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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1920-08-12, Page 2Reducing the Washing. To the mother with several small children, the problem of reducing the ► Size oil the washing is of considerable importance, whether that washing be ►▪ . done by hand or power at home, or 'whether a woman be paid by the piece, the pound or the hour to do it. It is kre• Tright that there should be such an endeavor made to lighten this task, but there is a right way and a wrong pie to go about it. The right way .is to select for the i► the children's wear such colors and fabrics as will "shed" the dirt most +easily. A faded chambray or ging- lam looks dirty almost as soon as it is put on, and it is almost impossible to get two days' wear out of such a garment if you would have your child look clean. On the other hand, there is that most serviceable of materials, the closely -woven, fast -color -striped romper cloth, which keeps clean ex- ceptionally well, not because it is too dark in color for the dirt to show, but because the dirt does not easily grind into it, does not "tick," in other words. Starch helps materially in keeping clothes clean, too. Starch fills in the meshes and keeps them from becom- ing clogged at once with dirt. It also ,imparts a slight gloss which allows loose dirt to brush off easily., And yet I have known many, many mothers who didn't starch their little boys' blouses and suits because it was "ex- tra work" and made the garments "harder to .iron." The question raised, however, is whether the extra work involved in starching was not more than onset by the decreased number with pepper and salt, add bits of cold of garments in the family wash. chicken or lamb and serve the dish on An exceedingly wrong way. to re- a hot platter garnished with erten duce the weekly washing is to do so bacon. If you wish, you can scramble by endangering the health of the the eggs in a separate pan and pour youngsters, or by forming in them : the other ingredients over them. wrong ideas as to the importance of cleanliness. For instance, one mother I From Ore Housekeeper to Another. of my acquaintance has no blouses to wash for her small boys from begin- ning of cool weather in the fall till bibs on her teething, ▪ drooling baby,. thus allowing its dress to become wet and exposing the chiles to the danger of sudden draughts on its wet little chest, all because bibs mean addition- al washing. There are countless others who have erred in various sim- ilar directions in the mistaken idea that saving in washing was of utmost importance. Washing' is woman's hardest task, no natter how it is done, and most expensive form of hired labor nowa- days, no matter who does it. It ,is absolutely necessary in most cases that its size be kept to a minimum. But in endeavoring to keep the number of pieces low, do it in the efficient manner of using the right kind of garments, not in slovenly, careless methods. "MulIigan." All girls like to invite their friends to go on hikes or picnics, and to come back to an appetizing meal when the outing is over. Bat vigorous exercise in the open air breeds keen appetites, and to satisfy them quickly requires a meal that is at once substantial and easily prepared. There is nothing better for the purpose than "mulligan" served with hot, buttered toast. Fry as much bacon as you need, take it from the pan and keep it hot in the oven. Slice two onions, six sweet green bell peppers and ten ripe to- matoes and add them to the bacon fat. When they are cooked, add milk and well -beaten eggs—one or two eggs to each person. Season the mixture After having much trouble with oil- cloth cracking, I discovered a method the waren days of spring arrive. In ' to prevent this which adds fifty per place 'of blouses her boys wear all- Icent. to the life of the oilcloth. I wool jerseys. These little garments, cover the table smoothly with paper la as en we of �v' common are not put on over the blouse and tl t h be 11 led Ith worn as an outside wrap, but are pull- I machine oil. I then place the oil cloth ed over the head while the child dress- on top of the paper and stretch tight - es in the morning and worn, indoors :lye The oiled paper )keeps ; the under en ops ..and the gain in the • nnroilb '• are arm side of the cloth moist and peeveiii;s of clops, we -get at least1D10'per cent. and our tris bedtime They e w , iffiakeYo -`r Ford 7,77 - Drive ,i .."" Drive like c Packard' - By Installing a "SAFETY FIRST'" Ford Steering DeVice (Made in Canada) etaxes5 your Ford keep to tine Toa cite a heavier car. 27.4.17.P.S steering easy and safe and prevents steering from 1oc1thi , eto. Standard Price, $10,00,` (prepaid to any address) Get one from your Dealer or direct from THE CARTER.ORVJS8 GO. Manufacturers and Distributors 49 4aichxnnd Street ,(117est), Weren't') Phone main 247. DE11.L29RS—Write for our proposition. etet, underclothing I use a bit of match, sewing it lute the end of the ribbon similar to a shoe lace.