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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1922-09-27
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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1922-09-27
Blankets

The cold weather is just ahead of You beat the
cold winter that is predicted by buying wool blankets
here
All virgin wool Plaid Blankets in beautiful patterns and
silk trimmed, special value at per pair ;. SO rs
Wool Plaid Blankets remarkable value per pair $7 so
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Cotton Plaid Blankets special per pair ~. H.. $298
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-05
A orAKrr srEErrNn

: $ Dear Social Corner Sisters: Tn read ingrtha letter written by Granger I was interested in her description of the Quaker meeting house. and it called to my mind my experience several years ago when attended 2 Quaker meeting. I was visiting down in Rhode Island. My, friends husband. where" T was visiting was a descendant of a. Quaker family And in speaking one day about them remarked I should like to attend Qua l1er meeting. "All right" he said tI will take you" So the next Sunday morning he took his wife and me in or near Hopkinton, where there were two Quaker meeting houses within a mile. We went in and took our seats. The men were on one side of the= church. and the women on the other Men all kept their hats on. There was. a minister in the congregation but the spirit did not move him to speak. After we had sat about d half hour one of the women got. up, went up on the platform, took z6ff her bonnet
 said~ about a dozen words. put on her bonnet and took her seaf. We sat there Fone hour and half aflf that was all there was said Tn the meantime fun ny thing happened. My friends bus band sat near a window where the sun shone in very warm and a wasp came Isout Investigating. He cTawled up on the gent16man's neck and he never moved a hand to brush him off. '7Fhile his wife and I were watching him sit there and | let that wasp crawl arojihd on his bare meek. I never wanted to laugh 50 in my life. but Of course we we're strangers land must preserve our deG6run1 I could not have done it to save my fife He ! said afterward he knew if It was not disturbed it would not sting After we | had sat out the service time they all rose
 and commenced to. shake hands. I shook l hands with everyone thera The women 1 all wore drab bonuets and dresses. The
 neF drab coats and hats.
 It was rather tedious to sit still sc l long with nothing but one poor little
 wasp for entertainment. That was my
 experience at the only Quaker meeting ] ! ever attended but I have. never forgot l ten that wasp. Tt was, too funny Any
 where else hut in church it would not | have excited visibility Sd much, but oi 1 course we could not laugh there 1 I here have nly annta1 bouquet ot
 wild flowers I have had gne three year: l in succession, but. they certainly are 1 wonder. This one measures in height l not including the stems; 25 inches il 1 circumference 50 inches It certainl! ] is the work of art and must require { i lot of time and patience to gather sc l many. wild flowers and put them up il such "a systematic way. A gentleman
 from springfeld, Mass, gathers ant puts them up. He spends. his vacation
 at his brothers farm near Quaker Hfl and zamuses himself in that way. I cert afnly is a beautiful thing.
 Theoda: I am so glad there Is to be Corner gathering at the beach. I cer
 taintp hope it will not he so cold as wasa when I tried to have a meet there
 Nvseold is better so I hone to he witt you an that dav If stormy will it b
 auctish style, first fair dav following. Heftng there will he 3 large attend ance and that there will be 3 delegation
 from al the clubs.
 | Best wishes for them all from
 l T01Y DunDn
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-05
WESTMINSTER

