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The Clinton News Record, 1932-03-31, Page 7THURS., MARCH al, .:.9 . Health, Cooking Care of Children. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD rTMiila1ious INTEREST Edited By Lebam IIakaber. Kialc• of A Column Prepared Especially . for Women- But Not Forbidden to Men THE CYCLAMEN ,Once, I was but a seed, )3rown and unlovely too. _ I never knew 'The kindly wind that blew 'To meet my wistful need, 'To make me, in that hour, a -living. thing With' dim potential • power 'of blos- soming. And, yet, I could not live 'The life I never planned, -Until a human hand `Laid hold of me, and taught me • That Life is given to give. 'That I must die. if I would truly be -The lovely thing the Giver saw in me. "So, in the dark, I died. '.And'there and then "Life found me; 'Loosed the grave -clothes that bound me, 'And let me go "That weary .earth -stained men "Might see and know 'How Death is but a doorway to per- • fection, ' To all the glories of the Resurrec- tion! '—Fay Incbfawn, Did you see the Marionettes the `last day of Chautauqua? It was the 'first of the programs that I saw and I felt that I wanted to see it and • was glad indeed that I was aIle to. ' "That childish thing," you say. "Why did you wish to see it?" ;Well, I like •simple, things, I find that it is the simple, the Ieast Iearned, a child's OW, a child's 'book, watching chil- -dren at play, the simple things of . life, these are to me the most divert, ing. One has to be grown-up so much of the time that it is a rest just to be simple and childish when one can. But I wasn't by any means the •only grown-up who enjoyed this pro- gram; there were dozens of them, of both sexes, who were just as en- grossed ngrossed as the' veriest child. But diel enjoy watching the children too. How they enjoyed seeing Peter Rab- bit and his mother putting him to 'bed, and 1\I . Sparrow and Minuie Mouse 'and the bullfrog and Little 'Red Ridinghood and her grandmoth- • er and the wicked wolf. And Grand- mother, dear, funny little thing that she was, didn't get eaten, as she did in the old story, but outwitted the 'wolf and tho woodsman came and dispatched the wolf. It was all very exciting arid in my, -opinion an excel lent: children's program. Any Chau teuqua Might have a' couple of some such programs in each course. They would be popular with both old and young. Now that Easter is past we can think of "spring, and' the weather since. Good Friday;has been more encouraging, too. Let us plan our spring activities , so that we shall have plenty of leisure for the enjoy- ment of the spring out of doors. Es- pecially any who havehad a sick spell and do not feel just up to the !nark should, .plan to be out in_.the sunshine as much as possible during ,the nice spring weather. There is no doctor like old Meteor Sunshine to put new life into one. And he sends in no bill. Tomorrow is April' 1st, All Fools Day. So it has been known to us all our lives and to our fathers and mothers all their Iives, No doubt almost everyman and avoman can re- member when as a child trying, and usually very successfully, to "fool" his playmates as regularly as the day came around, and often he did not stop with his playmates but 'he tried, and perhaps more successfully, on some grown-up, for grown-ups are singularly stupid when it comes to things of that sort, And the boy:J and girls of today are working the same old tricks that their fathers and their grandfathers worked in their childhood. The celebration of April lst seems to date away back into the far dis- tant past, it being, apparently, a uni, versal festival extending fibro Mar. 25 to April 1st., though just why peo- ple tried to make fools of their friends on that date is not quite so clear. It was not, it seems, general in Britain until about the beginning of the eighteenth century. Although in India at .a feast the last slay of which was March 31st, the practise of sending people on needless er- rands and generally befooling them was indulged in for centuries before that. It doesn't seem to bo very clear how the practise started. In Scotland any one who is fooled on April first is called an "April Gowk." Be on your watch tomorrow or omebody is bound to fool you. Don't be a Gowlr. REBEEAH. Canadian Garden Service 1932. PRUNING AND GRAFTING While certain types of grafting, we are told, go on regardless of sea- son so long as there is