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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-05-07, Page 7-faints., MAY 7, 193 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD. PAGE 7 Health Cooking 304 lilaliDus of Reliekab A Column Prepared Especially for Women -- But Not Forbidden to Men LITTLE HOUSE .ON TIME HILL ..A little house stands empty on the hill, No sound disturbs its peace; no road runs by: •'Only the river's voice, now heard, now still, And the slim birches, white a- gainst the sky. .-A gate there is, held fast. by brier .and thorn; Since when the latch was lifted no man knows. -At the loose casement frames March • winds have torn, • And the brown thatch has sagged 'neath winter snows. • But here the thrush sings sweetly like a child, And the first cuckoo calls at break of day; Strange flowers are here - prim garden blooms run wild— • And the small wood -folk scamper at their play, 'Would you not give your all for this • quiet place? To lift the spell that lonely years have thrown? • The river's song, the sky, the birches' grace-- Have race-Have you no wish to make these all your own? --13eryl Netherclift in Christian •'Science Monitor. I Was a little bit ahead of time last week with my Mother's Day talk, but it goes just the same for ! •next Sunday. Motherhood is a great Institution and the world wouldn't1 get on very well without it. The .greatest thing about it, too, is that • somehow or Other the right mother generally' gets placed in the family which appreciates her the most. A. man who has the .habit of putting . things in a very whimsical way, once said to me, in speaking of his own •. experiences: "When I was a lad, (his family had few of this world's goods), f often thought it would have been great fun if T had happened to, be born into a fancily where they had a :nicer house and more money to. •spend, and everything like that. Then, I would think of all such families I iknew and would make up my mind that after all there wasn't one 'of • 'them I'd trade my own family for;' And that is it, We rove oiu• own the 'hest. Motherhood, the family, are :great institutions, indeed. May noth- ing be allowed to destroy thein or dim the glory. One of the ways chiI- •dren can show their appreciation is to give to Mother and Father the honor due them, and Mother's Day 'Makes one nice and easy excuse, if -excuse' is needed, for .an exhibition sof love. .A friend the other day, she was lhousecleaning and said she was tired •dusting them, gave me a number of •old books. Some of them printed In • 0' •Gt Fleet Street, London, in 1825, one hun- dred and eleven years ago, and I've been interested iii lookingover them. They are all educational • and instructive in one wayor another, one being "The Universal Letter-, Writer or New Art of Polite Corte- spondence." "A course of Interest- ing Original Letters on the most Tm- portant, Interesting and Entertaining Subjects;" It has included in it model letters to all sorts of people,, relatives, near and far, on all Sorts of subjects and under all sorts of circumstances. Let- ters from young people to elderly people, from elderly people to young people. Needless to say, many of these are of so stilted a form that they would look ridiculous .if written today, especially if writeen in the careless hand which is universally used nowadays by both old and young. No doubt at all that these model letters were studied by anxious folk in the long ago, young people gen- erally, anxious to make their way, in business, in love, in the good graces of those who might be useful to them in some way, But, no matter what its usefulness may have been in the past, it would be of he use now as a text book for the young. But, even though the started style of letter writing of the past may bo out of date, it is surely a mistake to let the art die altogether. There are few things which give so much pleas- ure as the receiving of a letter. But, unfortunately, there are few things which the majority of us dislike so Much to do. And, still more Unfor- tunately, when we do "take pen in. hand" to write a letter, so few of us 'can write a really good letter. I had one a short time ago, from a young girl, by the way, and it was a delight. It was a lengthy 'letter, in which slie told me about herself and her fancily, as she knew I would be interested. She told me a bit a- bout conditions at the time, about the books she was reading, some plans she was malting, and all in such mod- est and good language that the read - Mg of the letter, as I said, was a de- light. T do not doubt that the art of let- ter writing for this young lady is in a measure a gift. I imagine . she night learn to write for publication, but there seems no good reason why any of.. us, if we would take the tine to do it, might not sit down and write a fairly deeent letter. It is certainly the cheapest form of entertainment we can give our friends, and I feel sure, it Might give us a feeling of Satisfaction if we would occasionally Winn out a letter of which we should not be ashamed as we sealed down the flap. "Mother" would like to get a let- ter, be it long or short, perfect or full of imperfections, on Saturday next. She wouldn't mind at all hav- ing ,you try your `prentice hand on one to her, girls and boys away froth home. Rebekah. 