TChrist's new command to love one sn- other as He loved us was the pastors subject at Sunday morning worship, the attendance being good At the evening service the leader. A. Girouard, Of New York, a guest at the parsonage. who waE in the air service during the World war, gave in outline the story of his finding something better in religion than his early faith loyalty held until that peri -od. Eighteen were present at the meet ing 5..-
 The good time social at the parsonage last week Tuesday was well attended and proved most enjoyable from the spiral shakedown with which it opened until the. last of the ice cream !diSappear- ed and the merry crowd dispersed.
 Wednesday, July 18th. a party from here spent the day at Ocean Beach, go- ing by automobile. Among them, were Miss Olsen. her sister Edith and brother, Mrs. Byron Bingham and Walter Narcotic of New York.
 May Sas1ey of Brooklyn, N T., h spending the summer at the Mones
 Mir. and Mrs. B. N Rich of Rome, \. Y, recently visited Mir and Mrs. Will liam E. Davis. Mrs. Rich and Mrs Davis are sisters and had not seen each other for Is years.
 C. H. Koch has returned to New York dllef several udS s Wiln HIS WlIe ana chll- drep here. . .. Mir. and Mrs. Skinner and children who were guests at the Kochs' home have returned to New York. Mrs. Elsie Powell of Brooklyn, N- Y-s who for several weeks has been guez of MT. and Mrs. Oscar Hubbard, returned home early in the week. Several from Westminster attended tht annual fair, supper and entertainment as i the Green Thursday.
 l MT. and Mrs. August Edlund and theiI son, Victor Edlund, Miss Madeline Eaton, Mrs. Sophie Sundgren and daughter, Miss Catherine Sundgren, and Evelya Anderson. all of New York. are guests oi ] Mir. and Mrs. John Soderberg again this season for their vacations and are well comed by friends made by them on previ- ous visits.
 Mrs. Ella. A. Rowse of Brooklyn. N. '. is a guest at the parsonage.
 Tcenor Rice of New Rochelle, Y. r., h visiting in town.
 A birthday celebration in joint hcnol of Mrs. Stahlberg and Harry Hildstron
 was held July 23d at the Hildstron
 home and proved delightful to all present
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-05
. eRowLERs OR cHRERERs

Dear Social Corner Sisters Did you ever stop to think that with most of us life is merely a series of chances to begin over. It would be many times as discouraging as 1t is were it not for this. No one ever need find 1t hope less if within is the willingness to start afresh taking heed Co the lessons of the past.
 Failure is no cause for, discourage ment. If we make it so, ourselves only are at fault. No great Accomplishment has come about yet without a whole background of failures Success lies mere in overcoming of these than in the final accomplishment. Given the over coming, with fresh courage after every mishap and the final accomplishment is only "a matter of time and patience. We limit ourselves greatly when we refuse to see or Acknowledge this
 Our failure may have been no fault of our own. We may have planned as wisely as we were able to, we may have worked with all the vim at. our com mand, and yet the circumstances of life have overro1he us. Then we're so apt to complain and growl and mourn-three very foolish processes foolish, because they never have been known to get any one anywhere.
 Of course, if, having been flung. in the mire, we decide we want to wall5w there and let every one who comes that way run over our prostrate individuals ties, we, can. There's no law, either hu- man or terrestrlal against 1t. If we re fuse to take Eup the burden of exist. ence or effort cheerily. hopefully. we car and do become cumberers of the earth tc all. especially to those who love us. We can be. growlers or cheerers-jusi as we decide.
 .N g. E..D.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-05
GRATEFUL TO coKNERTrEs.

Dear Social Corner Sisters and Editor: The old saying is. Better late than never" wish to thank the Social Cor ner sisters, who sent me cards during my recent illness. They were highly appreciated and helped to while away many lonesome hour. l, wish especiallv to thank Dew Drop, who set the ball rolling Also those who called, and sent CT brought me flowers. Some sent cards with no name signed ts thcr'. But they were fine. Cretia. Thenda Witt wyck, Alfsra. Edna Marie. c. F, S, Eliza Jane, Night Hawk. Biddy, Olive. Lav2 enda, Mrs. Champln, Mrs, French, Mrs Esterbrook, May. .Braves Frances. Prac- tical Polly. Selinda Tone. Carolyn. Dew Drop. Roxanna, Busy Bee. Grace. Pot ter. Sister Eda.
 Sincerely hope Grandma M Is much better. She has had a long spell of it. My love and sympathy to you Grandma NJ. and to all others who are sick or indisposed in the Social Corner.
 Think Lonesome Pirs is tired os wait inr for that light fruit cai1 'ecilc
 Here is a tried and true recipe for light fruit cake:
 Light Fruit Cake: Two cups sugar. one cup of shortening, one cup of sour milk or buttermilk. one teaspoon saleratas one teaspoon lemon, one-half r5;.ftd rfis- ins, one-half pound currants,- ons-aua ter pound citron, flour to make a s if bat ter, one teaspoon baking powder in tle flour. Fine. Bake in a rather brisk oven.
 GINGER.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-05
ANTIQUES.

