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The Clinton News Record, 1943-09-02, Page 7THURS., SEPT. 2, 1943 TIIE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PACE 7 HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS GOOD NEWS FOR TEA DRINKERS So many people in Canada drink tea that there will be a genuine feeling of satisfaction that more of it will be available for home rations after September 2nd. The Ration Board has, decided this can be done because the safety of the sea route from Ceylon has so vastly improved. The millions of 'SALADA' lovers have just cause for rejoicing. • THE MIXING HOWL Ay ANNE ALLAN ` ' HydroHome Economist FORTIFY AGAINST SPOILAGE IN STORAGE OF HARVEST Hello Homemakers! Many vege- ' 'tables and fruits may be preserved :In their natural state for whiter use without canning or dehydrating. 'For this, properly constructed storage space is necessary. Two favourite methods are: the use of a cold room an the basement of the ,mouse, and -and storage pits made outdoors. The storage cellar must be . cool, 'well ventilated and dark. An ade- quate room may be built in the corner of thecellar with 2 x .4 stud - 'ding and boarded both sides. Water- proof building paper should be tack- ed horizontally from the top down .across the studding. This will stop insulating material from sifting down Then the space between the studding 18 filled with sawdust or other insul- ating material. A window is neces `sary to give ventilation but it should be shaded to keep out the light, Make .a chute to cover one-half the win- dow, extending it to within eight in- 'ehes from the floor. This allows the cold air to cone in at the bottom and 'warm air to escape from the other 'half of the window. Slats or shelves •should be used to keep. food off the 'floor and permit air circulation. .1f 'the floor is Concrete part of it may be covered with damp sand or peat moss 'to furnish needed humidity. Sprinkle some water on each day. Use a ther- mometer and adjust the window each s day to maintain a temperature of 32 'to 40 degrees. o on and then successive layers of earth and leaves are added to prevent free, zing. You may need to cover to a depth of four feet. One victory gardner recommends. the :Following method for storing cab- bages. Pull and set the roots in a shallow trench, Cover the roots with. earth. Eri(ct a frame about 2 feet high around them. Bank the sides and top with earth. Cover well with leaves. • RBOIPES Dixie Relish • (2 quarts) 1 cup chopped red peppers, 1 cup chopped green peppers, 1 cup chopped cabbage, 2 tablespoons mustard seed, 1 tablespoon celery seed, 1-4 cup su- gar, 2 cups vinegar, 2 1-2 tablespoons salt. Soak peppers in medium brine for 24 hours, Freshen in cold water 1 to 2 hours. Drain and chop. Mix chopped vegetables and let stand in crock ov- er night, Pack into jars, Cover with vinegar and seasonings. Partially seal. Process in a hot water bath for 10 minutes. Remove and seal. Cabbage and Green Apple Salad 1-2 head cabbage, 1 carrot, 1 green; apple, 4 radishes, lettuce 1-4 teaspoon salt, and salad dressing or . mayonn- aise. , Shred cabbage and carrot, chop ap- ple and radishes. .Season and six with salad dressing or mayonnaise.. Serve in lettuce cups. This makes a good stuffing for raw tomato salad. 'Spinach en Casserole 3 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon flour, 1-8 teaspoon pepper, 1-4 teas= poon paprika, 1-2 teaspoon salt, 3-4 cup milk, 2 cups cooked spinach, 3 bardeooked eggs, bread crumbs, grat- ed cheese. - Make white sauce by melting butter adding flour, salt, pepper, and papri- ka and mixing well. Add milk slowly and bring to boiling point, stirring constantly to prevent lumping. Add 1-4 cup grated cheese. Put a layer of spinach in bottom of buttered baking dish. Add a layer of sliced eggs. Pour some sauce over layers of spinach and eggs. Add more spinach, egg, ;sauce and top with crumbs mixed with a little grated cheese. This can be pre- pared several hours before meal time, covered and placed in electric refrig- erator until ready to serve, Braised Celery Hearts 3 or 4 celery hearts, 1 tablespoon chopped onion, 2 tablespoons butter, alt, pepper and beef broth. Outdoor pits keep vegetables very well, but it is sometimes difficult to get them out in cold weather. Several pits are preferable to one large one so that all the vegetables tray be re- moved when it is opened. Storage places should be left moist to pre -!o vent wilting. la Covering a barrel with straw and earth provides an outdoor storage space. Leaves will serve instead of straw. 'Phe stave barrel is placed on its side, filled with trimmed (but not e washed) vegetables -such as carrots, I1 Trim off outer stalks and leaves f celery and split the hearts in hal- ves. Cook onion in tauter fon' a few alludes, arrange celery on top, season with salt and "pepper and then moisten with beef broth, Cover and simmer ()Y- e r Yer low beat for about 20 minutes or until tender. Place pan in electric vett at 350 degrees P. and cook until elery has absorbed most of the liq- rid, basting occasionally. TAKE A TIP: Use parsley while its fresh. It not my enhances the appearance bat ends flavor as well. Eaten frequently t steps up the vitamin value of your satisfy and potatoes, The lid is put 1 Training The Men That Swoop In ,Silence CARE OF CHILDREN .,.'04,41.104+ MEMORIES ..e.