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The Clinton News Record, 1938-10-13, Page 3Tested z RecipOs '� tt ✓: liHff'M�H�H:M�H �H:WMIf�sHi �iN MW �MiHA�'M�� 'THURS., OCT. 13, 1938. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS HEALTH THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad -But Always Helpful and Inspiring. THE PRICE OF SUCCESS If you haven't the patience to work • and wait, To build with precision and lay your 'brick straight; If you ,haven't the courage to ,gun now and then. When the structure fails down, and to start it again, -' Just remain where you 'are and be satisfied, too.. For the 'hazards out there will be too. much for you. If you can't stand alone in the thick ofthe fight, ...And persist in your course when you know you are right; If you can't keep your faith when it's greeted with sneers, Don't leave the broad highway to carve out anew, '. Por the hardships out there will be too much for you. • But if you will take all the fates have to give, • Stand hardships, and set -`backs, still glad that you live; If you cling to your faith and keep plodding along 'when disaster besets you and every- thing's wrong; If you're willing to battle and never give in, Go after your dream for in time you will win. Anon, HOME A home, to be a home, must be A place of love, of charity, Where teadrops flow and laughter rings .And every one to mother brings Their sorrows,' whether great, or small, -Seeking. her comforting for all. A home, to be a home, must be • A heaven onthis earth, where we Revels :in mother's Mane -made bread • And see the halo round her head. Every member of the family must :In God Almighty learn to trust, . And never fail to say their prayers Beside their humble bed upstairs. A home, to be a home, must be A place where folks drop, in to sec How the great world is treating us, Friends over whom we love to fuss, • Just like they do when visit we '- "Their homes, to have a cup o' tea. A home, to be a home, must be A baby's coo, its warm, sweet kiss, 'Where little cheeks are smeared with jam, And sweet's the - scent of baking hams, And under many a chair there'll be Somebody's ' guru stuck carelessly. -Tom Lloyd Finlayson. S,,ONNETS FROM THE PORTUGESE If -thou must love me, let it be for nought, -Except for love's sake only. Do not say "I love her for her smile . . her look, her way Of speaking gently ..: for ,a trick of thought "'That falls in well with mine, and cotes brought ' A sense of pleasant ease on such a day„— `:For these things in themselves, be- loved, may Be changed, or change for thee—and love, so wrought May be unwrought so. Neither love me for Thine own deal ` pity's wiping my cheeks dry- . A creature night forgot to weep, I whobore i ''Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby! .'Beit lave me for love's sake, that ` evermore I, "Thou may'st love on, through love's ever cull • Some prescience of thee with the . blossoms white Thou sawest growing! Athiests ' are as dull, Who, cannot guess `God's presence.out .of sight. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. GOOD MORNING,.. MERRY. SUNSHINE Good morning, Merry •Sunshinel How did you wake so soon? Your scared the little stars away And shined away the moon, I -saw you go to sleep last' night Before I ceased my playing. How did you get ;'way over here, '.And where have you been staying? I never go to sleep, dear child; I just go round to 'see My little children, of the East, Who rise and watch for me. I waken all the bees and birds And flowers on my way, And "last of all the little girl Who stayed out late to play. A MOTHER'S HYMN Oh, God be praised for rompeng boys Who plague ine every day, Who bring the wrinkles to my face And turn my hair to grey; Because for every silvered lock My Heart has softer grown, And 'midst the furrows on my brow Are seeds of patience sown. Oh, God be praised for muddy boots That tramp the ball and stair, For mouths to feed, for pants to .patch, For every trivial care; Because, in all my daily task I see so plain and clear The need God has, through them, •for me, And why: Ile placed me here. But, most of all, I praise my God For rosy lips to kiss, For loving arms that round me cling, And fill ivy soul with bliss; Because, though in a lowly way, I feel I'm living through Those same sweat; bailee of mother- hood That gentle Mary knew. -Edna C, Barrett. AUTUMN Autumn! whose magic wand doth deck the hills In raiment bright and glorious; hand -maid Art thou of fair Ceres. "'Tis thy