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HOUSEHOLD ECONOMVMICS
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
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CARE OF CHILDREN
THIS MODEST CORNER 18 DEDICATED
t . TO THE POETS
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` Here They Will Sing You Their Songs -=Sometimes.
Gay, Sometimes Sad -Ent Always Helpful
and Inspiring.
'GROUP OF POEMS WRITTEN- BY
MRS, 3. C. READ, CLINTON ONT.
Let not the years
With passion dim
The `clearness of your sight!
Let not the fears
Within your heart
The path of duty slight;
Let riot the world
Or all its gold
'Divert you from your task!
'But ever upward
'To the sun
'The help of God to ask!
A FREEDOM -LOVING 'LAND
Rest in the summer sunshine.
Sleep on the warm, white sand.
That is the blessing of living
In a freedom -loving ]and.
"Go to your church to worship.
Fall to your knees in prayer.
Write what you please in the paper
• Or speak from the public square.
Say what you think to your neighbor
And he will understand'.
That is the blessing of living
-In a freedom -loving land.
THE SWALLOW'S NEST
'This year a swallow came to build
Beneath our sheltering eave.
So silently he worked at it
That we could scarce believe.
Yet flat against the weathered board
'The little mason built.
The wonder of it was to us'
His babies were not spilt.
OBSERVERS
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-1 I have known the small things;
To me the world is big,
I have watched a field mouse,
;Been a ground -mole dig.
I have gazed at swallows
Above the teeming pond,
:Felt a leaflet opening, ' 7.131
Touched a fern's new frond.
2 I have known the big things;
To me the world is small.
I have watched the universe, '
Seen the cold stars fail.
I have gazed at oceans;
Above the earth have flown
Felt the wind off ice fields,
Or from across the desert blown.
LISTEN!
'Do you think if we listened
With all our hearts
In the midst of our daily task
We could hear the message
That God imparts
To those of us who will ask?,
Do we deafenour ears
With the clang of tools . Th
As we struggle for clothes and bread?
Do we dull our minds
With the talk of fools
When we should be thinking instead?
Do you think we are wise
To count God fond,
To forget about His wrath?
If we lifted our eyes:
To the hills beyond:,
Would our feet still find the path?
"To Him your prayers are said.
It's 'Now I lay me down to sleep',
When you go up to bed."
"He is the Christ of whom you read
On every Christmas day
For he was' born in Bethlehem
And in a manger lay."
"He went among his people there
To teach them how to pray.
Those are His words you heard in
prayer
In Sunday School: today.".
"So if it is a Friend you seek,
Or counselor or brother.
Just turn to Jesus first of all,
You'll never need another,"
—reprinted from Chatham Daily
News, Dec. 24, 193S.
V
THE SPIRIT OF BRITAIN
This is the Spirit of Britain,
And why she'll ever be free,
Just a small story of courage
At told by a buddy to me.
Strolling along in Old London,
Everything pitch black at night;
Bombs falling out of the darkness,
Landing to left and to right.
Here, a building goes crashing
As bombs come down like the rain
Over there is music and laughter,
On this side a small ery of pain.
So I strolled in the general direction
.From whence I heard that cry,
And the Reines were still circling
over
And bombs still fell from the sky.
And I stopped and called very softly,
It was so clerk that I couldn't see
When I heard a small voice from the
darkness
Say, " 'Fre mate, 'ere's where I be."
So I fumbled around in the darkness,
Till my hand touched someone',s
head;
I said, "Here bud can I help you?"
"Don't bother with me; " he said
"I don't think that I am hurt much,
It's only me leg that pains;
guess that I should be thankful
That Jerry didn't scatter see
brains."
We me old right leg ae is hurted,
And it pains just under me knee."
So I turned on my small flashlight,
• But no right leg did I see.
Theft I knelt down beside the poor fel-
low,
And his hands were all clamy and
wet:
And his face was all wreathed in
smiles
As he said, "Please, mate, a cigar-
ette''
Then he shoolc his small fist skyward,
And said, "Heine, you ain't got me
yet!"
Just then the doctor arrived,
So I lit the poor lad's cigarette.
And as I walked slowly away,
This thought came unto me:
at lad? has the Spirit of Britain,
That's why Britain shall ever be
free. •
Capt. R. S. Reid, November 27, 1941
CHRISTMAS EMBATTLED
Do you believe
On Ohritsmas Eve
That ghostly bell's will ring II
O'er shattered kirk,
The Nazis' work ,
That'midst the wreckage swing?.
