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Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18

I'll send 1t 80 all can read "The Foot Path to Peace" To. be glad of life be- cause 1t gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them. to despise nothing in the world. except falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except cowardice. to be gov erned by your admirations rather than by your dlsgusts, to covert nothing that Is your neighbors except his kindness Of heart and gentleness of manners, to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends and> every day of Christ, and to spend as much time as you can with body and with spirit, in Gods out of-doors, these are little guide posts on i, the foot to peace.-Henry Van Dyke read In The Bulletin last week of Van Dykes birthday I like to read, all | his writings. . ---=- Best wishes to all
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18

dry. Alcohol will also remove stains from materials that cannot be wet with water. There is one thing to impress on. your mind in removing stains from colored materials, remember that which removes the stain will also remove the color.
 Grease stains can be removed from silk with a solution made nof two tablespoons of ether, two ounces of castle soaps one quarter ounces saltpetre, one tablespoon ammonia and one tablespoon of borax. l have removed paint and, grease with plain ether. After all the stafnA are removed put my white clothessIo soak. T make a soap jelly for the silk shirts and silk underwear. To make this soap jelly, boil one cake of white soap that
 has been sfaven fine in two quarts | of water. l Even the mildest soap should never be rubbed directly upon wool or silk and strong yellow soaps are unthinkable. be- ing the cause of rottiRg the fibre of both materials. fin soap-bagk solution. Boil one cup of
 soap bark in one quart of water for hf-
 teen minutes then strain. Soak your colored clothes only a few | moments. Hurry through the suds i made of white soap) and dry quickly out of doors and in the, shade. After
 the soap, is removed thoroughly let
 them lie In the water colors to match the prevailing tints.. Use bl1ing water for blues, a few. drops Ser cockineal or red
 ink for reds and pinks. land ordinary dyes for brown. green, lavender and I navy blue Salt. added to this dye water will set the color.
 l Some have: wondered what those rust
 spots we're. Thex are particles of soap adhering Ito the ffbre of materials com
 bined with undissolyed bluing that forms ! these spots of rust that appear So nys-
 teriously lon ironing day.
 There are different kinds of bluing The most satisfactory Is the aniline blue For the sta1ching I like corn starch for callars and cuffs think it is the
 cheapest and stiffest starch on the mar. lket I Wheat starch comes next but it is moi as stiff of corn starch.
 I Rice starch will impart the newness ot unwashed materials but not stiffness ol bplttleness. Rice starch is suitable fol lingerie and infants clothesl
 | s ETHIYN.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18
sEARonING rHr A1r1o.

Dear Editor and Sisters: It has been long time since last wrote to the Social Corner and I notice that our page is looking pretty "scant" for :et- ters. am always interested in the let ters from the sisters. I am not -a club member but surely enjoy reading about hc meetings, picnics. etc.
 When I was =ummaging in the attic the other day I came across a box of old books and found a stack of DabolPs Almanacs dating from 1859 up to 1906. 1 also found some old books. the oldest being dated ISIS. ,0
 One Of the sisters sends a request for the words of Nicodemus. . Slave. I can remember one verse and the chorus which send. Perhaps when I 70 dig. ging, around the old attic again will find the other verses for I think il might be possible to find most anything there from a toothpick to a gravestorle
 * Best wishes for the Corner.
 GRANGER.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18

be able to walk out in the sunshint again.
 One sister inquiries about hair nowerA have a hair wreath made 1t when l was IA years old. It is nicely framed in gilt frame and looks as well as it' did when first made. Half ofsthe wreath Is made from hair of relations of my fathers family and the other half of my mothers tami,y. When first made could tell each uncle. aunts and cousins hair as they were woven into forget-rne- nots, lilies and other flowers. but have forgotten many Jf them now. When was married and left home mother gave iS to me and have always kept it I also made wax flowers and had them under a glass ease. No one does suck work now. Instead the girls knit warm sweaters for themselves or their moth. CTS which Is a fine thing to do. i I enjoyed reading about the trip taken by Ma of Green Gables. Instead of talk | ing a long journey myself l entertained I cousins who came by auto from Scran- i ton, Penn. and spent a week with uE My cousins wife and two children had ! never seen the ocean. so we tried to take 1 them to the shore resorts. We went to lords Point. Watch HIll. Rocky Point and Oakland Beach and had some fine I shore dinners at the different placeE. One day we drove I1s mllss We afss
 had one long drive to Ponfrst and Put ' nam and stopped at Alexander lake. Ny cousin had his camera with him and took many fine pictures which he had nnlahed after reaching. home and sent us ca. Tbe week was all too short The children were dears and we enjoyed their vfsit very much and hons they win come aearn next year.
 have made this sitogether. too lozr or-I would ten you Of my house plants ]. also have a few new cooking recipes for you, but I'll say good night and winh you the best of heavens blessings
 Sincerely yours.
 GRANDMA GRAY
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18
onEEREp BY BEING REMEMBEnED

