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WHAT OWEST THOU?
' Timedulls the edge of sorrow,
And men forget
'The bitter travail of their woe,
Tne burden of tneir debt.
'They turn them to the toils of peace,
The mart, the office and the plow,
And reap the fruits of sacrifice—
"Waat Qwest thou?"
Heroes of yesterday who fought,
And 'bled, and died,
'Gave of their (best and dying bought
A victory sanctified.
'_They shrank not from the pangs of
death,
They kept their vow,
'They tasted sorrow at its dregs—
"What Qwest thou?"
Ti, those who won thee all thy peace,
"What owest thou?
.For home and friends and sheltered
ease,
"What owest thou,"
'• To God, who gave thee those brave
• men,
'Who, by their bloody toil,
"Saved thee from slavery then,
Saved thee thy native soil?
.Asic of thy soul the question now,
"What owest thou? What owest
thou?"
'.Then in sacred memory of the dead,"
Go pay thy vow
In service to thy fellow -men, and to
thy God.
"What °west thou?"
—T. B, Wdndross,
It always hurts me to hear people
'begrudging the time to attend ser-
- vice on Remembrance Day, begrudg-
ing the keeping of the day, as if it
• were so much lost time. Canada,
looking back over the years since
• the close of the Great War in No-
vember 1918, has no .business to for-
get the sacrifice of those then who
gave their all, even unto death, for
• us. We should keep the day with
• proud sorrow, pride that we had such
mer, sorrow that they are no Moro
with ns.
There are those who do not forget,
those who do not begrudge the keep-
ing of the day in' remembrance. They
are the •ones who lost husbands,
brothers, sons. If for no other rea-
son we should be ashamed before
these bereaved ones, to voice our
complaint of the loss of the day.
It we have too many holidays we
could, as we ,hare pointed out before,
do away with a week -day thanksgiv-
ing day, setting apart some Sunday
for that purpose, and keep Nov. llth
each and every year as a day of Re-
membrance, And fathers and moth-
'ers would do well to teach their
young children the meaning of the
day, so that they would understand
and teach it to their children in turn.
It is •a fact that the generation
growing up now remember nothing of
the war. The young man or woman
of twenty-one was but six when the
war ended and was a babe in arms
when it started. They know nothing
from experience of the Great War. It
is up to us who remember to inform
them so that they may appreciate
the significance of Remembrance
Day and keep it accordingly.
--REBPIKAR
STOCKINGS TOO UGLY S,
The Municipal welfare Ijiii°ear}' h
Detroit, Mich., is at a loss td know
What to do with 30,000 pairs of wo-
men's cotton stockings bought two
Years ago at cost for the city's poor.
Women on relief in Detroit would not
have them. Believing women In
smaller cities might not be so partic-
ular, George B. 'Branch, welfare ad-
ministrator, sent a consignment of
the cotton hose to Grand Rapids,
They came back and he had to pay
transportation charges both ways.
The he tried Pontiac with the same
results. Branch discovered women
would 'rather buy silk or rayon stock-
ings with part of the mondy allowed
for family food than wear eotton
hose they can get free.
,e ltb. ScMoe
OP THE
Ganabian 1Bebirat,ko,nrtLt#tnn
and Life Insurance Companies in Canada.
!• Edited by
GRANT FLEMING, M.D., Associate Secretary
.TAMES LIND, M.D.
James Lind was a doctor. As a
;young roan, he joined the naval medi-
.cal service at time when sailors lived
• in m'ercrowded damp cabins, on a
•diet of rotting meat and mouldy bis-
• cuits. Lind wrote: "The number of
• seamen in time of war who die of
shipwreck, capture, famine, fire and
sword is riot considerable in respect
of such as are destroyed by the ships
' diseases, and by the usual' maladies
of intemperate climates,"
Lind is remembered today because
he devoted most of his life to ,the
•study of scurvy. About the middle
•rlf the eighteenth century, he pub-
lished his book on scurvy, That he
had an excellent opportunity of •stud-
-ing the disease in evident when we
learn'that one out of five cases ad-
mitted to the'naVal hospital,•of which
he had charge, suffered frorn scurvy.,
Scurvy had been known for eentur-
ies, and many methods of treatment
had been ,devised, Lind was dead by
th time the Admiralty issued an.
order, in 1795, that a ration. of low-
on juice be supplied to, all ships of
the fleet. From this date, scurvy
disappeared.
