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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1938-01-06, Page 7iHURS , J�4N. 6, 193 8. THE CLINTON, NEWS -RECORD HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS HEALTH Books That Matter -A Weekly Feature furnished "by the. Association o f Canadian- Bookmen and the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association WOMEN ADVENTURERS By Claris Ewin Silcox themselves unable to follow her in her expositions of the role played by the Catholic Church in Spain. Neverthe- Last Flight: By Amelia Earhart: less, they do well to read her interpre- (Toronto: George, J. McLeod). Price tation. $2.75. . And Then The Storm: By Sister Monica: (Toronto Longmans). Price, $3.00. Here are two very different books by American women. One is by a and Roman; on this base lay a super - distinguished aviatrix; the other by an structure of Gothic Christian and of Ursuline nun. Both narrate adven- ture well worth reading. Saracen Mohammedanism, and how shall you name the result? .. Poverty, squalor, disease, vice; filth, decay may abound as in all quasiorien- tal districts, but romance will spring out of the sky's radiance, the air's lan- guor, the gorgeousness of soil and vegetation, clothing it like a vine with beauty". We North Americans need to read such interpretation of Spain as this, for we must not forget that it was Spain and Portugal who laid the foun- dations of European civilization in the New World. Theirs was a great cul- ture, but somewhere there was a fatal flaw. Was it the individualism of Spanish character? Was it religious intolerance and fanaticism? Was it the climate? Was it the cheer greed of the landed gentry? Was it the gold and silver of Peruvian mines which cortupted the original Spanish vir- tues?_Who knows? We doubt if Sister Monica can give us the real answer to this question, but she does give us so much else for which we are thankful that we ov- erlook what may be her own inevitable partialities. Her book confirms our long felt suspicion that Catholic edu- cation in the United States is destin- sition, the book does reveal in the en- ed to produce some outstanding writ - amble a very extraordinary and de= ers in. the immediate future. They bonair personality. have a sense of form, and a delicate In the introductory chapter she tells sensitivity to certain realities of the how she became interested in flying. spirit which too many of the realists Canadians will learn. that an impor- do not understand. But we are not tont episode in, her flying career took hopeful about the future of Spain. Sis- . place in 1918 at the Canadian Nation- ter Monica concludes: "it is not (or- al Exhibition in. Toronto. With a gotten how Spain's unreadiness for friend, she was watching some stunt new.. conditions lost to her her colon - flying when the aviator tried delib- ies; her present unreadiness may erately to frighten them by swooping strike deep at the root: of her national -down upon them. She says: "that faith". We think it Will, no matter little ted airplane saidsomething to' who wins, bat v1 eas is the vesperal- 'me as it swished by". One suspects bilityt if she may not also have said some- thing to that little red airplane! The book contains some outstanding details of her major flights, including 'shrewd observations on countries and peoples visited en route. Thus she \vetches the innate dignity of African -natives and asks:. "What have we in • United States done to these proud people, so handsome and inteligent in "the setting of their own country?" In •another compact sentence she gives us 'the significance of Singapore. In at least one passage, she reveals an un- • usual sensitivity to beauty. She is flying over Northern Brazil and has Spain is to most Anglo-Saxons and to almost all Protestants an enigma. To understand it, one must know the historyof its "cultural development, As Sister Monica says: "infuse into this .Celt -Iberian stock, Greek blood, then some Phoenician, Carthaginian Last Flight Amelia Erhart was a vivacious 1'tomboy with an inherent joie de vivre ,-Ind a strangely unfeminine love of machinery even though it involved ,grimy hands. Her unkempt hair in- vited William Allen White's editorial advice in the Emporia Gazette: "You certainly need to comb your hair; now is the time to get the tangles out and ..give it a good straightening. So in the long lone watches over the gray and melancholy ocean, comb your head, kid, comb your head." She had intended her book to be 'called "World Flight", but that was . made impossible by the silence of the South. Pacific. As she completed var- ious laps in her journey, she despatch- .