The Clinton News Record, 1933-10-19, Page 7TEUR,S., CT:19, 193g
THE CLINTON, NEWS -RECORD
AGE 7
Health, Codking,
Care .nf !:Children
PAGE OF INTEREST
Edited By;, Lebam Hakeber Kralc
Ruiilat!oll of Rebekali
A Column Prepared Especially for Women—
But Not Forbidden to Men
"If ever the world sees a 'tire
when women shall come together
• purely and .solely 'for the `good oaf
mankind, it will be a force such 'es
•. the world has never seen."
-Matthew 'Arnold,
•tesessets
I have often made the statement.
' that we needed more women in pub-
lic life; we need them on our school
.boards, on our hospital boards, (our
local hospital board is inside up en-
tirely of women and who shall say
'that it 'is not wonderfully manage
•ed?) on council boards and in par-
• liamentary assemblies: Their ad-
• vice, the 'benefit of their knowledge,
gained through centuries of caring
for their families, is needed in the
great work of caring for the great'hu-
• anan family, and after all, isn't that
all that any board or organization
• exists for, just to look after some
need or comfort for humanity? And
.• if the influence of women, sensiible,
• broad-minded women, could be
brought to bear upon all the prob-
lenis which confront the world toe
day, they would be the sooner solv-
ed. If women 'were managing the
financial affairs of the 'League of
Nations there would be more to
show for the huge financial outlay
of that great organization. Or, per -
• baps, I should say that there would
▪ be less outlay for the amount of ac-
• complishment shown.
Women are the economists of tie-
-world. Women are not so good at
" figuring out results on paper, per-
' baps.- They may not always be able
to tell you exactly how everything
will turn out, but give them a chance
and they will get results, with the
' least possible outlay and delay.
The world is in an awful mess and
it locks such a silly mess—to a wo-
man. afore we have plenty to eat,
'while thousands go hungry; men
women and children lack proper shel-
' ter and proper clothing, while thou,,
ands are going about idle who would
• gladly manufacture that which would
•
furnish shelter, warmth 'and( coinfoit
to all. What does it matter to wo
men, t'he mothers of the race, whe-
ther •capitalists are able to make
money or not? What they would like
to see is the whole human family
Well locked after, with homes and
shelter and food and bodily com-
forts, and mental and spiritual Bevel-
opement thrown in!
I should like to see more women in
public life, not for honour or glory
or to demonstrate that they are as
clever or more so than men, but to
serve their fellows; to bring out of
the welter of confusion of the pre-
sent, order and right conditions for
everyone. It would' be worse than
useless to have a lot of women elect-
ed to this and that office just to
keep some party machine working
or some government in power or
some faction strong. The only ex-
cuse for any woman seeking any
public office is that she may serve.
It is time that women should "como
together for the good of mankind."
Mankind at the present time has ur-
gent needs of their good offices,
—12,1Bl1KAE,
HOW TO COOK FISH FOR THE
FAMILY
Now that the cooter weather is
here and housekeepers are spending
more time in the kitchen the pan
frying or baking of a fish will make
a ;welcome change in the menu and
a tasty main dish for the mid-day or
evening areal. Mrs. Spencer, a cook-
ing specialist of the Dominion De.
pnrtment of fisheries, on being asked
what fat she regarded as )fest for
use in frying fish replied at once;
"Oil, cit, for several reasons. For
one thing, as the cook book issued by
the department points oat, oil may
be heated to a higher degree than
other cooking fats without burning.
For another thing," she went on, "oil
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BALANCED
In these days of universal econ-
omic stress, we hear a great deal
about balanced budgets, and most of
us have had personal experience in
the difficult task of establishing a
!balance between income and expen-
diture. There are also other forms
of balance which are important to us
'We balance our bodies when we
stand and walk, even though we may
not attain the degree of dexterity of
et tight -rope walker. We should bal.
atnce our 'diet, because balanced
meals make for physical health, just
as balanced budgets make for econ-
o mic strength.
You should belong to that group
of people who are neither too care-
less nor too careful about their diet
or other things in life. Jost as the
spend -thrift and the miser are un-
desirable because they have .carried
the habits of spending and thrift to
extremes, so the gourmand and the
food faddist have distorted the nor-
mal healthy appetite and have en-
dangered their health in so doing.
