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Notes from
A Woman’s Workshop
<MWM Australian Student Observers
•OFF TO SCHOOL
Spices, in the kitchen, leaves upon the lawn,
Asters in the garden,. all the poppies gone,
Friends back from vacations, days a wee thought cool.
Autumn clothes—and children going back to school.
Constance Vivien Frasier
When the last little laddie has trudged off to school, Mother tarns
from, the door with a sort of sick emptiness. But almost always*, we must
admit, that by the time school age arrives, our child is showing signs of
needing some definite direction for his activity. School is to one child
an adventure to which he looks forward, to another it is something to
fear and dread. Yet parents can do much to make this new life comfort
able and enjoyable- by a little common-sense preparation for the inevitable
change from family io community life. At the age of six, a child should
be self-reliant in the matter of attending to his own dressing, putting on
his own rubbers, etc. A helpless Child is a nuisance to his friends and to
the teacher and humiliating to himself. He should know and practise
jsiniplcj rules of tuKo tpricle In clean teeth, hands and nails, and
tidy work apparatus. It will smooth out many a rough spot if he has
learned the rules of happy association with other folks, generosity,
mutual cooperation, habitual politeness, and consideration. These things
are taken, for granted but not always present in a child’s home life. If
he has absorbed respect for the traditions and standing of his family
he is not apt to allow his own conduct to lower it.Above all, he must not feel that there is any separation between
home and school life. There need not be if his parents will but take his
hand and let him lead them once more along the half-forgotten paths
of unfolding life, „ ''a'f—-The Missus
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A MOTHER’S PRAYER KIDDY KORNER
Meanwhile, a sudden
the manager of the
to Montreal and no
anything t about the
As Thou didst walk the lanes of
Galilee,
So, loving Saviour, walk with him
for me.
For since the years have passed
and he is grown,
I cannot follow; he must walk
alone.
Be Thou my feet that I have had
to stay,
For Thou canst comrade him on
every way.
Be Thou my voice where sinful
things allurej
Pleading with him to choose those
that endure.
Be Thou my hand that would keep
his in mine,
And all things else that mothers
must resign.
When he was little I could walk
and guide,
But now I 'pray that Thou be at
his side;
And as Thy blessed Mothei' folded
Thee,
So, loving Saviour, fold my son for
If I had a donkey, and it would
not go
Do you think I would whip
him?
Oh, no, no! I would only say
“Get up Edward!”
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C. W. C. A.
August the call came for 830
me.
Ethel Fanning Young
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women, to enlist in the Canadian
Women’s Army Corps. We note
by the radio that 8,000 women had
applied within a short time. Single
or married women without depen
dents, aged 21 to 40, to sign for
the duration are needed as ac
countants, bookkeepers, canteen
stewards, canteen helpers, cleaners,
•cooks and assistants, dental assis
tants, draughtswomen, housemaids,
(hospital), laboratory assistants,
librarians and assistants, officers’
xness stewards, radiographers, radio
operators, sewing women, (hospi
tal), store accountants, storewomen,
telephone operators, waitresses,
clerks, messengers, secretaries, sten
ographers, typists, drivers and
mechanics.
as
and
' METHOD IN HER MADNESS ’*
KETTLE AND PAN
My neighbor patches quilt tops for
the Red Cross, and how! She uses
large patches where possible, flan
nelette, creton, good parts from I
crepe garments, in fact anything;
with swear left in it, piecing (them in the familiar “crazy” d'esign. (
But here is' the really smart trick. |
She has a piece of heavy cardboard ■
( carton, top would be excellent for
the purpose). On this cardboard
she pins her foundation block, |
stretching it smoothly and firmly, j
Onto this smooth block go the pat- j
ches, arranged as best suits their
color and shape, and pinned securely
'into- place. With the block thus
prepared' she now stitches around
the edges of the. patches, turning
in the edges where necessary, using
the machine, of course. With no
crumpling of the foundation and
no basting,
time
guilt
Have You Done it This Way?
Trim and wash a medium-sized
cauliflower but leave it whole.
