HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1918-01-10, Page 6The Larger Good
The Quiet Country hone held the Choicest Audience for Her
Glorious Voice
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By Mary Mac Knikht,
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On the outskirts of the town, wlie•e' than merely that of mastering the
the country met the village street, a meehanies of a ]rouse, Wo should
:home nestled. against a background of devote our talents to the larger good.
tail trees and sloping pastures, A i The fires of ambition were kindled
little brook, clipping over its pebbles,:; in the heart of Bobbies mother.
made a pienie place for frogs who She had never before been thouglit-
wez•e beginning an evening concert. ;less of her husband and son and now
• On the piazze of the little house,' it was not that her love had grown less
three people were enjoying the quiet but that her entire energy was taken
winch comes to the country between up by her new ambition. She longed
daylight and dark, ! to devote herself to the "larger good"
"Ltstenl" the little boy cried sed and as she looked into the future, she
denly. "The frogs are singing. pictured herself a prominent, perhaps
"Frogs do not sing, Robert," imps famous, woman,
tlently laughed his mother, "they She bad talked it over with Mark.
croak." 'Of source you roust go," he said at
Her husband glanced quickly toward first, delighted, "That will be great.
her, One arm stole quietly about the' for you, Bobby and I know that our
shoulders of his small son. The little mother is a benutiful singer and we
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boy sighed. can let them have her for one week,
The frogs are nice but then they can't we, !lobby man?" 115 smiled.,
always soure lonesome, don't they'?" upon her as he had'so often done since
he said presently. His mother frown-: their courting days. But this time
d 1'ttl un'ertainl elle did nut notice nor return the
frogs in evening chorus, !lobby;
would hear them ands --would he be!
lonely ? And Mark ---Mark would be'
more lonely than anyone, After all'
would not the larger good be in rntk-i
ing Merit and !lobby happy?
She elfpped away 1..o write a letter—
e wonderful letter that brought hop
pinees to a mother, ra husband end a
little sort. When she came downstairs
the guests seemed to have gone, In
the unlighted' drawing reonl, with A
great tide of new-found joy and
yearning in her voice she song Bobby's
song:
"Lullaby and good -night,
With roses bedight,
With lilies bestead,
Is my baby's Wee bed,
Lay thee down now and rest,
Mny thy slumber be blest."
"The boy is sentimental," the smile. She was eagerly explaining
p
thought to herself,would be placed
"He gets that the great opening that v
- trait from his father." She went before her.
into the house, seated herself before.
the piano and began to practice •
snatches of a solo which she was to
sing at a coming meeting of women's -
clubs.
The sounds of the practicing floated
out to the quiet listeners on the prai?a.
The difficult parts of the intricate
piece, ,dismembered as they were from
each other acid punctuated profusely
by scales and vocalizations, had no
great appeal for the tired men and the
restless child by his side. Once,
when the music was stilled, the child
offered timidly, "Exercises. aren't so
pretty es songs, are they ? I like the
Lullaby and Good -night song best.
Mother used to sing it for us at
night. Say, Mother," he called through
the open door, "do you know it yet—
the Lullaby?"
"Yes, dear, I remember it but
Mother is very busy now. You may
play it on the talking machine any
time, Bobby, when I am not practic-
ing,"
The boy said nothing but struggled
manfully with his feelings, looking;
Bu thin " • b g surprised,
But eau,
"Would you wish to do it? It is not
accessary fur you to do anything like
that and it would take you away from:
home. Do you need more money,
-1ariall'?"
"Money!" she exclaimed, inpatient
at his lack of understanding. "It is
not the money,- Mark, it is the larger
good that counts in life. If one has,
a talent she should devote it to the
public for the larger gnod. There-
at'e no opportunities for great service,
here In the country."
"Bat the boy?"
She felt suddenly uncomfortable and;
a little uncertain.
"You know Mother will be glad to!
come 'here and manage the house just
as I would do it and everything will be
Just the same fur you and Robert
When I am away."
Just the same? He wondered if
there could have been any thought be-
hind those words but his confused
brain could frame no answer. At
last the crisis had cone. Ile had al-
ways known that she was too capable,
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"I Like the Lullaby and Good -Night Song the Best..
away toward the road where the fire-
flies were lighting their lanterns. His
mother felt twinge hap at her
a x rfae of shame
hasty refusal but she brushed the voice
of conscience aside.
