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THURS., APRIL 27, 1939
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
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HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS
HEALTH
COOKING
CAREOF CH1TLDREN
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THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED
TO THE POETS
Here They W II Sing You Their Songs --Sometimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful
'and Inspiring.
QUIET WORK
-One lesson, Nature, let me learn of
thee,
- One lesson which in every wind is
blown,
-One lesson of two duties kept at one
'bough the loud world proclaim their
enmity—
Of toil unsevered from tranquility;
Of labor, that in lasting fruit out-
grows
Far noisier schemes, accomplished in
repose,
Too 'great for haste, too high for
rivalry.t
Yes, while on earth a thousand dis-
cords ring,
Man's pitful uproar mingling with his
tail,
Still dmthey sleepless ministers move
on,
'Moir glorious tasks in silence per-
fecting;
Still working, blaming still our vain
turmoil;
Laborers that shall not fail, when
man is gone,
—Matthew Arnold.
DREAMS AND ACTIONS
• God, who touehest earth with beauty,
Make me lovely too;
With Thy Spirit recreate me,
Make my heart anew.
Like Thy springs and running waters
Make me crystal pure;
Like the rocks of towering grandeur
Make me strong and sure.
. Like Thy dancing waves in sunlight
Make me glad and free;
Like the straightness of the pine trees
Let ane upright be.
Like the arching of the heavens
Lift my thoughts above,
Turn any, dreams to noble action,
.Ministries of love.
GOOD NIGHT
(Verse Seen in an Old Country
Lodgings)
Sleep sweetly in this quiet room,
O thou, who e'er thou art,
And let no mournful yesterdays
Disturb thy anxious heart.
Nor let to -morrow scare thy rest
With dreams of coming 911;
Thy Maker is thy changeless friend,
His love surrounds thee still.
Forget thyself and all the world,
'Put out each glaring light.
The stirs are watching overhead,
Sleep sweetly then—Goodnight,
SPRING
Did yeh ever notice, somehow,
'Long about this time -a -year,
When the turkey cocl. s a-struttin
An' the rooster's erowin' clear,
..An': the sun comes beamin' down'rds
Fee to melt the stayini snow,
An' the hens keep up a eacklin'
Jest t' match the 'rooster's crow.
An' the buds begin t' ripen,
• An' the sap, .begins t' climb,
.An' the boys get out their buckets
Cue it's maple sugar time;
An' the new Iambskeep a-blattln'.
An' a-jumpin' in their play,
An' the children shoat an' holler
Iiuntin' 'eggs among the hay.
A!n', the old.' gray nag gat frisky
When yeh turn her to the stack,
An!' the yearlhn' takes t' kickin'
Like ye'd think he'd break his back;
Did yell, ever notice,, somehow,
When these signs 'r' takin place,
How yeh feel the smiles and giggles','
Sort -a -pinyin' 'round yer face'?
An' yell feel 'bopt ten years younger
Than ye did, a• month ago,
• quz the grip and'roomatism's
Sort -'a ttielted with the snow;,
An' yeh wonder what's the matter,
What makes all ereation sing,
' Then yeh suddenly remember,
That the time -a year is—Springs
—Ralph Gorden.
IN MANY TONGUES
The boneless tongue, so email and
weak
Gan crush and kill, declares the
Greek.
The tonguedestroys a greater horde.
The Turk assert, than does the
sword.
The Persian proverb, wisely saith,
"A. lengthy tongue, an early death."
Or sometimes takes this form instead,
"Don't let your tongue cut off your
head."
The tongue can speak a word whose
speed,
Say the Chinese, .outstrips the
While Arab sages this impart,
The tongue's great storehouse is
the heart.
Front Hebrew wit the maxim sprung,
"Though feet should slip„ ne-er let"
the tongue."
The sacred writer crowns the whole,
Who keep his tongue doth keep his
soul.
SCATTERING SEEDS
"Your seeds blow into my garden,
friend
Whenever the wind is right;
They blow on wings of the winds by
day
And they ride on the gales by night.
Your seeds blow lino me garden,
friend
And nestle among my flowers;
In the soft, rich soil of my garden
plot
They wait for the sun and the
showers.
Whatever you grow in your garden,
friend
Of beauty or ugly weeds
The Pall will come and the wind
will blow
And over will come your seeds.
Your words blow into my life, my
ifriend
Or whether of good or ill,
Soft down, on the winds of love
they fly; • '
Or daggers that'+pierce and kill.
Your smiles blow into my heart, dear
friend
And neighbours across the way;
They grow and' blossom in bud of
love,
A blessing to life all day.