•er the log of, her airship, the "Elec- tra", together with other interesting bits of description to . her husband, George Hazen Putnam. This contin- ued up to her departure from Lae in New Guinea for Howand Island—nev- er reached! Her husband has edited these reports with remarkable skill, • and while certain sections reveal the •somewhat piecemeal method of compo - A HEALTH SERVICE OF THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA A HEALTH REVIEW At the beginning of each year it 'climbed above the clouds and the ram is customary, in many fields of hu - into fair weather. The aviator can man endeavour, to review the twelve find the weather be want,s she says, months which have passed, to take at one level or another. She can see st.ek, as it were, and to consider 'the slanting rain beneath him: whether or not the year has been a "Horizontally, distant views are profitable one. It is upon the suc- 'blotted out; Vertically, clouds droop cesses and failures of the past years 'to shroud the shoulders of mountains, that we base our plans for the future. or weep upon the jangled plain. But It is, therefore, rather an appro- hoW many of the earthbound real- eriato time for us to review the health ize the relative nearness of sunlight conditions of our own families as above the cloud -covering " tI they were during the past year. First Another fact is made perfec y of all, we should consider whether or clear. One of the dynamic influeneoe not we have taken those steps which • in her career was her feminism. Sh would protect us front certain dis- wished to prove that women could do' eases. Vaccination does prevent what men could `do. And she did it small' pox. Have you allowed your - liven though the chronicle from Lae self or your children to be exposed to -concludes, referring to the longocean, this disease through failure to use flight before her, "1 shall be glad vaccination as a means of protection? when the have the hazards of its nevi-, Diphtheria can be prevented by diph- theria immunization. Have you al- lowed this disease to continue' as a menace to the very lives of your chil- dren by your failure to have them immunized? Safe water and pure milk are fun- damental needs. , Contaminated wat- er and dirty milk are still the cause of much sickness and many deaths Have you seen to it that the, water youand your family drink, and the milk that you use are pure, or do. you live with the dangers of impure. water and milk hanging over you? Have you given attention , to your home? Are your windows screened to keep eat flies? Do the windows ol}ento allow for proper ventilation? Does the sunshine get into your rooms? A much larger measure of health is within the grasp of most of us, but we must make the necessary effort to seize it. If you delayed last year, if you were careless in health mat- ters, start off this year by doing the things you should, do in order to a- void certain diseases and to lead heal- thier'lives. •gation behind use And Then The Storm Sister Monica went to Spain from the United States to examine the ,source of life of Francisco de Toledo, the great Viceroy of Spain in the New World. Har researches caroled her to Madrid, Seville (where the Ale ,eliives of the Indies are stored), Avv iiia famed . for Santa Teresa, Toledo (where she witnessed the Mozatabie rite), Valla-adolid and Palos, whence Columbus sailed. Only those who have themselves known the farm of Spain 'may appreciate the delicate descrip- tions of the author who -is always aimpatica. There are many. Spanish phrases in, the book and the reader unfamiliar with Spanish. may often wish for a glossary, but Sister Mon- ica has taught and imparted the beau- ' ty eau'ty and mystery of Spain while on the whole, she has not been uncritical of the culture which fascinates her. 'I n dealing with the revolution, her sym- 'pathies are obviously with the rebel§, =and many df 'her readers will find THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON NOVEMBER 7T11 Introduction to the Lesson by REV. GORDON A. PEDDIE, B.A. *me .n.�,,M.n_opo_o...oma,on�n „_n..a_n.�aoo.. ...rm.,wm,a.nwnm.ga.nc Lesson Text—St. Mark :1-13. gives the following illustration: "It's just the same story as a doctor once told me. He was a man getting on in years, and undoubtedly clever. He spoke as frankly asyou, though in Golden. Text -St. Mark 1:3. "She might have seen that whieh had bowed her head so profoundly the thought of the world's concern at jest, in bitter jest. 