The Clinton News Record, 1940-01-18, Page 7rTIIIJ
RS., JAN. 18, 1940
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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS
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THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED
TO THE POETS
Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful
and Inspiring.
A BOY'S ALPHABET
Attempt great things,
Build for the future,
Cultivate friendship,
Develop a hobby,
Educate the hands,
Forget injustices,
Get an education,
Hope always,
Imitate heroes,
Judge justly,
Keep clean,
Lend a band,
Make a fresh start,
Never give up,
Own good books,
Play the game,
Question wise folk,
Read wisely,
Seek success,
Trust Prehidenee,
Use every talent,
Venture with courage,
Welcome advice,
X-ray subtle temptations,
Yield to authority,
Zealously aspire.
THE RECRUIT
'Only a raw recruit, trying to learn
his drill;
:Left, right and 'shun, the instructor
works his will,
'Quickly being molded into a fighting
machine
From city and town he comes, from
where the fields are green.
Ody a raw recruit, his country calls
to him,
Leaving home and mother, whose eyes
are dim with tears,
And often he will be homesick for
the ones beyond the sea;
Whose hearts are aching for him, and
praying silently.
•Only a raw recruit, yet fearlese and
strong of heart;
We need not be afraid, but what he
will do hisi.part
Eager to go to the front, to fight
for his country and king,
To hear the hiss of tho bullets, may-
be to feel their sting,
•Only a raw recruit but the spirit is
more than his life?
Can he do any more than suffer on
the fields of stress and strife?
He is more of a man, than we are,
he bears for us our share
Of the burden of the conflict, and
little enough ta care.
Only a rew recruit but the spirit is
high within;
He will not flinch nor falter, in midst
of the bathe's din,
When the fighting shall be over and
our men come from the war
Among the heroes we may find him
but a raw recruit no more.
YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND
Yo mariners of England,
' That guard our native seas;
`Whose flag has brained, a thousand
years,
'The battle and the breeze!
Your glorious standard, launch again
To match another foe!
...And sweep through the deep,
While the stormy winds do blow;
While the battle rages loud and long,
And the stormy winds do blow.
The spirit of your fathers
-Shall start from every wave;
For the deck it was their field of
fame,
And Ocean was their grave.
Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell,
'Your manly hearts shall glow,
As ye sweep through the deep,
While the steamy winds do blow;
While the battle rages loud and long,
And the steamy winds do blow.
The meteor flag of England
Shall yet. terrific burn;
Till danger's troubled night depart
.And the star of peace return.
'Then, then, ye ocean waariors!
-•Our song and feast shall flovi
To the fame of your name,
When the storm has ceased to blow;
'When the fiery fight is heard no more
And the storm has ceased to blow.
--Thomas Campbell.
CONTENT
A hermit there was
Who lived in a grot
And the way to be happy
They say he had got,
As I wanted to learn it,
I went to his cell;
And this answer he gave,
As I asked him to tell:
"Tis being and doing
And having that make
All the pteasures and pains
Of which mortals partake.
To be what God pleases,
To do what is best,
And to have a good heart
Is the way to be blest."
AN UNUSUAL VISITOR
He dropped into my office with a
grin upon his face.
He talked about the weather and the
college football race.
}Ie asked about the family and told
the latest joke,
But he never mentioned anyone who's
suddenly gone broke.
He talked of books and pictures and
the play he'd been to see,
A clever quip his boy had made, he
passed along to me,
He praised the suit of clothes I wore
and asked me what it cost,
But he never said a word about the
money he had. lost.
He was with ane twenty minutes
chuckling gaily while he stayed,
O'er the memory of some silly little
blunder he had made.
He reminded me that tulips must be
planted in the fall,
But calamity and tragedy he mention-
ed not at all.
I thought it rather curious when he
had come and gone,
He must have had some tales of woe,
but didn't pass them on,
For nowadays it seems to me that
every man I meet,
Has something new in moaning and
misery to repeat.
