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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-02-24, Page 2When your grocer sells you a pack a of ed Rose Tea '(Crimson Label) at '50 cents he mks • little less profit than i he soi•d you a package of cheaper, tC ;«. The extra price isall i the cru lity. Melissa's Account Book. But finding out what it really ,cost to feed a hired pian was the most ab- sorbing work of all. Any compunction which Melissa, might have felt about counting the bites" were wiped out in the greater consideration of learning that extra three cents art hour all if it paid to feed help. At first she winter, with his two meals a day," jotted down what had been served at Melissa tapped her books meaningly. every meal, and how much, approxi- ` "The meals we set out could not be mately, the man ate. But she soon Paid for'by has extra pay, figured on what we get for the stuff we sell and what we have to pay for the grocer- ies we buy, plus my time." "Do you mean to say you've been keeping tab on what that fellow ate?" "Nor you never heard of such high- priced help before," Melissa carne back. "Those figures do not take in all the cookies and fried cakes you've told him to carry out for lunch. I have them all down on a separate slip, if you'd like to look them over." Dan snatched the paper. There it was in Melissa's neat writing, begun the day Cass arrived and 'continued on clown to the present—a long trail of cookies, hermits, pieces of pie and cake, apples, handfuls of raisins, crackers and cheese, all urged on Cas- sius by his generous employer. The total staggered: even Dan. "But what's a meal?" he said lame- ly. "Very little, ten years ago," Melissa agreed, "But -with. 1920 prices for eggs and butter, not to mention sugar and coffee, 'a meal' is another story. Give Cass his raise and tell him we will not board him." "He's strong for your cooking," Dan grinned. "Maybe he'll stick to his old wages fi+he li'as to• tails that: "I won't have time to cook for him any more," Melissa picked up her pencil. "I'ni going in for poultry raising as a sure -thing money-maker. My books show me that even with our slip -shod way of doing, hens pay. That book on poultry raising I borrowed from the County Representative, tells me how to get even better results. I'm going after them." Dan threw up his hands, "She's even counted the worms the hens picked up and charged 'em upt" he said. "Who says women haven't business heads? All right, I'll tell Cass" Oh, For One Fault. "How do you like your new car?" asked Jack Driver. "Great!" replied Mr. Rhode Hogg. "It runs so smoothly you can't feel it. Not a bit of noise; you can't hear it. Perfect ignition; you can't smell' a thing. And speed—why, it whizzes! You can't see it" "Must be some car," ventured Jack Driver. "Can't feel it, can't smell it, can't hear it, can't see it! How do you know it is there?" gra VIVI& 0 0 or, HEALTH EDUCATION $ B R.F,AE Y• SELLS TI3kt:1X: CJS:'lr. et ct to deRfPer r up totiff miles, s or toot I ears of an typez: an oars sold sub,. rah of same stance if you wish, fn as The Separator That Steals. Hand separators used for separat- ing -cream from milk, skim clean when operated correctly, Frequently, how.. DR y paq w eer, one finds that a separator is not BY .I. 3. MIDDLETON Li goo't order as gt..rcha et.li, 121. , vurchaerte showing i'ho highest effieiene y pox, - 53 rise ra'runded•. Provincial Board of Health. Ontario x�zzvG mechanic of roar own choice s;bife, A number of causes result in to look then" over, or ask on W decrea.s�ed separating efficiency: Middleton will be glad to answer questions on Public Health mat- ' 'tatce any oar to city representative for 141,ilk when lower in temperature than 85 deg, F. does not separate well because the cream clogs its outlet, causing much of the whole milk to leave the bowl through the skimnted- milk outlet, thus increasing the am- ount of fat in the skimmed milk. When the bowl is run :at a speed• under normal the separation of ere in. is not thorough, and consequently skimmed milk will test much higher than it should. When the float is not used and the milk is allowed to flow into the bovel at a rate greater than for normal he flow, the whole milk crowds out through the skimmed. -milk outlet, giv- ing a high per cent. of fat in the skimmed milk, When the separator is not in a level position there is considerable vibra- tion imparted to the bowl. This vi- bration causes mare or less of the whale milk to he thrown out through the skimmed -milk cutlet. Vibration ,lnspectton. 