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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-02-08, Page 7`TIIITRS.y PER. '8, 1940 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE 'T HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS HEALTH COOKING CARE OF CHILDREN 4.14414.4.441,144.4140VINNAINI44,* 4.0,414..4•41. THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here • They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad—But .Always Helpful and Inspiring. 1 VALENTINE 1 found it 'in an old desk, tucked carefully away, - A little faded valentine that spoke of "yesterday- Its paper lace was brown with age, its ribbon, bows were worn, A cupid's hand was twisted off, a painted scroll was torn; And yet, despite the damage wrought by long unhurried -years, Its soul was like a garden when the springtime first appears. "I love you," read the slender .script— "I love you very much" (Across a vanished century Lfelt shy fingers touch.) "Will you be mine and lend my life an endless dream of bliss?" (A .small soft -moving ghost appear- ed, the phantom of a. kiss.) ' "Oh, if you 'smile, my heart will Head an answer in your face!" (Two figures melted suddenly into a dim embrace.) . I found it in an old desk, tucked carefully away. A tiny faded valentine that sang of yesterday— It showed the ravages of time, and yet its soul was bright With an undying radiance, as sweet as eandlelights, A wistful perfume clung to it, a hint of passion stayed, Although its paper lace was brown, although its bows were frayed. TO THE NOT IMPOSSIBLE HIM How small I know, unless I go To Cairo and Cathay, Whether or not this blessed spot Is blest in every- way? Now it may be, the flower for nue Is this beneath my nose; :Haw shall I tell, unless I. smell The Carthaginian rose? The fabric of my faithful love No power shall dim or ravel Whilst I stay here—but oh, my dear, If I should ever travel! —Edna St. Vincent Millay. ST. VALENTINE'S DAY . Last Valentine, the day when birds of kind, Their little mates with mutual chirp- ings find, I early rose, just at the' break of day, Before the sun had chased the stars away; Afield I went amid the morning dew, ` To milk my kine (for so should housewives do), ' Thee first I spied, the first swain we see, In spite of fortune, shall our True Love be. —Gay, AN IRISH LEGEND t OIC' LEAP. YEAR "Dear Patrick,", said Bridget, all. smil- ing . and merry. As the.; saints were out Walking in late February. The !soft, brooding spring on the pas'- turies lay green And the birds in the thickets were mating, I ween. "There's unrest in our land that is sadly abrew, ' And which you would righters, if only you knew." St, Patrick smiled gravely, "Methinks thee should tell, Forwithout woman's aid we can't do very well." "Our maids," said St. Bridget, "have sworn they won't wed.. But into a convent they'll all go in- stead, Unless you will say that it is right and fair, They enay propose marriage, in which they must share." St. Patrick was puzzled, St. Bridget just smiled. E'en saints by a woman may be so beguiled. "Well, one year in seven," St. Patrick conceded, "Nay, much more than that," said St. Bridget, "is needed!" "'Tis Leap Year, then let it be one year in four, A maiden niay lead her ntan to the church door." THREE HISTORIC COATS (Windsor Daily Star) Leave it to Premier Hepburn to add a touch of color to anything. Ex- plaining xplaining that the story of Colin Campbell's lack of a great coat was one reason for the sudden election. "Mitch" declared there are now three great coats in history. They are Joseph's coat of many colors. Sir ;Walter Raleigh's coat, which Queen Elizabeth used for a carpet. and Colin Campbell's coat, which Mr. King used as a spring- board for the election, NO WEDDINGS IN YEAR "Not a single wedding was solemn- ized during the year," Rev. J. A. Gale, minister,' formerly of Monkton, reported at the annual meeting of Grace United Church at Caledonia. Mr. Gale expressed the hope that 1940 (leap year) would bring "a step up" in weddings. He also announced an increase of 13 members to 472, during the year which was an active and successful one for all depart- ments,. according to reports, r -uu st to y GrGresr • .You get good.value when .you shop by telephone because the grocer. takes particular :care of his "telephone ..customers"i: their. continued (patron- age depends on his good service. A 'tele- phone in your home ..saves precious time and trou- ble, too. There's no need 90 wait to get served—a telephone order gets immediate attention. The small cost of a' tele- phone pays for itself many times over in convenience and pleasure. Borrowing Trouble By "PEG" "Worrying is paying interest on the far our .folly of fretting and bother- troubles of to -morrow." Has anything' ing over things which did not amount truer than that statement ever been to anything.. written? So often we see articles Do we have to worry? `Na indeed. against worry and yet how little heed When we feel ourselves beginning to we take to them. What a little thing worry ' let us just go to our prayer it takes to send one off into hours! closet and ask God to help 'us rise and hours of unprofitable .borrowing above it. •If there is anything to clo trouble from to -morrow. Time, which 1 about the question in point then let should be spent in sleep, is taken iap us get busy and do it If