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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1932-01-21, Page 7'C%1i7RS., TAN 21, 1932 lr Health, Cooking ' Care of Children THE, CLtNTON' NEWS-RECOI ,YB Edited By Lebam Hakaber Krale e a RIIMIIIaI!ous A Column Prepared Especially for Women— But�, p Not Forbidden to Menn. LIFE' GROWS FAIRER' As life goes by;it, fairer grows; Oh, :area, it fairer grows -to me. And _eneyit'be se at the close, when death :advances lovingly, It is not greater {pomp nor state, nor 'high ambitions', well attained; nor any stroke of lucky • fate, nor wealth, that Mcaselike I've gained. Material gains I have not known (my bank account's 'about tate :same) and yet the world has fairer :grown; with certainty I make this -elleise. In love and tenderness and. • grace, the- world grows fairer day by •day. What joy to see a friendly face •-as we go bravely on our way. Nor -cleverness, nor knowledge,. wit, do much enhance this life of ours (of • course I know.theyhelp a bit) but God be thanked for sun and. flowers; for peace beneath the star -strewn sides; for friends who, sit around one's fire; for books, amusing, help- • ful, wise; for love that crowns tate '.heart's desire. • —W. Stitch. • The way for a man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. Allow, me to assure -you that suspicion and jealousy nev- er did help any ratan in any situa- tion. I do the best I ean and I mean to keep doing it until the end. If the Wad beings me out all right, what is • said against nee won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out • ail wrong. ten angels swearing I was fight would make no difference.- -Abraham Lincoln. The above by •one of the most `worthwhile men who has ever stood -at the ]head of affairs in the republie to the south of us seems to me to `have a lot of real sound sense. Few of us perhaps' but have anet people, "both uteri and women, who would have wioit distinction, high honour, wealth, fame, but fox, the influence of others wh'e were determined to 'keep them down; who deliberately Put obstaelesdin their way or relined 'tlbeir chances by a whispering cam- paign of slander And if there is ane person more than another which wo all like too avoid it is one of these -thwarted geniuses, who has found it impossible tot 'cope successfully with 'the Ib'. will, jealousy and enmity of those with whom they have had to deal, Of course I know that oecasi:melly a man or a woman may have enemies • who slander them, who try to injure them. Lincoln had, bitter enemies, wiho stopped at nothing to discredit hind and who die not cease tering hire even after "iris `death. t . for one who has to fight againstsuch o,dds there area hundred'. might go on and aechieve uthatev success they are capable of withtlu y op- position only that against ch all have` to contend, if they onl ought se. It is a great pity when young man es`.:a young woman g0 out iii - to the world with` the fe that other. young )nen and wo are their natural enemies and a to be watched or they will the advantage of them. A suspicious spirit is a .serious liability r any young man or woman to c with slant Bll who er t any whi 1' th a es ,ling mora have take fo carry them . through life. Fact is, _I'd rather be cheated and Toted a good deal than have to spend my. time "watehing" my fellow beings so they wouldn't "get ahead of me." The young me or the young wo- man -who starts out in life intthis spir- it isenot nearly se likely 'to sueeeed, either, as - the one who has a cheer- ful and diapey spirit,- ready to take the rough with the smooth, to .give and take with others. And as the'. years creep on the •happy, 'eheerfui person is much more likely to make friends and to climb the ladder of suceess, for the simple reason tehat he is easier to work with, gives more time and attention to Itis work, makes friends for hie empioyert and the businesses with which he is' con netted. A. man or a woman woo is convinced that he or she is being discriminated against, Wee is sure that the "boss" favors arenebody else and is giving them the preference, makes • it conte true by their actions, for no employer likes a grouch, a man or woman who takes any favor or advancement as 'only a small part of his tine her deserts. Such an one is likely to be overlooked and pas- sed ,over the more suspicious and sur- ly he becomes, and others, -cheerful dhaps who appreciate advancement and give self their best service