HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-09-24, Page 7THURS. SEPT. 24; 1942
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS
THIS MODEST CORNER DEDICATED
TO T.I=IE POETS
i-lere They Will Sing You Their Songs Soltietimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Iielpful
and Inspiring.
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
PAGE 7
CARE OF CHILDREN
COOKING
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R. A. F. .
:.Hail -to the laddies• in the air,
.From here, from. there, from every-
where,
Who proudly fly, who bravely. dare
The cruel Hun,
:The world looks on and says a prayer
For every one.
1Well take our time, we're going to
win, -
We'll overthrow this mail of sin
:His follow -dog named Muss -o -lin
Is but atool,
Today. he's sorry he came in'
To Hitler's School
And now an Oriental snake
-A low advantage tries to take
One day he'll find out his mistake
Well lay him low;
.Our, shells, our bombs will shortly
break •
O'er Tokio
`Then R.A.F., hats off to you. •
'Though stern the task, you'll see it
• through,.
-And may your aim be ever true
On land and -sea,
.Xour faith in God, your will to'do,
Shall set men free.
John Beattie.
AUTUMN.
(Laurentian Hills)
-Far flung her robe against the mel-
lowed hills,
When waning Summer casts her misty
veil;
A fitting background for her gypsy
frills
Of scarlet, amber —'midst a frost-
. kissed trail
:•Of glinting goidy "' where Autumn's
beauty lent
Her last brave venture ere her breath -
lest glory spent.
Eer golden leaves she flings in mad,
gay dance
Before the sombre pines in .bold de-
fiance,
',Rimming a song — a haunting mel-
• ody,
-'On mystic harp front every frost -kis-
sed tree.
'Verdun, Que, I{lara M, Whitehouse
WINGS OVER DOVER
-Oh, I remember Dover,
When. the cliffs were chalky white,
And grey fog from the North Sea,
Cameriftin • in. at night;
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No wings above the Channel then,
No blue searching light,'
••Oh, r remember Dover,
And the hills beyond the town,
`The little pathway through the woods,
Cool and richly brown;
• No blackout of the friendly streets,
When the dark crone down.
Oh, T remember Dover,
And the long white quay
'The little children on the beach,
And white sails at sea;
And old man working at his nets•
Felling tales to me.
I shall go back to Dover,
To the grey mist and the rain,
And see the cottages once more,
The little fields of grain;
T shall walk softly by the califs,
Above the Sea again.
—Edna Jacques
n Montreal 'Star.
FIRST DAYS
ittle Red schools on a country road,
Andthose on a city street,
like" are echoing once again
To the marching of eager feet,
ees with freckles and faces with
smiles,'
Sometimes a tear in the eye,
ow and then there a new little girl
Or a little boy starting to cry. 1
h the roadwinds far when it starts
to school,
fighting men in rations fora year.
And it wanders through half, the
-town,
When a small boy chokes enr a hidden
lump,
That wants to go up, not down
His toys are scattered about the house
Yesterday he could play.
But he washed) his face and he went.
to school,
When the loud bell rang to -day.
He's finding a world that he didn't
know,
He'll laugh at each glad surprise
After the: lump goes down a bit
And the ,tears have left his eyes.
The waiting toys are safe as safe,
It's part of an old, old rule,
Nobody Iikes to touch his toys
When the last boy's gone to school.
THE SEA IS EIS
The sea is His; He made, it;
Black gulf,,and, sunlit schoals
Froni barrier bright to where the long_
Leagues of Atlantic roll;
Small strait and ceaseless ocean
He bade each one to be
The sea is His; He made it—
And England• keeps it free.
By pair and stress and striving
Beyond the nation's ken,
By vigils stern when others slept
By lives of many rnen,
Through nights of storm, through
dawnings
Blacker than midnights be —
This sea that God created
England has kept it free.
Count me the splendid captains
Who sailed with courage high
To chart the perilous ways unknown—
Tell me where these men liel
To light a path for ships to conte
They moored at Dead Men's Quay;
The sea is God's; He made it •
—
Anch these men kept it free.
Oh, little land- of England;
`: Oh, mother- of hearts too : brave;
Men say this trust shall pass . from
• thee
Vsho guardest' Nelson's grave.
Aye, but these braggarts yet shall
learn
The sea is God's—and England,
England shall keep it free.