hand fills The garners with thy mistress' lav- ish gifts-- Rich ifts—Rich. stores of golden grain and mel- low fruit • Of vine and tree. And to our gaze displayed The world thou dost enfold in festal robes • Of georgeous hues in testimony mute Unto the ' goddess' blessing upon those Who faithful service unto her have paid"• The long year through. Lo, now the woodland glows With thits of amber, orange, cries - S011, bronze. Yet o'er the mist veiledi splendor seems: to brood 'A solemn sadness, pressage of decay. So perhaps to us the message 'twould convey; "Thus fades all earthly beauty; seek thou then The more enduring and which lasts alway." —Rita 'E. • Collip. eternity. Beloved, my beloved, when I' think "That thou was't in the world a year ago = What time I stood alone here in the snow And saw no footprint, heard the sil- ence sink, No moment at thy voice.but, link by link, Went counting all my chains, as if that so "They never could fall off at any blow 'Struck by by thy possible hand why, thus ]' drink `'Of life's great cup of Wender! Wonderful, Never to feel theethrillthe day or night 1alirith personal act or speech--•snorl THE ;HOUSEWIFE They aie"e,ot fetters; no, ,her daily tasks She lovingly accepts, fulfilling all,. Serving in sweet content the ones she loves. And yet, her listening heart must hear the call Of every waking . bud and feel the awe of deep, new -fallen snow; And know the thrill and ache that comes at sight, of naked trees 'Gainst sunset's fading light behind hili. 1.3 -Poe, a blossom -laden tree ontside her kitchen door A red -bird sings; Her hands are busy with unfinished tasks, her heart has flown upon those scarlet wings, And now new thoughts awake, grop- ing ,for wards, Seeking the light as flowers through the soil, Hereaut -I in b y ova heart must ever g sing, 'and --like all women-- Mingle omen—Mingle dreams with toil. —Isla Paschal Richardson.' A' HEALTH SERVICE. OF THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ANO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA Tuberculosis Mortality Checked 'In the last thirty years, -there has been an enormous decrease in the mortality from tuberculosis. • This has been -due chiefly to the education of the publie in the meastu'es avail- able for the control of the White Plague. There are signs that .the decrease in tuberculosis mortality has received at least a temporary check: Figures at hand show that for the year 1936, out of 40 states in the. United States 19 had a higher mor- tality than that for 1935; 19 had a ]ower mortality :while 2 showed no change. The margin, whichever way it finally shows, will hot be great, but it is a blow to the optimism of those who assert that tuberculosis is a disappearing disease. , The causeof this check in the lessening of the inroads of tuber.. culosis is laid at the door of the depression. In the lean period through which all countries have lat- ely been passing, people have been subjected to more worries and per- plexities than ever before. Tlfese in- clude the problem of insufficient food, congested quarters and general hardships. People, by the thousands, who had money and who never ex- pected to face the need of economy have been forced by stern necessity to pinch, to use cheaper food, to cut down the bill for heating to wear their old clothes and, in many cases to live in unsuitable sometimes un- sanitary quarters, A large propor- tion of the population has been on publie relief which, however adequate in the keeping of body and soul to- gether, is a poor substitute for flue ability to buy what one wants. Curiously enough, any check' in the decline of tuberculosis mortality came not during, but after the per- iod of depression. This is what might, on sober reflection, have been ex- pected. The ilepairntent of vitality, if there has been an impairment, slid not become manifest until the de- pression itself had lifted. It will likely show itself for a few years longer. The battle against tuberculosis. does not appear to have been in any way abated in the depression years; there has been no let-up hi the cam- paign The present situation de- mands that there shall be an in- creasetf boncentration in the work of tuberculosis control. Particularly should this work be directed to the early years of life. Most of the tuberculosis of adoles- cenee and early adult life has its inception in the child, in the . infec- tion nfertion gained from the use of raw milk, from close contact with the open case of tuberculosis in the