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Health,Cooking,
Care of Children
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Edited By Lebam Hakeber. Kralc
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"Fresh from the Gardens"
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A Column Prepared Especially for Women—
But Not Forbidden to Men
ADVENTURE
Adveuture calls to some beyond the
clouds,
And wears a shining stretch of
silver wings;
: But to those bound below by eircums
stance,
She daily comes in guise of simple
things.
• Oh, T may never sail the Seven Seas,
Nor taste the clean-cut tang of sal-
ty spray;
Yet cheerful change has held me by
the hand
Whenever I've walked home anoth-
er way.
/II never see the sunny slopes of
Spain,
Her groves all clothed in clouds of
flowery foam;
:But I have felt the kiss of Enterprise
While growing new geraniums here
at home.
What tho' I Iong to trace some slen,
dor stream
Of purling water to its fountain-
head
'Because my business is to cook and
clean,
I test out tasty recipes instead.
10 you I leave high hill -tops 'andfar
seas
For those Adventures that are meant
for me;
I'll make a joyous journey of the
years
Arid find in sharing love my ec-
stasy.
* Oh, make me wisely merry, gaily glad
With eyes to see fresh sweetness
where I may;
-•Give me the cheerful heart to under,
stand
And live a new Adventure every
day. —Gertrude Bowen Webster.
The high privilege of adventuring,
going out to explore new lands, new
experiences, is the one thing I have
always envied men. I am not one who
thinks men have always had the best
of it in'life. I've seen too many of
them broken and bested by a too
hard fate; too many who have had to
put their shoulder to the wheel and
assist others, parents, brothers, sis,
tees, as well as their own families,
for which they were responsible, and
thus unable to indulge this high adz
venturing spirit. Bur;, even they can-
not indulge it, the right to do so is
their's. Duty may hold them back and
prevent them doing more than in-
dulge in a dream of high adventure,
but they are not held back by the
feeling that such adventuring is out-
side of the possibilities, as most wo-
men are.
Varnish Hints
Spring housecleaning is already in
the offing. Here are some varnish-
ing hints which may be useful.
If linoleum is varnished, a large
amount of polishing is rendered un-
necessary. If the linoleum is an old
friend, scrub it first until every trace
of grease has .been removed from it.
White shellac makes' a good coating
and will last a long time if no soda
is used when it is washed. In this
way the wear on the material is
diminished to a large ektent, and it
will nob only last much longer but
looks very much better.
Because, no matter what may be
said about the freedom of woincn to
do whatever they want to do in in
these days, and certainly they have
much more than their mothers and
grandmothers had, still, a woman's
nature bars her from many of the
adventures that a mere boy can un,
dertake without a second thought.
Varnishing The Ceiling
No doubt everyone at some time,
or another has been tempted to go
one better" than the .conventional
whitewashed ceiling and to try a
tinted one. If the ceiling is, for ex-
ample, first painted to a pale tint of
gray, pink or tan4eolor and then var-
nished, the result will be entirely
successful. When the time arrives
,for necessary cleaning, it is an easy
matter to give the ceiling a rub . and
a polish like any other painted sur,
face. A word of warning, however,
must be spoken. In making an ex-
periment in painting a ceiling, let it
be a simple one. Add a touch of
brown siena to the creamy paint so
as to give it a warmer tinge. Then
do the varnishing.
Most people regard varnish merely
as a beautifying medium, whereas it
is one of the most valuable preserve -
ties which can be applied to decora-
tions. By going to the additional i
trouble of varnishing paint when it
has thoroughly dried, the workers
will be surprised to find how well
the color will be preserved, and how
long a time will pass before it be-
gins to look at all shabby.
When you put new paper on the
bathroom or kitchen if a coat of var-
nish is added it will preserve the col-
or and the paper will keep nice much
longer.
Varnish Needs Care
Oh, yes! A Mt of -women's high
adventuring must be done asit were,
by proxy, while she seeks the satis-
faction of the smaller adventures.
And, who knows but that _ it may be
to most, the better sort? After all,
human nature in Hong Kong, Kala,.
mazoo or Canada is very similar. And
the heart of woman may be as con-
tented and as happy "testing out
tasty recipes," in her own tidy kit•
chen, knowing that the result will
add to the comfort and happiness of
dear ones, as it would be seeking out
new countries or studying the cus-
toms and the habits of foreign peo-
ples, t i s e 'et'
REBEKAH,
teatith Service
OF T1I1
Gambian ebirat . ,o, .nri�.firnt
and Life Insurance Companies in Canada.
