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CLD TON NEWS -RECORD
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Health
Cooking,
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Edited by Rebekah.
Care of Children
Household Economics
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A Column Prepared . Especially for Women—
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THE OPEN WINDOW ..
• 1 Iove the flowery curtains all ilut-
tering in the breeze
• And dappled by the sunshine Corning
through the swinging trees;
-1: love the open window, with a
glimpse of sunray sky,
.A velvet lawn, a blaze of flower's, a
dancing butterfly;
'Chi I love the open window, with
lupin pink and blue;
I nod a friendly greeting when the
sun is shining through!
•.1 love the open window with the
roses all ablow
And the ivy and the jasmine a -nod-
ding to and fro; ;
:1 love to watch a spider or to trace
'a gleaming thread,.
And find him in a weir of pearls be-
hind a garden bed;
'Oh! I.love the open window when the
lilacs wet with dew,
When the mor'ning's full of glory and
the sun is shining through,
i Iove the open window, and when
I'm idlerstill,
.And the room is full of shadows,'
dark and damp and chill;
• Wlten I'm tired and worn with try-
ing, and my heart is full of pain,
When all my castles wonderful have
tumbled down again,
I will never lose my courage, for
there's one thing I can, do;
I will open wide my window and let
the sunshine through! •
—Emily Sandeman.
I did say something about spring
to few weeks ago, didn't I? And
• we've had some pretty severe weather l
since. But that's all right, we shall
have some still, no doubt; but we are
rrealIy nearer spring than we were,
That's the beauty about banking on,
a sure thing. Spring is coming as
'•sure a fate and we ought to be pre-
paring for it.
Have you planned your garden
'yet? . I'm very glad to see that mine
'is still 'lapped . up warmly under its
'fleecy. blanket. Hope it stays that
way a good while longer: I shall go
out one of these days and make a -few
airholes, in case anything should
smother under it, but T hope the
"kivers" stay on until the hard frosts
are over. ;That is one . of the bles-
sings' of snow in this climate. It cov-
ors up the young' wheat; the roots
of grass, flowers, etc.; and keeps
theta from being frozen our of root,'
Oh, what a blessing is snow. Haven't
you heard it 'blessed' during the past
few- weeks??,
But really and honestly, I do not
think we use our winters as we
should. Years ago, before the advent
of motor cars, (and silk hosiery) it
seems to me we enjoyed the winters
more. We expected them and wet
corned the snow. We took snowshoe
tramps, we tobogganed, we warn
sleighridiug. Sleighing' parties were
one of the most enjoyable anodes of
entertainment, especially in the coun-
try districts. The young people of
the community would be invited to a
sleighing party. The host or his son
would call for all the party and, made
comfortable with robes and rugs, the
sleigh would take its load of merry
young folk off for a drive over roads
well beaten by runner traffic. Some-
times an upset occurred, but that only
added to the fun, and then all return-
ed to the hoine of the host and host-
ess where a happy evening was spent
in games, music and the enjoyment
of refreshments, and the kindly host
would again hitch up his 'sleigh and
drive everybody hone. It was always
a very happy form of entertaimnent
and the host and hostess were assist-
ed in it by their faithful nags.
Nowadays there is a bit of enjoy-
ment of winter sports, but not nearly
to the extent of twenty-five year's
ago, for instance. Snow is consider-
ed a nuisance. The roads must be
plowed out to accommodate cars and
if cars cannot run we are hopelessly
"snowed in." Shucks, I say. I'd.
much rather climb into a good strong
sleigh, pulled by a good, 'stocky pair
of horses .to go over a snoweovered.
road than trust to a car, which at the
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and localized over o er Cho site of
Whatever may be the explanation, .the appendix whore there is also
'there seems to be no question but that tenderness and rigidity of the ab -
appendicitis is becoming more corm."dominal muscles. At this stage,
neon. Appendicitis is responsible for : there is some fever, the patient lies
more deaths than resift from all the quietly on his back often with' the
common communicable diseases put right knee flexed, this being the most
together. The 1,577 deaths, from ap-(comfortable position.
