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The Clinton News Record, 1932-01-28, Page 8'THURS., JAN. 28, 1932 Health, Cooking Care of Children THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Buuhiiialieus A Column Prepared oIRchekali Especially for Wonien-- But Not Forbidden to Men 7 HE LIT.'TLECHAP WHO FOLLOWS MP ., careful man I want to be, little chap follows me. do not Clare to,go astray, r fear 'he'll go the selfsame way. cannot once 'escape his eyes, •-a. he sees me :d'o, he tries. ike me he says he's going to be, he little chap who follows me. . e thinks that I am good and fine, elieves in every word of mine. he base in me he must not see, haat little chap who`foIlows-me. must remember as I go, hrough summer's sun and winter's snow, am building for the years to be [hat little chap who fellows me.- [ The Brantford Expositor, trying to ut what it believes as a truth into ie form of a joke, says: "Sir Hugh Allen, president of the British Royal College of Mu • in ,predicting the future, said that by 1950 everything would' be done with switches. Judging from the number of juvenile de- linquents the present age is net using nearly enough of them." It is evident that the writer of the •ve is not talking about electric 'tehes for the control of modern nveniences. He is thinking of the ntrol, or lack of it, of modern 'nth. He has been shocked, as few. us have not been shocked, by the rge number of criminals of tender 'ars who have been brought before e law and he thinks that much Of is could Have been avoided by pro- • control an the part of their .enta. I am not very much in favour of itching on the part of parents. 1 ve "seen some badly -behaved chi'. en at times tvho might have been refitted by a good smart spanking. t usually these were children hose training dgad.been'very faulty. hipping is very seldom necessary ken a child is properly trained ow infancy. But a child needs to controlled and trained. This reed- it idea of allowing a child "to de - lope in his own way" will result in o main in his developing into a ung savage, without regard to any - 'ng but the satisfaction of his :own bridaled desires. If we are to re - tin anything of our hardly -loon civ- itation at a'l, unless we are to be mteut to revert to the manners of necuth prinitive peoples, we must isist upon the observance of certain ries of good behaviour, and no mat - a' whether intended or not, the oh, nuance of such rules have their orally restraining effect. If a mild is trained to respect the rights ' other children in the hoine and to play grounds; if he is taught to .seipline himself to the rule of an- rorityy at home, in school and in the ayground, he has unconsciously silt up 'within . him a habit 'of life hieh will stand him in good stead hen he goes out into the would to feet its temptations. 'There is no child or young person , much to be pitied as the one who tanned out of a home where dis- pline was never insisted upon, here the child got his own way, Nether right or wrong, if he fought trd enough for it, and "where he as allowed to bluster or bully his ay over the rights of: other ehil- en. He is bound to have to. learn restrain himself, to learn in deep mediation, perhaps, the lessons Mich should have been learned Idle he was• yet a child in the "home. More switches may not be what is anted but most parental care and tthority is Certainly needed. There .e children and young people going. ,out the streets, of Clinton, and pro. :My every town of its site in On- rio, every. night in the week who it ey do they do not get _themselves rd their parents into trouble it will more by good luck than good man- lement en the. part of the parents. have often marvelled, es my work kes me about quite often rather to int 'night, to see the numbers of. ,ys and girls of tender years still• oling about in- the streets, appar-, ,tly just looking for adventure, as :trammeled youth will, but just as ovitably inviting disaster. People suldn't allow a puppy to wander gout at night; they would see that was brought in and settled for e night and they close up their ,icken pent., but allow their boys girls to run the : streets when oy should be in bed. A lady who reads this column fair- ly regularlysaid to me one day: "You always take the ; part of the young people." And that is true. If there ie anything wrong with the young people of today the fault lies et the door of the parents.. When parents bring children rota the world they assume responsibility for them; to then belongs the, task of training and developing these young person- alities into the sort of citizens that are to take over the management of things the next generation and if they fail in that task they nanst bear, the blame. Most parents taketheir responsibilities seriously and if ask- ed would say that they.are doing the best they can. Some fail because of. of lnow'ledge sof how to per- form the duty of child training, eth- ers fail by using a wrong method and still others fail because they lack. the firmness to carry out the method they feel is the right one, so take what they believe is the easiest way and when they learn their mistake it seems :too . late to mend it and so continue. The parents who stake the most brilliant suecess in child training are the ones who never allow the child to vest away from them; who keep the confidence 'c4 their children from babyhood up through adolescence. It can be done, is being done every day, and if you will take . the trouble to notice it is such families as these that turn out the best citizens. 