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The Clinton News Record, 1942-12-10, Page 7'THURS., DEC. 10 1942 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE. 7 .. T IE 'THIS MOJ EM CORNER IS ' DEDICATED TO THE POETS mere They Will Sing You Their Songs=Sometimes_ ',Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful and Inspiring IN SEARCH OF GOD I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By. rooky ledge through wood untamed ,Just where one scarlet lily flamed, -I saw His footprint in. the sod. • 1' �`9kcl i 'Then suddenly, all unaware,! Far off in the deepshadows, where .A, solitary hermit thrush Sang through the holy twilight hush — r heard His voice upon the air. -And even as I marvelled how •God gives us heaven here and now 'In a stir of wind that hardly shook 'The poplar Ieaves beside the brook— His hand wan light upon my brow. .At last with evening as I turned • :Homeward, and thought what I had learned. And all that there was till to probe I caught the glory of His robe `Where the last fires of sunset burned. Baek to the world with quickening start I Iooked and longed for any part In leaking saving beauty be-- • And, from that kindling ecstasy: I knew -God dwelt within my heart. BIiss Cameron. SCOTSMAN Gray mists of old, a low sun's sud- den splendour On hills of granite and on heather bloom; 'The aheiling's peace; the gathering in the gleaming, And Gaelic voices round the hearth's half -gloom; 'The swinging march and wild and well ' loved music Of tartaned pipes; the brave red hackle's lore :So dearly paid for by the deathless valour ' Of streaming banners that return no more; "These are the things a Scotsman will remember With his young dreams and when youths creaming palls; 'Through manhood's strife and through his manful striving For wider welfare when the Empire calls. These are the things to rise before his vision With the fell stroke that threatens all true men ` • In this good fight for freedom—ay, and after HIS last farewell to sotne far heath- ered glen.. . Montreal —K. A. MacKinnon SPIKENARD ): Salt -laden winds Eddying about the quays Where ships load and unload; ' The tang of pine and balsam, Roads newly tarred, Spiced, bayberry, The smell of fresh -cut wood Where logs pile up the stream To feed the sawmill The curling smoke blue on the air ' Of birch logs burning I will remember these And store away • 'In a deep place within; And perhaps, on a slay ' Bleak and alone and bare, I'll take my sweets out one by one `Till all the house be filled with odors Sweeter than Mary's box of spikenard. Florence Irene Gnbbius. • THE SMOORING PRAYER Load, we ha'e spent a happy nicht thegitheir As friers' wi filen', as brither wi' a blither. ' Gi'e noo Thy blessing on us as we 1 pairt, !! That we may meet again wi' halesome An' as ' we sfnoor the flame that's gi'en us licht,- cheery comfort, blet'. his homeL this nicht;' Bless Sandie',s wife an' Jean, an Wull, an' Jess, An' them awa' that bear his name please bless; An' Lord, bless Sandie tae wi' stren gth and health, ' A king o' 'men, withoot the wealth, But, bless his sheep, his shielin' and his kine An" that, 1 doobtna, will suit Sandie fine. An' noo Lord, in the grate the fire is dead; There's juist anther ward that nicht be said: • When ye ha'e tae auld Sandie's, needs aince seen 'Ye nicht ha'e ttme tae' think o' San- is's friers." --Amen Sgt. Geo. MacGillivray, R.C.A.M.C'. WINTERSHORE The winter's unimpassioned hand Has moved across the sea -ruled land, And drought this place of wave and stone Majestically into its own. Now one can see, with rested eyes, Where starkly simple beauty lies In ice -gray rock, and steely sedge, In trees along the harbor's 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 Across the empty jeweLbright sky. • Strange that so many never guess This season's special loveliness, Hid like a woman's natural graee Behind a subtly painted face. Barbara Overton SEVEN O'CLOCK FERRY We slit the tinfoil cover of the bay And softly opened up the gleaming day; Our prow moved with a rustle through the tide, And silver ribbons streamed on eith- er side. ' There was no shore, nor even any sky Only a rosy blueness, deep and high, With startled seagulls appliqued in white - Upon a misty sereen,of spray in light. And this was peace, here for an in: Stant, where All land and sea and sky were mo- bile air , Where it was neither night nor day, and none Could toil that summer had gone, and fall begun Barbara' Overton. LET ALL THE PEOPLE PRAY We look upon the world's distress, The ocean of its tears, Nor can we see whereon to rest Or quell foreboding fears We read of wars in Holy Writ Where might with right had fought. Where nations conflagrations let To settle rule