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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
PAGE 7
Health, Cooking
Care of Children
of �eVe�aV
A Collllnn Prepared _', Especially for Women—
But Not Forbidden to Men
SPRING
Every hill and valley rings
"With the joy that April brings;
'Gurgling laughs of hill -born streams
Where the first arbutus gleams,
'Tender gleam of leafing trees,
Daunting robin harmonies,
White cloud -galleons that fly
'O'er the azure depths of sky;
Opal -tinted mists a -shine
.0n the far horizon bne,
"Luring winds, whose magic art,
Calls and calls the gipsy heart;
Ah! they all return again
With the lilt of April rain,
She whose happy smile and tear
'Greets the muffing of the year!
—Molly Bevan in Songs of the Year.
Now that spring is here and every-
~ -body is trying to get out-
- •doors or into the woods as
often as possible, or at least taking-
' walks into the fields, a word about
• the conservation Of wild flowers may
-not be amiss.
Every person reared ht the country
(and I can never help being a bit
sorry for the person who was not
reared in the country) who has
reached middle -age or even those on
the' sunny side of that, can remem-
ber when a walk into a quiet conn-
'' try place or into a wooded space in
spring and early summer always
• -bought 'the reward of seeing plenty
•'of wild flowers. There were tril-
1
lininsby the hundreds. I . can a e -
call a wooded slope which I used to
visit which was —literally carpeted
with white trilliums. I used to take
a quick peep to' see if they were out,
then, keeping my eyes averted, hur-
r3� to a point from which I could get
a full view of the whole slope before
allowing myself a good look. The.
beauty of that scene made .me catch
my breath many a time. Then there
were lady's slippers, jack -in -the -put-
pits. violets, and ever so many 'more
of the common wild flowers, not to -
mention the ferns of all kinds. Not
so 'common but occurring often en-
ough to familiarize us with them
were the columbines, the flags or wild
iris, the 'pitcher plant, and many
others. Every wood lot, every old
pasture had its quota of wild bloom;
with its trailing vines,' its flaming
sumach in late summer and its many
patches of beauty which good old
Mother Nature provided without so
much as the aid of a garden rake or
an ounce of commercial fertilizer.
But times have changed and the
wooded spacesand old pastures, the
fence corners and neglected spots in
the country are not so rich in beauty
today. Last spring I walked out to
the nearest wood in the hope of see-
ing something of, nature's beauty,
but nothing appeared at the edge and
as I walked into the middle of it I
found to my disgust only the carcass
A6
INTEREST
Edited 13y Lebani i– akaber Kralc
VJOMEN
Household
Economics
not one signof a flower did I come
across. We have been toe greedy,
all of us may plead guilty to it 1 atm
sureWe picked the wild flo ro
1 d wo
without' a thought of their well-be-
ing and many of: the varieties which
were common ill our childhood .have
become almost extinct, simply be
cause they were plucked toe often,
rooted out to bring into gardens,
where they died because of the lack of
caro or the right environment, and
the walks through -the country are
not as interesting by any. means as
they used to be when. you 'came a-
cross lovely clumps of fern 'and flow-
ers every dozen steps or so..
Cars which are (blamed for a good
many things, are said to be respon-
sible for a good deal of " the deple-
tion -of our woods of the native wild
flowers. Many people have ]been go-
ing out into the country in ems who
had never been able to do so before
their travels ' and, naturaly, too,
mired the flowers which they met
their advent and, naturally, too,
perhaps, proceeded to pink then. A
few people picking a few flowers
here and there each .summer made
little difference,- there were always
plenty left to seed and the supply
was not diminished. „But when hun-
dreds of people did the same thing)
and not being content with picking,
pulled out by the roots without mer-
cy, (for wild flowers are rooted very
lightly in light, leaf mould and it
takes little to dislodge them), many
varieties soon became depleted.
The extinction of many very Iovely
varieties of wild flowers have alarm
ed the true flower lovers, who are
now 'making efforts to conserve what
is left. horticultural Societies are
interesting themselves in this and a
committee appointed for this purpose
by the Provincial .Society has been
sending. out lists of wild flowers to
of a dead cow. There was on a sun- schools and other organizations in
ny slope a lovely carpet of sod but the effort to arouse interest in their
preservation. One of the matters
which this society is drawing the
attention of the public to is the fact
that plucking wild flowers is en-
croaching on the right of property
owners. All land in Canada belongs
to someone. Everyone can enjoy the
beauty of a tree, a •field of ripening
grain or of waving grass but no one
but the owner has a right to cut any
of them. So with the wild flowers,
they may be enjoyed by all wile wish
to look upon them but they should
not be .plucked but left for the de-
light of others as well.