This early work of Lind Was one of
the first efforts which linked a 'de-
finite disease with the lack of some
essential in the diet. In the course
Of time, it came ho ,be known that
them, are a number of substances, ,letter.
called vitamins, the entire absence of
which from the diet causes such
grave disorders as scurvy, rickets
and so on.
- This discovery has had a far-reach-
ing effect, for it is now known that
optimum health is dependent, in part,
upon the presence in the diet of an
abundance of alt the vitamins. Scur-
vy is practically unynown to us,
and severe cases of rickets are com-
paratively rare. A low standard of
health, however, is fairly common.
The public do not need to know
the different kinds of vitamins as
they are designated 'by letters o.
the aplhaibet, It • is not necessary to
know in what particular foods they
are found in abundance, or to worry
over their manner of functioning in
the body, provided that milk, eggs
and a good variety of vegetables and
fruit are regularly used.
Thanks to modern methods for the
preservation and shipment of foods,
we live in almost perpetual summer
as far as vegetables are concerned,
An abundance of vitamins is assured
to those who use regularly milk, eggs
and a variety of fruits and vegetab-
les. Such a diet means good health
in so far as the diet contributes to
good health.
Questions • concerning Health, ad-
dressed to the Canadian Medical As-
sociation, 184 College Street, Toron-
to, will be answered personally by
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• OUR RECIPES FOR TODAY
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• SOMETHING OLD—
SOMETHING NEW
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• Some recipes are so good
* that no ,thought is given to
• changing them and each year
• they taste ;better --- Pickled
* Beets, Mustard Relish, Celery
* Pickle; and Pear Jain all come
• from ,Grandmother's cook -,book,
* while Jewel Jam, Carrot Ket-
• shup, and Apples in 'Cranber-
• ry Juice are quite new and un-
• usual. The following recipes
* *were prepared and tested t{y
* 'Miss Edith L. Elliott, Fruit
Branch, Dominion Department.
• . of Agriculture
•
• Pickled Beets
•
* 'Wash beets. Cut off tops
* leaving about one inch of
* stems to prevent , bleeding.
• . Cook until tender. Remove
• skins and if ;beets are small
* leave whole, but if large, cut
* in slices. Pack in a crock or
* in jars and in each jar put one
• tablespoon of horseradish.
* 'Four over them a pickle mix-
* ling one cup vinegar, 1-2 cup
• water, 3-4 cup sugar, one tea-
* spoonful salt, boil together and
* Pour over beets.
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Mustard Relish
t 1 small cabbage
* 6 large onions
* 1 head celery
• 1 large cauliflower
• 12 green tomatoes
3 green peppers •
3 red peppers •
12 apples, •
* Put all through the mincer, •
* add 2 cups sugar,. 2 quarts •
* vinegar, 1 tablespoon tumerie, •
* 1-4 ib. mustard, 1 teaspoon , *
curry powder, 2 •tablespoons *
* salt, 2 tablespoons white pep- *
* ,per, 2 tablespoons celery seed, *
* Mix well and cook ten minutes *
* bottle while hot. •
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Celery Pichlee -,
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a
11 heads Celery 1 -,
d oiliatis a
1%tit through the inindet',
Add: -1 cii}i brown hger,
1-4 lb. mustard, 2 tablespoons
salt, 1 tablespoon pepper, 2.
quarts vinegar, 1-2 teaspoon
tumeric. Mix and simmer
slowly 11-2 hours. Bottle
while hot.
Pear Jam
10 cups coarsely chopped
pears
5 cups sugar
1-2 cup chopped preserved
ginger° with syrup.
Boil all together until thick
and clear.
Jewel Jam
4 cups chopped quinces
4 cups chapped apples
2 cups cranberries
2 cups water
Cook cranberries with water
and skins and cores of apples.
Drain through a jelly bag and
to the juice add chopped ap-
pies and quinces. Cook five
minutes, add five cups sugar,
Cook until thick and clear.
