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Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-29
MY WAY OF CLEANING HOUSE.

Dear Corner Sisters: Good morning everybody. This is my way of clean ing house: Take any room you want to and the work will seem easier even if it is not in rotation or as you plan ned it. I whiten a ceiling. maybe two or three, then if I don't feel like pa pering it then I go upstairs and clean all up there. Then when I feel like it I go to papering. Then I go to an other room and clean that and when I feel like it I paper another room and in that way you change your work, and if you feel like doing a certain room it does seem so much easier for me, and you will be surprised how fast you get along. I commence the first warm days and then l don't have to hurry.
 A nice breakfast dish is
 Puff and fiIIies; Put on your dough- nut kettle, have your fat boiling, cut off small pieces of dough off your bread, f1atten it out with your fingers. drop in the hot fat and when brown turn over. It only takes the same time as doughnuts and eaten hot they are fine for breakfast. I make them every time I make bread.
 With kind regards I am
 RAMPAGE.
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WILL CELEBRATE ON MAY I

To the Editor and Social Corner Sis .ers; Just short letter to let you know hat ] am alive after a long silence, but . am Interested just the same in the let ,ers Of the Social Corner. and I want to gay hello" Co Canterbury Bell and all 'thers who have sent beautiful cards to E. T don't think the sisters need to uy cook books while SO many nice re- ines are being written.
 Hope Blanche will not fall down the 'fliar stairs while shouting. but get the soai then try another batch of cream puns and We will help sample them.
 ! was very much interested in the let Ter written hy Peace. It strikes the key aote 0f success In our lives and the pleas ant memories which we will ever cherish and one of those is In looking back over fifty years Of welded life. the anniver- nary 0f which We shall observe at the next Social Corner meeting, the third of May IneZ Is not as lively as she was nt that time but we enjoy the meetings of the Social Corner. Dick Dead Eye was up Co sec us a few days ago but could not stay long enough to go to the Corner meeting
 How is Grandma H? She Is one of those mothers that Mandy has written about ana one that all of us miss at our moetlnGs.
 Well. Aunty No. l. how are you? Hope Co 70 to your picnic this summer.
 Sow will close. hoping we will meet lot of the sisters the third of May.
 PA.
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ALWAYS FINDING
 HELPFUL
SOMETHING

Dear Social Corner Sisters thank the sisters for the Easter cards. The sentiments expressed on them are dear 70 me.
 Blue Baby: will be glad to read your letter on blues. do not often have them, for there are 50 many beautiful things 10 do and see that I can do without them But once in a while they do come.
 You sisters say you cannot do one thing better than another. I think you are mistaken for every week read some one thing that is help to me, some thing l had not thought of and found 1t just the right thing to do. so keep it uIo. I've jus had a letter from my boy in Los Angeles and he tells me of such wonderful things Here is one of them. He writes there .s a place called Hollywood bowl, it Is a bowl made by nature, and at Easter they hold a sunrise service there. They erect an enormous cross on the highest edge and when the sun rises 1t shines on the cross first. He says the acoustics are so per feet that you can hear every word of the prayer. He says there were estimated to be thirty thousand people at the service. They had a beautiful soprano singer who sang a selection from the Messiah. And he never heard anything more beautiful. I have every week a letter from him am there is always something of great inte- rest in 1t, so you see I really ought never to get blue.
 I shall look for my helpers next week and Necia can't get along without you.
 CADY
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WALLPAPER PASTE.

Dear Cornerites: am sending an easy way of making paste that will do away with the extra work of sizing where the walls have been whitewashed.
 The night before, soak half a pound of carpenters glue in cold water to cov- CT. Next morning mix with three pints of cheap flour, one cup of laundry starch, to a thin batter. Pour on this six quarts of boiling water, stirring all the time. Place over the fire and let it boil a few minutes until smooth. One tablespoon of alum is added Omit alum when oat- meal paper is used.
 The above method I have taken from a paper and the writer says it holds better than the old way of sizing the walls first.
 Much sympathy to those whose dear ones have passed on before. Hope the i'll ones will soon be able to be out in the sunshine.
 BLANCHE.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-29
GRANTS CENTENNIAL