Your garden is a garden of love, dear
friend,
And planted with Madly deeds;
So ever and over the wall will blow
Into my, garden—your seeds."
—Dr. William L. Stidger.
LIMITATIONS
Weonly see :a little of the ocean
A fewmiles distant from the rocky
%hore,
But :Ohl out there beyond—beyond
the eye, horizons,
There's more—there'st more.
We only see a little of God's loving
A few rich treasures .from His
Mighty Store,
But Oh! out there beyond—beyond
the life's horizon,
There's more—there's more.
—Anonymous.
RECTOR PRESENTS BULBS
Tocreate a love for flowers, Rev,.
R. S. Skinner, rector of St. Alban's
church, presented all the children of
the eongregation with e dozen bulbs,
The children are asked to plant and
care foe these flowers, and the rector
promised to visit their gardens when
in bloom. About twenty-five children
received the bulbs last Sunday even-
ing at St.' Alban's church.
ZESIZZCZOIEUSIZENIECOSISIMor
SOWING
At this particular season of the'
year, or in some localities a little
later:, everyone is feeling the buoy-
ancy of sprung. Of course. dull un-
reasonable days gives one the sense
of "spring drag" but bright days
brings the desire to. hunt out the
old sun bonnet, or -straw hat, take a
rake and start cleaning leaves, twigs
and such like which have gathered
on the Iawn and Hewer beds; during
the fall and winter. Rubbish is re-
moved from places where tulips, daf-
fodils, iris and other bulbs had been
planted in the fall, and littlegreen
ethoots are observed just above the
ground begging the sun to shine
brightly so that they might grow he.
ta- tall lunty leaves and develop
flowers.
This is the time when it' is always
much harder to stay indoors, wash
dishes, sweep and do the hundred
other household duties.
Then conies that terrible siege of
house cleaning, days which everyone
dreads, when rooms are turned upside
down and inside out, following which
for weeks one is hunting for some-
thing which before the awful upheval
had its own particular place.
Spring time is a time of renewed
life. Bulbs which were planted in
the fail were to all appearances dead.
One could see no possible chance of
them ever flowering again, but flor-
ists tell us that right in the centre
of that heed green knob, there is a
tiny amt. The outer covering grad -
unity deteriorates and the little green
shoot, encouraged by the warmth of
the earth grows on and on; until it
finally develops into a beautiful
flower.
As soon as the snow disappears the
green of the fall wheat is seen cover-
ing the fields. The farmer is on the
land with :the eeed drill, pldathng,
hoping for a harvest. In her latest
book "Listen! the wind", Anna Mor-
row 'Lindberg says'"having faith in
those things is the slow but inevit-
able process before him." That is
just the same faith which carries us
through all the different triale of
life. Tho sprouting and the growth
of the seed or .bulb belongs to God.
Before the seeding, either garden
or field, rains seem sometimes to our
narrow minds to be unnecessary, but
how anxious we are when the seeds
are in that we ,should `have a good
shower to break the shell and start
the growth.
What a Little thing can conte frons
a very small beginning! The giant
oak springs and grows year by year
from a snail acorn. We are not the
judges nor can we ever tell how much
the Mester can do with some little
talent we have. Even kindness is a
talent which we may use for Him.
One word spolten may be elle means
of thousands being eonverted to Him.
It is the little things of life which
grow into the big things. So our
faith grows from a very small be-
ginning. As a bulb has to deteriorate
and fall away to release the shoat so
when we give ourselves to Christ we
must just let the world fall away
from: us for inside our being there is
a tiny spark of the love of God, which
matured by prayer ,and Bible Study
will turn the -very feeble Christian
into one who will have a great deal
of power iii Elie world. Such an
instance is exemplified in the lives of
our great Chiiatian men such as Rev.
C. H. Spurgeon; General Booth and
many others.
When Christ has our will Pee can
do anything with us but we must
be completely surrendered to Him.
Bulbs and ;steeds are surrendered to
His will before they can be brought
to maturity, In . the same way we
cannot be part of the world and ex-
pect to be fully led by Christ.
There will be 'ne reaping in our
lives if we do not have the sowing,
just as not field will grow grain if
seed has not been scattered over it.
We •muse give ourselves wholly and
unconditionally to Christ and then He
will do what is beet fox us.
In the early spring we love to go
to the bush er off the main highway
and gather spring flowers. It makes
its seem so close to God when we are
away From the homy end rush of
the world and where there is 110
earthly disturbance.
It isjust as we draw near to God
that we are able• to put the trouble
of the world away ,and enjoy His
presence.
In the spring there its a glorious
hope which we find in no other sea-
son of the year, for at this season
Christ, the Saviour of the world rose
from the dead to assure for us
Eternal Life.
