Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-15
DORIS
DON'T LET THE MENDING GET
 AHEAD OF YOU.

AHEAD OF YOU.
 Dear Social Corner Sisters: must surely own up that I am really and truly big backslider but really meant to do better. but the summer has been so full for me that time kept going on and I would neglect to write, but when l saw last week that our Corner was not near full of letters, 1 said to myself Ma, you must get busy and set a good example" so here I am and hope I shall come real oft n now and hope to soon meet with you some where Lucy Ace~ said I had better come home a nd go to taking p:lmpl1in pies Wen, I made my first one yesterday for the fall and the family said they tasted just as good as ever, but I shall not be able to make so many this year, because we, like lots of others. 3id not raise many. I've been away 9 / this summer to the shore and enjoyed 1t very much Hope to go once more next week I think that will be the last time this fall. Last week I spent a few days with old friends in Hartford and Epioyed that, too. We have had a great deal of company and we liked that. too. Some were relatives from Pennsylvania and we took them to the shore and they saw what they new CT before had the privilege of doing the salt water and clans and quahaugs dug. They thought they had a most wonderful time. There were five of them and my own family of ten and other visitors, so my family numbered 19 or 20 a good deal of the time. While it made lots of work I think we all enjoyed our selves very much. Now I want to say a word about mending. Some people I've | heard say, "Oh, dear, I've so many stock | ings to darn, a great pile staring me I in the face Well, why do they let | them get ahead of them so I've kept 1 house for almost forty years and never l did my weekly rnending go over the week ' unless it was sickness that prevented my l doing it. Don't let it accumulate, sis | ters. It is much easier to do it every ! week if you only get at it. Anyway, since 1 stockings and clothing have been so high | priced, I for one, could not afford to ! have so many that I could wait several weeks before mending Why I've seen ] some women i4ring a great big bag of 1 stockings to darn when they went out ! for an afternoon and I knew there were ! only two in that family Now it seems wrong and neglected to let things go i that way but I must not be too hard for I suppose every one has her way of | doing as well as myself but I find 1t i much better to keep ahead of it and not 1 let it get ahead of me
 i five not seen a letter from Brig or 1 Nixie for long time suppose they i have been busy the same as I have but
 sisters, do write line and encourage 1 the Corner folks and when there is an- i other picnic or meeting, let us go. Jus
 call me and I'll be ready and I won't bt late. either don't think I ever am late
 May be folks think am too early some
 times, but I never forgot what my
 grandmother told me once. That it wa, better to be ready and not go than tt go and not be ready" So always thinI
 that way What>' the use of being late
 It bothers others and yourself too.
 Well, the first frost arrived last nieb
 but I had already taken in my pants tha
 1 wanted to save, and did remember t,
 cover up what were left out doors. I an
 sure it has been many years since tn
 first frost held off so late was mar
 ried 39 years ago the first day of thi , month, and I remember well that fal
 we had no frost until much later tha1
 now. guess you will know that Iu getting along in years. Well, I was mar 1 ried very young.
 , Yours with all good wishes.
 MA OF GREENE CABLES.