Steam or boil in salted water till
tender. Cover with a rich white
sauce in which a generous amount
of grated cheese Has been melted.
Harvard Beets
2 cups chopped cooked beets
3 tablespoons watei'
114 tablespoons cider vinegar
1 teaspoon grated horseradish
,1 .tablespoon sugar
% teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon minced green onion,
2 tablespoons butter
Heat all the ingredients together
in the
beets,
again,
it takes a very short
to run up a nice, serviceable
top ready for the next “bee.”
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GABDEN TRUCK
and more we are coming to
that old Mother Nature
Science
g that all that is vi-
More
admit
knows what is good for us.
is daily provin.
tai to human wealth may he had
abundantly and palatably in our
common foods. In this new land we
have been long accustomed to com
parative plenty, so that we have,
perhaps, neglected the .plainer
grain and vegetable foods. Certain
ly we find folks from the more
Crowded European countries rely
upon them to a much greater ex
tent and know how to dress them
up so as to give variety and piqu
ancy. An old German lady was dis-,
cussing this with me and remarked
that she served the homely cabbage
eight different ways. We might
let our imaginations get to work
along these lines. Observation and
experience incline me to the belief
that most children have to be train
ed to eat vegetables possibly be-,
cause sweets are so continually pre
sent on our tables, but the pro
cess can be started early so with
tact and
taught to
them.
.patien.ee they
eft joy what is
may be
good for
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KiTWiiSN KINKS
Try whitening the bone
handies of your steel knives
by rubbing them with a flannel
cloth dipiiftd in. peroxide Of hyd
rogen.
If a small piece of bread
crust is put into the brown su
gar bowl and kept there, the
sugar will never, harden.< * g lit' + * &
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top of double boiler, but the
When hot, add beets, heat
and serve.
Cream Corn Soup
cups corn
slices onion
'3 cups milk
1% cups water
3 %
iy2
3 tablespoons chopped pimento
(optional)
3 tablepsoons butter
4% tablespoons flour
%. teaspoon salt
% teaspoon pepper
Put corn, onion, milk, water and
pimento in top of double boiler and
cook for 20 minutes. Rub through
a sieve. Blend butter and flour,
salt and pepper ,and add sieved corn
Heat just to boiling point
at once.
mixture,
and serve
serve 8.
This recipe will
Com
a half
; % teaspoon salt; 1 egg,
teaspoon sugar;
spoons melted shortening;
Spoon baking powder.
Mix corn, salt, sugar, egg, melt
eel shortening and milk together. (If
canned corn is
liquid and add
milk to make
baking powder
to mixture,
fat (360 degrees F., or when cubs
of bread browns in 60 seconds). Fry
slowly until brown and well cooked
-—eight to ten minutes. Test with
toothpick, Drftln On Soft paper.* * *
One and
or canned)
beaten; 1
milk; 1 cup- bread flour
Dips
cups corn (fresh
If
% cup
2 table-
1 tea-
used, drain off the
to it enough fresh
the 14 cup). Sift
and flour, beat ih-
Drop spoonfuls in hot
Potato Biscuits
Two cups flour, 3 tablespoons
shortening, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cup
mashed potatoes, 3 teaspoons bak
ing powder, milk to mix soft.
Sift flour, salt and baking pow
der, rub in the cold shortening and
the mashed potato. Add enough
sweet milk to make a soft dough
and press it on to a lightly-floured
hakeboard to about an inch thick
ness with'' the knuckles. Gtit with
biscuit cutter and bake in a hot
oven about fifteen minutes,
that was new to
seat beside tire
the seat behind the pilot,
in the back seat, opposite the door,
The plane began to move at once,
down the broad runway. We pass
ed a silvery Trans-Canada plane,
just coming in, and turned into the
wind and in a few seconds were off
the ground, heading westward into
2 5-mile
An
One of
peated the warning that the flight
might be a rough one, but I did not
find it so, particularly after we had
climbed above a thousand feet.
These larger4 planes fly much more
steadily than the small open-cock
pit planes in which most of my pre
vious flying had been done.