"Whence came the flowers? Who
made the flowers? !'I," eaid the
Mineral Salts
And Their ' Relatioship- to the Body
. In order to keep the body in the
best condition,' it should be supplied
with organic ,mineral . salts. The fal-
lowing 'list of these salts and the
foods in which they are found may
be =useful to the housewife when
Making her metou.
Calcium Watercress, lettuce,
milk, • dandelion, spinach, radish,
turnip, onion and leek. It is also
found in cheese and whey, oranges,
figs, cranberries end strawberries.
Calcium functions in the formation of
bone.
* * *
Phosphorus.—Kale, brart, radishes,
pumpkin, Brussels sprouts, cucumber,
cauliflower, rhubarb, turnips, spinach,
cheese, Brazil nuts, grapes, .pine-
apples, sage and onions. 'Phosphorus
is good for the nervous system.
. * ,N. *
Chlorine. — Cheese, lettuce, spin-
ach, whey, cabbage, parsnips, beets,
turnips. This is a component of gas-
tric juices. ,
• *
Sulphur. - Kale, cress, Brussels
sprouts, cabbage, radishes, raspber-
ries, and cranberries. This is a laxa-
tive and blood purifier,
* * *
Potassium. — Tomatoes, ]sale, rhu-
barb., lettuce, dandelion,' celery, cab-
bage, parsnips, beans prunes and cur-
rants. This helps muscle growth.
* * *
Sodium—Spinach, radish, strawber-
ries, carats, . asparagus, potatoes,
leeks, dandelion, lettuce, cabbage,,
dried figs. This helps to get rid of
uric acid.
* * *
Magnesiunt -- Tomatoes, spinach,
dandelion, This makes good teeth and
bone.
* * *
Silicon — Tomatoes, parsnips, spin-
ach, onions, cucumber, horse -radish,
cheese and strawberries. This helps
to absorb the poisonous gases of the
intestines.
* * *
Iron — Lettuce, leeks, spinach,
strawberries, radishes, asparagus, on-
ions, cabbage, cucumber, gooseber-
ries. This enriches the blood.
It will be seen by this list that
lettuces contain most of the neces-
sary salts required by the body.
PLANTING ROSES
Vhen planting roses always carry
the plants in a bucket of water,
never allowing the roots to become
dry. Prune the mets by shortening
the long ones and making fresh cuts
at the ends of the others. Digthe
hole deep and wide enough to accom-
modate the roots naturally and with
out crowding. Work very fine soil
between the roots and refill the hole
a little at a time always packing the
soil hard on the roots. When the
hole is three-quarters full, pound the
soil with your heel and all your
weight, then pour in plenty of water.
When the water has disappeared fill
in the soil tothe normal level but do
not pack any more The proper
depth of planting is so that the bud
or union is barely covered.
TO CARRY ON
At 'a meeting, of the committee in
charge of the Huron County Home
at Clinton Mrs. John Jacob was en-
gaged to carry on the management
of the Home until the County Coun-
cil meets in June. She will be as-
sisted by Mr. and Mrs. John Spacek.
sun, "through many long 'hours I
made each one."
"It was I," slang the rain, "'twas' my
cooling breath refreshed them
again and saved them from
death."
"The flowers dame with me," cried
the wind with delight, "there was
no one to see in the depth of the
night. I' bore them to Earth an
the spread of my wings. 'Twas I
gave them birth, the bright darl-
ing things."
'Twos 1," said the sail.
Cried the gardener, "No! through my
care and, toll the bioesioms now
show."
Then the stare still and Calm`and the
pale stately noon sang a heav-
enly psalm to a long ago time.
"Who made these flow'ere? Not the
elm, rain or sod, NW' man's vital
powers, but the quiet thought of
God."
"PEG"
Tested
Recipes
MORE MAPLE SYRUP DISHES
Now that the new crop of maple
products is on the market, the fol-
lowing recipes may be of interest,
though it %should be remembered that
maple syrup and maple sugar are
good at any time of the year,
MAPLE SYRUP SAUCE
1. cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon flour
1 teaspoon butter
This maple syrup sauce is for'pud-
dings or ice cream. Melt the butter,
add the flour, 'cook until -frothy.
Slowly add syrup, and boil one min-
ute. Serve hot or cold. -
MAPLE TRIFLE
Crumble stale cake crumbs in four
custard cups until half full. Over
them pour maple syrup allowing
about three tablespoons to each cup.
Allow to stand 20 minutes. Then
pour over a custard made as follows:
1 cup milk
2 eggs
2 tablespoons maple syrup
Heat milk and syrup to boiling point.
