HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-01-30, Page 7THURS., JAN. 30, 1936:
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
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A Column Prepared Especially for Women–'
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BIRDS
'Darlings," God said to the birds,
"'Go now and sing,
Per men are weary of. Winter,
Go and bring
Promise to empty branches."
He set them free,
Winged to carry His praise
.Joyously. •
They built in meadow and tree,
In barn and croft,
They carried the word of love
Afar, aloft. •
They were colored like flowers,
Every wing
Was pointed and balanced and strong,
a marvellous thing.
'"Darlings," God said to the birds,
"Go now to another place,
Men 'cease to' wonder at last
At any grace."
•• Leave for a while and then
Afterbarrendays,
' One robin shall make their. hearts
Awake to praise.
So all the singing birds
Lift their wings to go,
They found a path in the blue, -
High way they know.
Only the chickadee stayed
To sing in the snow.
—Louise Driscoll in the New York
''rimes.
Have you noticed that already,
when the day is a bit warm with
thesun's rays which are gaining in
strength etch day, that the birds'
songs are taping on a cheerier note'
The poor little things, when the snow
lies deep in the fields; they must
find it hard to scrape up . a living,
":even when kindly people do throw
:out crumbs, and they must welcome
with a great joy the coming of
Spring.
Well, anyway, I have already
.caught the joyous, cheerful note in
the sparrow's chirp and it has glad-
dened me, for while 1 enjoy the win -
•ter and really like it to be fairly
cold and revel in the snow (which a
friend says is because I do not have
'to shovel it) still, no human ever
failed to respond with gladness to the
spring.
Andif we are to get anything
like the work done which we planned
to do last Autumn -and who but has
planned and planned each recurring
Autumn—we had better be getting
at. it. For myself, I have done very
few of the things which I planned,
but I have done a few things which.
I had not planned and am still at
them, so that is not so bad as it
might be.
It is rather nice to do something
which one has not planned to do,
occasionally, especially when it turns
out well. It takes us out of the rut,
into which we are all too apt to fall.
For this reason I aim enjoying do-
ing some work which I had not plan;
ned to do at all and only hope it
proves to be as successful as it
promises.
Nevertheless, it is well not to al-
low all of the things which we have
planned to go by the board, these
unplanned things should be extras.
What we have undertaken to do we
should endeavor to finish, not al-
lowing trivial matters to turn us
aside. So for this reason I am cal-
ling to mind the fact that the Winter
is passing and the Spring is coining,
when all winter work will •be cast
aside in the joy of getting out of
doors.
This is a fine time to do sone
spring sewing, if there is a family
to provide for. The stores are ad-
vertising the nicest cotton goods,
prints, broadcloths, etc„ which are
positively crying to be made up into
little girls' pantie dresses, little boys`
smart suits, into school girls dresses
or women's house gowns. The wo-
men, I know, are_searching for rem-
nants to make over their own or
their schoolgirl. daughter's dresses,
and many a bargain can be picked
up. The days' are growing longer,
too, for getting sewing done. And
it is very nice to have that sewing
done up and out of the way before
housecleaning time comes. For, be
sure of it, Spring will be here before
we're ready for' it.
•—REBEKAH
ticallth Scram
OF TRJ
ttttabiatt iftebtrat , i,nriatinn
and Life Insurance Companies in Canada.
Edited by
GRANT FLEMING, M.D., Associate Secrotarw.
PNEUMONIA
As the recognized cause of much
illness and many deaths, pneumonia
possesses• an unenviable re
reputation.
p
Under the reseriptive name of "in-
I... fiammation of the lguns",p netunon-I
..ia .was just as well known to, and
equally feared by previous genera-
tions.
The inflammation orpneumonia is
due to one or more bacteria or
germs, ' The disease may be primar-
ily an inflammation of the lungs, or
it may' develop as a secondary con-
dition, Secondary , pneumonia is
quite common in the .early, years of
'life, following upon measles and
whooping cough; it becomes a rarer
complication with advancing years
excepting as a sequel of influenza.