Do children grieve
On• Christmas Eve
In Shelters damp and dim
For homes: alight
With fires so bright,
Far evergreens to trim?
Can we conceive
On Christmas Eve j l
That angels sweet will aitig, •
"Peace on the Earth,
Good will to men,"
Or quiet to us bring?
THE PORTRAIT
' The little girl looked up to see
The portrait on the. wall.
"Who is that man?" she asked of nter.
"! don't know him at ell."
"Oh, yes, you do," I made reply
A SOLDIER'S PLEA
Did you ever stop to ponder
What the people think about
A soldier's reputation,
Every time that he stepsout?
One can hardly helpbut notice,
Though one tries to act correct,
That the better Mess of civies
Fail to treat him with respect.
Would you like to know the reason—
For a reason there must be—
To disrespect the uniform,
For this you must agree?
Some lads have joined the army,
They're just starting in their teens;
They try to act like tough guys,
And 'tis they that spill the benne.
They can smell an empty bottle,
And stagger like they're drunk;
That's the season half the civies
Think the army is the bunk,
Why must an the soldiers suffer
For the sins of the guilty few?
And lose their rights, in social life ,
For what some others do.
Now I don't claim to be an angel,
But I'm sticking to one rule:
That when I go out on leave,
I will not act the fool.
And if all the men in uniform
Would try to do the same,
;With this coming generation
We might save the army's name.
(Written by Cpl. Gordon Snell,
058814, No. 4 Platoon, H.Q., Coy. G.G.
P.G., Sussex, N.B.)
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Tested
COOKING
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BEEF DISHES FOR WINTER
DAYS
By taking advantage of the many.
economical cuts of beef •offered by the
butcher, every Canadian homemaker
can do her bit in ps•actising thrift and
providing nutritious meals felr the
family.
The expensive and: more tender cuts
of beef ( as sirloin, prime ribs, porter-.
house and tenderloin, may be roasted,
broiled- or pan -tried'; the cheaper or
less .tender cuts are usually cooked by
moist heat-(beiling, braising, stew-
ing and pot -roasting). When economy
is imperative, the cuts of beef to ask
for are the •rump and round (for
braising, pot -roasting or hamburger);
the flank, chuck, shank, plate and
brisket (for stewing, braising, corn-
ing, pot -roasting); the akin, tail and
neck (for soup).
These cuts provide the basis for 'an
almost endless. variety of tasty and
attractive meat dishes. The Consum-
er Service, Marketing Section, Dom-
inion Department of Agriculture, -
presents some tested recipes with the
hope that they will be tried' and en-
joyed.
Pot Roast of Beef
Select a blade or round shoulder, or
a $ump roast,, between 4-4% lbs.
Dredge meat in flour, seasoned with
salt and pepper, and brown in hot
fat in a heavy kettle or dutch oven,
When well browned on all sides, in-
sert a rack under meat •(to prevent
sticking), and all % cup water. Slice
one -medium onion over meat. Cover
and simmer for 3-3% hours or until
done. Add more water if necessary in
small amounts (2-3 tablespoons) dur-
ing cooking. Add medium whole po-
tatoes, carrots and turnips, about one
hour before the roast is done.
N.B. Tomato juice may be subste
tuted for the water.
Spanish Meat Loaf
1s lbs. ground raw beef
1 cup uncooked rolled oats
bb cup tomatoes
1 egg
2 med. slices of bread, cubed
5 tablespoons diced celery
4 tablespoons green pepper or onion
2t teaspoons salt
Dash of pepper
tablespoons melted fat or beef
dripping
9'a cup left -over thick gravy ox
heavy white sauce.
Combine ingredients, place in a
greased loaf pan, and bake in a mod-
erate oven (350 D F.) for 40-50 min-
utes. Or, bake in a greased ring
mould; when turned out, the centre
can be filled with buttered carrots and
peas, and lined around the outside
with mashed', potatoes.
N.B. If desired to make meat pat-
sies for frying, use the gravy instead(
of the white sauce as liquid, and roll
patties in fine bread ,crumbs or flour
before frying.
Flank Steak En Casserole
2 lbs. flank steak
4 tablespoons vinegar
2 tablespoons water
1% teaspoons salt
14 teaspoon, pepper
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons melted fat or beef
dripping
'/ cup chopped onion
r4 cup chopped green pepper
1 cup tomato juice
1 cup water,
Have butcher score steak. Out into
pieces the size of an average serving.