So when I wrote these lines of him
who had his share of woe
But still could talk of other things
and let his troubles go,
I was happier for his visit — in a
world that's siek with doubt,
'Twas good to meet a man who
wasn't spreading gloom about.
EVILS THAT NEVER OCCUR
Let tomorrow take care of tomorrow;
Leave things of the future to fate. 1
What's the use to antieipate sorrow? i
Life's troubles come never too late.
If to hope overmuch be an error,
'Tis on that the wise have prefer-
red;
And how often have hearts been in
terror
Of evils that never occurred.
Have faith, and thy faith shall sus-
tain thee;
Permit not suspicion and care
With invisible bonds to enchain thee.
But bear what God gives thee to
bear.
By His Spirit supported and glad-
dened.
Be ne'er my foreboding deterred;
But think how oft hearts ha,vie been
saddened
By fears of what never occurred!
Let tomorrow take care of tomorrow;
Short and dark as our life may apr
pear,
We may make it still darker by sor-
row,
Still shorter by folly and fear.
Half our troubles are half our inven-
tion,
And often from blessing conferred
Have we shrunk in wild apprehen-1
sion
Of evils that never occurred!
, —Charles Swain.
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COOKING
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The noted divine, Rev, C. H. Spur-
geon, once said "I sometimes think I
might have been, in darkness 'and: des-
pair now had it not been for the
goodness of God in sending a snow
storm on Sunday morning, January
6, 1850 when I was going to a place
of worship. When 1 could go no
further, I turned down, a eourt and
came to a litile Primative Methoclist
chapel." Here through the instrumen-
tality of a poor- workman, he was con
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Vetted.
In the very warm days of sum-
mer we so often feel that we would
appreciate a good snow storm, and
when winter sets in, the first snow
is eagerly looked for.
The Christmas' season we think, will
not be a prop.er festive time unless
the ground is covered with snow.
An old superstition. says "A green
Christmas means a full graveyard",
but we know God does not send signs
in that -way.
Sometimes at night, we go to sleep
with the ground hard and bare, the
trees standing with their naked
branches pointing Heavenward, as if
asking for ,soine protection from the
cold. The next morning We waken
to a white world where everything
seems changed. We hardly recognize
the d
When the first snow falls we re-
mark how beautiful it is, but as it
continues to come down we begin to
think of the damage which it may do.
It brings with it the filling in of the
roads making it (if we are off the
main way) almost impossible to get
to the nearest town or village to
purchase necessary articles. Then too,
visiting is almost prohibitive, but
worst of all it becomesserious if
sickness should occur in the home.
Many a time a patient has bean. tak-
en in a sleigh or cutter to a highway
and has there been met by a doctor
and his car or un ambulance and has
been transferred to some hospital.
Snow, although gentle, as it falls,
can become very destructive, This is
largely due to the presence of air
during the crystalization. It makes
it very bulky and is the cause of the
breaking down of trees, wires, roofs,
etc. In many cases it will tie up
traffic for hours.
Although destructive, snow has its
advantages. Much of the pleasure of
winter is due to snow, in some of its
forms, as a background. This is par-
ticularly true for children and young
people. We can very easily remember
when we used to lie full length on
our backs and make the marks of
angel wings with our arms in the
snow; when we hunted for the deep-
est drifts we could find and ploughed
through them; whoa we took our
skates, sleds, toboggans, skis, or
snow shom and started out for a few
hours tussle with winter. Often it
was a real tussle, particularly if we
were foolish enough to try to go down'
a hill the first time we had skis
tied to out: feet.
Then there is the very important
fact that snow is a necessity for the
fields. It is a great protection for
vegetation during the winter. Owing
to the large amount of air in the
crystals it prevents the conduction of
heat, This means that the tempera-
ture of the soil remains the same
even although the temperature of the
air may chaise.
"The snow falls white and tumul-
ied", therefore the beauty of nature
s aided by it It gives off a spotless
whiteness. Those who have seen snow:
on tile mountain peaks tell us of the:
great beauty which it gives to these
high, places. There is a whiteness'
about snow which we do not find in,
any other place,
Of the millions 01 snow flakes
which fall no 'We are alike, but it
takes 'each one to make up the storm.
