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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-02-26, Page 7' THURS.,FEB, 26, ,1942 FiOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS THE CLINTON' NEWS -RECORD CARE OF CHITuD'REN COOKING THIS WREST CORNER S DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs -Sometimes Gay, Sometimes ,'Sad—But Always Helpful and Inspiring. SOMEBODY'S SON (By G. L. Creed, Squadron Leader R.C.A.F'•) Somebody's S'on hae volunteered to risk his life for you Somebody's Son is far from home and the things that homefolk do, Somebody's Son for your Freedom's sake, is preparing' himself for War Somebody's Son deserves your help for it's You he is fighting for! giving .'Somebody's vin i is Mother her boy, in a Cause that is yours as well ;Somebody's Wife knows a loneliness that only her heart can tell • Somebody's Mother and Somebody's Wife, are doing all they can do Somebody prays that some other may care, and the answer is up to YOU! Somebody's Son in the days to come, must meet the hitter Test 'Somebody's Man for Freedom's plan, in a foreign field may rest, 'Somebody's Job is to care for them . NOW: for on them all our hopes depend - Somebody's Job is to dig up the cash—and that Somebody's' YOU, my friend! WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE WAR? (By G. L. Creed, Squadron Leader R.C.A.F,) 'What do Yon think of the War, my friend? Just what does it mean to YOU? What difference does it really anake to the things you feel and do? Does this Tragedy of Nations make your heart feel sick and sore— Or can you forget it in listening to the afternoon's baseball score? Does a concentration camp mean more to you than a movie, reel? Or because you haven't been in one yet, have its victims no appeal? .How much do you think they would give—if they could:— to breathe yore eountiy's air? What do you think of the War, my friend? Or how much do you really care? .What do you think of the War, my friend? In your heart, do you really care What happens (so longus YOUR welfare's assured) to your neighbours over there? Are Coventry Rotterdam Belgrade . . . names that you vaguely recognize — :Or does something within yen demand redress for their bloody sacrifice? Dees the sight of a uniform mean no More than the rank that it's wearer bears? Or are you inspired to befriend the man who for you and your 'Freedom dares? How long would your liberties last were it not for his self -dedication grim? What do your think of the War, my friend? And what are you doing for him? What .do you think of the War, my friend? Has it ever come hone to you ' That the price of your Peace is a debt that you owe—and that payment is overdue? . Are you ready to settle with blood ,sweat and tears, so that Freedom may still survive? • Or are yon content to let other men die just so long as you stay alive? Do you want to live on in a world that's been won 'ley a sacrifice you have not shared? And will you be .able to meet the eyes of the men who have nothing steamed? Do you honestly feel you are one of the Many who owe so much to so Few? What do YOU think of the War, my friend? And WHAT are you going to DO?... THE POET While all around us on the waves of storm We see confusion and a world dis- traught, Someone, perchance, has caught a vagrant thought And made it eloquent in cadenced form. Although the thought itself seemed little worth Till he bad searched and found a pattern meet: And so sent forth a message that was sweet, •'Some word of comfort for a troubled earth. Then as his patience lovingly ap- plied Brought forth the rhythm and the. poetry, So consolation came to those dos - tressed; 'Glimpsing the order they were sat- isfied, Knowing that somewhere there was harmony, Finding the message that his work ! had blessed. —Gwen Castle. WINTER SHORE The winter's unimpassioned hand Hae moved =rose the sea ruled land, And brought this place of wave and stone . 14lajectically into its own. Now one can see, with rested eyes, Where starkly simple beauty Iios in ice -grey rock, andsteely'ereeeege, In trees along the harbors edge— ' -Sumac and oak, dark -limbed and clean, Stripped of the summer's softening green. Unshadowed, now, the salt creeks run . Limpid with snow beneath the sun, - And gulls, in chaste white patterns,, fly. Acaoss the empty jewel -bright sky Strange that so many never guess This season's special loveliness, Hid like a woman's natural grace Behind a subtly: painted face. Barbara Overton THE SEED CATALOGUE ''This catalogue upon my knee Is like a magic wand to mel I turn its pages and it !seems As if the garden of my dreams Is flowering beside my chair, Wirt fragrance sweet, with color fair. 