HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1919-10-16, Page 6Food 'Control Corner
Consumers of Canada have now an.
opportunity of ascertaining whether
the prices they pay for foodstuffs are
reason ale and fair orpossib'le.extor-
tiona by alleged vofiteers. All, they
have to do in each municipality in'.
Canada Is to ask . their municipal
council to appoint a, Fair Pride Com-
mittee to investigate the prices asked' '
by retailers and to draw conclusions:
as,, to whether times, prices are fair
and reasonable, ;nese Fair Price.
Committees will, then publish their -
findings In fire form of 1lste.
7n this way the consumers will
make sure whether they are paying._ •
Prices which are unreasdnable and
unfair or not It may .be thele the
prices which the Committee considers:
to be fair and reasonable will not be,
any lower than the present prices+
charged by retailers. In some cages
they may be higher, But that need!
not bother the consumer so long as,
he is satisfied through the investiga-
tion of the impartial Fair Price Com-
mittee within leis own munleip`ality
that the prices published indicate aI
fair and reasonabde standard to guide
doth consumer and retailer, having in
mind war . conditions and the unset -
Ging of pre-war prices,
If there is a desire on the part:--.
of the consumers to find out just where,
they stead in regard to -prices which'
they have to' pay for foodstuffs, they
now have a golden opportunity to have.
the,�tatter dealt with once and for all'
undP the provisions of, the recent
Order -in -Council, fathered by the
Department of Labor, relative to- the'
Coappoinmmittmtees.ent of municipal Pair Price.
In some quarters it is said that Fair
Price Committees will not solve the .
[food problem present in meet house-
holds. It may be pertinent to sug-
gest that municipal Fair Price Com-
mittees first should be given a chance
to show that they 'can find a solution;
before the principle of municipal Fair
Price Committees is condemned out of
hand. It is a good rule to support'
measures that seem to send in tihe'
right direction. A similar progrene
' has been effected in the United States,.
The virtue of this Order -in -Council,
giving 1 authority
� b g o ty to mlinacipalitaes.tee
appoint Fair Price Committees to in-
vestigate the prices consumers have.
'to pay, lies in the'publicity that will
the given to the findings. In this way
I public opinion will lie informed, and
j enlightened public opinion may be
trusted to co-operate in all national
I food efforts if it knows the facts,.
I You . can always give anything is
! thorough trial once.
STORY OF HUMAN ENDURANCE
rued of Riveting Plates in a Gies-•
sow Shipyard.
L.� r s Lir C1'!Z'1 H...N.E,W.S..
Thursday, October 16, 1919.
THIS IS THE TIME TO PUT
OUR SHOULDERS TO THE
WHEEL IN VERY TRUTH.
WE ARE ON TEE BROW OF
THE HILL— LET US MAKE
THE SUPREME EFFORT.
BUSI
� STORY BONDS TO
THE LIMIT OF YOUR PURSE
THEN BORROW AND BUY MORE.
SPACE AND POSITION DEDICATED TO THE
CAUSE BY THE SALADA TEA COMPANY
B331
e Sealed Ro
By Edwi n Baird.
in
The. rays of acorner are lamp shone
pitilessly athwart a cheap iron cot on
which a motionless girl lay prone.
Two seconds more and he had her. in
his arms and was bearing her to the
opened window. Climbing, over the
ail', he lifted her out upon the fire
et ape, and as he lowered her to the
i• n he heard the voice of Winifred
( least he knew her first name) call
t„ him from the room:
"Is she alive? Is she?" The
.i ids were tremulous with grief and
a tiety.
Tom, kneeling beside the slight, still
form, laid his thumb to her' pulse
while loosening her w List at the
throat. He lopked up, his face very
grave.
"I don't keow," he said, and began
pumping her arms back and forth s
one who revives a drowning'. person.
"I'm afraid not. But call an amity-
' lance at once."
An hour later Tom was walking
slowly through a quiet thoroughfare
with Winifred Snow—he knew her
past name now.
I"It's a pretty name," he blurted out,
and was promptly astounded at his
temerity.
She, however, evinced no trace of
confusion or self-eonseioosness. She
looked up at him in a sidelong way,
and her wistful blue eyes, smiling at
him from beneath her wide=brimmed'
hat, proved once more disquieting.
