HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1938-7-20, Page 7THE BRUSSELS POST
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CURRANTS
RED OR BLACK
Catching time by 'the forelock
iso au important .thing to aecomp-
11ab la every hcuseleeeperee life.
And patching :the summer fruits
.as: they come on the marltet and
putting them away for wittier use
is a. very good Illustration of this
famous phrase,
'Currants make grand jelly and
jam when made with the short
boil method. :Made this. way, it
tapes Nat 15 minutes to complete
the job after the fruit le prepared
and because there is no long boil -
Ing time, the lovely color and flay.
or of the fresh, fully ripe fruit
issealed into your jai's. Of coarse
there is a secret. It's bottled fruit
pectin, By adding just the right
amount of bottled pectin (which
be been extracted from fruit,
which abound in it, refined and
bottled) you gel jam and jelly of
the right consistently without hav-
ing to boil away all the goo lnese
of the fruit to make it jell. Nona
of that tangy, tart flavor which
you expect of currants Is evap.•
orated,
The short boll method not only
saves the color and flavor of the
fruit, It actually gives you more
Jars; of jam and jelly per suart
of fruit because none of It Is
boiled away. It bas been estimat-
ed that. the yield from this method
givers you approximately half as
mach again as that from the sante
amount of fruit when long boll
methods are used,
Currant jelly is sln.py delicious
with cold roast lamb, Ihiode.n or
duck and currant Jam has always
been popular with toast.
CRRRANT JELLY
(Red or Black Currants)
5 cups (21.(. lbs. .Juice
7 cups (3 lbs'.) sugar
41 bottle fruit pectin
With black currants, crush
about 3 pounds fully ripe fruit;
add 3 cups water, With red cur-
rants, crush about 4 pounds fully
ripe fruit; add 1 cup water, To
prepare Juice, bring mixture to a i
boil, cover, and Simmer 10 minutes,
C.ZI LUAX
&SON.
Place fruit In jelly olotlt Or hag HOUSEHOLD HiNTS
and squeeze out juice. Measure
sugar earl juice into large saucepan
and mix Brie t b it
1' u5 0 a 0. over
hottest fi'l'e and at one add bottler!
,pectin?, stirring constantly. Then
Ming to 0. lull rolling boll and
1)011. bard 1Fa minnte, Remove
•➢roan :fire, skim, pour quickly.
Paraffin al once Makes about 11
glasses (0 f ued comes each,)
IRED OR BLACK CURRANT JAM
4 cups (2 lbs..crushed trait
71/2 cape (31 i'bs,) sugar
1/.. cup water
3ca cuP (Ye Dottie) fruit pectin
To prepare fruit, Gush thor-
oughly or grind about 2 pounds
fully ripe fruit; measure into
large kettle. Witch red cu^:ants
add ee cup water, stir until tnix.
Lure boils, (With black carnets,
use 04. cup water). Simmer, cov-
ered, 15 minutes Add sugar, mix
well, cull bring to a full rolling
boll over 'hottest flee. Stir con•
elanty before and while Dolling,
Boil hard 1 minute. Remove from
lire and stir in pectin. Skim, pone'
quickly Paraffin at once, Makes
about 11 glasses (e fluid ounces
each.)
CANDIED COTTAGE ROLL
4 lbs, cottage roll
Bailing water
1 tbsp, mustard
Vinegar
:Sifted cracker Crumbs
Whole cloves
' o ee cup Bee Hive Golden
1Gorr Syrup
Sinner cottage roll in gently
'bof14ng v,'ater until tender, Cool
in liquid in which it was cooked,
then drain. Remove strings, Place
cooked cottage roll on rack in
roasting pan, Smooth mustard to
a paste with vinegar, and spread
over fat surface of roll. Cover
with sifted cracker crumbs, score
in diamonds and centre each
diamond with a clove. Pour corn
syrup carefully over surface, 1?lace
in a hot oven, 400 degrees P, to re -
beat meat and to glaze Surface.
Baste carefully once or twice during
cooking liquid in pan,
Little Nature Studies
There are a lot of luny Iltings
About Dame Nature and her flings
Now a fly, with greatest ease,
Lights on doggies nose, then ilaee;
But a flea can't fly away,
Because it ism '.t built that way,
So to me it has to jump
To get away front Fido's rump,
It seems hardly fair to me,
Since a fly can't flit and flee,
That a flea can't fly and flit
When the dog grows tired of it.
