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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-10-01, Page 7• THURS., OCT.I, 942 ry -•^v THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS CARE OP CHILDREN COOKING PAGE 7 HEALTH !flake the most of your Tea. "SAL� THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Siing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful and Inspiring Tun PURPLE MARTINS rainy mornings. ':We miss you,, little feathered friends, Then a wood -stove, where fire sings Your early morning chatter, all day long, And noise around: the house by day, And the tea -kettle hums a steady Your gossip and, your patter. When in the spring youcame to us From high upin the sky, Your pointed wings and graceful curves Proclaimed summer: was nigh. And then your busy nesting time For yonug birds must have care; •'So, on the wing from morn till night, You darted' here and there. And now your children all grown up Ar'e ready for the flight That takes then from this Northern slime To where the skies are bright. l•S'c, good-bye little feathered friends, Good luck (and wings quite steady), to sure to come again next year, You houses will be ready. Sam -Herbert NO TITLE If you write poetry you will find peoi3le, on the whole, quite kind. "She is poet," they will say, and leave you, likea child to play. For though it be most trivial thing • to open little mouth • and sing in such a day it will at any rate, avail to keep the girl out of jail: better verse than something worse for wayward one. Ah! they do not know, not they! pen's dire possibility. They do not know that word can be — turn sof key and spread of net and dark loosing of a tide, eat -claw. in the spine of pride, spark. soft set, • to straw of law;; they do not know what phrase can start mutinously 111 a muted heart, or how, to very root of time, minds have moved to match a rhyme and, moving, have moved free with, them whole worlds of theorem. They do not know: and possibly it's better so. • tune, Legato, sostenuto. Eyery door Has its own sound it makes when it is opened. A dripping faucet rings its silver bells Lying beside the hearth, a cat purrs deeply. . And watches every motion in the rootu And there is always some inspired aroma. ' Lifting from 'saucepans bubbling on the stove: • A great rich stew, or the scent of sim- mering apples; Or drifting whiffs from the crack of the oven door— The• dark spiked fragrance of hot gingerbread, Or the golden odor that can only be Fresh loaves of .bread just ready • to come out. OS: the good honest; smell of baked potatoes And always, on a. shelf, must stand a clock. Clucking away the moments like a hen Calling her chicks. This is ai country kitchen. These are the things that give a coun- try woman, - Company, music, friendship, all day long. WIND CARVINGS For loveliness, I give you things the wind has .ear- ved: Ice_ pinnacles upon their high white peak, Their keen wild beauty Unforgettable; The lines upon a sculptured dune Which seem but evanesoene, Yet have a permanence in memory As veins in marble; And those distorted trees Which point with strange armi from a cliff, In strong denial Of thelast defeat, These wind -carved things are beauti- Jul In their integrity. Elizabeth Crawford Yates REMEMBERED AUTUMN The trailing lace of Summer's flow- ered dress . Takes on the bronze -bright colors Au turn' wears; Inevitably now the wind's caress Has just a hint of -hardness, Sun- set flares Doris Peel In deeper crimson over garnered 'Melds; COUNTRY KITCHEN `This is the way a kitchen ought to be: -A floor of narrow board's clean -scrub- bed and bare: Walls of wide boards, and painted if you like; And many windows, looking out on vistas - - 'Of field and tree and garden. Window- " boxes indow-,boxes Hold thyme and parsley, wandering Jew, genanium— • I Any small sweet green things to clap their hands• Brightly in inornin g ' sunlight, or Yg to stand Shedding • their own greenlight on The grapes turn purple on the cluster- ed vine, While earth, in quiet resignation, yields To the long dream of Winter. Every sign Tells of that secret change around us here. The singing brooks run softer over '. stone And golden silence closes on the year_.: The sheaves are gathered and the leaves are blown, Stars will look down when sifting snow lies deep • ; [While earth'" remembers Autumn in !. her sleep. Bayka Russell. How are we Helping? s i ,�+v .,..v... By "PEG" As far as activity is concerned the are at least three classes of people: 1. Those who are lying on beds pain. 2. Those who are reposing on `cou ches of ease. 3. Those