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THE CLINTONNEWS-RECORD
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HOUSEHOLD, ECONOMICS
COOKING;
Edited by Rebekah.
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HEALTH
CARE OF CHILDREN
Iuinallous OI ReDekall
Column Prepared Especially for Women
Ent Not Forbidden to
Men
°.l'llE j,?ERFECT HOTJSEKEEPER 'misplaced ornament on the mante
;she always kept everything perfectly
clean, •
Front the cellar clear up to the tops
:For neatness and order she surely
was keen,
And no one could get her to stop.
User husband could never find coin-
. fort at home, -
Foi' fear he would mussup the place
Where his wife with a broom and a
duster would roam
With a stern sort of look on her
face.
She never had, time to be reading a
book,
She never had time for a call,
:Instead sire was scrubbing some cor-
net or nook
Or sweeping the stairs in the hall:
iSbe swept all her beauty and glad-
ness away,
She swept all the joy out of life,
'Until she became an automaton grey,
A cleaning machine—not a wife.
iShe scrubbed all the love from the
heart-lrf her spouse,
Her children were playless and
gram,
She had her reward—an immaculate
house,
Where nobody ever would come.
She swept and she dusted and scrub-
bed Ijke a slave
Till she swept herself into the tomb,
And the monument now at the head
of her grave
Is a duster, a brush and a broom.
--Berton Braley.
Were you ever in a house where you
'were afraid to move for fear of put -
ling something out .of place?
Did you ever visit in a house where
the hostess was so particular that a
was noticed and immediately ptt
right, making you feel that you had
meddled unwarrantedly?.
If you were I hope it had the effect
of making you resolve that you would
never become that kind of a house-
keeper.
I like order and system in house-
keeping. Nothing makes the work
go so smoothly, leaving the housewife
with sone leisure to-do a few of the
things which she should have time to
do, and the family: which is so incon-
siderate as not to assist the house-
wife in her efforts to keep the house-
hold machinery running like that
should make some resolutions to a-
mend their ways.
But being a systematic housekeeper
and being a slave to your house are
two different things altogether.
The systematic housekeeper is the
one who arranges and manages her
work so that it will not be her master;
so that she keeps it in hand and nev-
er allows it to drive. The slave to
her house, on the other hand, allows
her work to drive her until she never
has a minute's peace from it.
It is nice to have meals served on
time, but nobody should be so under
slaved= to 'habit that a late meal
will spoil the day. A clean and spot-
less house is all right, but a cheerful
wife and mother is to be preferred to
a tired -out, nervous wreck, even
though there may be a bit of (lust on
the furniture occasionally.
It is well not to get one's estima-
tion of values mixed, and no one is in
more need of keeping a level head
than the woman who makes the home
and is therefore responsible to a
great extent for the happiness and
well-being of those who make up the
household. Every housewife should
run her house, not allow her house to
run her.
—REBEKAH.
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YOUR WORLD 4NI) MINE
by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD
(Copyright)
A young woman in Toronto was
invited to a New Year's Eve party.
A young man with akar was asked to
take her to and from the party. The
party began before midnight and end -i
red about 5 a.m. The young woman
very early after her arrival began to
drink gin with gusto. Very soon she
began to get drunk, and long before
the party was over she was thorough-
ly drunk. It was necessary to sober
her up before she returned to her
'home. This was accomplished by
'walking her up and down the street
and by\driving her about with the car
windows open. When she got home
she was probably sober enough to
conceal from her parents that she
'1'lad been soused. This youngwoman
is 18 years of age!
I have been told thatherhostess!
was much upset, and that other
:young* women present at the party
were disgusted with the bad behav-
'iom•, of this young woman—which
probably means that they had not
consumed enough gin and cocktails to
eget drunk, or as drunk as the young
`woman of whom I have been writing.
Froin time to time I hear of sim-
ilar experiences: - Thus, one - young
woman was going to take part in a
play,: and she was particularly asked
not -to getdrunk before the play. It'
"wasrecognized that she would get
.drunk before the night -or morning
•--came, for she drinks a good deal
sdaily.,
Drinking by young women is get -
''ting to he a very prevalent prat
'tire= -one fraught with very grave
'possibilities. Of course young• wo-
men themselves are not, wholly to
'blame for their acquired and indulg-..
•ed desire for cocktails,. gin, whisky
:and wine: those who entertain them
.and: the men who take them to par
'ties must share the blame. But I
'cannot imagine that any marriageable
girl is going to improve her chances
.ef marriage by her known fondness for,
alcohol; and I cannot imagine a hap-
py and an enduring marriage when
both husband and wife drink when-
ever opportunity offers.