Pneumonia reaches its height dur-
ing the colder seasons, not because
of the lower temperature of the WE,
but because, as: the out-of-door tem-
perature drops, windows and dooi;s •
aro closed, people crowd together in-
doors creating those conditions which
favour the spread of all diseases of
the respiratory organs, from the
• council cold to pneumonia. I
All ages, both sexes and all so-,
ciai classes fall victim, but pneuinon-
'"la is moire continon and most severe
among those who, because of coin -1
partitive poverty, live,iii overcrowded
' homes, -without 'proper food, possibly
deprived of sufficient warmth anti.
sanitary facilities.
Nevertheless, by far the most ac-
tive predisposing factor in the devel-
opment of pneumonia is an attack
of one of the communicable diseases
and, particularly, whooping-eough,
measles and influenza. It is because
of the pneumonia complication that
these diseases arse always suer n
serious menace to .life.
Those suffering from pneumonia
should be isolated and their, sputum
disinfected. The disease is nob
readily spread. It is caused by. .f
living agent ;or germ present in the
sputum,ftherefore, precautions should,
be taken to prevent the transference
of the ,germ in the sputum or se-
cretions of nose and throat from the
sick to the well.
General preventive measures; con-
sist of preventing the predisposing
communicable diseases, and if these
do occur to give adequate care to
those suffering . from whooping
cough, measles and influenza in or-
der' to lessen the likelihood of
pneumonia, Fresh air, no overerowd-
ing,..proper food, personal cleanli-
ness, together with avoiding fatigue
and exposure are essential in the
promotion of health and the preven-
tion of pneumonia.
Questions concerning health, ad-
dressed to the Canadian Medical As-
sociation, 7.84 College -St., Toronto,
will be answered personally by letter.
PAGE •7'
Edited By Mabel R. Clark
YOUR WORLD AND MINE
(Continue(' from page 2)
most, of us have to consider the mat-
ter of earning a living; and earning;
enough money per week or month to
enable us to establish a home. Now,
the amount of money we earn 'a week
or month has relation to our kind of
work as well as to its quality. If we.
'are unable to doa kind of work for
which the world is ready to pay
well, ;then we have to get along on a
low wage. It is inyouth that we
got ourselves ready for the doing of
work which will give, us incomes of
$2000 or more. If we let love affairs
ccn-:a.::ic our emotions and our study
time and mar ahtiitlons, then we Pay
terribly
dearfor the shallow pleas-
uresures
which are derived from parties
and evenings spent outside our own
homes.
It is .young women who should be
much concerned with this matter of
their own future. As I see it, they
should be earnest to improve themsel-
ves in every possible way. Their hope
of a happy marriage and of enduring
happiness should be. built on fitness
to make a success of their Iife in
every circumstance and condition.
They ought to shun cheap love af-
fairs. The main part of their lives
is not their teen years, but their a-
dult years =- the years beyond 30.
Where they may now lide—whether
in a small town or on a farm, or in
a city, is not of much importance:
What is of importance is that they
shall have a plan of life, and that
they shall pursue this plan. This plan
should mean their growth mentally,
culturally, and in the enduring at-
tractions of a fine character, a pleas-
ant nature, capability in relation to
their chosen work, and participation
in many good woricse, 'Young women
who fit themselves for the,higher leve
els of life need not fear the competi-
tion of women of flighty natures or
the desertion of lovers who go to
college.
HONOURABLE END
(Continued from page 6)
ond's delay and his object would have
been`aehieved. The Carrick Moor, old
and frail, would .have crumpled her
bows against the frieghter's strong
side, bulkheads would have been
buckled :and broken before the in-
rush of ton upon ton of water, and
'the old girl, and her two old men,
would have met a fitting 'end. But.
that leap, withouut thought purely a
reflex action the result of a livethne
of training, had foiled hien. He stared
dully at the glaring red eye in the
frieghter's side, high above his own
bows, and at the ;rim outline of tall
superstructures that towered over
him.