—Mrs. H. R. W. A wire potato masher makes a good salad mixer. Potato salad - is much easier to lend with the potato masher than by the ordinary process.—Mrs. J. J. O'C. What An Irrigation !ystena Did for My Garden.: A couple of years ago,, when we bought our electric lighting 'arid pumping outfit, the man who Sold it to us mentioned among other things that it would irrigate our vegetable garden. Flowever, I put this doitn, zs a talking point which would "listen well on paper," but wouldn't amount to much in actual practice. But after we installed our pumping plant I got a letter from the irriga- tion company explaining.how T could P y put in a couple of lines 'of pipe over my vegetable garden at a very od- crate expense that would snppl+lall the water I wanted, at any time;"by merely turning a valve, and so I'de- cided to try it. T must say, after using for two years this mechanical watering sys- tem, that the claims which were made for it were net exaggerated. The re- sults we have been able to get have been simply marvelous. For a great many years we have prided ourselves as havirig as good a garden as is q The Stately Pines. All boys and girls who have tied suet on the bough of an evergreen tree and watched the birds come and peek off bits of it have noticed that these trees keep their needles 'throughout the year. These needles are their leaves, No matter how young .your children may be, it•in possible for'thexfi to lear3i soineth•ing about"` the interest- ing family of pines. There are three families of pines; those having three needles, the leaves growing in a little bunch; those hav- ing two needles and those )raving five. V ' It nate-nraz ea handle steadily, but nil the time she was deep in the doings of the remark- able Awes. After, a while she noticed that the handle was becoming very hard to turn. Well, Aunt Florence wanted the cream stiff; it would be mortifying to have it spread all over the cake. So she kept on turning; and all the while the handle seemed to grow more ob- stinate. • "Flo!" called her aunt from the kitchen. "What's keeping you so long?" Flo jumped. She shut the book with the to One way that we know our pines is a bang and began to unscrew p from this fact, the leaves grow in of the jar, • No doubt by this time the bunches and these bunches always cream was jut right. have a definite, number of needles in But when she looked inside she them, five, three or two. The most'blinked with astonishment. There was common p.:ne of the five -needled fans-� no cream at all in the jar—nothing fly is the White Pine which is found but some cloudy water with some in maty sections of our country. These' thing queer and yellow floating in it. trees, whichgrow with straight trunks i , Flo rubbed ha eyes; she was half g Inclined to believe that one of the are sometimes one hundred and fifty feet high and their branches are cov- mischievous elves of the story had ered With bunches of five fine needles,played a trick on hos. "Maybe it will be all right after the sesand itchost delicateiof all the I put in the vanilla and ,sugar," she species. The Pitch Pine well- P e is a known member of the three -needled said. She had le when her aulook eafor thete family. It is a rugged -looking tree of i her vanilla thurry. from thirty to eighty feet high with Flo was in despair. "0 Aunt Flor- eoarse and rigid needles. The grace- en Flo she ncried. "Coln"e here, Au please, fol Red Pine is generally from fifty' to ninety= feet high and its long, and show me how to ! un whip this straight needles grow in pairs. There cream and whip it over are many pine children in the three Aunt Florence came, wondering. She and two -needled families, but not many pulled up the dasher and looked at the in the free -needled one. yellow substance that clung to it. : "What is that stuff ?" said Flo, Have a little more fun with the „ pines! Ask Father to buy a blue -printf Anfi where in the world has the frame, not