The Clinton News Record, 1932-12-08, Page 7Health, Cooking
Care of Children:
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INTEREST
Edited By Lebam Hakeber Krale
TO
WOMEN
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Household
Economics
RflMiilatInus ebekall
Column Prepared Especially for Women—
But Not Forbidden to Men
Rules For Conduct
1. Teach me to be obedient to the
'-rules of the game. •
2, Teach me todistinguish be-
tween sentiment and sentirnentality,
`-admiring the one and despising the
other.
3. Teach .me neither to proffer
•nor to receive cheap praise.
4. If I am called upon to suffer,
let me, beelike a well-bred beast that
•goes away to suffer' in silence.
5. Teach me to win, if I may; if I
inay not, teach me to be a good loser.
6. Teach me neither •to cry for
the moon ;nor to cry over spilt milk;
The above rules of conduct have
good authority, whose, do you sup-
, pose? The King's, no less! And '
•- they sound exactly like the thorough-
bred he is, don't you think? No ,
-ramping tyrant. claiming privileges
• owing to his rank and position., but a
gentleman, acknowledging this oh-
" Nations to others, his "right" to. live i
and Work and suffer, "even as you •
and L' Is it any wonder the British
- peoples everywhere love and honour;
such a king?
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Which Do You Prefer.
Which is the most .stimulating,'
'People who always agree with you
or people who hold different Capin- '
• ions and frequently disagree?
This question came up in a little
company of women the other even-
ing, a little company of keen -witted!
'intelligent women, women who have
had sloene experience in life and who
have also read and thought things
out for themselves • pretty well. It
was found in conversation that these
women were by no means of one op-
inion on may of the subjects which
came up fou discussion. What one
thought of a book was one thing and
What someone else thought was al-
together different; each one seemed
to have her own ideas about the
future state, war debts, the de-
pression, schemes for economic bet-
terment, etc., and all discussed their
own ideas with perfect good burnout
but with firmness, , and conviction.
And, although I hate anything even
approaching what is described as
"squabbling.," I found the conversa-
tion very stimulating. When you
find people who agree with every-
thing you say, (if you ever do,) it
has the effect of making you feel
very self -complaisant, while your
opinions may not have been well
thought out at all and may not be
worth much. When, however, some-
one disagrees with you the tendency
is to re -consider your opinions, to
weigh them and find out just what
they are worth. It may be that you
will decide that they ars not just
as worthwhile as you lazily imagined
them to be and you inay change
them. Or, of course, the result may
be that you are confirmed in you
original opinion. Anyway, the
stimulous of a little bit of opposie
tion may be all to the good.
Rh:BEKAIL
An Ounce of Prevention
By Barbara Brooks
Many years ago •someone.sagely
'remarked that an ounce of preventiion
was worth a pound of cure. How of-
ten when attacked by e. bad cold on
indigestion 'we search our minds to
find how we have erred and wherein
we neglected the ounce whieh would
•have •outweighed the pound.
Colds and indigestion have no real
season, They may strike in the best
of weather, so it behooves us to take
care of 'ourselves all through the
-year.
Fortunately, more is known about
health protection today than for-
merly. Scientific research has shown
definitely that there is a relation be-
tween health and sunshine. Certain
"'sunshine" foods and drugs have ap-
peared on the market and are used
during the winter when the amount
-of sky shine is limited. This is only
for cheating Old Man Winter out of
his accustomed number of victims.
Another eonnnon cause of illness
is improper elimination. This can
usually be controlled by careful food
selection. A. diet rich in minerals,
vitamins and fiber regulates the di-
gestive processes naturally, and in,
sures complete elimination. Bran has
been recognized for years as a laxa-
tive food because of its fibre. NOW
Science tells us that it is also a good
se.uree of vitamin B which helps to
tone up the instestinal tract and keep
it in excellent working order, Whole
grain cereals are valuable for the
same reasons in proportion to their
Percentage of fiber and vitamin con-
tent. Beth bran and whole wheat;
furnish iron, the mineral essential
in preventing secondary anaemia.
A simple rule to follow in planning
-one of the ways which are available meals which will provide the ounce
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BANISHED DIPHTHERIA
Everyone particularly parents,
'tries ta protect the lives of children.
