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The Clinton News Record, 1933-09-28, Page 7tl1 FTHURS;, SEPT. 28; 1933 aair Health, Cooking, Care of Children • THE CLINTON: NEWS-RECORB PAGE of INTEREST Edited By Lebam Hakeber Kralc • .- "Fresh from the Gardens" I gloil 0 A Column Prepared Especially for Women— But Not Forbidden to Men "When the occasional professional • exhibitor allows her greed to run . away with her honesty," the Fergus ' News -Record remarks in speaking of the conduct of fall fairs, "it is' • time something should be done. And apparently that isn't an unknown state of affairs." The editor of the Fergus paper, • who, by the way has been a director • of the Wellington County fair and ••probably knows what he is talking ..abrut, seems to think the women are •the worst offenders against honesty - 'when making exhibits. He goes on to say that fancy work made in China, handpainting import- ed with the makers' name painted over, vegetables and fruit known to be purchased in the stores and fakes • of similar nature have been detected and thrown out by judges. • I have never shown anything at a • fall fair and have never been a judge at a fall fair, (sometimes, I've wish- ; ed I had been, I'd have reversed the decisions in some cases) but I have • often smiled to myself to see the same old stuff exhibited year after year. Are women more dishonest in lit- ' the things, if there can be anything little about dishonesty? I do not suppose they are, nor are they less so. Long ago I came to the con- • elusion that men and women re- semble each other in many more ways than they differ frons each I other, and this because of their common humanity. Human beings react very similarity to certain i • things, the difference being only in the difference of training or environ- ment. And if more women are dishonest in exhibiting their handiwork at fall fairs it may be that it is because their handiwork, except in the case of baking, flowers, etc., are apt to be of such a nature that time does not change. them. For instance, a woman exhibits a very fine piece of needlework. There may be nothing to touch it at the first appearance and next year she may argue that it would be foolish to allow "that other woman" to walk off with first prize for a much in- ferior article, so she puts it in, a- gain and again. This is dishonest, however, as each exhibit is supposed to be a product of the year in which it is made. But this is hardly in the same class of dishonesty, perhaps, as the exhibition of stuff from China or the palming off of imported china as handl painted. Tho Fergus man tells, too, of a young lady send- ing in some photographs, amongst which were some which he had him- self taken. T•Ie was unaware how she had acquired theta, but there they were. It seems to me a very great ,pity that women should lend themselves to this sort of thing. It is the worst sort of training for their children; it must make it impossible to keep self-respect, and no amount of ston- ey wen in prizes and no amount of "honor" gained in carrying them off could compensate for the fact that you cannot, in the privacy of your own soul, afford to look yourself in the face. To WOMEN PAGE 7 11 Household Economics exhibition should be omitted, but Eight' Rules -on How to every exhibit should be just what it be Lonely •' is supposed to be, not something else entirely, put in in the hope that hur- ried or inexperienced judges will al- low it to pass. --REBS fAH, The Fergus editor enjoins upon judges the importance of their tasks in detecting such frauds and the a- warding of prizes only to those who deserve them. I do not envy judges at fall fairs but if I were appointed to such a post I should require an affidavit with each piece of fancy work; I should bore into each crock of butter; I' should cut into each cake or bread loaf and I should open each can of fruit or pickles. I have heard that some of the canned fruit is put up in gasoline or alcohol to ensure its being perfect in shape and color. Those who exhibit at fall fairs are justified in making their exhibit just as attractive looking as possible, and no amount) of pains in growing, in manufacturing and•in placing. for �i 013 THE (gattabiatt ft bticat Alouriatirat and Life Insurance Companies in Canada. Edited by GRANT FLEMING, M.D., Associate Secretary "GET IT OVER WITH!" It is quite true that some diseases It was hoped that the popular idea which prevailed not so many years ago to the effect that a child should "get it over with," in regard to ver- ' 'fain of the acute communicable dis- eases while still in his cot or during the toddling years, had long since dis- t appeared. While this feeling, ' through bitter experience, is no long- er as strong as it was formerly, yet there is still an