HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1942-02-05, Page 6Thursday, February 5th, 1942
Dr. Margaret Strangi
Tiia T. Milburn Co., Ltd*, Toronto, Ont.
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FORM IN WHICHTOBACCO CAN BE SMOKED."
The upper crust is not always the
toast of the town.
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No question abou,t who’s the
best man on earth—lie’s the fel
low your wife could have married
but didn’t,
. THE EXETER TIMES-ADVQCATE
BIBLE IN SCHOOLTHELATE WINTER
us two weeks of the
ECONOMY NOW A NECESSITY
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neighbours with
This tree, spelled
problem. As I
tile, ibox there
the thought of a
Earlier
shop had
this line.
its face. Growth
strawberries ripened
I am content with latticed sights:
A lean gray bough, -a frill
Of filmy cloud, the shadow-lights
Upon a window-sill.
And a now game to make his eyes
sparkle.
I had worked with, the school
children helping them prepare the
concert, The baby organ is not here
swinging jackets with
Many of them are design-
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an inch in diameter. Brush
milk, transfer to a greased or
sheet and bake iff a very hot
(400 ffeg. F.) for 1.2 minutes.
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KITCHEN KINKS
Notes from —
A Woman's Workshop Savage Writes to
MORE BABY TALK
Perhaps you will remember that Ella and I had been talking about
the visiting baby. She was much impressed with the care that was taken,
of Ms feeding and told me of the vegetables, oil,, fruit juices, bone-builder,
etc., that were used. Being a bit rusty on the subject, I was greatly in
terested in this diet designed to build up a strong body. But actually, and
Jn a much less exact way, of course, the family-baby we used to ikamw
got much the same food. To that baby dinner was the highlight of his
day. When the family meal was ready he was lifted into Ms highehah
and, pulled up to the table (not too near the butter please). He had his
own little plate, and onto it went some of almost everything---^ little car-
rot* finely cut up> a spoonful of ■creapied potato, a bit of bahed apple* a
trifle of shredded bacon. A tough crust was firm for those incipient
teeth, and what that baby could do with a chicken bone. Then, equipped
with his curly-handled spoon, he went into action. It was a perilous
.passage from ,plate to mouth, and much good provender was lost m tian-
sit, hut some at least must ‘have reached its objective. When he had had
enough of things in general baby"pushed back his plate, tossed his spoon
overboard, wriggled round to poke M.S fat legs through the bars, and
proceeded to do hair-raising stunts with his chair. At this juncture,
the family had about all it could take, so someope untangled the pro
testing infant, washed off the mask of potatoes, and thrust him into his
bed where, resigning himself to the inevitable, he tucked his dear little
pink thumb into his mouth and got down to the business of sleeping it off.
—The Missus
I am content in wintered days
With all my eyes may meet,
April, when you dance down these
ways
Hush your awakening feet.
—Hazel Hall* *
My neighbor used to say that the
test of true economy was to be able
to use a barrel of sugar as carefully
as a quarter’s worth. There is a
good deal of truth in that remark,
for it does seem that as long as we
have a good supply of anything, we
cannot realize that a shortage
could exist. This seems a childish
trait, but that’s the way we are
built. In a broader sense this is
true of us as a nation. We are
ajccustomed to abundance in land,
in living space, in assured harvests
and even in our worst times have
experienced no such universal need
as is common in the older lands.
We are now suddenly faced with a
shortage of many commodities, the
origin of which has never given us
a thought. As we learn -to do with
out them, we may eoiUe to have
a wholesome respect for the string
encies that have been the age-old
heritage of our less fortunate
neighbors. ’’
in the year the Work-
some suggestions along
___ These are, we think, im
portant enough to bear repeating.
Many teachers feel .somewhat help
lessly, that they are not fully tak
ing advantage of the opportunity
afforded by the school for giving
children a better acquaintance with
the Law under which we .profess to
live. The lettei‘ quoted below pret
ty well -covers the situation:
'And so another year lies ahead!
What it may hold for us and for
our dear children we cannot pre
dict. Our task as parents and tea
chers will be to fortify their hearts
and minds for whatever may be in
store.
“We can do this in no better way
than to fill their minds with con
fidence and hope by the study of the
Word of God. JPer,haPs some teach
er who reads this may desire to use
< the Day School Gospel League in
her classroom. By writing to Mrs.
Ethel Adams, 53 Millwood Road,
Toronto, you may secure a copy of
St. John’s Gospel for each pupil.
When these have been read and
the questions, one for each chapter,
answered, write again and receive
a New Testament for each one.