fam- ily, or in some close associate of the child, The infection often lies dormant until the stress of life stirs up this infection. There is one certain way in which an individual infection of tuberculos- is may be uncovered. This is by the use of the intracutaneous tuberculin test. Use of this test among, for example, large groups of school and pre-school children,•- indicates that from 20 to 30% of such groups have a tuberculosis infection.. This con- dition does not ,mean that the in- fected children are doomed to die of tuberculosis. What it does mean is that the individual child has been in contact with a potent source of infection, which, if not 'renaeved, means re -infection and eventual dis- aster. The discovery of infection. in a child should immediately start the hunt for the source of infection in order that this source may be pre- vented from doing further harm. Most of the infected children, 32 they have not yet acquired adult tuber- culoeis, will, under normal conditions of life, get well. If they are allow- ed to continue in the shadow 'of the original source of infection, they are very likely to become sources of in- fection to others. The control of tuberculosis is a great economic problem. It means, apart, altogether ' from 'the public health side, problem fraught with enormous financial loss or benefit to the state. Hence it should, be handled like any other great econ- omic ` problem, with . wisdom and statesmanship. --By John W. S. McCullough, ,M.D. If ou wantt a get the current Y news of the day you in Paris just drop into a telephone booth, dial Inf-1 and a three minute bulletin will come over the wires to you. A little girl was very anxious to have a new doll of a particular style. The mother, in an effort to teach her to ask God for what she wanted, advised her to pray for it. This she• did in her evening prayer. After she was settled down in bed she sudden- ly; to her Mother's surprise, hurried- ly got up, knelt beside the bed and said, "Dear Jesus, don't sent it on Monday. I am going to a picnic. Amen." How like children we are in our prayers we: want out petitions 'an- swered,, but just in our own way. According to the Presbyterian catechism, which many of us learned in our childhood, "Prayer is an of- fering up of, aur desires unto God, for things agreeable to His will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowl- edgement of His mercies." In simple Ianguage Prayer is really just carry- ing on a conversation with our Sav- iour ,in the same way as we would talk to an Earthly friend. One vast difference is that when we 'pray to God our prayer is made up largely of asking for things we would not think of petitioning an earthly friend for as many favors as we ask Jesus for and we would be polite enough to say "Thank You" much more often than we do to our Heavenly Father. Prayer should be to us more im- portant than ' anything else in our lives. We should just live prayer. During the past weeks of the world's troublous times more pray- ers ascended to the throne of God than perhaps at any time in the his- tory of the world. The fact that our prayers were answered means that we should come even closer to God in Thanksgiving and in petitions for the guidance of our leaders in world affairs. God alone can straighten out these things and He will do it according to His own plan. The God who performed really a miracle in this instance is well able to keep the world at Peace. No prayer should ascend to the throne of God without asking tfiat our request ehould be granted ac- cording to His will. God's delays are not denials. "Unanswered yet, Nay do not say ungranted, Perhaps your part is not yet wholly done, The work began when first your prayer was Iettered And God will finish what He has begun, If you keep tlye incense !burningthere, His glory you shall see, some time, somewhere." Perhaps our prayers will not be answered as we would wish them to be, but they will be answered in a way best for ourselves. Very often we think things are too small to pray about. There is nothing too trivihl to be taken to the Lord. Ile hears and' answers our every request. He has given His word that He will be our guide and His promises are never failing. Do not let our prayers become Ft routine. If we talked to our friends as we sometimes talk to God they would be inclined to think that we were very absent minded and were not interested in them. We should consider that prayer is. a privilege, Our day should begin• and end by