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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
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Health
Cooking
Care of Children
Household Economics
"Quality Has No Substitute
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"Fresh from the Gardens"
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A Column Prepared Especially for Women ---
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SCRAPS OF CALICO
C;She cuts and stitches through each
day
On tiny scraps of calico;
-'.And, out of pieces, bright and gay,
She makes a flower garden grow.
As patent fingers tote with love
Upon the squares for symmetry,
- With every quilt she's thinking of
Her children as they used to be.
_A gift for each, that is her goal;
For they have left the old home -
place
And gone to fill another role,
Where, toiling through the day,
they face.
. A life that lacks her loving care,
Her mother heart is filled with pray-
er
..:L'ot them, while loving fingers sew
"The tiny scraps of calico.
—From English Lavender.
Some folk seem to have the idea
• that the young fork of today are all
wrong, not to be relied upon, really
going to the bad, not at all to be con
•pared with the generations preceding
--especially the one itnmediately pre-
• ceding.
I do not feel that way at all. Some
of the young folk of today are not
getting a fair start in life, because
they have had such poor parents;
'their parents have allowed them to
just grow up, like Topsy, without
training, guidance or example, and if
they turn but all right it will be more
by good luck than good management
on the part of the parents. But giv-
en equal chances the young folk of
today can teach their parents a thing
or two. And they are independent
enough to carry them well along and
courageous enough to take the cone
quences of their awn actions. Oh, I'm
very hopeful of the young folk of to
day, I'm looking forward to better
conditions when they get their hands
upon the helm and really begin to as-
sist in running things.
One of the things which old-fash-
ioned people, women, especially, think
the girls of today are neglecting is
that of housekeeping. They cannot
bake and stew and can and make jel-
ly, like their mothers and grandmoth-
ers did, they complain, 'Well, per-
haps the modern girl has not had the
chance of learning all these details
of housewifely art as their mothers
or grandmothers had. The modern
girl is working at some bread -winning
task for the most part, her house-
keeping knowledge is picked up at
odd moments. But it is surprising
how much of such knowledge a
bright girl can pick up. She doesn't
as a rule like spending• too much
time at it, but a girl can get up a
good meal very quickly and efficient-'
ly, She may not make the work of
keeping a house and feeding a fam-
ily her chief aim in life, she has many
other interests, but she can do the.
work when needed and in many,
Many cases, does do it, or assist very
materially, in keeping the work of
the household' running smoothly as
an aside from her work outside the
home, by which she earns her living
and, very probably, assists in Paying
the expenses of the home.
I can very well imagine, too, that
when these girls take upon themsel-
ves the responsibilities of a home of
their own that they will bring to the
task just as much intelligence and
enthsuiasm as their mothers did.
And, besides, they may have learned
a lot of labor-saving devices which
will enable them to keep house with
less expenditure of energy, which
will give them more time to cutivate
the other side of home making. For,
after all, important as keeping a
house and feeding a family, is the
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PAINLESS true that a large number occur be-
tween'the ages of thirty and forty,
and that quite a number develop in
women in their early twenties, oc
casionally even earlier.
This simply means that a woman
cannot say to herself: "I cannot have
canter "of the breast because the
breast is not painful and I am under
forty." Cancer of the breast occurs
at all ages, and at all ages it is usu-
ally painless in its early stages.
There is only one safe and . sure
Way for a woman to: approach this
subject, She knows the appearance
and the feel of her own breasts. If,,
at any time, she observes or feels a
change .in her breasts,then she
should consult' a doctor without any
delay. By "change," we mean any
dischargefrom. the nipple, or alter-
ation
lteration in the appearance of the nip-
ple, or a feeling of thickening, or a
lump in the breast. '
The reason why we insist upon the
importance of the early recognition
of canner of the breast, is simply that
when the . symptoms are recognized
early and properly treated, the re-
sults are good. Early treatment is
the only effective remedy, and early
trestinent can be given .only if there
is an early diagnosis, and early diag-
nosis depends upon the patient's go-
ing to her physician with the earliest
signs.
