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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-11-28, Page 71 , 'THURS., NOV-. 28, 1940 ' THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD re rlin's PAGE 7 HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS CARE OF CHILDREN THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs -Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad But Always Helpful and Inspiring. ERIN-GO-BRAGH ''They tell of their estle siir fc Killarney, How they green, 'Then, with tongues glib with true Irish blarney They crown you their bhbsen col- leen. They heave a, deep sigh for the Homeland, For its shamroeks, it' hills, its col- leens, Then vow to neer leave dile 'our own land, Faith how ean• one trust the epalpeens! They will warble out "Kathleen Mavourneen" • to tears, With tenderness melting They wills have been sigh sweethearts theThen kiss the first • one that ap- pears. • Sure they love their own beautiful Ireland, They have worthless yet sweet ballyhoo, But it's lonesome we'll be, here in our land, When these blarneys must bid us adieu. --Eva May Macnevin. GOSSIP TOWN Have you ever heard of Gossip Town, On the shores of Falsehood Bay, Where old Dame Rumor, with rust- ling gown, Is going the livelong city? white brow— It isn't far to Gossip. Town, Only the dark sea -flowers find it For people who want to go— now. 3 With extra work (some thirteen times a week) And you state all the facts and have the papers, As if you knew his mind before he speaks; And give up your work that brings in money To do the work you're not required to do, But do it with a sense of much in- justice To your own self and all your family too; If you know all the bylaws and their contents, And answer every question on the 'phone, Which you pay rent for monthly, though a nuisance That takes your time nor pays your bilis at home; And whets the councillors talk of cutting •salaries, Your brain and nerves may now be but a wreck, If you can carry on and do your duty, On half -pay, and retain your self- respect, If you can do all this without com- plaining, And bravely face the worry and the work, Lose holidays and all that your heart longs for, You'll make -an ideal "municipal clerk." LOST AT SEA Sorrow will never touch this small The Idleness Trail will take you (Iowa In just an hour or so. 'The Thoughtless, Road is popular route, And most folks start that way, But it's• steep downgrade; if you, don't watch out, You'll land in Falsehood Bay! 'You glide through the Alley of Vic- ious Town, And into the Tunnel of Rate, Then crossing the Add -to -Bridge, you walls Right into the City Gate. The principal street is called They Say, and I've Heard is the public well, And breezes that blow from False- hood Bay Ate laden with—Don't You Tell. In the midst of the town is Telltale Barn, You're never quite safe while there, For its owner is Madam Suspicious Remark, Who lives on the street Don't Care. Just back of the park is Slander's Row, 'Twas there that Good Name died, Pierced by a shaft from. Jealousy's bow In the hands of'Envious Pride. Front Goesip Town peace long since fled, But trouble and grief and woe And sorrow and care you'll find in- deed If ever you chance to go, Unknown. WINTER'S FIRST STORM The 'whispering wind came whistling three'HEALTH PROGRAMME IN The wild and open land; It blew the leaves right off the trees And scattered hills of sand. The silvery snow falls twinkling O'er all the sleepy town, And all the animals in burrows sleep While the snow falls .down, ' 'The rivers •soon begin to freeze And icicles form, But no regrets, we're glair its come, The blizzard in the storm. Surely this chill had never beckoned Death, Yet Death had stilled his hands and hushed his breath, Deep will the slumber be and wide the bed Of these fresh feet and most unweary head. What fitting funeral music can we bring For night that falls at dawn, frost cometh spring? —Joyce Marshall. LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT A happy smile, or a pleasant joke, A hearty laugh with most any folk, Will help to lighten a heavy yoke; Life is what you make it. A sorrow-dipt tear, a Heart -felt sigh, A soothing word dropt in sympathy, WM comfort the sad, if we but try; Life is what you make it. Face the world with a sneer, or frown, Face it thus, and you're trampled down, Never earn joy, nor taste renown; Life is what you rake •it. So chin up and fight your earthly woes, With a grin, you'll win, ev'ryone knows, Then up and at 'em! On your toes! For Life Is What You Make Sl FOR A MODERN CAVALIER A plane is your horse and your ,road is the sky Yet wherever you fly on your tower- ing coarse 'You follonv a track like a journeying star Through the wind and the wrack and the thunder of war. As the swallow your mate flies after the spring, 'You will follow your fate where the skyward guns swing And the high shells ring uollow, tilt engines• of hate Na longer await your country and king. —Kenneth Miller. THE MUNICIPAL CLERK (WXtlth apologies to Rudyard Kipling)" If you tan be s general factotum. And fill the office of a public drudge, .And answer fully every half-wit's question, And statutes know as web ae any judge; If you can fill out all the registra- tions And governmental forms that come each weelr, Correct mistakes in other public ser- vants, And give your time for this without a cheep: If yon can frame up all the resolu- tions Tor oouneillore, who don't know what they want, And don't know what to say, or how to say it, ' (Ana "o" ''nr4 ^-^rte because you feel they can't). • 'And when the Mayor or Reeve oomes in (important) e Second Mile COOKING HEALTH .....