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The Seaforth News, 1962-02-22, Page 7Dar When Only The Kitchen Was Warms They, tell a story about the old fellow who was standing in his nightshirt in the cold light Of a Maine winter's dawn, split- ting a little wood at the chop- ping block, and somebody asked him what in tate world he was doing, lie said he always had dressed in a warm room, and he wasn't going to change this habit just because he'd forgotten to fill the woodbox the night be- fore, I suppose the great progress of America can be measured by the number of warm rooms peo- ple have nowadays to dress in, • and the leisurely way they dress. A' youngster brought up in the days of firewood could dress in seconds, including hat and mit- tens. The big old house my great- grandfather- built had eight flues in the chimney,and it stood 15 feet square in the cellar and five feet square at the roof. Two of the flues were for the kitchen - the .family,, hearth and the brick oven. The other six were for the parlor and bedrooms. The kitchen fireplace had been fit- ted to a range long before my time, and the flue bricked to take a tin stovepipe. There were no dampers, and since a fire in any of the fire- pieces simply roared up the chimney nobody was ever op- timistic enough to build one in hopes of heat. The flues then were merely efficient ventilators to keep the rooms nice and cool. When great-grandmother got old and kept to her room they did keep a fire going for her, But it gave more of suggestion than warmth, and: more company than comfort. She would pull her shawl close around her knit Spenser, hitch.a rocker up close, and presume that because a fire was burning she felt the heat. And, for those days and those conditions she was doing as well as anybody could. Other than that, our hearths were cold and the rooms were cold. Incidentally, old time Main- ers always pronounced it "hurth." Anyway, when bedtime carne the only warmth we had in our rooms was that we generated ourselves, and a "comforter" was better than a blaze. This was a quilt or puff, and if you had enough you. could sleep warm. We didn't have the fancy bedwarmers on a stick, but we had flatirons, soapstones, hot bricks and rock - maple sticks. A piece of stove wood kept in the kitchen oven after supper was as good yrs any- thing to snuggle down with, and if it got too hot you could wrap it in a piece of flannel. The cord bed would sag under a boy in the feathertick, and with comforters piled on top he could set up quite a fine situation for himself. His teeth would chatter and he would shiver for a while, but when he got warm it was congenial in there and morning was a sad interruption. However brightly the morning sun shone on the frosted panes there was little cheer in it. Dis- tant and almost inaudible noises came to him from the kitchen, proving that another day had Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ®00• DOH ©001 ©®f7�' "llEOWIIBOE�[]� ©©IEI ©©011®1 EEO !J 4 ; kJOEIG]L1 LLIMICICIE1 MOW - .19111012113 ECM l iso EI I MWMOD OOMMiWO HUM • MUfflel • - WO 1211210 Di►7©IJ moon,ID begun, He could hear the pump handle, or a eat yowling to get in, the slam of the woodbox cover on the iron oatmeal pot, Tt was time to get up, and his bed was warm and the kitchen was warm - but between was a dismal, below- zero unpleasant- ness, It should be remembered that boy$ didn't wear the kind of clothes then that they do now. I was ip high sehool before I had long trousers, We wore knee- length boys' pants with long rib- bed black stockings, and we had a kind of waist affair that held our pants up until we got big enough to have suspenders, In winter we had high -cut leather boots, and if we were lucky got some felt boots and rubbers. • Felt boots and rubbers were the warmest footwear ever made, and the coldest was a pair of leather boots that had cooled all night in a bedroom. So, we had a way to get out of bed and be inside most of our clothes before we bit the floor, We had to, or they'd find us congealed in mid-air. A few adjustments could be made on the way to the kitchen so we'd get to the stove fully dressed. None of the old homes had any kind of insulation, Nor did we have anythinglike a nice shower to start us off right. Mother would dip some hot water from the reservoir on the stove, and we'd do what able - tions were essential right in the kitchen sink. A bath was a troublesome thing because in winter this was done next the stove, so the water wouldn't freeze while you were in it, and this required certain family ar- rangements. Somebody had to go to bed first. There was no effort made all winter to heat anything but the kitchen, The rest of the house was just as cold as outdoors, and possibly colder. The family there- fore lived in the kitchen, and we moved from it into our bed- rooms without knowing how un- derprivileged we were, or that America was moving so swiftly toward automatic h e a t. amusing to think that a hat brick did all that modern energy en- gineers accomplish today. A hot brick and a great deal of forti- tude and shivering. It's fun to sit in a nice front room, oil burner purring down cellar, and see how far we've come in my time. it wasn't so bad, but it wasn't so good, either. - By John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor: British Oaks Are On The Way Out Themajestic oak,, supposedly symbolic of the British character, is giving up the struggle at last. The noble trees which once sheltered and concealed Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest will soon be replaced with American oaks, the British Forestry Com- mission states. "The English oak needs shel- tered and secluded spots with plenty of water, Mining and in- dustry are among the reasons why well -watered ground is hard to find," says an official. Apparently the American oak will flourish in poor, sandy soil It grows to a greater height and much more quickly than the Eng- lish variety. On the subject of oaks, people in a little town in Madison, New Jersey, are sentimental about a huge and ancient oak tree which grows in the centre of a busy main road there. They have .sworn to defend the tree by force if the authorities attempt to cut it down. The old tree has been there for at least 250' years, but today it causes obstruction to traffic, "We will arrange for guards to camp under the tree day and night if there's any threat to the oak's existence," they vowed. WITH WINGS? -it is not some revolutionary variation of the helicopter The plane wings lashed to the sides ore part of a wreckage being hauled out of the desolated mountain area at Trout Creek Dasin, in Wyoming. CHILDREN'S GIFT - Ambika, a 3,000 -pound Indian ele- phant, gives a keeper a leg up at the National Zoological Park of the Smithsonian Institution. The elephant was a gift from the children of India to America. No sanitary precaution contri- butes more to a low bacteria count in milk than does keeping the milking machine clean. Milk residues In the fine cracks of the rubberware, • espe- cially in the teat cup liners, pro- mote the growth of billions of b a c t e r i a. Since rubberware cracks as it deteriorates, it is ad- visable to replace the liners • af- ter about 750 milkings - that is 50 milkings of a herd of 15 cows. It is more economical to have two sets of liners in use than one. If each set is used one week and then rested one week in a five per cent lye solution, it will last half as long again as a set in constant use. There are several pointers to keeping the milker clean; - Just before use, suck a pail- ful of recommended sanitizing (germ -killer) solution through each unit; use this solution to treat cans, strainers, etc., and then wash the cows' udders; - Right after milking, suck a pailful of clean, cold water through each unit; - Brush the liners in a hot solution of reliable dairy clean- er, and then fill them' with .lye solution (two teaspoonfuls per gallon of soft water); - Brush the pail and pail - head in hot cleaning solution, rinse them in clean water and invert them on a metal rack to drain and .dry. * * * Further details are given in Supplement to' Publication 627, "How to Care for Milking Ma- chines and rtubberware," a c.lpy of which can' be obtained from - the Information Division, 'Cana- da Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. * * * Even if Canada were to carry out an extensive subsidized school milk program, the result would not substantially reduce the amount of milk going into the manufacture of dairy pro- ducts but it would help some under -nourished children, A long-term policy of devel- optglent aided by large grants bas brought school milk con- sumption in the .United States up to four per cent of total fluid sales for the country. * 0 * School milk programs don't just happen - they require in- telligent and enthusiastic leader- ship, say. the experts. In Wind- sor, Ont„ the one city of four surveyed where dairies have long , been active in promoting milk service to schools, the par- ticipation rate of 30 per cent and the consumption rate of 2.3 ounces per child enrolled, ap- pear to be the highest in Ca- nada. School milk programs may be beneficial to both the dairy in- dustry and to children, say the economists. It 15 evident that many Canadian school children have 'ina.dequate diets and low recoil 5 - 1962 milk intake from the nutrition- ist's point of view, and a school milk program that could reach such children would be benefi- cial. From the industry's .point of view the milk program could foster the milk habit in the fu- ture adult and it could actually increase total sales of milk in an area. Such an increase,' how- ever, would be a negligible tac- tor in diversion of fluid milk from the manufacture of other dairy products because of the. small volume involved. * * 0 Other factors come into consi- deration of any such program: What kind of distribution system to use and when to issue milk; size of container; competition from other beverages; use of flavouredmilk; price charged and income of the area served. In view of Canada's mounting milk production and the diffi- culty in marketing some dairy products the report will be studied with interest by the dairy industry. Entitled "School Milk in Canada," it is being made available to interested per- sons by the Economics Division of the CDA in Ottawa. * * * . Blood spots in eggs are a here- ditary trait claims poultry gaue- ticist, J. H. Strain after tests at the Canada Department of Agriculture's experimental farm at Brandon. High -producing strains do not necessarily lay