I suppose that I am very old-fash-
ioned. Certainly I am glad that I
was not brought' up in a drinking at-
mosphere. If I myself had been a
habitual drinker of cocktails and of
whisky. when I was in my 'teens and
twenties; and if my wife were my
willing sharer of my much and fre-
quent drinking, then I am very sure
that disaster would have been our
portion in the after years. And what
would have been the effect onour
children's minds and ways if we, their
parents, were seen drinking, probably
to excess, and making our home a
place where many met to drink?
I do not know how many cocktail
sets were given as presents at,Christ-
mas time, but literally thousands of
homes received sets of this sort, of-
ten very expensive ones. And the
possession of a fine cocktail set re-
quires that it shall be much used—
with unquestionably bad effects on
all guests and on all occupants of the•
home.
In my own case I am rarely asked
out for an evening and so am not a
witness of -the- revelries of cocktail
parties; but I both read and hear a
good deal about drinking parties and
about drunkeness which hardly shocks
anybody—unless old-fashioned per-
sons like myself.
And in my own case it is not often
that we have evening visitors, and
those we do ]rave do not expect to
find alcohol served by us. Coffee,
raspberry vinegar or ginger ale seems
to suffice when refreshment is pro-
vided.
I mention my own home and its
ways because I feel sure that many
persons who take alcohol when they
are in homes where it is -available
At the first sign of -a cold go right
to your .druggist. Buy a package
of GROVE'S BROMO:QUININE. '
Start taking thetablets two at a :
time. Grove's will check that cold
within 24 hours. 637
Sevzaziste
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really do not want it, and would be
content with Canada Dry or raspberry
vinegar or lemonade or coffee. Hosts
and hostesses who make a great mat-
ter of their cocktails and beer and
whisky are, in my opinion, guilty of.
very grave sins, both present and fu-
ture. I have been forced to believe
that this .North American craze for
serving alcohol in the homeis highly
artificial—very much forced: Per-
haps this • habit or custom is still too
new to have its full • consequences
made manifest, but every day's news
paper carries stories of crimes, sins,
miseries and distress attributable to
the unnatural indulgence of both
young and old people in the exces-
sive drinking of alcohol in , one . or
other of its many labellings.
I submit the view that every young
man and woman can easily decline to
drink alcohol when it is offered, with-
out any loss of favour on the part of
those who offer it; also this view: one
can wisely and profitably be absent
from parties and occasions when the
drinking of alcohol is likely to be the
main feature of the gathering.
Going to wild parties is not life's
biggest adventure. Life for most of us
has its serious side. Few of us have
all the money we want, all the com-
forts and amenities we want. Most
of us are ambitious. We want recog-
nition. We want a higher status in
society or in our employment or in
our community. We cannot get what
we want by playing excessively, or by
mixing with the wrong people or by
misdeeds.
Since I do not buy whisky I do not
know what whisiry costs. I am told
that one nays from $2 to $4 or mare
for a bottle of whisky; and a bottle
of whisky does not last long. I know
that in my own home and in the
homes of most families many a de-
sired thing is left unpossessed because
there is a lack of $2 or $5 bills. I
lawns that I can buy desired books
at from 25c to $1 a copy, and that I'd
rather have from 4 to 20 books than
a quart of whisky inside me and in-
side my guests. I would rather have
2 shirts than a bottle of whisky. I
would prefer to have a desired pic-
ture or piece of furniture or a little
pleasure trip than a bottle of whisky.
And I know that my wife and daugh-
ters would rather have me give them
$4 or $5 than that I should buy a bot-
tle of whisky for, serving to myself
and a few hilarious friends. And ev-
en if I were a • millionaire, I could
use $4 better than by buying whisky
with it—especially so if I had sons
and daughters whose conduct and
practices were being modelled on my
example.
I cannot say that my contributions
to The News -Record haveany power
to change the views and practices of
my readers; yet I am always hoping
that what I write may strengthen
some of my readers to carry on more
hopefully and confidently. And my
message today is to hosts and hos-
tesses, and it is: Make it impossible
forany in your home — those who
dwell there or who visit there—to get
drunk and to acquire a liking for
alcohol.
And to young men and women my
message is: let alcohol' alone. Substi-
tute for it something less dangerous
and very much cheaper. It is NOT
smart to get drunk.