anything In . the public purse, when we turn to :horticulture early spring is usually the time selected. Grafting is not a •difficult operation but it is advisable before we begin to provide ourselves with a Government bulletin on the ,subject, such as the very excellent one written by Dr. D. A. Kimball of the Ontario Agrieulturai College. The main thing is to get a portion of the inner .bark of the scion or twig op- posite and tight up against the inner bark of the Ikub of the tree so that the bark of the two will grow to- gether. After putting together, tie -tightly with raffia or some soft' twine, and cover all around the joint -with grafting wax. ,Grafting, allows •one to grow several varieties of fruit on a single tree and to repair •valuable trees rabbits or mice have girdled, and which would die with- -oat this treatment. • We may also de- svelop a complete new top on a brok, :on -down tree or one Whieh bears an • undesirable type of fruit, In prun. Wing fruit trees, the main thing is to repen up the branches to admit plenty of light and air and to prevent use - "less growth, brandhes which cross each other and limbs ata wide angle from the main trunk which would be liable tobreak down When loaded with fruit. Generally speaking, prun- *in is carried out any' time from Feb, ruary' until the first of June, An -exception to this role 'is the grape •vine, which must' he trimmed before :late 'March in order to prevent this 'excessive bleeding. With this plant only the main upright and three, or four laterals are left as fruit is borne an the new wood each season. Ornamental shrubs also benefit from it light pruning every year after they have reached maturity. Shrub: - which bloom early in the season, like the ordinary Spirea, should be prun- ed. after the bloom has faded, but the late flowering types are pruned ear- ly in the spring before growth has started. Shrubs In speaking of shrubs we are re- minded of the advice of Dominion Horticulturist,, W. T. Macoun, who claims that there should be a few of these beautiful plants in every gar. den, Among .the most satisfactory, in order of blooming, according to this authority, are the ,Spirea Argeta. and Van Houtti, Russian Pea Shrub and Caragana Frutex, These are all very hardy. In the milder, parts of Canada one can grow the Forsythia or Golden Bell, which is very early and well worth planting, both for .flowers,and foliage. , Following these are the Japanese Rose, also known as the Rose Rognsa, thea Philadelphus variety, Virginal or any other of the many good varieties of Moek Orange, the Hydrangeas, Lilacs, Floneysuck, les, Weigelia, and if one has roaa. for a few small trees with attractive flowers some' of the best are the Double Flowerer-, Crab, European Mountain Ash, Yellow -wood; japan ese, Tree Lilac and Catalpa. Any of the ordinary Crabapples or regular apple trees of somegoodvariety adc beauty and usefulnss,",: Could Grow. Moro Vegetables The old-time vegetable garden was a bit light on variety ,.and also rather short in -the length of season. We hada taste of green stuff 'like let- tuce and ettuce.and. spinach, a few meals` of peas and beans,] and then depended - PAGE 7 WOMEN Household •• Economics largely on potatoes and carrots With a little core to see us through the season. That is not necessary to - da from a few week ,t z Y sat after plant mg time we should have the . first radish, lettuce, cress and onions from sets, and if we make several sowings of the seed at weekly intervals these things will keep ' coming, on for ,''a month at Ieast. ,Shortly afterwards the first' sowings of spinach will be ready and by taking out every oth- er plant -rather than cleaning up the raw, the season will be extended. A- gain, with successional sowings and the useof early, medium and late sorts we will have fresh spinach coin- ing on for a mouth orsix weeks. A- bout this time our first' head lettuce will be ready and also the early peas, from which we start picking from' forty-five to fifty - days after sowing. With the use of two or three Types and two sowings, a week or ten ways apart some .local- ities where the weather does not get too dry . or too warm it is possible to have them .coming' on until August. By now we are in July and the first Irish Cobbler potatoes, for two or three minutes, or until 'every grain is thoroughly covered with dust. It is advisable to wear 8 dust mask or a wet handkerchief ov- er