HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-02-03, Page 6Secret Playhouses for the Kiddies. tablespoons of giavy on top. One
My sister has three children, aged fowl will make fifteen sandwiches,.
six, ten, and thirteen, and each child They are fine for socials.
has a playhouse, a .secret—the word in i Maple charlotte• -4 cup maple
reality means sacred—playhouse, into sugar, 2 tablespoons powdered gelatin,
which no one can go unless especially • 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract,
invited. These little homes are avail-, 'ii cup chopped nuts, 3 r cup boiling
able winter or summer and any hour ' water, 2 cups • milk, 2 tablespoons
of the day. They may be just as nice sugar, di teaspoon orange extract,
in a three-room apartment as ire the- Grate the maple sugar, and dissolve
mansion with its gaily furnished. in the hot water. Dissolve the gelatine
,• in the milk, Place the gelatin and
Your Grocer Is
Not a Profiteer
Have a heart!
Your grocer is not a profited)
11e is passing along to you reduced
prices, as fast or faster ` than . they
carie to him. .Tot liecauee prices on
many good ,things are still high, don't
blame hiui. It is usually the !maraca
quality of everything that shows the
greatest decline.
If he is as good a man as the aver-
age, your grocer is still doing his ut-
most to give you the best value for
your money. But don't push nine too
hard. He is only human.
You don't know, but we do, that he
is recommending goods that pay' him
less profit than other welt known
brands which he might easily per-
suade his customers to take if he
ns. milk mixture on the stove; when it cared to do so.
When playhouse,, the youngest, showed
me her I was delighted boils, add slowly to the egg yolks We know' this because he pays us
with it, and asked her to tell me all beaten with the sugar. Stir over the more for Red Rose Tea and sells it
t tl . k then
:about 'how she obtained her furniture. , fire until it begins o lie en,
Ruth's house interested me for an. remove from fire, and stir in the stiif-
dis-
hour, but when Pauline, big thirteen- j l
solved beateina a eggn "sugar, hitesvan! lac and
year-old Pauline told me shyly that i oraii'ge extract, and the nuts, chopped.
she had not yet discarded her play- Pour into a wet mold, and turn out
house, I was astonished. Hers was s' when firm. Serve with cream.
charming one, filled with the dreams
of this age of girls. Mincemeat pudding -1 cup mime -
And this is how they built and kept
these little secret homes:
A blank book about the size of the
large magazines was purchased for
each one. A very thin book was suf-
ficient because not more than twenty
leaves are needed. These girls have
blankledgers with thin cardboard
aback, Then a bottle of paste, a pair
of scissors and a number of discarded
magazines made up the materials
,needed.
Each page of the blank book repre-
sented a room and this room was
furnished by pictures from -the old
magazines. Neilia's house contained
only the very essential things, as
table, chairs, beds, and so forth. Ruth
had found rugs for her iioors, lovely
bathroom fixtures, curtains for her
window, a library table, and there was
no end to her interest in the appropri-
ateness of each bit of furniture, color
schemes and all that went to make
up her "house."
Pauline's books had become a regu-
lar home, a beautifully finished affair.
At the beginning she- had a picture
of her driveway, and the entrance to
her house. On the next pages came
her entrance hall, reception room,
living rooms, bedrooms—even a sun -
parlor, breakfast room and den. Then
"""'"slue gave us -glimpses of her back
yard, her garden, her flowers.
There seemed to be an endless in-
terest in these houses. Under the
trees in summer or on the shady
porch; by the fireside in winter or
when visiting a little friend, the girls
. could take their playhouses, unmoI-
ested -from. the time they last had
closed the door.
They would search and search for
the kind of table or chair they thought
they liked best. A new picture
brought out a new plan. One of the
girls found a winding stairway and
immediately began to plan where she
could use it in her house. So much
originality, so much observation is
necessary that thebusyminds of the
girls delight in it, Paper cutting is
always farrcivatieg and this method of
building a permanent playhouse ,gives
them a broad opportunity for self e' -
pression. If they tire of the• books,
they are merely laid away for a day
or two and become "new" again when
taken out.