After all, wild flewersu;are lovlier
in their native environment than.
they are anywhere. To pluck them
is often to ruin their beauty and
they are frequently of so frail a na-
ture that any handling is fatal to
their life. •
Let 'usbecome enough interested"
in wild flowers to leave them in
their native soil, to delight the eyes,
of other beauty -..seekers like oursel-
ves and to propagate thehiseives for
future delights.
• REBEKAH.
In 'The Good :OId Days
(By Fred W. Grant in the Barrie
Examiner) -
--Ladies wore bustles.
—Monday was washday.
—Nobody swatted the fly.
—There were no flappers.
—Nobody had appendicitis.
— There was no traffic cop.
—Everybody played croquet.
—There were no Bolsheviks,
—Men sported wiry whiskers.
—Nobody worked but Father.
— Cream was five cents a pint.
--Ice cream was "iced" Bream.
--Nobody was ashamed to walk.
—Boys' shoes were copper toed,
An Advertisement
Addressed to the
Public of this
Community
When you hear of a manufacturer who spends $100,000 or
more each year on advertising, you may feel like saying—"Ter-
rible ! What waste! and it is we -the public—who have to pay
for it all!"
But stop! Before you make judgments, look at facts.
Manufacturers who advertise spend from 2 to 5 per cent.
of their sales on advertising. Let us.put it at 3 p.9.r cent. of the
price which you pay for their article for sale. So if you pay 25
cents for an advertised article, you are paying three-fourths of
one cent to pay for making it known to and wanted by, you. The
price would not be less—indeed, it might easily be more—if the
article had no money spent on it to make it known to and wanted
by you.
It is economy, so far as you are concerned, to have manu-
facturers develop a huge demand for their product, by the agency
of press advertising. You pay for the advertising, of course,
but you pay a smaller price for the advertised article than would
be necessary if the manufacturer's output were smaller!
Advertised articles have to be better than non -advertised
articles, and since they are made in larger quanities, they can be
made and sold at least as cheaply as imitative non -advertised ar-
ticles.
If you are a thrifty and wise buyer., you will
buy the article made known to you by'faithfully-maintained press,
advertising. The stranger product should be shunned.
Be very friendly, therefore, to nationally -advertised products ---
foods, toilet aids, motor cars, radio, sets, and all else ---which are
also locally advertised ---in this newspaper.
— ISaturday night was (booth night.'
—No one was fined 'for speeding.
—Vitamin gauges were unknown.
—iItlillc shake ha e ,vasa popular d'in's.
—W'idow's weeds weren't cigarettes
—Only small- boys wore short pants.
-Only little girls wore; short shirts.
-•Nobody was told, "The line is
bogy]».
—+Doctors :wanted to see your 'ton-
gue.
—The livery stable was the social
circle. -
-Nobody-cared for the price of gas-
olino,
—.Only himbea.•jacke rolled their
stockings. •
]women, nor men either didn't play
golf.
—Farmers came to town for then
mail.
—There were no germs, even in
Germany.
—Melodrama supplied the dramatic
"kick."
—No one had to look for a parking
space.
—Chickens all went to roost, at sun-
down.
—Beer was 5 -cents a glass, includ-
ing' lunch.
—Whiskey was fifty cents a quer
bottle,
—A good cigar set you back a whole
nickel,
—.The ahieks all lived in Arabia os
Turkey.
—Shows in the Town Hall cam
only so often.
—Paper and celluloid collars wer
popular.
—Food stuffs came in bulk, not in
packages.
--women wore 'bathing (dresses, no
undresses.
—Candies for the girl cost her fel
low 15e a bag.
----School - teachers "licked" pupil
good and plenty.
-The boyish form was displayed on
ly by the boy,
—Ladies used side saddles, not th
whole road.
•—A. girl was mostly bustle behind
not hustle ahead.
--Statics was merely a mathematic
al study at school.
—They were days mostly —c every
thing overeat 10 p.m.
—No ono had to listen to a saxo-
phone, thank goodness.
everybody went to church, or to
sleep on Sunday.
Girls set their caps -- not their
knee -caps ---for a man.
—Oyster suppers and church socials
were 25e a throw.
—Moving pictures happened only at
housecleaning time.
—Females all wore corsets—at least
we think they did.
