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The Clinton News Record, 1938-12-15, Page 7THURS.; DEC. 15, 1938 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE 7 HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS ••••••opa 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. ."IT PAYS TO THINK" It's a little thing to do: Just to think. • - Anyone, no matter who, ' Ought ta think. ' Take a little time each day, - From the minutes thrown. away, Spare it from your work or play, •or Stop, and think. You will find that thoae who fail Do not think; • Those who find themselves in jail Do not think. - Half the troubles that we see, Trouble brewed for you and me, Probably would never be, If we'd think.—Author Unknown. GOOD BUSINESS• ' The happiest business in the world • Is that of making friends. And no "investment" on the "street" • Pays larger dividends. For life is more than stoeks and , bonds, And love, than rate percent, . And he who gives in friendships name Shall reap as he has spent. . Life is the greatest investment, And no man lives in vain .Who guards a hundred friendships As a miser guards his gain. TAKING STOCK OF. LIFE Is life worth living? Well, so, much neiends k On who are your neighbors, and who are your friends; On what are your thoughts, and what •your desires, On whether your garden grows roses or briars. Hsou are a miser and worship your gold, And for it -would suffer with hunger and cold; If grinding the poor to increase' your gain Is the principal thought employing your brain; " To such I would say this life is a curse, Its pleasures tied up in ait old leather purse, You can't take your gold along when you die; If you could, 'it would melt in the warm by -and -bye! If you have a heart sympathising with others, 4 A feeling that all mankind are your brothers; • If tbe beauties whieh God has plant- ed down here Are in touch and in tune 'with your eye and your. ear— ' If to live a.pure life is your greatest desire, And to real manly boyhood you ever aspire; If one friend remains who will stand by your side And hold to your hand whatever be- tide, Though fate may have saddened your life in the past, Keep onward, look upward, you'll conquer at last. 'The fruits of your label% all ripe at the end 'You'll gather, and life is worth living my friend! —1:Veteskawin Times. eso CHRISTMAS SHOPPING (By. Rev. N. Willison, B.A., B.D. Litt.D., 'President and Dean of The Lutheran College and Seminary, Saskatoon.) The Christmas shbpping days with all their pother Are here: there are such lovely things to buy! I too would like to shop: I am a mother With little folks. I like to hear the cry Of glad surprise about the Christmas tree When heart -born gifts help us the Christ to see. I wish I had a dress for little Betty— A new thing: she has worn cast-offs so long! And I would like a coat for patient Lettie, Our oldest girl, who is not ver strong , But always helps me alter, wash and mend The garments kindly people some- times send. I know it does no good to be com- plaining— . My husband telis be not to worry so— But folks, why should I always be abstaining From food and clothes and home things I well know, From what I see of life, are not denied To other wives? It is not Christmas tide? My faith would have me think the Yule -tide Saviour, Who came to Bethlehem, had me in mind, And made my cares His own, for His behaviour Among the poor was infinitely kind. He too was poor! Why should I then lantent? And yet! For whom is all the good • God sent? • —Exchange. MOTHER KittoWS 'When &lugs are lost are -mo the house, as often times they are; And someone blames another and brings on a family jar; It seems no matter what it is, it book or coat or hat; The checkerboard or writing pad, the ink or ball and bat; We holler — "Mo.! Where's this or that?" she always seems to know, Why Mother seems to know just where we hid • our skates last spring; Likewise, the tops and marbles, and our football, kites and string; The buttons for our Sunday shirt, our handkerchiefs and ties:— She sometimes says: "Why don't you look? Illeyt're right before your eyes." But when we lose our socks and shoes, we know right where to go— We holler.” --mat where's this or • that?"