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The Clinton News Record, 1936-07-30, Page 7'THUD S., • J-ULY 0, 1936 • HOUSEHOLD .ECONOMICS THE' ' 'CLINTON ' N !'.: ORD rtzt.ir:r. 1 COOKING HOW TO MAKE ICE® TEA Infuse six heaping teaspoons of Salado Black Tea in` a pint of fresh boiling water. After six minutes strain liquid ,into two -quart container. While hot, add 1-1/2 cups of granulated sugar and the juice of 4 lemons. Stir well until sugar is dissolved , fill container with cold water. Do not allow tea to cool before adding the cold water; otherwise liquid will become cloudy. Serve with chipped ice. It 722• A Column Prepared Especially for Women— But Not Forbidden to Men 'THE FAMILY ALBUM WHAT is this?A monstrous book Bound in plush- and gilt. Come; look! Press the clasp! The, pictures old Many a story could unfold. Packed away beneath the eaves, Years have browned the heavy leaves, • But the likenesses are there, Each with its untvinking, stare— Photos of an age gone by, Doomed to dull obscurity Save when someone for deriding Brings the album from its hiding. WHO is this whoes glare of rage Fairly burns upon the page, Whose enormous curled moustaches Twine themselves toward his lashes? Lo, he stands with fingers prest To the buttons of his vest; On one arm he holds his hat, One foot forward, who is that? • Was he really stern of eye, Fit to make small children cry? • Vichy, that's kindly Uncle Clive— Quite the gentlest man alive! THEN' look here! A sailor maid Clad in middy suit with braid— . Aunt Amanda!: Who but she, Off to paddle in the sea! She is outfitted, complete, From her head unto her feet '' In a suit of serve -live weave; • za In The. Luck now Sentinel ..1f» T41 asasor , .,Hs ,,44H-roT . �H tt THH HqH »tH,,H,H 4H H 4 tHyWw•?,4!aHq H 4H4iH H 4 �{ t (The following will be read with road near • the old toll gate. Mr. interest by many as Mr. Robertson is Knox, e centenarism, • who . cried in known to many in town'and vicinity.) Wingham a few years ago, was the Nighty -one years ago, G. 5. Rob- toll keeper. • ertson, one :of Lueknow's well-known Near the Robertson farm lived the citizens, was born in London, Ontar- Picketts and the Stevensons. The ko, He was the eldest son of Thomas children on the three farms played Robertson and Isobel Shevas, who together regularly. One day a Pic - hailed. from Aberdeenshire. They kett child fell into a well that had had spent a short time in Toronto be- been,improperly covered. Jack Stev- fore the outbreak of cholera in 1854 ensott promptly reported the aeci- when'they moved to London. The dent enc] the mother had sufficient •Q neem's Bush was calling yoneg co u- presence of Mind to fa ster a clothes Llower o I i Iles who were not afraid of ' hard line around Jack's waist t incl work and who wanted to secure him into the well in time to rescue homes. So the Robertsons came , to the little lad who had gone down for .Clinton when George was a baby. A the last time. The young hero was farm, was purchased on the London rewarded at Christmas time with a Edited'' by Rebekah. ffH 4 » +f n f f fHi .11,44.14:14,4 HT : LOOKING BACKWARD - HEALTH CARE OF CHILD.REN WITH G. S. ROBERTSON By Rev. A. M. Nicholson Mir of 'warm mittens from the grate- ful rate ful mother. The children- never play- ed too near the well again. Mr. Pic- kett purchased the first "Bing" stove. The neighbors a11" gathered to see the great invention. They were amazed at the draft, and George Iwas warn- ed not to go too near the open door for :fear he would be drawn into the stove. , • - Fortune smiled on the young cou- ple from Aberdeen. They Macre a host of friends. The Your children were a constant source of pride. But one day 'a terrible'tr:agedy occurred. At a barn raising in 1861; a nein plate which was warped, slipped and. came crashing down, fracturing the skull of Thomas Robertson. He never saw his youngest child. Although' there were no relatives in Canada; the neighbors did everything possible comfort A to the bereaved. Mr. Mc- Lean tirade a coffin. A lumber wa- gon. a- gon .with hay, covered with a white sheet served as a hearse. Rev. Mac- Donald, the first minister of Clin- ton officiated: There were many sorrowing 'hearts in the first funeral procession to the Clinton cemetery, when Thomas Robertson was laid to rest. Relatives: in Scotland; on hearing Of •the misfortune, offered to send money to bring the family home to be educated. Mrs. Robertson and the younger children felt inclined to ac- cept the offer, but George- was deter- mined to remain in the land of his birth, so all stayed in Canada.' The young widow was anxious to keep the family together, but the crops in '02 were so poor that she had to see her children leave her. Pagans in, Ashfield took Tom, the second boy. A neighbor took the el- der daughter. Catherine Hall, and Mrs. Roberson found employment with Mr. Aikenhead with permission to take the two youngest children with her. Georgewent with Joie Robson of Tuekersmith on condition that he would help .with the chores before and after school, and work the following summer