The fellow who tells his beat girl
be is'net good enough for her, usual-
ly speaks the truth, but She diesn';
believe it, but her matter does.
Scotsman --Doctor, what can I do
to prevent seasickness?
,Doctor---IIave you a dime?
Ssotslilalt—Yes, sir.
Dodtor—Wil, holes it between
your teeth,
Stranger—'fell me, have any bug
men ever been horn in this city,
IlsanternmsfaavarnamermacOnabwra
Regular Care of
YOUR EYES
is essential to good vision
with a Minimum Expendi-
ture of Nerve Energy.
Every Man, Woman and Child should have their
EYES EXAMINED
AT LEAST ONCE EVERY TWO YEARS
A COMPLETE ACCURATE EXAMINATION
is necessary to determine the Exact Condition of the
Delicate Eye Mechanism.
Have your Eyes Examined NOW.
Correcting Lenses when required.
Write or phone for appointment
F. F. Homuth Phm.B, R O,
EYESIGHT SPECIALIST
Holston • Brussels
Phone 118 Phone 26X
'Co keep a hairbrush clean bee
!ween washing's, brush the bristles
With a cleausing tlssue or clean
soft clotlu atter about every ten
strokes,
_:t: -0. -
Washable garments stained with
grease (not machine grease- should
be rubbed' in warns water apart
from rest of the laundry,
Before using a new kettle, place
a clean piece of calico inside to pre-
vent :furring,
13aoon will not shrink fu frying if
1't is dipped in near.
To soften and clean leather on
furniture use a mixture of one part
hot vinegar to two parts, linseed oil.
Apply with a cloth, Rub the leather
dry and polish it with another
clean, soft cloth,
White of egg or petroleum jelly
added to a mustard plaster will
prevent bistering.
Lemon Juice Juice will remove a red
Ink stain, A patufiin stain should
be .covered with oatmeal, then
brushed after twenty-four . hours
Soot marks should be covered
with course salt,
Paste your your k- nitting patterti on
cardboard and' give it a thin coat
of varnish. Its life will be endless'.
Your tea 4o- wels have become
Llrin, and old, Try this, Lay two
worn towels .on top of each other
and machine then' together all
round the edge. Then machine
from corner to corner, making a
Maltese Cross in the centre, and
Um one resulting towel will he as
51)051 as a new one,
It you've a medium sized al ache
case not in use, put all hou wehold
polishes in it with polishing cloths
and brushes too, Tbeu when you
clean a root, take case in and open
it on the floor, It saves legs, time
and Lemtper,
Got a pair of brown shoes that
are looking a bit sad? Give them
a dose of castor oil, rubbing it
well into the leather and then
Polishing in the usual way with
shoe polish, Captor soil give
brown shoes their color back
again, and preserves the leather too.
House Fly Worst
Carrier of Disease
A serious menace to health and a
nuisance of the first order is the
charge rigbtly 'made against the
canuuan house fly. This is especial-
ly true 1a the warm months, from
mid -summer to autumn, when it
reactive its greatest abulldan:e, it
is a menace to heath because it
breeds in garbage, manure nail hie
man faeces and may pass ci;reotly
from 111th and other infested matter
to foodstuffs, Particles of de-
c'omposing organic matter, bactoria
and other living organisms adhere
to its 'hairy body and legs, anu
sticky feet and mouth -parts, or may
be conveyed to food in its excreta
and ealiva,
'flue hose fly, known to scientists
as Mum do11eetiea Is' 1vosldovele 111
distribution and notorious for the
part it plays in the dissemination of
dangerous diseases such as infantile
diarrhoea, tuberculosis, typhoid,
cholera and d'ysen•try. It also serves
as the intermediate host al certain
species of rounclevornks that infest
the slonmehs of 11015es, and of tape•
wenms that occur in ;poultry, In
Canada, the house sly is' probably
the most important insect species
concerned in disease translnnssion.
