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The Clinton News Record, 1939-11-02, Page 7'THURS., NQV•. 2, :1939 CiGI HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD HEALTH COOKING THIS MODEST, CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs -Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful and Inspiring. ' KNOTS .»T knew a girl • and a- slight thing she was. • She had grownneer by- the side -of the water;. ' ' ' - She couldn't stay ,indoors, she; loved ships and sailors ' .. .And was brave with the 'lbre"wliieln the sailors had taught her. I scarce know the names o£ the knots she could tie But proud I should be if, without slip or trouble, .1 knew how to tie a clove hitch on a bight 'Or a Staffordshire knot or a becket- bend double, Or with all fingers steady, without jerk or joggle, A hawser -bent, Turk's -head, or 'chain-laiot with toggle. If you can tie well any; knot which will hold. You may think these useless, absurd, only flipper,: Spanish windlass, sheepshank and overhand knot, The reeding -line bend,•P'iemish loop and hitch, slippery. She'e the mother of babes now. I think when it's raining And they must stay indoors, she knows for heart's -easing, The spritsail -sheet knot, t h e cat's- paw, the bale sling, The carrick-bend, harness -hitch, and the round seizing With fingers so nimble, she need be • no talker. They are charmed with the knots which she tailed Matthew Walker. 0 I knew a girl and a slight thing she was. She had grown up by the side of the water, And proud should I be if I had half the knowledge Of rope and of knots which the sail- ors had taught her. • —Marjorie Knapp. THE DOtLAii AND THE CENT A big silver dollar, and a little brown . cent, • Rolling along together they went, Rolling along on the smooth sidewalk, When the dollar =remarked -'-for- the dollar can talk: "You poor little cent! You cheap little mite! - I'm bigger than you, more than twice as bright; I'm worth more than you a hundred- fold; And written on me in Ietters bold Is the motto, drawn. from the Pius ,creed— In God We. Trust' — which all can read." "Yes, I know," said the cent, "I'm a cheap little mite; I know I'm not big, nor good nor bright, But," said the cent, with a meek little sigh, "You don't go to church as often as I." NOT PEACE—BUT A SWORD 'We pray for peace; the whole world prays! And everywhere . the true hearts are looking for the day, .When wars shall be no more; when. newer stays Its might; and rulere low their con- quering sceptres lay. But can we pray? Are we se blind That we can hope to reap what we have never sown? Peace, if it comes, must come to all mankind. Through you—and me—all seeking not their owe Yet look about, in our great land; We teach, not peace, but every man the right to seek His own, e'en though he crush his brother; and To envy those who win; to utterly despite the meek. We teach the child; so is the man. And war mist come when hearts are filled with discontent And envy; peace only as we live the plan For which the Prince of earth was sent. --Pauline Good. HEADACHE BANACHE, "InTAMILTON, Ont. 'LA — Mrs. Burl Johnston of 1501/" Locke St. N. spy& "I suffered from ie headaches and pains across my back and through my side periodically, - and I was so weakand nervous. Dr, Pierces w , Favorite Prescription hiiiped to relieve me of those awful pains and. headaches and to Luna mo _ up so Out t fell ,uot fine..' Dt• Pierce's Tnvnrite Prosoyiption-is that of a Lamont pity ttioSau unusually omporioncoll In the treatment of women's peculiar ollm rate.. It aide the nu- tritlon no that yon• polo .etrehgth.. It calmsthe and lassonnaho disc tnforts of the men - et rutty, period. aslrnr Pierce's favorite Pre. r. ocrtpthan froth youa douggiet .today. THE TEST OF MAN First Things By "PEG" From the earliest history of the first things, While Abraham Lincoln world theme has been a beginning of was cutting wood he kept a book be - 'everything, In Genesis- 1 we read "In side him so that in his- spare moan - the beginnng-God created the Heaven and the Earth." From that sentence we understand that beyond that crea- tion God was. We believe that from the foundation of the world all things which are now used were present. has just 1?eein left for mortal man to 'analyze these elements and put There's little satisfaction to be gam- ed from doing things That hold no difficulties; it's the tough old task that brings Keen sense of worth and power to the man wito wins the fight; His failures test his courage and his problems prove his might; Until a man has conquered loss and overcome defeat, He cannot fully understand just why success is