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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1929-02-28, Page 6The Red -Cross' whOcompleted the course, In the carrying out of this refne,rkable ae+, �a complisltment Mise barringto i troy and � = lt7�ule veiled 6,1o0 miles,A.,100 ot whic unb:lay C' overcotry'roach/ and Ou hose ardu L .'ast Five Years Science -af 008 joul'noys she addroriaed '98 anal•. Gimes, As a result of this energetic. campaign Home Nursing instructtirn under' Red ;Cross workers reached iu that year overy county fa New Brunswick. Further extension. of the work'walts only on the requisite funds;, 6rNN.4 ANDF,RSON 'PERRY . and the necessary expert volunteer • workers: Just wh t We'would'haVe dono'in Nardshipg In West out v111 ills' Yeai when rho '°flit' •In the prairie provinces,, where clic. 1n0t:riated'h rlf our citi2'ens, •if a'nuln Latices aregreat and climatic Condi- her' ondi-ber or'lid "had' "riot taken the Red tions often, severe, the adventures of Cro s'instruction in hone nursing, I'Home 'Nuraing organizers are such as do net' ]t110 ," Said a 'y (Mug' married' bring out the same heroic qualities scoma1'1'171'mA a nortl ern, Qatario town .displayed by the nurses in the.. Out, recently in 'writing 'to' a friend. "The' post Hospitals as may be gathered, doctor>tvas rnu'almost 'MP his'feot'try- from the report'of Miss Taylor of Al- in.; to, cover the, big distriet in which berta. "The work is hard," she says, he was the only medical man, trained "but I have never enjoyed More sails• nurses were 0011110 as they always' are lying labor " in my '.life," and then in the really rural parts, and some of :tal=es that last year in the month of the folks were very 1Il indeed with a April die had visited fourteen 'oeait- bad type of Iiniluenza. 13ut about ties, ''in the most terrible weather, twenty of urs, of all ages, Last year, had for paf•t of the time, with dust,' snow t item ;this useful training and I toll and windstorms taking turns, and, you .re 4h had reason to he thankful; tor with roads almost impassable for our knewleclgo, this `tiliu?er. 1 think man,beast or motor. We have been that bookies being able to help the stuck several times in the snow, have sick rte -uses even more helpful in ad. been lost on the. roade,,'and unable to tt zag against getting up too soon reach our classes promptly, .and vror we all noticed that those who did ' through accidents to our buggy had suffered Lief frons relapse :e or some outer to walk some miles in drifted snow sa.rjous sequel, and wo know ,from our on one occasion, leading the.,horse o In tractions that 'any ball infection and. carrying our precious' books but rat, •Itth foyer 'was very weakening we usually get athere and find the - to the'patient. I .thinlcI'wis able to eager women and girls, nue hunt111ed save my family trent dangers 1 Would per 'emit. strong, waiting for. our Da aa n(it arraaalmvs' rtnderstood last year, struetion." `Miss Taylor:' also records' th an clew elle other„women have had the that in the .absence of a medical: Mian itame experience: - in her district, ;the aecrete,ry et the Elven so does the science or proven: municipality sick old frequentlya tt; e aredieine make progress • When a visit • this or that s 1te lady, d her, 'to 'to reajor'epidemsen "talcs a look" ic of influenza h s:b , a at some cases of ragtag 'for menthe in all parts-ot the measles or mumps, or to try to re-. country. For while itis admitted that Neve the sufferings of patients with neither medical er nursing science has asthma or other chronic disease, "so Yet been able •to forestall .or' prevent you see, there Is never a trine when the spread of inflaenza,. yet 11 there., I have not plenty to, do,'.' concluded no disease in which intelligent nursing 'her report. In -that ear' Miss Talo • plays a greater part in enenring .com'• organized: •fortythree Home- Nur ing pleto recovery or- in lightenia "at. Nursing g' groups and nearly five" wo• t rs, whicb,•:'trithout it,: often prove men were instructed, but here, too; falls niotie .funds and more :helpers are. Figgures`interetting „needed In order to mot the demand'.. Bence tae -figures -and facts -just -19 :10r -kuowldge -which makes so much sued -by tae' Can'adian'ted- Cross deal -'safer the lives of those who pioneer ing with their country -wide Home- li tour Canadian hinterlands. . It Nursing classes have particular f in- t rest: "They show that