"Do you think so, really? So
!many people joke about it. They
say � it sounds too cold."
CHAPTER, 1V. Thegirl, first in the upper"Nothing
he thought to answer:
corridor; about you ever could be
The little minister trotting along —she had led the others ail the way cold,"but he said, instead, convention -
between
Torn and the girl, chatted —sped in the direction indicated and ally enough: "Some people will joe
glowingly of the work he was doing began thumping the door with her about anything."
among the city s outcasts. It was un- knuckles, while calling frantically: Then she directed the talk into an-
doubtedly a worthy work, and his ac-- "[)ora! Dora! Let me in, dear. It's other channel, shyly, as if she feared
count of it -was interesting. But Tom I; Winifred." - to become to friendly with this
could not deny that he gladly would She paused, holding her breath ag, stranger who had misjudged her en-
exchange the whole of it for juet one she listened, ear to the panel. There ough to try to patch up an acquain-
word from her, whose name he did was no response. She tried the knob, tame with her on the street, and yet
rot even know, at whom he kept east- The door was locked. Father alarm- who had proved a friend in need ,so
ingsidelong looks of speculation, anded by this discovery, she turned lis- unexpectedly
who maintained a
steady, even a tractedly to Tom, who had hurried
forbidding, silence throughout the after her down the hall, with the
walk• minister pattering close behind.
Their destination was a shabby "You must break the door down!
building, originally a private resid- Hurry! It's a case of life or death."
ane, next a low-grade lodging house, Tom, caught in the full swirl of
and now at hilt a home for friendless the mysterious adventure, was past
girl; and women b h
"I don't believe he meant to be
impertinent," she thought, and then—
D'you know," she said, "I'm so ex-
cited over Dora, and everything,- I
can't think straight, But I do want
to tha
what
k you, more than I say, for
eve done. You've been per-
ot ering about explanations. He feetl3 and I—why, I almost owe
"I admit," said the little minister threw his weight against the door— you ray 1. el"
apologetically, "its exterior is not thrice, heavily, and at the third impact To walk beside her and hear her
very impressive; but we're doing the of his sturdy shoulder the door crash- utter such thoughts as these was en -
best we can with our limited resources, ed in, ough to. turn the head of a man less
and inside"—he paused while remov- He staggered back, gasping for stir; effably, he trod on air,as one in
log a bunch of keys from his pocket and he realized now, with a sense of glorious dream. Nor did he awake
— in.ide," he continued, fitting one of horrible foreboding, that the room susceptible. Ecstatic,exhilarated
in -
the keys to the lock, "everything is had not only been locked -.it had beenorated
neat and clean, at any rate, and all !sealed! until he heated her say: a
due 'to the e4 eilent management of Gas belched frons the room in a I live.e11 Thank you for This
home
h9r. Lauekle a noble woman, Mrs. `stifling flood, and Tom dropped to the with Inc."
Buckle, one of God's can true genffe- floor tlra�• ' They stood in a populous street, be-
fore a huge brick house of faded
grandeur, repellent in its unwashed
aspect and air of slovenliness. Upon
this structure Tom bent a disapproving
eye, and became aware of a window
sign announcing, "Furnished Rooms,"
and several men in shirt sleeves,
lounging on the high front steps.
The girl inclined her head toward
them, and, turning to Torn with a
smile that was half amusement and
half contempt, explained:
et "My fellow lodgers."
Tont viewed them with dislike,
"Tell me," he blundered, "I don't
quite understand—why do you—a girl
like you—I—I mean to say I don't see
why a girl like you—" He paused in
hopeless confusion. Hie tongue, not
for the first time, had spoken his mind
too hastily.
She, likewie, was embarrassed, and
was grateful for the darkness which
hid the hot flush in her cheeks.
"You mean to say you don't see why
a girl like me should want to live in a
shack like that?"
He looked at the "shack," and then
at her, and particularly at her neat
attire—lacy things and cool white
linen—and nodded, still perplexed.
"I'pi sorry I spoke, and I beg your
pardon, but you see—"
"Oh, don't apolgize. But if you
were a. girl, and worked in an hire
for nine dollars a week, maybe you'd
Iunderstand. I']] have to go in now,
she said, earning toward the steps,
."and thank you again for all you've
done for ire—and Dora."
Stark panic throttled Tom Mel ay.
