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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-06-13, Page 7'THUBS., JUNE 13, 1940 HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS TRE CLTNTON NEWS -RECORD CARE OF CHILDREN TRY IT THE "S LADA" WAY Infuse 6 heaping teaspoons of Salada Black Tea in a pint of fresh, boiling water. After 6 minutes strain liquid into 2 -quart container; while hot, add 1 to 1 / cups of sugar andjuice of 2 lemons, strained; stir until sugar is dissolved; fill container • with cold water. Do not allow tea to coot bakers asloit.w dill WOW or liquid will become cloudy. Serve with chipped ice. The above makes 7 tall glasses. !! THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs -Sometimes 1 Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful and Inspiring. JUNE 1 What is so rare as a day in Jltne? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, i 1 Climbs to a soul in grass and • flowers; The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and val- leys; The cowslip startles in meadows! green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; 'l'he little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it re- ceives; •His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings; Be sings to the wide world, and she to her nest,— in the nice ear of Nature which song is the best? —James Russel Lowell. LITTLE LIGHTS God bless each little light that burns In an unexpected place— On an altar in a darkened church Or in a sad, sad face. God bless each little light and fan Its flame and keep it bright; There is so much of darkness that We need each little light. "THIS "ENGLISH SOIL" This English soil, these English seas Abide the stormy centuries, To crown the oft imperilled hour With victory and righteous power. So sacrificial fires shall forge Still brighter armour for St. George, That England yet may vindicate Her brave ideals, nor dragon spate Of ill be suffered to despoil These English seas, this English soil. —Edgar Newgass. THAT LITTLE LABEL ON YOUR PAPER This question you so fairly ask, Does not impose on us a task, Too hard to do, and yet perchance We fail to take this upward glance. This label, without doubt or fears, So kindly tells of our arrears; And yet somehow, by hook or crook, We at this label fail to look. I took this look the other night, And lo, behold, I got a fright To find the year had fled a gait, And with my dues was somewhat' late. So now, kind friends, if you, like me, Ignored this label sent to thee; Just take a glance at it tonight, Then do at once what seemeth right. 'Twill cause the printing staff ta: smile, And carry on for yet a while; To know we paid our dues on time; Accept the hint in this wee rhyme. —.A Subscriber. VERSE FOR THE WEEK We search the world for truth, we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful From the graven state and written scroll, From off old flower fields of the soul, And, weary seekers for the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read. —Whittier. "'.Kush all deliveries, Jim . barked the Chief e e . • Distance rl ;for immediate reports on all contracts!" Yes, TIME is the essence of all contracts these days! Efficient, fast and private in War or Peace, Long Telephone Service is doing its bit on the Horne front. Day and night, Long Distance stands ready and waiting. For economy, special low rates apply )after seven p.m. and all day Sunday. A Contented Mind Have you a contented mind or is' your mental companion one which keeps you constantly uneasy about one thing or another? At the pres- ent time do we see someone who has a new fashioned knitting bag? It may be we have four or five of our own but this is something new and we do not *ve ourselves ar anyone any peace until we have a bag just like that. If we allow this sort of thing to grow on us it will. not be long until people would rather have our space than our company. It is an easy thing to allow these thoughts to get the mastery over us. In many instances habits such as these are formed when we are child- ren. We would scream and cry and kick if we could not have some toy which another little playmate had or if we could not have our own way.' Parents realize when it is too late that it is a mistake to give into those whims. Better let a cross child I spend the rest of the day in bed than be a nuisance to him and to others I to help him form. a habit which will in later years. Many a young person has had to suffer severely for wie checked habits formed in young life. After all when we get what we want many times we have no particular use for it. We have plenty to be happy with if we would just pray God to give us a contented mind.. Let us try this plan. Next tisne when we see something belonging to some- one else which we would like to have just think "I would like to have that but if I get it 'someone might think I copied from them," In some way or other let us get away from the habit of continually warding something. There is so much we have that we could do without. Let us spend that money on something worth while. COOKING PAGE 7s HEALTH we have rat gat such an attitude to- wards life,, it is our own fault far it takes so little to give happiness, We have the power within us to give us happiness or •sadness•. It is not necessary for us to go beyond ourselves to, have a good time. We cannot