�....,.w.r.. By. "PEG" t Have you ever had the privilege after many years absence, of going back to visit the locality. where per- haps you were born, or where at any rate you spent your early days? Let us for a little while go on a trip like that -with an elderly gentle- man, while he takes a walk, recalling incidents of the past. With him there is a companion of younger years who is listening. without interruption, but with a great deal of interest. "It is forty-five years since I have been in this . district. This is the same old bridge which my churns and I crossed many times. Let us look at the names carved on it. Oh, look! I remember well the day I carved that. The other initials are those of my dear wife. Thank God she has been' spared to me all these years. I cut those while we stood Here one evening E.M. — S.D. Here is where Tom Brown carved the initials of our teacher, who had that• day given him a thrashing for tripping hint in the aisle, Well do I remember that day. I thought we were going to have "a free for all." Guess Tom learned his lesson, for the teacher Who is now many years in the Great Beyond, .had very little trouble with him after that. At that time the big boys went to school in the winter season. Some of them were bigger than the teacher, Our 'teachers were usually very fine men who drilled the three R's into us. Oh; here is Job Kirk, Ile was the terror of the small boys of the school If we had not saved them many times he could have been cruel to them. IIe has cut Mary Jones initials above his own, He thought he was going to marry her, but Harry Gerrard got her, They were married just about live years when she died. I could go on and on telling you about these people, but we must walk on. Some afternoon I am coming down here alone and try to go over the whole bridge. It will give ane a great deal of pleasure. We used to cross this old bridge going to school meals. Use sprigs .of it in the soup pot, chop it and add it to meat and fish loaves, sprinkle it over salads, add a handful of it to a dish of cream- ed potatoes, cauliflower, carrots, cel- ery or turnips. Add green specks of it to fish. It is especially .appealing served in potato, cabbage or celery salad. AO some just before the peas or wax beans are cooked. rin- ' ally, tiny branches are served on fruit salads plates, sandwich plates and meat platters. THE QUESTION BOX Mrs, J. F. asks for Supper Plate suggestions Answer: (1) Hard -cooked egg slices in tomato jelly, macaroni and parsley salad, celery sticks and lettuce. (2) 'Sardines with lemon, potato salad, cucumbers, tripped in sour cream, tomato slices. (3) Green onions, cooked green beans, tomatoes stuffed with cot- tade cheese. (4) Jellied pork hocks, cauliflower flowerets, raw carrot strips and shredded endive with horseradish dressing. (5) Rice and veal jellied, currant jelly, ;nixed vegetables salad and na- (5) Cold beef, jellied horseradish,' sturtium leaves, cabbage and chard salad, and radish-; es A nutri-thrift meal is rounded! out rolls, bread or tea biscuits,; fruit in season 'and milk, buttermilk er tea. Strenuous workers would. en- joy a bowl of hot soup to. begin their supper. Mrs. N: Mc. asks: flow can straw - harry ice cream stain be removed from a white pique? Answer.: Soak in warm clear wat- er, and launder, If colour remains, hleseh with hydrogen peroxide or ja- velle ,water. Anne Allen invites you to write to her % News Record, Send in your Picture shows; A British Army r ,, i,.' l;ti urn's Aitboint divisions, suggestions on homemaking prob- glider pilot pupil at a school run by 11, Silence and surprise a c the groat 'ems and watch this, column for re .A.F. Flying Training Command for weapons of the glidcr-bc.t:e .:oilier. plies. I hardly expected to find it still. here. Job Kirlc's people lived fn that house, but it was not anything like it is now. At that time it was a lit- tle log laous'e. • There were ten- children and we often wondered how they ever lived in it. They are scat- tered cattered all over now. The houses along here were nearly all log or frame. A fine family liv- ed in that house. They had a fair sized farm. There was Mt, and Mrs. Galbraith, Reg, Bill, Charles, Mary and Jane. They were all am- bitious and ' . worked very hard.. They all married. The boys went in for higher education. Reg. is a mini- ster. He retired just lately. Bill was a very successful criminal law- yer. He died just a short time ago. Charles went in for medicine. The fact that they had to work their way through was the making of them. The parents lived here until they died, The' family wanted them to break up the house and go and live with them, 'but decided they would not be insistent about it. They would leave it to the old folks. One time they agreed to have a family gathering and then broach the sub- ject. When •the Mother and Father said they would rather sell the farm and just keep the house which was on the corner lot the family made the necessary arrangements. They hail some one stay with them as long as they lived and on every special occasions the eons and daughtere came home. They certainly have no regrets. As a rule elderly people are much happier in their own haute although there