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The Clinton News Record, 1942-01-29, Page 7JAN 29, 1942 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD HOUSEHOLD ICONOM1(, CARE OF CHILDREN COOKING • PAGE 7 HEALTH THIS MODEST CORNER'1.:. aiEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They WillSing You 'Their Songs --Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad -But Always helpful T and Inspiring. ,WHEN POETS FORETOLD A message to friend's and. foes ANGLO-AMERICAN UNITY Wherever the sails of peace are .seen and wherever the war winds Winston w-- Winston Churchill's dramatic visit to Washington and his historical ad - 'dress have revived interest in a series of three -poems, published at the time • of the 'Spanish American War.. The first poem, "Greetings From Eng- land," was called to Mrs. Eddy's at- tention, and this evoked her famous lines, "The United States to Great Britain". During the winter of 1898 Alfred Austin, then poet laureate of England, wrote a long poem advoca- ting Anglo-American union ,entitled "East to the West," from which the accompanying stanzas are taken.. It is not known whether Mr. Austin had ;previously seen Mrs. Eddy's poem. GREETINGS FROM ENGLAND • W. A. in the London Chronicle, April 22, 1898 America! dear brother land! • While yet the shotted guns are mute, Accept a brotherly salute,. A hearty grip of. England's hand. ' Tomorrow when the sulphurous glow Of war .shall dim the stars above. Be sure the star ,of England's love Is over you, come weal or woe. ' Go forth in hope! Go forth in might! To all your nobler self be true, That corning tines may see in you "The vanguard of the hosts of light. Though wrathful justice load and train Your guns, be ev'rybreach they make A gateway piercedfor mercy's sake ' That peace may enter in and reign. Then, should the host, of darkness band Against you, lowering thund'rously, Flush - the word, Brother, o'er the sea And England at your side shall stand. Exulting! For though dark the night And sinister the scud and rack The hour that brings us back to back But harbingers the larger light ' THE UNITED STATES TO GREAT BRITAIN Boston 'Herald, Sun., May, 15, 1898 By Mary,Baker Eddy • Hail, brother! fling thy banner To the billows and the breeze; We proffer thee warm welcome •With our hand, though not our knee Lord' of the main and manor! Thy palm, in ancient day, Diclst rock the country's cradle That wakes thy laureate's lay. ' The hoar fight is forgotten; Oar eagle, like the dove, Returns to bless a bridal Betokened from above. List, brother! angels whisper To Judah's sceptred race, `'"Thou of the self -same spirit, Allied by nations,' grace, "Wouldat cheer the hosts of heaven; For Anglo -Israel, lo! Is marching under •orders; His hand averts the blow.", Brave Britain', blest America! Unite your battle -plan; Victorious, all who live it,— The love for God and reran. EAST TO THE WEST - 'On a proposed alliance between two great Nations By Alfred Austin - - What is the voice I hear On the winds of the western sea? 'Sentinel, listen front out. Cape Clear And say what the voice may be. 'Tia a proud free people calling loud to a people proud and free, . .. . And it says to them: "Kinsmen, hail; We severed' have been too long. Now let us have done with a worn-out tale— Thee tale of ancient wrong And our friendship last long as our -love doth last, and be stronger than death is strong." Answer them, sons •of the self -same raee, And: blood of the self -same clan; Let us speak with each other face to face And answer as man to roan, And loyally love and trust each other as none but free men can. .• . , ;Now fling them out to the breeze, Shamrock, Thistle, and Rose, And the Star-spangled Banner utrftirl with these -. A message to bond and thrall to wake, For whenever we come, we twain, The throne of the tyrant shall rock and quake, And his menace be void and vain, For you are lords of a strong land and we are lords of the 'main. Yes, this is the voice of the bluff March gale; We servered: have been too long, But now we have done with a worn- out tale= The tale of an ancient wrong— And our friendships: shall last as lova doth last and be stronger than death Iis strong. THE BOOK -ENDS Between these twin fauns caught ht ecstasy Of stone ,with rustic pipes forever sti11: By sculptured springs, we look in hearts to ,see. What visions lure thein and what pat- terns fill. The meanings move in lights and, sha- dows here On pools of consciousness; we trace the mind, Through its own seasons, often flood- ing clear— Or changing courses ,heard, but hard to find.. 