'I love humanity', her situation was founded on an illus- he said, 'but I wonder at myself. The ion. She was not an existence, an more I love humanity in general, the experience, a passion, to any but her- less I love man in particular. In my self. To all human kind besides, Tess dreams,' he said, 'I have often come was only a passing thought. If she to making enthusiastic schemes for made herself miserable the livelong the service of 'humanity, and yet I am night and day, it was only this much incapable of living in the same room to them: 'Ah, she makes herself un- With anyone for two days together, happy.' If she lived to be cheerful, to dismiss all care, to take pleasure In the daylight, the flowers, the baby, as I know by experience. As soon as anyone is near me, his personality dis- turbs my self -complacency. In twen- she could only be this idea to them ty-four hours I begin to hate the best Ah, she bears it very well."" (Tho- of men: one because he's too long utas. Hardy, "Tess of the D'Urbervil- over his dinner; another because he les"). In the above words Hardy vividly portrays the truth of the humanithr- ian idealism of our day as it is ex- emplified, not only by the institution- alizing of social service by the state, but also by the emphasis upon pro- grammes of social welfare, within the Church: the utter lack, both within state and church, of profound con- cern for the real lives and true needs of individual men and women. Ta our modern charity worker, citizen and churchman alike, needy people are has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ar- dent becomes my love for humanity.'" At the heart of this week's lesson from the first chapter of the Gospel according to St. Mark, namely, in the submission of Jesus to the sacrament of baptism at the hands of John, is to be found the one power by which men are enabled to cast aside their treated, not as actual flesh and blood, vein worship of abstractions and id - but as nieces of broken-down machin- cols and are brought face to face with the concrete realities of life. There is, finally, no more profound signifi- cance to Jesus' baptism than this, that by thus 'fulfilling "all righteousness' Jesus, who himself knew no sin, iden- tifies himself with sinful man. He enters uponhis ministry as a sinner among sinners! The essence• of. true Christian love is thus seen to lie in 'the power of identity' (the phraseis taken from a work by •Dr. Boyden). Likewise we are to understand Jesus' temptations. He stands among us as one of us, "tempted in all points like as we are" ... himself "suffering, be- ing tempted, that he might succor: them that are tempted." (Heb. 2:18). It is because of this humbling of him - 'philanthropist': "this term", he says, self to boar the burden of man's sin, 'ought to designate one of the noblest to stand among them and suffer with representatives of the unselfish side, them, that brings forth upon Jesus of human nature; but to my mind, it at the outset of his ministry the describes a fellow who has taken up words of His Father, Thou art my with the profession of loving all men beloved Son, in whom T am well pleas - in general, that he.ntaybetter enjoyed." (Verse 11). the satisfaction of hating all men in particular, and may the more effect- ualiy prey upon his immediate neigh- bours" ... the outcome of our charity "is seen in legal enactments against begging, in palatial prisons for crim- inals, and in poorhouses where the needy are obliged to associate 'with the vicious and depraved. The 'dark ages' (as the times which witnessed the foundation of the great universi- ery. We deal with mankind "en masse." We speak, not of people, but of "cases."' We stand to one side, like spectators, interested, but not deeply moved, by the suffering we witness. By participating in social and reform programmes "for the alleviation of mankind" we succeed quieting our consciences, -though we know very well that we have refused to partici- pate in the actual suffering itself.