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THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED
TO THE POETS
Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful
and Inspiring.
A. FRIEND
• Sometimes when life has gone wrong
with you,
And the world seems a dreary
place,
• Has your dog ever silently crept to
your feet,
His yearning eyes turned to your
face—
Has be made you feel that he under-
stands,
And all that he asks of you
Is to share your lot, be it good or ill,
With a chance to be loyal and true?
Are you branded a failure? He does
not know--.
A sitter?? He does not care—
You're "master" to him—that's all
that counts—
A word, anis his day is fair.
Your birth and your station are no-
ticing to him;
A palace and a hut are the same—
And his 'love is yours, in honor and
peace,
And it's yours through disaster or
shame.
Though others forget yau, and pass
you by,
He is ever your faithful friend—
Who is ready to give you the best
that is hist
Unstintedly to the end.
—From "Our Dumb Animals."
SEEING
When out of doore do you look at
the ground
Or the glorious stars above?
)f you drink in the beauty of God's
own sky
Your face will reflect His love.
'When you look at a friend do you
see his faults,
Or only that which is good?
For you yourself are painting your
face
With the lines of your attitude,
STRIPLING
''.Phe heat of childhood, close behind,
Stil inlets the mirror of our mind
And toys with which we, careless,
play. •
Are things men died for yesterday.
011 Canada, so richly blessed
By God and time, so unoppressed,
An unkempt Freedom waits unsure—
And cries for guidance -bold, mature.
It matters nothing that we ask
To do some. adolescent task;
The anti -Christ, destruction bent,
Is starkly free of sentiment.
Youth ie a brushed -aside excuse
When Hate's stampeding hosts tear
Ioose.
Lest spares no favorites. Old or
young
Can trust but roots from which
they've sprung,
•
Our sires Who lived to spurn the
yoke
'Were strangely honest, simple folk;
Their strength drawn daily from the
sod
And anchored in the living God,
The 'ragged certainty they bred
Was not a strain inherited,
Each generation paid its price—
Or judged it pointless sacrifice.
We judge in turn—because we must,
Democracy is our in trust—
Loose-limbed, good-natured, with, a
thirst,
For .all we offer—best or worst.
The selfishness of all mankind
Iilounts as a whirlwind, mad and
blind,
But brave, clean hearts, still ours to
give,
Can rear .a nation fit to live.
'Ch Canada, may we enthrone
A. Wisdom greater than' our own
Should Faith, hard -driven, matte
her stand.
4trithin the ramparts, oe this land,
-F'rederi,ek B, Watt.
,1
CANADA
Where Are You Standing Today?
Canada, my Canada, dear Canada,
Where are you standing today?
Is it the rose hued Monroe Doctrine
That makes you lag bythe way?
Why do you fight shy of conscrip-
tion,
Has the blood of your chiefs gone
white?
If Unity comes before Empire,
Where do you stand in this fight?
We have, heard the Mother call for
succor
Through the dim Atlantic mists,
Shall we rise• and fight as we've
done before
And show we are not misfits.
Or cower beside the U.S.A.,
Forgetting our British birth,
And blush in the face of the children
Feeling we're scum of the earth?
Ate we economic warriors?
Will somebody please explain?
T'woulcl make my dead friends on
y
Vim
Writhe in their graves in shame.
We are strong at shouting and
cheering
As ori. •King and Queen pass by,
But more and more each day I'm
afraid
That that was all in my eye,
Mauritania's gone by the Pacific,
The Queen Mary's by the Cape,
If it is not men they are after,
What can they have gone to take?
Anzacia has eighty thousand
At our Mother's call for men,
But you, you send a corporal's guard,
Though there are plenty of men.
She has cruisers on the oceans,
As witness the Graf Spee,
But you, you've a few destroyers,
And you brag the live -long day.
Our Justice, he is a stalwart man,
Who walks with an upright mien.
His bearing would lead one to be-
lieve
He'd fight for his 'Sing and Queen,
But try to conscript for the Empire,
He'd scuttle home to Quebec,
Taking his followers with him,
Is that what one should expect?
I've ricldeti the veldt of Africa,
And slugged through the mud of
France,
If you do not want your young to
go,
Let us old ones have a chance.