"I am going upstairs now for I'
must write to Mrs. Rudbeck to -night,"
she said. "You may turn out the
light when you come, Mark. It is
about Robert's bedtime isn't it? Good-
night, Bobbie!" She came to meet the
little boy at the door where she gave
him his good -night kiss, then looking
down at him, she suddenly caught the
small body close to her own and held It
there for a moment before she hurried
upstairs.
A few minutes later she was en-
gg'rossed in her letter, unmindful of
the two down -stairs, who of all in
the world, loved her best and who were
now together in the little parlor while
the voice from the machine sang the
old song that Bobby loved:
! N "Lullaby and good -night,
With roses bedight,
With lilies bestead;
Is my baby's wee bed.
Lay thee down now and rest,
May thy slumber be blest."
In the man's mind were metnuries
and vague fears for the future. In
the boy's were shadowy pictures of his
short past, delightful, loving.
"It is pretty," he said at last, in
the quiet voice which was like his
mother's. "But the machine is diff-
ferent from real, isn't it?"
Upstairs, Bobbie's mother was writ-
ing. She became more and more en-
grossed. Mrs. Rudbeck was a woman
prominent in club affairs throughout
the province, who on a visit to the
Village club, had been pleased with
}}g�er voice and had urged her to give
It to the public,
T am going to give you a place
,upon the program for the meeting of
the Provincial Federation of Clubs in
May," she had said, "I shall have
you meet my husband who is one of
tune managers of. the City Lyceum
Company. Ile will hear you sing and
can arrange Inc your public appear-
.' anee. I am sure of „your. success,
Yon must think of the great re-
sponsibility which you have, in the
��r1ossession of a beautiful voice. Your
talent is thrown away here in this
Int-cif-thaatvay place. The woinen of
to- dol* must ,have some higher aim
,t •
too highly gifted to be happy in his
dull, quiet ways.
When the date for her departure
came the grandmother, whose indul-
gence and help had been expected and
received by her slaughter' since baby-
hood, took up the tasks of the home.
During the three days of club
festivities, she sang and lived and talk-
ed with high enthusiasm. This, she
felt, was the life Inc which she was
intended, a higher place than that of
mere housekeeper. She talked with
women of intellect, women of power,
and their eompenionship inspired In
her higher ambitions than she had ever
known in her little home town,
Rudbeck was enthusiastic over the
quality and carrying power of her
voice but there was one respect in
which he was not satisfied. "She lacks
feeling," he said. `'If she could put
soul into her work what a success
she would be!"
On the last day of her visit, Blair,
a critic and associate of Rudbeck, was
a guest at dinner. She was sure her
victory was won, that some attractive
engagement Ives about to be offered
her.
The evening pest brought her a let-
ter from Mark, unselfish and generous
as ever, and with it, a scrawl from
Bobby, which read:
My dear Mother: Are you well?
Papa comes home early to play with
me, I love you, Mother, From
your dear Robert.
She read the letters, then joined the
company on the veranda but the con-
versation had lost its interest Inc her.
"It was sweet of Bobby to write, I
wonder who helped him," she was
thinking. Suddenly she heard a
lumbar croak, then another,then a
rl
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h I chorus of plaintively joyful
whole c o 1 Y Jyf
voices proclaiming the whereabouts
of a friendly pool. Preget
"Listen!" she cried softly. "The
frogs are .singing!" Then she remem-
bered that the words had been
Bobby's.
Blair, by her side, regarded her
curiously Inc a moment, "Frogs?"
Ile answered politely. "They croak,
do they not? I have never before
heard them called musical."
She was annoyed at his prosaic at-
titude. Bobby would have understood.
Then she thought of the little hone
nestled against the trees and sloping
pasture with the brooklet where she
knew there were now hundreds of
Rudbeck and Blair had gone ant
upon the terrace to smoke, As the
clear notes, rich with feeling, math -
ed there, they stood still, listening till
the song ended. Rudbeck grasped
Blair's arm.. "Man! Listen to that!"I
he exeleinted exaftadly, "She put
soul 1»t° that!"
True, the singer had put soul into
the sung but never for publie singing,'
for she had perceived the '`larger
good" at Inst and knew Hurt it await-
ed her back in the little home, by the
trees and sloping pastures.
Next time you .are in town, drop int
at the hardware'store and get a small
coal -scuttle, Take it down to the
granary and keep it there for putting
grain into sacks. Beats anything
you ever tried.