pendicitis, in Canada, during 1934,1 A sudden cessation of pain at this
•exceed the maternal deaths, the point is •a danger signal, for this may
deaths from. diabetes, or : the fatalit- be a "treacherous period of calm"
• res arihing from ntotpr car accidents.' due to the relief of pressure as the
The !appendix is the most 'common appendix ruptures, to be followed by
'site of hifection within the abdomen. .a much more serious condition- per
This .useless appendage int the human itonitis,
is situated at the beginning of the Just how .serious the condition'.bo-
large bowel in the (ower right side comes depends upon the location of
'of the abdomen. 4jTlien,for one sea- the appendix, how long an, attack Masi
son or another, the ,appendix beconnes; lasted—usually, the Ionger the bet-
. obstructed, the inflammation which ter as this has given nature time to
results -leads to tension which may limit the ,spread of infection' m tho
progress until' the appendix ruptures, per'itciem though creating a bar
The appendix is a blind tube with 1101 of adhensions—and lastly, to the
n narrow lumen. It becomes' obsruct-extent that laxatives have been ,user
ed very: readily. When the appendix to defeat this 'protective measure
ruptures into 'tire -abdominal cavity, The vast majority of deaths occur in
this Causes a •peritonitis, or inflate cases where the appendix ruptures
ation of the membrane'. peritoneum, or perforates.'
which litres the abdominal, cavity and Deaths .from appendicitis will de,
'the or'g'ans situated in that cavity: crease when the use of laxatives for
Appendicitis occurs atall ages. It abdominal pains is discontinued; and
is more common 01 children and when the doctor •is called to Ileal with
young adults; but it is' a greater _abdominal pains whieh persist. ' At
menace' to life after forty' years of the proper time, an operation for the
'-age, The onset of ah acute Attack • is removal of the appendix is compar-
marked by pain, nausea and„ usually atively simple and safe..
vennitirlg. (.; Questions concerning : health,. ad -
The ':pain in the abdomen, to be- dressed to the Canadian Medical As -
gin with, is usually rather general, sedation, 184 College St., Toronto
"but^asit eontinue's,'it becomes more
will • be answered personally 'by .letter
first chance' is apt to ,x°un its .nose In-
to a snow bank and there to - stick.
Horses, on the contrary, keep night
on going and first thing you know
the road is `open.
The young folk of today are grow-
ing soft, . I'm afraid. At least a
number of -them seem to hate to have
to go through a few inches of snow:
Onereason is that they are not clad
for it,. girls, • especially. A hair' of
cobwebby silk hose, while they, may
be flattering to shapely legs, are a
poor protection in such weather as
we have had this winter. But if girls
would don sensible clothing,' enough
to protect them from cold and damp,
they would find not only health but
sheer happiness in winter sports.
I hada letter from a Toronto girl
the other day. She was bemoaning
her fate in having to stay in the city
instead of being •out in the open(
"where winter is winter." "This ex-
cuse- for winter we are having," she
said,. "two inches of -snow and then
hearing complaints • of its severity!
I'd like to be up there in your coun-
try pushing back the snowdrifts you
trust have up there.'" And, I be-
lieve she would. She spent a couple
of winters up north and 'loved it.
That is the kind of girl Canada
needs, girls who are, "not. afraid of
the snow, for all her household are
clothed in scarlet." They are clad ap-
propriately 'and so are not afraid to
step out and enjoy the weather.
Here's to the girl, or boy, - who en-
joys a real winter.
-REBEKAH
MANITOBA'S FIRST WOMAN
DOCTOR
• The following appeared in Fred
Williams corner of the Mali and Em-
pire: recently, The lady referred to
was a daughter of a former well-
known citizen of Clinton, the late
Joseph Whitehead:
Dr. Ross Mitchell, of Winnipeg, in
"The Early Doctors of Manitoba"
(to which I propose .to refer more
fully at a later date) has two inter-
esting paragraphs concerning the
two pioneer women, physicians of the
Canadian West, both of whom came
from eastern Canada.
"A pioneer physician whose name
is held in affectionate remembrance
for her ministry to the sick and suf-
fering settlers was Charldtte W.
Ross. In 1875, though already mar-
ried, she graduated from the Wo-
men's Medical College, Philadelphia,
and was the first woman to practise
medicine at Montreal. In 1873, her
father, Joseph, Whitehead, who, as a
young man, had fired Stephenson's
first locomotive 'Tire Rocket', and her
husband, David Ross, went west to
build section 15 of the Canadian
Pacific Railway, Three years later
Dr, Ross, With her children; - joined
her husband; at Wlbitennouth, Mani-
toba. Though Dr. Ross Shad the care
of her children and her home site
was obliged to make use of her pro-
fessional knowledge and skill in car-
ing for the medical needs of the set-
tlers in her district. In order to vis-
it her patients she made use of many
:means o f transport: locomotive,
handcar, caboose, sled and buckboard.