'A.nd yet the pomp, of bantered caval- cades And crowds of weary faces in the mist And strutting 'shapes that fall upon their blades, Caress, and grasping hand, and shak- ing fist, Are held, by wistfulness the lorld has known, Between two little fauns that kneel in stone. —Glenn Ward Desbach EXHIBITION OF OIL PAINTINGS Here on this canvas I can see Bright -flowering blooms of an apple • tree That fill the yard in spring beside The old white wall the blossoms hide. And: here's a crock between whose lips Slim stems of- tiger lilies dip, And lady slippers fill a vase Of Staffordshire, and fill the place With pine smell, just as if I carne Upon them down a woodsy lane. And here's a prune jug, solid green, With bittersweet to dress it up, And what more cherished than this drop Of captured: autumn; so I stop And fdel the punning seeds that could Break my heart in any wood. And through the window as I go There's December ,there's the snow, But draw the shutter; in this room Apple trees are still in bloom. —Elizabeth Jane Astley PREAC'HER'S SON By Ethel Romig Fuller From the hour the stork dropped A baby at the manse, The parish watched—its eyebrows Censoriously askance -- Young sins of commission, And =mission: fun, Proper to its ' children,. Taboo for "preacher's son." "His father," folks whispered, "Without an evil taint. His mother, now, there is, If ever was, a saint! And he, - an imp of Satan! Mischievous? Oh, me! The lad will come to some dire end., You just wait and see!" Yet, despite predictions, One far day, acclaim Headlined the city papers, Ebon-tall with fame— Not of feats the grocer's Or the lawyer's boy had done, But, odd beyond believing, Prowess of preacher's son. WINTER -EARLY MORNING By Louise Owen The black sky tingles With' a million white stars; Blue burns Sirius, Red burns Mars. ' Venus in the east Hangs bigger than a moon, And the green -laced horizon Says dawn will be soon. And the farmers wakes up, and the farmer boy rouses, THE MIXING ]OWL By ANNE ALLAN Hydro Home Economist PRESERVING FABRICS Helie Homemakers; Even though we are assured that prices cannot be higher than they were' last September, we must remember that the dollar will not go as far as it did before the war affected the Canadian marc- leets. So, wise anal thrifty homemak- lis are patdhing and mending, to make their old clothes 'do'. • That's' why many of our readers are asking about textiles. They want to know the special, characteristics of the different materials so they Can, care for them properly. Textiles are of two main types: the artificial fib- re fabrics—nylon and the various ray- ons; ,and the natural fibre fabrics— wool, silk, cotton and linen. The sub- ject is a length), one, so we will only discuss artificial fibre fabrics this' week. Nylon is made from coal, air and water. - Its fibres are strong, elastic, resistant to wrinkling, lose very little strength when wet, -wash easily and dry quickly. There -are four chief types of rayon, manufactured by different processes: 1. Nitro or Ghardonnet rayons, such as Tubize; 2. Cuprammonium rayons Bemberg; 3. Viscose rayons --Vis- cose; 4. Acetate rayons — Celanese. They are all made from wood! pulp or cotton linters, or both. Their fibres. are stronger than wool but weaker than cotton. They hold dyes well. White fabrics 'remain white. How- ever, rayon lose from 40-60% -of their strength when wet. Like all delicate materials, synthe- tic fabrics should be handled care- fully when washed. Do not rub or twist, and do not pin to -a clothesline. Washing Delicate Fabrics 1. Use lukewarm water as sonic fib- res melt at a high temperature. 2. Use plenty of water which Iias had pure soap thoroughly dissolved in it. 8. Squeeze, suds through the material; do not rub. Articles which are dirty will require a second suds. 4. Rinse thoroughly in warm water (not cold). Rinse in two waters at least. 5. Because rayons stretch when wet, they must be wrung out carefully, with electric wringer released considerably. 