'The names of flowers Iike music sing, Cold' winter's storm -winds challlenge- ing! 'The colored words as jewels glow, Undaunted'by the frostor,snow.. The flames upon my hearth seem pale Beside the lovely springtime tale. Here almond blossom's clouds of rose And lilacs scented spires unclose, Here daffodils and hyacinths blue In' beauty let spring's sunlight through. I walk beneath a flower -hung tree In April's gracious company. —CIaire Ritchie. WINTER CALLERS I know a host of wild -wood things In winter when the blizzard brings The jays and, 'chickadees to share The crumbs I..scatter here and there When in and out and to and fro Inquisitive little creatures go Crowding around the very door They were so cautious of before. A doe :slips near the garden fence • In unaccustomed confidence; A fox, more curious than shy, Conies out to watch me trudging by. How pleasant that the snow and. sleet Make friendly paths for timid feet, And, though the town is miles away, New neighbors visit every day. —Sara Icing Carleton. QUILT OF SNOW Each wire has knitted whiteness et- erywhere. The maple tree whose branch was brown and bare ha& let the snowy lade envelop her. The white yarn of the vine, as soft as I fur, remakes the frozen spiral Cotton balls are seen where eyes look • upward • where the knolls lean whitely in the sky. Long needles" knit above the pond and make a quilt on it. Qh, there is peace wherever strollers �• go; needles, cotton, lace and yarn of sneer. —Joseph Joel Keith. NORTH WIND North wind, keen as a paper edge, At the breath of your mouth the brook is still, Your fingers claw at, the ,'shivering hedge, But my face is set to the bitter hill. Home lies ahead; for all your blow- ing, Love and courage are potent still. , Bend my head and harass my: going, But keep pry, face to the bitter hill. --Silence Back Bellows. By ANNE ALLAN Hydro Home Economist LEGUMES FOR LENT Hello: Homemakers! When you are pim 'ng for meat cubtstitutes during Lent, remember our Canadian legu- mes—peas, egumespeas, beans and lentils—which are dried vegetables obtainable dur- ing this season of the year. They are good satisfying foods containing pro- tein which is needed in place of meat. The cookery method reminds us of that well -seasoned earthen casserole the English bean pot. There is noth- ing' prententious about it and it will, no doubt, pleasantly recall many sue- ceseful meals prepared by its means, Now excellent results may be obtained through the use of controlled heat. Modern science hasgiven us the glass baking dish in plain or etched de- sign. It has many uses in cookery and is an attractive serving dish as well. And, there is the electric deep= well cooker, also a bearer of good cheer. RECIPES Keswick Beans P4 cups pea beans 1. cup chickenstock 1 onion chopped fine %, cup butter or baking fat 1 cup stewed tomatoes 1 tin (small) pimientos put through a sieve 2 tsp, salt Soak beans over night in cold water. Drain. Parboil until soft. Put in baking dish or bean pot, add other in- gredients. Cover and cook in an elec- tric oven at 250 degrees until beans' have almost absorbed the sauce. Legume Croquettes '4 cup dried peas 1/1 cup dried beans 14 cup dried Lima Beans i,(, small onion 1 stalk celery 1 small carrot ea clip bread crumbs 1 egg beaten 1 tbs, butter 1-3 cup milk Salt and pepper Tomato soup Soak legumes over night in cold water to cover. Drain; add 7 cups of water, onion, celery and carrot. Cook until soft, remove seasonings and put through a sieve. Add crumbs, egg, salt and pepper to taste. Melt butter, ond,flour and milk gradually. Combine mixtures and stir until thick. Shape into cones .or rakes and pan fry. Lima Beans Fermiere 2 cups Lima beans (dried) lh, tsp. salt 1h tap, pepper cup pork trimmings, cubed , cup carrot, cubed 2 tbs. butter 1 onion. chopped Soak beans over night in cold water to eover, Drain. Render pork fat and cook onion and carrot in it. Add to beans. Pour into casserole or well, cooker. Add .butter, salt and pepper. Pill with water to top of beane. Cover and cook until beans are soft. Boston Kidney Beans 1 qt. kidney beans 1 cup salt pork, cubed 1 tbs. salt. 14 cup molasses 14 tsp. mustard boiling water 3 tbs, sugar Pick over beans, cover with told wat- er, and soak over night. Drain, cover, with fresh. water -and place on electric element turned to Low. Drain when soft. ' Scald pork and, put in the bet - tom of well -cooker. Add beans Mix salt, molasses, sugar and 1 cup boiling water. Cover cooker and cook 6-8' hours. Take a Tip 1. Wax or laundry soap rubbed on dresser drawers that 'stick, will cause them to prove more easily. 