Edited by
GRANT .FLEMING, M.D., Associate Secretary
SAFE PREGNANCY
Many a woman, when pregnant,
- needlessly suffers hours of worry be -I
cause of her ignorance. Her worry
is likely to be increased by the silly
but frightening stories' that she will
hear from her friends and neighbors,
Worry is bad enough, but it is not
the worst' result of ignorance, for
the woman's ignorance may be the
direct cause of disaster, and, in such
eases, her very life is endangered.
' Any healthy woman, with a nor•
mal pelvis, whose heart, lungs and
kidneys are in good condition, can
expect to pass through pregnancy
with safety. She will need to Pre-
pare her body for this • particular
physical . strain, and she will need to
have her doctor make sure;• from
time to time, that her body—main-
tains its healthy condition.
Unfortunately, all women are not
(`
healthy. Tho heart, lungs,• or kid-
neys ,may be 'diseased, dr damaged
from some previous disease. A pre-
marital examination would allow, for
warning these women as to their ab-
ility to go through pregnancy. Most
of them can do so, provided they are
able to have extramedical supervis-
ion and to .carry out the instructions
received concerning longer rest per-
'iods, diet, et cetera.
A. recent study of maternal mortal
ity in New York. City, . covering a
period of three years,' made by the
Academy of .Medicine, shows that a-
! bout two-thirds of the deaths which
did occur were preventable. This
conclusion was reached after a care-
ful consideration of each ease, and
the decision was made on practical,
Knot theoretical grounds.
This study confirms the findings
of others made elsewhere. The ac-
tuaI figures may vary a little, but
the general conclusion is that two
out of. every -three maternal deaths
could bepreventedif proper use
were made of what we know concern-
ing the proper care of theexpectant
mother.
What the pregnant woman needs is
medical and nursing care. "There b
no mystery about what kind of care
is needed. The problem is, How are
all women to secure such care? In.
some cases, this is difficult, and in
a few impossible, but in the vast ma.
jority of cases, women who could se-
cure adequate care fail to, do so be-
cause they do not know how impor-
tant it is for their own lives and
health of their expected, baby that
they do so.
Mlle time for care to begin is ear-
ly in
ar-ly`in pregnancy, and it must be con-
tinued regularly throughout, There
is no other way by which health and,
life may be safeguarded and preg-
nancy made•safe and comfortable for
mother and child.
Questions concerning Health, ad-
dressed to the Canadian Medical As-
sociation, 184 College Street, Toron-
to, will be answered personally by
letter.
and should be used. For wet or low'
land the willow is adapted and has
quite a range of 'varretles. Where
poor land is to be contended with, or
quick growth required the poplar may
be used.
Among the evergreens there is the
white pine, Austrian pine and Scotch
pine, Norway spruce, native whits
spruce and the Douglas fir,
To grow well and show the natur-
al beauty shade trees should have a
spacing of thirty-five or forty feet.
Lenten Dishes
Salmon Eat' Casserole
1 cup of rice, 1 pound can of sal,
mon, 2 eggs, 1-3 cup milk, 1 tbsp.
butter, pinch salt, dash of paprika.
Cook the rice, and when cold line
baking dish with it. Flake the sal-
mon. Beat the eggs, add the milk,
butter, salt and paprika. Stir this
mixture .into the salmon lightly and
pour it into the baking dish. Then
cover all with a little of the rice
which has been reserved for this
purpose, and steam one hour. Serve
with white sauce, or if preferred,
with chili sauce or catsup.
If elle buys varnish ready for use,
it should be kept in a warm place un-
til one is ready to use it otherwise it
thickens, and may prove difficult to
work with. If an attempt is made'
to thin it out with turpentine, it
will be eneouraged to bubble.
Never choose a dull day for var-
nishing operations. Rather put off
the job until a dry sunny, day ap-
pears. Use a proper brush, one that
has already been employed for paint,
ing 'will not do. The brush must be
a perfectly dry one and should have
longish hairs and a square -cut edge.
