The Clinton News Record, 1931-12-03, Page 7Health, Cooking
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THE GIFT
It came to me unheralded at dawn,
Enwrapped in tissues soft of pearly
mist
And tied with sunbeams. One by one
the folds
Drifting away, touched by an un,
seen hand,
Revealed the :hidden treasure. Then
I heard
Gus song of birds whisper of morn-
ing breeze,
Murmur of myriad prayers, thanks-
giving, praise;
t was a good and perfect gift--
ne snore new day.
—William Boyd Allen.
The season is fast approaching
hen gifts will be handed around on
I sides.. And I just love Chrisntas,
ith all its giving and receiving, it's
.uniting of families it's laying aside
all considerations except the joy
the season, I love it becauae it is
jolly time and a time full of good
eer and fellowship. I do not think
ooh o.f• •what I shall -receive, sl-
ough my friends are always venal
acerous to me. But, owing perhaps
the fact that in my more youthful
ars I was not in the •habit of re-
iving much and was able to give
en less, I have since circumstances
lowed of my handling my own mon-
taken a very keen pleasure in giv-
g. i sometimes give more than jj
ally can afford, have to pinch and
i
ve after Christmas, right on to
e very next one, perhaps. But I
ver regret it, only wish I had mote'
come and go on.
But while I love 'Christmas and
ve to give and iteeive, I loathe
e idea of "trading gifts." Of •
urse we all give gifts to those who
give to us. But this need not be in
the nature' of a barter at all, . We
give them something-wewish,, them
bo have, they do the sante with us,
and love and thought and good will
goes with every gift. But when we
begin to say to ourselves: "Now, So-
and-so will be giving me something
so I must get something for him or,
her," somehow all the bloom is off
the peach. A correspondent in an-
other paper recently put this so aptly
that F am going to quote here in
brief:
"It is a great courtesy to allow
a gift to be a slight tipping of
the •balanee on the other fellow's
sideend to rush to pay back
certainly destroys the effect of
the bestowal. Sometimes the
nicest thing one can do for an-
other is to allow that other to
give you something, and just be
grateful and then the gift be-
comes a token between you.
To trade gifts suggests a eom-
mereial instinct that is alien to
affection; yet, of course, if gifts
pass on the way it is a surprise
and joy for each to receive. As
soon as one feels a. gift is ex-
peoted it ceases to be a gift."
Then if you really wish to enjoy
giving give something to someone,
who needs it and who cannot give in
Teter». This 'is what puts the joy
into Christmas. Why not this Christ,
teas cub out all these "duty" giftri
and give only to thee you wish to
give to and to those who need. A.
little self-denial en the part of all
would make a vast difference in the
happiness of many on Christmas if
thoughtful gifts were bestowed upon
those who gre less fortunate and
whose Christmas would otherwise be
less cheery.
REB1 1 All
LEISURE
editorial from The National
Railways Magazine).
It might seen like grim irony to
cuss the question of leisure and
reation when millions of men
d women the world over are beg,
g for the opportunity of working
t, .on the contrary, the time for
h discussion is singularly oppos-
e, for if the achievements of
epee advance in the near future all
y have advanced in the past half
•tury--and there is -everything te.
port the contention—certain etas -
will find themselves with a great
Dunt of spare time on their hands,
thus the question may beeoane j
of prime social importance.
he demand for more leisure has
n a constant one. A few' years
, Rt. Hon. Ramsay MacDonald
4, "The two standard demands of
industrial democracy, a living
ge and a maximum of leisure, are
marily ethical demands." The
•t is true, the second is doubtful,
n if we could agree en what a
iinum of leisure is.• Here and
e we find one who seams to think
a maximum of leisure is eon-
al freedom from work. This,
acrd Shaw says, .would be a de.
tion of hell; and most healthy
ded men would agree; for if there
ny livelier hell on earth' -than
ess voluntary or Snvoluntaey,
would like to know what•'it is,
w men have ever' considered
muchleisure they already have,
us start with the old requisite
ight hours' work, eight hours'
and eight hours' recreation. The
age man works about forty -font
•s a week, he rests fifty -sari hours
'rig sixty -;eight hours; deducting.
e hours for meals and, cleansing,
as over forty-seven 'hours of
re plus holidays; so- that the
who 'begins work at fifteen ••and
Ines until he to sixty-five bas r
about fourteen years of leisure—a
long time.