Our hearts may not be beating so
strong,
But they will carry on until
We can strike one more blow for
Britain,
And a bunch of Huns are still.
So Canada, you have a problem,
A chief afraid to be bold,
Some who will scrap at the first shot
fired,
And some who have to be told.
You will solve it, I know, my country,
And end far out in the van,
On you youth in your strength and
vigor,
Wide the old land go hand in hand.
So face it like men, my countrymen,
Conscript for Norway and France,
Stand shoulder; to shoulder with
Britain's men,'
And feel honored at the chance.
—Veteran.
Prolonged cooking takes the flav-
our out of onions. Cook them only
until they turn clear and are'tender
when tested with a fork. They will
then be :Firm and full of sweet
;flavour.
A good soap substitute for washing
ribbons and delicate woollen goods
can be trade by grating twa or three
potatoes into a pan of water. Sonne
people claim that better results can
be obtained than if soap is used,
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Keep Up Our Faith
13y "PEG"
We, the 'hiyal subjects of H
Gracious Majesty, icing George
have had many occasions on whic
feel proud of him, but never mo
so thaa on Empire day this yea
when . he spoke to his peopee
throughout the world. He stresse
the difficult and dangerous time
through which we are passing alt
ended with the words, "Let us g
forward to that -task as one man;
Smile on our lips and our heads hel
high, and with God's help we 'she
not fail,"
Throughout the Empire, at th
of- the King, a day of praye
was held the Sunday following Em
pire Day. The majority reporte
their churches well filled at Ieast fo
service, others had only scatter
ed congregations.
God is still on His throne. God
is still ruling the world, and as long
as that la so right will conquer. Prior
to the Great War twenty-five years
ago God tested us and found us very
much wanting as far as our Clnes-
tian standard was concerned. He
taught us a lesson and gave us an
other chance. When the war was
over we immediately proceeded to
forget God; to spend our time as we
pleased, giving practically none of
it to God; our Sundays were turned
into a play time. We forgot the
lesson we had been taught by Him
who in one instant could bring the
world to an end,
Those of us who are old enough
to remember the last war will also
recall resolutions which we made to
lead different lives, to give God first
place and to do our best to help on
His work. Like our New Year re-
solutions, these lasted but a day.
For many years now church funds
have been going back. 'Missionaries
have had to be recalled as there were
no funds to pay even the meagre sal-
aries they get, Some churches even
in Canada have lead to close down al-
together; ethers, including their of-
ficials, are playing at religion. Yet
our dance halls and picture shows
are crowded. Sundays are spent as
if there was no God. As we look
about us, with sick hearts me must
say, "Oh, God, forgive usl"
We speak about there being 'no
God and no church in Germany. To
many of us in Canada there is no
God and no church, We elaint that
as we are living in a Christian
country that God is with us in this
war, well then, why do we turn our
backs on Him in good and prosper-
ous times and give the. world the
impression that we are ashamed of
Him.
Just take for instance the day of
prayer that God might count us on
His side in this struggle. Where
were we that we were not at church?
It rained 'in many parts of our coun-
try, otherwise our churches would
not has been neatly as well filled as
they were. Ali week long we wor-
ried over the war news and when it
came Sunday we thought, "I must
get away from this worry; 1 will
gather a few friends together and
go for a picnic; I will go golfing.;
111 take a car ride; I'll call some
is evangelist, asked the question, "Are
VI, ! we .following Jesus?" Our hearts
eh filled with shame as we thought of
re the careless •way we are following
r Him. He pointed out that we lab
s ourselves church members and even
d church officials and yet we act i
s such a way we would not want any
d one to follow our footsteps. Let u
o answer this question honestly' t
a ourselves and to our God. There wer
d "musts" in Christ's life and one
11 the "musts" in our life at the pees
ent time is that if we expect to be
he on the victorious side, that is on
r Christ's side, we must at once leave
- the things of the world and join with
d His forces, then no matter how anx-
or ions or how hard the struggle ahead
of us is we will have nothing to
fear,
Flowering Annuals
Plants usually classified as flower-
ing annuals are those of which the
seed' is sown andtheplants, flowers,
and seeds are produced with the•
eventual death of the plant after one
continuous period of growth, states
J. M. Scatterty, Dominion Experi-
el mental Station, Harrow.' This dee
seription, of course, applies only to
plants grown outdoors, as many
greenhouse plants are grown eontin
- measly for extended periods before
oproducing flowers. For the purpose
of diseumision, annual flowers may
e be divided into two groups—hardy
of and half-hardy.