who are in the fightin line. No matter which one of these belong' to there are many lessons w :nay profitably learn as. we go abs our daily work. - The vast majority of those who ar lying on beds of pain are saying "There is so much I would, like to if I could only go about" but the are numerous things which'those wh are laid aside can do, in fact ther very few who do not find tin too short for what they wish to ac complish. much of what the body needs to keep lit going — sugars, proteins, calcium phosphorus, iron and some of the vitamins- it's a potent list. So let's ,be thankful for potatoes. English people now serve potato, i re we are out in the eveningshe-is still working. Are we not living a very sel- of fish life? We have just as much right to help with the work of the home as - she has. Furthermore we go away on our holidays, and never think. of g asking her to go with us. We consid- er it- perfectly alright for her to we work all the year through. All honor e to,; the young men and women who, ut when they are planning their holi- days include their mothers. There ie e no better companion than she is. Let , us look back over our holidays this do year and feel thoroughly ashamed of re ourselves if we have been selfish along o this line.. ere Are we doing our share in carry, e ing along the Lord's work as far as His church is concerned? Let us ask ourselves the question. What hind of Even men now a days are knitting A recent newspaper article told of how a man and his wife had knit some where around 200 pairs of socks and it did not, state that the. woman had knit the majority of them. A man is to be admired who will employ his spare time in this practical 'and need- ful war work. Bvery row knitted: is that much time put in, time which would otherwise drag very heavily, when sickness or a crippling acci- dent overtakes us we should never say "Now my working days are over. I can do more." It may be that our time for working has only just be- gun. While we are able let ne take a visit to some institution where theme are patients who have been laid aside, many of them for years. Our minor illnesses will rapidly fade away and we will go back to our hone de- termined to do a great deal more than have been doing. Many of these patients who have not been out of bed for years are doing knitting .,/ming, weaving and other things. which -would put us to shame. We can- not understand how they can do it until we see the apparatus whieh has been fixed up for them. There are many ways besides that 'n which the sick cam help. If those who are up and around find it hard to be patient how much harder it must be for those who feel that they have no future ahead of them but pain and suffering. Yet what a`won- derful lessontheycan show to • the world that God is their helper -and. that lie will be their stay when all else fails. We have our work to do and God has chosen many to work for Him just simply by being laid aside and showing to those around them that they have a staff on which to. lean. This applies not only to : those whr are in hospitals but also to those who are in hoines. It is sometimes har- dehar- derfor those who haev to wait on the sick than it is for those who are laid aside. Patience is needed and badly needed attimeby those who are liv- ing a life of sacrifice in caring for their loved ones. This unselfishness is in most instances a work of love.' Those who are ill can very often make things much easier for those who are waiting on them. There is always someone who is much worse off than we are and we will not have to .search very far to find them. Let us hunt them up and feel sorry for them in - steel of spending our time grieving over our condition. 'We cannot all play a winning game. Some one is sure to lose But we can play so that our name No one may dare accuse That when the Master Referee Scores against our name It 'won't be whether:we ve: t lemon lost But he* we'veplayed the game. • If it has been 'your lot in life to lie on a bed of pain may the Lord give you strength to play the game and to gain the victory over self. Then there are those who are wil- ling to lie on flowery beds of ease" and let others carry on the work with which we should be fielding. • There are at least three places Where we can easily shirk our duty. Many of us as young men and wo- men think that' because' we go out to work, thatwe'have no responsibility in the home, we feel that because mother stays at home that she should do all the work. We work perhaps eight hours and forget thatmother is up long before we are and: while u church would we have