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HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS
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HEALTH
The Perfect T h,irst Quencher
THIS I MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED
1VI(3 S 1
TO THE POETS
Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful
and Inspiring. -.
ADDRESS TO A CAT
' 'You are life's true philosopher,
To whom all moralists are ono,"
sighs a poet in the Spectator, addres-
sing his cat with the wistful envy
of a man who has .been bored and
battered by the strenuous ethics of
• the day:
"You hold your race traditions fast.
While others toil, you simply live,
And, based upon a stable past
Remain a sound conservative.
"You see the beauty of the world
Through eyes of unalloyed content,
And, in my study chair upended,
Move me to pensive wonderment.
` 9 wish I knew your trick of thought,
The perfect balance of your ways;
They seem an inspiration. caught
From other laws inolder days."
-MEMORY'S NICHE
In memory's niche I've stored away
A. host of lovely things;
The lilting notes from feathered
throat
The flash of bluebirds' wings.
A squirrel frisking on the wall
Of moss -grown stone or rail,
The tang of froston bare, brown
fields,
A glimpse of deer or quail.
A wedge of wild geese 'gainst the
sky,
The thud of nut on leaves,
The colors of the autumn woods.
The web a spider weaves.
The chirp of cricket, frogs in spring,
And fire -flies at night
That dance above a dew -drenched
field
Where mist is hanging white.
. A pollen -laden bumblebee,
Wide mouths above a nest,
The chip of rain, the gleam of sun,
And bright clouds in the west.
The tracks of furred and feathered
folks
On freshly -fallen snow—
All these and millions, millions more
My treasured memories show. •
—Mina M. Titus.
THE COWBOY'S PRAYER
Oh God:
I never lived where churches grow--'
I loved creation better as it stood,
The way you left it in the dim past
long ago
.And looked upon your work and cal-
led it good;
I cannot read your light
When sifted down through tinted
window panes,
And yet I know it guides me here
tonight
In these dim starlit stretches of the
plaids,
I thank you, Lord, that I am placed
so well--
you have made my calling so
complete,
'That I'm no slave of whistle, clock
or bell,
Or weak -eyed prisoner of wall or
street; I
.Just let me live my life as I've be-
gun, I
.And give me work that's open to
the sky,
Make me a partner of the wind and
!sun.
And I'1 not ask a life c'hat'ssoft
and high, i
Let me be easy en the man that's
down— i
Let' me be generous and square` with
all,
len careless, Lord, sometimes when
I'm in town, ,
But never let 'em say I'm mean or
small; '
Make me as broad and open as the
plains-
As honest as the horse between my
knees, •
Clean as the wind that blows behind
the rain,
. Free as the hawk that cries adown.
the breeze.
A PRAYER
For all Thy creatures, God, we pray
In field and wood and meadow way:
The lark that sings at dawn of Thee;
The chipmunk playing in the tree;
The silvery fish in stream or brook;
The beetle in its chosen nook;
The woolly lambs, the gentle fawn;
The rabbit hopping on the lawn;
The bee content in _wayside flower;
The cricket heard at evening hour—
No one too small to know Thy care,
God, bless Thy creatures everywhere.
—Ida Tyson Wagner.
MOUNTAIN TRAIL
Mite Ties an old log with its emerald
moss
At the bend in the mountain' trail,
Where mushrooms grow in an im-
•
pudent row
Like elves in a fairy tale:
While resting one day on the pine -
scented path
Of the forest, when all was still,
I saw three does and a fawn return
From the spring at the foot of the
hill.
They nibbled, as daintily one by one
They came through the forest hush,
And, leaping the log as if they had
wings,
Were lost in the underbrush.
I stood a long time like one in a spell,
Transfixed by their beauty and
grace,
And ever since then the trail to the
glen
Iles ,become an enchanted place.
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COOKING CARE OF CI-TITUDREN
ShouldI� rist Core Today
l...•• By "PEG„
If we were Wakened some morn- intensify, our feeling that worldly
ing andwere definitely and authour- pleasures have no• part there,
atively made to understand that that' The fleeting hours would be ell too
day waste be our•laston earth what few. The artist Crane in .his picture
would :we, individually, de.? I "The Chariots of the Fleeting, Hours"
Many in the world today would re- shows trine:being drawn by four wild
ceive the message . with an over- horses and being driven by, chariot -
whelming sense of joy. Their daily, eers. Our trine is rapidly passing.
routine would be followed, for they Bach day we are growing older and
had been waiting for years for the our journey here is one day less: Age
coming of their Heavenly Father. I does not count in the order in which
The man or woman who had lived we are called.
a life trying to . prove: to the world' Our last day on Earth will come
that there is no God and' no here- and if we are to spend Eternity, with
after would either go •on his or her Him we must fill our moments, hours
defiant, way and enter Eternity to and days with work for Him, just
Meet ' a God who would prove to them es we would if we realized that be
that there is a God and also that.fors nightfall :we would be gathered
there is a place prepared for those hone..
who will not accent Him or ere its How do we know that this is not
was too late they would turn from our last day on Earth. If Jesus
their brava and plead with Christ
to accept them even at the last mom:
ent.