• How To Build Up A Town
An exchange offers the following
advice on how to build-up a town:
Talk `about it.
Write about it. •
Speak about it.
Help to improve it.
Beautify the streets.
Patronize its merchants.
Advertise in its newspapers.
Elect good men to all the offices.
If you are rich, invest in some-
thing, employ somebody, be a hustler.
If you don't think of any good word
to say, don't say anything bad about
it.
Remember, every dollar you invest
m a permanent improvement is that
much on interest.
Be courteous to strangers that
come amongst us, so that they. go
away with good impressions.
Always cheer up the men who go
in for improvements. Your portion
of the cost will only be what is just.
Don'L kick about any necessary
public improvement because it is not
at your . own door' or for fear that
your taxes may be raised .fifteen
cents. -
Buy your goods, employ labor, pay
your taxes, at home.
WINGHAM: The Fry and Black-
hall furniture sompany are in Tor-
onto displaying some eighteen exhi-
bits of Chesterfield suites and occas-
ional chairs. D. B. Porter, W. Van
Wyck, E. S. Copeland and Harcourt
Mundy are in charge of the exhibits
until January lath. . .
As we are likely to have some:
wintry days between now and spring,
when a real substantial hot meal will.
be welcome, here are some good re-
cipes for cooking the maid dish, meat.
It is steak today, •and proper ways.
of cooking:
Broiled Steak
Select a good steak—rump,.. tend-
erloin or porterhouse. Season it be-
fore broiling with a light touch of
black pepper. Never salt steak, it
toughens it and draws out the juice
Heat • broiler and keep flame at searing.
pitch. Sear on one side and then on
the other: Do not jab a fork into
the middle of the steak to turn, it—
put fork through sides. Broil until;
the degree of doneness is obtained.
Just before the steak is done, dot it
over with salt. Take out of broiler
and put on hot platter and dress lib-
erally with butter. Serve with fried
onions or mushrooms.
Baked Steak
One and one-half pound sirloin
steak, 4 medium sized carrots, 2 tea-
spoons salt, 'ies teaspoon pepper, 4
good sized onions, 2 small turnips.
Trim steak and dredge with flour.
Put in a baking pan and cover with
carrots and turnips which have been
pared and eut in dice. Sprinkle with
salt and pepper. Pour a few table-
spoonfuls of water over vegetables.
Bake in a moderate oven for forty-
five minutes. Peel onions and cut
in halves. Dip in melted butter and
arrange over vegetables and meat.
Continue to bake forty-five more
minutes or until steak and vegetables
are tender. Serve from baking dish.
Steak Pie
Cut into small cubes the beef re-
maining from steak or roast beef,
discarding all gristle. Left -over diced
pork or chicken may be added to the
beef. Add 1 small sliced onion, 1
diced carrot and cold water to' cover.
Any left -over beef gravy may be
added. Cover. Simmer gently until
very tender. Season with 1 bouillon'
cube. Thicken with 2 tablespoons
flour. Stir until gravy is creamy.
Add 1 cup of cooked or caned peas.
Season to taste with salt and paprika.
Turn into a baking dish, cover with
small baking powder biscuits, brush
over with milk and bake in a hot
oven. Serve immediately.
And after this good hot course, a
nice, sweet •dessert will be in order:
Here are two or three recipes you
may find helpful:
Peach Ice -box Cake
141 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
Pinch of salt •
2 egg yolks -
1 tablespoon butter
2 egg whites
1 cup crushed peaches
1 sponge cake `
or. 1% dozen lady fingers r
1 cup whipping cream
2 tablespoons fruit sugar
-
Mix sugar, flour and salt together
and cook with hot milk until mixture
thickens. Add beaten egg yolks and
cook three minutes longer. Remove
from heat;: add butter, stiffly beaten
egg whites and peaches. - Line a
mould with stripes of sponge cake or
lady fingers. Pour in half the mix-
ture, covet with sponge cake, thi n
Pour in remaining and cover entire
ly with the sweetened whipped cream
before serving.
Angel Cream
• 18-4 cups z. ilk
1-4 cup flour
1-3 cup saga::
2 egg yolks
2 teaspoons vanilla '
1 cup whipping cream
Pinch of salt -
Scald in top of double boiler. Mix
together flour, sugar, and salt. Com-
bine with beaten egg`' yolks and add
tohot milk. Stir until mixture 'thic-
kens,'and cook 10 minutes. Add van-
illa. Whip cream' and fold into chil-
led pudding: Serve with crushed
fruit.
