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The Clinton News Record, 1933-09-21, Page 7THURiS., SEPT. 21, 1933 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PGE 7 l« Health, Cooking, Care of Children PAB Of INTEREST TO Edited By Lebam ,Hakeber Kralc in.atiou.s 111(111 A Column Prepared Especially for Women— But Not Forbidden to Men To work all day long, just for money, Mid turmoil, and hurry and strife, 'Might make me quite a good living, But wouldn't snake much of a life. —The Cheerful Cherub: "Men have certain work to do for their bread, and that is to be done strenuously; other work for their de- light, and that is to be done heartily; neither is to be done by halves or shifts, but with a will, and what is not worth that effort is not to be done at all." --Ruskin. Are housekeepers taking more seriously; to the business of home- making than was the ease a few years ago? Are young married women, who are just starting the business of homemaking, going into it with a determination to make a real jcb of It? Are they realizing that homemak- ing is a real career and worthy of their best efforts? For years in this young country of ours women had to give their whole time and attention to the work of keeping the house and caring for their families ,which were usually larger than the modern family, but as time went on and prosperity grew and household conveniences increased the work of the housekeeper decreas- ed. She was not -tied down so hard and fast and perhaps had help with her household tasks and the daughters of the household were not required to assist so much. They went in for other kinds of work when school days were over and in many cases learn- ed very little about housekeeping) and often when married, and them- selves responsible for the managing of a home, were not prepared. Some - Makers H WOMEN 11, Household Economics cal& Smite OF: THE ktnaubiFm i": rbi a1. a , iar%ufrlan, and Life Insurance Companies in Canada. Edited by GRANT FLEMING, M.D., Associate Secretary FADS are a mixture. Milk, which we riglit- 11y regard asthe best single food we Prontjses are apparently never possess, contains about equal a - too extravagant to attract public at, tention. We recall the premises of wealth to be acquired over -night that have never failed to draw money in- to some wild scheme. Today, the public are apt to be beguiled by the promoters of various diets which pron'tiee an end to all troubles and a bure for all ills. These faddy diets are usually pre- sented in an attractive' manner. Scientific facts are ignored or mis- represented. We are told for ex. ample, that we should not mix car- bohydrates (cereals and starches) with proteins (meats, fish and eggs. The Promoters of this statement base their remarks upon the fact that the proteins are acted upon by the acid digestive fluids of the stomach, while the carbohydrates are digest- ed by the alkaline juices of the mouth and the intestine. There is no foundation fcr the idea that the presence of carbohy- drates and proteins together in the mouth, stomach or intestine will in- terfere withthe digestion of one or the outer. Indeed, it is the acid nature of the food Ieaving the sto- mach which stimulates the flow of the alkaline digestive juices of the intestine. Furthermore, the foods we eat mounts of protein and carbohydrate. If it were true that these two sub- stances should not be taken into the stomach at the same time, we should' have to discontinue the breast-feed- inge f of children and the use of snilk. There is no apparent reason why we should not eat, at the same meal, toast (carbohydrates) and eggs er meat (protiens) and potatoes (car- bohydrate). Our digestive system is quite capable of 'handling such combinations of foods without dif- ficulty. Health demands a well-balanced diet and the way to secure such a diet is by eating a wide variety of foods. Safety is assured by includ- ing milk, leafy vegetables and fruits in the diet each day. Diets which are faddy are unsound. Diets which promise everything will likely do harm rather than good. Health is a valuable possession. The body should be cared for along the lines of scientific knowledge and not according to the unsupported statements of promoters of faddy diets. Questions concerning Health, ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As. sedation, 184 College Street, Toron- to, will be answered personally by letter. times such a girl managed it rather badly, until she learned by exper- announce iltilAors the best Home bather Lits. gofer C(Dsnaatu; Who's the beset in 27 Irytartaric+ Coaaeatiies o -UPHO-i' TPHOLD the cooking reputation of LD County. Try your hand at making bread and cake with FIVE ROSES FLOUR, and help us find the champion bread and cake makers of 27 Ontario Counties! Isere is the plan! Beginning on $1, iii) 0i ®0 IN LOCA. PRIZE WINNERS The Five Roses Judge begins her tour on Oct. 31st next, and will Judge, under the auspices of various women's societies, in a selected list of towns. Full details and dates will be an- nounced later. Rules listed here must be followed. Mt local prize.winners arc