•....-rem. .., By "PEG" Were there no second mile theory give anything to assist anyone else." this would be a poor kind of a world. We are thankful indeed that our work is continually progressive. If we felt that we could go only so far and then had to stop we would miss the great-. est joy of our lives, for that, we might truly say comes in the second' mile. The second mile is made up largely of doing those thizigs which we do not have to do but which are done out of the mere love of trying to help some one else. There are many people in the world to -day to whom life has, so to speak, become very drab; there is little of brightness about them or their en- vironment. It may be the fault is theirs, or some physical or mental condition over which they have no control may be causing it. We do not need to go very far to find some one wham we could help by going the second mile. For in- stance if there is a hospital in yeti. locality it would be a kind act if you would call at the office and enquire if there is some one there who has very few visitors, but who is able to and who would wish to have some one call on them. Then go and spend a little while with them. Do not stay long enough to weary the patient and do not talk necessarily about yourself and your family affairs. Pray before you go, asking God to give you an opportunity to speak a word for Him and in a quiet way leave His message. So often that message is spoiled by the one pre; senting it talking on and on until the patient becomes utterly weary, Unless you are called specially u help' some one who is in a religious, delimna do not act the part of a "nissiolter." If the patient whom you are visiting is in a large hospital there may have been on or two like minded there before you. At tines just a few words spoken for the Master will help the patient more than the reading of many chapters of the Bible and long prayers. It is better to understay than tg overstay. Leave the patient in time so that he or she will want you to come again. SECONDARY SCHOOLS One of the most up-to-date among the younger Medical Officers of Health in Ontario is IS W. Currey of St. Catharines, At the last meetng of the Ontario Educational Association, Dr. Currey and Miss A. G. Nicolle, his supervisor of Public Health nursing presented a paper on "The Developement of a Health Programme in the Secondary Schools", in which was asked the question: "Of what use is it to give a pupil an excellent secondary -school education only to find when he grad- uates that he has some physical or mental handicap that will prevent him from ever taking his proper place in the community?" A lady called to see a sick friend not long since and brought a box of lunch. Upon being'repgemanded for, spending ,her hard earned money on the patient the lady who, was very neatly and tidily dressed said, "Well now I do not go to shows, I do not buy extravagant clothes and I do not get a permanent,Would you take away from me the pleasure which I get from bringing you some trifle? Any one knowing that lady could say site had gone the second mile many times over. Is that not a lesson for us? Conditions M homes are not al sly. pleasant but quite often they are carefully covered over so that the outside world knows nothing about it. At times an elderly mother or aunt is not welcome. She would not tell it for the world. In our search for second mile work to do could we not gather two or three of these folk into our home for a couple of hours dur- ing the afternoon. To serve after - mon tea would not be very expensive and it would mean so much to them. During their visit try and get them interested in :.c .:e ktad of work, the requirements for which are inexpen- sive. Direct the talk in channels away from the in-laws, and the ladies% will go away much happier than when they came. If you have found it a successful plan it might be repeated. Do not expect to be invited back for conditions in the home may not allow for that. Feel amply repaid that yott have helped some one to pass a few happy hours. The ,essayists point out that most health handicaps are either prevent- able or can be alleviated if found early. 