HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-02-17, Page 6Melissa's AceouYtt Book.
Meantime Melissa kept a strict eye
doughnuton the cooky and
e always made nneozen cookies
and six dozen doughnuts. Try her
(best, she could not shorten the cooky
time less than two hours; the dough-
nuts took an hour and a half, The
cakes had to remain in the hot fat
three minutes and cookies could not
'be hurried in. the oven without burn-
ing. Reckoning the cost as what she
had to pay for four and sugar and
flavors, and what she received for
eggs, cream and shortening, plus
labor and fuel, she found that cookies
cost nearly nine cents a dozen less
than doughnuts. There was one way
to save money but the time was long-
er. Why not shorten the time by
dropping the cookies instead of rolling
and cutting them?
And why spend so much tim
baking, ' anyway, she pondered.
Tompkins family was noted fin
lavish table, it was a matter of
with them all. But born of her kn
edge acquire • from studying h
feed Danny, Melissa knew that
' baked foods figured altogether
largely in their diet. ,During the
when food restrictions were on,
Izad cut out a large part of the pa
and ate more vegetables and fr
This quiet, observant wife tinct mo
knew that the simpler diet
brought about a decided improvem
to health and temper. But as soon
restrictions were removed, Dan
Phis father and mother had insisted
a return to the good old days of p
pudding and iced cakes and Meli
was forced to give in,
This morning she did a little q
thinking, All great' reforms co
gradually. Why not reform the f
ily table so slowly that they wo suspect? She really belie
that what they objected to in
timea was not so much the idea
they did not have the baked stuff
the idea that they could not have
If she quietly substituted some eas
made fruit or gelatine desserts
pies and puddings, and occasion
was too busy to make anything, th
would not suspect her and. so w
not oppose.
The dinner hour came all too qui
1
but with the
het
of
Mother p T
kine, the ureal was ready on . the d
Melissa stole an appraising glance
the new man as he entered the wa
room, Mother Tompkins franhl
etarecL
"One of the Iean ones, and they:
always hungry," she said in a lou
zzndet'tone to Melissa. "Well, it can
be said that anyone ever wen t awa
hungry from. the Tompkins' unless
they were too bashful to eat."
Certain.- no one need go away from
that dinner table hungry] There wa
tram, whieh Melissa had fried down in
October, mashed potatoes, squash
corn, ton.,.to relish, pickled peach
brown bread, white bread, fresh fried
cakes, apple pie, cheese, a three -quart
pitcher of milk and tea.
Cassius, the new elan, needed not
Dan's urging to "go to it." Melissa,
knowing the approximate weight of
each slice of hash estimated that a
full pound went to furnish Cassius
the calories he needed to get through
the afternoon. She watched him,
fascinated, as mounds of potatoes and
squash, five slices of bread, three
doughnuts and a pint of milk aceom-
par'ed the ham before he turned hie
attention to pie and cheese.
"Isn't there another piece of pie for
Can?" asked Dan.
e in
The
r its
"He never can eat it," Melissa
thought as she brought it in, but Cas-
sius disproved this doubt of his gas-
tronomic ability by not only eating
the pie, but a generous slab of cheese,
washing all down with a glass of milk.
Dan, passing through. the pantry,
spied the fresh cookies. "Hello!" he
crowed; "thought you'd hide 'em • on
us, eh?" Help yourself, Cass! We'll
need a snack this afternoon"
A dozen cookies went out with the
men. IVlelisaa could Hardly wait for
the door to shut on them to get at her
notebook,
"How Dan would rave If he knew I
was keeping track of what anyone
ate," she smiled. "But 'I guess he'll
rave worse when he sees how much
that man's meal cost him."
Housekeeping, never dull to Alelis-
sa, became an interesting game. There
had been a number of things she want-
ed to buy but had given up because
she felt she could not afford thein.
prude Now, with her neatly -kept account
owls � book showing her endless ways to
ow to save, she saw how she could get not
rich, only the things she had thought of a
too but many others. Just the saving on
war, cookies as compared with doughnuts
they quickly gave her the price of the d
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To Study Pain in `than.
tom" UUlrnbs.
