The Clinton News Record, 1935-05-23, Page 7`: THU1:l•S.,'ni"AY:23;1935
Health
Cooking
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Edited By., Mabel It. Clark
BROWN LABEL - 334 1/2 Ib.
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A Column Prepared Especially for Women—
But Not Forbidden to Men
HOMES
A -home, with children needs some-
thing more
Than brooms for sweeping a tidy
floor.
It needs an ointment for small,
bruised knees,
Tall rope swings under shady trees.
Birthday cakes that are candle bright
• Gay, brave stories that march at
night.
Kites that -climb on a windy day,
Funny secrets that child lips say,
Dogs and kittens and bugs and toads,
Flowers gathered on spring-inad
roads.
Lullabies when a child can't sleep-
A home ie more than a place to
' sweep!
Helen Welshimer.
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•So .much has been said and written
the past -few weeks about the Icing
• and Queen and their many admirable
• equalities have been enlarged upon
and their many virtues extolled by
everyone, high and low. One of the
things which has impressed me is the
fact that the very qualities and vir-
tues which make Queen Mary beloved
- of her poepie are the virtues which
• all true womeneshauld possess. It
,js' the womanly qualities of kindl -
ness, thoughtfulness for others, he
devotion and faithfulness as wife and
mother and her care for her family
and those dependent upon her which
call out our loyalty and admiration
quite as. much or mare than any
queenliness of manner or her ability
to deport herself as the consort of
e powerful monarch.
It is not the fortune of many to
occupy high positions and to be thus
set up as an example, bet every wo-
man who has her family about her is
that much a queen and she niay and
should exercise the very same qual-
ities which we all :admire so much in
Queen Mary. In her own small realm
every wife and mother has an oppor-
tunity of showing herself as grac-
ious, as thoughtful, as queenly as the.
gracious lady whom the whole Em-
pire has delighted to honour during
the past weeks.
Next week in the city of Ottawa
the seventh triennial meeting of the
Canadian Women's Press Club will
convene, the opening session to be
held on Wednesday morning, 11fay
29th, and to continue for four days.
Newspaper women from every Pro-
vince of the Dominion will be pre
sent, newspaper editors, reporters,
short story writers and authors of
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TUMOURS our; so every cancer is curable. for
Tumours grow on plants as well as some time.
.in the human os• animal body. Tuan- All tumours, benign and cancerous,
ours come from one small microscope begin in one cell which starts out on
is cell which, for some reason, starts an unchecked period of growth. We
to grow and keeps right on growing, do' not know why this happens. We
never performing any useful funs do know, however, that there is no
-tom evidence to show that germs have
There are two kinds of tumours. anything to do `with it. There is
Benign, or simple tumors,' are nothing to prove that a doctor or a
•.growths which do not, in themselves; nurse ever contracted cancer from a
endanger life. They may attain patient
such size as to •cause real discomfort There is no clear evidence that
and harm through -pressure on -ad'- heredity is. a factor. At most, it may
jaunt organs. A fibroid tumor. of be that in some 'families there is
''the uterus which is benign may grow greater: liability- to tumours than
to the size of a football, there, is . in other families. There ie
The benign tumour does not spread, on the contrary, much evidence to
and, if "completely removed, it- does show' that repeated injury at "one
not recur. point, which may be the result ose
Malignant tumours are destructive such conditions as the mechanical ir-
to life: Cancer is the most common ritation from ill-fitting dentures or
of the malignant tuinours..'The term•i the "inflammaion of a cervix injured
"cancer," is often used to .include all at childbirth, favours the occurrence
-of them, but it should more proper- of cancer at the points involved.
ler •be restricted to the malignant Our attitude towards cancer should
-.tumours which arise in the covering be a recognition that it . is curable
and lining tisisuus: of the body. while it is a local tumour., and a des
Cancers differ from the benign termination to have more cancers curs
tumours in that they tend to spread, ed by finding them, while they are
Starting in one cell, they are, for a still local growths:
'time, local growths, .but later, they Questions eoneerning Health, ad -
extend, Just as long as the cancer is dressed to the Canadian Medical As -
still a local growth; it can be re- sedation, 184 College Street, Toron-
'eneved and the patient cured. Everyto wilt be answered ersonall •
personally by
eeenoer is, ter some time, a local tum- letter.
more pretentious works; women of
long experience in newspaper work I
and young curb reporters, (or how
should one designatea girl!
reporter?) from city dailies;
hundreds of women who make i
their living •at newspaper and maga-
zine writing or drawing , will fore-
gather to spend a few days in'discus-
sing their work in all its phases..
Amongst them will be women of
international fame, as Miss E. Cora
hind, agricultural editor of the
Winnipeg Free Press, who is consid-
ered as an expert in her line and who
was given the degree of L.L.D. at
Manitoba University the other day.
The city of Ottawa, the Capital of
the Dominion, is planning many me-
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Care of: Children
Household Economics
tial functions for the entertainment
of these women from all over Canada
and luncheons, teas, dinners; recep-
tions are planned fol every day with
the :City officials, the city .newspa-
pers, the Government and the Sens
ate, the King's representatives as
hosts.
It will 11e an interesting gathering,
as many very interesting and out-
standing •woman will be present and
the writer is looking forward to at-
tending it , and gaining some inspir-
ation from the tiffany clever and
wonderful women who make up the
membership of this Club. : Rebekah
may tell you. something of it on her
return.
REBh3K lit
YOUR WORLD AND MINE
by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD
(Copyright)
Most of us can be very virtuous
when we are far removed from temp-
tation. This reflection came to me
as 'I read about the men who. rushed
to the Californian Gold fields in
1849. They found gold easily —
plaoer gold. Theydug up $1000
Worth of gold a day and often their
day's week' gave them gold worth
several thousand dollars. Gold be-
grime so common that it was but
little esteemed. It was used by a ma-
jority to purchase food and drink,
and to gamble withMen became
e
swiney. A: short life and a 'merry
one was the motto of thousands of
the gold-diggers. Their gold did not
Make them richer, It just enabled
them to live riotously. '
'Centuries ealier, when the newly
discovered New World became mag-
netic to all men of courage end
hardihood; it was the treasures of
gold, silver and gems which became
the great object of adventurers. The
Spaniards looted the hoards of treas-
ure in Peru, Their galleons were
lbden with tons of gold and silver,
So easily and so abundantly was gold
obtained that piracy became an in-
dustry and if you want to read of
wickedness and cruelty, read the
tales of looting and piracy as prac-
tised in the centuries following the
discovery of the Americas.
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The fact is that the sight of vast
masses of gold maddens men, and if
they can seize the gold, they are
inclined to do' so. They became
morally corrupted in a twinkling;
and if they can steal the gold and
escape the penalties of the law for
their misdeeds they become volup-
tuous almost over night. One • has
but to read of the corruption of those
British officials of the great East
India. Company in the days of Clive
and Hastings to, perceive the power
of gold to wreck human character.
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l suppose that ,most of us, espec-
ially young people, wish ardently
that we had chests of gold coins from
which' we could draw at will all the
money required by us to satisfy our
desires; and probably a majority of
us envy the sons and daughters 'of
mi1I' ai
yon res who need not toil, who
can travel all over the world in lux-
ury, and h on � 1
who ndu a ev •
Y. every de-
sire g y e
sire.
And just now —in this present era
of human history -eve are hearing
and reading resdin g tl eat there must be a
more equitable distribution of wealth
that labor must have a larger
portion of the .profits which their
toil produces. in short, there seems.
to ibe a universal questing after
material wealth—after money, in or-
der that there may be a more widely
diffused purchasing power which
will be used for the acquirement of
more food; better, homes, and the
things and possessions whieh gratify
the physical senses.
I am not belittling this desire for
conditions and possessions which take
away from human hardships and de-
privations, which soften and ease the
wayof daily life; but I do want, to
point out that life can be lived hap
pily and richly -without our having
much money, and that the main quest
of men and women and their chil-
dren should be for things which en-
noble character and which expand
the mind.
Let me tolI of a letter from a
friend -of .nine—a man whom I have
not seen in twenty years, This •man
was the purchasingassentin a large
industrial firm, in receipt :of what
can be called 'a good salary. sThen
yielded tothe urge to have a -business
of his own. So he became a manu-
facturer. For 'a time he :prospered.
Then came the depression; and the
closing down" of ' many American
banks. These two events caused the
insolvency of my friend's business.
Now; he,ie, back' with; his. former em -
players, and his recent letter to me
indicates that he has a content of
mind and lot to which he had been a
stranger for several years..
This man told me In his letter of
his children still youngsters --. and
of their hobbies, and of his happi-
ness in them -how he shares their
pulsing life and their: simple plea-
sures. This friend used to paint for
a ,pastime, and he has returned to
this leisure -time occupation. Ile has
a love of good iboaks, and in them
he is finding solace and pleasure.
His wife shares with him his present
joys. These parents are—es always
--seekng to direct their.. three chil-
dren along paths which lead to, no
hectic goals. The income of this
family has shrunken much from what
it was when times were lemming, but
despite this circumstance, they are
experiencing a happiness which is
complete. • i
I know of another.fanriiy —lather,
mother and two daughters of high
school age—which for four years or
more has had a very hard time to
make both ends. meet. The husband
is an engineer, but far four years he
has been unable to find steady em-
ployment. His wife has found a job
which pays her about $15 a week. The
children have been able to go on
with their school life. The father
has done, much labour of almost the
navvy type, -without bitter complain-
ing. All about this family are other
families who are likewise struggling
to live.
leer several years I have been see-
ing letters from the mother in this
home. These letters have been uni-
formly cheerful. They • have told
simply and naturally of the family's
difficulties and endeavours to keep
going. The children seem to have all
the happy times belonging to their
years. They play in an. orchestra.
They have their sports. They have
been able to go places and to see
sights. They wear homemade and
madeover dresses. They are in a
seventh heaven of happiness when,
at Christmas and on birthdays, they
receive money gifts from relatives—
gifts of just a dollar or two. Jewel-
' lery
ewel:lery and furniture have been sold to
et needed g money. But never has
there been any whining—no sponge
ing on friends and kin
There has
just been a wholesome acceptance of
their lot, with the sustenance of
hope -slope for better days .to come.
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I know a farm family in comfort-
able cireurnstances. There. is no rest-
lessness in this home. Both parents
and .ehiidern are richly happy and
content with the simple life and
pleasures of their community. , It is
a home where there is a tradition of
culture, where books are many and.
are well read, where . father grows
flowers, and where the son -an adult
:tills the soil and breeds . pure-bred
stook; where the daughters aid the.
Mother ' and entertain their friends.
There is no impatience, because they
lack experience of big city life, of
travel and of luxury
Truly, life' does not consist in an
abundance of possessions. It is a
matter of the spirit.
The End.
The roses called Hybrid P'erpetuals'
are hardier as a class tem Hybrid
Teas and are safer to handle biy am-
ateurs. They have quntities of bloom
in micleu inner but have very few
flowers later on in the season.
In a well-planned perennial border
thereeshouid bebloom from early
spring until fall, and there is much
to interest an observant gardener in:.
noting ,the difference in habits of
growth '' and colour si foliage
throughout the •season, for instance,
the bronze cif the peony; the •bluish.
leaycs• of the Virginia bluebell, and
the ,swordlike leaveseof the iris.
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OUR RECIPE FOR TODAY
NORWEGIAN PUDDING".
Experience has. made Norway
people fully alive to the health- *,
building ' prbperties of fish
foods and one of their favour-
•ite dishes is made by steaming *
together some rave fish, bread , *.
crumbs, milk, eggs, butter, and *
lemon juice. This "Norwegian *
Pudding,' as it is sometimes *
called, hasthe double 'merit of *
!being- rich in nourishment and '*
delicious to the taste, and it *
has the further merit from the
standpoint of a busy housewife *
that there is nothing camiPli- *.
sated about the process of mak-
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ak. ing it.
The ingredients required are
a pound of fresh fish, two
cups of soft bread crumb\,, a
cup and a half . of milk, two
eggs, a quarter of . a eup of
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butter, a dash or two of lemon
juice, and salt and pepper as
desired. The method of prepar-
ation is as follows: The fish
should be chopped up fine or
run through a food chopper
using the finest mutter;" the
crumbs and milk are mixed
and cooked until the
mixture leaves the sides of the
pan, with frequent stirring dur-
ing the cooking time; after the
two eggs have been beaten they
are added to the cooked crumbs
and chappedfish, the butter is
put in, and all these ingred-
lents and the seasoning are
thoroughly mixed. Then the
mixture is put into a mould or
other container and steamed
for an hour. At the end of that
time it is ready for serving.
Any good fish sauce May be
served with it.
If preferred, the mixture
may be baked as a fish loaf. if
this is done, it should be shaped
into loaf loran with the hands•
and rolled in finely sifted
Weed crumbs, ,sprinkled on the
top with cooking oil, and baked
in a slow oven for forty-five
mvinutes,
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FOREST FIRES COST CANADA 10
MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!
Open Camp Fires and Ilutean Care-
lessness Cause Most of the Damage
The next time you see a cloud of
smoke hanging aver some distant hill
or read in your newspaper of a
disastrous forest fire, just remember
that it is your property that is burn-
ing. Nine -tenths of the forest land
is owned by the people through their
Dominion or Provincial Governments.
In thelast ten years forest fires have
cost Canada nearly one -hundred mil-
lion dollars. A sum too staggering
to mean much to most of us, But
when you realize that this is ten
dollars apiece for every man, woman
and child in Canada , .. ten dollars
that may have to be added to our tax-
es to balance ,the budget, we begin to
see the point.
Itis estimated that 60 per cent of
Canada's original forest' has been
burned. Only 13 per eent has been
cut for use and 27 percent remains.
Every year we have about 5760 !ler-
est n fires in Canada fires that de•
str6oy illio of valuable
m ns of acres s e a lu s
timber. The tropic part of it is that
most or these fires are due to human
carelessness, open camp fires that
"Were left smouldering, matches and
cigarettes carelessly tossed into the
bush, etc. Here are the causes of
forest fires, taken from the records of
The Canadian Forest Service at Ot-
tawa;
Camp Fires ...1074 (18.7%)
Smokers 604 (10.5%a)
Settlers . .... , 919 (16.0%)
Railways . . 788 (18.6%)
Lightning . . 820 (14.2%)
Industrial`
Operatuions 200 ( 3.5%r)
Incendiary 334,( 1.0%)
Unknown '962 (16.7%)
So ;you see. 86.5% of the fires are
from human causes. These mans
made fires can and must be control
led. ' Every person entering the for-
ost an business or pleasure is urged
to take the necessary precautions a-
gaihst the starting and spread of
fires.. The observance of a few sim-
ple rules like selecting a camp -fire
site that is free from underbrush,
deadwood, leaves, etc., ' and making
sure that your fire is entirely; extin-
guished before you leave, Will help
prevent a fire. See that you are not
responsible for starting a fire,
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• Generally speaking tomato diseases
are not usually very serious,' but
there can be considerable loss due to
the leaf spot.fiangns'whieh prevents
the maturing of the late-foraned fruit.
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•
A ROUND ROBIN
Protect the birds.
That eat the insects
That destroy the forests
That conserve the waters
That feed the streams
That fill the, reservoirs
That moisten the lands
That produce the crops
That supply the markets
That provide the foods
That neurish the people
That make the nation.
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PRAISE
Let's praise eachother now and then
'Give credit when it's due;
Let's pay the debts o," love we awe,
Forget the debts of hate,
Let's say the kindest words we know
Before it is too late.
-.Author Unknown.
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"DUNA"
When 1 was a little lad
With folly on my lips,
Tarn was T for journeying
All the seas in ships,•
But now across the Southland swell,
Every dawn I hear
The little streams of Duna
Running clear.
When I was a young man,
Before my beard was gray,
All to ships and sailor -men
I gave my heart away,
But I'm weary of the sea -wind,
I'm weary of the foam.
And the little stars of Duna
Call ins home.
—Marjorie Pickthall,
PRELUDE
If you have joy
Squander it ?'reely,
That its employ
You may know really,
Or it will fade in the
And .be all in vain.
If you have visions
Set them free, ,
For men's decisions
When they see,
Or a bird will flutter and die;
Knowing not why.
If you have ire
Leave it sleeping,
Or its fire
Swiftly leaping
Will change a dream treasured most
To a chiding ghost.
