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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1927-12-01, Page 10Mainly For Women (By Dorethy Pix) , DO YOU' KNOW YOUR CHILDREN How little parents know of their children! In most families the father and mother have a .casual speaking acquaintance with their boys and their girls, There is no intimacy and they. know no more of what,their children think, of their plans and, hopes, than if they were strangers. Parents, will deny. this, Their children's minds are open books" to them! And they tell els their children are this or that and they don't smoke or swear, and we .smile, knowing their children, bet- ter than they do, and having contrary information. When Johnny and Molly reach the age when they must choose. their life work and turn to father and mother for guidance,' the parents throw up their hands in despair, They cannot help the boy or girl at this cris- is of their lives. You would think from the time Johnny and Molly were in the cradle, 'their parents would, have been prob- ing into their little minds to ,see what was there, watching their development so that they could give them a start on the road to success by helping them to make the most of their gifts. No- thing of the kind happens. Mother and father have never got well enough acquainted with Johnny to know he has a'personality which would make him an expert salesman. So they let him blunder into a second, rate book- keeper. They don't know Tom well enough to have .found out that he is a mechanical genius, so he takes the first Jerking job that comes along. They never noticed that Jane is a wizard with the needle, or Mary a born teacher. The children ask "What career should we follow?" And they reply: "We do not know.' ' Any child can be managed if you go about it the right way, but you have to know something: about its temper and temperament. It is foil, to think you can bring up all childre'fi by the same rule. Some have to be driven with a light rein; others need a curb. The world. is strewn with men and women whose lives were ruined be- cause their parents did not know them. Highly -strung girls and boys driven from home by petty tyrany. Sensitive and shy children are made distrustful of themselves by nagging criticism Girls, thwarted in their desire for self-expression, are turned into sour old, maids, or else they married men they did not love in a desperate effort to gain freedom: What tragedies could be avoided if only parents Were well caio,u&li ac- quainted with theirchildren to know their possibilities and limitations virtues and faults,strength and weak- ness, so that they might encourage the timid child and suppress egoism in the conceited one. It is principally the children's lose when their parents refuse to get'ncquaintetii with them, but it is the parents' loss also because 11mey must suffer in their children's isfortunes. The average boy' and girl are tongue-tied to their pFree ts; presence. That is one reason why young people are never willing to. stay at home in the evening. Yet they are entertaining, these' young people. They are gay, intelligent and witty, and have novel and stimulating views about life. They are so yvell worth knowing that it would pay father and mother to get acquainted. CHILBLAIN MYSTERY SOLVED Many : people dread the coming of chilly clays because it spells chil- blains and pains that will stay all the season. It is no use waiting until the winter setsin and chilblains" are rosy on every finger and toe. Gone are the day when chilblains were merely treated to a hot mustard, bath every night and their tortures borne in sil- ence. it does not take a good deal; of reasoning to arrive at the conclusion that the chilblain martyr is a victim of poor blood; it is apparent that if the blood is made richer, it will be wanner and less sluggish' and so less liable to chill. Patience, perseverence and plenty of hot water will do the trick! There is nothing like hot water to cleanse the blood of impurities, ana chilblain sufferers are victims of innpure blood. fattening: Eliminate themimmediate- which causes it to be stagnant. That ly from your list; also rice, macaroni and beans. Have your meats broiled or roasted, since all fried things must be given up. Whipped cream, cakes,.. pastries and candies are among the sacrifices that you must make. •'• And to diet, don't forget you must get the right frame of mind and not be tempted. MY FAVOURITE DISH (13y Pole Negri) •My favorite. dish is sweet potato pudding. Two pounds sweet potatoes, half to budge. 'This is .due to lack of vi- tality, but after a few weeks of the hot water and orange juice cure the sufferer will actually enjoy exercise, When that time arrives, encourage the person to walk more, It is the finest •exercise in the world, Walk smartly with an easy swing of. the arras and the whole body will tingle with the delight of rich, warm blood. The chilblains :,will vanish. EATING AND REDUCING (By Anne Jordan) n or J ) Exercise is, of course, eg wonderful way to reduce, but while strenuous ,exercise can take off a few pounds a week 'perhaps, if you do not: watch your diet, you can add several pounds to take the place of what you lost, just by 'eating rich foods. A reducing diet isn't really, so hard if you only know of all the nice things ypu can have and still not worry a- bout surplus weight. All kinds of sah ads are recommended to you, provided the dressing used on them is not made with oil. You may eat all the meats with :-the : exception of pork, all sea foods, all fruits except pears, grapes