On. ,Kris, account it is very important
that measures be talten to control it
and to prevent It from baying ac•
cess to human foods,
Methdos of Control
The most effective method of con-
tro)llag house fliesconsists of 011111 -
Mating or reducing their breeding
places by properly treating or ills-
pas)ng of manure and garbage.
Fresh horst 'manure is probably
chiefiy reeponsd'hle for the majority
of flies In rural sections, It bas
been estimated that more than a
Million flies' flay develop frown one
Ion of manut'e, To be fully erred•
live, control meana'es Should be or.
getnlized on a community baste, as
one neglected manure heap of gar-
bage dump may infest a whole
neighborhood, in rural aeetiette,
where practicable, the manure
should be removed daily and spread
thinly in fields Where the drying
effete of sun and wind will prevent
breeding, An alternate method
105151s of taking advantage of beat
produced by fomentation when
manure is placed in tightly peeked
piles: The manure pile should be
soustrttcted on bard ground or con.
'trete. The 'sides' of Mite p`•1'.
should be clean cot and a1moet ver.
tient, hut elemtng slight): towards
the (mare, As fresh manure is
adeloil to .the pile it should be tightly
packed by uteaas' of a shovel, The
Heat produced by fermentation
destroys ail fly eggs, larvae and
plupue, except !possibly those close
to the sun¢ace of the top Payer. The
application with a Watering can er
sprayer of a solution of borax con-
sisting of 1 lb. of borax in 0 gallons
of water w111 destroy any fly stuges
in the top layer. Six gallons of the
50011011 Ls, sufficient to treat 30
square feet of surface area.
Measures should also be taken to
prevent the accumulation of nwiture
fro mother domestic livestock Mie11
as pigs, cattle andpoultry, al-
though to a lesser extent,
Cover Garbage Then Burn It
All organic refuse such as house-
hold garbage Should be wrapped fr.
Paper and Moved in fly -proof gar-
bage cans until filially dtw,posed of
by burning, The acculnulati:ag of
garbage in municipal dumps' ducting
the warm months of the year is un-
desirable, as such dumps peoduce
numerous numbers of flies as well
as other vermin, may constitute a
serious' public luulsance. The only
satlisfactory way of disposing of
garbage during the fly season is by
incineration,
Every effort should. be .take', to
exclude flies from dwelling. The
screening of doors and windows is
very useful in this regard, Flies
that find theilr way into the h)ns't
should be promptly destroyed, Fiy
swatters; sticky fly paper, 50150001
fly pads, poisoned bait made by
mixing one teaspoonful of formalin
i11 a cupful of sweetened milts or
water, and expoeing it fa saucers
(out of reach of children or Pete).
are included among the various
means of doing this. Fly dprays
containing pyret•hru mextraet in
mineral oil are a valuable and wide-
ly used kfilling agent,
Shame On The History Teacher
The proud mother of a promising
son Piet some friends at a party.
"By the way, Mrs', Wendt," In-
quired one, "how did your boy get
on at hist last examination?"
'Not well at all. They 1111 the
nerve to ask hint about thing, that
happened before he was born.''
Jasper—How did George break
his leg?
Casper—Do you see those stcpe
over there? •
Jaeger—Yes.
Casper—Well, reorge didn't.
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4Y, JUT.JY 20th, me
EYES EXAMINED
GLASSES FITTED
Mr. Reid has maintained an
office in Brussels for more
than four years. Hundreds of
perfectly satisfied clients.—
Modern methods and
reasonable prices
"See Reid cad See Right"
R. A. Reid
AT BRUSSFi S OFFICE
EVERY WEDNESDAY
Thane 51
very
Stratford's Leading Optometrist
For Nearly 20 Years
—MISS HINGSTON'S STORE
AFTERNOON 2.00 to 5.00
for Appointment
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PREVENTION OF POLIO
By John W, 5, McCillough, M.D.,
Department of Public Health
The seasonable outbreaks of in-
fantile pat'alywla are not far distant.
The affection may be suspected
when there is fever, irritability,
vomiting, tremor of the hands, and
especially a tender and, stiff neck,
Which makes ft impossible for the
child to touch itis knee with his
chin.