Value of Stationary Devices.
There 18 a great difference between
a modern home kitchen and a mod-
ern hotel or institution kitchen. This
difference is not so much one of size
as of principle. For instance, in the
home kitchen we have separate de-
tached tables, stoves, etc., end port-
able smaller equipment. Very little
is built in or permanent. In the in-
stitution kitchen, on the other hand,
tables are more likely to be connect-
ed with the stove surface, all equip-
ment is at the same height, connected
by various means, so that work may be
"routed" or done one step after the
other.
Many more pieces of equipment, too,
are permanently installed. The ad-
vantage here is that everything is
ready when it is needed, and need
not be adjusted, moved around or pos-
sibly lost, In the home kitchen of
the future this ideal will have to be
met—stationary, permanent installa-
tion, similiar in type, similar in finish,
height of surface, etc. It is this
ideal which is now so well worked out
in shops and factories, in hotel kitchens,
in •
cafeterias, etc.
Stop a moment and think what any
one does in making a cake in the usual 1
manner. How much of the work is
spent in actual beating and how much
in holding a wobbly bowl in place? 1
Every act of beating, mixing, grating,
molding bread, etc., which is done in
a wobbly way, is increase in difficulty
and muscle strain 25 per cent. Now,
why does not the housewife see the
advantage of the clamped, perma-
nently fastened fixture? Recall again,
the mixer for mixing eggs or syrups
used at the modern soda fountain. Is
it not clamped or screwed to the shelf
surface and self-operating? If a wo-
man did it, would she not still cling
to the traditional way of holding a
wobbly bowl and operating a jerky
beater ?
Every device can now be bought 4n
a clamped form. There is the bread
mixer, which can be fastened equally
well to shelf, stool or table. There is
the cake mixer, which screws to the
table top. There is the meat chopper
—just consider how much more effici-
ent this tool is than the bowl and
hand -chopper which it supplants,
merely because it fastened instead
of loose and wobbly! There are also
excellent devices for beating eggs and
mayonnaise also „clamped. Coffee
grinders may be :fastened to wall or
table; contrast such types with the
• old timesuar coffee mill which the
e
q
worker held in her lap and which re-
quired a vast deal of turning on the
lap until the coffee was ground.
In the kitchen there should be some
sort of shelf so firm that even heavy
devices may be kept permanently i
clamped on it. The utility motor, for 1
instance, which takes the place of any
servant in the home, should be stat-!
tionary. There is need of more
screws and less drawers in the average!
kitchen! If a device is really worth !
while and is used frequently enough
to justify its purchase, it should be'
• permanently installed instead of be-
ing set away on a shelf or in a draw
er, where it must be hauled out every
time it is needed.
The reason the potable device is
inefficient is because it takes so much
.energy to hold it in place, aside from
the actual energry needed Inc the task,'
itself. Therefore, rt really doubles 1
the work instead of making it easier.'
With the clamped device, however, all
the energy of the worker eau go into',
the actual task of beating, grinding,
or whatever it may be.
"Clamp, clamp, clamp," should be',
one of the housewives' slogans, it
will mean mune efficient kitcllene and
less wasted eni.rgv.
flow to ECarnarni,e on Flour in Bread
The familiar 'war breed' means
bread prepared by combining a mini -;
num amount of wheat flour with oth-
er materials for tread making. Since,1
in the process of manufacturing Pat-!
ent flour, about three-fourths of the;
mineral salt is lost, itis evident that,'
by milling a larger percentage of the
wheat, the food value as well as the ;
positive amount of bread -malting ma -I
Metal would be greatly increased.'
This added mineral matter may be -1
carne a vital ratite. in making up the
diet of children.
The manufacture or old -tithe gra-1
train flour, or wheat meal, which is
simply the entire grain cleaned and
ground, line been almost entirely
abandoned, no doubt because of its
perishability. Due to its bran and!
mineral salt conte t, flour of this type
possesses laxative properties, which
are often desirable, although the pro-
tein of the coarser flours may not be
so completely absorbed, Much of the
W L ;Now OAPtIY
is COMFORTABLE...