unfortunate tenden- cy, on the part of some otherwise in- 'telligent parents, to .feel that 'such and such a disease is inevitable any-' ' way, and that the sooner the child • comes down with thedisease in • question, the better it will be for "himself and for all concerned, "He's bound to .catch it sooner or later, so why worry?" is the sub- stance of the excuse one still occas Tonally hears. The question of whe- ther the infant will make the grade • or not does not enter into considera- tion or, at least, find expression in words, until a younger child -usu- ally the youngest of a family -suc- cumbs and the lesson is learned: This •'attitude of mind, which is part and parcel of a fatalism now .centuries old; is not only responsible for much -needless suffering' in a personal way, but is one of the outstanding factors in the spread of disease of an epi- demic nature. are very easily spread; that by sneez- ing, coughing and by close contact one is likely to pass on an infection. This is especially the case with re- gard to the acute infections of child- hood. It is equally true that, by judieiensly avoiding all sources of ocntact with an individual, sick with an acute fever, it is possible to put off and perhaps to avoid altogether an illness ' which runs a tragically high mortality early in life. Take, for instance, two diseases of special significance in childhood, namely, measles and whooping cough. Un- der the age of two, over twenty and sometimes thirty out of every hun- dred children with- either 01! these diseases, succumb to complications arising therefrom. After two years of age, there is a considerable drop, in the death -rate, and Froin the age of five onwards, practically all cases recover. Just because measles and whooping cough are prevalent in a community is no reason why children of all ages should not.be protected from them, and this precaution, is. especially in- dicated in the case o fthe.very young child. Questions concerning Health, ad• dressed to. the Canadian •Medical As. sociatiom, 184 College Street, Toren• to, will ,be answered personally by letter. Growing Peonies (Experimental Farms Note) Peonies thrive in a variety •of soiI but do best in a rich, light rather moist loam. ,Before being planted, the ground should be well trenched to a depth of two 'or three feet and a good quantity of well decayed man - pre worked into the bottom of the trench as a reserve material if the plants.are'to be left for several years •1 in the same place. Planting should be don in autuii ± in time to insure the development of fibrous rots by frost. The eyes should be net more than three inches below the surface of the soil. Five feet apart in the beds is quite close enough. Cultivation is desirable. Four parts of ground bone to gene part muriate or sulphate of potash at four pound's Per square rod is recommended by the Dominion Chemist as a general fertilizer for peonies as well as oth- er flowers. Transplanting is not often neces- sary for private growers but if it is desired, in the fall cut each piece so that it has two or three buds. Plants with three buds will usually ,doom two years after division and in rare cases a bloom or two may appear the first year. Occasional failure of Peonies to bloom by possibly be due to disease. One of the most common maladies in the peony is blight caus- ed by Botrytis paeoniae. In addition to the buds, other above -ground parts are attacked. In fact it usually starts on the young shoots, causing them to wilt and fall over. Later the spores are carried to the young buds of surviving shoots, causing them to turn brown and black and preventing further development. To prevent, cut off and burn the diseased tops in the fall. If there is no evident blighting and rotting of the tops some root injury may be responsible. If small galls are found on the roots this may indicate the presence of nematodes and the disease may be root -knot. If the plants are badly its fected they should be destroyed and a start made in a fresh place. If the plants are saved, the dormant roots may be treated in hot water (120 degrees F.) for thirty minutes Lemoine's disease, another malady, also characterized by short stubby roots, failure to bloom ere„ has not been traced to a definite cause as yet. In this ease it is advisable to destroy the diseased plants entirely and stake new plantings in fresh soiI. Varieties that have done well in. elude: Felix Crousse, Festiva Max. ima, Madam Jules Dessert, Adoplhe Rosseau, Duchess de Nemours. Some Recipes for Cooler Days In an article in the Chicago. Trib, tines Doris Blake says: We offer you today a feel' rules on how to be lonely. We don't want you to use' them,, because we do get a 'heartache every time we get a letter from boy or girl who wonders why other