:He was losing her! Perhaps forever!
!The thought was terrifying.
He stepped after her, feeling like
' one snbmer fled, -
4iise Snow—before you go—j--I'd
like to give you my name and ad-
dress. In case our friend—" )..e ! ur-
riedly added, "in case I could be of
any help again."
iHe drew a card from one pocket, a
pencil from another, employed both
busily, gave the card to her, and bow-
- ed and withdrew.
He had gone three blocks before he
I
remembered that he, in his agitation,
had written on the card only the name
Iof his hotel. It was considerably
leter before he discovered another
mistake of importance: the card bore
the name of Patrick J, Henneberry of
the Broadway Motor Car Company,
(To be continued..)
Eat Frozen Fish.
ing the girl and the little
wtmen. One minute now, and you'll : minister down beside hint. "Lower
meet her, and then you can judge for your heads," he commanded, "and
yourselves." !don't breathe deep." Then, cautious -
But they were destined to meet her; ln, on hands and knees, he started
even sooner than that. The words! across the threshold. "And don't fol -
had scarcely left his lip bsefore the low nae," he added,
door. was thrown violently open from= In another moment he remembered
within, and there stood before them !something else,
:'a gray-haired, elderly woman, face I "That gas jet at the end of the hall,
white and eyes distended, and tremble; turn it out quick! And open all the
infrom head to foot. !windows you can find, -wide!"
"Thank the good Lord you've come!" He crawled swiftly into the poison -
she gasped. "1 was never so frighten -ed room, across the uncarpeted floor
eel in my life. 0 terrible thing has: to a window which gave upon a fire
happened—" escape.
She proceeded no further. Tom, The window was sealed with glue
Rv'ho was standing beside the blue- and rags, mute and tragic testimony
eyed girl, afterward recalled that at to the careful preparation for death,
this instant she emitted a sharp cry, Nauseated by the sickening fumes, he
the first voluntary sound she had ut- wrenched it open and leaned far out
tared since leaving the Ctinese res- and breathed deeply of the warm
taurant, and it seemed as if some night air.
dread calamity, apprehended by her, Then, whirling, he surveyed the
had conic true with a crash, room in a hurried, sweeping glance,
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For 32 wears Canadian women have found
Seesaw Milkweed Cream the most efficient
the ccomplexion clear the
windburn and pimples, keeping the hands
soft wa white
ng off when in
dishwater otfnger,.
It has therapeutic qualities no other emol-
lient possesses.
Always have a box of Ingram's Vetveola
Souveraine Pose Powder (50e.h,, the house.
Amere touch and oiliness and perspiration
disappear.
i,Itfcoverslipemand as
en, a Sitar, druggist's
complexion, sft stays
on, of your stoetthere is a including ane of Ifgrtm', tole}} products' including
Zodcnta for the teeth (25c�.
A Picture with Each Purchase ,
Rath time you buy a paokage of Ingram', .
i Toilet aids or Perfume your druggist war
give you,with out charge, a largo portrait of a i
world -famed motion ploture pactress. Each
time you gets dtfferentportrait co you'makea
Collection for your home. Ask your druggist,
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Fresh frozen fish is just as pale,-
, (table as fresh fish. Only—a good many
women do not know how to handle it
properly.
The thing to remember is 'that froz-
en fish must be de -frosted in cold wa-
ter. When this has been done clean
and prepare as you would any other
fish and cook in whatever form you
desire.
Fish which has-been frozen is just
as nutrious as any other and its cheap-
ness should -make it more widely
'known,
No matter how much dripping is
used, fish, when being fried, is apt to
stick to the pan's bottom. If a table-.
eepoonful of dry salt, Is put into the
pant and rirbbed over it it will be,
Lound satisfactory,
Knowing and Learning.