The natter of greatest moment
is not whether we have the maximum
of leisure ,but what we are to do with
the leisure we have. The normal man
cannot long remain in a state of in-
activity and while every man needs
reereatiori,not only to restore his
energies and interest in things but
to give balance to life, there are
certain classes that need it in a
marked degree. Shorter hours will
not be possible to all. The brain
worker will work as hard as ever;
the doctor will continue his practice
as energetically as ever; the law,
yer will take as many clients as he
can get; the inventor will not dimin-
ish his experiments nor his hours;
And all these •rust have a balanced
life, and it rimy be left to themselves
to provide it.
I am thinking _mere particularly,
however, of those whose days are
not so full and the possibility of
turning leisure into recreation -not
merely recreation which ordinarily
means sport, but recreation which
may include sport,and which minis,
tete- not to the ;body alone. Having
advanced so far in the mechanical
arts, our next field of activity might
very well be the art of developinggthe
human being, how to improve not
only the automobile but the man who
makes and drives it, 'how to improve
him in hinise7i and sn his relation,
ships, to improve himas a spiritual
being, and by that is meant a being
of mind, will, emotions, .dispositions,
to teach hint how to get the best ,out
of himself and give the best of him.
self. Take a simple example of pos;
sibilities; One should be a citizen of
the world, bet most men are far front'
that; their narrowness and insularity
are appalling. They rarely travel
outside their own village, town on
city when'a whole teeteieg-active in-
teresting world awaits their: explore.;
ban.
What impossible nonsensei one
nay say; 116, my unimaginative lead -
WOMEN
Household
Economics
Appreciation Expressed for the Gifts and Kindly
Thoughts They ConveYed
The following are letters of offici
thanks for the car of produce sen
to the west recently, frontthis tow
and district. Messrs, C. J. Waili
and G. I3'' Elliott were the emanatein charge but many assisted, an
gladly in the worts;
"Hearne, November 20th, 1931
Messrs: C. J. Wallis and G.
Gillett, Clinton:
Dear Sirs: I know this is a very
belated letter but it was just a few
days ago that I learned of your ad-
dress or
who to write to officially.
as the sender of .thecar la fruit and
vegetables that were shipped frm
o
Clintonto Avonlea and Hearne. We
are situated about fifty miles south
west of Regina and while we have a
very flee district as far is land and
people are concerned there has (leen
very little. crop for two years. Manyy
e
of the
people have not had a thing
this year, even they have sown sev+
eral times - The late 'rains leave given
considerable feed to those who sow-
ed oats real late, but the - wind and
dry weather ruined all early sown
crop or gardens. The price of grain
and stock has been and 'is so low that
it has made conditions muck worse
than they would otherwise }cave been
making it very discouraging for ev-
en to 'try and raise hogs or cattle to
sell. So you can have a very good
idea of how people, living under these
conditions would appreciate a car
filled with such a large amount of
real food, and may I say that there
has been very few cars coming west
that have meant so much. to the peo-
ple, The beans are 'really a very
substantial food, and go such' a long
way and the apples, honey fruit and
vegetables surely filled in along with
then to meet the need. The car was
first unloaded and each thing weigh,
ed and piled seperate ie. a ware houses
then by making- a survey of the
families in the distetet we were able
to know just about how much we
could give each fatuity according toni
their size and need. And I asure
that the people of Avonlea and
Hearne will never forget the kind -
nese and Christian Spirit' shown by
the people of 'Clinton and district
surrounding. It is acts like these
that really reveal the Spirit of Christ
in a very practical way and show
chat lee' meant when He said 'Thou