R. E. Vernede
IRIGG1IIRS AND FITTERS
rr., s,re tha -Tuggers atm/ Fitters; we.
are the Men on the Ground;
Serving the Bombers and Fighters,
1-eeping thein airworthy; sound!
We r,
ti br � them god -speed, in thegloam-
ing
g p d g t
ing with a pat of affection • and
pride;
We hail then with jby at their hom-
ing, as we haste in the dawn to
their side;
With eyes keen to. mark their.eondit-
ion, "What luck, sir?" we eager-
ly ask.
Then the Pilot's "thumbs up" of eta
tion returns us renewed to our
task
Serving the Bombers and ' Fighters,
keeping them airworthy, sound;
We ,who are Riggers and Fitters, we
who are 'lien on the Ground!
•
Our names are not written ,in story, we
wear not the purple -and -white;
Yet -we still have a share 'in"his glory;
whose work keeps the Pilot in
flight!
•
And no matter where'er duty takes
them—Wherever the war -planes
are found —
No Rigger or Fitter forsakes them;
there always are Men en the
Ground—
Proud to be Riggers and Fitters;
Proud to be Men on the Ground,
Serving the Bombers and Fighters,
keeping theme airworthy, sound!
Montreal —Grace Pollard
Vegetable garp etet ettlmvneen ny'cne
Army and R.A.F. in Britain-now.eov-
er 11,000: acres. Last year these gad -
ens produced enough to last 70,000
S.. ,,,,........., BY
"Dad, I don't want to go to, school
this year," said fourteen year old Bob,
"I want to get to work and earn some
money" "Well son," replied the fath-
er "It would be nice if you Were able
to help yourself along a little but
you are too young to leave school yet.
The .law insists that you attenduntil
you are sixteen, but out of school
hours you will find many opportuni-
ties to work. Ant sorry I cannot af-
ford to send you to University, but
even after you leave school you can
continue your study and thus better
fit yourself.for your life work: Int old,
en times one could rise in the business
world with very little education; but
that is not the case today. Education
Means a very great deal in one's fut-
ure life
ut-urelife "Boys and girls so often even
after they get their entrance want to
stop school and it takes a great deal
of persuasion to 'keep then at it. If
they do stop they regret it greatly in
later years."
-It is almost with a feeling of envy
that those who are beyond school age
watch the children as they start back
after the summer holidays. Time and
again we say "II wish I had my
schooldays over again and I certain-
ly would make better use of my time."
Would we? The answer to that may
be found in analyzing just what we
are doing with our spare, time today.
If we really mean that we will endea-
vor to improve- our minds along the
lines of education both as we go about
our daily work and as we fill in the
hours and moments not actually used
in regular work. We can begin right
now to take up some line of study.
We, at tines say "What would be
the use of Inc trying to study Algebra,
Arithmetic or even any the languages
I would never make any use of them i"
Well perhaps' not but granting the
truth of that you by study would be
developing brain cells which have
lain dormant for years and, as they
are brought into play they will help
those cells of which we do wish to
snake use.
Take for example the study fof
astronomy. What more interesting
sight is -there than that beheld as we
look into. the Heavens. We agree with
the Psalmist' who said "The Heavens
declare the glory of God, and the fer-
:nament showeth his handiwork" God
has there placed a myriad of stars
and planets and constellations. How
little we know about them and what
interesting and instructive hours we
could speed if we would just gather a
few of our friends together and make
this a winter's study. With the know-
ledge we have now many of us could
not naine a single star let alone trace
the constellation to which it belongs.
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This is a wonderful pastime for the
home when parents andchildren .can
study indoors and in the early' evening
hours. they can step outside and pick
out the different star forynations. This
will prove a common interest which
may be the means of keeping the
young people at home at nights.
How many of us bothered to wit-
ness the eclipse of the moon recently
For some it h471 absolutely no inter-
est. On family of amateur astronom-
ers wakened the little nine year olds
daughter that she too might share
with their the result of the study
which -they had been carrying on to-
gether.