if all the members were Iike I am? Would there be anyone at Church on Sunday or dur- ing the week? What kind of an offer- ing would there be on the collection plate? Who would be teaching in the Sunday School? These are serious, questions which we must sometimes answer. • Then what are we doing along the line of war work.? Are we lying on couches of ease and allowing others to do the nursing, munitions, knitting sewing and alt kinds of Red Cross work. In this country we are told so often of the eomplacent way we are doing things, May God grant that we will not come to with a rude awaken- ing some day. There are none of us who want to spend our lives on beds of pain. None of us should be lazy enough to rest on couches of ease, but each one of us should have the desire to join our com- rades in the fighting line willing to work to help., on whatever cause needs us. Unless we go about work in the right way it is useless. One essential to good work is the willingness with which we go about it. Half the battle is won if we are eager and enthusias- tic about what we are doing. Then toa we need to have some sys- tem about our work. It will make the day easier if we just do those things which are hardest, the things which require the greatest amount of thought then the easier things can be done when we had expended at least part of our energy. We do not need to be ashamed of feeling weary. We read, that` Jesus Christ'wes tired many times. So often He would go away alone to pray to His Heavenly Father. How often da we go through the day just on our own strength without realizing that if we ask Him, Christ will help us to bear the burden, not only' of today but of every day we are permitted to stay on this mirth? "Lord 1 pray that I may face each task, And rise to its demands Nor ever ask that others bear my Ioad; That I may prove a loyal and help- ful friend Before 'r reach the journey's quiet end, - Along the winding road. v • (TEG„ THE MIXING Bei{IL By ANNEALLAN Hydro Nome Economist POTATOES; PROVIDE • ENERGY Hello Homemakers! Rivalry .contin- ues between New Brunswick and On- tario as to which grows the best po- tatoes. There is much talk of soil, climate and what have you! But the truth is that potatoes are good food whatever province they grow in. Using potatoes •often on your bud- get menus is a practice based -on sound reasoning. The fact is you get a lot for your money when you eat a potato. You see, the potato has cakes instead of cookies. Again we take a hint from the stalwart British, and suggest new ways to •serve. pota- toes. There are SO many potato dish- es you could have a different one ev- ery day of the year. And to save time and electricity, we recommend cooking enoughpotatoes for more than one meal and varying the meth- od of serving. \ Nutri -'Thrift menu Rolled Oats with milk - Stewed Pears Toast Coffee Milk Stuffed Plank Beef New Turnip Greens Scalloped Potatoes Watermelon Cubes Potato Soup—Crackers Carrot Salad Gingerbread Milk Potatoes with Savory' Sauce 4 potatoes, ;2 small onions sliced, 4 tbs, fat, 2 tbs, flour, 1 cup- milk, 2 taps, salt, 34 tsp. pepper, 2tbs chopped sweet pepper, grated cheese. Pare Potatoes and cut into' long ma.tchiike strips. Cook then in boiling water until tender. Drain and place in a warn serving dish. Brown onion rings in- at. Add flour and' blend; add milk, salt, pepper and sweet pepper. Cook, stirring constantly, until thick- ened. Pour over hot cooked potatoes and. sprinkle with grated olteese. WITH SALMON — Omit onions. Blend butter and flour add milk grad- ually .and cook, stirring constantly: Add remaining ingredients and 1 cup salmon. Pour over, potatoes. Potato Dumplings 2-3 cup mashed potatoes, 1 cup flour, 4 tps, (laking powder, 1 tsp. salt, 2 tsps. fat, milk (about rh cup). Mix ingredients, roll out to 14 inch thickness. Cut dough with a biscuit cutter. Place- dumplings close together in a greased steamer over boiling wa- ter, cover closely and steam dump- lings for 12 mins. Makes 12 (2 inch) dumplings. Take a Tip Recipes available for these new potato dishes: Dutch Stewed Potatoes, Potato Triumph, Steamed Potatoes, Delmon- iea Potatoes, Potato Pie, Russian Style Potatoes,' Hominy Dumplings, Puffy Potato Omelette, -Potato-stuffed Sau- sages, Potato Oases, Molded Potato Salad, Hot Potato -Salad, Sour Cream Potato Salad, Hunter Salad, Potato Chowder, Grated Potato Soup, Sweet Potatoes in Apple Cups, Princess Po- tatoes, Potato and Cheese Fritters, Po- tato Corquettes. The Question Box Mrs, N. II. asks "In snaking mint jelly could • I substitute canned apple Alice for the apple