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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-04-02, Page 7T1 URS., APRIL 2, 193G. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Health Cooking <rW.� Ei1iteil by Salads Orange Pekoe Blend has by far the finest flavour Ru1llatIolls' of RcbcraV A' Column Prepared Especially for Women— But Not Forbidden to *Men FIRST ROBIN Strange in the hush of snow 'to see A crimson -breasted robin sit Upon thesilver frozen tree. He springs and flies from branch to branch And every, time his dark wings flit, Down comes a tiny avalanche. • 'He voices no astonishment. At such a cold and glittering world, No. cry of protest or dihsent. Is there no turmoil in his breast, Remembering the green leaves curled About hisrocking, springtixite nest? Remembering a fragrant storm, Half April rain, half cherry flowers, That drenched the earth, yet left it warm; 'Remembering snits liks daffodils That gleamed through the allotted • hours, And withered on the evening hills? Rebekah. Care of Children PAGE 7 Household Economics CONTRIBUTIONS 1 do•what is necessary, asking no ad- vice fro,; Friend Hubby on the mat- ter, unless it is a case of some large expenditure, when of course, a con- sultation is necessary before a decis- ion can be made. • But the ordinary work of house- cleaning can be carried' on without disturbing., the man -of -the -house to much. It is a mistake to turn all the house upside down at once. Do a room at a time; disturbing the routine as little as possible and if the meals are ready on tine and made as appetizing as.possible, this for the sake of the workers in the house as well as those on the. outside, Hubby will hardly know that housecleaning is on, except' when he is asked occas- ionally to assist in moving some hea- vy piece of furniture.or to beat a rug. Sonia men take a great interest in seeing the house renovated, especially if new papering and painting is be- ing done, and the woman with a hus- band like that is to be congratulates!, if he doesn't insist upon choosing a paper which her taste condemns. But the average husband will say, when asked by his wife how he likes a certain paper for the livingroom or the guest chamber: "Oh, its all right, yes, very nice. When do we eat?" So the average wife might as well make up her mind to it that that is outside her husband's sphere and try to re- sign herself to planning her home to suit her own tastes, with clue regard to the family budget. And this lack of interest in this thing of renovating and changing things in the house is the reason why men have come to hate house- cleaning.. So the wise woman sees that her Hien folk are disturbed as little as possible during the process. But no woman is quite content in the spring until everything in her house has been turned out and aired and brushed and freshened up a bit. So the sooner it started the sooner it will be finished. BESMEAR But easily and unconcerned, He rooves within the silver tree As though his breast were flame and burned. A rumor of untided springs; And all the dark air suddenly Throngs .with innumerable wings. —Maire Nin Pilin. Although We have not had much snow since the first robin appeared this spring, we may still see some before the summer comes. But when Mr. Robin comes along and begins looking about for suitable places for building, Spring is here, no matter what set -backs we may have. And with the 'spring comes many responsibilities. First and foremost the housekeeper thinks of house- cleaning. And it is an important part of the lady's. program. I know 'the men folk do not appreciate the iiitportanee of it and there is small use trying to teach them. It is a waste of energy and may lead to un- pleasantness. The housekeeper will 'find it is best to just go along and A MORNING PRAYER. FOR THE Ii;OMEMAKER God bless my little home -today before I start anew, And guide my hands and give me strength for all I have to do. May there be smiles and happy. thoughts, without a single tear And no cross word creep in, to mar, the pleasant atmosphere. And should spine trifling thing go wrong to drag any spirits down Lift me above all strife and petty Y smooth away my frown. And when the day is ended I'll be waiting in my place To welcome' home_ my loved, ones, with a calm and smiling face. —Contributed'by a valued oorrespon- dent, thank you, dear lady. ilealth Scram OF Tills; '7) Gattabiatt Racal.Aonnr'ia#ion and Life Insurance Companies in Canada: Edited by GRANT FLEMING. M.D., Associate Secretare CANCER -WISE. The public may well be tired of having dinned into their ears the ad- vice that they should be "conscious" • of