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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-10-05, Page 7PAGE! THURS., OCT. 5, 1939 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE 1 HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS arasaseeseamaneeas HEALTH COOKING CARE OF CHILDREN CS -I THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful and Inspiring. bet THANKSGIVING By Lewis Arthur Tubbs I've been countin' up my blessin's, I've been sumthin' up my woes, But I ain't got the conclusions some would nat'rally suppose; Why, I quit a-countin' troubles 'fora I had a half a score, While themore 1 count myblessings I keepfindin' more and morel g There's been things that wa'nt exacaly as I thought they'd ought to be An' I've often growled at Providence fer not a pettin' me! But I hadn't stopped to reckon what the other side had been— How much o' good an' blessin' bad ben thickly crowded in. For there's been a gift o' sunshine after every shower of tears, An' I've found a load of laughter scattered all along the years. If the thorns have pricked me sometimes, I've good reason to suppose Love has had 'em often from me, heath the rapture of the rose! So I'm going to be thankful for the sunshine and the rain,- , Fer the joy that's made me happy; fer the purgin' done by pain; Fer the love o' little children; fer the friends that have been true; Fer the guidin' hand that's led me every threatening danger through. ' 'THINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR My parents often used to say Bethankful for your food, Be thankful for warm clothes to wear, And everything that's good. Be thankful for our little home Though luxuries be few; Be thankful you are in a home Where there is work to do. Be thankful you are in a land. Where peace and plenty dwell, Where there are no uprisings which Great armies have to quell. Be thankful for the crops we have, Ofgarden stuff and wheat, Be thankful we have some to sell, And plenty left to eat, Be thankful you can go to school And learn to read and write; A. nice warm supper steaming hot, When you come home at night, A mealier dear to read for you, And stroke your sleepy head; And give each one their good -night kiss, -+.. i.j And tuck them into bed. 'There's much we should be thankful for 6-a While living here below; 'T'hough oft we feel discouraged As we wander to and fro.. Ere you complain about your lot And things which you abhor, Fust count the many things there are You should be thankful for. •—Roy Robb. THANKSGIVING 'Thanksgiving Day! Now, let me seal What cause have I for thanks? To be Alive and well. ' T'hissurely should Be` reason for great gratitude. That to Great Britain I belong Is source of thankfulness and song. Where'or her glorious mandate is heard, The nations know she'll keep her word. I'm thankful dark Depression's hand Is lifting, surely, from our Iand. I'In thankful I've been called to live In this brave age, where heroes give Their best on land, on sea, in air, i To further Progress, strong and fair, l'm thankful for the sense of sight With which to view the glories bright Of Ged's great world, just now aglow With autumn fires . — a gorgeous show! I'm thankful I "can see a joke, • `lel pass it on to other folk," That I can laugh both loud and long When with a gay; responsive throng; Because the the& are so many things l To which one's spirit thrills and sings." In site of chaos - Pwar an , d strife, There's , still lave, goodness, joy -in - life. Grand courage, white sincerity. And modest, low -voiced charity In human hearts; and so, I raise For these .a thankful note of praise. Also for blessings every day, Which, fill and beautify my way. * * 'e a And I'm as thankful .as can " be That 1 .FEEL thankful — don't you see! --I. R. McK, A THANKSGIVING HYMN GRATITUDE By ' "Neo Daddy, I am going to count the stars," a little girl . remarked. Her father heard her counting, "Two hundred and twenty-three, too hund- red and,twenty-four." Then she sigh, ed and said, "Oh dear! I had no• idea there were so many."• Were we to attempt to count the blessings Gad -leas given ria we would find they were never ending. Througout the civilized world' to- day there is a day set aside for gen- eral Thanksgiving. It was first in- stituted in gratitude for n very meagre harvest and was kept as a strictly religious day. Now to a great many of us it forms part of a week- end holiday and contrary to, olden custom the doors. of God'us house re- main closed. A story is told that in a certain home a beef was killed. When they first serving was on the table, as was customary, a blessing was asked and several times while it lasted it was specially thanked for. One of the boys of the family re- marked to his father one day "Why don't you ask a blessing on the whole beef at once and be done with it?" Time marches on. Many years have passed since the Puritan fathers first returned thanks in a public way, but would we not do well as Christ- ians to again lead the way in observ- ing Thanksgiving Day. as God's day instead of a day of