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The Clinton News Record, 1937-04-22, Page 7THURS.,.-:ARYL 22, 1937. THE ° CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE 7 HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS COOKING HEALTH CARE OF CHILDREN Tea for every Taste TEA •":t.`.iNSilli'W.ti°,'.P•WeiV.'9. W.` ei,°r°IAM.V.1.".'.'.1.'A.°.ti'.1F.NW ,' to :1•e fi YOUR WORLD AND MINE by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD (Copyright) phWM1IW■iVr'i�'i'iSOMSWVew.P.Wirdi'1SYdLuW.;W.A. All of us have at times our blue It may be gardening, or collecting days. We can't keep taut all the stamps, or wood carving, or painting. time., Every now and then we sag— Another form of free -time occupat- • are in low spirits. In these periods ion which will give us gladness in of depression skies are very gray. We our .hearts is participating in the feel ourselves to be licked by forces work of good causes—church work, too strong -for us to oppose successful- club activities, charitable work. The ly. We think that our friends are de- main thing is to be doing something sorting us; that our ability to carry which will pull us out of ourselves. on as earners is diminishing; that it Introspection is bad occupation, is hardly worth while to try to keep yet it is a form of occupation praetis- the Ten Commandments; that it is ed by far too many. Persons whose foolishto go living: thoughts are turned inward on them - It is at such times that the quality selves - thus habitually become un - of our character is being tested. happy - sour - discontented - bad - Speaking for myself, my practice is tempered. to just hang on, leaving it to kindly Time to restore me to a better state of mind—to make me buoyant again. t donot do anything to correct my black mood. I don't go places, or do bad. or wild things or set out to do a good deed. The best way, I find -- best for me, at any rate—is just to .be passive. Long experience has informed' me that the black mood will pass and that I shall once more feel that life is all right and that the sun continues to shine. The Irish, so I have found, are a moody people. One day they are on mountain tops, the next in the valley of shadows. Once I read quite eag- erly the stories of Charles Lever— among them "Charles O'Malley", and I could not but help perceive that the Irish temperment is inequable. When'I lived in England I' met num- erous ,Irishmen—Dublin men or men from the south of Ireland—and found them very moody persons. I saw several Irish plays, and. I saw that Irish playwrights had . made their I am ready to grant that it is very very hard, to remain sweet -natured and to have an equable spirit when one has to live close and long with someone who is persistently gloomy, or bad -natured, or sour -natured -who is a continual complainer; with one who may be a nagger and a critic of everything and everybody. It is so easy to get "edgy" when one is irritated day after day by unpleasant persons close to one. 'It is so easy to say something which becomes fuel laid on fire -something which will cause a fiercer flare-up. Yet the course of wisdom is to let unpleas- antness and nastiness and gloominess remain one-sided. It is likely to be hard work to keep sunny -natured if one is continually Ell.' Illness makes one self -conscious - and perhaps rather helpless -depend- ent on others for many attentions. And it is all too often the case that querulousness on the part of the ill person and on the part of those who men and women alternately buoyant care for him or her produces a sad state of ill nature and ill speaking. and gloomy. My observation has The point which I taught me that Celtic people are en trying to moody people, and this includes Scots press }iome is this; when we have a people. Perhaps you have perceived that many, Celtic songs are sad songs. This may be because Irish and Scott- ish people, taking them in the mass, never had a n abundance of this world's goods, but so long as they remained in their own countries, had to endure the pains and distresses of povevyt—and this without the assur= ance that things would become better. I saw a woman getting on a. street car, who was jostled by some other one eager as herself to get on the street car. The jostling was quite unintentional, and was not at all violent. But this woman raged away to her companion for several minutes about this small circumstance. It was easy to see that this woman is habitually bad tempered that she is a great fault-finder. She never thinks that she is to blame when things go wrong; always it is the other person who is the offender. It is easy to get into the habit of thinking that others are our enemies, our ill wishers; so easy to be 'touchy' quick to fly off the handle. Since we can't change others, and since we can Change ourselves, why not change ourselves so that we shall get th- rough life agreeably? Life for us is a battle -between our better selves and our bad selves. Which self in us is to win?, A. good saying is Always face the sun, and the shadows will fall behind you. We may be impatient, rude, suspicious, rough -spoken, churl- ish, self-centred, introspective :grow- ly, easily discouraged. Even so, we can change these qualities in us, and can matte ourselves patient, tolerant of other persons, gentle -mannered, soft -- spoken, altruistic, pleasant, brave, and I submit the view