A student of snow flakes tells, us
that he gathered 5,000 micro photo-
graphs and ,among them there was
not one duplicate. Some of these
flakes are plain with many sides,
others are of the most intricate and
beautiful designs. We can see a little
of 'this if we spread out a piece of
black cloth and gather some, but we
must work quickly as they melt
rapidly. It is claimed that the plainer
forms are connected with the very
high clouds and zero -temperatures.1 the top of the dress in e. straight line
:by every snow flake.. "Jesus Christ
' is the sante yesterday, to -day and
Iforever", and as Christians we should
be the same.
Jesus gives the future to us as
white as the "unsullied snow". When
ithe flakes strike the ground they be-
: come dirtied with the grime ef the
world, so if we persist in mixingwith
the world we will soon be like the
1people with whom we mingle.
As the flakes are different, so no
two people are the. same. The snow
flakes Work together in spite of that.
So should we, This we can dcv only
as we co-operate with one another
and with God. We must overlook the
faults of others. 'Whatever you dis-
like in another, take care to correct
in yourself." We will find it will
keep us so busy looking after our-
selves that we will have no time to
find fault with others.
As the snow does damage by pil-
ing up so we can do a great deal of
harm by mounting up little differ-
ences and making a mountain out of
nothing at all.
The snow melts and is no more,
• but we can if We wish leave an
enduring snomument This can only
be true if we live with Jesus Christ,
trust Him daily and hourly and thus,
have our names written in the —
Book of Life where it will abide for
ever.
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CARE OF CHILDREN
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Woman Surgeon Wins
Esteem of all China
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Fear of a possible war in Europe
or further anthJewish outbreaks 1
Nazi Germany forced "Wong th
'doctor" to flee from Berlin in 193
to seek safety 'and happiness it
China
She found happiness --"fun" a
she calls it but not much safet
iti dark dugouts, shell -torn front line
and between the neveraending stream
of wounded soldiers to the western
hinterland.
Thousands of Chinese soldiers to -day
from Chekiang to Szechwan, and
from Shansi to Kwangsi, know by
,sight or.by name this young German
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Jewish girl, Attilie Frenkel, who be
1came a 'Chinese citizen. when she
married a young student in North
Ohpinstroh, of her
rank as "captain" in
the army medical service, "the doctor"
!frowns on feminine clothes and wears
only khaki uniforms and army hats.
Wheneaier possible she carries a 38 -
pistol which she wears in an "old
western" holster.
Studied in Germany
When the war broke in July, 1937
"Wong the doetoe" joined the staff
of an American hospital at Karig.
While in Germany, she had studied
pre-medies for two years, but her
job atKilling '.vas to dress wounds
of soldiers. She watched closely tile
work of the chief surgeon and his
wife. When the shortage of surgeons
became acute, she performed minor
cperations. Within a year she had
become one of the best "wound"
surgeons" in the army medical corps.
Nob until she reached Hankow
however, did the young "doctor" re-
ceive recognition from any except her
co-workers. At Thhchang, one ,of the
Wuhan tri -cities, she was assigned to
a hospital where the canons of steri-
lising were unknown. Wounded men,
delirious from fever, were housed in
filthy hovels, exposed to daily Jap-
anese air raids. The Government tried
to assist the soldiers, but .shortage
of funds and housing facilities made
the task impossible.
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"Build a little fence of trust
Around to -day.
Fill the space with loving deeds
And therein stay.
Look not through the shattering
bars
Upon to-moihow.
God will hep thee bear what comes
Of joy and sorrow,"
"P110" •
PRUNE CAKE
The prunes should be cooked until
very soft, but without sweetening.
Cook in story little water, to keep the,
flavour. Mash finely.