pleasure. Give God His rightful place in the world and we will need to • have no fear for the future. Do we belong to the division of the nine lepers who failed to return thanks to God for their healing, or do we make it part of our daily lives to be grateful? Shakespeare in his play "Ring Leer•'nipealcs of ingrati- tude as a marble -hearted fiend. Par- ents know sometimes to their sorrow, what it means to have a thankless child and how it trust grieve our Heavenly Father to see that Wo not only do not appreciate His kindness, but that in our folly we are separat- ing ourselveseternally from Him. "Scrooge", one of Charles Dickens heroes was, so to speak, an ingrate ful wretch, until he found the that spirit of Christmas; then he put that sante spirit into every day life, and thereby received not only a blessing for himself but also the joy which carne to him from bringing happiness to others. For the gladness of the sunshine, For the dropping of the rain, For the springtide's bloom of promise, For the autumn's golden grain, For the beauty of the forests, For the fatness of the field, For the orchard's rosy fruitage, For the vineyard's luscious yield, We thank Thee, 0 Lord! For the noble, richer beauty, For the light that spirits know, For the sacredness of duty Guiding us through life below, For our earthly ties so precious, For the fireside warm and bright, For the faith that through the dark- ness Leads us to immortal light, We thank Thee, 0 Lord! For the losses and the crosses Coining sore against our will; From Thy hand each good gift, cometh, And, not less, the seeming ill. What Thou givest in Thy wisdom, That alone to us is blest, And of all Thy countless givings, For Thy boundless love, the best, We thank Thee, 0 Lord! Agnea Maude ;Neckar. WHEN THE LEAVES TURN Throughout the Highlands of Ontario, Jack Prost has touched the leaves with his magic wand, and yes- terday's forest ,of green are to -day a kaleidscope of colour. The trees, Nature's interpreters of the season's standing, naked anu forlorn against the icy blast t(1' winter, budding with new life in the spring, .and mativing into their buil beauty in the summer, 'have put on' thele auitnn ual raiment. From the Georgian Bay to the Ottawa River is one mass of flaming colpur. Intermingling with, the green. of the pines, hemlocks, spruce and cedars are the yellow of the poplars, the brown of the beeches, the scarlet, •maples, and oaks, all blending into one breath -taking rainbow. Here is Native's artistry at its finest; utterly beyond man's ability to describe, Aotistsand poets have. endeavoured to portray this climax of .Nature's work but in vain. Soon will come the autumnal gales and the leaves will be torn from the trees and fall to the graded, tte form for a few days, a carpet of colour in the depths of the forest, and thento fade and die. While: time still avails, motor a- long the highways and -by-'trays that lead in to this picture land. Climb to the, area of . a hill and let your eyes wander over the, valleys of col- our, slightly dimmed by the en- veloping haze. Or drift alongthe shore of a lake where the waters re- flect the flaming forest rising proud- ly above it. Surrender yourself to this awe-inspiring beauty and real- ize how infinitesimal is man. PEG" t is in to -day what have we to be thankful for? We Have nothing but worry and anxious days ahead. The best of our country may have to go to War to take part in What • will probably turn out to be a religious War. We may have to part with our boys and .girls, maybe for a time but it may be when the troops come marching home there will be a vacant place in the ranks which they had filled: Yes, 'that is only too true. and if war continues there will be very few who will not have Borne one near and dear to them there. We are not alone in our anxiety. A. year ago • Row, September tweet; nine, a peace pact was signed be- tween some of the now fighting countries. At that time nor at any moment since have we felt that all was well. We seemed to be setting on the edge of a live volcano. Con- tinuous prayers ascehded to God that in some honorable way, if it was His will. and according to His plan that we might have peace,. We know now that God had a different way of bringing pace than we would have wished. Even'in the present trouble we have reason to be thankful that we may have some little part An bringing about that peace. What that will be remains to be seen. For many years Sir Wilfred Gren- fell, the physician of the Labrador, went about his work a -walking with God. The greatest cause for thank- fulness to -day is the fact that He has invited us to go a -walking with Him. If we had nothing else to be thankful for all our lives long that Would be sufficient for in that ex- pression is contained the secret of all happiness. "We thank Thee, then, 0 Father, For all things bright and good, The seedtime and the harvest, Our life, our health, our food. Accept the gifts we offer For all thy love imparts, And what Thou most deservest, Our humble, thankful hearts" "pEG" ULSTER WOMEN