Up in front, on the left, sat Pil
ot Jocelin, two or three rows of in
struments in front of him, holding
onto a wheel that looked like the
steering wheel of an automobile with
parts of it cut away. Beside him sat
one of the young Australians. In
front of him, under the dash, was
a hole into which he crawled from
time to time, so that he.equid lie
flat \>n his stomach in the nose of
the plane and read the drift indi
cator, showing how much the plane
was being blown off its course by
the wind.
Directly behind the pilot sat the
other Australian student. He was
doing his “exercise” for the day.
On a. table in front of him lay a
map. with no towns, roads or land
marks, except the outlines of the
ft Wind.
“Exercise” Flight
the Australians had re-
me. Allin took his
pilot and Evritt in
I waft
Running Water is an
Everyday Necessity
Tenth in a Series of Air Force Stor-
’ ies Written for the Weekly News*
paiiers of Ontario,
By Hugh Temi>lin
I sat in the secretary’s office
the No, 1 Air Observer School
Malton and ?wondered what would
happen next. Things always seem
ed to turn out that way when ar
rangements had been made for me
to fly in an R.C.A.F. plane. If
there wasn’t a thunder"storm, there
was something else, The day’s
thunder storm had already passed
and the sky was clear, but orders
had become mixed up.
On the other side of his desk,
J. A. Munroe, secretary-treasurer
of the school, was keeping the tele
phone busy and now and then some
one came hurrying in with a cor
respondence file or other informa
tion.
It was obvious enough what had
happened. A phone call from”'the
Training Command at Toronto had
informed me that all arrangements
were made,
call had taken
Malton School
one else knew
arrangements.
As we waited for word from To
ronto, the big Avro Ansons out on
the runway roared away. It was
two o’clock and time foi4 them to go
out on their4 afternoon “exercises.”
Flying Officer McLeod tried to
be consoling. It was a rough day,
he said and I wouldn’t enjoy it. He
remembered ’one newspaper man
who went up in a plane on just such
a day. He wasn’t up five minutes
till he was sick, and his trip was
f,a total loss-—‘•and so was his lunch.
'Besides, the exercise for the day
wasn’t the most interesting kind.
The student observers would be
trying to. make out a -course
though they were flying blind,
above the clouds.
would ■_ _________ __
would provide better flying condi
tions. ■ ■
There seemed to be nothing else
to be done. It was a quarter after
two now and I hadn’t heard a plane
go for five minutes. The night flight
wouldn’t leave till nine o’clock and
might not return till two in the
morning and I would have 60 miles
■to drive home after that. I -had
work to do the next morning and
two members of the family were
waiting for me in the city. There
seemed to be nothing left to do but
to come back again-
The Delayed Flight
Suddenly things began to happen.
Flying Officer McLeod had gone
’out but he icame hurrying back.
“Everything’s O.K. 5Ve’ll have
to hurry, though.”
We trotted across the road toward
the hangar. On the way he explain
ed that one plane was delayed by
engine trouble. Spark plugs. I
might get to it in time.
A quick trip to' the pilot’s room,
where I was fitted with parachute
harness—two' straps over my shoul
ders and one around each leg, all
locked together in front of my stom
ach. The day was hot, so I left my
coat behind and went in my shirt
sleeves. •
Another dash across the runway
to the place where the twin engines
of Avro Anson No. 603 7 were turn
ing ovex* smoothly and noisily now.
The pilot was already in his seat.
Hasty introductions to the two stu
dent observers, K. Allin and R. EV-'
ritt,'both of Melbourne, Australia.
That was interesting. Two fiife
young fellows.
I shook hands with them.
“It’s hot!” I said just by way
making conversation. It was
stupid thing to say because so ob
vious. The thermometer said 95
degrees.
“We like it,” one of them replied,
rather surprisingly. They were in
shirt-sleeves too, with 'the same
kind of parachute harness. Later,
Pilot Jocelin 'said: “The Australians
just eat up this kind of weather.”
' A .little door was open upon the
side of the plane, and I climbed up.