2. To separate two tumblers that have stuck together, fill the inside glass with cold water and place the bottom glass in a pan' of '• warm water. 3. To loosen a rusty screw, heat tip of pocker,until' red hot, then hold it against the head of the serew fora minute. One application us- ually loosens the screw-- . but let it cool before you UPS the screw - Lepers' Haven Located North of New Orlean• 4 1 Some 60 miles north. of New Or HIDE and SEEK "Mother may I go out to play with , the other fellows'?" said eight year, cold Jack. "I have a pointment with "Very well Jack, but don't get into any niia'chief," replied his another. Away went the young hopeful of the family, whom one minute you could hug and the next instant spank. He met the boys and they played and wandered a couple of blocks from home, then decided to play hide and seek. Their search for, some place to hide took them to the roof of a house which was in the process, of construe- ion_burt from which the workmen in the meantime were away. Jack•spied the chfimney and be- lieving . it ended with the roof he climbed ever the top of it and let himself down, but alas! his descent ended not at the roof, but eight feet drown in a foot of water. Fortunately owing to a windbreaker which he wore the downward passage was not too hurried and he was saved.fom seri- ous injury. Ono or two of the lads had seen him go into the chimney and then had heard his cries for help. The mother of one of the boys] was summoned, then a neighboring Doctor who called the police. They in turn put in a call for the Emergency Department of the Fire Brigade. It ended by the upper part of the chimney being token down, the boy stretching his arms as high above his head as he p iksibly could and a fire-- man ire-man reaching down. Then hands clas- ped and the child was raised to the roof. One does not care to think what might have been the result of the `hide had the boys not seen him climb into the chimney. As these articles are largely a come parison of every day events with =- lives we ask ourselves in what way that incident can be compared to us. In the first plate as Jack bad a :ointment with the other boys, So we too make appointments ltnd we are anything butas careful as we should bo as to the companions we make. Many a young mean goes out to spend the evening and before he reaches home again, it may be a Christian home at that, hie future life is reined. Could it be possible that he has at- tended sono church function when in a building in connection with God's ]rouse he has learned to dance or play cards? He has there received his first step on the downward way. May feed be merciful to any church offic- ials who allow such things tc go on• in the name of the Lord! Let those of us who have charge of church af- fairs look well into the :social gather- ings which have any connection with God's house. Our young people do not always noel to get into so called "bad company" to end in disaster. Now -a days they may get that .start as they companion with people who are reg- ular attendants at God's house. Could we call those who countenance such things• oo-workers with Christ, driver to take it out• 4. Before cleaning out the ashes from the furnace, throw wet tea leaves over the ashes. It will prevent the dust from flying and save unneces- sary work. QUESTION BOX Mrs. M. P. writes: "Please publish a good recipe for dumplings." Answer: Dumplin'g's 1 cup flour 'h salt 1;tsp.tsp. baking powder 1 egg about its cup milk Beat egg slightly and add the milk. Mix and sift the flour, baking powdler and salt Drop by spoonfuls into the boiling stock. Cover and cook. Test with a knitting needle (when inserted it should come out clean). Mrs. P. C. E. asks: "What is the value of the addition of an egg to:a pot roast or chopped meat?" Answer: The egg coagulates around the pieces of meat and, helps prevent the escape of juices. Mrs. R. M. asks: "Does long cook- ing toughen kidney stew?" Answer: Yes, they are tender after a few minutes' cooking. Vegetables should, eb parboiled and then added'. Anne Allan' invitee you to write to her % The Clinton News -Record. Just send in your questions 'on h'omemakc ing problems, and' Witch this little. corner of t}iecoluiii'ti for replies. who drove the money changers' out of the temple? , Unless we keep close .to oar saviour we will find it very easy to slip into the coanpany of those who care