Sometimes, drivers of motor cars ap-
pear to forgot their responsibility in
this respect, but we da, in general,
seek to safeguard our children and to
give them a fair chance in life.
Vire rejoice that the rights of ehilele
ren are respected.We derive t
great
deal of satisfaction from the fact
that our children are today more free.
• from disease, and that they enjoy
better health than did the children of
,< previous generations.
Annong other things, past gener-
ations feared the disease known as
'diphtheria. In the past, many pas-
''ents have watched their children fight
a' losing battle against this disease.
• Other parents have seen their little
ones live through the attack, but re-
maining with bodies weakened and
often .crippled by serious permanent
=damage,
How thankful we should be that
this dread disease whieh destroyed ori
scarred its victims need no longer be
feared.' What a victory it is for 'us
to have found the means whereby
- this disease may be banished from
• our midst.
Diphtheria germs produce a toxin
or poison. For years we have had
in diphtheria antitoxin, an effective
• means with which to counteract the
early in the course of the disease
on the first day ----if it is to be one
hundred percent effective.
Death from diphtheria continued
to occur despite the fact that there
is this Curative agent because, for
:one reason or another, there was de-
lay in giving the antitoxin. It is, of
course, a wonderful thing to have a
substance such as antitoxin. How-
ever, evenmay though it be used
early and the patient cured, yet there
is, at best, a •certain amount of suf-
fering,shoo to
loss of time from school .7
work, and expense on aocount- of the
illness
How fortunate we are today, thee,
to have a safe and reliable mean; to
prevent diphtheria. By injecting a
harmless substance. diphtheria toxoids
it is• now possible•to build up in the
child thus injected a lasting resist-
ance to diphtheria.
Just as antitoxin is of little or no
value if it is used too late, so it tox-
aid of no value unless it is used in
time to secure protection before there
has been exposure to the disease.
The time to secure protection is
now. Any ehiid one ,year of age or
older who is not protected against
diphtheria should be given toxoid
without delay,
Questions concerning Health, ad.
dressed to the Canadian Medical As.
sedation, 184 College Street, Toron.
to, will be answered personally by
toxin. The antitoxin, h'as'to'be given Ietter.
of prevention is to include in every
day's menu bran or whole wheat, at
least one .fruit and at least two vege4
tables. • The bran need not always!
be eaten as a cereal, It can be baked
into muffins, breads, cookies or des
sorts. •
Bran Date Bars
3 eggs
11-2 cups brown sugar
3-4 cup flour
3-4 teaspoon (baking powder
1-2 cup all -bran
1 cup nut. meats , (chopped)
1-2 ,cup dates (cut fine) •
Beat the eggs until light, add the
sugar and beat well. Add the flour
sifted with the baiting powder. Add
bran, nuts and dates: Spread the
mixture in a layer one-half inch
thick in a greased shallow pan, Bake
in a moderate oven (875 deg. F.) for
twenty to thirty minutes.
Remove from the oven and while
warm, cut into squares or bars. Roll
the pieces in powdered sugar and
serve as a pudding with whipped
cream.
Yield -24 bars, one inch by three
inches.
Bran Corn Bread With Bacon
2 eggs( beaten slightly)
1-4 cup sugar
1-2 cup bran
1 cup cern meal
1 cup milk
3-4 ':cup flour
1-4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1-4 pound 'bacon (diced)
Combine eggs and sugar thorough,
ly; add all -bran, corn meal and milk;
Sift dry ingredients together, add to
Hest mixture and pour into greased
baking dish (9x12 inches is a suit-
able size to use). Sprinkle bacon ov;
er top. Bake at 400 deg. F. for twene
ter minutes, then slip dish under
broiler for about three minutes to
brown the cruet and to crisp the ba-'
eon.
Yield—Sixteen servings.
A LIBRARY IN THE HOUSE
A little library growing larger
every year is an honorable part of
a man's history. tt is a man's duty
to have books. A library is not a
luxury but one of the necessaries of
life. Books are the windows through
which the soul looks out. A home
without books is like a room without
windows. Ne man has a right to
bring up his .children without sure
rounding them with books, if he has
the means to pay for them.—Henry
Ward Beecher.
