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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-02-13, Page 7'THURS., FEB. 13, 1936 Health Cooking THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Edited by Rebekah. Care of Children Household Economics PAGE 7: is 307 .0.111,1140111.011 Rii.inivalion 0{ Rebekab A Column Prepared Especially for Women But Not Forbidden to Men NO ROOM FOR DOUBT There was miracle of loaves and fishes, A 'miracle of water turned to wine Through the bare earth a little leaf blade pushes, Slim as a sword and delicate and ., fine: From a brown seed no larger than a pin point, A leaf, a stem; a bud, a flower, and then From flower a seed in rhythmical rotation, No leaf and stem and bud and flower again. • There was a miracle of loaves and fishes But I have seen the miracle- of spring! "'The wonder that -tis life.itself unfold- ing- 1'have no room for doubt of any- thing! I am sure 'my readers will be - pleased this week to find so many "contributions on this page. It is no longer "My" page, it is "Our" page, and I hope all friends will make use of it to express their candid op- inions, always being careful to show • proper courtesy to all, to ask assis- : tance in the solving of their peob- !erns and to offer assistance on mat- • tors in which they are proficient. We • can in this way mutually heip one another and be of great assistance in' building up a really friendly . and helpful community,. Do not beafraid to write to this page at any time,' • on any subject of interest to women, • and incidentally, of value to all. I aim going .to have just as few rules• as possible, as I want all to, ' feel free and not to feel at all re- strieted, 'so there are just a few on which we must insist.. One is that! •only one ,side of the paper must be 'written on,; that the writer's own name must be signed, as well as the, pen name, not for publication, o • for disclosure to anyone, but just as a pledge of good faith between me 'and • thee, and please do not crowd letters, leave a bit of margin at top and sides of sheets,- and please do not use abbreviations, as all must be written out before being sent to the printer. I need to have copy for the following wdek in my hands not lat- er than Saturday,' Friday is better. Now, with only these simple rules and restrictions it should not be hard to comply and I am sure we shall get on famously.. Tomorrow, Feb. 14th, is St.. Valen- tine's Day. Now doesn't that make your heartskip a beat? Oh, weII, whether it does or not, there's something peculiarly fascinating a- bout St. Valentine's Day. And it does no harm to pay a bit of atten- tion to it. It would ,be a dull oldi world without a bit of sentiment. Some folk will tell` you that the clay is not observed in this age, that it was the Victorian age that paid any attention to such foolishness. But if you had gone into any of our schools the past few days you would have had your eyes opened, The pu- pils have been busy fashioning valen- tines of various ,sorts, and sending them, via the usual post, no doubt, to the ones favored. Probably the girls will take the initiative, (as usual; you will say), since this Is leap year. Anyway, human nature remaining pretty much what it was in Dear Old Victoria's .time, in spite of the fact that we have a bachelor King, a bachelor Prime Minister and a bachelor Leader of. the Opposition, the celebration of St. Valentine's Day has by no means died out, nor will it, I fancy. They do tell us now that St. Valen- tine had nothing to do 'with the -14th of. February. But who cares? It is a good time to have such a celebration, during a cold, blustery •time, when. spring seems a long way off and the • tea* Service OF THE aattttltatt filtbiral Ao uriatintt and Life Insurance 'Companies in Canada. Edited by GRANT FLEMING. M.D., Associate Seeretary • "YOU CAN'T" are of average weight, and who' ate under weight may have the disease. Certain questions addressed to the You can't eat a meal in five mut Health Service 'might be considered Utes and, at the same tune, chew your c'ftattering because they imply a math- food properly. The human body may er unlimited faith. It is these ques- be likened to a machine, but it is tiona which prompt an article to show much inore than a machine because that there ,are many things which we yon can't' have mental health unless cannot do; we do not know how to do you get personal satisfaction out of thein. what you do, • Two words which are not used in Many people are concerned about medicine are "always" and "never," their personal appearance, . They Sa it is thatwe cannot assure our spend much time and 'a'great deal on correspondents that sotnething will so-called "beautifying." They believe "always" or "never" happen. 