Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-02-12, Page 7FEB, 12,194 THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORI ) PAGE 7 11 HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED. TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful and Inspiring. A LIFE WORTH WHILE- -When you come to the end of another • day Anil you think of the things you have done is there anything that can make you say: "I amu glad -D" have • helped some- . . one?" -1t is not the things for yourself you do, But for others that most will tell— :By always keeping their good in view.— As' part of your own, as well. 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy- self," Is the key, to a fife worthwhile, "For it opens a door to peace and health And shuts to the things that are vile. It makes you lie down in peace to sleep With a conscience that's always clear, •Aird faith in your fellow -man to keep As long as you're living here. —Arthur E. Elliott. ENGLAND REMEMBERED (On Harlow Moor, Harrogate) Hearth of moorland ,delay not your blooming; Why do you tarry when skies are so fair, Breath of the morning the pinewood perfuming, And the glad sunshine awake ev- erywhere! •Lark of the dawning, 0 where are you winging? Why soar you not in the blue of the sky? -Fain would my ear hearken once to your singing; Time hastens on, and the summer will die. Winds of the winter, 0 cease your long moaning! Far may you follow the flight of the suety:.But fairyland, sumenerland, now is atoning 'For the curse of the cold when win- ter -winds blow. ''Courage, brave heart, for when sum- mer is dying Here in Fair England' tis waking elsewhere; -Nature is ever Old Winter defying— .Elsewhere the bird's sing, and flow- ers scent the airl —Christine L. Henderson .. PETITION .. .... ... . Make me aware of all I see, The beauty of each stately tree— 'The charm of words upon the ear , -And silver raindrops falling near; 'Give me a sympathy that fares -Above the stress of wilting cares,— .And make me ever quick to smile .:And ease my neighbour's burden for awhile. —Caroline Grant FarrilL -BELLS OF THE CARILLON Lines written beneath the Peace 'Tower of the Canadian Parliament Buildings. - Bells of the carillon, What do you ring? Your song is so sweet, What do, you sing? Of Cartier and Champlain, . Macdonald, Laurier and Xing, Of quiet woodland and forest, Busy cities and towns, Or deeds of the brave and bold? To all these and more Om tongues give praise, As high in our belfry We ring out word Of 'the country's store In mine, stream and wood, Of gold, fish and peltry,' And granaries swelling full In a land of contentment. From hushed stillness of parks, The tumult of marts, The fields of waving grain, ' And the fishers' bobbing smacks -- From the sea washed sands of the east, To the rocky ooast of the west, And the thousand miles of hill and valley between, Themes for our songs are drawn. The roar of breakers, Our bells intone, The drone of bees, The_ sigh of trees, • Babbling of wayside brooks, The languorous hum of summer days, And icy notes of winter blasts. We sing of heroes on land and shore, And with muted no:e, For those in lands remote, Who to their homes Will return no more. As a country divided, s. So once were we, But now in joyous whole; The songs we sins, With gladness shall ring, Over a Canada United and free. TRAINING'THE OTHER WOMAN'S. CHILD They all sat round in friendly chat Discussing ohiefly this and that And a hat. When over the way a neighbor's lad Wan seen to act in ways quite bad— Oh, 'twas sad) One thought she knew what should be done With every child beneath the sun— She had one. And ere her yarn was quite well spun Another's theories were begun— She had one. Tho third was not so sure she knew, But thus and so she thought she'd do She had two. The next declared: "Now let me see, These things work out so differen- tly"— She had three. The fifth drew on her wisdom stare And said, "I'll have to think it over" She had four. The next one said: ,'You can't contrive Fixed rules for boys; they're too alive." —She had five. 