seeking God's guidance. Someone has said "What you are in prayer that you are and 'nothing more". Prayer, should be a mighty power in our lives if we would just consider it so. "Tell Him All" "When thou wakest in the morning, Ere thou tread the , untried way Of the lot that lies before thee Through the coming busy day, Whether sunbeams promise bright- ness, Whether dim forebodings fall, Be thy dawning glad or gloomy,' Go to Jesus—tell Him all! Then, as hone by hour glides by thee, Thou wilt blessed guidanee know, Thine own burdens being lightened, Thou canst bear another's Woe; Thou canst help the weak ones one ward, Thou canst raise up those that fall! But remember" when .thou servest, Still toll Jesus—tell Him all! And if weariness creep o'er thee, As the daywears to its close, Or if sudden fierce temptation Bring thee face to face, with foes; to s ] thyperil, In thy weakness, s n p , , tost l call, heaven a tru fu Strength and calm for every crisis, Come—in telling Jesus all." "PEG„ COOKING PAGE 7 CARE OF CHILDREN • yy .`"I2 •• �=} aft? k�f� I,s 4Hi! 'I :t FOR. YOUR ,COOKIE JAR NoW that the cooler evenings are here it means that •there will be more entertaining with the conse- quent lunches after the bridge game. Will you have on hand a good supply of tasty cookies to serve: a quick luncheon,. Here are a few good cookie recipes taken from a booklet published by Standard Brands Ltd. The recipes are pectical and tested and provide wholesome, appetizing food. ICE BOX COOKIES cup .butter 1 cup ;brown sugar l egg 1/ teaspoon Magic Soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1% cups flour 1/2 cup chopped mots Cream butter and, sugar, add beaten eggs; beat all until light. Sift flour and salt and sada three times and add with the nuts to the first mix- ture. Pack in a tin and put in the ice box or any cold place over night, Turn out on a board and slice as thin as possible without breaking. Bake in a hot oven. MAGIC CREAM COOKIES 2 eggs 1 cup sugar 1 cup thick cream 3 cups flour 14 cup shredded cocoanut 3 teaspoons Magic Baking Powder tt teaspoon salt. Beat eggs until light, add • Edgar gradually ; add cocoanut, cream, and flour (which has been mixed and sifted with baking powder and salt) Put away in ice box until thoroughly chilled,' then turn on to a floured board and roll one half inch thick. Sprinkle with cocoanut and roll one fourth inch thick; cut with a small cutter, first dipping in flour. Bake on a buttered shoat in a moderate oven. BOS'T'ON COOKIES 1 cup butter 1% cups sugar 3 eggs 1 teaspn. Magic Soda 31/2 cupe flour 1/2 teaspn. salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup chopped nuts et cup currants % cup raisins, seeded and chopped Cream butter and sugar, gradually add well beaten eggs; then add half of flour sifted with soda, salt and cinnamon; then mix fruit and nuts, with remainder of flour and add to first mixture. Drop by spoonfuls an inch apart on a well greased baking sheet and bake in a ,moderate oven. DATE COOKIES 3 cups roiled oats 21/2 cups flour 3 "teaspoons Magic Baking Powder 14 teaspoons salt 1 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup "lard 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup milk Put rolled oats into a bowl; sift flour, baking powder and salt 'to- gether; add to oats; then sugar. Melt butter and lard, add to dry mix- ture with milk. Mix altogether; roll, cut with round cutterand bake in moderate oven. NUT COOKIES 2 tablespoons' butter 1/2 cup sugar 1 egg 2 tablespoons mills 1 cup flour 2 teaspns. Magic Baking Powder teaspoon salt 1 cup chopped nuts Cream butter and sugar; add well beaten 'egg; flour,, baking powder and salt (wiuieh have been sifted to- gether). Stir in chopped nuts.: Drop by^small teaspoons on to well better- ed shallow pans and bake in oven 375 degrees F. PEANUT COOKIES (DROP) 8 tablespoons butter 'A cup sugar 1. egg 1 cup flour 1 teaspn; Magic Balling Powder 1/1 teaspoon salt ea cup chopped nuts 1/ teaspoon lemon juice Cream butter and sugar thoroughly, add well beaten yolk, then flour which has been sifted with baking powder andsalt. Add nuts, miti , then en fold in beaten white and lemon juice, Drop from teaspoon on oiled pan and bake in 350 degree oven. Tix]s nLix- tune is very dry. MAKING 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. 22 Dear Sir: In asking me to offer any ,sug- gestion that would. assist the rural weekly newspapers in making Can- ada a better place hi which to live and work, you are giving me a rather large order. Localism is ,perhaps one of the besetting sins of the weekly news- paper, as ewspaper,.'