CHEERED BY BEING hEmEMhE6GD
 Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: It is q long time since I have written letter to the Corner, but when that box of beautiful flowers came from Cub No. 2, felt that I must write and tell you how more than pleased Grandma H. was with their beauty and moro so to think she was still remembered by the dear sisters. Grandma H. at the present writing is very, very poorly and the doctor can give us no encourage ment whatever. She has been i'll now for eleven months and her strength is about gone.
 Olive: Your card and box of goodies camo this morning and when showed them to Grandma She smiled her sweet smile and said Olive is @ darling.
 Biddy and Pop Over: Was 50 sorry Grandma was asleep when you called She felt very disappointed when we told her you had called. said we should havc had you wait until she woke up. We said you would call again and that seemed to please her.
 Frieda That card of Cdw's pleased mamma very much.
 Maine Lover: Grandma is pleased tt hear from you so often. Aunty No. 1: Those flowers you sent mamma were just lovely. Such a beau tiful shade of red. We never had seer any of the kind before. When you write a letter to the Corner please tell ui their nagne.<
 Gala Lily: You have been one of thu faithful ones and mamma and we al have been made happy by your breezy calls.
 Deliah Deal: Hope soon to hear yo; are very much better.
 Grandma H. is always pleased C know that the sisters haven't forgotter her and she wishes me to thank all thu sisters who have remembered her witt [ letters and cards of sympathy in he long illness:
 BACHELOR MAID.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18
THE SOCIAL CORNER
HAPPINESS IS A HABIT TO CULTIVATE.

of this ancient burying ground in the central portion of New, Haven. We may look through the basement windows ol that church building and read the names on the tombstones yet standing to the memory of those. whose bodies have rested there since the long ago. Ii IS hero we see the name of Amy Leon ard wife of Benedict Arnold, cut in the old fashioned type. on plain stone,, 2 tribute to her, whose young life was rin- fortunately associated with traitor tc his country.
 In Hartford, at the wadsworth Athe. neum, in the historical rooms, among the many relics, may be seen a silver case watch, once owned and used by Benedict Arnold.
 Now, sisters Of Norwich, won't you please contribute nit" moro on this subject and tell us about the home sNes, as they arc at present, of these two families2
 x JENNIE.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18
CHANGES THAT COME WITH THE
 YEARS,

,, Social Corner Sisters and EdfSof: think tonight I am like the wanderer. and I must have heard the calling of the Social Corner to write, just the same as those from the north and also from the south hear the calling of the silent voice to come back.
 So will scratch my head and see if I cannot find something. if not so bright and funny. to write. about.
 A few days ago.. in looking over some old papers, I found one that was 122 years old. It was heavily tlraped with black in memory of our first president George Washington, telling how he passed away and how the nation would mourn for him and the days that I took for the news to travel. And now in "a few moments with our telephoif1 and telegraph we can reach out hun dreds of miles from north. south. east and west, and let the nation know What an invention! \,
 Then in looking again find that s runaway slave is advertised and all per sons must not harbor or protect him That too, is of the past. We are now all free-both black and white.
 Then an apprentice boy had run ava! and no one was to give him wofS Ss Al had another year to serve before hi time to his master was out.l
 Then a cargo had arrived of rum an I moiasses and would be sold for farn | produce or ashes.
 Then the printers would take rags !. i payment of their bills and so 0 l through the pages a sheriff sellin calves and another man hog and GOV for more payment of bills. And as sat and unused over the different thing I thought how things had change throughout the years.
 We change each year. some for tn better, some for the worse, but I woui like to know if it Is any worse to SC rum than use, the money made fror selling it? And how many are so dc ! ing today It seems to me that every thing is all in whirl Everybody mixing up with everybody else's bus ness. And I think as we 1ourne l along through life if we all do the bel I we can whether we were living in 1sO 1 or 1922 we shall have done our duty tA best we know now. I don't believe ths | anyone should dictate to another on
 unless he is doing something to maS
 trouble for others, and I think if VI ' would sit in the house at the foot of tn
 hill and help others that have lost thfN
 courage and also their way we coul
 still do some good to our brother an let him not lose faith in his brothe
 man.
 l ~ MANDY,
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18
SUNNY DICK TELLS OF PAST AND
 PRESENT.