or lot: Nor vietory always to the strong When right was in the fray, The weak with God sang victor's song. And so 'twill be today. We pray that Israel's heart may turn To Him of unseen strength, Tho' many troubled hearts may yearn Will vietory come at length. • 0 let the people work and pray In penitence sincere, n faith and prayer walk in the way AndI tt will surely hear, The laws ws •of .Britainframed on His Nor doubt .Cod's sovereignty, Altho, His .chastening -rod He lays He will give victory,' ' 0 church of Goll sound loud the call, The- Ginger _Bread Man w..w By "PEG" The day of the ginger bread man seems to have returned. In former years it was nothing unusual to see a .child with the tip of his nose flat- tened against the small paned wind- ow of a general store viewing the con- tents of the candy and cake section. We can still see the array of candy, usually pop corn balls, licorice cylind- ers in the little square boxes; barley sticks and many other things of the candy world, home made and manu- factured which appeal to the children. Quite often in the centreof the dis- play, a place was reserved for the noted ginger bread man. The child was indeed fortunate who could afford to buy one. Coppers as they were then called were more sobacethan they are now, but many a ginger bread man found its way into the school bag with the object of supplying part of the lunch, but oftimes at noon there was little left , - Those days.are past and gone but as many other things have been re_ vived so the ginger bread man seems to be coming into its own. How would it be if we made one of these brown men with ,a decorated suit and as we go along apply it to our spiritual life. Evidently the correct way to bake is to gather all the ingredients to- gether before starting, as we require some base to work on. Then add the sugar, The recipe does not say mix, but smooth. The ingredients might be compared to the daily, oecurenco of our lives and the shortening to 'our faith in Jesus Christ. There are many trying things as d'ay follows day and it is only the faith we have in our Saviour which keeps us feeling that we can carry on at all. As in everything else there is a right and a wrong way of making a ginger bread man We could mix su- gar, but when we came to eat the result of our baking we would not en- joy. the grating sound of the undls- olved sweetner. We must cream it in- to the lard, in other words smooth it out, leave nothing that is not even. The sugar might be compared to the ups and. downs of our lives, the multi- tude of joys and pleasures, which come our way, also the disappoint - Call too those astray, Whilst war -clouds shed a gloom o'er - all Let all the people pray . • —A. C., 1942 'THE SCOT Stern mother of the deathless dead! Wherestandsa Scot, a Freeman stands Self -stayed; if poor, self -clothed, self - fed; Mind mighty in all lands. Theis path, though dark, they may not miss Secure they tread on dangers' brink. They say, "This shall be," and it is For, ere they act, they think. Ebenezer Elliot. FALSE PERSPECTIVE Man is losing his perspective Of true value, in the rush, There has risen unsuspected - False new standards of success. Old belief he values lightly, New 'conceptions spring up nightly •.- Time tried qualities discarded, Laws of health are disregarded. We are losing much of worth, Thru our anxious fevered stress. We are putting the old earth In one great disheveled' mess. For our hearts are not abiding; But in self-esteem we're priding; All unconscious of the strain Moving us, with might and main.' Mani we've made our own undoing, All contributed a share — • Headlong blindly pursuing, Not. one moment to .compare. Not a pause for circumspection, From the course 'there's no deflection; Til with sudden consternation, We espy our abberation. L. Cole, ments, sorrows and diseouragements These are not given to us all at once but we must absorb them into our lives as they.. come and, cover them ov- er with the trust we have in God, so at the end of the day when we lie down to sleep, all these things may have been so merged into our faith that we will have the feeling that how ever things are going all is well with us. The next thing we. do is toadda well beaten egg. This forms one of the main parts of the nourishment of our cake.'' There are many things which 'constitute our lives which so•to speak nourish us. Principal among these is the daily influence of those with whom we come in contact. There are some whose very presence radiat- es joy. On the other hand there are those to' whom the word gloomy may well be applied. We are helped or hin- dered by each one who crosses our path as we pursue our .daily toil or pleasure. Unintentionally it may be some one