'stow puts one in, a fix, This straightening of crooked sticks"— She had six. Then one. declared: "There's no rule given, But do your best, and trust to hea- ven"— She had seven. Is Your Poisoni n Are you sick and tired out every morn- ing — always constipated -- can't eat without pain and distress? Your liver is poisoning your system—permanent ill health may be the result: • Your liver is the largest organ in your body and most important to your health. It supplies energy to muscles, tissues and glands. If unhealthy, your body lacks thisenergy and becomes enfeebled—youthful vim disappears. Again your liver pours out bile to digest food, get rid of waste and allow proper nourishment •to reach your blood. When your liver gets out of order proper digestion and nourishment stop—you're poisoned with the waste that -decomposes in your ..intestines. Nervous troubles and rheumatic pains arise from this poison. You become constipated, stomach and :kidneyscan't work properly. The whole i system s affected and you feel rotten," head- :echy, backachy dizzy, tired out—a ready prey :for sickness and disease. esThousands of people are never sick, and have •won prompt relief from these miseries with Improved Fruit-a-tives Liver Tablets." The liver is toned up,the other organs function normally and lating good health results. Today "Improved Fruit-a-tives" are Canada's largest selling liver tablets. They must be good! Try them yourself NOW. Let Fruit-a.tives" put you back on the road to lasting health :feel lake a•'now person.'.'2Se, 5:0c, Liver uYou? "Ill since 12, Always Fine Naw" Since I was twelve �• I Buffered from constipation and never felt well. O.', I started taking "Fru it -a - dyes " and I can truly ray they gave me wonderful relief. Every one should try Fruit -a £:•>:'s+' flues",and enjoy life as I do now. I have never been sick for years. Mrs. Florence Williamson, Montreal. Que. "Run Down For Years, Has Perfect Nealth" I was badly run down and terribly nervoue.Mydiges- tion was poor and I was always con etlpated. Fruft- a-tIves" soon made me better and there is. dhis i nothing like it for •snaking you well •r• and giving you new pep and energy. After years of bad health "Fruit -a -thea" made me feel fine. Mi. Roy Da$ntaU, Ctpetam,Ottt. CARE OF CHILDREN COOKIN l pp T1E'MIXING GROWL By ANNE ALLAN Hydro Home Economist VALENTINE (i'REETINGS' Hello Homemakers; It's February the shortest and often the chilliest month of the year. But it brings' us St. Valentine's Day and we may com- fort ourselves and our ,guests with a Valentine party which calls' for a "dress -up" frame of mind and an ev- ening of indoor gatnes. Hearts set the theme and red the colour •scheme. Refreshments served ,on tables gaily decorated .with red centrepieces and amusing favours will please your guests. Your menu, toe, can be planned to carry oat the Val- entine spirit. Here are menus we think you will like. The dishes are quite easy to prepare and good to eat they will make your party complete. Luncheon Wedge Salad with Pineapple Dressing Seed Rolls Sweetheart Cakes Granberried Pears Lunch Scam Cheese Crumpets Red Raspberry Sherbet Love Birds RECIPES Cranberried Pears 6 winter pears 1 eup cranberries 1/i eup brown sugar cup: water Peel and quarter the pears; arrange in a baking dish. Wash and pick over cranberries; ports over pears and sprinkle with the brown sugar. Add water. Cover an'd bake in a electric oven at 350 degrees for one hour. Serve )tot or cold. Serve with tinted - red whipped cream. Serves 6. Scam 6 pieces of veal (breast) 2/ eups tomatoes 1 eup uncooked rice 1/, cup chopped parsnips Salt and pepper Brown the pieces of meat in a skillet pan. Combine rice "and t o- matoes and parsnips; season to taste with salt and pepper. Pour over the meat placed in a greased casserole or halting dish. Cover. Bake in an elec- tric oven at 350 degrees for 11/r hours. Sweetheart Cakes 2 tbs. baking fat 2 tbs. butter 2-3 eup sugar 1 egg 114 eups flour 2 tsps. baking powder la tsn. salt Id cup milk 3t tsp. vanilla Cream fat; blend in sugar and beat in egg. Add ray ingredients altern- ately with milk and vanilla. Stir quickly but do not beat after flour has been added. Drop by spoonfuls into greased drop cake tins. Bake in an electric oven at 375 degrees -for 15 minutes. Yield 27 .small, fluted cakes. Cut a heart -shaped hole from the centre of a piece of writing paper, place it over a cake, spread with soft pink confectioners' hips, lift the pap- er and have the stencilled design on the cake. SERVING +r+.v+trsr.nt.w.++r►+ti+� By "PEG" ..++++..+r..+++.