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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-01-24, Page 7Home and The Housewife Wingham Advance -Times, Thursday, Jan. 24, 1963 — Page 7 features from The World of Women Here's Health . Every woman who looks re- retfully at a favourite dress which used to fit so beautifully, starts day -dreaming of a diet. A miracle diet, preferably, with some magic munchable with lots of flavor, a pleasing texture and crunch—but com- etely free of calories. That almost describes cel- ery. Of course, there aren't actually any miracles in reduc- ing (unless staying on a diet is in itself a miracle) but celery has played a role in experi- mental reducing diets. The principle couldn't be simpler: Eat a bunch of celery a day in addition to as much of your usual random diet as Will tempt you. This allows 4 to 6 crisply chilled ribs of celery a half hour before lunch and a- gain before dinner with stray celery -munching between meals. Celery supplies a good deal of bulk with an energy value as low as 80 calories to the pound. It tastes good, requires vigor- ous chewing and starts the di- gestive system percolating hap- pily. Of the 23 participants who stayed with this diet for ten weeks, the average weight loss in women was 11.3 lbs. Cheese Fondue— Luncheon Dish For different luncheon dish, try cheese fondue. 4 slices bread, cubed 4 eggs 4 c. milk 1 c. cheese, grated or diced Salt, pepper, chopped par- sley and onion. Beat eggs, add milk, bread, cheese and seasonings. Bake in moderate oven(350 degrees) until firm in the cen- J (about 20-30 minutes). In Atce of cheese 1 cup of chop- ped, chicken or tuna may be used. If muffins won't come out of pan as easily as you would hthem to, don't force them or they will break. Place the hot muffin tin on a damp tea towel. The steam formed will loosen the muffins and they will all be removed in perfect form. • • and 8.2 for men. All these patients felt better, slept more soundly and found the diet an easy one. If your doctor has prescribed a diet and celery fits in (as it will in virtually any reducing diet) these appetizing low cal- orie ways of cooking celery will be welcome. CELERY AND SEAFOOD SALAD 2 1/2 cups diced celery 1 cup cooked deveined shrimp 1 cup cooked lobster 1 tbsp. fresh lemon juice 2 tbsp. mayonnaise 1/4 cup sour cream 1 tsp. Salt 1/4 tsp. ground black pepper 1 tsp. finely chopped onion head of lettuce. Combine celery, shrimp and lobster. Mix lemon juice with mayonnaise, sour cream, salt, black pepper and onion. Add to celery mixture. Toss light- ly, but well --to blend ingredi- ents. Serve on lettuce. Garn- ish with tomatoes. Yield: 6 servings. CELERY STUFFING FOR CHICKEN 5 lb. ready -to -cook roasting turkey or chicken 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 cup finely chopped onion 1/4 tsp. ground black pepper 2 cups finely chopped celery 3 tbsp. butter or margarine 3 cups toasted bread cubes 3/4 tsp. salt 1 tsp. poultry seasoning 1/4 tsp. ground black pepper Wash and dry the five - pound chicken or turkey. Mix the salt and black pepper and rub inside of crop and body cavity, and over outside skin. Set aside. Saute the onion and celery in butter until onions are limp. Measure bread cubes after toasting and blend with salt, poultry seasoning and black pepper. Add sauteed onion and celery. Mix lightly. Spoon into the crop and body cavity. Close openings with skewers. Lace tightly with string. Rub softened butter or margarine over outside skin of fowl. Place on rack in shal- low pan. Cook in preheated oven 325 degrees F 3 to 3 1/2 hours. Cover with foil if fowl has a tendency to brown too much. Yield: 6 servings. Home Fire Drills Are Important Schools hold fire drills, theatres and other public pla- ces have clearly marked and planned exit arrangements. But in our homes, where fires killed over 6, 000 people last year, toc many families are completely unprepared for fire emergencies Protect your family by mak- ing life-saving escape plans now. Then hold family fire drills regularly, to be sure that everyone — including the child- ren — knows how to act quickly. Here are pointers to help you plan: 1. Carefully figure out at least two routes to the outside from every room in the house, especially bedrooms. Allow for fire blocking stairways or halls. 2. Remember that closed bedroom doors will hold back flame and smoke, allow extra time for escape. 3. For upper floor escape, use any available porch and garage roof, ladders, or trees as ways down to safety. Be sure exit windows work easily, and especially that they are low and large enough to get through. 