HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1933-02-16, Page 7THUR1S., FEB. 16, 1933
THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORT1
Health, Cooking
Care of Children
PACE Of
INTEREST
Edited By Lebam Hakeber Kralc
Hintivalioiis
A.: Column Prepal ed Especially for Women—
But Not Forbidden to Men
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A BOWL FOR DAFFODILS 1
.' A wave 'caught up and held between
my hands
Rounded and smooth and kept a mo-
ment whole
Lifted up high above the yellow
sands,
Would be like this -=my little eurven
bowl.
Dark waters strive forever up and up
,To toppling spheres of light that
plunge and roll
Obedient to the law of brimming cup,
Down a dark caverntrr a darker goal.
My little captive wave, my curven
bowl,
Shall never know the valleys of the
deep,
Shall never give its very self as toll
But it shall have gold daffodils to
keep
The laughter of gold daffodils shall
be
• A dream far -echoed from a winds
sea. ---!Ethel Louise Knox.
Of all the many things which we
moderns have to cheer us which our
grandmothers and great-grandmoth-
ers never dreamed of, one of the
sweetest and most charming is the
p'cssibility of having winter bloom in
our homes, such as flowering bulbs.
Could anything he more cheering om
a cold, blustering day in winter,
could anything so fully bring the glad
prophesy of spring as a bowl of gol-
den yellow daffodils? Their lovely
bells seem to ring out bleak winter
and ring in gladsome spring; their
- very color is like, condensed sunshine
and, they carry -the mind forward tc
soft brewn earth, with heaving buds
sunshine overhead and birds all
a -twitter as they build their nests in
the soft green of. newly -leaved trees.
Hyacinths, 'too, carry a fragrant
message as they slowly and steadily
push their way up from their dark
lifeless looking root bulb. Who that
had not seen the miracle could ima-
gine
magine that that dull, lifeless looking
root could hold such fragrance and
beauty hidden in its heart? 'But it is
fascinating to watch the small nose
of green appear above the soil, then
slowly the little point of a bud ap-
pears, each day gaining in size, then
one day it begins to show color. From
that on the progress is faster until
the whole bloom stands perfect, shecl-
ding its fragrance all around.
More and more are the varieties of
garden things which .can be grown
indoois, crococuses, lily -of -the -valley,
many of the things which we used to
think of as summer blooms can noW
be enjoyed.in the winter, thus taking
from the bleakness of the season. It
is a gracious and lovely addition to
the blessings of modern life, and one
which even the most of those in mod-
est circumstances can enjoy to some
extent, if they wish.
—REBEKAH.
SOME OF THE BEST OF THE
NEWER ORNAMENTAL PLANTS
(Experimental Farms Note)
There are large collections of or-
namental plants at tho Central Ex-
perimental Farm, Ottawa, in which
M �3"arst•N�
ext.
OF TIM
rice
Gattabiatt ilebirat Ao rriatintt
and Life Insurance Companies' in Canada.
Edited by
GRANT FLEMING, M,D., Associate Secretary
ARTIFICIAL SUNLIGHT 'Studies made of the effects of
Nowadays, many things which are light on the human body have shown
that it is of great value in the pre-
vention of rickets, that it is most
useful in the treatment of a limited
number of diseases, that it is of
artificial niay have certain advan- questionable value in others, and
Cages, such as being more accessible that it is actually harmful in cer-
tain conditions.
Because light treatments have
some value is no justification for the
exaggerated claims -which have been
made, nor for the wide -spread use of
lamps regarding the extent of the
power of which, the user is ignorant.
There is no simple rule for apply-
ing light in the treatment of disease.
included solaria in their homes, and The area to be exposed, the source
of light to be used, and the dosage.
together with the condition of the
individual and his reaction to expos-
ure, are all points which must be
considered if the danger, arising out
of the abuse of light are to be a-
voided.
A real danger lies in self -treatment
with light. If treatment is requir
ed, the use of light needs to be ar
Carefully prescribed and supervised
as does any other form of treat-
ment. Light is not a cure-all. In
some conditions, when properly used.
it is a valuable aid in treatment; in
others, as we have said, it may be
definitely harmful.
Questions concerning Health, ad-
dressed to the Canadian Medical As-
sociation, 184 College Street, Toron-
so, will be answered personally by
letter.
found in nature are also produced ar-
tifieially, The term "artificial" no
longer suggests an inferior substi-
tute, for indeed something that is
and more uniform in quality than
the natural product.