the nose and mouth while treating the grain. If a smut treating 'mach, ine is not available a barrel churn or an ordinary barrel fastened in a frame, ,or spme types of cement mix- ers may be used . for treating the grain. • Bulletins and circulars outlining in detail Grain 'Smuts and their preven- tion can be secured by writing to the Department of Agriculture, Clin- ton, Ont. WINGHAM: The roads in this locality were opened for motor traffic Saturday The snowplow was through from Blyth en Saturday as motor traffic had been Blocked 'since the blizzard of last Monday, All trains were well patronized over the boll - due due to the tie up. . "MARGARET" (By N. J. Werner, in The Owen Sound Sun -Tithes) Methinks, my friend, you're much in debt To those who named you Margaret. A noble name, though old and staid, It graces well a charming maid. The wise ones say your name means pearl: It well befits so fine a girl. For as a jewel loved you are By many friends both near and far.. One day, in era far remote, A Persian scribe a legend wrote; E'en then it was a tale quite old, Which parents to their children told. The oysters of the sea, they said, In worship of the moon were ted To rise and float upon the wave— With open shells they rev'rence gave. Her faithful devotees to thank, The moon within each shell then sank A drop of dew, congealed to ape In tiuy mass her splend'rbus shape, These crystal dewdrops (pleasing sight) Were called "the children of the light"— ' Mni•wari was the Persian name. 'Which word !tad meaning quite the same, When Greece from Persia took the nacos It Margerite next became, And further changes which it met Gave us the English Margaret. A host of ladies. crowned by fame And honored maids have borne the name, Renowned in history and song: And proudly may .you join their throng. Besides the Margarets who reigned As queens and great distinction gained In England, Seottend, Holland, n o er European lands, We find some other Margarets Who soon became the public's pets Through playing well upon the stage Or pleasing well as writers sage., Though aft disguised as Marge and Meg, As Maggy, Margot, Peggy, Peg, As Maisie, Marjorie 8nd, May, And often spelled in crazy way; As Greta. Daisy, be It found, As Meta, Beta .carried 'round, And oft as Margy, Gritty:knowtt, Your name will ever hold its own. In French they call you Marguerite, A fitting name for maiden sweet; While Gretchen, German name for . • Will serve •as well for modest pearls' Though -friends from; these (mayhep to tease) Will choose a -,node . which may not .. 'please, - I must repeat, you're much in debt To those who named you Margaret. In The Good -Old Days - --Ladies r hustles. wore . stl . - Mlontlay was washday. —Nobody' swatted the fly. —There were no flappers. -There was no traffic cop, --Nobody had appendicitis: --,Everybody played croquet. •—There were no Bolsheviks. '--Nobody worked but father. - Men sported wiry whiskers. Ice create, was "iced" :cream. —Cream was five cents. a pint. —il3oys, shoes were copper: toed: =—Nobody was ashamed to walk. IVNo one' was fined for speeding. —Vitamin gaugeswere unknown., —Saturday night was bath ,night. --Milk shake -was a popular drink. Widows' weeds weren't -cigarettes. --,Only small, boys wore thomt;pants, —Onlylittle girls wore short skirts. —Doctors wanted to see your tongu --(The livery'stable was -the social ei cie. • —Nobody eared for the price of gaso line. - -!Only- lumberjacks rolled thei stockings. —Women, or men either, didn't pla golf. -4•Farmers came to town dor . the' mail. • -There were no germs, even in Ge many. - —+Melodrama -supplied the drainati "kick." --No one had to look ;:or a parkin place. —Chickens all went to roost at sun down. —Beer was five cents a .glass, in eluding lunch. —Whiskey was fify cents a guar bottle. —A good cigar set you back a who! nickel, . —The sheiks all lived in Arabia Turkey. esShaws in the town hall carte only so often. —Paper and celluloid collars were popular. —Food stuffs came in bulk, not in packages. - —Women wore bathing dresses, not undresses, —Candies for the girl 'cost her fellow 150 a bag. --eSchool teachers "licked" pupils good and plenty. —The boyish form was displayed on- ly by the boy. —Ladies used side saddles, not the whole road. —A girl was mostly bustle behind, not hustle ahead, --Statics was merely a mathematical study at school.. —frhey were days mostly—every- thing over at 10 pan.