I)t. G. Jeffersou, of the I'E.o)nl Tz3*
frrmary at Manchester, lies just. re-
ceived a grant for the purpose of
studying the after-his�toiy of amputa-
tion cases, particularly those fn which
pain is felt in "phantom" limbs, the
former zuen:there which no longer ezlat.
Dr. George Riddook, of l,onddn, in dia-
cussixig "phantom limbs," says.
"'When a person has an eremite.
of a leg or aa. arm it is a fae,,t t
often complains of pain in tIz rat
member, He may bo wearing a
leg at the time, but the feeling hs
the foot is still there. Somet
this peculiarity is distressing and
though it. may last only a
months, caws are known hz
parsons who have had only oaLe
or leg for years have complain
aches and pains In the limbs they
lost,"
llop
the
lie
sing
cork
that
Imes
, ai•
few Bks
which 0
arm
ed of Mpg
lead 0
Some ��►_ s pay more profit
th others. Usually, the poorer
the quality the greater the profit.
The grocer pays more for Red
Rose than for other teas—and
he sells it at less profit.
When you buy Red Rose you
buy ''be best.
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HEALTH EDUCATION
BY DR. J. J. MIDDLETON
Ontario 'tar GOOD HEALTH o
Provincial Board of Health. O rtario
a Dr. Middleton will be glad to answer questions on Public Health prat-
i ters through this column. Address him at the Parliament Bldgs., 0
Toronto,
0
Depend Upon the Condition
the Blood—Keep it Rich,
Red and Pure,
When. a doctor tells you that'.. .a;r
naamic, he simply means,''°irt plain`
nglish, that your blood is weak and
watery. But ;.his condition' 49 one
hat -may easily pass into a hopeless
eeline if prompt steps are notstaken
o enrich the blood. Poor biood,`'saak,
tery blood is the cause of headaches
rid backaches, loss of appetite; pope
igestian, rheumatism, neuralgia, ner-
ous irritability and many other
oubles. To poor blood is due the
nipies and blotches, the muddy corn-
exion that disfigures so man .faces.
o have good health, a good complex
and a cheerful manner, the blood
ust be kept rich, red and pure, .This
easily done through the use of a
ood enriching tonic like Dr. Wil-
ms' Pink Pills. The Attila mission
this ubediciu�e Ls to help enrich the
ood which reaches every nerve stud
ere' organ of the body, bringing with
health, strength and new activity,
at is wiry people who occasionally
e Dr, Williams' Pink Pills always
bright, active and strong.
Mrs. E. E. Cook, Sirncoe, Ont., gives
strong testimony to the value of Dr.,
Williams' Piuk Pills when the blood
is in an anaemie conditicu, she says:
"I have been a sufferer for some years
from
arturd�
down corzditfozz oath, s-
tem. 1 suffered from pains m, thryt e'
ack. twitching of tho rtes vee and
"CM ® 'r, . u V& ATM ` '� moi . ' .
of Good health, strong mentality and fault of his own but from being in -
strymagazine she wanted. to take, And
ult.'one crust pie, especially with Low-
ther priced pumpkins as against high -
had priced apples, made a great difference.
ent She sold a bushel of apples, though
as they were short their usual winter's
and supply and brought a bread mixer.
on She learned, too, many ways to
les, save time, She ;had never been able to
sea attend the meetings of her club more
than two or three times a year, and
uiet as to getting an hour a day to rest
me or read, she had never seen it. Now
she studied the clock as religiously
as she did her•aecount books. Drop
cookies and hermits replaced rolled
cookies with fig filling. She gave Dan
ani-
ould
ved
var
that his favorites just often enough to keep
as him good-natured. Bread -making was
it. shortened by modern methods she had
ily learned at hone economics deinonstra-
for tions.
ally Much to Mother Tonipleins' horror,
ey dish drying was cut to tins and cut-
ould} lery. Boiling rinse water and plenty
of it, turned the trick.
ek "It saves time and money," Melissa
p.. expiained patiently. "There's p y They
es
fewer
ot. towels
"
w to buy and hem."
n.
at
sh
y
re yen eau use that time for," answered 1 co
d } Melissa, overlooking "the neighhors." i
'tl "Yo„ t tool
`But I can dry there, I've nothing J mu
ind
ter
slip
else to do, • Mother Tompkins parrled.