Questions concerning Health, ad-
dressed to the Canadian Medical As-
sociation, 184 College Street, Toren -
to will be answered personally by
The severity of a pain is to many
• people' a fair measure of the sever-
ity of the 'disease'Or 'abnormal ' condi-
tion responsible for the .pain.. Pain
is one of nature's danger, signals.
Nevertheless, it is most unfortunate.
that the public are apt to believe that
if pain means danger, then the ab-
sence of pain assures safety. That
this is no true is evident when we
come to consider how many of the
major tragedies of illness which un-
dermines health and endangers life,
occur without causing a twinge of
pain until it is too late to do much
•:about it.
`. Ask the woman who comes' to her
doctor for the first time with a can-
cer of the breast why she did not
eome sooner, and ' almost inevitably
• the answer given is to • the effect that
she did. not, think the lump in , her
`'breast could be anything serious be-
cause there was no pain. It should
be cried from the housetops that, in
'its early stages, cancer of the breast
is painless; ,Indeed it does not cause
even tenderness. There are excep-
tional'eases, but • no' woman has any
justification far thinking that; she
can neglect the lump in her breast
just because it does not give rise to
pain or tenderness.
There is another popular raiseon-
ception concerning cancers of the
'breast, namely that such cancers
rarely occur in women under forty. It
is quite true that the majority are
atoumd after that age, but it is equally
whole duty of wife and mother is not
completed with providing nourishing
meals and keeping• a spotless house.
'One of the thingswhich modern
girls are doing that their mothers
did very little of is piecing quilts,
Our grandmothers used to make
many quilts, some of them very beau-
tiful ones. But their daughters did
not think they had the' time and did
not think it very profitable work, ev-
en if they had the time. But the
fad for piecing quilts is , again on
and:; some very handsome ones are
being turned out. Not onlyso, but
if any home boasts a patched quilt
which is still in good condition it is
being 'brought out and proudly dis-
played. It would hardly .be surpris-
ing, if tidies 'should come into style
again. Do you remember the , old-
fashioned tidy? They were espec-
ially popular in dainty parlors where
horsehair furniture was used. They.
adorned the puffed backs of chairs,
sometimes arms, too, were covered
with a dainty bit of crochet work,
which could be removed and washed
when necessary. Horsehair furniture
is having a revival, perhaps we shall
yet see the return of the tidy. When
the modern girl is turning to these
old fads of her grandmother there's
not much danger of her neglecting
the old-fashioned family virtues.
REBEKAH-
A' Legend About Autumn's. Stately, Sunny
Goldenrod
One day in the 'deep, black forest
many years ago an old woman was
wandering around apparently lost.
Finally' she came to a stream whieb
was hardly narrow enough to jump
,across. She looked up at the trees
and asked them to give her a branch
to assist her to the opposite side.
"I would gladly give you a staff,"
said the Elm, "but everyone knows
that I am very lovely, and any branch
I gave you would spoil my form."
"Yes," said the Maple, "I would
like to give you a stick to assist you
across the stream, but every one of
my branches has such lovely red
leaves` upon it that if any one of
them was removed, a great deal of
my beauty would be gone."
"Well," said the Oak, "you know
that I am the strongest of all trees,
but my strength depends entirely on
keeping all my branches, each of
which forms just the right support
for my head."
"Yon know," said the walnut,
"that my branches must bear nuts,
and everyone expects to gather them.
You see therefore that I must have
my branches to hold up a big load or
nuts,"
am an Evergreen," said the
Hemlock. "I feel it my duty to keep
every one of my branches. If it
weren't for this duty that I have to
winter, I might- consider helping
yen."
"Would you no use me?" whis-
pered an old crooked branch that lay
on the ground at the old woman's
feet.
"You!" exclaimed the old woman.
"You look just like an old dead stick
to me, I must stay on this side of
the stream, after all."
"At least try me," said the old
stick, and raised itself up so that I
she could easily grasp it.
With one skip and a jump the old
woman was across the stream.
Whereupon a fairy appeared from be-
hind a tree and said, "Dear old stick,
you have assisted a fairy from the
skies across the stream, and I shall
transform you into a Goldenrod."