'Very little has heretofore been done to make sure that the graduates of our secondary school leave school in good health. The cost is trivial in comparisan with the future burden of refective young mon and women. The vast naiority of the pupils will go into the industrial world where good health is an important factor in securing and holding a job. Among the health hazards be- loreir" to edenn,*nte eee eetee.,,..i. osis,, heart, disorders, defective hear- ing and vision, environment, and ac- cidents. In any programme of health work in 'the schools the first renuisite is a thorough medical examination which should be done by the family nhnr:.icien in his office nn forms pro- vided by the school. The examinnt- fon envers every part of the body including vision, hearing, heart, hlnn,l pressure, chest, examination of . the urine and tuberculin skin test. Us- ually such examination will be done at a nominal' charge if it is legit ee the family doctor, who invariable is Tested Recipes EGGS—FOOD OF HIGH QUALITY Buy Grade Al or Grade 'A eggs which are a food of high quality and can be used for all purposes. Grade Al eggs which are produced on in- spected farms operating under a special p ermit from the Dominion Department of Agriculture, are not available on all markets, but Grade A eggs are sold everywhere in Can- ada. Keep the eggs covered in a cool place, preferably in the refrigerator, and you retain their quality and flavour. Break a good, fresh ,egg and you find a thick; transparent substance completely covering a round, yellow yolk and holding it in place. Cook a good fresh egg properly, and you have a food of meld but dis- tinctive flavour, very palatable and at the same time rich in nutritive value. The Consumer Service Section Marketing Servide, Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture recommends the generous use of eggs, which are ec- onomical buys at prevailing prices, and suggests to Canadian homemak- ers a few tested recipes for "Scram- bled Eggs" and "Omelets." Scrambled Eggs with Bacon 6 strips side bacon 8 eggs two-thirds cup milk Salt and pepper to taste Cut bacon in small nieces and cook in frying pan. Beat eggs slightly. Add milk and season. Pour into pan with bacon and cook slowly, stirring constantly until mixture coagulates. Serve on toast. Scrambled Eggs with Mushrooms 2 cups sliced mushrooms 3 tablespoons butter 8 eggs two-thirds cup milk Salt and pepper to taste Saute mushrooms in butter until ten- der (2 to 3 minutes). Beat eggs slightly. Add milk and seasoning's. Pour into pan with mushrooms. Cook slowly, stirring constantly until mix- ture coagulates. Serve on toast. Scrambled Eggs with Cheese S eggs t/ cup milk 3 tablespoons butter Salt and pepper to taste IS cup cheese (grated) Beat eggs slightly and combine with milk and seasonings. Melt butter in top part of double boiler or in frying pan. Add egg mixture and cook very slowly, stirring constantly, until mix- ture begins to thicken, Add cheese and complete cooking. Serve on toast. Fluffy Omelet 8 eggs 8 tablespoons water b4 teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons butter Separate yolks from whites of eggs. Beat whites until still but not dry. Add water, salt and pepper to egg yolks. Beat well. Fold yolks into whites. Melt butter in frying pan. Pour mixture into pan. Cook mixture slowly until it is browned underneath well -puffed,. and beginning to shrink from the sides of the pan. Finish cooking' the omelet in the oven until the top is dried and brown. Grease omelet through the centre with a spatula, fold it over, and turn it on a hot platter. Variations: Spread omelet with jelly or jam before folding. Cover with grated cheese before folding. Cover omelet with 11/i to 2 cups creamed chicken or ham before fold- ing. Spread''omelet with fried or creamed mushrooms. Serve omelet with tomato or Spanish sauce, Addl. eup grated cheese, chopped ham or bacon or cooked mushrooms to omelet before mixture is cooked. Spanish Sauce 2 tabelspoons butter 1 tablespoon finely chopped onion 1 tablespoon chop d green pepper 1 cup chopped mushrooms 1 tablespoon flour 114t cups canned tomatoes Salt and pepper to taste. Melt butter, Add onion, green pepper and mushrooms, Cook slowly for three minutes. Blend' in flour, and seasonings. Add tomatoes and stir 'until mixture thickens. Cook slowly for 5 minutes. Do we know a Mother bereft of her husband, who is trying her best to eke an honest living for her little family and in order to do' so must go out to work many hours of the day, and after she has got her family to bed she washes, makes over clothes and mends far into the night? The following story is typical of how one might go the second mile there. "Returning to her home after a days -absence, one such woman was informed by her neighbor that two boys had unscrewed the door hinges of her woodshed and had gone in, Upon investigating the woman found that a load of wood had been split and had been neatly piled. That was the work of only a •short time for those boys, but hots much it meant for that mother, who in all probabil- ity would have had to split it herself to save expense. Not only that but site received comfort from the thought that some one eared. In our vicinity is there some girl or boy who is