One of the Australians fastened my
safety strap, a quick-release type
Another day
be more interesting and
of
a
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Great Lakes and here and there,
circles, with an arrow marking the
compass variations—not much help,
that, to a visitor from the other,
side o’f the world. On the table
lay his simple instruments, a tri
angular ruler,’a few pencils, a cir
cular red card with rows of figures
and the name, Somebody’s Rapid
Calculator. Beside him was a com
pass and up in front two dials, one
indicating the engine speed and the
other the altitude above sea level.
I sat in the rear seat, directly
behind the student with the exer
cise, but with my view to the front
partly cut off by the wireless in
struments, worked by remote con
trol from the pilot’s seat. Occasion
ally, I saw the dials turn and the
wavelength indicators change, but
of the messages which passed
through them I knew nothing. In
front of me was a table, in which I
was able to write in my notebook.
Some Towns Easy to Identify
The Avro Anson is noted for1 its
visibility. There are windows all
around. It has. even been likened
to a flying greenhouse. The rear
seat was opposite the huge wing,
but it was easy to see the landscape
below and behind.
. The sky held many clouds and
the .shadows mottled the landscape
below. The air was hazy and ten
miles was about the limit of visi
bility. After we climbed to 4,5-00
feet, we were up . in the lower layer
of clouds. Occasionally one would
drift past almost close enough to
touch. The heavier clouds, holding
a hint of. thunder, were higher.
Two or three times we ran into rain
but I -couldn’t see it out' On the
wing. Only the odd singing of . the
propellors and the drops on the
front windows showed me the dif-
erence.
I hadn’t any idea whether I would
know where we were from nearly
a mile up in the air. I couldn’t see
the compass, but the sun shone most
of the time, giving a rough idea of
the directions. There wasn’t any
doubt about the first town. Acres
of greenhouses shone in the light
as we circled over Brampton, gain
ing height. I imagine it would make
a wonderful target, day or night. If
I had been able to lay. hands on a
stone, I could hardly have resisted
the temptation to drop it overboard
on’ these glass roofs.
We headed west after that, and
the Credit river, dirty even from
that height, was the hext landmark.
Then a little village that Worried me
until I decided its mill ponds were
like those at Alton. Then camo
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hcti0^" hes^«ae.
Saks’S?v?0* and th®
Orangeville. I was nearer home
now and knew most of the land
marks. The provincial highway to
Arthur, straight as a ruler, gleam
ed in the sun for miles till it Cross
ed the Grand River. The lovely
Hockley Valley lay ahead. The
hills looked almost flat, but the
road by the river was. plain enough,
■By that time, I had the road map
out of my brief case and from then
on, was never lost. We passed
south of Camp Borden, over the
great Holland Marsh and the tip
of Lake Simcoe and down ‘beside
Yonge street to King, then in a
bee-line for Malton. There, the
students changed plances and we
went around another -circle, slightly
farther east, but in sight of Bramp
ton, Caledon Lake, Orangeville,’
Aurora and down to the shore of
Lake Ontario near Malyern. A
turn to the west ^brought us over
the eastern suburbs of Toronto.
The flight over 'Toronto was in
teresting. Out to the left was the
Woodbine race track, then the har-
boi- with a freight boat 'steaming
across the Bay. The skyscrapers
looked like tall toy buildings.-* To
the north, the reservoir shone as
all the other’ponds had done. We
paralleled Dundas street out to West
Toronto. I saw, a mile below me,
the schoolyard where I once tried
to teach a girl to skate,
buildings were easily seen,
about Six minutes to«icross
from the eastern suburbs
Humber river at^Weston.
We circled the great Malton air
port slowly, watching other planes
coming in and finally, With a clear
runway, >came down to earth with
out' a bump.