"What -will the neighbors say?"
"Just think of all the other things
scles, my appetite was poor, I ,had
igestian and would get drowsy- at -
eating. My hands and feet were
ost always cold, and though I zeas
nstantly doctoring, the xned:eiite 1
t did not help ate. I had practical. -
le given up hope of good health, until
a friend fz•ozii Hamilton came to visit
hie, and urged me to try Dr. '3't iiliaiszs'
Pink Pills. It took some persuasion,
but dually 1 cemeented to try then 'c; l
have reason to be grateful that IiC1,
for after using seven boxes I felt like
a new person, 1 have gained'' in
weight, have a better color and 'my
work is now a pleasure. Per thieecon-
dition my thanks are due to Dr. Wi1-
ems' fink Pills, and I cannot prise
too highly?'
Yo
can get Dr. 'Williams' Pink pills
h any dealer In medicine, or'' by
zt fi0 cents a box or six boxes for
$2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine
Co., Brockville, Ont,
Ito not threaten titzless you can
carry out the threat. The old dog that
shows his teeth gets either a laugh or tl
a _Lick.
gull get at that Log Cabin
y i quilt you've been wanting to piece for
Danny. And there's that new knitting
pattern you wanted to learn."
"But nobody sews or knits morn-
s ingsl" Mother Tompkins died hard.
"That's because they've never had
time," Melissa explained. "Let's you
es, and me malce time—the way men
make money!"
With Dan's threat of killing all the
chickens kept fresh in mind by his
weeklyappearance pp ace with one for her to them
dress, Melissa gave a great deal of 7i
thought to the cost of eggs. It was throug
not fair to eharge the hens up with mail I
the cost of winter feed and take no
account of what they did in summer,
Luckily she had always kept track of
the eggs sold and the money received,
and rummaging among old bills in
Dan's desk she found feed bills for
three summer months. ' These, with
her accounts, gave her a pretty fair l
average of a hen' •
an active intell d roperly fed during
for as many people as possible, are th years of Iife
]gent viewpoint on life a equately and ixnp
e first few
We see so many beautiful thoughts
on paper, with suggestions as to how
to live to the hest advantage, but in
real life these cannot be followed out
except the physical and mental state
of the person concerned is normal or
as nearly so as possibie.
Emerson says: "Life ,is not so short
but there is always time for courtesy."
But again, the courteous man Is usu-
ally the healthy man, and he radiates
optimism and happiness with whom-
soever he conies in contact,
some of the things that Public Health
activities are trying to foster and de-
'veiop in this Province at the present
time.
Success in one's chosen occupation
is the aim of every pian . and woman
of sense, and there are three rules
for success. The first of these is: Go
on. The second is: Go on.. The third
is: Go on, These are good rules, but
to carry them out, a man or woman
must have the necessary stamina, and
the physical retake -up must be' so
ordered and governed that a person
need not lag behind in life's race
through weakness of the flesh, even
though the spirit is willing to succeed.
Wendell Phillips says: "The best
education in the world is that got by
struggling' to make a living." This is
true if he who is engaged in the strug-
gle is endowed among other things
with a clear mind, a sturdy frame,
and a good digestive apparatus. But
disappointments and handicaps at
every turn face the weakling --the
man
or woman who has not perhaps
got a good start, and therefore has
been handicapped all through child-
hood and the years at school.
• 'Fasted opportunity, it is said, is
the cause of most failures. How often,
have
ver
the
wasted Y Cftetl
opportunity
arises through inability of the person
affected to grasp the importance of
the situation, on account of dull znen-
Even the platter of temper needs
consideration from a public health
btandpoint. Bad temper affects di-
gestion and a train of bad symptoms
result. " "Remember," says an adage,
"when you are night, you can afford
to keep your temper, and when you
are wrong you can't afford to lose it."
Bad temper may be hereditary to
some extent, but it can be controller.
it an honest effort is made.
