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The Clinton News Record, 1938-09-15, Page 7'I THURS., SEPT. 15, °1935. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD ]PAGE 7 HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS HEALTH COOKING � CARE OF CHILDREN THIS MODEST CORNER IS 1DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs -Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful and Inspiring. FOR THOSE WHO FAIL "A}I honor to him who shall win the prize" . The world has cried for a thousand years, .But to him who tries and who fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears. 'Give glory and honor and pitiful tears To all who fail in their deeds sub- lime, • "Their ghosts are many in the van of years. '4'hey were born with Time in ad- vance of Time. 'Oh, great is the hero who wins a name, 'But ..greater many and many a time Some pale -faced fellow who dies in shame And lets God finish the thought sublime. -And greater is the man with sword undrawn, But the man who fails and yet still fight on, Lo, he is the twin -brother of mine. -And good is the roan who refrains from wine. — Joaquin Miller. OUR VILLAGE HOME Far away from the teeming city Nestles our village home; Wholesome and clean and pretty, Smiling at us when we come. ,For a moment we gaze in silence, And we breathe the clean, pure air As the spirit' of peace and content- ment Free us from every care. :Hark] The stately maples stir In leafy reprimand "Where have you been all summer? Explanation we demand." ""Begged your majestic' pardon, Please accept our humble regrets, We will salute yosi from the garden And together see gorgeous sun- sets." un- sets. " -Moved by the gentlest of breezes, Soft an answer came - And we knew that we're forgiven, As we entered the friendly lane. Haw distant seems the city With its many obvious wrongs, • As God looks on its milling throngs. Here Nature plays such lovely tunes, So what of the troubled past? Within the house are pleasant rooms; Aye, we are safely house at last. A. L. Remy HEART VENTURES I stood and watched my ships go out, • Each, one by one, unmooring free, 'What time the quit harbour filled With flood tide from the sea. 'The first that •sailed, her name was Joy, She spread a, smooth white,. ample sail, .And eastward drove with bending spar ,Before the singing kale. .Another sailed, her name was :Hope. No cargo in her hold she bore, 'Thinking to find in western lands Of merchandise a store. IN GOSHEN "How can yon live in Goshen?" Said a friend from afar— "This wretched country town, Where folks talk little things all year And plant their , cabbages by the noon!" Said I: "I do not live in Goshen— I eat here, sleep here, work here; I live in Greece,, Where Plato taught, And Phidias carved, And Epicurus wrote. I dwell in Rome, Where 'Michelangelo wrought In color, form and mass; Where Cicero penned immortal lines And Dante sang undying songs. Think not my life is small Because you see a puny place; I have my books; I have my dreams; A Thousand souls have left for me Enchantment that transcends Both time and place. And so I live in Paradise, Not Isere." NOTATION ON IMMORTALITY We are debating many things to- gether, Old Rover drowsy on the floor, and then, Watching him hunt in dreams, we argued whether A dog will live again. Searching the Scriptures, "perish as a beast" We would recall, and in another place, "Without are dogs" . . in all the scroll no least Promise for Rover's race. Learn and unkempt beside his owts- er's chair He sprawled. 13re could not clear- ly picture hits Ranging around with. sheep -burrs in his hair Among the seraphim, The fire went out, the hall clock struck eleven, Stretching, he sighed, and edged a little way Nearer his master's fool; - aready in heaven And asking but to stay. Nancy Byrd Turner, in Atlantic. THE GUY IN THE GLASS 'When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf And the world makes. you king for. a day, ' Then go to the mirror and look at yourself And see what that guy has to say. For it isn't your father or mother or wife Who judgment' upon you must Hass; The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life Is the guy staring back from the glass. He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest, For he's with you clear up to the end. And you've passed your most dang- erous, difficult test If the guy in the glass is your friend. You May be like Jack Horner and The next that sailed her name was "chisel" a plum ' Love, She showed a red flag at the amort - '.A flag as red as blood,she showed, B And she sped south right fast.III, 'The Last that sailed, her name was Faith. I Y Slowly she took her passage,. forth; I 'Tacked and lay to; at last she steered' A straight course for the 'north. B •My .gallant 'ships they sailed away Over the shimmering summer sea; I stood watch for many a day. Bub one came came back to 'For Joy was caught by Pirate