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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-03-23, Page 7`THURS., MARCH 23, 1939 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE' HOTJSEHOLD ECONOMICS HEALTH COOKING THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes „•.Gay, Sometimes Sad -But Always Helpful and Inspiring. WHY WORRY Either you are successful`or you are not successful, If you are successful -there is nothing to worry about, If you are not, successful, ;there are only two things to worry about. Your health is either good or you are sick. If your health is good,,, there is nothing to worry about, If you are sick -there -are only two things.. to worry about. You are either' going to get well, or you are going to 'die. • If you are going to get well, there is nabbing to worry about; `F If you are goingto die, there are only two things to worry about, You are either going to Heaven or youare nat. If you are going to Heaven—there is nothing to worry about. If you are'goingto the other place -you'll be so busy Shaking hands with old friends you won't have trine to .worry. SPRINGTHE THREE W.OULDS -A` gentle stir sweeps through the 11 would I were beneath a tree, woods asleep,, A -sleeping in the shade; ....As fairy, feet among the long dead. With all the bills I've to pay, leaves. Paid! Now faintly fringed, the swaying branches Sweep ". ,Against the blue, blue sky. Their shadow weaves -A tracery delicate on mossy slope- 'Tis sexing again! Spring with its I 'would I were on yonder hill, glorious hope! Now shyly waking from their wintry dreams, beep blue, pale pink, and white, hepaticas lift , CANADIAN SUGARING SONG Sweet, gentle faces to the sun's warm beams, •. Let's hie to the woods now Spring Is While on each bank and hollow come, Mayflowers drift. Let's hie to the woods away! And trilliums nod along the southern The maples yield their golden store, slope. !And the pails are near to spilling 'Tis spring again! Spring with its o'er, golden hope! And Farmer John ; comes back for more,— Upfrom the swamp where ,marigolds Let's hie to the woods atvay2 unfold - 'Their green cupped buds, the chorus Come, gather within yon rustic shed of the frogs And view the steaming tray;, Drift on the fragrant air. Froin O'er snowy batik or cranny near, leafy mold Soon Willard pours the dark -brown Pale spicy ferns uncurl by moss- cheer, grown' logs; Delicious, sweet, without a peer— 'The robin calls from every upland Let's hie to the woods away! slope. iNow Jacques takes up his fiddling "'Tis spring again! Spring with its stick ' glorious hope! A merry jig to play, For faith's glad hope leaps up with The lasses and dada they dance budding flowers; 1around. Soaring again with song -birds on the And jovial mirth .ana snatch abotmd, wing— I Let's' hie to the woods away! The miracle of life; when shining Our sugaring season will soon be hours gone, Bring heart and spirit their Eternal' So come without delay; Spring. —Elizabeth A. Yining. With laughter and glorious shama- i I would I were bgside the sea, Or sailing in a boat, • With all the things I've got to write, Wrote! A -basking in the sun; With all the work I've got to do, bone! —Anonymous. MARY HAD A LITTLE Mary had a little cold But wouldn't stay at home; And everywhere that Mary went, ILITCHENITIS That cold was sure u e to roam. :It wandered into Molly's eyes, When you ,have a kind of feeling And filled them full of tears; That you have too much to do, It jumped from there to Bobby's nose And You mumble 'round the kitchen And. thence to Jimmy's ears. It painted Anna's throat bright -red, And swelled poor Jennie's head; Then Dora caught a lever, and A cough put Jack to bed; 'The moral of : this sorry tale Is vela, quickly said: If you're peevish and you're fretful Mary could have saved a lot of pain At each tiny little sound; With a day or two in bed. If you do not seen 'to please yourself Lanark :Era. When you have done..your best, FUNNY LITTLE HATS. A man can never understand How woman, plunged in deep des- pairing, And the little things annoy you seen shake it off and live once more T'ill you want to stand and yell; Because of her delight in wearing If you do not feel like working, Bats! .!Just hats funny little hats! Neither do you want. to play, 'To a man, a hat is just a hat-- Then your trouble's "Kitchefiitis", The older, though, of course, the And you need a holiday. better' But you do not, need a doctor, (The sort of thing a wife would give Medicine nor pesky pills, Away to tramps, if he would let What you need's a new invironment, her.) New faces and new thrills; ,,:So when. she window-shops, he says, Go 'way for 'bout a_ month or two,'" Because her joy heis not 'sharing; .By car or bus or train, `"'How can you stand for hours like That will knock your `'Kitchenitis", that