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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1933-07-06, Page 7BURS., JULY 6, 1933 1111111/11, THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE 7 Health, Cooking Care of Children PAGE DF INTEREST TO WOMEN Edited By Lebam Halceber Kralc Ru1inat!alls of Re6etaV A Column Prepared Especially for Women But Not Forbidden to Men when a coolness comes ce. w en irate 'aseceiation is no longer nee essary or convenient or advantag, eons and the two drift apart, confid ences may be divulged and relations may become severely strained. The trouble was not that friendship fail- ed but in the fact that the feeling between ,the two was wrongly lab- elled. THINK IT . OVER! "Friendship is to be valued for - what there is in it, not what can' be ,gotten out of it. When two people :appreciate each other because each has found the other convenient 'to ' have around, they are simply ac- quaintances with a business under standing. To seek friendship for its • Utility is as futile as to seek the end of a rainbow for its bag of gold. A true friend is always useful in the highest sense, but we should beware -of thinking of our friends as broth- er members of a mutual benefit as, • sociation with its periodical demands •and threats of suspension for non- - payment of dues." --{Anon. True friendship is perhaps the • :rarest thing in the world. It is so •easy to class all our acquaintances together ' and call •them friends, when, if we really came to think of " it at all we should be able to count our real friends on the fingers of one hand and then have plenty of fingers left over, perhaps.. A friend has been defined as a " "person who knows all our weak- enesses and loves us -just the same." ;And it is a good delinition. A. true ' friend loves us just for being our- selves, not for any benefit we can bestow nor for any advantage gained by the friendship, but because of an affinity between us which causes one soul to cleave to another.' A lot of disappointment and heart- ' burning have been caused in the world by what is termed "false friends," but in reality the trouble ° is the result of putting the mark of :friendship upon a quality which is far other than real friendship. Two • people may have much in common, they niay find it pleasant and per- haps advantageous to associate more •of less intimately and may in the warmth of feeling for each other, often confide in each other to a far greater degree than is wise. Then e Women are, perhaps, more apt to meet disappointment in this way than men. They are more apt to be carried away by sentiment; more apt to give confidences, as they seem to want to talk over their own pri- vate !fairs, love affairs, fam- ily affairs or financial af- fairs, more than men do. It is well to remember •that a true friend never wants to force your confid- ence. A true friend will listen while( you tell your trouble but will dis- courage undue confidences, as a true friend can sympathize with you without prying into your more pri- vate thought. As someone very pertinently said once: "Never give anyone the key to the back door of your heart or mind." It is good advice. Even the truest of friends have some reserves. A friend to be a comfort and a stay to you does not need to be a father - confessor. If you hive a friend guard against anything that would dim that friend- ship; be true to your friend, give sympathy, understanding, loyalty. And, no matter whether it was a true friendship or a casual acquain- tanceship, one which only lasted for a little while, respect whatever con- fidence has been placed in you. Keep inviolate any secret confidence given. Only in this way can you keep your- self worthy of a real friendship. And may good fortune bring to you the boon of a real friend or two, life holds no richer gift. 11 Household Economics It's curve glides steadily from birth I from silver and never scatch it. If CANDIES FOR LONG- HOLIDAY down to old age, in which frequent the cork is cut to a Point it can be AFTEIMOONS AND EVENINGSi ly only a few hours of relaxation worked in the crevices which have suffice. become tarnished. Use a cork alsoAT SUMMER R CA MP for scouring with bath -brick. One or two pieces of bread placed in ' pan in which you are frying meat will prevent grease from splashing out on the stove. A lemon heated before squeezing will give twice the amount of juice: Burnt marks on pie plates and dishes will vanish like magic if treated with cork dipped in wet salt. Since there are many causes for insomnia it's cure also calls for the most diversified formas of treatment, and frequently it requires the ,great- est medical skill to find the light one—the one that would do justice to the chief principle of all our ac- tion: Non norcre, "Do not inflict in- jury!" The doctor continues: "We all know how much evil has resulted from the misuse of soporif- ic aiid anodyne drugs (I name only morphine, heroine, veronal and par- aldehyde). - —REBEKAH. . The Value of. Healthful Sleep . Day May Come When Electricity Will Cure Insomnia, Declares Physician Those to whom sleep will not come . of itself must try to coax it. Herein