HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1967-03-23, Page 15From My Window
and Pam
Kleinhaar
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Or Readers?
. - The hour is late, One of the
disadvantages of beinga mother
of three and a columnist, too,
is the conflict of interests one
experiences. Qh, I know I
should reserve a couple of Sen
sible hours put of a week to
write this column 'but • • • AVell
. . . take today for instance.
Pur baby woke early this
morning. He Was cruising the
halls by 7 a.m. and ready for
demolition duty ait 8. By the
time I had him dressed, he’d
already dumped ' pabulum all
over the floors, the walls, him
self and the cupboards; shaken
our budgie bird to within one
inch of that great feathered
nest in the sky; swallowed a
. rubber band; and finger-printed
fiye small sliders in the living
room windbw.,
Meanwhile I discovered ah
A
Ross
LocalArtists
Enjoy Tour
To Gallery
MIDDLETON —• Mrs..
Middleton, art instructor at
Central Huron Secondary
School night classes, accom-”
panied the Goderich Art Group
on their bus tour to the Klein-’
berg Art Gallery on Sunday,’
March 19. Others from Clinton
who attended included Mrs.
Garnet Hariand, Mr. and Mrs.
Clare Magee, Mrs. R, G, Mc-
. Cann, Mr. and Mrs. Art Mount
ford, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Harris
and Mr. and Mrs Bob Turner of
Bayfield.
This art pilgrimage was" to
“Tapawingo” (Indian for Home
of Jay) the former home of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert McMichael,
now legally established as the
McMichael Conservation Col
lection of Art. This agreement
gives Canada tilts first Art .Gal
lery devoted to the Group of
Seven and a few selected con
temporaries. It is the first gal
lery vin which the Groups’ Art
is displayed in the kind of set-
• ting in which its members did
their painting.
Ontario Premier Jahn Robarts
has announced a plan for a
wooded rolling 600 acre region
al park (a fusion of the Mc
Michael property and on ad
joining Toronto and Region
conservation Authority Park)
which will be called the Mc
Michael' Conservation Area.
For years, Mr. and Mrs. Mc
Michael have been quietly col
lecting Group of Seven paint
ings.
The Walls of this Art Gallery
’ato square timbers nine inches
thick and the main windows'
have 1,000 square feet of glass
each. The originals of the
Group of Seven were Harris,
Jackson, MacDonald, Varley,
.Arthur , Lismer, Frank Car
michael arid Franz Johnston, A.
J. Casson, Edwin Holgate and
L. Fitzgerald' joined in. 1926,
1931 and 1932 respectively.
In the hallway of this “place
, of Jay” is a sheet of ‘ barn
board with a quotation from a
speech by Joseph Howe, which
is etched into it. It reads as
follows:
“In every village in our in
fant' country we have the quiet
graves of those who subdued
the wilderness, who beautified
the land by their toil, and left
not only the fruit of their la
bours but the thoughts and
feelings that cheered them in
their solitude, to cheer 'and
stimulate us amidst the inferior
trials and multiplied enjoy
ments of a more advanced
state of society”.
...............
orange that looked as though it
wouldn’t make another day
without losing some of its suto
ny flavor.
“Better use it up”, I thought,
but there really isn’t much one
can dp with half an orange
(while I wios thinking of ways
to bake with an orange, I’d
eaten several sections). fIhen
I" remembered a recipe which
called for two tablespoons of
orange juice . . . one thing led
to another , , . and before I
knew it, I’d baked a table full
of goodies and shot the entire
morning. Lunch time Was later
than usual, and the afternoon
movie looked ent icing, so
scrambled .eggs, baby and the
crossword puzzle were trans
ported to the living room for
whpt; I' promised myself would
be just a shoajt break. But you
girls know how at goes. Sud-
denly the baby, is quiet and
thoroughly content to play with
his toys; you 'are engrossed, in
a torid tangle involving three
of -your favorite actors; you’re
so comfortable with your feet
on the - coffee -table; and what
the heck, you're your own
boss. - ■
Two hours later you’re rush
ing about the house in a frenzy,
- All those baking dishes still in
the sink; the baby is playing
in the toliet; the kitchen floor [
hasn’t been swept-since break
fast ... the phone is ringing; a
■basket of ironing is waiting;
the older kids are getting off
the bus; potatoes need peeling;
the baby just stumbled over a
lunch pail; set the table; drat
that television; oh my . gosh,
here comes father . . .
This evening father brought
good news, Happily, he pre
sented me with' three pounds of
over-ripe bananas. There is
really only one thing to db with
them • . . out come the bakihg
dishes again, even if it is early
evening and time to bath the
baby.'
Not that' I’m complaining.
Heaven knows I love my family
Shirley Keller
'and I’m thankful I can do for
them all the things that moth-
ex's are* expected to do. It is
just that I love my readers, too,
and I’m thankful I pan provide
a little bit of entei'tainment for
them.