sweet. them to their proper, use Before the Earth was made it was planned ana so to -day, -'before an, initial invention appears, many years of thought bane been spent upon it. We may, in our mind, work out a scheme of what to us is new, but the - idea -of it, in it could be traced would carry us back 1, to the beginning of time. Take for instance the radio. Sound has been in the air from the time air was farmed, but it Was left to mats, 1n these recent years to control it and make it Of use to humanity. The same applies to electricity in all its different forms. In our own lives we can -look back to at least 'some of the "firsts". How eagerly our first breath and first ery were watched and listened for. 'We ourselves can remember. our first day at school and church. To enumerate even the highlights of the firsts of our lives would take toe long. These of course are varied and different to each one of -u-s. Beginnings have at tines, brought disaster into the lives of people. The history of science, in. all its forms, tells us of the sacrifice of some life to its cause, The Titanic on her maiden trip was the cause of the loss of some hundreds of lives; air pilots and mechanics have gone to their death on their firs gilftthxz their death on their first flight. So one might go on almost endlessly. More than all these "sin" has been the cause of life destruction. When God created the world lie made it fair and fresh, and it would have remained so had sin, not crept in. God placed Adam and Eve in a beautiful garden which could hare been theirs through the Eternal ages. He went away and left then to en- joy it. Sin came in and with it the fall of the first man and woman and "The covenant being made with Adana, not only- for himself, but for his posterity; all mankind, descending from him, by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression." I'm thankful for my disappointments, for the battles lost, And for mistakes that seemed to charge an overwhelming cost; I'm thankful for the days of doubt when it was hard to see That all things work together for the good that is to be; - I'm glad for all that life has brought, because to -day I know That men must brave adversities if •- they would greater grow. —0. Lawrence Hawthorne,. THREE POPLARS Three poplars stand - A.t the borderland: - Three candles tall Near heaven's wall Three candles slight To guide the night From autumn's gold Into winter's cold! —Helen McGaughey. TEItZA RIMA There are gold lanes to walk on; and gold light Is easy for the sun to scatter, gold Flames on the trees reflect in water; bright Red gold, and yellow gold, and pur- ple; bold Bronze in spirea's drooping branches•; rain Makes tiny coinof peony -leaf. ents he might get at least a few sentences into his head. One day a squire said to him, "Dello, Abe, what!, studying law? Do you expect to be President some day'?? Lincoln re- plied "Don't kmow, 'bait I am going to get ready for anything God may have for me to do," It .is time for each one of us to stark getting ready for what God has for us to do. There is plenty of His work to be . done. Na ' one can get us into God's presence no mat- ter how rnueh they try -and pray. We must take the first step ourselves.. On the old Indian trails trees were very seldom cut where they had fal- len. The burse Was just drawn into the bushes away from the end of it. The next man followed similarly. Thus a trail was viery much length - fled. Do not take •a round about way to Christ. . Cnit right through worldly . obstacles' and He will be there to help us. • 'Out of - the strain 'of the Doing; Into the peace of the Done; Out, of . the thirst :of Pursuing; Into the rapture of Won; - Out of gray mist into Brightness, Out of pale dusk into Dawn— Out of all wrong into Rightness, We from these fields, will be gone. Nay,' say the saints, 'not gone but come ' Into Eternity's Harvest Home'." "PEG" •e The merest wisp of birches and a skein Of ,silken glitter crumbles in, your hand, Green has no place 'ingolden grass and grain, Let,what the earth ,has .treasured fall like - sand, Squander it all upon the wind and cold,. Blown down deserted of brown land. Brilliant and brittle, fine as dust to hold, Shadow, and light and leaf .