6. Roll delicate articles in a turkish towel and knead out moisture, Then hang in a shady place—a- . way from excessive heat. 7. Iron on. the wrong side with a moderately hot iron. The electric set at 'rayon' or 300 degrees 'smooths out these materials'. eas- ily. 8. Crepe garments, which may Shrink must be measured before washing and carefully eased to original size. Take a Tip 1. To test for indentification of fab- rics—burn, a few ravellings, Vis- cose and Beinberg rayons . burn with a flame, leaving only a small amount of white ash. Celanese rayon burns and drips like. black And the lights go on in the little white houses. Early fires' smoke Is lighter than the -sky; In a hundred' skillets — Bacon goes' to fry. In a hundred: coffeepots Coffee bubbles up, And a Hundred farmers' wives Drink their first blessed cup. And the cows grow restless, and the farm boys yawn, And in big red barns all the morning lights go on. The warm intik rings In the bottom of the pails; The warm milk foams And the cows switeh their tails. The school children shiver And streteh their little legs, And run to the henhouse To To pick the morning eggs. The chimney smoke is pink in the light of the dawn•, The sky is like a Roman sash, the morning star is gone. The sun stands up with a laugh, with h a - The blackout Are \Ve Ready ++w+ww+w.,+.�+v+++r•�.+vw Y PEG" ,..ww..r... Just at the present time throughout our fair Dominion there is a great warning and it is • our own fault deal of talk about the Black ' Out• we are not prepared. These thing what is meant by that. The au_ have to be done and they might ju thorities have ordered that every light as :well be done first as last. That' the way we looked at it. Our woi if st s ry which would .be visible from the au .must be extinguished'. In some cit- :about that is over:" ies there have been tests' of twenty How like the story of the ten vir minutes or half an hour ,and on the gins, five of whom were wise a western coasts this has lengthened: five foolish. They all went •out t out to some hours'. meet the Bridegroom. They each ha Even as far inland as Ontario cit - their lamps', the five wise virgins to izens have been warned that they 'extra oil, for their lamps, but the Proper Diet May Guard • Against Storing of Lead Increased amounts of calcium in the diet may prevent the storing in the body of detrimental amounts 01 lead ingested in the normal diet, Ludwig G. Lederer, M. 11., and Franklin C. Bing, Ph. D., Chicago, conclude in the Journal of the American Medical Association, from their investigations on young `white rats. The authors point out that traces of lead are present in practically all common .foods that have been ex- amined, and that lead must there- fore be considered a potential haz- ard to health, since even minute amounts may be detrimental to health if they accumulate in the - body instead of being excreted. red: Their investigations on rats o showed that the addition of calcium d carbonate to the diet diminishes the ok amount of lead accumulating in the body. The addition of phosphate has no significant effect, they re- must,pxepare for a lengthy upon- foolish ones gave. ne thought to th pounced black out and it is indeed in - they and tool♦ no extra oil. Wh teresting to learn of the way house- they waited tiredness overcame th holders are preparing for this event. and they slept. They awakened People have been ordered in some way the corrinrand, "Behold ,the Bride to darken the windows of one or two groom cometh; go ye out bo meet him rooms and turn the lights out in the I With joy they trimmed their lamp rest of the house. Thus during the and nada ready to start.- What mus black, out period the members of the have been the consternation of th family of those staying in the house five foolish virgins when th_, may have the opportunity to carry on their lamps flicker and having no of their work. to replenish the supply they were lef with no light at all. They tried t borrow from the wise virgins, b they realizing that they had only sup ply enough for. themselves ' advise We have two big blankets which we them to go to the sellers •and bu will likely nail over the window in While they were gone the Bridegroom the den and if necessary in the dining came. They hurried. to the marria room. That will give us those two feast but found the door shut, and i rooms to roam around in., but if the !answer to their entreaty, "Lord, Lor sirens sounded tonight we have noth- open to us." they received the reply ing done. It seems so hard to get "Verily t say unto you, I know yo anything Iike that done at otic place, not." there seems so much else to do. Likely • when the time comes we will not be When "the blackout conies it will b ready and will just have to sit in useless for ono neighbor to run nex the dark." door to borrow theirwindowcove ings for they will be in use in th "I must do something about that 'place for which they have been pre right away. I have a large sized bath pared. Each one must look •aft room with just a small window. their own home,..so as to evade th Thought I would just get something law. dark to put over that window and if necessary I could stay in there." I It is said that during one of th "Guess we