So 'twill never come again. ' Outside a window, simply staring At hats? Just hats -- fanny little hats!" I THE LETTER "E" The most unfortunate leter -And when the bills arrive, he;growls ter in the At wasting all his harcTeaLzied alphabet, some say, is the letter "e", money , because it's always out of "cash," for - 1 something he cannot appraise (ever in "debt" and never out of And so considers only "funny'" "danger." That's all true. .Still it's never in "war," always in "peace"; Bat.. woman thanks the Providence and alwaye in something to "eat". It That gave her, in exchange for is the beginning of "existence" and bearing the end of "trouble". Without it "The woes and trials of the world, there -could be. no "life," -no "heav- A sense that keeps her i )crest en." It is the centre of "honesty," flaring is always in "love." It is the be - :In hats! Just hats—funny little hats! giniing, rot "encouragement" and •-Alice; Boorman Williamson."endeavor" and the end of `!failure.", meat, And vow the day is sweetly spent,— Let's hie to the woods away! —Hector Gordon McNeill That your work is never through; When you're sore at all the dishes And the kettles and the range, Then your troubles " Kitehenitis," And you need a little change. If your feetseem awful heavy, And they're hard to drag around, Why your trouble's "Ititchenitis," And you need a little rest, If you do not feel like dolling up And getting. a reared, , • —Exchange; NYiWMNFiH _ ..1WiifH21.:hi Tested Recipes FOUR PIES FOR A BRIDE Here are four pies to 'set before a king''-- yet simple enough for a bride or a teen-age' youngster to make... Use . your own recipe for pastry, because it's always best in pastry to find a recipe and stick to it, insteadof trying some new quirk; Time enough for that when you want t o make puff 'pastry and other fancies." Now—the pie's the thiing, so let's to it.! SALMON AND PEA PIE 1 can Canadian salmon. 1 can condensed pea soup Pastry Heat the soup. Flake the salmon, crush the bones, remove skin and add salmon to the soup. Turn into deep casserole or fill individual custard cups. Moisten rim of casserole with cold water, place pastry on top, crimp edges and bake until crust is golden brown. CHICKEN HADDIE AND CELERY PIE 1 can Canadian Chicken Haddie 1 can condensed celery soup Pastry Heat the soup. Flake the chicken haddie and add to the soup. Turn into deep casserole or fill individual cust- ard cups. Moistea rim of casserole with cold water, place pastry on top, crimp edges and bake until • crust is golden brown. TOMATO FINNAN IfADDIE PIE 1 2-1b. Canadian finnan haddie 1 can condensed tomato soup Pastry Cover finnan haddie-with water, let come to the boiling point and sim- mer for a few minutes until fish is cooked. Flake. Heat soupand pour over finnan haddie which has been placed in a deep casserole. Moisten TIM of casserole with cold water, 'dace pastry on top, crimp edges and bake until crust is golden bream, LOBSTER MUSHROOIrM SOUP 1 8 -oz. tin Canadian lobster 1 can condensed mushroom soup Pastry,: Flake lobster into, deep casserole, removing all bones, Heat soup and pour over lobster. Place pastry on moistened rim of casserole, crimp edges and bake until crust is golden grown. Hith1 SHALL WE DISINFECT? It a generally accepted fact that infection does not 'live in .-bedding, clothes, 'old .mattresses andother in- animate objects, and that disinfection of such articles is a waste of time and a needless expense. The discovery that; diphtheria carriers and .mild overlooktd cases of scarlet fever and the carriage of infection by sprays from the mouth and nose were the chief routes of transmission in these affections has discounted the value of terminal dis>?nfeation (that is the disinfection used at the termination of the disease.) The germs which cause disease in num failto thrive outside the body unless they exist under conditions of moisture, food and warmth conduct- ive to their life.The only .ones that remain active outside the body are those like anthrax and tetanus, which possess spores, and perhaps that of typhoid fever. . Germs de, not live long in old mattresses, bedding and clothing. The orthodox disinfection et mat- resses and bedding was abandoned in Brighten, England in 1910. The boiling of sheets, washing, of blank- ets, dusting of bedrooms and scrub- bing of floors was substituted. Home cantads of measles have not been ex- eluded from school at. Brighton since 11)22 and this without any noticeable increase of infection. In general the foregoing is the policy followed by health .officers in this country and in the United States... It is a wise policy. No in- crease of disease has been 'known to follow it. It serves to keep children in school without endangering any- one. The course of education suffers Less interference. Old mattresses 