to pay :for his board. Al six years of age, he was the fire builder every morning and fed the cows before and after school, The following winter, George spent with Mr. Robson's mother, who was a semi -invalid. She offered to keep him and send him to school, provid- ing he would bring i11 wood attd Wat- er, milk the coin, and scrub the floors on Saturdays. The shoes used were a pair of high boots, size eleven, that her son had discarded. The toes were stuffed with straw, and when the children saw the young lad walking with the boots which' were nearly as large as he, they nicknamed him "Cockney" a name which persisted throughout his school days. When ten years of age, he hired with' Thomas Meson for six months at four dollars per month. The young hired man was requited to plough, pick stones and help with the har- vest.: He was unable to lift the plow when it fell down, without turning the team around. Mr. •Mason offered a dollar prize !When George could plow a furrow.as straight.• as he. The dollar was never paid. Mr. Mason had a• habit of going to town to visit the bar room frequently. One hot day he left his young man picking stones, while he went to quench his thirst in town. George saw the black axle grease, and the white face of one of the horses and thought he 'would have a snore attractive team with the horse's face blaek instead of white. When Mr. Mason returned after having' considerable liquor, he, couldn't understand how they secur- ed the black, faced horse. Although earning the magnificent stun of four' dollars monthly, his• mother still was the custodian of the fancily excheuger. When George de- cided to go to the Clinton show, he was given twenty-five cents to pay the ten cent admission and enjoy the day. Irks mother asked him to bring house as pinch as possible. On rea- ching town hesaw a man watering some show cattle. George ptimped some water and was told that: if he would pump enough •water for all the cattle, he could get in free. He en- joyed his first fair imuieiTtely' and brought hone fifteen cents for his mother. After spending eight cents he felt that his wants hack ',men _a1 most satisfied', but that: he would squander one more penny. His first thought was candy, -, but concluded that it would not last long. He pur- chased cloves .and started homeward. Ire walked home with a neighbor's daughter, and apologized' for not having candy, but he announced, that he had cloves. .She said she was not very fond of them, but considering who was offering them, ' she would accept them. - Matt-Greenside hired' him in 1866. One day Mr. Greenside 'left for Clin- ton on business. Onthe way ,he -met a neighbor's hired man with a 'team, wagon,' some furniture . and all` the family except the father. They - were going as far' ,north as possible to escape the Fenians, who were report- ed to have landed at Bayfield. The hired' man was --to return and hide in a hollow tree in the `daytime .and somewhat hard life, and her laugh was like music. Then there's John and his family. His wife is sitting down and the children are •gathered around her and John stands with such a look of pride on his face. He looks for all the world as if he were saying: "Just look at these. They're thine and you'll travel a long way before you'll find a better looking family.' John was always so modest one could' never imagine how be got that expression, unless it was called up for just the occasion. Then there's the lac] in his first "tail" coat. Just see how important he looks. Who would destroy' that picture and cheat his adoring family out of the pleasure of seeing, this side of their quiet dad? • There's old Uncle and Aunt M. What good pictures they are of them, too, only Uncle never in his life look- ed as cross as the photographer made him on this occasion, He was the serenest . of men. And Aunt knew that her eyes were too small for bean- ty so she decided when getting her picture that site would open them as wide as she could. It gives her a sort of a "staring" look. Here's Mother when she was a- bout three and Dad at four. Such a chubby pair and they really do not High of neck and long of sleeve; look unlike, though at that time. Stockings black and bathing shoes neither family had ever even. heard Laced with white—lest toes might of the other. bruise— .Bright bandanna on her head- Wonder what the wild" waves, said! AND another dainty • Miss, Frilled and flounced. Now who is heart and you do not wish to discard them. Don't do it. Reserve enough space somewhere to keep them. When the children grow older they may ap- preciate then too. Youth is intoler- ant without realizing it. And diel you ever stop to think - what your grandchildren or great- grandchildren will think of the pic- tures taken today? What about the groups of young people in bathing costumes, in sport eostmites, the ap- pearance of which. would have cars- ed our grandmothers to swoon away, that or reach for the horsewhip. ' They tell us that the pendulum is swinging back and that the free and easy customs in dress and in deport- ment, between the sexes is