allowed to competefor the Championship Prizes next Feb. 27111. COUNTY RIZE WI ERS As soon as the FIVE. ROSES travellingjudge has finished judging Vn each county, she will award two SILVER DISFIES— one to the best bread -maker in the County, and one to the best cake.makec. October 31st, in 43 different towns in succes- sion, in 27 Ontario Counties, bread and cake made with FIVE ROSES FLOUR will be judged. Then, on March lst, in Guelph, will take place the final judging that will decide the CHAMPIONS. - T` " F FUZES CHAMPIONS Then, when judging has been completed in all the counties listed, a final com- petition will be held to find the CHAMPIONS of the whole area, Every local prize-winner will be eligible to try for the final CHAMPIONSHIP PRIZES, on February 27th, 1934. Bach will be told later exactly what to do. Judging of this final con- test will be done with the assistance of the Home Economics Department, MacDonald Institute, Guelph, Ont. on March 1st. JUDGING • will:take place in 43 towns in the following Ontario counties: •BRANT NORFOLK ' BRUCE_ NORTHUMBERLAND DUFFERIN ' ONTARIO DURHAM OXFORD - ELGIN PARRY SOUND • ESSEX PERTH GREY PETERBOROUGH :HASTINGS PRINCE EDWARD HURON SIMCOii KENT VICTORIA LAMBTON WATERLOG LINCOLN WELLAND MIDDLESEX WELLINGTON MUSKOKA. Watch local and farm (rapers for .annanncencentof, the nearest judg- .ing centre to your home, and or the judging date. CHAMP] NSHOP PRIZES The Champion Bread -Maker and the Champion Cake -Maker of the final con- test, each' get ASTEIUJ 1G SILV TE/JL ST and A CHEQUE for $50 : The Bread -Maker and Cake -Maker in second place, in the final contest, each get A STERLING G SILVER BOWL and /4 CHEQUE for $25 ! RULES 1. Contestants must reside in one of the counties listed above, 2. Entries must be made with FIVE ROSES FLOUR. Each contestant may -enter bods bread and cake in the contest or only one. - . whitebread, er a pilin Sayer rake, 3. Entries must be brought for judging xis any one of the centres listed in contestants County, and meat be • accompanied by a grocerssales slip "showing purchase - of Five Roses Flour, as a guarantee that this flour has been used. Notification of 'the placesand dates for judging will 'be given lacer. BEGIN PRAC FISIN.c NOW 54 COUNTY Pa'; IZES —silver cake and sandwich plates in different designs—one to the best bread -maker and one to the best cake -maker in each county! V V 344 LOCAL PRIZES Eight prizes will be ,given in every centre in whicb judging takes place --four to the best bread -makers and four to .the best cake.makers! Milled by L AKE',OF THE WOODS MILLING- COMPANY, Limited Offices at Toronto, Ottawa, L'ondon,•Iiamilton, Brantford,'Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.; and Montreal, P.Q. The ocanMsrunzormtarescskiMgcnezomso ience. And sometimes she never learned and her house 'vas always badly managed, her fancily badly llourished and her home anything but a pleasant place to live. But I think modern young women are taking things differently. They seem to be mere interested in home- making. 'For one thing they are tak- ing up to a more or less extent the manufacture of household gear, such as rugs, quilts, etc. They are becom- ing interested in the making of jel- lies, pickles, and all sorts of home manufactured foods. A young bride at a recent exhibition carried off several -first prizes for cooking, beat- ing experienced women who had been in the habit of taking all the firsts. while others made good showings al, so, Domestic science seems to be a favorite study nowadays, And 'while I am not by any means one of those who think that home- makers should give their whole mind and effort to the one job of manag- ing the house and caring for the family, yet it is a most important Sob and should not be slighted for anything, and the inclicaticns that young women are taking more in- terest in anis fitting themselves more thoroughly for tite work of home- making aro in my estimation very significant and encouraging. More power to them. They will find as they take up the work that it is not only important but also one to a - reuse interest anti enthusiasm. But every woman who keeps a house should determine that while she does the job of 'homemaking in the very best possible way, she will not be a household drudge. She should do a Certain amount of reading; she should keep up her interest in music, if gifted that way, and should not allow herself to become narrowed to the four walls of her home. The day is past when women • can give all their thought to the management of hone and forget the outside world, Woman is now a citizen of the world and must leant to take her own responsibility as such. Women used to complain that their sphere was limited. It is not ee now. • Women must do the work they used to do, which is exacting enough, and besides train themselves to take their part in the conduct of world affairs. Women's work, women's in- fluence, women's responsibilities are ponstantlyincreasing. It behooves theist to be taking themselves and their careers seriously and to set a- bout preparing themselves for the work ahead, REBEKAB THEY