Dear Cornerites:7 Was glad to see so many nice letters last Saturday, as I
 was & bit worried for fear the Social Cor ner was going to "fade out" Where are { all the writers from aPlainheld, Moosup and Canterbury? Our sister Ma of | Greene Gables has done her duty by The Corner but where are the other, sisters?
 suppose they are like me, think about i it and plan to do it-.and then can't get at it to write. was much interested in Dom Pedros letter-a visit to the sub marine .base-and wish could have been
 there also Have always wished could go down in a submarine though fancy I,;would be frightened every moment
 Still I'd like to try 1t once. Mandy: Your letter was fine and I , think as you do about trying to be cheer ful. even If We do have worries and i troubles.z sss.s, Primrose: I remember the "mcmorys canes. for I had one. was only 12 years old at that time but was very, lucky and
 had a good collection of ribbons. Then i a. few years later we gcls collected neok- ties from our boy friends and piecea 1 crazyworkI pillow tops, and I have a
 small quilt of crazywork silk and velvet which my grandmother pieced atsS that , time. Ishave had it--iaid away for, more ! than 20 years but now am going to use l itson the couch in the living roorn. It was intended for cradle quilt but there { has been no need for a a3cradle in niy fam Iny.)
 Another sister wrote about autograph 1 albums long time ago. That reminded me of some had and lost. I had one
 album which belonged to my mother
 liwhen she was a young girl. Then one
 which she had the first years of her mar.
 faH sf4h SO17 f,ar %,,fS 5.
 wrote in after Twas born. Then I had
 two of my own. with names of school
 mates and teachers. We'll, after I had left school. often looked the album. over and thought of the many change:
 which had come to each one. Years af I terward our home was broken up and a. .i was not at home at that time my schoo ,,i books and autograph albums were left il the closet of my room, forgotten by tIiost who were packing the furnishings of m.
 room. When happened to discover tfa my valued books were missing it was tot late then, and was too far away t. make an effort to get them from tn, , house. Years have passed, but I stil :, think Of those books. which I presum !, somebody promptly burned when the mex !, tenants moved in,
 sl < One. of the sisters asked about Gu s No. 6s which our sister Etta Barber ha, I started. We have never had a ineetinj ; Since Etta B. left us. Those who be Ionged to Club No. 5 were not situated s ! any one member could entertain tfi : others, and some way we did not fee . tthat we could carry on's as Etta B. di6 t She did not meet with much enc1arage |" nnent when she suggested forming Gu tl No. 5, but for the sake of those who di et want It she had her little meetings: an ' we ars glad that she lived to see Gu < No. started at least. Somebody aske : one time about Etta Barber's family He Il husband and son are staying on in tn I home and doing their own work, etc Tli - youngest son is living with cousin an { attends school. Eta B. was i'll and cor
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18

and send . word of cheer so as to let us know if they still belong to our dear So- cial Corner. I am sending 8 recipe for drop cookies which I use lot and like them very much.
 Drop Cookies-Two cups milk eggs, cup of butter and lard mixed, 1 1-2 cups sugar, cup raisins, (wash and put through grinder). nutmeg to taste, i teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons cream tartar
 Drop by spoonfuls on dripping pan bake in quick oven. Try them. We call them good and they are yer yeasy to make.
 weA, here's hoping that in a few weeks there will be many, many more letters. I am as ever,
 MA OF GREENE CABLES.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18
JOH1E ooO6 FOOTSTEPS TO FOLLOW