For many years the Ross home at
Whiteinouth was a centre of relig-
ious, social and cultural influence.
She died at Winnipeg in. 1916, and
the Charlotte W. Ross gold medal
awarded annually in obstetrics and
diseases - of children perpetuates her
memory.
"The first woman physician of
Winnipeg was Dr, Amelia Yeomans
(of ,Toronto) ` whose name first
ap-
pears
in the register of the College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Mao-
.
itoba in the year 1885. She was a
strong temperance advocate, and for
that day, an advanced feminist."
WOMEN ,OF JAMAICA FAVOR
CANAIMAN BOOTS AND SHOES
The women of Jamaica, popular
holiday resort of the British West
Indies ,Islands are looking with 'a
more favourable eye on Canadian
leather boots and shoes, imports
Showing an increase; Canada enjoy-
ed 14.5 -Tier cent of Jamaica's import
trade, according to, figures for the
period January to September, 1.935,
Creat Britain accounting for 40,2 per
cent and the United States,. 18.5 per
cert. The greater portion of .Can -
aria's exports to these islands is car-
ried` in. vessels of the Canadian Na-
tional Steamships which maintain th
rect connection.
The increase,:in the sales of brand,.
ed beef in Canada, during 1935, cont-
pared with the year 1.931 when the
sale of branded beef was initiated,
was 22,522,558. pounds. 'The .increase
in 11)35 compared with 1934 was 187,-
55Z pounds, The sales figures fon.' the
past five years are: 1931-17,240,748
sounds; ]932--27 718,768.;, 1933-30,-
382;6O9; 1934---39,575,754, and 1.935-
39,168;308.
.9353`);768',306.
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CONTRIBUTIONS
CONTRIBUTIONS
Surely our friends have not so soon
tired, or was I - too much elated last
week over the number contributing?
Anyway, I have very few this week.
Batt you May be surprised that this
week we have a >recipe . from Miss
Agnes MacPhail=0h, no, frust con-
fess it isn't direct from her. Butshe
sent it in her letter to cher constitu-
ents and I am reproducing it here.
She has been down south and has en-
joyed herself very much. She says
other tint
among manythings:
"Southern food is delicious = their
fried chicken and spaghetti or spoon
bread and strawberry jam are just
about the best ever. Speaking of
food reminds use of a recipe which I
thought you might enjoy trying — I
assure you it is excellent.
FRUIT - CAKE
Three eggs '
1/ cups sugar
1 cup blackberry jam
1,4 cup, dark molasses
1 cup - butter
1 cup cold coffee
4 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder -
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon cloves
1 cup dates
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 box raisins
1 cup, pecans
1 cup cherries
Grated rind of one orange
Grated rind of one lepton ,
1� pound pineapple
it pound citron
1 teaspoon ail -spice
1 cup cocoanut.
Bake one hour or more very slowly.
This will make one large cake or four
layers.' -
--A. 141ACPHAIL.
Dear Rebekah:
Here are - a couple of good recipes
for winter dishes, which your page
readers may enjoy:
POTATO BISCUITS
1 cup of mashed potato
1 cup flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
34, cup milk
i,11 teaspoon of salt
1 tablespoon of butter
1 tablespoon of lard
Sift dry ingredients and adcl to
the potato, Mix well, melt fat and
add to milk. Mix with dry ingred-
ients, Pat dough on floured board
1A. inch in thickness. Cut in biscuit
shake and bake on greased pan for
fifteen minutes in a hot oven.
CHICKEN CORNMEAL
CROQUETTES
2 cups thick cornmeal mush salted
2 cups cooked chicken, chopped.
1 tbsp. melted shortening or butter
31 tsp. salt
Dash of cayenne
r
1. tsp. scraped onion
1 egg slightly beaten;
1 egg, diluted with 1 tbsp, water or
milk
' 1 cup fine corn flake crumbs,'
Combine all ingredients except the
diulted egg mixture ane; corn flake
crumbs. Shape into croquettes dip-
ping the hands in cold water to pre-
vent sticking. Dip croquettes in egg
Mixture, then in corn flake crumbs.
Allow. to stand about half an hour.
Fry in sleep hot fat (375 degrees F.)
until golden : brown. Serve with
chicken cream gravy or white sauce
to which 1/i cup of finely • chopped
parsley has been added, or if prefer-
red, with a tomato sauce, Yield: 16
large croquettes.
—BAGS.