'very large otoalr 4ilwa Pss on Toronto. arepkey's heed Oar Market tees through this column. Address Wm at the Parliament Bldgs„ 0peed. 0 adds 7C01aefee fatted, W • 7H1=1110 ed, old tough has been changed .a now we see the pale -faced youth, g orally of poor physique, taking • place, This career of crime has often started with little acts of theft which passed unnoticed or uh- punished hitt which, if thor- oughly investigated, would have revealed an abnormal state of e the juvenile mentality. If a young person slips off with .a rocking -horse, a jumping; jack, a tciy balloon or something of that sort from a store counter when nobody is, look- ing, he is not doing the right thing: In fact he is doing something drat might be regarded as a theft, although probably it would be unfair to brand the youngster as a thief. The Chief Probation Officer of the Jirven;ile Court in Toronto calls a first theft by a boy or girl as an "occurrence," and does not take steps to have the child brought up on any charge of stealing, Instead he brings the youngster to his office for a. chat, finding out all the circumstances of the case and, what motives brought.about the act of theft. This little conference is very informal and has in view the obtaining of .in- formation as to the mental calibre of the 'child, end whether he knows right from wrong, or what the taking sof things that do not belong to him, actu- ally means. He also gives the delin- quent a warning as to the risk he .is running of committing a theft, and.;ad- vises him not to repeat such an act. If a second theft is committed the ease is brought to the Juvenile Court, but before any action is taken, all the circumstances of the case are gone into in detail. The school record of the child is taken, its home conditions and surroundings are investigated, and particulars are even obtained as to when it started to walk, talk, •.` It is then examined'thorau ties ,i its mental condition, and inquiries ale made as to the possibility of its have ing inherited venereal disease. These investigations are all completed and reports handed in before the child's ease is dealt with in the Juvenile Court. . The. motive underlying all these prelfnunaries is to avoid making tine child appear as a budding criminal, but rather to regard his action as a misdemeanor which has been commit- ted through thoughtlessness. The report of the - Social Worker who investigates each particular of- fence on the part of a juvenile is an elaborate document dealing with every possible condition and influence in the child's life. Even the mother's pre- natal influences are inquired into, and whether the child was nursed, or bottle-fed, It would he interesting and instructive, if statistics were at hand, to compare the number of Juv. . enile Court cases that had been breast-fed in infancy. to those fed on the bottle. The child's record and Progress at school are taken into ae- count and afterwards a sea elfin analysis is made as to the child's Mew, tal and physical make-up, including' its attitude to other members of the" family, to companions, and to social and religions activities. The lrom.a situation is also given attention, cpese tions even beteg asked as to the 1oca. tion of the house and its surroundings, conditions in the home, and the gen- eral type of people in the community. An important point that has a ells. tinct bearing on a child's make-up ds the presence or absence of over• crowding in the hemp. The injurioua. effects of overcrowding from a beiltit standpoint as well as from social and moral aspects, cannot be too strongly emphasized. The impression might be conveyed by these remarks, that the Juvenile Court was willing or anxious to blame everybody and everything fors an offence except the young person who actually commits it. This is not the case, It is only because we are beginning to realize that heredity and environment play a large part in the mental and physical calibre of a child, and its tendency to erirxae, Haat. these influences are being inquired into, A child's hereditary tendencies to. wrong -doing cannot be melt chanced except through the development of self control But. we can, at least, bring about conditions whereby fur- ther handicaps may not be imposed by bad influences and unsanitary sur poundings. The responsibility of the State in these matters becomes more and .artore apparent, The Dominion, ISSUE No. Se-:', ► arty, the Province, tlie.inuniclpality and the neat rural district wild have to take son- ar- certed action to bring about a general t 'e rise in the mental and physical condi- ds tion of large numbers of the polite.re lotion.. his . WOMA t'W' 'it3: r ' It is somewhat of a surprise to le. from police records that the g. majority of highwaymen recently rested in Toronto and other cities 5 mere boys with half -developed' min Our previous conception of the squa jawed, square -shouldered, bard-visag "What do you mean?" Dan howled.