Dear Social Corner Pals: With the is
 sue of our Corner paper "The Bulletin"
 this week we will have passed the one
 hundredth anniversary Of the birth of
 great hero, great statesman, one who
 twice was elected president of the United
 States, General Ulysses S. Grant. Although
 born in Ohio (April 27. 1822) Gen. Grant
 was of Connecticut stock, his grandfather
 having been born in Coventry, his great
 grandfather in Holland his great-great-
 grandfather and his three times great grandfather in Windsor, where Mathew
 Grant, the emigrant, came over in the
 Mary and Jehn-and settled in 1885.
 Thursday, April 27 will be celebrated with
 the unveiling of an equestrian statue of
 Gen. Grant in the Botanical garden at Washington, where some of the surviving
 members of the Grant family will greet the c. A. R. veterans who attend. Our
 senator. Frank B. Brandegee of Cenneeti-
 cut will take an important part. When
 less than ten years of age Grant drove | and took care Of a span of horses and be- | came known as one of the best horsemen for miles around and ever after was the l owner of a horse. He was a real sport and enjoyed skating, swimming, diving, etc His true character developed in later life as all real sports are good losers as well as good winners. He entered West Point when less than 20 years Of age. from which he graduated June 30, 1St3. Among his associates at the academy
 were Kirby Smith, StonewglI Jackson
 Newton Reseerans, Hope. Doubleday. I Sykes, Seth Williams. William Tecuseh | Sherman and Nathaniel Lyon of Eastford, Conn, on the Union side. Longstreet, D.
 H. HilI NJ. Lowell and Earl Van Dorn on | the Confederate side.
 In 1844 Grant became a lieutenant in | the Mexican war, with General Zachary Taylor's Army of Observation" from which he emerged with the title of cas2- I tain. He was married to Julia Dent in 1 St Louis, Aug. 22, 1S4S. Four children were born to them, Frederick Dent, 1850
 Ulysses. Jr., 1852 Nellie, 1855 Jessie, l 1858. The exciting presidential cam paign of 1860 and the news of Lincoln s l election were a great awakening in | Grants life. After the attack on Fort Sumter in April. 1861, Grant was appoint
 ed colonel of regiment who were without l tents or uniforms, but being farmer boys | of fine physique and good raw material l turned out to be one of the best in the 1 service and which later caused him tc | become widely known as Unconditional | Surrender Grant, He became comma n1= ! er-in-chief of the armies of the United 1 States in 1884 and with the aid of Sher- man, who had started his famous march l from Atlanta to the sea, the Union armies who enteAed Richmond, April 3, Lee sur rendered his armies to Grant at Appomat-
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them over. Each written page brought a vision of memories. Of happy school days almost fancied was in the fa- ralllar school room again. Many of those whose signatures I read, have laid aside the pen, but a cherished friendship re- mains. As I turned the pages and noted the dates, leaving school days and con sidering other problems of my future life, just a name recalled so much of the past amid a multitude of varied scenes in memory the depression of present '+blues" was crowded out. I had found my relief in trying to seek a pleas ant change of mind, There are various avenues that may lead to the same result but can only be complied with under fa- vorable conditions such as being able to go out and call on a friend whose con- versation should be cheerful. emitting all tales of woe OF write a sunshine letter, to someone whose ''blues' are darker than yours. We can only select for our selves that particular line, which has the force to remove, by making the effort. and considering the cause. That which can't be cured, must be endured, and so make the best of 1t. To try, means much. To sit stiH, allows the 'blues" to be eonqueror. If these few items may be good for ''blues," we will change the subject and contribute something 'bad'' for ants, as Sister Chelsea has requested. Procure large sponge. wash 1t well,
 and press it dry, which will leave the cells quite open. Then sprinkle over it , some fine white sugar, and place it where the ants are most troublesome. They
 will soon collect upon the sponge and take up their abode in the cells. It is then only necessary to dip the sponge in
 scalding water, which will wash them out dead by ten thousands. Repeat this l process and sooR the house will be rid oi | every ant and uncle"
 JENNIE.
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tox Court House on April g. The last gun in the Civil war was fired in Texas May 13 and on May Is the government paroled and liberated all prisoners of war. He was unanimously nominated for president by the republican convention in Chicago May g, 1888 and duy elected. He was renominated for president, June 5. 1872, was elected and served his second term, remaining staunch and true to his friends who during this term were exposed of ac- tions unloyal to the constitution. Upon his return from trip around the world he was once more sought as candidate for the presidency but was defeated by narrow margin in favor of James A. Gar field. He died after a long illness of suf- fering from cancerous affection of the throat. at Mt. McGregor. July 23, 1885. His body rests in the splendid tomb erect ed for it on Riverside Drive, New York city, overlooking the Hudson river The writer visited this tomb about 30 years ago and has as a souvenir a picture of this famous general and his tomb.
 HOPE COBWEB
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-29
GREETINGS FROM E. L. M.