And below we give a couple of
soup recipes: -
SPLIT PEA SOUP
1 cull dried split peas
1 pint milk
3 tablespoons butter
7.1k teaspoons salt
21F quarts cold waiver.
y onion
11/s: tablespoons flour
1-8 teaspoons pepper
2 -inch cube of fat salt pork (or
31/2 inch "slices perineal bacon)
Pick over peas
'anal soak. Several
hours, drain, tidtl' cold water, pork and
onion. Simmer 3 or 4 ours or until
mushy; rub: through a sieve: Adci
butter and, flour which have been
blended 'together over'heat,' salt and
pepner, Dilute with mills, adding
more if necessary or desired. The
waterr in which a ham has been cook-
ed makes an ideal base to start from,
In which case omit all salt.
FRENCH VEGETABLE S;QUP
Leg of lamb (moderate size)
4 quarts of water .
Tea cup of each, carrots, potatoes,
onions, tomatoes, cabbage, and tur-
nips, chopped fine
Salt and pepper to taste,'
Boil lamb in the water, let it cool,
skim off all the fat that rises to the
top.
The next day boil again, adding`
the chopped vegetables. Let it bail
three hors the second day,
Dear Editor of the Women's Page
and Dear Readers:—
"Quiet Feet" was quite thrilled to
see her name. in the Women's Page
of, last week—she hastens to answer
the roll call,—though it seems just a
bit more difficult to write for the
Hance Folk.
In writing to a distant paper there
is always the feeling that one is
quite hidden behindone's pen -name,
and one expects only. to fill some lit-
tle corner or part of the back -ground
in the"stained 'glass window" as : it
were.
But here's a wish that "our page"
may have a very full measure of suc-
cess—and here's a recipe for a Hap-
py Day—an ,old one, and a tried one
--If one were writing for that dis-
tant paper, one might go on to the.,
arise a bit.—call to nand how it is
"Our To -days and Yesterdays are
the blocks with which we build," lite
and character, and so on:—
The Recipe:
Take a little dash of water cold,
A little leaven of prayer,
A little bit bf sunshine gold—
Dissolved in.the morning air:
Add to your meal soioe merriment,
Add thought for friends and kin,
And then as a prime ingredient
Plenty of work thrown in.
But spice it all with the essence of
love
And a little whiff of play
Let a nice old book, and a glance a-
bove
Conclude a well -spent day-
-"Quiet Feet"
Thank you, Quiet Feet, I hope you
will come again to grace "our page,"
HOW THE SUCCESSION STANDS
AT PRESENT, ,
Many people have been wondering
just how the succession to the throne
stands at present. The following is
from The London Daily Mail and
gives interesting particulars:
With the death of the King the
9 -year-old Princess Elizabeth is now
only two steps from the throne,
Her father the Duke of York, 'i.s
heir to the throne, and Princess
Elizabeth is next inorder of succes-
sion.
If the new King should marry and
have a daughter, and no son, then
that daughter would be the heir to
the throne in place of the Duke of
York. As the child of the Sovereign
take she wouldprecedence
over the
King's brother.
To -day the succession to the throne
is as follows:
Duke of York.
Princess Elizabeth.
Princess Margaret Rose,
Duke of Gloucester.
Duke of - Kent.
Prince Edward of Kent:'
Princess Royal.
Viscount Lascelles.
Hon. Gerald Lascelles.
Princess Elizabeth would also be-
come heir to the throne should her
father die before the present King.
DAY AND NIGHT
Through my heart's palace thoughts
unnumbered throng;
And there, most quiet, and, as a child
most wise,
High throned you sit, and gracious.
All day long •
Great: Hopes, gold -armored, .jester
Fantasies, .
And pilgrim. Dreams,and little beg-
gar Sighs,
:Bow to your. benedication, go their
way,
And the grave 'jewelled courtier
Memories
Worship and love. and tend you, all
the day.
But when :I sleep, and all my
thoughts go -straying, `.
When the high session of ,thss day is
ended,
And darkness .conies; with the wan-
ing light,
By. lilied - maidens on your way and.
tended,
Proud from the wonted throne sup-
erbly. swaying,
You, like a queen, pass out into the
night.
—Rupert Brooke.
READ ALL THE ADS. IN
TRE NEWS -RECORD
THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED
'TO THE POETS
Here They Will Sing You Their Songs --Sometimes
Gay, Sonietiimes Sad— But Always Helpful
and Ins Wring.
MY JOY IS QUIET NOW
My joy is quiet now,
It comes to me
Quito noiselessly.
W yesterday Where es
Y there flew
Wild birds of brilliant hue—
Today it is a dove
That settlesfrom above.