'When children, boys and gin's a- like, can come to their fathers and mothers with their troubles and prob- lems, when they are not afraid to do so and when they are sure of sym- pathy, understanding and help, there is not much danger of 'satins Youth- ful delinquincy. - But if parents, through carelessness, indolence or for any other cause allow . their children to grow away from them that lost confidence is seldom, if ever, fully regained. A. young husband and father said I to the not very long ago: "1 cons i si terthe care ea nay wife and young family any chief concern in life, I just work at my business as a means toward that end." And I thought that here was one young man who had the right idea, he was putting first things first and I would rather like to know just how his family turns out, When the rearing of the young people in the homes 'be -wines the chief coneern'of the farmers, the bus- iness and professional men, the anti - sons and the laborers alike then will we begin to see a marked improve- ment in the class of citizen; then will the youthful criminal cease :front off the face of the earth. A new life of E: Pauline Johnson, one of Canada's best-known poets and Writers, "The Mohawk Princess;' has been written by Mr's. W. Garland Foster. Pamine Johnson is a writer of whom Canada is very proud and, although many have had the privilege of hearing her read her own poems on public platforms, as she died in 1913, yet many of the young people have grown up without any knowledge of her except from hearsay or from brief references. Sieh a book as the above :night well be studied in liter- ary groups, in school literary socie ties and in the homes, in order to familiarize the youth of today with the achievements of one of the most picturesque of talented Canadians. REBEKAH- HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR DOLLAR? The United States Department of Agriculture gives the following sug- gestions for the spending of the idol lar which gees for food in the hoarse to ,insure adequate nutrition: If there are children in the fain, ily, out of eves* dollen it is well to use for: -- .Bread and cereals - .15e to 20c Milk and cheese 25e Vegetables and fruits 25c Fats and sweets ..... , ....20c to 15c Meat, fish and eggs . . 15c If the family consists eutire'y of grown-up$, out of every, dollar it is well to use for• -- i Bread, flour and' cereals 15e to. 20a Milk and cheese . , 15c Vegetables and fruits . , , , 3oc to 25e Fats and sweets 20c Meas, fish and eggs . 20e T)ividing the feed dollar in this way will bring greatest return in nutritive values for the dtriount of money used The loss money a fans- ; ily has ho spend for food, the more important it is that it: should be sjient to the best possible advantage, Edited By leb tm Hakabei' Kralc ,Household Economics. Novel Competition Held At a meeting of the ladies'. Aux- iliary of the Orillia Y.1VL.C.A. held recently a novel feature of the pro- gram, and one we recommend to aur various women's organizations was a municipal contest that revealed to` those trying: it the amount or lack of amount', of information about muni- cipal affairs which' they possessed. Here are the questions asked—who can answer them' correctly?: 1. Who constitutes our Municipal Town , Council? 2, What members ,of the 'Coun- cil sit' in the a County 'Connell? 3. Wiio is Mayor for 1932? 4. What was our tax rate in 1931? • 3. How much does, Clinton raise through direct taxation? 6. 'Is it to our credit to get a large sum for relief work from the Ontario Government? 7. What other administrative try whose money is concerned. bodies are there in town? 0. Whoconlprises each of these'? 9. Who .kitnd of townsmen would you hne' up for 11/Li nioipal positions? 