this or that. Our reason for PAPER ON POTATOES, Continued from last week) : Now I think you will be ready for salad and here are potatoes as dres- sing: Potato Mayonnaise: Put through a• ricer three good- sized, mealy boiled potatoes, season with 1-2 teaspoon salt and very little pepper, let cool and add gradually to a cup of ordinary mayonnaise beat- ing each addition until smooth. A teaspoon of onion juice may be added lastly, drop by drop. This dressing is particularly good with fish or chicken salad. Potato Mayonnaise the 2nd 1 tablespoon mashed potato 1 tablespoon cream, season to taste with mustard, then add vinegar to taste, serve on sliced tomatoes. Potato Mayonnaise the 3rd 1 large baked potato. 1-2 teaspoon sugar 4 tablespoon olive oil. 11 tablespoon wine vinegar. % teaspoon tarragon vinegar. iF teaspoon salt. Potato Cakes 2 cups riced potatoes, ih cup cream beaten well together, then work into 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 4 teaspoon baking powder and salt. Work all together, add enough sour milk or buttermilk to make soft dough but not runny. Roll out to an inch and cut in triangles with knife. Cook in rather hot oven:_ Potato Scones Same as above except add one egg, 1 tablespoon sugar. Potato Muffin: 1 cup mashed potatoes. 4 tablespoons butter. 4 tablespoons sugar 1 egg 1 cup flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup milk. Cream butter and sugar, add egg and potatoes. Beat well. Sift dry ingredients and add with milk to mix- ture. Bake in greased muffin pans. Or you may want a sandwich and a glass of milk. Here you arel Potato Sandwich tested before any real harm results. Very often, these irritants must be discovered by the doctor because the patient is not aware of their pre- sence, no definite discomfort 'being writing about cancer is not to make experienced. the public "cancer -conscious," but The periodic health examination rather with the hope that they may become "cancer -wise." Wisdom comes with knowledge, and the best protection against cancer is • a sound understanding of that dis- routine health examination which is ease which is responsible for so given to the clients of certain social Much misery and which brings so agencies' in one Canadian city. At many lives to a premature close. the hospital, where this woman was There is no reason to featthe per referred for treatment, it was stated son with cancer. There is no danger to be the, earliest cancer of the cer of contracting the disease through vix which had ever been seen there. contact with a case. It is perfectly Many cases of cancer are cured' be- safe to care for those suffering from cause they are treated early. You this affliction. !do not hear much about these cases When any part of the body is sub- because for some reason those who Jested to persistent and prolonged ir- have had cancer are diffident in ritation, the cells in that part may speaking about it. Many cases- of multiply. To some extent, as in the cancer are not cured, because so few formation . bf, a corn, for example, people avail themselves of the per- this is in the nature of protective re-, iodic health examination, and these action. Such irritation, however, if are the, ones you hear' about. Any • continued, may be followed by : the sore which does not heal, and stay appearance of a cancerous growth. healed, any unusual discharge or A broken tooth or a poorly fitted bleeding from any body orifice, any denture will cause irritation. The lump in the breast, indigestion after germ of syphilis, in untreated cases;: the fortieth year, increasing consti- xnay be a chronic irritant,to the nation, the reappearance of blood:af- tongue; °a cervix, damaged in child --ter tire' menopause—all : these spiv - birth, unless repaired, is not unfre- toms should be promptly investigated. quently the site of a chronic irrit- Remember that early cancer is seldom anon l painful. Be cancel -wise! One good reason why everyone Questions concerning . health, ad - should have the benefit of a periodic dressed to the Canadian Medical As- : health eX'amfnation is that any axon- soeiation, 184 College St., Toronto, le irritation may be found and tor- will be answered personally by letter, also allows for the early detection .of cancer or of a condition which might be described as 'pre -cancerous Re- cently, such a ease was found at the 1 medium grated raw onion 1 egg ],`tablespoon flour? Mix all together and season to taste. ' Drop by spoons on greased pan. Serve as vegetable. shell, set in oven a few minutes to heat- and serve. You may .not need all the pulp. The lady writes further, re pota- toes. "You might as well