to those who so honour them, climb steadily over their Beads. One of the most useful things par- ents eau teach their children is the ability to play and work with others, to give in gracefully when 01seasion demands and to early realize and early learn to respect tate tights of Suspicion is a poison of the mind which, if allowed to grew, will em- bitter the whole life, retarding its usefulness and rendering the person himself and all about him unhappy. REBERAH. Women's Freedom in France Halted by Cherished Traditions Honte and Security Put Before Ac- tivities of World Outside—Faculty of Prudence Guides Course in • Business and Professions. THE EFFECT Ole WOMEN IN BUSINESS Ninteenth of ';Twenty Articles By Phyllis Lovell 'Staff Correspondent of The Ohristian Science Pfeniter "The Frenehwoman is really hap- piest eultivating cabbages." The speaker was Mile. Jacqueline Bertill- am, one of the utast brilliant of the •many brilliant legal .women' of France. She was discussing tate me- son why the Frenchwoman, so quick- witted, so 'active, even so ambitious, is still bound, and heave y bound, by the traditions of centuries; why, though longing to be free like the women of tether lands, she cannot bear to deme d,her freedom. "It is because she is really -happiest •cultivating cabbages," declared 117ile. Bertillort. Not that she regarded cabbage cub tivation as the highest mention of the Freedwoman,, . although tab- bage, in one form et another, -had. gm -come a tradition centuries before ,old Mother liarel married her 'Camatafl)ert cheese to Rouen market 300 years ago; and has remained a 'tradition ever since, absorbing in agricultural •occupations as many, at one time, i.. as 80 per cent :of the women et France. Work e rat II W rk N ar 7Io e i Honest But Mb's. 'Bevtillon .explained her- self further. "Cultivation of cabbages," she said, "represents the two things that every Frenchwoman wants. It rep- resents good, hare, honest work, donee in the vicinity of her own home. And it also represents a pos- sible sourer of enmity ineoane should normal supplies run short. Home life and security. These . two are the dearest things on earth so far as the Frenchwoman is concerned." e But the woman of France, said Mille. Bertillon, is prudent. She pos- sesses a fund of comneon sense, anti adds to it the aiblity to pull her own thinking to pieces. examine it im- partially, and shape her oourse' ars cording to her diagnes:s. She acknowledges franliy that her preference lies in marriage and in home -keeping, but she is also ready to acknowledge that homes, in these days, are not for every woman; that Hien are fewer than before the war; that security must be sought, how- ever disagreeably, along independent lines. This amounts for the .fact that the year 1921 -,the last for. whieb .figures are available—produced a number of women engaged in ibusiness eecu- pations-nob agriculture or .domestic —which rose to a total not far ehort of 226,000. ' Many .Avenues opened Tteday in France, wonitan is to be found in nearly every professional: and dam,mereial undertaking. Since the war almost every avenue of paid work has been open to her, and the French parent, being fully conscious that girls as well as boys may, at lease in this generation leave to earn their own living, puts no seri- ous difficulties in the path of any tween wheel. days and marriage, young woman who wishes to start out Cal a career of her own -eleven though it be a career which is destined to fill noi merely the once m gap be Neatly every girl of the bourgeois class is brought up to work nowa- rltays. But only the Very 'few realize bhe poesibilitie, ;of a profession'apart drain marriage, The Frenchwoman who rises to a high position in the business world 'at the present me- ment is a pioneer. • • "That is' the position in a nut- shell,". said Mlle. Bertiiilon. In, her own profession -that of law-•-•weinan her, of course, .excelled herself. But then, a period ,of 30 years -it was in 1901 that the first woman barrister made her appear- ance --has, °provided time flee her to become , an accepted part in this calling. - There are now some 200 women lawyers --a number which would jus, tify a woman representative upon bhe Bar. Council; and this summer, a woman member . of the Paris Bar, Madame Maria Verane, did indeed- stand, though unsuccessfully, as a candidate for one of the eight seats, which out of 24, will become vacant next year. The law, and naturally, the