When Ruth has her little friends as
guests, they sometimes take the book,
open it at the living room and both
pretend that they are in Ruth's house.
Pauline is adding to her first year
nigh School, this little private course
in the Hosie Arts, that will be of
permanent value to her, for no study
of the hone, even in this childish
manner, is wholly lost. While she
selects and cuts and pastes her pic-
ture -house, she is, in mind, choosing
;her future home and shaping her
ideals of life. -
About Things to Eat.
Can you imagine anything much
iuieer Than one of these hot chicken
sandwiches after a cold drive or a
day in the open?
Stew one fta ri in an alvandance of
Water until tender. Then eut the meat
hi.to bits with scissors :or a. knife.
Grind the giblets, omitting the liver
end the sldn, in the food chopper. Add.
enough stock to the meat to make it
moist, and season well with salt and.
pepper. Keep on the stove so it wili'.
e warm. 'Thicken'- the remaining
stock, using three tablespoons of flour
for two taps of stock. Boil the stock,
and add salt and pepper" to taste,
:Place a thin' take* of bread cry a plate,
and put one 'heaping talllesped). of through the ages
And win the best that life con. have.
in store,
You'll be, my girl, a model for the
sago,
A woman whom the •World will beer
before.
Elisabeth Lincoln; Otis.
It.'e no good meaning what you sa
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meat, 2 cups boiling water, 2 eggs,
4 tablespoons butter, 1 cup browned made by those they deal with, the
bread crumbs, 2 'tablespoons sugar, 1 more -generous they will bo in their
teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon Judgments.—T. 11. ' Z+;stahrooks Co.,
cinnamon, 1 teaspoon lemon extract, Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
ee teaspoon ginger, eg teaspoon all- -- �;* --- -
ThinkYour Way to Success.
The key to success to -day has not
changed from what it was fifty or a
Hundred years• ago. It still is right
at less profit than other teas, so when
he recommends you to buy Red Rose
Tea, you will knew it is because he
believes it the best and is willing. to
take a lite less profit for the sake
of giving you the best value he .eau.
We are publishing this because we
believe the more our people know of
the true facts concerning the profits
spice. Break mincemeat into snail
pieces, and boil with the water for
fifteen minutes. When this is cool,
add the eggs, which have been beaten
light, the butter, melted, the bread thinking which has its application In
crumbs, and the other ingredients. action—action that is the result of the
Bake in a moderately hot oven one correct decision.
hour, or steam two and one-half hours. The truism that brains are superior
Serve hot with a sweet sauce.
Mincemeat cake -1 cup sugar, 8
tablespoons butter, 2 eggs, 34 cup
molasses, 1 cup mincemeat, 1 cup
sweet milk, 8 ,cups flour, 2 teaspoons
baking powder, en teaspoon salt, 1 tea-
spoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon vanilla.
Cream butter and sugar. add the eggs,r
beacon light, the molasses, milk, and reasoning power is weak and his .jutig-
the mincemeat, which has been broken I ment warped, his decisions will be in -
into very small pieces with a fork and' correct and the result will be failure.
sprinkled with a part of the flour, I The keen business mind cuts a
baking powder, and salt. Bake one straight passageway through all ob-
hour in a moderate oven.