be in the fore front, as potatoes are due to stage a come -back into favor. You know, one great big reason that po- tatoes are looked down .on is that when the Irish come to America, dri- ven there through the failure of po- tatoes in Ireland, and they found other food there that they could get, they did not eat potatoes because it made them feel. homesick, but they wouldn't tell the reason, no,not they, and to some tried to say they were not good for one or they were poor man's food, and so the ones with to leanings toward economic betterment just dropped them. This year scientists have . turned their attention to potatoes . and find they are a splendid food and in .a time like this could and should be us- ed lavishly." • —Farmer's Wife. Potato Cookies 1 cup butter 2 cups sugar. Cream together, beat 2 eggs, add 1 cup riced potatoes, beat thoroughly, add a little ata time; 2 cups flour; 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 tea- spoon g, 1/4 teaspoon eon salt sift- ed ifted together. Take out one-half the mixture, and add to remainder 5 tab Ilespoons cocoa.' Using as little flour as possible, roll out. Roll one por- tion of light dough out thin and put one of dark onit and rollup like, jelly roll, cool and slice. Or roll out separate colors, cool, and slice, put together with icing or cream. Coon in the Cotton 1-2 cup butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1-2 cup riced potatoes 11/2 cup flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 pinch salt 1 cup cocoa 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 cup milk. Cream butter with 1-3' cup sugar, beat egg whites stiff with 1-3 cup sugar, set aside, beat egg yolks with remaining sugar, add to butter; add milk to mashed potatoes, beat well, sift dry ingredients, add slowly, beat- ing well, then fold in 'lightly the egg whites. Pour in cake pans and bake. Use white icing and filling. Mash well together 1 cup cold mashed potato, 1-2 cup cream cheese, 1 teaspoon onion and boiled dressing to moisten. Spread between thin slices of whole, wheat bread. You may want to finish up with pudding. Why not use potato, pud- ding. I know you like it only you may call it carrot or would you pre- fer pie? Well, alright. Chocolate Potato Nut Cake 1 cup shortening 2 cups sugar 4 egg yolks 3 squares chocolate 2-3 cup milk 31: teaspoon salt 21/2 cups pastry flour 1 cupful mashed potatoes 5 teaspoonfuls baking powder 1 teaspoon nutmeg, cloves and of cinnamon 1 cupful walnut meats. 4 egg-whites, beaten stiff. Cream together the shortening and sugar, add the melted chocolate, egg yolks and potatoes. Sift together the salt, flour, baking powder, nutmeg, cloves, and cinnamon, and add alter- nately with milk to cake mixture. Beat well for about two minutes. Add walnuts slightly chopped. Then fold In the stiffly beaten egg-whites. Cook in layers, paper cups or long pan. White Cake Into a cup put 1 egg and 1 yolk, and fill up with sour eream. To this add one cup white sugar and mix well. Sift Ya cup flour, lrt teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoon Baking powder, dash of salt,add to wet mixture. Beat in cup riced potatoes, 1 teaspoon van- illa. Bake in pan and use the yolk with 1 cup white sugar and 1 ban- ana for icing. Thank you, Farmer's Wife.- These. recipes of yours look most interest- ing, and a lady who had tried some of yours assures me they were good. I would not have thought of using potatoes -in so many ways, butcan easily see how they could be used, even in confections. I think the potato growers should send you out as a demonstrator or something. Potato Pie. 2 cups mashed potato 1 cup sugar - 1,4: cup butter Yolk three eggs - 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon nutmeg Juice and rind of 1 lemon x/s cup grape juice. Whites of threeeggs, stiffly beat- en. Cream butter and sugar, add other ingiedients in order,' leaving whites for meringue, line a pie plate with pastry and pour in mixture and bake. Potato Lemon Sponge Pie 1 cup riced potato 1 tablespoon butter 1 cup sugar 1 cup milk Juice and rind of one lemon 2 eggs. Separate the eggs. Beat yolks yell, ,add sugar, butter, lemon juice, and-rin.cl,. and potato all together, add mil -k then fold in whites stiffly beaten, pour into unbelted pie crust., Pancake HINTS ON GROWING ASPARAGUS (Experimental Farms Note) Asparagus will grow on . a wide variety of soils, but the warm, rich, deep, sandy learns with a clay sub- soil are preferred, as these soils are open and porous, permitting the de- velopment of an extensive root sys- tem. Asparagus is a permanent crop, therefore it is advisable to give spe- cial attention to