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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News Record, 1932-10-20, Page 7'THURS., OCT, 20, 1932 Health, Cooking' Care of. Children THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORIiJ TEPE Edited By Lebam IIaleber`. Kral. PAQE 7 Household Economics A Column Prepal ed Especially for 'Women— But Not Forbidden to Mens THE DOCTOR'S LAMENT Last night when others were at test I rode about anddid atY best "To save some patients called by fate Fronk trav'ling thou' the Golden .Gate. 'This morning,_ when the mews I spied, t I thought they -night as well have died. "'Two hundred injured in a wreeke; "Man falls, sustains a broken neck";' • "Two drown while rocking a canoe"; "Grade crossing murders—twenty-1 two"; { ""G'asblast takes lives of twenty-' three'; ""Two die 'neath falling apple tree." All night I toiled to save one life, And millions die in •useless. strife; i What is the use to make one well, 1 While thousands harken to death's knell? Where is my labour's recompense? "'Why can't the world have common sense? Journal American Medical Assoc. cite •1 `In spite of the repeated warnings people still take the most foolish 'reeks, imperiling their own life and limb and those of others. The other day a man down at Drummondville, 'Que., set some gasoline on the kit- ehen stove, intending to heat it to -clean some clothing, and as a result °he, his wife and a babe were so burn- ed that all three died, leaving three -other children orphans. A woman up at Shelbourne was in 'the bath tub and reached up to 'tire on an electl'ie light and way *almost eleetributed. She screamed •and a boarder in the house, sensing what was wrong, turned off the pow - 'es•, no doubt saving her life. Osie would suppose that anyone would knew better than to take gasoline near a stove or a flame of any kind. Gasoline should never be `used inside the house by amateurs, unless outside door., and windows are open and there is plenty of ven- tilation. It evaporates so quickly that if used in a closed room the Mace is soon full of deadly fumes 'that even friction may ignite. Use gas for cleaning out in the open air and if eecossaiv to heat it, warm the vessel before pouring in gas, then stand in a pan of hot water while 'being used. De not leave gasoline around where children can reach it. Band do not store it in the house at all. It is too dangerous a commodity tokeep about. It seems rather strange, too, that the danger of + handling eletcric fix- tures while hands are wet should not be generally understood, as wareings have been given time and again. Usually when bathrooms are fitted up the lights are so arranged that they cannot be reached while in the bathtub. but in some of the older houses this precantion was not tale. en, You should never even turn on a light with wet hands anci certainly never while standing in water, We are playing with a mighty force when we. handle electricity, a force that even experts cannot accurately gauge and it behooves us to treat it with due respect. Men who work around machinery are constantly in danger unless care is taken and women in the home are now exposed to the same danger. as they utilize this power in their domestic operations. But intelligent; up-to-date women should not have to be warned more than once of such clangers. ese=11:==e Linoleum that is badly worn in spots can be mended by the following ntethed: With a sharp knife or safe- ty razor cut out the worn spot, fol- lowing the lines of the design care; fully. Use this as a pattern for cut- ting an insert from a left -over piece of linoleum which has had similar wear, Be careful that the 'pattern matches, Slip in under the hole cut into the linoleum a niece of lseavy. muslin or canvas cut a ntowhat larger than the hole. Turn the linoleum up and brush well with glue around the edges of the opening. Press down on the mus- lin or canvas and weight until dry. Brush the sides and bottom of the new piece of linoleum with glue and fit int.r,, position in the hole, gluing ^firmly to the muslin bade. ground. Weight it down well until the . hardens. glue 1 c Afrer Hatching the worn spots of the linoleum in this wise, give the whale floor covering a cont of clear varnish and a rub down with wax and vet have almctt a new floor covering. Carden experts tell us to plant all those things which will take kindly to fall planting, now, not waiting until the busy spring time. The pianting, seasons are all too few, anyway. We must make the 0 crvic OF Tilt (Gambian stn ebirall, , : trit#iutt and Life Insurance Companies in Canada. Edited by GRANT FLEMING, M.D., Association Secretary. YOUR CHILD'S HEALTH The work of the modern health 'department is more or less familiar 'to all of us, There is a tendency to place respoeoibillities with the de pertinent which it can never be ex- pected to assume. The department • eau do certain things and do then well, but the health care of your ehild must be given chiefly by you, • his parents, not by the health de- • partment. The child's health depends, in the hegnming, upon the care the moth- er