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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-03-16, Page 7THURS., MARCH 16, 1939 THE, CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE 7 HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS HEALTH The Quality T THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometiines Sad -But Always Helpful and Inspiring. BLESSED IS NIGHT Blessed is night, for then poor weary =petals, Whether of countryside or* teem- ing towns Poets and pickle -makers, cooks and 'chemists, Bankers and broncho -busters, kings and clowns; Medical -men and urbane undertakers, Poverty-stricken scribes and mil- lionaires; Traffic policemen, beery bums and bakers, - Bald-headed barbers, sellers of plums and pears; Shepherds and statesmen, wise and unwise professors, Editors, lawyers, honest men and thieves, Trombone players and tiresome tax assessors„ Gaitered biships and smithswith rolled -up sleeves— •Seek their rooms in mansions, cots and villas, Go to bed like good little boys again; Sleep and, sleeping% dream of the golden sum`mer's They knew erethe years had made them foolish men. -Ernest H. A. Hoene, FRIENDS We do not• make our friends -- we find them only, Where (they have waited for us weary years; Seine day we wander forth a little lonely, When lo, a comrade at our side appears. 'Tis not "discovery"—'tis recognition, A glance, a greeting, and we grasp the hand, No explanation needed, no condition, That we are friends at once we And if our paths divide, if we must sever, • Eyes turn away and 'clinging hands must part, It matters not, for we are friends forever, Distance may harken, but not hush the heart. ';We serve them out of eager love- not duty, And hone so safe as he whom love defends; "The tender words of Christ assume new beauty: "Henceforth not servants — I have called' you Friends," ler du foe pound tin It's fico—write fan one NMI O Fits tho special cop of the 2 !b. tin of Crown Maud, Lily White and Karo syrups. O is easily cleaned and can be used over and over again. O Pours without a drip. hl Provides meansof accurate measurements. O Makes. the 2 lb. tin an excellent table coutaiuer. O The protective .cap provides a sanitary cover. Tell the boys that portraits of famous hockey stars can still be obtained for 'CROWN BRAND" labels, CORM SYRUP The Famous Energy Food Tho CANADA STARCH CO., limited, Toronto DUTY The sweetest lives are thosdto duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small, Are close-knit strands of an unbroken thread, Whose love ennobles- all. The world may sound no trumpet, ring no bells; The book of life, the shining record tells, They love shall chant its own beati- tudes, After its own life -working. A child's kiss Set on thy singing lips shall 'make thee glad; A poor man served By thee shall make thee rich; A sick 'man. helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense of service which thou Tenderest. —Robert Browning. THE FOOL'S PRAYER The royal feast was done; the 'King Sought some new sport to banish care, And to his jester cried; "Sir Fool, Kneel now, and make for us a prayer!" The jester doffed his cap and bells, And stood the mocking court be- fore; They could -not see the bitter senile ,Behind the painted grin he wore. BO bowed his head and bent his knee Upon the monarch's silken stool; His pleading voice arose: "0 Lord, ' Ile merciful to me, a fool! "No pity; Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white . as wool; The rod must heal the sin: but, Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool! "'Tis not my guilt the onward sweep Oftruth and right, 0 Lord. we stay; 'Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away. "These clumsy feet, still in The mire, Go crushing blossoms without end; These hard, well•i:eaning hands we thrust Among' the heart -strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept— Who knows how sharp -it pierced and stung? The word we had not sense to say Who knows how grandly at had rung? g "Our faults no tenderness should ask. The chastening .strips must cleanse them' all; But for our blunders—oh, in shame Before the eyes' of heaven we fall. "Earth bears no balsam for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: bat Thou, O'Lord, Be merciful to rue, a fool!" The room was hushed; in silence rose The King, and sought bins gardens cool, And walked apart, and murmured low, Be merciful to me,, a foal!" --Edward Rowland Sill. EDEN SILVER The moon, like some enchanted fruit, Bangs lightly in my apple tree, The 'thought of unity ' at once brings to our minds the impression of oneness and that of course means any group, of people working as if with one aim. This applies not only to things which have, a good object- ive but also to those things which lead to undesirable endings. 