Another division of the world's
population would -immediately review
their past lives. and realizing that
they had neglected their duty to-
wards God would set to work to bring
themselves in. accord with His pian
of their lives.
It is a wonderful thing that even
in. the closing hours of our Earthly
journey Jesus Christ will pardon us
and will give us the privilege of
sharing Eternity with Him as He did
with the thief .on the cross. He will
put our sins behind Him and -even
although we go empty handed He
will welcome us, but who of us after
His goodnessto us would want to
go alone, taking unto His presence
no one whom we have brought to
Iiia,
We continually look forward to to-
anoirow and plan for the future. To-
morrow, as we think of it, may not
be ours, but Eternity will be, and how
we will spend that Everlasting life
is a matter of our own choice and
doing.
If we knew that Christ was coming
today just how would we spend our
dine?
Needless to say we would rise,
early. Much time would in all prob-
ability be spent in prayer asking for-
giveness for our neglect of Him and •
Christ should call for us before the
sun sets would we be ready or would -
we be found wanting?
"Lord Jesus Christ, my Master,
I come to Thee today;
I ask Thee to direct me
In all I do or say.
I want to keep my promise
To be Thy servant true,
I come to - Thee for orders,
My Lord, what shall I do?
I want a heart not heeding
What others think or say,
I want an humble spirit,
To enter and obey;
To serve Thee without ceasing,
'Tis but a little while,
My strength the Master's promise,
My joy the Master's smile."
"PEG"
INVENTOR OF STETHOSCOPE
In its regular feature "Brief iliog.•
raphies of Eminent Men," the quart-
erly publication of the Health League
of Canada gives this sketch of Rene
Laennec:
A great Frenchmen Began his car-
eer when Laennec was born at Quiet -
per in Lower Brittany in 1781. The
natives of Brittany are close kin to
that other Celtic race the Welsh in
England.
Laennec began life under distress -
1 of hlis wank, !sing circumstances for, when he was
We would spend very little time under five years of age, his mother
thinking of our bank account, of our died of consumption, the lung affec-
-Gertrude Ryder Bennett, stocks and bonds, or of any real tion now universally known as pul-
estate. We would know that by the =nary tuberculosis, This fact is of
end of the day all worldly things
which we had spent years accumulat-
ing would be useless. We could not
take them with us. .We had been so
busy gathering material things that
we had had little time to send up
Material` for out hone ebove, where
we will, if we have given our hearts
to God, spend the endless ages of
Eternity. Pause long enough to con-
sider what the word Eternity means.
You will find that you cannot fathom
its depth or length. At the longest
we can approximate time here. The
only things which we can take with
us are our sins and these we would
want in alt sincerity to leave behind
ns and through the grace of God we
are free to do that,
If the call were to come to us on
Sunday would we spend the day read-
ing the daily paper, visiting friends,
and. picnicing. Decidedly , not. That
day we would realize that we were
intended to be in God's house on His
day. We would search out some
source from which we. could get com-
fort and encouragement. All thought
of absenting ourselves from Church
because some one there was making
a profession, whose lives we thought
did not ring true, would be gone.
Then we would know that we would
be, required to ai ewer to a just God
for ourwrong doing.
It would be a good thing if min-
isters and Christian workers would
preach and teach with this thought
in mind: "Ani I saying what Christ
would want me to say if He were to
corn and stand beside me .while I
was giving His message?"
It may be for many years we have
neglected God's word.
It would not take us long to hunt
out His precious Book, perhaps from
a catch all, where everything for
which, we lead no immediate use was.
piled away.. Fearful that our time
here would .not last we would franti-
cally search for some thought which
would leacl us to- believe wemight be
pardoned and in desperation we would
get down en our laces and ask God
to fcegive us. for our neglect and
give us - a -place in His home.
Many of us have lived Christless
lives.- We have prided ourselves in the
fact that; we have been able to get
on alone, but on this last .day the
thought :would be brought home to .us
that without Him we would have ne
part in that Realm from - which no
traveller - eetturne, This would only
OTHERS
Lord, help me live from day to day
In such a self -forgetful way
!That even when I kneel to pray
My prayer shall be for—OTHERS.