Hardy annuals, which include hund-
reds of most satisfactory varieties
from all corners of the world, should
be sown as early in spring as the
soil can be worked properly,
friends in and have a couple of tables
of bridge." It is true indeed that
neany wended their way to God's
house to join with thousands of oth-
ers in supplication to the Saviour of
the world to give us the victory. Be
careful! Be careful! God is weighing
us in the balance. How many lessons
do' we have to be taught before we
learn that God is giving us one more
chance which we do not in the least
deserve. It is His power and His
alone to make us victors or losers.
May God grant that we may be on
His side.
Put aside the things of the world.
Those who are engaged in war work
should give serious consideration to
the thought. Would God approve of
some of the means we are using to
raise money to combat our enemies?
No teethed should be used for this
work which could not legitimately
be used in His house. We seem to'
think we cannot raise money for;
'anything now unless we dance, play
cards or go to the movies. Would
Jesus go with us to these places of
amusement. No! and if we are
Christians we would not ask Him 50.1
If we are on God's side He will, if
we go to Him in prayer, teach us
His way for making money for all
His work. We cannot expect Him
to be with ns if we persist in using'
means which be does not approve of.
We cannot blame God for this, war.
It is our own. unchristian ways which
have brought it en.
Speaking in Massey Hall recently
the original gipsy Rodney Smith,'
considered to be the world's greatest
Why do we go on in the way we
are living? It is simply that which
has . brought the world to the state
in which it is to -day. On the day
of prayer we went to God's house
with high faith realizing that God
could and would help us. We were
quite confident of it, yet in the next
day or so when things did not go so
well we immediately began asking
the question "Where is God?" Is
that fair -10 the one who has never
failed in a promise to us. How
meagre and how short lived our faith
is and what patience our Heavenly
Father has With us.
A gospel calendar carried as its
verse for the world's Day of Prayer,
the passage from Luke 24:31, "Jesus
Himself stood in the midst of them,
and saitit unto them, 'Peace be unto
Mai." The verse for the following
day was "Behold, think it not
strange concerning the fiery trial
which is to try you . . . bat rejoice
in as much as ye are partakers of
Christ's Sufferings", I Peter 4:12-13.
If we are Christians we have no
reason whatever to fear the future.
Let us just put our trust in God and
He will see us safely through.
We seen to have to run ahead of
the Lord to try to conjecture just
what is going to happen next. Keep
our radios off, talk little war news,
but work much. As our King said,
"Keep our confidence brightly shin-
ing."
There are very few of us no matter
how disabled but who can do some-
thing. Let us lay aside our fancy
work for the titne being, unless that
is the only thing we can do. Let our
prayers ascends~ constantly through
this awful scourge.
Thn too we must not forget that
God can change the hardest heart.
Lot us include in our prayers one
for the salvation of our enemies and
their leader. Nothing is too hard
far God.
We have the assurance that Christ
died for us, rose again and is still
living and reigning. As long as that
fact remains He will let the a 'enemy
go so far and no farther. Isn't it
wonderful to think that there is a
place where time enemy, at God's
command must stop. No matter what
armaments they have they will be.
useless when God gives the command
to go no further. If we cannot do
aeything more to help we can join
the forces of Jesus Christ, we can
be optimistic and smile.
"0 God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to came,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our Eternal home.
Under time shadow of Thy throne,
Thy saints have dwelt secure;
Sufficient is Thine arm alone,
end our defence is sure."
"PEG"
PINEAPPLE SAUCE
Now that pineapple can be obtain-
ed on the market, one should try to
use them in as many different ways
es possible. There are a multitude
of ways in which this delicious fruit
may be used to make tempting and
delicious desserts, The following
recipe is i'or a pineapple sauce to
serve over pancakes, •waffles, spice
cake, or cottage pudding. Tryit!