Dear Social Corner Members: I in- tended to write last week and tell you that I called on Interested Reader and found her Very pleasant person to meet. By the way there used to be an other Corner member by that name for two or three years ago I received calendar from Interested Reader, but it was not this one as she has not been a member that long.
 Noank Brownie: Thank you for speaking up and showing your colors. [ am not very long ride from you.
 Thank you, Etta Barber, for your words of encouragement, but 1 have so little time I would not care to start a club myself, but as I am a new conner and stranger in this section was hoping that there was a club somewhere this way so that I might drop into meeting now and then. wish there was one.
 F. c. G.: Your letter, My Neighbor Dog, went right to my heart as I an great lover of dogs. I always have one but wish I could keep more.
 Canterbury Belle: Your letter or flower growing was fine. am very fond of plants. The past few years I have had a good garden but this year have no very good place and won't have much time. There are only two shrubs here. have set out three more and am trying to root one oi those sweet honeysuckles. One of my friends gave me two small branches and told me to bury the middle part and it would root. I hope it does. She said one could get crimson rambler that way. I would like to have one oi those.
 Can any of you tell me which make g better floor covering, congoleum or ne ponsett? I have to get something soon.
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en moment in reading or thinking of something that will uplift us, mental ly and morally. When rising in the morning think I will be happy today and happiness will come to you. When wrong thought comes into your mind give yourself good scolding and drive 1t out. Take a good motto and learn it. and keep repeating if to yourself. FL la Wheeler Wilcox gave one many years ago that I learned, which is, "This. too shall pass away" I have found when sorrow. troubles and grief have come to me, when the hour was darkest, I would repeat to myself this won't last forever, for it will pass away" And like clouds that shut the sunshine off for awhile, while the rain falls. they pass away and Gods sunshine will shine to brighten your pathway no matter how dark the way is today, look up, think good and good returns to you like the bread cast on waters. In time it comes back again.
 Think I have written quite sermon that home of you may ponder over.
 MANDY
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-29
NOT A FAIRY GoDMoTHER BUT
 GRANDMOTHER

Dear Social Corner Editor. Sisters and Readers of the Social Corner: When l was a little girl. I used to think it would be the most delightful experience in the world to be a fairy godmother, to be Gin derella and wear glass slippers and ride in pumpkin coaches but to have the pow CT to turn rags into golden gowns. mice into footmen, to dissolce cruel enchant- merits and make wishes come true-that was the possibility that enthralled me
 And here l am. not a fairy gotmother at all. but just plain grandmother and Hstill would have liked to take my little grandson by the hand and we'd visit that lovely and wonderful land where l would like to go, when our shades are down and the light are low; with little Warren" upon my knee and pussy cat keeping us company. Then we'd be journeying hand in hand, where I took his father through Mother Goose land.
 I'd tell him stories. the ttest known ones, no labored voice and no suited puns. about Jack and Jill. and the little maid. Marjorie Daw for you understand. theae are the people of Mother Goose land. Ia tell him of Bo-Pee1 and the Piper's Son of the Three Blind Mice and a Hot Cross Bun. of the Naughty Kittens who had no pie and Of Jack who climbed on a bean-stalk nigh and Humpty Dumpty whl couldn't stand and Mistress Mary ci Mother Goose Land.
 Over and over we tell each tale. with an interest never known to fail; who killed Cock Robin and Old King Cole mad the Three Brown Bears and their porridgs bowl of little Boy Blue and his horn sr grand under the haystack in Mother Coos land. Oh golden hour at the close of day with the ,Dream-Boat waiting to sai away, the wide world over I pledge yol , this-Tis the hour no mother should eve miss, with her loved one hand in hand 1 a jaunt through the mazes Of Mothe | Goose land. KITTY LOU.
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OpportuEity.