«..... In the first chapter of Revelation we read where john beheld seven golden eandlestieks, and in the 'midst of them "one like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. "That girdle signified service or stewardship." When Jesus Christ was on earth here He many times was the servant. Iie was here because He agreed to serve God by coming to the earth and dying to save humanity. A steward is one who is employed to look after the interests of an em- ployer, who' is not able to be present in person to see`that-his interests are looked after. We who are Christians are stewards of the Lord He has given us every thing we possess and as stewards must give an account of their over- sight to their Masters, so we will some day be held responsible, for what we have done with Our stew- ardship. We know in our inmost souls that we are more faithful to an earthly employer than we are to the One who has given us all things. At sometime or other in •our lives we have felt extremely proud to have been chosen to fill .some, perhaps rath- er important position and how hard we have worked to do it justice. On the other hand when stewardship has been offered to us from God we have tried to shove the responsibility on to some one. else. Does it ever occur to us that it is a very high honor to have Codd choose us to be a co-worker' with Him ? It may be'that we have been selec- ted to win some soul for Him. If we do not do our utmost to bring that one into the fold in all probability that one will meet us at the Judgment, un- saved. If that should be the ease what would we not give to have the opportunity over again. We might say speaking for Jesus is one of the talents which God has giv- en us. We sometimes say "I cannot talk to my friends about Jesus. If you had a son who had sacrificed his life in order that others night live (as many are doing today) would we not feel badly if no one spoke to us about his bravery? Would we not consider it base ingratitude? Christ not only died for us but He rose again to make intercession for us at the right hand of God. To all of us the Lord has given' tal- ents of some kind. At the present dime we are finding a great deal which we can do with our hands. Prins cipal among these is sewing, knitting-, sorting clothes ,preparing boxes for overseas, etc. 'While we are doing Red Gross work let us not neglect the work of the churth for considering everything if Red Raspberry Sherbet 1 pkg. raspberry jelly powder 2 eups water 2 cu red raspberries—canned, — e s berries canned or p P preserved 1 CUD fine sugar -'" Juice of 1/ orange Juice of 1 lemon Gook sugar and water together for 5 minutes. Cool slightly and add the ••n•soherry jelly powder. Dissolve thoroughly. Cool until it begins to thicken. Adel berries (put through a sieve), orange and lemon juice. Blend thoroughly. Pour into freezing tray and freeze until firm. Remove to a chilled bowl an:dl beat until light and fluffy. Pour back into, tray and free - 75 in the electric refrigerator until firm. Serve in sherbet glasses' and decorate with a white cocoanut strip moistened and shaped into a lover's knot. Take a Tip: 1. To remove gum from carpet, hold a plows of ice over gum until it' is hard enough to remove Then loos- en gum with dull edge of a knife. Christians had been doing what was right Red Cress work as we under- stand it now would not have been nec- essary. God cemm'and was "Go ye into all the world and preach the ,gospel to every creature". We have withheld our money and ens prayers to such an extent that hatred instead of love is ruling a large part of the world. Then there are d'eed's of mercy, which can only be done as our feet early us to the place to perform them. If God had meant us to stand still He would not have given us the power to walk, Under God's' guidance we must gauge the work we can do. When w grow weary in His work let us just read the 'story of our Saviour when He was on earth nearly two thousand, years ago. We read many times of Him trudging along the road, weary and ready to drop, but still carrying on. We are very often weary, but we cannot say it is in the work of the Lord. If we waited until we were tired in carrying out God's commands we would retire at night almost as fresh aswe wakened in the morning. There is no work in the wide world which gives us such joy and satisfac- tion as we receive when we have done some task for Him who did so much for us. There is another thing the Lord has given us stewardship of and that is time. An old adage says "Time and tide wait for no man". We have twen- ty-four hours in the day to work and to rest. When the day has passed it bas gone forever. No matter how badly we want it back it will never come, but it will meet US in eternity. Just how much of that time have we given to the Lord? How serious it is when we consider that it is only what we have done to help, on the cause of Jesus Christ that