• —No ora had to listen to a saxophone thank goodness. —Everybody went to-chnirch, or to sleep on Sunday. —Girls set their caps—not their knee -caps --for mart. Oyster suppers and church socials were 25c a throw. --Moving pictures happened only at housecleaning time. --Females 811 wore corsets—at least we think they did. —The hired girl drew $1,50 a week, and did the washing, —iltot dogs were those with their tongues protruding. -=-'They bobbed your hair only after they got you in jail. —The melodeon not the radia -- supplied the family music. —,The family Bible and family al - .bum were popular institutions. —They didn't have to hire a big husky than to teach boys how to play, —Everyone in the family took 'snl- --phur and molasses each spring. .!Phe hired man got a doper a day for 'steen hours—and earned it, too. —Ladies' clubs were the Ladies' Aid, 'Sewing Circle and the rolling pin. —Milk was delivered into your own pitcher from the dealers's tin mea- sure.It took a girl two days to get ready for a party; now she's ready -any time.—Exchange. Women Elders to be Decided By United Church General Council In September CONVENTION AT. HAMILTON Rev T. Albert Moore Mentioned For Moderator The General Council of the United Church -of Canada will meet•this fall in Hamilton, in the First United Church, when on iSeptem'ber 28 com- missioners from all parts of the Dominion. will assemble for` the bien- nial -convention, ' lasting about 10 days. - e•_f The last. General Couoll -was held r r here, in St, Andrew's United Church in the fall of 1920.. Among many questions of out- standing importance::which will come ✓ before the commissioners will be the 1 final decision -in the matter of women y elders. The vote has been put to the • individual congregations, and a fav tr orabie report Stas been brought in Irepresentative . of the opinion of a' Ger large number of presbyteries and congregations. There will have to o be ,the ratification of the General Coaneil, however, before anything parkin I • definite is decided: - With the appointment of a new moderator as one of the major ques- tions, the name of Rev. T. Albert -j Moore, general sercetary, has been mentioned. The present moderator is t t Rev. E. H. Oliver, D.D., principal of St, Andrew's College, Saskatoon, o In speaking to The Free Press yesterday, Rev. A. E. M. Thomson, D. ar D., minister of Calvary United I Church, city, who is the representa- Itive from Middlesex Presbytery on the executive, said that it was too early for any definite pinus to be andouneed, There is a tremendous agenda to be arranged, he saki, —London Free Press. GODERICH TOWNSHIP The following is the March report of S. S. No."8: Sr. 4th—Harold Johnston, 77; Har- ry Lowden, 72; Elizabeth Thiel, 67; LIlIlan Picot, 66. Sr. 3rd --Jean Johnston, '74; Sylvia Lowden, 64, Jr. 3rd-Trene Leitch, 68; Betty Stirling, 64; Elmer Johnston, 68; Grant Stirling, 60; Gladys Clark, 58; Thelma Johnston, 48. 1st—Elsie Leitch, 78; Douglas Stirling, 70; Kenneth Stirling, 43. Pr. --,Harold Warner, Keith Stir- c Zing, Mildred Westlake was absent during the month. Irene Leitch had least mistakes in spelling during i the. month. Number- on roll, 18; 'av- erage attendanoes.16.87. 1 ---IVd. Douglas, teacher. o Cleanings of Interest from England and Elsewhere London now contains more than 30,000 factories and 26,000 work- shops. lDog licences become void on the death of the person in whose name 1 they are taken out. Machines used• for cleaning milk • bottles in the big depots can deal iwith nearly 40,000 !bottles an hour. Pedal -bicycles are more popular than ever. It is estimated that 1,- 000,000 cyclists 'will be on the Bri- • tish roads this summer. Hollywood's strangest "profession" is that of a woman who is specially engaged when some extra terrible shrieking is required in a film. October was the sunniest month last year in Great Britain; in many Northern districts it had more hours of sunshine than July, although the days were shorter. Letters can travel the 11,000 -mile journey between Leaden and Cape Town in eleven days by a new air line, the longest organized service in the world. ` Driving trains for over 8,000,000 miles without an accident is the re- ,cordof Mt,. George Wilsdon, who re- cently retired after forty-eight years service on the L.M.S. Railway. Waiters in''some of the big London restaurants receive "cork in, on -certain wines. The travellers from the