has dtu'ing her pregnancy. Pro- per care throughout pregnancy and at delivery not only safeguards the mother but protects the child, and secures for the child a good, fair 'start in life. The health department "will supply the mother with printed Instructions, but she herself must go LO her doctor to secure the super - •vision she needs. After the baby is born the best •way for the mother to give health to iter child is to breast feed her baby.' Whesi the time comes to wean, then the health department should have available a supply of pasteurized milk, One of the greatest nubile health achievements 'is the pasteurization of milk. As a result of the pasteur- ization of milk supplies, there has 'been a great reduction int the sum- mer diarrhoeas of young children, abdontinal and'rbone tuberculosis and other diseases spread by milk. The rare of the milk, keeping it clean •e feer it is delivered, is a responslb- ility of the home, Yon can have your child protected against two diseases, one of which years ago used to take the lives of many and scar the rest—smallpox; the other, which still continues as o major cause of deaths among chil- ai then -diphtheria. Protection ag t nn these two diseases is available, but that feet will not protect your child; you mast have him vaccinated a- gainst smallpox and immunized a- gainst diphtheria if he is to be safe- guarded. When the baby stage is passed, Os, child still needs care. During his pre-school years he. establishes his • habits of life, which will determine, in large measure, his physical and mental health in later years. Phvs- ical defects, such as diseased ton - I silo and adenoids, commonly develnn at this period of life. They shnult' be .corrected hv proper treatment• and not allowed to continue, as then ;neer rause serines harm to the eltild Your child will be far more lilcolt' to grow up a healthy, han»Y, usefn' eitizntn if Von stake rose of the knaw- le'1it•r, wvhieh is available concerning child care, -rather than if you trait tr chance. To give your child 'physical and mental health ' is the greatest so" - roes which you can achieve. an'l it will -rive you more satisfateion than anything else in life. Questions concerning Healtb, ad- dressed eyed to the Canadian Medical As. snciatien, 184 Co11eo-e Street, Toren ee. well be answered personally by letter. best of the two Which we have, Planting all that can be•plauted fall Ih the first place, there are more n nths in ,Which to work infall, than in spring. Generally speaking, the weather is usually more favorable for outdoor work in fall and the ground . is more workable than in early .spring. Trees and , shrubs send out their buds very eaiely in spring, often" before Suitable planting conditions have arrived. To move then- in spring means that this early growth of the plant is delayed another sea- son; whereas, if they are set out in, the fall the plants are dormant and can be safely moved and handled, The fall rains settle the soil around their roots and the plants become firmly established in the ground. At the first call ,cf spring they aro 0.11..1021.1113.3.1.1 ready to start out with thee'othee ro.:ereeeeeee eeeree plants. For;; fall planting the signal is "Go aheacl!"—SNOW, November is the month when the signals begin to change. The brilliant. coloring of the foliage of: trees and shrubs is 'a 'warning. that the, fall planting days will soon be over, andthose who, have net gone ahead will have to wait until another year, or, caught by cold weather, leave things half done, By planting this fall you get all the fuss anal , muss over with now then when spring comes you can lock forward to complete enjoyment of beautiful grounds from the very first days of spring through out the entire year. —REBEIKAH What Clinton was Doing in The Gay Nineties DO YOU REMEMBER WTI'AT HAPPENED DURING TILE LAST DE- CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY? Most people like looking back- wards a bit, especially those who have passed middle life, and as we have many among our subscribers who lived in Clinton and its environs in the "gay ninties", (though why they should be described in that tvay has never been very clear to us) and many now absent front the old haunts, we are introducing this fea- ture, pr.cducing some of the new:- items ewritems which were chronicled in The News -Record and The New Era in the decade preceding the present century. These items may throw some light on the mystery as tr why the nineties should be described as "Gay." This is from The New Era, Aug. 12th, 18P2; Vessels arriving in New York re- port the presence of icebergs. Vire could stand one here without crrn- plaining. The Glebe now admits that there is an annexation party in Canada something it denied the existence of a short tithe ago. And it nig_ It+ surprise more than the Globe to learn the numerical strength of the party. (Now what did the Era edi- tor know in these early, happy days?) Rev. Wm. Craig, who has just elosed his eleventh year pastorate of St. Paul's church, annntmeed to his ecngrogation on Sunday that he had accepted the pastorate of Pcttrolin church