Too many people talk of calories,
vitamins and minerals -without know-
ing what these words mean. You
•should either learn what they mean,
-or' else riot use them to mystify
yourself and your neighbour. Much
more important is it for you to learn
how to apply what is known so that
you may enjoy a full measure of
health.
There is nothing mysterious about
the balanced diet, It is called "bal-
anced" because it provides all those
elements which the body must se-
cure from foods ht order to main-
tain its health and strength. You
eau do this without giving thought
to calories, vitamins or minerals
provided you make sure that each
day you include in your diet milk
and milk products, green vegetables
and fresh fruits, in addition to !neat,
fish, ancl eggs, potatoes and cereals
'We stress the milk, green vege-
tables and fresh fruits because these
are the protective foods which ban
ance the diet, and because they are
the foods which are most often left
out of the diet. There is nothing
wrong with meat, potatoes, bread
and tea, but used without the pro-
tective foods, they do not make up
a balanced diet. Make sure that you
use milk, green vegetables and fresh
fruits every day and so have a bale,
anted diet, because that makes the
intake equal the output and the bal-
ance is health.
Questions eoneerning Health, ad-
dressed to the Canadian Medical As-
sociation, 184 College Street, Toren-
to, will be answered personally by
letter.
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The
economical
and delicious
table syrup
THE CANADA STARCH CO,,
nourishing
sweet for the
.whole family
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LIMITED, MONTREAL
gives qff less disagreeable fumes,.
and that is quite an important con-
sideration, from • the standpoint of
comfort, especially if .the kitchen'
isn't very large.
"If you're using oil for frying,"
Mrs. Spencer continued, "allow two
cr three tablespoons to a panful of
fish, and it is . best to use fresh oil
for each panful. If the housewife
tries to fry two pans of fish with
the some oil she is likely to find
that the flour in which the fish has
been rolled for cooking will burn and
stick to the pan, spot the flesh, and
make it difficult to remove the fish
to the platter without breaking.
"There's another important point
about frying fish. When the fish is
rolled in flour you should always mix
a; little salt in the flour. If you do
this the fish will not have a 'flat'
taste. The frying process itself, of
course, is very simple. Get the oil
to a high point of heat, then put in
the floured fish, turn it carefully
with a pancake turner. so that it will
brown nicely on each side, and that's
all there is to 11.
Baking a.Fisk
Asked as to baking a fish, Mrs.
Spencer said:
"First of all, I would get one of
the oily-meated fish if possible—say,
a salmon or a whitefish. Fish, you
know, are of two classes, oily -meat -
ed and dry-meated and the oily -meat.,
ed varieties, which have their oil
distributed through the flesh instead
of (concentrated chiefly in the liver
are best for baking whole since they
cook in their own fat and do not re-
quire basting. If you want to !take
a dry -heated fish, such as the cede
for example, you should gash its
sides at least three times and insert
fat pork, and baste it quite frequent-
ly in the cooking process. Oily -meat -
ed fish should be baked without any
water being put in the pan; they will
baste in theigown fat.
«Well, having got my fish I first
clean it and scale it and cut off the
fins, if this has not been done for
me at the fish store. The head and
tail are left on. Then I rub the
cleaned fish with salt inside, and
stuff it with whatever stuffing I
happen to fancy. (If the fish is a
long one it should be fastened with
a skewer in the shape of the letter
`S', or it may be shaped in a semi-
circle, and it should be tied with
string from head to tail to hold it in
shape.)
"With stuffing completed. I brush
the fish all over with oil (I use a
pastry brush) and place it on its
belly in an oiler} dripping pan. Then
I pop the pan into et oven which I
keep very hot for the first ten or
fifteen minutes, until the fish has
begun to brown satisfactorily. After
that I reduce the heat and continue
the cooking for thirty minutes or
three-quarters of an hour, according
to the thickness of the fish; I allow
ten minutes for each pound up to
four pounds and five minutes feet
each pound over that, When cookipg
is finished I put the fish on a hot
platter, cut off the string, and add
a bit of garnishing. Sometimes T
fill the space within the semi -circle
made on the platter by the fish with
some potato balls in a cream sauce
with minced parsley. And though I
do say it myself, it's a tasty dish.