THE GOLDEN AGE
The real Gorden Age of English
Literature was not in the days of
Queen Elizabeth, but in the medial
decades of the last century, say,
roughly, froni 1820 to 1870. During
that period the following authors
lived and produced their chief works.
Darwin, Tennyson, Thackeray, Dick-
ens, Robert Browning, Mrs. Brown-
ing, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot.
Stevenson, Charles Kingsley. Ruskin.
Matthew Arnold, Carlyle, Macauley,
Disraota,
Huthere 'Seemlier, Lytton,
Black, Blacknwre, and many others
of less yet real merit.
This is a brilliant galaxy, surely,
and it ie safe to say that no other
nation in a similar period of time has
ever pr^:dared even•approxinmately so
many writers of surpassing literary
genius.
The same period of time might well
be railed the Golden Age of United
States literature also, the bright par -
Vendee stars being Hawthorne,
Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Bryant,
Emerson, Cooper and Packman,
CHURCH NEWS FROM THE
SOUTH
One rf the most quoted Papers in
NorthAmerica i the Fountain Inn
s 1'
Tribune, published in a little town of
1.500 or thereabouts in South Caro-
lina. It is so widely quoted because
the editor dares to speak his mind.
wthnut reserve, and the reason he can
he, so •cestspolcen is because lie has an
indenondent" income, and he writes
his local editorials "for the . amuse-
ment of himself and his 'Mends," as
he puts it. And a sample of the
weir he expresses himself is given
below:
"In these hard tines, anybody who
is out of debt is news. And a church
out of debt to its preacher is front
page stuff.
"The explanation. in this case, is
the preacher himself."
"The new Presbyterian preacher."
who no longer seem,, new, is Rev. F.
MaG. Kincaid. The community liked
him at first sight,and the Presby-
terians were proud of him. '
When he provided inspiration for,
the building of a local golf .course
and set an example of ree•ular exer-
cise, the young people decided he was
a regular fellow. They attend 'his
services and praise his sermons:
In years past, when times were
good, the Presbyterian brethren oc-
casionally reached the end of the
church year with Long faces and a
deficit.
This time they are sitting pretty.
Last Sunday. Mo. Kincaid announced
that his 'own salary and all other
church obligations, had been. paid in
full to the end of the year.
This r:emarkab le situation is re-
ported here in the hope that it will
make the brethren of other denom-
inations envious and mad enough to
go and do likewise."
And this little .editorial is repeated
here for a similar reason, for Foun-
tain Inn, South Carolina, which dei
pends largely on cotton for a livings
has been hit by the depression in a
way that Fergus, Ontario, never
dreamed of. --Fergus News-Reeond.
WILD FOWL, HAVING WINGS,
UNABLE TO FLY AT TIMES
Most people would consider that
wild geese, swans and wild duck in
general would never lack flying abil-
ity but the Tourist and Convention
Bureau of the Canadian National
Railways points out that a certain
specie; of wild duck, together with
wild geese and swans, are unable to
fly during the moulting season which
occurs either in July or August.
MILES AND MILES OF WIND
Outside of ghosts and fairy crea-
tures, perhaps the ordinary wind,
that plays such pranks with people's
hats and does other more serious
havoc, is the most illusive thing in
the world since it cannot be corner-
ed or tagged. Where it goes may be
a puzzler to scientists, but how fast
it blows over a given area has been
recorded by the authorities at the
Canadian Government Experimental
Farm at Ottawa, according to recent-
ly received information.
Records carefully kept throughout
the year 1931 show that a total of
38.918 miles sof wind passed over the
recording point, an average of more
than 106 miles per day, or less than
41-2 miles per hour.
The monthly records show that in
January 2,316 miles of wind blew
over the recording point, in February
3,670; March 4,168; April 4,664; May
2,968; June, 2,520; July, 1,640; Au-
gust 2,660; September 2,940; O•c-
tober 3,390; November 4,000. Decem-
ber 4,092. It is interesting to note
that April was the windiest month.
and March, which is usually supposed
to hold the record for blustering
winds, was in second place. Third
place went to December.
POSTOFFICE CLAIMS
MONOPOLY
The post office department of Can-
ada has a monopoly in one thing and
that is the "exclusive privilege of
conveying, collecting and delivering
letters" and no one else has such
right, says the Milverton Sun. In
Winnipeg business firms which have
been delivering their own letters
ere threatened with prosecution.
