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The Clinton News Record, 1939-12-07, Page 7'2-TIHURS.,- DEC. 7, 1939 _ THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE 7 'MdAMMITINO N MIMANMIMIWNN. HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS .M,.VMAYMMF, HEALTH COOKING WMNV.MMr JOIN THE STAMP CLUB O For ten cents and the label end showing the teapot trade., mark, from any packet of SALADA TEA we will send you e Beginner's Outfit oh 1-64 page Stamp Album. 2-100 all -different stamps. 3—Big list of thousands of stamps offered Free in exchange for SALADA labels. , SALADA STAMP CLUB - 461 King St. W., Toronto THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful - and Inspiring. "NINE CIGARETTES" The following is a wee poem — r entitled "Nine Cigarettes" — inspired ,:by the new tax on cigarettes— aline cigarettes For the pries of ten. Nine cigarettes 'Cause there's war again. Nine cigarettes Use only nine matches, - 'Cause one fag's gone— To "smoke out" Nazis. • Nine cigarettes - Not much of a loss, If it 'helps beat the guy Who wants to be "boss". Nine cigarettes • — Nine, and no mare. But "nine cigarettes" May win this war. So-o-o-o-o— Though nine cigarettes Aren't the regular pile— "Light up your fags And smile, boy's, smile." TWO RELIGIONS f .. A woman sat by a heartlwide place Reading a book with a pleasant face, Till a child came up with a childish frown And pushed the book, saying, "Put it dt7gm:" • Then the mother, slapping his curly head Said, "Troublesome child, go off to bed, A great deal of God's book I must know To train up a child as a child should go." And the child went off to bed to cry And denounce religion—bye and bye. li Another woman bent o'er a book With a smile of joy and an intent look, Till a child came up and joggled heal lmee And said of the book, "Put it down— take me." Then the mother sighed as she strait- "ed his head, Saying softly "I never shall get it read; But I'll by by learning to love His will • And His love into .my child instil." That and went to bed without a sigh, ,And will love religion -bye and bye. From 1001 Illustrations. • THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE BRITISH (This poem, credited to a man nam- ed Shadwell, was published in the Boston, Mass., Transcript during the early part of 1916. Its sentiments are being re-echoed in many parts of the world today.) I'z1e been meditating lately, that when everything is told, There's something in the British after all; They may be bent on conquest and too eager after gold; But there's something in the British after all. Though their sins and faults are many and I won't exhaust my breath By endeavoring to tell you of them all, Yet they have a sense of duty and they'll face it to the death, So there's something in the British after all. Though half of ,E'urope hates them and would joy in their decline, Yet there's something in the British after all; They may scorn the scanty numbers of the thin red British line, Yat they fear its lean battalions after all. For they know that from the colonel. to the drummer in, the band There is not a single soldier of them all But would go to blind destruction, were their eountry to command And call it only duty—after all. WINTER: 1939 The winter wind blows keen and strong, Leaves flutter from t he shaken bough; Soft snow will fill the• woods ere long; Yet something darker stirs us now. The sky is calm with clouds of fleece, The landscape stretches crystal-clear: This beauty bears the name of peace— Pray God that we may. keep it here! —Helen Frith Stiekney. MODEL Theseare the days when fires are lit,' and folks are more content to sit before the grate when, supper's over. Only the bay is the tardy rover. His father tells his wife to place the food away. But, still, his face betrays a love that he once knew. He's wondering` if the boy's come through Old Oak Ridge where, tinted each hue autumn knows, the bright leaves pile upon themselves for half a mile. "I'll' give that boy a talking to," be says, and lifts his . paper higher. His wife puts the food back on the fixe -Joseph Joel Keith. Tho CANADA STARCH coMf'ANY .Limited AUTUMN TWILIGHT Blue dusk is kind `;to an autumn farm, Frosting each leaf with moonlit charms But midnight's magic is dark and bold, Crispin g. the pond with sudden cold,. Slow' twilight drenching the orehare wall Softly with dew is best of all. Oh, be not startler] if, in a trice, Wildly your heart turns over twice. When silver apples, with rustling sound, Drop from Ithe tree to atar the ground. As twilight pours, like a purple. spell, Out of the Dipper over the well. —In Christian Science Monitor. Canadian apples have been, classif- ied as the perfect fruit. They are The Faryard HAVE YOU EVER 'USED • APPLES THIS WAY? Grind See Garxuish far Roast Fork Gook sings of apples in clear syrup. By "PEG" . A prominent American Magazine of pared to the lade of God. Without recent date carried as a front page a'thhat to give us joy in life our time characteristic picture for the Thanks- 'Here on 'earth. would truly be a dis- giving season of the United States. I appointment. In the foreground perched bn the limb How do we .reeeive that love? Through faith in Him and what is that faith? This may be very well answered by the definition of