4E11 tla Service OE TIM (ttnudtMn Medina Antititaftin. - and Life Insurance Companies in Canada. Edited b' GRANT FLEMING. M.D.; Associate Secretar' PROTECT THE BABY 011 of the children and most of.the 1 women who are syphilitic acquired No one knows just how niuelt their infection in a perfectly hmo- syphilis there is in this country. cent -manner. There is no need to indulge in exag- Syphilis is one of the few diseases • crated . statements to emphasize the which the mother can transmit to the gravity of this problem because, her unborn child. Under such .Air, 'unfortunately, syphilis is a fairly cumstances, abortionmay occur,' the • common disease. baby may be born dead or may die It is not so many' years since ' a shortly after birth, or he may sur- . discussion of syphilis implied a eon- vive with syphilis. _ h v ro- S hills can be cured if the treat- sideration of morals. We a e p Yp gressed to the point where We can mentis begun early in the disease consider syphilis as a ,communicable and continued. It is not cured in disease problem. We can do this be- weeks Or months; it requires con- , d O'ause it is so obvious that, at least, tinned medical supervision with ;Set• Eitted' by Rebekah. CONTRIBUTIONS Dear Rebekah:— The glory of the garden is a poem 1 love, it is timely, too, for the season's sake, and for Kipling's sake -re The Glory of the Garden, is it not as true of our own community, as of Eng- land?. —Quiet Feet. The Glory Of The Garden Our England is a garden, that is full: of stately views Of borders, beds, and shrubberies, and lawns and avenue's • With statues on the terraces, and pea- cocks strutting by: But the glory of the garden lies In more than meets the eye. For where the old thick laurels grow along the thin red wall You will find the tools, and potting sheds—which are the heart of ail. And there you'll see the gardeners; the men and 'prentice boys - Told off to do as they, are bid, and and de it without noise; For except when seeds are planted. and we shout to scare the birds The glory of the garden, it abideth not in -•words, .And some can pot begonias, and some can bud a rose And some. are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows: But they can roll, and trine the lawn and sift the sand and loam For the glory of the garden occupi- eth all who come. Our England is a garden and gardens are not made; By singing "0 How Beautiful," and sitting in the shade While better amen than we go out and start their working lives At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner knives. So when your work is finished you can wash your hands and pray For the glory of the garden that it shall not pass away And the Glory of God's garden It shall never pass away! —Rudyard Kipling. Prelude To Gardens To plunge niy fingers deep in earth And break its coolness wide apart Sets free a sudden sweet misfaith Upon my heart. 0 larkspur blue, unborn as yet Save on the canvas of a dream, 0 mystery of cloven frond And fragile gleam. Of silver from the .crimson lip Of some dew -thirsty thankful rose, Will you lie lovelyon the year, Who Knows—wo knows? You bees that clamber fragrant trails To stumble, big with - treasure, home, How shall you choose from all of June My way to cotne? And moths like pearly shells washed in Upon the twilight's tranquil sea, Will you be here with lilied hands Ask tremblingly? So smalla thing to; lay the seed Within the waiting soil -but then,, treatment, at intervals, over a period of several years. For adults it is important torememberthat the dis- ease is curable at all ages. Not everyone who has syphilis is aware of the fact, In - some persons, usually women, it may have been so mild as to :escape attention, -It is serious in all cases because, as a chronic infection, it attacks many of the important organs and tissues of the body, so undermining their strength as to result in definite dis- abilities. The unborn child can be protected against syphilis provided the mother comes under care early in her preg- nancy andreceives the necessary treatment. This is one of the great- est and most satisfying advances made in modern medicine, the pro- tection of the baby against disease before birth. If every woman would report to her physician assoon espregnancy is' suspected, itwould be possible to discover syphilis when it exists and, '>y proper treatment, protect the child and, at the 'same, time, benefit the woman herself. This article is not written in an alarmist tone, but on the other hand, there is nothing to be gained by bid ing the facts of the situation. We have, in the veneral diseases, our' greatest communicable disease prob- lem, and, as yet, but little is being clone about it, We can, at least, without 'delay, set about protecting the babies against syphilis.' Questions concerning health, ‘ed - dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College St., Toronto, will be answered personally by Ietter. 