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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1937-04-01, Page 7THURS., APRIL 1, 1937 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE 7 HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS COOKING' HEALTH Canada's Favourite Tea A. •WANWWWwiA.". A'IAV futiiAAirtIVAMNWiPANW. e rY1.°. niVil'AM,. :A YOUR WORLD AND MINE by JOHN C. KIIIICWOOD (Copyright) LIWANWWWWWW1M.V.W.WIWWWWWWWIWYWIA11.'W. The letters which one receives can be very, very interesting. In proof of this statement I quote in this cen- t bribution to The News -Record from a ''letter which has come to me from a man who made a hurried visit to Southern -California and San Francis- , co, on his way to the Far East. This man went to visit friends in the vi- cinity of Los Angeles: He was a guest in the home of a very wealthy man—a man whose married deligh- t ter is mistress of his home. From this man's letter to me I quote as • follows; My four days in Pasadena were crowded from morning until even- ing—visiting, sight-seeing; motor- ing, and attending theatres. I met the actress, Elissa Landi, at her home. I forget her nationality— Austrian, I think, but she was for- .merly on. the English stage, and is now starring at Hollywood—an at- tractive woman who keeps her par- • cuts and a married sister and fam- ily in the prettiest and most unpre- tentious cottage, surrounded by gardens and dogs. I met two great American authorities on Papanese prints, and saw a private collection, and also met the greatest of Amer- ican collectors, Mr. Spaulding of Boston, a charming old gentleman. I saw a number of semi -amateur ' plays produced by a little theatre group. I inspected Scripps Col- lege at Pomona; ,the University of California at Berkeley; and Leland Stanford University; and I"'had a delightful but very brief visit with Mr. Maclachlan, Mrs. Maclachlan, Dr. Reed and Mrs. Reed, and their daughter. Except the last none •`had changed a whit, and I felt that I was back in Smyrna with then, so natural did they all seem. My visit to my friends in Pasa- dena let me , have an interesting glimpse into the fantastically un- real millionaire world. Hollywood and Beverley Hills of course repre- sent a cinema -set of temporaryand meretricious splendour and magni- ficence, There is no doubt that it. is all nmaghificent, and there is, a genuine wealth of culture and good 'taste; but it is a world of nouveau fiche grandeur, perhaps as unsub- stantial as the oil towns of the West. At Vills . , , where I. stayed was a magnificent home, in the Italian -Spanish style, with patios and terraces and loggias—the Cali- fornian home of a successful busi- ness man of the East --a mul'timil- lionaire who pays 67% of his in come back in income tax! Everything in the hoose. was Ital- ian antique .furniture; tapestries, old rare books and pictures -all -collected in. Europe. But the daugh- ' ter, who lives in the house and runs it magnificently, with three colour- ed maids and a coloured chaffeur, • is ' not happy in it. Although brought up to a Iife of luxury, like a wondrous orchid, she really is restless for a more tranquil and bo- hemian life with her artist hus- band; and the management of the Villa (upkeep costs $12,000 a year) is a nervous strain on her, and imposes many social oblige-,. tions, much entertaining, and an 'endless, flow of house' guests. The obligations of wealth and position are clearly burdensome. The house itself is In a command- ing' position on a mountain :side, 'high above Pasadena, with a splen- did valley and a rim of mountains lying beyond. Nothing could, con- ceivably be more attractive in and setting. The house is auto- matically air-conditioned; there is a bath to every room, radio in sev- eral rooms;; flowering shrubs at eV - ',cry side, balconies overlooking the valley, with fountains, terraces and patios beneath. It was like a glor- ious chateau, But somehow the burden of 'it all—smooth-running though it seemed,—made one con- scious of effort, and turned one "back to long 'for thesimpler and 'mote 'natural way of life and a :greater siniplicitY, Even a bird of paradise in a gilded cage, beautiful though it is, seems too exotic and splendid to satisfy. Pasadena life gave me that impression. My correspondent has some obser- vations to make on the Westen States ----observations which may not be any too well -liked by friends of and resi- dents in California and Oregon and Washington. Here is what he writes: The Wester papers from Los An- geles and San Francisco, to Port- land, Seattle - and Vancouver, are 1 astonishly devoid of any .foreign or world news. Outside Russia I have never seen any 'region so com- pletely oblivious of world affairs as the Western States seem to be., They live in utter isolation, which perhaps is a relief from the ex- hausting woes of international, Far Eastern - o r European problems. Blessed is that country which has no past, and no worry over the sad confusion of world politics! Califor- nia seems to be