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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1941-09-04, Page 6THE EXETER TIMES-ADVPCATC '"to 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 at at 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!” * * * C. W. C. A. August the call came for 830 me. Ethel Fanning Young f* * * !n 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.” * * * 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 ■* . ’ # l|< * * * # 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' + * & * & * * * ♦ >ii $ * * 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 “I 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 x. in Kitchen, Laundry, Bathroom and DURO Pressure Water System will furnish an ample supply of water undo? pressure to all parts of your home and farm. Without running water, sanitary conveniences and modem facilities, so essential to health and happi- ness, are not available to your family. ' The cost of EMCO Bathroom, Kitchen arid Laundry fixtures and fitting^: m very reasonable and can be spread over a period of time under our Easy Payment Plan. 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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- Jersey Black Giants, New Hampshire Reds Write or Phone for Prices A. H. SWITZER HATCHERY Phone 38-3 z Granton,, Ont. 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. -V- 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. ins®* $ -V- 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.