Pain; Hope ran upon a hidden reef, .And Love took fire and foundered fast c. In whelming seas of Grief. Faith came atlast, storm bent and torn, She reocnspensed ane all my loss, .For as a cargo safe she brought A crown linked to a cross. Exchange. Anel think you're a wonderful guy, • ut the man in the glass says you're only a bum 1f you can't look him straight in ou can fool the whole world down the pathway of years And get pats on the back as ,yon Dees, ut your final, reward Will be heart- / aches and tears If you've cheated the guy in the glass. —Exchange LILAC BLOOMING A white lilac is blooming for the second time this year at the farm home of Albert Alton at Belfast, This 'bush was, in full bloom this. spring, and is Thawing signs of again being loaded with pretty white clust- ers of lilacs. It is at least quite unusual if not a rare occureence.. HEALTH DEPENDS ON VALANCED; DIETS , Calgary, Sept, 13th—Neither man nor animal selects health -giving foods by instinct, declared Dr. L. H. New- burgh, Professor of Clinical Invests- gation at the University of Michigan, speaking here last night at Central United Church in conection with the cut•rent campaign of the Canadian Medical Association to increase pub- lic knowledge of proper diet. Dr. Newburgh, a leading United States authority, asserted that chemical re- search had proven that instinct and appetite alone could not be trusted to tell people what they should eat. The ill -health of mountaineers of the southern United States offers wholesale evidence of the effect of in- adequate diet, said Dr. Newburgh. "The habitual food of large groups of people contains far too little pro- tein", he stated. "Thus, in the south centralportion of the United. States, especially in the mountainous dist- ricts, the food consiists chiefly of corn, molasses, and salt pork. The natives are thin, pale, haggard, de- void of ambition and lacking in strength. Irl is characteristic that they accept their debility as a matter of course andevince no interest in overcoming it. ` Even though they are suffering from a protein defic- iency, instinct does not prompt them to ` seek out protein -rich foods." A child receives too little calcium for the prop,er development of bones and teeth unless .it drinks four glasses of`, milk daily or takes the equivalent in the form of a pint of milk, four ounces of cream, an ounce of cheese, and a serving of some leafy vegetable, he contended. Since ib would take 22 pounds of beef or eight pounds of bread to pro- vide the calcium content of one quart of mink, 'Dr. Newburghpointed out that it would be impossible to eat enough meat, eggs and white bread to fill the calcium needs of a grow- ing child. "Our .forebearers were wiser than they knew when they cherished the cow, for site patiently and with never a complaint extracts the calcium from high quantities of grass and delivers it to us in so small a pack- age that we imbibe it with ease and pleasure," he commented, adding that physicians could prescribe cal- cium in medicinal forma for the oc- casional child with whom milk does not agree. He emphasized, too, the need for vitamins. These, he said, were lack- ing in the diet of the average Amer- ican big city dweller, causing "de- ficiency" diseases. Thus, in addition to milk, eggs and meat, he recom- mended that daily diet include one pound of green leafy vegetables and fruit, raw or cooked. ON A VACATION Wearied by men and traffic of the town, Once more I cdme as in the years gone by, Where hills of canyoned green and tawny brown Slope to a rainless sky. Drinking anew the ancient psalm -like peace Of brooklets lapping under shadowy boughs, • I, feel like one condemned, who wins release Out of the 'prison. house.: . Here only, where the groves and streams, are lords And ridge and vale make one liar- ronius whole, The tired seeker, worn by pummell- ing hordes, . Can find his own lost soul. —Stanton A. Coblentz. ANTS ATE SOCl{S A sock on ,the foot is worth two on an ant hill, at least that's what you'll think after you read this story front the Hanover Post: They tell a rather good story about a Hanover butcher who went out to Bentinck the other day to look at some Battle, and, going to the' bush with the farmer, they found that the animals had creased the rivbr. As the water "was not very, deep, they decided to take off their shoes and socks, roll up their trousers, and do sone.