Beat egg and one yolk until thick,
add hot milk and cook in double boil-
er until the mixture coats the spoon.
Pour over crumbs while hot, When
cold, cover with a meringue made
from one egg white' and two table-
spoons granulated sugar, and brown
in a slow oven,
MAPLE CREAM
2M cups maple syrup
1 tablespoon cream
Boil syrups until it 'hardens when
dropped into Bald water, then add
creast, stirring until blended. Cool
slightly and heat until thickened.
Walnuts may be added,
MAPLE ICE BOX CAKE
JV'tablesppon granulated gelatine
2 tablespoons cold water
2 cups milk
2 tablespoons cornstarch
14t cup sugar
2 eggs
cup maple syrup
ea, teaspoon vanilla
M cup whipping cream
1 dozen lady fingers
Soak gelatine in cold water.' Heat
milk in double boiler, Add sugar
and cornstarch moistened with cold
milk. Cook 10 minutes, stirring un-
til thickened. Add beaten eggs and
cook three minutes longer, stirring
constantly. Add gelatine, maple syrup
and vanilla. When mixture begins to
thicken, fold in whipped cream.. Line
mould with lady fingers and fill with
alternate layers of cream mixture
and fingers. Place in refrigerator
and let stand for several hours. Un -
mould and garnish with whipped,
cream, sweetened and flavoured to
taste.
GOD RULES
Have faith; where'er thy bark is
driven
The cairn's disport, the tempest's
mirth.
Know this: God rules the host of
heavens.'
The inhabitants of earth.
MRS. JOHN GRIFFIN
The death oacurred on Tuesday,
April llth. of Mrs. John Griffin who
passed away at her home on the 2nd.
concession of Goderich township in
the same house in which sahe was
born. Mrs. Griffin was the second
youngest of a family of fourteen and
the last surviving member of a pion-
eer family,; her father settling on the
2nd. concession in 1840. Of her fam-
ily of three daughters, two survive:
Miss Agnes and: Mrs. Murdock Mc-
Donald of Goderich. A. daughter, the
wife of . Daniel Rueger,' Goderich
township, died tenyears ago. Surviv-
ing besides those already mentioned
are two grandchildren, Mrs. Arthur
Fulford, Clinton, and William Rueger,
Goderich township, and two great
grandchildren, Willie' and Mary Ful-
ford. The funeral service was held
at the home of her daughter, Miss
Agnes Griffin, Bayfield Road, on Fri-
day afternoon, Rev. W. P. Lane' of
Goderich conducting the service: at
home and graveside. The pallbearers
were George McIlwain, Robert Col-
well, Percy Speran, Robert Davidson,
William Fuller and Daniel. Rueger.
The many beautiful floral tributes
were borne by Everett, Robert and
Sam Mcllwain and Earl McAllister.
Interment was made in Maitland
cemetery.
Many friends from the district
were present for the funeral and from
Clinton, Goderich, Ashfield and De-
troit. 1 11. I . l ., 1
GROWING PERENNIALS FROM:
SEED
It is wrong to suppose that peren-
nials cannot be successfully grown
from seed, that obtaining plants is
the only way to get a supply of per-
ennials for the garden, states J. E.
McLaughlin, Division of IIoeticulture..
Perennials are not at all difficult
to raise from seed, provided proper
care be given at the time of seeding;
The size of the seed is a fairly safe
guide. The Larger ones should be,
covered to 'about twice their diamet-
er, with very fine soil; the medium
sized ones, to about half their depth;
and for the smallerseeds, a mere.
dusting with fine soil is sufficient.
It is desirable to sow seeds of many
perennials, in gentle heat during
March, and April, especially those of
slow germination. When large enough
to handle, and show their first rough
leaf, they should' be planted into
other boxes, to stand at approximat-
ely two inches apart, gradually hard-
en off, and later on, transplanted to
a nursery bed where they maybe
allowed to remain until the early
autumn, They can then be placed in
their permanent quarters in the her-
baceous border. Seeds may also be
sown in a cold frame towtards the
end of April, or early May or a little
later, in the open.
The plants of these sowings may
be set out in nursery beds in rows,
one foot apart, with a space of six
inches between the plants. If treat-
ed in this way,and given a little
protection "during the winter months,
they will make good plants for, trans-
planting to a permanent position ie
the following spring.
These plants will give a consider-
able amount of bloom the same sea-
son.
Some varieties are very slow to
germinate, and on occasions, the
seed has been known to lie dormant
for twelve months before germinat-
ing. Again others orb irregular in
germination, and may produce seine
plants in a reasonable time, while the
reminder may not make their ap-
pearance for perhaps a couple of
months. This is often noticed with
Rock Garden or Alpine plants.