4a Dear secia4e CoFhef Sisters: Although + am En6t a Very frequent writer to The Corner page, I. find many things of inter est was shocked to read of the pass ing away Of Ettas Barber so suddenly, and my syrhbathy goes out to all those connected with her, also to Club No. 5, which .7sI1e sei recently started Let us hope; someone wfff arise And carry it on. I will suggest that 1t would be a fitting memoeia1 to her. if it was named The Etta Barber club. She was not person. ally known to me but her letters were always interesting Ha4fd F always looked for them in The Corner page.
 I have read several letters about hair albums and hair ornaments, but does any one remember er possess a: hair wreath. which was quite fad. in'-the early sos? People used, locks of. hair of their friends and families and made flowers of 1t and then made a wreath sTThich was framed, and have. seen some that were very handsome. and surely: would be a rare possession at the present, time
 Once I had.a friend swho mase feather flowers thatc were>So:aoeFfect that one could scarcelystelktheHn from the natural flowers if placed side by. side. She would copy any flower that came to her to copy
 It was a. wonderful gift that she had and I have never seen anyone else that could fuO ~lILer lfklkABAY AZ WIS OTlSlndl her. She ,aiso. made her own colors
 When she was young woman there was to be a donation party. for the minister,
 which was customary at.that time; also everyone who attended the party was ex-
 Rected to' carry sornethfng for the minis
 ter: She being poor, had nothing to carry, but she wanted to De there. Then she had an inspiration and gathered some hens feathers and evolved a cluster of flowers which she, took to the donation. They were Such a novelty and attracted
 so much attention that she continued to
 make them, improving all the time, until
 she became an expert artist. She re- | ceived many orders and considerable
 money for her gift. fF-.
 r Then there was fad "a few years ago for making wax flowers and fruit, which l soon pissed away "
 Speaking of@afbdm quilts. I remember II-wher 0ne who had such a. possession she l considered Herself very foftun%e indeed
 Who has read the book Aunt Jane ot :KentucKy? She had an album quilt she
 could give the history of every block ir it. It is a book full of fun and sugges.
 tions and worth; reading. During the lat, l World war a certain Red Cross grour made rag rugs of the clippings and alsc an autograph album quilt and finally hat an auction in t1e church vestry. Tho i quilt brought over .srGo and to futur. | generations will nrobab1y be valued
 relic. 5 At the same auction someone gay, | a, good sized live pig, which caused nucf l merriment,. and was duly auctioned [, the highest bidder" .s9f7. As I have wtfttesl 'udiie, d lengthy let
 ter will say good wishes to the edito
 and all Cornerites. s
 I -.'7 WRINKLE.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-05
HroUsEKEEPERs, ALPHABEr.

Dear Social Corner Sisters There seems to be a little space left in the Social Corner page each week since summer time came, so will try and help fill it with a little advise to housekeep- CTS in the form of a zHousekeepers' AL bhabet, a mixture of moralizings and household helps.
 Always be cheerful and patient as well as industrious. s Brooms hanging will keep them soft and pliable.
 Canning-Do in the early part of the season. and early part of the day, to aVeethe fruits and temper
 Dish of hot water set in over pre- vents cake from scorching, and spoil- ing your disposition.
 Economize time and health and means, and you will never beg.
 Flour keep cool and dry and covered.
 Glass clean with a. quart of water mixed with a tablespoon of ammonia
 Happiness is not much in doing what you want to, but in wanting to do what you have to.
 Ink stains-wet with spirits of turpen- tine-after three hours rub we'll
 Jars-To keep cereals in good condi- tion, always put in glass jars To pre- vent iars in the family, always bring a smiling face to the breakfast table. Keep an account of all supplies on the cost and date of purchase.
 Love lightens labors. Money, count carefully when and where you receive change -'Nutrde egs-Prick with a pin if good oil will run out. Orange and lemon peel, dry, ynulverizt and. keep in oorked bottles to use for l faVoring,
 Parsimony-Be careful lest what YOU call prudence and economy is really this Quicksilver and white Of egg destroys cockroaches and bugs. Rise. in the morning full of gratitude for new day. Sunshine within and without. is tho best medicine
 Try again and conquer all obstacles. Undue haste makes waste l :. vinegar never catches flies, but honey i does '.. :.
 wholesome advise is easy to give. ant 1 hard to take.
 Yielding gracefully is a fine art. Fest is the secret of success.
 If not too late would like to thanl 1 M< aud Mrsl Golden Glow rbr the | grand good time at their home July l2th and every one also, who made i
 such perfect success.
 Best wishes to all. r. -.------ BEATEN.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-05