Cranberry whip -2 cups cranberries,
4 cups water, 14, cups sugar, �a cup
farina. Boil the cranberries in the
water until soft enough to mash and
strain•. Bring to a boil again, and add
sugar; then stir in farina, - stirring
slowly. Place this mixture in a double
boiler, and let it cook at least thirty
minutes.. When cool, whip with a
spoon until it looks like strawberry
ice cream. The more it is whipped
the lighter in color it will be. Put
in individual dessert dishes, and serve
with cream,
HEALTHle Mk We Mk las IAA Vik elige sitte 1551,111L Nfeh
EDUCATION
BY DR. �. J. MIDDLETON
• Provincial Board of Health Ontario
Or. Iiilde.leton will be glad to answer questions on Public health- mat- 0
® ters through this column. Address hint at the. Parliament Bldgs.,
Toronto.
nag e k Ilge Y ,'tlfal, 'rl__ i& NA, 'i
rxani time immemorial the treat- er generation shall grow up as fit
ment of the sick has relied, not un-
successfully, on the organizing power
of human sympathy. Nothing in our
physically and mentally as the applied
science of the day snakes possible.
But the healthy growth of a child is'
a function of many variations. If we
medals civilization is more impressive. are to stake men out of children we
than.the splendid growth and special- now know that, in the 'infinitely conl-
izatioii of hospitals, convalescent plea conditions of modern • life, we
homes, sanetoriai, dispensaries, clinics, cannot. do so by letting the children
and other organizations for the ap- take care of themselves.
plication of scientific ideas to the Cure The school clinic fills an important
of disease. The impulses of . philan- - plass-in the healthy upbringing of the
thropy are no less numerous and young. Medical treatment and sup-
poerful to -day than in any past gen- ervision, it is true, cannot solve all
eration, but as civilization' advances, the problems centred in the schaol
the intensive study of disease de- child;• yet this it can secure: that he
mends more and •'more organization. shall come to school clean; that he
The multitudes of minor ailments re- shall have his vision tested and cor-
vcaled in the inspection of children rected if it is defective; that he shall
tend to outrun all our present re- have his ears treated if be cannot
sources. The children's hospitals are hear; that he shall have his skin dis-
as busy as ever, but wherever volun- eases cured or kept harmless; that he
tar clinics for children are ez shush shall have his heart, his lungs, his
IO US CUSTOMS IN
SNOWBOUND LANDS -
ESKIMOS HAVE VARIETY
OF SPORTS.
Picturesque Winter Scenes in
Japan -- Galleries From
House to House. -
Although the Eskimos have no na-
tional game, they lack neither in num-
ber nor in variety the diversions suit -
di to their life. In this relation it is
of interest to note the games which
are played by children along the •
shores of Bering Sea, where, hard as
life is, children can still iind,pastimes
that put them on an equal footing with
those of more favored races.
Football is played with a bag stuff-
ed with hair, "Tag" is the same game .
the world over. Children are fond of
"teetering," standing upon the end of
the plank instead of sitting down. An,
other amusement, which requirees skill,
is the being tossod up in -a blanket. A
walrus !tide is used, and the trial et
skill is to see who can stand on hie
feet and be tossed into the air the
ed they rapidly become crowded,• and bones, his joints examined before he highest. children 'lave niitiiatu:re sleds
there is urgent need for more and is iequired to..tutiiergr, (,ry physics which they load with !nice :,kips• and -
m:rre clinics all over the Province. instruction; that .lie •shall have his
Open-air narseries and nursery schools hours of work adapted to his inth-
are all urgently needed, for immense vidual capacity; that he shall have
fields of treatment are still unoceupied. sufficient healthy play to preserve histhe sisal is the seat of a stout pair c?
The recent report. of a Medical Officer elasticity and to promote his growth;
of Health for a large city in Ontario that, in a word, he shall have, at every deeixkin trousers. .
showing that thirty per cent. of chile stage of his •growth,- his maximum Athletics in Arctic Regimes.
dren arriving at school age are physi- chance of -attaining to fitness of mina Athletics ate .t.lso much indulged in.
oily defective, gives much food for aiid body.. 1 One difllc.ult feat is to walk on the
more emphasis thought. The medical and nursing This is the purpose aimed at in the hands, the- lege being outside of the
to brawn never needed supervision of the child is imperative, medical inspection of schools, and the' arils arid hold straight oat. in front,
than it inks today. The business man 1 d the purpose of inspection and importance of the work cannot be parallel with the ground.
