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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1920-08-05, Page 2How Are Your Pots and Pans. iron ware as it is for aluminum; for Fortunate indeed is the housewife removing burnt material or material who works in a kitchen which has which may stick, steel wool made wet and rubbed on soap cleans and at the same time polishes cooking utensils. If iron ware is to give the best satisfaction, it should be tempered be- fore using. First wash and scrub well, using a good scouring powder and steel wool. Wash again and fill as full as possible of cold water, Add two tablespoons of washing soda. of her children and the social needs Place the kettle on the stove and let of her family as well as herself. the water simmer slowly, for three ahours. Again scrub the kettle with The arrangement of this desirable scouring powder and steel wool. Then kitchen is also .a well-planned schemer 4 put into the clean kettle about two pounds of fat or suet cut into bits. You can use it, afterwards, for soap fat. Try out the fat slowly, being been carefully planned, not in one which has happened. In a carefully planned kitchen, the size of the room has been decided by the needs of the household and its equipment furnished and so arranged as to accomplish maximum work with minimum time and effort. The mother needs all the time she can secure for the training not at all dependent upon chance or the convenience of the carpenter. After the kitchen has been planned and the equipment selected and ar- careful that it does not burn, When ranged, there remains for the house- the fat is tried out, pour it out of wife the selection of her cooking the kettle. Wipe the utensil clean utensils. For convenient, easy work and smooth with some soft crumpled she must have enough utensils for the paper. preparation, in the most- attractive • way, of any dishes she may wish to Keeping Them at Roma. cook. There is such a thing, how- ever, as acquiring too many utensils, "Make the home attractive, .so that or an overabundance of the wrong the boys and girls will prefer' it to kind or a duplication of saucepans and the street, the corner drug store, the kettles. cheap dance or theatre," is a bit of When choosing her utensils or when 1 advice often heard, but the question making additions, the housewife keeps is, How can you do it? in mind what use- she is to make of The answer, as many fathers and tlienn and the size of her family. The mothers have proved, is comfortable rural housewife buys very little food surroundings, freedom and conipanion- alren dy prepared. On the farm she ship. will probably carry on at some time Women too often make the mistake nr other every type of food prepara- of beautifying their homes beyond tion, butchering and curing of meat; practical usefulness. Fragile furni- canning and drying; baking and roast- ture and embroidered cushions are With a remarkable collection of ing; boiling and broiling; soap mak- well enough as ornaments; but if the wireless telephone and telegraph ap- ing. younger members of the family must paratus installed in a laboratory There are on the market utensils be continually warned against injur- aboard a .OU -ton yacht, the "Electra," made of iron aluminum enamel ware, ing the one ar "mussing" the other, glass, pottery and wood. The woman they will prefer going where there is cruising ie 'Medi is now engaged in who gives thought to her buying will less to mar and "muss." Let then cruising tine 'Mediterranean Sea, in choose from all of these, since no one furniture be solid, durable and as material will give the best result for beautiful as may be, but not too beau - all kinds of cooking and food prepare- tiful to be used. tion. If you have an only child, find some If she wishes to have. things heat boy or girl who is away from home, through and cook quickly, she will. living perhaps in an unattractive, ing to conditions; a generator .that choose aluminum or enamel ware. For Place front which he will be glad 01 e runs imbedded in'a mass of coak dust• boiling potatoes, cooking eggs, heating escape, and take him as .a boarder: water, for any process in which :quick Never mind if yon do not make money returns are r uired and when we do •from the venture or if it causes you not wish to retain the heat, these twos'extra work. It is an investment that materials are very satisfactory. will bring valuable returns. Besides being a fine conductor of heat, aluminon appeals very strong - THE MANWHO INS. Is Always Full of Life and Energy—Failures Are Weak and Bloodless. Some men seem to have all the luck. If there are any good things going these Hien seem •to get thein. They make other peosie do their will—they are leaders. If they are business men they are successful; if they are work- men they get the foreman's job. They have the power of influencing people. The same thing is true of women, Some have the charm that makes men seek then out; others are always neg- lected. But this is not luck. It is due to a personal gift—vitality. Men and women of this sort are never weak, puny invalids. They may not be big; but they are full of life and energy. The whole thing is a matter