Carrot Ketchup
4 cups chopped ,carrots
nely1 green pepper chopped fine-
ly
1 onion chopped finely
1 cup chopped celery
Two .cups vinegar, 1-2 cup
sugar, 2 teaspoons salt, 1-2
teaspoon paprika. Cook until
thick, press through a fruit
press or coarse sieve, reheat
and bottle hot.
4 ,F
PROOF
"Are you positive that the defen-
dant was drunk?"
"No doubt," growled Officer Ray-
nor.
"Wily, are you so almighty certain
about it?" asked the Judge.
"Well," replied Raynor, "I saw.
him put a penny in the patrol box on
Fourth Street and then he looked up
at the cloak on . ;gine Presbyterian
Church and roared, "Gosh! I've lost
,14 pounds weight"
Shipments of feeder cattle brought
from Western to Eastern Canada to
be: fattened 'under the Dominion. Feed-
er Polies, totalled 'ov.en2,O00 head for,
the month of September.
PAGE
Care of Children
Household Economics
Winter Protection for
Roses
(E'ooperimental Farms Note)
The successful. wintering of roses
in Eastern Canada constitutes a
difficult poloblem. In fact, winter
losses are frequently so great as to
discourage many amateur growers,
who other:rise. would be enthusiastic
rose ,growers,
Experiments conducted over a per-
iod of years at the Experimental
Station, FMedericton, New Bruns-
wick, have indicated that these los-
ses can be reduced to a Minimum Of
certain precautionary measures are
taken. It must be borne in mind that
the successful wintering of roses is
dependent upon the interaction of a
number of factors, all of which are
important.
In the first place, it is necessary
to have a vigorous, well -grown bush
with the wood well ripened before
the onset of winter., This implies
the planting of the bush in a favour-
able loaction followed by proper fer-
tilization and cultivation practice.
This practice should be such as to
pronrbte a vigorous growth in the
early summer followed by a slacken-
ing of growth in mid -summer and a
thorough ripening of wood in the -
fall. Nitrogenous fertilizers should
not be applied after the first week
in August and, artificial watering
should also be gradually reduced to
a minimum. Heavy fertilization in
the early summer is advisable in
order to promote a vigorous growth.
Small bushes, which have made a
very weak growth during the sum-
mer, are much more susceptible to
winter injuyy than large vigorous
bushes, :providing the wood is well
ripened.
After the bushes are properly
grown, it is then necessary to give
them suitable winter protection, This
ran best be done by hilling up each
individual bush to a heigh of at Ieast
eight inches with soil, filling in the
intervening space with manure or
some other form of litter. This
should be removed very early in the
spring, in order to hasten the thaw-
ing of the soil underneath. The bush-
es should then be uncovered as soon
ns the soil is fit to move,
Remembrance
"Blessed are they that mourn, for
they shall be comforted."
The action of the conference at
Halifax of the Canadian Chambers
of Commerce in adapting a resolu-
tion which seeks repeal of the Re-
membrance Day statute is disquiet•
ing in the 'extreme. Ephemeral in-
deed are the memories of these
captains of industry; but surely their
sensibilities have not become so dul-
led that their only interpretive ap-
proach to Remembrance Day is by
way of the cash ledger. If all there
is to Life is capable of no loftier
translation than one in terms of
money, then are we indeed objects of
pniy.
Voicing of .that sentiment moves
one to seek its contradiction, and
fifty -thousand Canadian graves in
France and Belgium furnish it, Wit-
nesses to finer and nobler inspira-
tions than those which appear to
have animated this assembly at
Halifax, our war dead are a. chal-
lenge to such an unworthy article
of infidelity. They are truly repre-
sentative of the Canadian people.
We care not how the Canadian
Chambers of Commerie observe Re-
fnembrance Day as individuals,
whether its members feel their ob-
ligations to our dead liquidated by
the fromality or a two minutes sil-
ence or h`y granting a 'begrudged
work -day. We are seized, however,
of this, that the people of Canada
have ordained November the Elev-
enth to be set aside as one of re-
conseoration, of self-examinitaon and
atonement; and we are convinced the
people will not lightly surrender this
service' of piety and homage in order
to meet the materialistic urge of any
section of the community.