—The hired girl drew $1.50 a week,
and did the washing.
--Hot dogs were those with their
tongues prng.
— They bobbedotrudimous hair only
they get you in jail.
The medodeon — not the radio —
supplied the family music,
—The family Bible and family al-
bum were popular institutions.
—They didn't have to 'hire a big hus-
ky man to teach boys how to play.
—Everyone in the family took sub.
phur and molasses each Spring.
—The hired man got a dollar a day
for 'steen ]tours—wind earned it.
too.
—Ladies' Clubs were the Ladies'
.aid, Sewing Circle and the roll•
ing pin,
—Milk was delivered into your own
pitcher from the dealers' tin mea
re.
xtsutook a girl two days to get
ready for a party; now she's
ready anytime,
after
--)Father sometimes spilled ashes on
the parlor rug; now it's mother
and daughter.
—There were no crooners, ' except
Mother when she rocked her rest-
less baby to steep.
—Women's skirts trailed as much
material below their feet as they
don't now above.
People used to arose and retire
on the same day; now they retire
and arise on the same day.
=Boys were boys and girls were
girls; but nowadays mothers and
grandmothers are girls also.
--(High flyers used to "take a drop"
often; now they merely take -off
and take a drop only once.
—People took a tonic' when they
were run down, now they usually
take -ann ambulanee or the 'hearse,
The most prominent part of an
attractive girl was bustle and
.frill; now its hustle and thrill.
--Young people turned in at '9 p.m.,
now they tune in, and don't turn
in until the 'next morning.'
—(\tan wanted but little here below;
now it's the woman who not only
wants it, but wears it also,
----Girls wore many worthy unmen-
tionables, and now they wear
hardly anything worth mention-
ing.
! 'Thera were no paid street cleaners;
1 women pedestrains' trailing skirts
did the job free and plenty.
--(Father :got most of his outdoor
exorcise with the family horse, the'
sawhorse and shanks'" mare.{
" „
— Ste m was'
mere]
an offhand
P
Y
neighborly invitation preliminary
to a social glass or two or three.
—Ladies' stockings were ,on general
view only in the dry goods stores.
and on the family wash line.
-Gn -New Year's Day we swore off
all our old bad habits; now we
swear on any new (ones we can
discover.
—Mary's little lamb finally got into
'a stew; "now, -.'Mary's little calf
sometimes gets her into a "stew"
too. "•
--Mother. could roll her own pie
crust, cookies or gingersnaps; now
she can also roll .her own socks
or cigarettes.
—The Seven Sutherland_ Sisters with
their seven -foot long hair were
the envy o£ womanhood the world
over.
—Most people were usually prepar-
ed for "rainy- days"; now they're
mostly ready any time for "wet"
nights.
—You often heard of "The boy stood
on the bridge" but that's where
you'll usually find mother nowa-
days.
— Anyone who liked to take a chance
' always went to the church bazaar;
now they- usually go to the ceme-
tery.
.—{Daughters always helped their
mother to prepare dinner, but now
they're usually not home even to
help eat it.
—Mother used to put on more cloth-
es when she' disrobed to go bo bed
than her daughter now does when
she dresses to go out.
The right way of living length-
ened many a man's days; nowa-
days the right-of-way living shor-
tens many another man's days.
-Women when fully dolled up, wore
about 28 pounds of clothes; now
they display their charms in only
a few ounces of "fixin's."
—The butcher "threw in" the heart
and liver free; now he sells it for
80e a pound and throws in hie
thumb when he's weighing it.
"Nihon any bad case was cured by
laying on of hands, it was done
by father or mother, and not some
peregrinating "Professor."
—Women's most popular pastime In
the shape of swinging a lawn ten,.
nis racquet was flipping buck-
wheat cakes in a frying pan.
—Some of the biggest mien of the
country hid behind a woman's
skirts, but nowadays not even the
smallest ehild could do it.
—It was only in the Spring, when
people had that "run down" feel-
ing; now they're run down when
they don't spring—quickly enough.
—No one ever saw a bowlegged wo-
man on the street; she kept 'em
under cover like the modern wo-
man does lots of her shortcomings.
TRYING TO EXPLAIN
An English Gentlewoman, had to
rest one nightrespectableat a
Scot-
tish ,
inn in a country village. The
chambermaid, after nondueting " her
to her roam, asked:
"Would you like a hot crock (hot
water {bottle) in your bed this eauld'
nicht, mem?"
"A what?" queried the lady.