4. Pick an outside assembly point where the family will meet, and be sure everyone understands the rule "once out stay out." Plan for fire depart- ment notification, by street box or neighbor's phone, as soon as the house is clear of people. A Miracle of Love Wrought By Couple at Plainfield Village By Marie E. Huffman A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting a little girl named Penny. She was six years old and had large brown eyes, pale brown hair and very fair skin. She was ready of smile and held out her arms as if asking to be loved. It was her sixth birthday and there was a large cake for her, a white one, decorated with tiny blue birds and six pink and blue can- dles. Penny was a very happy little girl that day and quite at home among the other children with whom her birthday was shared. Nothing unusual about this, you might say to yourself, ex- cept that in Penny's case there was something unusual. Trag- ically unusual. Penny was a victim of an af- fliction known as Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida. The disease manifests itself by a grotesquely swollen head and a large tumerous growth on the spine, which twists the tiny bodies out of shape and which requires constant medical atten- tion and expert nursing care. Her party was held in the Ontario Home for Mentally Re- tarded Infants at Plainfield. While she and the other children were not actively able to join in the celebration, her birthday cake was nonetheless enjoyed by all. Penny is an only child, who had been born in July of 1956 and had come to the Home at Plainfield while still a tiny in- fant. The fact that she was cel- ebrating her sixth birthday at all was a kind of minor miracle, since the life expectancy for children similarly afflicted is very short. TOUR HOSPITAL I recall most vividly the day that I first visited the home. Mrs. Velleman spoke to me briefly and very enthusiastically about her work with these infants, and then took me on a tour of the hospital, which was spark- ling in its cleaniness and bright and cheerful in the sunlight that flooded in through the open win- dows. The requirements for admit- tance to the Hospital are mute testimony to the amount of tra- gedy and soul-searching that must be done by parents of child- ren afflicted such as little Penny. Not only must a child be sev- erely mentally retarded, but this retardation must also be ac- companied by a physical defect as well. As we passed from the admire istration offices down the hall- way and into Ward 1, for the first time I met the little child- ren who were the occupants of the Home, They greeted Mrs. Velleman, if they were capable, with a bright and happy smile, Many lifted their little arms hop- ing to be picked up and loved by her, and it was plainly visible that she was the centre of their small universe. One by one, without missing a child, she call- ed each one by name, had a word of endearment here, a lit- tle pat there, some small ges- ture that every child yearns for and needs, and that shows him he is loved. The tour continued through the main kitchen, which was spotless. Diets were specially prepared for the children, under the capable and efficient direc- tion of Mrs. Velleman and her staff. As we entered the last ward Freddie toddled up to greet us. Although the other children were gradually being settled in for the night in their individual white cribs, Freddie, who was then two and a half years old, was being allowed to toddle around just a little longer, and as one nurse explained, "We try to tire him out, because if we don't, when he goes into his crib at night, he bangs his head until he is apt to injure himself." I looked down at little Fred- die, thinking with a catch in my throat, how I would feel if this were my own child. He seem- ed to have a happy sunny dis- position and ran to Mrs. Velle- man as fast as he was able to move. She picked him up,kis- sed him and hugged him, talked quickly to him, while going from crib to crib checking to see that the children were bedded down properly for the night. A kindly word of instruction to the nurses here, a question there, when she found something that wasn't quite to her satisfaction. As I followed her from crib to crib, I was touched deeply because most of these children were perfectly beautiful as far Teen -Age Marriage Not Recommended Going steady in the early teens is one of the curious and disturbing phenomenaof today. It is curious—at least in the eyes of the older and parental generation—because in the past youth was always bent on hav- ing its fling before settling down to the long, hard row of being grown up. Now youth starts pairing off almost before it is out of gram- mar school. Since boys and girls at this age are hardly old enough to know the meaning Cottage Cheese A Menu Pick-up Looking for something to perk up your family's interest in their daily fare? Well, does cottage cheese have a role in your family's health story? If it doesn't, why not let it take a part for a few meals each week, and give it a chance for stardom? The rewards will be great, for the anaemic -look- ing lumpy mass of curd is really versatile, inexpensive, extremely nutritious and good tasting food. If you are skep- tical, obviously you haven't tried the right combination. How about cottage cheese mixed with mashed banana, a little sugar and a squeeze of lemon, for the last word at a meal? Pineapple, peaches, applesauce of just about any fruit really compliments this humble cheese. For a salad booster, mix chopped chives, green pepper, pimiento, a little sweet pickle, salt and onion juice with a scoop of pottage cheese. Here's a hearty sandwich that the home economists at Macdonald Institute, Guelph, calla " Hungry Boy's Dream". On a thick slice of French stick, place a layer of lunch- eon meat, top with nippy On- tario Cheddar cheese, a green pepper ring and slices of hot broiled bacon. Garnish with hard cooked egg slices and paprika. and import of love, we cannot call them dewey-eyed. In- stead, any moisture is more likely to be a