a large one, but a little one cream gone to?" perhaps 4x5 inches. Get some blue- "ItAunt Florence shook with laughter. grown in the section, but it is no'ex-� print paper cut to the size of the has gone into butter," she said. aggeration to say that our vegetable ,frame and spread a bundle of needles crops average at least twice what they! on the glass, being careful not to did before. Furthermore, we Can -plant i break them apart, Place over then at any time without waiting for' rain,; a sheet of the blue-prs:nt paper, clean "I'll and get immediate germination, midi side next to .the needles, then put on cation. I 11 never try again to kid keep every crop growing right' the back of the frame and set it in two birds with one stone,' she said. straight through without any :check i the direct sunlight so that the sun Aunt Florence glanced at the book until the day it is harvested. Tliius shines upon the glass side. Leave .it and understood. Then she peered we are able to get un a good many there for two or three minutes if the along the closet shelf. more crops each year than if we trot- sunshine is very bright but if it is a "Cheer up, Flo,'.' she said. "It isn't ed to the weather man for our ren partly cloudy day you may have to so bad after all. i in partly to blame pply. leave your frame in the light for ten myself. I forgot to warn you that Counting both the increase • n Liu ,,tea. Then fake tele . blue print 1 there was a jar of SOD" cream, too, on draper out of the frame and tit the shelf:` You used that. No wonder picture side down, in water and leave it made butter! But here's the sweet it there for fifteen ox tta�ezity minutes cream all ready to be whipped!" "Into butter?" echoed Flo. "How can butter come from whipped cream? Anywvay, the supper cake is ruined." Her eyes filled with tears of mortifi- tivonderftrlly warrn, and bow they do; cracking, and also acts -as a• sort of snore from our garden space than. 'we Then Flo, too, had to laugh "I was save washing! But there is a high pad. Mrs. G. A. G. used to, and the quality of the stuff 1`;o*, es yeu look at it, you will see t , „ neck to then. and when the child is As fast as - a tumbler of jelly is measures u better too. the im rossian of the about to put vanilla into the butter, j p p pine needles in the house, in a temperature of 70 • opened I wash off the paraffin that We put in two lines of 'ir' igatio i roars a clear white picture; Ville the she said. "You cane just ill time." c?c Tees or more, he begins to per-! covers it and put it in an old tin pipe, each 200 feet lcllg. These 'Meet.iacicground :s blue. If the water in :Lunt Florence dipped the 'butter cut, ' rinsed the jar and poured in the sweet;; s;�, freely about the neck. Soon the' coffee pot. � hen I ~vont to use some, cause corlplete, ;reale on , til : pecial. 'which you wash ;-our picture is green j "Now," „ , p "it's .. c::ll<.r n gist with neesen ;tion. And it takes but a moment to set the coffee irrigating' nozzle, e:•er-n three feet, and in color, that ::'iii show you that you I cre'tn. Now, site said, its r,•ady 1 , a c i i of + to be whipped. 'l ed C,0 ahead." t'; --n likely ,rot, he .!.1rts outdoors'.pat on the sleeve, nne�t cite paraffin and special anion on the end each did neo.Ieave the pic�llre in file sun- p ' our it out. In his Sway I have no fitted with a stra:nc1• to keen any: light loll h, A little ex ;'mance 1 Flo looked at her gratefully. "I'11 :Mei a 1G::: atmosphere. In spite: p , g enour g �; 1 c•;: rhe -geol. tl,.ze .ie a sudden chilling: extra dish to clean and all the bits are _seclinnelit feu1O getting • into dile line will. soot. tearlr you how to get the!, whip it," alio promised. "And if any about 12'.s th ont, and sudden contras-' thus saved and utiliacu over and over. and clot ;mg up the nozzle:.' They best results. After taking the picture nnischie-out; Iittle old elves cone float- t:on of the + .en pores. The next day —Mrs. II. R. W. Lha churl has a bad. cold. All winter When you have a surplus of lettuce ,long he lea:; collie., and his mother can- cook a large quantity of it with a few t•undler-ttuid telly. gee wouldn't! beet leaves—result, a delicious dish of no listen when I suggested that the warms mild -flavored greens, • Season with jersey was in any way responsible. salt, pepper and butter.