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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1937-04-15, Page 7THURS., - APRIL 15, 197 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE ' HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS COOKING HEALTH CARE OF CHILDREN is liS 201 10.1.01310111441311.76011.6.449230 AMIWAWAPAMANIVAMANYVmsWedWaVaVeleraWsVenVe ARMI'a YOUR WORLD AND MINE by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD (Copyright) •ora I -suppose that it is common exper- over his plight or errors, convinced ience, namely, to relax to the point! that Heaven will come to his recsue of suspension • of effort after a long period of great anxiety, when some- thing happens to -relieve the tension. I have had all too frequently times of strain and anxiety, to be followed by a sudden relief—a sudden lifting of my burden, and at such tunes I have felt inclined to quit work and• to do something foolish or mad as a form of thanksgiving! before an abyss is arrived at. Rath- er am I trying to say that we are again and again made Heaven's deb- tors even when we do not deserve Heaven's mercy. It seems to me that again and again while we are on earth we are the recipients of that divine mercy which is ever toward sinners. This heavenly mercy may come. to as —is likely to come to us through Thus, many years ago I found my- human beings whose lives touch ours. self lacking the money I desired and Sometimes this mercy is shown us required for the purchase of Christ- through those whom we love and Inas presents for the members of my who love us. Somethnes it comes to family—when any children were very. us from strangers. Those who be- young. • I was feeling very blue. Theft Neve in and practise prayer wiII tell a man for whom I had done some work summoned me to tell hie that the booldet which I had -produced for a firm in Norway had been approved. This was just before Christmas. This man—the Canadian agent for the Norway firm—said that he would pay me on the spot my charge of $50. I suppose that I tried to suppress my feeling of elation and happiness. But this cheque a week before Christmas 'enabled me to buy the gifts 1 desired •to purchase. It has happened again and again in any life that I have been delivered from a state of semi -despair by the timely arrival of a cheque. Always the coming of a cheque from some •debtor at the 11th hour seemed to be a providential mercy; and always there was experienced at such times . a sense of nervous collapse—a desire to go off ,and do some extravagant thing, If I were a drinking man I probably would have got drunk which would ,be a queer way of thanking heaven for having escaped from a sort of bog just before eom- plete submergement. They say that life is full of troub- les,most of which do not happen. All of -us know that this saying is true. A month or so ago I received a cable from a firm in England which upset me not a little. 1 made myself be- lieve that it indicated dissatisfaction with me in regard to some service I was renderingthis fim. I could not persuade myself that I was guilty of a'poor or negligent service, yet the tenor of the cable suggested to me dissatisfaction. When a fortnight later the explanatory letter came, there was nothing in it to indicate im- patience or disappointment. There was just the plain statement of a situation which made it advisable to suspend all activities pending the s settlement of a certain problem. I suppose that all of us have, many threes, been made fearful for a per- iod by some letter or circumstance which we could not understand -only to find out later on that our fears were groundless. Thus, a friend of mine told me that he had felt himself to have been "cut" 'by a':man whom • he regarded as being his very best friend. He had, met him more than once on the street and elsewhere, .and his friend had looked at him without any sign of recognition. I1y friend could not understand whyhis friend had cut him so obviously, and he was fretting. Then one day he learned that his friend's eyesight had been seriously impaired' and that this was the explanation, of his non- recognition. I am sure that many of my read- •ers could cite parallel instances — where there seemed to a rift in a friendship, only to find out later on that all fears and distress were with- out warrant. They 'say that the darkest hour is just before the dawn, This is a pro- verb born of a multitude of human 'experiences. They say, too, there is a divinity shaping our ends even while we may 'seemingly be going astray or doing foolishly. I know that in my own case I have been sav- ed from some distress or sorrow or misfortune' by some merciful happen- ing that made me feel that Heaven you that our boons and blessings and mercies and succors from dangers are an answer to prayer. Yet Hea- ven's mercies and blessings are show- ered on those who do not pray. It is a great mystery—this matter of our repetitive succoring from our troubles and anxieties and from pits which our own sins and failures have dug for us. We are saved again and 'again from 'the due consequences of wrongdoings by some intervention which we may be inclined to describe as providential. It is easy enough to theorize on this