'We'can- the 'advertisers. You can't .feed the not give the unqualified assurance skin by rubbing in cream; neither • which the quack gives because we can you make hair grow by applying !have too niueh respect for sceintific medicines to the scalp, nor remove ,truth, jfrakles or pigmented spots with .•A diagnosis cannot be made by salves or lotions, -.correspondence; it is only possible to You can't: break '-in µ new pair of make a guess in this way. A doctor shoes;' what' you do is' to break in does; not make,his diagnosis solely on your feet to fit the shoes, which may the symptoms as described to him by or'may not be a painful process, his patient; examination and study, It would seem that more money is of the patient are always necessary, spent' on laxatives than on all outer The woman who writes in to ask us drugs, anti yet you can't .cure franc: if a lump in her breast is cancertional constipation by the persistent should know that we cannot give the use of laxatives. You can't get exer•- answer to her question because all we else by tiding' in a -motor -car nor - can know is what she tells us. Only an you hire someone to do your sleeping examination will reveal the nature of for you.. Eating, exercising and rest - the lump,` ing are things you must clo for your - Underweight and tuberculosis are self: fixed together in the mind's 0f many You 'can't get health through setae- g people who think of tuberculosis, as one else. You must practice . health they have seen it in its late stages, habits yourself: . as a wasting 'disease. You can't re-, Questions concerning health, ad - cognize tuberculosis, whether in chit- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- dr•en or in adults,' by weight, because sociation,• 184. College St.,. Toronto, individuals who are Overweight; who will be answered personally by letter. winter seems long,' So let us keep it with parties, with the sending of a token to someone we love, with the spread of kindliness and ,good will. 'Twill not -hurt any .of us, "But don't please don't send anyone an ugly valentine .or 'one that would hurt any- one's feelings. That's against the whole spirit of the clay. . --REBEKAIL VITAMIN C Dr. E. G. V. Percival,discussing vitamins at a meeting of the• Phar- maceutical Society in Edinburgh, said that although a. vast amount of work had, been done on the four vita- mins—A, itamins A, B1, B2, and D - it could not he said that absolute finality had been reached. Only' vitamins B1 and D had...been definitely characterized and their chemical structures estab- lished with any degree of certainty. On the other hand, the position in regard to vitamin C was much more satisfactory.. This was the vitamin widely distributed in fruit juices. It was the anti -scorbutic constituent .in orange juice, which was supplied to the Navy to prevent scurvy, and it had been isolated and its constitution confirmed by .synthesis. T LIFE OF KING GEORGE V. IN BRIEF 1865—Born in ,Marlborough House, London, second son of Edward Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, 1880—With his older brother, Prince Albert, made cruise 1.o South America, South Africa, Fiji Is- lands, Australia, Japan, Cey- lon, Egypt, Palestine and . Greece, as midshipman. 1891—Appointed commander in Royal Navy and placed in comtnand of H.M.S. Melampus. 1802—Became heir apparent to the throne on' the death 'of Prince Albert. 1893—Married Princess Victoria • Mary,•daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Teck. 1894—His first son, Albert Edward, now King Edward VIII. was born. 1001—Made tour of the dominions, opening first Parliament of Commonwealth of Australia, visiting New Zealand, South Africa and Canada. 1901—Was proclaimed Prince o f Wales on accession of his fath- er to the tholle as Edward VII, 1908—Visited Canada and attended Tercentenary Celebrations at Quebec City. 1901—Promoted to be admiral of the fleet, and field marshal. 1910—Ascended to the throne on the • death of Edward VII. 1911—Coronation ceremony toolc place, followed by state visits to Ireland, Sootland and Wales. Further coronation ceremonies in Delhi, India. 