rhis is the sharpest pans which failure brings To know that sweet success was near, 90 near. We missed it only by a hairbreadth herss Or. Idly musinr over meaner thinga Sought not occasion, tin it used its wings. Alas, for though delusivs hope may cheer Our hearts awhile with songs both sweet and clear. let shall we learn that fate but one time filings Open the door of opportunity, That each may enter and his guerdon win. None pass lt ever with impunity- .ts triple bolts move only from within. Nor prayer nor tear avails-we wander evermors Like shipwrecksd sailors on an alien shore
 -Nlnette Af. LOwater-
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-29
WRITE WHAT THE MIND PROMPTS

Dear Social Corner Sisters: What a lot of new names and nice letters the So- cial Corner page has had in the past month. To all the new members I say welcome to our Corner page So many different minds and subjects are what make 1t SO interesting. We should not criti- cize each ones letters or subjects Let those who want to send a recipe do so. # yoI or 1 don't want it-someone else does.
 If I like to send a greeting to Lizzie. Matte or Katie. or whatever pen name she has, that's my pleasure. Maudys says send it. by phone. Oh. Mandy. if they held the wire IS you and do some times we wouldn't send only the one greeting and then get the dinner. What say?
 It is my idea to write just what your mind prompts.
 Mid Clover: Did you know I had a 3Oth wedding anniversary April 2lst? Nc doubt you would be interested in my gift The prize one was a ballot box Of marbles mostly black You know I wear black mostly in winter. use white in summer so it catched O. K. It was some joke I've had lots of fun over it.
 Celia Louise: Got your card from s M Hope you and Liberty Bell had nic, time.
 Chelsea: No. the son does not sing !E Christ cf1-ch choir now. He has a goo bass voice and has been asked severS times but he can't give the time 10 re hearsals. Those were happy days whei your brother and the other boys of S St played together. Yours always remem bered me with the rest.
 r FsIIortense: did not know who yol Were to tell one who asked me until go your card and you spoke of Grandma in your family.
 Evelyn Burr: I wish I had a copy 0 year poem. Say IL With Flowers" I los the paper that had it .n and was sorry. Best wishes.
 CAL,IA LILY
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bare places with their stately forms and huge golden flowers.
 Many different kinds of sunfiewers are now grown in gardens, some of them are tall. reaching a height of ten feet or even more, and others are short, but produce an extra large number of small and handsome flowers, sometimes ttnged with deen red
 If you are fond of the tallest you must buy the seeds of one of the tall growing kinds, such as the giant single, and then, to encourage it to grow taller and taller, you must pinch out all the side shoots as soon as they form.
 In planting you should drop the seeds into little holes about half an inch deep for the smaller seeds or an inch deep for the larger ones. and then cover them up lightly with fina earth
 Sunhowers are not for table decoration of course but they make a fine cover plant for many an ugly spot which 1t is otherwise hard to hide. Best wishes to all. CENTURY PLANT.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-29
ANTIc1PrNG COMING MEET1NG.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: Well 1t is most time for our next meeting. I hope we will have a large crowd. Thank you, Marcella, for the card; it was a pleas ant surprise.
 Etta Barber: Wish we could all meet your club Why not have a picnic? It ought to be pleasant weather soon.
 Pocahontas: Did you find Hortense? |? Glad to see new names.
 Thames View: I know you. Yellow Pine is sister of mine.
 It is goad advice to fret not, but who follows it?
 Dueky: I am glad you are better.
 I was sorry to hear Bachelor Maids report, so many are sick I hope they will all get well soon.
 Blackberry Brier: Try again. Did they return it?
 Peace: Haven't found you yet.
 Cady: Wet the slip with coffee. I forgot to tell you, they say that will keep 1t dark. Bye bye for this time. CELIA LOUISE.
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recommending the Vegetable Com pound to my friends. "- Mrs. A. H. GARLAND, 2ls E. Brown St, Iron Mountain, Michigan.
 Xenia, Ohio. Every month 1 had such pains in my back and lower part of my abdomen that l could not lie quietly in bed. suffered for about five years that way and l was notreg- uIar either. read an advertisement of what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta- ble Compound had done for other women. SO I decided to tryit. ltsurely has helped me a lot, as have no pains now and amregulm and feeling fine" = Mrs. MARY DALE, Route 2, Xenia, Ohio.
 If YOU suffer as did Mrs. Garland or Mrs. Dale, you should give this we'll known medicine a thorough trial
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CRETIA.
CARING FOR CHILDREN WHEN ILL