FAMOUS BIBLE DISCOVERED IN
UNIVERSITY STOREROOM
It has been ascertained that there
are in Canada two copies,at least, of.
the famous "Breeches Bible," which
clothed Adam and Eve in breeches
instead of aprons. One copy is in the
possession of a Peterboro minister;
the other was discovered recently in
a dusty collection of old books in a
Hart House, Toronto, storeroom.
The book acquires its name train
the following passage in the Book of
Genesis: "Then the eyes of bath • of
them were opened and they knew they
were naked and they sewed figge
tree leaves together anti made them-
selves breeches." In later versions
the word "breeches" has been chang-
ed to read "aprons".
Not only hast Hart House a copy
of this Bible, the three and a halt
centuries old product of "the deputies
of Christopher Barker, printer to the
Queene's most excellent Majestic,"
but six other editions of the Holy.
writ, dating from the time Cartier
sailed up the St. Lawrence River in
1717 repose in the library.
According to J, B. Bickersteth, War-
den of Hart House, the seven Bibles
wdie given to the Library Committee
in 1922 by Mrs. Boult, of Salisbury,
England. Mrs. Boult is the :nether
of Sir Adrian Boult, of the British
Broadcasting Corporation.
The pride of the collection is the
"Vinegar Bible" of 1717, which has
a mistake in interpretation almost as
ludicrous as the one in the "Breeches
Bible." Instead of heading the twen-
tieth chapter of St. Luke "The Par-
able of the Vineyard," the printer's
trade the title "The Parable of the
Vinegar."
Then there is the "Great She Bible"
of 1611 ':which :astonished church-
goers with a mistake -'in the sex of
one of the principal Biblical charact-
ers, In the story concerning the
raising of. Lazarus from the dead, the
word "he" has been, replaced by
"she."
GOOD NEWS - IF TRUE
Hon. Ralph Shirley, veteran astrol-
oger of London, whale horoscope; of
the Ring when seven years old sug-
gested His 'Majesty would be 'raised
in due time to a higher sphere than
to which he was barn" and who a
year ago predicted the Spanish war
would end this April, has now fore-
cast there will be no great Europtean
war "thougtr, there is %till trouble
ahead."
"The Summer wil see this crisis
develop and I think it will affect
Mussolini as well as Hitler, of whose
critical positions, as the summer rad-
vanes, I gave warning four months
ago." Ile added European peace may
come about through the ;fall of the
dictators within six months. ,y
THANROFFJPIIi'NG MEETING
of the W. M. S. of Ontario Street
Church was held in the Lecture room
of the chueeh. The president, Mrs;,
Wiltse conducted the opening exer-
cises and • dealt `with the business of
the day. This was followed by the
devotional period conducted by Mrs.
(Rev,) Burton. She took asher theme
an Easter message on "Loving and
Giving". Mrs, Aiken and Mrs, Ken-
nedy Ied in prayer with J,VIrs. Burton
offering the closing prayer, Mrs,
Wiltse .read two poems. The guest
speaker was Mrs. (Rev.) Craw who
gave an excellent talk on "Thine is
the Kingdom and the power." She
*illustrated her topic by stories o£ the
mission work in India, Japan ;and
China. Mrs. Wender! and Miss Plum -
steel rendered a piano duet and Miss
Pearl Elliott favored us with a solo.
After the offering was taken Mrs.
Wiltse offered the dedictatory prayer,
A hearty vote of thanks was extend-
ed Mrs. Craw. Miss Laura Jervis
closed the meeting with prayer and
benediction. Lunch was then served.
Small vessels in use on the
Mediterranean are known as feluc-
cas. They have one or two masts, a
lateen sail, and often a rudder at
each end, p l
"She says here,
she'll be hoiu.e
to -night!"
Is there anything
more worrying than
waiting? One voice
inside you says:
"Don't be silly,
she's all right . ."
'And another voice whiners:
"Perhaps she's had an accident
... oh dear, what shall I do?"
"1 would have
stayed up all
night!"
But when you hear
her voice on the
telephone you
know all is well—
you thank heaven
for Long Distance
service --- yourealize how easy
it is to keep in touch azzd
you like people who do.
"She didn't realize
that 1 couldn't
bet away
Sometimes you think older
people are foolish to worry —
but somehow you feel better
when you've brought calm and
peace to anxious minds -
by LONG DISTANCE
And it's so easy too. Your call
is on its way in a few seconds,
your destination reached in the
twinkling of an eye, Use low
Night Rates applying every
everting after 'seven (and all
day Sunday as well), and place
"Anyone" calls. a