will be scurrying around recent blackouts, crowds of peopl at the last minute looking for a ham- congregated down in the centre of th ham- mer and' nails. - We have some beaver city. There were many cars parke board but have not got it cut into there and when the sirens sounde shape. We should get it done because lights were extinguished in all direc it would be too bad to have to put tions, until the lights on one car alone nails into the window casing. It is remained shining out into the dark an awful bother anyway. It is not at nese, Police and wardens shouted all probable that enemy planes will "Put out. that light," but the owner ever get this far inland." Ithe car, likely thoughtlessly had gon "Yes we are ready. We have boards away and forgotten to tura off the fastened on the sides of the windows light. Two little lads took off their and dark bunds on two adjoining coats and covered them over as wel rooms. While the sirens are sounding as they could, but that did not excuse we can be ready. We have plenty of the owner. The 'officer of the law in some way extinguished them and was their waiting when the negligent one sealing -wax. I came back. Disobedience, whether in 2. Celanese is dissolved by acetone tentional or unintentional must stand and acetic acid—therefore, do not ready to bear its own punishment. spill nail polish remover -or vine- gar on it. 3. Cleaners containing ehlaroform or alcohol will dissolve celanese. 4. A gloss produced by ironing on the buy ge What Keeps Sun Burning? m i Scientists Find Answer Lord e port. - ile The calcium carbonate used in the their experiments differs somewhat to From the calcium found in milk, de_ Iwhich is the most important source of this mineral in the human diet. "Further experiments," they say, "will be necessary to show wheth- er or not the calcium of milk is as useful as the calcium of calcium carbonate in retarding the accumu- lation of lead in the body. - At the present time the evidence that milk t would be of value is largely pre - o sumptive." ut Other foods containing appreci- _ able amounts of calcium include d cheese, cauliflower, oranges, spin- ach, and oysters. s t e In :spite of the fact that these or- ders were issued some time ago there are many yet who are unprepared, 'We have not clone anything yet. Prof. Hans A. Bethe of Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y., has taken u us deeper into the heart of the sun's blazing furnaces than anyone has 'done before. e I He, and other scientists, appear x to have completely solved this mys- r_ tery: what keeps the sun burning? e'The answer is: it is the transmu- tation of hydrogen atoms into helium - !atoms which releases the tremen- er'dous solar energy. Carbon plays an e important part in this process, so the complete operation is known as ! the carbon cycle, which takes 6,000,- e 000 years, e All this has been going on for e some 2,000,000,000 years: and will d continue for another 10,000,000,000 d ' years. Then, say these scientists, the sun will turn into a cold body, I a planet smaller than its own plan- ` et, Jupiter. The earth, says Bethe, - !was formed by the expulsion of ma- terial from the sun when that body of was really much cooler than now, e some 2,000,000,000 years ago. These theories mean that between two to . three billion years ago, the universe as it is known to us today was formed. From the whole celestial universe, consisting of some 10,000,000,- 000,000,000,000,000 0,000,000;000,000,000,000,000 stars, and weigh- ting 2 -followed -by 49 ciphers number of tons, let us come down to the smallest thing in the world: the sin- gle atom. So it is in our lives. In order that we might escape everlasting punish- ment Christ Jesus came into the world. He lived a human life such as right side of the material cannot we do, yet without sin and finally He be removed. Remember to iron on gave His own life that we might an - the wrong side with a pressing Joy with Him an eternity of joy and cloth. 5. Perspiration astringents are harm- ful to- silks and rayons but pers- piration itself does not effect Gen vrrg'rns acre not know when the them. Bridegroom was coming; as we do not 6. . Carbon monoxide (the exhaust know when the sirens will announce happiness. The rules which we must follow in order to share that life are all given in His Holy Word. 