Bishop O'Brien, "Titley who know what is I of a tree is a monstrous turkey, ap- parently oblivious to the fate await- ing. Below, beside a wood shed!, is to be seen a treadle grindstone, quite up-to-date far that sort of thing. A meant by faith 18 a prromise ]mow young lad stands by watching the what is meant by faith ih a gospel: grandfather sharpening an axe. An they who know what is meant by iron: • upright at the end of the frame faith in a remedy know what is 'meant by faith in the blood of the Redeem- er: they who know what is meant by faith in a physician, faith in an advo- cate, faith in a friend, known too what is meant by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ." How easy it is for us to develope that faith. It is the only way in which we can stand the grind of .everyday life. Sir James Simpson, who. diseavered chloroform made the statement that the greatest discovery he ever made was the fact that he was a sinner, and that Jesus Christ was just the Saviour he needed. "As death finds us and leaves us so shall we be through all Eternity," We no doubt find the grinding pro- cess here at times very trying, but when we realize that it will bring us closer and closer to Him 'how we should welcome it and try to profit by it. "In days of trouble and of care, I sought a message from above; Brief was the answer to my prayer, Few were the words but full of love You who mourn an adverse fate, Hear the message, — "Pray and wait,' Pray—He knows the every thought, Understands thy secret grief; Wait --He sends it not for naught; He will surely bring relief. Seeing all thy troubled state, Still Ile whispers -- 'Pray and waif."—"PEG" wood work of the stone holds a fluid which is constantly dropping en the revolving stone. A dog has joined the group. Across the autumn fields with some standing corn stocks, the after glow of the sunset is .stili in the :sky. Altogether it is a very thought provloking frontispiece and our thought will centre around the grind stone. " - We may ask ourselves the question: "Wihat has the grind stone got to do with our characters?" The answer is, our lives are made ready for the presence of God, just as we are smoothed and sharpened by the grind stone of life's experiences. An elderly woman was nearing the end of the journey. Sadly one day she said, "The world is a disappoint- ment." If wa journey on from day to day expecting that all things will work out in such a way that, we will lave no anxiety, then we will find that the world truly is a disappoint- ment. It isonly as we face adversity, sorrow, sickness and the many other things of life that we realize that it is thee things which -make us stronger men and women more fitted to do the work of the Lord. Sometimes we look about us and think that the life`our neighbor runs smoothly. We simply see the outside of his life. There is no one but who has cares and difficulties. As we talk to one another we realize that each one has his or her own, individual trouble and very often we learn that our burdeu is much lighter than that of the one whom we are judging. The grind stone is made to smooth out the rough places and in that way to make the object being ground as near perfect as possible. We would not think much of the judgment a, any manwho half sharpened an axe or mower blade and expected it to do good work. No more would we think well of the grind stone of life which tortured us for a short while and then left us a very poor model of what we should be. To all of us there come times of adversity. During recent years many have known what it was to see their little, or in many cases •large sumo of money swept away in an inaiest- ment. People who have saved in their early life and have had what they considered sufficient for their old age ' have all at once found themselves 'penniless, One such man in talking to a noted evangelist deplored the fact that he had last everything. Tiro evangelist replied, "No you have not lost e.snry- hing. For the fust time in your life you now realize what your greatest asset, Jesus Christ; will moan to you." Just now many parents are feeling that the grind stone is doing its work. The war is taking from them their sons and daughters. Anxiety is their portion in life and they believe that they are asked to endure more than they are able. Sorrow and even tragedy have come into many lives. We cannot see why some loved one should be taken, but we will understand some day and we will then be glad that God chose His own way of dealing with us. It may be we are being smoothed out by the way of anxiety on behalf of some member of our family who is seeking the ways of the world,' forgetting the home teachings, It seems to comae to many parents to face this in the present age when' drinking areong young people seems rampart. To many a home or board-' ing place in•our cities, even a young girl will go hone intoxicated. Oh! the tragedy of it all, when we con- sider that it is our vote which has made this sort of thing possible. Is there any chance that that habit be-! gan from wine being served in our own homes. Have parents ,neglected a duty which was imposed 'on them witien they accepted parenthood. At the door of 'many parents today will rest the destruction of their sons and daughters. When. the "roll is called