A new Canada has emerged from
the pain and the sufferingand the
sacrifice of that conflict which end-
ed fourteen years ago, and it is a
Canada which isnot so faithless to
itself as to deny tribute to those out
of whose anguish this nation was
born,' .
Apart altogether., from the hun-
dreds of thousands of Canada's war
veterans, to whose feelings the
Canadian Chambers of- Commerce
seam to have been cynically 'indiffer-
'
ent, had they no thought whatever
of the nation's youth, no thought of
the ennobling influence ' which the
solemn observace of Remembrance
Day;' must 'inevitably' exercise in
since the war? The impression up-
on them .of their elders' begrudging
due honor ,to the memory of mer
whose devotion and ;hardihood these
same elders were exalting and ac
claiming„only a few years before can
scarcely be elevating. One would
wish rather that Canadian youth
stand in reverence before the coun-
try's Cenotaphs as an earnest of a
pledge to remember forever the
sacrifices of which these monuments
area symbol, and renew the resolu-
tion that those memories will 'never
be, shamed.
•
"Hail and farewelil We greet you
here,
With tears that none will scorn -
0 Keepers of the House of Old
Or ever we were born!
"One service more we dare to ask ---
Pray for us, heroes pray,
That when Fate laya on ua our task
We do not shame the day.”
--'The Legionary.
Britain's Oldest Woman Still Enjoys
Her Tea
110 YEARS OE AGE
Believed to be the oldest woman
in Britain, Mrs. Caroline Merriett
celebrated her 110th birthday in May-
day Hospital, Croydon, by being hos-
tess at a tea-party,
Arrayed in her best clothes, and
with a .new white bonnett, she cut
a birthday calve that had been epee-
lady made for the occasion, and en-
tertained some of her friends.
In spite of her age, Mfrs. Merriott
is still an active woman mentally, and
her voice iss surprisingly strong. She
eats three meals a day, and drinks sev-
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A product of The CANADA STARCH CO., Limited
oral pints of tea with great enjoy-
ment.
When she was born she was so
small that for a week after her birth
they could not put any, clothes ort
her. She loves to recall her father's
tale of how one of her uncles bet
2100 that they could put her into a
quart jug.
"They tried," she gleefully said,
"and they gat me in."
Born at Tooting Corner, ten years
after Waterloo, Mrs. Merriott re-
members the Crimean War, the
Corn Law riots, and the Coronation
of Queen Victoria. She has been =T-
ried twice and her second husband
died in 1906. •
She worked in a laundry until she
was 85.
AN OLD ONE, BUT .. .
The reason a Scotch bagpiper
walks up and down when playing is
because it is always harder to hit a
moving target.
for E/emembrance
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• PEACE
Now, God be thanked, Who has
matched us with His hour
And caught our youth, andwaken-
ed us from sleeping,
Frith hand made sure, clear eye and
alfa' pened power,
To turn, swimmers into clean-
ness leaping,
Glad from a world grown old and
- cold and weary,
Leave the sick •hearts that honor
could not move,
And half -men, and their dirty songs
and dreary
And all the little emptiness of
love!
Oh! We who have known shame have
found release there
Where there's na ill, no grief, but
sleep has mending,
Naught broken save this body, lost
but breath:
Nothing to shake the laughing
heart's long peace there
But only agony, and that has end-
ing;
And the worst friend and enemy
is but Death.
—Rupert Brook.
IN FLANDERS FIELDS
-In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the eroases, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the
sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid :the •guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days. ago
We liked, felt dawn, saw sunset
glow,
Loved and were loved, andnow we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up' our quarrel with the foe!
To you with failing .hands we throw
The torch, be yours ,. to hold it
high!
If ye !break faith with us who die,
Wje shall not sleep, though poppies.
grow
In Flanders' fields-
-John McOrae.
REMEMBRANCE
Remember! Not alone with praise
today,
The beat of drums, the slow proves.
sional,
Old songs, old tears, the bugle's final
These that have gone have found a
wiser way;
Passed beyond maddened warfare,
and the blind
Futility of strife that leads to strife,
If they remember, in some richer
life.
molding the mind and, character of t;1Tocv they1 `'must mourn the mockery'
that generation. which has grown up t ' '., Of1 mankind!