Dear Social Corner Sisters: great word has been added to the vocabulary of the Social Corner, as all new words are. we shall doubtless become very tired of it. as we have become tired of psychologist and efficiency" and other overworked words. But the idea the word represents seems to have come to stay it is the word itself "service" For two thousand years practical men have looked with superior sort of tolerance on the teachings of a certain carpenter of Nazareth. What he said was very good of course, but utterly impractical Yet the service idea was first discovered and announced by that carpenter; "Who- soever will be great among you let him he your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you let him be your servant"
 A hotel has just one thing to sen and hat one thing Is service The doctor has service to sell. If he is good doc tor he has good service, a poor doctor has poor service and so you could go on rom one kind of business to another. Now the Social Corner believes in seli- ing good service-and we should try and give good service-to all the customers who buy this paper. We are not writing just to amuse ourselves-I always think Of all who are going to read my letters, my sister in the south my son out west there are friends In Toledo. Then there is Boston. California and several other places who look for my letter.
 I have been asked repeatedly to write on the subject divorce, or how to stop quarreling.
 How to Stop csuarreling@Secret of Family Peace. This is a fable I read In the Boston Post:
 Once upon time in one of the isl ands of the Azores, there was a poor wo- man who lived a most unhappy life. She and her husband was always quarreIing Every day when he came home from work he was cross and said harsh words To her. She always responded with bit. ter words And things would 20 from bad 10 worse until at last he would beat her.
 One day this woman took her water jar. and went to the fountain to fill il as usual She was So unhappy over hel unpleasant life that great tears wer,
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their daughters-in-iaw, there would not

their daughters-in-law. there would not be so much contention. :. If the heart of the mother-in-law Is grteved because of her feelings. being hurt. should she try to see how much harder she, scan9 hurt her daughter-in iaw2 Lows Is quickly recognized and when there is only federation for the sons wife she Is the first to feel it. She will gradually withdraw from the home where she is not welcome and the hus-, band will go with her. and when it is too late the mother wakes up to ind that the treatment of her sons wife. has driven her boy from home. :. z Don't you think your in-laws read the piece you sent to the Corner and do you think that has helped. matters? No, far from it. Instead of parading your family troubles in the; paper you had better get down on your knees and ask God to. show you your duty toward your in-laws and to for give you for your lack of sympathy to them. < If you were my mother-in-Iaw and wrote such piece to the public, should never accept one thing from you for myself or children.
 In regard to our town. for also live here will say I think it all right. The only draw backs are when a few ,gos- sipy women listen on the telephone and then peddle all they hear.
 It was easily said-that unkind word, E That fell from Syour lips at morn
 But little you thought as away it sped
 It would tear some heart like a thorn
 You did not mean it-'twas though1ess
 yes7 ,,44. z
 But it flew on its onward track And prayers and tears of all life's years 1 Can never call it back
 FAIRY.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-05
MORE ABoUT CoDFIsH.