A ^cording to a ruling of the Postal
Department, bills enclosed in envel-
opes become letters and as such
must go through the post office far
delivery. The Postmaster -General
sometime ago issued a warning to
merchants and others undertaking
to deliver their own bills, etc., en-
closed in envelopes through their
own delivery men, that they arc
liable to a fine of J20 for each •and
every such latter. The reduction in
revenue is cawing the department to
cheek up and stop all leaks.
FIRST AMERICAN CABLE LAID
IN THE MARITIMES
The eightieth anniversary of the
laying of the first submarine cable
in North America, which stretched
of
across
the Strait Northumberland.
between New Brunswick and Prince
Edward Island, occurred recently.
n arin telegraph
The end ocf a st bm e e gh p
cable was at that time made fast at
Cape Tormentiee, N'.B., and laid urs
oder the Strait to Carleton head, P;
E.I., connecting with land lines on
the island there in 1852. In 1873 e
new cable was laid between Cape
Tormentine and Cape Traverse,' now
Borden, P.E.L., the terminal of the
Cana.ciian National Railways car far,
ry, S.S. "Charlottetown," connecting
Prince Edward Island with the main.
land. Cable communications with
Prince Edward Island was operates'
as a Government enterprise until
1913. wis,ee the Western Union Tele-
graph took over its operation, but
since 1929 it has' been operated by
the Car4dian National Telegraphs.
DEFRAUDED
"Yes," said the ancient villager,
"I be the oldest inhabitant -96 this
month, and I reckon if it hadn't been
for this pnttin' back the clocks. I'd
'a, been a Centurian by this. time. "
THIS MODEST CORNER IS ;DEDICATED
TO THE POETS
Here They Will Sing You Their Songs --Sometimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful
and Ins piping•
METHUSELAH'S. MENUS ...
Methuselah ate what he saw on his
plate,
And never as many do now
Did he note the amount of the calorie
count--
He ate it because it was chow.
He wasn't disturbed as at dinner he
sat
Destroying a roast or a pie
To think it was lacking in granular
fat
Or a couple of vitamins shy.
He cheerfully chewed every species
of food
Untroubled by worries or fears
Lest his health might be hurt by
some fancy dessert—
And he lived •over 900 years.
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I LOVE OLD THINGS
I Iove old things:
Streets of old cities
Crowded with ghosts
And banked with oranges,
Gay scarfs and shawls
That flow like red water.
I love old abbeys
With high, carved portals
And dim, cool corners.
Where tried hearts pray;
I join them in their silence
And repair my soul.
I love old things:
Weather-beaten, worn things,
Cracked, broken torn things,
The old sun, the old moon,
The old earth's face,
Old wine in dim flagons,
Old ships and old wagons—(softly)
Old coin and old lace,
Rare old lace.
—Wilson MacDonald.
"SANTUS"
The fool said in his heart, "There is
no God!"
He could not know this Heavenly way
I've trod
Today—among green hills.
God's wondrous frankincense is in
the air,
Each treetop sways and bows in rev-
erent prayer;
A. hidden songbird trills!
0 Fool! To know not this ,trans-
figured hour;
To see not God in every leaf and
flower,
Go! Stab thy soul awake!
0 Fool! To see with unbelieving
eyes;
Right at your feet is God's own
paradise;
'Tis yours! To mar or make!
—S. Berthe husband.
A PSALM OF THE GOOD
TEACHER
The Lord is my teacher,
I aball not lase the way to wisdom.
He leadeth me in the lowly paths of
learning;
He prepareth a lesson for me every
day;
He fiudeth the clear fountains of in-
struction.
Little by little He showeth me the
beauty of the truth.
The world i5 a great book that He
hath written.
Ho turneth the leaves for me slowly.
They are all inscribed with images
and letters.
His face poureth light on the pictures
• and words.
Then am I glad when I perceive His
meaning.
Ile talteth me by the hand to the
top ofvision,
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In the valley also He walketh beside
me,
And in the darkh laces He whispereth
p n t
to niy heart.
Yea, though my lesson be hard it is
not hopeless.
For the Lord is very patient with
His slow scholar,
He will wait awhile 'for my weakness.
He will help me to read the truth
through tears.