—she always seems to know. Now, life'sl a c.urio,us problem—its cares and joys combined; Its pain and bitter crosses with its happiness entwined. ' ,But all I ask is tha I may forever live ,where she - Is watching o'er the homestead where i THE ilANY POURING SPOUT jar the 'two poitnd thz. It's free --write for ene NOW • Fits the (Medal top of the 2 II,. tin f Crown Brand, Lily White and'Kero syrups. • Is easily cleaned and can be used over and over again. • Pours without a drip. • Provides means of accurate measurements. • Makee the 2 lb, tin an excellent table container. • The protective cap provides a sanitary cover. Tell the boys tlAl PnaltoVtfirnag°I.ors l'ockPcliaragiNii" IROWN BRAND CORN SYRUP The Famous Energy Food 'The CANADA STARCH, do:, Limited, Taranto others just like me . • - Aye privileged to lose :the things we need, our .books or clothes-- And holler — "Mal where's this or. that?" — 'l'oause: Mother always knows. —James M. Workrami. TO MY SON Doyou know that your soul is of my soul such a pelt That you seem to be fibre and core of rny heart? , No other, can pain; Inc as you dear can do, No other can please or pain me as You. Remember theworld will be quick with -its blame If shadows or stain ever darken your name,• Like mether like son, •is • a saying so true, ' • The world will judge of mother by you. Be yours then the should be To force the proud our to me, Be sure it will say you've won, 'She reaped as she her son,' task, if task it world to do hon. - when the verdict sowed, so this is —Contribnted. ITo The Lonely "He •knows, He loves,. He cares,. Nothing this truth can dun He gives His .yery best to those, Who leave, the choice for Him," Just at this particular 'season of the year, many are saying "I do .wish •Christmas was over." In analysing the. cause for this Wish, we find, that in many cases it is because the home is not as it used to be, there is a vacant chair. Who of us cannot look back over the years and visualize Christmas meanings when there was no vacant chair in our immediate family? Now there are many. Occupying our time the first Christmas without a loved one was a very very trying ordeal. That first Christmas to many is perhap,s the one which is approaching.' In other cases many such holiday 'seasons have come and gone. Time is a great healer, yet there is always that vac- ant chair. Father Time is sometimes spoken of as a "Mender of broken hearts", but it is just as we have faith in Christ that all things are done for the best that the sharp sting of sor- row is removed. Christ alone can mend a broken heart. It is a very easy thing for us to give advice to those who are sorrow- ing at this time, but after all they know best how to work out their own way of spending this season. We may think they are selfish in not mingling with the joyous throng. Perhaps in their own way they ate doing their part to make someone else's life happy, and, we know nothing about it. Those who have been bereaved think they can never take up life's work again without their laved one. Prayer, the only means of communi- cation with God, will bring strength. To keep on saying 'I cannot do it, I cannot do dt," will never ease the burden. ' A. Mother, who in recent years, had lost an only child, almost immediately went back to her premarriage work. that -of welfare. • A little later she was asked to take up some work with children, but refused. After being repeatedly invited to do it she realized that that was her work and that God would give her strength to do it. True to His promise, "Lo! I am with you always". What seemed the impossible becamea joy. To dwell continually on our sor- row means only one thing, we will be a burden to ourselves and to those with whom we corm in contact. Benjamin Franklin wrote to a be- reaved friend "We were invited abroad an a party of pleasure, which is to last forever, His chair was ready first, and he is gone on before us. We could not all conveniently start together, and why shordd you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow and know where to find him." The Eternal Home is a place of continual pleasure, where one goes on a holiday trip here we are happy for them, so why should we sorrow and -*feet when God calls a dear one to a place of perfect happiness. Sympathy is at the basis of this article, but friend. whoever or what- ever you are at this season jest ask God. to give you relief front your sorrow and then go out, it may be quietly and :unkeown to others, and help bring joy to someone who needs just you at this particular season You will be surpa:ised indeed how the load will be lifted from your own heart. • Someone has said "you can bury lots of troubles with a trowel" so in working for