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Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-15
SoUIRT REGARDING N. RoEEA
 ANSWERED.

Desr Editor and Social Corner Friends: When have an opportunity to zee the Saturday Bulletin I always look for the Social Corner and 1t SO happen ca that the anniversary number came to me. I was glad to see letters from so many of the old writers and very many new ones.
 Although we stu have The Courier at our home. In order that we may not altogether lose track of those we knew for so many years. yet my work often takes me to distant parts of the state where ] do not see 1t for many weeks. noticed an inqusry for M. Roena- my mother. She visited me at Christmas time, and after visiting Faye Verna in Hartford. she went to Camden, N. J.. to visit our other sister. Just as she was ready to start for her Ohio home, she was taken ill with grip which in a few days developed pneumonia and she has been very sick there for over three weeks. She Is now gaining slowly and is able 10 sit up and know she would be glad 10 hear from any of the sisters, as she has always been interested in the Social Corner. Mail address NJ Roenz, l42 Cedar avenue. Woodlynne, Camden, N J.. will reach her.
 an sure the sympathy of the Social Corner goes out to Jim and his daugn- ter in their great sorrow.
 Kitty Lou; I enjoyed your letter telling how to get the most out of life. Spry Bird: I took a trip through East Jongmeadow while on my vacation last year. It Is a very pretty place, and enjoyed your description of it.
 With best wishes to all.
 FLEETWOOD.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-15
sPEING AND rrs LEssoN

Dear Editor and Corner Sisters: The chinoing of the birds tells us that spring Is with us again. The air Is growing mi6er by the warmer rays of the sun. The days are iengthening and a feeling of activity and energy runs through every one and nerves him to work with greater will and stronger endeavor with the open ing of spring. The fields will soon put forth their blades of grass and grains and the trees and bushes will send forth their buds and soon we shall behold all nature bright and beautiful
 Who will ever forget the apple or the cherry he has seen in blossom, mayhap, nthe gone by days of youth as he play ed around the old farm in the country. Then nature is growing day by day In ebauty and loveliness. The buds grow in handsome blossoms and the blossomS into fruit The tiny grain shoots Up into waving branches and in tirne comes an abundant harvest How the heart Is en- tranced by the study of nature-and how it's thoughts rise from earth to heaven. when all this beauty bounty comes Let us join in the hymn oH thanksgiving wht1ah all nature sings to God It's Great or the Giver of all these gifts The birds sing His praises. and the waving branch es keep timo with their song. The bloom Ing fields hespeak the fUdlness of His county. ana the fruN and mowers seen on every side gladden. the sense and sight of man and fill him with feelings of deep est gratitude, which in true Christian heart finds echo in fervent prayer of thanks. We cannot leave these thoughts without calling the moral they suggest
 It Is this: Since God renews nature every springtirne. does He not wish to re- new our hearts as well? He gives to the fields a new life, will He not renew ths life of our souls An, Yes; this is what He wishes and will do if we allow Him: And 50 nature, which erows so beautiful. 50 bountiful and so fruitful under His divine hand will be out-rivalle6 in us by that same divine hand. renewing and i'm planting in us beautiful thoughts bountiful virtues and fruitful deeds which will be the joy of the present and the glory and reward of our future life.
 Etta Barber: was sorry I could not go Friday.
 Ma of Greene Gables: am like you and think by letters are not nrunh good. But they help to fin uIs pA&e way e4uA here don't ind much to write about only nature.
 Csdy: Sometime will write you a let ter on Blues.
 Best wishes for Happy Easter. BLUE BABY
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-15
uov SAVE TIME AND STRENGTH