Hook raised his hand to his eyes
dazedly, than rang for "Stop;" and
down below Andy Grey heard the
clanging of the warning bell, saw the
pointer jerk and kick and come to
rest. White as a sheet, with staring
eyes and chocking breatl;, he obeyed
that order, his whole body keyed up
for the tearing, grinding' crash be-
neath, his feet, the impact that would
herald the end. The engines died,
The sickening vibration ceased. The
Carrick Moor drifted in a swirl of
churned -up foam, swinging in a wide
ere and listing heavily. And then the
crash came,
But Andy Gray did not hear it.
Hook, up on the bridge, heard it snit
came out of the fog, an appalling
rendering noise followed by an in-
stant and dreadful silence. Then
pandemonium broke loose.
The captain's body acted, once
more on defiance of his brain.
"Hard aport!" he snapped, quietly,
as he rang for deadslow ahead, and
figers appeared on the bridge, on
the foredeck, officers and men coming
on the run. The ship gathered way,
swept in a wide half -circle, began to
creep towards the hidden cliffs.
They found the frieghter, her slim,
high brows jammed on the rocks,
while the, set of the tide began to
swing her slowly broadside to the
shore. Her screw threshed the water
in vain, fighting to back her off. Hook
cool and dominant, without thought,
issued curt orders.
Action was swift, precise, and
smooth. A boat event'° out and down,
and shot away over the dark water,
trailing a line. It was passed up to
melt crowding the frieghter's poop,
and hauled in. A heavy warp, attached
to its end, snaked out after it front
the tramp's deck, and a great steep
hawser followed that. Then the Car-
rick Moorswung and headed out from
the shore. Slow ahead at first, and
the hawser began to rise out of the
water as the gap between the vessels
widened. Stop again, to let her take
up the slack on a 'drift, then once
more slow ahead. The. hawser strech-
ed taut and quivering from ship to
ship.
The screw thumped. Slowly, slowly
the old tramp began to move, and the
freighter's stern swung out against
the tide.
Sirens signalled. Stop again, while
the hawser was transferred from the
freighter's stern to a capstan forward
just abaft her shattered for'c'slehead.
Then the Carrick Moor baegn to lum-
ber into the fog, headed up the Firth,
dragging after herthe limping
freighter, whose pump worked fever-
ishly and whose forward bulkhead be-
hind the crumpled bows held firm.
Hook picked up the speaking tee,
"Andy," he called, softly, and lis-
tened for the gasping, hoarse re-
sponse. "Keep her as she is. We have
just hauled a ship off the rocks. One
of that, German line that was smash-
ing old Moor. She's worth a packet.
The salvage on her will be more than
. more than the insurance on the
old Carrick herself. If we hadn'tbeen
holding too close inshore we'd never
have known she was there. The old
girl's cleverer than we are, Andy.
She knew a trick worth two of ours."
He replaced the mouthpiece on its
hook, jammed in the stopper. Then
he went slowly out of the wheelhouse
back on to the bridge, and stared
away astern, His eyes wereclear, un-
flinching; and not a tremor 01
muscle showed that an old man had
faced death, calmly, for the sake of
his loyality: Only a slight relaxing
of the grim, set. mouth showed . the
measure of his reprieve. He knew that
Andy Grey, shuddering in'unspeak-
able relief, was the braver man. --
John O'Londun's Weekly.
SILK STOCKINGED POVERTY
Employment conditions today are
unsatisfactory, but the present sit-
uation is, after all an improvement
on the abject poverty which prevailed
even as recently as twenty years ago,
according to an article by T. W. I3,
Thompson, of Lacombe, Alberta, in
the current issuue of the Journal of
the Canadian Bankers' Association
which says in part:
"The claim that conditions are
worse than they have ever been in
a delusion. Present-day poverty is
"silk, stockinged" contrasted with the
sordid, filthy poverty of yesteryear.
The living, meagre as it may be,
which is made possible to the recap.
lent of relief today, would compare
favorably with the standard of living
maintained by many of the working
class of fifty years ago. The chief
difference is that it is now handed
out gratuitously, whereas fifty years
ago men, women and even little child-
ren had to toil from dawn to dusk to
earn it. Our pioneer ancestors who
supported themselves in the home
which they hewed out of the bush
far rse conditionsthan
lived underwo
prevail today. But one does not have
to go far into the past for an example
of conditions which were far more
disagreeable than those of today.