'As the from ears, will ruin nylon hose. 7• Synthetic fibres hold stains' stub- bornly. Stain removal method may wear a hole in the fabric. )Question Box— Mrs. M. Mc. asks: The shoe of our electric ironer frequently sticks to starched' cottons. Have you a sug- gestion to prevent this? A,iswere: Put a piece of paraffin in a 'square of cheesecloth and: rub the -hoe when it is warm. Mrs. A.S.H. asks: Recipe for a meat loaf that may be boiled and served' cold. Cereal Meat Roll the approach of the BIeck Out so we have no way of telling when God will call us. There is onlyone thing for each one of us to do: That is accept Jesus:Cluist as our personal Saviour and then even the 'final call to set sail for that distant shore need have no dread for us. There are two verses in song which depicet very well the choices, one of which we must take. "There from the music round about me stealing 1 fain would learn the new and holy song, And find at last ,beneath Thy trees of healing, The life for which I long. OR .3 suns crisp rice cereal .., , ..... . 2 eggs "Almost persuad'edy harvest is past! 1 cup milk Almost persuaded, doom comes at 1 lb. smoked ham trimmings ground, last! 1 lb. beef chuck, ground r/z tsp. Salt 2 tbs. green pickle chopped 1-3 cup chili sauce 2 tsps..,. Worcestershire sauce 2 tbs. onion, chopped - Fold cereal in a towel; crush with "Almost" cannot avail - "Aimost" is but to fail Sad, sad, that bitter wail Ahnost--but lost." Which shall it be? When our time comes to answer the last .call we will rolling pininto' coarse crumbs. Beat go alone ,and alone we .will stand be- eggs in mixing bowl, add crumbs and fore a just God. His verdict, based remaining irugredients. Mix. - Fill a tw our ins here, will , ye either one of long, narrow cloth bag with the mix two things'. h "Cont, e blessed of 'lure, packing lightly. Place roll on my Father, inherit the Kingdom pre - the rack in well -cooker. Add boiling -panel forrtyou from"e the found a me, ye water to cover. Cook on Low for 1 the. world" everlastingor "Depart from me, ye ]lour. Chill, Remove from bag. cursed, into fire, prepared for the devil and his: angels. a shout, And ip all the little houses; the light i go out. - Anne Allan invites you to write to er % The Clinton News -Record. Just avert the.' 'tragedy of a forgotten end in your questions on homemak- t ode ng•.problems and watch 'this little corner of the column for replies. May the Lord grant' that we will decide this question at once and thus "PEG" Synthetic Substances Sex hormones from soy beans and from coal tar and natural gas were among sensational new synthetic substances announced to a research conference on organic chemistry at Stanford university. In addition, Dr. L. I. Fieser of Harvard university told the confer- ence that he and.his associates had discovered a new synthetic vitamin possessing the properties of both vi- tamin E (muscle-proteotion) and vi- �tamin K (anti -hemorrhage). Among other .recent syntheses, great interest has been aroused in a substitute for quinine developed by Professors Dorothy Thompson and Maude Marshall of Wheaton col- lege. The substance is a compound of a sulfanilamide derivative of car- bozole. It still awaits final tests. Device for Deliecting Glare An attorney of Sumter, S. C., has recently obtained a patent on a device for automobiles that reflect car lights over the head of the driver and at the same time gives him clear visibility on meeting a bright- ly lighted automobile traveling in the opposite direction. Harmon D. Moise, who layls claim to this in- vention, explains the device as be- ing a thin, transparent device, at- tachable to an automobile wind- ' shield, which is glued to the inside of the windshield, with the thin edge downward, deflecting the light rays upward over the driver's head. The first prisms were made of glass, but recently he has r been expert. menting with a plastic substance I which is as clear as glass -and -less fragile and probably lasts longer. Beggars Not Only Thieves When we think of thieves, we re- call to mind a group af: rough, un- couth men who snatch -property from unsuspecting victims. But the great mass of stealing; under the head of Grand Larceny that is done today is done by respectable (?) white-collar people. Often the thief is a college graduate, has a respectable family and pays his bills on time. Usually these thieves are not actually in need of money but take it to buy luxuries of some; sort or to gamble. Money is illegally got through ex- • tortion,. peddling, viae, embezzle- ment .and stock swindling we are told, by Mae d'liite-collar, salaried Microscope Sees Things a Without Help of Light! For men's deepest thrust into the, infinitesimal, he can thank a micro- scope that sees things without the: help of light. This is the electron' microscope; With it; in Camden, N, J., Berlin, London, Toronto and) Pasadena scientists studied things! 