- To really love one's neighbour as him- self is altogether beyond the power of our humanitarian, self-centred ideal of life. It might well be said of our so-cal- led 'Christian charity to -day what a recent writer has said of the modern The Word of God whicl• here, in Jesus Christ, becomes flesh, is the one and only hope of true loveamong men. By that Word it is given to Moses of old to cry unto the Lord, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold! Yet now, if Thou wilt, forgive their sin—and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of Thy book which hast written. "(Ex. 32:31,32). By this ties; hospitals, and asylums the world, Word the very soul of Paul writhes ever saw, are sometimes called) werein an agony of love for his brethren, "I hot dark enough' for that" (The quotations are from the book called, 'My Unknown Churn'). In this connection there is a pas- sage in Dostoevsky's famous novel, 'The Brothers ICaramazov', which seems to throw into bold relief the outcome of our present day human- itarian ethic and of our spineless, non - doctrinal theology of social reforms. Dostoevsky represents an elder in a monastery addressing a woman who has come to him confessing' her lack of love for.herfellows. The elder have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart; for I could wish myself accursed from Christ (severed from Christ and devoted to destruc- tion) for my brethren, my kinsmen ac- cording to the flesh.' (Rom. 9:2,3). By this Word -the secret of the baptism of Christ—the despised Samaritan, who sets the needy upon his awn beast, is seen to be the only one of three who truly loves, though the priest and the Levite undoubtedly gave large gifts to further the welfare of society and to promote religious reformr. PAGE 7 COOKING CARE Off' CHILDREN eeieteeeeeeetetetet Tested Recipes ♦H HtH «QHYj.,i»iH:tYM « 1 f»fifZ»�i. LEFT -OVER MEATS After the festive season" is ended, the housewife"' is often at her wit's end how to make the most appetizing use of left -over meats. These left- overs can all be utilized, and it is not necessary to eat cold meat for a week in the event of large left -over roasts and other meats bulking large- ly in the probable menus. With little time and trouble the left -avers can be made into a variety of tasty and wholesome dishes. Bones from roasts and steaks should be used in making soup. Surplus gravy and the liquid from stews may also be used for soups. A few of the uses which can be made of left -over meats are: NURSING Many have been visiting the sick today. This is the time of year there is most sickness in Canada, and the hardesttime to, find a nurse when needed., We have more than 20,000 trained nurses, without 'counting those who have left their profession to be married. In addition there are about 12,000 nurses -in -training, and they will average more than a year's ex- perience in caring for the sick. In the hundred years that have pas- sed since Florence Nightingale stdrtod out to make nursing her life work, it has been raised from the status of a menial task to the level of a profes- sloe. Iligh standards of intellectual training, as well as character, are de- mandod,for admission. The Lady of. the Lamp herself .contributed' more than any other person to this change, for she was not only a person of .high ideals, but like so many of her follow- ers today, a womanof :profound in- tellectual attainments n-tellectual:attainments with a broad and informed interest in social prob- lems. Her interest, which should stand as an inspiration, to nurses of today, is shown in a letter she,wi•ote at the age of seventy to Sir Francis Galton, that great scientist between whom and her- self there was mutual admiration. Af•• ter telling him of some, of the social problems on which she saw a need for more scientific information, she says: "What is wanted is that so high an authority as Mr. Francis Gal- ton should jot down other great bran- ches upon which he would wish for statistics, and some teaching how to use these statistics in order to legis- late for and to administer our natibn- al life."' EUCALYPTUS OIL A cold in the head is almost , the style at this t•inie of year. An old- fashioned 'means of relieving it, and one that is still used a good deal, is to put a few drops of eucalyptus oil on one's handkerchief, ,and sniff it occasionally. To persons whose sense of smell is not unpaired by a cold, the odour isapt to be disagreeably strong, and consideration; for, their sensibili- ties may sometimes be a reason for using something else. Another substance sometimes used for a similar purpose is camphor. Eucalyptus oil and camphor have something in common about their ori- gin too, Although now made syntheti- cally, camphor bas in. the past come almost entirely from Japan It is