Combine vinegar, water, salt and pep-
per, and pour ever the steak. Allow
to stand for 2 hours or more. Dredge
steak with flour and brown in hot fat.
Arrange steak alternately in greased
casserole with onions, peppers, tomato
juice and water. Cover and bake in a
moderate oven (3253) F,,) 2-21,
hours.
Swiss Steak
1% lbs. round steak (2 inches thick)
Four to dredge
Salt and pepper to taste
1 onion, thinly .sliced
2^ tablespoons beef dripping or mel-
ted fat
2 cups tomatoes
1 carrot diced
Y cup: corn (optional)
1 small green. pepper traced
3 cup water.
Mix tour, salt and pepper; pound,
into steak using the edge of a heavy
saucer. Cut steak in individual serv-
ings, brown in hot fat in heavy kettle
or dutch oven; add vegetables and
water, Cover pan tightly and cook in
a slow oven (300D, F.) for 21/2-3
hours. Adsll more water during cook -
mg, if needed. Serve with vegetables'
Are You
Are you a Quitter? Others
think you are, . but only you you
can - answer that question. What
you plan to make of your life
what did you make of it? Did
sat out to be a farmer? Was pre
ing God's word your objective;
you think that you would teach
that at sometime you would expo
law? It may be that now you
something altogether different,
circumstances' over which you had
control change your plans or did s
stumbling block looms in your w
something which you could have re-
moved if you had tried? You did n
try and there you are a quitter.
What a tragedy in life? It may be
God had planned that you ehoul'd have
the best farm• in your district; that
the seed grown on your Beide sho
capture first prize at a noted: exh'
ition, that you should have been
of the head shepherds of His flock
that your work would have fitted y
for a high position in law. We
not think of these things as we ca
lessly say "Well I just can't do tha
that there is no such wo
as "can't" in the English lin
With God's help, and we can free
have His help, if we are doing wit
He wants us to do, we can reach o
objective. It is true that in many in
stances young men and women h
had: to leave ctollege on account of
death of the bread winner; for si
ness; or for a matter of finan
These things, change our life plans al
together, but that need not necessari
mean that we must give up
thought of higher education. By som
means we can study and thus prep
ourselves for our work should the op
portunity open lated. We need not b
a quitter.
er
mag,There is only one peepcan give us
yours the ksourage we require and that is
did Jesus Christ, What are Rio charges?
and There is nothing to .pay: Just simply
you ask Him for help and He will give it
ash- to us, • Tey praying our, problems
did through. ,We can also be a great help
or to others by praying for them and
and their'work.
are Another thing it is cowardly to
Did quite. The heroes: of today' are the
no men and women who have pushed on
cme , in spite of difficulties and obstacles,
y m
which at the time seemed insurount-
able. We •should always encourage
of that trait in our character which will
us on in every good work.
Things may seem hard and they are
head at times, but anything done with-
out a struggle does not develops our
u1d charaeter to any extent. The great-
b- est satisfaction in life is derived front
one , going ahead and mastering the things
s' which are hard.
ou
do Very often it is much easier to stop
re- than it is to go on. Did you ever have
at" a number of things to do, some of
rd which are hard.
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ly
at er have a number of things to do,
ur some of which you dreaded. How have
have you gone about doing them? By do -
the ing the easy things first? By the
ek- time you have finished these your in-
terest has gone and you face the hard
Beane
utter
Very often it is much easier to
stop than it is to go on. Did' you ev-
things with a tired feeling. Why not
ly pick out the very hardest thing you
all have to do and do it first, then the
next hardest, etc. The result will be
e altogether different. Before you
are know it your work will be finished
e' and you will feel that you have se-
complished something. Try that in
your daily work—it will" make your
d task easier.
We have good reason to be ashame
of ourselves as we look back over o
lives and see just what a little thin
turned the course of our destiny. I
may have been we would have had t
give up some form of pleasure; some
thing else came on the night when w
should have been going to school;
we have allowed', other things to inter
fere with our study. When, we once
put our hand to the plough let us n
turn back for it may be God has sum
special work for us to do. 135 ma
have planned some task for us and we
have frustrated His plans. A. quit
never gets to the place to which h
started out.