"It's good for you, too, for science
has discovered in comparatively re-
cent years that fish foods contain
very ilnpcl•tant health -snaking ele-
ments, as well as being easy of di-
gestion. It would be a good thing
for everybody if they ate more fish.
and especially good for the growing
children. There are so many differ-
ent kinds of 'Canadiati fish and shell-
fish, moreover, and so many differ,
ent dishes may be made from them,
that a Jamily can have fish foods
frequently without monotony.
WHO WOULDN'T GIVE BANQUET
ON THESE TERMS?
At time one has to be careful of
certain types of Latin-American dip-
lomacy, according to L. A. Jones,
once European correepordent to the
'Daily Express of Londcib England,
who arrived in this country recently
from Jamaica by the Canadian Na-
tional Steamships liner Lady Rod-
ney.
Without international malice,
Jones related the following example
of distorted hospitality. In one' of
the republics of South America (dip-
lomacy prevents more precision) an
English nobleman (whose name Is
discreetly withheld) was visiting the
capital, aboard his yacht. Jones
chanced to be visiting the nobleman
at the time. The president of the
republic cane alongside and boarded
the local craft. Upon his invitation
the whole party went ashore for an
evening of stnnptuOus entertainment
at the best hotel. The only flaw
was that at the conclusion of the
evening the nobleman was presented,
with a bill for the entire cost of the
evening. There was naught to do
but pay; and it was later discovered
that the president owned the hotel.
Household
Economics
9
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•
OLD FIELDS IN AUTUMN
Old fields that aream beneath the
sun,
That bear no more the scythe's
gay singing,
The harvest laughter, songs of cheer
Across the springtime winging --
Now
Now wear the autumn's beauty gay,
And have (beyond all song and
story,
Beyond the .trodden vales of men,
Their hours of shining glory!
—Arthur Wallace Peach.
INDIAN SUMMER
Along the line of smoky hills
The crimson forest stands,
And all the day the blue -jay calla
Throughout the autumn lands.
Now by the brook the maple Leans,
With all his glory spread:
And all the sumachs on the hills
Have turned their green to red.
Now, by great marshes Inapt in
mist,
Or past some river's month,
Throughout the long still autumn
clay
Wild birds are flying south.
---Wm. W. Campbell.
C-_Jiu =a
YOUR FELLOWMAN
If you should see a fellowman with
trouble's flag unfurled.
An' lookin' like he didn't have a
friend in all the world—
Go up and slap him on the back, and
holler, "How d'you do?"
And grasp his hand so warm he'll
know he has a friend in you;
Then ax him what's a-hurtin' hien,
an' laugh his cures away;
An' tell him that the darkest night,
is just before the day.
Don't talk graveyard palaver, but
say it right out loud
That God will sprinkle sunshine in
the trail of every cloud.
—James Whitcomb Riley.
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OCTOBER
Dusty rusty bracken;
Thistedowif afloat;
Bills, blue -shadowed and withdrawn
To distances remote.
Milkweed feathers blowing
From a frosted pod:
A cocoon spun upon a spray
Of fading goldenrod.
Cricket banjos in a field
Of rusting corn tepees;
Apples on the ground beneath
A row of pippin trees.
The arrogance of summer
Subdued somehow and sober—
Smoke and bonfires, falling leaves,
One last rose—October.
—Ethel Romig Fuller.
"
AM I AFRAID?
Am I afraid? I will admit I am;
Afraid to judge my fellows or to
damn,
A 0tan or woman; or to speak
A scornful word of creatures weak
Who faint and fall along the way.
Per who aim i that I should say
The path or road that he and you
Should travel? It's a job for any
man
To keep himself unspotted. Ile who
cat
Walk proudly through this world
with head held high
And boldly look the whole world in
the eye
And keep himself and children on
• the narrow way
Has little time 'to judge his fellows
or to say
An unkind word. God give me
strength to live each day
To lift and serve along the way.
To hate .the creme, but love the man
To do the very best I can
To try to live the Iife that Ile
Exemplified on earth for me.
--Grant Utley,
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BURIAL
Light the taper's one by one,
Love lieth dead!