 To the Social Corner Family: It seems to me the Social Corner grows better eacn week and the person must be nara 10 suit who does not find something to he1p aiohs the way. The letters are so varled' heA2- ful and cheerful
 The "reminiscences of the unfortunat who wandered about the country nave been most interesting. I have faint recollection of Charlie and Dolly White- house. An aunt (oy marriage) used 10 tell us about she Darn Man" coming 10 her home. She said that when young the "Darn Man was very bright and prom isine and engaged to marry the woman or his choice. On the very day they were 10 be married the young lady died. Her death made the young man queer ana he wandered about insisting on always wearing what was to have been his we'd Hing coat darninx it to make 1t hold to- yether, and from that getting his mama
 My grandmother and grandfather thoJght i; almost crime to turn any one from their door who came asking for food and shelter and I've heard my grant, father say in casual manner. Old Holloway and his dogs stayed in the barn last night"
 There is one incident I remember so well that happened while on vish to them It was well afternoon when man came to the door asking for something To eat My grandmother put good dinner on the table and the man ate. talking all the while in a rambling cratic manner. After finishing his dinner he took news paper clipping from his pocket and said he wanted to read to us. It proved to be
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-15
MEETING OF CLUB No. 5.

Dear Social Corner: April was not flair and bright" but a real April day with a little sunshine. little rain and plenty of clouds, so I felt little anxious in spite of the cards and letters received until Sally Sycamore appeared so cheer ful that she seemed to bring the sun shine with her; then a bright red car drove up and E. NJ. R. c. P. came in fol- lowed by my neighbor across the street and later by Hinkely. We enjoyed every moment-not one was lonely for none of us are deaf and dumb or tongue-tied. F. NJ. R. c. P. gave the club an invitation to an outing that she and her hubby have planned for us this summer with free transportation both ways and you can be sure we accepted.
 During the afternoon I received card from Aunty No. 1 and letter from Eve lyn Burr. saying Calla Lily gave my in- vitation to No. 2.
 We shall meet again May if nothing happens in the same place, when we shall serve a basket lunch and arrange pro- gram.
 I hope E. L. M. will go ahead ana form Club No. 6 even if she begins with four for they have everything to gain and nothing to lose as they can go to the DE times just the same.
 ETTA BARBER.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-15
A FLOWER BOX THAT TAKES LIT
 TIE TIME

Dear Friends: If we all did as Cady suggested, what an interesting page we would haveI She said there must be some ono thing each one of us can do better than another. Why not pass it on to the rest of us?
 I don't know of anything I can do bet ter than anyone, but will offer a sug- gestion.
 read somewhere of one housekeeper that loved flowers but had no time to devote to them. That is "a great deal of time. So she had a flower box built right outside her kitchen window. and had flowers growing so she could enjoy them as she sat at the table peeling potatoes or doing her baking, and even while hanging out clothes. I plan to do the same thing. How easy to open the win dow and weed the flower box and what source of enjoyment for the children to
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-15
socIAL CoRNEn PoErRY.

THE FADED COAT OF BLUE. My brave lad he sleeps in his faded coat of blue. In a lonely grave unknown lies the heart that beat so true; He sank faint and hungry among the famished brave, And they laid him sad and lonely within his nameless grave. Chorus No more the bugle calls the weary one Rest. noble spirttl in thy grave un- known: I'll find you. and know you. among the good and true. When robe of white is given for the
 faded coat of blue. He cried. Give me water and just a little crumb, And mp mother she will bless you through all the years to come; Ohi ten my sweet sister, so gentle good and true. That I'll meet her up in heaven, in my faded coat of blue" He Eaid: My dear comrades, you can
 not take me home But you'll mark my grave for mother.
 she1l find me f she'll cons; ! fea- she'll not know me, among the
 gSod and true, WAeu meet her up n heaven, in my
 faded coat ot blue" Long. long years have vanished, and
 though he comes no moro, Yet my heart startling beat with each
 foot fall al my door; gase "o'er the hill where waved a
 last adieu. But 10 gallant lad I see, in his faded
 coat of blue. No sweet voics was there, breathing soft
 a mothers prayer; But there's One who takes the brave and
 true In tender care No stone marks the sod Ger my lad 50
 brave and true, Ia hls lonely grave he sleeps la his
 faded coat of blue.
 Sent h by PhSnsa snd P. P. B.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-15
TuE 1ErrERs THAT rrEEEsr

