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Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-08
Commissioner at Omaha.

State Highway Commissioner Charles
]. Bennett is in Omaha. Neb., attending
the annual convention of the American
Association of State Highway Officials.
He is one of the chief speakers and his
subject is the building of highways for
pubic benefit.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-08
Cpatain in Medical Corps.

Edmund Latham Douglas of Groton
has been appointed on recommendation
of the state surgeon as catain in the
medical corps, according to special or
ders issued from the adjutant generals
office. Captain Douglas will be attach
ed to the 1920 artillery, Connecticut Ma
tional Guard, with headquarters in New
London.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-08

a. GORDON & Company u New London
have organized on a capital Of $4,000.
Tra OrIf Lumber corporation Of Put
r7- has Increased IT'S capital from $40
10. tr $4,000.
Tho Fis..-v Tax & Audit Service of
Sew london has organized on a capital
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Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-08
DON'T BE BALD
How to Make Hair Grow Strong, Thick
and Lustrous.

II your hair is thinning out. don't
wait another day. but go to Lee q Os-
good Co. and get a bottle of Partisan
sage, the truly efficient hair grower.
Don't say: It's the same old story;
I've heard 1t before" but try a bottle
at their risk. They guarantee Paris
ian sage to stop falling hair and stim-
ulate a new growth. Danish all dand-
ruff and almost instantly stop scalp
Itch, or money back.
Partisan sage conihins Just the ele-
ments needed to properly invigorate
the hair roots. It's a prime favorite
with discriminating women because Il
makes the hair so soft and lustrous,
and appear twice as abundant.
Partisan sage is inexpensive and
easily obtainable at all drug stores
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-08
Visitors From yoank.

Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Nelson. Of Nosnk.
and Mrs. Leon Ravens. Of Springfield.
Mass. were the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard ". Doyle OF saybrook early IN
the week.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-08
Murphy & McGarry
207 Main Street

eral people in connection with the ac-
cident but so far there has been no
direct testimony as to how the unfor-
tunate man came in contact with the
electric current.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-08

TIE A-arcanians of the s0uthernmost
nrHrrc n. chile use crab shell as
Barometer. III dry. fair weather ii is
white hrf when rain Is approaching rcd
rra-s arre1- on it. and when excessive
rr'--u-e Is present IN the atmosphere it
N.#H.- r.I .f over.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-08

A Saybrook Point woman, Mrs. Frank
S. Pratt, was a beneficiary under the
Will of Willie o. Burr of Hartford
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-08

After the honeymoon is at an end she
says that he threw himself at her feet,
and chat she threw herself at his head,
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-08

It took 90 months for one of the Morse
firms TO turn out his first steel shio.
whereas other firms were building ships
in month and less.
In the Piez report the Noa-k manage
ment was rated as poor" performance OF
contracts as fair" financial condition o.
company poor" workmanship fair" an 4
freed-m from controversy poor" There
was not one good" mark recorded.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-08

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BATTLE-GROUND AND
PLAYGROUND

