life's graa+ est boons. Of course, we've been told that there is divine discontert. There is but this is not it That has to do with progress, this with decay. For there's nothing more deadening than eny5 that stops with the envying. But if if leads us to take up our own activities with new vim and efficiency, then we've caught the divine spark that will fire mn, lives to achievement S. ED
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-24
A WEEK IN ST. AUGUSTINE.

Social Corner Editor and Friends: St, Augustine has become a fashionable winter resort; it's great hotels have no equal in the world for their luxury and magnificance
 The distances are not great. The old town lies within the limit of mile.
 The quaint. narrow streets and the picturesque houses with their over-hang- ing balconies, and high garden walls, through whose open gates one catches glimpses of orange, fig and banana trees have almost ceased to be. With the thrush of population and traffic to say nothing of pleasure seekers and money getters, this old Florida town-charm- ing and peculiar among all American cities-has taken it's medicine" to geth- CT with much e}se in the world The fort, the gateway, and the old l houses are built of coquina, a native
 rock composed of shells and bits of shell, of great variety of form and colol and size
 The new hotels are built of, a compo l sition of sand, cement and shells. I The gateway is the largest relic of th' ], system of Notifications which once de
 tended St. Augustine.
 ] Who shall describe the new St. Au l gustine, with it's wonderful hotels, fin' l churches, and parks?
 i The Ponde-de-Leon hotel of the Span ish, Renaissance style,' passes descrip
 ton with it's court full of tropical anC 1 semi-trophical flowers, shrubbery anC
 vines. Across the street from this ho l tel is the Alcazar, or arcade, which il
 surrounded by shops and offices, beyont
 is the Casino, in which are the great
 swimming pools of sulphur water iron
 the artesian wells. The Memorial Pres beterian church, built by Henry M
 F'lag1er is of the same material as tn i hotels. The exterior is much decoratet
 and with it's great copper dome this
 church adds much to the attractivenes i of the new St. Augustine.
 | IT'D WIFI I'D
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-24
PREFERS OLD FASHIONED SCHOOL
 IDEAS.

Dear Sisters: I have just been read ing the Farmers Talk" in which he gives his opinions of the Molly cod
 dies" of the day. I think we people past middle age notice many things that seem to be conducted in a frenzied man. ner these days. Just now I have in mind our schools. l read petition re- gently where the teachers of the town of Glastonbury asked the town school board to release them from the state school system, and then cooperate with them in arranging a reasonable and ra- ! tional school programme. 5.
 After being in a position to watch the working of the state school system in q small town where teachers have from one to eight grades, l do not wonder 1 that teachers wish to be released. In i one town where the schools are rated \ among the best in the state. a mother took her fifteen year old girl to the high | school to enter her in the second year | studies. The mother stated that her
 child was not strong enough for the
 gymnasium work and she did not wish
 her to attempt it. The principal replied
 that 1t was a part of the school work and
 the girl could not be excused. After
 a few weeks the girl comDlained- of hel
Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-24
MAPLE SYRUP IN PLACE OF suGAr

Dear Social Corner Friends: I see
 every one is asking for the old writers
 to come back. I wonder if I am among
 that number? I may not be known to
 the majority but I met with you twice,
 three years ago I always read the let
 ters and plan, to meet with you again before next winter. I, for one, was glad Photographer had come again. so en- joy looking at her pictures, as we'll as real ones.
 I have been reading about bean soup, so will send in my way, though I nev- CT measure anything.
 1 Take a piece of corned beef, together with about one, cup of beans that have been soaked over night, so they will be i more tender. Cook the beef until tender and remove, but you cannot boil the I beans too much
 1 If two or three pieces of turnip are ] added it is good. About one hour be- l fore serving stir in a few spoons of corn mean, moistened in cold water-just 1 enough so it won't seem just like water. Boil until, thoroughly cooked. Season ] to taste with salt and pepper. Serve with bread or crackers My l family enjoy this for 8. supper dish. l o: H. O.: often think of you living
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seem to care to prolong the interview we passed on to Essex. We stopped at the steamboat landing and ate our lunch. How pleasant it seemed there at the waters edge, sitting on the blanks and thinking of all the steamboats coming and going from that ~harf.
 We expected to get gasoline in Essex but there was none there, but plenty of il in. Deep River, which we found to sbe a very pleasant town. We tried to locate Mir. Winship, the Congregational minis ter who had recently gone there, but we passed so many churches we could not tell which was the one. Then we came to Higganum. We again tried to pick out the church where MT Tate used to preach but we passed several churches here also so could not tell which one it was.
 Passing through Middletown, we came to Cromwell Such a long string of greenhouses here. I should like to have gone through them, but a whole day would be none too long to do that as the large plant covers a good many acres We stopped at Wethersfield at friends house and were treated to some fine grapes, and. came home through Hartford and Manchester.
 At East Hartford they were all trim. up AOI bilC NSlCOule I1OTle to Ile | soldier boys, with electric lights strung across the streets, back and forth. 1 It was very enjoyable trip and I wisf you could all take it. There are sucf l beautiful roads to ride over. I think wt
 can be proud of our Connecticut roads
 and we do not realize the miles and mile.
 of good roads we have unless we rid, over them.
 0. H. o. inquired after me few week, | ago, as I am the one who spent the day
 with her in the church. and very en
 joyable time it was. I think of it yer!
 often with a great deal. of pleasure.
 often think of you, O, H.. O., and some
 times get to know what you are doinj 1 from reading your town news. You
 name appears occasionally. You ask i
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there alone It must have been hard for you during the severe winter.
 wonder how many use maple syrup in place of sugar when making cake. do and it is fine Try this:
 One cup syrup, ona-thfrd cup butter, one egg, one-half cup milk. two cups
 flour, two level teaspoons cream of tar tar and one of soda. Salt nutmeg and raisins. This can be baked in a loaf or in layers without the raisins and put together with the following: Boil syrup until it is brittle when dropped into cold
 water and pour over the beaten white l of an egg. Spread between and on the 1 top. This is fine with broken walnut meats scattered over it. Don't cut the pieces too small or they will come for a ] second
 We had bought phonograph a few
 months before wrote my first letter and
 was fond of several Indian pieces, so when signing my name was and have l always been
 | PATNpOU