in tlio past Classes Cities o Wars- aw: years �in'nearly a thousand groups But even in the cities, Home I:ad 'Cross instructora or nurses and tug organizers find the same "plenty medical men who'ltave generously co• to do." In the city of Toronto, 'which operated wilt them, 'have gveu Home has carried through Crossa much larger Nttrsus tranng to 15,633 women and program of Red hework along grls n many ,parts of the Dormant. this line thantany other centre, that " that the demand for such tinting s nteGoodman, tfeara year,, reports6 that everywhere .far greater than can be 1i the past. Pndr years her groupsh met, and that homemakers and es frays been handled by or her penally the young grls and assistants, with. a total of 4,210 girls_ nett young and women taking the course. So in hers aro silt t bn jj g an eagerness sistant.indeed has 'become the demand I for• the knowledge witch demonstrates for Home ;Nursing instruction that! Houle Nursing l -las "Beef Taught by Red Cross to Over Fifteen, Thousand Canadian Women Another Oise of the Higher the Fewer i Fermented Milk i Controls on Cap Longi Consumed in ' Easier to Hanle Russia and -Pal ia.l Auto Frictioaa 8caiin s` and Much Better Lubrication GEAR -SHIFTING EASY Numerous Changes Put into Brake' Systems in New Models milks al different Savor and varying Not onlyth' driver get tiller fermented make are', high in food value, wb,olelomo and to many people very palatable and refreshing. Metchnikoff and his associates fo• cussed attention on the rest that many intestinai'.disorders could be corrected by the nae of milk soured by the in• troductioa ,of certain bacilli, but ,later investigators have concluded that aother bacteria, especially Lactabacil- lus acidophilus, give more satisfactory results than those used by Metchini- kolf, because L. acidopililus is a nor- mal inhabitant of the intestinal tract. It can be duccessfuily implanted to qg combat undesirable organisms,; where as L. bulgaricus, ;formerly depended n was u o , muchmore ,difficult to lutro• duce and lose reliable is its effects.' The United States,' Department of Agriculture explains the, difference between the variousfermented milks, Acidophilus milk is palatable, with over the blue slabs of an agreeably mild • acid .flavo'r, and is down t e bareay Bay; but with a Aran, easily digested. While it is possible to prepare this i p s m lk as well. P as ether fereiic , oh e. One ' can walk v n over the limestone ot Aran, steliping aoross ,fermented milks, in the lame, orir the narrow cracks in. Which lurkinale- product ,of' ,the commercial .iirbpratory Perri and maiden -Bair; the Table is usually better. Small quantities Mountain sandstone 19 split by chasms of lactose, or milk sugar:, are usually ten feet wide and thirty deep, choked given with acidophilus milk. With lent heaths an - r Buttermilk, properly sped ing, 10 g d p oteas. But the milk remaining after "the fat Is near by the elements. have proved too remo*)ed by churning.' A -large part strong for the rooks -the mountain 'ol the 90.001ied butt rutin is about the same height as Snowdon ilk, k sold to patios is simply skim milk, soured with Differences ill Preparaation and Value Described by Agriculture lDepartinent Differences in the lactic•aaid bac- teria present and•in methods of pre-. paration result in fermented or soured therapeutic usefulness. All the Ea- can e r ver a great deal more put of the 1929 automobile but he also can do it with a far small - or ' expenditure of energy. Ease of control is one of the most significant virtues of the deluge of new models that have just found their way to the market plaee; it a char- acteristic destined to reap a greater measure ot applause with the sale ot each now 1929 model, Never before has the designer gone so far in'hia effort to meet the situs- tion prsented by the tw,o facts of traffic congestloh and the almost sou- stent use of the car by its owner. Patently, the car needed is one that may be handled with ,absolute safety and with absolutely no tatige to the, driver. The latest automobiles mea- sure up to these vital epecifcations, Easier Operation Brakes, - gear -shifting, steering, starting, clutch and light operation,, and even.tbe humble accelerator have been given diligent study in .the effort to improvoathem.