Be sure not to allow it to slip dawn
into the varnish. Take up ever so
little each time on the top of the
hairs. If the varnishing cannotbe
finished at once—and it is a business
that one should approach in a leis-
urely spirit in order to get good re-
sults—the brushes should be sus-
pended overnight with their tips just
resting in the varnish itself. You
cannot leave a varnishing brush over-
night in turpentine, as you would -a
painting brush, for the turpentine
will spoil the finsh of your work.
And, do not leave it to dry in the
air; that treatment will cause it to
harden so that it will be incapable
thereafter of any useful service.
The Best Shade Trees
To Plant
Canadienne
1 pound can salmon, •1 tsp. Wor-
cestershire
orcestershire Sauce; 2 tbsps. tomato
catsup, Dash of cayenne, Pinch of
salt, Sugar.
Flake the salmon. Mace one heap-
ing tablespoon of it in a cocktail
glass. Over this pour a sauce made
by mixing the Worcestershire Sauce,
the tomato catsup, •cayenne, salt and
a little sugar. Serve with toasted
fingers.
Creamed on Toast
1-2 pound of Gamed salmon, '2
tbsps. butter, 1 cup of milk, 1-4 tsp.
Worcester Sauce, 1-2 cup catsup, 2
tbsps. flour. •
Melt the butter, stir in the flour,.
then add the milk and stir until a
thick sauce is formed; next add the
salmon, and season well with salt,
pepper, Worcester Sauce and, the last
thing,. pour into this the catsup.
Serve on hot toast. Sufficient for
six people.
(Experimental Farms Note)
The planting of shade trees is a
.work that is quite comparable to
that of erecting a stately building to
serve a specific purpose. The shade
trees should bo looked upon ,• as
friends of mankind whether planted
in the avenues of our towns or cit-
ies, along the broad highways stretch-
ing from. coast to coast or around our
rural homes, and nowhere do they add
morn to thelandscape than around
the farm home.
Avenues of stately trees along the
streets of our towns andcities offer
shade from the sweltering summer
sun and protect our homes from many
a heavy blast of winter wind. These
trees give shelter to thousands of the
feathered •friends of mankind, that
seek a place to abide during the nor-
thern summer. •
Then let us look at those avenues
of beautiful'' stately trees, as it were
tin dress parade, joining city block to
rural highway. Down into the val-
ley, by the ridge, along the grass
edged brook, over the hill top and.
near the homestead, stand these sen-
tinels, adorning the landscape, pro-
viding shade and shelter for man ane
beast. •
The most important of the shade,.
(frees are:. Elm., rock Maple, softor.
silver maple and black walnut where
climate conditions will permit. • Oak
trees are also useful and beautiful'
Do You Know This
Fruit?
WOMEN
THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED
TO THE POETS
Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful
and Ins piring-
Sweet is the smile of home! The
mutual look.
When hearts are of each ether
sure;
Sweet .all' the joys that crowd the
household nook,
The haunt of all affections pure.
—O. Phillips.
tesseessessi
rd their track
i see my way as birds
less way. '
I shall arrive! What time, what circ.
cult'first I ask not,
In some time --His good time -1 shall
arrive.
He guides me and the bird's—in His
good time.
"Should the name of ugli fruit be
changed to a more beautiful name?"
That is the question bothering cer-
tain importers at the moment, Mean-,
time, a shipment sof 2,500 fine speci-
mens of sigh fruit was landed at Hall.
fax from British Honduras and Jam-
aica recently.
Few encyclopaedias even mention
ugli fruit. It is one of those exotic,
recent fruits, partly the product of
the tropical climate of Britain's Car-,
ibbean colonies and partly of man's
genius. It is a cross between an or-
ange and a grapefruit, importers ex-
plain. They predict a great future for
it on the Canadian amrket, because of
its especially intriguing flavor.
Woman Townsh'p
Clerk Succumbs
In London
Miss Mary Grant, cleric of the
Township of Loden since 1900, is
dead after months of failing health.
Miss Grant was believed to be the
first woman in Canada ever to hold
the office of clerk or treasurer of a
municipality. She was a pioneer fn
the movement to introduce hydro to
the rural districts of Western On-
tario.
Gus and Ole, at a northern fishing
resort, hired a hotel boat and found
great fishing at a certain spot in
the nearby lake. So they decided to
mark the place and come back for
more sport after' lunch. At the; dock
G•tis said to Ole: "Ole did you mark
the place?"
