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SOUPS THE BACKBONE
OF YOUR MEAL!
4Etiela aienlemaliers! Why leti1hat
-0019one utters a big "u-nesn" hea
'fatally gathers around. the 'Ole sBalt
where big' bowls of soup 11,re 2 tablespoons flour
lug? Is it the , aroma and the Able /4, teaspoon curry powder
neys of steam from each gay bowl? 1/3 cup cooked rice
And there will be more exclamations 4% cups milk-
-if your soup is really good. How Few grains pepper.
satisfying, how delicious soups can Add onion and 1/2 teaspoon salt to
'be savoured with the simple season- melted fat. ' Cover and cook over low
Inge every homemaker can keep on heat until soft, stirring coasta.ntly.
her pantry shelf. Serving 'hearty and Turn electric element to "Low"; add
wholesome soups often during the flour, curry powder and rice and mix
snappy, cold weather will benefit the well. Add milk gradually' and cook,
health of , your family—and your bud- stirring constantly until thiekened.
get. So let's plan soups as a main Season with salt and pepper. Six
course—en easy and satisfying meal. servings.
The water in which vegetables are Cream of Cabbage and Lentil Soup
cooked, left over vegetables, scraps 4a cup dried lentils
of meat.; meat stock, gravy, left -over 14 lb. salt pork
rice, macaroni—these should never,
under any circumstances, be wasted.
Keep them in a jar in your refrigera-
tor overnight.
As a good foundation for many nu-
tlitious soups use two pounds of neck
of mutton or shin of veal. Have the
butcher saw the bones into small
pieces. Cut up the meat and brown
&If of it along with a diced onion
in a little fat. This gives better flav-
or and color to stock soup. Soak the
remaining meat and bones in cold wa-
ter about an hour. Then daring quick-
ly to a boil, using "High" heat, but
turn back..to "Simmer" at this point
to steam for about two hours. An
hour before removing from heat, add
vegetables and seasonings, using a
cup filled with diced carrot, turnip,
• ()Milli and celery; a sprig ,of, parsley,
one bay leaf and three peppercorns.
When done skim off fat and drain.
The possibilities of using this stock
are endless; add macaroni, noodles,
rice, bailey,. beans, peas, lentils or
sliced vegetables.
A Nutri -thrift menu suggestion is:
a hearty bowl of soup accompanied
. by cheese biscuits or rolls, a dish of
fruit for desSert and milk as the bev-
erage unless you are selecting one of
the tasty cream soups given below;
• 'RECIPES
,ceiiie# Onion anci-Riee Soup
2 tahleapoonnibaking fat
euilnelY tanned onion
1 teaspoon salt
11/2 cups finely shredded cabbage
I.' lb. baking fat ,
31/2 cups milk
Few grains pepper.
Soak the lentils overnight in cold
water. Drain, add the diced salt pork
and 2% cups fresh water. Cover and
cook until tender, adding more water
if necessary. Add the salt near the
end of the Cooking time. Drain and
boil down the liquid to about one-
half cup. Press" lentils thr,>ugh a
sieve. Cook the cabbage in the bale
ingfat on element turned "Low." Add.
the milk, pepper, lentils and lentil
liquid. Add more salt if desired. Re-
heat. Six servings.
Clear Tomato Soup
1 qt. brown soup stock
2% cups tomatoes
.% teaspoon peppercorns
1 small 'bay leaf
3 cloves
3 sprigs thyme
4 tablespoons baking fat
' 2, sprigs parsley
1/4 cup each onion, carrot, celery,
Raw ham' (diced)
Salt and pepper,.
Cook onion, carrot, celery and ham
in baking fat five minutes. toma-
t,.es, peppercorns, bay leaf, clo‘,-es,
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Presentations
To 4r0aCher
.At diSMisSai time 'on 404, daY, the,
ehadren• of Oracle III, WffhPM Ruh:
lie ElehOol, astiembledin 'One of the
other class rooms to honer 'their
teacher, Mrs. Emerson Shera (ferin-1
erly• Miss Velma Lennox), The elastir
had chosen. as their 'gift a beiiiiilhil
Silver cake plate of -Sheffleld, repro -f
duetion, which was presented by two
of the aildren. In the eehire of a'
circle of happy, excited children,
ri
stood a table lighted by 'tall tall'sI
And prettily decorated in. a b
scheme of pink and white. Refresh-
ments were served by -the children.
Following the children's presentation
the members of the staff and Mrs. A.
Lockridge, Mrs. W. VaaWyek and Mr.