lies danger, warns a Ger- • man physician, Dr. G. Zenker, writ- ing Jen "Artificial Sleep" in the I1- lustritte Zeitung (Leipzig). The day may come, he thinks, When insomnia will be conquered by -drugless methods—by simple mani- pulations, 'or electric treatment. "An old German proverb says: ''One ;tour of sleep is better than a slice of honey.' "Of course, healthy sleep is a pre- "And perhaps it is the task of the future to conquer insomnia through simple means, such as hydraitric ap plications and electricity, or, better still, through mental treatment (psy- chic therapy), do that we may free ourselves from the chemical strait- jacket. I :have repeatedly had owe: sion to see how chronic insomnia, against which all medicine was help- less, yielded to the large wet pack and to corresponding forms of bath- ing. The sleep thus obtained is usually much more refreshing and free from unpleasant collateral ef- fects. "In the future the psychic influ- ence of suggestion and hypnotism will probably be valued most high- ly. However, we must never mis- take the latter for the mesmeric treatment, the 'ant;mal magnetism,' so called after its 'rediscoverer,' the physician Mesmer. Por a child to develop sturdily and to be mentally fit tie make his way in, life sufficient sleep of the best quality is essential, says Dr. W. Arbuthnot Lane, in the London Daily Mail (Continental edition). To -day, he asserts, there are far too many children growing up into men and women of poor physique and stunted intelligence simply through lack of proper sleep. 'Clearly, the responsibility for in- suring that children get adequate sleep rests with parents, who should be fully acquainted with the actual number of hours required according to age. Says Dr. Lane: "Babies, of course, should do little else than sleep and eat; very young children up to the age of six, should have at least fourteen hours of sleep. Older children, up to the age of twelve years, should have twelve hours, and above that age ten hours each night is sufficient. The time of going to bed is also important. Young children should be in bed by six in the evening, and by the time the child is eight the hour for bed should not be later than eight o'clock. :Subsequently, a quar- ter of an hour should be allowed for every successive birthday, do that by the time the child is fourteen the time for . bed will be nine -thirty. Parents should be rigorous in ad- hering to such a scale, and insist up- on the proper bedtime. "Every precaution should be taken to insure that the children's sleep Will be sound and restful. Parents should show consideratidn and en- deavour to prevent any unnecessary noise. "The bedroom must never be stuf- fy, nor the bed so cold that the child can not relax comfortably. Provid- ed there are sufficient warm cover- ings, the wisdows should be open. Children should never be allowed to sleep with their heads covered by bedclothes or with their heads bur- ied in pillows." Rid the chimney ,of soot by burn- ing potato peelings in stove or fur- nace. This simple method will be found useful in 'stoves in which soft coal is burned. If penfeathers are troublesome when picking chickens or birds take a cloth and soft siftings of corn meal and rub the bird well with this. The penfeathers will come off easily. A poultice will keep hot if put on a piece of waxed paper. To clean velvet or plushy rub it briskly with damp salt and then brush it using a stiff brush. To remove spots on rugs, rub corn starch into nap and let remain for a couple of days. When brushed the grease or mud spots will disappear. When peeling fruit or vegetables put a slit in a small cork and fit it in to the back of your paring knife. This will save your fingers. Knitted socks last longer if a silk or coarse crochet thread is knit with the yarn in the heel and toe. A pinch of salt added to straw- berries when preserving will help to retain the color. An apple kept in the cake box will keep heavier cakes, such as fruit, spice or nut cakes fresh and soft. To decorate cakes or fruit salads quickly take large soft gum drops and with scissors cut them in thin slices. The slice will curl up like leaves and petals. • To remove ink stains, mix muse tard to a thick paste and spread it over the stain. After a few hours sponge well with cold water. cious bbon, appreciated best by those who have lost it. "Insomnia has over and over again led to suicide. "It is equally exhausting, whether it is founded upon purely physical causes or those of nervous nature, or is duo 10 mental suffering.: Hence it has always been the task of medi- cal science to meet it with adequate measures and substitute artificial sleep for the lacking natural one, whenever it is impossible to induce it in the normal way. "Of course, the necessity for sleep itself is distinctly dependent upon the manner of living, the constitu- tion, and the temperament of the individual, especially upon his age, teat Gro ce OF TIHi Gartabtttrc ftlairat A ,unritttiott and Life Insurance Companies in Canada. Edited by GRANT FLEMING, M.D., Associate Secretary SUMMER Among the in -any anxieties of the • young mother for the welfare of her