WALI{ED ALONE AT THE EVENTIDE ,This gem appeared in a recent is, sue of The Bluenose, monthly news bulletin of .C.N.R.A., Halifax: ' "They walked the lane together, The sky was filled with stars, They reached the gate in silence: And for her—he lifts the bars. She neither smiled'11or thanked him, Because she knew not haw, For be was—just a farmer's boy, And she—ea Jersey cow." THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED, TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, , Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful and Ins Wring. THE BOUNTIFUL HARVEST The golden grain with nodding' head Fills all the land -with bounteous store To fill the hungry mouths with bread That none may want from shore to shore. Nol every mouth will'not be filled; For man has built a fence around, The gleaner has no welcome here. This land is mine, Beep off my ground, My sturdy arra hath plowed the fields! My arm hath cast the golden seed„ I'll reap my fields, and build my barns, Of others I will take no heed. Oh selfish man! Who built the worlds? Who gave thee power to sow the seed? Who sent the gentle rain from heav, en? And sunbeams ciancing overhead? 'Twas God our father sent the sun To stir to life that hidden strength: The blade, the ear, the ripened grain; And the harvest -home at length. Oh foolish man, what could we do Without that mighty hand divine? Our feeble power is loaned to us That we may bless all humankind. Shall we not worship at the shrine Of IIim who rolls the worlds along, Commit our every care to Him, And fill our days with thankful song? —.T. B. Lobb, Clinton. o`?1=ee THE EVENING SI{Y Rose-boson'd and rose-limb'd, With eyes of dazzling bright Shakes Venus mics the twined boughs of the night; Rose-limb'd, soft -stepping From low bough to bough, Shaking the wide,hung starry fruit- age—,dimmed Its bloom of snow By that sole planetary glow. Venus, avers the astronomer, Not thus idly dancing goes Flushing the eternal orchard with wild rose. Site through ether burns Outpacing planetary earth, And ere two years triumphantly re, turns, And again wave-lilce swelling flows, And again her flashing apparition comes and goes. This we have not seen, No heavenly courses set, No flight unpausing through a void serene; But, when eve cleats, Arises Venus as she first uprose Stepping the shaken boughs among, And in her bosom glows The warm light hidden hi sunny snows. She shakes the clustered stars Lightly, as she goes Amid the unseen branches of the night, Rope-limb'tl, rose-bosont'd bright, She leaps; they shake and pale; she glows—, And who but knows Zloty the rejoiced heart aches When Venus all his starry vision shakes; When through his mond Tossing with random airs of an un- earthly wind, Rose-bosom'd, rose-limb'd, The mistress of his starry vision arises, And boughs glittering sway And the stars pale away, And the enlarging heaven glows As Venus light -foot mitt the twined branches goes. —John Freeman. TIIE ICE -CART Perched on my city office -stool I watched with envy, while a cool And lucky carter handled ice. . And I was wandering in a trice, Far from the gray time grimy heat 02 that intolerable street, O'er sapphire berg and emerald floe, Beneath the still, cold ruby glow Of everlasting Polar night, Bewildered by the queer half -fright; Until I stumbled, unawares,. Upon a creek where big white bears Plunged headlong clown with flour- ished heels And floundered after shining seals `Through shivering seas of blinding blue. And as I watched them, oro I knew, I'd stripped, and I was swimming, too, Amonge'the seal -pack young and hale, And thrusting on with threshing tail, With twist and twirl and sudden leap Through crackling ice and salty deep Diving and doubling with my kind, Until, at last, we left behind Those big white, blundering bulks of death, And lay, at length, with panting breath Upon a far untravelled floe Beneath a gentle drift of snow—• Snow drifting gently, fine and white, Out of the endless Polar night, Falling and falling evermore Upon that far untravelled shore, Till I was buried fathoms deep Beneath that cold,' white drifting sleep— Sleep drifting deep, Deep drifting sleep... . The carter cracked a sudden whip: I detailed my stool with startled grip, Awakening to the grimy heat Of that intolerable street. --Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, eeoiree A GRACE FOR LIGHT When we were little childer we had a quare wee house, Away up in the heather by the head o' Brabla burn; The hares we'd see them sceotin', an' we'd hear the crowin' grouse, An' when we'd all be in et night ye'd not get room to turn. The youngest two She'd put to bed, their faces to the wall, An' the lave of us could sit aroun', just anywhere 'we might; Herself 'ud take the rush -clip an' light it for us all, An' "Gori be thanked!" she would say, "Now, we have a Iight." Then we be to quet the leughin'an' pushin' on the floor, An' think on One who called us to come and be forgiven; Himself 'ucl put his pipe down, an' say the good word store, "May the Lamb o' God lead us all to the Light o' Heaven!" There's a wheen things that used