Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-30
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Dear Social Corner Friends: That was
 good letter which Practical Polly gave
 us last week on a timely sub ject, and well. named-"F1its the Nail .9On the
 Head I fear all too few of us realize Ithat the Social Corner page spells, .op- portunity for the women of Eastern Connecticut and with capital. letters Surely the best way for us to show our appreciation of this page is. to use it
 more than we do. I think it is only, just to the members, however. to say that without doubt it is because we, are neglectful rather than unappreciatfve, that the page is not full every week and venture to predict that announcement on the part of our editor that there would no longer be Social Corner page
 would be followed by protest loud enough to be heard from Ekonk to Seekonk." Most of us are familiar with
 the saying, You can lead horse to wa ter, but you cannot make, him drink. |" We who are or have been. yfarmerettes 1 know well the truth of this. It Is just so with this page of The Bulletin. Our
 editor has provided this foupt of oppor- i tunity. Why do we not drink more freely from it? We are given this val i uable space and five prizes. each month I IT our encouragement. Why are we not
 more responsive: we wno may be a i trifie over modest, perhaps, about the
 worth of our small contributions do hot need to worry lest they return to Us with stereotyped regrets such as are often received from editors by aspirants | to literary fame-theses regrets usually ending with the soothing CD remark It is not necessarily, on account of any 1 lack of literary merit" etc. This being, think, the most unkindest cut of alE'' [ TtI1ie Sl,a.c, tunity for the development of talent now 1 latent within us. What if .our first let
 ters be very short ands Sinaple9 vFFac- tice will bring improvement We=&haae
 to make biscuits more sthan o1lce& be- fore we can produce the hfgh-nfinied ;kiudv-those, mean, that rise; to the oc- 1 casfon, so lightly that they bump their
 heads against the top of the oven.
 1 Who expects the cub reporter to- be- ! come a ,full-fledged editDr=fnIcf1ief over i night g. But if that cub. reporter does l the very best work that he is capable | of each day we feel that he is on the 1 road, to advancement <- .- =. It is a. far cry from the, cave men and 1 gomen of the dim past to the men, and
 women who are the tto4vera ioE, eivtIiza- 1 tion today Growth, development, evofu- i tion have wrought the change ge-atow, but {! sure Let us think more about what 1 we. can give .> to-. the Corner and; less about what we can get from it. Let I us not worry for fear some one may call l us egotistic if we write oftener. than twice a year. Some say that helpful
 thoughts come to them when they are busy but cannot be recalled when they
 sit down to Write.,z g l find a good remedy for this Is to. have
 pencil and paper at hand so as to tot i down these thoughts as they come--then ! when we wish to write letter our main points are ready and all that is left 1 to be. done is a little filling in. When we l take. part in the after. dinner programme 7 at the Buckingham Memorial let us noi
 worry for fear we shall not. make a
 good appearance before our audience [ but rather hold the constructive thought
 that we are privileged to do our small
 bit for the entertainment of our 1 friends and we will find that this thought will help to- give us pcise and that. con ffdence, which will enable us to do oul best Let us then enter upon the. New
 Year with the resolve that we will
 make the best possible use of every op portunity we have for growth and de.
 ivelopment. So shaH our. Corner page
 be filled and it's sphere Of influence bt
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