14E IS STAY IN&AT
TCF*. WAI.Y(ER MOUSE,
THE.I'IQUSE OP P1.F-NTY
Denanark on Rations, the populttee was put on bread rations
Denmark is now looking forward to The n.t thoritles are already 00nsid01'
a redaction of wheat rations, Finaltrig a 3
further reduction in the nlio•woc
• figures for the cereal harvest show a eoisunptlon.
total of about 112,000,000 bushels,
which Is 20,000,000 bushels less than A range will keep black longer 1:
1•u 1(110 and about 10,00,000 less than you wash it with soap and water bo
was eetinated in the 5ununer, when fort applying the blacking.
Foal Capin)! Comer
Tatting effect on .Tan. 14, licenses
from the Food Controller are required
by all manufaeturors or importers of
breakfast Or coreal foods if intended
for sale in any part of Canada and in t4
packages of less thiel 20 pounds earth,
Few people realize the extent of the
cereal and breakfast package food
consumption in the Dominion. The
special comitnittee appointed by the
Foocl Controller to investigate 50305
features of this trade has made a de-
tailed report on the subject.
"It is a business," the members of
the committee any in their introdue-
tory remarks, "which has reached
large proportions in the last few
,years, Its magnitude has given rise
to the idea that' the prices are ox•
travagant nncl that fortunes have been
! made in this trade„ The committee
acids, however, that "while fortunes
may have been made in tho nest, in
most cases it is quite evident that the
!large profits have resulted from the
enormous quantity of the packages
sold."
A glance at any groeer'n shelves
ill • v'r •. 0 9 proportion w con race no of the p c portion of
his trade in package cereals, house-
wives, too, know the heavy there of
the week food expenses that is taken
upin package goods.
In the broadest understanding of
"food control", therefore, the regula-
tion of the package cereals trade is
obviously important. It was also one
of the most readily reached of our
Canadian food supplies, because
centred in comparatively few firms
and makers. Nothing was done with-
out due regard to the legitimate re-
quirements of a trade which has,
through extensive and sustained ad-
veetising, became well known to the
public. In fact, the investigation was
undertaken by men who command the
respect of the manu'factuiere, the
wholesaler's, the retailers and the gen-
eral public. The Chairman was Prof.
R. Harcourt, Professor in Chemistry
at the Ontario Agricultural College,
Guelph, Ont. The other members
were Dr. A, M'eGill, Chief Analyst to
the Department of Inland Revenue,
Ottawa; Mr. P. 13. Tustin, Chief of the
Food and Dairy Division, IIealth De-
partment, 'Winnipeg; and Mr. W. S,
Locky, of the War Purchasing Com-
mission, Ottawa.
What, it will be asked, was the ob-
ject of regulating the sale of package
foods under 20 pounds in weight?
Primarily, to keep down excessive pro-
fits on such packages, which naturally
are bought in the smallest sizes by
the poorer classes. There was also
the desire to prove how great a saving
in cost could be made by the purchase
of cereals in bulk. The difference in.
the last named case was such as the
average housewife could not be ex-
pected to find for herself. Rolled
oats were found to be selling in pack-
ages weight a little over three pounds
at the rate of 8.78 cents a pound.
Bought in ten -pound bull` lots the
same oats could be obtained for 0.50
cents a pound, and in 20 -pound lots at
0.25 cents a pound.
Measured by the difference in
energy -giving units the variation in
brands was found to be as striking,
For instance, a certain fairly well ad-
vertised mark of oats giving 1,000
"calories" or energy units, cost only
4.41. cents, while another breakfast
food giving the sante calories cost
21,11:3 cents.
With the licensing of the manu-
facture of these cereals a set of re-
gulations has been drawn up which
will enable the consumer to know
precisely quantity what uantit of food he or
she is buying in the small package.
Licenses will protect the public in
what they buy through the operation
of regulations, and which have to be
competed with before a license can
issue, that there must bo printed on
the package in easily read form: 1, the
name of the article; 2, name and ad-
dress of the manufacturer; 8, license
number; and 4, net weight of con-
tents in pounds and ounces. Tho
committee insisted 'also that the cost
of containers, empty cartons and bags
roust be only a small proportion of the
total cost, so that the consumer may
not bo paying for the package at
food rates. Still more important, the
regulations contain the stipulation: Yik
"The price at which the goods are sold
to the public must not exceed an
amount allowing a reasonable profit,
To assure the carrying out of those
regulations the manufacturer's books
must be open to :inspection, subject to
the cancellation, at a month's notice,
of hie license. A fee from $1.0 to
$50 and even upwards based on year-
ly turnover will be charged for'.
licenses.