• wading,:, They then decided they had better take their shoes along' to walk after the cattle, and they' did. so. After a thorough inspection, the men returned across the river • but *hen they Baine to where they had left their socks there was absolutely no trace of them though the spot was inhabited by what seemed to be a million ants. - Parents in the Tibet select the bride -groom and the wedding day for their daughter without her know- ledge and it is sprung on her at the last moment. Those, of you who have lived in the vicinity of a large school will have realized that inspiration: which. comes to you when you watch the children} gathering for -their first day following a long summer vacation. The children are of all ages, from the tiny ones going to Kindergarten Th the boys and girls of the "awk- ward .age,, who are uslually com- pleting their final year in the public school. . One can see that the children, al- most without exception, have been sent from home after careful thought as to their personal appearance. They go to the seat of learning with varied thoughts. Some are tir- ed of holidays and are quite ready to assume the responsibility of the year's work. To these, perhaps the holiday after the first few weeks. had become irksome. We night say some are studiously inclined rather than being interested in the drudgery, if so it aright be called, of housewog . This applies to the girls in particular but would include boys who have been trained in the art of helping l%other. At the present time it is a herd proposition for young people to se- cure work during the holidays, and many such finding it difficult to put in time are quite' ready to assume school tasks. Then of course there are those boys and girls who never liked school and' who never . will like it. This class is indeed a problem to their parent); some of whom are -quite ready to make a sacrifice in order that their children might be educat- ed. To them the thought of school is almost a nightmare,. However with varied ideas the children are off to school. To older people as they watch them go, the thought very often arises, 'I wish I were starting back to school again. I wish I had the opportunity to study I once had. It does seem too bad that we do not realize that when we are children. In reality we are going to school all the time, We are all pupils of the School of Experience. From our earliest moments, unconsciously it may be, we have been attending this school- A doctor once made the remark about a baby who haci just commenced his life in this world "That child knows nothing, what he learns he must be taught". Every day we see children being taught. A child learns not to play with fire, by being burned; he learns not to over balance in a tree by falling; he learns how to swine by plunging into the water; he learns the result of wrong doing by being punished, We might go in in this strain endlessly. It all had to do with the School of Experience. All other events in life fade be- fore the greatest experience, that of breaking away from a life of sin and entering the rea]ns of Salvation. We then attend the school marked "The way- of Eternal Life". Jesus Christ is the teachejr there. We study from just one text book; the Bible, and there are no monitory school fees. The lessons all deal with the advancement in our Christian life. It is only by experience that we learn the disastrous way of sin, and the glorious results of following Jesus Christ. One very touching scene in watch- ing children going to school is the fact that some little ones are being taken by their mothers and fathers, older brother and sisters. They need to be introduced to the teacher and welcomed by her. It is indeed a beautiful thought for us that we may be the one who will take some one to the School of Eternal .Life and in- troduce him or her to the Great Teacher. The Journey of Life "The journey of life is too long and too hard. Without our blest Master's uphold- ing.; The evil one seeks every hour to retard Life's plan that our Gddis unfold - I believe, I believe in His infinite level And I'll trust Him whatever befall me; For I . ].now that the tide of His mercy will bear, My bark ' to His Haven, most surely," "PEG„ The pylar regions are practically immune to danger of earthquakes. Study over 'a period of 25 years showed that during that time only 10",earthguakes occurred north of the Arctic Circle. Tested Recipes In view of the plentiful supply of tomatoes, the following recipes for the home canning of this fruit may prove useful, PICKLED WHOLE TOMATOES 1 peck small green tomatoes 1 quart boiling water sa cup pickling salt 1 quart vinegar 8 pounds brown sugar 4 teaspoon' cayenne pepper 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon mixed spice 1 teaspoon celery seed 10 whole cloves Dissolve salt in boiling water. Put in a few tomatoes at a time and boil for twelve minutes. Remove each tomato carefully with a wooden spoon to prevent spoiling shape, drain thoroughly and pack in jars. Tie spices in muslin bag, put into vin- egar, add sugar and boil,until slight- ly thickened. Remove spice bag, pour liquid : over tomatoes, filling jars full and seal tightly. TOMATO CATSUP 10 pounds tomatoes % pound salt ti cup shopped onions 2 tablespoons vinegar 3 sweet green peppers 1 sweet red pepper 2 tablespoons salt % cup sugar Mash and cut tomatoes but do not peel. Chop- the peppers finely. Mix tomatoes, celery, onions, peppers