away from home and who is finding Sundays especially, very long. If we had a son or daughter away from home would it not be a pleasant and comforting thought to us that some one had gone the second mile and had invited that loved one into their home for tea and then had taken them to church with them. Many a youth has been saved from destruction by just such acts of kindness. P.rthaps there is some child living near us whose home environment is not of the best, where perhaps the morals are not of the highest stand- ard. The children from such hones, in many cases, have a hard way ahead of them. Usually in the first place they land in the children's court. There the big brother or big sister movement is brought in to help. That child may grow up to be a good man cr woman but the stain of that early record will remain with them throughout the rest of their lives. Could we not use our influence on that child before he or she gets into trouble? Christ would not have shun- ned the' bay or girl. Many good Christian men and women of to -day have cone from such homes, but the trend towards evil due to their en- vironment has been checked by out- side influence. Let us ask ourselves the question: "What would Jesus do, under such circumstances?" Do you know some parents who are trying to raise and educate a little family? It may be there is a concert which they would like to at- tend but cannot leave the children alar nor can they afford to pay some one to come in and stay with then'. It may be we would like to go to the concert but the little sac- rifice we make in offering to stay with those children will be more than repaid by the pleasure we will re- ceive from it. Do we know a home where the husband has been laid aside, and where the wife is having a hard time to get along? Do we over go the second mile in trying to hellli under those circumstances. You may say "I cannot afford to interested in his clientele. A dental service is essential and should be provided for all pupils. In all school health work the co-opur- atiaa of the principal is necessary, and is always forthcoming. The nurse advisor is of high value, A trained women will often observe, particullarly in girls, minor defects that might be overlooked by teacher are ticctor. The paper by Dr. Cur- rey and Miss Nicolle is one of the bees nn the subject we have read. It ,should be in the hands of every teach- er and school trustee and, if they have time or the inclination to read it in the hands of every legislator. Too much time is taken by municipal councillors in trying to keep down tax rates by denying appropriations for legitimate heslth work. The fut- ure taxpayer will pay for this lack of foresight. Can we go the second mile and use our influence to encourage some one to strive- after higher things its life? Many of our young people it, spite of the fact that they would like to go farther in school are compelled by circumstances to leave off their studies just as soon as the law al- lows. In the cities this problem is taken care of by night schools. It is just too bad that same smaller places do not see the advantage of higher education and strain a point to Pro- vide this at a cost within the reach of everyone. Can the citizens theni- selves not bring this before the prop- er authorities? Never in the history of the world has higher education been so necessary as it is to -day and so many of our young people would take advantage of it if some one would just go the second mile and stake it available for them. The second mile. The greatest pleasures in life come in the second mile. Many of us are still struggling with the first mile. Very early in Isis life Jesus Christ began the sec- ond mile. Although we have no auth- entic record of His early years ex- cept when He spoke to the doctors in the temple, yet we know that all His life was spent in doing good. When we are following His example we are journeying in the Second Mile. I i jt Many of us have reason to be thankful to friends who have gone tine second mile. May we repay in kind by trying to be thoughtful of some one else. "Have you had a kindness shown, Pass it on, 'Twas not meant for you alone, Pass it on, ' Let it travel down the years, Lot it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deep appears, Pass it on." "PBc1''I Although Mrs. George Shaw won the first prize for white bread in the "Homemakers of Yesterday" con- test, at the 1940 Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, this genial lady is very much a homemaker of today! Every week she bakes for herself and her busband at their farm home near Bolton, Ontario. "I've been baking my own bread for forty years," Mrs. Shaw said when she heard she was the prize baker in the grandmother's class for women of 70 years or over, "and it's nice to know that I can still turn Out a winning loaf." "I was careful," she continued, "to have everything just right for my prize bread and I recently gave quite a bit of thought and study to the modern methods of bread- baking. One