3n our individual lives we -mast have _unity otherwise our minds are ina constant tuiinoil. There is def inite need of oneness of thought and action. No happiness is found in homes where each member does not work for the joy of the family life. In a district where residents do not plan together there is continual strife. A country is divided in her following for different political leaders but in times of stress it is ' -absolutely neces- sary that they should unite and work as one. Regarding a nation the inhabitants thereof must put forth a solid front in order to -be successful either in peace or in war. Rothchild, the head of the famous American banking company was very anxious that after his death the business should be carried on amic- ably by his five' sons. On his death- bed he called them all to him and gave thein a bundle of five sticks all bound together. He asked them, each one in turn to break the bundle. They were unsuccessful. He tan had the sticks unbound and one.giv- en to each son, They' were then quite easily broken. This he explain- ed to them was the principal of co- operation. There is great need for unity i whatever district we live, but then are always those who take no pleas ure in working with others, whos sole purpose in life seems to be t break up any good work. Qne person gets ahead of some one else, jealous creeps in and is the means of de stroying the unity. Christ carte to the. world . to make us one in Hi love, butt in all our lives we, at times allow that love to be Superseded b a spirit of hatred. Jt is our dut as citizens to so. act that we wil help those around us to make some one else'ee life happier. In liftin their burden we also lift our own Nett only that, but we show the spiri of Christ 1oven Jesus Oi4rist we very anxious about the unity of Hi 'disciples. We' in these later clay form part of that, band. This unity is the only wary to advance the King done of God. Missionaries tell u that it is always a big problem on the mission fields to teach th heathen and to try to make them understand why it is there should b so many denominations representee on their fields When they are all preaching the sane Christ. It ha been the means many tithes of keep ing the natives from accepting Christ. One day we all will have -to work together. Why not begin now? This was brought out very protean entad in the Madras Conference. Judas betrayed Christ. We are tempted to look : on him with scorn and yet we betray our Master every day, Judas wee known as a disciple of Jesus but, he would not remain in the inion- of His followers. We are known as Christians, but we wrangle over trivial things arid• in 'this way we are selling, Christ for probably less than thirty pieces of silver. Do not criticise Judas until you come back iniacthe union of the meek and lowly Jesus and are working joyfully with Him and wwith His followers to advance His Kingdoms The measure of our love for others is just .the measure of our lope for God in the same way as the gauge on the side of a boiler shows how much water is in the boiler,' There is unity be- tween' the two. The unity in Christian lite may be compared to leaven which keeps working until' itt becomes thoroughly mixed with the other substances as long as there is the warmth of co. operation, brat when the mixture be comes cooled it ceases to work. The application of this to our Christian life is very easity seen. A Sunday School teacher had a drearn, Jests was corning to visit her classy - which, was composed' of many uationalid'aes, -she placed the ,white children in the front row, the red children next, then the black children, then the yellow. When Christ came in and she looked on a And fills the wan and winter boughs His kindly face shame filled her With goblin, 'spring and giamory. heart, that she should make any dis- tinction in His children, When she Who knows for same such fruit as looked at them again they were all this white. We have no right to look Our Mother Eve forsook her vows, .down on anyone because they are And stretched desiring hands to take not the •same color as we are. We Silver a nd sorrow from the 'are all one in Christ. • boughs? I ' Then too, in this age there .must —Joyce M. Westrup• be unity between the older and COOKING I:f Tested 4 Recipes Y3 Oe� CELEBRATE ST. PATRICK St. Patrick's Day calls for some- thing' special in the ' way of food. Treat yourself to some festive de- corations—a few streamers of.. green. crepe paper across the table; some fancy paper napkins, and maybe a wee sprig of shamrock for the centre.. Then for your food, here's something for your bag of tricks—because after all, St Patrick did work miracles! BAKED FISH WITH PINEAPPLE Line a greased casserole with sliced or cubed pineapple (drained): Add 2 cups of cooked, flaked fish— whitefish, haddock, or salmon are suggested — mixed with 3-8 cup, of cream. Season with, salt and pepper. Beat together . 