has hurt our feelings which so often are carried like a chip on our shoulder. Quarrels have been started over some trifle which is not,worth mentioning 'and yet at time it bas made a 'break for life with some one whom we held very dear. When some one hurts us let us;,apply to the oc-' maims the test of those things which we done to our Saviour. If He could say "Father, forgive them" surely we can There are so many pleasant things in life why bother about some- thing which was not meant at all or else was said or done under great strain, Forgive, as we have been for.. given, should' be our motto. Do not dwell on the disagreeable just mix the pleasant and unhappy things well to- gether. Do not add them separately, but when we have balanced them put them into the base of the substance which we have already started. Then comes the. float, or thickening. How can we compare that to our spir- itual life? As the word' implies it makes the substances, more substan- tial, So our thanksgiving to God will make us more appreciative of what His goodness means to us. No matter ni what walk of life we are we have always something for which to be thankful. Some one has written the following beautiful lines. "For every hour of pain That we have had— Even for them Lord Help us to be glad." If we can se live to be thankful for pain how much more we should' thank God if He has seen fit to give us our health. We do not need to look far before we can find 'flour" to put into our lives. Then we have the baking soda, with- out thisthe'other ingredients would be useless, as the cake would' forget to rise. This is one -of the five dry in- gredients,, (the others being ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and salt) which must be sifted together three times with itlje flour, before !being, add) d 'to the substance. These are the things which give flavor to the cake,. which Make it pleasant to the taste, So there are qualities which we may add. to our lives which give use the desire 'to go on to do better things, in fact no Christian life 'can be carried on with- out them Soda ,might be compared to our prayers which ascend to God on behalf of ourselves and others. As the ginger bread man would be of no use without soda so our Christianity would be useless unless we- spent a considerable part of our day in pray- er. The cinnamon, ginger :and cloves could be compared to our Bible study as a Christian have you ever tried to get away from God's word and read the literature of the world? We soon found. that our Christianity was. not workable, ginger, which gives the name to our cake can be likened to the passages •of Scripture which we are storing in our, minds for present and future use. How scan we expect to lead others to Christ if we cannot quote His word to them? In .almost everything that is 'cooked a little salt is necessary to take away that "flat taste," So we need a great deal of Christ in; our lives in order that tire,world will knit' that we have something which it wants:. Salt, some- times has lost its . savor, se we at times act as if we had Post our `Sa- viour. When all these have been added to the mixture we must heat it well :toy gether. If one part refused to be mix- ed the whale would be spoiled. This. is true in regard to our Church life. We must all work together to advance the cause of Christ. In writing, the history for the Golden Jubilee of a Church the author said: "It is not known wile were the men forming the trustee board" Possibly none were requited as all were of oro' mind. and one' purpose—. to worship. God. Hbw tragic it is today to see churches torn asunder by people who have profess- ed Christ and: yet who are determin_ ed to have their own way, who will not co-operate with others. Our ginger bread man is not finish- ed yet, the prepared substance must be put into a pan lined with oiled wax paper so that it will not stick. We may he so called Christians but we will not draw entirely away from the world, we want to do those things approved of by the world, but which are not Christ's way. - The substance must be,put into a moderate oven and baked to be brought to perfection. We too can only become perfect through trial. The ingredients used would make sixteen ginger bread' men. Is it not a joy to us to think that we, through all the testing' God has given us, may be the means' of bringing some one, who has wandered far away, to the Saviour who is waiting to welcome them with. open anne. t f i "PEG. IIIMp ?m., 2 THE MIXING BOWL /y ANNE ALLAN Hydro 14.u. £e.