Remember! There is youth for wast -
pd youth,
There are tomorrows for sons yet to
be;
Must they, too, drink the bitter cup,
that we
Filled with false wine, who knew
the shining truth?
Tread the slow march, and weep, if
weep we must, i '
It matters not, the mini of their rd• -
Ward
,
So that the ploughshare breaks a
rusted sward
Anti peace unfolds her wings above
,their dust;
A FALLEN SOLDIER
Hope held held his hand and ran with him
together,
Despair, the coward, at ,their coming,
fled,
Like a young ram, he shook his
horned head,
And broke away from his restraining
tether.
He loved the sea, he loved the cleans-
ing flame;
No woman yet, his heart was all too
young;
Over the plain of life his heart was
flung,
Seeking for jcapardies that he might
term
He cloaked his faith with laughter,
but his faith
Was certain, as his confidence was
gay,
And aughing 'went he, till on that
last day
The bandy stretched out to life were
clasped by death,
~Victor .Sackville -West, in
"Collected Poems."
THE M,A.I'MED
In Flanders Fields we do not lie
Where poppies grow and larks will
fl'y,
Forever singing as they go
Above the bodies, row on row,
Of those whose duty was to die
Wd are the maimed! Death did deny
Its solace. Crippled, blind, we try
To Bind on earth the peace they
know
In Flanders Fields,
Forget us not! As years go by,
On your remembrance we rely
For love that sees the hearts'•below
Our broken bodies, Erse we grow
To crave our peace with those who
lie
In Flanders Fields.
—W. B. France.
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Hushed is the hour,
Save from Vi'jestminster's' tower
A N'ation's tribute rings.
A procession slow
Through mute throngs go
To the resting place of Kings.
But whose is the clay
They are laying away,
,A Socrates, or a Nero?
No,
No, what blood rain yields
From Flanders' fields
Only an unnamed hero.
Why lay him there 1
With Kings to share
The honors of our Nation?
For right he fought,
With his life's blood bought
A Briton's highest station.
Then; let his sleep
Be sweet and deep,
Though unnamed on Honor's roll
Ms fame in known ,
Before God's throne,
Writ large upon His scroll.
C. Hunter.
MUST THERE BE WAR?
Another conflict looms, its thunder
rolls afar.
Dear God, is there no haven safe
from war?
Must our sons' blood be spilt like rain
To bring a term of doubtful peace a
gain?
We fathers, who but twenty years
ago
For others rights engaged an un,
known foe,
Must we, as they our fathers, see
them sold
As chattels to increase the armour-
ers' gold,
To kill and bleed, in torn masses llc,
A^,`,/,anine not .even given leave to ate,
But to return, blind, maimed, insane,
or mute,
A lingering trade mark of the war
lord brute,
Why do wars come close on depres-
sion's heel?
(
miust•gi0ed for money make the hun-
gry kneel '
And gladly take up arms to oft
their beeadl
F'orgotteri fire (head ife''ps of MEd
dead;
A hundred million elicit iota not re4
dress
The wrongs that wars in justice'
name express.
If war must be, then let them do
their part
Who for gain have given wars their
start;
Save the front rank far them who
foster war;
Put those they love behind theni
(not too far).
The propagandist, he should lead the
rest'
That some hate -laden bullet find his.
breast.
Then, not till then, shall bloody war-
fare cease,
And men devoid of hate find lasting
peace,
—By W. C. Hunter in The Legionary',
FOR. THE. FALLEN
Solemn the drums thrill: Death aug-
' ust and• royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal
spheres.
There is music in the midst of deso-
lotion
Anda Beery that shines upon our
tears.
They went with songs to the battle,
they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye,
steaaglow,
They weredy staunch •to the end against
odds uncounted,
They felt with their faces to the
foe.
They shall not grow old, as we that
are left grow old.
• Age shall not weary them, nor the
'years condemn:
At the going down of the sun and in,
the •morning
We will remember them.
As the stars that shall be bright
when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heaw-
enly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the
time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they' ra•
main.'
—Laurence Sintisitii