to be put aside and we are to have a period of correct manners and modest and dig- nified dress. If that is so the young folk coming up are infor a few shocks when they'see how their par- ents and grandparents dressed. A When our facts are laughed to scorn. merry widow hat is rather ridiculous, Anon. but it is quite proper, what about some of the costumes' worn by the Have you a family album in your girls and boys at the summer resorts home? You. may not have, that is if today? t1 modern daughter has her way,We imagine that this is not ° the for site is not addicted to the =`attonly generation which will have the habit," and nothing pleases her laugh on their 'elders, that is if the smart little ladyship so much as many snapshots taken nowadays • clearing out "all that rubbish." Mod -are preserved. BL'IfAl3 ern youth believes in travelling light' —RE. .and it mus1;'Ue admitted, there's some -I ' ' here'ssome- ' thing • to' be . said for it. B u t I GRASS HERITAGE • if you have been firm about it you - may have salvaged the family al-• How many ages did my lean forbears 'bum, and the' interest taken in it by Stretch limbs alongwarm grass 'when •the members of the. family. and • food was done? friencls of your own generation am- How many youths dreamed dreams ply repays the trouble of storing it of love where none and keeping it. intact. - 1 But nibbling sheep could watch thein On a wet Sunday or an evening fling their. prayers , when you are alone or are entertain-, Upon the wind — or by the whirled . ing some friends bf your own age . red flares • bring out the family album and let Of campfires .heard old, battles lost ' it do the entertaining. , I and won? • There is Aunt Mary in her widow's How many women, hoping for a son, garb. Doesn't she look too cute for Wove sweet -grass cradles, humming. anything, for she was young when unawares? left a widow?'' And she was pretty,' And I, their child, am asked to be too, fan prettier than - any of heel content ' nieces ever were, end 'the widow's With twenty floors between ane and peak but enhances the beauty of her I the ground- ' • fresh; young face. She is holding Forget the marshes where wing- herself 'ver rim and demure,as be -1 shadows pass, Yp fitted the occasion, but if you look Or tangle with curved; reeds that closely you can almost imagine that! storms have bent! • a 'merry smile is just edging out at Not even shriek of drills can stop the corners of her. mouth, becauseI - the sound • :that merry smile was irrepressible. Of old, ancesetral winds along the She just couldn't for very long keep] grass. --horn 'smiling, even• though she .had al —Helen' M. Salisbury. _fr• But I need not go on, you all have them, those old 'pictures, at which your children laugh. But somehow they touch a tender chord in your this? Note the sleeves and parasol, And the scenery back of all! See the plumes that nod and sway On her hat in regal way! Twined about her dainty waist (Eighteen inches, tightly laced) Is a sash,of palest blue— What, can this be Cousin Sue? And, if she once looked like that, IIow has she become so fat? • SO the fancily album lives For the laughter that it gives.. To its pages still we turn • When for comedy we yearn, ,$er n .pause. i • •e 'a d there we a to 'sigh For the youth gone swiftly by, Here and there we shed a tear • At some recollection dear. And we ponder, as we look Through the ponderous, treasured book, -On the time, in years unborn, . 1 CONTRIBUTIONS MEAT DISHES Don't stick to fried hani, bacon and pork chops when serving' pork. Try these for a change and see how de- lightful - they are: Baked Spareribs With Apples. Wipe fresh spareribs carefully with a cloth. which has been wrung out of hot water. Arrange the meat in a dripping pan and place in- a hot ov- en which' should have the tempera- ture lowered gradually. Baste with drippings occasionally; and turn, so that both sides may be, browned. When the Meal; is well browned place apples, which have been cored in the pan with the meat. Fill the cavity of each ap- ple with brown sugar and letbake until soft. In serving, arrange the tipples as a°border around the spare- ribs. Southern Pot Roast 1 small pork shoulder 1 medium onion sliced 2 cups canned .tomatoes Salt and pepper 2 tablespoons flour. Fry out the trimmisigs in pan suit- able for the roast. Remove crack- lings find all fat, leaving but one tablespoon. Add flour. Brown slow- ly.. Add onion. Brown slightly, then acid tomatoes. Season the meat and add. Cook in fireless cooker or very Raspberry Sauce (For puddings' or ice cream) 2 cups raspberries i4 clip fruit sugar. Crush berries with sugar and allow to stand half hour. Press through a fine sieve, beat well with .a fork and chill before using. • Raspberry Mousse 1 cup raspberries 24 marshmallows 1A+ cup milk 1/-, cup whipping cream Melt marshmallows in milk in top of double boiler. Cool. Press berries through a fine sieve and acid to marshmallows. 