The Crimea was the scene of one
of the latest anti-Bolshevik military
efforts from outside Russia to win
back a part of that old empire. This
expedition, under General Wrangel
met disaster as had similar forces
launched against the soviets farther
north, and the Crimea was overrun
by the Bolsheviki.
The Crimean peninsula in which
this encounter took place is q land
which has aspects known to every
school child. 1t is the land of the Cim
merians about whom Homer sang in the
"Odyssey" and from whom the penin-
sula takes its name; the land of the
Crimean war, the siege of Sevastopol,
and the "Charge of the Light Bri-
gade"; the land in which Florence
Nightingale first caused efficient, or
dered mercy to have part in war.
The Crimea is known as 1.-THE Little
Paradise" to the Tatars, last of the
many races to overrun the peninsula
before the and fell under the sway
of the Muscovite. A traveller jour
neying from the North is likely to
accept this appellation, II at all, with
strong mental reservation as he
crosses the almost desert-like plains
of northern Crimea; but once over the
mountains that rim the southern shore
he will approve the description with
enthusiasm. There, nature has made
wonderful garden spot, the Riviera
Of Russia, combination Of sea, noun
tains and riotous verdure that really
Wed with Its famed italian counter
part in the days when Cxarhood was
in flower.
Though a part of what has come to
be looked upon US 'cold Russia" the
southern shore of the Crimea brought
to the old empire a touch of the
tropics. On the mountain slopes and
in the sheltered valleys grow grapes,
figs. olives, and all the tender fruits;
magnolias, bays, and myrtles; and a
profusion of wild flowers and grasses.
That the delights of its mild climate
were discovered early is testified by
the ruins of Greek, Byzantine, and
Italian architecture which are to be
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D spring and summer of life,
IS Interpreted in suits for young
der women, meet in the picture
Here two conceptions are
. one of them youthful and nov
b picturesque hint of Spain in
|ort jacket and handsome sash,
fher dignified and conservative,
|ltely tailored, disdaining decora-
and faultless in lines; fulfilling
kacting requirement of mature
b. Women who have reached
y life and acquired poise. are
penable to all the whims of fash
lat lure their younger sisters.
may disport itself in any Of
tyles and carry them Off, but
|of these are not suited to older
y. They are wise when ,hey
what looks best on them and,
B means, arrive at n distinction
3ss that belongs to their years.
handsome suit at the left is
of beige-colored poiret twill.
u may be said of 1t is told by the
D which has not failed to pre-
very detail In its makeup. The
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fill the centers with broken bits of
walnuts and a spoonful Of strained
honey.
A long-handled corn pepper is a
fine toaster or broiler. Use in the
furnace and broil chops or steak or
make piece of toast.
Gilt frames may be cleaned with oil
of turpentine. Rub on with a cloth
after busting well.
Celery salt may be prepared ut
home. Grind through the finest knife
in the meat grinder two ounces of cell
cry seed. add ten times the bulk of
salt, stir and mix well and put into
a bottle.
A dark blue cover made of denim
or gingham is good to slip over the
ironing board to save it when press
ing suits or dark clothing.
A child's small sadiron is most
useful in ironing baby's dresses.
Very pretty and dainty baby shoes
may be made from old glove tops.
Take the long white kid gloves, have
the wrists perfectly clean and press
out carefully with warm iron to re-
move all wrinkles. Cut the soles and
sides in one piece, making the soles
wide enough in front to come up over
the toes. Put seam in the back and
gather the fullness where the sides
do not meet. Line with soft silk !;
eyelets may be put in or they may be
worked by hand. Trim with shirring
or bind the tops, lace with ribbon and
the shoes are ready.
Cooked. dried apricots. cottage
cheese and mayonnaise makes most
delicious salad.
Keep lemons for several weeks by
putting them in fruit jar and sealing
them tightly.
When warming over roast meat
place in the oven with slices of bacon
,ver the top. Bake until the bacon
is crisp.
For eclairs shape the paste iour
and one-half inches long and one nch
wide. Bake. split at the side. and fll
with coffee. vanilla chocolate or
whipped cream filling.
For Bavarian pufrs brush the puffs
Just before taking from the oven with
beaten egg and sprinkle with chopped
nuts.
| 1N.,..4.< n.t~ ~s.e
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plain, semi-fitted coat introduces
short. ripping oeplum. in three sec
tions. and falling within ,hree inches
of its hem. This is new feature
and the regulation narrow belt, of the
material, finishes its brief story with
a large and handsome ornament at
the front, unexpected and unusual.
Except for groups of three very small
buttons set on the sleeves and be-
tween the sections of the peplum,
there are no other decorative details.
The hat of soft milan braid, with
wreath of fruit and flowers, is exactly
what it should be to bear this suit
company.
Navy blue tricotine makes the suit
for younger. women, with side-plaited
skirt and short Jacket. The jacket is
lined with gray silk and opens over
vest of silk like the lining. EN-
broidery in self color gives the jacket
a rich finish, which the skirt lives up
to by means of sash of heavy, blue
satin ribbon, having its ends finished
with the handsomest of silk fringes.
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In squares. When sOftened little
add one pound of common cheese, cut
IN small bits, and stir constantly until
melted; add two-thirds of cupful of
fresh or canned corn, one-half tea
spoonful of salt, one half teaspoonful
of paprika, two eggs well beaten and
two-thirds of a cupful of tomato. Stir
and cook until smooth and well
blended, and when thoroughly hot,
serve on rounds of toast, toasted on
one side. Serve the rabbit on the un-
toasted side.
Cream of Corn Soup.-Cook one-half
of an onion finely minced in four
tablespoOnfuls of butter until brown.
Add four tablespoonfuls of flour, two
cupfuls of milk after the flour has
been well blended, two teaspoonfuls of
salt. one-fourth of a teaspoOnful of
pepper and one or two bouillon cubes.
provided they are not ninety-nine per
cent salt; if so, add no salt until
after the cubes are added. Sad ex-
perience with bouillon cubes should
make us wise. Cook until the mixture
thickens and add one pint of sweet
corn put through colander. Let the
whole boil up once and serve with
croutons.
Green Cheese.-Take two ounces of
fresh parsley, one ounce of fresh water
cress, one ounce of celery. Dry the
parsley before the fire until crisp so
that it can be crumbled, but not until
1t has lost its color. Chop the cress
and celery, add the crumbled parsley
and mix with four ounces of fresh
green cheese. Season with cayenne
and salt, and put through a colander.
Form into small cheeses to pass with
the salad.
Another cheese mixture which is
great favorite is cream cheese mixed
with cupful or two of grated Amer
ican, seasoned with salt and cayenne,
adding cream to make the mixture in
to smooth roll or into small pats.
Decorate with sliced. stuffed olives.
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Central America illustrates striking