idyllically uncon- scious and blissfully ignorant of the world outside—perhaps a happy state -of self-absorbed trance. The cities like Portland, Seattle and Vancouver seem, in a hasty impression, brisk American com- mercial cities, devoid of antiquity or culture -mid -Western in hasty building; crude and; harsh. I have not so far discovered the much - vaunted appeal of Vancouver, but no doubt the residential outskirts, the mountains behind, and the shore region below, are much more at- tractive than the disappointingly plain and Main Street -like down- town districts. Also, I am seeing the city in a drab season. From this' letter from a world tra- veller I turn to a letter received from an old friend -a man whom I had lost track of and found only a fortnight of so ago—this by asking a man if he could tell me about the where- abouts of a man whom I have not seen for nearly 40 years --a man whom I like well—him and his fam- ily. T wrote this friend, and had a letter from hint. His letter—his pic- ture of family life—is so utterly dif- ferent from that of the correspondent who wrote from Vancouver that I am quoting front it—as follows: Like your ownfatnily many are missing • today, though as good Presbyterianswecan see the sun- shine as' well as the clouds. Per- sonally it is a pleasure for the to report that all our family are well and happy. Stuart, sick for years, died of . T.B. Six years ago I suf- fered from a severe attack of en- gine pectoris; recovered with 25% " of heart useless; two years later another attack left a chronic heart trouble with frequent mild attacks since. Two years ago paralysis of left side gave me a .lie -down strike job. Today Flora 'dressed me and with a little help am able to sit up at a small table and do some writ- ing. So, apart from my being a shut-in, this family is to be envied by the unemployed. Like your fam- ily, ours has been a homey one and that makes for a happy life. My friend has a retail business in a Western Ontario town, Hisson and his daughter carry on this business, although my friend—past 70 years of age—says that he hopes this summer to be able to "help out," This brave letter touches my heart. Illness and paralysis and advancing age have not clouded a sunny fam- ily life. Three sons have died—one having died in battle -in the great war. Contrast this fantily's,Iife, with its simplidity, its devotion, its, happi- ness, with the life as lived at arid in Villa, with its splendour, its exhaus- tions, its artificialities and its fres trated desires. A Midas life. A house —one cannot call it a home—with no little children in it—no children grow- ing, up to make the ageing Iife 61 parents richandhappy. ...c„ In view of the fact that the har vesting of staple syrup and the mak- ing of maple sugar are about to com- mence for 1937, the recipes given be- low should prove of . particular in- terest.- Maple Oatmeal Cookies 21-2 cups fine oatmeal 1 cup maple syrup 1-4 cup water 21-2 cups flour 1 cup shortening 1 teaspoon soda Boil water and syrup together, add soda, 'then the shortening. Cool slightly. Add to dry ingredients and allow the mixture to cool thor- oughly before rolling out. Maple Syrup Pie 2 cups maple syrup 2 egg yolks 1 cup milk 2 tablespoons corn starch A pinch of salt. Boil milk and syrup together. Add starch whibh has been blended with a •little cold milk. Cook in double boiler, stirring constantly for five minutes. Pour over the beaten eggs and return to double boiler. Cook five minutes, pour into baked pas- try shell. Cover top with meringue made from two egg-whites. Maple Apple Pudding 4 apples 1 cup flour 1-2 cup water 3-4 cup maple syrup 1 tablespoon butter 1 teaspoon baking powder Place sliced apples in a buttered casserole and pour maple syrup over them. Sift flour with baking powder. Melt butter and add cold water. Pour over sifted flour, beat well, and spread over the apples. Steam. 3-4 of an hour or bake for 20 minutes. Real Maple Cream 21-2 cups maple syrup 1 tablespoon cream. Boil syrup until it hardens when dropped into cold water, then add cream, stirring until blended. Cool slightly and beat until thickened. Walnuts may be added. Maple Syrup Sauce 1 cup, maple syrup 1 teaspoon flour 1 teaspoon butter. This maple syrup sauce is for pud- dings or ice cream. Melt the butter, add the flour, cook until frothy. Slowly add syrup and boil one min- ute. Serve hot or cold. British Demand For • Canadian Chickens Ten thousand boxes of dressed poultry (about 500,000 pounds or 20 cars) were shipped from Canada to the British market during the week ended March 13. This is the largest shipment of poultry that has ever been made in one week. From Jan - eery 1 to March 12, 1937, Canadian export poultry shipments to Britain totalled 37,750 boxes, or about 1,777,- 500 ib., compared with 16,468 boxes, or approximately 823,400 lb., in the corresponding period of 1936. ' While officials of the Poultry Ser- vices, Dominion Department of Ag- riculture are pleased with the .in- creased poultry shipment to the