mystery and mercy.. We cannot explain our delivery'froni our anxieties and plights by merit in ourselves. It has been said that the sword of Heaven is not in haste to smite. find much comfort of mind in this truth—for I regard the saying as be- ing: a truth. It seems to me that we are being given endless opportunities for redeeming our own past—a past full of errors and sins. Seventy years or more cannot be regarded as a very long period, yet it is long enough to provide us with innumer- able opportunities to mend our ways, Sometimes I fancy that many of us deliberately leave the mending of our ways until we are 60 or 60 or 70. We persuade ourselves in the days of our sinning that later on we'll be less inclined to disregard the Ten Com- mandments — that after a period of sowing wild oats, or of cheating, or of behaviour which adds to others' burdens or griefs, we'll patch up our wrong way of life. Here. I am re- minded of the small boy who said, when he was asked if he always said his prayers, night and morning. "I always say my prayers at night, but any fellow who is any good can look after himself during the day",, Also, there is this story. A man who said that he owned a -spine was being urg- ed by a stock broker to turn it into a company and sell shares in the com- pany. The mine owner saki, "To sell those shares 1: would have to lie like hell, and I'm getting a pretty old man"! The inference is: had he been a younger man, he would have had no scruples in regard to selling shares in a "dud" mine. There are men like John D. Rocke- feller and Andrew Carnegie - two men who made themselves fabulously rich by tactics whieh made men curse them, and who, after they had acquired their millions, professed a change ofheart, and then, began to give away their millions. I suppose that weought to laud them. They could have retained their millions— as do so many who have enormous wealth -and left their money to their kindred. Surely the right way of life is to try to be, in, our younger years, what we want to be in old. age, It seems to me to be very cowardly to post- pone until middle life or later the mending of one's discreditable' life. Yet it is infinitely better to lain one's back on a wrong life—this in middle life, or later or before, and to walk in the right direction, than, to con- tinue, out of bravado, in the way that leads to the- destruction of one's mor- al nature and that keeps one a flag - grant sinner to the last day of life. had been watching over me all the Palestine under the development of time. colonization has rapidly risen to the I do not want to be understood as position of the world's second largest :saying that one should not worry' exporter of citrus fruit. In view of the demand for lamb at this time, the following recipes may prove useful: Roast Lamb a la Bretonne Beans form an important part of this recipe. Cook the desired quan- tity of beans, shelled green ones when in season. Fry half pound (or. the amount desired) of finely sliced onions for five minutes. Add flour, and then milk or water, to make a sauce, and cook for 15 minutes. Pour the water off the beans, and add the onion sauce. After the roast has been prepared for the oven, make four or more incisions with a fork or skewer, and place a whole clove in each incision. When the mutton is roasted, serve with the beans, and sliced tomatoes. Champiival!ons (Ontario Style) This is a recipe for lamb or mutton chops. Pan broil 6 to 10 chops for two minutes. Prepare onions (sliced) and potatoes (sliced or cubed). Place chops in casserole, add vegetables, seasonings, and sufficient boiling wa- ter or stock to prevent burning. Cove er and cook in oven until vegetables are tender. Serve hot. Sheep's Heart Stew (Scots Style) Simmer lamb or mutton hearts un- til tender. Remove and cut in two- inch squares. Slice onions and fry in cooking fat far five minutes, add hearts and potatoes cut in same size as the hearts. Cover with boiling water and cook until the potatoes are done. Thicken liquid and serve hot. Cooked Lamb en Casserole 3 cups cooked lamb. 1 tablespoon cooking fat 1 cup cooked carrots 1 cup cooked potato 8 small cooked onions Left -over gravy, Cut lamb in cubes and brown in cooking fat. Cut vegetables in cubes. Put meat in casserole, add vegetables, gravy, and enough hot water to moisten. Season with salt and pepper. Cover and bake in a hot oven (400 degrees Fahrenheit) for 20 minutes. These recipes are taken from the Publication entitled "Selection of Lasnb Cuts", issued by the Dominion Department of Agriculture, and may be obtained free on application from the Publicity and Extension Branch, Dominion Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. White Trillium Is Ontario's Emblem Spring Cleaning The housewife' has many things to thank industry for -mechanical aids which make her care of family and house a great deal easier and more comfortable. But industry, on the other hand, has one very important item for which it must give thanks to the homemaker --house-cleaning. Eversince people lived in caves, the man of the house could be sure that the first signs of spring, the cheerful robin and the gay crocus, would bring that period of window washing, rug beating and'floor scrub- bing