“I personally, as well as many
other teachers, have used this plan
for years. The children are keen
and we* can do our little bit for
them in this way.1
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KETTLE AND PAN
. ; 1. And Now Sugar
' The government has issued or
ders, if such they may be called,
for voluntary .sugar rationing.
Twelve ounces per person per week.
We can take these orders mostr
gladly if necessity demands, we
have done it before. But if a short
age is imminent, why not cut out
the pussy-footing and give us our
ration cards. This so-called vol
untary method has not btroughti1
success in the gasoline situation.
As it is, the -conscientious people
cooperate, and the other kind fat
ten at their expense. Then too,
there are so many situations where
no one can tell us what is expected.
Such things as church suppers, for
instance. How foo we work the
sugar rationing there? What about
the consumption of candy? May we
use syrups in place of sugar? If
the family table must suffer a re
striction, may money still be spent
in the manufacture of luxury pro
visions such as beer? At -the mo
ment, the whole thing looks like
a flop. Must our little sacrifices
be administered to us in sugar-
coated doses? We are being treat
ed like children who must be hum
ored. It is to be hoped that we
won’t have to be spanked to make
up for it.
1942
send Now Regulated by Law
Shell jewelry in flower designs
for spring, because it is so pretty,
feminine, and will give your cos
tume a dressed-up look.
Big bright brass buttons on ’your
spring suit or two-piece dresses,
some of them light reflectors for
wear at night in a blackout.
Dresses with lace tops, the top
covered by a bolero or jacket. Good
for women who haven’t time to
change before dinner.
Handkerchiefs that spell spring,
prints bigger and brighter 'than,
ever or pretty flower designs to
add color to your costume,
Loose,
slacks,
ed on boxy lines to be worn
either slacks or a skirt.
Peanuts in Cooking-
In view of the rising prices and
probable scarcity of meats, we
should set about acquiring more
skill in the handling of substitutes
—proteins such as beans, peas,
lentils and peanuts. T)ie last-nam
ed food is ■ very high in vitamins
B and G, and rich in phosphorus
and calcium. The peanut yields
abundantly, is cheap even outside
its native climate and is the source
of an amazing ’ number of valuable
by-products. Ingenuity will devise
many other methods for the use of
peanuts and peanut butter. These
are suggested:
Ham and Peanut Bouchees
One cup finely minced boiled
ham, U cup melted butter,. 3 table
spoons mayonnaise, % cup peanut'
butter, 1 clove garlic, crushed to
powder; rich baking powder bis
cuit dough.
Mix together the ham, butter,
mayonnaise, peanut butter and gar
lic. Mix the biscuit dough and cut
mixture in half. Transfer one por
tion to a lightly floured pastry
board. Roll to an oblong shape
one-fourth of an inch thick. Spread
with the ham and peanut butter
mixture. Coven with remaining
biscuit dough, rolled to same shape
and thickness. Press together and
cut -in very small pieces, no more
than
with
oiled
oven
Peanut Butter French Toast ’
Sandwiches
Spread slices of enriched bi’ead
with peanut butter or peanut but
ter crunch. Top with second Slice
of bread to make sandwiches. Re
move crusts. Gut sandwiches in
half and -dip in an egg-milk mixture
and fry in. butter. Drain on absor
bent paper and serve 'hot with syr
up, jelly or jam.
Peanut Butter Brotvnies
Four tablespoons butter, M cup
peanut butter, 2 eggs, 1 cup su
gar, teaspoon baking powder,
% cup sifted flour, % teaspoon
■salt, 2 squares unsweetened choco
late.
Cream the butter and peanut
butter together and add Lite sugar.
Add beaten eggs, melted chocolate
and flour which has been mixed and
sifted with baking powder and salt,
Spread In a shallow pan which has
been lined with buttered paper
and bake in n moderate oven (350
deg. F.) for about 30 minutes. Yum
out and cut in squares.
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Dixonville, Alta.
1 January 16,
Pear Caven Church
and Sunday School;
Through the quiet dark of
wonderful January night, I
you greetings for another year,
soft wind is sighing out of the south
west over this wide valley that has
lain for a week in the cradle of the
famous Chinooks. Much of. our
snow is gone, bare patches of dark
earth show in the fields;-the roads
are miles of pounded ice. The bare
tree-tops stir and whisper, and' in
and out below them flit the restless
shadows of countless snowshoe rab
bits.
Except for two hitter weeks at the
New Year, we have had a wonderful
winter, 1941 was a struggling, year.