"Yah," said Ole; "Ay ' put chalk
marls on side of boat."
"Are you dumb!" 'exclaimed Gus.
"Maybe ve don't get same boat; after
hunch!" Over the hills, and by the plains;
—8.0. Electric Employees'' Magazine I go where the road goes,
And little I ask of Fate
OTIIER'DAY.S; OTHER MORALS But the sly above, and the earth to
love,
—Robert Browning.
HUMILITY
Be it through sickness'. , or love;'
Naught can chain like a woman's
hand;
Every child is a hempen strand.
I end where my road ends
iAnd I lose the sky above
By the hand of Fate ... or the lure
to mate. -
The road is my steadfast love.
4Tames Roland, i f r
n the Welter's
s
Studio.
That old
Sweet orison—
Let it be forgotten.
Something divine has happened now
Instead:
Thy will
Stretched other ways,
May I but remember
How I inclined and questioned not'
Thy choice. '
—PriscilIia Doe Wright.
emenesset
THE MOON SHEEP
The moon seems like a docile sheep;
She pastures while all people sleep;
But sometimes, when she goes astray,
She wanders all alone by day.
Up in the clear blue morning air
We are surprised to see her there,
Grazing in her tiiroolly white,
Waiting the return of night.
When dusk lets down the meadow
bars,
She greets again her lambs, the
stars!
Chistopher Morley,
easmetasts
FEATHERED FLUTE
What is this but a lilting whistle
Made out of swan's-down, made out
of thistle?
What is this but a feathered flute,
Small and quick and shrewd as a
newt
Hark, there's another, and yet a
third
Surely it's not a visible bird!
They are threading the spruces, in-
vading the cedars,
Tip -tilting, balancing, following lead-
ers.
Then they go suddenly, each a grey
feather
Riding the wind in the winter wet.
they.
Household
Economics
111
To always be contented,
Then were this world a pleasant;
world,
And pleasant folks were in it, '
The day would pass mnost'pleasantly
To those who thus begin it;
And all the nameless grievances
Brought on by borrowed troubles.
Would prove—as certainly they are --a
A mass of empty bubbles.
Magazine Great Thoughts,
DELIGHT
High hopes are mine,
For life and time and time to be,
For unto me
Hath come the spirit and the life of
faith,
Not always can I see the way;
Nor always does the sun's bright ray
Make glorious all the pathfor me.
Night comes betimes,
And shadows, and the storms
That come to all who journey
Toward tomorrow's land.
But night has stars,
And shades and storms
Have ministries that strengthen life,
My Guide, my Pattern and my Friend
Is constantly beside me in the way
No fear have I,
For He fs true and tried,
And day by day this Guide
Of mine reveals new glories
Just before my eyes.
So I rejoice as on my path
I go toward home,
And happiness and God,
Content to do His will and share His
love, —G. A. Leighliter.
—Audrey Wurdemann.
grcirt0
QUO VADIS?
We stand on "Now" and gaze ahead
at "When."
What thoughts are these, back from
the Future thrown
To keep our minds keen -edged?
Whose voice eries out
"Advi ncel"
Endeavor leads us to the very edge
Of might be. Straining on the tip -toe
there
We catch a glimpse of Shall be. Still
that voice --t
"Advance!"
These urgent promptings to the
questing mind,
Endeavor, energy, .and will to do,
Are vital thrilling shafts from souls
ahead
FIung backward for our aid—
Advance!
I. Found, in Ottawa Citizen.
aseseraser
GYPSY BORN
I go where the road goes,
Let it be crooked or straight,
Through the villages, down the lanes,
In this age of leniency and hat,
maneness it seems incredible, but an
author in the Canadian Geographical
Journal gives it as fact, .that, Sir
John Hawkins, after whose wife was
named the present Canadian Nation-
al liner, Lady. Hawkins; was granted
as coat' of arms a "demi-moor, or
negro, chained" in bondage. Sir John
is consicleeed the founder sof the ,slave
traffic from Africa to plantations of
the New World. He spelled his
name "Hawkyns."
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flse om ; ring llni
And the hard grey towns to hate,
I sleep where the birds sleep,
Let it be rainy or fine.
Inside the !barns, .or on the hay,;
Tinder the hedges by the way;
I s loop where the birds sleep,.