firms supplying these wines buy the corks in order to urge the wait- ers to push their sale. Last year's birth -trate in England and W1ales was the lowest ever re- corded; the figure was 15.8 per 1,000, of the population. It is estimated that a rate of 15,5' is required to maintain the population. The newest radio invention is a device, which connects a wireless set with •any piano, and causes the latter to 'play incomplete synchronization with the broadcasting, if this has also .the same attachment. Cropped hair and lipstick are not new, The women of Egypt 4,000 years ago . wore their hair short, white lipsticks, practically the sante as those in use today, have • been found in the grave of a woman of Ancient Rome. • British silver coints to the number of 500,000,000,. which' were minted bettveen. 1920 and 1927, are slowly being withdrawn from circulation. They contain . a' large,\ proportion of opper, which causes the coins to be yellowy in color. . • Africa will have the longest bridge n the world if the projected- railway across the lower Zambesi is built; it a planned• to be 11,650 feet long, all over the water. Hell: Gate Bridge, New York, is 13,553 feet long, but only 2,735 feet of .this lies' actually over the water, Among the recent official publica- tions of the United States Govern- ment are "Housing in Family De- velopments," "Flow ' to Dress' for Sun -Baths" and "The Love Life; of Buil frogs." Public money to the a- mount of 320,000,000 is spent in America on Government ,publications. Lady Crittall Former Ontario ` Woman, InjJured London, March 22. --(-CP Cable) -- Lady Crittall, formerly Olive .Lillian MliaoDermott, of -Comber, Ont., was seriously injured this afternoon in an explosion -in the laundry of her home at Wdekbans Bishops, Essex. She is the wife of Sir Valentine Crittall, manufacturer and former Labor member of the House of Commons._ London, March 23. --,Lady Crittall, formerly Olive Mellermott, of Com- bet•, ,Ont,, died today from injuries, suffered during a fire in the laundry room of her residence at Wickham Bishops, Essex.' Her ladyship :was enveloped in flames. She was the only person in the room at the time of an explosion in the equipment. Her pet dog, who was with.her, was also burned. Lady Crittall was the wife of Sir Valentine •Crittall, manufacturer and former Labor member of the house of ,Cautions. She was the daughter of Charles Landry McDermott, of Comber, which is in Essex County, Ont, Police and electrical experts today were trying to discover the cause of the explosion. She was washing the personal clothing of the household, a favorite occupation of Iters, and sing- ing at her task, when the electrically equipped laundry exploded. A num- ber of windows and doors were blown out and fire followed. She was en, veloped in flames and was enable to escape, Frank Ragman, her chauffeur, heard her ladyship's tries for help and scrambled in through a broken wind(. He wrapped a coat around Lady Crittail and carried her outside. She was unconscious then and al- though expert medical help was sum- moned immediately from London she died this morning. Many of the villagers of Wickham Bishops were today discussing on the street of the little old world place the good works that her ladyship had clone for the village. Father In Essex Windsor, 'March 28.—(0P)—Lady Crittall was formerly Olive Maeder• 1 mott, and was born at Comber 50 years ago, a daughter of Charles Landry Macdermott, still a resident of- Comber, and the late, Mfrs. Annie Bete - ono Macdermott• who died ed at Comber 45 years ago, Lady Crittall's father, who will be 80 years old next September, was born at London, England, and carne to this country at the age of 15 years. He lived for some time near Lindsay, 'Ontario-, and then at Essex. Follow- ing his marriage,. he and Mrs, Mae 'der'mott settledat'Comber, where' the fancily 'has remained. Lady Crittall . spent her youth in Comber, where she attended public and continuation sehool. She was a 'member of the Anglican. Church at Comber, and took an active part in ita weir;. She studied nursing at Harper. Hospital in_ Detroit, where she was graduated about 20 years ago. - It.was while she was ndrsing in Detroit that she met her husband, when she nursed him through a seri- ous illness. They married in 1916. • Mr. ,Crittall represented Malden as a Labor member in the British House of Commons. .He had dropped from