In all such Cases the diagnesie
should at once be confirmed by the
removal of a small quantity of the
spinal fluid for examination. Thu>
far there is' no seeolfic effeeti( e
treatment, nor is there any general-
1y accepted preventative- In all
rases where the aforenamed keens
appear anel in all cases' ?here the
diagnosis has been confirmed, the
el i1d should be disturbed and mov-
ed as little as ,possible. Should nae
child have paralysis. eePecialiy 0r
the imbe these should be immobil-
ized properly at the earliest mo-
ment., A ear:: and parayzed
muscle means an inflamed and tend-
er spinal cord. lL'arly rest of a
wenkeeed muscle under such cfr-
elmsnances n111 help in no small de.
gree the prevention of permanent
crippling,
While there is no valid objee'ion
to the use of one per cent, Inc sul-
phate s)lution in the nasal cavity,
when given by a competent nose
specialists, there is' no satisfactory
evidence to show that this prece.
rune lute any effect in Preve•ucing
polio,
With reference to the nee of con-
vnleeem t s.^rum the official Ontario
report, P.437, ineih'trtc•s that the Pee
port 1 )u of cases showing rrcavery
from paralysis was coltsiclerabl
grraier among these per; 15' tics
u'h„ l••""towed Sel•nm than it was
01110115 those who slid not receive
serum, and that the proportion of
cases showing recovery from para-
lysis was greater still among those.
paralytics who received serum with
In 48 hours of onset. Ia the absence
of conclusive: evidence of 111e value
or otherwise of convalescent serum
the Department is continuing to
seemly* the serum to hysicians on
request,
These is ample evidence that rest
and lmmrobiliation of paralyzed legit
and arms have materially lessened
the ill effects of infantile para'ysis.
So important is this reset that it is
usually far better to leave the chile!
at home When. the disease is first
suspected than to remove hint any
great distanne to a hospital, par-
ticularly if the move is a fatiguing
one, The one thing that must not
be permitted in the ear)o stage is
the rise of massage, manlpulatiot.
electricity or of anything that ex-
citee muscular action in the affect-
ed area.
"OKAY FOR SOUND".
Our House of Commons miglle
do well to take a tep from New
York, evihere public speakers• and
after.dinner rectonteurs are likely
to be controlled by "traffic sig15L4"
If the speaker's voice is iudie-
tinc't, a blue 115111 flickers, on the
control; if too high, a red Iigiht
glows; a steady green glow means
"okay for sound.'}
McDonald—So you love spinach!
liat•Pherson—Yes, it's my middle
11ante.
Ma• Ronald—'Really?
1fa 0l'he rs'on—Really?
lIa,Pbersan--Yes, Thomas Sandy
MacPherson,
Shark Fishing New West Coast Sport
The spunky trout of tho Lau-
rentians and the Canadian
Rockies, the scrappy bass of
Northern Ontario, the"bugs mas-
kinonge at french River have all
been put .on their mettle by a
fightleg fish. new to Canadian
sportsmen—the 5115515, killer of
the deep.
Basking sharks have been found
in large numbers on the east
coast of Vancouver Wand. While
they seem harmless as far tee
swimmers are concerned, they are
a terror on the end of 500 yards
of 50 -pound test line.
Many tiabornten have tried
shark fishing with great stiaooss,
A Victoria man, McGinty Matter -
son, Caught the first shark, It
weighed 590 pounds. The record
leo far is a 1137 -Denuder landed
by Commander May,' of California.
Ilquipment le single and not
too expensive and the sport is
thrilling b e y o n d imagination.
When the shark first takes the
bait, a salmon from six to eight
pounds, the fisherman thinks he
has hooked the bottom, Then the
fun starts. With mad rushes and
plunges he churns the water into
foam. 110 has a nasty habit of
turning on the boat and snapping
at the line or rolling on it and
severing it with his file -like slam
You never knout what be will do
nest, About the time you think
your back will break or your
arms torn out, you work the
fish closer to the boat. It is sui-
cidal to try to land such a large
fish and it is customary to give
him a coup do grade wtth a 30-30
rifle.
It is a grand sport and a new
one for Canadians but interest is
So keen, judging by inquiries re -
Calved by the Canadian Pacific
tourist department at 3tfontrea7,
that many Canadian and Ameri-
can sportsmen are expected to
unite forces in a war on sharks
from luny to September, ,the time
01 year they appear 111 greatest
numbers, w`