—Mrs. E. V. S. "Oh, it couldn't be that," he said. The disagreeable smell caused by "BC 3rles it saves so much washing!" any kind of greens ;nay be It did save .washing, it is true, for prevented if a smell piece of bread is thedark-coloredjersey was only thrown into the water while boiling. washes when it "just bad to be," —M. A. P. Which after tunes meant many days Last.year a friend never had trouble after it should have been. This had with her canned fr it or string }leans. a brad effect on the child morally. She used the usual method of canning, Cleanliness couldn't become a prime sterilized and scaled the cans as usual, virtue with him when his mother al- then while the can was hot she took a strip of adhesive plaster one -half- inch wide and lapped one-half on the cover and half on the rubber, pressing firmly, which made the can perfectly tight.—Mrs. E. V. S. If there is no timepiece near the bed of a sick pers'nn a sense of lone- liness maty be felt, while if the watch lowed him to wear the same garment day after day till the neck acquired that i -•.s Which is sure to de- velopg reas net when a garment comes constant- ly into touch with perspiring skin. Little wonder that he never cared ► whether his heir wr.s combed or his ears clean! ► 1 have known children to be sent is not covered the ticking may annoy off to bars in their union suits, because the invalid. Place the watch under a they were waren and they saved so tumbler and the ticking will be almost ,much washing! But could anything he inaudible,—Mrs. G. B. mere detrimental to the health and When you have peas to shell put idea of cleanliness of the child? Clean them in a pan, pour hot water over garments are almost ae refreshing as then; and let them stand awhile. The ,a bath, and at night the body demands! pods will burst cpen and the peas will a complete change from day -thee name to the top of the water,—Mrs. clothes. The soil accumulated Mager- J. J. O'C. Poor, tough, uneven pancakes will result from the best of batters if the batter is baked too fast or if the cake is baked too long before it is turned. Turn when edges only have baked and E le xnents throughout•a day should not be carried to bed to be slept in. There is the woman, too, who wouldn't use napkins at table, letting the children soil the fronts of their clothes and learn not to mind, because the top is still a batter filled with napkine made adder ou .l washings And bubbles.—M. A. P. there i.; another who l cfu:;ed to use When running ribbon or tape in '$4(0' e� oor� reit � , n ,. - a - ^ 5,Cit296'm Ginseng is the only cultivated crop we know that will produce €40,000 to the acre. Let us show you that we are not over -estimating . the •ralue of one acre of dried Ginseng roots grown from "Conitlitee . Stratified Ginseng Seed,•, 100,000 four-year-old roots weighing' one 0111108moll, at 71jo0 pd :° root or $12.00 por lb., eduare 575,000. Figured at $g,00 per lb„ tl,ti0,ls ,Goo - Prieas: Order lgtovr Torr Qotobex e 10,000 stratified seeds ...5 60.0 2,000 3@,000 stratified seedH , . 1 0 00 Sri sa o -• 50,000 stratified seeds .. 260,0 10.000 ;:+, ee, .o 7n smaller Quantities, 3o, a see,d^. 60,000 t -v ■ii Our leaflet ''Method of Cultiv,t n'° free td cusfe,Ijf iCON KI.IN GINSENG NUTS EI1Y ii,1:LTF�1' hrIO � ... .-tett. �le.W•...N._._. a 15r$Ti 9,ots . i $ . 'bet* ., (18 s, .00 v00.Q0 t C I Onitinett hb also have short handles, making it from the water, place it face down on possible to turn the line from one side te clean white blotter and let it dry. ing round, I'll whip then;, too." to the other. Through the little non- Any' child can have great fun mount- +' "? % '.i 1 d ries inserted in the pipe the \•eler ing these pictures on a f !VI 1. 1 � preec o paper � 3i -, is thrown in tiny streams to a dis- and can use then for gifts or Iceep tante of 20 feet. These little streams them as examples of the different Care up in the air so that the water families of pines. Care of Holme and Chdren Of. falls to the gromind in tiny drops like ten Causes Breakdown. a fine gentle rain which will not pack The Elf in the Cream. the soil or beat down even the small- The woman at home, deep in house est plant. As we run our rows in "FQo, can.you whip the cream for hold duties and the cares of mother - the same direction as the lines of pipe, the .pangs cakes?Aunt Florence hood, needs occasiunai help to keep we can wafer a narrow strip the entire called. Flo was so deep in a fairy hor in goad health. 