1 'cup of mashed potatoes, 1 beaten egg, 2 tablespoons of milk and a dash of paprika. Place this on top of the fish mixture. Bake tin a moderate oven till hot and brown. Top with grated Canadian cheese just before removing from the oven. Fresh fillets may be used and; if so, the cooking time will be a little longer, Serves 6. After the food, a few old time dances, some songs, some _merry jests, and you will agree that you have done honour to good St. Patrick. Clean hands, after handling raw fish, by rubbing them with Salt and then rinsing. ' Dishes which have held fish should be washed hi water with a generous quantity of dry mustard or washing soda added. Kill cooking odours by burning orange peel coffee, or sugar in a pan. Circ the burnt' sugar:• from the pan by adding some vinegar and cooking them together. WHAT IS IT LIKE? "The Ontario Gazette is thegreat- ept fraud that was ever perpetrated on the people of this province," de- clared Alderman R. D. Humphreys, a barrister of Oshawa. This state- ment was made when the council was asked to pay an account for advertis- ing the sale of properties for arrears of taxes. That is lie opinion of many. The Gazette is not read by one personin ten thousand, perhaps, and yet these sales must be adver- tised in it, whether it is advertised in the local papers or not. It is a waste oe. municipal funds to advert- ise in a publication that is net read -one that many do•not even know what the sheet looks like, younger generations. We must work together ,for" the common cause. It does . seem difficult, in this •age to just get one another's view point. It requir'es'a great deal of give and take. We should learn that our opinion is not always right and should continually pray for guid- ance. '•An old pian travelling" a lone highway Cance .at evening cold and gray To a chasm deep and wide, Through which they flowed a sullen tide. The old man crossed in the twilight - dire, For the sullen stream held no fear for ]rim. He turned when he reached the other side And built a bridge to span the tide, "Old !„ man. cried a fellow'. pilgrim near, "You waste your strength with your building here; Your journey will end with the end- ing day, , And you never again will passthis way; You have crossed the chasin deep and wide, Why build It bridge at eventide?" And the builder raised his old gray head "Good friend, on the path ll have come," he said, `There followeth: after me today, A youth whose feet will pass this way, a, This stream which has been. naught to •me, To that fair -haired' -.boy may a pit- fall be; IIe too must cross in the twilight dim. Good friend, I am building, this bridge for :him.' "PEG" 3T. PATRICK'S' DAY LEGENDS TELL OF HIS HISTORY, Napper Tandy with familiar Irish gesture still crosses the path of the Irish exile: He tuk me by the hand;, "And how's poor ould Ireland, and How does she Stand?" Moat Irishmen feel that the com- mand of their country's destiny has immensely expanded 'since the days BURNS About 45 per cent' ,of fatal burns occur during the first five years of life. Why is this'? Chiefly because of the carelessness of parents, nurses and servants. Three out of five death -dealing burns occur in women and girls. From the fourth to the thirty-fifth year, there is a relatively high deathrate in females. Between the ages oe five and nine, twigs as many girls as boys die from burns. After thir+ty-five there is a higher deathrate from this cause in men than in women. In old, age the rate is again .higher in women.. Burns in women are more frequent because of. the typo of dress they wear. These fatalities in women usually occur in. the home. They are commoner in winter than in summer, According to the damage they do, burns are classified into those of first, second and third degree, In burns of the first degree, the skin becomes inflamed and reddened. Ex- cept for the pain caused this degree of burn is not very serious. In sec- ond degree barns, the skin is redden- ed and blisters form, Third degree burns include those of great severity including charring of the skin and deeper tissues. The danger of a burn usually de- pends upon the extent of surface skin involved. The simplest ' and most convenient household remedy of a burn of, say, the first two degrees is the application of a strong infus- ion of