• "Didn't I just tell you it amounts to around seventy-five dollars a year? "Plumb erazy," said Father Tomp- kins looking pityingly at Melissa, "You've been paying hint more than discovered the better way was to set aside a given amount of food each used, keep track of the number of xneais it Iasted, and then average it up. In three weeks, so well had she weighe i fifteen minutes dand rneasured and reckoned, after supper each evening sufficed for her bookkeeping. Melissa's carrot -counting was Dan's standard joke that winter. For years he had kept accounts. Stocks and crops were weighed in the balance and mercilessly rejected if they did not pay. But that the food served on the table and the time spent getting it ready should be charged to profit and loss struck him as fanny. "You've got to eat just so much," he argued. "What's the use of setting down how many carrots you put into the stew or how many grains of salt goes into the soup?" Melissa knew that you had to eat just so much but she found out that it made a great deal of difference what that "muc'S was. The usefulness of household book- keeping became apparent to Dan in the spring, "Cass thinks he's got to have more money, he ,grumbled as, he watched felissa bending 'over Tier books one evening "Says everything is going up and be can't get along on what Pen ,paying." "How much does he want?" "Only three cents an hour more. It's not muoh when you think of it In hours but it's around seventy-five dol- lars a year." "Tell hiin you'll give It to him if he'Il board himself. You can save money at that." Melissa threw her bomb without looking up. 111 k Here is What iTX i 1111 Stanley MVierrlll, Lambeth, got oil es se from Fertilizing Potatoes : 111 A Yfeid Per Acre • WedFertilizer III� aiil5ss per xi n Par Acre 111 ///% 1 boa. ��/�,.,;' a I . r .lit' -r •tt� 'al z ?IST bus.;• /' 1,00o lbs. e[ PP IN a .� a VI ."t tK ffi '7507be. Xava � '�:t Allo Lf II 1111 Fertilizer �111 °S0o lbs. 91 MI 1411 r f� let PE111 IXI it Pays to Fertilize Get your supply early; save labor Intl it and make maximum profits it a Ware for Book Ids q' THE SOIL AND CROP le 3MPROVENMENT BUREAU fIG of tb CanadianFortli zerAanuciuttorn pa I111 Temple auldin5, TORONTO 111 X Japan has 20 women journalists, a•ir , cr•;:; HIDES -WOOL -FURS If you have one hide or skin or a. dozen, ship them along. You will receive payment at the very highest market price. Try us with your nest lot. WILLIAM STONE SONS LIMITED WOODSTOCK, ONTARIO ESTABLISHED 1870 a mot* 13041414 STONE 1.7114111T05«: 'i Il G SCJ►1.4,e N°r nto TO GOI) HEALTH Most Troubles Afflicting Women Are Da to Poor Blood. To every woman belongs the right to enjoy a healthy, active: Iife; yet nine out of ten suffer from some farm of bloodlessness. That is why one sees ou every side pale, thin cheeks, dull eyes and drooping figures—sure signs of headaches, weak backs, aching limbs and uncertain health. All weak women should win the right to be well •by refreshing their weary bodies with the new; rich, red blood that- promptly transforms 'them - into healthy, attrac- tive women. This new, red blood is supplied by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, which reaches every organ and every nerve in the body. Through the use of these pills thousands of women. have found benefit when suffering from anaemia; indigestion, general weakness and those ailments from which women alone suffer. Among the many women who tell of the good Dr, 'Williams' Pink Pills have done them is Mrs. L. Hicks, Round Hill, N;S., who says: "I became very much run down in health; my blood seemed weak and watery, my strength failed, and I was so easily tired that my work was a burden, I had often read about Dr. W1111ame' Pink Pills and decided to. try them, and I can truly say that after using three boxes I found my- self gaining, and under a further use of the pills all my •old-time energy and vitality was restored, Out of my own experience I can strongly recommend this medicine.'' 3t can get Dr. Williams' Pink Pills through any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' ]Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Canada buys from 77 countries and sells to 100 countries. Definiteness Needed in Forest Contracts. The more general appreciation by governmental forestry branches of the advantage of administering our tim- ber lands along lines of scientific forestry practice should be an incen- tive to foresters to promote the adop- tion of more specific terns than here- tofore customary- in descriptions trees or timber. In the past, no litt.1e confusion has resulted in differen interpretations being placed upon th nomenclature adopted in forest.iegi lation; it would, therefore, be of a vantage that a standard terminolog be followed, A matter under discussion at pr sent is as to whether licenses issue hut a few years ago in which a cond of t e s- d - y e• i tion appeared reserving "pine," in elided jack pine or -only white an red pine. More recent, forest legisla time included a classification o "spruce and other soft woods:" "Sof woods" is, of course, a very indelinit term, and may mean anything. Wit the high prices of all kinds of titnbe this broad classification has becoza a very live problem, one in whieh bot the public and the timber trade ar intensely interested. The "pine" coutrover'sy lots demon strated that while a certain designs Won* may seem sufficiently specific t define what is presently intended, wf changing conditions the. use later o a certain timber speoies for some in dustrial purpose may render the ter ambiguous. For instance; with the in creasing use of jack pine for pulp wood purposes, a pulpwood coneessio which contained a restriction