will stand to our credit at the Judgment, What has been done for the world will not help us at all. We might just as well have picked it up and thrown it on a heap of rubbish. As we look back over a days work, our happiest moments were those spent in the employ of the Lead. If we have not made it a prac- tise to co-operate with Him let us start today and snake up our minds to at least tithe our time. Then we have the stewardships of opportunities. If we ask God to help tis He will give us many occasions in which we can encourage others to sc- . sept Hier, and join. with IIis band of workers. In many homes today there is no teaching whatever along the line of Christian stewardship. Is it any won- der that we cannot get leaders for church work? A member of what was at one time a large Bible Class remarked recently to a past president who had moved beyond the district, "We think we will have to give up the Class altogether. We ieanatot get anyone to take office and at the an- nual meeting of the church there were so many vacancies and no one would fill them." All that and then we won- der why God has allowed the war! Why is it that parents will not look seriously into this question? If child- ren were taught these things in their childhood and youth; if parents would go to church and Sunday school with their children there would be no wan- dering away of the teenage' youth. Parents are stewards of the family which God has given them and if they do not teach them about Christ and train them to follow, Hini they will certainly be held responsible. • Our individual chief stewardship is our own life. God has given that to us and He will require an account of it. We cannot do much for Him while we withhold ourselves. May Godi grant that we will. see this while yet there is time. My . Task s , 2. When you wash hardwood floors, add 1 tbsp, vinegar and 1 tbsp. furniture polish to the water. Soapy makes varnish surfaces and hard- wood cloudy. 3. Marks made by moving furniture can be removed by rubbing with a soapy clothdipped in kerosene. 4. Powdered graphite is better for cylindrical locks than oil. Make graphite by reducing the lead from a nelson to powder. Make a paper funnel, then sift lead into loch and. blow carefully. QUESTION BOX Mrs. M. 0, asks: "Why do boiled onions look grey instead of white, ev- en when they are just cooked'-" Answer: Probably you cook them too long or too slowly. Overcooking makes, most white vegetables turn dark and lose their fresh flavour. Drop onions' into boiling salted water. Add a tablespoon of cooking fat, Turn electric element to medium. Cook them until they at just just tender. Miss J. D. writes: "What does 'en- riched' flour mean? Would you_ ad- vocate using it for everything?". Answer: The new flour is an 'im- proved' flour. It contains' two vita- mins—thiamine and nicotinic acid and one mineral—iron. It may also con- tain Vitamins B2 and D, and calcium and phosphorus, at the miller's. option. Read label. Use for baking. Mrs. B. N. C. writes; "Please send beef chart and description of named cuts, naming the various cooking methods. Answer: We trust that you have received these charts Mrs. C. Would homemakers making similar inquir- ies please sign their name in full. Anne Allan invites you to write to her % The Clinton News -Record. Just gremlin your questions on honlemalk- ing: problems' anis watch this • little corner of the oohmaein for replica. • PAGE HEALTH Mesotron May Solve Atom Puzzle; New Discovery The position the mesotron appears to hold within the atom is declared of cosmic importance, for without the binding force which makes pos- sible atoms heavier than hydrogen, the entire universe would dissolve into a cloud of hydrogen gas. In strange contrast to this service of the mesotron is its ability to shatter the atom. Scientists long have observed in the cosmic rays what they have called the "stosse" or burst, an atomic explosion. Some- thing hits an atom hard enough to shatter it, and on some occasions. there are chain reaction's in which the particles from the original ex- plosion hit other atoms and explode them. In some of the single -hit ex- plosions the particles fly only a few inches, but in the powerful chain reactions the bursts will spread over wide areas. A 30 -foot spread has been measured. The $1,500,000 cyclotron being built by Professor Ernest 0. Law- rence at the University of Califor- niar at Berkeley, will develop a dis- integrating ray 127 feet long, made up of protons with an energy of 100,- 000,000 