who thinks logically mattes unerring I treatment is to secure that the young- overestimated. Lifting matches aro also frequent,
decisions; and then has the courage of
all sorts of trinkets, so as to !nay
trader. Boys practise archery. •
Of course they slide down hill, but
his convictions to act boldly on those but very few natives are as strung as
I Magic in Names. Building For the Fu€ure. the average white roan. Hafting the
decisions, is the man who will forge spear is likewise practised; and small
ahead, and attain his goal. U he E Is there any young person who has One of the most impressive of till darts guided by goose feathers are
thinks along the wrong Imes, if his
not from his reading derived a sense exhibits at the big fairs last fall was thrown with great accuracy, io that
of the magic of the East? And it the that of the boys' and girls' clubs. The they often hit a marls at thirty feet.
reasons for his impressions were writer saw three farm girls, about' The faculty to throw a stone is musts
analyzed, would not the mere sound fourteen years of age, demonstrate, in every boy. in fact, the small boy
of navies be fouud in large part ac- how to lane,. cloth. They showed bow; is the same the world over.
countable? Spicy odors, tropical to distinguish between wool and cot -I Girls play with dolls carved out of
ton, between wool and shoddy, between ivory, which they dress up after their
silk and imitation silk. The way they own fashion in clothtug of ermine;
answered questions put to thein by the mice or other skins. One cit thein
interested bystanders showed that the games le to kick a ball of ice or snow
girls understood what they were do about the size of a baseball, the ob-
ject being to keep it in the air all the
At the close of the. demonstration -time without touching it with their
the audience was invited to quiz the hands.
demonstrators. The first question They 'also toss pebbles very skillul-
asked was this: "When all the young 1y, some being able to keep six or
women of 'the country have learned seven in the air at a tante with ora
what you girls know about -cloth, will Band. They frequently wear brace -
it not go hard with those fraudulent lets of sinew, on which are strung bits
dealers who try to palmi off inferior of iron, brags or anything that will
Jingle. Stones aro tossed Maths air,
the hands crossing each other between
the teases, jingling the bracelets, keep-
ing time and accoinpanyin:g the play
with a sort of chant. -
An "If" for Girls.
(With apologies to Mr. Ruclyard
Kipling.)
If you can dress to make yourself at-
tractive
Yet not make puffs and curls your
chief delight;
If you cast swim and row, be strong
and active,
But of the gentler graces lose not
sight; •
If you can dance without a craze for
dancing,
Play without giving play too strong
a hold,
Enjoy the love of friends without
romancing,
Care for the weal., the friendless,
and the old.;
If you can master French and Greek
and Latin
And not acquire, as well, a priggish
mein;
If you can feel the touch of silk and
satin
Without despising calico and jean;
If you can ply a saw and use a ham-
mer,
Can do a man's work when the need
occurs,
Can sing, when asked, without excuse)
or stammer,
Can rise above unfriendly snubs
and slurs;
If you can make good bread as well
as fudges,
Can sew with skill and have an eye
for dust,
Xf you can be a friend and hold no
grudges,
A girl whom all will love because
they must;
11 you eometime should meet and love
another
Anal make a home with faith and
peace enshrined,
And • yon its soul -a loyal wife and
melee—
You'll work out pretty neatly, to my
mind,
The plan that's been developed
tickeu o11 it. Cover with tr. thin slice'.
iSit bread, and then place one or two
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7aaate !food era new.
Double 'riga ... .360 a dear,',
gingld Zig().. .. . ..... eaO a, d8s.
itrliai7or iyuu hk .. sea is dot.