Up yonder" and their child will an- swer that call only to be turned away.' We say the age has changed and YOU CAN ALWAYS SAY— "No" in times of temptation. "Thanks" when you're the recipient of a favor. "Please"' if you are asking for help. "Absolutely" when you are sure of your facts. "You're, welcome' and get the fun out of living. "Good Luck" even after you've turn- ed a man down, "God bless you" if your heart is right. COOKING POULTRY Cooking poultry in the modern way, foods specialists stress, is cooking with moderate heat. This holds true for young tender birds as well as older birds that are not so tender. Poultry, they point out, is a protein just like cheese, eggs, and other meats. Rapid cooking with intense heat burdens and toughens the tis- sues. Moderate heat, however, cooks poultry sibwly and evenly so that there is little shrinkage. As a result the meat is juicy and full of flavor, and for every pound raised or purch- ased there is more left to serve ors the table. (AULD' SaOU LD PLA Y TO PREVENT T. B. unmoor rtay and .nixerciSe wid'oak4 the Chest Physicians examining recruits have found that the youthwhose chest was too small to be accepted was usually a boy who had not play- ed much as a youngster because he disliked play, or was delicate, ar his mother was afraid he would get hurt. bt is not only because play en- larges or widens the chest that phys- icians advise parents to see that their children play outdoors, but because, other things being equal, the boy ori girl with the wide or normal—proper proportion of width to depth — to less likely to develop tuberculosis. Tuberculosis Chest Undeveloped Some months ago, says Dr. Jas. W. Berton, doctor -columnist, I quotds Dr. S. A. Weisman, Minneapolis, in the Journal of the American, Medical Association, who reported his invest- igations showing that "deep" chested children, that is deep in proportion to the width, were more lilcely to develop tuberculosis. Thisie because the tuberculosis chest is not a mature chest, it,. is a baby chest. These child- ren, 1,324 girls and 1,399 boys, were all tested With tuberculin, and the number of positives (likely to deve- lop tuberculosis) was greater : among young people must have theirr fling. the narrow but deep chested children: The word and commands of God are Another fact discovered was that the the same as they were when first' narrow anddeep chested children made and He will expect them to be were more numerous in the poorer obeyed accordingly. distracts of the city than in better We noted the fluid mixture drop- districts, due, in part, to lack of now at the peak of perfection, ping on the stone, This may be con-' fresh pair and proper food. Drain, place a stewed prune in the center of each and springle with chopped pistachio nuts, Arrange around the platter and place the roast in the center. Spiced /Apples Cut into ei•ghths and core unpaved red -skinned apples; cook until tender in thin syrup; to which eight whole cloves have been added; remove) the cloves before serving. The skins give a pretty red color. Butterscotch Apples ' Core as many apples as desired. Do not pare. Ffll eaeh cavity with brown sugar and .place a lump of butter on top of each apple. Place in a rather deep cake or pie pan, put in water about one-half inch • deep and add enough brown sugar to make a syrup. Bake in a moderate (350 F.) amen un- til done and serve either plain with the syrup or with whipped cream. A few nuts may be added to each appie if desired. DO NOT WORRY Eat three square meals a day Say your prayers Be courteous Keep your digestion good Go slow and easy Maybe there are some other Things that your special case Requires to make you happy, But my friend ,these I reckon Will give you a good lift. —Abraham Lincoln. THE CROWNED WARRIOR Be not rated as a slacker, be determined for the fray; Matt your walls with men of valor, every enemy to slay. Strike with vigor and with purpose, when the crucial test arrivies; Every tweak and paltry effort, your achievement deprives. Duty gives to every soldier, ail unseen a cross of gold. Same will find it in the battle, others tie to tarnish gold. Only those who lifttheircross, from it's cryptic nidhe enclosed— Brighten it with gallant action are as warriors disposed, All can wear a bright regalia, maroh with bearing grandiose; While only those are warriors who fearless face Choi]: foes. And warriors of valor, who bear their cross of gold; Shall gain a crown of honor, and spirit wealth untold. —By Leonard Cole. `CORONATION SCOT' MAROONED IN UNITED STATES The European war appears to have side-tracked Britain's crack train, the "Coronation Scat," 3,000 miles from home. The luxurious train, which began a 3,100 -mile tour before going to the New York World's Fair, has returned to its starting point and may remain in Baltimore indefinitely. Shipping circles said the steamer Belpamela, which brought the "Scot" across the Atlantic, was busy else- where, and expressed belief other locomotive -carrying vessels were too occupied with war duties for Great Britain to take the train home The "Seat" is being dismantled and stared at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Mount Glare Shops. "OUT OF THE MOUTHS OP BABES" A daring aviator had been startling citizens in a certain city