.Rut which ‘is the most. im
portant tp me? Which gets my
first attention? Well, as I said
before, the hour is la^e , . .
Miss (j.arroll At Kippen
„The fourth pie^tipg Pf
Kippen Centui'y Cookers was
held at the home of Mrs. Robert
Gemmell,’ president Donna
Whitehouse conducted the bus
iness,’
The mjnutes were read by
secretary Pam Patrick and roW
.call was answered with ,<a f<X>ci
commonly purchased today
which formerly was made at
home”,' .ti ■'
Mrs. McKay discussed the
food customs of the- German,
Dutch and Belgian > people. ,
Special guest of the .evening'
was the home economist. Miss
Sharon Oairoll who demonstra-
Rambling With Lucy
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MIDDLETON
The Women’s Auxiliary of
St, James Anglican Church,
Middleton, will meat Wednes
day afternoon, April 5 ait 2
p.m. This will be the Thank-
offering meeting and the roil
call is “The flower appropriate
to your birth month.” The
hostesses will be Mrs. Edward
Wise and Mrs. John Cole.
A holiday card party will be
held Friday evening, March 31
at 8:45 p.m. in the Goderich
Township Hall,
under
sof St.
ton.
Holmesville,
the auspices of the WA
James Church,
Choir Vested
the first time
Middle-
in the
Church,'
proces-
with a
For
history of St. James
Middleton, the Easter
sional was complete
vested choir in full regalia.
This project was initiated by
the organist, Mrs. Joseph
Storey. The vestments were
made by members of the WA
and Mrs. Ross Middleton.
Rev, E. J. B. Harrison sym
bolically dedicated one of the
choir hats at this service, in
token, of dedication of these
vestments. The hats were larg
ely donated by Mr. and Mirs.
Joseph Storey and James
Storey.
Ray Wise was publicly thank
ed by Mr. Harrison for building
a stairway to the basement,
Which became imperative with
the vesting of the choir.
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Personals
Mr. and W& Warman Dick-
ert spent Good Friday .^t Clif
fordand Harriston.
v ” Rcchus Faber returned home
•Wednesday after-enjoying a few
weeks in Florida.
•, Miss. Karen Dickert, Clifford,
is spending the Easter holidays
With the McLellan girls.«
\ Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wahl,
Listowel and Mr, and Mrs.
Alex .Murray, Waterloo, .spent
Easter weekend with and
Mr?. Norman Dickprt.
Linda Coleman of near Sea
forth is spending, the Easter
holidays, with her grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Rpchus Faber. ‘ ’
Easter Sunday visitors. with
Mr, and Mrs, Joe Losttell and
Lloyd were Mr. and Mi's. Har
old Parsons and Jimmy of Sea
forth; Mr, and Mr?. Glen Stui'-
geon; Joanne, David and Jayne
of Goderich; and MT, and M?s»
Wayne Pridham, Nancy and
Billy of Cromarty.
Hospital WA April 4
The regular monthly meeting
of the Women’s Auxiliary .to
the Clinton'Public Hospital will
be held in the nurses’ residence
on Tuesday, Api’il 4, at 8 p.m.
By Lucy R. Woods
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Maple Syrup—Popular
According to legend! a squaw discovered maple syrup.
Haying no water to cook the venison, she caught some sap ,
from broken branches of maple trees. The' result was,, so tasty
.that the chief was pleased and the tribe began.making maple
syrtnpL In those days it would be boiled jin, a jbirch hark,
kettle by dropping heated stones into the fluid.
Then came the white man with his iron and copper
utensils. He learned from the Indians to make maple syrup
and also maple sugar for household use in the pioneer days.
Somewhere, Lucy recalls having read; early pioneers on the
Bronson Line made a goodly supply of sugar for household
■use. • . •
This was generally done in iron'’ kettles oyer wood fire
and necessitated constant stirring when it began to get thick. ‘
The first buckets of the pioneers in this district were
-gouged out of a short length of log ahd the tapping done with
an axe. The sap ran down a spile into the log container on
the1 ground.
\ Carl recalls seeing one of these old log sap buckets. He
also remembers .the soars left on maple trees which bad been
tapped in this way. ,
With the advent of tools, and coopers amongst the settlers,
wooden buckets wiete made. Carl recounted a tale that his
grandfather had ordered1 125 cedar buckets made in Clinton.
The cooper who made them gave a bonus of a cedar barrel
which was used' for drinking/ water1 for many a dlay. It was
still in use for feed when he left the farm.
The'trees were tapped with augers and hand made wooden
spiles with hollow round end's inserted, through whidh the
sap ran out and .dropped to the buckets beneath.
Then came the manufactured iron spiles and metal buck
ets which hung on them. Many put wire loops on the wooden
buckets and hung them on the new spiles for some time. The
hanging bucket eliminated loss of sap when snow melted
under those on the ground and1 they upset.