Frcm the earliest ages, man hat
appreciated the warmth and growth -
giving power of the sun. Man, along
with plants and animals, has turned
his face to the sun. Sun -baths are
rat a modern invention; they were
used many centuries ago. The Greeks
built places by the sea where they
exposed their naked bodies to the
sun.
Sunlight is not, as we know, a-
vailable on cloudy and rainy days.
Moreover, sunlight varies in its dur-
ation and intensity with the tine of
day and the season of the year, In
order that sunlight may be constant-
ly available, irrespective of clouds,
time or season, special lamps have
been devised to produce artificial
sunlight and other forms of light.
Sunlight, whether natural or ar-
tificial, has certain effect, upon the
body. We know, from personal ex-
perience, that sunlight burns art(
'tans the skin. We also know that
to expose our bodies to the sun and
air, provided the exposure is proper-
ly regulated, gives us a sense of
health and energy.
TO
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Household
Economics''•
the newer varieties are compared denoe that she had always been given
with the old. It often is found that: goad caro and treated with kindness
ahigh priced nes variety
is no bet: They
said that
she was very
easily
ter, if as good as some variety very offended
and that show
as
much like it. A great many new being ill-treated. She would sulk
varieties of iris, for instance, have for days, for no good reason, witnes-
been introduced in recent years but ses said, It was during 'one of these
only a'few justify the price chargee spells that she left home to live with
for then. The following. iris, how- Mrs. Boyce in Goderich.
ever, of which the price has now be- Charles Stephenson, another son
come reasonable, are among the dis- said his mother would hold imaginary
tinct acquisitions and should be it conversations with the dead, includ-
ing her own father, dead many years,
of iris: Mount Royal, True Charm and that ,she would set a place at thc
Amber, Gay Hussar, Lady of Juno dining table for him.
Souvenir de Loetitia Michaud, Ma- Dudley Holmes, counsel for tit,
jestic, Zulu, Tropic Seas, Geo. J children; argued that the' delusion 0.r
Tribolet, 'Rheintochter, Mrs. Marie ill-treatment had no basis in fact and
Crag, Imperator, Lord 'Lambourne was reflected in the will. Frank
Valencia' and Purissima, Donnelly, for Mrs. Boyce, said; a
The prices •of peonies drop more
slowly than those of iris and some of
the good ones can scarcely be called
of newer introduction nevertheless s
few of the best double varieties
tested at the Experimental Farm
which may be mentioned which have
come down considerably in price
in recent years are: Le •Cygne, SoI-
ange, Madame Jules Dessert, Ther-
ese, Tourangelle, Walter Faxon, Sari
ah Bernhardt, Longfellow and Kel-
way's Glorious. -
Great advances have been made in
Delphiniums in recent years. The
most economical plan is to sow •seed
from the best named varieties and
among the seedlings will usually be
found some outstanding sorts.
The perennial lupines are charming
plants and there has been great ins-,
prevenient in thein In recent years,
Seed of the best•straina will usually
give some lovely varieties.
Among the newer ornamental
plants, the Regal lily has, perhaps,
made the greatest impression on
flower lovers. It is so hardy, sc
readily raised from seed and such a
glorious sight in summer when in
bloom that no garden should be with-
out it.
Everyone who has room for a lilac
should get one or more of the newer
varieties, among which may be men-
tioned Le hlnreshol Foch, Edith Cash
WI, Decaisne, Congo, Olivier de ser -
res, Paul Thirion, President Fallleres
and there are many others, some of
which though they have been avaiI-
able for a good many years are rare,
ly seen in Canadian gardens. The
collection at the Experimental Farm
Ottawa, when in bloom in. May is a
sight not to bo forgotten.
There are many other fine varie-
ties of ornamental plants of recent
introduction.
DISINHERITED FAMILY BRING
-ACTION TO BREAK WILL OP
STANLEY WOMAN
Goderich, Feb. 1..—A story was
unfolded in Surrogate Court today of
an 86 -year-old mother of ten children
allegedly laboring under a delusion
that she had been ill-treated by her
offspring during her lifetime, who
had, in making her will, disinherited`
them all and left everything, includ-
ing the homestead on which tha
children were beta and on which one
son still lived, to a stranger -in-law
with -whom. she had resided only two
months.
Two son; of the testatrix, Themis
John and James 'Stephenson, of Stan-
ley Township, are endeavoring to
upset the will of their mother, Mrs.