infant, none is more acute than is ' her concern over the intestinal up- sets of the late summer and early • autumn. This is as it should be, for no - disorder of early life is so tragic as is summer diarrhoea. The change from the state of well-being and happiness which „-•characterises the normal healthy • child to the condition associated with summer diarrhoea' is compare- ' lively abrupt and usually well -mark- ed within forty-eight hours. After 'this 'time, unless proper treatment is given, the ehild grows progress- - ively worse and, in many .instances, • the disease terminates fatally In all cases, the mother 'should seek - medical advice at once, in order to save her baby. Summer 'diarrhoea is ' responsible ' for one in five of all the deaths 'which occur during the 'first year of life, and for. .one in . seven of those occurring during the second year. " The figures vary in different local- ' ities, and constitute a reliable index to the effectiveness of public health -work in each locality. - Where mills is not pasteurized and r: water }supplies are inadequateho safeguarded, there is grave cause for concern. There is another dan- der, as far as this disease is con- cerned, and that is in the contamin- ation of the c'hild's food, either through careless handling on the part of the mother or through lack of protection against flies. The majority of eases of summer diarrhoea occur. during August and September, the month when flies are most prevalent. - The house -fly breeds and lives in filth. There is no such thing as a clean fly, just as there is no such thing as a deal garbage -pile. It is difficult to con- ceive of a more effective .agent for the distribution of disease germs than the ordinary house -fly: The first line of defence against these disease carriers is the elimina- tion of their breeding -places. Clear streets, clean yards and clean home surroundings ,are absolutely neces- sary. Milk and all . food materials should be protected. The best way to keep flies out of the horns in September istto have no flies in June. - Questions concerning Health, ad dressed to the Canadian Medical As. sociation, 184 College Street, Toron- to, will be answered personally by letter. - DIVINITY FUiiDGE sugar, -1.2 squares chocolate, 8 tab- lespoons butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 12 marshmallows. Cook the sugar, syrup, - chocolate i ' and milk without stirring, to238 deg. F. or the soft ball stage, add the butter, and cool without stirring. One and one-half cups granulated Add the vanilla' and a dash of salt, and 'beat until creamy, adding the marshmallows cut in pieces. Pour into a greasedpan, and when firm, cut in squares. The amount of chocolate willdepend upon how strong the chocolate flavor is liked. sugar,'1 egg white, 1-4 cup boiling water, 1-4 cup corn syrup, 1-2 cup of chopped fruit; 1-4 cup chopped nut meats; 1 •teaspoon vanilla. Cook the sugar, syrup and water until brittle in cold water, or to 248. deg. F. Remove from the fire and, as soon as bubbling ceases, pour slow- ly on the stiffly beaten egg white. and add the chopped nutmeats and fruit which may be dates or raisins, and vanilla, beat till stiff and creamy and pour into a greased pan and mark in squares when it begins to harden, or drop by spoonfuls on greased pans or on waxed paper to harden. HONEY DIVINITY SOME HODS EIIOLD HINTS To prevent the eyes from water- ing when slicing onions, place a bit of bread between the teeth. Keep Strang of the Peace River country are among the speakers at - school. The boys' camp from July 6 to 16 will be under the direction of Rev. D. Macinnes, 'of Forest. The girls' camp will be held from July 25 to 31. Between these dates the summer school will be held from July 17 to 24, with Rev. C. H. MacDonald, of Lucknlow, as director, The dean of the school will be Mr. MacDonald, and the registrar,, Rev. John Pollock, of Whitechurch. The evenings at the summer school will be given over tehiefly to lectures. On Monday, July 17, Rev. Robert Johnston, D. D., of St. Catharines, moderator of the synod -of .Hamilton and London, will be the speaker. On Tuesday Rev. William Patterson, of Biuevale, will speak on "Impressions of the Orient." On Wednesday there will be an impromptu - program by the . school. Thursday evening the speaker will be Rev. J. S. Shortt, D. D., of Barrie, whose subject will be. "Our Common Garden Flowers" Friday will be stunt night. On Saturday evening, Dr. Mar- garet Strang,- medical missionary in the Peace River District, will be the speaker. The worship service on Sunday Two cups granulated sugar, 1-3 cup honey, 1-3 cup boiling water, 2 egg whites, dash of salt, chopped fruits, chopped nut meats. - lttake as the above fudge. For Christmas, red and green candied cherries make particularly attractive candy, though any other fruit, such as dates andraisins, etc., may be us- ed. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE We have no intention of becoming entangled in the endless controversy on the proper place for man and wo- man teacher respectively, but the gentleman who announced at South- ampton recently that "it is impose sible for a man to serve under a woman and retain his self-respect and manhood" is really doing the cause which he espouses the worst possible disservice. In days when women are beginning to come to the front in all sorts of professions and walks of life talk of this kind of self-evident nonsense. Do the me- chanics who work 'on Mrs. Mollison's airplane "lose their manhood?" Did the civil servants who worked under Miss 'Margaret Bondfield at the Mine istry of Labour suffer in their self- respect and why? It is rather de- pressing to find sex prejudice in this crude and extravagant form still surviving in the teaching profession of all others. —London Newm-Chronicle. KINTAIL WILL BE USED FOR CAMPS Summer School Will ;Also Be Held There By Presbyterians Two camps and- a summer school will be held at I intail ion Lake Hu- ron this summer under the auspices of the London Presbytery . of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, The synod moderator and Dr. Margaret LEMON TAM?'" Two cups granulated sugar, 1 tea- spoon lemon extract, 1-2 cup cold Water, 1-4teaspoon cream of tartar. Use a kettle big enough to prevent the syrup boiling over. Stir until the mixture begins to boil, then cook without stirring to the "crack" stage, 280-300 deg. F. Pour without beating, after adding the flavoring, into a greased pan, and when firm, mark in squares. While cooking, wash down any sugar crystals which form on the sides of the saucepan. CARAMELS One and one-half cups granulated sugar, 11-2 cups corn syrup, 11-2 cups evaporated milk or cream, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cook the sugar and syrup till transparent, add the cream or evap- orated mills, and cock slowly, stir- ring, to 243-245 deg. F., add the van- illa and pour into a greased pan to about one inch in depth. When firm mark in squares. MARSHMALLOW FUDGE Three-quarters cup milk, 1 tea- spoon corn syrup, 2 cups granulated the mouth open a little and you can grate or cut onions without the eyes watering. Potatoes soaked in cold water for two hours before boiling will be white when ' cooked. This makes old po- tatoes quite usable quite late in the season. A little lemon juice added to the water in which rice is boiling will whiten it wonderfully. To remove ink stains from linen, cut a ripe tomato in half and rub the stain, leave for a few minutes and then repeat until the stain dis- appears. Tho ugly ring which gasoline of- ten loaves when used to clean del- icate materials, can be avoided by. adding a little salt when cleaning. This ring can often be' avoided by gently rubbing the spot until the gasoline is quite dry. - Alum melted in an old iron spoon over a hot fire forms an excellent strong cement for mending glass or china, which when dry can be washed in hot water. Soup strained through a cloth will have all fat removed. When potatoes are nearly cook- ed add salt to insure flouriness and to prevent them from going to morning will be in Ashfield Church pieces. and in the evening there will be an A dry cork will remove stains open-air covenanter's conventicle. tower - Long after their age is. •still. Labor and love and virtue— Tire does not dim their glow; ; Though the smart may say, in their languid way, "We've ve outgrown all that, you know!" But is ide, whatever the guise iii wears, Isa lie as it was of yore, And a truth that has lasted a million years, Is good for 'a million more! —Ted Olson, THE HANDBAG A TOTAL LOSS A 'lady passenger on The Ocean Limited en route from Halifax had the somewhat mystifying experience of losing her money from the train and having it delivered to her on ar- rival at Truro, mystifying until the circumstances were explained to hen She dropped her handkerchief with her entire sum of money tied up in it from the car window at Elmsdale station, about half 'way from Hall. fax. The news agent notified the train conductor, who had one of the trainmen go back at the next stop a short distance away. The trainman found the money, turned it in to the agent, who notified the agent at Truro, who handed an equivalent sum over to the passenger. The advertisements are printed for your convenience. They inform and save your time, energy and money. THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful and Ins pining• THE WISEST MEN "The wisest men the world e'er knew Have never dreamed it treason. To rest a bit—and jest a bit And balance up their reason; To laugh a bit—rand chaff a bit And joke a bit in season." .e FORGET AND REMEMBER Forget each kindness that you do As soon as yor have clone it; Forget the praise that falls to you The moment you have won it. Forget the slander that you hear Before you can repeat it; Forget each slight, each spite, each sneer, Wherever you may meet it. Remember every kindness done To you, whate'er its measure; Remember praise by 'others won, And pass it on with pleasure; Remember every promise made, And keep it to the letter; Remember those who lend you aid, And be a grateful debtor, —Selected. A SAILOR'S WIFE What matters all his love for me? His eyes are longing for the seal To know again the pungent brine, And hear a sullen typhoon whine, To sight the sighing Java shore, And stalk