Are the dark days which dragged on
from 1914 to 1918 so soon forgotten?
Were those four years of carnage and
anxiety less terrible than four years
of depression? What soldier in the
trenches would not have traded his
place for what he would have termed.
a "cushy" billet in a labor camp of
the kind now scorned by the un-
employed?
"Conditions today are certainly not
worse than they have ever been ---
they are probably better.. But -thee
are not as good as they might be, or
as we should like to see them."
SAME OLD STORY
"Your wifehas been delirious all
day," said, the nurse in, a worried
tone, "calling for you and crying for:
money."
"Hall" snorted" friend husband.
"She's. not delirious,"
No wonder Purity Flour is a favorite for
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Spring wheat. A strong flour that goes
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Care of Children
Won't You Help,
Ladies!'
I have bethought myself that it
might be a good thing if some of
my readers, of this page would do
something to make it more inter-
esting than it is. I am sure that
it is read each week by many ex-
cellent housekeepers — some of
them have told me so, and I'm
sure many who have not said so
also read ib. Why could not some
of these experienced housewives'
send in to me occasionally some
suggestion for making housekeep-
ing more successful, something
which they have learned from
their experience. Or why could
tbey not from their rich store,
from time to time send in a recipe
for making this or that :which
their families enjoy. I should ap-
preciate this help very much and
would give them credit` for .. any
suggestion b y publishing
their name, initials or a pen
name, if they do not wish to be
+known. Come along, ladies, you
e can, if you will, help make this
page a very interesting one. You
will do it, won't you, M,R.C.
STILL FIRST. LADY OF THE
REALM
Queen Mary will remain the first
lady in the land, followed . by the
Princess Royal the Duchesses of
York, Gloucester, and Kent, the Prni-
cess Elizabeth and Margaret Rose.
Should King Edward VIII marry
his wife would rank first. But the
King has, designated his mother.,
"Queen' Mother," and she will act
as his official hostess. Between the
King and his mother there is said to
be a very strong tie of affection, so
that the above arrangement is no
doubt not only convenient, but just
what both wish at the time.
Our Recipes for Today
Crumb Cake
This is an old favorite and is
nice either for company or for
family use:
2 cups flour
1 cup white sugar
31 cup butter
Rub to crumbs. Take out a
handful of the crumbs. Mix the
rest with
1 cup sour milk
1 teasppon soda
1 teaspoon cloves
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 egg
1 cup raisins
1 cup currants.
Sprinkle remaining crumbs on
top df cake, then put in oven and
bake.
APPLE CRUMB PUDDING
Three quarters cup brown sug-
ar; one-half cup butter; three•
quarter cup flour; three eups
cooked apples. Place the pieces
of apple or apple sauce in the bot-
tom of a baking dish. Rub the
other ingredients together until
crumbly. Spread over the apples
and bake ina hot oven 400 de-
grees Fahrenheit for twenty-five
minutes. Serve with sweet sauce
or thick cream. This will serve
six persons.
CLAM CHOWDER
There are various ways of mak
-
Mg chowder, but here is one that
was recommended by Mrs. Eve-'
lene Spencer, who was the fish
cookery expert on the staff of the
Dominion Department of Fisheries
and was also the author of sev-
eral books on methods ofpiepar-
ing fish foods for the table:—
Boil a pint of diced potatoes in
salted water; mince finely a thick
alice of bacon, fry the pieces
lightly, add' a large onion, which
has been -finely minced, and cook
the bacon and onion together un-
til tender; heat a quart of milk,
add to it a pint of boiling water
and 'the strained 'juice from a
large can of clams; having heated
one-third of ° a cup of cooking oil,
sift into it a half cup of flour, add
the cooked onion and bacon, blend
the mixture, well together and
add 'it,to the boiling milk, whisk-
ing as it thickens then add the
potato and the water in which the
pieces were cooked, put in the
clams which have firstbeen fine-
ly inineecl, add salt and pepper to
suit the taste, and .a tablespoon
of i butter just before serving.
Putting a clove of garlic with the
minced bacon and onion when they
are' being cooked together adds to
the savoriness of the chowder.