A. W. Anderton, surprised Mrs. Shera
with the gift of a walnut table in Dun-
can Phyfe style. Mr. Beattie in con-
veying the good wishes of the staff,
expressed their pleasure in the fact
that she will remain a teacher in
Wingham public echooL — Wingham
Advance -Times.
thyme and parsley, cover and ,cook
slowly, one hour on small element.
Strain carefully, add hot stock and
season with salt and pepper. (This
recipe may be used for pellied soup or
for salad).
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THE QUESTION BOX '
Mrs. N. C. asks: "Is it all right to
make 'sauerkraut at this time of year?
How much salt is necessary *and how
long should it stand before using?"
Answer: Yes. Use 1 lb. of pure
salt (not iodized), for 40 lbs. cabbage.
Be sure salt is evenly distributed
through the cabbage. When the crock
is nearly full, press cabbage down
with an enamel or heavy porcelain
plate. Keep weighted down and al-
low t� stand for several days until
cabbage looks grey-white. Set creek
in a cooler place to prevent More
scum forming. Melted . wax may be
ppured over it at the end of a week
and the crock of sanerkraut.left for
one Month before using.
Anne Allan invites you to write to
her c/o The Huron Expositor. Send
in your questions on homemaking
problems and watch this column for
replies.
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(By Anne Fremee)
In AiGintiltasing, bepteehtlIderfe
rimit14. Vidio Pins 'tPtal ira,thme
Mere:thanIelaewhere in Ontario,
6ausp ler APs. n:pnsrently ineontruOnn:
,eldtled ko the 'charge or kilo-
Aeads: "group hoapitaliga-
tion ;pp,. $i," yet atrangely enough
the hflii*Oliders never munble ahout'
thie kidecCanoathly charge. They pay
eheektialY. •
When ,Tobn Beattie. a Toronto
painter, went to .work one morning a
few moths ago, his foreman handed
him a form to sign. "It's a new idea
and a good ohs, Beattie," the fore-
man said, so Beattie signed and start-
ed work.
Later in the day a boy from the of
flee came to Mr. Beattie. There was
a telephone call. It was Mrs. Beat-
tie, and her voice was strained with
worry,
"It's Sam," she said. "He fell and
cut .his hand badly. The doctor says
the nerve is injured and he will have
to go to the hospitel." Sam is their
young,' eon.
Mr. Beattie usually works only nine
months a year, so such things as hos-
pital bills do not come within the,
family's budget. But because Mr.
Beattie had signed, that form a few
hours before, Sam was able to go 'to
the hospital until his hand had heal-
ed . . . Sam Beattie had become the
first beneficiary under 'the Ontario
Hospital ,Association's "Plan Fo r
Grolp 'Hospital Care." Total cost to
Mr. Beattie, $1.
When Nova Scotia, New Brunswick
and F.B.I. start their "three -province"
group hospitalization planin a few
weeks, every Canadian living east of
the Saskatchewan -Manitoba ' border
will be able, at the:Post of a two -cent
stamp or less p'er daY, to forget the
spectre of hospital bills.
The development of hospitalization
plans, according to Dr. Harvey Ag-
new, former president of the Ameri-
can Hospital association, and now
secretary of the department of hospi-
tal service of the Canadian Medical
Association, must be considered a
"definite milestone of progress."
Group Hospital Plan
Essence of the Oen lies, in fact, in
its "group" aspect, operating under
the aforementioned law of averages.
Anybody can join, literally anybody,
so long as he is a member of a group.
This' might be as small as the five -
man staff of a• grocery store, the
members of a labor union, a law so-
ciety, a dental association, the work-
ers of a mammoth plant, the popula-
tion of a city. In Kingston, Ont., the
plan virtually embraces the latter.
Enrolment there is 11,000 aged from
six weeks to 80 years, and the plan
is a chamber of commerce enterprise.
Membership of it group is actually'
the only requirement for eligibility.
You, don't have to be medically exam-
ined, belong in certain age limits—or
even he healthy. You could sign up
today with' tonsils so sore you couldn't
talk—and go into the hospital tomor-
row and have them out.
'How?'1' we asked N. H. Saunders,
director of -the Ontario Plan for Hos-
pital 'Care, "can you possibly allow
that and still break even? Won't you
get a majority of ill people signing
up and going into the hospital immed-
iately at practically no costr
Mr. Saunders smiled. "The word
'group' is our guardian against' that
perticular, design for bankruptcy," he
said, "that and the law of averages..