'l'he demands up length of the garden any time we story that her aunt's voice seemed to on ai mother's health are ninny and want to. Tliis is especially handy. came from far away. She closed her severe. tier own health • trials and when eve are setting out plants, just after sowing seed .in dry weather, or just after hoeing or cultivating any, crop as soon nes the weeds have had - a chance to die in the sun. All we had to do to put this system in was to run an inch pipe from the barn to the garden, a distance of about 300 feet, and put in two rows of cedar posts 50" feet apart to support the irrigation line. The feed line fron. the barn. to the garden was only a foot or so under the ground, as we turn the water off and drain it out be- fore cold weather. - While we grow our •ie.getables prim- arily for our own use, we have always sold a few, and since having the irri- gation we have had such a big surplus that he have sold quite a lot, espe- cially during midsummer, when all the rest of the gardens. around here are mare or less dried up, The summer folks from a good many miles around come to us because they know that they can get nice, fresh, crisp things. Our "rain inac"bine" is something of a curiosity, and they like to stop and; see how it works. Altogether, Y sup- pose, we have sold enough vegetables to pay for our two lilies of irrigation two or three tinies over in the two years since we have had them, in ad dition to having more and better vege- tables for ourselves, .;s Poverty is a hard nurse, but she raises healthy ehildren , Teacher—"Mention six important Arctic animals" rupil—"Three polar bears and three seals." book reluctantly and went to the her children's welfare exact heavy kitchen. tolls, while Hurried meals, broken rest •Auntonel] • I I" ce was busy mixing and much indoor living tend ,to weak - waffles for supper. "I wonder if you en her constitution. No wonder that can whip the cream for the sponge the woman at home is often indis- cake?" she said. "The jar of cream and posed through weakness, headaches, backaches and nervousness. Too many women have grown to accept these visitations as a part of the lot of motherhood. But many and varied as her health troubles are, the cause is the cream whip are in the pantry on the shelf. I'm sure you won't have any trouble. Don't forget to whip the cream till it's stiff." Much pleased at being trusted with such an iriportant task, Flo put on simple and relief at hand. When well, her apron and went. into the pantry, -it is the woman's good blood that where she carefully poured the thick keeps her well; when ill flee must contents of the jar into the glass cream Make her- blood rich to renew her whip and screwed on the top. Then, health. The nursing mother more just as she began to turn the handle, than any other woman in the world she remembered her story. needs rich blood and plenty of it. "I know what I'll do," she said to There is one way to get this good herself. "I'll get my book and read • health, and that is theough the use of while I work." Dr. Williams' rink fills. These pills That would be easy, because so longi make new blood, and, through their as she turned the handle the cream use thousands of weak, ailing wives would take care of itself, With the and mothers havo been made bright, book flat on the shelf and her chin in cheerful nod strong. If you are ailing, 'her free hand, she wai soon far away easily tired or depressed, it is a duty in story land again. All the while you owe yourself and your family to she was reading she turned the handle give Di'. Williams' 'Pink Pills a fair faithfully, When one arm grew tired trial. What this modicine Inas done she changed the cream whip to an -for others it will suroly do for you, other shelf and used the other phm. You ctn get Dr. Williams' Pink PiIis "This is fine," .she thought to her-. through any dealer in medicine or by self as she turned a page. "Pm kill- mail at 50e. a box or six. boxes for $2.00 ing two birds with one stone" from 'The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co„ .The fairy tale grew more and more.,13roelcville; Ont. interesting. It was the story of a - e band of elves who lived in a well. Some In Peru pineapples grow to the of the elves were wise and good, and weight of twenty pounds, some ' were. full of mischief, All of thein were continually doing suirpr,3s- The total war debt of the world is ing things,. Flo kelt on turning the estimated at $200,000,000. - Health Abscess of the Lung. One of the rare diseases of the fling --rare, that is, in comparison with pneumonia or tuberculosis—is abscess, It is usually a•secondary affection that accompanies