take money and go dawn' town and buy a contented mind. We have got to develop it and we can only develop it by work, by putting ourselves to ant: side and helping others. . To have a contented mind weimust spend more time studying other peo- ple. We may think we know people and when in their company we talk about everything .but perhaps the one thing they want us to talk about,. that is Jesus Christ, their Saviour and ours. The time will come in our lives when we will be glad to toile about Him and why not now. "Serene I hold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, or tide or sea; I rave no .more 'gainst time or fate, For lol my own shall come to me. I stay my haste, I make delays, • For what avails this eager pace? I stand amid the Eternal ways, And what is mine shall know my face. Then have we a contented mind if we are continually going from place to place talking about someone? What a wretched habit! At times it places the person to whom we are talking in a very awkward position, and it is so easy for wrong impres- sions to be spread abroad. After all people as a rule do not want to hear gossip. There is plenty to talk about to make good wholesome conversa- tion without raking up a lot of stuff which may travel from "Dan to Bcrsheba," By the time it gets to its destination one would not recog- nize it as the story it started out with. How cruel it is to use the' tongue which God gave us for a good, purpose in such a way that it will bring sorrow to some one else. There is selrow enough in the world with- out us adding anything to it. We sometimes hear the remark there is , no one in the world just like me. All we can say is "Thank God for that, for if there were many mare like what we are it would indeed be, a more sorrowful world than it is.' It does not take any longer to make a kind statement than it does to say something unkind. Just how are we going to have a contented mind? Look about us and see the beauty of the world. The' summer is here. It is true the har- vest is' late but we have God's prom- ise ",seed time and harvest shall not fail: We have all the beauty of God's nature. It is a very rare thing to find anyone with a discontented mind who spends times with "God out of doors.' You may say I am too busy to spend time gardening. We can find time to do it if we want to. Encourage the members of the family, even the children, to have a little garden plot, both vegetable and flower if possible. Many people in cities have little space but they can at least have window boxes. Someone has said, "many troubles are buried with a trowel." Do not say, "I can't do anything!' There is no such word as can't in the English language. We wes'e taught that in school. How glad we are to know that that word is net in the language we use. Da not lot it enter our vocabule y. What else is there which will give us a content- ed maid? Trying to do things for others. We will certainly become very much discontented if we centre our minds on ourselves. That will give us a very very selfish attitude to- ward others. If we keep our minds on others there will be no time to think of ourselves. Did you ever have a flower, a book or a papas and thinking of someone who is ill you wrapped it up; and eent it to them. If you have over received an article such as that you will know just what you felt like, It is not so much the gift but the thought behind it which is appreciated. So little on our part means so much to someone who is laid aside. When our day is ended just let our minis wander over the doing of the past ,hours and see what we have done, to 'make a contended .mind. It Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends I seek are seeking me; No wind can drive my bark astray, Nor change the tide of destiny. The stars come nightly to the sky, The tidal wave unto the sea; Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high Can keep my own away from mel" "PEG" Too Many Steps About The Mouse Save Shce Leather and Temper by Planning Ds.ntestic Tasks Someone discovered recently the "average woman" washes an ,acre of dirty dishes, three miles of dirty clothes, and cue mile of glass, anti. scrubs and washes five miles of floors in a year. Add to this the miles she walks doing the different jobs — frightening, isn't it? Let's see how we can knock a few miles off the weekly household ntielage. When' peeling vegetables for a stew already on the stove, don't take each onion to the pot as it is peeled. Wait. until you have finished the lot, and walk across the kitchen once. When you arrive home with groc- eries put them away in the cupboard straight away. Don't unload the lot on to the kitchen table and then start all over again. If you have stairs in your house or flat, things are sure to have to be taken up or downstairs. Unless you have to make the journey, wait until you have collected quite a few at the top or bottom, and then ga- ther them all up together. Keep a tray at the foot of the stairs. Take a shopping list out with you. Use trays to lay and clear away the meals, even if tine kitchen is next door. Don't dabble in clearing up the rooms. Do one room at a time and finish it, whether it's a turnout or a "spit -and -polish." I Have a slate and chalk in the ' kitchen ready to write down store- cupboard shortages at a minute's notice, This helps the shopping list. 148 -YEAR-OLD FLOWER