nothing can with pondering over what is going to, be done and there is nopart we have happen to us next. Whenthe dread- to play in remedying it then let us ful ordeal is past we realize how just leave the matter in God's hands. foolish our worryhas been. We spoil He will see to it. not only what would have been pleas- After prayer the next thing to do. ant hours for ourselves, but like a is to keep ourselves busy with some - stone thrown into the lake, our at- thing else either at home or outside. titude circles outward and on until We say we cannot keep our minds it reaches and breaks on all the shores off ourselves. We can if we ask of the day, affecting every one with God to help arra if we follow His whom it comes in contact. instructions. If we do this right now we will be very much happier. Worry makes us unusually quiet. and dull and gives us a distressed look which is disturbing to those around us and which sends those of our household out to face the day feeling that something terrible is likely to befall them. Our attitude towards these things will affect not only adults, but even little children will be depressed with it. We sometimes hear people past middle age say, "I was born worry- ing and have been at it ever since." Looking back over our lives we can remember tha' in our early days we had already joined the band ,of wor- riers. Our hours of play time were spoiled by this awful menace. We inay safely say that these occasions - were quite ofteii caused by our own folly. We were doing what we had been told not to do and we worried over the consequences of otu• dis- obedience. As we trace this through our lives we find that the same work of the tempter is still at the bottom of it, We cannot overcome sin by sinning, and we, one and all know that worry is a major sin for it is the source of nearly all the sins of the world. If the tempter can get us to worry, then he can truly feel that he has a good hold on us. If worrying over a thing would do us any good then: we would have some reason for worrying, but what good can it do? If we have not reached the success in life which we should like to have attained, will it do us any good to worry? Decided- ly not. Leave worry to one side and work harder. Do we seem to be facing a season of ill health. Will worry help us? Decidedly not. Keep- ing our minces occupied with worry willonly be the means of pulling us dawn further. If we are going to get better. Keep our Minds occupied Is plain to see, and very clear, with something else besides our No nation on this earth can win sickness, and day by day strength will The torch of freedom from the Finn. come back to us. If our case is I hopeless, as far as we know, then let us snake up our minds that what time remains to us here on Earth will be made up of the best years, months, weeks or days of our lives; "In the center of the circle Of the will of God I stand; There can come no second causes, All must come from His dear hand. All is well! for 'tis my Father. Who my life has planned. , la Shall I pass through waves I sorrow? There I know it will be best; Though I cannot, tell the reason, I can trust and so am blest. God is love aiid� God, is faithful So in perfect Peace I rest" "PEG" THE TORCH OF FREEDOM The Russian bear said with a glare To little Finland over there: "Surrender now! For if you fight, We'll crush you with all our might." But Finland, with her head flung high, And her eyes toward the sky, Said, "With the help of God we'll' fight, And show you how we Finns can bite." So Russia struck with all her force, By land, and sea, and air, of course. They bombed their towns, and cities too, But every Finn stood fast and tree. For Finnish soldiers, strong and brave, Handed back all Russia gave, And forced the mighty bear to bawl, "This will neuter do at all!" And the hand of God showed in this • fight, For snow fell thick and soft and white, Giving the Finns their chance on skis To drive the Reds back to the seas. The lesson for which the Reds paid dear, LIVER IS RICH IN VITAMINS Why is liver so healthy? Well here's the story. The compo- sition of beef, veal, lamb or pork that it will be a time when we are liver is just about the same -70 per going to do our very best to help cent water, 20 pter cent protein, 2 to those with whom we come in contact 5 per cent fat, 11/ per oent ash and to be co-workers with Him. Let our a little glycogens. But besides its daily prayer be that God will give composition of tangible elements there us some opportunity to speak a word is something else which makes its for Him so that someone who perhaps valuable—it's rich inelusive vitamins. otherwise would not be safe in the Beef liver is evade more tender if. glary land will be able to say at that it is covered with sour or buttermilk last ,dray "He or she was the means and allowed to: stand over night. It of leading ire to Christ." If those has little effect on the flavor, how - who are not Christians sea us worry -ever, and in this respect calves' liver ing there will be very little use of remains the choice of most of us. us trying to teach them to react the' Different kinds of liver vary in Bible. If we are fretting under the icolor, texture and 'weight. The beef load which God has given us the, liver is the heaviest and darkest, privilege to bear for Him why ask: weighing as much as 12 pound's, while them