The whole plan is based on the fact
that the average person within an or-
ganized groin) is likely to require hos-
pital care once in apre-determined
period. That is why We cannot even
accept 'groups within groups' — for
example, one department of an organ-
ization without a certain percentage
of the entire personnel of that organ-
ization. '
• "One group begins as low as fi-Ve
who constitute the entire
membership of their group, If the
number is between 11 and 25; there
must be 10 members, and over 25
Persons, 40 per cent, of the group
must enroll.."
In Ontario, it costs a -single man or
woman 50 cents a month for ward
accommodation, 75 cents for semi-
private. A family man may bring him-
self, his wife, and all children under
16 under the project for $1, a month
for standard ward and $1.50 for semi-
private. Rafe& are on this low scale
throughout Canada, but vary slightly
due to local conditions. In' Quebec,
for exaraple, where family units are
larger, and Maternity cases are more
frequent per family, members pay
higher "family rates."
For his $1 a" month, the Ontario
subscriber is ,entitled to go or send
any member of his family to the hos-
pital of his own choice for 21 days in
each year.
This period, officials point out, is
generous—exactly double the average
length of hospitalization required by
Ontario hospital patients. They have
prepared an interesting chart show-
ing how long patients suffering from
various diseases remain hospitaliaed:
influenza requires seven days before
a patient is discharged, tonsils and
adenoids two days, conitton colds and
sinusitis fivedays, pneumonia and
bronchitis 13 days, appendicitis 12
days, cancer of all forms 19 days, eye
diseases 10 days, non -cancerous 'tym-
ors 13 'days, blood disorders 16 days,
eircillatory diseases 18 days, stomach
'deers 14 days, goitre •and.thyroid
days, Strokes 16. days, kidney and blad-
der 11, days, childbirth 11 day's,' frac-
tures 17 dayia, wounds six :days 'and
'burs 19 days.
O The are Provided •
When a subSeriber :Weenies. ill and
his doctor orders 41m to the hospital,
he i94Ei'=641‘'"4„4:*it9wnt,91111.4tilwite
his identification card a tlaelkSIE, and
climbs into bhtl. kherdelter for the
nett 21 days:' eeetteleF while
is given' eUrsiiing pare, ?ler mealti,
use Of epOating ,r,00ns an laboratory,
all or any of the disttgs pop& In the
British or ILS. pharmacopoeia or the
Canadian formulary, dressings and,
plaster casts, anaesibetics.„ or emerg.,
ency. services follOWing an accident,,,,,
When he leaves the 'hospital, he 4l
handed an itemized bill — stamped:
"paid in full." Maternity cases Its an
"added benefit" are allowed half the
actual cost of confinement after,. hus-
band and wife have been, members
for 12 months.
Hospitals are paid out of each
plan's funds at a fiat rate. Some hos-
pitals, like in.e in Toronto, actually
lose 50. cents a day on semi -private
patients, but accept the•fund"ii rate..as
a gesture of goodwill and in the hope
that increasing membership will al-
low it eventually to "break even."
Surplus funds are used to build up a
reserve against epidemics, and in-
crease benefits and lower costs to
subscribers.
Medical attention, of course, is not
included in the hospital -Plan, except
so far as it is necessary under the
"ranergency treatment" clause, but the'
Ontario Medical Associatioa is con-
sidering introduCing a "group care"
plan as distinct -from the Associard
Medical Service which is in success-
ful operation now but, as a "non -
group," project, necessarily higher in
cost. A delegation from the associa-
tion recently went to Michigan to
study the plan in effect there'.
The individual subscriber to hospi-
talization is primarily concerned with
his own aches and pains l and those of
his family, .but employers, especially
in these days' of war -induced labor
shortages, ail alsotaking a great in-
terest in the scheme—chiefly because
they have discovered that, even on
the limited scale on which the new-
born plan operated last year, it saved
just 2,000,000 working 'days. The rea-
son was that patients who were mem-
bers tended to go into the hospital as
soon as their doctors advised it, ra-
ther than Put it off as rlong as pos-
sible to save expense. This early
care, plus lack of worry about the, bill,
resulted in shorter illnesses.
As a Toronto girl worker -who was
discharged from the hospital this
month. wrote to the plan office: "The
greatest testimonial . , . ii the fact
that the absence of any worry in re-
gard to hoeprial, bills, actually speed-
ed up my recovery and brought me
hack on the job earlier than would
otherwise haVe been. the case."