to be an' now has had their clay, The nine glens of Antrim can show ye many a sight; But not the quare wee house where wo lived up Brabla' way, Nor a child in all the nine Glens that knows the grace for light. —Moira O'Neill. e=enriei A PIPER A piper in the streets to -.clay Set up, and tuned, and started to play, And away, away, away on the tide Of his music we started; on every side Doors and windows were opened wide And men Ieft clown their work and came, And women with pe'tticcats coloured like 'flame And little bare feet that were blue with cold, Went dancing hack to the age of gold And all the world went goy, went gay, For half an hour in the street to-day. —•Seumas O'Sullivan HATE My enemy tante nigh, And I Stared fiercely in his face. My ilps went writhing back in a grimace, And stern I watched him with a narrow eye. Then, as I turned away, my enemy, That bitter heart and savage, said to me: "Some day, when this is past, . When all the arrows that we have are cast, We may ask one another wiry we hate, And fail to find a story to relate. Ii may seem to us theft a mystery That we could hate each other." Thtis said he, And did not turn away, Waiting to hear what T. might have to say; But I fled quickly, fearing if I stayed I might have kissed hint as I would a ..maid. -James Stephens. .o:Iteetee "HOIYIE NO MORE HOME TO ME" Heine no more home to me, whither oday, must I wonder? Hunger xray driver, I go where x must. Cold blows the winter wind over hill And heather; Thick drives the rain, and my roof is in the dust. Loved of wise men was the shade of my roof -tree. The true word ofwelcome was spoken in the door— Dear days of old, with the faces in the firelight, Kind folksof old, you come again rio more SIome was home then, my dear, full of, kindly faces, Home was home then, my dear, happy for the child. Fire and the windows bright glitter- ed on the moorland; Song, tuneful song, built a palace in the wild Now, when day dawns on the brow, 01 the moorland, Lone stands the house, and the chimney -stone is cold Lone let it stand, now the friends are all departed, The kind hearts, the true hearts, that loved the place of old. Spring shall come, come again, cal- ling up the moor -fowl, Spring shall bring the sun and rain, bring the bees and flowers; Red shall the heather bloom over hill and valley, Soft flow the stream through the even -flowing hours; Fair the day shine as it shone on my childhood -- Fair shine the day on tate house with open door; Birds come and cry there and twit- ter in the chimney— But himneyBut I go forever and conte again no more. --Robert Louis Stevenson, Some Tried Recipes As summer wanes and indoor life will have to be resumed housekeep, ere will be looking about for some new sorts of cakes with which to surprise their friends at afternoon teas, bridge parties, etc, Isere are a few recipes worth trying: Cakes, Cookies and Small, Cakes Sour Milk Spice Cake 1-4 cup butter, 6 tbsp. sugar, 1-4 cup honey, 1-2 cup sour mills, 1 egg, 2-3 cups flour, 1-2 tsp. soda, 2 tsps. baking powder, 1-4 tsp. cinnamon, 1-4 tsp. cloves, 1-8 tsp. nutmeg, 1-8 tsp. salt. Cream butter, add sugar and egg well beaten. Sift dry ingredients and acid to egg mixture, add honey and bake in a moderate oven. If de- sired the mixture can be dropped in. to small moulds and baked, Sour Mille Cake 1-4 cup butter 6 tbsps. sugar, 1-4 cup honey, 1-2 cup sour milk, • 1 2-3 cups flour, 1-2 tsp. soda, 2 tops. bak- ing powder, 1-8 tsp. salt 1-2 tsp. vanilla. Cream butter, add sugar and well beaten egg.. Sift dry ingredients and add to egg mixture. Add honey and bake in a moderate oven. Crean( Cookies 1-2 cup sugar, 1-4 cup honey, 1-3 cup butter, 1 egg, 1-2 cup sour cream 1-2 tsp. soda, 1-2 tsp. baking powder, 1-16 tsp salt, 1-4 top, vanilla, flour to roll out (about 3 cups), Cream tho butter, add sugar, hon- ey and well beaten egg. Sift flour% soda, baking powder and salt. Add to egg mixture and add sufficient flour to roll out. Cook on greased tins in slow overt, Oatmeal Cookies ' 1-2 cup honey, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup lard or butter, 1-2 cup milk, 1-2 tsp. salt, 1 top, soda, 1-2 cup raisins 3 cups rolled oats, 2 eggs, 2 isps. cream of tartar, 1 tsp. cinnamon, flour to roll out (about 2 cups) Cream butter and add sugar, Honey milk, and well beaten eggs, Add slightly floured fruit. Sift flour, salt; creast of tartar, soda and cin - mem. Add rolled oats. Mix and roll 1-2 inch thick. Back on a greas- ed pan in a moderate. oven, In any of the above recipes extra sugar can be used instead of honey, but the result will not be quite so nice. THERE WERE TWO OF THEM 'A soldier went to his, colonel and asked for leave to go home and help his wife with her spring clean- ing. "I don't like to refuse you," said the colonel, "but I've just received a letter froth your wife saying that you are of na use around the house." The soldier saluted and turned to go. At the door he stopped, turned and remarked: "Wend, there are two persons in this regiment who handle the truth loosely, 'and I'tn one of them. I'm not married." --%Rochester Y.M.O.A. Weekly/