— this autumn gold! -—Sara King Carleton. pastures Looking into our lives we see char- acteristics which arc not desirable.. They all have a "first tune" which we allowed to grow on us. Selfishness is one of these. Who in this world is more to be pitied than a selfish per- son who -thinks only of himself or herself? The happiest people on Earth are those who give their lives to others. The more we think of others the less time we have to think of ourselves. Let -us reach out and see how many people we can touch with kindness. Thtt will do away with our selfish trait. ' It may be we can remember the first time encouragement meant a great deal to us. Do we give -the encouragement we should to othere, or when we sco some one else striv- ing to get along- do we lot jealousy creep in to withhold a word which might change the whole course of that one's. lifer. We go lto ens ; r,. baseball game or a hockey match. We take no part in the game itself, but we belong to the hand clappers or cheerers. We put encouragement in-, to the hearts of the players. In a few cases opposition will stir people; on to better things. When Disraeln' rose in the parliament in London to make his first speech he was hissed.' Vas he downed? Not at all. lie was simply droved to greater things.4 Many a person has been hissed and booed who was right, but let us make it a rule to gine encouragement where it is due. Then there is the, firsttimeof our Christian experience. ..Many do not recall the day when they first knew Jesus Christ, ' but every Christian can recall many pleasing instances when thoy were drawn, closer to Him. Do we so live that others will be able to find a first in then lives 'from our life. Twa young students -were one ,night punt into the same raoan in a country' hotel. One was -a young roan, who thought little of the serious thinks of life, bhe other, who knew Christ, knelt down to pray. The staffing , of the unconverted one went unanswered by the praying lad and was the means of the conversion or 'his friend. When away frons owr usual surroundings have We ever been ashamed to stand up for .Christ? What .would we do if Jesus, had not and is not meet pleading for us? By carelessness in the use of time, we so often lose the opportunity of AN .OUTSTANDING COMBINATION To get the most for your money and the best flavour in your dishes, get into the habit of combining na- tural Canadian foods. Canadian pro - duets are invariably cheaper than imported foods, and the use of them stimulates Canadian agriculture, manufacturing and fishing,"' a very important point to remember now that we are at war. Apples and fish are two outstanding examples of food which can be combined in an appetizing, inexpensive and thor- oughly .Canadian dish. FISH WITH APPLES OVERCOMING IODINE We nray' wonder, perhaps, if , icidine deficiency ever causes arrested de- velopment among children. Far answer -let us go' to the country where the natural iodine supplies for ages have been notoriously defiecient, We refer to Switzerland. Not so very long .ago, in some of the Swiss Cantons, over 80 per cent. of the children attending school had goitre, which is the evidence of ex- treme iodine deficiency. By the use of iodised salt, and the administra- tion to the children of iodized choco- lates, the situation has now been completely changed. SKY WRITING Hard on the last light song from summer's mouth, The day was startled by their mig- rant cry; They drew their somber wedge from north to south, And set their writing there against the sky. And those whose habit was to read from books And write again had read, Glanced up and ions looks, "A flock of wild head." in books what they said, with idly cur - 0 geese, passing over - CARE OF CHIFLDREN DISCOVERER OF MAUVE Honored by Memorial Sudbury, England, is to have a new memorial, to William Perkin, who 80 -odd years ago, discovered the secret of aniline dyes; Mr. Perkin, there, 18 years of' age, was trying te produce a synthetic quinine. Instead he discovered a black precipitate; which, further inventions showed, could be used to dye silk a genuine purple to become known as "mauve." This was the first aniline dye and Perkin was named "the father of' mauve. •.Hewas knighted for this and other discoveries and died In 1907. The memorial is being unveil- ed, 101 years after his birth; by his daughter. - - - 2 lbs: fish fillets ar steaks ahem fivle-eighth,. inches thick 21/, lbs. apples (about .9 of Medium '' size), ; _ . 