company is sought and his or her's is not. They look for the answer outside of themselves — rarely within, where the . difficulty of making and keeping friends really lies. 1. Talk about yourself all the! time. Praise yourself aloud. Fish, angle, scheme for the conversation talk about give �u t to o sightb to gv you h g 1 and praiself. Listen hurd t,+ impatiseentlyyourfor the other; Trerieson to r hnn'St to get through that you Wray .. forth with what you're dying . to say. Break the other one off in tEe middle of his or her conversation for the same puepose. Interrupt ev- ery time you can to emit your wise- crack, or to inject' your "I did," or "I'm going to." etc. 2. High hat the people you are thrown with. Feel that you are better than the igrls and boys who work beside you, dance in the same group with you. Go around with your nose in the air, snubbing people right and left. 3. Pose. Don't act natural if you can possibly help it. , 4. Be superior i—contemptuously so. Don't ever admit to yourself that other people could know as much as you, much less more than you do. Make others feel when they talk to you that they know nothing. 5. Repeat every bit of mean gos- sip you can lay your tongue on, Don't spare a reputation just be- cause you didn't get the story direct. If there is a hint of something wrong, elaborate on it. Make a good story, elaborating it with every re- cital. Get a reputation, yourself, for knowing all the low down people. G. Talk loud, act loud, so that you'll draw a lot of attention and embarrass the person you are with. 7. Say all the mean things you can to your friends and associates. Believe you are being perfectly frank and therefore entitled to wound any time the fancy moves you. Resent, characteristically, any similar frank- ness extended you. 8. Contradict. Don't let anybody have an opinion of his own. Tell him he's all wrong. Because you think differently he hasn't any right to think at all. As already remarked, we do not want you to follow these rubes. You'll be lonelier than your worst enemy would wish you to be, if you do. The fruit sugar in prunes makes a palatable anci healthy sweetening for cereals. It is easy to digest. and does not spoil the mild flavor of the cereal. The diet of little children is built around milk and cereal. If a child is allowed to form a taste for concentrated, highly -flavoured foods, he will not want to eat the milder flavoured foods he must have. Now that we have ripe peaches pears, etc. to eat with cereals, and they are a marked improvement; you will not use prunes, but later on both old and young will find them a pleasant change. Prunes may be combined with cooked or really -to - eat cereals in many different ways. The valuable food elements contain- ed in the fruit and cereal dishes should be important factors in their popuab•ity. Following are several interesting ways in which prunes and bran may be used: Bran Prune ISuchen Prepare any prod muffin batter, adding a little more sugar and but- ter. Spread it op a shallow greased pan. On the top press cooked prunes that have been pitted. Dust them with powdered sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle half a cup of all bran on top. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degt;oes P.) for three-quarters of an hour. Serve with heavy whipped cream et: a lemon sauce. Prune Bran Brown Bread 1 cup all bran, 1 cup sour milk, 1-2 cup prunes (soaked several hours drained and chopped) 1 tablespoon molasses,' 1-2 cup sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon sada, 1-4 reaspoon salt. Mix together the all bran, sour Combination Meals on. Railways Popular Extension of the combination meal service inaugurated on the dining cars of the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways several months ago was announced by the railways recently These combina- tions afford the travelling -public greater convenience in ordering meals and the preliminary experiment met with such popular approval that it was decided to extend this form of service. The list of combination meals on dining cars has been great- ly extended by the respective man- agement and it is felt that this ser- vice will particularly appeal to pat- rons who travel infrequently and who, therefore, are not familiar with ordinary a le cart menus, Under the extended combination service pat- rons of the diners have a choice of five combination breakfasts ranging from 35 cent to one dollar, four lun- cheons that are' priced at from 75 cents to one dollar and three dinner selections priced from one dollar to 81.50. milk and prunes, which have been soaked several hours, drained and chopped. Then add the molasses, sugar, and flour which has been sifted with the soda and salt. Put the mixture into a greased San, cover tightly