Help me in all the work I do
To ever be sincere and true,
And know that all I do for you
iMust needs be done- for -OTHERS.
Let "Self" be crucified and .slain
.And buried deep; and all in vain
May effort be to rise again
Unless to live for—OTHERS,
And when my work on earth is done,
And my new work in Heaven's begun,
May I forget the crown I've won
While thinking still of—OTHERS-
Others, Lord, yes others,
Let this any motto be
Help me to live FOn others.
That I may live LIKE Thee,
Ever Ready Mission Circle
The Ever Ready Mission Circle held
the June' study meeting Thursday the
15th at the home of Mary Andrews.
The president, Ferrol Higgins had
charge of the opening exercises and
business. The roll call being answer-
ed by some very interesting facts on
mission work carried on in the Can-
adian West, Mary Andrews, 2nd vice
president opened the study period by
reciting- a ppem' "Thirty -Three
Years." Hymn 112 was -sung follow-
ed by prayer. Mrs, F. Alien read the
scripture lesson. A letter from Mrs.
Jean Forbes, president of The Domin-
ion Board, was read by : Mris, R.
Shipley. This included many , of her
visits to Mission schools throughout
Canada. The last chapter of the
Study book was then dealt with which
summed up the unfinished task of
the United Church of Canada in its
efforts to help or rather to do .its
part in Christianizing Canadian Life.
The need is still very great. Appeals
from the. West were given by Edith
Paterson; from the New North, ,Dor-
othy Match; from Newcomers in Can-
ada, Margaret Durst; from many who
are drifters, Isabel Moven, and Un-
rest among the Unemployed, by Mrs,
J .Nediger.
This was followed' by sentence
prayers. by Dorothy Mittel', Mips. N.
Counter, Bessie Livermore. Af?ten
singing hymn 510 the meeting closed
with the benediction. A social half
hour was spent, thehostess • served
candy.
importance for the same disease ser-
iously handicapped and finally term-
inated his life at 45 years of age.
The child, with his brothers and
sisters was brought up by an uncle
who was a cure, that is, 'a priest.
Then he went to another uncle, a
medical masa He received a good
classical education and his medical
environment no doubt determined his
choice of profession. At 19 he went
to Paris to complete his medical edu-
cation.. There became tinder the in-
fluence of Napoleon's great physician,
Corsivart, The Iatter, recognizing the
bright mind of Laennec, encouraged
and talked with his pupil.
The young man plunged into work
/with an energy greater than his
physical powers and at 35 years of
age was a visiting' physician to the
Necker Hospital.
Laennec's greatest achievement Was
the invention of the stethoscope. In
making this discovery he turned to
good account his knowledge, "I had
observed," he said, "that one can hear
with great distinctness the scratch of
a pin at one end or a piece of wood
on ap-plyingone's ear to the other,"
Applying this suggestion he rolled a
quire of paper into a kind of cylinder
and applied one end to the region of
the heart and the other -to his ear.
By this means he was surprised that
hecould hear bhc heart sounds =eh
more clearIy than he had been able
to do by the immediate application
of his ear to the chest. From this
simple beginning came the perfection
of the stethoscope, one of the most
useful • instruments of every madam
doctor. In 1882, Laennee was' ap-
pointed to the chair of medicine in
the College _of b'reeee, and in the
fallowing year he succeeded his sever-
ed teacher Co] slyest a full professor
of medicine. I -Ie. worked too hard.
His health brake down; he went home
with a dry -cough, The circumstances
of his babyhood, the close association
with a consumptive mother, his close
application to ' hospital ' and literary
work, cut short a great career :pre-
maturely and he died in 1826.
Laennrec is the patron saint of
workers in tuberculosis not only in
France but wherever his history is
known. Hewas a very great man.
Tested
Recipes.
JUNE SHOPPING
Food stores and markets are a -de-
light these clays. There the shopper
finds an array of foods which come
in season during early ,Summer, and
also othersWhichare plentiful at
this time of year. The following are
suggestions for using 'same foods
which are included in one br other
of these two classes:
ASPARAGUS WITH BACON
Clean asparagus, removing ; ends.
Place stalks upright in deep •sauce-
pan. Cook in boiling, salted water
until tender—about 20 minutes. Serve
with broiled bacon and Cheese or
Hollandaise Sauce.