3 tbsp. butter or cooking fat 2 tbsp. water 1F, tsp.,s'alt., . - 1 tsp, sugar Basting oil made by mixing black pepper with 4 tbap. ' melted buttes Cover fish with a salt 'solution made in the proportion of 2 tbspe salt to 1 cup cold water and allow to stand for 3 minutes and drain. Heat slowly 3 tbsp. fat in a deep frying pan. e Wash, quarter, and core apples and slice to l'n"- thick. Place the apples into the, hot fat, adding the water, salt and . sugar. Cover tightly and cook slowly with one turning, until apples are almost tend - der. Lay the fish on the apples, 'cover and allow to steam 3 to 5 minutes. -Remove cover, turn fish, baste it with the butter mixture, and place for 5 to 10 minutes under the broiler until . well browned. Remove the fish to a hot platter and surround with the apples. But those who knew the alphabet of wings, The words of Winds, the language of the moon, The anessages of furred and feathered things, Said: "Gather wood; the storm wilt follow scan." Silence Buck Fellows,. NOW AUTUMN Now Autumn, lighted by a fading sun, Is quickly letting all her colors euri. Behold the hills thsit were one sweep of green- What hues of scarlet and warm, gold are seen! The leaves, . of course, have made the brightest change. But there is still another vivid range Of color underneath them: loosely hung, Berries like jewelsby vines and bushes strung!: And there are ripened apples, yel- low, red;. - Blue grapes in bunches; pods that burst and shed Brown, varnished' nuts. Once more are we surprisecl--a Once more is Autumn's beauty re- cognized —Wade -Van Dore. The World. Stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higherthan the soul is high. The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can strip the sky in two, And let the face of God •shine througle -I dna StY'?Vincent Millary. 'BIGGER THE BETTER' IS BATH TOWEL RULE EVEN GRAZING COWS MUST KEEP NEUTRAL Liehtenstein, Europe's postage. stamp" principality, feels the pinch of war. Germany, tightening its border control, has forced those of the prin- cipality's 1Q,000 inhabitants who have been accustomed to graze their cattle in Gelman fields to remain in their own meadows, (Liechtenstein's 65 square miles. are -sandwiched between Switzerland and Germany.) - - THE POWER OF .. ENCOURAGEMENT "He is bhe most stupid boy I have even encountered. I can't teach him a thing." Thus a - visitor to the little 'school did the teacher character- ize a little boy who sat dull and list- less in a far corner of the roam. The visitor smiled, but said noth- ing. Aftera brief talk to the class,. he made his way down the - aisle - to the "dull" boy, laid his hand upon the youngster's bead, and - said in a kindly voice,"Don't be troubled, my boy, by what people say. Same day you may be a great scholar. Try hard, and keep on trying. Don't be discouraged." This single word of encouragement, coming out of a barrage of accusa- tions of "Stupid," "dullard," "good- for-nothing," acted upon the spirit of the lad like; drops of rain upon a fad- ing flower. Suddenly his aanbitions were aflame, his heart was stirred with a new hope. "I will show them! I will show them!" he told himself again and again. "I will show them there is something in me!" Inspired by the kindly encourage- ment of one who now is nameless, the boy became the famous Dr, Adam Clark, author of the great •Conimen- tany on the Bible and other import- ant works. Great is the power of encourage- ment! 1 Good things may come in small packages but that isn't true of bath towels. The bigger the better is the rule, as far as they are concerned. It feels marvelously luxuriops to step out of --the-bathtub- and wrap yourself completely in the folds of a clean spongy bath towel, but there are other practical reasons for demis- ing the larger ones. Small Turkish towel are meant to be used for dry- ing the hands and face rather than the entire body and are therefore likely to be thinner and less absor- bent. In this case size and quality go hand in hand, it seems. Fresh clean towels' add so much to the pleasure of washing up and bath- ing that the baihroom supplies should be frequently changed; -whether or not they appear to be &oiled. As Tuirislu towels do not need to be ironed it is easy to keep a stack of clean ones on band making sure to select var- iety of colorings and distinctive borders so that each person in the family can distinguish his or her own. VARIED BREAKFASTS Adding New Spice to Whet the Appetite By Francis Lee Barton Breakfast is more likely to become a routine meal than either lunch or dinner. In the well -ordered home this is not true. New breakfast dish- es constantly appear to please and delight—something like (this fruit filledbreakfast ring: Pruit'Filled Breakfast Ring 214i cups sifted cake ,flour 21,8 teaspoons double acting baking powder; 1 teaspoon salt 4 table spoons sugar; 5 tablespoons butter or other shortening; 1 egg, slightly beaten; 7 tablespoons milk; melted butter; ,one-third - cup 'brown, sugar firmly packed; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; y/y cup chopped walnut meats; 10i grated orange rind, Sift flour.' ounce measure, add leak ing powder,; salt• and ,sugar, and sift again. Cut