or .:Follows tuberculosis, pneumonia or bronchitis; or that is caused when pue invades the lung from some other part, as in suppurative pleurisy or an abscess of the liver. It may be duo to an injury, as a bullet wound or stab wound of the lung. Sometimes the pus -producing germs are brought by the blood stream from more or less distant parts—from the heart in septic endocarditis, from the mastoid in ear disease, or from a clot that closes an inflamed vein. An ab- scess of the lung `may be any size, from that of an orange or larger, in- volving the greater part of one lobe of the lung, down to a minute collec- tion of pus not larger than a hempseed or the head of a pin. In the latter case there is usually a number of these little abscesses, which may gradually increase in size and finally coalesce to form one big abscess. The first symptom that suggests a possible abscess is ueually a chill with elevation of body temperature during bronchitis or during cne of the other diseases mentioned above; the pro- bability becom-es stronger if the chills recur every fesdays. . Tine re is positive evidence of the condition, however, until the abscess begins to discharge through the bronchial tubes, Then there is an increase in the cough, accompanied by very profuse expec- toration of thick and often foul-smell- ing pus, perhaps mixed with blood and shreds of lung tissue. In favorable cases, after the cough with expectora- tion has continued 1 erhaps for several weeks, the discharge growe lees, the fever goes down, the appetite returns, and the patient gets well; but more frequently the condition persists in milder form, and the aynlptcm be- come tlioee of chronic bronchitis or of tuberculee is. Treatment rimy be either medical surgical. The Iatter is of greater promiee for a permanent cure, how- ever, especially when the abscess fol- lows t12r injury Or pneumonia, and when it is not tuberculous. Me dial treatment, which is sen I,:t:ilues very suecere ui, is, the carne as that for tubcl u:oeis namely, a life in the open air, a nourishing diet and net, u;;a a ; the Cost, Thei,dinner table was set, and moth- er a '1 father were waiting; the little on I11111 l,e away all rind'.r3::in. Sud- denly they heard him coi.2'.Iag alma.; the -win. -I + Circe jnn1 e he wos u�r on the str, , und, bursting thr,+u ,ii the open door, lie eagerly ran to his - mother, i2J!tll ;:;. 11n for irrspection a shining, ;Lill. "Mother, 1-•-•,1 wlWt I have caught!" he cried. "I...41.17 it a tine one?" "Yes, 1 see the fish, and it is very tine," said the mother, "I ana r11r3 you must be proud to have ,caught it, but. I something larger and nnor : important than the fish. 1 see a good pair of shoe:- covored with slimy mud. from solo to tep, a pair of stockings torn in several places, a suit et clothes so soiled that it will have to be clean- ed before it is tit to be worn again. And I see a boy who disubeytd his mother and went to the stream alone. 1)o you think the fish was worth It? Do you think I can be well pleased with even so fine a fish after you paid such a price for it?" As the boy looked at his soiled clothes he realized with shame his disobedience toward one whom he really loved better than anyone else in the world. He turned from his fish that had appeared; so attractive at first, and that had seemed such a big achievement, and •with downcast face took his place at the table. When the meal was over. he said, "After this I am going to think what It means to other people and not just to myself when I start doing anything. It is far more fun to please you than to catch fish -•-after it is over. I don't like fishing so well as I thought i did." And what of grown-up children who go fishing for the prizes in life? Is there sucli-a thing as paying too high a price for a coveted prize? Is it pos- sible to win success and at the salve time to see that which make. success worth while? Do we ever pay too high a price for our fish?? It is possible to gain great wealth at the price of honor, advancement at the price of a good conscience, temporary reputation at the price of character, popular applause at the price of truth. It is possible to gain worldly ease and the pleasure, of sin at the price of eternal life, 'What shall it profit a mann, if lie shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" True i511ceees consists sometimes lri roinquishine, not in achieving, Telling a man not to worry is about as effective as warning a small boy not to eat too much.