Close the shutter on the,Son
Seeking her bed.
Thumb the rubric, point the. psalm,
Tear -mated grief!
Place within her folded •palm
The year's last leaf.
Should she waken, it will tell
All she would know;
Hear again, a matin.'bell
(Chimed Tong ago!
Love is in her darkened room,..
Coffin lid down;
Bear her to her quiet tomb
Through the still town.
Lay her in the shadows there,
Seal out the light .
(Suns will kindle in hex hair
Through the long night!)
Turn and follow as before
To Love's old place,
She will greet you at the door,
You will embrace!
But of death and obsequies
Breathe not a word;
Such a theme in Paradise
Would be absurd!
—Kathryn Munro.
oma
FOR HER BIRTHDAY
The larks this day make song to
break the heart;
The willow greener stands beside
her stream,
This day the sky hath blues and
'whites that start
The earth herself upon a sweeter
dream.
No rose this day but offers up full
strength
Of crimson fragrance to each trav-
eler,
And on this day, down every wood-
land's length,
The little furred ones holiday for
her. -
I know that on this day all things
are made
More beautiful and brave, more
true. for -•:me -
Man's house more dear, man's field
• a deeper jade,
Man's faith pledged with renewed
security.
Alia no day passes down this lovely
.earth
But wakes in me new blessings for
her birth!
Bert Coeicsley in The New York
Times.
MSG
GOD'S REFUSALS
Do you think a loving father
Listening with attentive ear
To his darling's earnest pleading
Whispered low that 'none may hear.
Do you think because he loves' her,
Draws' her close with circling arm,
That he ne'er her wish refuses
If to grant it brings her harm?
'Tis because he loves her so!
He so often answers "No."
But you thought your Heavenly
Father
Heedless when you asked that day;
Thought your faith must be too nae.
TOW
Or you would have had your way.
Have you never thought the reason—
That the harmful side He sees.
And he knows too well your danger
If He grants you all your pleas?
"Tis because ifle loves you so!
He so often answers "Nol"
Dear, He eouldn',t be our Father
If He cared no more, you see.
Than to grant our earthly wishes—
What seems best to you and me.
Do you think He loves so little
That He takes no care to choose
What is best for all His dear ones,
And all other things refuse?
'Tis biecause He loves us so!
He doth ever answer "No."
--Fanny Edna Stafford.
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RESTING TIME i
How good the brief dusk is, and the
long night.
How good the late slow dawn and the
mellow moon.
There semis a gentle hushing in the
air.
A stillness that is almost like s
voice.
Rake the brown leaves and hear the
'russet sound
They make in turning. It is like a
song,
Not like a sigh. There is no grieving.
in them
To find their bedtime near. The sum-
mer's beat,
The greenness and the passionate al-,
cherry
That changed the green to gold -
-
these things are over,
And there is come a respite and a
caber
Aftex the vivid haste of harvesting.
Barbara Young, in New Yeek
Times.
BETTER ,THINGS
Better to smell a violet
Than sip the melees wine;
Better to list one music tone,
Than watch the jewel's shine, i
Better to have the love of one
Than similes like morning dew;
Better to have a living seed
Than flowers of every hue.
Better to ,feel a love within
Than be lovely to the sight;
Better, a homely tenderness
Than beauty's wild delight.
Better, to love than be beloved,
Though lonely all the day;
Better the fountain in the heart
Than the fountain by the way.
Better the thanks of one dear heart
Than a nation's voice of praise;
Better the twilight ere the dawn
Than yesterday's midblaze.
Better a death when work is done
Than Earth's most favored birth;
Better a child in God's great house
Than the king of all the earth.
--Leigh 'Hunt,
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THINGS WORTIH WHILE
'Tis a glorious venture, this journey
of life,
With its wonderful mixture of glad-
ness and strife;
Its sunshine and rain; its pleasures
and pain
Folly and sorrow and joy in its train;
We find'in the wisdom that comes
with the years,
Lifo can bo sunny or bitter with
tears;
But each mortal mile must carry a
sotto
If we live for the beautiful things
worth while.