Whether women are more sensible
in goiag..into the hospital when neces-
sary, or whether the records prove
they actually are "the weaker 'sex,"
the fact remains that a survey shows
women spend 50 per cent, more time
in hospital bed d than men, that a,wife
makes twice as much'use of a hospi-
tal subscription' as her husband. "Inci-
dentally, a hospital subscription tends
to improve a married man's health,
because the survey indicates that ()I'd -
family when a man acquires a family
he.is likely to cut his own, hospital
care to'a minimum, ds his dependents
come first.
• Birth of group hospitalization in
Canada can be traeed straingely. en-
Ough, to r an incident in a Dallas, Tex-
as, universitY. Among a grOup of stu-
dent school teachers there, one came ill. M'enibers be -
>1 -hen claSs took
up a, collection to pay for hospital
care. The treasurer of the fund pore
dered on the . matter, and, started
thinkfhg: • "What about me? What
would happen if' I beCame ill now?"
She took her problem to' Principle J.
F. 'Kimball, who also happened to be
the head of Baylor university hospital
in Dallas.
`'W11Y," she asked. "cauldn't we
solve the problem of illness by taking
up regular contributions from the
girls?" Mr. Kimball agreed to give
th' fund a trial, and the plan worked
so well other Dallas hospitals entered
the scheme, to form the first' group
hospitalization plan in North ica.
Amer -
West of Manitoba the plan is not on
as widespread a scale as in the rest
of Canada, but there are city-wide
• plans, as in Kainloops, and Ed-
monton, where four large hospitals
have co-operated to put it into opera-
tion,. and elsewhere "one -hospital"
plans are functioning. ActUally, the
machinery for grdep plans has been
set up in the rwest, but not all heisPi-
tals, have agreed to try it.
Servid9. is lEroadminded
',he project is aimed at helping ott
a strictly sound business basis with-
out any suggestion of charity, the
vast "middle group" of citizens, on
whom hospital costs have always
pressed heaviest. Wealthy citizens, i
is pointed out, don't have to worry
about hospital costs, and poor people
receive it as a social service. But
there are no restrictions it member-
ship—the head of a large Toronto de-
partmental store, for example, joined
up with his thousands of workers, and
the president,Of one of the city's larg-
est munitions plants is a member. A
recent beneficiary was the Toronto
Judge Who fractured, several ribs in a
fall froin 'his saddle horse, and wrote
thanking the plari for the "gratifying
situation he had received."
Even if a leaves his faetory or
store ,grottp, he can remain a ttieMber
of' the Omit) fOr'the purposed of the
plan, This happened when a intini.
lions inaker left 'a TOronto •faetery,
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wligillolp-'910,"IWAthio*:1!4'ille4e0-4414.A•1144169.,Imi,
‘NTected any 'day. WAV10.9•.Vve
pay the dues, and' now, with a :haNT
t ,.t., ligun oll
Ian i
'"w•OreaSits"" and4''' a Nyii6, but
its tli!..1149FPF,P i13°=f9N'Ar' rt°
forget teCitnicalltfes, and' behnye ra-
ther like kindlly, underiltanditi4414)140*,1
beings.
That licildiees wife'inaWinnipeg, till's
a -case in (point, -had anlyigbeen a Mem-
ber 11 molithsebut She Wrote, such a
nice letter to Mr. 'Saunders that she
will get". her4nmefits -nbtWithstanding.
Then there iielBruce, nine -month-old
son of a Toronto pipe -fitter,' who 'eon -
&acted coeliac,'that rare disease
Which requires a'diet of even' rarer
bananas. Bruce is doing nicely in the
Hespital for Sick Children, consent-
ing. bananas brought by plane from
Ne* York at a cost far above the
carefully worked out "actuarial bas-
is." The little war guest of a Toron-
to family who got his hand' caught in
a clotheswringer and was treated in
the hospital as a member of the Lam.
ily, is still another example of the
plan's broadmindedness. -
What of the future? Dr. Agnew
says there are two schools of thought
with rather opposite viewpoints. One
believes that hospital plans are a pre-
cursor to complete state control of
health, that public education in
spreading costs will lead -to a demand
for state participation after voluntary
effort has paved the way.
The other view is that voluntary in-
surance is a real ,preventive of state
medicine; an dif voluntary efforts car
achieve desired results, the public
will not look for state intervention
With its,resulting bureaucracy.
Meanwhile the hardworWng officials
of the Ontario plan, lean concerned
with the future than- with getting as
many people as possible within the
scope of the plan today, use as their
unofficial motto the" Words of Sub-
scriber Ed. Walsh of Kingston, who
wrote to R. Fraser Armstrong, head
of the commission which recommend-
ed the Ontario plani •
"Best investment I ever made. If
you, don't have to use it you can thank
your lucky ,stars. If you do have to
use it you can thank your lucky. stars
twice — "F. Walsh." — Reprinted
through the courtesy of The Star
Weekly.