'When thoroughly cold, but just beginning to set, then fold in whippet] cream. Freeze in re- frigerator tray, or chill thoroughly. Raspberry Rice 2 cups cooked rice if cup whipping cream 2 -cups raspberries 4 tablespoons sugar Whip cream, add sugar and colt] rice, then carefully. fold in raspber- ries. Serve very cold. Raspberry Chocolate Cake % cup butter. 1 cup brown sguar 2 eggs 14 cup sour milk -1s• tsptt. soda. 2 oz. (or 2 squares) chocolate cup -boiling. water slow' oven four hours. If desired the 11� cups flour --2 teaspoons baking powder. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, then, add chocolate which It a s Lite e n dissolved in boiling water, then milk in which •soda has. been dissolved, then flour tomatoes may be omitted, cooked sep- arately and served with the meat, RASPBERRY DESSERTS it is raspberry time, and it is hop- ed these nice showers will prolong and baking powder. Bake in 2 layer, the crop. Fresh raspberries served with. cake tins. When cool put together cream and sugar never really lose' and ice top with following icing: appeal, but a little variety in serving]. Crush 1 cup raspberries and add 2 improves them. The following reci- tablespoons melted butter. Stir in pes suggest some delectable methods' sufficient icing sugar to make icing of using fresh raspberries. ! thick enough to spread. 1-.6 F. 1 teat& Service OF TME eN (atutb an liiedirttt. ' rim and Life Insurance Companies in Canada. Edited by GRANT FLEMING. M.D., Associate Secretary THE HEART one's activities and habits, if serious PAIN ��c � consequences are to be avoided., A man who may have faced death But before getting panicky one under fire 'without t h e slightest should make: every .effort to find out qualm, or who will cooly pit his skill exactly what is wrong. Do not sup- against all competitors in the ruthless pose it is this or that, but go and field of high finance, will often "blow have a thorough physical examination up" with the ,slightest, pain over itis by a competent physician. Let his heart. • judgment, based on Many such cases, man has resumed guide you in your decision. Let him Many a strong p g that this has meant the end andhas do the worrying; promptly gone to pieces mentally. He However, if he says "ease up", do points figuratively speaking ,to this so. If he says "go to bed", send your and that prominent "citizen who has' suit to the, pressers and turn in, If he without warning collapsed at his desk says "no cocktails" and "only nine or in his car, and presumes he will be holes of golf" it is up to yon to 'do next. I your part. While you may wisely let But is. he right in taking such a him do' the worrying, . remember pessimistic view point? Is there not that it is your heart. another side to this subject? I There are three things to keep in Very few of us get very far along mind. One is that the pain may not the pathway of life without some be from the heart at all; A. second, pains around the heart Thoy may not supposing that, it is from the heart, be due, to the heart at all. Freguent-I that getting panicky isnot going. to ly it is just a disturuance due to gas help matters in the slightest, and a in the stomach; sometimes it is due : third is that a little heart scare may to infection or adhesions in the chest.] often de the .over -strenuous person a Inpeople undergoing severe mental lot of good, for, if he slows down and strain, particularly if they are.of the follows the doctor's instructions im'• worrying type, transitory praecor- plicitly, he may' actually live a longer, dial pain is often'noted. more useful life than had this ;warn Of course it may be of considereble•ing signal not, been given. significance.. It may indicate a ser Questions concerning health, ad ious condition, particularly - in the dressed to the Canadian Medical As- busy man over fifty. In such case•it eociation, 184 College St., Toronto, may necessitate a complete change in will be answered personally by letter. THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad- But Always •Helpful and 'Ins pirin '` MY WORK Let me but do my work from •day to day, In field or forest, at the desk or loom, • Im roaring, market -place, or Iran quil room ' Let me but find it in my )xeart to say, e a- stray—' - � Dishes bbeckonn n When Va • grant t str ay— "This is my work, my blessing, not niy doors; -02 all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way." —Henry Van Dyke. yen year old hired pian to harness the horses and grease the wagon and• be Knew "Thistle" better far.' 