known the world over as "spring housecleaning." By passing of the Floral Emblem Bill in the Ontario Parliament on March 22, 1937, the White Trillium, botanically known as Trillium Grandi florum, now becomes the legal floral emblem of the Province. Ontario has been slow in dealing with the question •of a provincial flower em- blem, for the Ontario Horticultural Association has consistently urged consideration of the subject for the past 20 years and the efforts of its officers and members have at last' been awarded by the legalization of the white trillium which was adopted at their suggestion. As matter of fact, no province of Canada has ever shown any greathaste in the selec- tion of a floral emblem. In; Nova Scotia in 1825, the question was first mooted, but it was not until. 1801 that the Trailing Arbutus, locally known as the. May Flower, was legal- ly adopted. In the following year Manitoba made official selection . of the Yind Plower, and later on Al- berta chose the Wild Rose as its'flor- al emblem. The Wild Rose is also the floral badge of Iowa, and the Prairie Wild Rose represents North Dakota. It is also 20 years ago that the Ontario Horticultural Association discussed the question of a floral em- blem for the Dominion, and, although the initiative of the Association led to consideration' of the subject •by horticultural . societies,,' universities end other institutions throughout the Dominion, no final decision was ar- rived at. The Maple Leaf has been accepted by the people of Canada without legal instrument or public proclamation as their emblem and las thus been aceorded a fixed place '.bong with the rose, the thistle, sham- rock, and leek of the peoples of the British Isles. The rose is also the floral emblem of New York State, while well-known national emblems appear in the Fleur-de-lis of France; the Linden of Germany; the Amar- anth of Sweden; the Lotus of Egypt,, and the Chrysanthemum of Japan. Spring cleaning it. a page which. industry has borrowed from Mrs. Housewife's hand -book, and although the items are not identical, the un- derlying motive is the same. Here is the agenda the Industrial Accident Prevention Associations pre scribes for ,all manufacturing plants at this time of year, and it is evi- dent that some of them can safely be applied to everyone's spring clean- ing job: .1 Floors, aisles and passageways —Are they cluttered? Do nail points project? Are passageways obstruct- ed? .Are floors in'safe condition? 2. Stairs—Are they slippery? Are objects left on steps and landings? Are all your stairs protected by hand -rails in good condition? 3. Falling objects -Are hand tools or other objects in hazardous places? Are objects on end liable to tip over? Are materials too close to platform edges? 4. Materials—Piled too high? Too close to fire -fighting equipment? Obstructing fire -doors or sprinkler heads? Piled carelessly? Bulk ma- terials spread around? Are piles blocked or interlocked? 5. Lockers and cabinets — Clean? Excess of old clothing and rubbish? Make your check now. Brighten up for Springtime. In a bulletin to the 5,500 Ontario members of the Industrial Accident Prevention Associations, R. B. Mor- ley, general manager, announces that the 1981 annual safety convention will be held at the lkeytd York hotel here on April 19 and 20. The delegates will be addressed on various aspects of accident preven- tion by outstanding authorities in that .field, including George Wilkie, chairnian of the Workmen's Com- pensation Board; A. A. Gardiner, Canadian National Railways, Mon - treat; J. H. Brace, Bell Telephone Company, Montreal; Col. Fred L. Dennis, Bendix Corp., South Bend, Indiana; D. S. Beyer, Liberty Mu- tual Insurance Company, Boston; Brig. -Gen. D. C. Draper, Toronto po- lice chief; Dr, C. D, Selby, General Motors Corp., Detroit; Dr. F. R. Griffin, Toronto industrial surgeon; and others. One of the outstanding features of. the two-day convention will be the "Safety Style Show," a demonstra- tion of year-round fashions for the well-dressed, accident -free • industrial worker. Mr. Morley also states in his bulle- tin that, following a directors' meet- ing of the I.A.P.A. recently, the fol lowing recommendations for better highway accident control were dis- cussed with Hon. T. B. MaQuesten, Ontario minister of highways. 1. Mare thorough examination of applicants for motor vehicle licenses than exists at present. 2, Adoption of measures that will eliminate such unsafe practices as passing on hills and curves, disregard of stop and warning signs, failure to give proper signals to oncoming traf- fie, - cutting out of line of traffic and usurping that section of the road or highway intended for approaching traffic. 3. Improved traffic lanes. 4. Standardization o f warning signs. 5. Correction' of glaring headlights, headlights out of focus and vehicles inadequately lighted, 6. Hazards of commercial and pri- vate trailers. 