1 God, • the familiar miracle Of flowers again? —Anne. Sutherland, in Blue Dusk and Other Poems. Thank Yon, "Quiet Feet." We thank you for your interest in our page. And sure enough, the glory of a garden is in actually working— with God -to make things grow. Ev- en the tiniest garden plot is a joy to have and tend. And' have you not felt it often, that the tiredness from work in the garden is a wholesome and really refreshing tiredness?-. GOODIES FOR SUPPER Escalloped cheese and olives i5 a flavorsome and smartly new supper dish --the very thing for late Sunday supper or "high tea" as many Cana- dians stil call it. And it's excellent for luncheons, too, with rye bread or bran muffins. ESCALLOPED CHEESE & OLIVES 1 small onion, finely chopped. 3 'tablespoons, quick cooling tapi- oea 11/4 Cups tomatoes, strained and heated - ?s cup grated cheese Buttered crumbs 1 tablespoon butter 4 teaspoon sugar • %-, teaspoon salt / teaspoon paprika 18 ripe or stuffed olives, coarsely chopped. Saute onion in butter. Add quick cooling tapioca, salt, sugar, onion, and paprika to tomato juice, and cook in double boiler 5 minutes or until tapioca is clear, stirring frequently. Place layer of tapioca mixture in greased baking dish, cover With cheese, add layer of dlives, then re- inainder of tapioca mixture, Cover with crumbs. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F.) 20 minutes, TOMATO RABBIT - 2 tablespoons quick cooking tapi- oca. 1 cup milk, scalded. 1 cup canned tomato soup, 1/4 teaspoon salt. Dash of paprika, 1 cup grated cheese. • Add quick cooking tapioca, sat; and paprika to milk, and cook in dou- ble boiler 3 minutes or until tapioca is clear, stirring frequently. Add to- mato soup and cheese. Cook nail cheese is melted, Serve on crackers or toast. Serves 4. GOOD SUPPER DISH Grease a pudding dish or casserole well and slice a layer of raw potatoes with salt and pepper to taste. Then add a layer of onions and one of cooked macaroni orrice. Next a lay- er of Hamburg steak or cold chopped meat. Pour over it all a can of toma- toes and bake in a moderate oven for -11/4 or 2 hours, Rhubarb will soon be plentiful and many will wish to save some of it for later use. Here's a good con- serve: RHUBARB CONSERVE 2 pounds rhubarb 4 pound shelled walnuts i/-, pound seeded raisins 2 pounds sugar 2 small oranges. - Wash freshly picked rhubarb and cut into inch length pieces without peeling. Put raisins through food- chopper and shred oranges finely, be: ing careful to remove seeds. Place rhubarb and sugar in preserving ket- tle and let stand over. night. In the morning add raisins and oranges and cook until thick. Add finely chopped nut meats and cook five minutes long- er. - Poor into hot sterilized jars and seal, • Care of Children IIealtb' Value of Dairy Products Milk is the most '.nearly perfect food, 'containing Mose of the nutrients the • body requires than,any other ar- ticle of diet, It stands first as a source of caleivm—the mineral neces- sary for, the development of bones and teeth, and is also valuable for the protens, fat, sugar, and vitamins it contains, states' the Milk Utilization Service, Dairy and "Cold Storage Branch, Dominion Department o 1 Agriculture. - Pasteurization is the process where- by towns and cities can be assured of a safe milk supply.• To pasteurize, the milk is heated to a temperature of 142 to 145 degrees F., held at this temperature for 30 minutes, then cooled very giiiickly. During the heat- ing process disease producing bacter• - ia are killed. • Homogenized milk is milk which has been subjected to great pressure, whereby the fat globules are broken up to such minute particles that they cannot rise in the form of cream. • The .various concentrated milks on the market are heated during manu- facture, and although slight losses may occur hi the calcium salts and proteins, the actual food value is not, to any extent, impaired. • The follow- ing . are the approximate equivalents to one quart of whole, freslrmilk; 18 r ounces evaporated milk;- 5 ounces whole milk powder; 3s/%- oun- ces -skim-milk powder