2 cups pineapple juice, piece lemon
rind, one-third cup sugar, 2 teaspoons.
cornstarch, 1 tablespoon water, 2
tablespoons lemon juice.
Method: Heat pineapple juice with
piece of lemon rind about four min -
minutes. Brown sugar in small parr,
stirring until golden brown. Add hot
pineapple juice slowly and stir well,
Gook until smooth, then thicken,
with cornstarch rubbed to paste with
water (will take about 5 minutes).
Add. lemon juice and remove rind.
Most annuals are very easily
handled, and any moderately rich
garden soil should be entirely satis-
factory. A soil too well supplied with
manure is liable to produce rich vege-
tative growth at the expense of
bloom, and it would be well to, apply
manure in small quantities annually
and preferably in the fall. Even
though the soil- was dug the previous
fall it is necessary to loosen the
seed -bed to a depth of three or four
inches just previous to sowing the
seeds. The surface should be raked
evenly and smoothly so that no de-
pressions are left for water to settle
in or high spots which would dry out
quickly. Seeds should be sown thinly
and covered according to size. Fine
seeds require only raking in and light
tamping while larger seeds will need
a covering of soil equal to their
diameter. Some hardy annuals are
transplanted with difficulty; there-
fore, these are sown directly in their
flowering quarters. The most notable
of this type are all the annual pop-
pies, baby's breath, lupines, lover -
in -a -mist, and godetia.
China asters, zinnias, sweet alys-
sum, portulaca, flowering tobacco,
and numerous other sorts may be
sown in one location and, if desired,
can be transplanted later to cover
spaces left vacant by early flower-
ing perennials or to wherever the
need arises.
Half-hardy annuals such as snap-
dragon,. Lobelia, petunia, salvia, and
verbena am'e usually started indoors
in March and transplanted to their
flowering quarters late in May. Al-
though lacking the permanence of
hardy perennials, annual flowers are
invaluable for many purpose, partic-
ularly for' cut flowers.
CUSTOM OF BRIDAL VEIL
TRACED TQ ANCIENT RITE
The ancient custom of veiling a
bride was once a trick to mislead
mischievous demons.
Thus Professor Ludwig Deubner,
of the Berlin university, explains
bridal veils, which in ancient times.
were more enveloping and mysteri-
ous than the airy veil of a modern
bride.
Fear of demons, it appears, plag-
ued the ancient Greeks in a fashion
reminiscent of the fairy tale fear of
the wicked fairy who alwaysturned
up for trouble at weddings and
christenings,
Describing lengths to which wed-
dings parties would go to foil de-
mons. It is said that brides in Spar-
ta were dressed in men's clothing.
The Sparta maid, dressed just like a
man and with her hair shorn, was
shut up in a dark room to await
her bridegroom's arrival and a dra-
matic rescue.
Professor Deubner finds evidence
that Greek marriage customs are
related to customs 01 other Indo-
Germani.c Aryan peoples, and some
can still be found surviving in parts
of Greece.
Describing ancient Greek wed-
dings, Professor Deubner stated that
as marriages were arranged by the
parents, the couple -to -be were not
consulted and often became acquaint-
ed only after they were wed.
The popular month for weddings
corresponded to late January and
early February in our calendar. The
bride sacrificed her hair, her girdle
and her toys at the altar of Artemis.
Corresponding to a modern church
wedding was a sacrifice rite to the
goddess Hera. During the Wedding
banquet the bridegroom removed the
bride's veil. Wedding gifts went by
a name meaning unveiling, because
they were received after the remov-
al of the veil.
Guests accompanied the couple
to their home and threw old shoes
to ward off evil. The groom lifted
his bride from the cart in, which
they rode, and she like ancient
German brides — walked thrice a-
stound the hearth -fire in token of
her entrance to a new family.
HEALTH
Three Favorite Recipes
Lemon, Butter
Cream
1 cup sugar
lad pound butter. Add
Grated skis of 1 lemon
d tablespoons water
Juice and pulp of two lemons. Mix
well Add
1 egg. Beat mixture. Then boil in
saucepan •er double boiler about
25 minutes. It thickens after
cooling.