--Henry Van Dyke.
TO A CHILD
The story -book is idle on your knees;
You stare ahead with dark and
(brooding eyes
That wear the startled look of one
who sees '
The ancient secret with a first
surprise.
Come, sit beside me here upon the
Boor
And let usplay the whole long af-
ternoon;
Oh, do not turn the page, there is
no more
That you need break your heart
eel
upon so soon.
Leave dragons to their fate; let
gnomes and •elves
That work at darkling mischief in
your head
Be put away to sleep upon the
shelves;
0 child, the golden princess is not.
dead;
She slumbers, like the roses on the
wall-,
The prince will wake them;
though the briars grow tall!
—+Gilbert Maxwell.
IF
If I could stand upon thine far-flung
hill
Above the world of little ,cares and
fears.
If I could wait in silent peace until
I lost all sense of laughter and of
tears;
Then I might grasp the wonder of
the land
In which I dwell—a vast enchanted
place.
Then I might dare to touch an out-
stretched hand,
And smile my faith into a down-
bent fare.
But while I walk through crowded
streets, where sighing
Is mingled with life's hurry, strife
and pain.
When love and youth and dreams are
slowly dying
Beneath the weight of loss and
doubt and gain,
I do not dare to wait—to stand apart,
I only try to sing—and hide my
heart.
-Margaret Sangster.
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WINTER TWILIGHT
Let us be still where this blue twit
Iight falls,
With crumbling shadows on the
hills of snow,
For here, within these thin and waw
ering walls,
There is a quiet that our hearts
would know.
These stars are older and the dusk
more wide
Than any little day we call our
own,
And twilight passes like a moving
tide
That leaves us hushed, so strangely
and alone.
For there is naught more lovely than
this falling
Of noiseless shadows through tho
steepled town,
This gathered stillness in the listen-
ing air,
And stars like tender words, they are
so fair
David Morton.
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TO A BEAUTIFUL CLOUD
Beautiful cloud! with folds so soft
and fair,
Swimming in the pure quiet air!
Thy fleeces bathed in sunlight, while
below
,Thy shadow o'er the vale moves
slow;
Where, midst thein labor, pause the
reaper train
As cool it comes along the grain.
Beautiful cloud! I would I were with
thee
In the calm, way o'er land and seat
To reston thy unrolling skirts, and
look
On Earth as on an open book;
On streams that tie her realms' with
silver bands,
And the long ways that seam her
lands;
And hear her humming cities, and
the sound
OA the great ocean breaking round.
Ay—I
would sail upon thy air -borne
car
To blooming regions distant far,
To where the sun of Andalusia shines.
On his own olivegroves and vines.
Go' the soft lights '• of Italy's bright
sky
In smiles upon her ruins lie..
--;William Cullen Bryant.
BREAD AND JAM
Pm very fond of jam.
Indeed I ams
I like it very thickly spread
Upon my bread—
At breakfast, lunch or family tea
It's good for me;
When folks have rich 'stuff, I instead
Have jars on bread.
One time I ate quite a good deal
At evening meal
Before Dad said: "Well, shall
spread
Some jam on bread?"
I thought I'd greatly like the treat'
Of Jain to sat,
And Daddy laughed when "Thanks,"
I said,
"But not much bread!"
—Florence Steiner.
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THE MAPLE
Oh, tenderly deepen the woodland
gleams,
And merrily sway the beeches;
Breathe delicately the willow blooms,
And the pines rehearse new speech-
es;
The elms toss high till they reach
the sky,
Pale catkins the yellow birch
launches,
But the tree I love all the greenwood
above
Is the maple of sunny branches.
Let who will sing of the hawthorn
in spring,
Or the late -leaved linden in sum.
mar;
There's a word before the locust -tree,
That delicate, strange, new -cover;
But the maple it glows with the tint
of the rose
When pale are the spring -time
regions,
And its towers of flame from afar+
proclaim
The advance of Winter's legions.
And a greener shade there nevef
was made
Then its summer canopy sifted,
And many a day as beneath it I lay
Has my memory backward drifted
To a pleasant lane I may walk not
again,
Leading over a fresh, green hill,
Where a maple stood just clear of
the wood—
And oh! to be near it still!
—Charles G. D. Roberts,
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