more eggs con- taining blood spots than do low - producing strains. Therefore, by carefully selecting the breeding stock, egg production may be in- creased at the same time as the percentage of eggs containing blood spots is decreased. * • * Proof that there is no relation- shipbetween high egg produc- tion and the occurrence of blood spots was obtained by experi- ments with two strains of White Leghorn obtained from a single strain in 1950. One ,strain was selected for high egg production' and the other, mated at ranch:in, has low egg production, How- ever, the high-produeing strain has a much lower percentage of eggs with blood spots in thele than the low -producing strain. Further proof comes from a study of seasonal production. When egg production is , high, an the fall), the percentage of eggs containing blood spots is low. In March, when egg pre- election is low the percentage of eggs with blood spots is high. A Tree That Grows Downward! On our last day in this region we drove ' around the Brand Berg, and in the Namib Desert on the south side of the moun- tain we encountered a botanical phenomenon which would cor- respond in zoology to meeting a surviving example of those pre- historic giant lizards, the Dino- saurs. It was the plant called Weltwitschia Mirabilis, one of the strangest in the whole world, which gives the impressionof a tree that has gone underground. It grows downwards! Its root, which looks like the trunk of a tree, can penetrate as deep as twenty metres into the ground, and it appears to draw its nour- ishment from water channels deep under the desert, By going underground, moreover, it pro- tects itself from sandstorms and the intense heat. It is without doubt the longest lived plant in the world. The sub- terranean tree trunk can grow up to a metre in diameter, and the plant sometimes goes as long. as twenty years between each flowering. It is considered to be the last stage of development of a primitive plant which, for some reason or other, happens to have survived in this part of the world and nowhere else. The part of the plant which grows above ground has a grotes- que look.- It has two permanent leaves, two to three metres long when full grown, It never gets new leaves, but its original ones break up into strips as time goes on,long tentacles of parched bark which give the plant its popular name of "desert octopus." The plant appears to draw some moisture from the mists which sometimes drift across the desert from the Atlantic, hun- dreds of kilometres away, for it is never found further inland than the range of this coastal mist. Weltwitschia is called after an Austrian botanist who dis- covered it less than a hundred years ago. It was then hailed 'as the greatest botanical find of the century, and has been totally protected ever since; the punish- ment for destroying it being a fine of £500 or two years impri- sonment. It is found nowhere in the whole world except in the Namib Desert and in an area fur- ther•north in the partially ex- plored Kaokoveld behind ,the UNDAY E1001 .LESSON By ,Bev 11. Barclay Warren B A.. B,D Christian Family Living Exodus 20:12, elate 7; 9-13; John 19. 25-21. Memory Scripture: Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord: thy God, givetit thee, Most of the world's problems stem from failure in the home, Talk with those in reform schools and prisons and you will find that in most cases, their home life was far from ideal. Ask the school principal about the prob- lem children in the school. In most instances the child's misbee haviour indicates a disturbance in his emotional pattern related to some disquietude at home, We say, in most instances', for there are occasions when the perverted ways of the individual persist in spite of a good home. This commandment, like all others, is taught best by example. Precepts are not enough. Par- ents who do not honor their aged parents need not expect their children to honor them, We must do as we would be done by, Jesus unveiled the hypocrisy of his day by pointing out how many made void the command- ment by pronouncing something as Corban as a substitute for caring for their parents. The pro- nouncement was really a vow and anything pronounced as Cor - ban really belonged to the tem- ple. However, if a son wished to be free from the, lawful obli- gation of supporting his parents all he had to do was to pronounce "Corban" over his possessions and his obligation ceased al- though he remained free to use his possessions for his own pur- poses. It was an illustration of how they made the Word of God of none effect through their tra- dition. Jesus added this signifi- cant statement, "And many such like things do ye." One of the last things which Jesus did as He hung upon the cross, was to provide for the care of His mother, He gave her into the care of the discipte He loved most, John. How beautiful it was of Him. Let us follow His ex- ample by keeping this great com- mandment. Skeleton Coast. Like the White Lady of Brand Berg, this fantastic plant is a na- tional pride; they are both depic- ted on South West Africa's postal stamps. - From "Kalahari," by Jens Bjerre. Translated from the Danish by Estrid Bannister. Most of us can't stand people who are intolerant. 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