Create A New Industry The nimble fingers of Northern Ireland's neediewomen have within a We have never heard that the Gov- year won for 'them recognition an eminent lead been petitioned to set three Continents for producing fine aside a day for quarelling, discord tapestries and "petit point." grumbling and unpleasantness, If The tapestries are of a kind hith- that were so we would certainly avant erto only obtainable from a few Eur- the calendar changed se that the day opean centres where the craft had might contain as few hours as pos- flourished for many generations but sible. We are allowed to complain res ;now, declining for a variety of every day so why should we consider reasons. that we should return, thanks only on: The 400 workers employed up to Thanksgiving Day. Like the little now are making tapestries in tra- boy many of us want to crowd sit ditional European designs and ap- our gratitude into one day and telt° propriate to various furnishing "per - it for granted that will do for tete iods" in fulfilment of orders from remainder of the year. e ;the U.S.A., Canada, the Unioti of When the first Thanksgiving Day South Africa, and Australia. was instituted there were very few' When choosing Northern Ireland, material things for which to be and particularly County 'Fermanagh, thankfel. Let us look about us now as the .birthplace or the new industry and be thankful for even what our the founders were swayed by knowl- eyes can see and then be thankful edge of the hereditary needlecraiic that the good Lord Iles given us our shill of Ulster',` womenfolk; but un - sight. If so be that He has 'seen' til last; year true tapestry had never fit to take that away from any of been produced in Ulster, with• the ex - us then we will realize that He has ception of Victorian "samplers." made compensation for us in some: Allied to ,tapestry is "petit point", other way. probably the finest needlework in et - An elderly gentleman who had been ; istence with its 1,600 stitches to the cared for all his life, with little re- square inch. here again UIster sponsibility to himself took ill and needlewomen, have quickly proved had to be removed to a hospital, their skill, for to -day examples of There' he learned that he was not artistic werkmanship, indistinguish- the only one who suffered. It made able from their European, prototypes a different man of him. We have which have centuries of experience many things to be grateful for which behind them, are finding their way we do not even consider. We are to the farthest corners of the earth, truly very selfish beings and are noel deserving of even the Least of God's bountiful blessings. God is, so : to speak, our Banker. He gives us a cheque book marked "The Bank of Blessings",• Each cheque is signed by Himself. We are permitted to draw on that Bank just ars often as we wish. There has never been a cheque returned "not suffic- ient funds" atid there never will be, One of these cheques covers the promise in Jeremiah 32:27 "Behold, I, am the Lord, the God of all flesh, is there anything too hard for me?" Another is that:beautiful promise in John 14:1 "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me." Are these' peomises not better than all the gold in the world? Currency oe Earthly banks may be- come of no value' '(at' any rate we can take "non,` of it with us' into lPternity) but the Bank of Heaven will never fail; Will we not snake our deposit there and receive a pass book? The cheques may be used not only for ourselves but we may give them to others. You may say "It, is all very well to talk about thanksgiving but with tate world in, the state in which it MAGIC WAND OF COLOR An unusual dinner party was given recently by Samuel G. Hibben, illum- ination engineer, to demonstrate the effect of color not only upon ,the sense of sight, but upon the related senses of taste, touch ,and smell. There was gay music, and food and drink of the .best, but 'instead of ordinary lighting in the dining room; special filter lamps cutoff all colors except greens and reds. The guests strolled in, in high spir- its, ;and saw steaks that were whitish gray„ celery a gaudy pink, salads an ashen violet, and fresh green peas that looked like black caviar; milk was the color of blood, the coffee a sickly yellow. Most of the, guests could not eat., Some who did became ill. The experiment, though not the dinner, was a complete success. Thanksgiving Day is on October 9th, We have many things to be thankful for, and it should be a day of real thanksgiving, not largely de. voted to sport and holiday making. It should also be a day of penitence, (prayer and consecration. aelteaatarateeiteiteelettetetatialeleeIgeltaa Tested � l Recipes eiatetteatatetalagekeateeeleleaeltatetatealte ECONOMICAL FOODS It is encouraging for the woman" who has "a moderate allowance for food to. know ,that with careful planning, advantageous buying and" good cooking she can provide whole- some meals for the family, The dishes here suggested by the Home Economist, Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture, are