Shall love Thy neighbor as thyself'
We have had a lovely fall, weather
being such that considerable work
was done on the highways which
meant money and farmers were able
to haul their feed before it was too
cold. There is a spirit of optimism
prevailing, all looking forward to
next year, trusting that Providence
will favrous with plenty of rain,
and considerable less wind. We trust
that you, too, have His blessing
both materially and fie -your hearts and
that the spirit you have evidenced
may still grow, and the lessons we
have learned and your kindness never
be forgotten. Sineerely'yours-,J. Wt
Patterson," :
al to catch up with all my work. I be-
n Iievo that you have had communica-
n tions from J. V. Patterson, M.Ii,A.i
s and others of the district,, expressing
e their appreciation to the people Of
d the Clinton district for the splendid
car of fruit and vegetables forwarded
, to the Avonlea Pastoral charge of
FE
;; the United Church of. Canada. As a
result of three,. successive 'crop fail-
ures, at least ninety per cent of the
people of this district are obliged to
ask for relief, so I -can assure you
that your
generous contribution
was
a very timely gift. I ant..: sorry that
I was away at the •time., that the car
arrived; but a •committee was argon-
ized for the distribution. of same
before I left, and more than two
hundred families shared in the con-
tents of the ear. Had T known that
Clinton had despatched a car to Av-
onlea, would w uldcertainly have called
on you while in the East, for Strat-
ford was my birthplace, and while
there I could easily have travelled
the 30 miles necessary to express to
you my personal appreciation. The
fine spirit of loyalty and unselfish-
ness Shown by the Christian people
of Ontario to those in Saskatchewan
in this time of adversity will Long
be remembered, and it is a great ex,
ample of the splendid work that the
United Church is doing. On behalf oe
the congregation of Avonlea and
Hearne and the families of the dis-
trict I desire to express our heart-
. felt appreciation, and the next time
that I am in the East I will make it
a point to see you. Yours sincerely,
-F. C. Miller;'
"Avonlea, Sask., November 26, 1931
"ler. 0. J. Wallis, Clinton, Ont.
Dear Mr. Wallis: I trust you will
pardon my delay in writing you, but
since returning front the East two
weeks ago, I have been more than
busy with the distribution of relief
work. Even yet I have. not been able
er it is not nonsense, but sober
sense. I have never actually set foot
on Chinese or Japanese soil, but I
have visited China and Japan and
India and Africa and South America.
Recently I made a trip through Eng;
land; it took inc two days and cost
.two dollars, but the hook was a good
one and the descriptions excellent,
I also travelled through Scotland
and Ireland at the same trifling cost;
met sere of the most prominent
men in the world,` learned something
of their, outlook aid habits of mind:
all this I dill in 1liy leisure hours.
The recreation of the mind is one
of the most urgent dirties as well 'arc
one of the pleasantest exercises that
one could imagine. What'a potential.
iltstrument is the Thunman intellect
and how shockingly we abuse its pos.
sibilities. Much of the reading
done by the great mass of people is
not only shallow but decidedly harm)
fel. It -touches only those cruder
emotions and impulses that we share
with uncivilized peoples, but rarely
is the mind engaged in anything
worthy of its capabilities. None of
the finer qualities of life ate touch-
ed by the 'cpenny dreadful" or • the
raw,, seatistio .:and pripnitive stuff
that so many wallow in. Recreation
is necessary fly way 'of rest for body
and mind, and, for both, recreation
in the form of play is essential; but
above all are cultivation of ninth and
health of view essential to make us
happy as well as tolerable beings;
but we must begin when we are
voting and teach our children' in
home and school how to use this
precious margin of . life.•
Minister: Now, Uncle Mose, do you
think you're doing right to leave
your wife at the washtub while you
go fishing?