RHUBARB WHIP
Sr/ tablespoons gelatin
Vs cup cold water
2 cups hot, stewed, sweetened
rhubarb
1 tablespoon. lemon juice
2 egg whites
24 teaspoon salt
Soak gelatin in cold water. Add to
hot rhubarb. Stir until dissolved and
add lemon juice.Place in the refrig-
erator and allow to partially set. Beat
egg whites with salt until stiff. Add
the jellied mixture and continue to
beat. Turn into molds and chill or
pile into sherbet glasses, after chill-
ing. Serve with custard sauce made
from the 2 egg yolks.
Note. A richer dessert is made by us-
ing'rF cup cream whipped in place
of egg whites.
CUSTARD SAUCE
2 egg yolks
2 tablespoons sugar
Pinch of salt
1 cup scalded milk
24 teaspoon vanilla
or
ee teaspoon lemon juice
Beat eggs slightly. Add sugar and
salt. Gradually add scalded milk.
Cook over hot water, stirring con-
stantly until mixture thickens and
coats the spoon,
RIIUBARB PIE
3 cups rhubarb, cut in 1" pieces
1 egg
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablesppons lemon juice
1 tablespoon lemon rind
Line pie -plate with pastry. Fill with
rhubarb. Combine beaten eggs, sugar,
Pour, lemon juice and rind. Pour
over rhubarb. Cover with strips of
pastry to give lattice effect, Bake in
hot oven 450 degrees F. fo 20 min-
utes. Reduce heat to 850 degrees F.
and bake 15 to 20 minutes longer.
VEAL BAKED IN MILK
Brown veal steaks or chops in hot
fat. Cover meat with milk and bake
in moderate oven --350 degrees F, un-
til meat is tender—about one hour.
LAMB TOURNEDOES
Roll loin chops into circular pieces
having piece of kidney in centre of
each chop. -Place strips of bacon
aroruid each chap. Fasten securely,
using small skewers. Broil, allowing
20 to 30 -minutes for chops. 11,4 to 2
inches thick and 10 to 15 minutes far
chops 1 inch thick.
THE PARKING PROBLEM
Seaforth has adopted a car tagging
policy in an effort to have cars park
properly on the Main St, A yellow
tag is attached by the -Chief of Police
the first ' time the. ` car is parked
wrong, and asecond' offence results
in a red tag, which is a final warn-
ing.
Clinton, has the same problem' on
Saturday nights, when ear are park-
ed at all angles and . in all manners
along the main street, reducing the
number of caws that can be parked
along the street, as well as adding
to the traffic congestion. •
A plan similar tothat in effect in
Seaforth, should be helpful in reg -
'dating the proper parking of ears.
BEAUTIFYING ZURICH -
A fish pond and attractivesur-
roundings recently put up by, Dr. J.
A. Addison is now practically com-
pleted. Flat stones were hauled' hi
from St. Marys which snake a -very
attractive • rustic walk both from the
residence and also to the sidewalk
on Victoria street,' It surely is the
rightmethod in beautifying a part of
Washington was first in eaee ,and the village which hae long been the
p vision of a few citizens, namely to
h war, but he was Martha's second
Hhave a rico park in the centre block
husband. of town—Zurich Herald. ,
News on Salad Greensj DOMINION DAY -
Thanks to improved methods of
growing, refrigerating and transport=
ing,, it is -now possible to toss to-
gether a green salad any clay of the
year, regardless of whether lettuce
is in season ar not. Maybe that is
why the housewife is 'so salad con-
scious, because the modern store a
this day is a. perevnnial garden of
every imaginable salad green.
It's getting so' one can almost .pick
up any vegetable -with a greenish hue
and have the makings of a salad.
Colour is a fairly accurate measure
of vitamin content for the greener
a - vegetable is, the richer it is, in
Vitamins A and G.
Lettuce still heads the list of pop-
ular salad greens, with four varieties
to choose from: namely, the crisp
heads (Icebergs), the butterhead (Big
Boston), romaine and Leaf.
The . origin of the name "Lettuce"
can be traced back hundreds of years
to a plant carried from Europe to the
Himalayas. It derives its name from
the "Lactuca of classical times,
whose milky white fluid served to
the Romans as freclde remover and
sedative. In the seventeenth century,
"Lettis" won a reputation for cool-
ing a "hot and fainting stomach."
Certain buying tins that hold good
forany kind of lettuce are: leaves
should be fresh, crisp and tender (dis-
coloured spots indicate decay); a few
broken leaves will not affect the
quality, and the reddish colour at the
bruises is due to a natural change
and - is not a sign of decay; Avoid a
head with touches of slimy rot
Watercress is the king of piquant
greens. Even the Babylonians, it is
believed, cultivated this plant with its
rich -green leaves and succulent
stalks. Now -a -days it is known to
contain a wealth of vitamins, namely
"On the 22nd of May, 1867, a
Royal proclamation was issued from
Windsor Castle, declaring that on the
first day of July, 1867, the British
North America Act should come into
firce, and that •on and after that
day the Provinces of Canada, Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick should
form and be one Dominion under the
mama of Canada."