10 Whose fault is it if the proper ,nett are :not elected to office? NO MAN'S LAND IS ROME OF EVERYONE Change From Sundry Purchases Giv- en In Currency'. Tendered Aboard C. N. Carti),aean Cruisers. Financially speaking Canadian National "Prince" and "Lady" liners cruising the Caribbean this winter will be international territory. The Canadian National's plan to overcome exchange confusion in ships' barber shops, refreshment rooms and kiosks is this: United States, Canadian, ,English, West:In- dian and other monies commonly Mr - ciliated in this terrotmy, will be ac- cepted and. change given in the cur- rency tendered. justas though the transaction took place in the coon - The Lady. of ,Gadey's: Sarah Josepha hale By Ruth E. Finley, 'Philadelphia - The following frown -the New York Times Book Review will have an in- terest for Clinton people as the' lady mentioned leas the mother of a form- er prominent .Clinton resident, Mr. Horatio Hale, and grandmother of Me. C. B. Hale: Perhaps no single phenomenon so well expresses to twentieth century readers the essence of Victorian Am- erica as the magazine` which was known as 'Godey's Lady's Book. Al- though one's impressions of that fain - bus periodical are likely to !be con- fined to its quaint and often surpris- ingly charming hand -colored fashion plates, displaying ridiculously gen- teel ladies 'clad in scoop bonnets and billowing crinolines, or in flat feath- ered hats and enormous hoopskirts, it was not only for its fashion plates that the Lady's Book was justly cele- brated. The present study by Ruth E. Finley reveals it as a magazine which has some claim to be regarded Ias, an important and serious expres- sion of the life of the times. It is more than a little diverting :to -discover in this pioneer journalis. tic enterprise launched more than a century ago by the "prince of pubs Ushers," Louis A, Godey, the -already flourishing germs of the modern women's magazine. Here are the familiar departments to be found in today's periodicals, the departments I devoted to housekeeping and home- making, to architecture, gardening. • cookery, beauty culture and: interior decoration. Even such matters as physical culture and child hygiene, modcr•n as we are accustomed to think them, were being thrust upon the attention of the -wives and moth- ers sof the 1330a by a magazine of enormous circulation and prestige. For, notwithstanding the high postal rates, the delays and uncertainties of the mails, and the cumbersome and costly methods of printing, Godev's Lady's Book had attained by the twiddle of the Century the unpreced- ented e:irculationi •of 150,000 copies— : something that Lords A. Goeley with his native genius for advertising never allowed his readers to forget,- ' forget,1 Miss Finley's book, "The Lady of Gedey's" was begun as a study of the magazine itself, in its character as a , forerunner of the modern periodical, and,. in a, broader sense, s a means , to an unusual social, review of Am- ! erica in the nineteenth century. But, as Mass Tinley tells us, before she i had gone far in her work she had become increasingly aware o£ a per- i sanality behind the periodical. Run- tning through the successive issues of the Lady's Book there was appar- ent a consistent and. well-defined editorial policy which directed its in- numerable activities --a policy which was, in general. quite the reverse of the bigotry, the dogmatist», the maudlin sentimentality', eo easily as- seciated in our minds with Victorian- ism, In the woman who signed her- self variously as S. J. H., Mrs, Hale, or Sarah Jceepha Hale, Miss Finley discovered a vigorous, far-sighted hard-hitting odjtor, discreetly disguis- ed under the nintennth century hoop - skirts anal side curls an4 journalistic verbosity, . There is little to remark in Sarah Hale's early life on a remote New Ilaannshii•e farm, or in her uncom- monly happy marriage with a young lawyer," David Hale, who enc:e rraged her to mwsne her studios nerd direct, ed her in them. Nor was there any- thing .unusual in, .the impoverished widow of 34, whose pathetic attempts to suupoet herself and her five chil- dren by needlework naieht•have been du&ated hundreds n:f, tunes in Am- erica in the 1820s. 'It.was not until 1827, when she was 31) years of age. that Sarah Hale '.first` distinguished herself by the publication of a suc- cessful two -volume novel. "North - woad," and was offered in conse- quence the editorship of the Ladies' Magazine, a new publication !being launched in Boston. Hereher native capacity foundimmediate expression. Sarah Hale was a crusader by tem- perament, passionately interested in education, in tabor problems," in the improvement of the political and ec- onomic status of women. But she was also a woman, and tactful, Un- like the more conspieuous and un- compromising feminists of her day, she never put herself outside the pale of conformttiy. She contented her- self with a genteel editorial self- effacement, and was painstakingly careful never to offend the exceed- ingly tender sensibilities of her read- ers. Above all, she never forgot, or allowed her public to forget, that she was a lady. During the fifty years of her ac- tive editorial career, Sarah Josepha Hale prosecuted, under cover of her meticulous gentility, an amazing number of reforms and innovations. She was responsible for the adoption - of Thanksgiving as a 'national }soli- day. She was -the first to propose women as teachers in the Intik schools, and: she sent