teach- ing profession, take first place among the paid occupations, so far as women are concerned — unites or course the profession of dressmaking is to be taken in account. But dress- making has developed into some- thing more • than a profession in France. ` No person—pr so soy .those elusive beings who live their lives in the mysterious Snub of it --no person who has not sat beneath the shimmering glass candelabra of one of the dozen great fashion houses of Paris and watched the solemn rites of a abow attended by the "trade" et half the, civilized world, has ever really seen the French woman. A. subtle tradition goes abroad in Paris that the French women who leaves France to ply her cunning needle elsewhere,' forthwith loses her skill and must return to her native land to gather a fresh store of in- spiration, Dressmaking apart, however, edu- cation and law holcl first place in the line of professions. Next to law, and close be•cde it, comes medicine, and here wo.,..n has worked for the past 010 year e ,raduating for the first time e the french Medical School in 1870. Organization of Soroptimists It is a member of this profession, Dr. Noel, who has done so mucic for the organization of women le tthe Soroptimist movement, not ,only= in France, but far beyond it. But Dr. Noel is of the opinion that, so far as her own country is concerned, the women of the next generation will enter mere naturally into public Mee than aro the women of this. • Truly, Dr. Noel'd Soroptimists, taken with the somewhat shriller organization, l'union Feminine dies Carriers L ibareles et Cominerciales, number between theme some 400 members; but, in many instances these women are solitary mothers of ;their 'own professions. There are women in the iliplo- 'natio service of France. The offi- cial Consent to their admittance was signed in 1928, and the first woman to take advantage of it was Mlle, Suzanne Borel, Women,like men, find their way into the service by meats of oxatninetions which are competitive; ,but, unlike men, their work is confined ,to.; the adniinis- trative' o is ..of t ei ^ p s h r own country' •Nio Woman is allowedto un ext< ke the duties whieh fall to ` the lot of consuls and other representatives abroad; Architects arid Engineers • There are ;wo'men "' architects --a few. The fast • woman to be auinit- ted to, the French National School of Architeetere was Italie, ' Juliette ]iaied. Anothep`,wuman Mile.'.Andree Garrus, designed , the ,Peace Bridge which spans the' Rhin_ a between France' and- 'Ceti -neer. There are -woanen engineers. They, were admitted to the French schools in 1916, One of thein, et least, achieved notable success. She is 'Miss Edna. Nicolleethough French, she in- siets upon the Miss= -who was ap- pointed 'to- the management of that important branch of the French "State ,Railways; which deals with all foreign travel ; oailways, busses, etc. Miss Nicoll alias served the com- pany, too, in the capacity of consult- ing engineer --an accomplishment` unique in the history of French women -and it is to •her that the foreign visitor owes the coinfout •of the road service which runs between Cherbourg and Paris. "Interesting?" says Miss Nicola. "Business is always interesting -and in this'special line there are .tremen- dous opportunities.. -But business steeds more women. I 'can see the goad that can come bo any nation whieh uses its women. here- in France we leave not realized very tnueh of this possible good." Rights Delayed by Traditions The traditions of France stir'. deny to woman the rights which are al- lowed to man. No married woman, un- less she has had an agreement before marriage, has any .power over her own earnings; nor ean she own a •business except with her husband's consent. Madame Jane Nemo, president of the Democratic Feminine Chargee de )'Action Direate a runlets Frans - also pour la Suffrage des Femmes— sums it up cleanly. . "The thing," she said, "is to be re-. gretted. L, .,pite of the great nuns, bei of women who exercise a pro, •fession, woman has no influence on the affairs of the nation. Woman, even though s'he be a lawyer, an engineer, a professor, an eminent woman of business, is stall of les- ser account to the melon than is her young son who has just attained his majority. These things are unequal. They are to be regretted." To the Drench feminist, the,tnatter is perfectly clear, Iia& woman de- sired freedom strongly enough, slit says, woman would have