By even commonplace examples
such as these, one can readily under-
stand the necessity of observing gen-
eral rules of health that help those
who are well to keep well, and as for
infants and young children to see that
they receive nourishing food in suffi-
cient quantity, rest, warmth,- and
proper medical
p p and dl nu • '
z st
zz
g
supervi-
sion
so that 'they may grow to be
healthy adults and become useful
members of society, A zratioine.great=
nese depends upon the good health and
tality resulting perhaps through no I education of its people
Bow Animals Sleep.
Elephants sleep standing up. When
iu a herd a certain number will always
stand watch while the others sleep,
for the big, powerful beests are timid
and cautious at night and will not go
to sleep unguarded.
Bats sleep head downward, hanging
by their hind claws.
Birds, with few exceptions, :.veep
with their heads turned taiiw�rrd aver
the back and the beak thrust beneath
the wing,
Storks, gulls and other long -Legged
birds sleep standing on one leg.
Ducks sleep on open water. To
avoid drifting ashore they keep dad-
dlfng 'vitli one foot, thus making them
move in a circle,
Poxes and wolves sloop curled up,
their noses and the soles of their feet
clots together and blanketed by their
bushy toile,
Liens, tigers and cat -animals stretch
tezwselves out flat emus the side.
Their muscles twitch and throb, ind1
eating that they :Ire light :led reetless
sleepers.
Owi,, in addition to their eyelids,
have screens that they drew sideways
across their ere% to shut out. the light,
for they sleep it. the daytime.
The "compensation clenrand" of the
former kaiser of Germany is stagger-
ing his ertswhile •subjects. During
eleven months of 1920, he received.
52,000,000 marks (normally $18,050,-
000) for subsistence. That means
$18,055 a day, or over X752 an hour.
HIDES -WOOL -FU
Our business has been built
up on the williagnese� and
ability to gene you real
service.
WILLIAM STONE SONS LIMITED
W00DSTOCK ONTARIO
Es7,�aBLismeo 187o
acatevieteero ear,
s earning power,Meg
(Concluded next week,) NIMINSIMMOS
WELL SA TIS IE I WITH I New Uses for Paper.
BABY'S ti%e have heard of ppap suit. , luzd
we Ltava all donned paper hats at
children s parties, but Germany fs put-
ting paper to an even more unique use.
Once a mother has used Baby's Own Whilst travelling in Germany re -
Tablets for her Little ones she will ttae Gently an Eng]isluizan was struck by E
Ger-
nothing else. Her use of diem leads mathe curious window straps in the Ger-
her to believe there le no other meth- orthodox
trains. le Instead of being ted
eine to equal them for any of the many orthodox leafher ones they appeared tt
minor ailments of childhood. Con- to be made of some very strong twist- i
ed fibre.
eerning them Mrs. Eugene .13oisver.'t,
neat Aldfiald Later he was able to procure aper-
, Que., writes: "ally baby tion of one of these straps, and, on in.
a'as terribly constipated, but after the
nee of Baby's Own Tablets he is en- i p y made found that they were
s
ttrely' 'well again, 1 am so well setts. ttwisted of sager. It had been
fled with the Tablets that I lose no op'. again ad into tiny sen pro, and treated
portunity in. recommending them to again and aging, toes strengthen
treated
other mothers." The Tablets are sold with something to strengthen it, for
by medicine dealers or 'by mail at 25 the straps must a edps be very strong
cents a box from Tha Dr. Wt1ltazas' ly hold os a n carriage German
sin especial.
Medicine Co., Brookville, Ont. o' as those in the .Getman train. are
of a large slid heavy type,
The seats in many of the trains tire 1
Irish Soanomy, also covered with the sante substance,
while baskets and many other ill t.icles
5'lrta. Malmo:7Y .- "Why, Pat, what are made in the same way.
„giver acre you doing Why, that's the �--- ;•---- w.
' twee tints you've shaved yourself tee There are two kinds of religion:
day!" creeds and deeds.
Pan-- "D.crzr't. say at word 1 A penny After many years of work the
saved tet a penny caned, and it's three Pyrenees mou.utains have been pierced
Imes I've shaved myself to -day, an' with a tunnel that will permit T'renc'h.
hut's e s a ling earaed,i" and Spanish railroads to be tonnec:tea,
_Assures or
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1 teti G IttR SOLA. ONTARIO
::r,viq.nA:
STREAM DRIVING
OF HARDWOOD .LOGS
TRANSPORTATION FROM
WOODS TO MILL.