Cream
cup buttet and
1 cup sugar and combine with
1 cup mashed and stoned pruues
Sift
hi teaspoon allspice and
1 teaspoon cinnamon with
2 cups flour and add
lb, cup prune juice and
cup milk. Beat
2 eggs and add
1 teaspoon soda dissolved in
1 tablespoon warm water. Flavor with
310 teaspoon lemon extract Pour into
layer cake pans and bake in a mod-
erate oven 350 degrees F. until
done. Frost with powdered sugar
HAVE YOU EVER TRIED—
g a �ress, use, or any
garment exactly in half when you
want to use it for a pattern in mak-
ing something new. In this way hall
of it may be used for the pattern
and the other half kept so you can
see how it was put together.
Rolling the clothes that go into the
bureau drawers. It seems to make
more. room, also prevents creasing
and makes things easier to find.
Using hankies that are too worn
for regular use, hi pajama, bathrobe,
and apron pockets; and also keeping
them handy for neighbor children
when they forget theirs.
Pulling your window shade down
to the spot you want your tie -backs
to be. In this way the tie -backs will
be the same distance up on each side
of the window.
Keeping a roll towel in the kitchen
right near the sink, This may sound
old-fashioned but there is nothing so
handy as a roller towel always on its
rack. It is especially good where there
are several children.
TWO APRONS FROM YOUR OLD
PRINT HOUSEDRESS
H you want to be thrifty, here' s a
way to save on aprons. Most house-
dresses wear out first under the s
sleeves and around tbe atrnholes and i
neck, while the material in the skirt e
is yet quite strong. Simply snip off
Given Higher Post
Tho girl surgeon collected coolies
and transferred some of the wounded
to the outskirts of the city, where
she had found them a place to live
Faced by a shortage of beds, she
took some a her own money and per -
Chased cots for the most seriously
wounded. As a result her work was
recognized by the army, and she re-
ceived a higher post.
Her next job was to supersnise
treatment for convalescing soldiers'
She prescribed diets, even supervised/
the hospital cooks. She directed the
soldiers in preliminary exercises
which were to assist them to re-
gain physical health. At one time She
had 34 nurses working under her.
When Hankow fell "Wong the
doctor," resunted her work in north-
ern Kiangsi and Hunan provinces.
When the Japanese halted their: off-
ensive, work was reduced but she
found no opportunity. to skate, fence
or ride horseback, her favourite sports
As a result, she gained 30 pounds.
"Now I look like a general rather
than a captain," she said at Chung -
ling when she visited the capital
for the first time M October.
Despite more than two years of
being subjected to constant bombing,
shelling and machine-gunning, "Wong
the doctor," has DO fear of war. A
friend, who had been with her at
Kunthan, near Shanghai, when Jap-
anese planes were laying down a day-
long barrage of bombs, reminded her
of the week Of peril they Went
through.
Too Busy for Fright
"I was too busy to he scared," she
said when asked if the Japanese bom-
bings had not unnerved her.
Mrs. Wong found Chungking ex-
tremely boring during her two weeks
visit, most of which she had spent
visiting friend
"They don't even have any dances
or movies here as we did in Hankow,"
he said. "I used to week all day,
and dance silt night. In :Chunking
can do neither."
She evinced little interest in, the
European war.
"Would riot go back even if I could
he said. "Hitler knew war was corn
ng and could have stopped it I feel'
easy Sor any German eo,untrynienh
ut 1 have work here to do,"
What To Do With Our Red Croi.s Knitters
Apples Urged To Follow
Instructions
Many are the methods that are be-
ing taken to utilize the great apple :
crop of 1939, since the bulk of it Although thousands of women
has been cid off from the export
started knitting as soon as war was
market. The statistics for this year
declared, it took the arrival of wint-
will show quite a few changes in this
my blasts to make thousands 2110T0
res,peet , Here are some directions in
which these apples may travel.
Apple concentrate and vinegar have
been made for many years and utilize
chiefly the juice pressed from ease
nery waste, namely peels and cores.
A product similar to concentrated ap-
ple juice with , a possible appeal is
apple syrup for use as a dessert
syrup on griddle cakes, corn bread,
eta.