of good blood, good nerves and good health. Everyone would wish to be like this and the qualities that make for vitali- ty and energy are purely a natter of health. By building up the blood and nerves, sleeplessness, want of energy, weakness of the back, stooping should- ers, headachesand the inellectual sort of presence which'really conies from weakness can all be got rid of. Dr. Williams Pink Pills have made many weak, tired men vigorous and healthy, and many pale, dejected girls and women, plump, rosy and attrac- tive by improving their blood and ton- ing up their, nerves. If you are weak, ailing, low-spirited or unhealthy, try Dr. Williams Pink Pills and note their speedy, beneficial effect. You can get these pills tb ongh any medicine dealer or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2,50 from The Dr. Williams ISIedicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Floating Radio Laboratory Seeks New Facts. search of new knowledge about elec- trical -wave action. In the equipment are radiotelephone sets that talk 100 mniles and have a receiving range of 500, a wireless telegraph outfit good for from 1,400 to 2,500 miles, accord - The plan has been followed by wo- men who are far more confined to de- ly to the housewife because it is so finite tasks than most housemothers light and easy to handle. It is made are. Two women who carry on a busi- up in very attractive shapes, and is ness, both mothers of only sons, each very good to look at. What woman extended the hospitality of her hone is there who does not enjoy buying last winter to a young man who paid kitchen ware which is comely? The nominal board, but the real purpose anany styles and makes of utensils on of each was to provide companionship the market maintain a fine average for her son. The young men read to - for neat and attractive appearance. gether, played musical instruments Iron is the best material for fat- together and found satisfaction and frying and for preparing pot -roasts pleasure in each other's company. because iron holds heat well, and an Youth must and will have companion - even, slow heat can easily be main- ship of both sexes, and if the home tained. does not provide it, will go out after For good, brown crusts and sur- it, faces, the best materials are Russia Youth also needs entertainment; iron, aluminum, enamel ware or glass. wise parents provide -music, games, The glassware appeals strongly be- lights and good food. Youth is al - cause it easily can .be kept clean and ways hungry; make boys and girls the exact stage of brownness can be free of dining room and kitchen and seen so clearly. do not be afraid to let them use the Both the glassware and pottery are best dishes. Electric -light bills, fuel very valuable for casserole cookery, and china are cheaper than anxiety custards and molds. A genuinely and trouble. Above all, let a cheerful, good and enthusiastic cook will insist hospitable and happy spirit prevail. on a careful selection of casseroles, for she is going to cook many one -dish Meals and thus save much work for herself, besides feeding the family Two shelves thirty inches long by adequately. Since the casserole can ten inches- wide, with a double row be placed on the table, extra dishes of hooks in the bottom make one are likewise. eliminated. Rice dishes housewife's kitchen neat and conven- that require long baking, custards, fent. One shelf—white enameled—is stews of all kinds and baked hash over the sink. On it stands the double are casserole dishes. boiler, coffee percolator, coffee in an In the selection of cutting tools, the! air -tight can—the coffee mill is at - quality of the steel is the most im- tached to the wall just over the portant. Cheap steel knives and scis- drainboarcl—and scouring powder, sors can neither take a good edge nor bath brick, steel wool and a bottle of "hold" an edge. javelle water. On the hook beneath The chopping bowl and some of the hang the cooking utensils in constant mixing spoons will necessarily be of daily use, long -handled spoons, meat wood. knife and cleaver, bread knife, dish After all these utensils have been mop, soap shaker, bottle cleaner, cork selected, their care is the next im- screw, steel frying pans of small size, portant consideration. Over the sink stew pans, etc. or very near it, should be a shelf or The other shelf is on an enclosed Cupboard in which are stored soap, porch, and is just outside the kitchen seouring soap and powder, steel wool door. On the .hooks hang broom, floor and a couple of large corks. mop, dustless mop, oiled mop, lamb's Steel wool is indispensable fox wool brush for wiping down walls, aluminum. A. good ton -alkali soap window brush pole, long -handled dust - should be used with it. Wet the wool, pan, and cleaning brushes of various Use plenty of soap and scour the sizes. These all have screws put in aluminum, using a notion which fol- the top of the handle so that they may lows the shape of the utensils. On be hung up easily. On the shelf is the bottom of a round utensil, the furniture polish, floor wax, a shoe box emotion should he rotund and round, containing clean old cloths and squares riot across; around the sides, not up