thing that's certain is that you must have good Hour. I have been using Robin Hood Flour for ten years. It's a grand flour; I wouldn't use any other. Robin Hood helped me win the prize. With this flour it is never any trouble to get your bread to rise: e It comes up so easily when you set it. I am glad to see that the younger housewives are learning to bake with Robin Hood Flour because it's really easy to bake if you use a good Hour like Robin Hood." Here is the voice of experience speaking. With 40 years of bread - baking to her credit, Mrs. Shaw is stilt an active woman, who turas out big loaves of snowy white bread for her admiring family and friends to enjoy. Aad in her long baking ex- perience she has found no flour to equal Robin Hood! Are you still hunting for the perfect Hour? Why don't you try Robin Hood—the flour that prizewinners use? Try it for bread, buns, cake or pastry. Your money back plus 10 per cent. if you are not pleased with Robin Hood Flour. HOME BAKING SERVICE ROBIN HOOD FLOUR MILLS LIMITED Robin /fad 'born flea r se the Prime Minister's attention to the fact that there have been instances where returned men were finding it necessary to apply to relief offices for assistance in re-establishing themselves into civil life, was in- formed by Mt. King that "plans are being worked out which, it is our in- tention, shall be adequate to meet the situtation as it is and as it may de- velop in the future." Mr. Walker has expressed the deep gratifacation of the Legion that the Government has promised to adjust the situation which, he said, "has up to the present been hardly commens- urate reward for the services these returned sailors, soldiers and airmen have rendered." PREMIER KING PROMISES RETURNED MEN BETTER REHABILITATION MEASURES OTTAWA—Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King, in a letter to Alex Walker, Dominion President of the Canadian Legion, has given assure ances that plans are 'now being form- ulated for the satisfactory rehabilita- tion of men returning to Canada fol- lowing discharge from the overseas forces. The Leigon President, who drew Canada Carries On VALUABLE WORK DONE BY THE DOMINION FILM BOARD HERE people to people, not as something from above downward, not dictated downward but as an expression of one group acting humanly, to their fellow -citizens. "In 'Atlantic Patrol,' after all the spectacle—there is no other actor as good as the sea—we began to get it with a shot of a couple of stokers. They come up off watch and sit down by a ventilator to rest. They take grubby cigarettes from behind their ears and light up. "We had more in 'A Letter From Aldershot' in the scene where the men in the picture speak directly to the audience. There was a little sergeant from Saskatchewan who said he was speaking to the people of the province and particuarly to those from Regina and his wife and children. The muscles of his face and his way of speaking had nothing to do with film people, the thing was simply out of the man who said it." * * * These pictures are being shown in '700 theatres in this Dominion, which means that the entire country is cov Illuminating Series Conveys Story of ea'ed. Moreover, they also appear on This Nation's War Effort Through- the screen of 800 film theatres in out the Empire and the United Australia, and also in many in the States United Kingdom. News reel firms in the United States are allowed to make use of the Ottawa Board's pictures in any manner they like, and the result is that in one form or an- other these films are being exhibited in some 16,000 picture houses throughout the U.S.A., After three months of exhibition in the theatres they are remade on 16 -millimetre films for exhibition in clubs and schools and private houses. To meet all bilingual requirements, the sound track of each picture ie made both in French and in English for ,simultaneous release. Comparatively few Canadians, it is safe to say, are fully acquainted with the character of the work that is being done by our Federal Film Board in connection with the war. Yet the series of films. entitled "Can- ada Carries On" is one of the most interesting that has ever been shown on the Canadian screen, So far six of these instructive pictures have been produced, — "Atlantic Patrol," "A Letter From Aldershot," "Home Front," "Front of Steel," Squadron 992" and "Wings of Youth," — and a remarkable feature about them is that not a single professional actor has played any part in any one. * * * A representative of the board ex- plains the policy thus pursued, He says that as long as a man is doing his own job, and is not asked to do anything silly, he will do better in front of the camera and the micro- phone than any actor. "What we are trying to do," he !explains, "and began to get it in 'Atlantic Patrol,' is a message from * * * Those responsible for the produc. tion of these films are John Grierson, Film Commissioner. G. H. Lash, dir. ector of public information; F. C. 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