and bananas, and all kinds of vege- tables except corn: There are plenty of desserts that are delicious if made with skimmed, milk instead of cream, and they can be included in the reduc- ing diet, 'Tapioca, cornstarch pudd- ing, junket, cup custard and, blanc mange may be made tide way and they may be varied with canned fruits or gelatins: And now for the things to beware of, beginning with bread. If you must have it take it toasted and without butter. Whole wheat bread is less fat- tening than white. Potatoes arse very is why doctors, instead of prescribing ointments to burn the blain external- ly, now advise patients to take plenty of hot water. A tumblerful of hot water with just a squeeze of lemon, taken first thing in the morning, an- other in the middle of the morning, a further one in the afternoon and a last one at night, will s do wonders for blood 'sufferers. Coupled with this, take generous doses of cod-liver • oil and malt to warm the, blood. Raw to- matoes and oranges give tone to the system, and a .chilblain sufferer will pound butter, one. gill sweet cream, one gill strong wine, one grated nut- meg, a little lemon peel. Boil the potatoes until thoroughly done. Mash up fine and while still hot add th ebutter and haf /pound of sugar. Set aside to cool while you beat up the eggs.' Add seasoning last and bake in a moderate oven. soon begin to feel that winter is not a bad time. • Throw away your chilblain oint- ments, which only make the skin soft and more susceptible to attacks. In place of these, paint the skin with io- dine which hardens it and makes it impervious to the cold. ' Last, but not least, take plenty of exercise! The chilblain sufferer, as a Listowel has organized a Rifle Club rule, is the person who likes to huddle and also a Men's Musical Society. Per - ed I haps the first is the result of the sec - over a fire and, cannot be persuaded s d I and SeciaI PRREE--�XyMAAS sowing Dee,44-i. NEW NASH MODELS . eeeeefateee eetteeseeetetee PDODAY Nash inaugn. rates a special pre. Christmasexhibit at. Nash showrooms throughout the country, and you are invited! For, this is "Give a Nash for Christmas" week, and we . cordially urge you to come k either day or ever ning P and see the special dis play of new Nash models in our showroom. The perfect Christmas gift is a new Nash, "We have a SPECIAL CHRISTMAS - PLAN whereby you, can give a new Nash car to your family at very low cost. Come in and ask us about this plan, You'll be amazed t6 find. how EASY it is to make' a new Nash your Christmas gift this year. 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The story is taken from Kathleen Woodward'a book, "Queen Mary -a Life and Intimate Study," The author is a factory girl who became a jour- nalist, and the book was published with the permission of the Queen, who allowed Miss Woodward many facilities for obtaining hitherto un- published details of her life. There was in this hospital a very "Red" patient, whose views of „royal- ty were expressed every day and all day in no uncertain terms until the other patients were sick of the sound of his voice. One day the Queen ar- rived and made straight forthe pa- tient's bed. She parried an armful of roses and presented one to the man. The two chatted in a friendly fash- ion for sone time, and afterwards he called out: "Nurse, who was that?" "That was the Queen," said the nurse. To the end of his stay tiie ' well of propaganda dried up cora- 1 pietely. Every morning Queen Mary has a large post -bag, and opens all her let- 1, ters herself. During the King's ill- ness, not long ago, there came, a let- ter addressed to "Mrs. Queen." It was a message of condolence, con- taining sympathy and understanding, and ended with a forceful recom- mendation ecommendation to "rub your husband's chest with camphorated oil When the bronchial signs appear." Letters have reached Buckingham Palace addressed to "Mrs. England," "Madam Majesty," and other names. One same recently from the Isle of Dogs, in which the writer said: "Just a few lines hoping you are the same as it leaves nee' at present. Wishing your eon, the Prince of Wales, many happyy returns of the day. I shall always remember your son's birth- day, for he was born on my wedding day." A peep into Queen Mary's boudoir would reveal an entire absence of restoratives and' cosmetics. There is no tampering with her beautiful grey hair or enviable complexion.. When the Queen goes to Holyroad she has been known to tuck up her sleeves and clean the furniture and. carpets, A. curious friendship sprang up be- tween the Queen and Mary Mac- Arthur, awArthur, founder and organizer at the National Federation of the Wo- men Workers of Great Britain. The Queen used to visit Mary MacArthur in her home in Mecklen- burg Square, and here they would discuss Trade Union problems, Mary lecturing the Queen on the injustice of things. Sometimes the discussion took place in the palace. "Well, Mary," the -Socialist was asked on her return from' her first meeting with the Queen, "did you ebnce?" ack out from Her Majesty's pros - "No," said Mary, firmly; "not be- ing °a gymnast I did. not." During the war Queen Mary was the . first to stop all luxuries .in the ,palace, and introduced a system of rationing. When the King and Queen visited a hospital, the King noticed a new apparatus for central heating. "How lucky you are?" he said.. "You know, we have to live in.a cor- ner of one room to keep warm1" After a moment's reflection, he add- ed: "And you can have hot bathe every day! I only get a hot bath once a week, and you just can't lather soap in cold water, can you?" The Queen's preference for toques in millinery is well known; she dis- likes anything that shades her eyes. ls3er favorite color in dress' Is a wistaria -delphinium, blue -pale, with • a' suggestion of mauve. In furnish- ing she prefers Du Barry rose. In all things she prefers soft pastel shades to brilliancy seedless a mark- ed aversion to black. Queen Mary has in her possession a pair of valuable pearl ear -rings. that ,belonged to her grandmother, the Oomtesse de Ithedey. " There is a story that the Comtesse doubted whe- ther the pearls were real on account of their unparalleled size. Her hus- band drew his sword one day and out one of the pearls apart ,with one sweep of his sword to prove their genuineness. 