Another helpful study during the
winter evenings is that of the snow
and snow flakes. One of the most beau-
tiful things in all nature is the forma-
tion of snow flakes, no two .of which'
are alike. To observe this let us take
a pi eecoalnnealtmccvtnfwypcmfwyy
a piece of black cloth and place it
where the snow will fall on it, then
examine the beautiful lacy and intrl-
Cate work of the hand of the Master
No artist on earth could design such
delicate loveliness. These are studies
which will cost us very little and- yet
et theend of the season we will tea-
lite how much more knowledge we
have acquired.
There are none of us, even although
we may belong past school ag'e, who
could not spend many profitable
hours in the composition., and litera
tore of our• language. We will soon
realize we know little indeed about
` PEG'..
English. -
When we ,attended . school we
thought we could spell, some night at
the tea table let us get out a spelling
book and go around the family ask-
ing the spelling of different words.
We will be very much: surprised to
'know how,muohwe have forgotten.
Take our standard poets and dramat-
ists, who of us could tell the story
of some of the simplest of Shakes -
pear's plays, or who could) repeat that
beautiful eleogy-of Grey commencing:
"The curfew tolls the knell of par -t-
ing day, -
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er
the lea
The. ploughman homeward plods his
weary way
And leaves the world to darkness
Ma to me."
Or that oft repeated "Buriel of Moses"
"By Nebo's lonely mountain
• On this side, ordan's wave,
In a vale in the land of Moab
There lies a lonely grave" etc:
Then too that sad pathetic poem of
Robert Burns.
"Thou lingering star with lessening
ray,
That lovest to greet the early morn
Again thou usherest in the day
My Mary from my soul was torn."
In so many lines of work 'to -day
there are "refresher courses" would
it notbe greatly- to -our benefit and
pleasure if we world just re -study
some of these poems? They will bring
back with them old memories of the
days we sat in school and repeated
these lines over and over. With that
will come the thought of the faces
of those who sat near us. Those were
the happy days! Whysnot recall them
now?
There are• times when . even such
studies as we have mentioned bring
little comfort, to us -occasions when
nothing but the word- of God can satis-
fy us. As night closes in and sleep re-
fuses to respond to' our beckon, when
it may be pain will not allow us to
I sing to rest, then -we review the Bible
stories told to us in our childhood, the
' study we have made of His word in
later years or the memorized verses
of scripture. They will come baek to
us and will keep us company. The
tragedy is that in so many instances
Bible study has been neglected. We
have learned all the popular songs,
but "Songs of David" have no part in
our lives. Even although we cannot
concentrate nearly so readily as we
could as children yet by persistant ef-
fort we can memorize and we will be
comforted by the . wonderful words
which Christ will give to us. As we
plan - our winter's work let us make
this one part.
"Upon -the wreckage of thy yester-
day '
Design the structure of to -morrow
lay
Strong corner -stones of purpose, and
prepare
Great blocks of wisdom cut from
past despair.
Shape mighty pillars of resolve, to
set
Deep in the tear -wet mortar: of re-
gret
Believe in God in thine own self
believe
All thou hest hoped for thou shalt
yet achieve." •
"PD,; fir
THE MIXING O®VVL
By ANNE ALLAN
Hydro Home Economist
HOW TO .SAVE ELECTRICITY
IN THE HOME
Hello Homemaker! The order
of the Dominion Power Controller
restricting the use ..of electricity,
indicates the acute power situation..
However, the saving that is hoped'
to be ' accomplished through this
regulation is . only • a small portion;
of the total required to meet the
growing demands of war industries.
Thousand of munition rnanufae
tuners from the .little village
machine shops to the huge indus-
trial plants must push forward in
the great crusade for Victory,
By taking on the duty of "Elec-
trical Power Warden ill the Home"
each homemaker can do her share.,
Here are suggestions that will help
you save electricity as well as keep
your electrical equipment in service
for the duration:.
LIGHTS -
Turn out the lights when you
leave a room.
Use lights only when and where
necessary.
Place tri'Iite or table lamp to
enable several people to read or sew
and the children to play games ort the
floor. -
Try to accomplish your job in
the attic, cellar or '• clothes closet
Thickly, and then shut dff the lights.
Watch your porch,garage and
hall lights, too.
Keep lamps, reflectors - and
shades clean so that no light will
be wasted.
Do not use decorative or
coloured lamps as they absorb. light.
RADIA
Turn off the radio , unless you
are listening to it.