An attractive canned product made
to a limited extent at present is .aps
plesauce. This product when well
made from suitable varieties can be
very attractive and should have good
market possibilities. Applesauce has
been used in making bread in British
Columbia for some time, where a
bakery produces a "Appeal Bread'',
containing approximately twenty per
cent applesauce.
The supplying of fresh sliced ap-
ples to bakeries was undertaken by
one man in a United States city. The
apples were prevhnted from browning
by dipping in weak sulphur dioxide
solution and were delivered promptly
to the bakers in paraffin paper lined
boxes. This product was received
enthusiastically and developed a good
demand.
The use of apples in candy has, been
developed very successfully In the
realize how much the fighting forces
needed the articies that came from
the clicking needles.
The need is still urgent, say Can-
adian Red Cross officials; and so, just
in ease there are women who would
like to do their bit and don't know
What is needed, here ane some of
the things recommended by this or-
ganization.
More detailed instructions may be
obtained from local Red Cross groups
or from Toronto headquarters. Wont -
en are urged to follow all knitting
instructions easefully; to use the right
size needles, the correct weight of
wool, and always to try the number
of stitches to the inch to have the
tension collect.
Da you favor the Army, the Air
Force or the Nast? This is what
each force needs:
ARMY: Socks may be of any suit-
able colour. The new regulation
length is 16 inches maximum front
top of cuff to under heel. Sweaters
are acceptable in all suitable whams.
Wiistlets, four inches long, min-
imum. Scarves, 12 inches wide and
46 inches long. Helmets and mitts,
half mitts and rifle mitts. Ribbing
should be done loosely on half mitts
a and rifle mitts to ensure perfect eir-
State of Washington, tvhere by
secret process one company produces
a bar called "Aplet". Several other
kinds of apple candy could be and
have beeoo devised, however, and
should be well received,
halation in fingers. Khaki is the
preferred colour for all these articles,
AIR FORCE: The airmen need
socks of the regular size in light
Pomace, the dried peels and cores, blue, :blue heather or black. Sweat -
is used. mainly in the production of 005/ air force blue or grey. Scarves,
pectin under protected methods, but shune length as those for the anny,
it is also used as a lislestoth feed in air force blue or grey. Aero caps,
to a certain extent. 21. product of 'gloves and wristlets, all air force
smilar use to pectin with the same blue,
possibilities would be jelly juice—al
heated extracted and concentrated/ NAVY: Seamen's Stockings and
apple juice for use as a jelly base, /scarves are needed badly. The stock -
The possibility of Incorporating ap- ings, which are worn over regular
PlcS in breakfast cereals has prospects seeks, are 'from 18.1S inches to 26
and at one time such a Produet was inches 1 front top of cuff to under heel;
manufactured in Canada. In tits West- grey; should be loosely ribbed at top,
ern United States at the present time for the stockings are drawn up over
a breakfast food Composed entirely of the trousers.
dried apples is under production, as Scarves, in navy blue or grey, 14
is an apple flour in the treatment inches wide and 66 inches to 72 inches
of certain digestive disorders. long. These scarves are wrapped
At the Dominion Experimental Sta- around the sailors' bodies and are
tion, Summerland, British Columbia, sometimes put over their heads to
a successful glaced apple product has act as helmets. Ordinary socks for
Scan developed and received favour-, the sailors are needed in grey. Sweat -
ably by the baking trade. This pro- ole, navy blue or grey,
duct called "Apple Chips" and pro- Wristlets for all forces should be
diced in any desired colour should cast on or off very loosely. All
have definite appeal in section where sweaters are sleeveless. Socks should
cherries are not processed. This ap- be washed and messed or washed and
peal should be further increased at stretched. It is advisable to attach.
present when one considers that over sizes in socks and sweaters,
fifty per cent of the processed cher-
ries come from Italy, involving the
difficulty of ocean transport.
One other use for apples which
should be considered is that of mak-
ing apple ice and apple ice cream.
Applesauce may be incorporated into
ice cream to give a very pleasing
product and good quality apple juice
can be made into attractive ices, sher-
bets and "popsicles".