Dear Social Corner Members: It has been some time since visiting ths Corner but I have enjoyed reading your letters. especially those about the old tsnes and place( around CarasTfoury and West minister, also Beach Pond, thinking each that would be sure and write but an very busy and the times goes by and Wed iesday comes and the letter Is not written. Dew Kirt: I am sending the words of the old song. The Faded Coat of Blue. a beautiful old song.
 Don't Worry: There Is a bridge in Willhnantic called Horse Shoe brioEe- It Is over the Naachaug river near the fair ground on the road leading from WlIAmansic to Windham Center where q curve in the river forms a co-rpie.s horse shoe.
 I know we all are glad to sec spring is coming. and nature awzldng in all the beauty to a new lie.
 PHUIsA
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-15
MORE RUEEs FOR nUsrY s1NKs

Dear Cornerites: I have been reading considerable of late about what different ones had to say albout rusty sinks. Now If you will allow me will ten you what to do and I do not think you will be disappointed. in the first place If the sink is very rough and rusty SCOUT and scrape it as smooth as possible, after which wash it with your greasy dish water (no matter how greasy 1t is) don't use kerosene. don't SCOUT 1t and don't wash 1t with clean water and soap. wish the sisters who have trouble with their sinks would try this every time they wash their dishes for a few days and report. Of course we know there is much differ ence in the casting. Some will never be smooth. had one of that sort. which caused me great Uexation of spirit, esDe- cially if I tried to be nice to it. Now have one Of satiny finish, but only if l adhere strictly to the given rules.
 I would say to E. L. M. that I am quite sure there is no Social Corner club between Ashaway and Noank. Tom Grinel was a native of southern Rhode Island. He was son of Sanford Grin ell and lived in Perryville. I never saw but have heard our family tell much aobut ''Liz Letson."
 I have enjoyed "Mandy's" letter very much and I thought of the boy who couldn't have "an old fashioned mother" in company with others who were telling how far back they could remember. He said he could remember when he was born. There was no one there but he and his grandmother, his mother had gone to the club.
 Don't Worry: have never heard be- fore of a silver sixpence flower. Per haps it may have some other name. There are quite number Of different coiored phlox. Some are very beautiful. Among the hardy plants are peonies detphiniunn dicentra. pinks, iris, daffodils, jonQuils, yucca lilies, chrysanthemums and a great many other kinds.
 ! am almost scared when see how much I've written and I will stop imedi- ately.
 DOROTHY BRADFORD
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-15
APPROVES THE OLD FASHIONED
 MOTHER

Dear Social Corner Sisters: would hke 10 reply to Mandy's letter entitled Old Fashioned Mother. That was the kind l had and Oh. how her girls loved heri We were never ashamed of her. She was both mother and sister to us Three Si-ls- Out shopping she was be- tween us. boating she was there with us and since we eacn have an auto never go riding that don't think if mother vas here how she would enjoy it with us. She was never one to say any bad Of a perEon and if told 1t, would say. q can't believe this or that, they Era su-h nice people" Do we find the new mother of today saying that? No, the most of them are ready to repeat it and add a whole lot to it and make lhse person ten times blan5ler than paint ed. am glad I am one Who can see the rood side Of an imperfect person, as I am not overlooked in the gossip shuf- Re. I say, What if each person was talk tn before a judge 10 prove things they say. Could they positively and honestly prove tho things they tell7 No! In the lace of the sin people condemn not for what th0y can honestly prove against the person. So let's hsve more of the old ,ashbored kind of mothers. I wonder now many rlobhers are like me. My son Isvs. Ma. you have a big family and The boys call you Ma on the street, and tt the theatre yell out, hoV's that Mar Among them are married mer with families who are just a little undeu my years and do it from hearing others Hubby's Chum is the only daughter whc aas got the habit of calling me mother md in the whole I am mOther to oni! ous boy. I like it and feel as if ha6 ots Of good friends among those whc .au ne by that name. Come again Mandy. your thoughts are good.
 Anna of Columb'a: My mother ha, sften told mo of Frank and Jane Greer pnd their baskets. Joan could tell O hem
 Social Corner Sisters: I find can ge The Social Corner hadges Wifh tho writ tr's nan1e thereon in Norwich and i ihose who have asked for one or thOs who want one vial call or leave ordea Tor Gala Lily sa bs Broadway. Norwich with hfesn cents for each badge ana two oelts additional if 1t is to be mailed ! win see that they get thezA Pleas Prito plain as TR have had EndHtaks
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-15