- .T1xe resuiks of this study are expressed: In difeernt ways, . but the effect sought, Oehler operation, always is tit name. Theengineer;, who ktiows''bea't, ad mita frankly that while' today's iirakes are better by far, they-still'fall con- siderably short ' of - perfection, The - lay buyer of motor cars may not'agree with this technical appraisal. When he steps on the brake .pedal of his 1929 model, he will find less pada(, pressure required for a greater des- patch in stopping. Booster Devices Reduction of pedal pressures la me- chanical brake layouts is one of the :interesting developments of the mo- ment, In: many of the systems, it ie due to the incorporation of self -en- ergizing and booster devices that help the •brake • to . apply itself after the prepartion of grains .which .produce operator has given it a slight start. considerable amounts of alcohol and Apart from this ,tlter° is a sign that gas•in+the milk, giving 1t a character• the use, of ball and roller bearings la istto effervescence. Kumiss, a favor• brake mechanisms is going to be tak- ite dank In the plains of Russia, is en up on a grand scale. It already made there from mare's mltk. When is being used on two cars In the up - cow's milk Is substituted in making it per price tiers. •Autifriction bearings are expensive, it is true.• But, when the need for them becomes obvious and their advantages are thoruoghly. proved, the car buyer will not look for. them in vain. Alr !a Kept Out The dream; and I the dreamer who, • awakes Auother factor in bars increased efd. of mechanical brakes is the provision being made for better lubri- cations, In those cars boasting of cell' trill chassis lubrication, now out in greater number, though still short of expectations in this direction,, provi sion has been made to Dare for the oily, ing of vital points of anchorage. HydrouIio brake systems this year la virtually every lase otter the au- tornado compensating cylinder, Keep. mgdity the entire diet and to specify ing the lines constantly filled with a particular milk. • liquid, the energy required to operate ._ ^^ the brakes is always light and unt- 7� form.• By the use of this device, the tA_! Loll Daly , ,- deficiency that lids brake type prey k lonely possessed—air getting Into the' system—has been eliminated. Non -Clashing gearset Looking at the gear shift, one notes Foster Parents Say Lives En- numerous ohanges t111s year, The riched and Blessed by biggest single departure, from one SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD _ Striking view of hundreds of peaks in the Bernes O e 1 " e p r anti, Switzerland,with n to of the famous 'mountain Junglrau• Should Ira slip—wend ' a mouutai climberp erched. g'a week cheerfully in order -to get i insight into the science which T ��� real o .:. h � oy see ho -operation in the cheo'hes ay where they leave. their children for the day. A wen .the Yost. perverse eiforts of y And seeing is believing. man cannot spoil the natural magma - Reports show -toe, that: the large in- cense of Table Ba nor surance companies have become so beauty of itY, the naturalams surroundings, :I Persuaded of the usefulness to all wo-, temperamentally a stay-at-home per. men: 'of Home Nursing teaching that son, and, I' liked ,the Cape because it numbers of'fhem co-operate with the reminded me of home, rather .of Rea Cross : by' supplying a light sum the South of England; it, was settled per and assembly rooms in order that and cultivated for one thing; 'for an their office girls may go into the other its weeds t and pine were classes immediately. at 'the ' of oak 0close of refreshing after mangroves and alms. their; day's --fork. A significant fact, p for it is apparen The road .to Simotium h, bu that t that these corn- laic across a Dorset. heath, but that banters which ire so vitally concerned instead of furzebushett there were ten- t•with the eonservatlon of life, see in foot'Proteaa with flowers the size of • • this instruction for women one of the cabbages; the town of .Pearl might Moat Powerful agencies in that pro- have been in the Vale. of Evesliain, gress of preventive medicine which where it not fora the -stupendous pol- 1 their chif business to encourage. ished dome of the Paari Boost and the still other evidences of the Inereas fantastic ridge of the Drakensberg:.. Mg demand lie' iu the fact that no less One had all the amenities -of our a.... to all who ru nand road that they from 60 to 60 now classes are now realze the lamentable lack of nstrua ton along these Ines n all our educe- loaned each year with