Live for the friends whom you know
to be true;
Live for the love:tled- is given to you
Life can be glad or life can be sad,
Just what you make it yourself —
good or bad,
You can maks every burden or sor-
row a joy,
You can banish the things that vex
or annoy;
Shun the evil and vile; just learn
how to smile,
And live for the wonderful things
worth while. —Lew Williams,
Protection of Roses and
other Plali is for Winter
(Experimental Farms Note)
In the parts of Canada where the
snowfall is heavy, conies early, and
stays all winter, ordinary perennials
need no other protection, but in dis•.',
trigs where the ground becomes bare
in winter a covering of straw, corn-
stalks or pine boughs is advisable.
Bulbs such as tulips • and daffodils
should he covered with old manure.
At the Central Experimental Farm,
Ottawa, it has been found that daf-
fodils sometimes kill out in the
winter; but a mulch of old manure
seems to give the needed protection,
Except in the mildest sections of
the ,country ciimlxing roses; Hybrid
Teas and Hybrid Porpetuals should
be covered for winter. As climbing
roses bloom on last year's wood the
canes must be kept in good health
or there will be very few if any flow,
ers. When the weather turns cool
the canes should be taken down
from their support and tied togeth-
er. The bundle of canes should be
laid on the ground and earth mound.-
ed
ound-ed up around the roots to the height
of twelve or eighteen inches. In
some varieties the canes are stiff
and should be bent over as far as
possible and tied to a stake that has
been driven 01 to the ground. After
the ground is frozen the canes
should he covered with dry leaves or
straw and these covered with boards,
placed together to form an inverted
V so that water will drain off. It is
important that the canes should be
kept dry as moisture may freeze on
the bark and damage it. Building
paper is sometimes used. In spring
the covering should be removed
gradually. In places where mice are
troublesome some wheat staked in
poison should be placed under the
covering as they frequently damage
the bark of the rose.
Bush roses such as Hybrid Per-
petuals and Hybrid Teas bloom on
the new wood, so that it is not ne-
cessary to keep the whole of the
stems alive as the plant will grow
and flower if cut back to three or
four eyes. The earth should bee,,,
mounded up around the stems as re
commended for climbers and after it
is frozen, strawy manure, straw or
leaves placed over the beds and cov-
erer] with pine boughs, cornstalks or
chicken wire to keep It in place.
As the amount of protection re•
quiretl for plants varies according to
the climate it is advisable to find out
what method has proved successful
with other gardeners in the district,
Mrs, T. P. ROSS, Judge
and Lecturer for our Conn.
ty, Baking Championship,
will be in Tweed on Oct.
51st; in Bancroft oo Nov.
1st; and in Bloomfield on
Nov, 3rd,
Get ready for the
FIVE HOSES COUNTY
AKIN CNA, ' PIONSH P
Ask your ,grocer for lull details, if you haven't already got thets.
We're out to find the best bread -maker and the best cake -maker
in each of 27 Ontario counties, and the Grand Champions of the
whole area.
Any woman who lives in any one of the counties listed below may
enter this contest. Bake for the honor of your county. Try your
hand at making bread and cake with X?XVE ROSES FLOUR, and
enter a loaf of bread, or a cake, or both, in the exhibition nearest
to your home.
RIBBONS and 8 PRIZES to the winners in each judging centre! SILVER
DISHES to each county winner! STERLING SILVER TEA SET and $50
to Grand Champions of the whole area; STERLING SILVER BOWL and
$25 to cake and bread makers in second place in the finals.
Begin practising now — and watch
this paper for announcement of the
dates and judging centres in the fol-
lowing counties:
BRANT, 130000, DUFFT:RIN, MR.HAM, ELGIN, ESSEX, GREY, HAST-
INGS, HURON, KENT, LAMBTON,
uNcoI.N, MIDDLESnx, MUSKOKA,
NORFOLK, NOR'rI•IUMBERI.AND, ON-
TARIO, 070050, PARRY SOUND,
PERTH, PETERBOROUGH, -PRINCE
EDWARD, SIMCOE, VICTORIA,
W ATERL OO, W ELLAND,WELLINGT'ON
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rolls. It makes products that are
noticeably better. People talk about
their flavor and lightness. Used
throughout Canada for almost half -
a -century.
THIS STERLING SILVER
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bread and cake Grand Cham-
pions of the whole contest area.
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