There was ones a woman who
thought herself an excellent hoc ee-
keeperbecause shedid thing ,ex<ne:tly.
at her mother had done, no better and
no worse. T --hen there came a- guest, a
little girl who bad learned many
things from reading the latest books
and magazines a girl who was always
learning. And the woman who had
been satisfied 'with knowing found that,
while a good housekeeper, she was not
an excellent one, for she was waste-
ful of both time and strength endshehead missed all the impreivetments that
had been made on'the ways and me-
thods of a past generation. She was
an 1880 model of housewife competing
with the 1918 type. '
The little girl who read and learned
mixed the lard and flour for her pie
crusts with et fork and used ice water
instead of any kind that happened to
be available, her crusts were flaky and
feather light, She put her dust cloths
in an old .pail, poured in a lititle,kero-
sene oil and covered them tightly for
an hour. Each cloth was as good as
those the woman had been buying of
an agent at thirty cents each. She
washed beans, peas, berries, etc., in a
sieve and the work was wondrously
simplified. She kept a clean newspa-
per over the kitchen table, changing
papers as often ds necessary and
much scrubbing of the white oilcloth
was saved.
The woman who knew watched her
with a new interest in what had 'be-
come prosaic, dragging housework.
W sest,she suggested.that boiled salad
dressing could be canned just as easily
as peaches the woman doubted, but
experience proved that enough dress -I
ing to last three months could be
made at one time and with a big sav-
ing of time, fuel..aud tiishevashing.
The girl who read went back to;
school but the woman who thought she,
knew subscribed for three good maga.
zines and set herself the task of be -1
coming the woman who could and
would learn,
The Housewife's Part.
Again nthehousewife ousel. '
rfe has to prove
"the policeman of food control." In!
her hands lies mainly the success of
making 1°A pounds of sugar do for
each person in the family for a month.
The burden of maintaining the Allied
sugar supplies falls on us. There is
not enough sugar available for us all
to live in our peace time' habits. Our
great war programme has reduced
our sugar -carrying fleet; the sugar
requirements of the army are very t
large; the American crop is less than c
we expected.; we have diverted 50,000
tons of sugar shipping in order that
Belguim should have food; Germansi
have destroyed sugar beet fields and
factories in northern France and
Italy; more than 50,000,000' pounds of
sugar was sent to the bottom of the
ocean off the United States roast re
Gently ,
Since about 70 per cent. of the
country's sugar supply passes through.
the hands of the housewife, it is evi-
dent that she has a most important
role to play in its conservation.
Just as in the use of flour substit';
utes, She will learn from experiment
and practice many ways of using oth;
er sweetening. She will also learn
bow to substitute other energy and
fuel -giving foods for the sugar she
Lias relied'upon in days of .plenty. .
All this takes time and tho]ight, but
it is a voluntary contribution to ulti-
mate victory. -
Remodeling The C1ji.lb's Sweater.
In nothing do we show our patriot-
ism more than in 'our willingness 'to
fall in line with every req'ue`st of the
government. One of the biggest re-
quests is to get along with as little
wool as possible, a request which will
inconvenience the'folks of our north-
ern clime nearly as much as the ban
on sugar. So far wool•cerds are in
the future, the giving up of wool is
simply a. test of our patriotism.
This is how one mother met the sat
cation. Sweaters will wear out even
on grown-ups,: and when a child wears
one three years it begins to look as if
a' new one must 'replace it. This
sweater, a dark blue, was worn and
frayed at cuffs and collar. In nor-
mal:times-tee mother would have giv-
en -it to the Salvation Army and
bought a new one. This year, how-
ever, she decided on new collar anti
cuffs. For the cuffs she simply east`f
on thirty stitches, knitting with two
needles, and knitted bark. and forth
until the cuffs were as deep as were
needed for that particular sweater,
which depth, of course, she learned
by measuring on the child. The col-
lar is just as simple.
Cast on seven stitches and knit
across the back. ' On the third time
across cast on two more, and on the
fifth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, etc., un-
til you have twenty-two stitches,,
Then knit straight back and forth un-
tiI the collar is of sufficient length
to start the point on the other side,
when narrow on every second time
across down to seven stitches. The
collar is then done.'
The cuffs are sewed 'together and
acked onto the sleeve, the worn blue!
tiff being cut away. With the new'
white collet sewed in place, the old i
sweater has a quite dressed up look,
for the simple outlay of fifty cents in
.e
sI -'re
S
Put in plenty of
vegetables and
rice• or barley,
Even with poor
stock delicious
soups can be
made b} adding
it dash aY
73
Cahas'a Food .Board, Ltceaco•No. 13-148
money for the yarn and two after-
noons work, _--
To Dry Citron Peel.