7. Elimination from the highway of intoxicated or otherwise irresponsible drivers. A. HEALTH SERVICE - OF. THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA KEEPING ONE'S FEET DRY It is'surprisiug how important to our well being are some• of the ap- parently trivial details of our every- day life. For instance, consider the simple rule to keep one's fet dry. Few indeed are the simple health rules, the observance of which pays such high dividends. In a climate like ours where rains come frequently and where soft snow and slush are encountered many times spring and fall, it is not always easy to keep the feet dry. Rubbers and overshoes are' 'a nuisance and it is very tempting to go out without them. Before one realizes it the feet get wet. It may be hours before a change is feasible and during that time the feet get chilled, the heat regulating nierchanism of the body becomes deranged and before we know it another cold has developed. Few things seem to lower the resis- tance of the body to infection as quickly as wet feet. Children particularly require' care- ful watching. They will slip off to school without rubbers and mittens, they will tarry en route to' test out each stretch of "rubbing" ice and go out of their way to trudge through a mudpuddle; then they may have to sit until late afternoon without an opportunity for a change. Absolute insistence upon warm dry feet always pays. With rapidly grow- ing boys and girls rubbers and over- shoes quickly become outgrown, but it is cheaper to buy a new pair than to pay for the costs of an illness. Shoes should have thick soles in win- ter or in wet weather. Half -soling when required is not a luxury; one cannot risk putting it off. In winter, sportswear and other boots should be kept waterproof. Heavy wool socks Mut sockees are to be recommended. When driving or motoring long dis- tances in eold weather, the feet should be kept warm always. One &gentle! ilbint to keep in mind is that most danger comes, not ftbnl getting the feet wet, but in letting them remain that way. There is very little danger if one can change at once into warm dry footwear. I£ the feet are chilled as well as wet, they should be rubbed until circulation has been restored and, if necessary, a warm footbath taken as well. Questions concerning health, ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College St., Toronto, will be answered personally by letter. USES SCISSORS; EYE PUNCTURED WINGHAM—Lois Burchill, , five- year-old daughter of William Bur- chill, farmer near Wingham on the Wingham-Lucknow highway, is in. Toronto General Hospital, where' sur- geons hope to save the sight of her eft eye, injured while the little girl and her brother, Bobby, were' playing with a pair of scissors, The accident happened while the children • were playing "oPeration." They decided to amputate the leg of a little: toy dog, and the scissors, the only sur- gical instrument they found at hand, slapped puncturing the eye- of the M- ere girl. Spring Touch of Whitewash In the spring the 'farmer's fancy may rightly turn to thoughts of whitewash, for after the long winter, the barns, and creamery, and home fences look much in need of being brightened up. Even dwellers in the city or suburbs will find that an out- building would be none the worse for a spring touch-up. And there is nothing after all better or so inex- pensive as whitewash. Persons are often deterred froth using whitewash through the fear that a shower of rain might ruin it, but the Dominion `Experimental Farms have evolved a waterproof whitewash for outdoor work which will prevent a newly white washed barn from looking a picture of deso- lation after a downpour. It is made up in the following proportions: slake 62 pounds of quicklime in 12 gallons of hot water, and add two pounds of salt and one pound of sulphate of zinc dissolved in two gallons of wat- er. To this, add two gallons of skim - milk. An ounce of alum, though not essential, improves the wash. Salt shouldbe omitted if the whitewash is required for metal surfaces which rest. For farm buildings, a disinfectant whitewash may be desired. Here is a recipe recommended by the Domin- 'on Experimental. Station at Scott, Saskatchewan. -.First, 50 pounds oR ime are dissolved in eight gallons of boiling water. To, this is added eix gallons of hot water which has ten rounds of salt and one pound of alum dissolved in it. A can of lye is ad- ded to every 25 gallons of the mix- ture. A pound of cement to every three gallons is gradually added, and thoroughly stirred. The object of us - 'lig the alum is to prevent the lime from rubbing off. Cement makes a more creamy mixture, so that it is easier to apply and more surface is covered. Lye is added for disinfect- ing purposes, but a quart of creosol disinfectant to every eight gallons would serve the same purpose: Lye is preferred when the colour is to be kept white. THIS 'MODEST CORNER IS 4,EDICATEP TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Somethnes Gay, Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful and Ins 'pirint HOME Home is like this; the dog at ease, The tired man his length extending On sofa's eccentricities; The woman busy with some mend- ing. The children doing homework. Night And blowing leaves and fate's, un- folding Outside the circle of this light. There's idle words and sudden scalding. Stairs, kisses. Little sign appears Within the homely definition Of husband's burden, woman's tears Or child's unconquerable ambition. —Dorothy Cowles Pinkney in The New York Sun. A GOOD