plus 2 'ounces butter. Cheese is a concentrated milk pro- duct, and although very different in form from milk is very similar in nutritive value, Serve cheese with bulky foods such as vegetables and cereals, cooking it at a low tempera- ture. Well ripened, or what is tern! - ed . "old" cheese will impart more flavour to cooked foods than mild cheese, Butter is a superior fat for bak- ing. Good butter has an Incompar- able flavour, and it givet a rich col- our to cakes and cookies. In Western Canada all creamery butter is sold according to Government grade — First Gracie, Second Grade, Third. Grade and No Grade. The grade mark is stamped on the wrapper. Graded print butter is also available in many Eastern cities. If you want the best butter, buy First Grade—the grade mark is your guarantee of quality. High quality dairy products—mills, cream, cheese, butter and ice cream— rank among the first of the healthful foods and should, therefore, be as generously used as income allows. Medical Men Prescribing Holidays In Big Woods One of the latest treatments pre- scribed by medical specialists for the tired business executive in an annual month's holiday trip to the big woods, according to E. G. Poole, Fish and Game Representative of the Canadian National . Railways, Montreal. Re- cently in New York he had met a number of corporation executive of- ficers and they stated that doctors were now insistent that a long vaca- tion in the Canadian fishing or hunt- ing grounds was the best assurance of good health that could be secur- ed. • As a result of this, Mr. Poole declared that there would be a dg - tided increase in long-time vacation- ists to Northern Ontario this year. In discussing the general outleek for the fishing and hunting travel' this year, Mr. Poole stated that last year there was a 25 per cent increase in non-resident licenses and for 1986 he prophesied an additional 25 per cent increase. A large volume' of inquiries already are being -received and many reservations made. There was also a particularly gratifying number of inquiries from Great Bri- tain ,and, the Continent.. These, how- ever, were from big game hunters and were confined to the districts on the outer edge of Jasper National Park, Alberta, famed big game area. CENT -Ar MILE ROUND TRIP BARGAIN FARES (Minimum Fares : Adult 75c.: Child 40c.) FROM CLINTON AND ALL ADJACENT C.N.R. STATIONS FRI.I A R , 15to N tMCornwall, Uxbridge , Kingston, G Brockville Prescott, ' orrisburg, Lindsay, Peterboro,,'Campbellford, Newmarket, Allendale, Penetang, Collingwood, Meaford, Barrie; Orillia, Midland, Gravenhurt, Brace - bridge, Huntsville, North Bay, Parry Sound, Sudbury. All towns in New Ontario on line pf Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Rly.; Nip- issing Central Rly ,,,Ilapuskasing, Longlac, Beardmore, Geraidton, .Teilicoe. SAT. ♦ Also to• Brantford, Chatham, MAY. lY y 4 o A6 %9 Toronto Chesley, Clinton, Durham, Exeter, Fergus, Goderich, Guelph, Hamilton, Hanover, Barriston, Ing- ersoll, Kincardine, Kitchener; London,' Listowel, Mitchell, Niagara Falls, Owen Sound, Paisley, Palmerston, Paris, Port Elgin, St. Cath- arines, St Marys, Sarnia, Southampton, Stratford,: Strathroy, Walk- erton, Wiarton, Wingham, Woodstock: g �! Locally between Important Stations at and at. May. 16 which Exciarsioii Tickets are sold—Ask Ticket Agent. - For Fares, Return Limits, Information, Tickets, consult nearest Agent See Handbills for complete list of destinations. J. T. CLANCY, PHONE 35. T814A, CANADIAN NATiONAL Household Economics THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED,, TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes. Sad— But Always Helpful and Ins piling• THE OLD ',!'OMAN She moved along the common' way—• A slender figure, aged and grey. Her black -clothed form went som- brely. Her mind aloof, it seemed, yet she Was conscous of the day—she knew Something of Life, as - she passed through. .. ' Her dimmed responses felt the flow And quickened to a braver glow, She loved to walk, she said, 'tivas good For every one, and then she stood To quiet pulses, lest they strain An. age -worn heart. A sweet refrain Was in her smile. She and the spring Met as old friends, remembering. —Rena Chandler.. LONGING 0 soft, but sure -returning Spring How gentle is -thy conning! 'Though queter than feet of furry thing- The hingThe darkness threading— Than hush of starry night more still— I shall not miss thy almost silent treading, Sweet symphony! 