parities, however; before he was knighted on June 3, 1930. He was knighted for the services of his firm, the Crittall Iron Works, rendered England during the World Wag:. Mr. 11/facdermott, 'Lady Crittall's father, married a second time, and her step- mother also survive. She is survived by one sister, Mrs. J. Bridgeman, of Detroit, and one brother, Dr. William D. Macdermott, of Ottawa, who is on the medical staff of the Canadian militia. He just returned from England last fall, where he'had been in charge of the Canadian immigration office in Lon- don. Three daughters survive,' Valentine Nell Macdermott, 13 years old, and the eldest, who is attending a college at Bournemouth, England; Jane 01, ive and Mary Frances. Also surviving are five half-sis- ters, Miss Ilene Macdermott, at Immo in Comber; Mrs. Frank Biggs, Mrs. John Mellott and lil;rs. Wnlliam Cova, all of Comber; and Mrs. E. W. Smart of Royal Oak, and one half-brother, C. K. Macdermott, of Detroit. SEAFORTIi When making his usual rounds on Sunday night Con- stable Snell discovered that an ats tempt had been made by some person to break into Mayor J. F. Daly's gar- age as a pane of glass was removed in the back window and they had entered the store but had evidently been alarmed and trade a hurried exit Ieaving the door open, Nothing was taken. The money box remain- ed untouched. A similar attempt was made on Friday night to rob G. A. Sills' hardware store. Advertising brings a new world to your home. e Serle Gambian rpt OF Tilt ediattl ,inn. iaiatiatt Edlled'hy GRANT FLEMING,•M.O. ASSOCIATE SECRETARY HEART DISEASE Heart disease is now the chief cause of death. In older persons, it frequently represents the final weaving out of an essential organ. Heart disease is, however, prevalent among young persons, and it is a serious condition in that it cripples the individual, to a greater ,or less extent, during what should be his most useful years of life. . Heart disease of children and young people is very often due to an infection of the heart during rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever may occur in young people, without painful joints, and yet, at the same tinne, damage the heart. So it is that there are many individuals with damaged hearts, due to rheumatic fever, who never knew that they had the disease. It is because of such possibilities that parents should regard seriously the sore throat, growing pains, fev- erishness, everishness, or even the state of just not feeling well, of their young chil- dren. We do not suggest that they should be fussy or beeome unreason- ably alarmed, but merely consider such conditions seriously in the sense of finding the -cause. It is obvious that if damage to the heart is to be prevented, the condi- tion sinus!, first of all, be recognized ,and then properly treated. We have learned that long periods of rest are essential. Just as rest is the basis of all treatment in tuberculosis, so is 'it the foundation to prevent or to minimize heart conditions . growing out of rheumatic fever. The most important point in con- nection with heart disease in adult Iife is that it be detected in its early stages. Those individuals who make it a practice to have a periodic health examination will have any ab - _normal heart condition discovered in good time. Otherwise, its detection depends upon each individual's going to his doctor when there is any sense of a lack of his usual wellbeing. It must be understood that, in the early stages of heart disease, the symptoms may be very slight. In general, when heart disease has developed, the first thing to be done is to give the heart a rest and allow it to regain its strength. This means complete rest in bed, and it can be said that there is no medicine which takes the place of rest. Medicine is useful in its proper place, but it is secondary to rest. The next point is that persons who have. developed heart disease must regulate their future lives to the capacity of their hearts.- This is not • an easy thing to do for the mother of young children or the man who earns his living by manual labour. There is, however, no known means whereby the, heart can be protected from further breakdowns other than by not calling upon it to domore than it is capable of, doing in its damaged condition. Questions concerning Health, ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College Street, Toron- to, will be answered personally bre letter.