PRESCRIPTION A bit of Hope, Makes a rainy day look gay, And a little bit of Charity Makes glad a weary way. A Iittle bit of Patience Often makes the sunshine come. And a little bit of Love Makes a very happy home. —Anon, THE PRESENT AGE We stand upon a bridge 'between two stars, And one is half engulfed in the abyss; l a While unarisen still the other is, Hidden behind the Orient's cloudy'"QUIET HOURS bars. YM i ,r` I fe s richest hours are those that We tread_igdeed a perilous path by� slip desgiset{ fright! a j , a Into the twilight realm of the past Yet we who walk k darkness 1.1114 Where precious things the moment aghast Iightly prized , ,�, Prepare the future end redeem the True measure of their virtue gain past; at last. , .a that after as the 141drni1ig=star be For ever thus It is that quiet and bright. • 1 peace —Mary P. Robinson.' Both most -desired are seldom yet enjoyed; Since restless souls must ever seek surcease SPRING MORNING In pleasures that achievement ren- ders void. SONG OF FAR PLACES Some day, when leisure comes at last, Before I'm old and gray, I'll leave the worn trails of nay past And take a holiday; I'll take a ship, then board a plane For Araby and Nome, For Careassone and Avalon, J Salonika and Rome. My little house is green and white, My garden brave and gay With russet leave;, and blossom; bright, I love it . . yet some day Pll close the doors and turn the keys And set out for Japan; I'll sail upon the Seven Seas To Soul and Ispahan. The lotus lands men dream about Algiers, Siam, Ceylon, Corfu and Trinidad, the route From Shanghai to Nippon; The Alps, the Andes, Portugal, Blue lakes of Italy, Some golden day I'll see them all- Queensland, the Coral Sea! This is my dream, but late last night The snow fell and fast, And turned my garden ghostly white; Hark to the raging blast! My birch logs burn, my brasses shine Is someone calling me? Come in, come in, dear Caroline, You're just in time . . for teal —Elizabeth Newport Hepburn, le the New York Times, 7.11 Again the clouds are sailing ships With rainbows at their prows Above each billowed hill that dips To green where a colt will browse Between the moods of leaps and prances Where light along the meadow dances Now boy and dog, by farm and town Roll on the grass and 'chase Each other, and then tumbling down Sprawl grinning face to face„ To leap again with barks and laughter And run for joy the world is after. Now old men in the sun will stop And wait awhile to see Ilow close a robin dares to hop— And some of them will be At pastures gates --with fingers turn- ing A sugar lump for a colt that's learn- ing. Anon. YOUNG' APRIL The sunbeams call to the sleeping clover,: Winter is ended—winter is over; And all the indolent little flowers Are pelted awake by the soft spring showers; Lily and primrose and pussy willow, Violets, deep in their grass -green pil- low, Crocus and tulip and hyacinth, toe, Come peeping, scampering, hurrying through, At the call of the ram, at the call of the sun, For tte days of the snow and the cold are done. • The shy narcissus is eagerly growing, It heard the sound of the south wind blowing; And cherry blossoms pre all elate, Sending the message: We wait, We wait. Deep in the forest the green leaves tremble, Down by the brook the ferns assem- ble, For they . have waited, and listened; they knew That the longest winter is some time through.: And always springtime calls to the flowers In warmth of sunshine and patter of showers. I !_ia1 —Anon. And when there stirs too late, per- haps, the sense Of beauty that has flowered all unseen— Then vain regret is sorry recompense For all the happy hours that might have been. Who learns to love his quiet hours will know What never garish pleasure can be- stow. ' —Laura R. Rages, Ottawa, March 4, 1937. The Fashionable Age For Marrying When young people ask permission to marry, parents are sometimes known to say, "Not yet, you're too young". There are probably always at least a few standing diferences of opinion on the, point. It may help to decide the problem to know what oth. er people are doing, what is the cus- tomary age for marrying. ' In the last few years more Cana. dian girls have been wedded at twenty-one, Inore boys at twenty- four, than at any other age, but the average is higher because more mar- ry older than younger. The age of the average bride is twenty-three, the bridegroom twenty-six. This is a lit- tle older than in pre -depression days,. but not much; and the old difference of about three years in the age of man and wife still persists. Dan Cupid still claims his victims, of course, across most of the span of life. Each year he strikes nearly 100 boys and 300 girls in Canada un- der the age of eighteen; more than 100 men, and 20 to 25 women who are seventy-five or 'older. Cupid strikes a second time more often in the case of women, but claims neither as often as la used to. Whether it is that experience; teaches differently or whether they, just can't' afford it, we don't know; but a much smaller proportion of wi- dows and widowers are remarrying now than did ten years ago. The source of this information is, the Vital Statistics Branch of the Do-. minion Bureau of Statistics, Depart.. nent;of Trade and Commerce, •