Mose: Suttingly, salt; utak wife
Id» be trusted, she kin; she woks
jes as hand when Ah's away es when
Ah's watching her, rho do -
Salute to the Trees
Many a tree is found in the wood.
And every tree for its' use is good;
Some for the ,strength of the gnarled
Sonic for the sweetness of flower or
fruit;
Some for shelter against the storm,.
And some to keep the hearthstone
Some for the roof, and some for the
beam,.
And some for a boat" to breast the
stream;
In the wealth of the wood since the
world began
The trees have offered their gifts
to man.
But the glory of .trees is more than
their 'gifts; •
'Tis a beautiful wonder ; of life that
lifts
From a wrinkled seed in an earth-
bound clod,
A column, an arch in the temple of
God,
A pilar of power, a domeof delight,
A shrine of song, and a joy of sight:
Their roots are the -nurses of rivers
in birth,
Their leaves are alive with the
breath of the earth;
They shelter the dwellings of man;
and they bend
O'er his, t s grave with the look of a
loving friend.
I have camped in the whispering for-
ests of pines,
I have slept in the shadow of olives
and vines;
In the knees of an oak, at the foot
efapalm,
I have found good rest and slumber's
balm.
And, now, when the morning gilds
the boughs
Of the vaulted elm at the door of
my house,
I open the window and make salute;
"God bless thy branches and feed
thy root!
Thou hast dived before, live after me,
Thou ancient, friendly, faithful tree."
—Henry Van Dyke.
Children had not Hoped to See Apples this Year
"Practicaj'. Christianity" is the
term used by a Saskatchewan bank
manager to describe the ahipniehts
of supplies frons ;Geoid county in
Ontario to drought areas in the
West.
Among . the beneficiaries were
members of a Norwegian Lutheran.
colony, who sent a special repre-
sentative to the manse at Loreburn
to express their thanks. Writing to
Rev. V. T. Mooney, of Woodstock,
the Loreburn minister, Rev. L. A.
Mutitt, says:
"1 Wisli some of your people could
have seen seine of the folk to whom
their bounty was given I am sure
they would have felt amply repaid.
A man carne to tate hall one day
while we were distributing and ask-
ed to see nee. Ile is a returned
soldier, and has six little children.
They are living twelve miles from
here, end through some "inadverence
had been missed. I investigated the
case,. and discovered that they were
absc'.utely destitute. We assigned
him a hamper of apples and all the
vegetables he needed, and as we load-
ed his wagon he was quite openly
crying.
"He said to me as he left, 'My lit-
tleeones will be happy to -day; they
haven't seen an apple this year,
and we had no hope that we Would
be able be get one this'yeai.'
"Our bank enianager here, who was
chairman of our committee, said to
rue, while ave were distributing, 'This
is the finest piece of practical Chris-
tianity I ever heard of itt my life.' "
jfeltk Savice
(! attabi int
CHANT•rtemtuG,
J' I'
,
OF THE
edttttt Agtiutiatirat
M.O. r ASSOCIA
E SECRETARY
YOTJ SHOULD KNOW
You should know certain things so
that you may be able to act in such
a Manner as to protectyour own
health and that of your family.
The success which has .been achieved
in controlling certain diseases is not
the result toe chance. It had cone
about as the result of our having ac-
quired • enough knowledge about
these particular diseases to enable us
to overcome them to some extent.
_In the same way, personal health
anti freedom from disease come to
us when we make use of the know-
ledge which we now possess. Small-
pox it non-existent when vaccina-
tion is practised. Rickets disappear
as the result of proper feeding. Pure
water: and safe milk prevent the oc-
currence of typhoid fever.