and down. In this way a very good. polish can be put on. Many women toniplain that the steel wool hurts their fingers. Use the cork to push it with or wear a thick glove. Steel wool will bo found just as valuable' for glassware, pottery and Two Handy Shelves. of cheesecloth for cleaning and dust- ing, and empty syrup pails, in which oiled dust cloths are stored. The car- pet sweeper and scrubbing pail stand below the shelf, Buy Thrift Stamps. to escape vibration and sone,,nev* , vices not yet perfected. - The specific objects of this strange cruise are to make exact determine- tion of the influence of sea and land on space communication, to invests- gate atmospheric and static effects,. and to develop certain forms of appar- atus as yet little known to wireless workers. One of these latter is tbe two-way radiotelephone, permitting the operator to send and receive at the same tkne, as in ordinary wire tele- phony. The yacht, with its $50,000 worth of wireless equipment alone, is scheduled to stop at several ports ,after leaving Southampton, England. An Evening Prayer. Father, with all my heart I thank Thee for to -day, For all its sunshine—all its rain; For strength to toil—for a heart to play. Help me to forget its pain As, with my hand in Thine, I go to rest. But, when the day shall come again, • I ask That I, still close to Thee May meet my task With love, that maketh all things plain And makes me trust in Thee And never ask But that Thou work continually— That, which for Hie is best. Me Farm in the Balance Some thousands of country -bred farmer. The country bred young Hien young•,inen have just graduated from the high schools of the Dominion, and are -weighing, if they have not already decided, the momentous question of a life career. A proportionate few of these young men have a strong natur- al bent or inclination toward some special life work and will pursue the object of this inherent ambition with a tenacity which will insure success, A far larger number. will, if history re- peats itself, play the part of the op- portunist by choosing a present occu- pation in. some easily attainable and immediately- remunerative line ..of work. This tendency to fellow the line of least resistance in our industrial life is far more general than most of us appreciate. We are largely ereetaros of accident. Even strong pre:lillec- tions are subordinated to the pre.asure of circumstances, or are eepreesed to take advantage- of what seems to be a goal opportunity to make an inimedi- ate.or early improvement in our finan- cial condition. More generally than otherwise, the anticipated benefits fall short of anything like complete reali- zation, and there is continued disap- pointment over a monotonous exist- ence and a vain longing for "what might have been." Tao fen- young inen approach the all-important problem of choosing a career with an eye to the attainments of a more or less distant future. Quite naturally the problems of the present are first and most thoroughly consid- ered. As a -result many young men have left the farm for other employ- ment at a time when the future is ex- ceedingly bright for the progressive who are just now engaged in the con- sideration of the nioineutous problem of choosing a career Weald do well to consider this outlook, while weighing the Sarni in the balance with a high industrial Wage. And if they take counsel with alder men and men in other lines of business as well, the de- cision reached is likely to bo one of greater wisdom. In weighing the farm against other careers, present din:liltics of farm management, particularly the shortage of farm labor, aro likely to be placed in the balance against the farm, in- stead of in its favor. A little thought should, however, convince the young man who is eon°.i'aerhng thi- question that this: very liuutileap i8 certain to react in fever of the farmer wile :,t.i:la to his job and makes the most ci the peseent eita ati: n, Shortage of farm labor means, lessened production along some lines.. It also means in- creased urban consumption. Together these' factor' moan remunerative prices for farm products. • Economists of the business <chool believe implicitly in the animate in- fluence of the old law of supply and demand. They believe that prices for foodstuffs must rise to a relatively higher scale of comparative values, which will enable the farmer to suc- cessfully compete with the manufac- turer for needed faber, and which will return the farmer and his, family a more ailecluate labor income. The country bred young men who are up against the great problem of choosing a career would. do well to consider these economic facts before deciding against farming as a career. Not the George Who bag was missing and asked anxiously Does It. One of the amusing stories in. Capt. Evans's book., Keeping the Seas, is of an incident that occurred when twenty- five million dollars in gold was ship- ped across the English Channel. The ship carried as passengers Mr. Lloyd George, Gen. Robertson and Sir Maurice Hankey, who occupied the cabin in which the gol i was stored. When the gold was landed, a Beek if anyone had been in the cubit'. "Olt, yee," said the captain, "Three men