Bri- tish market, they are, however, more encouraged by the marked improve- ment in the quality of this year's shipments. More of the •Canadian chickens exported in 1937 are of the Milkfed quality than formerly. According to information received by the Dominion .Department of Ag- riculture from W. - A. Wilson, Cana- dian Products Trade Commissioner in London, England, there is active in- quiry for Canadian chickens on the British market and a better feeling developing for them, The 'market is firmer and higher prices are being paid forthe best grades. This, it is stated, is due to 'the improved econ- omic conditions in Britain . and the preparations for the, Coronation fes- tivities, which will extend, over sev- eral weeks. The British' market gives promise of providing a reasonably profitable' outlet, for considerable sap- plies of Canadian poultry, provided the requirements in respect to price, quality and uniformity in packing are strictly observed. ON APRIL F 3 [,JS NESS 3y Christine MacGillvray Campbell Even if most of us could have borne it without loud lamentation if April Fool Day had never been projected on the screen of our years, we may be permitted to be curious as to when and why it was projected and by whom. By all means let us have the perpetrator of the foolish institution that we may lay ungentle hands on him! It is said that many years before the .Christian era a day 'was set apart for the purpose of playing merry tricks upon one's neighbors, but that day was not the first of April. One writer, however, who believes in trac- ing trouble to its source, says that the facts point to the origin of the day as coincident with a change in. France's calendar some 500 years ago, Then France, who had heretofore counted her years from the 25th of March, instead of the 1st of January, changed her dates. The change made also a change of the eight days' New Year's celebration. Under the old system, with March 25 as New Year's Day, the last day of the celebration April 1 was a day for gift -giving and friendly visiting. No doubt when the new order of the year had been established every French citizen sigh- ed and complained that it did seem very funny not to be giving presents or going to pay calls, and so they proceeded to make it quite funny by giving fake gifts and making trick visits. - So began our April foolishness, we may believe, but our present chief concern is how to bring it to an end. However much fun your facetious gentleman may get from hiding a hat or sending a batch of "fool" let- ters or packages of sawdust in tobac- co wrappers, witness his irritation if his wife giggles to see his jaw drop at the discovery that the egg he sets about to eat from his eggcup is an empty shell. The best practical jok- ers seen always to have omitted that part of their education that should have enabled them to take with a game grin what they give with such raucous guffaw. One cannot well do other than smile at the plottings of small boys, whose snickerings in their sleeves slip through the elbows where they need patching, but when grown peo- ple imitate the imitation seems .stu- pid, insipid and overgrown. Which probably only goes to prove that we do not like to be fooled. However un- wise we may be the would prefer to keep our credulity and gullibility as much under cover as the can manage to stretch the blankets of our grave air of infinite astuteness. Only a genius like the inimitable Ella could flap his red flag in the faces of the judicious and sour. "I love a fool—as naturally as if I were of kith and kin to him. When a child, with child -like apprehensions, that OOP not below the surface of the matter, T read those Parable—not guessing at their involved wisdom—I had more yearnings towards that simple architect that built his house upon. the hand tltatt I entertained for his more cautious neighbor. I grudg- ed at the hard censure pronounced upon the quiet soul that kept his tal- ent, and prizing their simplicity be- yond the' more provident, - and, to my apprehension,, somewhat- unfeminine wariness of their competitors—I felt a kindliness, that almost amounted to a tendre, for those me thoughtless virgins—I have never made an ac- quaintance since, that lasted, nor a friendship that answered with any that bad not some tincture of the ab- surd in their characters." Now that Lamb has suggested it, one may venture to question King Solomon's good taste, if not his wis- dom, when, because he was adinitted to be himself the wisest man on re- cord, he must needs rub in so persis- tently his uncharitable opinions of fools. And yet, King Solomon got himself into a fine hornets' nest by his admittedly being altogether too much mailed, while - Charles Lamb snatched some little amount of pleas- ant cheerfulness out of his life of poverty in the intermittent weeks when his spinster: sister was sane enough to live with him and they could write children's stories •togeth er, Perhaps it is well for us to have April the first as a little reminder that there are