Ann Stephenson, who made her sis-
ter-in-law, Mrs. Hannah Boyce, of
Goderich, her sole beneficiary.. Un -
dos influence and lack of testamen-
tary capacity are alleged. At the
conclusion of an adjourned -all -day
hearing, Judge Costello reserved
juclement.
The late Mrs. Stephenson, a pion-
eer •of Stanley Township. was 8EI
years of age when she made her will
in 1025, and was 92 years old when
she died ip June, 1932. The contents
of the will came as a surprise to hem
children.
It was testified by R. C. IIays, Jr,.
the lawyer who drew the will, that
the late Mes. Stephenson had come tc
his office in company with Mrs
Boyce. She was described as mental-
ly bright and quite -clear as to what
she wanted. Mr. Hays said he asked
her why she should cut off her tern
children without a cent and leave her
all to a stranger -in-law. The aged
lode relied that she had been ill-
treated by hes' ,sons, and asked if
there was any legal compulsion tc
leave her children anything. Mrs
73oy0e. the heneficiasy, took no part
in the conversation, witness said.
Mrs. Montgomery, stenographer it
the lawyer's office, also attested tc
ho mental fitness of the testatrix
Two weeks after she had witnesses;
the will the aged woman had said'
to her: "You are the girl who drew
Illy will. Mrs, Boyce has been good
to me and she has been well taken
care of, for I have left her every-
thing,"
Two physicians testified that the
deceased lied for ten years suffereit
from senile dementia, while' three
sons and several neighbors gave evl- said he would give then the Bible,
mong other things, that the aged wo-
hould never have been left tc
live alone with a bachelor son, as
she was after her husband's death
when she had married auied chi dren
living
only Y
a few miles away. A bachelor's
farmhouse was no place for the aged
mother, who was unable to de her
own housework. Precedents in judg-
inents were .quoted extensively ba'
both counsel. .
It developed during the trial that
two.'of the sons, James and Charles,
had prevailed upon their mother be-
fore her death to place her bank sav-
ings at Zurich and Varna in joint
accounts with their respective wives.
About 81,QO0 was involved. The ages
lady also had insisted that her bathe•
for son, John Thomas, pay rent for
the homestead ftp to the time of her
death. Goderich Correspondent tc
Globe 1
THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED
TO THE POETS
Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful
and Ins Airing•
THE COURTSHIP OF
MILES STANDISH
VII
The March of Miles Standish
Meanwhile the stalwart Miles Stan-
dish was marching steadily north-
ward,
Winding through forest and swamp,
and along the trend of the sea-
shore,
All day long, with hardly a halt, the
fire of his anger
Burning and crackling within, ane
the sulphurous odor of powder
Seeming more sweet to his nostrils
than all the scents of the forest.
Silent and moody he went, and much
he revolved his discomfort;
He who was used to success, and ti
easy victories always,
Thus to be flouted, rejected, and
laughed to scorn by a maiden,
Thus to be rocked and betrayed by
Suddenly changing their tone, they
began to boast and to bluster.
Then Wattawan,at advanced with a
stride in front of the other,
And, with a lofty demeanor, thus
vauntingly spoke to the Captain:
"Now Wattawamat can see, by the
fiery eyes of the Captain,
Angry is he in his heart; but the
heart of the brave Wattawamat
Is not afraid at the sight. He was
not born of a woman,
But on a mountain, at night, fron-
an oaktree riven by lightning,
Forth he sprang at a bound, with al'
his weapons about him,
Shouting, 'Who is there here to fight
with the brave Wattawamat?'"
Then he unsheathed -his knife, and
Whetting the blade on his left hand
Heid it aloft and displayed a woman's
face on the handle,
Saying, with bitter expression and
look of sinister meaning:
the friend whom most he had trus- "1 have another at home, with the
ted! face of a man on tho handle;
Ah! 'twos too much to be borne, and By and by they shall marry; and
be fretted and chafed in his arms -r! there will be plenty sof children!"
"I alone am to blame," he mutter- Then stood Pecksuot forth, self -
ed, "for mine was the folly. vaunting, insulting Miles Stan -
What has a rough old soldier, grown dish;
grim and gray in the harness, While',vith his fingers he patted the
Used to the camp and its ways, tc knife that hung at his bosom,
do with the wooing of maidens? Drawing it half from its sheath, and
'Twas but a dream,—let it pass,—lel plunging it back, as he muttered,
it vanish like so many others; "By and by it shall see; it shall eat;
What I thought was a flower, is only ab, ha! but shall speak not!
a weed, and is worthless; This is the nighty Captain the white
Out of my heart will I pluck it, ant' men have sent to destroy us!
throw it away, and henceforward He is a little man; let hint go and
Be but a fighter of battles, and woe- work with the women!"
er of dangers."