CARING FOR CHILDREN WHEN ILL.
 Dear Cornerites: Good morning, every body Here is smile for you. Mrs. Jones was entertaining some of her sons little friends. Willie" she said address ing a six-year-old, who was enjoying a plate of cold beef, "are you sure you can cut your own meat?" The child. who was making desperate efforts with his knife and fork replied, "Yes. thanks, I've often had 1t as tough as this at ho1ne.''
 Those of us who have had to care for children when i'll, know what trying ex- peFience it is especially when they be- gin to get better. and are more fretful,
 It is surprising what small things will please children, what unthought of things will hold their interest. A sick child will be pleased for number of hours with a bright bow of ribbon, a tiny flag. an ar tifcial flower pinned to his night dress or some funny hat given him to wear {; and even a very sick child will begin to rouse out of that lethargic state by hold ing in his hand a pair of reins on which there are bells fastened to the foot of his bed.
 Funny little things from the loo store | laid beside the bed, when the child Is | asleep, to relieve those restless hours to | follow, will be boon. Do not rouse the child to excitement but keep him inter ested and happy.
 The "new you must do this'' spirit does more harm than good. and the child thinks everyone is trying to play trick on him. If raw eggs or milk must be taken, work upon the child's pride by making him think he is doing the mus ual.
 One mother would come into the sick room ringing tiny bell and ask her boy what kind of ice cream he wanted today naming the havors; then she would give the much-despfsed milk that flavor. and bring it to him ice-cold, some 1 times with straws, used at soda foun- tains In this way she got him to take willingly what he would otherwise have fought against. Fretting makes the tenn perature go up. the stomach is upset, and he feels generally worse, so that any ex- tra time 1t may take to keep him happy Is well worth while.
 Pocohontas: Many thanks for the re- clpe for card gingerbread. It is one have been trying to get for many years Shall use it soon. Your daughter knows me if you don't I used to sit back oi you fin church most every Sunday,
 Best wishes to all.
 | HORTFNSE
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GREETINGS FROM RAINBOW.

Dear Editor of the Social Corner: I would like to be 8 member of the social Corner as I have read their many help fu1 letters and hope to meet with the sisters some day.
 Photographer: Why don't you write? It is long time since you took our pie lures. I am coming to see you as soon as housekeeping is done. I see where the stork laid precious bundle at your door. Hope your health is better wonder if you know who is talking. When you come my way don't pass again with out calling.
 Robin: How do you like your new home? It is some time since I saw your name in the Corner Don't you ever go to any of the meetings now? The first time met YOU was on the trolley with your basket and yellow bow. Guess I've got your guessing.
 O. I. G: You are a wise woman to push your housekeeping along. rain or shine. I stopped rainy days, but wish I'd kept on like you, for I would have been through now.
 will take for my Den name Rainbow, and if anyone else has this name will pick another
 PAINPOw
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ANOTHER CORNER MEMBER.

Dear Social Corner am joining your social band by the pen name or Whispering Pines" and will give my recipe for sponge cake.
 Six Egg Sponge Cake: Break the whites of six eggs into a large mix ing bowl, add one cup sugar sifted twice, one teaspoon cream tartar and one teaspoon vanilla, and then beat q use an egg beater shaped like ten his racquet) until it drops from the beater stiff. just like cake dough. Add the six yolks broken up and beaten some and one cup flour sifted four times. Bake in large angel cake tin.
 WHISPERING PINES.