You should know that each year,
in Canada, over eight thousand, per -
sees .die
er-sees..die .frons tuberculosis,- You
should know that when it is discov-
ered early anal' properly 'treated,
tuberculosis is one Of. the most cur;
able of disease&
Hnosving these • two statements to
be "correct, you are then in a posi-
tion to say that the Iarge number of
deaths inusi be due to failure in die -
covering the disease in its early
stages, or that the cases are .not be-
ing properly 'treated.
Those 6:f, our readers who ;follow
our :advice and have a health! .ream-'
ination each year ,give their family
physician an opportunity to discover t
tuberculosis, cancer acid other' Itis-
eases in their earliest and most eur-
able stage,
It is net possible to teach the pub-
lic how to detect disease early. 11
is much more diffucult to make a
diagnosis in the early- stage of a
disease than it is later. on. The gen-
eral idea of a tuberculosis person is
one who is thin, looks ill and has a
cough. This is the usual condition
when the disease is •advanced, but
in •the early stages, the patient ap-
pears to be well, and nothing- in his
general appearance arouses suspic-
io11
Not everyone with. the following
symptoms has tuberculosis, but the
presence of one or more •of them is
sufficient to arouse suspicion, and 'co
send the individual to his dotter to
find out the cause.
A feeling of fatigue from work
which did not previously cause fatig-
ue. Loss of strength or weight,
which may be aceoiripanied by a gen-
eral feeling of not being well.
Any cough which persists for a
month or more.
'Continued`: upset of digestion, .which
may be associated with a cough. r
Spitting of blood.
It is better to be on the safe side.:
Prompt attention to; early symptoms
means early treatment ie it is need-
ed, and early treatment means eure.
Questiotls concerning ;Health ad,
dressed to the Canadian Medical As.
soolation, 184. College, Street, Toren.
o, will "be answered personally bp•
eater ,• : i OiellAt
THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED
TO THE POET
Here They Will Sing You. Their SongsSometimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad- But Always Helpful
and inspiring.
TUE, STRICKEN DEER
William Cowper, • the poet, . was
born in November 1931 and his set
cont century was celebrated last
week. A. writer on this occasion
Sa s•
y
"H.is was a worshipful- and intee-
sely devotional spirit, and he was
naturally and :temperamentally re-
ligious."
"Nothing that. Cowper wrote is
more beautiful in form and more sug-
gestive in its poetic content, more
tender in its Christion implications
and more apt in its delicate and
pathetic autobiographical reference
than the following lines:
I was Once a stricken deer that lett.
the herd,
Long since; with many an arrow
infixed
My panting side was- charged, when
I withdrew
To seek a tranquil death in distant
shades.
There was I found by One who had
Flimself
Been hurt by the archers. In His
side He bore
And in His hands and' feet the cruel
sears.
With gentle force soliciting the darts,
Ile drew them forth and bade me
live."
CAME COMFORT
So in my loneliness I cried
Aloud, remembering
A promise of One long ago,
One who would comfort bring.
Despair had marked nue for her own,
Love failed and friends, and grief
Weighed down my heart, my hopes,
;my pride
Beyond relief.
So gaunt a thing is loneliness,.
A specter fearful, grim,
I sometimes think that half earth's
iUs
Are here because of him.
And so, in my distress, I cried
Aloud. There, came and stood
Beside ane Comfort, shining fair -
And kind and good.
—Front The Canadian Churchman.
DUSK
Dusk wraps the village in its dim
caress;
Each chimney's vapor, like a thin,
gray rod
Mounting aloft ,through 'miles of
quietness
Pillars the skies of God.
Far up they break or seem to break
their line,
Mingling their pobulous crests that
bow and nod
Under the light of those fierce stars
that shine
Out of the calm of God.
Only clouds and dreams I felt those
souls,
In the abyss: each fire hid in its
clod; •
From which in clouds and dreams
the spirit rens,
Into the vast of God.
—'"A. E."