'and bedding may be dirty but they do not carry disease. MONEY saiminissauessuss, What a blessing or what a curse money can 'hove in one's life. In these times of stress it seems rather foolish to talk of having much money, but ° there is a great deal of it in the world. Someone has it, Dr. Stanley Jones says "The happiest people on Earth' are the people who. deliberately fling away their lives for other people, and the most miserable people on Earth are those wlxo think most about themselves," This is ap- plicable as regards money." In the old school readers there wr(s a story about a man named Midas who so longed for gold that it became just a pert of his life. Ile was offered, and accepted, the opportunity of having everything he touched turned into gold. He was highly pleased when he handled a chain and it immediately became gold, On and on he went from -one thing to another. Before long his beauti- ful little daughter carne running to him, he put his hand• on her fair curls, and at once she became a statue of gold'. It was enough, Midas had learned his lesson. He had all the gold he wanted. There are many men and women today who would gladly part with ail their money if they could have their happiness back, Midas also saw the folly of his work and was indeed grateful when his little daughter was restored to him in her natural form. That is only a story, but it is. true today.., People are even going further than that. They are selling their souls for gold. Parents so often spend their time in woridng in order to save a lot of money to leave be - bind to their family, with the result that frequently there is a break in the home life forever. 1-Ieads of homes lose sight of the fact that a monitary inheritance will sometimes land a 'son or daughter behind prison bars. It is a wrong thing for child- ren to grow up with the idea that they do not have to work for a living, The most prominent men and wont• en today and in the past have de- veloped from boys and girls who have had to start with nothing in life, David Livingston came from a home in Blantyre, Scotland, where as a young child he had to work early and late in a factory'. Abraham Lincoln did the greater part of his studying by the light of a fire place. Shake- speare held horses for a pittance. Many of the most, godly ministers were brought' up in homes where the parents were extremely poor, but where the family altar was remem- bered, and where the children were taught to love Jesus. Christ Himself was born under the poorest circum- stances and }Ie was revealed as the Saviour of the world. Parents remembery notb ou may s Y able to leave your children very much, Fathers and blethers now con- sider it is better to educate their children and fit them for their life work than it is to burden them, as it so often proves the case, with money. From sthe earliest days of your children you are setting up a loom for them to weave the pattern in the web of cloth, which will cos- tume them throughout lttternity.'i'hey. cannot take money with them into the next ' world, but their lives as they appear before God will to a large extent be your responsibility. You brought them into the world. It is said that the first seven years of a child's life are the moat formative. By your disregard of God's laws are you. going to fill your time With worldly pleasure and allow someone else to bring up your children? They will face you at Eternity. Will you be an unbroken family or will you be filled with remorse that you did not do your duty? The cross of Ivan the Terrible was composed of 841 diamonds; that of Peter the Great 887; England 1700; Imperial Russia 2500; France 5352. Would we exchange the crown of the poorest saint of God for any dile of these? That is for each one of us to answer. What we have on Earth here makes very little difference as far as the Beyond is coriaerned. Tlxe one thing that matters is what we are going to have in the Hereafter. Some day when we stand before Christ at the Judgement seat we will know just what good or what harm money has been to us and to ours. We think we have, not very much to give to help others. -"Our mite" may be very little compared to others who cart give much, bat `God is the Judge, the righteous Judge, • of the value of our gift. We must not hoard our money or any of the talents God has given us. A minister in the west while lead- CARE OF CHILDREN W.,.e.'.`.•o .•.Y•`•'mA .°.°.': ■°J'.°.°.,"ee .": n 2w a ee o o ®"a°m .e."r: e-- should be selected for their perceived • qualifications, and not in relation to particular territorial areas. I would $ do away with county and city re - (Copyright) al'presentation. The men noxninated for ■� election to parliament could be party by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD men, but they would be the best men .b • �• �. e . ''� of .t ..'d1Y'rF'a°.,� s°i."iei�'."i5i'..!.