out the first Woman medical missionaries. She founded the Seaman's Aid Society, started the first day nursery for the children of working mothers, and was the first to suggest public play, grounds. She began a long fight for the retention of property rights by married women, and she 'organized the first society for the betterment of working conditions and wages for women. She raised the money to finish Bunker Hill Monument, and 'rescued the expiring movement to ;preserve Mount ,Vernon as a nation- al memorial. These are only a few n; her conspicuous contributions to •-tial welfare. Curiously enough, it is none 'of her sweeping reforms, but a smaller and far homelier a- c'hievement, by which. Mrs. Hale seems destined to be remembered— the authorship of "Mary Had a Little Lamb." The title to the authorship of this famous nursery rhYtne has been of- ten olaimed and .much disputed, re- cently and most notably by Henry Ford, whose bronze tablet before the Little Red' School House at Sudbury, I\fass., ascribes the firsttwelve lines to Mary Elizabeth Sawyer, leaving to Sarah Hale the dubious honor of the remaining twelve. Miss Finley i has devoted an exhaustive chapter to • the examination of Mit. lisle's t authorship he ver- t claims to heuat s p f o -ses, and has -niadd a very impressive ease in support of them -one, instead, tvhieh might reasonably `be allowed to settle the controversy permanent- ly, The services to seholt 0ship which the writer of the book, "The Lady of Godey's" performs, in fact, are mainly of this charac- ter, deiving into sources, setting forth evidence, resolving controver- sies, It is hardly a biography at all in the conventional sense of the tern!, both because the material a- vailable was rather too, slender to permit the construction of a full and highly personal account of Mrs. Hale's life, and because its tempta- tions in other directions Were innum- aralbe. A, complete and accurate ae- count of Sarah I ale',s life 'would have had to be, at the same time, a tom- plete social history of America in the nineteenth century, an undertaking which, would certainlyhave strained the -limits of the present work. Miss Finley has aimed at a compromise— an attempt which, if it is not always artistically successful, is at least pardonable on the score of necessity. Enemy, THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED• TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Sometimnes Gay, Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful and Ins pining• RECOMPENSE When we stand on a hili at the end. of the day And look at -a glorious sky, We quite forget that -oto paint the glow, ' The day' must die, \Vihen, we stand on the -edge of other world, And look with a dazzled 'eye, We 'will quite forget that, to see its. light, We had to die. --By Jessie Hunter Fullerton. that GODMOTHER There was an gold lady Who had three faces, One foci everyday, And one for wearing places— To meetings and parties, Dull piaces•.like ithat— A face that ,Soaked well With a grown' -up hat. But she carried in her pocket The face of an elf. And she'd clap it on quick When she felt like herself. - Sitting in the parlor Of acuminates house. She'd reach in her packet Sly as a mouse . . . And there in the corner, Sipping her tea, Was the laughing elf -woman Nobody could see! —Phyllis B. Morden. THE OLD TIME DANCE To you who need reducing, The way to do it right Is to try the Old Time Dance, You'll shed pounds in a night. F or modern youths and maidens 'Tia -really a surprise; To find this type of dancing, Most vigorous exercise. You run .and whirl and turn By twos or eights or fours, While from the heated brow The perspiration pours. The Jersey, Waltz and Polka, Follow good old Minuets, With OneiSteps, Two -Steps, Three - steps, Square Dances, ;several Sets. All night you lilt and ran Or light hop and prance. Reducing's guaranteed by fun ' At a real Old -Timer's Dance. —Dallis Bannister. THE OLD FARMHOUSE The bobbing shadow of a leaf along The whitewashed wall is such a friendly thing; And warns across the deep old kit- chen sill ' There comes the sweet and spicy comforting Fragrance of peaches, by some chemistry known only in that shining, scetlt- eti place Being distilled to gild transluc- ency, Precarious on this hill, small Pew- ees grace The dooryard, as though ,loving the dint path, The worn old steps of deeply dented wood. The roof slopes close against a giant k n a , And finds the wide -branched tow- ering shelter good. How dear this place to us who know it best! A 'peace' is here past clumsy words to tell—. A dignity and sweetness and con- tent, Because it has been loved so long and well. • —Anita Lamle Cushing, in the Christian Science Monitor. THREESCORE YEARS AND TEN Quick, Sir, help me up— and bring any cane- • 'Tis cold tonight, but then I like it so, I. heard a sudden tapping on the pane; Grey Winter's here agate, and so, Lgo To meet hint by some gaunt and leafless tree Where we canwhieper underneath our breath, And once more jest at that pale Whomn you may know by sight I ,speak of death Tonight the jaded year graves els with nae .I'hear the fierce Hounds of robe Wind give tongue.