Withthat she exclaimed the magic
word "Solidago," and the old stick
took root and became a Goldenrod.
GRATITUDE
Are we grateful enough for the
good things which we have on this
Earth?
Do we not often think that the
"other fellow" is getting along bet-
ter, and getting more out of life than
we are?
If we would only stop and think
for a few minutes, of the hundreds of
things that we should be grateful for,
and are not, we would indeed say,
"what ungrateful people we ate," It
is the opinion of the Holy men of
India, if elrildren are not grateful to
their parents they are thought very
little of.
We do not realize how easy it is
to get into the habit of being un-
gratefuI.
Some people seem to find it an ex-
ceedingly difficult thing to say thank
you.
It does not 'Cost anything to say
these two little words, or to do some
little act of kindness to someone who
has been kind to us. In this manner
we show our gratitude in the finest
way possible.
Do not do kindnesses to only the
people who have been kind to you,
but try never to miss being kind to
auyone who needs and deserves it,
—Conscientious Dotty.
"BET-WEI:W . YOU. AND ME"
The debate over "I" and "me" goes
on unendingly, but there is one thing
that we ought to stop. It is the
phrase, "between you and I" If the
people who use it would reverse the
pronouns and. say "between I and
you," they might learn to use the
correct form, but every day we hear
from the most unexpected sources
the heart-rending " bets een you and
I." The correct form, of course; is
"between you and me."
Then there is the precision who
insists that we should say "It is I,"
instead of "It's me." Ile is right,
but he is fearfully stilted, and there
is a general feeling, even among the
most autocratative gramarians, that
"It's pie" is allowable. The French
say "C'est mol," and no doubt we
have-dirived our colloquial phrase
from this direction,,just as we learn-
ed to drop our h's as they do. The
argument for "It is me" is that it is
aur idiom; and idioms are independent,
of rules,'
One very bad error is to be seen'ev-
ery day in one newspaper or another,
the substitution of laid for lain. In
Omtanio many speakers appear to be
unaware that there is such a word as
lain, Laid is alsoused for lay, and
people -say "I laid down," when they
mean "I lay down." If one says, "I.
laiddown," the inclination is to ask
what did he lay down. If he wishes
to use the word laid, he should say
"I laid myself down," but it is, simpler
as it is correct, to say "I .lay down."
American newspapers are having
letter: an immense influence ott the Cana -
setsee
dian use of English. They have tut
off the possessive case in words end-
ing with s. Instead of saying
"James's coat," they say "James
coat," probably not being aware that
the old custom was to say, "James,
his coat,' which is contracted into
"James's coat"
There are exceptions to almost
every rule in English granimer, and
the only standard is the best usage.
There used to be an infallible stan-
dard in the English stage with its
faultless accent and perfect gram-
mar. But the stage is not what it
used to be, and has been ousted by
the proving picture and the talkies,"
with their "unspeakable accents. The
radio has also done much to change
the current of speech and may do
more, so that it is not without reason
that attempts are being made to get
the announcers to speak corrcetly.
SHOPPER'S CREED
The "Shopper's Greed" adopted by
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs representing three million wo-
men will be worth studying. The
creed is as follows:
"I believe that the woman, through
control of a large share of the fam-
ily budget, exerts a . vital influence
upon today's economic order.
"Therefore, I hold it my duty to
hal m 1 thi i finance c tr ctive
to govern my buying so that waste
will be reduced and the greatest good
THIS MODEST CORNER IS ,DEDICATED
TO THE POETS
Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad- But Always Helpful
and Ins pining'
LAKE HURON
Tell me your secrets
0 Huron, blue and deep
Tell me your wanderings
Where'er your waters sweep.
What of the freighted craft
That on your boom floats?
What of the safer shores
Where sail the smaller boats?
Tell me of nightly peril
Then of days filled with joy,
Speak now of brave deeds done
'Where men their lives employ.
Here, where the sunset shaft
No greater beauty knows,
Here where each cooling breeze
Fans me to sweet repose.
Fere will I sink to rest
Beside your sandy shore,
Here will I find content
In rich, abundant store.
-Caroline Grant Farrill, Clinton.
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NABOTH'S VINEYARD
114- neighbor hath a little field,
Small store of wine its presses yield,
And truly but a slender hoard
Its harvest brings for. barn or board.
Yet though a hundred fields are mine,
Fertile with olive, corn, and vine,
Though autumn piles my garners
high,'
Still for that little field I sigh,
For ah! Methinks no otherwhere
Is any field so good and fair,
SmaIl though it be, 'tis better far
Than all my fruitful vineyards are,
Amid whose plenty sad I pine—
"Ah, would that little field were
mine!"
Large knowledge void of peace and
rest,
And wealth with pining care possest
These by my fertile lands are meant;
That little field is called Content
--Robertson Trowbridge.
STILL WATER
Even in bird -loud mornings of the
Spring
There was a spell of silence on this
pool
Whose wind -unruffled waters, green
and cool,
Made lovelier each clear reflected
thing.
Now Summer wanes; the Autumn in-
terlude,
Passing' in sudden splendour down the
year,
For all its crying colour comes not
near
This undefended fort of solitude.
The icy breath of Winter soon will
cloud
The mirror -surface; and the stealthy
snow
Hush, with its feather fall, all winds
I that blow
Lest some rude gust disturb the quiet
shroud.
Here one might learn, mid silences
to all realized from my expenditures.
"I believe that as a measure of
true economy, 1 should: snake known
my merchandise needs and prefer-
enees in advance whenever the oppor-� r
tunity is presented;
"Remember that cheapness in it
self isnot always a bargain, and eon. *
Sider suitability ,and durability ast
well as price. •
"Avoid merchandise known to be *
produced under unfair competitive *
conditions,such,' as sweat -shop or *
prison -made goods; k
"Be reasonable in my demands for *
service, such as credit,. alterations
and deliveries;
"Refrain from returning merohan-
dise unless the goods or the store is
at fault,
"This is my creed. I believe in it,
I shall support it"
!Contributed by Margaret 11. Honey;
Prov, convenor of flame Economic
Committee.
--M. Elizabeth McCurdy.
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION
STATEMENT
There were 5,127, accidents report-
ed to The Wlorknien's Compensation.
Board during August, as .compared
with 5,489 during July, and 3,660 dui.
ing August a year ago. ` ' *
The death cases numbered 25, as a *
gainst 27 in July, and 18. last Au- *
gust. *
The benefits awarded amounted to
$415,973.77, of which 4349,6$4.38 for v
for compensation and 866,684.38 for •
medical aid.
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OUR RECIPE FOR TODAY
THE ART OF MAKING TBA
No beverage in the world is
as universally popular as tea.
It used in nearly every civil-
ized country and this delight-
ful drink not only refreshes
and invigorates the mind and
body, but also serves as the
medium by which people meet
in a spirit of friendship and
understanding the world over.
And if you imagine :that only
women enjoy it you're very
much mistaken.
If the fallowing directions
are followed', each' cup will,
yield the full delicious flavour
that makes tea so. enjoyable.:
1. Uas a tea of fine quality.
2. Use fresh water always.
3. Ilse an earthenware tea-
pot.
Scald out the pot to make it
warm, place in it a level tea-
spoon of tea for every eup de-
sired, and one for the pot. Add
fresh boiling water. Allow to
steep about five minutes and
stir slightly before pouring in-
to . another heated pot. Serve.
at once.
Tea made according to the
above rules will be fragrant
delicious and completely sat-
isfying.
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unbroken
The poignant worth of words which
go unspoken.
-Molly Bevan.
AUTUMN MORN
Hol for the bending sheaves,
ito! for the crimson leaves,
Flaming in splendor.
Season of ripened gold
Plenty in crib and fold.
Skies with depth unsold,
Liquid and tender.
Far like thesmile of God
See how the goldenrod
Ripples and •tosses,
Yonder a crimson vine
Trailing a bearded pine
Thin like a thread of wine
Staining the mosses.
Autumn is here again,
Banners on hill and plain
Blazing and flying.
Hail to the amber morn
Hail to the heaped-up corn,
Hail to the hunter's horn
Swelling and dying.