Dear Corner Sisters: Here are some more v'oys to prepare codfish:
 old Fashioned Codfsh souf1e: Mix all the ingredients but the eggsLfsh, milk. potatoes and hutter-and bake about ten minutes Then beat.the yolks and the whites of the eggs separately. mix them. and spread over the top of the dish. Bake just long enough to get delicate brown color. This should be sent directly to the table from ,the oven
 Salt Codfish Au Gratin: Cook the fish and flake enough td fill pint cut Mako a sauce-a cup of milk, a tablespoon melted butter and the same of flour Mix the sauce with the fish; turn into hut tered baking dish sprinkle the top thickly with grated cheese; powder lightly with fresh bread crumbs; bake In a hot oven until light brown.
 BroI1ed CodHsh: Broiled codfsh is particularly tasty when the appetite has become somewhat jadeds Soak fish over night then drain and dry. Dip each in dividual piece into melted butter; broil over a quick fire. Remove fish to a hot platter and pour over 1t several table spoons of cream and serve.
 Salt Codash ohowder: Fry eight slices of pork crisp. Then take out the scraps. Put in two onions and cook for about Is minutes. Then put in layer of onions and a layer of potatoes Cte one cup of codfish chopped fne). 2 pint of potatoes to a cup of fish. Then add the fish when the -chowder Is cooked enough, as the fish does not want to be cooked very much. 7' Add one pint of cream into the chowder into which three crackers have been rolled and put in. Use cream when you can. If you cannot get cream use butter.
 Genuine Salt Codhsh. -Chewder-baked Take about two pounds of codfsh cut In inch squares. Fry sliced onion in a tablespoon of butter Remove the onion and put the small squares of fish in the pan (after having been soaked and freshened) :; toss them. about until they become we'll cooked pack the fst in a buttered baking dish alternately with slices of boiled potatoes, half 2 ! pound of minced pork (small pieces rolled in fiour) minced parsley two chopped tomatoes. Pour over all a cur of cream ; then add a layer of cracker crumbs Cover the dish and bake fol an hour. Remove the cover and brown
 Boiled Salt Codfsh: Select a nict thick white piece; soak it over night 1T cold water; rinse and parboil theT simmer slowly for ten minutes. Lovers 1 of codfsh serve 1t with white or egs l sauce, the latter being simple whit sauce to, which chopped powdered yolk of hard boiled eggs have been added. UNCLE SANI'S DAUGHTER.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-05
THE SOCIAL CORNER
LITTLE KINDLY ACTS HAVE POWER TO SMOOTH
 THE ROAD OF LIFE.s a|

rolling down her checks ThSTe was q little old woman standing by the foun7 tain. s
 What is the, matter, my daughter ?ss she asked as she saw the tears upon the poor woman's cheeks. 8s
 When she heard all the story. the dit tle old woman took the water jar and He'd it at the fountain. r -s
 Go home, my daughter said she : keep the water in the jar. Preserve it carefully. The moment your husband says a cross word to you i'll your mouth with a drink of it.%-v
 The woman thanked her gratefully and went to her own home.
 The next day when her husband rel turned home he began to scold her. She was about to reply when she suddenly remembered the old woman's voice. She ran to the water Jar and filled her mouth with a drink of the water To her5great amazement her husband soon stopped scolding. That night, for the first time in many weeks, she went to sleep with out a beating. She Kept this up until the jar was empty and there were. smiles in place of tears She took her empty jar to the fountain to be filed She saw the woman waiting there at the founl tain.
 How did the prescription succeed dear daughter?' asked the little old wo- man s7s
 My husband no longer beats me. ] did not dream my life could be so full oi joy. Give me, I pray, more magic wa. ter" 5asA
 The little old woman |. smiled gehly Dear daughter" said she the watel in the jar is the same as vou afwsy, get. This is the secret: "When you, mouth is full Of water and do not reply l the quarrel soon ends. That is.s wh, your life Is so happy now Go hor' and whenever your husband says an, unkind word to you pretend that you mouth is full fwater and do notrreply Go in peace my child" tR4
 The woman always remembered tn good advice which the little old womal 1 gave her at the fountain When she hat | children she passed on to them the se cret. Now it is generally known in tn island that if one does not want to kee | up a quarrel it is well to pretend tha his mouth is full of water. This is tn reason perhaps, why the people of tn Azores are so peaceful and happy. An think this answers the question. Ho' 1 to Keep Peace in the Family. Fill you mouth full of water each time you fee l like quarreling. I hope all those wh read this letter will try this prescription 4 KITTY LOU.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-05
.NEW v MRMsER. Wk1TEs.

Dear Editorsailds Corner Sisters: Twas a guest at Golden Giowss picnic July 18th and enjoyed it very nineh 7 and have been an interested reader Of the Social Corner letters for some tinie.e would like to have. my name added to the list as a member. si::.1 -.s,-
 ; Will: some one aef> fire sisters tell me how to pickle cucnnab efst' !.
 I am sending san orange cake recipe that think is. good: :xtgE
 Orange +0neefiah cup of butter, one cup sugar, tSros eggs. 'one-haif cup orange jutce, and grated rind of one or ange, two cups foyr, two small tea spoons of baking powder: Bake in lay erss .eaa,4 = f.se- 1es.
 Orange Fflling-One and one-half cups of powdered sugar. one-han cup of or ange juice and grate some rind in I would. like to take for my pen name < .,,t.s.y, ns= ss LITTLE