nothing for , the higher things in' life. - There are inany'times when one so- journs with those who are not Christ's 'followers and in later years are brought back through His saving grace but there is always a remorse. in our lives. We are like a tree which has been bentas a sapling and although it may have beautiful blos-: soma in the spring, and its leavers may give much needled shade in the hot days of the summer; its branches may be tall and spread gracefully, yet there is always the bend which spoils its beauty. This, as far as we our- selves are concerned, our influence has to a certain extent beer' spoiled. Many. boys, girls, young meat: and young women, and this might well be applied, to those in later years -have' gene astray through their compan- ions. As time goes on we do things which earlier we would have scorned to do. When sin has once been com- mitted is is so much easier to repeat it. What a tragedy our oountry is go- ing through at the present time over the drink question. Many temperance men and women of today are those who, years ago, signed a temperance pledge and wore a little piece of blue ribbon. How careful the youth of to- day need to be regarding their first drink. A mere 'who had confessed Christ once said, "I don't mind taking a drink but I would not want my fam- ily to se me drink." Did it ever occur to hint that the God whose name he bore saw him and that he was disgrac- ing Him! As this little lad thought he was perfectly safe in climbing into the chimney so we think we are secure its some of our actions. We ere rio: mare safe than the child was: when we'ins dulge in sin the first time it done with the thought that we will come to a place where we can stop but it may be only when we have sunk to much greater depths than we ever believed possible that we at last find a resting place. When we get into difficulty we realize we are not safe. Even then we have sunk so low that our best friends can do little to help us. Jack wore a windbreaker which to a large degree broke rasa fall and saved him from serious injury. How kind God is to us. Ewen when we are going contrary to Hi& ruling He pro- tects us. So often in later years peo- ple will tell you how they have fallen into sin in their early days and how tightly they have been punished, for it. )even athough going contrary to His will, God has thrown around• them the mantel of protoetion. In our worst punishments He nev- er gives to us all that we deserve. Then when we are sunk in sin Christ is near enough to us to hear our cries of despair ,and agony and He sends seine one to help us. He sent help. to the little lad, It may be that He has chosen one of us to go to rescue some one who Itas fallen in- to sin. Had those people not gone to Jack the result would have been al- together different. They must have indeed been thankful that they had a part in the rescue. How pleased we should, be when we are permitted to speak a word for Hint which will be the means • of bringing one of Icier lost sheep to Him. Finally there is the beautiful thought of the rescue, the boy reach- ing up and the fireman stretching his arms down until they clasped hands an tithe boy was ,saved. Is thatnot a beautiful picture of the Christ? • He wants us to come to Him, but es long <.s we struggle away from Hini He will not force us to creme.' • A shep- herd once missed' one of his sheep, In his search for it he found it lying wounded) on a ledge of -rock from which there was a steep fall' into a gully. He knew that to speak to it would mean its death. He went back the next day and the next, but still the lamb was moving. The third day the vultures were flying overhead, Be tied a rope around himself and let himself down to the ledge and brought his charge back to.safetly. While the lamb struggled the shepherd" could do nothing without endangering its life, but when it ceased., to struggle: his work of rescue began. The lamb had to co-operate, so when we are willing to•giveourselves to; Christ He will be waiting to\rceeiee us and What a happy union"that will' be. Will we not come to 'Hiro today?,' t'PDG" leans, a mud road strays off fron the main highway, .cuts, through rich, somber swampland down to the green levees girdling the Mississip- pi. There, hidden in an elbow of the river, far from the nearest village, stands a white -columned plantation house: Guarding the house are two gigantic oaks, shrouded in ghostly Spanish moss. The cottages behind the oaks might belong to sugar -cane workers or tenant farmers, But the 367 men and women who live at Carville