`.'�W.•.'.ide°c .. dYd4i."'i"r?r1`e .^dSSPom•m,� the plasty.- We would not vote :so YOUR WORLD AND MINE I have not joined the Toronto. Globe & Mail's Leadership League. I ani not criticai''of it. 1 regard it as be - in` a good idea, and I aim hoping that it. will achieve its professed objects. My failure to join the league is attributable to a general disinclina- tion to be it "joiner". I .belong to no clubs—other than .a book club'. I. am not a Mason. Probably my disin- clination to join clubs and societies is explained by the- age -factor: men when they get old. contract %their int- erests and' activities. Probably they recognize that old men become less and less interesting to :others—even to their children: They -are spent forces.- They are but-small.contribu- tors to thewelfare and gain of others. They fade out as do stars at dawn: saronger and more aggressive per- sons excel them in most, things. Old doctors are not in popular fav- our. Old preachers become increas- ingly less interesting to the church- going public. ' Old men are not in- v;ted to address public gatherings. There are exceptions, of course, but what r. have said is true, speaking broadly. John the Baptist said that there was one coming who would eclipse him -•. that Jesus would hi - crease and that he himself would decrease. Perhaps John's fame rests mainly oh 'the fact that he was a pointer to the Messiah — a pgophet— a foreteller of a successor—a man— e God -man• - who was aciatlned to change the history of mankind, John held attention—in a big way -for a sliort time in his day and country,' Then he passed from the public's at -1 tendon and interest—after he was beheaded, I am not even reading much about the Globe & Mail's Leadership Lea- gue—just as I don't read much about anything in the way of current news —domestic or foreign. I read head- lines and sub -headlines. Why should I read about the details of Japan's war with China? What was the use of reading about the bombing and onslaughts of the Spanish war? Why should I read about sentences passed by magistrates and judges on crim- inals and lesser offenders against the law? Why should I read -the details of great snow storms and of the blocking of highways and of the mis- adventures of motorists? Why should I read about weddings of persons quite unlaiown to me? Why should I read about the bad men of the United States, or about the sinners and sins of Hollywood?. Some things I do read, with at- tention and genuine interest. Thus, I read what famous statesmen say about world affairs. I red a about the progress of medicine and m' P 6'v gery and of science: I read about import- ant discoveries and achievements, That is to say, 1 read with good will ing his congregation recently asked thein to sing that well Imown hymn "Take My Life". When they came to the lines "Take my silver and my gold" he asked them to sing it heart- ily if they really meant it. Thele• was a subdued response:. Then he asked then tohsingthe lines "Take my intellect." They sang it lustily. The minister then said "Why with- hold something which we have=our money -anti offer something which we have not got—our intellect? How true that is. People' seem so much more ready to part with their money if they are going to get something in return. There is a great deal in the world which is more valuable than money. Would we 'give our ability to think clearly for money? Would we give our sight? Would we g1've our gen- eral health?. We can'safely say we would not. When we come face to face with Christ, if we have not used our money properly we will sincerely wish we had never had it, but if we have used it for His glory how much ,it will mean to us, We may have very little, but let us use what we have for the, furtherance of His 11ingdam. MONEY Dug from the mountain side, Washed in the glen, Servant ani I, or 'Master of men Earn me, I bless you, Steal me, I curse you, Grasp me and hoard me, A friend shall possess .you. Lie for me, ' die for me, Covet me, take me, Angel or. Devil, I am What you make me. 1 what contributes to 'my understand ing-what widens my horizons-wha may have permanency of value: Th time saved from newspapers I ' c' give to good ,books. much on men .as' ons Barty Platforms, We' would mark our ballots for both t the party platform and the particular e man we wanted. to' go to parliament. an Thus, if we had to vote for 20 men out of 50 whose names were on. the ballot, then the total vote would -re- present the will and mind of a: au* ority of the voters favoring a partic- ular platforms , This idea of mine is' not mine at all. It is .a way long practised in e certain European countries. s Our members of parliament should be men definitely trained for govern- ment. Government