got it -- since the woman of France has only to ask Ter a thing in ter own way in order to make it her own. To the French business woman, tate matter is also clear, Entry into business implies the understanding of something beyond national com- mitments. . The French woman, if she is to compete fairly with the women of other nations, must in- evitably compete upon a footing which is proportionately as free and .as unfettered as is theirs. The hindrance lies, however, in the fact, that, up to .the Present time, the French woman has' pre- ferred home ;life to public life, deliberately choosing to rule success- fully in a small domain rather than risk her influence in the hazards of something bigger. • .16 Leap Year Provides Fun for Fair Sex All the economists; and others who sheeted know, even it they don't, pre- dict better times for 1932, and it is , coinforting to know that there will be one more day in which to enjoy them than in the average twelve- month period. The year 1932^ is Leap Year, and there will be one ad ditienal day 'on .whichethe sun will rise and set—Monday, Ferbuary 29. Leap Year, under our present cal- endar system, occurs ; once every four" years. The day, is more exactly known es "bissextille," the tame giv- en by scientists to the year rotntain- ing 366 ,days. The astronomers of Julius Caesar, in the year 46 B.C., settled the solar year at 868days; and six hours. These hours were set aside, and at the end of four years made a day, which was added to the fourth year. 'leis sytem-is cotttin•• tied under the Gregorian calendar, which we now use in the Western and I'laeterri hemispheres, with the exeeptlon of some parts of Asia, where they, have, systems of coimput- ing time which date back thousands of years before Christ. The English equivalent for' the hissextille year is an allusion to the result of an interposition of the ex- position x-1 c s tibrt of the extra day. for after the 29th off' Ferbuary a date "leaps over" the day, of the week on which it would fall in ordinary years. The "Leaping" Day Thus it is demonstrated that a birthday on the 10th of June, a Iron - day, will in the next year if a leap year, be on the 10th of June, a Wed- nesday. One cahtid take Christmas Day and ,make the same iiilustration. Associated in Anglo-Saxon coun- tries particluarly with Leap Year is the tradition that women shall woo men, reversing the customs of the ages which prevails in all the or- dinary years. Of tiie origin' of this interesting, and to some :often em- barrassing custom, leo satisfactory explanation has ever eon offered by: historians. It is recorded that in 1228 a law was enacted in Scotland that "It is statut and ordaint that: during .the reign of hir rnaist blissit Megeste, for ilk yeare knowne as' lepe yeare, tit marten iadye of bathe thiyhe and ewe estait shall hes Liberte to bespeke ye man she likes, albeit Ire,iefuses to take hir to be his lawful tv',tfe, he shall be mulcted in ye sum ane pundis or less, as his estait shall be, ertcept land awis gif he can make it •appeare that he is betrothit ane ither woman the then shall be free.' A. few years later a like law was passed in France and hi the 16th century the custom was legalized e en GenoaandFrance. bIAILINC bygone time, •' t , rt appears that the gen tleman in moderate circumstances, eligibto and d un atrrel in leap Y,zr in olden tunes was in for a difficult year. If he .died not care to marry he 'had, to iband over a pound, or more, to any young lady whose hand in holy wedlock he refused. A pound was a lot of money then, even more so than now, and 11 a bachelor want- ed to remain in 'sin 'le. blessedness during a' leap year be would need to save up 'during the previous three years in order to withstand the raid, on his exchequer. The worst feature of: it was that it was a law of the land, and there was ,punishment for disolsediertce, possibly an uncomfort- able few days in the stacks --a pleas- ant custom they ouce•had. • Just A Tradition If these las are still on the stat- ute books, if they have never been repealed through the influence of indignant_ •badhelors vicbimfiged by Leap Year, they have long since be- come obselete. Today in English- speaking countries, and in some European countries, people still taut pt'easantiy of the custom of «propos- ing to a titan during Leap Year" but there is no law eompellnighim to ae- cept, or pay a fine. Undoubtedly there are times :luring the year when men Bare "hooked," but