and salt together. Boil for one-half.hour. Strain through a coarse sieve. Add the vinegar and sugar. Boil three minutes. Seal in sterilized jars. TOMATO COCKTAIL ( NO. 2) 1 bushel tomatoes 1 small head celery 14 cup vinegar teaspoon white pepper 1 cup chopped onions 4 teaspoons salt Boil all together for 20 minutes. Strain and boil 5 minutes. Bottle and seal. Good Manners and Success Some limitations cannot be chang- ed. Certain young men would give much if they could add five inches to their height, and a corresponding breadth to their shoulders, but if nature gave them a rather insignifi- cant physique, they have to put up with it. Brains are not all the same quality. Some young people envy the classmate who can make a perfect recitation with the same amount of study which leaves them poorly pre- pared. There is no way yet discovered of speeding up a slow, plodding brain and making n • ' i. quick to seize an idea. These .are some of the conditions which cannot be changed, bat a fact- or that counts quite as much in suc- cess can be cultivated. Every one can decide whether or not he will be courteous. The young fellow with a fine physique profits little by that ad- vantage after his associates discover that he is a bore. The girl who leads her class in school may fall short of success outside because she .delights in making people`'' uncomfortable with that sharps tongue of 'hers. Few qualities count more in life than the good manners that are the expression of kindliness, the courtesy whie,h is the flower of the Golden Rule. This is something everyone can possess, but how few take the pains to acquire it. Walks to Exhibition -to List his Entry David Sheppard, a 15 -year old boy with grim determination and a fine pair of wooden candlesticks, walked all the way from Brantford Thurs- day• to enter: his candlesticks in the hobby show in the Automotive Build- ing at the Canadian National Exhibi- tion. When the boy arrived at the ex- hibition he had exactly five, cents in his pocket. His only other posses- sion at that time was the expertly. turned wooden candlesticks made of maple, walnut and mahogany. But after he had started his long trek back to Brantford fortified by his five cents worth of hot dog, it, was rumored' around the hobby show that young David would get some kind of prize for his entry. And the rumor further hadit that if the judges did not give him a prize, hobby show officials would.. A FiKING CANADA A Better Place in Which to Live and Work A Series of Letters from Distinguished Canadians on Vital Problems Affecting the Future Welfare of Canada Specially Written for Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association LETTER NO. 18 Dear bir. Editor: Thank you for the copy of the letter sent to various Canadians in connection with a possible policy for the weekly newspapers to follow. My own answer to the question would be that the most important thing to work for is a national spirit. Today provincialism is grow- ing at such a rate that the Domin- ion is almost a collection of nine independent states. We can never be a nation until we learn to think like a nation so long as we. think like a nation, and we can never think like a nation so long as we think only of one section of a country. We need a !eduction of government machinery and a reduction of taxa, tion. We need to eliminate party pat, nonage. I' We need to improve our educa- tional system. And, in my opinion, we need to cultivate and emphasize our British connections. These are the things for Which Maclean's stands and is working for year in and year out. With the weekly press standing unitedly for all or part of such a programme I think their influence would produce results. Very sincerely your, ' H. NAPIER. MOORE, Editor, • Maclean's Magazine, Toronto. Rid Households of Cat and' and when it has partly set add the whipped cream, and place the com- pleted mixture ht a mould which has previously been rinsed in cold water. To make the cup of broth, put the Dog Fleas According to the Division of En tomology, Science Service; Domini() Department of Agriculture, Ottawa there have recently been numerou complaints from householders of th presence of fleas in their homes semetimes in large numbers and at tacking the occupants. This is no an uncommon occurence in sunmer and autumn, especially in home where cats and dogs are kept, as th fleas which normally live on thes animals are usually responsible foe the trouble. The eggs from the flea drop upon the floor, and the tiny legless maggots whieh hatch fro them develop in floor cracks and sim ilar places, where they feed on any Organic substances that are availabl This commonly takes place in th basement of houses, to which the an ,mals have access, and where thor ough clearing of the Boers is usually less frequent than elsewhere in the hone. Development of the insects is accelerated in warm moist weather, which