should be a career o just as law and medicine and teach - Ing and enigneering are career voca- s'tions, Our universities could give the ✓ degree of Bachelor of the Science of Government. It was doubtless all right in a ✓ former day to make definite ter - 1 ritories, both urban and rural, elec- . total districts; but today it' is all o wrong to continue the outmoded ways of our grandfathers' tames. The one thing .which 11as impresse itself on me, in regard to the Glob & Mail Leadership League, is tha it advocates doing away' with. pat ronage. All of us, I feel that I am safe in saying, are ready to agre that patronage is a curse—that' it i a mother of many evils. Quite piousl we may. consent to the proposition d e that patronageo is viciona--that th British way is'. incomparably better The British way gives members o parliament the :power to appoint,.o to recommend the appointment of men for public or semi-public office In Canada, however, every membe of either the Federal of Provincia parliament is forever being canvas sed by job-wanters and the friends job-wanters for employment or fav ours, and "pull" counts. The resul is that na',lionai, provincial, county and municipal politics can become very dirty. Incompetent` men are given jobs, and few of them, are con cerned with the matter of efficiency; each man feels that he is protected for a period of time, at any rate. These "appointed" or rewarded men acquire a mean mind. Men of the highest probity and of fine ideals do not seek political jobs, knowing that the acceptance of a job or contract received through political "pull" or influence signifies the surrender of something fine in then—tile loss of some of their honour. There is a measure of humiliation when one seeks and wins a political job or contract. t They say .that every man has his price. I do not like to subscribe to this doctrine, yet I know that most of us are ready to condone the acts of men who try to get jobs or con- tracts for themselves or their kin or friends by political "pull," When we are not offended or outraged by pol- itical patronage, it means that we consent to the praetice of political patronage, and are ready to vote for a continuance of the pracV,ice. It means that we are not good—GOOD Canadians, desiring for our country purity and loftiness of ideals and practices in the administration of public affairs. By both our apathy, and our consent to a perpetuation of the present way of allowing patron- age to be a power vested in mem- bers of parliament, we but prolong a state of affairs which puts a blight on; Canada's good name. S admit mit thatI am not t w g well thought out in regard to this view, namely, those whom we send to parliament George McCullagh of the. Tor- onto Globe and Mail is doing a wonderfully fine thing in and through his Leadership League, and one wishes him both a swift and brilliant success in his enterprise. It is -prob- able that, as time goes on, there will be revisions of policy, views, 'plans 1and programmes. Light always comes in the morning—meaning that new or fresh light is always atria- - g. rriv-ing. The attainment of perfection is accomplished progressively. Be- ginnings are apt to be accompanied by errors of many kinds. Let us remember this, should we be critical of Mr, McCullagh. WHY FROM THE RIB? A surgeon was asked why it was that God made Eve out of Adam's rib instead of from some other part of his body. .He replied, "She was not taken ;from the head of man, lest she should rale over him; nor from his feet, lest he would trample upon her; but she was taken from his 'side, that she might be his equal; from under his acorn, that he might protect her, from near his heart, that he might cherish and love her." AN ENORMOUS APPLE PIE The people of Wenatchee in Wash- ington gave a great treat to the un- employed the other day. It was an apple pie ten feet in diameter! A ton of apples, ten pounds of butter, and 100p ounds of flour were put into this huge pie, which was taken to the city park' on a lorry. "They're t e Mum !99. Joan has just returned from one of her frequent trips across the street. to tell a neighbour she is wanted on the telephone. "Very well, Joan, I'll' take the massage," says Mother, "and you can run over again with it later." Ever since Joan's mother agreed to take a message or two for them, most telephone calls seem to he for the neighbours. Not because they can't afford telephone service; almost everybody can,: now. It's just one of those awkward situations. Some day, however, Joan will rush in with the news: "Mummy, they're getting a tele- phone!" and Mother will reply with a smile: "Isn't that nice, ,roan," and mean itf Telephone service is widely used, because it is courteous, efficient, yet surprisingly inexpensive, Nothing else yields so much for what it costs! ,