Pare the citron, cutin pieces of a
convenient' size, and' boil in 'slightly
salted water' until tender. Make a
thick syrup, using one pound of su-
gar to one pint of water for each
p and of the prepared citron. Add
the citron and let simmer until the
syrup is nearly absorhed, then boil
rapidly, stirring constantly, until the
pieces are well coated" Dry in the
warming oven and store inany tight
receptacle, fruit jars or pails with
tight -fitting lids.
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Canada is receiving only just enough sugar for her actual needs!.
There is no surplus for wastage. -
First, all waste of sugar must cease; second, wherever possible,
Corn Syrup must be used as. an alternative for sugar.
You will. discover a real economy, and a delicious
addition to your household supplies if you
Here are a few suggested ways to use CROWN
BRAND or LILY WHITE Corn Syrup to give to
dishes a finer flavour than sugar give's:.
Use CROWN BRAND Corn Syrup as a Sauce
on Puddings.
Use LILY WHITE instead of Sugar in Cakes.
Use either brand in Cocoanut or other Puddings.
Use LILY WHITE in making Marmalade's,
Jams and in all Stewed,,jfruits.
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OR�� SYRIfr
The Brand is important!
Real Corn Syrup is GOOD—very
good! IT your experience tells you
otherwise it la because you have
not tasted the genuine, which Is
produced from- the moat nutritious
part of the Corn by Wholesome
and scientific processes,
Remember the. brands, LILY
WHITE and CROWN BRAND, and
insist on getting them, for purity,
economy and flavor.
Write to the Canada Food Board;
Ottawa, for Bulletin on Corn Syrup,
A great many recipes ai'e' im-
proved by, using half sugar and
,h.lf Corn Syrup.
Buy a can of LILY WHITE
or CROWN BRAND Corn Syrup
today and become acquainted
With their great possibilities.
So Id by grocers everywhere
fn 2r iii 10 and go ib, tins.
Canada Starch Co., Limited
MONTREAL.
n
I:1 marvellous story is told of a
arm; i liable piece of riveting work.
dole recently in aPort Glasgow ship-
yard It certainly furnishes a thrill-
ing example of courage and endur-
ance. Two plates had to be renewed,
and riveted onto a long iron derrick.
Imagine a steel tube sixty feet.
long and eighteen inches in diameter
at its widest, tapering to ten inches.,
The new plates had to be riveted on
to this at about forty feet from the
open end where the diameter was.
only thirteen inches.
Thyough this dark tube a man and.
a boy had to crawl for forty feet until
they reached the exact spot. The
boy, gripping a long pair of tongs,
with which to catch the roil hot rivets,
asthey were' dropped through a.
small aperture, had t,,o work his way
along feet first, as lie must face the
"holder on." The latter crawled after
the•boy, face first, carrying his heavy
hammer.
There they lay, stretched at full
length, unable to turn to right or left.
The red hot rivets were dropped
through one by one, caught by the
boy with his tongs, and put in posi-
tion by him and then riveted from
the outside, while the "holder -on" in-
side sustained with his hammer the
impact of the hammer strokes from '
without.
The task lasted for days, and men
and boys who could endure for so
long the darkness, confinement, strain,
deafening noise of the hammers, only
a few inches from their heads, and
the terrific vibration, are surely mas-
tors of their craft. en
It has indeed happened that the iron
tube has had to be cut through from
the outside to release a man whose
nerve has given way under the ordeal.
A Rot% of Human Hair.
A mighty witness to the vitality of
religion in rural japan, says Mr.
Joseph I. C. Clarke in japan at First
Hand, exists at Kyoto. A few years
ago, when the Higashi ' Hongwanji
temple was rebuilt, a rope of the
greatest strength was needed to hoist
the great columns', and roof -tree tim-
bers into place. Store zealot propos-
ed that it be of human hair, whicah
makes the strongest rope of all. The
response was , enthusiastic; thirty
thousand women of a single province
sacrificed their beautiful, long, dark
tresses.
The rope that, performed its task
without breaking is shown en the
temple grounds to -day. It Is closely
woven,. two hundred and twent-one
feet long, thirteen inches in circum-
ference anti more than four inches in
diameter, I touched its lustrous coils,
with reverence; it meant so md'i:h
sacrifice; so many wishes from. the
deepseof the human heart went with.
it.
Figs (if dried ones) should be
washed, drained -and chilled,