• And a dreamless rest is mine.
I wake at. dawn to the huntsman's
horn,
Or the song of birds sublime.
I end when my road ends;
g DoIiars int
asseereetes
THE PORTRAIT
She sits upon a tombstone in
shade;.
One flake of sunlight, falling thra'
the veils
Of quivering poplars, lights upon her
hair;.,
1 her candid
golden, and across n a o
brow,
Thus in the .pleasant gloom she holds
the eye,
Being life amid piled up
brae -ices
Of the tranquil dead,
• One hand, chopped lightly down, •
Rests on the words of a forgotten
name:
Therefore the past makes glad to
stay her up.
Closed in, walled off: here's an obliv
bus place, .
Deep, planted in with trees, unvisited:
A still backwater in the tide of life.
Life flows all round; sounds from
surrounding streets,
Laughter of unseen children, roll of
wheels,
Cries of all vendors.—So she sits and
• waits.
And she rejoices us who pass her by,
And she rejoices those who here lie
still,
And she makes glad the little wan-
dering airs,
And doth make glad the shaken
beams of light
That fall upon her forehead: all the
world
Moves round her, sitting on forgotten
tombs
And lighting in to -morrow. She is
Life: -
That makes us keep on moving, tak-
ing roads,
Hauling great burdens up the unend-
ing hills,
Pondering senseless problems, setting
sail
For undiscovered anchorages. Here
She waits, she waits, sequestered a-
mong tombs,
The sunlight on her hair. She waits,
she waits:
The secret music, the resolving note
That sets in tune all this discordant
-world
And solves the riddles of the Uni-
verse. —Ford Modox Hue/fete
the
e;&ratea
THE GREAT WIND
All night the great wind blew, and
when wo woke
Hardly a sign of autumn could be
Seen.
Through the bare boughs of every
elm and oak
Sunlight came streaming and the air
was keen.
There were the clustering rooftops
of our town
With miles of Ievel countryside be.
yond,
And from our gable window, looking
down,
We saw the silver glint of Ludlow's
Pond.
No leaf could hold against that hur-
ricane,
These woods, whose branches had
been wrung and tossed,
Let in illimitable sky again,
Showed us horizins that had long
bon lost.
So on this wintry thresholdwe sur-
veyed
A shining world, miraculously res
made.
--Leslie Nelson Jennings in Chris-
tian Science Monitor,
sesesseeso-
THIS WORLD IS NOT SO BAD
This world is not so bad a world
As some would like to make it;
Though whether good, or whether
bad,
Depends on how we take it.
For if we scold and fret all day,
From dewy morn till even,
This world will neer afford to man
A foretaste here of heaven,
This world in truth's as good a world
As e'er •was known to any
W'ho have not seen another yet,
And these are very many;
Anel if the men, and women, too,
Hlave plenty of employment,
They surely must be hard to please
Who cannot find enjoyment.
This world is quite a pleasant world,
In rain or pleasant weather.,
If people -would •but learn to live
In harmony together;
And cease to burst the kindly bond
By love and pease cemented,
And learn that best eI lessons yet,
remem-.
Hints on Seeding
Flowering Plants
Seed should be sown now of lobelia,
snapdragon, dahlia, salvia patens,
petunia, celosia, and verbena, if this
has not already been done. Where
early cut flowers are desired, calen-
dula, coreopsis, and eandytuft may
also be started indoors. I.f a green.
house is not available, a sunny win-
dow will serve the purpose very well.
Good seed costs a lltt.e more than
that of inferior quality, but when
good plants are desired, they can be
grown only from the best seed.
Sow the seeds in a light sandy
compost. Thin sowing is preferred,
as this gives all seedlings a chance to
develop into good sturdy plants. Fine
seeds such as petunia, lobelia, and
snapdragon, require little or no cov,
ering. Merely press them into the
soil and keep the surface moist at all
times. Too rapid drying -.cut of seed
receptacles an be prevented by ecu-.
ering them with a pane of glass
which should be whitewashed or cov-
ered with paper to exclude the rays
of the sun. The glass should be re-
moved as soon as the seeds germin-
ate, but it is advisable to shade the
seedlings for several days. By using
the above method a much higher per-
centage of plants will be obtained
than when no covering is placed on
the seed pans, unless extreme care is
taken in watering.
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