Oit the 1st of July, 1867, Lord
Monck issued a proclamation an-
osouncing his appointment as .Geyer -
nor -General of the Dominion, The
first Parliament met on the 6th o1
November, 1867, Sir John. A. Mac-
donald being Premier.
On July 15, 1870, Canada acquired
the Northwest Territories, out of
which were established the Province
of Manitoba, and in 1905 the Prov-
inces of Sakatehewan and Alberta.
On July 20, 1871, British C'olumbie,
came in, and on July 1, 1873, Prince
Edward Island was admitted.
The Dominion of : Canada thus
represents an, area of no less than
3,410,392 .square miles.
Lord Beaconsfield said; "It has had
the advantage of having been colon-
ized during a number of centuries by
two of the most distinguished
nations of Europe. Canada is, in
fact, a reflex of those two powerful
nations, differing in their manners,
and even in their religious opinions;
and has many of those diverse ele-
,rents which tend to change a mere
colonial into a national character,
The day is given up almost univer-
sally to' various plans far its cele-
bration.
It is, after alt, with Canadians, as
with others abroad, that love of home
land country finds its most enthus..
iastic vent." q h�
A, B, 0 and G. A GOOD . WEED KILLER
Endive has two types, little resem-
bling one another, The Giant Fring-
ed variety dresses up a salad bowl
to advantage. The second variety,
the bread -leaved Batavian endive of
the South, is often called Escarole. ,
Now for a suggestion. Just try a
"he-man's salad" of burly endive tos-
sed with roquefort French dressing,
for a salad that will disappear with
evident relish. There's something
about the rough and ready appear-
ance of the curly endive that appeals
to man-sized appetites.
Movement of beaver from areas
where they are plentiful to those
parts where they formerly existed in
large numbers is being undertaken in
Alberta by the provincial fish and
game branch as part of its conserva-
tion program.
A very suitable material for
destroying weeds or grass in drive-
ways is common salt, the cheaper
and coarser, the better. Nob only
will a liberal application, about one
or two handfuls to the square foot,
destroy grass, weeds, poison ivy, etc,,
but it will also bind gravel together
into an even surface, keep down dust
and repel frost. In some parts of
Canada salt is used on alt gravel
roads and gives a surface equal to
light pavement.
F. W. McCarthy of Becton claims
to have the oldest clock (running),
in the province. A work of' ancient
art, it is all wood except one wheel,
was made in Connetieut, the manu-
facturer's name being Terry, is 118
years old, run by weights, and is in
a good state of preservation and
keeps perfect time.
es\nPsuaT
TRICK PICTURES
Simple "mask
box" makes it
easy to take pic-
tures with trick
"fram es"Above, .
'keyhole" pic-
ture. Right, box
showing placing
if camera and
cut - out - mask.
Upper' right, various cut-outs: key
stairway window, giant cactus Milieu
NAPSHOTS with trick "frames
are easy to take, and fun to
Show, -You can get pictures appar-
ently made' through keyholes or
field glasses -and many other novel
effects:
Obtain an ordinary cardboard box.
It should be about twelve inches one
way, and eight inches or more the
other two dhnensions. Exact size
doesn't matter. Cut a hole in, -the
middle of one end, et bit larger than.
your camera lens, Cut a large open-
ing iu the opposite end, and over
this place a large "keyhole" cut out.
of cardboard (see drawing above),
It is a good idea to paint the inside.
of the box black, to guard against
stray reiiections.'
Now, place the box on a firm sea-
port, such as, a table. Sight through
hole, gothic window, field glasses,
ette, porthole and rocky cave mouth,
the small rear opening, and adjust
box until it frames the scone you
want to picture. Line up the camera
with ilio rear opening, as shown—
and take the picture. Use a small
leas opening, malting a "time" ex-
posure if the light requires it.
POI' other effects, lust use a dif-
ferent cutout, such as those shown
above. Make cut-outs with simple
outlines. When you use a mask box
twelve inches long, a cut-out open-
ing about six inches high or wide is
usually satisfactory. After your first"
roll of pictures, you can tell if larger
or smaller masksare preferable.
Since the out -out masks are close
to the lens, they will be somewhat
out -of -focus and "fuzzy." This helps.
concealthe faking, and adds to tile.,
effect. -
233 John van -Guilder