by writing on the ski/ the name of• a brand of cigarettes, in smoke letters half a mile across. Everyone was stopping to gaze heavenward. One little lad looking at the growing letters ex- claimed "It's Godiv His companion retorted "Naw; if it Was God, He wouldn't be advertising a cigarette." THE EXCEPTION You can take it as an elementary conception that when an article; is sold it goes to the buyer, said ilIr. Winter in the econonnics class. With the exceptionof coal, chirped the bright third -former. And why coal? asked Mr. Winter, When that's bought, it goes to .the cellar. _ NEARING THE HUNDRED MARK Mr. Edwin Humphries, : Wiarton,'s oldest citizen, was 99 years, 9 months, and 9 days,, old on Tuesday of last week. Mr. Humpha'ies' is confined to his bed at present but is fairly well and we hope his health may continue to imarave. He is most anxious to reach the century mark and Ms many friends in the town and community will join in wishing that he may live to be a hundred and then, •some more. ••-Wierton Echo, CARE OF, CHI£,,DREN CHARACTER BEGINS AT After The Party HOME Henry's wife would' be indignant' When stager Babson, financial with :anyone who said that he was statistician, told the New England henpecked. She would be especially Association of School Superintendents indignant with Henry himself, were that business men Scale •mare for hob -I he to aioiee such a suggestion. It its of integrity, discipline, and tour-' is true that she prides herself on age than for a knowledge of the social! keeping a neat house, and is 'apt to seiences, he put the unemployment' comment freely on the untidy habits problem as squarely up to parents es of scone of Ilenry's bachelor friends to the schools At the wane time he who are hat' overly •accurate ixu clan- spotlighted a trend that edueatore, I jug for ashtrays. Thus it may or too, are now trying to counteract. may not have been a coincidence that This is the growing tendency fol' par -I When Henry invited ' a group of ents to "dump their children, into the friends to a stag party last winter laps of.teachers." he chose a date when his wife was Once again it is a matter of the paying a visit to her mother. pendulum :having swung to far, Not' In spite of the cold, snowy weather, only schools but also churches and ail the party was a success. Once Henry' manner of community agencies have had become used to the novel ex- in recent years been taking more and perience of undivided authority in liis more responsibility for character de- own home, he became a perfect host. velopment. Their motives have been Relaxed and carefree. he shook from of the best and much of their activity • his brow the furrows ploughed by fif- beneficial, but as the emphasis upea'teen years of matrimony. He reviv- the need of experts to handle "per-; da an almost forgotten talent for sonality problems "has increased, singing the maritime exploits of there has come an undervaluation of Christopher Columbus and the North the parent's role, says the Christian Atlantic Squadron. Science Monitor. So appreciative were his guests Ithat'when the party ended, they in-,• Some parents have welcomed the sisted on helping Henry put the house opportunity to shift the responsibility in order, so that wily a few finishing for their children's development, teaches remained to be givaen the next while others, snore conspicuous, havie,' day to make the place fit for in- for nfor fear of doing something harmful, spection of its mistress. Only one eliminated themselves from the 9-: minor worry troubled Henry as he tore as much as possible and made . joined in the last rendition of Sweet way for the "experts." Mr. Babson i Adeline on his front steps. Although is one of those who see the need of everyone had searched carefully, they, calling a halt to this parental abdica- had not been able to find Bob's got. tion. His warning is timely. "We oshes. Still, thought Henry, perhaps cannot hire people," he declared, "to Bob had, not worn. them. train our children in integrity, in- A few days later, Henry's wife re - dusty, thrift, or character." turned. With a clear conscience, Henry accepted her compliments del the neat appearance of the house, and decided that •an account of Ma party would not interest her. At the office that morning he had shown some signs of nervousness, but the meet. In the home parents have un- next day and for three days after - limited opportunities to encourage ward he was bright and cheerful. • After all, does not the naturalness of life and the continuity of life in a home make the ideal place in which to develop these traits. The classroom is still an artificial environ - right choices between honesty and dishonesty, helpfulness and selfish- ness, thrift and laziness, truthful- ness and 'falsity. Their best encour- agement, of course. is their own good example. -the setting of which, as Bishop Lawrence recently pointed out, constitutes true leadership. In pro- portion as parents acknowledge their responsibility and intelligently as- sume their rightful leadership, we may hope to see a lessening of the social problems of young people. Then one morning Henry entered the office scowling and carrying a brown paper parcel. Striding to Bolt's desk, he opened the parcel and asked: "Are these your