Dear Social Corner Friends: The writers of the Social Corner are few of ate. Have the young writers all got beaus who expect love letters to answer Instead of Corner letters, or are they married and keeping house in their new homer It is iri the hands of the writers, not the editor, to make the Corner page nnteresting. How keenly is the loss felt in the Corner of such writers as Aunt Abby. Aunt Mary, Etta Barber and Married and Happy. The young members will do well to follow the foot steps of these departed sisters as near | as posslble.
 We wish to thank the Corner sisters who 60 kindly remembered me on Nov. sth. my birthday, with very appropriate cards which were received with much pleasure. The long evenings are coming and one could spend a social hour writ ing for the Social Corner which has come to stay. Help i'll the Corner page with rood things and information for all Re- member the editor wants you to write something. it matters not whether # Is about making pies with one or. two rrusta, ot about how long the dress skirt must be to answer the law.
 Wth best wishes to all.
 RURAL DELIVERY.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18
JOAN.
A cHArrr LETTER FROM GRANDMA

GRAE
 Dear Social Corner Sisters: It Is a long time since I sent you a letter. but I hope I am not forgotten. Sister Jen- nie tells us to do our bit and do 1t oft eu. which is good advice. I'll try not to walt so long again. don't care to be called a stacker. The beautiful sum mer is gone and gray November is with us again. Some call it the saddest ot the year but we have had some lovely sunshiny days when we could have de- delightful auto drives through the coun- try. The memory Of them will brighten some of the stormy wintry days ahead.
 Armlstice day has been fttingly ob- served and flags we're floating in the breeze in all sections, It has become a national holiday and each year people will pay tribute to the men who served In the World war. sa.
 If November gives us some tireary days, she redeems herself by giving us our sacred Thanksgiving day and how both old and young enjoy 1t and work night and day to have everything in readiness for the enjoyment of the family gatherings on this day of days.
 It is a day of great rejoicing in many 51omes and surely we should be thankful for an unbroken band. A feast of good things is always prepared by loving hands which means work but as one sls- ter says, "It pays" My wish for each sister Is fhat Ii may be a happy day for you and you may think of me as oling grandma to l, happy crowd if nothing happens. Goc i pity the one who has no home to go to. Sorry to hear that Delial Deal is il and q shut-in- hope to call on her al wish to inquire a.ut some friends q
 Aara ueaa sa tseH Hope she win 500
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18
nr1UEsr no NoRwrCH gIsrERs


 Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: | am sure we are all klad to note an in- rreased number of letters and, less tpacs Esven to advertisements on the Corner page of last weeks issue. en- lorec Winona's nice letter about Put sam park. also Cretia's description lbout Mount Vernon. We get splendid Nsas about these places from tiIos0 rho have actually visited them and it dds e other tacts, which we learned in pages of history in our school days. 1 think we get very good understand ng on various subjects. by reading boclEs ln story form, founded on hfs- tory. Bome years ago l read . book, which Illustrates the point wish to bring out IL was entitled The Rejected wife, written by Mrs. s. Ann Stephens, bue l do not know the year of it's first publication. and probably 1t might bo dincult to find a copy t1t the present ums Those of you, who may have read this book. win recognize at once Iha leading characters as being Bens- sict Arnold and Amy Leonard, repre- Santsd in their youthful days, and the rurroundings Of their homes in the viz ,inily of Norwich during the Colonial psriod of American history, The rraar andsnvorB td portray the real rIrposilisn of Benedict Arnold as . boy 1na Q young man. and those tram, In 1hidh he continued later on, that led is mama Into disgraceful notoriety. ravs many tlInes wondered if the old Arnold honsstsad was still standing or ns Lsonafd house and ji1Et where el hs section of Norwich or Yantic < rlEht be. I have no other way of ind. ftT out thess items. very conveniently, Ut Co appeal so some of our Corner sis Isfs. uho might l9ow, if they reside in 1,rt IocaHty. Amy Leonard Arnold. the Ie1sctsd young wife, died in New -Ha- rsn and her rou1ains were buried In the Flfnrs ctmeLefy. Strange as it may hzn and quito out of the ordinafy
 naa 1ue Co the growth Of our prom M r1laa ul the state, today, we find M cd church edidc8 built over pari
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18

 Nicodemus. the slave, was of African
 birth
 He was bought for bag full of gold. He was reckOned as a part of the salt
 of the eArth,
 But he died years ago very old. Twas his last sad request when we laid
 him to rest
 In the trunk of an old hollow tree: 'sEake me up'' was his charge at tho first break O day; 'TWake me up at the great jubilee"
 CHORUS. There's a good time coming, it's almos
 here. ...
 It's a long. long time on its way. Now run tell Lizah to hurry up Pomp Meet me a the gumtree down in th'
 swamp To wake Nicodemus today. Sent in by Granger.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18

fined to her bed for days a time many times during the years her sons were growing up, so that her family learned to do for themselves. and now when they are obliged to do it, then can.
 don't think there will be any room for advts, on the Social Corner page if all of this is printed.
 SUNNY DICK.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18
rnE FoorPATH To PEACE