made from eooda, nourishing :and( healthful, which can be classed as economical, especially in homes where heating- the eatingthe oven adds little to original cost. CREAMY RICE PUDDING 1A, cup rice la teaspoon salt 1/s cup chugs" 2 tablespoons butter 4 cups milk 1 teaspoon vanilla or 14 teaspoon nutmeg Wash rice and boil in water 10 min- utes. Drain and add other ingred- ients, Pour into buttered baking dish. Place in pan of hot water and bake fox 2 to 3 hours in slow oven, stirring frequently during the first hour. If desired, 1/ cup raisins or dates may be added when pudding is nearly crooked. _ . BAKED BEANS 4 cups white beans 1/4 lb. fat salt pork 1 tablespoon salt 34 cup molasses (or more to suit taste) Ye teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon mustard Soak beans overnight. Drain. Cover with fresh water and cook slowly about 30 minutes or until skins of beans begin to burst and water is almost absorbed. Place thin slice of pork in bottom of bean pot. Put beaus in pot, Bury remaining pork cut in pieces in beans, leaving rind exposed. Mix molasses and season- ings with 1 cup boiling water. Pour over beans. Add enough boiling water to cover beans. 'Cover and bake in a very slow oven 6 to 8 hours. Remove cover during last hour to brown the bean's and crisp the rind of the pork. Add boiling water as needed, during baking. BAKED TOMATO I 1' ATO AAD CHEESE 6 slices bread . 1 cup cheese 2 eggs 2 cups tomato' juice 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon minced onion utter bread and cut into cubes. Cut cheese irate cubes and put bread and cheese in baking dish in alternate layers. Beat eggs slightly, add to. mato juice, salt, pepper, and onion. Pour over bread and cheese and bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F.) about 40' minutes. BEEF LOAF 11/2 Ib. minced beef 1 cup dry bread crumbs 1 small onion, finely chopped 1/2 cup chopped celery or cabbage 1 egg, beaten 1/2 cup water or tomato juice 1/2 teaspoon mustard Salt and pepper to taste Mix beef, crumbs, onion, celery or cabbage together. Add beaten egg, water or tomato juice,and mustard. Mix well. Season to taste. Form into a loaf. Dot with .dripping. Bake at 350 degrees F. for one hour, basting occasionally with a little -water or tomato juice. CHINESE WEDDING TANGLE Here is an amusing . story which shows that, in ,spite of civil war sett Westernization, the Chinese retain their ancient sense of the practical. Two Chinese bides -' were being conveyed in the traditional sedan - chairs to their husbands' homes. ' On the way they were overtaken by a storm, and brides and bearers took shelter in a neighboring tea -house. When they cane out, thebrides entered the' wrong chairs, The bear- ers did not notice the error, because the brides were heavily veiled. It was only when, the brides reach- ed their homes where the husbands had prepared .a feast for the relations that the mistake was discovered. Then a family council took place. As it was established that all foie:- families ourfamilies were of equal financial ono' social • status, it was, decided; that what Fate had ordained must be ac- cepted, With general acquiescence each husband then kept the wrong bride. I'OPEYII AND HIS' SPINACH Some people can •see propaganda in everything. That may he the APPLE JUICE GAINING POPULARITY AS NEWEST HEALTH DRINK reason for the story" that Popeye is Maybe Eve had .something to do a sort of Public Relations Officer with it—or maybe it's all because for the spinach growers. But wheth- of. the ancierut .health proverb about er the idol of the junior movie-goers "an apple a day" making the doctor has any interests to serve, or not, keep his distance. At any rate, a the fact remains that it isn't hard taste for apples apparently is ie- to snake (the youul leis eat theirherent in the 'human race, And that spinach as it used to be, may explain the 'rapidly growing Maybe too, there. . is something in popularity a apple juice as the new. Popeye'e, faith" in spinach because it est of canned naturalfruit juices, has been proved) that this vegetable 'Medical authorities, in constantly, does contain from Though it is not increasing numbers, endorse the pure unadulterated juice of tree -ripened • Canadian apples as a highly benefic- ial health food. Containing Vitamins A. B. and '11„ besides an abundance of essential body building minerals, apple juice is widely recommended both as a delicious and refreshing beverage and as a major ingredient in many appetizing dishes for the family table. Not too sweet, not too tart --but Renaissance. In the 18th Century itwith a freshness and tang all its was regularly hawked in the streets owil pure apple juice retains ,ail the of London. In those days, the plant flavour and goodness of the apples themselves was prepared by chopping it up; . As a beverage, between boiling it and making it into balls, meals, just before eating or at bed the liquid being squeezed out with time, it seems to be gaining almost the hands. Then it was mixed with universal approval. butter, oil