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Oil Producing
Plants
War brings new problems to agri-
culture as well as to industry. In
World War I, a grave shortage of
root seed was experienced when sup-
plies from Europe were suddenly cut
off. The Experimental Farms in con-
junction with the • Canadian Seed
Grower' Association immediately
started production of 'mangel and tur-
nip -seed on a commercial scale on
the farm system. With this as a lead
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aced illnar„h yd he, Pro-
vincial Departments; ''inA -0 grieulture.
farMers OU ef>tOo !311,e.
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.etarted, lae,q9rr4f-4494 1010}1 the
'kesent conflict againat
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tation &ow EUTP09; .r.44 In s
pau:dbetter position in It:eFard, to root
se
Due to this war which, is spread
over a grsater area of the world many
problems of supply have been creat-
ed. One ,.of these is the shortage of
fats of all kinds. Before Jape:n en-.
ter.ed the conflict many vegetable oils
were imported from the Orient, but
we must depend novt on our own ef-
forts and on whatever can be ship-
ped from South America. The Unit-
ed States Department of Agriculture,
according to latest survey, estimates
that that country faces a 'shortage of
close to a billion pounds of Jats and
oils for food and industraial purposes
in 1943.
To help overcome this shortage the
Government of 'Canada is, asking for
increased production of oil producing
plants' such as, flax, soybeans, sun -
lowers; etc. The objective for flax
fur seed is an acreage•increase" of 68
per cent.
- Crops such as soybeans and ,flax,
are not new, The Experimental Farms
are testing and originating new' var-
ieties to fry and improve 'the • quality
and, quantity of oil as well as the
adaptability of these plants to var-
ious- climatic conditions.
New oil' producing cdops are also
being tried out in an effort to improve
the situation. One of these tested
this year at' the Central Farm and a
number of Branch Farms was Argen-
tine rape, It belongs to the mustard
or turnip family and is an annual.
The seed contains about 43 per cent.
oil and is used as a base for lubri-
cating 'oils. ; The tests on the farms
in Quebec Produced yields of seed of
800 to 1200 pounds per acre this year.
,The world today moves on oil and
it may be, that through the neceasi-
ties of war, the country will be zoned,
as ,to the areas suitable for the grow-
ing- of each of the oil producing
plants.
"The chief's secretary's typewriter
is rattling terribly.",", •
"That's not the typewriter—it's the
chief's ,teeth. The auditors are ex-
aqtfining the books."
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Never judge a person by his outside
appearance. A shabby old coat my
enwrap a newspaper publisher, while
a man wearing a plug hat and sport-
ing a gold,headed cane may he .°a de-
linquent subscriber!
eSNAPSI-10T GUILD
PICTURING CHILDREN
Snapshots of children which suggest that they are unaware of the
camera are always more appealing than those which seem deliberately
posed, as this shot definitely proves. -
BAB'jActures rank high in popu-
larity because they are usually
cute and appealing, but not every
baby picture comes up to expecta-
tions. And usually the photographer
wonders why.
There are, I think you will dis-
er, three main reasons why some
amateurs fail to get good pictures
-of children. First, there is the mat-
ter of technical mistakes. Second,
the picture may not be satisfactory
because the subject looks posed and
uncomfortable. And finally, failure
may be attributed to the fact that
the photographer failed to make his
picture a close-up.
Teehnical mistakes are often made
'by the most experienced photogra-
phers, and there's nothing to do
about it except be more Careful.
You Must focus propel -TY, eXPOse
_properly, and make your picture
without Jarring the Camera, or you
can't hope for firatrtite retains.
But there is a good deal you, ean
do about posing the &lid ind Mak
ing your picture a close-up. And the
best advice I can give you is let the
child be himself. When a youngster
is relaxed, and at ease before the
camera, he is it perfect picture sub-
ject, but when you have him stiffly
stand against the side of a house
or garage while you take his picture,
he immediately begins to look posed
and uncomfortable.
As a matter of fact, there's no
reason at all why a child shoulit
even look at the camera when his
picture is being taken. If he is busy
at play or worse a profile or back
view may often be More satisfac-
tory than a full face shot. It may
have a great deal of charm and ap-
peal simply because it suggests that
when the picture -was taken the sub-
ject was unaware of the camera.
Taking pictures that way requires
more patience than ordering the
Child, to stand still, but it yields
eV,ei' so. much more pleasing -results.
Try it and yon'll
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