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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-08-01, Page 7THUIl S., AUGUST 1, 1940 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD° PAGE 7 HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS CARE OF CHILDREN • � � IPOVJVFPCIN.e.9` COOKING HEALTH MlKJVPPMJNw✓wl.s�sw+r.oJarMPIPNHuvdAT9.MO.A/.!✓.1.f�PaWP..11Mo.noAAJPIw,wWNlam.sNOWn -ommr,mu-„a The Perfect Thirst Quencher THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful and Inspiring. SEA -FLOWERS Your thoughts must be the sea - flowers Unstirred by any breeze, Whose only honey is the salt Stored up by minnow bees. Your thoughts that sway in water Beyond the arm of light, Axe cold and waxen and remote, Drift downward out of sight. Thus, though they be eternal, Unheeding suns or snows, I cheese the trembling flower of earth That breathes before it goes. —Dorothy Livesay, in New Harvest- ing. FROM MAUD . . Singing of men that h battle array, Ready in heart and ready in hand, Meech with banner and bugle and fife To the death, for their native land. And hail once more, the banner of battle unrolledt The many a light shall darken and many shall weep Fcr those that are crushed in the clash of jarring claims, Yet God's just wrath shall be • wreak'cl on a giant liar. It is better to fight for the good than rail at the ill; ! have felt with my native land I am one with my kind, t gmbraee the purpose of God and the doom assign'd. —Tennyson. (Selected by Sentimental Bloke.) A SOLDIER'S FAREWELL If I should not return, Beloved, Think only this of me— My love for you that I will take Into Eternity. Remember all our happy days, The winged hours of spring, Our walks and talks and silences, Romance in everything, 0, keep remembrance in your heart Your soul linked to the stars, Ovr England shall be England still, Swept clean of ruthless wets, If I do not return, Beloved, Think happily of me, Who sleeps beneath a foreign sky That England shall be free. THOSE READING MOTHERS I had a" mother who read to me ,Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea: Cutlasses clutched in their yellowed teeth, "Blackbirds" stowed in the hold be- neath. • I had a mother who read me lays Of ancient and gallant and golden days: Stories of Marmion and Ivanhoe, Which every boy has a right to know. I bad a mother who read me tales Of Gelert, that hound of the hills of Wales; True to his trust till his tragic death, Faithfulness blent with his final' breath, I had a mother who read me things That wholesome life to the boy heart brings— Stories that stir with an upward touch, Oh, that each mother of boys were such! Yon may have tangible wealth un- told: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. :;(richer than L you can never be— I had a mother whoread to rhe. —Strickland C4illilan. FOREST -BRED Some love the high seas, With great skies overhead; But I love the tall trees, For I am forest bred. Some love the shingle Drawn downward by the tide; But I love the dingle, And the long green ride. Some love the white spume By crashing breakers borne; But I love the may -bloom Like snowdrifts on the thorn. Sonic love the flavor Of the salt spray's cold; But I love the savor Of the waren brown mould. Some love the riot By the storm winds made; But I love the quiet, And the sun -flecked shade. Some love the sea -fowl Aloft on tireless wing; But I love the night owl, And the small birds that sing, Some love the far seas, With great skies overhead; But I love the green trees, For I am forest bred, —E. F. Howard. Fish Dishes High lo Tourist Appeal Tourists Favour Fish and Shellfish as ' Foods Different front Those Obtainable at Home — Visitors Welcome New Feeds "Serve more. Canadian fish foods to tourists and you'll do Canada a double service." That's a good slogan for Canadians catering to the tourist trade in 1040. The importance of the tourist to Canada in time of war has already been widely emphasized. The need of foreign exohange makes the tourist dollar double important now. And the need of an increased consumption of fish foods in Canada to offset the disruption of foreign markets by war conditions is a good argument for an increased emphasis on fish foods,. There is another side to the case, too. Tourists visiting Canada are looking for change. They want new scenery, new recreation, and new foods. They will appreciate dishes that are a bit different from those they are accustomed to day by day in their own hones. Here is when Canadian fish and shellfish can play a main part in tourists catering. Many visitors come °rrntn communities where Canadian fish and shellfish are not known, or where they are not obtainable fresh from the sea or only a few hours after they have been caught or pro- cessed. Appetizn;• and healthful in themselves, theeo Canadian fish foods teeth even better to the