an averSo of tonal systems forgrls n Canada, "I a thousaua girls in attendance. Some used to thrift, sad one young lass it of these classes present unique and a group',of office - girls. taking tato Mu -prising aspects, for in the past two 1Tomo Nursing course in a big city, ;years groups of the deaf, the dumb, 'that nobody needed any special ; the blind as well as of Chinese or other foreign women speaking no preparation to marry, take charge of ; a home and raise a family.: Bute by i,-1»- so lt; halo been successfully taught some of Miss Goodman's devoted assistants. The Blind and Dumb "One of the most enthusiastic classes ever taught in Toronto", said Miss Goodman, "consisted of eleven deaf and dumb married woinen who were keen to take the -course: 02 necessity it Wits hard for the nurse 3n ehalge as all she said had to be translated into sign language but this Wall Sovary, quickly and cleverly done by another assistant• that the whole course of instruction was satis• Eaetorily given, and as many of these women had children—yes, 311 some oases quite. normal children :these young wives received great benefit tram knowledge will •ikons So useable begin to'fee, since taking this course that these are pretty hefty jobs and that I'm -going to need all the brains I've got and all the specialized knowl- edge I can acquire if I do decide to :marry John and become a competent wife." Subjects .Taught A glance at the subjects taught In the Homo Nursing course , eveals why Students soon begin to take this point or view ea to the need of very ,special training for their highly spa• clalized tasks as wiv'ss aura mothors. The twelve lectures and demonstra- ttona deal with personal and home hygiene; the beerorsza iu health and sicltnoss; signs of illness! care, feed• ing and treatment al the sick; cora- , 'muoicable (Baptism emerge/tele and slight ailments; maternity and infant care; feeding the infant or child; and -food needs of the adult, Scope of Work A course so Obviously helpPal to ;women of all classes overytvhee that it is scarcely surprising to learn that every day. The blind students were even more difiiatilt but requested the training and we gave them all that ' we could. They became expert bed - makers and seemed to enjoy the Work. "As for the Chinese' women, we have never dealt with a more in- tollignt group. There were twenty ill the hundreds of groups already in, all, so there was a good represeuta- strncted have been drawn from .many tion of the sixty-five wives who have depat'tmcnts of life, including private 'boele brought to the city by husbands homes in town or country, stores, fac• paying the nye hundred dollar head torsos, settlements, Institutions • for tax. They were of goad class and —and all hal been washed away ex pure cultures of lactic bacteria; which Copt some few isolated Fragments, has been churhed or stirred to break worn into the• queerest shapes, that stand like Mesozoic monsters on the up the curd. This, h'owevet; has all level surface of..the eubiacent-slab; the chemical propertiea of buttermilk On such levels, on any place where and the same appearance and flavor. moisture can lodge, -and 'especially Fermented milks have been, eaten- moisture .the wet ledges of the •cliffs, -grows sfvely»usedifor many centuries by the the ' most varied flora • in:the „world. `•peaple.02 southern 3tussia,'Turlcey,•the Heaths of 'forty lauds, brooms,. and 'Baikal', countries and their neighbors. proteas of a -hundred different forms Kefir is made.fxom the milk of:slieep, ort -the. more exposed tops;'•theu-lllies, ,goats or cows,combined with -.a dried; RPteen.HOme and School Clubs -familiar landscape, with, a lot of gladioli and tall dog -daisies; ,on '•this in Greater Toronto have asked for splendid mountains thrown in. Here wide, shady shelf a sheet of arutlt. Home Nursing classes and that dozens one cannot get siva- from the moue lilies, and under the mossy dripping of the churches, particularly in the tains; except to seaward they bound down town sections, organize classes every horizon, and especially near orchis, the Disa, -pride of the Capb. each year, finding in this day by day Cape Town, where they rise abruptly AIt these nature planned on the knowledge of how to be healthy, one from a level plain seem to jittit mountain; it was man that planted of that narrow gully the great red of the most useful allies for their any height with which the tricks op own