are times when they are per- fectly content with a son and a daughter. Children at times become so careless about those who have done so much for them, They go off to other places and spend their vacation and .seldom go to see their parents. The Father usually up in years, will go day after day to the Post Office or mail box longing for a Iettei' to take back to Mother, but so often disappointment is theirs. Then onedaythe telephone rings or the telegram messenger comes with the word. Your father died suddenly to -night. Then there are regrets and tears which are useless. Why not think of these things while yet there is time to make the old folks happy? There has been a great deal of talk through the papers lately about the old age pension. It is a blessing there is such a thing for those who need it. It is almost impossible to think that sons and daughters would allow their parents to be dependent on the government, which is composed real- ly of their neighbors if they could in any way payback to their dear ones. the love and financial help, which they had spent on their children they would not in their old age dependent on any one. What would some of our old folks do of their was no pen- sion for them? As far as some sons and daughters are concerned' they could starve. Shame! shame! on such a family. The richest man • in the dist- rict lived inthis house. The children were taught that they were a little better than the rest of us. When we would go to town they nearly always had money to spend and they spent it. The -r rest of us had to work,too hard for what'we earned consequently we usually brought our "bit" home and put it in our tin bank or 'teapot, It certainly helped ata. ter'ially in giving us an education. Strange to say not one of that family turned out well. One got into troub- le with the law and served a sentence. We used to think that if they had not had so much stoney given to their they would have got on' batter and that is true in the majority ofcasea Some time ago I suet George on the Street. He wanted to know if 1 would lend him enough money to get a steal; I was quite, sure ;from his appearance that, ho would not spent' It for that so I invited him to have dinner with me. He told. me the story of his life since leaving home and en - dad. up by saying "1VIy,' I wish rather] COOKING HEALTH COUPON PROBLEMS AS ANSWERED BY Salle ®f Ration LONDORATION n r�° Coupons Unchanged,` N BOARD OFFICE' An increase in the ration allowance for tea and coffee effective Septem- ber 2 does not mean an increase in the value of each coupon, ration of - may keep it. It must be used for es- fici.als here pointed out. It means that sential ,purposes, more coupons will becom du1 Price Board Facts of Wartime Interest The Women's Regional Advisory Committee, Consumer Branch, West- ern Oitits io, Wartime .Pricks and. Trade Board, answers questions put to this paper regarding price con- trol and ration regulations. - Q, Must I have a permit before I may pnuchase a milk can? A. No, a permit isnot required. Q. I am a farmer and I have a steel drum almost emptied of its con- tents. I am in urgent need of this drum after it is emptied. Must.I re- turn it? A. No: If you urgently- need it, you had made us work when we were younger and had not given us money the way he did, It was -no kindness to any of us. Not one of us has turned out well. He promised if he got a job to work steadily. Having a little influence along that line I was able to place him and he is making good. He has been there six months He told me, just the other day that if he does what is right for a year that his wife and daughter will come back to him. I believe lm will go straight now. Oli, there is our dear old church up on the hill. I should like to go in- to it. I remember well the day that was opened. What a stuggle we had to build it. The members themselves did a great deal of the work. Murray Watson who went through for the ministry was invited back for the opening services, Ile is truly an un- der shepherd of the Great Shepherd. He is not afraid to preach Christ and Him crucified. It was my ambition in life to be a minister of brie Gospel and at some time come back and preach in the pulpit here, but as years went on I did not feel that God had called me, so I went into business. Yes there is our old seat Jones' sat two seats in front of us, The famil- ies were large then and children al- ways sat with their parents, Parents and their families are both losing a lot by being separated in church services.. I would not want to lose -the lovely memory I have of sitting with my parents during the service. It was an unheard of thing in our time for parents to sit in one plate in church and the children in another. The choir used to sit in that cor- ner. That was after we got the organ There was a big discussion over that. Roderick McKay used to stand just there and lift the tune with a tuning fork and how we did sing! The beadle always' walked in ahead of the minis- ter and placed the Bible and Hymn Book on the pulpit. It was a great day in the home when the minister called and woe betide us if we did not know our Catechists and Bible verses. Well we would have been very much ashamed if we had not learned them Many things have changed with the years but as I