tourist because they are a change from emery day -fare. Experience has shown visitors are delighted with Canadian fish dishes, manfully prepared and 'erred. Fresh lobster, lolrter salads, a slice of fine salmon from either Pac- ific or Atlantic waters, a Canadian kipper, trout or whitefish, all are appealing. Then there are excellent clam chowders, fried clams, some oysters, delicious saailops, a nice bit of haddock or cod, nr a .serving of fdnnan haddie, Or try a fresh, her - "nig or a baked stuffed fish. These aro only a few sua'aest'ons, they by no means exhaust the list. Canada's '''sheries produce over GOdifferent (rinds of food fish and shellfish, all of which can be prepared in any one of a number of tempting manners. Fish foods in prime condition, nrneerly prepared, are among the most appetizing of dishes. They are o£ prime appeal to the visitor, and 'itcreased fish consumption is of real assistanoe to an Sndustry supporting ?early half a million Canadians, iv.roorriwa.lneuxsw+�....,.a.w.e�-oa...�..�.alluv.! 5, el hbor ,..m 1. eeee By "PEG"..41,1,,..l.a.PP..I.*..r...... How pleasant: it is. to 'spend a few minutes chatting over, the back fence With a neighbor! It may be some- thing in regard to the weather or a matter of social interest but it shows a feeling of friendship, Does neighbor apply to someone who lives just next door to ue? No, it may be someone en the sane street, or in the same district. Even those scattered far and wide through- out the world may be classed as. our "neighbor". This gives us a: wide scope of people to whom we should at least be respectful. In our neighborhood there are pea- ple whom we like and sad to say there are those with whom we would rather not come in daily contact. Does it ever occur to us that we can- not be quite fair to those whom we do not like. We are so apt to search out their faults; we are liable to think that they are not qualified to do the things which we want done. All this tends to Lead as to give thein an unfair chance. After all it may be that they are better qualified to do the work assigned to them 'than those we ask to do it., This is very often the reason why a completed task is not just up to the quality we would like it to be.. We have been told not to judge, and yet we continue to do so to. our own detriment. Very often we con- demn our neighbors for something which we know nothing at all about. For instance, at this season of the year we criticise their gardening where as if we went at it in all probability we could not plant a row of beans straight. We claim they do not bring their children up prop- erly, At the same time it may be our children are the talk of the whole district. Let us remember that parents are usually the last to know what their children are doing. In some cases it would be a wise thing to enlighten parents along this line and in other instances parents would neither believe the stories nor would they thank one for bringing these things to their attention. Our neighbors are in many cases much kinder to us than we.cleserve. A young married lady on being ask- ed if she had a flower garden re- plied, "all we have is what conies through the fence from our neighbors and she said we could have that." Recently a roomer received an in- vitation to go to a summer cottage for a few days. The final arrange- ments were matte quickly. She had dtno her washing, rolled it up. and left it in her room intending to iron it when she came horse that evening. Tn the meantime her landlady, know- ing she had the privilege of doing so, went to her room, took the washing and when the young lady rushed home preparing for a busy evening her treeing was all finished. How many of us would have done that on a ]tot summer afternoon. If we had more of that sort of thing in the world there would be a great deal less trouble. Nine titres out of ten if we are kind to our neighbors, they Will be kind to us. Sad as it may seen, these friend- ships at times end quite abruptly. Some little thing happens. We turn it over in our minds and allow it to grow on as, until finally there is no chit chat over the back fence, The former neighbor friends pass one another on the street as if they had never tnet. A breath has been made over same trifling matter. It may be time will heal it, let's hope it will. Just sit down and think the matter ever carefully and pray to God to give you His guidance in straighten- ing things out. Then go to the neigb- hor and you will find that ho or she is rra'y and willing to he friends epee niot•e. Practically the whole world to fighting now some something which began. ovee a shatter ,(tint as illy ao tInt which stopped the "over 'he fence" chat. Other people have as much right to their viewpoint as we have, We Should cultivate cur character that we eau talk things over with our neighbors and yet remain friends. There are certainly things on which we will not agree, but if we decide to walk together dm leve then: those differences will belong• to the past. In your neighborhood is there some- one who is not doing well, someone wh' hoe not a high standard of liv- ing. Can we be of some help to them o.