ex- tracted front• the wood of a Japanese tree. Eucalyptus oil is from Australia. About 90 per cent of Australia's for, estsare eucalyptus trees. There are 400 diffej•ent varieties. The' oil is Croquettes Any kind of ground beef, one part mashed potatoes, or rice and egg, mixed with gravy, stock or white sauce and fried in deep fat. Hash Two parts of, -any kind of ground beef and one part of mashed or chop- ped potatoes. Stew Cold roast beef, steak, and other meats, may be used in stews instead of fresh meat. Or the cold meat may be cubed and re -heated in gravy or white sauce. Meat Pie • With stew as a basis, put in baking dish and cover with baking powder biscuits cut about one inch in diame- ter. Minced Beef on Toast Chops coid meat, heat in gravy, and serve on toast. Escalloped Beef Cut beef in cubes, mix with gravy, and place in baking dish with alter- nate layers of boiled rice or dressing. Cover with bread crumbs and brown. Shepherd's Pie Same as beef pie, exceptthat cover is of mashed potatoes. Jellied Meat Cold roast, steak, tongue, or tripe. Cut in cubes, add to highly -flavoured gelatin stock. Mold, cool, and slice. Beef Sandwiches Finely -ground cold beef, seasoned and mixed with salad dressing, Wor- cestershire sauce and such like condi- ment. FOR LUNCHEON Canadian Fish and Cheese Casserole Place a layer of cooked peas or cooked spinach in the bottom of a large, shallow, greased baking dish. Place, on the vegetables a layer of any variety of Canadian fish, using either slices of fish or fillets cut into suit- able serving portions. Sprinkle salt andpepper and cooking oil over the fish. Place the dish in a hot oven for six or eight minutes. Then, having a cheese sauce ready, pour it over the fish, sprinkle with fine bread crumbs, dotted with butter, and put the dish back in the oven until the top is nicely browned. The cheese sauce may be made as follows: Melt two tablespoons of butter, blend with it two tablespoons of flour, and add a cup of liquid (a cupof milk, or of milk and vegetable 'water combined); cook the mixture until it is thick and smooth, stirring constantly, a n d just before removing it from the stove add a half a cup of grated Cana- dian cheese, and continue, to stir the sauce until the cheese is melted. Canadian Fish are rich in vitamins and health -building minerals and, having regard to nutritive value, are among the most nourishing of foods. International trade in beef and mut- ton is largely a movement from the southern to the northern hemisphere, while world trade in hog products is mainly confined to the northern hemi sphere, . .. distilled from the leaves of these trees, About $200,000 worth is ex- ported.iti a year, and large quantities are used by the Australian mining in- dustry. In Canada we usually buy from fifteen to twenty thousand pounds in e year, Much of it goes into patent or proprietary remedies. Our impor- ter nay the Australians about $5 cents o pound for it, bat it costs more when bought in small quantities at the drug store. THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATEID TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful and Inspiring. ,AUTUMN HOMECOMING I walked along a country road I hadn't trod for years— And dear familiar scenes I met Again, through happy tears. 'Twas evening and the sky still wore The sun's departing blush; Pale shadows brought with them the song Of one Ione, homing thrush. As I trudged on that dusty road, My hungry eyes:'I fed; I saw the moon come rising up Behind the forest red; An apple tree's faint patient droop,. Beating her, burden sweet; A languid cornfield slowly rise, The trembling breeze to greet. Then when I saw the hills of home, Beloved, quaint homestead! The lane that ran to meet the oak— The stables painted red Ah! then I knew my worldly cares And heartaches weren't in vain, I found such rapture in my heart= Returning home again. —Usula MacMillan. HOME -MAKING Some day, she said, when there was time for it, She'd make ' her home A. gracious place, where beauty dwelt and friends Would love to come.. .. A house of lovely things. — inviting When flying sabers ride the growing nooks, dark, Log fires and precious pictures, rare When frost and fury and the grim old books; hordes gather, Soft shaded lights, with colored ra- A lonely lamp among the hills their diance glowing, And fragrant blossoms there, and green things growing... . But years laughed by, and babies tod- dled round, spark. And each new day some added duties —Charles