Maple Ice -Box Cake
1-4 cup maple syrup
2, eggs
1-2 teaspoon vanilla
1-4 cup whipping cream
1 dozen lady fingers
1 tablespoon granulated :gelatine
2 tablespoons cold water
2 cups milk
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1-2 cup sugar
Soak gelatine in water, using 'at
A HEALTH SERVICE OF
THE CANADIAN MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION AND LIFE
INSURANCE -COMPANIES
IN CANADA
TIGHT FIT
The human body like the human
Mind, desires freedom. Tight fitting
garments are uncomfortable a n d
moreover they are ill-advised because
they -may cause damage to the indi-
vidual.
Every partofthe body requires an
adequate blood supply to keep it
healthy and capable of performing its
proper function. Anything, therefore,
which cuts off or retards blood sup-
ply must be considered harmful.
Tight -fitting shoes are a - splendid
example of this.. How many thous-
ands of people have suffered from
corns and callouses, hammer toes and
bunions, cold and clammy feet, be-
cause they did not wear proper shoes.
And the time to start wearing com-
fortably fitting shoes is when the
individual starts to - walk. Toes were
never intended to be piled up in a
heap, to be housed in a cone. They
should be freely moveable within the
shoe. The foot of the growing child
should be carefully watched by the
mother. Any sign of rubbing of
heal or toes should be checked and if
the shoe is at fault, do not let the
child wear it again. If this planis
followed throughout'the growing per-
iod, no boy or girl need have corns
or callouses and much discomfort .of
body and mind may be saved to the
individual -
But we must not stop there.
Throughout life, it is necessary to
choose footwear that fits and allows
of complete foot freedom. Ill-fitting
shoes not only impede blood supply,
causing pain and .discomfort, but
those same symptoms may have a
bad effect upon one's temper and
judgement, in fact upon one's whole
life. •
Take proper care of your feet.
Questions concerning health, ad-
dressed to the Canadian Medical As-
sociation, 184 College St., Toronto,
will be answered personally by letter.
least twice at much water as gelatine.
Heat milk in double boiler. Add su-
gar and cornstarch moistened with
cold milk. Gook' 10 minutes, stirring
until thickened. Add beaten eggs,
and cook three minutes longer, stir-
ring constantly. Add gelatine, ma-
ple syrup, and vanilla. When mixture
begins to thicken, fold in whipped
cream. Line mould with lady fingers
and fill with alternate layers of mix-
ture. Place in ice -box and let stand
for several hours. Unmould and gar-
nish with whipped cream, sweetened
and flavoured to taste.
ROADWAYS
Little roads that wind and twist
Haphazardly about,
Narrow here, wider there,
Running in and out
Like a network of old lace,
Or a gay festoon.
Leading out from nowhere,
And ending all too soon.
Little roads are stretching
Far beyond the sky,
High -way and by -ways
And the paths we travel by;
Winding on forever.
Until all trails shall meet
In a perfect ending
At God's feet.
—Billy B. Cooper, in The New
Sun.
York
A NEW YEAR'S WISH'
God bless the work that lies before
your hand!
God's blessings be on all that you
have done!
For what is fame or gift or treasure
grand,
If His approving smile we have not.
won!
God strengthen youwhen crosses
come to stay,
When shadows close around your
heart and home!
God guide your soul when light seems
far away,
When all the world's tossed waves
are white with foam!
God dower you with kind, consoling
words
For wounded hearts, with gloom and
anguish filled,
Soft soothing words to sing like hap-
py birds
With voice prophetic till the storm
is stilled!
In body and in soul, God keep you
strong
To toil for Him, and - never fail
through fear!
This is my, , wish, the burden of my
song—
Godg
God bless you in the dawning of
the year!
THIIS, 'MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED
TO THE POETS'
Here They . Will Sing You: Their Songs --Sometimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful
and Inspiring- -
HAPPINESS
I would, my son, that I could bid you
mind
Some formula and happiness you'd
fnid.
Alas, there is no road I can commend
Which brings content unfailing at
its end.
But this I say, if you would find that
calm,
That satisfaction, gentle, healing
balm -
Which is theessence of all true con-
tent,
Then seek it not, for alfyour efforts
spent
Will be in vain.
Perchance one day within a shady
wood
A timid fawn beside you may. have
stood,
And let your wond'ring gaze upon it
'rest
Drawing its slender beauty to your
breast.