goloshes?" "Why, yes," said Bab, "Where did yon find them?" "I didn't find there,' answered Henry, "My wife did—in the piano." IrConstipated'.' A "per years I had occasional constipation, 1 awful gas bleating, headaches and back pains. Due to the higher minimum govpern- Aderika always helped right away, Now, i ment grade requirements this year eat sausage, bananas pie, anything I want. q Never felt better Mrs Mabel Schott, Canadian apples are being offered to consumers at much better than aver- age size and quality. SOLD AT ALL DRUG STORES Mor Than. Twe nt: ty 1. Operations Every Day KKe>ep Hospital Surgeons i usy ! One of America's Great Hospitals Treats Children Only During a visit to Toronto recently. your reporter called at the Hospital for Sick Children on College Street, I bad seen this Hospital mentioned in news .reports many, many times. particularly during the great Polio epidemic of 1937. It was high time, 1 thought, to do a little•private in- vestigetion and find out why this Hospital should be so much in the news; WHAT HAPPENS EVERY TWENTY-FOUR, HOURS I interviewed Mr. Joseph Bower, the Superintendent of this busy In- stitution. He told me that during the twenty-four hour period pre- ceding my visit, nineteen operations had been performed fifty-two X-ray photographs taken , . two hundred and eighty individual pre- scriptions filled in a completely - equipped dispensary , . twenty. eight bed patients were admitted thirty-three children discharged as cured , more than fourteen hundred meals served .. . ten chit• dren had extensive' dental work done .. , 95% of the beds were oe- cnpied,'leaving only 19 beds free for emergency cases, And. according to the Superinten- dent, - the twenty-four hour period was an average one, insofar as typi cal hospital activity was concerned. VISIT TO PUBLIC WAIWS • After this chat on Hospital aeti• vity, I was kindly shown through the institution. We visited the Public Wards, .the kitchens, swim- ming pool (necessary in the treat- ment of Polio and other cases), the orthopaedic .workshop, the dispen- sary and operating rooms, 11 struck me es being a completely -equipped hospital with much spatial equip- ment, Every Ward we visited, Mr. Bower would say; "This is a Public Ward. I was quite surprised to learn that 95% of the patients treated here are in Public Wards. The Hospital is taxed to capacity with little children whose parents are unable • to pay e"en the tow Public Ward rates, The case history of one little chap 1 had chatted with, while walking through the Ward was very inter- esting and quite typical, He was brought here one cold Winter day in 1957. His parents had driven more than a hundred miles in the old farm truck so their little child might have hospital treatment, "Atter examining the little fellow, our doctors told the parents that he needed attention immediately . , , that a complete cure would take many months, Upon hearing that bad news, the father and mother were all for bundling the little chap up and leaving for home, They could never begin to pay for that ntuch treat- ment, they said, We had hoped it might be just a week or so'. "It 'took quite a while." con- tinued the Superintendent, "but we finally convinced the. parents that lust because they couldn't afford to pay for the . boys care was no rea- son to deprive him of the only chance he had to get well, We ask- ed them to leave their son with us and tet ua worry about the cost of the treatment. "The boy is going, home next week' after almost two years of con- tinuous hospital care, many opera- tions,` several X=Rays, special diets, orthopaedic equipment, etc. He's feeling pretty fit now and his par- ents have been able to pay put a little • toward - this wonderful treat- ment. When a sick child needs hos- pital, care, he gets it regardless of race, creed or financial circum• stance." This led to a' discussion on the operating mists of the hospital. I was given information which is in terzating,and well worth passing on. In round figures, the operating expenses of the Hospital for the past year amounted to more than $5.13,000. The 'operating revenue—from Pri• - vate, Semi -private patients and the comparatively few. Public Ward - patients who are able to pay, grants from Toronto, other Municipalities and the Provincial government— amounted to just a little more than $304400, This means that the Hos- pital. although run an the most ef- ficient and economical basis, suffer- ed an operating loss of over $149,000. Part of this deficit is met by the in- come from investments made with a monedeficiys t beotqueathedor'300endowed over a sixty -sear period. There is still. .000. And filet is why this Hospital con- ducts an annual appeal at this time lo secure enough finds to offset this operating loss; If everyone who reads this item could visit the Hospital for Sick Children and see, as I did, what is done here for Ontario's little ones. then they would do as f did. Dig down deep- intothe pocket for a do- nation to help continum the splendid, If you aro able to send a gift please, do so now. Send your donation to the Hospital for Sisk Children, 87 College Street, Toronto; You'll eniay' a certain satisfaction by supporting this cause. Yoti'111 have helped give the greatest gift one can give to children—GOOD HEALTH.