start, in this pulpit_ I atm glad to say that the Bible has never changed and it will never change, How 'precious His word should be to us all and what a joy it wilt bring to our lives if we will only accept Jesus Christ as oar Saviour. He is the same yesterday, today and forever, Following are few points which Piave come out in a poem "It Lives". It oar course referes to the Word. -"Generation follows generation — Yet it lives. Nations rise and fall—Yet it lives. Hated, despised, cursed -Yet it lives. Misconstrued and nistated — Yet it lives. Its inspiration :denied—Yet it lives Yet it lives—as a guide for youth, Yet it lives—as a comfort for the aged. Yet it lives—, as a rest for the aged Yet it lives—as a rest for the -weary Yet it lives—as light for the tea- then. Yet it lives— as salvation for the sinner Yet it lives—as grace for the Chris- tian. To know it is to love it. To love it is to accept it. . To accept it means Life Eternal. "PEIG" east Q. How may.I dispose of horsehair which I have collected? A. Will you please get in . touch with the Furniture Administration, Wartime Prices and Trade Board, 204 Richmond St. West., Toronto. Q. `I have some unused meat and butter coupons left in my second ra- tion book. They are no longer valid. Should I give them to my dealer? A. No. Detach them from your book and destroy them. Do not give than to anyone. Q. I have. a plum orchard and in- tend selling the fruit at my home. What is the ceiling price for a six quart open basket and an 11 quart basket? A. The highest price you may legally ask for a six quart open bas- ket is 50 cents to a wholesaler and 67 cents to a consumer. For an 11 quart basket you may ask 90 cents from a wholesaler and $1.20 from a consumer. Due Dates for Ration Coupons The first sugar, tea -coffee, butter coupons of Ration Book number 3 be- come valid Sept. 2. Butter coupons number 24, 25 and 26 are now valid in number 2 Ration Book also number 27 in number 3 Ration Book. Meat coupons, pair 13, 14, 15 are now good. Ration- Book 2, contains coupons for the purchase of meat un- til November 25. Tea -coffee and sugar coupons in Ration Book 2 are all valid now as well as the first coupons for these commodities in the new book. Cann- ing sugar coupons are now valid. e e eact month. With the increased allowance two coupons will become good every three weeks instead of every month. Coupons 14 and 15 became good for the purchase -of tea and coffee on September 2. The next two became good September 23. V Farmers Obtain Lumber `At Old Prices,: Farmers requiring lumber for es- sential repairs and building may; buy it at prices prevalent before the price increase permitted a short time ago; according to an announcement trade by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. Fruit and -vegetable growers as well as farmers are allow - cd the price concession, which applies in the purchase of rough and dress- ed soft wood, laths, shingles, and posts but not to hard wood or lumber for sash, doors, or general mill- work. It does not apply either to lumber to build houses or additions to houses. In buying lumber included in the order the farmer will pay 90 per cent of the account which is based on the increased price. The re- maining ten per cent will be repaid to the dealer es a government subsidy. Among the Canadian troops recent- ly landed at a British port were a number of officers and other ranks of the Canadian Dental Corps, including a complete dental, company. Field tests of the Canadian Army Mess Tin Ration have demonstrated it is of a standard to maintain mien at the peak of fighting efficiency dur- ing a 10 -day period of extreme exer- tion. qbesNApOJ GUILD COMPOSITION 14 Good arrangementmakes this picture striking, A few simple rules of composition, wisely applied, will help you improve your own pictures. PICTURE "composition" is a word i that need frighten no one. It means arrangement, which can be either good or bad. A good compo- sition is one that pleases and satis- des the eye. Certain rules, however, have been worked out to guide you in improv- ing ;the arrangement of your .;tic- tures, But they should be used only as guides, and not followed blindly in every case because various com- positions differ radically. Among these rules are: Bo' not divide a picture, or let any line divide a:picture, into areas of the same shape and equal size. For instance, the, horizon lige in our illustration falls below the center of the picture. 1f it ran directly across the center, .the picture would. be weakened and less effective. Second, do not place tho subject of most importance in the exact center of the picture, or too close to any margin. The figures here, which are the most important part of the picture, are somewhat off - center, and the picture is the better for it. Finally, remember that vertical lines steady a picture and lend dig- nity. Horizontal lines suggest peace and quiet. A diagonal line is dra- matic, and suggests action and ex- citement. acitement. Follow these rules in general. Memorize them and try to apply their to your own picture making. And remember that any arrange, meat which appears pleasing to your eye is probably well composed, and you'll have this matter of pho- tographic composition. licked before you know it. John van Guilder