were there." "Who are they?" "Weil," replied the captain tinought- f "I knew that one was called George." Later it was discovered that the bags had been miscounted, Resting, England, has been a cen- tre for ha•ring fishing for twenty cen- of England clerk complained that one tunes at least. s Corgi or Fabric Always Near A. mile and a half, or a clay and a half, or a world and a half away. Your journey back, will be safe and sure if your car is equipped the Partridge way • ceea NCHOR PLUG represents the summit of achievement in expert tobacco mania& firing. No oiior chewing tobacco possesses the "quality" of leaf, and flavor, found in. ANCHOTW IP:ig<qg 0,47442e 4k,44 Health Consumption In the Elderly. The general impression prevails that tuberculosis is a disease of early life and that those past forty years of age are virtually immune from its ravages. That is an error, The dis- ease does occur, it is true, more com- monly in the young than in those past middle life, but consumption in men and women from fifty to seventy years , of age is by no means rare. The explanation of this is not far to seek;; very few persons pass through life without a trace of tuber- culosie. Aln,cst everyone has a touch of it at some time, and, though in the majority of as, fortunately, the at- tacked portion of the lung heals, and nothhig mare 1s heard frons it, some- tinethe core is not ccmplete and there e r c i n.; a spot of latent tuber - cul s:s r4.4.!;:.- to be lighted up when- ever the i carer of it becomes roan - down or sod'crs an attack of pneu- monia or receives a hard blow on the cheat, One reason why consumption is be- lieved to he rare in the elder"ly is that its symptoms at that time cf life are far less pronounced than at an earlier age, and many, even in an advanced stage of tuberculosis, arcs regarded simply as Invalids without any well- defined disease. In some cases the affection stimulates in its symptoms disease of the stomach or other ab- dominal organs, If that is. so, there may he pain in the abdomen after taking food, tenderue s or pressure, and frequent vomiting, but no com- plains; of anything that indicates chest trcubic .=. In phthisis of later life he:,'orrle:age from the lungs is en- counte: cd chiefly toward the cad of the disase, and elderlypennle who have never been suspected of being tuberculous sometimes die suddenly from this cause. The duration of the disease in elderly persons is very d:fl cult to determine Ireonn se of the insidious nature of the meet. It is, however, essentially chronic.. Owing to the ab- sence in many cases of the character- istic s.:nptonr$ cf pulmonary tuber- culosis, one should always think of the possibility of it in an elderly pa- tient when feebleness and loss of ap- petite are noticed, especially if there is a slight cough and loss of weight. - The treatment of consumption in advanced life, consists largely of rest, good food .and an abundance of fat in the shape of olive oil or cream, or cod- liver oil, if it is tolerated. Young consumptives sometimes are benefited by a life of roughing it, but old ones are not; they should rather be given a month ley of absolute rest in bed, with mases to maintain the muscular tone, and after that moder- ate outdoor exercise, but absolutely nothing that is strenuous. The Way of the Coast. One great joy of the work on the north Labrador coast, says Dr. Wil- fred T. Greufell in his autobiography, is the sympathy you get with the really poor. Simple needs and simple lives preserve simple virtues that get last in the crush of advancing civilize- tion. On one occasion I came in the mid. dle of the night to a poor man's house, He was in bed, the lights were out, and it was bitter cold. He got out of bed in. a trice and with an old hurrl- cane lantern went down to feed my dogs, while his wife, after he had light- ed a fire in the freezing cord room, busied herself making me some cocoa, Not until long afterwards slid I know that the milk and sugar were from a special little hoard kept for visitors. Later I was sent. to bed—quite un- aware that the good folk had spent the first part of the night in the same bed and were now on the neighboring floor. Nor would they, accept pay. went. "It's the way of t' coast," the good fellow assured inc. Another time my host for the night had gone when I rose for breakfast. He had taken the road that I was in tending to travel to the next village, some, fourteen miles distant, just to break a trail for us, as we did not know the way, and incidentally to car- ry some milk and sugar to "save the face" of any prospective Bost for the next day, who had "made a bad voy- age" that year. Still another time no less than forty inen from Concha marched ahead on a twenty -mile track to make it possible for our toam to travel quickly to a neighboring settle- ment. Those Awful Partings. The Bride: "Oh, how I hate to 1/1 you go, darling! ;1; shu'n't see yen again until lunch time!" The Groom: "You must be brave,'. little woman. No matter what happens, I swear to telephone at eleven." The various diamond mines in Africa yield stones with such distinct characteristics that they are readily elass'iied as to their origin by ex- perts.