GARDEN STILL BLOOMS It is 148 years ago that the first flower garden was set out in Kent • County, and that garden is still in existenee, according to Mrs. Nelson Bedford of Zone Centre who has been active in the Women's Institute's de- partment of historical research. Mrs, Lemuel Sherman brought a number of Orange Lilies from Cone necticut in 1792 when she and her husband moved to t h e Thamesville district. They built their first horse on the Thames River bank near the present location of the Sherman' cemetery and there planted the lilies, "They are still growing in the hoI- low and' in the cemetery," Mrs. Bed- ford said, "and I think they deserve a marker on the highway dineeting tourists to this location. In the Spring when the lilies are in bloom they are a beautiful sight." "The lily bed is of special interest to the congregation of the United Church at Thhamesville," Mrs. Bed- ford said. "For it is that flower garden which delighted the eyes of Rev. Nathan Bang, the pioneer Methodist preacher when he came on horse hack down the river andi preaChed the first Methodist sermon , in Lemuel Sherman's house in 1804," THE SALAD BOWL Not everyone is privileged to watch the first shoots of green coming through in a vegetable garden, but 'Signs of spring in city markets are bunches of crinkly, fresh lettuce, crisp, red radishes, little white scal- lions, green cress and tender aspar- agus tips. There are a few points to be re- membered in creating a salad from. these fresh foods: 1. Greens sliould be dry, crisp and cool. 2. The dressing should be thor- oughly chilled and added just be- fore serving. 8. If other ingredients are used, they should be cut in attractive small pieces. 4. A green salad should be lightly tossed with a fork, not stirred. A variety of greens maybe used. Lettuce is, of course, the com- mon one and green leaf lettuce has more flavour and food value than the bleached varieties. Chinese cabbage, watereress, en- dive, young shoots of Swiss chard, beet tops, spinach and delicate garden cress are all ex- cellent salad greens. The variations are innumerable. Sliced radishes, scallions, raw or cooked, cooked potatoes, hard cooked egg, crumbled cheese, bits of cooked meat or flaked cooked fish may be blended with any green salad. The amount of these ingredients should be small in proportion to the greens to keep the salad of the crisp rather than heavy type. Sonia special salad recipes are recommended by the Consumer Sec- tion, Marketing Service, Dominion Department of Agriculture. Lettuce Roll Salad 1 package cream cheese 14 cup ground cooked hart 2 tbsp. chopped pickle Mayonnaise 6 large lettuce leaves Mash cheese and mix thoroughly with ham and pickle. Spread a thin layer of this mixture on each leaf of let- tuce. Form into rolls and chill. Cut into one -inch lengths and place three or four of these rolls on a leaf of lettuce. Serve with Boiled Dressing. Luncheon Salad 2 heads leaf lettuce 1 hard cooked egg, sliced 3 scallions, sliced very thinIy 1 cup cold cooked potato, diced 1 cup cold boiled ham, diced Just before serving, shred lettuce. Mix all ingredients lightly, adding French Dressing as desired. Green Lettuce Mould (serves 6) 2 tbsp. gelatine U cup cold water Mz cup mild vinegar 2 cups boiling water 1 tsp. salt 2 cups leaf lettuce (finely shredded) •hr cup pimiento (finely chopped) 1 tsp. finely chopped onion % cup sugar Soak the gelatine in cold water five minutes. Add vinegar, boiling water, onion, sugar and salt. Stir until dis- solved. Strain and cool. Arrange the lettuce and pimiento in a wet or care- fully greased mould. Pour the cooled mixture over this and chill. Serve on lettuce leaves with salad dressing. SALAD DRESSINGS French Dressing 1 cup olive oil 'di cup vinegar % tsp. salt 1 tsp. sugar % tsp. paprika Put ingredients in a screw top jar. Shake well before using. Keep in re- frigerator and shake each time it is used, Boiled Dressing 1 tsp. salt 1 tbep. mustard 1 tbsp. flour 2 tbsp, sugar 3 egg yolks 2 tbsp. butter two-thirds eup of milk two-thirds cup of vinegar Speck of cayenne pepper Heat milk.. in double 'boiler. Mix dry ingredients and pour hot milk over. Return to double boiler and stir con- stantly for five minutes. Add egg yolks and, stir until thick. Add vine- gar slowly (if heated it lessens the time). Add butter and stir until dis- solved: Graduation Exercises at Goderich Hospital Five nurses -in -training ut Alexan.- dra Hospital received their diplomas at graduation exercises held in. the Capital Theatre on Friday afternoon. Those receiving dipiomas were Misses Lenore Stothers,, Dungannon; Betty Bissett, Lucknow; Fern Gran - sten, Goderich; Irene Taylor, Blyth; Charlotte Crawford, Port Albert. On the platform wore civic and hospital officials, members of the medical profession, of women's or-• ganizatiosu and bevies of nurses on either side of the graduating class on a stage bedecked with flowers, flags and patriotic bunting, present- ing an impressive and beautiful scene. G. L. Parsons, chairman of the board of governors, presided. Prayer was offered by Rev. A. J. Milligan and a civic welcome was ex- tended by Mayor MacEwan. The ad- dress to the graduating class was given by Rev. W. P. Lane and the Florence Nightingale pledge was ad- ministered by Dr. N. C. Jackson. The presentation of diplomas was made by the superintendent, Miss