dirt without sitting 1t, being careful to keep out all stees and pebbied. Then sift on a good layer of dirt for the top of bed. Now 1t should be six inches or more above the level ground, so firm 1t and kift until 1t Is raised six inches or nearly that. Your seive should be made of galvanized mosquito net and the larger It Is the faster you get along. Dc your nrrning with board. If your soil is any fair garden soil you are ready for good variety of hardy perennials, includ- ing my favorites which are biennial and the peach bells which are very pie turesque also, when in bloom. Here Is a list of the easiest ones to grow: lupinus. gaillardia, foxglove, sweet William. hol- lyhock, delphinium belladonna, platy CO., don, campanula medium and persicifolia or peach bells. Those germinating first plant at one end of the bed and the slower ones at the other end. The first of this iist are foxglove lupine hollyhock and Canterbury bell. larkspur peachbell. gaillardia and sweet william are slower but just as sure.
 You can mark your rows as near as four inches apart. knitting needle is plenty coarse enough to mark the rows. Remember, these fine seed must not be covered, but sift the soil over the others. SOW as tfinly as possible and just firm
 
 the soil is moist just cover the bed with thick brown paper and hold down with sticks or stones at edges. Look under every day to see if they arc moist
 enough. When dry sprinkle with fine
 spray and held it up well above the bed or tiny seed will be buried too much to
 Eeruinate. Roll the paper back as they come up.
 For those who only wish to plant in a seed fiat get as rich a soil as you can, as you cannot use any fertilizer other 1 than plant food Sift the top soil and you can grow anything you wish. and it | Ia not too late. I began growing hardy
 perenniafs in flats with splendid success
 and have grown all kinds of annuals | from seed. Seed to be sown out of doors now are annual larkspur. poppy, annual phlox, Ynarigold and others. If you have planted flats and sprinkling seems diff 1 cult task, just use clothes sprinkler | Also, if you transplant try the paper pots 1 which can be sunk into the soil to rot and
 the plant keeps right on growing. We'll, ] guess I better stop, but I would like tc keep right on.
 Deliah Deal: I hope the package ar 1 rived in good shape.
 | Persis: hope you will succeed witr 1 those perennials. have and you would l believe me if you saw them.
 1 Little Sister: Did you have lupies? ] am glad my suggestions have helped you 1 wish every one loved flowers as l do
 The world would be beautiful with them
 not in places, but all over. Will give l you suggestions about annuals anc 1 transplantIng next time.
 l CANTERBURY BELL.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-15
SOCIAL CORNER EVENTS. Aprsl 1s.-Corner Club No. 3 meets in Lebanon Baptist Chapel
ANsWERs ANp 1Nau1RrEe.

FLEETWOOD and INTERESTED READER: Letter received and forward cd as requested
 v. R A. and PHILIsA: Changes have been made as requested.
 BLACKETED SUSIE: PaekAgs for Warded ls requested
 KITTY Lou: Many thanks, Ereetings returned Letter and cards forwarded as directed. sd
 TO ALL THE CORNER: May 1t be a joyous and blessed Eastertime for all the Corner members.
 RED CLOVER: Many thanks. The same in return.
 TUTY: Your name has been added to the Social Corner list.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-15
CARING FOR PLANrs.