As we look back over our lives
can see clearly that what we allowe
to stop our progress could quite easily
have been overcome. When it is too
late how Snuck we regret that we did
not go and reach the objective which
we had in view.
Many of us have missed opportune.
ties for doing a great work just simp-
ly by indifference. We lost interest
in our work; we felt that after all we
ourselves would not deserve much
benefit from it; we Dame to places
which were not easy and to use a well
understood term we were to lazy to
struggle with the problem ourselves
or to ask some one to help us. SO
often we trust simply in ourselves,
What we should have done was to put
our energy whole heartediy in the
work, if we needed help get' out and
get it. It is our own fault if we have
been a quitter. -
Our brain was given to us for the
purpose of thinking things through.
let us use them for that purpose. Itis true we need cotuage to help us
on in the majority of things in life',
poured over the steak.
Note: To prepare smothered steak
with onions, follow above recipe, but
omit the tomatoes, carrot, corn and
green pepper. Instead of baking in
the oven, partly cover with a lid, and
simmer for iiia -2 hours over a low
heat. Add 3 medium sliced onions
during the last half hour of cooking.
'u Then are we quitters in the most
g important thing in life? That is the
acceptance of Jests Christ as our
° Saviour. Everything else fades into
- insignificance in comparison with
e that. have we started out to walk
o
talong with him and then stopped and
have Ieft Him t° go on alone? We do
i not know whether the next minute is
°t ours or not. We do hot know *Meth
-
sir we will have another chance to am
j cept Him or not. If We have started
with Him. and Have fallen away, let
Arius go bnek to that place at•othee and
e go on with Him. If we have never ae-
cepted Him, let us get down on our
we knees and talk to Him about it. Let
d us ask Him to came into our lives and
be a companion to us. Those who
have never done that are losing the
greatest pleasure which life can give.
:All other pleasures must take second
place to that. Eternity lies before
us. Axe we going to spend it with
• Christ or without Him? We think
things are terrible in the world today.
, They are nothing to what they will
be if we decide to spend the everlast-
ing years without or Saviour. The
question must be decided by us, Jes-
us will not open the door of our hearts
land( come into our lives, without our
Cavitation, but He will be right at the
door waiting to receive us if we want
to come, Will we not decide today
for Him? "Tomorrow has, ruined so
many things. Learn, to say today."
Savoury Beef Stew
2 cups cold cooked meat, cubed
Flour and paprika for dredging
3 tablespoons nveltedfat or suet
3 to 4 cups water and left -over
gravy
11/2 cups raw carrot cubes
1 cup cooked green peas
r/s to 1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce.
Cut meat in 1 -inch cubes.' Cut on
ions in quarters and roll with the
meat in flour and paprika. Brown
in hot fat and then ands the water and
left -over gravy. Cover and simmer
gently for a few minutes. Add the
carrots and simmer until done (about
r/a hour). Add the peas and season-
iegs.
If more thickening is required, use
a smooth paste, of about 1% table-
spoons flour to 3 tablespoons cold.
water.
Serve stew in a border of either
creamy mashed, potatoes ho;r�p boiled
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"As we waken from our sleep
Upon each coming :morn
lYlay it be with a joyful thought,
Another day est born
Another day en thisdear earth
That God has made ao fair,
Another day of thankfulness
For all His love and care.
Another day to try to walk
The path our Master trod.
Another day with loving friends
Another day with God." -
V
The Christmas Seal
If Einar Holbeil, the Danish Post-
master, who way back in 1903, origi-
nated the first Ohristmas Sealy were
alive today, his heart, 'saddened by
the bondage of his country to the
ruthless Dictator, would be gladdened
by the knowledge that ih Great Brit-
ain, Canada, the United States and all
the remaining free countries of the
world, his little Seal is again doing its
part in the valiant fight against
Tuberculosis.
He would also be interested in
knowing that the 1941 seal was de-
signed by Mr. A,. G. Morrison, a Scot-
sman born in Aiberdeen, but who is
now an Air Raid Warden in London,
Eng. The sturdy happy youngster
at his anvil, forging his tools, is
symbolic of the work to be done in the
building up, after the war, ef that
new world order,- which shell be
founded on the principals of Freedom,
Justice, Good Health and Absence oi
Fear.
Designed in. England and printed, in
RING VISITS TROOPS' IN TRAINING
H.M. Ring George VI maintains the closest touch with the develop-
ments, new techniques, and changing tactics of the British services.