others you will to a certain extent be relleVed• of Youi own troubles. . As Christians we look forward with a great deal of pleasure to the time when we will leave the Cross af Earth and have the Crown of Ucayali plac- ed on our heads, and when we will see just why all these things are sent to as. 1.1 it were not for be- reavement and pain we would never be able to serve God in the highest way. "Knowledge of Him makes us triumphant in suffering :and sorrow." Jesus v.rept -with Martha and Mary and He weeps with us, but He did not allow His grief -to in any way interfere with I•lis Work of Salvation. "Oh aching heart, with sorrow torn, Thy Lord is near and knows! He knows it all—the feet way -worn The weary cares and woes, The lead of grief in anguish borne, • Thy Lord is near:—He knows. 0 lonely one, live thou thy best, The Lord is near and knows! He knows •-it all, sees every test— Yes every tear that flows: Rejoice, faint heart, His way is best, The Lord is near:—He knomrs." "PEG", ?1 Tested Tested Recipes POULTRY AS Y,OU LIKE IT Chicken when company comes? Of course! But do not stick to fried, broiled or .roasted chicken. Serve unusual 'chicken dishes, that will both please and surprise. Season well. Chicken 1VIerango 1 young chicken 1/2 cup butter 1 finely chopped onion 1 small carrot, out in cubes 1 turnip, cut in cubes 1 cup canned tomatoes 1 teaspoon sugar ` Salt and pePper. 'Cut up a young chicken in quarters Sprinkle with salt and pepper, dredge with flour and brown in salt pork fat. Put in a baking dish with the other ingredients and cook slowly in the oven until the chicken is tender. Serve in the dish in which it was cooked. Mexican Chicken 4 to 6 pound 'fowl 4 or 5 potatoes 1 cup, seedless raisins 3 cups canned tomatoes Butter 1..tablespoon sugar 2 tablespoons chopped Onion 2 tablespoons rarsley Flour Salt and pepper. Simmer the fowl in a small, quan- tity of salted water until tender. Re- move front the broth.. Set the fowl aside for stuffing. To the chicken broth add the canned tomatoes, sugar and the finely chopped mild onion. Let this sauce cook down. In the meantime prepare the Stuffing. by cookil.ng land, mashing the potatoes and adding to them, the raisins and enough milk to make the mixture the stiffness of ordinary mashed potatoes. Stuff this, tvlaile still hot, into the body cavity and neck of the fowl. Crowd in all the stuffing possible. Pour it little melted butter over the &joker:. Put it in the oven to brown. Thicken •the tomato sauce to the con- sisteney of it gravy and add 2 or 3 tablespoons of finely chopped parsley and green pepper, if desired. When the chicken and the surface of the po- tato stuffing have become delicately brown, place on a large hot platter Pour part of the sauce around the chicken and serve at once. Vanilla Rennet -Custard with Maras. chino Cherries 1 package Vanilla Rennet powder 1 pint milk 1/2 cup whipping cream 1/2 cup sugar Sliced Maraschino cherries Make rennet -custard according to directions on package. Then chill in refrigerator. When ready to serve whip the cream, adding sugar and mixing well. Squeeze through a pas- try tube and decorate top of each rennet -custard. Garnish with sliced cherries. BANANA LOAF CAKE DELICIOUS Banana loaf cake leads the proces- ison because it will keep moist and tender owing to the creamy bananas inside. Ingredients include 11/2 cups sifted fj.our, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon , baking seam ½ teaepoon salt, 1,4: teaspoon cloves, 1/2 t:easporm einnemon, 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/2 cup shortening, 2-3 cup sugar, 1 tea- spoon vanilla extract, 1 well -beaten egg, 1/2 cup mashed, fully ripe ban- anas. Sift together flour, baking powder, soda, salt end spices. Run shortening to a creamy consistency with back of a spoon..•Sift the sugar, few spoons at a time into the shortening and continue beating after each, addition until light and fluffY. Add eggs and vanilla, beating well. Add flour Mix- ture alternately with banana, a small amount at a time; Beat after each addition: until smooth. Pour into greased loaf pan (8x82) and bake in 350 F, oven about 45 minutes. MASON 58 YEARS RECEIVES JEWEL - There was a large attendance at the regular meeting of Britannia Lodge on Monday evening last, when Mr. F. G. Health, who has been it member of the Masonic Fraternity for the past 58 years, was presented with a' Grand Lodge 50 Year Jewel. The nresentation was made by R. W. Bro, J. 11. Reid in a very feeling and 'appropriate address., to -which Mr. Neelin made a fitting reply. Mr. Itteelin, who, is in his 87th year, has been a resident of Seder& since be made up "according to the art 1878.