The spring was first cold and dry,
then we were pounded by heavy
rains that fairly locked the seed in
the ground. Growth was slow and
somewhere in those raw days in May
the fruit blossoms on the saskatoons,
blueberries and wild currants were
thoroughly nipped by frost. Then
the June rains swooped down on us,
lavish and warm. In the last two
weeks of June, with the sun shining
eighteen hours a day, the whole
world changed
was luxuriant;
overnight.
July brought
most torrid weather this country
has evei' seen. Many farmers who
worked their horses beneath that
blazing sun, lost one or more of
them the next-day, from sunstroke.
Then the rains came again, and they
never ceased till after freeze-up in
late November, Hay rotted where it
lay in the fields. Harvest was one
long struggle, with the binders often
sliding, instead of running in the
sodden fields. I saw some binders
still cutting wheat in late October
when the surrounding bush was bare
of leaves. Threshing was even a
longei- struggle. Help was very
scarce—so many of the men have
gone to war. .The women and child
ren turned out.
Once threshed the grain was
abundant, but very damp, the grade
low and the price poor in con
sequence. With the prices up on al
most everything they must buy, it
looked like one of the most difficult
winters in history for the farmers.
Fedd was scarce; the seventh year
plaguy of rabbits took heavy toll of
grain stooks and feed stacks.
But things have steadily righted
the balance. T-he winter has been
mild and easy on feed. The grain,
..poor as it was, pours steadily by my
door every day, aboard a score of
trucks, finding its way to market.
Fur prices- have been good. Hun
dreds of men and boys have turned
to shooting spuirrels, trapping" small
fur and skinning rabbits.
Gardens in 1941 were lavish with
vegetables. ...We grew everything
from corn to pumpkins and from
beans 'to tomatoes. Wild fruit was
rather scarce, so we are going short
in that regard this winter, but the
thrifty women, folk filled their empty
jars with canned vegetables.
And so to the muttering > ac
companiment of wai’ on the other
side of the world, and in the midst
of anxiety foi' the scores of our men
who have gone from our midst, we
have carried on. In spite of rain
rain and mud the crop was saved;
every berry and every vegetable wa
could gather, stowed away. And it
is a good world indeed.
The box of White Gifts from Caven
Sunday School, came to me the week
before Christmas. At first I won
dered what I ought to do with them
This year the little Sunday School
at Dixonville decided to have a
Christtmas tree, but not gifts for its
own scholars. Instead on Christmas
Sunday, eack scholai’ brought a
White Gift of his own and laid it at
the foot of the tree. These gifts are
being sent to England for homeless
boys and girls. They will be far too
late for this Christmas, but they will
be warm and serviceable anyhow.
But the night following the arrivel
of your box, there Was to be a
Christmas concert in the ’Ghllrch, put
on by the public school children.
There was a small sack of treets for
every child. Children exchanged
gifts, an,d even the parents remem
bered friends and
some small token,
the answer to- my
sorted the gifts in
sprang to my mind,
score of little people, some of whom
I had seen very lately.
Ono raw October night I worked
In a house two miles- away. It was
pitifully bare but shining clean. It
was late when the new baby arrived
I can see yet the look of wonder and
delight in young Johnny’s face as he
got his first glimpse of his flew bro
ther. Johnny is six and his clothes
are poor and thin. There was- a
sweater, a cap, a pair of boots in
that box that would just fit him.
A Pendent precaution, the quantity of sugar which may lawfully be consumed
XjL iff any household is now restricted by law to an amount of three-quarters of
one pound per person per week, and it is now unlawful to purchase more than two
weeks’ supply at any one time or to make any purchase if present supplies are
sufficient for more than two weeks, ‘ .
This step has been taken to conserve the satisfactory reserve stock of sugar in >
Canada and is an assurance to the consumer that there is no reason for heavy
buying of sugar.
Ration coupons will not be used to enforce the sugar limitations in Canada. The
. supply of sugar in our country has been under control for more than two and a
half years and the homekeeper has always been able to satisfy her needs; she will
continue to be able to db so and the price ceiling law protects her against any
increase in price.
The maintenance of the new regulation governing the purchase of sugar
rests, as the success of all laws in a democratic country must rest, upon the
loyal support of the people. Any consumption of sugar in excess of the quantity
stipulated by this regulation is not only an offence against the law, but is also
a betrayal of the war effort and consequently an offence against decency.
. ■ Reports received from retailers indicate that in some districts there has been
misunderstanding of the requirements of the law. In some cases, people are under
the impression that they should at once lay in a sufficient supply for two weeks; this ~
of course is not necessary because a continued supply of sugar is assured. In other
cases it has been assumed that a greatly restricted ration is to be made effective in the
near future. This is incorrect because The Wartime Prices and Trade Board has
already stated that the sugar supply situation is such that requirements of' the •
consumer at the rate of three-quarters of a pound per week can readily be supplied.