electron volts, and if it suc- ceeds in speeding alpha particles to the same velocity they will have energies up to 400,000,000 volts. With bombardment particles of these high energies available it is expected that Professor Lawrence and his associates will be able to shatter the heavier atoms, reducing them to their component protons and neutrons, or at least small frag- ments. To love someone more dearly every daY, To help a wandering child to find his way, To ponder o'er a noble thought and. pray And smile when evening falls This is eny task. To follow truth', as blind men long for light, To do my best from dawn of day till night, • To keep my heart fit for His holy sight And answer when Ile calls. That is my task." "PEG" v • Thought Should Be Given In Choosing Fertilizer When the need for additional gar- den fertilizer has been determined, some thought should be given to the kind of fertilizer to use, and never should we grab up anything with- out consideration of what can be ac- complished by its application. Previously heavy manured ground is generally in good physical condi- tion. Chemical fertilizers are the ones which give quick results and stimu- late growth. Among the offerings are dried blood, which is essentially a nitrogenous fertilizer with marked solubility. Dried blood is valuable for top dressing leafy crops of vegetables. Blood, when mixed with bone, is a better balanced fer- tilizer, although we are not likely to derive the benefits from bone as rapidly as we do from dried blood. Bone meal, by itself, or mixed with another fertilizer, decomposes rather slowly; and while it is a long-lasting material that adds pot- ash and phosporic acid to the soil, it should be applied well in advance of its need. The complete fertilizers available at dealers combine the essentially needed elements, carefully blended and reduced to a form which makes for most immediate solubility. Be- cause of this, they can be highly rec- ommended. One of the most rapidly acting nitrogenous fertilizers is nitrate of soda. Be careful with its use. sB ' Men Live Longest Although scientists assure us there is no physiological reason why the average Healthy man or woman shouldn't live to be a hundred, cen- tenarians are so rare that most peo- ple have never seen one. A statis- tician recently compiled figures showing that of the 60,000,000 people or thereabouts, who live in Ger- many, less than 100 are more than a century old. The same authority reports 146 centenarians in England, 213 in France, and 410 in Spain. It would seem that where life is less strenuous longevity increases. The most astonishing figures come from that troublesome and turbu- lent region, the Balkan peninsula, where it might be supposed that life is less secure than elsewhere in Europe. Jugoslavia reports 573 people who are 100 years old or old- er, Rumania, 1,084, and Bulgaria, 3,880. e Light From Animals and Many Other Odd Sources Light is usually' associated with heat. All solids begin to glow, at 525 degrees Centigrade. But many other agencies besides heat can pro- duce light—rubbing, fracture, pound- ing, excitation by —electricity or short-wave radiation, etc. Surgeon's tape emits a greenish glow when stripped from •a roll. Lumps of sug- ar luminesce when rubbed together. Quartz pebbles shine when struck by a hammer. When ozone is bub- bled through a dilute pyrogallol so- lution, the liquid glows 'brightly though no heat is evolved. Not true is the common saying that scientists are still searching for "cold light." Fluorescent and vapor -discharge lamps (e.g., neon, sodium) are true cold light. They include sponges, what makes them shine. Thousands of animal species scat- tered through 40 orders also emit: cold light. They include sponges,: jellyfish, earthworms, brittle stars, crustaceans, insects, spiders, mol- luscs, squid, marine worms, hyd- roids, siphonophores, sea pens, cten- ophores, corallines, myriapods, bal- anoglossids, ascidians, fish. There, are also two kinds of luminous, plants—certain bacteria and fungi. These are responsible for the dim shining of damp wood and stale) meat, the ghastly glow occasionally seen on human corpses. The Forgotten Man The term "forgotten man" which was so popular a few years ago was coined more than a century ago by William Graham Sumner, Amer- ican sociologist and economist (1840- 1910), in a little boolt called "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other." It was taken u byothers,prin- cipally Pn- cipally Thomas Nelson Page, (1853. 