1914—Issued proclamation for mobil- ization of 'British forces for war. During war made per- sonal visits to battlefront each year and 'also to the grand fleet. 1915—Injured when his ,horse,, flight- • ended by cheering, threw him when he visited troops at the front. 1918 --Addressed liege crowds outside Buckingham Palace when word' of signing of armistice was re- ceived; later participated i 11 national thanksgiving service. 1921—Visited Belfast and inaugurat- ed first Parliament of North- ern Ireland. t923—With Queen Marv, visited Vat- lean and Quirinal Palace, at Rome. 1924—Suffered from influenza; open- ed the British Empire ' Exhibi- tion at Wembley. 1.925 -Suffered second anal.serious ill- ness;.opened Canada House. .1928—Gravely ill with congestion of the pings. Operated on. 1929 -Gradually recovered after two relapses, 1980—Opened London Naval Confer- ennce and first Indian Round Table Conference, also Imper- ial Conference. 1g31---Assentecl to the Statute' of Westminster, - ratifying self government for dominions; 1932 -Sent stirring message to Im- perial 'Economic Conference in Ottawa. 1.933 --Opened World Economic Con- ference in London, 1934—Hold special meeting of the Privy Council attended' by Do- minion Government represen tatives, to give formal consent to marriage of Prince George to Princess Marina of Greece. 1935— Celebrated Silver• Jubilee of accession with acclaim of en:. tire British Empire. 1986—Died at Sandringham House; January 20, 1936., 1036 --Buried in Chapel at Windsor on Jan.' 28, CONTRIBUTIONS I Dear Editor of Women's Page: , We were most interestedto read your announcement on this page last week that in future it would be open to contributions from your readers.' In other words you would make it "out page," to which we may bring our problems, our suggestions, as the case May be, We'heve always enjoyed your Wo- men's Page and believe that along the lines you are planning to develop it that it will prove even more help- ful and interesting. Those who have attended church. suppers ih Clinton and vicinity can vouch for the fact that the .women who provided these suppers are the finest of cooks. Some of them are regular contributors to the Women's Pages of our .eity papers. We will hope now to hear from them in our own home paper, of which we are justly proud. • Let's hear from "The Lady of the Garden Path," "The Lady of the Hedge;.,' "Plain Ann,>" "Jiggs,"- "Dugan," "Quiet Feet and Fireplace Lover," many more we could name. We .tried your recipe' of last' week, Crumb Cake, and it was tine. Am enclosing a recipe for Graham Cake the neighbors may like. Here's wishing you, dear editor, and the Women's Page, every sue- Ce55. - GRAHAM CAKE 1/4 cup butter. % cup white sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon cinnamon 14 teaspoon nutmeg lh cup buttermilk % cup white; flour 54 cup graham flour % cup raisins , 5 heaping teaspoon soda 1/i teaspoon baking powder. Florista, Deat Rebekah: I always enjoy your page in The News -Record and thought your suggestion last week was splendid, so enclosed please find a few pet recipes. Wishing your page every success, QUICK PUDDING 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 11z cup white sugar i cup raisins ' Pinch of salt Milk, enough to snake it like a cake batter. Grease a pudding dish and pour in the batter. Take 1 cup brown sugar 2% cups boiling water 1 teaspoon butter Flavour with vanilla and pour all this over pudding batter and bake in moderate oven for 20 minutes. BANANA BREAD % cup sugar 1 egg 24 cup malted butter 3 bananas (mashed) 1% cups flour 1 teaspoon oda 1 teaspoon salt 14 cup nut meats Beat egg, add sugar and butter, then add banana pulp: Sift dry in- gredients and add to the other• mix- ture.. Put into a greased bread pan and hake 45 to 60 minutes in a hot oven. Sreve with butter or cream cheese. HOT CHEESE BISCUITS 1% cups flour 4 level teaspoonsbaking powder 2 tablespoons butter 2-8 cup milk % cup grated cheese 1 teaspoon salt. Sift flour, baking powder and salt, mix flour, butter and cheese. Dilute mixture with milk, to make soft dough. Roll out quickly to % inch thickness and cut with a biscuit put- ter., Place a cube of cheese on top each biscuit and hake in hot oven for 12 to 15 minutes. —The. Lady -with -the -Duster. Dear. Rebekah: I' herewith enclose+ a recipe for your woman's page' which is a favorite in my fami;•y, and hope it may beef use to