From the delightful coolness of
the upper air we stepped out into
the heat again. The students
checked tlieir maps with Pilot Joce-
lin, and I submitted mine. It was'
just two rough pencil marks on h
road map but he seemed surprised
that I had been so close to the real
route. Most people, he said, got
completely lost in the air unless they had soine training, • J
There was time for icOnversatioh
now. The Australians had been
six Weeks at Maltoh, Another six
and they would go to Jarvis to learn
bombing and gunnery With practice
bombs and real machine guns. It
wouldn’t be long till they were fly
ing over Germany,
(Next Week—Final Article)
All the
It took
Toronto
to the
■MITCHELL SPEAKER HEARD
BY STAFFA ORGANIZATION
The Staff a Women’s Institute met
in the township hall, the president,
Miss Margaret Davis, presiding. Mrs.
Oscar Reed was at the piano. The
meeting opened by- singing “O Can
ada”, followed by the Lord’s- ‘Pray-'
er. The roll call was answered by
nations of the world, Thd audience
stood at attention while Mrs. Oscar
Reed played the American national
anthem and the Russian national
anthem; Mrs. Cecil Bowipan gave
the cuiTent events, the outstanding
event being Prime Minister Church'-,
ill’s and President Roosevelt’s meet
ing, in the Atlantic Ocean. Miss
Helph Pringle fead an interesting
paper prepared by Mrs. Leslie But-
son .on Vitamin B-l. .
The topic, “Peace Education and
International Relations” was given
by W. I. Carroll, Mitchell. The
speaker’s opening remark .was that
we should be thankful.we are living
in a country where there is free
dom.' There was a time (when*we
were enthusiastic K over peace and
thought peace had come, to stay,
but We have changed ouf. minds.
He asked the question, “Do we.
have peace in our homes? Do we I
have peace in our community?”
EVefy Organization .can do a real
work to teach people to like and be
icon tent witli the country they live
in. Peace can be taught through
schools' by giving everyone^ an
equal chance, through youth move
ment if under right,influence. Mr.
Carroll also told about some of his
experiences while visiting Cuba.
His closing remark Was, “If peace
is-to be restored We hate to be a big
influence in backing up our coun
try.”
A-l BABY CHICKS
Barred Rocks, White Rocks,White-
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NEW HOSPITAL LIGHTS
REACH PT. ALBERT SCHOOL:
Donated by the people of. Bruce
County through the County Coun
cil, hew shadowless 'lights for the
hospital operating room and a bil
liard table for the airmen’s mess-
have reached No. 31 Air Navigation
School of the Royal Air Force at .
Port Albert,-
While in session members of the
County Council were visitors to the
air, training centre and after their
visit set aside a sum of money to-
be expended by the warden’s ■ com
mittee as it saw fit. The lights and
billiard table were deemed by the
Committee to be most badly needed
and authorization was given for
their purchase.
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Old fashioned music, as we get it,
is the kind that’s supposed to car
ry some kind of a tune along with it..
We wonder if that isn’t the main
reason it’s still pretty much iniclin-
ed to be popular.
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Two navvies met, as usual, In the
local’ pub. “Well,” said the first,
“poor-old Jim’s gone at last.”
“Poor nothing!” replied the Other.
“Luckiest bloke in the market was
Jim. ootxMn’t touch nothing with
out it turnin’ to money.”
“What ye mean?” askeVi the first.
“Well, listen to this.
house—-burned
Insured ’isself
broke *s arm
only yesterday
Serciety—-and
Luck, I calls it.”
Insured ’is
down in a month,
against haecidenta—-
the first wee, And
’e joined the Burial
now ’ft’s hopped it.
Summer
Complaint
Few people, especially children,,
escape an attack of summer com
plaint during the hot weather.
Summer complaint begins with a
profuse diarrhoea very often accom
panied by vomiting and purging.
The matter 'excreted from the-
stomach has a bilious appearance,,
and that from the bowels watery,,
whitish, ill-smelling, or even odorless,.
When the children show any sign
of looseness of the bowels the mother-
should administer a f eW doses Of Dr*
FoWler’ft Extract of Wild Straw
berry so aft to bring quick relief.
This medicine has been on the
market for the past Qi yeftrs. Ro-
fuse* substitutes. They may be
daiigerous. * . ..
Get “Dr. Fowler’s” and feel Sftfd.
The ft?. Milburn Oo., Ltd., Tomato, Ont.