— Not as in Spring when Zephyr's melody Recalls those far-off days when 1 was young-•, - But loud and wrathful, harbingers of snowy, ' And though Its cold tonight — I like it so, -+Dallas Bathe Pratt —(From Horae Schalasticae, St. Paul's School) THE • SNOW -STORM , Announced by all the trumpets of Chid sky, Arrives the snow, Gild, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm -house at the gar- den's encl. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut tett, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclos ed In a ,tumultuous privacy of storm. Come, see the north wind's Inas, 4onry. Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce art- ifice, ' Curves his white bastions with pro- jected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad -handed, hie wiid work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares 9ie For number or proportion. Mocking- ly, On coop or kennel he hangs Parian t wreaths; A. swan -like fora- invests the hidden thorn; Fills up the farmer's lane front wall to wail, Mauve the farmer's sighs, and at the gate A tapering turret oveltops the work. And Wison his hours are 'numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were nal, Leaves, when the sun appears, as- tonished Art To nlimie in slow structures, stone by stone, Built in an age, the mad wind's night. work, The frolic architecture of the snow. —Ralph Waldo Emmerson. ON PROVING YOURSELF IN TBE RIGHT But, all the same, 'Tis only fair That I should clear -myself from blame, Wily .should I have to bear The loneliness of such a thing, The strain, and pain, of whispering? Surely, if half the truth is told, The other half should be as bold. Since right is Right the whole world through. Wily not make known my grievance too? Listen, mn Soul. y (You wistful, striving Thing, More power to your wing!) What really is your goal? Is it that men shall all think well of iSh'alI ;praise your Christ -like quaI- ities, and say, "There goes a man consistent through and through, One never knowh to falter on the way. No breath of ,slander ever tainted 1fis shield was never dim." . Is' this why you sopassionately'pray - And seek to vindicate yourself to -day? "No, no. I seek to vindicate my Mas. ter, If men misrepresent What I have said and done, it meant disaster To , the great .enterprise whereon I'm sent. The good that I have done will be unwrought. llty ,testimony will wax useless. . quite. iffy consecrated gifts remain un- sought. • It cleanlyis my duty to the world, And to, the One Whose banner I've unfurled, • ;. To prove I was distinctly in the right!" Men called your piaster "gluttonous'" Implied He sat too long at.dinnersee Was over -fond of wine and thus Was hand -in -glove with fidgrk.iit .. sinners. They said He had blasphemed. the Name; They heaped contempt on Him, and blame—, Yet, not a single word was true. Has anyone said such of you? He might have put His case before Religious leaders of His day - Malignant tongues made His heart sore, And yet Be went upon His way So meekly; simply doing good And giving comfort. where Ile could, He spent no time in thinking out A vindicatory appeal His bitter enemies to flout .He had the blind and lame :to heal. His poor world wa's in desperate need, Ho had the hungry hearts to feed; The gracious, kindly word to speak; With homely talk He helped the weak; • He taught the careless bow to seek: And left Ris reputation where It would receive the utmost care. And Ire was blameless! But, can you and I Ever make such a claim to the Most High? - Ah, no. Some taint of blame will cling To us in spite of everything. Sonne vow that -should have been un- broken; Some word that should have been un•• spoken WV.l sure to rise With sad accusing eyes, To tell us, though sten may misre- present, We were not solely, wholly innocent. Then, how to act, and how to do? Poor wounded Heart, if I were you, I would most earnestly confess To God my own unrighteousuess. And then, I'd place the tangled skein, The soreness, and the lonely pain In the Omnipotent and kindly Hands Of One Who knows the whole, and understands. And after that, I would look rand And do the next thing to be found. Use hands, and feet, and brain, and more In being sweeter than before. And somehow, some day, some time, rue May vindicate you gloriously, —Fay Inchfawn, The average wean requires little practice to become a good liar. Many women have feud it takes as la of ban-: notes to play the so- ciety notes, !Our idea of a happy man is a street ear conductor. He calm tell his wife where to get off. Finest Flavour of any Oats/ SICK UAI�R Cooks in 234 ming, after the water boils Never bid Advertising Have such a Story to Tali as Today