• are we just going to let them drift. There are times when t h e word "bate" is permissable in out lives. We are free to bate evil of any kind. We may hate the deed., but not'the doer and the more we hate the deed the. More we shield :strive to help the doer to rise above his deed. We need to be very careful that. we do not in, any way spread gossip about our neighbor. The story in the first place may not be true ;and our repeating it certainly will not ,make it any better for the person about whom we are talking. Would we like a neighbor to gossip about us? We may be the kind of person who is easy to get on with, one 'who agrees with both sides and who has not back -bone enough to stand up for what is right There is a right and a wrong to everything but when a moral issue is concerned let us take a right stand—in our neighbor- hood. The love which we have towards our neighbors must of necessity fol- low our acceptance of the love which Jesus Christ gave to us so truly. Jesus does not ask us to do the im- possible for us to love Him. When we have accepted His Salvation let the people in our homes and in our neighborhood know of it first. Let us not only preach it but act it. In one of our home mission fields there was a tendency under difficult sit- uations to give up the high standard of Christ. Among the settlers was a man who did much to save the situation. He went about quietly always showing his faith in his Sav- iour. Are we doing that in these troublous times. We can do it with the help our our Master. The Bible Society tells us that there are more Bibles being sold to- day than ever before. People are looking for and are reaching out after Christianity. Oh that the na- tions would only remember that we are all neighbors and try so to live! "Go to the deeps of God's promise, And claim whatsoever ye will; The blessing of God will not fail thee, His word He will surely fulfil." "PEG" WOMEN'S INSTITUTE MAKES 7 TONS STRAWBERRY JAM FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS Will he Shipped to Britain for Canad- ian Boys in Hospital—Red Cross Supplies Cans -60 Tons Objective for Season—Currants and Raspberries Next Wounded Canadian soldiers in Brit- ish hospitals this winter are going to send up fervent prayers of thanks to 2000 members of the Ont. Women's Institutes who have already made almost seven tons of strawberry jam for their hospital breakfasts. Before the snow' flies it is confidently ex- pected that the 30,000 cans supplied by the Red Gross to the W. I. will be filled with currant, raspberry, Plum, peach and grape jam to the imposing total of sixty tons. British children who have been evacuated from the larger cities and towns to the country will also get a share of this Canadian jam, states Miss Mary Clarke, Supt, of Women's Institute, Ont. Dept. of Agriculture, who is supervising this important wartime activity originated by the Norfik County Institutes and enthus- iastically backed by the Hon. P. M. De -wan, Ont, Minister. of Agriculture. • Reports from 65 W. I. branches ?how 13,584 pounds of strawberry jam have been made to• date and final reports will total over seven tons. 'Canning has been done in the fruit districts, in homes, church kit- ohens, community kitchens and in canning factories. The fruit and sugar have all been donated to or purchased by the Women's Institutes. Jam is being made by,the W.I. in the following Southern Ont. counties: Essex, Kent, Lambton, Elgin, .Middle- sex, Norfolk, Oxford, Haldimand, Brant, Welland, Lincoln, Wentworth, Halton, Peel, South York, Durham; Hastings, and Prince Edward. Currants and raspberries are next on, the list, and donations will be gladly received from fruit growers and others, Just get in touch with veer nearest • Women's Institute Branch if you want to provide some eats. Ontario jam for the boys who have fought for you. It is just an- other way, and a very good way, of showing your appreciation. The Women's Institutes will do the work. Norfolk County W. I. has beep. out- eten,di'ng in this work to date, Port Dover putting up 325 cans and Sim - the 326, Jordan has prepared 152 cans, Watendown 305 and Stoney Creek 105 cans of four pounds each. A teaspoon of vinegar in starch will prevent the iron from sticking on the garments. Tested Recipes neeeeetenneesesteneettenteenieenReSeeseensei Picnics Ahead By: Katharine Baker Sunny days and balmy breezes bring the subject of picnics almost automatically to mind. The prospect of public and private holidays and Saturdays and Sundays coming every week as well, make the summer an open season