Experiments Conducted to Fn'
able Utilization of Hard-
woods for Pulpwood.
A live question to -day fa both for-
estry and lumbering is that of the
marketing of our hard -wood crop. The
twain problem in connection with the
utilization of hard -woods is that of
transportation from woods to mill.
lir the Muskoka region many experi-
ments in the driving of hardwoods
have been conducted and with gratify-
ing results, A11 drives have been
short, tinder 50 miles, but the operat.
ors are reaching out to acquire timber
at still further distances, and they ars
confident of the feasibility of driving
it. In the region where they wish to
operate, there are considerable areae
of first quality yellow birch, and it it
good forestry practice to remove this
mature timber to permit the growth of
new timber,
The common us=age in preparing the
lard -wood, logs to drive has been to
11 the trees and, to dry the timber,
they are left in the woods. The bark
s peeled off the trunk but the leaves
re Left on to assist in drying out the
moisture. The bark is usually piled
•roun•d the bole of the tree to keep thq
ood from checking badly. The fobowing season, the tree is "uck
bed"
to logs, which are hauled to the.
ver bank, and there they are piled
iglz and dry so that they do not Ile
the water in the spring, When the
rive commences they are "dumped"
to the z'ivee and floated down with
e soft -woods. The hardwoods, hovv
ver, must not be allowed to remain
the storage boons, along with the
ft -woods, as, otherwise, many would
k while waiting to be sawn. They
list be sorted out and sawn first,
ough dale sorting involves some ex.
a trouble.
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Th
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balsa
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cut -o
wood
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stanch
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Some Successful Methods.
One Iumberman informed an oflleei
the Commission of Conservation
at he had been much pleased with
first experiment at driving birch
lag'
Out of 2,000 logs rolled into the
ver at
a) point t •tv i
I Itch
he h
a
dhfh
hitherto
e to
sidezed it impossible to success.
s drivis birch, all but 60 reached
mill. The sinkage loss of only 2
rent. is remarkably small.
nether t �z method new boing• tried is
make the logs when then tree is
ed and haul thew immediately to
river back. At the peeling season
- are peeled, and, after being al -
ed to dry for a few weeks only, are
t on with the drive. They, of
rse, do not check so badly as logs
have been left 1.n the woods for
eaeon; they evidently dry out to
o extent also, as operators are have degree of success with this
ese successful experiments should
seat pulp -wood operators fn On -
end Quebec who desire to use
hard -woods for pulp to, thus, se-
men) spruce and balsam repro -
on on cut -over lands, The pre,
method of taking the spruce and.
tui only' and leaving the hard-
, results in the conversion of the
ver area into a forest of hard.
s, the latter smothering the pulp.
species. Pulpwood operator's
consequently interested in the
ion, and have beezz themselves
menting with the driving of
oods.
The Useful Lion,
Ming to some of the farmers
sit Africa, the lion should be pro'
as a useful animal, uotwii't•
ng the fact that once in a whi
.s a man. The lion,' they main-
s a great destroyer et noxious
oroue auiinal,s suck as zebras
ntelopee which are a scourge to
ids.
e district, they. say, no less than
ns were killed in one season by
s, and they estimate that this
pts the saving of 35,000 to 40,-
ras anti antelopes, which. would
visa have fallen' a prey to the
et were destroyed. C)f melee
iters shoot v. bras :old ante -
leo, but this fact, they thick,
t counterbalance the destruc.
those animal; tires would have
ffected by the �t ].iii lio+rs,
1)eople :of the United States
ver a billion dollar: for carr 1y
r
Denniark prohibits $Wert$,
Danish Government has issued a pee.
clanmtion prv,tiding that sugar amt.
certain articles containing sugar, sunt
AO jams, preserved and candied :fruit.,
'zhocolate and cakes may be importedl •
into Denmark only tinder Ileense is-
eued by the -Minister of the lftcrietr
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