the preparation of the soil. Sumner -fallowing the land for one season and applying well - rotted manure in the fall is advised. It is important that land to be used for asparagus be free from weeds and grasses. In prairie areas where winter frosts are severe, spring planting has given more satisfactory results than has - fall planting. Plants one year old have produced larger shoots and have produced crops for a longer period than have older ones. Plant as early in the spring as :the soil will permit, the plants being spaced 11-2 to 3 feet apart in the row. The crowns may be covered q to 7 inches deep in light soils and 4 to 5 inches deep in heavy soils, care being taken to spread the roots out in their natural position. Asparagus is set deeply because the crowns gradually grow upwards as the plants grow older, also it allows manure to be worked into the soil without in- jury to the crowns. Noshootsare cut until the third season, when only the stronger ones are used. Cutting may begin in ear- nest the fourth season. With proper care, asparagus will produce satis- factorily for many years. At the Dominion Experimental - Station, Scott,' Sask., the varieties Colossal and Argenteuil have been grown suc- cessfully in the same plantation for over 15 years. Late in the fall of each year the top growth may be cut off and man- ure applied. This is worked into the soil every spring. The destruction of tops is advised for the purpose of helping to control diseases and In- sects. Potato Doughnuts - 2 cups hot mashed potato 2 cups sugar 1 cup sweet milk 2 tablespoons butter 5 teaspoons baking powder: 1 teaspoon vanilla - Flour to make soft' dough. Add sugar to riced potatoes, then add milk and butter, beating well. Let tool, then add dry ingredients and vanilla. Roll out % inch and fry in hot fat. May be in rings, small balls or braids. . - Potato Candies 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 PUSSY WILLOWS Step up lightly, Still and quick! Spring is. fastened On a stick. Wearing. still -, _ Her winter hood, Spring has crept Into the wood. In her little • Furry blouse; , Crept up softly As a mouse. Now beside The frozen stream 'Soft gray garments Sway and gleam. Nature magic, What a trick! - Spring is fastened On a stick. —Helen Eranzee-Bowes in the New York Sun. - I SHOT AN ARROW w I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight! I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Foundation—Four tablespoons of mashed potatoes and one pound of confectioner's sugar, blended into a smooth paste. Variations- 1. Flavoured with peppermint. 2. Coloured with vegetable colour- ing. 8. Flavoured with almond and chop- ped nuts. 4. Dates filled with fondant and rolled in confectioner's sugar. 5. Rolled in chopped nuts or shred- ded cocoanut. - 6. Flavoured with peanut butter. 7. Rolled into balls ,; to represent potatoes and rolled in, cinnamon and sugar. ' S. Dipped in chocolate: Potato and Turnip By boiling a potato with turnip it will not be strong at all. Add 1 tablespoon sugar and1 teaspoon salt. Milk or cream, if milk is used add a piece of butter. - Potato With Carrot Balce potatoes, cut off •top, take out pulp and mash with 1 tablespoon but - Hers is' Garry Cooper's favourite ter, little salt, pepper and !milk, and • 1 large grated raw potato 11 cup cooked cut up carrots, pile into Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. •REMEMBRANCE - Swifter far than summer's flight—, Swifter far 'than youth's delight Swifter far than happy night, Art thou come and gone— As the earth when leaves'are•dead, As the night when sleep is sped, As the heart whenjoy is fled, I am left alone, alone. The swallow summer comes again-. The owlet night resumes her reign--% But the world -swan youth is fain To fly with thee, false as thou— My heart each day desires the mores row; Sleep itself is thrned to sorrow; Vainly would my winter borrow Sunny leaves from any bough. Lilies for a bridal bed Roses for a matron's head— - K 344 Violets for a 'maiden dead— ' Pansies let my flowers be; On the living grave I. bear Scatter them without a tear— Let no friend, however dear, Waste one hope, one fear for me. -Percy Byshe Shelley, WHEN I SET OUT FOR LYONNESSE When I set out for Lyonesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my lonesomeness, When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away. What would bechance at Lyonnesse While I should sojourn there, No prophet durst declare; IUor did the wisest wizard guess What would bechance at Lyonnesse While I should sojourn there. When I come back from Lyonnesse, With magic in my eyes, All marked with mute surmise. My radiance