you: DILL PICKLES Put 1 large. basket cucumbers in brine to float an egg. Let stand one week. Clear, for a day in cold. water. Then place cherry, grape leaves and. horseradish leaves and dill in alter- nate layers with` cucumbers in crock,` Pour following imixture over: 1 gallon vinegar 1 cup mustard 1 teaspoon saccarhine. Have leaves on top. —Frisky. Dear Rebekah: In response to your request for recipes for your Woman's; Page, I ani' sending you the follow- ing: RAISIN -LEMON PIE. 1 lemon, juice •and rind 1 cup sugar 1 cup water 1 egg beaten slightly 1 teaspoon butter 1 tablespoon flour 1 cup raisins, Mix ' all together and bake between two crusts. • • —Mrs. Neverthrough. WORTH 'KNOWING A little glycerine smeared around the glass stoppers of bottles will pre- vent then from sticking. Citric acid cautiously and repeat- edly applied will remove ink or iron spots from dyed cottons or woollens. To freshen a shabby carpet or rug damp the carpet a small portion at a time; with a cloth wrung out 'of strongly salted water. Then rub clry with a clean duster. If a cloth is wetted in vinegar and wrung out as dry as possible, and wrapped around cheese and then the whole put in a large paper bag, and kept in a "cool place, the cheese wilt remain moist and fresh, as if newly cut, and will not mould, Mud stains on anything hlaek may be removed by rubbing it with the cut surface of a raw potato. To remove mildew from any white cloth, stir an ounce of chloride of lime in a quart of cold water. After it has settled two or three hours, pour tine clear liquid off into a bot- tle, and it will be ready for use. Dip the mildewed spots in the liquid and let dry. If one application does not remove the'stain entirely, repeat the process. Rinse ih clear water. SOFT GINGER BREAD %cup sugar 1 cup molasses 141 cup butter 1 teaspoon each of ginger cinna- mon and cloves 2 teaspoons soda, dissolved in a eup of boiling -water 2% cups flour and 2 well beaten eggs, the last thing before baking, (This is just valid with maple sy- rup for dessert. KING EDWARD CAKE 1 cup brown sugar • ]. cup butter, (I use a little less) 2 eggs ti cup sour milk Teaspoon soda put in milk 1% cups flour Cup chopped raisins, or dates 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/,-, teaspoon nutmeg. This is a grand cake. --Jim's Wife. Dear Rebekah: Having noticed your note in the paper last week regard- ing help for the Women's Page, I de- cided I. would like to be 'of assistance to you so here is a tested recipe if you care to use it. DATE NUT LOAF 1 cup brown sugar 2 tablespoons butter Pineh salt 1 egg 11 cups graham flour 1 cup bran 2, cup dates, chopped 1 teaspoon soda. Sprinkle soda over dates, pour cup of boiling water, let stand until coo! then add to the abovo, milk may be added. Mix together. Bake • in n moderate oven, Peggy. A MESSAGE TO OUR FOLK T,0 THE SOUTH Deur Rebekah: If one could' see Clinton and the surrounding country these days, with its banks and banks of snow, the ,well - kept highways, the houses and banns all snowy white, with icicles, beautl- fuIly colored, the 'fences with the snow toppling off them, you could imagine how even our friends and relations to the south" might exclaim, "0 Canada is good, enough for me" And coming right down to our own' town, folks, we wonder , sometimes why we cannot do a little more to help• improve this lovely place, during the summer months. How about a rock • garden and swimming pond at the river bed? It is true, we 'wander elsewhere to see spots of beauty, at Kitchener, Ham- ilton and Midland, and so on, we do not even need togo to California, Florida and %Bermuda for beauty. But why . not start . in Clinton, the centre. of 'this beautiful County of Huron. If some one would get, inter- ested, who knows what might happen at !tome? —One Friend ,Tells ,Another. CS Ile partiicular-buy your flour by name. Purity" -Flour has enjoyed your confidence for thirty years. Always uniform quality—milled frosn the world's best wheat -- ensures complete satisfaction for every kind of baking. PU 1T31 FL UR Best for all your Bakini THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs -Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful and Ins pining. IN MEMORY OF KING GEORGE V. "Thy gentleness hath made me great."