and expected to trove there es enrt1 as convenient. The license of the Central Hotel, Blyth. expired cm Saturday and has not been renewed, 1t is reported fhrt there will he one hotel less here next year but which one it is yet un- known, Eon. J, C. Patterson has made a donation of $16,00 to the Huron Central. Rverythine ie getting into good Anne for the coming exhibition of the Huron Central The society is to be COlhlt atulated on securing the ser- vices of W. Cats in place of W. .Tneksen, It i; to be regretted that bit•. Taeksnri'a ire -reaming btteineee rrevented his longer acting but no druht his snare energy and time will still be willingly given to the ad- veneement of the exhibition, Mr. Fred Jackson has returned to teem after s month's visit at Wards- viile and Detorit. elesars. Lack Kemtedy and James ltclleerehio played with Woodstock eneketees cn Monday in a match against London Asylum team, the beet eri'•ket team in Canada. The G. T. R. runs a 52.23 excurs- ion to Termite the 18th. c P'rt m. The News-Reecrcl Aug. 10th, 'tee" Plyth will proclaim Auoust 18th -ivi" holiday and go tie Kincardine nn the Clinton Organ Company ex- tmee.imn, Siert Commissioner Plummer hat ^n.11"d for the gravelling. of thr 13avfield road from the railway to the er'•»e•etien Timits, int c'lanciniw over the •entrance ex- amieatirni list far Vasil Hereon In- "itectrrate we noticed the fnllowintt names: Aldie Holmes, Rufus And- ^"s. Peetha Bean, Oscan Forster, Oliver Jervis, and also that; of R. Deaichntan of Howick. This was no doubt the gentleman who was so prominent in the .recent by-election in South Huron. ()n 'Wednesday : eight, the hotel hoildi'nt , shedv and stables at I3ol- nlesville, owned bv Mr. Arthur Knox and occur: eel by Mude and Son were destroyed by lire. The tenents also lost nearly all their furnisings. On the same night the old Dr. Cole building between Clinton and Holmes - wile was also destroyed. It was un- occupied. Mr. D. McAllister left Clinton a short time since to seek. his fortune in the land that some people would like to have this grand country an- nexed to, writes to a friend that he is "not in love with the country." He met Joe Monaghan, formerly of Clinton. He and a partner are run- ning a grocery and flour• and feed store in Eastport and doing a good trade. George Howson has a tailor shop at Idissuia. Portland is a nice city but Mr. McAllister says there is no law there at all. The saloons ere open on Sunday the same as any other day. He furthur says: I have travelled pretty near through the whole country. It is hard for an honest man to get started, there are so many "banns" who travel through the country locking for work andnot wanting to find any. The country is rotten, and thousands of men are going idle, but I have at last struck a job and have worked half a day at threshing at 51.60 a day and board. They thresh from the shock." (Nothing really very gay about that, either.) DON'T BE T00 RASA Everybody is quite aware of the fact that conditions are all awry! That tune is played on a harp with a thousand strings. But how shall we remedy them? It is all very wee to say that the U. F. 0, and ether organizations are l"too reac- tionary" and that it is "time to do something." to signify one's tviIling- ne:lh to join any organization propel., e ttr "act." But it depends a great ,al on what these people propose to do and how they are going to act. M. M. for one, is not prepared to pull .town the roof that shelters her, even if it is a bit leaky, and not altogeth- er to her liking, unless and until she hes definite plans for a bettor one laid before her. There is such a thing as construc- tive destruction; but very little of that kind is mooted and it is high time that these people who appear to be so anxious to destroy the Pre- sent social order, having now im- pre'sed that fact open us, variously and strenuously and continuously, should now lay before us definite well -constructed, and feasible plans for a better order, and what is even more important a logical just, ani, effective method of instituting and carrying out such plans. Perhaps we have "drifted" into this maelstrom. But we may drift out again, and we'll stay in our "boat" with all its imperfections un- til someone provides a better, for it is still: - "Better to bear the ills we )rave. than fly to others that we do not know." -111orinrie Milds in The Farmer's Sun. ' , Teacher: What is the most useful creature in the world to mankind?. Boy: A hen, sir. Teacher: Why? Boy: We can eat it before it's born and after it's dead. AN OVERSIGHT Mother; "I left two pieces of cake •in the cupboard this morning, John- ny. and now there's only one piece left. Can you explain it?" Jobuny; "Well, I suppose it was clerk when 1 went there that -I didn't see the other." "e:wPauvw>..o THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATES TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their, Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful and Ins piring' ECHO You Over there Beyond the hills Have nothing to say, Yet can't keep still— Have nothing to do But mimic me And double the words That I, set free, Garrulous ghost. Gai,'rie:es ghost. Maybe you'd say In your defense No echo practices Reticence. And the repartee , Of a voice's .ghost Makes conversation As good as most. As good as most. --+Mildred W esi;on, in the New Yorker. THE LONG AGO Oh life has its seasons joyous and drear, Its summer swirl and its winter snow, But the fairest of all, I tell you, dear, Was the sweet old spring of the long ago— The ever and ever se Iong ago -- When we walked together among the flowers, When the world with beauty war all aglow. 