NOT ALWAYS
Not always. do the years bring
wealth of wisdom
Not always are the old the surest
gtiidee,
For there are ion of years with
hearts in bondage
To vain, outworn conceits and pal-
try prides;
Old men with eyes, alasi that see not
progress,
With ears that cannot hear her
clarion call—
Blind then that prophesy for youth
disaster,
And go on groping 'round. an end-
less wall.
E'er though it breathes of treason
to declare it.
Wise heads upon young shoulders
often rest,
And most of fickle Fortune's choic-
est favors
Are won by those who, woo with
youthful zest.
It calls for ardor, faith and dauntless
courage
To pushback frontiers, farther
trails to blaze,
And those of years are fearful oft,
and 'blinded
By: the poor dust, of their dead
, yesterdays,
—lernest 11. A. Horne.
WHAT n0 I FEAR?
What do I fear? I view not God
with dread,
For He is love and wisdom, truth
and good,
~
And I adore Hine and, with each
varying mood,
i strive to view Hiin es en only
friend
Long lost, but gone before, who
meets me at life's end,
What do I fear? Not death—the
sombre king,
Since he but lifts ere to a higher
plane
In the grand scale of being, who
shall bring
ng
All my lost loved ones singing in
his train
And, reunited; they and I shall roam
Alljoyous, glad and free in the et-
ernal home.
—A. IVdaepherson,
SONS
Tor
p Ess my Iips
(Thou •o fair cheek, or a brown,
Of my young sons—
So long I have stooped down;
But suddenly today; to my surprise,
I find that 1 must lift my eyes
To meet their eyes;
That I must stand on toe tips
And reach up
To kiss their lips.
These tab young sons—
Each straight as any pine,
Can they be mine? 4
Soon I must share them.
Soon I know they'Il go,
But oh, I am 'so glad
That I have had
Small sons to stoop to,
Tall sons to reach to,
'Clean sons to give
That other sons may live
—Grace Noll Crowell,
... - . .-SiJMRiER ...... . , . .
Ah, Summer came back one day in
the Fail,
'Looking for some of the glory she
lost
When the North Wind came and rob-
bed her of all
The beautiful things she had loved
the most.
She ran to the wood, expecting to
find
Some part of her draperies hang,
ing there.
But the festooned arches her hand
' entwined
Were toms and faded beyond 're-
pair.
Gone, too, her tapestries, woven
in greens,
Showing by contrasts the ancient
design
0£ fairy folie dancing on mystical
screens
To music Pan drew from his pipes
divine,
And flown were the zephyrs that
once had played
On the sunny slope of a fair hill,
side;
'When the North Wind passed, they
vanished afraid
Of the lawless steeds his hurri-
canes ride.
All silent the groves where her bird
choirs sang
Their anthem of praise in the
early morn,
Waking the world with their peens
that rang
Triumphantly forth for a day nevi
born, t
In haste then she ran where the
flowers bloomed
Oitly for her in their hidden re-
treat.
Alas, for the hope her heart had
assumed,
,She, found then all lying crushed
at her feet.
Weeping, she flew to the gardens •oi
men,
Where she had fashioned same
rvonderful things.
Here she met only destruction again
Froin the frozen breath that his
riding }?rings.
Oh, the North Wind sleeps with art
open eye,
And steeds equipped for a frenzied
ride;
So he mounted again as she passed
him by
And beat at her skirts with the
thong he plied.
But a sunbeam crept through e
burnished loud
And whisked her away to a land
of flowers,
And told her the Wind, so cruel and
loud, ani*�' llnl�
Would have tc ' go back to his
frozen towers.
Then Summer smiled and was happy
again
And sang with the birds in their
buoyant mood:
While she wove garlands for hillside'
and glen
And gave of her splendor where.
ever 'elle could,
But she will return some radiant
morn,
When the cold North Wiled has
gone to his lair,
To find allher beautiful things re.
born
And waiting the touch.;'of her fin,
gens fair.
—Minnie Myrtle Leask,,.