assorted kinds of us;' and that there may be an overlooked reason behind thecommand that fora. bids any of us to say to his brother "Thou fool!" A HEALTH SERVICE OF' THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND LIFE INSURANCECOMPANIES /N CANADA COMMON ERRORS IN CHILDREN'S DIETS; Every mother wants a healthy hap- py child. There is .no way in which health can be better influenced than by giving the child a proper diet. Due to the desire of parents to prepare attractive looking food and to give the child foods that it likes, very of- ten some of the food elements nec- essary for good health are not present or have been removed in the prepar- ation of the food. Milk, meat, eggs, vegetables (in- cluding salad greens) and fruits are our most valuable foods. Although It seems at first glance a very simple task to have your children's meals, or for that matter your own meals, built up around milk, meat, eggs, vegetables and fruit, it is extremely easy to give too much of other foods, which result in an_ unbalanced and unhealthy diet. One of the greatest dangers is giving an excess of sug- ars such as candy, jam or marmal- ade. Sugars are of value to supply calories or energy, yet due to their pleasant taste children invariably are inclined to take too much of these sweet foods. Frequently children take too muchstarchy foods, such as pastry!. cakes, .cookies, and even bread. Although sugars and star- ches are of value as a source of en- ergy, if too much are taken they are harmful as one does not then take enough of the other foods which are necessary for a balanced diet. It is • a simple matter to take pains to see that your child gets each day a pint and a half of milk, including the milk used in cooking, one egg, some meat, two vegetables besides potatoes, and some raw fruit. If your child receives too much of the starchy or sweet foods, although he may ap- pear to be quite well, on close exam- ination it will be seen that he tires easily, is somewhat pale, is not as firm or solid as he should be, and fre- quently is subject to constipation. In this state he is much more apt to get coldsor other illness which may permanently undermine his health. It is essential for a healthy happy child to get a well balanced diet. Questions concerning health, ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College St., Toronto, will be answered personally by letter. A TIMELY WARNING The following figures show the ac- cidents reportedand awards made by The Workmen's Compensation Board of Ontario during the months of Feb- ruary, 1936 and 1937:— Total Accidents reported to Compen- sation Board, Feb. 1936, 4,428. Total Accidents reported to Compen- sation Board, Feb. 1937, 4,942. Fatalities, Feb, 1936, 31. Fatalities, Feb. 1937, 20. Total Awards for Compensation and Medical Aid, Feb. 1936, $438,335.79, Total Awards for Compensation and Medical Aid, Feb. 1937, $484,875.03. Medical Aid (only), February 1936, $91,42L04. Medical Aid (only), February, 1937, $89,049.71. These figures show an increase ov- er that of last year, and since a little extra care may prevent accidents, the following extract is issued as a warn- ing to those who will soon be working in gravel pits: Part 8, Section 163 (159), of the Mining Act of Ontario having refer- ence to'Sand and Gravel Pits reads in part as follows:— "In open -pit workings of sand anti gravel the method, of removing Ina- terial by undermining shall not be al- lowed, No vertical working place shall have a height of more than ten feet; where the thickness of material to be excavated exceeds: ten feet in depth, the work shall be done in ter- races, or et an angle of safety." At this seasonof theyear the frost is normally working out of the ground and there is need for special precad- lions where there is danger of slide in sand, gravel and clay. pits. In' addi, tion, there is often danger to -work- men as a result of the breaking down of materials in storage which " were exposed to the weather through the colder months of the, year. Recently a fatality was reported as resulting from the cave-in of an overhanging Ledge of - frozen sawdust. This ledge apparently had been undermined as. sawdust was removed from the bot- tont. It required eleven men to Iift the frozen ledge. As a safety• measure all overhangs must be broken . down and all slopes cut back to a safe angle. CARE OF CHILDREN TM'S MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometiinles Sad— But Always Helpful and Ins; firing - TRAMP STEAMER Paint is patched upon each side As she swings upon the tide Where the palm trees wave a greeting front the shore., And the cargo in her hold Is more odorous than gold But she has known Penang and Singapore. She isn't much for style But she's Iasted quite a while Through the ' doldrums and the China Sea typhoon. She has known the South Sea Isles, Lonely wharves with tottering piles, And she has met the dawn above Rangoon. She takes whatever comes. She has heard the jungle drums And the snorts of proud ships pas- sing to