'Though dulled by weary winter's My ears attuned shall start At 'sound of thy soft -sandalled feet Amid. the greening grass; And in the thousand miracles that pass, No faintest note shall lose its beat Upon my heart. —Merrill H. Cook, SEA DAWN Oh, the long dune, and the low dune— Where the sea signing lazily Treads the shore with foamy shoo. And gulls wheel crazily! Shy blush of waking East, Red gold of dawning— First stir of bird and beast— Heralds of miming! On the horizon's crest Smoke banners - trailing— Gulls, sullen; hunger prest Break into wailing! Salt breeze and soul space, Freedom Elysian— Spread sails on the sea's face Satisfy vision! —Rose A. Carter, in The Scotsman. SUMMER SCHEMES When friendly summer calls again, Calls again Her little pipers to these hills, We'll go—we two — to that arched fang Of leafage, where they prime their bills, Before they start to flood the plain 'With quavers, minims, shakes and trills, "—We'll go," I' sing; but who shall say What may not chance before that day! And we shall see the waters spring, Waters spring From chinks and scrubby copses crown; Axid we shall trace their oncreeping To where the cascade tumbles down, And sends the bobbing growths aswing, And ferns not quite, but almost drown. "—We shall," I say; but who may sing Of what another moon will bring! - —Thomas Hardy. MOTHER'S FOOL "'Tis plain to me," said the farmer's wife, "Those boys will make their marks' in life. They never were made to handle a hoe, And at once to college they ought to go Yes, John and. Henry—'tisa clear to hie— Great men in this world are sure to be; But Tom, he's little above a fool- So John and Henry, must go to school." - "Now, really, wife," quoth Farmer Brown . As he set his mug of cider down; "Tom does more work in a day, for me, Than both of his, brothers do in three. Book learnin'' will never plant beans or corn,: Nor lioe potatoes —sure as you're born; - Nor mend a rod of broken fence; For My part give me common sense," But his wife the roost was bound to rule, And so :"the boys" were, sent to - school; While Tom, of course, was left be- . hind, For his mother said he had no mind. Five years at schoolthe steclentg spent, ' Then each one into business' went; • John learned to play the flute and fiddle And parted his hair. (of course) in the middle. 'Though his brother looked rather higher than he, And hung out his shingle - "H. Brown, M.D." Meanwhile, at home, their brother Toni, Had taken a notion into his head; Though he said not a word but trim- med his trees And hoed his corn and sowed his peas; But somehow, either "by hook or crook," He managed to read full many a book. Web the war broke out; .and "Cap- tain Tom," To battle a hundred soldiers led, And when the rebel flag went down Caine marching home as "General Brown." But he went to work on the farm • again, Repaired the house, and broken fence, Planted his corn and sowed his grain, And people said: he had "common sense." Now, common sense was rather rare, And the State House needed a por- tion there; So our "family dunce" moved into town, And people called him "Governor Brown;' And his brothers, who went to the city school, Came home to live with mother's fool, FERTILIZERS FOR TOWN GARDEN( The supply of stable manure for the city and town garden is now somewhat difficult to get consequent- ly substitutes must be used. Pulver - zed peat, leaf mold or leaves dug in- to the garden in the fall will suppiy humus satisfactorily . and the plant food may be added in the form of commercial fertilizers. For most gardens a commercial fertilizer containing about 4 per cent of nitrogen, 10 per cent of available phosphoric acid and 8 per cent of pot- ash soluble in water, applied at the rate of about 5 pounds per 100 square feet of garden will give good results: There are many other fertilizers sat- isfactory for the purpose in point of'. analysis such as 5-8-7, 3-10-8 and 4- 8-10. Dried and pulverized sheep and poultrymanure are also satisfactory when applied Iiberally (say 10 lb. per 100 square feet) for the plant food content of these is comparatively low i.e, 2 per cent of nitrogen, 1 per cent of available phosphoric acid and 2 per cent of potash. Leaf mold, compost or any form of soil even though of - dark colour, should not be regarded as fertilizer but as humus suppliers to which the plant foods, nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash, should be added for best results. USEHUL HOUSEHOLD HiNTS The stock left from cooked spinach should be saved and used in vegetable soup. It contains valuable food .pro pestles. Salt shakerswill remain unclogged even in the dampest weather, if a half teaspoonful of rice is mixed with the salt and left in the shaker.' Slices of hard-boiled egg are excel- lent in barley soup. The stains of tea or coffee on tab- le -linen or serviettes can beremoved easily if soaked in potato water be- fore washing. A small child almost invariably throws off his bedclothes in his sleep. To prevent this, sew tapes to the:. corners . of his cot coveringsso that they may be tied to the rails, .