Thus he revolved in his mind his sor- Meanwhile Standish had noted the
re- defeat and discomfort, faces and figures of Indians
While ire was marching by day or Peeping and creeping about from
lying at night in the forest, bush to tree in tho forest,
Leaking up at the trees and the con- Feigning to lock foe game, with ar-
stellations beyond them. rows set on their bow -strings,
But undaunted he stood, and dissem-
After a three days' march he carne bled and treated them smoothly;
to an Indian encampment So the old chronicles say, that were
Pitched on the edge of a meadow, be- writ in the days of the fathers.
tween the sea and the forest; But when he heard their defiance,
Women at work by the tents, and the boast, the taunt and the insult,
warriors, horrid with war -paint, All the hot blood of his race, of Sir
Seated about a fire, and smoking Hugh and of Thurston de Standish
and talking together, Boiled and beat in his heart, ane
Who, when they saw from afar the swelled in the veins of his temples.
sudden approach of the white men Headlong he leaped on the boaster.
Saw the flash of the sun onbreast• and, scratching his knife from its
plate and sabre and musket, scabbard.
Straightway leaped to their feet plunged it into his heart, and, reel -
and two, from among them advanc- ing backward, the savage
ing, Fell with his face to the sky, and e
Cance to patley with Standish, and fiendlike fierceness upon it,
offer him furs as a present; Straight there arose front the forest
Friendship was in their looks, but in the awful sound of the war -whoop
their hearts there was hatred. And, like a flurry of snow on the
Braves of the tribe were these, and whistling wind of December,
brothers, gigantic in stature, Swift and sudden and keen came o
Huge as Goliath of Ga h, or the ter- flight of feathery arrows.
Able Og, king of Basilan; Then came a cloud of smoke, and out
One was Pecksuot named, and the of the cloud came the lightning,
other was called Wattawamat. Out of the lightning thunder; and
Round their necks were suspended death unseen ran before it.
their knives in scabbards of wan- frightened the savages fled for shol-
Pans, ter in swamp and in thicket,
Two-edged, trenchant knives,with Hotly pursued and beset; but their
points as sharp as a needle. sachem, the, brave Wattawamat,
Other arms heel they none, for they Fled not; he was dead. Unswerving
were cunning and crafty. and swift had a bullet
"Welenie, English." they said, --• Passed through his brain, and he
these words they had learned frog fell with both hands clutching the
speechless before you!"
Thus the first i battle was fought
and
wan b
ythe stalwart Miles
Standish.
When the tidings thereof were
read in his Bible on. Sunday
Praise of the virtuous woman, as
she is described in the Proverbs,-.
Z` o the her e •
T w ofher husband d
e atb d o*..
r her safely trest in a1WayS,
brought to the village of Plymouth How al] the days of her life, she will
p h - o f war the head of do him good, and not evil,
And as a trophy y f How she seeketh' the wool and the
the brave Wattawamat
Scowled from the roof of the fort,
which at once was a church and a
fortress,
All who beheld it rejoiced, and prais-
ed the Lord, and took courage.
Only 'Priscilla averted her face from
this spectre of terror,
Thanking God in her heart that shr.
had not married Miles Standish;
Shrinking, fearing almost. lest, corn,
ing house from his battles.
Ise should lay claim to her hand, as
• the prize and reward of his valor:.
VIII •
The Spinning Wheel
Month after month passed away, and
in autumn ' the ships of the mer-
chants
Came with kindred and friends, with
cattle and corn for the Pilgrims.
All in the village was peace; the
men were intent en their labors,
1 Busy with hewing and building, with
garden -plot and with merestead,.
Busy with breaking the glebe, and
mowing the grass in the meadows
Searching the sea for its fish, and
hunting the deer in the forest.
All in the village was peace; but at
tunes the rumor of warfare
Filled the air with alarm, and the
apprehension of danger.
Bravely the stahvart Standish was
scouring the land with his forces,
Waxing valiant in fight and defeats
ing the alien armies,
Till his name had become a sound of
fear to the nations.
Anger was still in his heart, but at
times the remorse and contrition
Which in all noble natures succeed
the passionate outbreak,
Came like a rising tide, that en-
counters the tush of a river,
Staying its current awhile, but mak-
ing it bitter and brackish.