liquid?" Answer: No. use under -ripe crab- apples or apples that are not "sweet apples" and wash, cut in pieces (leav- ing skin and core in), cover with water. Then cook until tender• and drain. - Mrs. 13. A. suggests: Adding a little lemon juiceto the steeped tea to bring out the flavour —a good idea when cream is not used. Mrs. R. 3. asks: "Recipe for spic- ed pastry." . Answer: This has been mailed to you direct Anne Allan invites you to write to her cls Clinton News -Record. Send in• your questibris on hbme/baking pro blems and watch, this column for re- plios. v- A:.third of the British • troops who fought in Greece were from the Unit- ed Kingdom, Le., England, Scotland, WalesandNorth Ireland. In .Crete, the proportion was nearly one-half. In Libya and E1•itrea:it was more than' a half. Because of the need to conserve shipping for vital military supplies, the people of Britain have willingly accepted severe rationing of almost all foods. No one can buy more thantwo. ounces of butter or more than two ounces of tea 'a week. Many fruits are completelyunabotainable. FATHER ANTHONY'S TRIBUTE, The following verses published in the Brisbane (Australia) 'Courier- Mail, as a tribute to Darwin's dead, were written by Father Anthony Car roil, U. S., army Champlain, and read by him at a memorial service to fall- en risen at advanced Allied: base, a few weeks' ago. On Darwin's shore our bodies lie, And »ter oar graves the soft winds sigh And whisper through the star - filled night, The story of the silver blight.. That struck us from a wing -black ed sky. But death will never break the tie That binds us -all—We did not die ' To idly gaze from some great 'height On Darwin's shore. Know ye who guard' the slopes nearby — Know ye who overhead still fly- Till victory, with you we fight, And not till then, will bid good- bye. On Darwin's shore. —y_ SEPTIIIMBER SKY The stars drop down September sky like fruit by ripeness blest We watch" along the cave of space the windfall in the west, and look above to blazing spheres . and wonder, as we niay, with such stunt! eyes to hold that vast previsional array. Keith Thomas '1";.?., Your C -I -L Paint Dealer has a new free aid to help . you keep your home in good con - clition ... the "C -I -L Rome Re- pair Guide." -This 16.page booklet is designed to help you in these days when you must do your own repairs and odd jobs. Arranged for quick reference, the "C -I -L Rome Repair Guide" offers you hundreds of tips on easy ways to make common household repairs. Ask your C -I -L Paint Dealer for your free copy of this booklet: 244 Sutter & Perdue For Lasting Protection clileSNAPSNOT GUILD. OUTDOOR PORTRAITURE For a natural, charming and pleasant picture—try mal}Ting an informal outdoor portrait. • Q?J12MER Is the best of all sea- ( -7 sons for informal outdoor por- traiture -and since pictures of peo- ple are among the most satisfying summer snapshots, it would seem foolish not to•take advantage of our opportunities at this trine. Bivery good ., outdoor portrait should have two obvious character- istics, mat, like our illustration, it should be a natural picture and a good likeness of the subject. Sec- ondly, it should be good technically. Work toward those . two objectives and you won't go far wrong at any • time. To produce a natural picture you should show your subject just as others know him, It can't be an ob- viously posed picture in which the subject appears stiff and uncom- fortable, He ncomfortable,'.'He should' seem relaxed and apparentlrflnaware of the Carr - era although he may be looking directly at it. Therefore, put your subject at ease. Don't fuss.'Usually it's sued cleat to tell him where you want him to sit, stand or work,' and roughly what you want him to do. Then let him go ahead without any more interruptions' from you than are absolutely necessary. Of course, you should have a good setting for your outdoor portraits. For instance, an elderly lady would look tight at home in a rocking chair; a farmer would seem at ease leaning on the handle of his plow or a weatherbeaten-fence, For the more formal types of outdoor por- traiture the background should really be quite simple and plain, but there again you don't have to fttssand worry. if yott can't'lind a plain or .stuccoed wall, there's aI. ways the sky—and you couldn't ask for a better background than that. Technically, just stick to good exposure, sharp focus, and good de- - - velopment and 'printing—and you won't find It any more difficult to make outstanding informal pot. traits than you would any other type of;snapshot. 394 John van Guilder