YES AND NO
Yes
Is made to bless
By natural iargesse,
Yes is full sun,
Day well begun,
And labor done;
The high
Response of the beloved eye;
Approving sky;
Rich laughter open; open hands;
The bright expanse
Of casual circumstance.
Yes
Is no less
Than God's excess.
No
Is the slow
Finally of snow;
The soft blow deadening all that
grow;
Locked brain;
The tight-lipped tugging at the rein;
The blood stopped in the vein;
Dull dying without death;
Lost faith,
Sick of its own breath.
No is the freezing look,
The closed book,
The dream forsook.
—Louts Untermeyer.
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HOME FOLKS FIRST
Would you Iike to know how always
to say
The pleasantest things in the pleae-
antest way,
That will bring you friends ,you will
surely need,
Friends that are true in word and
sees?
Just try them on the home folks
first.
Do you want to know how always to
do
The things that politeness requires
of you?
For courtesy is the oil, you know,
That makes the wheels of the 'day's
work go.
Just try them on the home folks
first.
For home folks are nearest and dear-
est and best,
And home love is surest to' stand ev-
ery test.,
So, if you would know how to do and'
to say
The pleasantest things in the pleas-
antest way,
Just try them on the home folks
first., —Author Unknown.
SEPTEMBER
Wind and the robin's note today
* Have heard of autumn and betray
The green long reign of summer,
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The rust is falling in the leaves,
* September stands beside the sheaves,
* ' The new, the happy comer.
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Not sad my season of the red,
* And russet orchards gaily spread
* From Cholesbury to Courting.
* Nora sad when twilit valley trees
* Are ships becalmed on misty seas,
And beetles go aboonung.
* Now soon shall come the morning
* crowds
* Of starlings, soon the colored clouds
•From oak and ash and willow,
• 1 And soon the thorn and briar shall
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There is a generous and general
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CLINTON
REMEMBER THE DATES
be
In scarlet and in yellow.
Spring laughed and thrilled a million
veins,
And summer shone above her rains
To fill September's faring;
September talks as kings who know
The World's way and superbly go
In roles of wisdom's wearing.
—.John Drinkwater, in "Collected
Poems•"
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WISDOM
Loolc well to this one day,
For it, and it alone, is life.
In the brief course of this one clay
Lie all the verities and realities of
your existence. •
The joy of growth, the splendor of
beauty, the glory of action,
Yesterday is but a dream, and to-
morrow is only a vision.
But today, well lived, makes every
yesterday a dream of happiness.
And each tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this one
day,
For it, and it alone, is life.
Such is the salution of the dawn.
—An Eastern Sage,
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BRAMBLE TIME
Once again 'tis bramble time,
And with cans and baskets too,
Over walls and rocks we climb
Seeking those of blackest hue.
Rands all scratched and legs as well,
'Clothes all torn but what of that?
Nothing can our ardour quell.
Though the thorns we often drat.
Branches tugging at our hair,
Briars that trip unwary feet, ,
Nothing matters, we don't care. ,
There are brambles, juicy sweet.
Baskets filled with red and black,
Oh, how we admire the spoil!
Though there's many an aching back,
Still it has been worth the toil.
So each year at bramble time
0¢f we go to pick our share,
Scratched, and sticky with the grime,
Yet we never seem to care.
Everywhere it is the same.
In the woods and in the lanes,
All are at the same old game,
And are well scratched for theta
pains.
--.Anne-Blondell Sims.
IT'S LIVER THAT MAKES
YOU FEEL SO WRETCHED
Wake;up'yaur Liver Bile
--No. Calomel necessary
For you tofeelhealthyand happy, yeas
liver must pour two pounds of -liquid hiio ,oto
your bowels, every day.Without that baa
darts. arts. Poor digestion. Slow ell,dination.
'Solecism in the body. General wretchedness.
flow can you expect to clear up a situation
like this completely with mare howl -moving
salts, oil, mineral water, laxative oaudy or
°hawing sum, or roughaget They don't teaks
up your liver.
You need Carter's Little Liver Pills. P
vegetable. Safe, Quick and sum resultel M
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