tea. This remedy has been used by the Chinese for 6000 years. In all cases of any severity the aid of a doctor is necessary,,but the use of tea as an_ emergency measure will relieve tae pain and make the victim of a burn comfortable. A LUNCHEON FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY Shamrock Broth Muiphies Paddies Killarney's Isles Kildare Karoes l0rin-go-Bragh Salad Wild Irish Rose Cake Thomas Moire Cream Tay henei'alcl Isle Punch This menu is subject to the fol- lowing.: Explanatory Notes: "Shamrock Broth" --Is a cream of lettuce soup. Cup shalnrecks from fresh lettuce, and place on each plate just before serving. "Paddies "--Oyster patties served with cream' gravy ' with sprigs of parsley. "Murphies"—Baked potatoes serv- ed in their own ,shells, froth which the tops are cut.. Sprinkle with grat- ed cheese -and paprika. "Erin-go-Bragh. Salad" Fruit salad with cropped nuts and any preferred dressing. "Killaruey'.s Isles" — Green peas served in g'r'een china or glass i dish. "Kildare K ' a e execs --a Ripe e olives served on lettuce leaves ,cracked ice sprinkled through at serving time. "Wild Irish Rose Cake"' --s Any preferred loaf cake, decorated with white icing and 'artificial wild roses. The roses to be worn by the guests, and kept as' -souvenirs. "Thomas Moore Cream" :Pistachio ice cream frozen in brick form, -a tiny Irish flag stuck in the centre Of each plate. Or our dairies will supply all sorts of attractive, Irish dishes both in individual ices and bricks. "Tay" Green tea served with sugar and cream, or "straight", "Emerald Isle Punch" —A, grape - juice punch, served in glasses set on plates having bright green paper doilies between grass and: plate, and a sprig' of mint in each glass. "Wearing of the Green" - Each guest, upon entering, is presented with a shamrock` or a small bow at Irish green ribbon, to be worn during the luncheon. The hostess should wear as much green as possible, and have all decorations of this color; ferns, leaves, vnes, etc., all dainty and lacy in effect. Here also our stores are tell of suggestions for green; and Irish pap- er favors, ap-er,favors, stickers, place cards, and what not are obtainable in bewilder- ing variety. CARE OF CHITTDREN of Tandy. With tie return of Ire- and's national holiday featuring .St• Patrick thousands of the Dominion's' citizens, very frequently of non -Irish is well as of Irishex't'raction, ex- change a vaaiety of queries; thoughts and recollections concerning Irish his- tory and life, The day of St. Pat-. rick conjures' up the Lakes of Kil- larney, jaunting "cars, the Blarney Stone, potatoes, colleens, Irish jigs, four-leaved shamrocks, ahillelahs, "Erin go Bragh," "banshees," Pat and Mike, pigs, county Derry; shan- enigans, "faith and it's not that at all, at all", harps,' New York police- men, Bernard Shaw, free -for -ails, wit, "begorra, "yer riverence," Free State and Ulster, snakes, orange and, green, the Boyne battiee, the ,thorbughbred horse, De Valera; the Liffy, stew, Tara's halls, "Come Back to Erin," inavourneen, and the Dail. • The' Wit of the Irish The Fair Isle that is famous for all these things and twice as many more, has a .most distinctive and amusing brand of humor also. It comes to the surface today when the "wearin' o' the green" is observed to the ends of the earth. This humor, at a way is all Ireland's own and yet not all its own. For every child of Erin that goes abroad is a busy salesman for that rich, lively brand of fun of which the land of harps and colleens is justly paoud. Good sam- ples are thus sent to all the corners and sides of, the earth. St. Pa'trick was an Irishman, Ile carte of decent, people, He built a church tp Newry town And on it put a steeple: tl.i 1 I , t i Where Was He Born? Per St. Patrick was not born in Ireland, and it was felt than an idol had been lost when the small genera- tion were forced to believe this. And then suddenly Patrick came to folk lor, as -•a very, dear saint, forit is not where a man is bot;n .which de- cides his true nationality, but whore he spends the absorbent years of his youth. - There is an endless dispute as to where exactly was the birthplace of P-atrick. He, himself, in his con- fession, tells that he was barn in "Bannavan of Tabernise " (Great Britain). Scotsmen insist that Pat- rick was a Scot, his nativity placed at a spot in Scotia near Dumbarton. Some authorities say that the birth- place was in Celtic Britain, others that it was in the Celtic province of Brittany, in France, The legendary tale says that at the age of, 16, Patrick was taken captive and for seven years herded swine on Slemish Mountain, in county Antrim, He entered Ireland as a