Central America illustrates striking
ly the effects Of geographic factors on
a regions development. ALI the five
republics lie on the relatively narrow
isthmus between the narrow ribbon
of Panama on the south and Mexico
on the north. The Spanish settle
ments made soon after the discovery
of America were all on the Pacific
side of the isthmus, for the most part
on the plateaus and mountain slopes
and in the mountain valleys of that
region, which temper an otherwise
tropical climate. Practically the en-
tire Atlantic side of the isthmus was
n low plain, covered with dense
jungle. This acted as great "Chi-
nese Wall" erected by nature which
discouraged or actually cut Off inter-
course with the Atlantic coast and
turned the faces of all the countries
toward the Pacific.
The isolation started by nature was
continued by the colonial policy of
the Spaniards, who for three hundred
years permitted the Central American
settlers to trade only with the mother
country and greatly restricted even
that commerce.
At the time of the throwing off of
the Spanish yoke in 1921, the Central
American settlements were as effec-
tually cut off from the United States
as if they had been many thousands
of miles away instead of being only
across the Caribbean sea. With the
settlement of the Pacific coast of the
United States, the building of the
Panama railroad, and later the con-
struction of trans-Mexican railway,
the Panama canal, and railways
across Guatemala and Costa Rica,
Central America has become easily
accessible.
Shortly before the construction of
the Panama railroad, coffee was in
troduced into Central America from
the West Indies, and was found to
grow to perfection in the lava soil on
the slopes Of the volcanic mountains
along the Pacific coast of most of the
region. Coffee soon became an export
of prime Importance and has brought
much money into Central America.
The remainder of Central Americas s
horticultural romance has as its mo-
tiff, the banana. In order that the
great American hunger for that slen-
der golden fruit might be appeased.
large fruit growing and distributing
corporations from the United States
acquired extensive tracts of land in
the Atlantic plain, reclaimed 1t from
the jungle, and planted great banana
groves which produce millions of
punches of bananas yearly.
The by-products of this development
have been as valuable to Central
America as the money that has flowed
directly to laborers and to the gov
ernment. Important cities have
sprung up along the Atlantic coast,
railroads have been built, and what
is probably most important of all. lines
of fast, well-equipped steamers, carry
ing both passengers and freight have
been established between the Atlantic
ports and those Of the United States.
In effect the banana has shifted Cen
tral America thousands of miles clos
er to the outside world.
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"cabinet circle" Kept Busy.