Spread on toast for breakfast or
tea, •
Molasses Crumb Pie
Line two pie pans with paetry: Rub
the following mixture in the fingers,
or with pastry blender, until fluffy:
3 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1 'cup shortening
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Mix
lei cups New Orleans molasses
1e cups water
'A teaspoon baking soda. Pour this
molasses mixture into the lined
pie pans and sprinkle with the
crumbs of the first mixture.
Bake in moderate oven (375
degrees F.) about 45 minutes, or
until firm when shaken,
Potato Salad
Cut smalland mix
Boiled potatoes
Cucumber
Celery
Stuffed olives
Sweet pickle. Just before serving,
cut
Sliced bacon into tiny squares and
fry until crisp, pouring off bac-
on grease as it accumulates.
Sprinkle bacon squares through-
out salad and add.
Mayonnaise.
LADY TWEEDSMUIR GIVES
NAME TO W.I. "VILLAGE
BOOKS" AND FOREWORD
Through the consent of Lady
Tweedsmuir, wife of the late Gov-
ernor General of Canada, and now
of Elsfield Manor, Oxford, England,
the Federated Women's Institute
of Ontario plan to perpetuate the
name of Tweedsmuir by compiling
histories of villages which are to
be called Tweedsmuir Villages His-
tories. Not only has Lady' Tweeds-
muir' graciously consented to the
F.W.I.O: s request 'to name these
village Books as she conceived the
idea in the first place, but has also
written a foreword for these botks,
Says the Orillia Packet and Times.
The .Foreword which Lady Tweeds-
muir has graciouly written for these
booke is as follows:
"I am so glad to hear that the
Women's Institute of Ontario are
going to compile village history
books. Event move very fast nova
adays; houses are pulled down, new
roads are made, and the aspect of
the countryside changes completely
sometimes in a short time,
It is a most useful and satisfying
task for Women's Institute mem-
bers to see that nothing valuable is
lost or forgotten, and women should
be on the alert always to guard the
traditions of their homes, and to see
that water colour sketches and prints
poems and prose legends should find
their way into these books. The
oldest people in the village will' tell
us fascinating, stories of what they
remember, which the younger mem-
bers can write down, thus making
a bridge between them and events
which happened before they were
born. After all, it is the history of
humanity which is continually in-
teresting to us, and your village hist.
ories will be the basis of accurate
facts much valued by historians of
the future. I am proud to think
that you have called them The
Tweedsmuir Villages Histories."
KEEP DADDY SAFE
OVER THERE
Daacly rooked grand wnen he kissed
us goodby
And smiled as he brushed the bad
wet from his eye
He told me that i was his brave little
than
And I'm to help Mother whenever I
can.
Mumnmie just hugged me tight in her
arae
While huskily Daddy said "Keep hint
from harm."
I won't cry, those aren't tears on
my cheek
It's only a lump in my throat when
I speak.
Excuse me God I can't finish nmy
prayer
Please keep my dear Daddy safe over
there. —Maud Knox.
cikeSNAPSNOT GUILD
"FRAMING" YOUR PICTURES
A natural frame adds interest to your pictures. Note how the archway
in this shot focuses attention on the mission building.
1IND a natural "frame" for your
picture subjects—and as a rule,
you'll get pictures that are more in-
teresting, This is especially true
when the subject is a Iandscape, a
scenic view, a building, a street
scene, or similar material with
quite a bit of detail.
Your frame can be a doorway, a
window, an arch, a garden gateway
surmounted by a trellis, or any
other opening of suitable siee..It
need not always be complete; for
example, a tree framing one side
and the top of a scenic view nmay
be sufficient,
After you choose a subject, look
about and see if there is not some
suitable ,framing device at hand.
Often it will not be evident at once
—but it is usually worth a search.
A silhouetted frame, or one dark
in tone, generally gives the best ef-
fect. To insure sharpness, use, a
small lens opening in taking the
picture, especially 11 the framing
material is quite near the camera.
7(ou'll find that framing adds a
lot to the pictorial value of your
outdoor and scenic $hots, and helps
make this part 'et your collection
more interesting to all who view it.
278 John van Guilder