"A. pig, mem. Shall I put a pig in
your bed to keep you warm?"
"Leave the room, young woman,"
came the indignant . reply. "Your
Mistress shall bear of your inso-
lenee."
"Nae offence, mem," insisted the
lassies "for 'twos the mistress bade
-me speir, and I'm sure she meant
it a' in kindness."
Seeing that no insult was intend..
ed, the lady asked in a quieter
voice;
1 "Is it common for ladies to have
, pigs in their beds in this country?"
"Ay, and gentlemen hae them
too."
"But you wouldn't put a pig be-
. tween the sheets?"
"If you please, mem, that's where
it would do maist gude."
"But that would dirty the sheets."
"Nae fear o' that, mem. 1'11 step
the mooth o' it tiehly an' tie it up
in a poke."
"Do you sleep with a pig yourself
in cold weather?"
"Na, mem, pigs are only for the
gentry like yoursel' that lie on
feather beds."
"How do you sleep, then?"
"My neebor lass and I sleep on
cauf."
"What, you sleep with a calf be,
tween you]"
"Oh, no, mem, you're jokin' noo;
we lie on top o' it"
We were unable to find out when
the pair came to understand each
other.
HOW TO I{EEP YOUNG
Forget disagreeable things.
Keep your nerves well in hand and
inflict them on no one.
Master the art of saying pleasant
things.
Don't expect too much from your
friends.
Make whatever work comes to you
congenial.
Retain your illusions, and don't
believe all the world to be wicked
and unkind.
Relieve the miserable and sympa-
thize with the sorrowful.
Remember that kind words and a
smile cost nething, but are priceless
treasures to the discouraged.
Do onto others as you would lute to
be done by.
And when old age conies there will
be a halo of white around your head,
but you will be loved by all.
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r•.anoa by
GRANT FL MING, M.D. .., ASSOCIATE
SECRETARY
v
Milk -Born Disease
Tlie food value of milk and of milk
products is generally recognized.
Everyone understands that milk pro-
'vidas most of the foots {essentials
required by the body, and that milk
Should, therefore be included in the
diet regularly at all ages.
Pure milk is most valuable food,
but impure or contaminated milk is
particularly dangerous. Impure milk
is just as dangerous in the country
as it is in the city. The idea that,
in the country, all milk is pure and
rich .is not correct. Dirty milk is
dirty milk no matter where it is.
Milk. 'can be, and frequently is con-
taminated with the germs of disease
in the country. • Contaminated milk
spreads disease to country users just
as readily as it does to the ptushaaers
in the town or city.
It is more ‘than fortunate that
Milk can' be made perfectly safe by
pasteurization. The process of past-
eurization implies the heating of milk
to 145 degrees Fahrenheit, holding
it at that temperature for thirty min-
utes, then cooling it quickly and
keeping it cold until used.
The reason why milk should be
pasteurized is that no one can tell,
simply by looking at milk,.whether it
is safe or not. The only practical
way is to pasteurize all mills so that
.if there are any disease germs pre-
sent, they will be destroyed, for that
is the effect of pasteurization.
'Gerais of tuberculosis, diphtheria,
scarlet fever, septic sore throat, in-
fantile paralysis, typhoid fever and
undtilant fever are sometimes car-
ried in milk. In certain instances, the
1 disease germ enters the mint direct
from the cow. The .bovine type of
tuberculbsis, which Affects younger
children, causing many of the bone
and glandular cases of the disease,
results from the use of raw milk
from tubercular cows. Undulant
fever results from the use of raw
milk fronii cows infected with con-
tagious abortion.
Milk may be contaminated from
the water supply. If the well water
is contaminated with the germs of
typhoid fever `and the milking uten-
sils are washed in that water unboil-
ed, the milli is almost sure to be the
carrier of typhoid fever germs.
The most common way in which
milk becomes contaminated is through
some handlerof the milk who is ill
or who is not cleanly .in his habits.
Unwashed hand are, in many cases,
responsible for the spread of disease
germs to milk.
There is no reason why milk should
not be pasteurized, and there are
many reasons why it should. Milk
can be pastem•ized, in the home. The
time required will be more than just-
ified by the amount of sickness which
will . be prevented. Our main safe-
diseaseguard 'against milk -borne
pasteurization. Why not make use
of it?
Directions for home pasteurisation
will be sent upon request.
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Questions concerning health, ad-
dressed to the Canadian Medical At-
sociation, 184 College Street, Toron-
to, will be answered personally by
letter.
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