to read that beautiful portion the maximum weight for baby beef of scripture, "Rest in the Lord, and is about 2 pounds, that of veal 4, of wait patiently for Him ... fret not' pork 5 and lamb 3. thyself in any wise," Psalm 37:7-8. If we find that we ausolutely have to worry then let us set aside a cer- tain portion of each day and cram all our worries into that time, leaving the remainder of the day free for pleasure and for the happiness of others. If we made that a practise there is no doubt that our times of worry would soon be pretty much at an end. Worry does not belong to any par- ticular person or any set station in life. It invades every hoarse from the poorest shack in the slums of any of our cities to the palace of a. king. , The answers to -a questionnaire sent out spine time ago brought the re- sponse that the worst worries were those who lived in the narrowest circle, those who thought of no one but themselves or who included per- haps two or three kindred spirits. Many times our worries are Mary A WISH I wish that I had fairy wings, I'd fly away with you, But fairy wings are airy things, They wouldn't hold ns two. I wish that I were like a swan, I'd sail away with you, But swan's wings like fairy wings Wouldn't hold us two: I wish that I were like a dove, I'd soar to realms unknown My heart it is so filled with love I want you for my own. I will ask for wings of truth, To keep my loved one near, For wings of truth and dreams of youth Enifold you always., dear. —Mona. McLeod. ASBESTOS OUTPUT INCREASED small when compared with the Asbestos production in, Canada dux - _ others. We should by ing the first eight months of last year troubles afraid to worry over trivial' things, amounted 18 , to 208,764nsnitons espondna with 180,336 tons in the corresponding for when some great calamity comes) period of 1938, according to the Na - into our lives then we world feel tural Resources Department of the that we were being justly punished' Canadian' National Railways. . !.. CALLIM3 RLL LOYEhS By: Katharine Baker To celebrate appropriately the day sacred to all lovers, St. Valentine's Day, and at the same time, please all lovers of eake, is a fairly simple matter. In spite of the propaganda about the poor appetite of those in love, we'll wager that even madly in- fatuated persons of either sex will make short work of this cake which has-been especially created for a St. Valentine's party, "BE MY SWEETHEART" CAKE 2 cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon. soda , cup butter or other shortening 11/2, cups brown sugar, firmly packed 2 eggs or 3 egg yolks, unbeaten 3 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted 1 cup milk ' 1 teaspoon Manilla Sift flour once, measure, add soda, and sift together three times. Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar grad- ually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each: then add chocolate and blend. Add flour, al- ternately with milk, a small amount at a time, beating after each addition until smooth. Add vanilla. Bake in two greased deep 9 -inch layer pans or three greased 8 -inch layer pans in moderate open (350 degrees F.) 25 to 30 minutes. Spread Seven Min- ute Frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake. While frosting is still soft sprinkle sides with rose - ,tinted southern style cocoanut Gut Valentine heart from waxed paper and place in center of frosted cake. Trace around heart with toothpick. Remove pattern carefully and fill in heart with rose -tinted cocoanut. To tint cocoanut, 'sprinkle on white paper. Dilute a tiny bit of vegetable coloring (paste, tablet, or liquid) in a small amount of water, pour over (cocoanut, and rub evenly through the cocoanut. SEV,EN MINUTE FROSTING 2 egg whites, unbeaten 11 cups sugar 3 tablespoons water 11/ teaspoons light corn syrup 1 teaspoon vanilla Combine egg whites, sugar, water, and corn syrup in top of double boil- er, beating with rotary egg beater, and cook 7 minutes, or until frosting will stand in peaks. Remove from boiling water; add vanilla and beat until thick enough to spread. Makes enough frosting to cover tops and sides of two 9 -inch layers, or top and sides of 8x8x2.inch cake (gen- erously.) 444444414,444414.44,444,44004 Easter Earliest This Year Till Turn of Century, Records Show Easter is stealing a march on in other languages the French Father Time and making a wartorn "paques", the Spanish "palcua," and world step even a little more lively) the Welsh tTpags"-is derived from with, its 1940 _!appearance March 24, the Hebrew, "Feast of Pesach," mean - earliest since 1913 and earlier in the ing "he .,passed over", which recalls year than it will ever come againithe deliverance when the Destroying until afteix 2000. Angel "passed over the houses of Then it may break another record the children of Israel when he smote —but that's a matter for savants of the Egyptians as related in the Bion the future. Easter 1913, was Maroh of Exodus.: The Jewish Passover 23 one day ahead of this year's in nearly coincides with the Christian the calendar. That early date was be- Easter, corning as it does on the full fore the 'First 'Great War, moon of the vernal equinox. Not that wars or roiling up maps of Europe and Asia have much to do with it. The date for the commemora- tion of Christ's rise from the dead Roman Emperor Constantine decreed owes its