This`will save electricity as well
as wear on your tubes. -
HOT WATER H'EA,TER
Turn tap off tight and have
leaking or dripping taps fixed.
Use cold water to soak cooking
utensils, "
Stack cooking utensils up and
wash them along with the dishes it
the end of the meal.
For the bath, run the cold water
first, then Mai on the hot water to
bring the temperature to lukewarm
Do not wash under running tap.
WASHING MACHINE
Pill your washing machine only
to the water line with hot water.
Operate only long enough to re-
move fabric soil- not stains) too.
Use waren water in the first
rinse only,
Do not operate machine while
using clothes wringer.
ELECTRIC IRON
Small articles of fine fabrics
can be pressed while your iron is
heating. •
Don't let your iron get so hot
that You • have to wait for it to cool.
Clothes that only- need the
dampness taken out can beprressecl
after the iron is turned "Off".
ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR
' Do not leave the refrigerator
door open longer than necessary —
or open it more frequently than you
need — or let the condenser system
become clogged with lint and dust.
Defrost your refrigerator regu-
larly — never allow more than . r1
to %inch of frost "to accumulate.
Do not place refrigerator near
the range — leave space around
each side and at the top.
Do not load the refrigerator
with packages, and bottles and cans
that may be stored on the pantry
shelves
Do not place warm foods in re-
frigerator; wait till cool..
ELECTRIC RANGE
Turn electric element to "Off"
as soon as your tea kettle begins to
sing, The heat stored- in the electric
element will bring the water to
boiling, -
Don't boil.more water than you
need, and keep the kettle free from
lime.
ELECTRIC TOASTER
Do not leave toaster on continu-
ally for staggered breakfasts. Use
toaster only while making toast,
OTHER SMALL
ELECTRIC APPLIANCES
Use them only when the electric
range is not in use and then only as
necessary.
CO6I1ING
A small 'amount of warm tap
water is sufficient for cooking
vegetables.
Do not boil potatoes and other
vegetables violently gentler heat,
uses less power and will .cook them
even better. •
Use flat-bottomed pots • .with
close -fitting lids.
• .,Always place small utensils on
small electric element.
Use "High" heat for as little`
time as possible, then turn to "Low".
Whenever possible use your
well -cooker or steamer.
To cook skillet meals, use your
deep _fryer or skillet. ,Such meals
mean a saving in electricity, since
they require only a fruit cup; to .
complete the meal. For example:
Vegetable Medley, Flank Steahc;
Creole, Vegetable Noodles, etc.
Use a doubl r boiler to heat left-
over products if possible, The lowers
part can be used to cook eggs,
tongue, etc. for use next day as
devilled eggs, cold tongue, etc.
Conserve power when usingthe
oven by baking or roasting as many
dishes as possible whenever it is cry
Do not leave oven element on:
till, the last minute. Make use of
stored heat to finish the cooking.
Eliminate reheating the meal -.•
try to serve the family at one sit-
ting whenever possible.
Anne Allan invites you to write
to her % Clinton News -Record. Send
in your question on homemaking
problems and watch this column for
replies.
• Hydro powers hundreds of plants that
produce the weapons to bring peace.
The tempo of the war effort is increasing
�-: . More weapons must be produced ...
As a result, the demand For electricity
is intensified.
Before the War... there was power to
t`1 spare...Now, even With greatly increased
''. supplies... as a result of important new
\ ,
developments, either completed or under
construction ... a critical power shortage
threatens our War effort.
To meet this shortage, lights in streets,
shops, show windows and signs are being
strictly curtailedd or turnedout
by Order
� of the Dominion Power Controller. This
however, Will provide only part of the
saving necessary.,
these restrictions now? The effebt
of the shorter hours of daylight and the
seasonal changes in the use of electricity.
during the Fall and Winter months together
with added war load, impose greatly
increased demands on present plants now
loaded to capacity.
ELECTRICITY MUST BE CONSERVED
—UNTIL THE WAR IS WON
Each one of us must do our "bit." In
the home, office or shop, the "turning -on"
of one unnecessary switch is a waste of
r Hydro. Our War plants must have the
power they need. Do your part -see that
they get itl Save electricity today and
every day in every way possible.
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P wen ,anal
blasted through
ock lin important,"'
parr of 'ehecenf
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HYDRO EL'ECTRIC POWER COMMISSION OF ONiARIO