;!!emit money order wtth bladse 'to
staeles to success. The mind that is jungles, strange beasts and reptiles
not trained to analyze difficult prob ;jungles,
peoples, • all play their part; but
lems becomes panic stricken in the I it is such words, as Samarkand and
face of seemingly insurmountable oh {Inti Boghara and Bombay, Ceylon,
struetions and is lost in . a chaos. of Ganges, Kashmir and Himalaya, ring -
despair..
youthful ear, that
The executive Bead of any large tor-^ ing - 1
poration or business institution must fir the youthiulmind with RinpulSes of
be an expert thinker. Each day he vague adventure. India more than
must render important decisions'4dth any other Far Eastern land stir, the
out delay, on the result of which de imagination rand is it not because
pends the success ar failure of i:he. it is so besprinkled and bejewelled
organization. He holds hie position with magical names, rather than be
merely on the strength of his ability cause it has tigers and cobras and ele-
to ,think correctly. phants in its forests? China does not
From my own experience and from
my observation of many business suc-
cesses and failures i can recommend
no surer guide along the road oto the
attainment of life's ambition,
C Pape's Diapepsixn" Corrects
Stomach.
"T'ape's Diapepsin" is the quickest,
surest relief for Indigestion, Gases;
Flatulence, Heartburn, Sourness, Fer-
mentation or Stomach Distress caused
by acidity. A few tablets give almost
immediate stomach relief and shortly
the stomach is corrected so you can
eat favorite foods without fear. Large
case costs only 60 cents at drug store.
Absolutely harmless and pleasant.
Millions helped annually. Largest sell-
ing stomach corrector in world.—Adv.
its
British Woman Juror De-:
mansis Clean Wigs.
"O1d.13aiiey," which has stood in all
its dignity for so many geaerationss :
wrote a new page in its history this
week, says a London despatch, when
for the first time women jurors sat
withmen in sovoral cases a:nd, the
musty chambers heard the judges, who
still suggest characters from Dickens,
say, "Ladles and gentlemen of the
fury."
For one case the only woman who
was impa.iinelled was made foreman of
the jury, After the trial' In which the
defendant was acquitted of a charge
arising out of a sheeting affray, the',
feminine foreman expressed her views
on court procedure.
"We just simply will have to dialed
lawyers wear clean' wigs and see to it
that they have better manners," she
said in conclusion. A woman juror in
another case almost made• the Black-
stoalan walls crumble when she said,
"This legal procedure ought to be
made more businesslike.
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have the fascination for youth that goods?" The tallest, of the girls
India leas ---perhaps • because there issmiled prettily and replied that she
less romance in the singsong Chinese thought it would.
syllables. Hongkong, Yangtze, Shang- In another part of the same build-
liai, Honangho have somehow the nn- ing, three thirteen -year-old boys put
•cout'hness of :!argon rather than the on a poultry demonstration. With
ring of magic. their own hens, which they had
The Italians and the Spaniards have brought with then to the fair, they
a Happy gift for names-. Cadenabbia, ,showed how to select layers and dis-
Bellagio, Verona and Lugano illustrate
the Italian faculty for bestowing
names that have cadence and charm.
The best legacy that Spanish explor-
ers and settlers. left the New World is
the navies that still abide: Orinoco,
Colorado, Vera Cruz and Monterey, to
take a group almost at random, have
a. sonorousmajesty that Is not to be
found in any purely English names.
In fact, English. names, whether of
Persons or -oa places, are rather de-
ficieut in the quality of charm. The
English people have sought the quality
of -homeliness rather than that of
magic in their navies. In the Arthur-
ian legends the names of Launcelot
and Guinevere have the same sort of
romantic charm as some of the. names
that are. coalman among Italians and*
Spaniards.; but it is the exceptional
Englishman or Cauadiau that would
wish to name iris son Launeelot or his
'daughter Guinevere. Some of our most
engaging words are used to designate
commonplace objects. Was it not an
Italian who declared that the most
beautiful word in any language was au
English word. --and that it was cellar -
door?
It !Never Palls. -
Disraeli used to say that although
he was always forgetting faces and
never reineinber'ed their names, ire
had no difficulty in being pleasant to
his followers in the }Rouse of Core.
mons. "When 1 met somebody in the
lobby whom I don't know from Adam
and 1 see that he expects pie to know
.'oho he is. T - take him warmly by the
hnud, look straight into his eyes, and
sny, 'and how -is the old complaint?'