wetness behind the ears. This is where early going steady is disturbing, be- cause it often leads to the rash step of early teen-age mar- riage. And this, according to the executive director of the American Association of Mar- riage Counselors, is the great- est threat to the family in America today. Dr. David Mace believes marriage is becoming repeti- tive, and that teen-age Mar- riages are largely the cause. He finds nothing in favor of such ventures because, he says, a teen-ager is not sufficiently mature. When the teen-ager finds himself unhappy in his marriage, he simply ends it, Dr. Mace declares. Thus the habit of changing marriage partners throughout life is es- tablished. It would be unjust and inac- curate to say that extra early marriages always end in the discard. They do not. Their outcome is often determined by the previous discipline under which the young partners were brought up. But where self-discipline is the determin- ing factor between success and failure, youth cannot be count- ed on to be mature enough to exercise it. as face was concerned and only in their small forms was na- ture's grotesque error made man- ifest. Mrs. Velleman explained to me that they needed constant medical attention and expert nursing care. A new wing was recently ad- ded to the Home, however, even now a waiting list on Mr. Velle- man's desk grows larger and larger as more and more child- ren are waiting to be admitted. Some of the children have been there for a number of years, others have a stay that is trag- ically brief. Newly admitted patients are isolated for ten days before being placed with other children, because these young- sters are prey to secondary in- fection and extreme caution is exercised in seeing that they are not exposed needlessly to pos- sible communicable diseases. Each time a little white bed becomes vacant, it is as if part of Mrs. Velleman goes with it. The Ontario Homes for Men- tally Retarded Infants Incorpor- ated at Plainfield, Ontario, a non-profit contract hospital, was founded in 1951 as Babies' Con- valescent Home. This year a campaign is being held to raise $125, 000 by public subscription for a Three Stage Devel,opement program. Home Accidents Next to Traffic The home, where every- thing seems so safe, rated se- cond only to motor traffic as the location for accidents. In co-operation with the Bureau of Statistics, the National Safety League of Canada re- ported accidents, poisonings and violence took 11, 229 lives in Canada in 1961. Violence alone was responsible for 1,583 deaths. Following the home as ac- cident locations were water transport and resident institu- tions. The six leading causes of iiccidental death, after motor ,ehicles, were falls, drown- ings, suffocations, fire and ex- plosions and poisonings, in that order. The rest were due to railway, aircraft and others. Among children under one year of age, accidental suffo- He Was There There are some who suggest that to get the economy back into high gear, "all that Can- ada needs is another C. D. Howe in Ottawa." A leading indust- rialist who was there—at the elbow of the late C. D, Howe in wartime Ottawa --disagrees completely. In the opinion of Mr. V.W. Scully, now presi- dent of The Steel Company of Canada and formerly one of Mr, Howe's senior deputies, the proper role of government is not to plan for and control in- dustry but to create conditions under which industry can run its own affairs properly. "I admired Mr. Howe," Mr. Scully is quoted as saying in an interview with Pat Carney of the Vancouver Province, "but people ought to remember that his program was effective under wartime conditions. We should ask ourselves if we want to live under those conditions: tight price control and production control and bureaucrats in Van- couver and Winnipeg and Ot- tawa telling us what to do. . . It is the easiest thing in the world to run a business when you are told what to produce, what price to see it at, what wages you are to pay and how many hours a week you are td work. That's not progress, or imagination, or growth. I 'think it's stagnation." When people theorize about the advantages of a centrally - planned economy, they forget that planners have to have power. Housing Hints Q. Is the average person pur- chasing a home today getting a good buy? A; Yes. The'prospective home owner knows what he wants and in most cases won't settle for anything less. The man buy- ing a home today is more dis - criminating, and one of the reasons, is that people are be- coming better informed on the subject and consequently are more hotne conscious. Paste wax can be more eas- ily applied to a car if the cloth you are using is slightly wet. cation claimed the highest number of lives, the League reports. Drownings occurred more freq,.ently in the 15 -24 - years age group. e: "When I go out with a boy, is it all right -to ask him to carry my make-up and things in his pocket?" I -F it's your First date, he'll be more impressed if you use a handbag . .toter you know bim better, he'll probably be glad to carry a few things in his pockets.Just don't overdo it and load him down with a lot of unnecessary extras. When he's carrying your equip- ment, limit it to the smallest compact you can find, a liftle pocket comb, a handkerchief and tiny change purse, that would contain a lipstick and your mad money.