.s Dear Social Corner Members: If not loo late wish to thank all who sent me birthday cars, including friends and ny good heighbors.
 As Primrose sent in poem 1t put ms h mind of what saw at friends home hanging sz the Eau h a littia frsuna So
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18
PUTTING UP cHHIsrMAs cosSrErIcs,

Bear Social Corner Editor sisters and Readers: T wish to thank those who wrote me advising me they missed rny letters.
 Can't you see how you can prepare some most unique chrjstmas gifts that will not only be received for thelr use- fulness, but fer their novelty as we'll
 Let us then get to work. What shafl we prepare and how shall we 60 60 about n? Our first need is for a felR aimpia wooden spoon, Eraser. a bowl. a man rknife and q prestle or potato mashsf.
 Next you want 10 supply xourseif orifh few ointment isrs. some gI1.s E,orpslsd tce1apnsd on Pare Eisv~. x... c.tl
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18
ANgWERs AND INQUIRIES.
Nlcodemus the Slave.

EFFIE M.: Your name has been add d to the Social Corner list.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18

BACHELOR MAID.
The Washington times., 1922-08-05
CHURCH BOARD
RECE|VESFUND
FROM ESTATE
Other Bequest Goes to Build
ing Budget Of Vermont
Ave. Church.

Gifts OF two former members Of
the Vermont Avenue Christian
Church were applied by action OF
the church board of officers this week
to the church's building fund.
Miss Mary A. Kyle gave to the
church before her death in Decem-
Der, 1920, a one-half interest In GER
tain property, the other half to go
to the United Christian Missionary
Society of st. Louis. The net pro-
ceeds of the gift was $9.450.42, Of
which the church building fund re-
ceived one-half. A bequest Of 500
from Miss Annie L. Harrison, for.
mer Washingtonian and member OF
this church, was also turned into
the building fund.
The business meeting this week
of the Crusaders Class Of the Yer
mont Avenue Christian Sunday
School was turned into a farewell
party and shower for the teacher OF
the class. Miss Uvalena Poston, who
leaves the city today to return to her
bone at Eureka, Kansas, where she
will be married on August Q.
A business meeting and social will
be held by the senior Christian En-.
deavor Society Of the Vermont Ave
nue. Christian Church at the church
next Tuesday evening.
The Washington times., 1922-08-05
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

CHURCHES OF CHRIST. Scientist.
Branches Of The Mother Church, The
First Church OF Christ, Scientist,
In Boston. Mass.
First Church OF Christ, Scientist.
Columbia road and Euclid st.
Second Church Of Christ, Scientist,
~. e. Masonic Temple. sth and r ~ n
Third Church Of Christ, Scientist,
Masonic Temple. 18th and N. Y. ave.
Fourth Church Of Christ, Scientist
The Arcade itth and Park rd.
SUBJECT: SPIRIT
sERvIcEs--
Sunday. II .. m. and p. -
SUNDAY sCHooL--i1 .. m.
WEDNESDAY EVENING MEETINGS
- o'clock.
READING ROOMS:
1919 # ST. N. W., ROOM COS
Hours, . to s:so (except Wednesday,
. to Z. and Sundays and holiday
$3.50 to $500.
COLORADO BLDG. 18th and @ Sta
Hours 10 to . (wed., 10 to ., ana
Bun. and holidays. 3:so to S;ssj.
Its EAST CAPITOL ST.
Hours. IL to (excspt Wednesday,
II to 6; Sundays, 7:se 10 siaa
Closed holidays).
TME ARCADE, l4th and PARK ra. tses-
end FlcorI-
10 to b:3o week days; also Z 70 .
p m texcspt wednesdays)..
The Washington times., 1922-08-05
RUNNINo-eoARD LIGHT
IS SIMPLY ARRANGED

Secure from an auto accessory
shop a small dash light receptacle
and fasten 1t to the extreme front
end Of the running board. Ground
one wire to the metal frame of the
car and run the other wire to the
battery. This wire should be meas
ured some eighteen inches too long
for switching purposes. Cut IT at a
place where 1t can be fastened by a
round head screw at the bottom OF
the door about two inches in from
the hinged side. All screws must be