Another new and important depar-
ture in food control is contained under
the scheme by the provision that the
"licensee must agree, if so required,
at once to make earnest endeavors to
find substitutes for ingredients winch,
from tune to time, may be necessary
to conserve. Just at present there
should be a saving of all the wheat
possible,
'Thus it will be seen, taking the ex-
tent of the cereal trade in the Dom-
inion into acepunt, that the Food Con-
troller has by a simple expedient
under his discretionary powers, al-
ready Seemed effective control of one
of the food supplies of Canada, He
has, moreover, by the same simple
method without interfering with op-
dinarry course of trade so far as
retailer and his customer are conceit.
ed, given the public an e1feetive
guaraetee that prices will not soar
through causes which may not be
justified.
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Coronado Beach, Camiiornia
graham flour on the market at pre- hoar San Diego
sent is merely white flour to which MOTORING, TENNIS,
bran has been added. BAY AND SURF BATIHING,
FISHING AND BOATING.
Some of the materials which may
be substituted for wheat flow; are:
cornmeal, buckwheat fluor, -soy bean
meal and potato flour. Cornmeal
may be used in the proportion of one
Part cornmeal 'to two parts wheat
flour. Buckwheat flour combines well
with wheat flour in any proportion.
Soy bean meal and cotton -seed meal
are both useful in email amounts.
FS -Holo Golf Course
I•io'te1 is equipped throughout with Automatic
Sprinkler System.
AMERICAN PLAN
Potato flour, such as has been JOHN J,• HERNAN, Manager
used abroad, is out generally avail-
able in our markets, but bolted mash- "'"'eee'''''"noloslizmitinminge,34311=6=3432EZIMEMEM4au
may be substituted . for
ed potatoes
Iaa���wc .._—
slightly less than half the flour, Boil-
ed rice may also he used with flour in
Equal measures of cooked bean pulp!
about the same proportion.
and 'flour are satisfactory in muffins. 1
Food Shortage in France,
Shortage of wheat in Prance is be-
coming mare and more alarming each
Week, M. Maurice Long Minister for
General llevictualling of France, indi-
cated recently that a further reduc-
tion ofr20 per cent. in the bread ration
would soon become imperative. The
manufacture and consumption of pas-
try regarded as a luxury was entirely
suppressed On January 1st, except ou
Sunday and holidays,
Switzerland on Rations.
The food situation In Switzerland is
rapidly falling to the danger line, A
ration that is far below the consump-
tion in malty of the countries at war
has already been ordered, Under the
new regulations, the Swiss may have
only a pound and a half or sugar per
person per month. The bread ration
has been axed at about half a pound
a day, and the butter ration at one-
fifth of a. pound a nncnuh,
Fertilizers Pay ':setter Than Ever
erODAY a bushel of corn or wheat buys more fertilizer
(potelh excepted, of course) than at any time during
the past three years. Note how much cheaper you can
buy a 2-10 fertilizer now tPian before the war.
In 1914
would buy
Today
will buy
1n terms of farm products, fertilizers cost less today than in 1914.
Fertilizers paid you then—they will pay you better now,
Fertilizers are today more profitable and more necessary to efficient
production than before the war. Boost crop production, grow mare
per acre and increase your profits by using fertilizer.
Help both the railroads and yourself by ordering Spring Fertilizers
No W.
Send for literature to Department CS
Soil Imprc vement Committee
of the National Fertilizer Association
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Farmer Can Do With Concrete," that the advice it gave him netted him
hundreds of dollars in actual profit.
Get the book—.it's free—and by reading it you will see the profit there is in
building improvements of CONCRETE according to its plain, simple directions. For
instance, there's a page devoted to Watering Troughs—showing how to build the
sanitary kind that will not rot, rust or leak. Several pages devoted to Concrete Silos.
Others telling how to build concrete foundations for barns. All these are improvements a
farm needs—its value will go up considerably if you use concrete in the building of them.
And you'll be able to." work" your farm with less effort and on a more profitable basis
if your buildings and utilities are of the modern Concrete type. This hook gives all the
directions you'll need. .
Remember—Concrete improvements aro fireproof, rot -proof, vermin -proof and indestructible
The hook also contains interesting photographs showing what other Canadian farmers have accomplished;
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Whether driving ormotorin , you
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Permanent ii1Rhwnr•e
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All Our country's business writt bo
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