mobility to the capricious moon. Easter Sunday is always "the Easter Day the first day of the year, first Sunday alter the full moon and this reckoning lingered in France which happens on or next after the until an ordinance of Charles IX in twenty first day of March" March 21 1646 . fixed darner., 1 as •the year S being in northern. climes the first day natal day. of spring. Introduction of the Georgian Caleix. In Canada's sometimes long and dar by, Porte Gregory XIII in 1582 fickle winter, no fashion eonecious to replace the inaccurate Julian Cal- lass can depend on being able to ender, led to confusion between the flaunt brave colors and filmy dresses eastern and western churches as to too soon, and Easter, 1940, may see Canadian belles well wrapped in win- ter's furs. MANY HOURS' SLEEP NEEDED BY CHILD Unbroken Rest Ts A Great Builder— A great deal is being said and written about sleep these days, be- cause rest — unbroken sleep — is a great builder in children and a great restorer of energy in adults. The fact that infants sleep nearly all the time is Nature's 'method 1 preserving the ' energy for growth and development. The kicking and squirming of infants for the short time they are awake seems to give them all the exercise they need. Scale of Required Sleep Just how long should children sleep? The Ontario Department of Health in one of their series for mental clinics gives these figures: Birth to 6 months -18 to 20 hrs. 6 months to 2 years —. 16 hours. 2 years to 6 years — 12 hours. 10 years to 14 years -101/2 hours. 14 years to 18 years — 10 hours. Regarding the first two years of life, the most important rule in developing ehalthy sleeping habits is to leave the child alone. As children grow older, a definite hour fon; going to bed is advisable and he should go to bed the same hour every night. This, is a habit - building. OH, CARRY .ME BACK TO JUNE AND JULY When .the frost is on the windows and the kitchen pail is froze; when the little icy needles come with every breath that blows; when the chil- blains make us sick and cold feet give us pain, it's safe to bet we all wish for the sumaner days again. For while we swear and fume around in summer clothes, it's an easy thing to cool off, as everyone knows. But it's different in the winter when the world is full of ice, and the weather is as hard to beat as a pair of loaded dice. We may talk about our climate and about our spring and fall, but the balmy days of scanner are the days that suit us all. i Obserslance of the feast of Easter- tide as the most important in the Christian year took such hold that the the date for observing Easter. Deter- mination to disobey all regulations of Rome still keeps the eastern Christian churches from correcting the calendar She may find some consolation in according to the Gregorian reform - succeeding years. In 1948, Easter tion, Only in rare instances, as in reaches an ail -time "late" for the 1865, do the Easters of East and West century, coming on April 25, more coincide. Eastern governments, how - than a month later than 1940's frigid ever, have overlooked the quarrels of date, and the latest possible day on the church, and Greece, Turkey, Rio - which Easter Sunday can come. mania and Soviet Russia have all of - Three times in the century—in 1905, ficially adopted the "new" calendar. 1916 and 2000 — the feast coincides Britain made the change in 1752. with the double Engish holiday of - April 23, which is St. George's Day and Shakespeare's birthday. Promenading on Easter Sunday on boardwalks and main streets is a com- paratively regent North American development of the ancient festive season, but the history of the day it- self has roots in the first days of Christianity, and owes its name to more ancient mythology. The name itself, like the days of the week, is a derivation from Teut- onic 'mythology. Eostre Was the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, to whom the month corresponding to April in the present calendar, but once called "Eostur monath", was dedicated, The name of the festival ST. VALENTINE'S DAY Look out! Look out! He's alert, this little fellow, And long, long before you say —, "Hello," There's a shining dart from his ex- pert "little bow," And then, ah! -- away your heart will go. He loves them all, from the young, —on down to the old And his motives are of purest gold, From the "blinding flash," on to the "gentle glows," ,The heart is glad wherever he goes. —Hazel Lennox. Want to surprise the family with a new dinner- time treat? Serve them a tasty dish of Dried or Pickled Canadian Fish. No matter where you live, your dealer can get you such Dried Fish as Cod, Haddock,, Hake, Cusk and Pollock, and such Pickled Fish as Herring, Mackerel and Alewives . . ih perfect condition. Interesting recipes can be used for every one of these fine fish. Fish is a wonderful health food, good for every mem- ber of your family. It is the great source of proteins that help build sturdy, healthy bodies. Serve Dried or Pickled Canadian Fish to your family,. often ... they will enjoy it ... and you will find it economical, too. DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES; OTTAWA. WRITE FOR FREE BOOKLET Department of Fisheries, Ottawa 213 Please send me youtfree .52 -page Booklet x'100 Tempting Fish Recipes", containing 100 delightful and economical Fish Rec,pes. FISH D .A