reserv- ing "pine" would very largely reduc the amount of pulpwood available, i the interpretation of "pine" were to in cliidbe jack pine. To overcome what may at any time become an acute situation, more de- finite names should be applied to tim- ber species, Undoubtedly, the most satisfactory terminology to be used in legislation would be the recognized botanical names,, since common names are too often 'varied' by ;local Condi- tions: . The Dominion Forestry Branch has published a pamphlet "native Trees of Canada;" the nomenclature adopted therein might with advantage be fol- lowed as a standard throughout Cana- da. may also come from excessively worn d bearings. If a separator bowl is not thorough- ly •cleaned each time it is used, about three times as much fat is, lost hi the e Wit r h e 0 th m n e Y Home Ma ;read Homs made bread is without doubt the cheapest and most healthful food that can be produced for human con- surnption, It is the most completely digested solid food in the world, over 90% of it being transformed into health and strength. It yields nearly twice as much nour- ishment as rice or potatoes, and is ten times as nourish- ing as an egt3Eal value of meat. No bread is more truly whole- some or more perfectly satis- factory than that baked at home in which Royal Yeast Cakes are used. Scientists have discovered a new and truly wonderful use for Royal Yeast Cakes Physicians are prescribing it with remarkable succesr, for conditions attri- buted to poor blood conditions. Soak a cake of Royal Yeast for half an hour in a cup of lulce-warm water with one tea- spoon sugar Then stir well and strain once or twice through muslin and drink the liquid. BETTER results will be ob- tained by allowing it to soak over night and drinking half an hour before break- fast. Repeat as often as desired, Send name and address for free booklet en- titled "Royal 'Yeast for BetteE.Health." E. W. Gillett Company Limited Toronto* Canada. M i.ai.e in. Canada skimmed milk as when 'the bowl is properly cleaned. • The foregoing brief explanation gees to show that a separator in order to give the best results in operation must be firmly secured in. place and quite level, must be properly cleaned each time it is used, and must be op- erated at the required speed. In ad- dition the temperature of the milk must bo at least 85 deg. F. and the inflow of the milk into the bowl not greater than normal. Fur theomore, the bearings of the machine must not be allowed to become worn too much before they are replaced. An "Evening Out" in Labrador. The Annals of a Labrador Harbor, by Mrs. Wilfred T. Grenfell and M1sa Katie Spalding, began by saying that the advertisement of Newfoundland as "the coolest country on the A.iantic seaboard in summer" is all too pain- fully true. As the leader follows the chronicle from June . to January he concludes that the country continues to use coal, in the. winter. For Janu- ary 15, for example, the entry reads: The journey to Nameless Cove wee all that I had hoped for, with a .little more thrown in to make weight. Clear and shining, with glittering white snow below and sparkling blue s:ky above, the day promised fair in spite. of a mercury standing at ten degrees below zero; so a number of komatiks from the Mission started merrily forth, Everything went well, and we reached Nameless Cove without ad- venture; but at sundown the wind rose. When we left at ten o'clock to return to the house where 1 was, to spend the night, we had to face the lull fury of a. living winter gale, 111 "caught" both my cheeks on the way; that is, In common parlance, I froze them. All through the long tug we were cheered -by the thought of a large jug of cream that we had placed .upon the stove to thaw when we left the house. Do you fancy that cream had thawed? Not a bit of it. The fire was doing its best, but old Boreas was holding our feast prisoner; it had not even begun to disintregrate round the edges, We cut lumps from the icy mass, dropped them into our cocoa (which we made by cooking it inside the stove directly on top of the coala' hastily popped the mixture into our mouths., lest it should freeze en the way, and went promptly to bed. I draw a vefl over that night. I drew everything else I could find over xne in the course of it. A sadder a'nd .t wiser and a chillier woman, I rose next morning. Another motnbar of the staff, who had slept in an adjoining house, froze his toe in bed. A Winter Night, As I strode down the long slopes of the road Between the pastures, all war flawless white, Save where the lofty pines upon the height In the pale moonlight like dark sta- tues showed. The , little woodlanct stream that by azo flowed, A.ncl sang an springtime as in sheer delight, Was silent now, as is an eremite I!I Who broods On (sod in his austere -bode. 100 i was alonet yet T fuss net alone, Por some mysterious spirit cabled to me' Out of the night in an esealte;d tome That was as rapture blent with melody," Wait for a time when to thee shall he shown 1 What seemeth sorrow Iueanetdl i ecstasy!" ter..-�-•-.