foreigner, leaving it as an Irishman., "For, as ho was destined to give ar new faith and new soul to Ireland, Ireland had given a new soul and new faith •to him. He had found himself, and four ad i d G n that land, to which .he An Irishman's -wit is. not kept ex- was destined to bring God", elusively for his days of good fortune His father, Caipurnius, was a mag. and gay 'times. He uses it just as istrate, and his mother, Conchesse, cheerfully in seasons of bad luck and was a niece of St. Martin of Tours. the most severe disappointment, And;This latter fact is a strong vela in he is as quick to laugh or poke fun favor of his continental birth. Pat. at himself as anyone else. trick was christened Succat. In any There is a free and ready spon-'case, however, wherever he was taniety about the wit of the Irish born, it was from the home of his which is seldom found elsewhere.; mother's parents, in the year 389 Strange to Canadian ears is the way that he and his two seet'ers were that many English words are pro- i taken captive by Naill of the Nine pounced when rendered in the original Hostages. His sisters were placed in pure brogue. And that often makes ;Louth, while Patrick was sold to an the most ordinary remarks seems in -Antrim chieftain, who set him herd. tensely funny. ing flocks in the Valley of the Braid, Thus it is found, that when this; on the lower slopes of Blemish Moun- generation was very small, the seeds tain. Here Patrick had time for were laid of a belief which in afterthought `and meditation, and tells years took much argument to prove himself that "he was again led into was nothing more than a legend. The 'the paths of duty, for he had forgot-, legend of St. Patrick, (ten God." leSNAPS1-101CU 11 POCTURES EN THE HOME Attractive "home" pictures, such as this, are easy to take, either in the daytime or at night with photo bulbs. DICTURES of the rooms of your homeas re u a e make, and add Y to ma variety to the snapshot collection. They also have memory value, in the event furnishings are changed or the home is remgdeled. Any camera is suitable for these pictures, if it can be set for a time ' exposure. The pictures can be taken either in the daytime, or at night. Before taking a picture by day- light, have the room illuminated as evenly as possible. Illumination may be balanced, in some cases, by ad, jueting shades of windows that will be out of range of the camera. Photo lights of the amateur "flood" type are quite helpful in"eyeuing.up" the illumination. Those bulbs are also valuable for taking night pictures of interiors. With the illuminationadjusted, place the camera on a firm support, shutter set . for "time." Point it to- ward the part of the room to be pic. tured, set the Iens for a small open. Ing such as 5.16, and make the ex- posure. The exposure time varies with the brightness of the room. With a box camera, or using lens opening f.16 on cameras so marked, exposure can be as short as 4, seconds on a bright, sunny day when the room has white walls and more than one window. With dark walls and Only one win- dow, exposure on a sunny day would be about 40 seconds. Ott. a day of bazy sun, leave the shutter open twice as lona and on a very dull day, ten times as long. These figures will serve as a guide, but for your first picture you should make several "test" shots, with in- creased -creased exposure each time. Three shots, one With 10 -second timing, one with 80 seconds, and one with about 2 menace, will do. Have a print made from each negative, and you can get a good idea of the tinting that will be best for other "interior" pictures. Photo bulbs, when needed to ob- tain an even balance of lighting in a room, can be used in bridge lamps with shades tipped up and moved about todirect light wherever neces- sary. Of eces-sary..Of course, such lights used for general illumination should not ho placed where they will show in the daytime pictures. If windows are included in the pic- ture, try this: keep the shades down for .seven -eighths of the exposure. Then close the camera shutter, being careful not to move tate calnera; raise the shades, and open the cam- era shutter for tile remaining expo- sure time. This trick keeps' the wit - dews from recording too brightly on the firm. In arranging a room fors a picture, it is wise to move any furniture that is quite near the camera, leaving an "open" foreground, This makes the room seem more spacious, The pic- ture should show: more floor than ceiling, to avoid a top-heavy appear - ante. Winter months are a splendid time to picture the rooms of your home. Take these pictures now, and your will find added value in them in later - years. 224 John van Guilder