or vinegar and thus pro. Because of its anti -uric -acid qual- pared considered a delicacy. Today ity, doctors have found apple juice the usual method of home pee para valuable in treating rheumatism, tion' is boiling it whole and retaining as much of the water as feasible so as to be eaten with butter, pepper and salt. Most canned spinach, of. course, is chopped up. advised for all people, generally. speaking, spinach has high nutritive values. • Spinach is no new discovery and in the old days there were doctors who prescribed it for many things -- though :their theories are no longer held, in the light of scientific knowl- edge. Doubtless imported into Europa at the time of the Crusades, spinachh was already well-known during the In the Eleventh Century, Arabian doctors prescribed spinach, for many conditions especially of the throat and the chest. Two centuries later, spinach enjoyed a period of great favor as a laxative and intestinal cleanser. Today it is known that spinach has a high iron content. It also contains small quantities o'f organic salts of potash and lime and is relatively rich in sugar, Its nu- tritive value, superior to that in most green vegetables, makes it important in anaemia, convalescence and debil- itating diseases. This tonic property is increased by its riohness in chlorophyll, the green coloring mat- ter of vegetable life which is a powerful agent in the treatment of blood poverty. Increasing the bulk of the products of digestion, it is laxative. While spinach, therefore, is health- ful food for most people, it is not advised for arthritis, gouty rheum- atics or those with gravel, kidney or bladder stone, gout and similar ailments, one dis- tinguished practitioner even report- ing "very good results from fasting. patients exclusively on apple juice and water: Many physicians have recommended it also as a topic for children, elderly' persons and conval- escents. . Canned apple juice, now available Por home 'use in convenient sized tins, is nothing more or less than the pure juice pressed from selected apples, with no colouring matters sugar or preservatives added. A NEW WOMAN BRANTFORD, Ont.—Mrs. Eloyd Simon of 9 ^1 Walter St. says: "I couldn't sleep, couldn't cat and was just abort skin and hones. I felt so very weak that I was just miserable. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription mode a differentperson of me. Ity appetite returned and f won hack my normal good health and weight. 1 slept Well and looked and felt like u new person.' Life is pleasant 11 yen are feeling good and .'peppy," That's what Dr. Pierce', Favorite Proscription does for you. It restores a healthy appetite and im. proves your digestion of nourishing food. Cat Dr. Pierce's Favorite Proscription from your druggist today. CeSNAPSNOT CUILD ACTION SHOOTING A subject such as this will make a good "action sequence"—a series of pictures showing the complete toss step by step. Pose your subject In "slow motion," and Ira easy. ACTION shooting is one of the most interesting phases of ama- teur photography—and good action plettires can be obtained with any camera, if you knowarow. To "stop" true fast action, and get sharp pictures, you need a fast shutter—one that can. be adjusted to 1/400 or 1/500 second. Such a camera is a wise investment if you intend' to do much shooting of un- posed action subjects -you simply set the shutter for top speed, adjust the lens opening for correct expos- ure.at that speed, and fire away. With slower cameras, however, you can still get gond action pic- tures if you pose your subject in slow motion. Let him -go through the natural motions of the sport --golf, tennis, or whatever you choose—but have him move as (slowly as possible. Then shoot when the action looks most effective. This trick will work for box cam- eras, as well as the many excellent folding cameras whose shutters ad- just no higher than 1/100 second. And it is marvelously effective if well done, the pictures retaining a genuine appearance of fast action. Interesting action "sequences" can be made in the manner just de- scribed. For example, a series of a young woman tossing a beach ball. Two or three shots of the swing, each at a different point; a fourth with the ball barely Supported by her linger tips; a fifth with her arms fully extended and the ,ball out of the picture. Such a sequence is easily obtained if the subject goes through the action very slowly several times —and it is surprisingly effective when the pictures are mounted in proper order in your album. In all action shooting, talk care not to become excited or r . Yo u may y press the shutter release lease too jerkily —moving the camera and blurring the shot. When taking a posed -ac- tion shot, of a subject, that will.stay in one glace, it's often a good idea. to put the camera on.,a tripod or some other firm aupport. Try your hand at: action shots— including a few sequences such as that outlined above. It's interesting photography—and good, livelyshota of this type add spice 10 your album.. 260 :Tphnvan Guilder