teaching of right living. •the atmosphere may happen to invest. ' A National Need them, f The Red Cross Society in .attempt- I was not able to explore any of Mg to meet in town and country 111 the outlying ranges, for they are not Canada, this great demand,•is filling yet.made accessible by roads and not only an individual but a national anus, and any ascent involves a con - need, the value of which may be siderable expedition, but I anent a reckoned only in, terms of increasing good deal of time on Table' 11loiin- health and iitappinoss toour peoplo. thin... . What a top that was! 11cote looked, in this country the product is more the woods, in some places, as it seems_ correctly keflr. to me, especially as seen froth below, too exclusively coniferous; but it was a Government scheme, and •therbfore has an economic aspect, But beyond this sombre forest, where the spires • of the spruce rise more sparsely through the polo mist of the silver- different frontkefir and Remiss; It is leaf and the thinner blue haze of the a very aeld, quickly -curdled milk, lecktak alcohol. The essential or - eucalyptus, and oaks and their con genera sweep, down the rocky ravines and gradually merge into the gardens Yogurt, which is used under various names by the people on the eastern borders ref the Mediterranean—tire Turks, Balkans, Armenians, Egyptians --an daiso by East Indians, is quite ganism which ,sours it is known to science as Lactobacillus buigaricus. Het "We will live on love, darling. over great sloping sheets o1 rock, of Kfrstenbosch (Mr alt this side is a The choice of oneanother or anoer of Won't that be wonderful?" 'She; "Yes, fantastically grooved and tunnelled, reserve for the protection of he na• these fermented milks as a •therapeu- but can you have me in. the style to down to. the Southern ocean; as, flora) in which the rater and more tie agent depends on the results de. which I have been accustomed?" standing at Dun Angus, I have looked delicate, plants are tended,: Ettore you aired by the physician who proscribes will see woodlands as • beautiful as it. In general it may be said' that it any in the 'world. I know, for I have ie unwise to strange the habitual, diet slept there. In this delightful climate to include fermented milk in large the city man goes out In the evening quantities without consuiting -a doctor, as he may consider it desirable to uafoljunate or delinquent girls, ofllces, clubs, hostels for newly arrived girls, colleges, Home and School or Profes- sional and Business Women's Assoef ationv, the Y.W.C.A:'s, the Canadian gide in training and day nurseries. an order to provide this service with, all the necessary organizations the Reed Cross for the peat live years •has had pi'oviuci'al 'organizers. at work in' host of the- 'nine provinces, expert Women ' who, through devoted and highly efficient efforts laevo perform" lad great tasks. Just what such sera- ice ltas•"meant fa ti'me,toil., ante sacra-: {ice may be •gathered from the audi- t/dual reports of organizers, both *eat and east. • in Eastern Provinces Down in Now .Brunswick, in • a re- dont year, Misb Sitiella Barrington or• ganized no less than ?Thome nursing groups with a total of 1,200 ,women were never allowed on the streets alone so volunteer brog,ght them' all' to the group in her motor car, also their children whom we used for tato • Various demonstrations. These w0•. Won were Mao very keen and all finished the Course very creditably." Other unique groups organized by Miss Goodman,; incanted, several :con- tasting et Polish,.Ruthenian, Russian hnd Gorman women, many of wheat could speak no English, but all of. whom, with the able assistance of in- •terproters received 1110 full bsneflt Prom the 'instruction. 1 A Splendid Work •Antler group of aroma wlto are Pitifully ,' anxious to receive Home Nursing; knowledge are the hard working- mothers who leave their babies.,iu the Nurseries," .Although these women come:•lioine tired from heavy taslts they will give up' an even' -- Royal1evotee of Popular Sport and pitches itis camp; at sunrise Ale crosses the mountain and is down In time to open his Mate at the appoint- ed hour. So near is the town; when one sits on the ledge of the Table one seems to be swinging one's lege Over Oranjozlcht. This was the morning before a Sonat -Easter; one 02 those hard clear mornings when there is no very dein- 11110 light in the sky or anywhere else,. merely a