Meanwhile Alden at home hast
built hint a new habitation,
Solid, substantial, of timber rough-
hewn frons the firs of the forest,
Wooden -barred was the door, and the
roof was covered with rushes;
Latticed the windows were, and the
window -panes were of paper,
•Oiled to admit the light, while wind
and rain were excluded.
There too he dug a well, and around
it planted an orchard:
Still may be seen to this day some
trace of the well and the orchard,
Close to the ]rouse was the stall.
where, safe and secure from an-
noyance,
Regirorn, the snow-white bull, tha'
had fallen to Alden's allotment
In the division of cattle, might ru-
minate in the nighttime
Over the pastures he cropped, made
fragrant by sweet pennyroyal.
Oft when his labor was finished,
with eager feet would the dream -
flax and worketh with gladness,
How she layeth her hand to the spin-
dle and holdeth the. distaff,
How she is not afraid of the snow for
herself er he household,
Knowing her household are' clothed
with the scarlet cloth of her weav-
ing!
So as she sat at her wheel one af-
ternoon in the Autumn,
Alden, who opposite sat, . and was
watching her dexterous fingers,-
As if the thread she was spinning
were that of his life and his for -
tame,
After a pause in their talk, thee
•Spake to the sound of the spindle.
"Truly, Priscilla," he said, "when I
see you spinning and spinning,
Never idle a momet, but thrifty and
thoughtful of others,
Suddenly you are transformed, ardi
visibly changed in a moment;
You are no longer Priscilla, but Ber.
tha the Beautiful Spinner."
Here the light foot on the treadle
grew swifter and swifter; the spin -
die
Uttered an angry snarl, and the
thread snapped 'short in her fingers
While the impetuous speaker, not
heeding the mischief, continued:
"You are the beautiful. Bertha, the
spinner, the queen of Helvetia;
She whose story I read at a stall in
the streets of Southampton,
Who, as she rode on ner palfrey, o'er
valley and meadow and mountain,
Ever was spinning her thread from n
distaff fixed to her saddle.
She was so thrifty end good, that
her name passed into a proverb.
So shall it be with your own, when
the spinning -wheel shall no longer
]:-Iucn in the house of the farmer, and
fill its chambers with music.
Then shall the mothers, reproving,
relate how it was in their childhood
Praising the good diol times, and the
days of Priscilla the spinner!"
Straight uprose Iran hes' wheel the
beautiful Puritan maiden,
Pleased with the praise of her thrift
from him whose praise was the
sweetest,
Drew from the reel on the table a
snowy skein of her spinning,
Thus malting answer, meanwhile, to
the flattering plrraees of Alden:
"Come, you trust not he idle; if I am
a pattern for housewives,
Show yourself equally worthy of be-
ing the model of husbands.
Hold this skein on your hands, while
I wind it, ready for knitting;
Then who lrnewe but hereafter, when
fashions have changed and the
manners.
Fathers may talk to their sons of the
good old than of John Alden!"
Thus, with a jest and a laugh, the
skein on his hands she adjusted,
He sitting awkwardly there, with his
arras extended before bins,
er She standing graceful erect, and
Follow the pathway that ran through winding the thread from his fingers
the nvrcds to the house of Priscilla. Sometimes chiding a little his clumsy
Led by illusions romantic and subtile manner of holding,
deceptions of fancy, Sometimes touching itis hands, as
Pleasure disguised as duty, and love she disentangled expertly
in the semblance of friendship. Twist or knot in the yarn, unawares
Ever of her he thought, when he "-- hew could she help it?—
fashioned the walls of his dwelling Sending electrical thrills through est-.
Ever •of her he thought, when he
ery nerve in his body.
delved in the soil of his garden;
Ever of her he thought, when he (To be continued)
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the traders greensward,
Touching at times on the coast, tc Seeming in death to hold back froir
barter and chaffer for peltries. his foe the land of his fathers.
Then hi their native tongue they be-
gan to parley with Standish, There on the flowers of the inea-
Through his guide and, interpreter dow the warriors lay, and above
I-lcbomolc, friend of the white man theni, •
Begging for blankets and knives; Silent, with folded arms; stood Hobo- -
but mostly for muskets and pow- tnok, friend of the white man.
der, Smiling at length' he exclaimed tc
Kept by the white man, they said the stalwart Captain of,Plymouth
:
concealed, with the plague, in his 'Peeksoot bragged very load, of his
cellars, courage, his strength and his stat
Ready to be let loose, and destroy use,—
his' brother the red marl •Mocked -the great, Captain, and called
him a little pian; but l see now
Big ;enough have you been to lay him
But when :Standish , refused, and
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