His Majesty is seen here with staff officers watching troops mance
vers in an East England; Command.
Canada, England says it is not only
a Canadian, but an Empire seal as
well.
,,Hospitals Commiseiens Ottawa, re-
, quested Queen Alexandra Sanatorium
Ito provide at once for 150 soldier pat -
!lents and this, with Federal aid, was
done.
I. What we in Canada must expect, as
(the result of this terrible war, no one
can yet predict.
The seal should carry a double mes-
sage for Canadians this year, for our
Canadian Association, hearing of the
bomb shattered printing presses of
the Mother Country„ and the destroy-
ed paper stocks, gladly contributed,
free of cost to Great Britain, Jahnalca
and British Guinia, all the seals, en-
velopes and stationery required in
their Campaigns.
Dreaded from the earliest ages as
the White Plague, it was only from
the beginning of the present century
that active steps have been taken to
control and eliminate the disease, and
while the death rate per 100,000 of
our population has been reduced from
200 in the year 1900 to 53 this year,
there is still a tremendous amount of
work which the Seal must do.
In our own country the death rate
from Tuberculosis declined in 1940,
but prospects are not to favourable
for 1941.
In Europe, the war's effect is al-
ready painfully evident.
In England and Wales the death in
male civilians, rose 13% between
1939-1940.
Int Scotland it is the highest since
1932. ;
In unoccupied France, the French
Medical Association, report a sharp
increase.
As early as the year 1915 in the
Great War 1914-1918, the Military
Our efforts must be redoubled if
we are to be prepared to deal with
the increase in the disease which med-
ical authorities assure us rs bound to
come because of War condition, and
every Canadian who buys a Christmas
Seal is helping in a very real way to
,provide "THE TOOLS" which will en-
able Queen Alexand!oa Sanatorium,
and its travelling clinics, to combat
this scourge,
All we ask is the little from the
' many.
V
WHAT YOUR WAR SAVINGS
STAMPS CAN ACCOMPLISH
$5 may bring down a German
plane for it will buy one round of
40 m.m, anti-aircraft shells.
$5 will stop a Hun with five ma-
chine-gun bursts.
$5 will let a soldier fight for you
with 100 rounds of rifle mnmunition,
$10 will stop a tank with one round
of 18 or 25 -pounder shells.
$20 buys a cannonade of four 3,7-
dnch anti-aiceraft shells.
$75 will provide a 500 -Ib. bomb to
drop over Berlin or Berchtesgaden.
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OUTDOOR SILHOUETTES
For decorative shots, try siihouettes—either indoors 01' out. They're
simple to take. Fast actionsubjects, of course, call for a fast shutter,
but others can be snapped with any camera.
TR" past winter, no doubt, you
made silhouette shots indoors,
with a bed -sheet stretched over a
doorway and your photo lights be-
hind it. Eut don't forget that you
can also make silhouettes outdoors
—and these are attractive too.
The trick is simply to have the
sun or brightest sky beyond your
subject, instead of in front, and
show your subject' against a bright
sky background. Then you under-
expose. Por example, if the normal
exposure would be 1/25 second at
1/11 lens opening, you would use
1/25 second at 5/22 to get the sin
houette effect.
With a box camera, you would
take a snapshot as usual; .but'fast
you would set the lentfor the
smallest possible_. opening. Most
regular box cameras have' a little
eever or slide which enaublee you.to
do this. The proper film Is the
"chrome" type, ,because it is a bit
slower than "pan" film in late at-
ternoon—and that is just what you
want ie thio case.
There la one point op wh-1c5 you
must be .careful. Don't allow direct.
rays of the sun to enter your lens.
You can avoid this by having a tree
or some other object between the
camera anti the sun. Sometimes
you can conceal the sun squarely
behind your subject, and that is an
excellent arrangement for good sil-
houette effects.
To show the subject against the
sky, you just select a low camera
position—down close to the ground.
This, in effect, raises the subject
higher. Such a camera position was
used to take the picture above. 02
course, an action picture like this
calls for 'e fast shutter—say 1/400
second, with the lens set at 1/8.
However, there are hundreds of
outdoor subjects that can be, pic-
tured "in silhouette" even with the
most inexpensive cameras. Water
scenes, proflie '.shots of people,
buildings against the sunset sky.
these are good examples. And a sil-
houette shot always has a neat,
decorative quality that makes it
welcome in your album.
ees John van Guilder