for picnics. Whether you regard them as sports events, aocial activity or just relaxation, food seems to be the, main ingredient for a successful one. From a simple menu consisting of sandwiches and fresh fruit to an. elaborate spread including salads and iced drinks, the travelling ability of the "eats" must be considered first. Don't include anything that ,can't stand a few bumps and perhaps some crowding or that will perish too quickly. Here are two recipes, cookies and small cakes, that fill all the requirements of the picnic basket, Chocolate Pin Wheels 11/2 cups sifted flour '/f.. teaspoon double-acting bak- ing powder 'A teaspoon salt ?S. cup butter, other shortening Se cup sugar 1 egg yolk, beaten well 3 tablespoons milk 1 square unsweetened chocolate, melted Sift flour, once, measure, add bak- ing powder and salt; and sift again, Cream butter thoroughy, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add egg yolk and beat well. Add flour, alternately with milk, mixing well after each addition. Divide dough he two parts. To one part, add chocolate and blend. Chill until firm enough to roll. Roll each half into rectangular sheet, Vs inch thick; place plain sheet over chocolate sheet. Roll as for jelly roll. Chill overnight, or until firm enough to slice. Cut in tit -inch slices. Bake en ungreased baking sheet in hot oven (400 Degrees F.) 5 minutes, or until done, Makes 31,/e dozen pin wheels. These rolls, when carefully wrapped in waxed paper, may be kept in refrigerator for sev- eral days, and baked as desired. Chocolate Marguerites y_ cup sifted cake flour Se teaspoon each soda and salt cup brown sugar, firmly packed 2 eggs, well beaten 2 tablespoons butter 11/2 squares unsweetened chocol- ate, melted 1 cup finely cut pecans. Sift flour once, measure, add soda and salt, and sift together three times. Beat sugar gradually into beaten eggs. Melt butter with choc- olate and add to egg mixture; blend. Add flour gradually; then nuts. Turn into greased small fancy pans. Place pecan half on each. Bake in mod- erate oven (375 degrees F.) 10 min- utes. Makes 2 dozen, LADDERLESS STOCKINGS A new raw material which is so versatile that it can replace textile fibres, gut and hogs' bristles is to be made on a large scale in Britain. A factory is being built for produo- ion by the end of the year. The mairerial s called nylon, a gen- eric term covering the whole family of synthetic compounds within its range. It can be produced in fila- ments a fine as a spider's web, from which yarns can he spun, or it can appear as sheets, rods, or stiff bristles 'for Crushes. As a yarn, it is claimed to be stronger, and more elastic than any textile fabric, including silk: Wom- en's stockings, sewing thread and un- derclothes of nylon are already arousing popular interest in Amer- ica. The stockings rival real silk rather than rayon, since they com- pare in fineness and elasticity and are sold in a comparable price range; but having threads which break less easily than silk of the same }eight, they are not so likely to "ladder." In the form of bristles, nylon is now on the market in Britain for tooth -brushes, one of its great ad- vantages being that the bristles do not fracture like hog's bristles, and having smooth surfaces absorb only. one-fifth of the :rnnistiaxe of "real" bristles, so that they do not become soggy or dirty in use. . Even fishermen are benefiting from this new material, for ib is available in fishing casts; compared with silk- worm gut, nylon has greater tensile strength and needing no soaking to straighten it, is always read for' -im- mediate use. English "Guest Child" Techs More About far Watches Air Battle Near School, Whitby By Peggy Priestman In Port Elgin Times In my letter last week I forgot to mention a few things concerning' England in wartime. I thought that the following things might interest the readers of The Times. Blackout After a certain hour, every house, shop, hotel and all other buildings have to be completely blacked out— not a chink of light showing any- where. If there is any light, it is the worse for the owner of the house, as he is usually fined. Special COIL- stables, onstables, members of the reguar po- lice force and a few air-raid wardens take it in turns for three of four hours every night to walk around a certain area of the town, seeing that the blackout is thorough. Rationing This is a thing which hits one hard —especially those who are fond of butter, like me! This is one of the main things to be rationed, as wall as sugar, margarine, bacon, meat, cooking fats. A thing which is very hard to put up with is the great shortage of gasoline, (in England, petrol). Most people get 5 to 6 gallons per month, so naturally long journeys aye almost impossible, un- less unwanted gasoline is given by a friend. Church Bells There are now no bells to announce the