Household Economics
THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED
TO THE POETS
Here They Will Sing Yon Their Songs—Sometimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad- But Always helpful
and : Ins piring-
OUR•RING IS DEAD
This man was King in England's
direst need;
In black -battle' years, after hope was
gone,
t
• 11
His courage was a flag 'men rallied
on, /.
His steadfast spirit showed him
King, indeed.
And when the war was ended, when
the thought
Of revolution took its hidious place,
His courage and his 'kindness and
his grace
Scattered (or charmed) its minis-
ters to naught.
No King of all our many has been
proved
By times so savage to the thrones of
Kings,
Or won more simple triumph over
fate:
He was most royal among royal
things,
Most thoughtful for the meanest In
his state,
The best, the gentlest, and the most
beloved.
-John Masefield, Jan. 20th, 1936.
•
THE KING IS DEAD—
LONG LIVE THE KING!
The Empire's heart is full these days,
With love and sympathy
For that Royal House at Sandring-
ham,
For Queen and 'Family.
Its sentiments are bourne on air
From lands that are not few
God give her grace to stand the
strain
Of her dear one passing through.
Our Beloved King has now passed on
To spheres and actions new,
'Jo everlasting life and work
He'll doubtless find to do.
His less to us is very great
We'll loose his steadying mind.
And now we have Edward the Eighth
His Father's Son we'll find.
--William James.
RUDYARD KIPLING
A Man, a truly modest man,
Shunned honours, rare, with upward
pass.
A Poet, Scribe, Historian,—
This great old world, now mourns
his loss.
Not Dead!
With Soul and Body, changed in form
Goes om•te future usefulness. _
His work done here, is sure fore-
sworn,
To human love, and tolerance.
With honours, that befits the man,
We leave him, in good company,
In Abbey. Crypt, we all shall scan
His Nitah, in that grand Oratory.
—William James.
SONNET
Is there a great commonwealth of
thought
Which ranks the yearly pageant,
and decides
How the summer's royal progress
shall be wrought.
By secret stir which in each plant
abides?
Does rocking daffodil consent that
she,
The snowdrop of wet winters, shall
be first?
Does spotted cowslip with the grass'
agree
To hold her pride before the rattle
burst?
And in the hedge what ,quick agree-
ment goes,
hawthorn blossoms redden
When b s
to decay,
That summer's pride shall come, the
summer's rose,
Before the flower be on the bram-
ble spray? •
Or is it, as with us, investing strife,
And each consent a lucky gasp for
life?
John Masefield.
LIFE
•
Some call it life to seek with mad
endeavor
The gilded prize of wealth or place
or fame;
To light the torch of toil and then
forever -
Press onward breathless, guided
by its flame.
Some call it. life to find in frenzied
pleasure
A few vain years of evanescent
bliss;
To rob each rapt experience of its
treasure;
To snatch from ev'ry joy its hon-
eyed kiss.
But some whose feet are set in quiet
places,
Whose lives march on with less
tumultuous zest,
Discover, 'mid old' friendships and
loved faces,
That days of humble sacrifice are
best. '
Not theirs the pride of place, not
theirs the guerdon
Of public praises all the world
shall read;
Yet these have tasted life with ev-
ery burden;
Who lives for others, he hath lived
indeed, —Anon.
WINTER
I would travel the world across is
see
A small bird etched in a Ieafless
tree.
The mottled wing of a partridge
lifting
Over the fields where the snows are
drifting,
The feet of the fox, in his coat of
rust,
Leave sculptured flowers on the
crystal dust.
The bobcat stirs, and the bare
boughs feel
Her :gliding body and taloned heel.
While safe from sight, down a froz-
en furrow,
The rabbit sleeps in the dark of his
burrow.
The brook lies deep. At its icy roof ,
The wild deer stamps with a restive
hoof.
The woodpecker climbs in a scarlet
hood,
Above the crest of the naked wood.
The suit is a circle, drained of gold—
The branches ,.creak in the bitter
cold.
And yet I would travel the world to
see
A. white hill etched with a winter
tree!
--Eleanor Baldwin' in Christian Sci-
ence Monitor.
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