under our. modern system there is yery little difference between Leap Year and any .other year. The illusion that man selects and then pursues iias long since been shattered. During 1982 the celebration of Leap Year is likely to be confined to Leap Year social parties, out of which a good deal of amusement may be PAGE 7 Household Economics enjoyed by the ,use of novelty stunts peculiar to the tradition. These o e 1m - ties eligible youeg bachelors should shun assiduously if they 'wish to re- tain both their peace of mind, their dignity and their single blessedness. In Winnipeg, eight years ago, some bright soul struek :upon' the idea . of publishing the names and photo- graphs of all the moderately well- ,to-do eligible young niers-about-town. The Manitoba Free Press . startled' the metropolis of the prairies with a full-page spread, and there was moaning and , groaning among . those included, and gnashing of teeth in obagrin among those -excluded. This is the sort sof thing that: may happen to a bachelor in Leap Year. The .razor- aI of all this seems to be to get .mar- tied in any year but a Leap Year, because such a wedding is always the butt 6f the jokesters...• —London Free Press. THE ,FARMER'S SUN IS . "' • SOLD TO OTTAWA MAN The Farmers' : Sun, organ of the -United netters of Ontario, •hay been sold to Graham Spry, of Ottawa. Ar- i rangements for the deal were com- ploted last week and' it is expected` the paper will continue to.be' putt: ,lished in Toronto: Terme of the sale, have not been disclosed'. Established by the late George !Wrigley, of London, The t'une • ' ra eb Sun was printed in The London Ad- vertiser ,office for some years. It was owned for a time by Prof. Golds win Smith and WAS the organ of the Patrons of Industry. When that body went out of existence it was publish- ed privately for a term, then the "United Farmers obtained the paper. THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Hem a They Will Sing You Their Songs ---Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad— But Always. Helpful and Lis Airing - Two fool jackasses now gat this dope -- Were tied together with a piece of rope. Said one to the other "You 001118 my way, SEbile S take a nubble at this new- mown hay. "I won't" said the other. "You come with me. "For I, too, have some hay, you sec." So they got nowhere, just pawed op the dirt, And, believe me, how that rope did !hurt! Then they faced about, those stub- born mules, And said, "We are just eke human fools. Let's pun together. I'I1 go your way, Then you come with me and we'll both eat ,hay". Well, they ate their hay and they liked it, too. And swore to be comrades good and true, As the sun went down they were (heard to say: "Ah, this is the end of a perfect day." —Author Unknown. TRY I'T, ANYWAY Somebody said that it couldn't be done; But lie,, with a cshtockle, replied That maybe it couldn't, but he would be one That wouldn't say so 'til he tried. Se he buckled right in With trace of a grin on Itis face— If Sze worried, he didn't show it. For he started to sing;, As he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, but he did it. --Anon. JUST A WEARY OLD PASSENGER This world it keeps a-spinnin' As fast as it can go. We wonders vita' it's rushin' to, But no one seems to know. De sun he is de headlight A,•.blezin' out to fine; De stalls dey is de signal lamps A-glee:min' long de line. I ain't taxis' questions 'Bout how de train is run; Pe simply gwinter stick until My little journey's done. It ain't no use to warty, Wihatever may betide— I's only 'les' a paesonger, An' mighty glad to ride. --The Weshinaten (D.O.) Better Times Now One ship sails east, and another After, translating this English of a By the selfsame winds that blow. Star. 'Tis the set of the sails And not the gales That decides which way they go, Like the winds of -the sea are the ways of fate, A's we voyage along through life. 'Tis the win .ef the soul That decides it's goal, And not the calm or the strife, —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. WINTER NIGHTS The winter night has lit her secret fires Over the lustee hill, I ' see the wildte smoke curling through the plain, And icy the sleepy mill. That does not ;chant its song of quiet toil, Now that the day is done; Eut brushed with faded rose, stands beautified, Stained of the sinking sun. Far off a •hound is baying to a star, New -lit beside the moon; And, from the drifted road, a sled and pair Swing by in merry tune. 