•as of most of our local communities. It would seem to me that one of the greatest contribu- tions that a weekly could make would be to give the people a bet- ter , understanding of the world in which we all must live. (a) A better understanding of people. We in this country are com- ing to be quite heterogeneous. It is very easy to play up the native-born and to 'play down foreign immi- grants, very easy to set OrangemenI against Catholics and visa versa, not so easy to get each group to under- stand the other. Further the world today is shrinking. It took some of our ancestors nearly three months to cross the Atlantic, now it can be crossed in about a day. Our knowl- edge of the various nations has not kept pace with this growing prox- imity. It is still easy to start up racial animosity that may lead to war. (b) We need a better understand- ing of 'modern movements, political and otherwise. It is perhaps inev- itable nevitable that in the heat of an elec- tion campaign the rival parties pre sent their owin points of view as strongly as possible. Surely between election there ought to be some op- portunity for an OPEN FORUM in which various groups will have the opportunity of presenting their dis- tinctive policies and points of view, We cannot get rid of movements that we do not like simply by noring nor denouncing them. We must understand them. (c) We should have a better ran- derstanding of modern economic dee velopments. We Canadians are only one or two generations removed front early pioneer life. Our ideals are still largely close to the pioneers. Our policies tend to lag behind, yet in' reality we must; wairk out our destinies in a slightly complex in- dustrial society Surely every citizen should have some little knowledge of the actual world in which he lives. I sometimes But it that there are two questions we could all learn to answer—"How did' we get this way," and "Where do we go from here?" I would suggest that without at- tempting any thing sensational or spectacular you could carry out my suggestions, to use your own phrase "in a quiet, effective, and practical way." Yours sincerely, J. 5, WOODSWORTH, Leader, Canadian Common- wealth Federation, Ottawa. Lions Club and the Community Any community in which a healthy active Lions Club is working can consider itself in hick A service club of this nature is one of the best assets a small town can have. Pew of us stop to realize that a Lions Club is something different from any other organization of a fraternal nature. Lionism was found- ed by business men who wanted to be big brothers to the underprivileg- ed, and hundreds of thousands of underprivileged children the world over have benefited tremendously as' the result of Lion "big brother acts." In Clinton eve are very proud of our Lions Club. They have a record of achievement which compares very favourably with other clubs in this district. Numerous cases where medi- cal, optical and dental care was re- quired and in which the financial ab- ility of children parents was insuf- ficient to cope with the problem, have been loo]sed after by this fine organization of business and profes- sional men. This is why so many people tell us they are back of the Clinton Lions Club one hundred percent., and con- tribute generously whenever an ap- peal is made to help carry along their wonderful work. THE REAL BOY 1 Show me the boy who never threw A stone at someone's cat; Or never hurled a snowball swift At someone's high silk hat. I Who never ran away from school, To seek the swimming hole; Or shyly from a neighbour's yard Green apples never stole, Show me the boy who never broke A pane of >window glass; Who never disobeyed tiro sign That says "Keep off the grass." Who never did a thousand things, That grieve us sore to tell; And I'll show you a little boy Who must be far from well. --Anon. cheerfully "CHIP -IN toWhey' ch.ee y pay for the TELEPHONE This is the practice in many homes - the "working age" youngsters to whom the tele- phone is a social necessity chip -in to pay, for its modest cost. They, never miss the few cents a day that telephone service costs — in fact they, and their parents too, sin- ply couldn't get along now without the, telephone. [Reductions in telephone rates—local and tong distance— in 1935, '36 and '37 have effected and i Ontario h no users n tocele o savings A t rsyearly, 'million ` al a Quebec o nearly. one . a Y Q�'