—Ps. 18, 36. They say "the King is dead." Not so, he lives again In thought, and word and deed, In his dear On, our King, To whom he has bequeathed A living faith in God above. To God above we now commit This brave young life, so Fraught with care, and burdens Such as only kings can know. But to the King of Kings he looks For grace and wisdom, for each day, Each day will bring new Life and Strength, New qualities Divine, that Slumbered in his heart. But now awake to serve his God, And follow in the steps of him Who has so nobly won his crown, Our Sovereign Ding, we pledge to thee Our lives in faithful love, May He who gives the grace of Life, Surround you from all greed and strife Till, in the days to conte, You reap reward for faithful work And hear Him say "Well done!" —Sprig O'Heather in The Globe. POSSESSION Beauty abides in the small quiet places— Not always on a mountain's distant snow, Facing the stars, and the swift storms that blow— Not always in the nnforgotten spaces Where blue meets blue, and the sea's voice is heard Restlessly lifting with the immortal ticles— But in small, quiet places beauty a- bides: Here is the frail song o2 a nesting bird— Here the low, friendly hills kneel sil- ently— And here green pastures and still waters lie. Beauty, nray,own a storm -enchanted sky— The mountain—stars•—the incompar- able sea— But ever does the heart of hey be- long, To those green pastures and this frail sweet song! -Catherine, Parmenter. AT EVENING This is :the time of day all things coma house= Through wood and field, down ev- ery lane and street They come; the beasts, the birds, the bees, the men, On wings and wheels and feet. The furred things have their dens,, the_ . birds their nests, The bees their. hives, the cattle seek their stalls; The little bleating sheep have folds: + toward which Theyturn when the night (alis. How steange'tliat out of all the many lronnes, The shelters that the ' world has ever known, At evening every • hurrying eager heart Goes straight to find 'its own. And you, my dearest dear, thread tangled streets, ' Pass countless doors, unerringly and true, ' To find this little house of our de- light On tip -toe, waiting 'yen. "+ -Grace: Noll Crowell. THE NAZARETH SHOP 1` wish, I had been His apprentice iMMIt To see Him each morning at seven, As Ile tossed His gray tunic far from Ilinr The Master of earth and of heaven. When He lifted the 1k1 of His work chest And opened His carpenter's kit. And looked at His chisels and aug. ems, And took the bright tools out of it. While He gazed at the rising sun Tinting the dew on the opening flow- ers, And smiled as He thought of His father Whose love floods this planet of ours When Ile fastened His apron about' Him And put on His working man's cap And grasped the smooth hasp of the hammer To give the bent woodwork a tap, Saying "Lad, let me finish this ox yolk, The farmer tnuat put in his crop." Oh, I wish I had been His apprentice' And worked in the Nazareth shop, AS A DREAM In autumn we said, "We must, must keep these, The outer touches of rose or au amber tree, A small young oak, rbbied among the grasses, At the foot of an old beech whir - peeing silver decree. A pool of blue sky, with its green tinting, Outlined in a leafed opening by rose, flame and gold, There, in a tall forest of long sha- dows, Where rapture of all seasons is told and retold. These must warm our winter, our long waiting In the hesitant grey weeks of pond. ing spring, We must remember a hill slope of leaf still color About brown water like a warm kind wing. But with the march of stars through bare branches, In keen rhythm of winter and clear . frost -glow, Aututnn becomes a dream of dimmed beauty Framed in soft silver with the first fall of snow. --Amy Campbell itn the New Outlook A TRII3UTE FROM CANADA (Written on the death of Rudyard Kipling) Half-mast the flags of empire! He is dead- Our bard is dead! That mighty voice is still Whose music was the hymn of all the winds., Our bard lies dead! His harp was wrought of realms; Its strings the yearnings of undaunt- ed men.' ' Across wild seas beneath the feet or dawn, Half-mast the flags! The elation voice is dumb. Dark .sorrow stirs the depths of warrior hearts In cot and castle and where lone ships rove And plunge heroic on the perilous seas Which are the path of empire to our: race. 0 thou, our strength in England's; ;darkest hours. Who touched unwonted chords its simple' hearts Till ,empire grew • to 'brotherhood; iive on, Thy soul infusing all the rugged speech'. . Of manly men whose crown is forti- rude, -Frederick George Scott;.