—Huron Expositor. • of the apothecary." COOKING' CARE OF CHILDREN 4,41,••."0,0,0•••~0040,00...0.11.4.11.04,4^0`..1.1,P,N, •••013*•••••Y Health HEALTH THE NORMAL CONDITION Children born of healthy parents are usually healthy. Illness 'conies from lack .of fOod, from poor food, want of home care, bad surroindings, accidents and other external in- fluences, Most of which might be avoided. - The first requisite in keeping well is the use of good, well -cooked food. The human machine must have prop- er fuel to keep it going. The early health of the child depends to a considerable extent upon the mather'e food before the child is born. Hence seafish and cod-liver oil, the use of which ensure good bones and endu- ing teeth, should form part of the mother's food. The mother's milk is the best food for the baby. The next best is pas- teurized cow's milk modified to meet the. advancing age of the infant. The hausewife may pastemize her own cow's milk supply by heating ,it in a double boiler to 145 degreees F. holding the mille.at this temperature for 30 minutes and then rapidly cool- ing it to 40 or 50 degrees and keep- ing it at this temperature until it is used. All small children from two months onward, should have cod-liver oil from September until June. The summer sun takes the place of cod-liver oil M. the interval. Cod-liver oil promotes general growth as well as special growth of teeth and bones. The infant needs mothering. No infants' home can take the place of a mother. Bad living (Matters: have an evil influence on child health and life. Such places attract flies, vermin and other carriers of disease. They are breeding places for tuberculosis and the communicable affections. Ac- cidents may in most cases be avoided by reasonable care. Children should not be allowed to "catch" such dis- eases ahl cliphiltheria, smallpox and others. Many catching diseases are preventable by well-known measures such as diphtheria toxoid and vac- cination, Health is the natural condition of the vast majmity of children. It may be maintained by reasonable atten- tion to the foregoing principles. PHAROMPS DAUGHTERS USED CASTOR OIL Castor oil has been in -common use for almost 40 centuries and prescrip- tions which employed medicines re- cognized today for their therapeutic value were known to the ancients, according to discoveries deseeibed by Charles LaWall historian -pharmacist, in a lengthy volume recording the scientific advance of pharmacy. Pre- scriptions compounded by pharmacists and physicians date back to the earl- iest records, La Wall reveals in "4000 Years of Pharmacy." One prescrip- tion, the date of which is fixed at 1552 B.C. afforded the necessary clues for deciphering the written language of the ancient Egyptians and constituted the key to all sub- sequent research in Egyptology. This ancient remedy, recorded when Moses was tending his father-in-law's sheep on the plains at the foot of Mount Horeb, prescribe remedial substances in common use in drug stores today. Besides castor oil, many other medical materials were listed, such as yeast, various oils, turpentine, figs, wormwood, squill, aloes, opium, peppermint, anise, saffron, linseed, juniper berries, poppy, date blossoms and even onions. Identification of these materials was difficult because of the Egyptian habit of writing prescriptions in flowery high-falutin language. Fresh dill juice was de- scribed as "the blood of Ibis";; dill seeds were called "hairs of kynoce- phalous"; squill was known as "the eye of Typhon"; and wormwood as "heart of Bubastis." , In those days pharmacist and physician were one, the practice of medicine being entirely experimental. As time went on, La Wall records, these fields of practice, 'separated: "It is the function of the physician to diagnose disease and recommend treatment. If medicine is required, the wise physidan writes a prescrip- tion to ,be filled by a competent pharmacist, for this is the pharma- cist's particular province and spec- iality for which he has been specially trained." , Thus, the skill of the profession pharmacist antedates ,the Old Tes- tament where, in. the Book of Exo- dus, certain formulas are directed to MAKING CANADA A Better Place in Which to Live and Work A Series of Letters from Distinguieited Canadians an Vital Problems Affecting the Future Welfare of Canada Specially Written lo Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association LETTER NO. 30 Dear Editor.