beginning of a service. People just have to know the various tines of services and be there in. time, The reason for this is that the ringing of a church bell is the warning given when a parachutist has landed. Men in charge then come and capture him, Ploughed Fields Unused farm land has to be ploughed unevenly, so that is is very hard to land by parachute without difficulty. This has been ordered' by the government. Another Handicap Another handicap is the many stakes and stretches of barbed wire across fields. This is done mainly in the big meadows so that it is im- possible for aeroplane, to land sue- cosefully. This also hinders the para- chutists. Slices The shops in England have to shut considerably earlier on account of ff' the blackout. In winter they shut asl early as 5.30 p.m,, and the last one , is open at 7.30 p,m, It is so much nicer hereto see all the shop lights aglow after 10 p.m:! Sign Posts .411 road signs .and sign posts have been taken own so that "newcomers" to the country cannot find their way about. Happenings at Whitby , . You remember that I come front St. Hilda's School, Whitby, anti 1 am going to relate a few things which happened before we came away. Military at School Two days before we came away, eight bus loads of soldiers drove up the school drive, and parked in the wood. The same evening their tents were standing in one of the ,school fields. The two men in charge of the soldiers were trying to get the Prioress to send us away there and then. We were horrified when we learned. that they had tried to turn us out. As soon as we had gone they took over the place. It is quite big, and has the appearance of a castle, having turrets and ramparts all around. Air Raid Warnings Not long before we tante away, we had two long air-raid warnings—the longest was five hours. During this time we stayed in the basement of the school buildings. We tried in vain to get to sleep, wrapped in blankets with gas -masks in boxes for pillows! Once or twice I heard the road of 'planes overhead, but they were British 'planes. Bomber Near The School Sometime before Easter, a Heinkel bomber was brought down about 2 miles fano the school. Most of the girls got bits of mica (glass) Inc souvenirs, From my window we saw three aeroplanes flying round in circles, and up and down to the ground. One of the 'planes was go- ing in the opposite direction, and we just thought that it was three of our 'planes practising. We were thrilled when we knew that we'd been watch- ing an air battle. The bomber was covered with machine - gun bullet holes. Barbed Wire Barriers The last I saw of defense prccau- tions was part of a barbed wire bar- rier, bout in the road, and in a pleas- ure garden near the cliff. We also saw some soldiers drilling, and some young ones having just arrived. But I know that young and old will do all they can for the defence of the country against unfair intruders, q=SNAPSEOT GUWD OUTDOOR SiLI1OUETTES It's easy to take silhouette snaps such as this in• late afternoon—and they add interest to your album. ILHOUETTEI pictures are easy to take outdoors, and there's an interesting, dramatic quality about these shots that makes them worth- while additions to your picture col- lection. Strictly speaking, a silhouette picture consists only of black-and- white—a black subject against a pure white background, with all de- tail eliminated. There's no need, however, to draw the line so sharply In our picture -taking, For example, observe the picture above. There's a certain amount of detail retained in the water, and this Helps make the picture even more interesting. Here's how the shot was taken. First, the photographer stood at a point where the sun was squarely behind thetree in the foreground. The purpose of this was to keep the sun from shining into the dens, for that would have spoiled the pic- ture. Next, the photographer set his lens and shutter for less than nor- mal exposure. Since the time was late afternoon, the full normal ex- posure would have been perhaps 1/25 second at 2/8. In this case, the exposure was probably 1/100 sec- ond at f/11 or f/16. A snapshot ex- posure at this hour, using the soc- ond stop opening on a box camera, and average speed film, would also have been just about right for the silhouette effect. The effect of underexposure, in these shots, is to "black out" shadow detail so that you get a good strong silhouette. Naturally, a subject such as a person should usually be posed in profile; then the outline of the features will show clearly. In taking silhouette pictures, re- member always to choose an hour when the sun is fairly low in the sky, have the sun squarely behind the subject or some object in the scene, and give less than normal exposure. Follow these rules, and you'll get good clear silhouette snaps that will add interest to your album, 291 John van Guilder