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The Sabbath was made for man, to be sure, but not for the exercise to his uttermost folly. Yet as surely as Monday rolls around we have 'the gruesome front page news of the dead, and dying and the injured who have 'apparently gone niad over Sun- day and have paid the price. This is not the full extent of the bad uses to which we are putting the Sabbath day, althqugh they are the most spectacular. Add to this list the jangled nerves to many a good. Largest Feet In Britain. The largest feet in Britain +have been discovered. During carnival week in Spennymoor a boot firm esti htbited in their windows a pair of boots, size 18, weighing 7 pounds 6 ponces, and .stated that they would; be prefsented to anyone whom they' would fit. These boots had been ex- hibited up and clown the country for sletteen years without gilding a claim- ant, At Spennymoor a bricklayer, whose height le 6 feet 9 inches, on• trying tee the boots, actually deelar- Oa they Were a bit tight for him. The Golden Hind. Ta eonmetnorate Sir Francis Drake's assoeiatton with the River IIdedway a model of his famous ship, the Gladden Hind, has been hung in the Dockyard Ohurch at Chatham, England. This ship was the brat English Vessel to sail around the world, The Finest 'Tapestries. 'Tapestries dating back to the mid- Ate of the sixteenth century and *iald the finest %lecimerrs of this art Rare to be seen' in the Jerusalem kOb.iliraber alyeatminsor abbey, 41.4.441, wife, the tired, body of many a hus band, the unnatural . stimulation of many children of the families that rise early and start out on a quest of distance. Fast and furious driving is likely to mark 'such a trip, with many near accidents. The mind, body and. soul undergoes almost every experience and emotion except those ofnest and repose and . recreation. Then the homeward • journey and the sleep of exhaustion or, what is more likely, the sleeplessness of exhausted nerves, The pendulum swings from extreme to extreme. The deathlike silence and stupor' of the Sabbath of the past is gone aa.d probably one for Iver, Bpi the. death. clainor of our Twentieth Century,, Sabbath is equally impossible Wise motorists avoid Sunday travel as much as possible, or seek byways and unfrequented, places. Or, what is best of all, use the car to take them a relatively short distance to a spot where they make the most of the day in the rest, and recreation of the body and spirit which alone justify the Sabbath. -Algoma Advocate. Gains 8 pounds 1: Since Taking Vinal "I felt sluggish, drowsy and weak. A friendNsuggested Vinol. Now.I feel fine and have gained 8 pounds."—R. H. Bailey. The very FIRST week you take Vinol, you begin to feel stronger, eat and sleep better. For over 25 years, this simple, strengthen- ing iron and cod liver compound has been helping nervous, run-down wo- men, tired men, and pale, sickly chil- dren. J. Watton McKibbon, Druggist. Il® gid C -able oute, via Pacifiq Doubled c, tipper—The operating room cable station.Tht eficld, 13. C. Lower left -Laying cable betwoert Itamfiold tend Port Al. berm. ,bowing the c tble floats. Lower right—Cable atatlon at'Barnfiehl, 13. C. With the laying of a 70 -mile stretch of cable be- tween 13an:field and Alberni, B.O. by the cable ship "Restorer," 'under charter by the Canadian Pa- cific 'T'elegraphs, the ,all -red line Pacifie cable service was doubled. The new 'line is another Canadian Pa- cific link between Canada, Australia and New Zea- land. The Pacifie Cable Board, representative of Brit?sh, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand governmeras, laid the cable front Australia to Barnfield, on Van- eeuver Island and, the line that connects the distant units of the Empire: 3tretehes across -Canada to Hali- fax and from there to the heart of the Empire. This is the second 'dl -copper line that has been built by the Canadian:Pacific t,,ad leased to the Pacific Cable Board. The last streteh' c4 cable was shipped from Eng- land via the Panama Canal some time ago, when it was deemed necessary to Cope with the increasing cable business. The cable was in two sections weighed over '280 tons and was offietally inspected and O.K.'d by +r: tVteMillan, general manager of Cant lion Pecifie Telegraphs, who journeyed to England for that purpose. The accompanying illustrations were taken during the recent operations. One of the photographs shows. the trip ship "Restorer" lying neat the wooded shores of the Island. Off the starboard side and extending into the foreground of the picture can be seen a lig of barrels which floats the cable until the time comes to lower that section to the bottom. A smart little settlement ,'has sprung up at Barnfield around' the cable station part of which 'with the station, !s sAen in a VIM taken from the "'.estorere"