'Clear, where the stiffened trees stand in a wood, There sounds in quick reply, The sharp staccato tef the winter frost–• Prayed as the bells go by. —Jessie L. Beattie in "Brilwtlleaves, NEW ENGLAND BIRDS I have never heard the skylark sing At cloudy gates in. early spring; I have never heard the nightingale Wooing the ehadows in a dale; But I have known the Bob'white's call The song -sparrow singing clear and small And I have heard the whippoorwill Lilting at moonbeam on the hill. And once at morning in an ,hour When Mountains to the sunlight tow- er , ' I lheand •the hermit thrush make song Until wood .shadows seemed to throng With magic notes and break away As though his bright throat brought the day. There I was pleased to stand and 1nark, Forgetting • nightingale end, lark! Hare?d Wesley 11e&vyn, in The • Clristian Science Monitor. THE OTHER SIDE OP THE ROAD The priest and Levite passed hint by With cold indifferent mien. "We w^an.not ,help this man," they said- "His faults are plainly seen. west, t "'tis true, he has been wounded sore, "Is hungry, sick and stolid; "He 'should have •been more careful then "So not for hien our gold!" They left lain lying in the road, And cared not thougth he died; And, lifting holy hands in prayer, Passed on the •other;.side. Bat One there came - with gentle. hands, • He 'raised the fallen head, I•I'e bathed his wounds "and,cheereci his soul, And nourished Seen with bread, And gently carried hint away ' To a fair place to rest. This wondrous 'tGood Samaritan"— bong has itis name ;been blest. Still men there be who walk today` And draw their cloaks aside; But blest is he Who passes not /Upon the other aide. WATCH FIRES Love was not given the •human heart For careless dealing; Its spark was lit that man might know Divine revealing. Heaped up with sacrificial brands, The flame in mounting ,Enkindles other .hearts -with love Beyond the counting. Reflected back into each life. These vast fires glowing Do then become the perfect love Of Christ's bestowing. -Grace Coolidge in New Work Herald -Tribune, BECAUSE I HAD A FRIEND Life never would have been so rieh To me, ---so well worth while— But for that cheering word you spoke But for that cheery smile; The burden had so heavy grown. My heart was filled with care; I never wined have reached the goal Had you, friend, not been titer,, Because, 'because I bads friend, One who was real and true; Because SO your friendship ndsiip didi not fail Just when I needed you, I had the strength to •clamber on, • Ihad the will to do. Because I knew I had a friend, • I've had no cause to rue. Oh, there are records of the past That tell of trust sublime, Or friendship that survived the test Of doubt, disaster, time; But I lcnaw one that's up to date, That had not had an end When a man defeated, fought and won Because he had a friend. •--Anon. WAITING FOR MOTHER The old man sits in his easy ehair, Slumbering the moments away, Dreaming a dream that is all his own, ean this gladsome peacefu? day. His children have gathered from far and near, His children's children beside, And merry voices are echoing through The "homestead's" halls so wide. But far away 111 the years long flown Grandfather lives again; And his heart forgets that it ever knew A shadow of grief or pain. For he sees his wife a.e he saw her then -- A matron comely and fair— Wflth her children gathered around his board And never a vacant chair. Oh! happy the dream of the "Auld Lang Syne" Of bhe year's long slipped away! And the old man's lips have gather- ed a smile, And itis heart grows young and gay. But a kiss falls gently upon, his brow From the daughter's lips so true, "Dinner is ready; and, father, dear, We are ,only waiting for youl" The old man wakes at tris theSeeeter's call, And he looks at the tattle near, "There's one of tis missing, my child," he says, "Wb will wait till mother is here." There are tears in the eyes oaf the children then As, they gaze on an empty chair; For many a lonely yearhas passed ,Since "Mother" sat with them there. 13ut the old man pleads still wistful- ly: "We must wait for 'Mother, you know!" And they bet bion rest in his oke arm chair Till the sun at last sink's low. Then, leaving a smile for the children here, Ile turns from the earth away, And has gong to "lsbat'iter" beyond • the skies, With the close of the quiet day. --)Mary 11 Brine. • ..1‘01(0:::-. Ifi . Athrcrtlshig 1 such a Story to Tell as Today