00 times. smaller than they could' see a decade ago. With microscopes using visible or ultra -violet light, magnifications of) a sort up to 5,000 diameters have' been obtained, but the really useful) upper limit has hovered around' 2,000 diameters. With microscopes: using electron beams, useful magni- fications have jumped to 100,000 di- ameters and more. Light is a train) of waves; to pick some tiny body out of the unseen, the waves must, find it big enough to get hold of.!!' If the body is much smaller than! the wave length, it will slip through' like a mosquito through a fishing' net. Electron beams are also wave trains, but their wave lengths are, thousands of times shorter than, those of light. So, in effect, theyl give scientists a collecting net of far finer mesh. - High electronic magnifications: (105,000' diameters) of vinylchloridei polymer, a rubberlike synthetic,' show a mottling of dots which sci- entists assume to be actual mol- ecules; 25,000 -diameter pictures of: soft face -powder granules reveal the jagged ' projections - which make them ding to the skin. Electron' photographs of typhoid germs and, intestinal bacteria disclose delicate,. wavy filaments which may be their means of locomotion. • Twenty Ton Stones Dug From Earth in Mexico For years natives of southern Mexico have told stories of mon- strous - stone heads buried in the earth. In 1938 Matthew William Stirling, heading a joint expedition of the Smithsonian institution and, the National Geographic society, un- earthed in Vera Cruz a carved stone head six feet high. Last year, hack- ing around in the Tabasco jungle, he discovered five more heads, sev- eral bigger than the Vera Cruz find. Recently the National Geographic society released a picture of one of them, estimated to weigh 20 tons or more. It is 8 feet 1 inch high, 20 feet, 10 inches around. Flat- faced, blunt -featured, almost ear - less, capped by a queer headpiece, It looks something like a subthyroid football player, The diggers do not know how old the great faces are, who carved thern or what their significance was. They will try to find out. They guess that the carvings must have served some purpose in awe- some religious rites, The heads have no apparent kinship with any known Mayan sculpture. Biggest mystery: Tabasco heads are made of basalt, and the nearest known source of basalt is 100 miles away. The people who made them must have done a tall job of transporta- tion. Gibbons Almost Human A three-month study in Siamese forests of the Gibbon, least known of the apes, showing that this ani- mal may be man's closest relative, has been announced at Pennsylvania State college. Gibbons are little fellows, 12 pounds being around 'top weight. But, this report shows, they have a real family life, they all but own property as individuals, and if they are going to fight they first do a lot of loud talking. They cannot be said to have a code of morality on the human scale, yet the parallel is remarkably close. The males in general showed a tendency to stick to one mate. Isolated males in what resembled the bachelor status were seen, also groups of aged males, who kept to- gether like members of a club. The family groupings and habits of life appeared such that para- mours from the outside were unlike- ly to get in. This is in contrast to the promiscuity of some other branches of the monkey family. 'Sand Soaps' Health _News, official bulletin of the New 'York state department of health, recently noted that "sand soaps" used by factory workers were often more damaging to -the skin than industrial irritants, offered the following cleansing formula: "Equal parts of sulfonated neat's foot oil and liquid petrolatum con- taining 25 per cent gelatin .. . are added' to white granulated corn meal in the proportion of Pk parts, by weight, of corn meal and 1 part, by weight, of the oil mixture. To pre- vent growth of mold or bacteria a 0.5 solution of chlorobutanol is - added." 01d Age Disease Most widespread U. S. mental dis- order, according to expert opinion, is dementia praecox, or schizophrenia (split personality)'. Dr: Neil Avon Dayton of Boston Tuft's college, has statistics telling a different story. Mental disease No. 1 is senile psychosis, the madness of old age. Causes: hardened arteries, thread- bare nervous system, worn -Out brain, tired heart, "outrageous fa - tune," Front 1917 to .1933, there was an average' of 2,000 senile psychotics per 100,000 population; sphizophren- ics averaged only 538. "Mental, dfs- order,." concludes Dr. Dayt`diu, ''tis a. disease of old age." •