'Twill be nae "Roman Holiday" but Scottish tae the core An'. Kilties brae will pipe the lay o' Scotia- o'er an' o'er Men who like Piper Finlater Canla w battle sear. p Yt Tae then the title,"Lord Tweeds- muir" muir" is but the Guinea's Stamp •Tae thein he's jist a brither Scot—ane o' the Scottish camp, 'Upholding Scotia's lamp A full -resplendent star. Ambassador o' Windsor House; from home he conies to be, We own him such, and thanks the King who sent hint o'r the sea, Tae honor John a twee And even Scotia's. score. —Robert Hampton.. MY MOTHER I had a mother who read to nie Sagas of pirates, who scoured the sea, Cutlasses held in their yellowed teeth, "Blackbirds" stowed in the hold be- neath I had- a mother who reed to the tales Of Gelert, the hound of the hills of Wales, True to his trust till his gallant death, Faitltftslness bleat with his final breath. Iliad a mother who react me lays Of ancient and glorious and golden days. Stories. of Marntion•and Ivanhoe, Which every boy has a right to know. 1 had a mother who read nie the things That wholesome life to the boyheart brings; Stories that stir with an 'upward touch— Oh, that each mother of men were such! You may have tangible wealth it;'," told; •Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold; Richer than I you can never be— I had a mother who read to me. —Strickland Gillilan, A SCOTTISH WELCOME Where e'er John Buchan roves, full free, in land o' "Maple Leaf," There, will foregather clans o' men who'll ownhim as their chief Men, who, before they knew the "Leaf" feed the stock at night. Greenside hastened home and ordered his ele- ready to drive the family north and later to look after the stock, while biatt, would go to fight the foe. A meeting was held in the school and a deputation -sent to Brucefield to as- certain whether the Fenians had real- ly . come or not. It was discoverer] that a false rn ' THE TELEPHONE GIRL niosir hada spread, so George was disappointed in missing the trip north. The next year, he attended school in Seaforth, before a regular. School VMS built. The class met in en old store; until after the New Year'when they moved into the first Seaforth school. Iloliclays were •not common in. the She knows all the sorows, she knows sixties, so when the Volunteers had all the joys, a chance to take a trip 'to Windsor She knows all -the girls who are Oas- ts, be paid fifty cents a clay for six• then days, many county boys seized the opportunity of having a vacation with pay. 'Without having to tell his age, George was accepted as a vohui- teen when he was fifteen, acid en- joyed his first train trip from Gorier- with the boys. icli to Windsor. The following win - She knows the excuses each fellow ter target practice was enjoyed by employs, the volunteers; when George won If the 'phone girl told Half of all she prizes totalling eight dollars for his knows marksmanship. It world burp -all our friends to bit - An uncle had come to America and merest foes. had clone service in the • Civil war, Word cane to Clinton that he •was She could sow a small wind that living in Saginaw. .George at the would soon 'be a gale, age of seventeen decided that he To engulf us in troubles and land us would' visit the uncle. On reaching in ;jail, • Saginaw, he discovered that the, un- She could 'start forth a story that ole had left .for the lumber woods: gaining in force 20 miles by rail and 20 on foot, for the Would cause halfthe wives to :sue winter. An.othet forty miles 'brought for divorce. him to where the uncle was working. She could get all ori churches mixe• d In spite of protests froth the' elder up in a fldght THE PASSING OF THE PIONEER Down the last of the trails they are bearing, In a solemn and glorious line, Through the valley of death they are faring With a soul unafraid and divine -- With that soul that was ever passing, And this thing yet will take for a sign. For with every white head that is - sinking, For with every aged head that is dead, Ye are losing gold threads in the linking Of traditional clays that are spedt The dumb epic etenally sped— With the gift of their stern tribulai tion Whibh now carpets the path that ye tread. • There is never a zephyr soft sighing Where the primeval forest once lay, There is never a patriarch dying, But a story is .passing away— And a glory is passing away— Of the humble who founded a nation In the travel and stress of the day. Though the shanty that crouched in the clearing. Es a ghost in the wrack of the past, Though your pioneer fathers are nearing The dark hall that is blazoned the Though they they pass down the trail that is last -- Yet their spirits will hover about ye, In the winch and the stars they will love ye. For the fight they will strengthen and prove ye, Till they fould ye the pioneer cast. Cameron Koster. The telephone girl sits still in her chair, And listens to voices from every- where. She knows all the gossips, she knows all the news, She knows who is happy, and who has the blues. ing the boys. Site knows all our troubles, she knows all our strife, She knows every ratan who talks mean to his wife. She knows every time we are out regarding the hardships of life in And turd our bright days into sox the woods, George stayed for the row and n gltt. winter and brought home $120 for In fact, she could keep the whole four months' work. • world in a stew After spending .the summer in nth of the things Cardno's bake shop in Seaforth )f she told, but a tel g wondering how to spend his money, that she knew. he decided he would visit his grand -Say, kid — but- doesn't it make your mother in Scotland. He set out in heart whirl September, 1873 for the Land o' the To think what you owe to a telephone! Heather. girl? 1 (Continued Next Week) —Canadian Telephone. Journal,,