— In my father's home we were brought up to be readers of the weekly press. We had in our hpme in Oxford County, the Embro Cour- ier, ' The Woodstock Sentinel Re- view, The Stratford Beacon, all well conducted and influential newspapers. All my life I have been a reader of weekly papers published in the smaller cities and towns and 1know how great is their influence in the lives of the people. Their special sphere of information constantly in7 eludes the home, .the school, the church and municipal government. A large and most important fact of life. It is important for the welfare of the people that the weekly press should continue prosperous and in' - There is one other matter I sup- pose one should mention — that is the question of polities. The old idea; of purely party organ is passing—yet every editor with a living soul is bound to be an influence on public questions. He cannot even give cor- rect information without creating opinion. I sincerely believe the less well-known papers with local circula- tion are still largely the power be- hind the throne. Creating that public opinion —which the city papers and public, men generally seek to reflect and follow. It is therefore most im- portant that the editors of these in" fluential weekly journals should have freedom and courage. There need be nothing partisan in them. I am not an admirer of neutrals. ,Sincerely yours, HUGH MTJNROE, Moderator of General Assembly, the Presbyterian Church in Canada, N. S. New Glasgow, MONEY TO BURN Somebody at the Court House le Careless with His Currency George James, caretaker at the Court House, got the shock of his life yesterday, while emptying waste- baskets into the furnace, whem the burning scraps illuminated what look- ed to him like a $5 bill. He reached: in and grabbed, and no sooner identi-1 fied the paper money than he saw more, and more, in the flames. He reached in again recklessly and without regard for singeing hair and burned hands, and retrieved a $1. bill intact and two more partially burned, but with serial numbers showing, and he even picked up eleven cents in change before giving *up the search because of the mounting heat and flames. Georgo's problem now is to locate the absent-minded ommer of the money from among the occupants of the ten offices at the Court House. —Goderich Signal Star. THE DIETER MOANS When I was as slint as a willow wand, My food was a minor matter; There was never need to curtail my feed For fear of getting- fatter. But now My weight is a curse to me, I'm a victim of adiposity, And a craven wretch with an ap- petite That tortures me morning, noon and night • •. • . I glare at my grimly rationed plate And bittor's my daily mutter: "A lone lamb chop, and the season's crop Of spinach (devoid of butter): Coffee, (no cream for the luckless stout); ' Half a grapefruit (the sugar's out)— Why on earth must I offer up All the pleasures of plate and cup?" Some long for pearls on a silken string And ethers for hair that's wan, But me, I ache for a juicy steak And mashed potatoes and gravy; For rich are= soup and butterscotch pie And cake with icing a good inch high— These are the things that haunt my dreams, And there I'll never attain it seems. Diet, I grant, is good for me, And I'm definitely thinner, But I long to be and yearn -by be Outside a stupendous 'dinner, Ah, well—if Heaven is my eeward, epend my time at a groaning board, Eating the things I shunted on earth And never gaining an inch in girth. —Exchange. A teacher asked her class in spell- ing to state the difference between the words "Result" and " Conse- quence." A. bright lad replied: "Re- sults are what you expect and conse- quences ere what you get" .111•1111011.. TELEPHO'NE TALKS IN THE WATSON FAMILY •Ei•Aro! wbnte "MY DAD - can talk farther th,an Y S • " When Donnie Watson's father greeted him over the telephone front 500 miles away, Dormie was nnpressed no end. He couldn't resist boasting a bit to his next-door neigh- bour and playmate. Whenever you're called out of town, do as Bob Watson does --- telephone home. hi, brings peace of mind at a trifling cost. [ 1 Reductions in telephone rates—local and long distance — in 1935, '36 and '37 have °fleeted savings to telephone users in Ontario and Quebec of nearly one million dollars yearly.