accounts for the greater abun- dance 0 2 fleas during the summer months. Investigations have shown that these infestations of fleas may us- ually be eliminated without recourse to fumigation. Control consists of three phases: (1) destruction of adult fleas in the house; (2) on the dog or cat, and (3) destruction of the immature stages (eggs, .larvae and pupae) in floor cracks and similar places. The destruction of adult fleas in the house may be accomplished by spraying the infested rooms liberally with a good pyrethrum fly spray; those on the dog or cat may be de- stroyed by dusting the animals thor- oughly, over newspapers, with fresh t n pyrethr s n or derris powder, whieh kills or stuns the fleas and causes them to fall on the paper, after which they may be destroyed by burning; or, the animals may be washed in a solution of cresol, 2 per cent for cats and 3 per cent for dogs, followed shortly after by soap and warn water. The sleeping places of the cats or dogs should be scrup- ulously cleaned. To destroy the immature stages of fleas, a thorough house-eleaning is necessary, using, a vacuum cleaner, if available, and scrubbing the floors with hot soapy water. . Particular attention nnust be given to the base- ment of the house which is commonly the chief source of trouble. n , bits of bone and skin from the can s of fish into cold salted water .and e boil then for a few minutes, then , drain the broth and add it to the - salmon liquid from the can. t "Sonsetimes," said Miss LeBlanc in talking of the mousse, "I put it in • s small; individual moulds but Borne- e times) I use a single fish -shaped e mould such as anyone can obtain at a kitchenware store. Incidentally," n adds to the attractiveness of the appearance. e "The recipe I have been given e makes sufficient mousse for twelve - servings." - she added, "salmon is not the only fish suitable for use in making mousse but the colour of the salmon FISH MOUSSE DELICIOUS - VARIANT IN PARTY • MENU Hostesses who serve fish mnousse after: their next bridge party or at their next luncheon will find they've happened- upon a dainty dish that adds delicious variety. As they are malting it they'll be surprised, too, how easily and quickly it can be pro pared, Here are the :ingredients that are required: Two cups of canned sal-`' mon, a cup of fish broth, a table-' spoon of gelatine, a cup of whipping, cream, a quarter of a cup of cold• water ,a half tablespoon of salt, and pepper to suit the taste. And here is the method of preparation ,as out- lined by Miss Estelle LeBlanc, fish cookery demonstrator of the Domin- ion Department of Fisheries: 'Soak the gelatine in the cold water for five minutes, then add the salt, pep- per and hot broth, and allow this mixture to cool; then, having finely shredded the fish add it to the liquid Words that Wiggle "Words that Wiggle" was the sub.. ject of a talk given at the recent ses- sion of the Canadian Weekly News, papers Association Convention in Vancouver, by Volney Irons, Van- couver advertising man. There are 500,000 words in the dic- tionary, Mr. Irons stated and "The average citizen uses just 43 one -syllable words to express half his ordinary conversation," The average college professor uses 7,000. His students use one-half that number. The average citizen understands from 8,000 to 10,000, gets along nic- ely on 43. The average housewife has a vo cabulasy of 800, small stock but think of the turn -over. Business English is as different to conversation at English as a private car to the business world, It's not the words so much as the way they are expressed, that counts. A young matron sees Robert Taylor in the movies and says, "What a man." But the same words have an entirely different meaning when she uses them critically on her husband. A synonyhns is ,a word we use when we can't spell the one we want. It's a good idea to take the Bible off the shelf, blow off the dust and read it, There's nothing in the Eng- lish language to beat it. 'TWAS ONLY ANOTHER The following episode is related as an actual occurrenee in a small town in Ontario and was recounted by a member of the Victorian Order of Noises: Time '- about four o'clock in the morning. Scene — A poor home. One large room with two big beds, one on which a weary mother ,rested after, her hard ordeal, the other contain- ing five small children—three boys across the foot and two wee girlies at the head. The. Victorian Order nurse is giv ing the new arrival its first care, working quietly in front of the stove; and .not .encouraging ,conversation from the children, who are supposed' to be sleeping. ;She sears their whispered conversation: however. First little voice—"We've ' got an. other baby, a girl." Second little voice --"Yes, now we have three boys and three girls. 11 wanted another girl". Third little voice -a "I wanted an- other boy." Fourth and youngest voice, a lit*. tie tearfully "I Wanted a wagon".