Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-04-01
With best wishes to all.
INTERESTED READER.
HOW TO GET THE BEST OUT OF
LIFE

Dear Corner Sisters: Today is We'd
nesday. I slept we'll last night because
had finished a big task. I awoke this
morning, therefore with a mind that did
not have to begin reviewing the work Of
the day before and planning the careful
step of the day to come. I remembered
was to have fireless cooker that day.
the next day an electric sweeper, and
Saturday I was to make date cake and
mince meat-and Friday the Reds were
to have an auction.
Would it strike you that only a child
ish mind can find such simple things full
of interest that one would attribute to
them happiness in life.
Having fireless cooker that does the
cooking without fire put in your house
is just an adventure. We always had to
stoke the fire with wood to cook the din
ner, and I was the George that had to fill
the wood box so when the f1reiess cook
er came It seemed then the millennium
had come when your meat would cook
while you've gone to church. Well,
Aladdin and his wonderful lamp has
| nothing on this fairy house that cooks a
meal without fire.
I enjoy sweeping with an electric
| sweeper and as for ironing, with an cleo
| trio fiat, It is something you can't help
| lock so much like new when pressed with
tn 8 iron, and you can't imagine how
pleased am things are being made cas-
| Ter and pleasanter for the homemakers.
| Friday is the auction. When I was a
! little girl and lived in the country an
auction was called a vendue, and people
| had auctions only when they were sold
out by a sheriff's sale. When We went
to an auction the adventure was fraught
| with sympathy and sense Of shame. We
were so terribly sorry for the folks who
| had to have the auction we would not
dream of polzing over the goods. and as
| for laughing, one would have as soon
| laughed at a country funeral.
But now an auction is a second hand
| social function. Everybody has auctions
We are going to have one when we move
/ in our new house. Besides there is a
| lure of the auction. We go in hopes to
find bit of Bohemian glass, blue. OF
| red. treasured in days gone by as
breathing of foreign shores.
Saturday was the day for my ntnce
meat and cake made with dates. stirred
in. That is the only way I keep my
dates, and as for my mince meat. while
the meat isn't especially interesting, still
there's a rather inviting odor about ten
der tongue cooking for mince meat. AND
40 1OA ING dpplCs you NlION VI any
thing move tempting than a basket Of
rosy checked. striped petticoated ap
piles? And there's the citron pee-talx
ing one in fancy to sunny shores aEd
the smell Of the spiees is stimulating
Thoughts Of wharves and old ships com
ing in from the sea, singing-swearinE
sailors, Oh, yes. we will enjoy making
mince meats-rnixing the spice ant
scented parts. A taste here and there
will be like compromising Mystic brew
and that is the way I get happiness on
/ of everyday life. You can turn tables
upon life itself if you but try. have II
my room a large picture of a sweet
pretty girl smiling showing a row o
pretty white teeth and do you know
was smiling in return. Life is a rela
tive thing anyhow, A saying Of M
mothers was "a hundred YET from
now nobody'H know whether I scrubbed
my floor today or went birds nest hunt
ling" This may sound like irresponsi