in shortening. COM, bine egg and, milk; add all at once to flour.' mixture, and stir until all flour is damppened. - j1'hen (fret vig- orously until mixture forms a soft slough and follows spoon around bowl.' Turn out on slightly floured board and knead 30,• ;secondll. Roll into oblong• 'sheet, 1/4 inch• thick; brush with melted .butter - and sprinkle ' with mixture of brown sugar, cinnamon, nuts, ,raisins . and orange rind. Roll as for jelly, ralI; bring edges- together to form ring and place an`ungreased baking sheet With ,scissors, cut 1 -inch slices, al most th`oug'h ting, turning each slice cut -side up and, pointing outer edges Bake in hot oven (400 degrees F.) 25 minutes, or until done. Remove te. cake rack and while hot spread with glaze made by combining 1 cup sifted confectioners; u sugar and 2 tablespoons milk ,(about), Servo warm or cold. WAYS TO CLEAN LACI;. War his hit the Principality's two main sources of income—the sale of postage stamps and taxes from great holding companies drawn to Leech,- tenstein by liberal corporation laws. In 1914, linked with the Austr- Hungarian customs system, Liech- tenstein was hit by the same blockade which, struck the Central Powers% Since January, 1924, Liechtenstein has been included in theSwissGus- toms Uniais. Liechtenstein has watched with greatest interest Switzerland's effort to preseu.ne neutrality, and retain economic independence, for as: Swite zerlandgoes, so goes Liechtenstein, Armed .;tviss customs- guards pa- trolled Liechtenstein's ' mountainous frontier. Liechtenstein has no army. Directions for Handling Delicate Fabric Lace should always be soaked be- fore being washed. If much soilect use boiling water in which a tea- spoonful of borax has been dissolved, the usual proportions being two cup- fuls of water to eslery teaspoonful of borax. Then make a lather with good soap and hot water. Take the lace from the water in which it has been soaked, place it ire the soapy water and squeeze it exactly as if it were a sponge, till it is clean. This will prevent the lace from being torn. Repeat the process, if necessary in another basin of soapy water. Rince in clean, cold water until -all the soap is removed, if the lace is white, a little blue in the rinsing water will improve the calor, Very little stiffening -will prevent ordinary lace from soiling quickly, but this must not be enough to keep the fab- ric from falling in to soft folds, The water in which rice has been boiled is suitable for the ,purpose. Wash two tablespoonfuls of rice until it is perfectly clean, then put it in a saucepan with one pint and a half of water and boil for four min- utes. Allow the lace to stand in the water for a minute. .Take it, out, squeeze tightly, pull into shape, and put under a heavy weight. If after repeated washings the lace still has a soiled look, it may either be bleached in the sun or boil- ed. To- boil lace, put it into a jar, with cold water to cover it and a little melted soap. Stand the jar in a saucepan ' with boiling water to reach fully half way up the jar; put the lid on the pan and boil for two or three hours. To dry clean white lace, lay it out. quite evenly on clean white -paper cover With powdered magnesia, then put another paper on top, Let it re- main inside the leaves of a book for two or three days, when it should look as fresh as new. Of course, lace which is to be dry cleaned should never beallowed to become very ,soiled, Alter being cleaned, if the laae is not in use. keep it in blue paper, as this has a preservlatiwe influence on its. wluite- ness. DON'T SLEEP WHEN GAS PRESSES HEART If you can't eat or sleep because gas bloats you up try Adlerika. One dose usually relieves pressure on heart from stomach gas due to con- stipation. Adlerika cleans out BOTH bowels. - 1 � It's a Boy! Even as you read titre, some Father somewhere is rushing this news to relatives. No matter where they are or what time it is—leis first impulse is to let them know! And that. is also true of Aunts (anti Uncles) and all the in- laws. Before Baby is half an hour old his arrival is cele- brated far and wide—and he is endowed with a dozen navies, To Grandparents another chapter of Family History begins. Their grandparents may have waited for days before they had good news ' like this, but that was before thetelephoue-and Long Distance—becatue part of our everyday existence. 0 Spread Good News by LONG DISTANCE! Look in your telephone direc• pry and you'll find that by using Low Night. Rates (also. applying: all day Sunday) and placing "Anyone"' calls you' can talk to nearby towns or Prov- inces for much less than you.; expected.