deride. When a lot of them are gone She will be back here some dawn With just some new paint patches on each side! --Glen , Ward Dresback in the New York Sun. GOING TO EMMAUS Ere yet they brought their journey to an end, • A Stranger joined them, courteous as a friend, And asked then with a kind, engag- ing air, What their affliction was, and begged a share. Informed, He gathered up the broken thread, And, truth and wisdom gracing all Ile said, Explained, illustrated and searched so well The tender theme on which they chose to dwell, That, reaching home, "The night," they said, "is near; We must not now be parted; sojourn here," ' The new acquaintance soon became a guest And, made so welcome at their simple feast, He blessed the bread, but vanished at the word; And left them both exclaiming, "'Twas the Lord. Did not our hearts feel all He deign- ed to say, Did they not burn within us by the way?" —Cowper. EASTER (April 1, 1888), • Lent gathers up her cloak of sombre shading In her reluctant hands. Her beauty heightens, fairest in its fading, As pensively she stands Awaiting Easter's benediction falling, Like silver stars at night, Before she can obey the summons calling Her to her upward flight, Awaiting Easter's wings that she must borrow Ere she can hope to fly Those glorious wings that we shall see tomorrow Against the far, blue sky. Has not the purple of her,vesture's lining Brought calm and rest to all? Has her dark robe had naught of golden shining, Been naught but pleasure's pall? Who knows? Perhaps when to the world returning, In youth's light joyousness, We'll wear some rarer jewels we found burning In Lent's black -bordered dress, So hand in hand with fitful March she lingers To be the crowning. grace Of lifting with her pure and holy fin- gers The veil from April's face. Sweet, rosy April—laughing, sighing, waiting •Until, the gateway swings, 1 And she and Lent can kiss between the grating - Of Easter's tissue wings. Too brief the bliss - the •parting comes with sorrow. Good-bye, dear Lent, good-bye.! We'll watch your fading wings' out- line tomorrow Against thefar blue sky. 1 —E, Pauline Johnson THE TEST You can rise each morn with mind alert ' And heart aglow, Your conscience clear and spirit free As forth you go to meet the new- born day; If you can hear the tales - of broken vows And shattered dreams, Of cluttered lives and trust betray- ed, And still maintain your poise . and faith in man; If, when you feel the stress and strain too great Alone to bear In patient silence you resolve Those conflicts that you'd give so much to share; And if in crowded place or quiet scene Thro' stormy seas Alike as times serene you choose Calmly to face the facts of life—. you'll find It's quality of mind as well as heart That counts and wins The victory in the strife. —J. T. Body. . SPRING HATS 0h, those hats . . , How they beckoned and allured me! How the salesgirl reassured me, As she demonstrated first this one -- then that. With her manner so disarming, Making every style seem charming. While she sang the several praises of each hat, There were wide brims softly curving, There were rippled ones, whose swerving Off the forehead, only youth could safely dare. There were hats with ribbon trailers, There were jaunty little sailors; A style distinct for every type of wear. • There were some that looked etherial In their sheerness of material; There were others made of velvet and of pique; The straw models were bewitching' With their borderlines of stitching, And the dotted veils quite took my breath away. PROM "SLEEP AT SEA" Sound the deep waters:— Who shall sound that deep?— Too short the plummet, And the watchmen sleep. Some dream of 'effort Up a toilsome steep;' Some dream of pasture grounds For harmless sheep. White shapes flit to and fro From .mast to mast; They feel the distant tempest That nears them fast Great rocks are still ahead, Great, shoals not past; They shout to one another Upon the blast. . Oh soft the streams drop music Between the hills, And. musical the birds' nests Beside those rills: The nests are types of home Love -hidden from ills, The nests are types of spirits Love -music fills. So dream the sleepers, Each man in his place; The lightning shows the smile Upon each face. —Chistina Rossetti. MULTIPLY SAFETY Barney Oldfield, dean of American race drivers, presents the formula for safe driving:— "When your speedometer goes to 50, think of. 55 feet. That is how far the car will travel after you decide to stop,before your foot can touch' the brake pedal. When the speedometer says 40, think of 44 feet; if 30, think of 33 feet; and so on. Experts call this the 'reaction distance' ". Tofind out how much room you need to stop; safely at 40 or 50 miles hour Oldfield'. formula. multi lies an p ,the "reaction distance" by three. At 50 miles an hour,- youwouldmultiply Limburgercheese first was mar- 55 by three, and know that a distance keted in Limbourg,'Belgium, whence of 165 feet would be necessary to stops it derives, its name. .. the car. A