cut no cane, plow no field. They are lepers. In the Middle ages lepers were dreaded and shunned, were forced to wear white capes and jangle warning bells. But in the U. S. to- day they are the favorite patients of the U. S. Public Health service. Each leper at the Carville hospital has a private room and an abun- dance of savory food, costs the health service $3 a day. For Car- ville lepers are the last carriers of a mysterious malady that is fast disappearing from the U. S. Master of Carville is blue-eyed, white -thatched Dr. Hermon Erwin Hasseltine. Shy in company, but bold in his laboratory, Dr. Hassel tine has traveled from Alaska to Hawaii exploring such rare diseases as hydrophobia, undulant fever, psittacosis (parrot fever)—which he has twice come down, with. An authority on leprosy, at 58 he still devotes all his spare hours to re- search. Soap and Hot Water Kill Many Dangerous Germs That soap and hot water will kiA pneumococci, streptococci, gonococ- ci, meningococci, diphtheria bacilli, and the syphilis spirochete, doctors have long known. Recently in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, Bacteriologists Charles Chester Stock and Thomas Francis Jr. of New York university told of their successful experiments in making influenza vaccine from virus and soap solution. They minced the virus -choked lungs of mice infected with flu, made a brew so powerful that it killed healthy mice even if diluted a mil- lion times. But when a suspension of virus was mixed with equal amounts of hand -soap or a fatty acid solution, allowed to stand for 90 minutes, and injected into scores of normal mice, none of them came down with flu. In fact, said the scientists, once vaccinated, the mice easily withstood huge doses of straight virus. Exactly how the soap works— whether it dissolves the "armor" of the virus, or clutches it in a chemical grip—Drs. Stock and Fran- cis have not yet discovered. Nor are they quite ready to try their mixture as a vaccine on human be- ings. The Same Thing For the past decade biochemists in the U. S. and Europe have ex- tracted from yeast powerful, vita- minlike substances, one of which seemed to be a member of the vita- min B family. ' Others were called biotin, vitamin H, Coenzyme R. Several months ago scientists at Cornell and Western Reserve an- nounced that all these substances were one and the same. Biotin seemed to be the most favored name. J. O. Larnpen and associates of the University of Wisconsin said that in minute'traces, biotin seems to occur almost everywhere in ani- mal and vegetable tissue. Without it, yeast cells and nitrogen -fixing bacteria cannot live. In animals it seems to be necessary for normal enzyme function and skin and hair health. One gram of biotin dis- solved in 25;000 000 gallons of water is enough to ketep yeast cells alive. The biochemists conceded that bio- tin is the most powerful physiolog- ical substance known. Boston Takes Its Time Fifty-six years ago, when Bostoni- ans wished to erect a statue of Sil- versmith Paul Revere, the prize- winning model was turned in by a 22 - year -old, Utah -born student named Cyrus E. Dallin, who beat such ex- perts as Daniel Chester French. Then because of historical inaccu- racies in the model another contest was held. ' Student Dahlin won a sec- ond time. But a campaign for funds to have the statue cast was stalled by newspaper criticism. Student Dallin went to Paris, remained for nearly 50 years—without forgetting Paul Revere. Returning to Boston in 1935, he approached trustees of a fund dedicated to "public bless- ings." The trustees' dallied with Mr. Dahlin for three years, finally gay- $27,500 to cast the statue in bronze. In 1939 78 -year-old Cyrus Daldn's Paul Revere was dedicated on Paul Revere mall, behind Old North Church. Over 60, Run Race Joe Deakin and George Still, both well over 60, recently entered for the Printers' race, a five -mile cross- country event near London. Each bet five cents that he would beat the other. Both finished the course. Still the .winner .by a hair, Deakin fought in • the, •Boer' war,- wherehe was badly, ,wounded. He won the Southern Cross Country chartspion- ship'in 1908; and Wait a Member of the winning Olytt,nPic, team in ;the three=miie race the same year. Expert States Children ' Are Complicated Study The more Arnold Gesell studies children, the more complicated he finds them. Probably the world's best -informed expert on child be- havior, he has examined thousands, with can-reras and his solemn eye, in his Clinic of Child Development, which he founded