Hadyou, poor awkward human,
sought this deer
And tried with clumsy stealth to
venture near,
The very flutter of your quickened
pulse
Had served the timid creature to re-
pulse.
So seek not happiness, but rather live
Unhampered by vain selfish aims,
yet give
To every deed a meaning pure and
true,
Let failure but your feeble faith
renew.
Not victory that counts but rather
zeal
With which you pattern life to some
ideal.
Remember well, 'tis conscience that
decides
If your own heart be true or if it
lies;
What though you find not wealth nor
glory gain,
' The phantom of remorse shall ever
seek.
Your soul in vain.
—Vernon 0. Marquez.
MY LIFE
My life is a wearisome journey
I'm sick of the dust and the heat
The rays of the sun beams upon me
And the briars are wounding my
feet.
But the city to which I am going
Will more than my trouble repay
All the trials of the road will seem
nothing
When I get to the end of the way.
There ate so many hills to climb up-
ward
1 often am longing for rest
But he who appoints me my pathway
Knows just what is needful and best.
OLD ORCHARD.
Why does the frame that youth has
kissed farewell,
And left to memory and tranquil task,
See budding treetops tossed in a -
Spring gale
With such a stir of foolish hope, you
ask?
How can the sap that rises in t
wood.
Disturb a being blasted and encum-`'
bered
By half a hundred years of drought
and flood,
Hailstorm and thunderbolt, but half -
remembered?
In an old orchard many a knotted
tree, -
Long' past its bearing when the hers
vests come,
Still flowers with a blithe . futility
When April tilts at Winter in the
sun.
So I, to age and impotence consign-
ed,
onsigned,
Put forth my verses—restless as the
wind.—Myla Jo Closser in the
New York Times.
ETERNAL YOUTH
I can never grow old while returning
spring
Gilds for me, skies of unspeakable
hue,
While the tremor and flash of the
first bird's wing -
Thrills me with wonder through
and through.
Nor ever to me can the years grow -
sad
That have held such springs as my
soul has seen;
Such richness of living, joyous and
glad,
Has the past of my life in this
dear world been.
I shall never resent the touch of
Time 1 g'
As he lays his hand on my droop-
ing head;
While my soul can move in a sun -gilt
clime
Where every word that the springs
have said
Floats round like incense afar and
near,
And the souls of the dreams that
have taken birth
In the realms of the abstract, so
sweet and dear
-
Shed their soft radiance over the
earth.
And never while dreams in the heart -
of me
Can leap into life at the wild bird's
song
Shall I weary of life and its mystery,
Nor say that the day can be ever
too long. M.M.A.
I know in His word he has promised WHICH ARE YOU?
My strength shall be as my day
And the trials of the road will be
nothing '
When I get to the end of the v'ay.
-Anon.
LET US NOT •JUDGE
Let us not judge! For who are we
to know :
The lonely path, that royal people
go,
The blinding glare that beats against
a throne
(For Kings and conquerors must'
walk alone)
And every stumbling footstep taken
there
Held up for judgment—talked of-
made aware. -
Must all the kindly years be set at
naught, -
The pouring out of self, the lessons
taught
On battlefields—behind the stricken
lines—
In hopeless hovels bordering the
mines.
The love old soldiers gave him ev-
erywhere,
The poor and old, who were his
special care.
Let us remember all these kindly)
things,
For thoughts can travel far, and.
words have wings;
And let us number him among the
great,
A kindly servant to his high estate.
(God keep him always where his feet
may roam. '
A royal 'exile, dreaming still of
home).
—Edna Jaques, Calgary Herald.
There are two kinds of - people on
earth today;
Just two kinds of people, no more, 1
say.
Not a sinner and saint, for it's well
understood,
The good are half bad, and the bad
are half good.
Not the rich and the poor, for to
rate a man's wealth,
You must 'first know the state of his
conscience and health. -
Not. the humble and proud, for in
life's little span,
Who puts on vain airs, is not counted
a man.
Not the happy and sad, for the swift.
flying years
Bring each man his laughter, and
each man his tears.
N6; the two kinds of people on earth
I mean,
Are the people who lift, and the peo-
ple who lean.
Wherever you go,' you will find the
earth's masses
Are always divided in just these two _
classes.
And, oddly enough, you will find: too,
I ween
There's always' one lifter to twenty,'
who lean.
In which class are you? Are you eae-
ing the load
Of overtaxed' lifters, who toil down
the road?
Or are you a leaner, who lets others
share tti
Your portion of labor, and worry and
care?
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox*