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THE CLINTON
NEWS -RECORD
Edited By Mabel R. Clark
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PASSING OF SUMMER
Brown is the river
And blue is the sky,
And silent the paddle
I softly ply.
September is fair
Under Northern skies;
No sound can be heard
But the lone loon's cries.
Far o'er the lake
lo a purple haze
That veils from close searching
These last, dear days.
Gold are the birches,
The sumacs aro red;
In a pageant of color
The summer is dead.
! Anon.
Somehow, although we have had a
.glorious summer, and a long ane,
too, I hate to see it pass. We have
had plenty of sunshine, plenty of
long, lovely .sunny days in which to
revel in the glory •of it, and for those
happy enongh to be at the lakeside,
into the cool waters of which they
might slip two or three times a day
and so forget the heat, it must have
been most satisfactory.
Silk Stockings
(Too factories in Clinton manufac-
ture silk stockings and it is an inter-
esting thing toactually see them
made, -; But, of course, most of the
stockings commonly worn are made
of artifieial silk.—Ed. N. -R.)
"Tho Michigan Farmer" carries a
story of a pair of stilk stockings,
that is most interesting.
"History tells us that the first pair
of silk stockings were made for
Queen Elizabeth in 1589, !but today
every girl is a queen if judged by the
stockings she wears, and instead of
being looked upon as a, luxury which
only the rich can afford silk stock-
ings have become a daily necessity.
The first scene of the story of silk
stockings is laid in Japan where the
silk worm takes the leading part.
It takes the produce of about two
thousand silk worms to make a doz-
en pairs of silk stockings, and about
twenty-five different people have a
hand in the making of each pair.
That sounds almost incredthle when
we think of the scarcity of feed for
some years Hast.
And with all this work piling up
during the summer farmers. had to
keep ail it early and late, during the
long, hot and trying clays. I am sure
that on many an occasion they would
have welcomed a cloud to shade thein
from the burning rays of the sun,
and I can readily imagine that they
do not regret the waning of such a
hectic summer and welcome the cool-
er and less strenuous days. A hot
summer is weelorned by those who
are spending it by the lakeside in
holidaying, its another thing to the
farmer who must get his work done
no matter what he suffers in heat
and fatigue through the long days.
But there is, of course, another
side of it. June was so plentiful
with its showers that growth was a-
bundant and the farmers had such
heavy crops of hay and grain that
they found it difficult, indeed in come on the farm. There is still
many cases impossible, to keep up much to be done outside and bright,
with the work which kept piling up sunny days are also welcome so we
bewilderingly. The hay was such a trust that the autumn may be long
heavy crop and took so much hand- and bright and warm enough so that
the outdoor work may be done under
the pleasantest of conditions. Some-
one has already predicted a pleasant
fall and we hope he will be fully
justified.
And the women on the farms, too,
many of them during the past sum-
mer assisting their Hien folk harvest
the extra heavy crop, must heave a
sigh of relief when the cooler wea-
ther comes. For work in the farm
house during the sununer must go os.
No need for them to go out and de-
finitely seek a coat of sun -tan. They
can get all the sun -tanning they de-
sire, and more than enough , just
going about their regular work.
They will also welcome the cooler
weather, for while there is little
cessation in the volume of work, it is
easier to perform.
So the milder rays of the sun, with
the cooling breezes, must be wel-
Salvation Army Head
Comes to Canada
The raw silk is shipped to America
for the second scene in the knitting
mills, where we are told, the skeins
are soaked in a solution of soap and
warm water to soften the silk and
make it easier to wind.
Then it is spun and made ready for
the knitting machines which knits
the top of the stocking and doubles
it over automatically. Then it knits
the body of the stocking, narrowing
down to the ankle, on to the heel,
and, then to the toe and the stock-
ings fall off!
It•s an interesting operation, if
you have the opportunity sometime,
go through a factory.
Another machine sews up the back
seams and closes the toe and on it
goes—
But,-of course, we have to be able
to produce them in almost innumer-
able shades, so after being carefully
examined for flaws, they are ready
for the dye bath.
Then they wend their way to the
dry room, en to the shipping room,
and eventually adorn the trim ankle
of some lady.
Real silk is probably the strongest land from the Tyne to, the Solway,
fibre known. For its size it is strong- among the ruins of Verulamium
er than steel, but must be handled (Which Queen Boadicea in her mile -
properly to retain its strength and tent assertion of women's rights
durability. burned to the ground), inthe re -
Hosiery should really be washed mains of Roman villas in Hampshire,
every day after wearing!
Can you imagine doing that? chapter is slowly added to chapter.
And it is not a story of invisible leg -
If they aro very dirty it is well to ions but of man's little weaknesses
allow then to soak in cold water a- and woman's little vanities.
bout half an hour before washing. The discovery at the Verulamium
For waping make a thick suds of near St. Alban's of a broken rouge
mild soap and lukewarm water and ,
wash the hose by squeezing the suds pot and a bundle of decorated hair
gently through them• pins is more revealing of the Roman
When you purchase any good silk , matron in those old days than the
garment, you receive with it a pant- { division of Gaul into three parts.
phlet giving directions for washing,; And if women painted, the discovery
and there are enough "dents" to I too of counters tells how men gamb-
make one think we were quite green led. Paw marks ,still there show
horns on the job. where a naughty dog scampered
It says: Don't rub, don't wring, I over tiles before they had time to
don't iron, and don't hang on the dry
radiator to dryl Roman industry even had its
IIeat is, as we know, very hard on I slackers. A tile discovered in Lon -
silk, so the really best way to dry don itself bears a half -humorous,
them is to fold in a (bath towel. This' half-eynical inscription. A Roman
may seem quite a lone process, but it workman was often late on the jou.
will keep the most delicate shades A workmate, with no thought of eine
ferring immortality, recorded
fact with his finger on a wet tile.
And the story has come down
throuph nearly two thousand years.
Thirty years ago Evangeline Booth
controlled the work of The Salvation
Army in Canada. In October, as bead
of the world-wide Orgnization, Gen-
eral Booth will return to conduct
The enemy's Fifty-third Annual Con-
gress in the Dominion. Toronto will
be the centre from Oletober 4th to
10th.
When, in the course of her visit td
Canada General Evangeline Booth
may be expelted to say much about
her attendance at the Royal Garden
Party at 'Buckingham Palace, recent-
ly: "I shall not easily forget the
affection which was displayed for
Their Majesties, the King and
Queen," said General 'Booth, whose
first experience it was of such an
event. •
ling that it could not be put out of
the way before the fall wheat was in,
then the oats came along so fast that
they crowded the wheat. One farm -
mer, and there may have been many
ethers, said that he had a fifteen acre
field of hay that he did not touch.
—RE BEKAH
tea:1th Service
OF THE
k ttabian itte +icat Association
and Life
Insurance Companies in Canada.
Edited by
GRANT FLEMING. M.D.., Associate Secretary
RHEUMATIC FEVER 1 damage the heart, and if the heart
has been previously damaged, even
The chief cause of heart disease in I such eonrmon infections as a cold or
-early life is rheumatic fever. The a sore throat may extend the dam -
prevention of heart disease in chil- I age.
•dren depends upon the prevention of Children particularly should be
infectious diseases, principally rheu- 1 protected against infections. They
made fever, but also diphtheria, should, for example, be immunized
.scarlet fever and the more common against diphtheria; they should never
communicable diseases of childhood.; be exposed to danger thoughtlessly
The specific cause of rheumatic „r• carelessly by allowing them to
fever is not known definitely. It is associate with children who are ill
generally believed, however, that it and who may have a communicable
is caused by some living agent, such disease.
as a germ. There is no connection or many infections apparently gain
relationship • between rheumatic fev- entrance to the body 'through dis-
er and the'painful condition of joints cased tonsils. It follows that, as a
and muscles in older people, which is matter of prevention, the nose and
known as rheumatism. throat should be kept in a health:•
Rheumatic fever ocours in varying state and any diseased condition'
.degrees of severity. The tpyical case promptly treated.
suffers acutely from pain in the If any infection does develop, then
joints, which are red, swollen and Adequate treatment is required to
tender. The disease attacks one safeguard the heart. Because symp-
joint after another, but causes no toms have disappeared, it does not
permanent damage to the joints. follow that the child is ready to be
The younger the patient, the less out of bed• A long convalescence
likely are the symptoms to be either which ends only when the doctor says
so definite or so ,severe. "Gowing that it is safe to end it will save
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Care of Children
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It is pickling, time and here
+ here are a few tried recipes:
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• Unripe Cucumber Pickle •
• (Gherkin) •
* Wipe four quarts of small •
• unripe cucumbers. Put in a *
* stone jar and add 1 cup of salt "
* dissolved intwo quarts of boil- -
* ing water and let stand three •
* days, Drain the cucumbers *
from the brine, bring the brine
* to boiling point, pour 'over cu
* cumbers and again let stand •
* three days, repeat. Drain, •
* wipe the cucumbers and pour *
* over 1 gallon of boiling water •
• in whieh 1 tablespoon of alum *
* has been dissolved. Cook the •
cucumbers ten minutes, a few •
• at a time, in a quarter of the *
* following mixture, heated to •
* the boiling point, and boil ten •
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Among the outstanding events of a
vary full programme planned for.
General Evangeline Booth's visit to
Toronto will be the great welcome to
the General on Friday, October 4th,
in the Varsity Arena, ,B1oor Street
West, at 8 p.m.., and the great assem-
blies in the Maple Leaf Gardens, To-
ronto, on Sunday, October 6th at 3
and 7 p.m. These meetings are open
to the public.
Strange Discoveries of
Early Days in Britain
Some folk seem to think that the
modern girl invented, or had invent-
ed for her, the rouge, powder, lip-
stick, etc., with which she improves
—or endeavours to—her appearance,
but it is said that strange discover-
ies are being made while searchers
among, broken stones are gradually
revealing a strange human story of
days when imperial Rome held Bri-
tain from the English Channel to the
Grampians. Along the old Roman
wall which once spanned the North-
* minutes.
• 1 gallon vinegar
• 4 red peppers
* 2 tablespoons allspice
* 2 tablespoons cloves
• 2 sticks cinnamon
* Strain remaining liquid over *
* the pickles which have been *
* put in a stone jar. •
• If desired the alum treatment *
can be omitted.
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• Chili Sauce
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* 12 tomatoes *
* 6 apples
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* 1 bunch celery •
* 2 red peppers
* 13-4 cups brown sugar
* 4 tablespoons mixed whole
* spices tied in a cheesecloth bag
* 2 onions
* 2 green peppers
• 3 cups vinegar
* 1 tablespoon salt
* Chop and mix altogether
* and boil 11-2 hours. Remove
* the spice bag and (bottle the
* pickles • at once.
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• Swect Pickled Carrots
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* Wash and scrape 6 or 8 med- *
* ium sized carrots. Boil in *
* slightly salted water until they *
* can be pierced with a fork; *
* then drain and dash cold water *
* over them, Make a syrup of :,
* 1 pint cider vinegar
from streaking.
Men Most Helpless
pains" aro probably rheumatic fever, -,many hearts.
while chorea, ort `Vitus' Dance, i The child who changes in his bab-.
apparently the same disease, showing its, appearance or behaviour for no
itself in another form. s•ood reason should he seen by a
The serious aspect of rheumatic doctor. He is likely ill, and the
fever is the damage which may be symptoms may mark the onset of an
casefever,
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Not every r rh m
,done to the heart. Y .mfr 1•irn h
ref rheumatic fever results in heart' qulrrng medical care.
disease, but, unfortunately, heart Questions concerning (Health, ed -
disease does develop in those children -tresses to the Canadian Medical As-
,,rho have not the typical painful, ,ociatinn; 184 College Street. Toren -
:joints r,.f rheumatic fever. .
Infections of all kinds are apt to
Creatures in World
A Few Minutes Are 7
Household Economics
TRIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED
TO THE POETS
Here They Will Sing Yon Their Songs—Sometimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful
and Ins piring•
RAIN ON THE, CLIFFS
There's a quiet rain falling
On the hill.
Softly the sea gulls calling
Wakens the still
Gray silence, and the sea sighs,
Bereft of smile cr• gleam
Under the lowering skies,
As one who sorrows in a dream.
—Beryl Netherclift, In Christian Sci-
ence Monitor.
SUMMER NIGHT
Under a sky that blooms with stars
And a spruce that holds the moon,
I lie on r, bed of boughs and drink
My fill of this night iri June.
While off in the dark a nighthawk
cries
And the rush of the stream comes
loud;
And every pine is an arrow point
Poised for some floating cloud.
The glow of the fire is smoldering
red
And wood smoke scents the breeze,
And slowly the stars sink down, and
' down,
• To sleep in the
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* 1 cup ,brown sugar
* 2 cups white sugar
* 1 teaspoon cloves *
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon •
* 1 teaspoon cassia buds •
* Let the syrup boil, then cut *
* in 2 inch lengths as many car- •
* rats as the syrup will take. *
* Cover and cook one half hour. •
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Never Old Enough to Take Care of i That elastic phrase "a few min -
Themselves, Declares Lady Byng rtes." Which is the bugbear of all
punctual people, has at last been
I nailed to earth. A Judge of the
"We all realize that men are the King's Bench in London, England,
most helpless 'creatures in the has valiantly buckled on his sword
world," said` Lady Byng, former- and set out to do battle. Heretofore
ly mistress at Rideau Hall, Ottawa, "a few minutes" has been a will -o -
in an address to a London club on the -wisp, something intangible,
the woman's side .of a settler's life which has ecrered a mul!biltude of
in Canada, i crimes of negligence.
"They are never old enough to take i It all happened when a barrister
care of themselves," she said, "and was called from the court room and
if they are like this in England. sent back word to the Judge that he
they are worse in Canada. There- would return "in a few minutes."
fore, if a man goes to settle there "How many minutes is that?" asked
and takes with him a woman who is the Judge. "I don't think it will be
net going to pull with him, he will mere than twenty." "Twenty min -
fail. ' utes is more than a few," said the
"Canada is the land of opportunity lordship, and with a judicial pause "1
for women as much as for men. It think that seven minutes is the end
Is the woman who is prepared to put of a few."
her back into it,and not care an at- i This is 'something of importance
Gm what she does, who will make to know. It is a disputed matter be.
good and become a successful and tween maidens and lovers, husbands
prosperous settler:"
to, will be answered personally by
land wives, children and parents. Te
Lady Byng described the schemes i causes bursts of rage, endless misun-
r•f migration as very good so far as tlerstandings and a prodigous waste
they wont, but "red tape" was ter- 1 of time. •
rible and had stopped a great manyhenceforth, the matter is settled:
people from going to Canada. (Seven minutes is the end of a fe'w
She dwelt uponthe: hospitalityand ;,and after seven minutes of waiting
friendliness of Canadians to people I all obligations are. at an end. You
the
from the home country and to
]dare free,
story of "a typical little Cockney,
thr wife of a settler whom ,.lie visi-
ted, and who when Lady Byng was
leaving her, said "Say, I mean to be
letter. the million dollar kid."
The advertisements are printed fee
your convenience.,. They inform ant
nave year times, energy and money,
Green Tomato Pickle
4 quarts green tomatoes
4 onions
4 green peppers.
Slice onions and tomatoes
thin, sprinkle over them half
cup salt and leave over night.
In the morning drain off the
brine. Into another vessel put
1 qt. vinegar
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 tablespoon mustard seed
1 tablespoon celery seed
1 tablespoon cloves
1 tablespoon allspice
1 tablespoon cinnamon
6-4 cup sugar
Bring to a 'boil and add pre-
pared tomatoes, onions and
sliced peppers. Let simmer
for twenty minutes. Fill jars
and seal while hot.
arms of the trees.
And soon the thorn and briar shall
be
In scarlet and in yellow.
Spring laughed and thrilled a mil-
lion veins,
And summer shone above her rains
To fill September's faring;
September walks as kings who know
The World's way and superbly go
In roles of wisdom's wearing.
—Aileen L. Fisher.
{john Drinkwater.
THE TEACHER MUSES
Year after year they 'come to me,
These children, with questioning
tooksS
Year after year they leave me,
As they leave their outgrown
books;
And I wonder sometimes if I've
taught them
Just some of the worth while
things.
Just some of the things they'll need
in life,
Be they peasants, or poets, or
Kings.
ROSES
Roses in the garden, crimson, yellow,
white,
Fragrant as an old dream, surely
God's delight;
Smiling in the sunshine, dreaming
in the gleam,
Linking with their sweetness every
thought of home.
Softer than a moth flits, round the
dial's face
Greeps the stealthy shadow in this
quiet place,
Roses Cannot read it, yet they know
the hours;
God has given wisdom unto all the
flowers.
Here I sit in silence: here I sit
alone,
Underneath the cypress, old and
stately grown.
Let the world go wandering, seek its
pleasure far,
I can find contentment
roses are.
—Arthur Leslie Paterson, in Cham-
ber's Journal.
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"Alcohol and Motors"
where the
A SUMMER DAWN
Of course, they've learned civics and
history
And how to divide and add,
But have they learned that these
are not all
That snakes life sad and glad?
Have I taught them the value of
smiling
Wlsen things are at their worst?
Have I taught them there's nothing
that helps like a song
When the heart seems ready to
burst?
Have I taught thein the joy of clean
living?
That honor is better than fame?
That good friends are the greatest
of treasures?
Wealth, less than an untarnished
name?
Have i taught then respect to. the
aged?
Protection to those who are weak?
That Silence always is golden
When Gossip bids them speak?
Have I taught them that Fear is a
coward
Who is beaten when they say, "I
can!"
That Courtesy ranks with Courage
In the heart of a real gentleman?
Have I taught them these things
and the others;
That will help make them brave,
kind and true?
If I have, then I care not if they tell
me
That Irkutsk is a town in Peru!
--Author Unknown.
Precious, the calm of a pale Summer
morn—
When the wind on the fen and star
in the sky,
The deer in the glen and the wing
ed things on high,
All wait for another new day to be
born.
Tender pearl clouds are etched as
with sheen—
Dark pine on the hill, fair birch 00
the slope
Are standing, so still, yet with
quivering hope
For the murmurous touch of the
painter unseen.
The Ontario Temperance Federa-
tion has recently issued in leaflet
foam the greater part of the article
which appeared some months ago in
the Atlantic Monthly entitled, "Al-
cohol and Motors." This article was
written by Curtis Billings of the Na-
tional Safety Council of the United
States. It presents seine of the lat-
est experimental data regarding the
effects of alcohol on the motorist.
The Canadian Temperance Federa-
tion has called the attention of the
highway departments in the various
provinces to the reprint of this ar-
ticle and . •has suggested that the
governments include this leaflet with
the license plates in the fall distri-
bution for 1936.
Silvery pools of clear morning mist
Rise from the valley, an incense
ehivipe,
Bearing the scent of the birch and
the pine,
Dissolving like bubbles, when by the
sun knss'd.
Winds from the lakes caress the grey
sky.
The Pearl of the East makes a rift,
in the veil;
The meadow, the mist, the hill, and
the dale
Greet the bright day with a rapture
ors sigh.
—P. M. F., in The Contreal Star.
Canadian consignments ,of both
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barley and. oats• to the Un King-
dom
dom during the first six months of
1935 were each more than double
those •of the corresponding period of
1934.
SEPTEMBER
Wind and robin's note today •
Have heard of autumn and betray
The green long reign of summer,
The rust is falling in the leaves,
Septernlber stands beside the sheaves,
The new, the happy comer.
Not sad my season of the red
And russet orchards gaily spread
From C'holesbury to Cooming.
Nor sad when twilit valley trees
And ships becalmed on misty seas,
And .beetles go alblooming,' least and it can be returned to the
the morning liquid form by placing the jar in a
soon shall come q
Now Some
r.
boiling
orate
of hot,
not
wds
• pan
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starlings, soon the colored' clouds people prefer it slightly granular
Of
From oak and ash and _willow, • and it makes a good spread that way',
Worth Copying
When I was visiting a friend the
other day her small daughter came
in to beg a piece of "pretty blue
stuff, please, for Betty's frock."
"Bring the scrap -bag, darling,"
suggested her mother, "and we'll see
if there's a piece left from that
gingham frock of yours."
Promptly the bag was fetched, and
to my surprise it was made of coarse
curtain net. Inside. all the pieces,
even quite small ones, were rolled up
neatly, each tied with string or a
strip of itself. A shake of the bag,
and it was easy to see at once ex-
actly what it contained, without any
groping in the depths or emptying
out of contents, such as is necessary
in finding anything in most scrap -
bags. The piece of blue stuff was
found at once, and was soon convert-
ed into a doll's frock.
"Far my very special scraps," ex-
plained my friend, "such as delicate
silks, muslin, organdi, or anything
that must .be thoroughly protected
from dust, I use an ordinary holland
bag; but there's a net pocket on the
outside, in which I put a snipping
from each piece I store away. Then
I can toff ata glance evhether to look
in the holland bag for whatever it is
I want. It saves such a lot of time."
It does, for I've tried it since. Itss
an idea worth copying.
ABOUT HONEY
Sometimes when honey stands in
a cool place it becomes granular.
This does not hurt the honey in the