at Yale in 1911. It has taken him 19 books to pub- lish his findings. Last week Dr. Gesell turned out his twentieth„ "The First Five. Years of Life" (Harper; $3.50). Dr. Gesell believes that children are not only charming but startling, is firmly convinced that it is silly to try to measure them by intelligence tests. He hes worked out an elabo- rate method of spying on them from,.. behind a one -way -vision screen. In "The First Five Years of Life" he describes (1) how a normal child`, grows; (2) how one normal child' differs from' another. Normal be- havior at different ages: At 16 weeks a baby bubbles, coos, chuckles; at 28 weeks he crows; at 40 weeks he understands No! No! ; at one year he speaks two or three. words; at 18 months he speaks 10 words and begins to drop baby talk;; at two years he knows 300 words; at three , he speaks sentences, solilo- quizes; at four he asks endless, ap- parently frivolous questions, makes intentional puns (e.g., "Cedar rab- bits" for Cedar Rapids) ; at five talks succinctly and to the point, asks questions because he really wants to know. Study Ways to Prolong Life of U. S. Citizens No one has found a sure method of preventing or curing senility, old age. However, biological studies of individual cells, hormones, vita- mins, minerals, and heredity are opening a new field for the prolonga- tion of life and of youthfulness. Dr. N. W. Popoff has reported that certain cells of the human body have the power of rejuvenating themselves: These, for example, are the cells of the lining of the stomach, intestines and certain glands. When they become ex- hausted, they do not die. These cells rest themselves, then start working again—thoroughly rejuve- nated. Will this study show scien- tists how to make other body cells rejuvenate themselves? Dr. Alfred Cohn of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, stat- ed in a report of his investigations that the so-called degenerative dis- eases of "old age" were not in- evitable. In other words, aging was not due to sheer "wearing down" of the tissues and organs, but as the result of definite slow, baffling 'dis- ease processes which might be pre- vented and cured. Old age, then, may be considered as a "disease," for which science might find a "cure." Cause of Malaria Malaria is caused by an ameba - like parasite of the genus "Plasmo- dium." The parasite, which enters man's bloodstream through a mos- quito bite, often destroys over a million red blood corpuscles per cubic millimeter in one bout of malaria. First the plasmodia enter the oxygen -bearing red blood cells. From the liquid part of the blood oozes a sticky jelly which clumps all the cells together. These clumps are gobbled down by white blood corpuscles. If the white cells are strong enough, the body wins. But as the battle rages, the white cells may be outnumbered. The linings of blood vessels become, sticky, and white cells cling to them like flies to fly paper. As the red clumps grow larger, the liquid part of the blood turns thick and sludgy, and the heart is harder and harder put to it to pump against the block- ade. When circulation stagnates, the body's oxygen is cut off, and finally the heart stops. Invents Airplane Radio A University of Washington gradu- ate, Molton Taylor, has invented an airplane radio, which he claims is cheaper, smaller and perhaps even more efficient than those now in use. His innovation is especially de- signed for the light airplanes now used in student training programs. One set is so small that it can be carried from plane to plane. He has organized a company to manufac- ture these radios, and he claims that the company already has more orders than it can fill. He hopes to obtain a government contract soon. And among his employees is, one who made the headlines of most every newspaper in the country a few years back. He is Douglas Corrigan, who gained considerable fame with his "Wrong Way" Corri- gan flight. University Gets Ancient Manuscript Yale university has been given a musical manuscript written in 1470. The donor was Paul Mellon of Pitts- burgh. The manuscript was written for the court of St. Charles the Bold • and contains 57 compositions in five languages. It was lost for about 500 years. It is designated by the French name "chansonnier" and is initialed and bordered in. gold, crimson -and blue. Three of the lan- guages are m English establishing Great Britain's ,influence.,, on the music of the continent. ,Fourteen original pieces are included.' and one • of them, "L'Iiomme Arnie," hat been sought for almost a century.