Malar in The 'Christian Sci- found. ence Monitor. She baked and scrubbed and washed and fed the brood,. And patched up all the holes as best she could. Some women have fine clothes to wear So, at the last ,the shack seemed much And jewelled airgrets for their hair, the same— Beads and bracelets, hot house flow - That time far building beauty never ers came.... Books to while their leisure hours; Yet all the while beauty crept in, un- Sumptuous homes with trappings sought, fine, And those who came there lingered, Wine and lobster when they dine, and they thought, I Some have this and some have that— "How sweet her home!" A fluffydog, a maltose cat, -Barbara V. Cormack, in The Chate- A swimming pool, a streamlined car, lame. A trip to France, or Zanzibar. 1 have a wedding ring and a fan, Two ,kids and a faithful .man. —Beatrice McDonald. THE TWO YEARS I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing; And I said: "0 years that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the. knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers comingand going, Matter enough for deploring But aught that is worth the know- ing?" Seas at my feet were flowing, Waves on the shingle pouring, Old Year roaring and blowing, And New Year blowing and roaring. —Alfred Tennyson, NIGHT OF FROST Cold iron in the outer air tonight. The great plow of the northern sky Showers of stars in the • celestial clo- ver; The autumn slopes of heaven are full and bright. Sharp is the air, and all is well below, Clearing and corn land hill are brush- ed and furrowed; Banked are the walls, and wild beast safely burrowed. The dark fields glitter with the breath of snow. Now hold, my hope, against that break of weather mark. And no horn hurls the raiders home, hut rather Silent the walls and low the fire's BEAUTITUDE TOGETHER You and I by this lamp, with these Few books, shut out the world. Our knees Touch almost' in this little space, But I ant glad. I see your face. The silences are long, but each Hears the other ,without speech,., And in this simple scene there is The essence of all subtleties, The freedom from all fret and smart, The one sure sabbath of the heart. The world—we cannot conquer it. Nor change the minds of • fools one whit Here, here alone do we create Beauty and peace inviolate. Here, night by night and hour by hour We build a high, impregnable tower, Whence may shine now and again A light to light the feet of men When they see the rays thereof. And 'this is marriage; this is love. —Ludwig Lewisohn THE COMING YEAR A year to be glad in, Not to be bad, in; A year to live in, To gain and give in; A year for trying, And not for sighing;, A year for striving, And hearty thriving A bright new year. Ohl hold it dean; For God who sendeth Only lendeth. -Mary Mapes TODAY f BUY IT HERE If you want to help your town, Buy it here: Help it up instead of down, Buy it here. Every dollar that you spend Helps a neighbor or a friend, Helps to make Depression end Buy it here. If you need a suit of clothes, Buy it here- Or a rake or garden hose, Buy it here. There are bargains here galore, Heaped up high in every store, No place can offer more: Buy it here. Just resolve to do your. bit: Buy it here- I Much as income will permit, Buy it here. Buying outside's a mistake, So for everybody's sake, Give your own home town a break Buy it here! —Exchange. PRESENTED WITH HONORARY MEMBERSHIP CERTIFICATE As a mark of respect and apprecia- tion of the long and valued service rendered to the Orange Order, a de- putation of brethren of Logan Or- ange Lodge, Mitchell, went to the home of Mr. A. J. Linton, Blanshard St, on Friday evening and presented Dodge. that gentleman with an honorary 1 membership certificate. Mr. Linton isthe oldest member in years of Lo- gan Lodge. He and his good wife Come what will, and come what may, Here's the door of a brand new day.. ! Here am I with Inv pilgrim load,I Off once more on the wonder road. .lI Yesterday's track went with the night, Tomorrow's trail is hid from sight, Yet, sure am. I, as I can be, Today holds something sweet for me.' —Fay Inchfawn. are devoted supportersof the above Order and throughout their home souvenirs, of all descriptions relating to King VI%illiain and Boyne water can be seen and some day Logan Lodge may be a beneficiary to some of them when Mrs. Linton decides to distribute; the dame. The above couple are aged.. in years, but both delight to welcome,: their friends who are legion. —Mit", chell Advocate.