NOW STEW CAN'T BURN
Here's a valuable tip for stewing
meats without fear of burning. Or-
dinarily, you have to keep an eagle the room, she, too, was overcome by
eye on the stewing pot, but if you - the ftimes. In. the meantime IVIS. Baker
make your stews in a double boiler had come to and going clown stales
you can forget abut them and go •
NARROWLY ESCAPE
ASPHYXIATION
Mr. and Mrs. Win. Baker, of Ste-
phen, had a narrow escape from be-
ing asphyxiated from coal gas at
their home last Wednesday morning.
Baker esitakeued at the 'usual
hour, while feeling dizzy he rose to
go down utairs and fell M a faint.
Mes, Baker was awakened and realiz-
ing what had happened she hurried
down stairs to the bedroom of their
daughter, Doreen, but before reaching
autyour other chores with a free an,d Doen eeout into the fresh air.
mind.
. .
Doreen was not as badly affected as
By filling the outer Put of the' the others as she had been sleeping
double' boiler with strongly saltedi with her door dosed. Mr, Bak -ars
water, you can keep the stew in lather,thels Mr. Lightfoot, and the hived
intim pot at a simmer, something it
i man were in another part of the house
is impossible to do over plain]
land unaffected, The gas had eseapej
water. Use a very- large double boiler from a coal stove in the livingroom.
and add to the water in the outer —Exeter Advocate.
pot at least a half -cup of salt to
each quart of water. This raises the
temperature in the outer pot. to, a
sufficient degree actually to boil any
liquid in the inner p,ot.
Of course, you have to see that the a zipper, All you have to do is to
water in the outer pot does not boil zip .open the bottom of the bag and
away, but that will take a long time let the soiled clothes fall into a clothes h
f you have a double boiler holding basket placed beneath the bag.
three or four quarts of water hi the To make, the bag, cut one end of
outer pot, It only requires a low a 27-ineh length of stout material to
flamo to keep t e pot boilleg.
LAUNDRY BAG IN CONDITION
Modernize your laundry bag with
The complicated types are found even with, the armholes, and lay the
low or medium clouds. 'dress flat and cut two apeons, leav-
Snow is one of the many forms of:ing the bib attached. Then hem all
moisture which falls upon the earth,/ around and use the strongest parts
but It is always the same as it drifts' from the top or sleeves te snake tie -
down pure and White. God writes strings, or short straps which but-
ieverywheee and on everything. He fa: tan in back. Then pM up the bib with
'the greateit writer in the universe,:two .small brass safety pins. If there
but His writing has been the same is enough strong material, make cross
since the beginning of time. During' straps over the shoulders. Do no rip -
the summer we see His menage itt ping, but 'simply cut the apron out
the leaves, in the sand of the sea and make two aprons in about an
there and in the winter it is carried h
KEEPING SWEATER POCKETS
IN SHAPE
Sweater pockets often get bulgy
and shabby -looking evert when the
sweater is fairly ncev. To prevent
this, get some cotton cloth to match
the color of the yarn and line each
pocket with it. This will serve the
double purpose of helping the pockets
to retain their shape and making them
wear longer.
DUBLIN SCHOOL 25 YEARS OLD
Dublin continuation school celebrat-
ed the 25th anniversary of its op,en-
fit over a clothes hanger. Make a
.slit down the centre of one side, into
which to put the soiled garments.
Bind all the edges except the bottom
ones, with bias tape. Insert the
clothes hanger and sew a slide fast-
inglast week. During the past quar- ener across the bottom of the bag.
ter century the Ursuline Sisters as
teachers have labored .assidnously and
hunchecis of students have known. "There's, nothing slow about Morse,
their direct influence in their various "I guess you never loaned him any
vocations in life. Lower School, Mid- money!"
clle School and Upper School courses "Oh, yes, I have. That's what 11
of study have been available and mean. I loaned him $10 six months
completed. There is an attendance ago, and I haven't been, abe to cat*
of about eighty, at present. him since." hhhh