„ewtN "MEATING” THE WAR EMERGENCIES Hello Homemakers! Even if the average price of round steak is lower now than a month ago, today's meat prices still make our eyes bulge like the tally on the cash register. Hence this article with some welcome stim- ulants for the` hard hit pocket -book! Have you ever noticed how people the country over are talking about inexpensive dishes? Not rare and costly concoctions' of truffles or lob- ster, but 'goulashes, stews, ragouts— these are what make folks smack their lips and pass their plates for more. Appetizing stews that surprise and delight the family with their concen- trated goodness may be made from inexpensive pieces of boneless beef chuck, seared until they are almost burnt, then flour stirred in to make a good, thick, rich -brown sauce. Taking the skillet from the range, carefully pour in one quart of cold water, then. put in three cups of diced vegetables. Season, cover place on "High" heat until steaming, and then simmer un- til done. This stew is delicious ser- ved piping hot or bottled cold for the lunch box. The children have named it Mongoose, my goodness, Stew -it is so good' no matter what vegetables or seasonings are, used. You will be so enchanted with the 'success of this stew that you will be spurred' on to try variations. RECIPES Sunday Supper • 3_4 lb. weiners, 2 1-2 cups boiled kidney beans, 1 green pepper ichopp- ed, salt. Cut weiners into pieces and com- bine with beans and green pepper. Cover and simmer 15 minutes, Sea- son and serve. Variations: 1. Place finely chopped apples in split weiners and bake. 2. Place a thin slice of cheese in split weiners. Priority Beef Pie. 1 1-2 cups flour,. '2 taps. baking powder, 1 tsp. salt, 1 tsp paprika, 1-2 tsp. celery salt, 1-4 tsp. pepper, 5 tbs. lard, 3-4 cup, milk, 1-3 ,onion sliced, 2 cups cream soup (left -over), 1,2 ib. ground beef brisket. Sift flour, halting powder: and sea- sonings. Gut in 3 tbs, fat, stir in milk. 'Brown treat' in fat, then add SAG E onion. Add soup and cover with bis- cuit mixture. Bake in electric oven at 450 degrees about 20 minutes Turn upside down and serve. Thrift Spanish Rice 2 1.2 cups' cooked rice (1-2 cup, un- cooked), 1-2 lb. ground New Eng- land ham ends, 2 green peppers or 1-2 ib, mushrooms, 2 cups tomatoes (5 tomatoes), 4 onions (medium), 1-4 ib. cheese, salt, pepper . Saute onions in baking fat. Stir in sliced peppers. Add rice, ham ends ,to- matoes and sprinkle with cheese and seasonings. Cook. Note: Rice may be cooked with ov- en meal days ahead. TAKE A TIP: Don't waste fat. Millions of pounds are needed for conversion into glycer- ine for explosives. All you need do is to strain used cooking fat— bacon grease, meat drippings, Bying fat (execpt from fried fish)—into a clean wide-mouthed can (Do not use glass or paper 'container.) When you have saved a pound or more, take it to your meat dealer. If your community is not actively supporting this drive, contact your County Salvage Committee. THE QUESTION BOX Mrs. J. E. F. suggests: "If you, break your plastic knitting needle and you cannot get another one immed- iately, just use an ordinary pencil sharpener to put on a new point." z Mrs. L. I. suggests: "Try using candy lemon drops instead of sugar in hot tea. They give a nice flavour and add a, novel touch " Mrs. R. G. says: "It's a good idea to keep a package of pipe cleaners in the kitchen. They are very useful for cleaning and drying tiny hard- to-get_at places, such as around the electrical element, parts of the can opener and grooves in electrie beater handles (which by the way, should al- ways' be very dry before being re- inserted into the machine) also the cogs of the clover beater." Anne Allan invites you to write to her coo Clinton News -Record'. Send in your questions on homemaking pro- blems and watch this column for re- plies. SIMILAR TACTIC'S Why is a Jap like a girdle? They both sneak up on you and it takes a good yank to pull theta) down. Old Bill of the Dunnville Chronicle, Fathers of Heroes Buy Victory Bonds Yard Foreman R. Smites, of Ottawa, one of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's vol- unteer Victory Bond salesmen, selling a substantial bond. to Con- ductor A. C. Trudeau before the latter starts on his morning way - freight run. Yard Foreman Smith's son, Sgt. Pilot Donald Smith, of the R.C.A.F., was killed in air oper- ations over Germany on August 13th, 1941. A second son, Lieut. Lorne', L. Smith, is at present overseas on active service with) the Glengarry Highlanders. Conductor Trudeau also had a son Cpl. Joseph Keith Trudeau, R.C.A.F., killed on active service. This occurred during the blitz over England in April, 1941. An- other so a n S ziI Trudeau 'who h o was a trainman with the 'Cana,' dian Pacific Railway, at Ottawa, is at present training with the R.C.A.F. as pilot. a t In ictuio left; t p I. to right, Yard Foreman R. Smith; • and Conductor A. C. Trudeau.