I have never known it to fail."
Earliest Standing Army.`
Tile earliest staaiding army ia
Europe was that of Mit rodonla, esta.b-
Halted about 858 Ii.C, by Philip, father
of Alexander the Great. It was the
second in the world's history, baying
been preceded onlf by that of Seao-
tris ,Pharaoh of i!igypt, who organized
a tuilitery 'caste about 1,606 B.C. -
card non -layers. - They talked intelli-
gently about the feeding and mare of
poultry. The boys, too, invited the
audience to ask questions at the close
of the demonstration. Some of the
bystanders evidently thought these
boys had merely learned a nice little
speech by heart, The questions asked
indicated this. But the boys made
good. They answered questions• in-
telligently, and showed that they
understood what they had been talking
abo.
_ This work with -the boys and girls
is some of the most important work
done in agricultural extension, The
Young people accept new ideas read-
ily, a thing that on not. always be
said of older people. They are get-
ting practical instruction through
their club work; and they•will stake
better farmers and farmers' wives be-
taine of it.
Electric Tree.
In the forests of Central India a
tree has been discovered 'which has
most curious characterisitics. The
leaves of the tree are of a highly sea
eitive nature, endso full of electrieity
that any person who touches• one of
them receives en electric shock. It
has a very singular effect, upon a mag-
netic needle, and will influence it at
a distance ief even• 70 ft, The electri-
cal strength of the tree varies -accord-
ing to the time of day, being strongest
at midday, and weakest at midnight.
In wet weather its powers disappear
altogether. Birds and insects never
approach it.
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OlJft leEFERENOES
816 Tiegular Shiiatiars.
Tntperiai•:E ark of Canada.
Dues• or laine.detreet's+
Try yourself and he convinced,
WiLLIAN -TONZ SONS („IM!'("gn
W OSTt K, ONTARIO
leserieltRiegen isnd?
Snowbound in Japan,
Among the picturesque' sketches of
scenes in Japan are. those of villages
half -buried beneath undrifted snow,.
How such conditions are produced is
explained by an American observer
who has lived in that country. Sped -
'Really, he mentions the case of a vil-
lage near the beach of tire Sea of Jap.
an. -
A curious effeet is produced by the
long.galleries running in front of this
lower stories of the dwellings which
afford a means of passage frau house
to house when the streets are, as ie •
often the ease, deep blocked with win-
ter snows,
The excessive snowfall in the region
and on the northwestern epurs of the
main chain of the Japanese ,Alps iso earn
interesting phenomenon.. The expla-
nation is simple enough. - As the colds
northeasterly wind sweeps over Him
across. the Sea of 'Japan it le
there mingled with. -a warmer an4
moister air, so that whoa it !malty
readies the weetorn face of the ran, 8;
thismoisture is precipitated in en
abundant snowfall on. the west flank
and summits of tb.e range. Oonge•
quently, in the winter and the early
spring an extraordinary contrast
strikes the traveller.
On the west the valleys 1i.at deep in
snow under a sky often hidden in, a►
dark veil of clouds•. On the east, how-
ever, far months together; a. bright sky
smiles on: valleys end Plaine comnpare-
tively nucovered.
It is to meet the exigencies of title
heavy snowfall that galleries are con-
strurted. The iultabitante are conn -
pelled to live In the upper story and
additional light and air are theft ad-
mitted through a paper window in
sort of chimney. So deeply are whop
villages occatrionally buried that the.
various houses run: be distinguished'
only by sign -posts stock in the snow or
fixed on the roofs. •-
Th -e following sorts of iiisoriptiona
are used to point out nubile buildings:. -
"The Post Office to beneath ttifs
spot."''
"You will find the' polite Motion
buried below,"
A. salmon Iras heel' known to piwdua,t
1.0,000,000 eggs.