rare and fathomless, When I came back frons Lyonesse With magic in my eyes. —Thomas Hardy. FILM FAN (continued "frons page 6). some return for the wonderful thing you've done: for ime!" she wailed dra- matically. "Think of the joy you've' brought me, the agony you've saved me! Please, please let me do some- thing!" "Well," said Miss -Caroline, shyly looking down at the neat little gloves and up again at Miss Gold, "if you would—if it wouldn't be too much to ask—if you would give me a signed photograph of yourself—" "Oh, my dear!" said Miss Gold, with a catch in her pretty voice. Miss Caroline was on her way to a cinema at Marble Arch. She was glad to have been of such service to Miss Gold. She was thrilled beyond words with the photograph; Her memories of this day would last her for the rest of her life. But she must not neglect the doings and adventures of her: other children. She stopped on the way to buy a movie magazine.— London "Answers." RUTH She stood breast -high among the corn, Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun," Who many a glowing kiss had won. On her cheek an autumn flush, Deeply ripen'd—such a blush, in the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corm. Round her eyes her tresses fell, Which were blackest, none could tell; But long lashes veiled a light That had else been all too bright. And her hat, with shady brim, Made her tressy forehead dim; Thus she stood amid the stooks, Praising God with sweetest looks. Sure, I said, ii'eav'n did not mean, Where I reap thou shouldst but glean; Lay the sheaf adown and conte, Share my harvest and my home. —Thomas hood. A winter feeding experiment with pigs at the Dominion Experimental Station at Scott, Saskatchewan, showed that the absence of Vitamin. D in sunlight can be remedied by ad- ding an ounce per day per pig of cod liveroil or of pilchard oil to the ra tion. THE CHICKADEE There's a• hush on the frosty furrow where the frozen loans lifts black. - And a film on the brown hare's bur- row, •unmarred by a seeking track; And over the leafless uplands comes echoing clear to me, A. voice from the edge of winter: "Chickadee -dee -dee! Chicka- dee!" The fox has slunk from the bracken with the flag of his tail drop- ped low, And the whining hound Winds slacken at the first soft swirl of snow; But still from the wind-blown white- ness comes cheerily back to me A gay little voice from the pine top:. "Chickadee -dee -doe! Chicka- dee!" 0 little grey puck, undaunted when fields lie white and still, May ever my pane be haunted by your voice at my window sill; - The cheeriest note of winter comes rollicking oft to me Like the voice of a song -struck sun- beam; "Chickadee -dee -dee! Chickadee!" AN EVENING PRAYER If I have wounded any soul today, If' I have caused one foot to ;go .a- stray, If I have walked in my own wilful way; ' Dear Lord, forgive! If I have uttered idle words or vain, If I have turned aside from want or pain Lest I myself shall suffer . tin•o' the strain, Dear Lord, forgive! • If I have been perverse or hard, or cold, • If I have longed for shelter in Thy fold, When Thouhastgiven me some fort to hold, Dear Lord, forgive! Forgive the sins I have confesses! to Thee; Forgive the secret sins I do not see;, 0 guide me, love me, and my keeper be. Amen. Anon. Martha Haskell Clark. PROGRESS "To man propose this test: Thy body at its best, How far can it project thy soul on its lone way?" -Rabbi Ben - Ezra. A soul and body in us do unite To be of mutual aid, Dame nature said; There are who warn us we may miss . this quite, And soul give way to body's plea instead. A moment's pause but tells us this is true— For we have harnessed lightning to our speech, Out -soared the eagle's winging in the blue, And brought remotest dreams within our reach. What though we hear a clock tick out the hour In some Australian village; or can throw • Most deadly missiles well, but have no power Within the soul, or if we fail to know. - How best to organize what ' is achieved, And in our boasted progress be de- ceived? —Alexander . Louis Fraser in Mon- treal Star. - SHE DIDN'T Mr. Jones was airing his views at the dinner table about the inconsis- tencies of women. "These modern girls who protest that they are never going to marry," he said venomously "why everybody knows they will belie their own words at the first 'opportunity." His wife kept a discreet silence. "Why Martha," he said. "I once heard you say that you'd never mar- ty the best than `alive.". "Well—I. didn't," said Mrs. Jones. Fey a brand-new taste thrill, try spreading thetops of cup cakes with your favorite jam - and sprinkling•; with cocoanut or nuts.