To belong to that select cOterie OF
Washington society known as the
'.cabinet circle" would seem to most
women to be bed of roses, but like
other roses they are not without their
thorns. For instance. the wife Of a.
cabinet member is required by social
etiquette to make at least one call
on each senatorial and congressional
household, which means that she must
make half thousand or more such
calls during the season, whether it
pleases her or not.
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found among the mosques of the later
Tatars, the palaces Of the Russian Inn
perial family and nobility, and the
magnificent modern hotels Of the
pleasure towns to which the prosper
Gus classes Of Russia fiocked before
the World war. Yalta. in those care
free days, was Russia's Nice, New
port, and Miami rolled into one; its
cafe and casino life was as hectic.
gay, and expensive as that to be found
in any of the worlds pre-war play
grounds.
The Crimea Is peninsula that
barely escaped being an island. 1t
hangs from the mainland of South
Russia down into the Black sea, like
gigantic watch fob shaped like a
founder. 1t Is attached by the mar
row ribbon of the Isthmus of Pere-
kop. strip of land only three-quar-
ters of mile wide and only few
feet above sea level. On one side is
the Black sea and on the other the
stagnant, shallow, malOdorous waters
of the Swatch, or Putrid sea, la
goon of the Sea of Azov. This Is the
only unbroken natural land connec-
tion between the mainland and the
Crimea, but a few miles to the east
narrow part of the Putrid sea has
been bridged by the railroad which
enters the peninsula.
The greatest width of the Crfmea
north and south is 115 miles, and its
greatest length from "head" to tail"
Is 225 miles. 1t contains about 9,7OO
square miles, and is thus approximate
ly the size of the state Of Vermont or
the island of Sicily. Before the World
war it's population was 100000.
The Crimea was conquered by Cath
arine the Great of Russia in 1771, and
remained part of the Russian en-
pire until that political entity's col
lapse in 1917. The bulk of the popu-
lation remains Tatar, though there is
an admixture of both Greek and Ital-
ian blood In the nominally Tatar
people.
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A ROMANCE OF BANANAS
AND COFFEE

When the American small boy eats
his daily quota of bananas. and when
his father and mother sip their break
fast. luncheon, or dinner coffee, they
are making important contributions to
the prosperity Of fellow Americans
Of whom they know very little-the
residents of the five Central American
REPUBLICS which have lately reached a
preliminary decision for the forma-
t,on of a sort of "United States OF
Central America"
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unsnid and because he had vastly
entertaining way of saying It; while
the other class included all those
which were written, not with zest and
inspiration, but because there existed
some merely formal reason for writ
ing them. In. the latter group. says
the worlds Work, the irreverent
Lamb placed the works Of Hume. Glib
bon, Josephus -and Adam Smitn-in
general all those books (which no
eentleman's library should be with
OUT Similarly there are two kinds
q biographies, those written e Z
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y season presents for the con-
Pderation Of busy but fastidious
rs many ready-made frocks for
girls that will come up to their
rus of good taste in choice Of
pals, in design and in workman
10 start off with, there are
pay dresses in light-colored, plain
Prays and very small-checked
pms. that have white lawn col
hd cuffs. A thin white rick-rack
ed to finish edges of belts or
atlve bands on them, or the col
Pnd cuffs are embroidered with
siik or yarn flowers.
ides these pretty cotton frocks
are bloomer suits made of black
SILK with yarn stitching In
colors for embellishment on
n, sleeves and sometimes as a
to hens. They are very simply
much like the dress of colored
(dy shown at the left of the two
Eed- above. This little frock may
Ken as a first class example of
= IN colored and white organdy
this spring offers to meet dress
cusions In the little girls sum-
with 1t a pretty frock. Of dot
swiss adds it's testimony to
vogue for the simplest de-
IN little glrig clothes, Ths
. match Y snothsF 'stsJe-
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IN TURKEY REFORM
SPRINGS ETERNAL