If you have sorrow
Held it high,
Lest tomorrow
You should lie
With remorses over your mouth
In a field of drauth.
—Alan Monktur Night.
in Sa day N ght.
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INTERCESSION
Soon every meadow will be pied
with mustard flower and butter-
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And
f far and wide
Will nip each wild thing starting
brain
With .hoe, with trowel and with
"' ,spade
They'll wage a war against that
stout
Tatterdemalion brigade,
Cutting and slashing, rooting out.
To bring one perfect rose to bloom
Demands '•eternal vigilance.
Down with invading hosts, make
room •
For pampered bulbs and hot house
plants!
Yet there are some who still con-
done
.Beauty unwalled and unconfined•,
Whose yards can all be overgrown
And leave them cheerfully resign-
ed.
Oh, keep your garden neat and
trim,
Cherish your safelybedded seeds;'
But I shall not admonish him.
Who's half -way kind to weeds!
-.Leslie Nelson Jennings, in
Christian Science, Monitor.
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A FISH WISH.
God grant that f may catch :a fish
So big that even I,
In telling of it afterwards,
May have no need to lie.
-Quoted by .viscount Grey,
if you should Batcha' fish like that,
(Oh, irony most dire!)
You would be known for evermore
As history's biggest liar.
Cleveland Plain Dealer:.
If I should catches fish that big,
I'd smite my bloomin, lyre;
I simply would not give a fig,
,ef I were called a liar,
-Ohio Legion Councillor;
Canadians catch fish so big,
No lies could ever Match 'em,
And when they want still ,bigger
ones,
They just go out and catch them,
LAGGARD SPRING
Winter hung about the ways,
Very loth to go,
Little Spring could not get past him,
Try she never so.
This side—that side, everywhere,
Winter held the track. ,
Little Spring sat down .and whim..
• pered,
Venter humped his back.
Summer called her, --,"Come, dear,
comet
Why de you delay?"
"Come and heIp me, Sister Summer,
Winter blocks my way."
Little Spring tried everything,
Sighs and moans and tears,
Winter howled with mocking laugh.
ter,
Covered her with jeers.
Winter, rough old surly beggar,
Practised every vice,
Pelted her with hail and snowstorms, ,
Clogged her feet with ice.
But, by chance at last they caught
hint
Unawares one day,
Tied his hands ane feet, and dancing,
Sped upon their way. -
, -,Tohn Oxenham.
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SAY THIS 011 HORSES ' .
Across the ages they come thunder-
ing
Gn faithful hoofs, the horses man
disowns,
Their velvet eyes are wide with won-
dering;
They whinny deem the wind in sil-
ver tones
Vibrant with all the bugles of old
wars;
Their nostrils quiver with the sum-
mer scent
Of grasses in deep fields lit by pale
stars
Hung in a wide and silent firma-
ment.
Anti in their hearts they keep the
dreams of earth
Their patient plodding furrowed to
the sun
Unnumbered springs before the en-
gine's birth
.Doomed them to sadness and ob-
divion.
Across the • swift r f
t ne
w
dayI
watch
tva h
them go
Driven by wheel and gear and dys
name.
Say this s of •horses; engines leave be-
hind
No glosiious legacy of waving
manes
And wild .proud hearts, and heels be -
More the wind.
No heritage of ancient Arab strains
Blazes within a cylinder's old spark;
An engine labors with a .sullen fire,
Hoarding no dreams of acres sweet
and' dark;
No love far man has ever surged
through wire!
Along the farthest'siopes I hear' the
rumble
Of these last hoofs—tomorrow they
will ,be still;
Then shall the strength of countless
horses crumble
The stanchest rock and level the
highest hill;
And man who made machines. to gain
an hour
Shall lose himself he€ore their
ruthless power,`
—.Minnie I1ite Moody, in The Nation.
One must look .ahead.a good many
years in trimming hedges. ' of too
much growth is left on each year, the
hedge will take up far too much
space: If; for instance,' one ,.inch of
growth isleftall over the hedge each
year, that means an increase of two
inches in width each year, and in 25
years the hedge would be ever four
deet wide at the .base. With two
inches a year left of growth, the base
of the hedge would be over eight feet
in width in 26 years ' I