A-s a means of protecting consumers from unknowingly breaking the law, it is
suggested to retailers that, for the present, they limit sales to any one customer to
an amount of not more than five pounds.
Summary of Sugar Rationing Regulations
The ration is % pounds per person per week,
including adults, children and infants, members of the
family, boarders, servants, and guests who remain for
four days or more.
2. Purchase your sugar in the ordinary way, but not
more than two weeks’ supply at a time. No coupons,
stamps or tickets are required.
3. Do not purchase any sugar if you have two weeks’
or more supply on hand.
4. Persons in remote areas who are not able to buy
every week or two weeks may continue to buy more
than two weeks’ supply at a time, but should measure
their consumption at the ration rate, namely % pounds
per person per week. ;
5m Lumber camps and other firms providing board
for their employees hmst see that consumption is
restricted to % pounds per week per person, effective
immediately. '
6- Economize on sugar in every way you can; some
people can get along on less than the ration. Persons
dining in hotels, restaurants, etc., are expected to
restrict their sugar consumption.
7. Additional supplies of sugar will b'e made available
for home preserving and canning.
8. The restriction. applies only to cane and beet
sugars of all kinds—granulated sugar, icing sugar, fruit
sugar, brown sugar, raw sugar, etc.
9. Industrial users of sugar, hospitals arid other
institutions, hotels and restaurants, will be advised by
the Sugar Administrator how the- sugar restrictions
will affect them.
£0. Retailers are entitled to refuse sale or to limit
sales to any person they have reason to believe is
attempting to disregard this law.
Vigorous stops, will be talcem to punish wilful infractions-
of the law. The penalties provided are imprisonment
for as long as two years and a fine up to $5,000
Issued Under the Authority of THE WARTIME PRICES AND TRADE BOARD, Ottawa, Canada
COLDAWAY
any more, so jve used an. accordcon
for music. And. one -little Polish
girl, dark-faced,. wearing a thin
faded dress, but in a voice that rang
Clear and sweet, sang alone that
lovely .Christmas carol “There’s a
song in the air, there’s a star in the
sky.” In your white .gifts there was
a dress to fit her, a pair of mitts, a
purse. She was so pleased she could
only- stand and look at them, with
such a radiant face.
A week before the concert a Small
half breed girl came into the office.-
There was half a do^en in the family
and the others were moderately well
dressed, but this poor Child was
shivering. For her we chose stock
ings a'nd' mitts, a bright sweater, a
lovely doll. And for a forlorn little
thin-faced waif of six months, there
was a warm baby jacket.
So with a delight that increased
With every needy little ones that1
came to mind, we divided the box
and placed the gifts dn the tree.
PeSides these, a small parcel went to
a family on the western edge of the
valley where tberd are many little
folks, They had a terrible siege of
sickness- last winter, Another parcel
went to three children across the,
Whitemud river whoso home Is a,
pretty joyless place, There were
books for both boys and girls
in homes where I know there is little
to read.
And once again I wish that you
might have seen the faces that I
saw, lit up with pleasure and de
light; and have heard as I am sure
I heard above all the din and clatter
-of the Christmas concert, the ring of
the ancient joyous words, “Inasmuch
as ye have done1' it onto one of the
least of these—r, ye have done it
unto me.”
It has been a very 'busy year for
the doctor at Dixonville. There was
much sickness earlier in the year.
And for the past two months, dozens
of children have been coming in for
innoculations and vaccinations. We
are determined to keep clear of as
many diseases as possible, as part
of our war effort. The week days
are very full, and oil Sundays, though
we still meet in the little log church,
we have no missionary here now,
With warmest greetings to you all
“down home”, and all good Wishes
for the New Year, I am
Yours sincerely
Margaret Strange Savage
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SWEEt
CAPORAL
Stubborn Cases
of Constipation
Those1 who ‘keep a mass of
impurity pent up -in. their bodies,
day after day, instead of having it
removed as nature intended, at least
once in every twenty-four hours, in-.
Variably suffer from Constipation.
The use of cheap, harsh purgatives
will never got you any where as they
only aggravate the trouble and in
jure the delicate mucous lining of the
bowels, and are very liable to cause
piles.
If constipated take Milbum’s
LU&a*LiVdr Pills and have a natural
movement of the bowels. They do.
hot gripe, weaken and sicken as
many laxatives do*