MaCorkindale. Presentations also were made of syringes by Dr. John Wallace, for the medical profession, graduate pins by Mrs. Redditt, for the board of governors, reference'', books by Mrs. W. Newcombe for the Nurses' Alunmae, dressing forceps by Miss Feagan, for nurses -in -train- ing, scissors by Mrs. D. E. Gamp- bell, for the Women's Hospital As- sociation, pencils by Mrs. D. I. Lane, for Ahmeek Chapter I. 0. D.E., and sterilizers by Mrs. R. J. McMehen, for Maple Leaf Chapter. "They Jhafll Not Pass" When Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the British House of Commons, after Dunkirk, "We shall go on to the end" there was oily one 'end' in the minds of British people throughout the world victory. British history is a proud record of victory won in the face of overwhelm- ing odds; victory achieved by the stubborn, slow strength of a people not easily or quickly aroused. Britain's history is packed with epic dramas in which staggering de- feat has been changed into inspired vietory and from these pages, at this time when all the civilized world is gathering strength to halt oppres- sion, the CBC will recapture same of these immortal incidents he Brit- ish history. Trafalgar, Zebrugge, Plessey, Bouloygne, Cadiz , . . these are names to conjure with and names that are written for all time in the annals of British tenacity and British pluck. In a serial, "They Shall Not Pass" which will provide the stories of these great victories, the CBC will en ea ente. $S ss s sstoz gree to Canadian listeners a record in drama of Britain's greatness. William Strange, of Toronto, will write the stories for radio production, and Sydney Brown will be the pxo. ducer. "They Shall Not Pass" is scheduled to start Wednesday, June 19, at 10.00 to 10.30 p.m. EDST., and will be presented from the CBC's Toronto Studios. TWO PRINCESSES DONATE PENNIES TO FUND Princesses Elizabeth and Marg. aret Rose, daughters of King George VI, giving pennies from their pocket money, headed the Iist of British, school children who raised a futul of ' 372,000 to purchase 18,000,000 cig- arettes for Britain's armed forces as an Empire Day gift. Use a paste of bicarbonate of soda and warm water for getting rid of tea stains on china. MOTHER SHIP_°ON'S PROPHECIES Because of the uncanny manner in which the prophecies en Mother Shipton have been coming to pass during recent years, considerable at- tention hasbeen attracted to this strange creature of four centuries ago. Even those who have in the past scoffed at the weird predictions of this ancient "witch" are now stir- red by curiosity to wonder what will next occur in -'-chis direction. Mother Shipton, We are told, was born in Yorkshire, England, in July 1488 and died about 1669. In books of information she is described as a half mythical English prophetess, baptized 'Ursula Southiel, who later married Tony Shipton, a builder. According' to traditions, she was the child of Agatha Shipton and the Devil. The following extracts from her amazing prophecies were taken from a scrap book made move than forty years ago and owned by a Rochester woman, says the Rochester Demo- And fire and sword sweep o'er the drat and Chronicle: T land. A house of glass. shall come to pass And those who live the century throt Three tyrant rulers shall she see Each springing from a different dynasty And when the last great fight is won; England and France shall be as one. And now a word in uncouth rhyme Of what shall be in latter time, In those wonderful far-off days Women shall get a strange new craze To dress like men and breaches wear And cut off their beautiful locks of hair, And ride astride with brazen brow As witches do on broomsticks now. Then love shall die and marriage cease And babes and sucklings so decrease That wives shall fondle cats and dogs And men live much the same as begs In eighteen hundred and ninety-six Build your houses of rotten sticks For then shall mighty war be plan, ned In merry England, but, alas! War will follow with the work In the land of the bloody Turk. In fear and trembling this will do. Fly to the mountains and to the glens, And' State and State in fierce strife, To bogs and forests and wild• dens, Shall struggle for each other's life. For tempests will rage and oceans Carriages without horses shall go ( will roar And accidents fill the world with woe And Gabriel .stand on sea and shore; In London, Primrose hill shall be, And as he toots his wondrous horn. Old world shall die and new be born. In the air men shall be seen, In white, in black and also green, Now strange, but yet they shall be true, Under water men shall walk, The wotid upside down shall be Shall ride, shall sleep, shall also talk And gold' shall be found at the roots Iron in the water shall float of s tree; As easily as a wooden boat. When pictures look alive with move - Gold shall be found and 'shown relents free, in a land that's now unknown.• When ship like fishes swim below Fire and; water shall wonders do the sea, And England shall admit a Jew.. When men outstripping - birds can Three times/three than lovely France scour the sky Be led to dance a bloody dance Then half the world deep dreaidbstt Before her people shall be free; M blood shall die. And the center of a bishop's sea. Around the, 4orld thought shall fly In the twinkle of an eye. Through the hills men shall ride And neither horse or ass bestride;