1922), novelist and diplomat, who made it popular throughout the South. President Roosevelt used it in a radio campaign address in 1932 as follows: "These unhappy times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized, but the indispensable units of economic pow er, for plans like those of 1917, that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid." First D. S. Census The first official census in the United States was taken in 1790,' and it covered the 'area now occupied by the District of 'Columbia and the following states: Maine, NOW Hamp- shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island Connecticut, New York;'` New `"Jersey;' Pennsylvafsiai Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, 'West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolhin ICekltucky and 7r nliessee Tear Gas'Senefits Soil; Destroys Plant Disease' Cornell university plant doctors— the plant pathologists—are using tear gas in a new way. They inject it into the soil of flower gardens, where it destroys many of the or- ganisms that cause plant diseases. The experiments, after three years, have reached a semi -commercial stage. They are conducted in the department of plant pathology by F. L. Stark Jr. and Dr. A. G. New- hall. The tear gas is injected in shots of about a good-sized thimbleful each, in holes three inches deep and staggered about 10 inches apart. This is done before anything is planted, for the tear gas will destroy! all growth. It is very effective in killing all weeds. There are no bad) after effects on the fertility or the. soil itself, and after three or four weeks the ground is ready for plant- ing. The gas kills wilt and rot fungi, organisms which normally have the; staying power to lie in the soil fort five or six years and still be able, to attack plants. The gas is partic- ularly effective against nematodes. which are barely visible, hair -like's organisms that cause knots on roots and lower the vitality of plants. Vitamin A in Apricots Babies born with a silver spoon in their mouths are pretty apt to. find cod liver oil in the spoon—so exacting are the demands for vita- min values these days. Most youngsters are given cod- liver oil or other vitamin A and D concentrates from the end of their'. second week until they are four or five years old. Babies have no corner on the vita- mins, however, for adults are turn- ing to them increasingly often. . Sometimes we almost forget that vitamins can be found in foods as well as in tablets at the drug store. One of our most outstanding vita- min A foods is dried apricots. Their average vitamin A content is 7,579 international units per 100 grams. By grams is the way the dietitians and doctors figure it, but we house- wives are accustomed to buying food by pounds. Since there are 453.59, grams in a pound, we'll fmd 34,378 international units of vitamin A in a single pound of dried apricots as theycome froin the grocer's shelves. Opportunities Are Still Here Several years ago Joseph Michel - man of Roxbury, Mass., only three years out of Harvard, extracted doz- ens of scientifically and commer- cially valuable products out of old shoes and scrap leather. The al- chemist of old failed to transmute base metals into gold, but Michel - man succeeded in making gold in- directly from old shoes. Among oth- er things he extracted from old shoes, chrome oxide green, the only, perfectly permanent green known. Then he obtained animal charcoal, used in filtering and bleaching; gas for fuel; pyrocatechol, a photographic developer; indole, a perfume base and principal component of jas- mine; an antiseptic better than iodo- form; tropacocaine, a local anes- thetic superior to cocaine, as well as fats and oils and many other products. Origin of 'Nazi' Nazi is an abbreviation for a mouthful of Teutonic meaning Ger- man National Socialist Worker par- ty —' Nationalsozialistische party— Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Ar- beiter-Partei—founded in 1919 and reorganized under Hitler in 1925. Nazi; in other words, is not, as is sometimes erroneously assumed, a composite of the first, second, eleventh and twelfth letters of Na- tionalsozialistische, but, a phonetic representation of 'its !list' two sylla- bles Nati; correctly pronofiriced; in the German language;' naht-di.'-Be fore 'coming"•into praninence as a politlsi 1 designation, !Nazi i Was a familiar,clithhtutitrvof;'Ignaz or I' natz, 4his.Cirqumsta!ice;11oubted1y, paving the vtay far rte easy, ale- agitation In i )rite;) aeras. 1