and steam for three hours. Prune Salad Prunes, All bran, • Cream cheese, lettuce. Remove the stones from cooked prunes and fill with cream cheese. Roll each prune in a dish of all bran and place five on leaves of lettuce and serve with French dressing. The prunes may be split in half and fil- led with the cheese, then rolled' in the bran. This is a very healthful salad and could be the main dish of any lunch- eon. It contains the health -giving elements; iron, calcium and vita mins, as well as the muscle -building protein. NOMEOr THIS MODEST 'CORNER ZS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful and Ins pining. THE SOLDIER If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a for- eign field - That is for ever England. There g11gI'j be In that rich earth g T.icllg. iiubt conceal sin , • A; dust Whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, er flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of gpgland's, breathing Eng'- lisp alt, • Washed by the rivers, blest bysuns of hero"e, And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams hap- py as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. —Rupert Brooke. isttemsa A CRADLE SONG 0, men from the fields! Come gently within. Tread softly, softly, 0! men coming in. Mavourneen is going From me and from you, Where Mary will fold him With mantle of blue! From reek of the smoke And cold of the floor, And the peering of things Across the half -door. 0, men from the fields! Softly, softly come tluw'. brat'y puts round hint Her mantle of blue. —Padraic Colum. RUTH "She stands breast high amid the corn"— The harvest of her love and tears And every pain her soul las borne Through the fulfilling years. She stoops amid the golden wealth That drops around her patient feet Gathering her suffering and her health— Her spirit's ripened wheat. She gleans, unwearied, evermore The great ears of her joy and grief, And binds the wonders of her store Into a little sheaf. Braising the grain of all she is, She kneads a little loaf of bread, Mingling her life's strange mysteries Loins, bosom, heart and head. And then upon herself she feeds The life she loves, the lives she bears, Breaking her passion for their needs, Her pity for their cares. So, through her days' allotted span, She yields and binds and spends her truth; Tho woman God has given to man— The everlasting Ruth. —May Doney. LAMENT We who are left, how shall we look again Happilyl 'on the sun •or feel the rain Without remembering;, how they who went Ungrudgingly and spent Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and the rain? A bird among the rain -wet lilac sings -- Ent we, how shall be turn to little things And listen, to the birds and winds and streams Made holy by their dreams, Nor feel the heart -break in the heart of things? Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. CORRYMEELA Over here in England I'm helpin' wi' the hay An' 1 wisht I was in Ireland the live- long day; Weary on the English hay, an' sorra take the wheat! Ochl Corrymeela an' the blue. sky over it. • There's a deep dumb river flowin' by beyent the heavy trees, This livin' air is moithered wi' the There is llnshicss Today' bumnnin' o' the hese; I wisht I'd •hear the Claddagh burn go-runnin' through the heat Past Corrymeela, wi,' the bi's sky • beet• tt• k!Q p'eople that's in England is rich- • •er nor the Jews, ,'here's not the smallest young gas- • soon but thravels in his shoes! I'd give the pipe between nie teeth to sea a barefut child, Och! Corryntsela tan' the law south. wind. _, .. , . _.. Here's hands so full of money an' • hennts so full o' care, By the luck o' love! I'd still go light for all I did go bare. "God save ye, oelleen dhas," I said: the girl she thought me wild. Far Corrymeela, an' the low south wind. D'ye mind me now, the song at night is martial hard to raise, The girls are heavy goin' here, the boys are ill to plane; When one'st I'm out this workin' hive, 'tis I'll be back again— Ay, Corrymeela, in the same soft rain. The puff o' smoke from one ould roof before an English town! For a shaugh wid Andy Feelan here I'd give a silver crown, For a curl o' hair like Mollie's ye'll ask the like in vain, Sweet Corrymeela, an' the samo soft rain. —Moira O'Neill. LIGHTS OUT I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest where all must lose Their way, however straight, Or winding, soon or late; They cannot choose. Many a road and track That, since the dawn's first crack, Up to the forest brink, Deceived the travellers, Suddenly now blurs, And in they sink. Here love ends, Ail pleasure and all trouble, Although most sweet or bitter, ,dere ends in sleep that is sweeter Than tasks most noble. There is not any book Or face of clearest look That I would net turn from now To go into the unknown I must enter and leave alone I know not how. The tall forest towers; Its cloudy foliage lowers Ahead, shelf above shelf; Its silence I hear and •obey That I may lose my way And myself, —Edward Thomas. xt=zl REQUIESCAT Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily -like, white as snow, She hardly .knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin -board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone, She is at rest. Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life's buried here, Heap earth upon it. Oscar Wilde, WHEN YOU ARE OLD When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, ' And slowly read and dream of the soft loots Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, Andloved the sorrows of your chang- ing face. And bending down beside the glowing diertising VusI r bars Murmur, a little sadly, how Iove fled, And paced upon the mountains ow, erhead, And hid his face amid a crown of stars. W. B. Yeats. tit=Ents DREAM OF A BLESSED SPIRIT° All the heavy days are over; Leave the body's coloured pride • Underneath the grass and clover, With the feet laid side by side, One with her are mirth and duty; Bear the gold -embroidered dress,. For she needs not her sad beauty, To the scented oaken press, Sets the kiss of Mother Mary, The long hair is on her face; h Still she goes with footsteps wary. Full of earth's old timid a'raee, ''r''1 With while feet of angels seven Res white feet go glimmering; And above tills deep of heaven, ..:,4 ,Flame on flame, and wing old tying. -.yp. B. Yeats, WOMEN VISIT UNI{OWN ROCKY MOUNTAIN AREA Mrs. J. Norman Henry, wife of the Director of Public Health, Phila- delphia and her daughter, Miss Jose- phine Henry, have returned from an adventurous trip into a little known section of Northern British Colum- bia. During the expedition they gathered many botanical and enty- mological specimens for the Acad- emy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- phia and the Royal Botanical Gar dens, Edinburgh, Scotland. Mrs. Henry and her daughter left the Canadian National Railways at Edmonton in June and from there went to Pouce Coupee in the Peace River district from where they be- gan a journey that took them more than 500 miles on horseback through a remote part of the Canadian Rock- ies. Because of an unusually heavy snow -fall during the winter, they en- countered swollen rivers and in try- ing to ford one of these they lost all their canned goods and had to sub- sist on flour, beans, bacon and rice for the balance of the trip. Cc']d weather made the collecting of insect life difficult but they brought back with theta fine botan- ical specimens including a dwarf spreading cactus which, although common in Mexico, is seldom found so far north. The roots of all of the punts were kept imbedded in their own soil, The prize of the expedition is a fish which even natives of the caun, try were unable to identify. It has golden eyes, large silver scales and a small sucker -like mouth but it is not a sucker, goldeye, whitefish or grayling. Nor is it an individual freak as natives of the area recall having seen several fish like it tak- en from the same waters. IC. S. McCursker, former Dominion Government cartographer, accom.• panied the party and mapped the country which had not been napped before. FOR GIRLS WITH COLD FEET One thing the girl with cold feet must do in order to solve her prob-. len, is to learn how to use her lungs: in other words, how to breathe fully and freely. It is amazing how few women breathe properly. The great majority are shallow breathers. Yet the habit of deep breathing is one of the most effective as well as the least expensive of beauty aids. The best sort of deep breathing exercise is a by-product of vigorous outdoor exercise. Active use of the large muscles increase the body's need of oxygen so that deep breathing is automatically stimulated. This is much better than standing still and trying to pump the lungs full of Mil The habit of deep breathing may be established with the aid of indoor exercises that include free move- ments of limbs and trunk. WEST INDIES NO HOTTER THAN IS NOME, ALASKA British Guiana, in South America, southern -most of the British colon- ies of the Caribbean which includes the West Indies, is no hotter on an average summer day than Is Nome, Alaska, is the answer which these colonies make to the inference that their climate is torrid in sum- mer. A paradoxical slant is given to this fact in remarks made hp visitors from. the British West Indies to Mon- treal, Toronto, Ottawa and Quebec to the effect that they find these cities a "triffle to warm" in the sum- mer time. They state they miss "the doctor," a dependable cool breeze which sweeps most of the iss. lands nightly and assures sleep.