the streets of Singapore. His eyes see jungles in Malay—t •A limip. phosphorescent bay. Perhaps a stormy native girl, A symphony in bronze and pearl. He looks beyond our cottage wall, And smiles to veil the incessant call. While I—I suffer wordlessly Because he left the sea for me. - .Oonra Bernhardt. ecemmetece FIRST LOVE What treasure would we not have poured At the white feet when love had power, If beauty that we had adored, - Were tender to us for an hour! I pass these burning memories by, And run to find a child who lay On rho waren earth made tender by A love breathed up from the dark clay. . How can I win that love again?' (=Weed GOD MADE A GARDEN God made a garden to rest His eyes After the spaces of 'earth and skies; - God made ;a garden to rest His heart, Where He might walk sometimes apart. God made a garden because He saw Life was good by a garden's law; Flowers for love, and fruitful trees Soul and body may grow with these. God made a garden because He knew` There must be work for His souls to do; Berries to gather keep miscihef out, And a swinging vine is no place for doubt. All I could give to earth it owns. What sacrifice must be, what pain, To be at league with these gray stones. —A. E., in Montreal Star. INK God made a garden just to find Another way bo be loving, kind; And the things we see in the gar- den -row Are the words He has written to tell us so. I went into a stationer's to buy a jar of ink—, So casually he wrapped it no one would ever think That there lay spell more potent than any witeh's brew, Lovely thoughts in fluid form and words in liquid blue; The essence of unwritten songs, of letters yet unpenned, A potion with the magic power to link far friend with friend; And, all unwitting that he sold such precious wares as these, The placid parceller remarked, "That's just a quarter, please;" —Molly Bevan. MY KINGDOM For this is my neighbor: My peace • with my neighbor, The clasp of a hand or the warmth of a smile, The sweetness of toil as the fruit of my labor, - The glad joy of living and work- ing the while; The birds and the flowers and the blue skies above me, The green of the meadows, the gold of the grain; A song in the evening, a dear heart to love me, And just enough pleasure to bal- ance the pain. --W. D. Bagley. THINGS THAT ENDURE —Katharine Atheston Griner. THE LOST HOUR We lost an hour in the spring, Brimful, perhaps, of gay surprise, A lovely, rounded golden thing That might have proved us mad or wise. An hour that could leave a marl! As memorable as crowded years, A laughing hour, or one dark With intricate design of tears. We lost an hour . .. luckless two! To shape to rapture or to pain, But now we've set the clock anew And have it safely back again. What shall we make of it? How mould The regained and potential thing? How guard the bubble of pure gold That we lost once, in careless spring? Honor and truth and manhood• These are the thing's that stand, Though the sneer and gibe of the cynic tribe And loud throughout the land. The scoffer may lord it an hour on earth, -• And a lid may live for day, But truth and honor and manly worth Are things that endure alway. Courage and toil and'service, Old yet forever new—. These are the rock that abides the shock ' And holds through the storm, —Faith Baldwin, .rareillrace GRATITUDE Long have I lived and sought to know the value of things. To know the gold front the tinsel, to judge the clowns from the kings: Love have I known and been glad of; joys of earth have been mine, But today do I give my thanks fora rarer gift and fine. For the friendship of true women, Lord,' that hath been since the world hath breath. Since a woman stood at a woman's side to comfort through birth and death. Thou hast made us a bond of mirth and tears, to last forever and aye—. For the friendship of true women, Lord, take Thou my thanks to., clay. Now much have I found to be glad of, much have I sorrowed for, But naught is better to hear than foot of a. friend at the door, And naught is better to feel than! touch of a sister hand. That says, "What are words bee tween us—I know and may un. derstand." For the friendship of true women, Lord, that hath lasted since time began, That is deeper far and finer far than the friendship Of man to man; For the tie - of a kinship wonder. fur, that holds us as blood -bonds may, For the friendship of true women, Lord, take Thou my thanks toe day. Many the joys I have welcomed; many the joys that have passed; But this is the good unfailing and this is the peace that shall last•,' :From love that dies and love that lies and love that must cling and sg, Bato the erns of our sisters we turn for our comforting. For the friendship of true women, Lord, that hath teen and ever shall be Since woman stood at a woman's side at the cross of Calvary; For the tears we weep and the trusts we keep and the selfsame prayers we pray, For the friendship of true woment flint -.true,'. . Lord, take Thou my thanks toe Fad and folly, thin whims of an hour, , day. 'May bicker and rant and shrill, But the living granite of truth will Theodosia Garrison; veanwevammomemsmezentwavO Neer diertisi g ave S ch a Story to Tell as