Turkey bids fair to come back"
in limited sense at least. as u re-
suit of the proposed revision of the
SevreS treaty that diSmembered the
Ottoman empire after the World war.
1t will be a changed Turkey, to be
sure, but change Is not new in the
country that inherited Mohammed's
religious empire. Paradoxically, Tur-
key, though it has a tradition of ma
tional inertia, also is u land of kalei-
doscopic reform, and may be said to
react to reforms more discrimlnat-
ingly than any other country in or out
of Christendom. The Turks have
adopted some reforms bodily and some
partially, and have rejected others
fatty even when the prestige of the
Caliph and Allah's ministers was be-
hind them.
Turkey began its existence on a
foundation of reform, the empire in
heriting the comprehensive reshaping
Of the religious and social world in
stituted by Mohammed. 1t went
dry" just 62O years before the United
StateS for it's eighteenth amend
ment" was not an amendment at all.
but part, so to speak, of the organic
act when the empire came into exist
ence in 1899.
Even in the matter Of polygamy,
looked ut askance by the western
world, Mohammed and the government
which took up his mantel were re-
formers. The legal maximum number
of wives was placed at four.
Even the jokes of coffee and tobac-
CO prohibition that have gone the
rounds Of the American vaudeville
stage came near being a reality In
Turkey. Mohammedan scholars full
minated against the steaming cup;
and one sultan went SO fur as to pro-
hibit the use of tobacco, fearing that
it was taking too firm hold on his
people. But the populace refused to
have the prophets covenant changed
and the ban was raised.
Though the reported passing of the
fez is looked upon as reform which
to western eyes would remove some
thing as distinctively Turkish as the
star and crescent, the introduction of
the gaudy skull cap was itself a re-
form effected less than hundred
years ago; and staunch old Moslems
of that time wagged their heads In
warning as the reckless reformers cast
aside their dignified turbans for the
new bauble. To the Turkish Tories
of those days the fez Travelled in COM
pany sufficiently disreputable to damn
it utterly. It was introduced forcibly
into the army by the Sultan Mahmoud
II in the early part of the nineteenth
century along with tight European
trousers and frock coats. These and
such other reforms as the establish
ment of newspaper earned for
Mahmoud the title of "Infidel Sultan"
The fez and turban types Of head
coverings have definite reason for
existence in Turkey, and 1t is to be
doubted that they will be discarded
entirely, especially for the brimmed
hats and visored caps Of Europeans.
Mohammedan rules and customs call
for covered heads at prayer; and they
also require that at one stage of pray
er the votary shall touch his nose and
forehead to the ground, feat that is
impossible If he wears hat with a
protruding brlm.
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feature worth considering. 1t has
rivals in the most adorable and friv,
olous of little sunbOnnets, made OF
colored organdy and trimmed with
organdy flowers. They go long way
SO far as being ornamental Is con-
cerned but. as protection against
the sun, may need to call In diminu-
tive parasol to help them out.
In ginghams. cross bars and checks
IN small patterns appear to be favored
with collars, cuffs, pockets and belts
in plain chambray or collars and GUNS
Of white lawn. The two little misses
pictured are correctly dressed with
dainty white petticoats under their
sheer dresses and footwear that Is
above criticism.
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thing. A neighbor advised me to
take DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. I took six bottles and
since."-MRS. H. C. HUGHES.
Sold by druggists for the past fifty
years, and has never contained .
drop of alcohol. 1t can now be had
in tablet form also. Send to Dr.
Pierce's Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo,
N. Y, for ten-cent trial package.
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pleasure and those written as a duty.
The greatest fallacy Of the art Is that
a man deserves biographical treat
ment simply because he has filed an
important public position or has been
conspicuous in some other way. This
mistake explains many rows Of ex-
ceedingly dull books that line all u
brary shelves.
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Watch cutieura Improve Your skim
On rising and retiring gently smear
the face with .Cuticura Ointment.
Wash off Ointment in five minutes
with Cuticura Soap and hot water. II
is wonderful sometimes what Cuticura
will do for poor compilations, dandruft
itching and red rough hands.-Adv.
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PUT BOOKS IN TWO CLASSES
charles Lambs Division Of Printed
Works May Be Conceded to Have
Something Of Merit

1t was Charles Lamb who divided
nrInted works into two classes-bib-
IL and abiblia. books which are not
ho6ka In general. the first class COM
rr,ses those which were written spon-
Acknowledgements the writer had
something which he could NOT leayp
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Sounds Plausible.

"How did the impression get about
that George Washington never told q
lie?" asked the inQuisitive person.
"Some people credit the cherry tree
story for that" said Mr.. Dubwaites
'but 1 suspect Georges reputation Tor
veracity is due to the fact that he
never said, "rve had my car ~
months and It has never been IN =
repair Shop TX 4
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|Cabinet IN
IiIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIfIIlIIIII

There is no other happiness in the
world except that of a soul content
with its own condition. This Is the way
to carry heaven about with you.-a
Alphonsus de Sarasa.
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make q HOt UISH
which may be pre-
pared in a short
time.
Mexican Rabbit.
Melt one table
spoonful of but
ter; in it cook one
green pepper cut
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two on the outside. The
pot will wash much
easier. Citron or orange
or lemon peel. may be
prepared easily by soak
ing n few minutes in hot
water, then put through
the meat grinder.
The Ordway new era., 1921-04-01

Roads in the Philippine islands are
steadily Improving. and the demand
for motor cars q continually increas-
The Ordway new era., 1921-04-01

All you have really to do is to keep
your back as straight as you can. and
not to think about what is on 1t; above
all not to boast of what Is on 1t. The
real meaning of virtue Is in that
straightness of the back.-Ruskin.
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thirty years and
can truly say they
are the best med
icines I have ever
u S g d. A b o u I,
thirty years ago !
had SICK b e ad-
aches SO that half
of my time 1 was
unable to do anY.