0 the rain and the dew! 0 the shine and showers, Of the sweet old spring of the long ago— The ever and ever so long ago CLOUDS IN THE STCY Fascinating to ane' Is the sky, as the sea, There a battleship gray, Swiftlymaking her way, g And right over my head, Boats with their white sails spread, Race o're a calm blue sea, Two polar bears Glancing On an iceberg moving Slowly across the sky, Gray mountains rising high In the distance. I trace The profile, the dear face Of a dear one, a friend, —Alphee Tel. o~!C—tom OCTOBER I hear a rustling in the standing corny There hangs a rosy apple on the Though, There's soft grey smoke o'er roof and hill each morn, And evening shadows gather soon- er now. A maple hides its brightness in the Wood, One stray leaf hides within the woodbine's green, And summer fields be bare, where lately stood The ripened wheat amid the sum- mer scene: Belated flowers show 'mid grasses sere, And from the tawny fields the crickets Sing, The early frost now sooths the dying year— All sounds seem sadly chorusing. ---lOhtirlotte Taieott-Cicx, t ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE Earth bas not anything to show more fair; Dull would be he of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty. This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers; domes, theatres and temple lie Open unto the fields and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokless air, Never; did sun more beautifully Steen In his first splendor valley, rock or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep. The river glideth at his. own sweet will; Dear God, the very houses seem asleep;, And all that mighty heart is lying still. ' Wiordsworth, WHITE WATER Churning Turbulency Of rushing• white water Singing a song. The unbridled forces Of a million white horses Charging along. They leap and they bound And they crash like thunder As a million foamy manes Race from 'way down -ander—, Fearless, excited, impatient, Delighted, Through red, jagged canyons They gouged in the rock. —Byron Allan Waits. roof—: My childish heart met no reproof In that great room where God'. was hid, I feasted on the berries bid By Him to grow so free for all-- ; The wild ones climbing o'er the wall, I stood quite still to heal' the bees, And wondered had they need to please Him, or some other force that said: "'Tit time for work or time.fot bed." I wondered if the birds were gay, To sing so merrily each day. One clay I heard a whippoorwill. His quavering voice made allso still And sad, but not a sight of him, Only that "poor -r -r," so grieved and dim. All little feet and wings that went Upon their }ways --were they con, ternlittl? I longed to know, to ask them where They learned their art, and if the air Seamed nice and friendly here. I dare Not speak to others, big Iike me, I knew they'd laugh and tease and be Mean, so I watched the clouds go by, And wondered, wondered how and why, THE PASSING OF DAY , Across the earth now moves depart- ing day, Folding the rose and quieting the. • leaves With promises of dawn. She goes her way, Trailing her broidered draperies afar. Finger at lip, she hears the evening star Sing of her passing as it softly cleaves The chastened air. Day mounts a stair, Then, hand in hand with beauty, disappears Within the shining doorway of the West, Leaving the 'timid grasses wet with tears And all earth's children inarticulate, Save the grey owl and lovelorn whip- poorwill And a far loon high -trumpeting his Mate. —Kathryn Munro. IN THE MEADOW 'Twos areltecl with sky --a wonder —Mena Chandler. THESE AUTUMN DAYS Oh, these autumn days of golden haze Dear thoughts to me are bringing Of other tines, like faint, sweet chimes That memory sets ringing. Now lies the world at peace upcurled In sun -warned nook a -dreaming; Her thoughts bright leaves and shim- mering sheaves In beauty's hues a -gleaming. Too soon, alas! these dreams must pass— Then death ... and sad November; But though earth mourn 'Heath skies forlorn Yet will my heart' remember. Sweet autumn days whose golden praise My soul is softly singing, Like faint -heard chimes of other times Thatmemory sets ringing. atre th t F No other food you can h,,y will give you so much delicious nourishment for such little cost as CROWN BRAND CORN SYRUP --the famous economy food. Every grocer sells it. Send 10c for "Canada's Prize Recipes" 290 practical, home -tested recipes. EDWARDSBLIAG THE CANADA STARCH CO., Limited, MONTREAL Send one copy of C.n.da'e Prize Recrpeo'• l enclose t0e, for ,oiling AME 'Apposes win oIvc t .pression ity