My jay is quite now.
—Patricia Clements, in' Christian
Science Monitor:
SIMPLICITY
Grant me the message of the way-
side flower
In this high moment of the year's re-
frain;
For symphonies are built of simple
strain
Lofty in utterance, profound in power,
And of exalted meaning; wisdom
springs
From contact with the elemental
things;
And often in the dust wayside tread
Beauty has bloomed unheeded till it
fled.
—Muriel E. Woodruff in Christian
Science Monitor.
HAWK SHADOW
A hawk on rocking wings does darkly
hover
The placid meadow,
Casting on sunny _slope and bank of
clover
His cruel shadow.
A stillness goes before him as he pass-
es,
This death who flies,
And furred and feathered heads among
the grasses
Shrink from his eyes,
With peering, cruel head he soars
away
And out of sight --
And then a raucous crow caws out his
say
To hide his fright.
—Gerald Raftery in N.Y. Sun,
LITTLE BRIGHT HOUSES
A mansion rich and dark may seem
The height of many a women's dream,
But, oh, a little house for me,
A house all painted shiningly
Outside and in; it's walls of white
It shutters green, its red roof bright,
With roses clambering up the walls
Where goldenly the sunlight falls.
Inside its door, Dutch tiles of blue.
White curtains everywhere, and
through
The sunny rooms the fresh, clean. smell
Of soap and water, things that tell
A woman's love, her daily care
Of cupboard, table, shelf and chair;
Inherent love for things her own
Which women ages long have known.
A house like this, down any street,
To me is wonderfully sweet.
—Grace Noil Crowell.
VIGIL
Lost, the child's'stillness and the open
eyes,
Unpatterned :rind, and undemanding
days;
For innocence of the learned, and the
ways
Of wary science, not to be misled;
Now I must count and taste and touch
to know;
The haunts where once my spirit
drank and fed,
I have.forsaken long, and now I go
On with the hurrying crowd that can-
not dream,
That lives by all it sees, and all it
hears.
And will not ever grant that what
things seem
Is not reality—until the years
Have laid this sunt of doub't', a heavy
storm.
Dark and disquieting, at my heat's
core!
---Katharine 'Shepard Hayden in
American Poetry Journal,
WAYS
The ways. of a lad are sweet ways,
When the rose is in his cheek,
And from .sin unseen his mind is clean,'
And he finds it hard to speak;
For the heart of a boy holds purest;
joy, '
Which cannot be'bought :with gold:
yr.) God! for a single hour, of his,
But alas we are grown , old.
The ways of youth are 'strange ways,
When his thought are flushed with -
love
And the whispered fire of his desire
Surpasses that of Jove;
For .the soul of a youth seeks after '
Truth •
In her
ho would be his bride:
w
But if she be of a faithless strain
It were better that he had died!
The ways of a man are quiet ways,
When his hair is streaked With grey,
And his eyes oft dint with thoughts
of him--
The
im-The boy of another day -
Yet the memory brings on Time's
swift wings
This solace to :make him glad:
That once on the stage of Life he
played
The role of a little lad.
—R. Bruce Stewart in The Toronto
Daily Star,
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RETROSPECTION
•
Grandmother sat in the old rocicing
chair,
Swaying so gently to and. fro.
Her fingers were busy, she sang as
she worked
In a voice that was sweet and low.
The needles clicked cheerily round
and round,
One after another
Bach after the other,
For Grandma was knitting a tiny
white sock.
Her thoughts stole dreamily back to
the years
When a downy head nestled close
And dear baby eyes filled with love
faith and trust,
Slept in confident, calm repose.
The needles elicited steadily round
and round,
One after another,
Each after the other,
As Grandma knit love in the soft
little sock.
Her thoughts went back to the star
o'er the hills,
To the manger where Jesus lay,
And she with pathos, with rever-
ence and love, '
"The little Lord Jesus asleep in
hay."
The needles went slowly, released
on the way,
One after another,
Each after the other,
For Grandma had finished the small
Christmas socia
Isabel A. Phillips.
According to available statistics
summarized in "Fanners' Business
Organizations in Canada, 1035," just
issued by the Dominion Department
of Agriculture, there were 690 farm-
ers' co-operative associations in Can-
ada in 1983 actively engaged in busi-
ness, compared with 686 reporting in
1932. The 690 associations had 2,-
533 branches, making in all 3,223
places of business engaged in the
marketing of farm products and the
purchase of supplies for farmers. -
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