Dear Social Corner: More than year has gone since I've written and I'm buster than ever. So many have asked about plants that it has stirred me to fill the gap. I have two windows each ten feet long, filled with growing things, so you may know I'm a real fiower-lover. One has to have a real love for things to take the trouble to do for them in anything. I've crocletted. done all sorts of fancy work, raised
 chickens and canaries and bees, had amateur photography, and now want radio outfit. Am teaching school
 (grandmother as I aIn) or I'd fattend some of the club meetings That pleas ure Is in store for me when vacation comes
 My success with begorlias leads me to tell how I do with them. They like the acid soil of well rotted wood. dig un- Ger the chip pile for the soil next to
 the ground. getting half sandy loarn
 And let all plants get dry before the next watering. and then water from the bottom by filling saucers till moisture shows on top. For saucers I use the hat salmon canB CT any such reoeptta- cle. There Is no trouble changing plants
 from a small can to larger when you
 unsoider the little round piece from one end and put N on one a little larger, 1 inside before filling with soil. It makes good drainage and you simply press the plant upward from the bottom in order to remove it. avoid pots unless they can be set in a jar or greenhouse. There are twenty two sorts of begonias ir my wirdowa. The .coleus is as handsome as any flower and so easily grown, and If it freezes you do not feel it as a
 treat loss. The single petuniss are ever blooming and imagine my delight at q little morning glory seed that wound 1 its way up a rubber plant and now Is 1 opening its fresh glories every day The hoya or wax vine Is budding at esNry | joint now, and will soon fill the house
 with fragrance. An always glad to give Es am to receive new cuttings or ] plants. I wish cNaId find g.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-15
RoRE REcOLLEoTIoNs OF TRAv-
 PLIERS.

Dear Social Corner Editor and Friends: When 1922 came in did not make any New Years resolutions Qater to be broken) but at the Christmas sea- son did join the Social Corner with the firm intention Of attending the Social Corner meetings with regularity in the future, but, "aIas, for the plans cf mice and men!' While many good things in life pass me by grip never does and this time was. no exception. It shut me in for weeks and it's after effects have still shut me in from attending any Of the meetings so far in 1922, only as I am there in spirit when the Wednesdays come around. I read the letters of course and they interest me; some more than others, to be sure, as I think is the case with all for all are not equally interested in every subject. have been interested in the memories nf the Knights of the read" Several have mentioned Tom Grinnell. I have seen him many times
 When I first saw him years ago I did not know his ways and when he left the house of friends in Rhode Island where was then staying he shook hands with all. I supposed he had gone away for a long stay but in a couple of hours or so Tom was back. I found 1t was only one Of his ways of being friendly. One wrote that he used to say Tom won't hurt anybody" I think that was very true
 He certainly was very harmless. He was not always on the road" He used to work on farms but liked to take trip off now and then. People knew him and al- most everyone seemed to give him a vel come in the form of food and shelter on his trips. Tn Edward Everett Hale's Christmas at Narragansett, he refers to Tom, calling him by name and saying he Is the singing gaberIunzie who looks in
 on everybody from Point Judith to the Gilmans at Norwich Town. (Mr. Hale summer home was at Matunuck R. T. for many yeArs.) I have seen Tom when
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-15
CARRIED SUNSHINE AND CHEER.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Sisters: It Is with heartfelt thanks and deep ap- preciation that I wish to acknowlede the little remembrance that the sisters so kindly sent me from the last meeting at Buckingham Memorial
 When Chocolate walked into my home with the little sunshine box under her arm. and handed it to me, I was quite surprised, and if every one of those box es has brought as much sunshine and cheer to each heart that has ever receiv- ed one, as that little box did into mine, I assure you they are never sent in vain. Chocolate has been a great friend to me the past winter. Afflicted herself in some ways yet she is always doing for someone else who needs sympathy and help. am sure these little acts of kind ness we may do perhaps tighten some other persons load, will always come back to us, pressed down, full and run- ming over," for we are told to Cast our bread upon the waters, and 1t will return to us after many days" I am reminded of hymn we so often used to sing in my old home church at West minister cannot remember all ib e words but two of the verses run some thing like this:
 There are lonely hearts to cherish, While the days are going by, There are weary souls who perish, While the days are going by. If a. smile we can renew,
 As our journey we pursue, O. the good we all may do, While the days are going by. There are loving links that bind us, While the days are going by, One by one we leave behind us, While the days are going by. But the seeds of good we SOW, Both in shade and sun will grow, And will keep our hearts aglow, While the days are going by.
 What beautiful world this would be If everyone would just make their lives correspond to these lines!
 With best wishes and success to you aTl
 BLUE BELL.