Improvements also came in the boiling process. In a diary
which Lucy was privileged fa read, pans are mentioned in the
1880’s. Rut for the most part those who made maple syrup
stuck to the iron kettles for many years instead of the large
metal pan built over a furnace constructed of brick or stones
' laid with good clean clay mixed smoothly to' the proper con
sistency. Out of the pans grew the evaporators. But in a
instances where syrup is not being made commenaially,
iron pot method may still be seen today. . •
Lucy recalls walking down to Thos. Westlake’s) with
sister, nigh onto fifty years ago. It was a crisp ’ morning
third week in April. Water had frozen in mud ruts made by
buggy wheels on the road, and Lucy and Jean spent some
time on the way breaking this ‘‘shell” ice, as /they Walked
along.
They had a glorious day watching Mis. Westlake’s father,
Robert Delgaty, boiling, and were surprised to see chunks
of pork fat dropped into the boiling sap to prevent it from run
ning over. When it had reached the right consistency, it was
carried in pails to the house where Mrs. Delgaty and Mrs.
Westlake cleared iit with eggs, and bottled the sparkling syrup.
Then the girts had, the excitement of going with Tom •
Westlake to collect the sap which he emptied into a banrfel on a
horse-drawn stoneboat. ‘
That night Mr. Delgaty drove them home with his horse
and buggy, tired but happy, after having been initiated into
the making of maple syrup. Their taste for sweets was .satisfied
after sampling it at all stages of processing, to say nothing of
gorging themselves on Mrs. Westlake’s good cooking.
Of late years plastic tubing has saved the work of gather
ing. These run from trfee to tree into a large collecting vat.
And now with scientific discovery, a formaldehyde pill is in
serted into the tree before the spile. This prevents bacteria
forming and the auger hole drying out (a .plague some years
when a spell of cold weather came after tapping) and this
lengthens the season and protects the tree against disease.
This year is a first lin the use of natural gas for boiling in
Ontario. It has been installed at the farm of Grant and Roger
Orth, RR 1, Burgessville. Five gas burners have started at
the 650 bucket operation m a 20 acre maple woods. No more
cutting and tending wood fires for them!
Maple syrup making'was given wide publicity from this
spot early in the century by R. R. Sallows, a photographer in
Goderich, who took pictures of the Snowdens’ operation on
Lot 6, Lake Road East, Stanley Township, three miles from
Bayfield. These appeared in farm magazines and Were even
made into picture postcards under the caption “Maple Syrup
making, Quebec” ‘Maple Syrup making in Canada”. Dr. G.
W. Manning Smith who gave up his practice of medicine here
her
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■I ■ ON the square
At The Turn Of The Century
It’s another era here, and another world
most ■ when the young ladies wore ^skirts and the
young men were easily distinguishable. These young
people are gathering sap in the Snowden bush in
the Bayfield vicinity at the turn of the century.
Left to right they are Hai;ry Mayou, Edith Cleave,
Elizabeth Snowden, Rosamond Snowden,
' (Courtesy Mrs. R. H. F. Gairdner)
, to enlist in World War I, recognized, the local scene on these
cards and brought some cards home from Quebec to the Snow
dens.
Also, their operation illustrated making maple syrup in
the Book of Knowledge (1923-27) volume No. 10, page 3424.
Miss Elizabeth Snowden is seen emptying a pail of Sap into, a
boiling kettle. > 1
Prior to this, pictures taken When the Snowden sugar
camp was in full swing, by the Reverend Charles Gairdner
were published in an English periodical.
Dr. G. H. Shepherd, Windsor, reminiscing of his boyhood
days in Countright, told Lucy that the flavour of the syrup
defended on whether the wood fire under the iron kettles
Was of maple or hickory wood.
He described the testing on snow for Consistency of
syrup,’ the winding on sticks of more condensed product for
taffy pulls, and the beating of the thick syrup until it almost
crystalized before being poured into patty tins.
‘What did you do if there were no snow on which to
’test it?” he was asked. ’‘There was always snow in Court
right at (Maple Syrup-making time when I was a boy,” he
replied.^ Carl described how he’d let the boiling fluid run from
a ladle and if it flaked it was ready.
Mass Bertha Diehl, Clinton, knows all about making maple
syrup and sugar. And her thoughts go back to those days at
this time of year — the long hours of stirring and the dis
comfort of collecting sap on a wet day.
Her father, V. M. Diiehl, lots 24 and 25, Fifth Concession,
Stanley Township, was one of the largest producers in the
district. In 1925, he tapped 725 trees, his largest operation.
From Miss Diehl, Lucy learned that it takes 40-50 gallons1
of sap, depending on the year, to make a gallon of syrup.
And one gallon of syrup makes eight pounds of maple sugar.
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