sort of: yellowness between the dark bars of cloud; but ,on the Purple mountains every rook -face and gully showed tip as clear Lia if picked Child Little Girl's Gentle- standpoint, is the'inorease in the num nese ber of four -speed transmissions. The• non-clashing,gearaot, in another way, out by the beam of (nems luminary Some years ago a man and his wife is the big, development. Beyond these other than ours.ir'rom the Damen. came to the city to seek a' aloe little two changes, it will be found that berg to Cape Hangltlip their serrated girl for company, writes J. J. Kelso. shift levers have been set on the. skyline ran 1n a groat semicircle at They were told about a delicate child dutch cover plate to get them out of the nearest some thirty miles away, whom the doctors did not think would the way and left within even easier o the north and to the south rising live more than two or thfee years, roach, .-Ia the transmission, too, anti• -beyond salt water, and fa the middle and they expressed a- desire to see •friction bearings are more comSOnly beyond a plain noloss level, and seem- her. The result was they took her and advantageously used. If trains demand;;' considerable guar -shifting, it• may be accomplished easily In connection with the four -speed transmission, it is of interest that dn• threat gears aro used. Silence, as well as efficiency, is behind thea practice: The shift in every case is standard. Low, rarely used, . except' in starting on a grade, is latched out t Otho left, Ae To Clutches Clutches that require lighter Pres- sure, and make the practice of clutch riding more costly•,are more promin- ent. The accelerator .pada!' shows a change in form to one that more ap- proximately fits the.foot with a spring tension just shy of that low point which would make fuel feed ragged. Generally Speaking, the controls of the 1929 oar show better than any ,other feature, lie advantages of.elrs refinement process. a. ing even less substantial beneath a home with Mean and gave her every pale blue haze that veiled the crudity ,possible attention. Although extreme - of black pinewood and' yellow sand. --,1y delicate, there was about the child Conor O'Brien,' in "Across Three that subtle attraction that is so often Oceans," . found in.sick people who carry their Cross. cheerfully. The doctor's pre - a. To a Poet diction came true, for in spite of aII Who have little like the phoebe, .. their tender care the child died when Who have little to say, • about seven years old, Declaim in places Prominent Six months later they called et the The livelong day, office to tell about it. feeling very much distressed over the outoomeaof but -one 1 know, a kermit t1u'us1t, 1 the experiment, I began to express With glamour to display, sorrow that. I had ever' aeked' them to Even from' all admirers , take the child. Oh no, they. both Steals beauteonaly away,exclaimed, do not feel that way, for* Walter Hendricks, in "Soh- ft and we have never regretted for a moment Spears" taking her. She has been a great treasure to us awl we have sacred ��—t�'�r,�-' memorise that nothing would make For Icy vy 1ndo s us give up, They really felt it a joy Windows may, be kept free from to have ministered to the 0111111 and ice'dnriug the winter months‘ by rub- it was evident from their manner and ! OL11V1AN1A's PRINCESS -AS A LOVER OF SPOFtTS bang over them a sponge dipped in Conversation that their lives had been alcohol, greatly enriched by this experience- I!rincers Meana, youngest daughter of Queen Marie of Rohn/at/la, `just This is of Course a .4715: "Have an rcumpttance case, tW11nty--one, enjoys an afternoon of sitting at PredeaI in.;the Carpathiau'moun- about ?„ you heard the story as' under ordinary 500 rncea the -Where she goes to school. Alice- Ailsa: Heard it? child Would have soon grown strong Why, dear, I started it." • and ,well. •:taint, SMATTER. POP - ` o'P I'm Gt-r-rit'i'rod 1616 70 67eLL CA7. '1'12'x! me few' 011-f Chi 014 17 sPE:MS T-!410 ZS MAI-LE•R 74{E ANIMALS,, «4a 13i G Ge.'r'--j i '•il,gve 7013t_ -rn: e Li_ .1'h(>^ nM They Don't. Comae Web -Smaller Tlsan That, G E EPofp oil. Fl. 14, •`loci 'A'RE `Is 5c)1314, • 1 i`4'.f E. e: , T13 ET 'YQV •1,1 5•P.t�,4; ... J't Nv OfJ $" xy g Y 1SaT 'WI -I z"fou UNFo+.A 'kW AR 'uM 1lN4.M "ft's• diff tq ro how a playa itAl i trohed'it toils when lte's oat dealt ;back. A, urine -footle if $taetit detour on Utit route Trona Um bedroom to th®'!¢aragi