that we ought to become:. our best. The fight against our bad qualities may take years to win, but what is time grant- ed us for if it is not for self -conquest and for making ourselves loved and esteemed by those whose, lives we touch daily? choice open to us to be either sunny- natured or sour -natured, why choose to be sour -natured? No matter what happens in regard to our relations with others, we have'to keep on living with ourselves to the very end; so why make ourselves a bad compan- ion for ourselves? We who ate natives of Canada need not be hopeless concerning a better future for us. We perceive that ours is a land able to give us abundantly all things which we de- sire, and that if we do not attain to riches or ease or many comforts, the explanation is found in ourselves, not in 'surrounding conditions. Our country is not over -populated. Its soil is not infertile, or worn out. In- dustry is always . expanding, so re- quiring more workers. The crumbs from rich men's tables are so many that they feed many poor. Unhappiness, discontent, is a state which can be cultivated. All that we have to do to acquire a habitual state of discontent and unhappiness is to indulge our gloomy moods. We can get up mornings with a grouch. We can carry our grouch right th- rough the whole day and evening, and we can take our grouch to bed with, us. And, by the same token, we can cultivate a sunny nature—just by willing always to look upon the bright side of things, and by radiat- ing brightness and good cheer. We can think pleasant thoughts, and practice kindliness and gentleness. We can read happy books. We can do our work with goodwill; We can do our utmost to beet off what may be called adversity, and then. • leave all else to the angels. One good way to acquire and re- tain a happy : nature is to have a time-consumingandaninteresting side line occupation, something which will pull us toward it whenever we have free time—something' in which we can, invest our free time in the assurance that We shall get back div- idends. This side -line occupation may be a field of study. It may be a small' hobby—such as carpentry. It may be field -study employment— bird-study, by example, or botany. Canada, next to Australia, was the largest supplier of wheat to Japan in 1936. At the same time, Canada not only maintained but increased her position as the largest exporter of lead, aluminum, and newsprint to the land of ;the rising sun. Among the many other exports from Canada were,hockey sticks, skates, and pucks, WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE GAY NINETIES Do You Remember What I! append During The Last Decade Of The Old Century? From the Huron News -Record April 21st, 1897. Miss Winnie Paisley is on a visit to relatives in St. Thomas. , Capt. and : Mrs. Rance of Blyth spent Easter with friends in town. Mr. and Mrs. Herdsman of. Wing- ham spent Good Friday with Mr. and Mrs. R. Cluff. Mr. FL Hunt went to the Forest City on Friday. W. G. Richardson, B.A. was intown last week calling on friends. He has just written his final examinations at Knox College, Toronto. BAYFIELD—A. E. Thompson, prin- cipal of the school has resigned and intends to study for the ministry. Mr. Murdock Ross is making arr- angements to put in two pound nets off Bayfield. Will and John Jewett have finish- ed their courses of Business Study at London and have returned home. From the Clinton New Era, April 23, 1897. Mr. Arthur Cook has commenced. excavating for a new house on Mill Street and has let the contract for same to S. S. Cooper. • This is the second house Mr. Cooper has built for Mr. Cook and this certainly speaks well for "your own Sam". Mr, McKenzie is Veflooring four rooms in the Public School, which re- opens on Monday. A certain medical man has so metamorphasised his appearance by the removal of his hirsuite append- ages, that even his,'intimate friends hardly know him. The town band is being re -organiz- ed under the leadership of Will. Holl- oway. It will consist of eleven or twelve members. The other day while S. Castle was engaged in cutting wood, his axe caught in a clothes line and rebound- ed, inflicting a nasty gash on the crown of his head. Miss N. Combe is home from the school of Pedagogy, Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. French of Napanee Collegiate are visiting the hatter's parents, lVlr. and Mrs. W. T. French. Misses Emily and Sarah Turner, Emma Stephenson and Emily Stevens, teachers, aro home for the holidays. Miss Lena Doherty of the Toronto Conservatory of Music, is home for the holidays. Mrs. IL Glazier is the guest of friends in Wingham. Goderich Township -Mr. P. Camp- bell is spending the holidays at his home in. Stanley. Mr, L. Tebbutt spent Good Friday at his home on the Maitland. Wm, J. Elliott is improving slight- ly. He has had a hard seige. Mrs. Plummer of Blyth is visiting among her relatives. When The Present Century Was Young From the Clinton News -Record, April 25th, 1912. Mr. John Ransfot'd will be in New York this week. Misses Clata . and. Emma Copp and Mr. D. McKinnon of Goderich were guests of Mr. and Mrs, David Steep, on Sunday. Mr. , and Mrs., J. E. Harnwell of Varna, were in bidding goodbye to friends before their departure to the west. Rev. T. W. ,Cosens was in Wingham on Sunday taking the work of Dr. PRutledge, who preached the annivers- ary services in Ontario St. Church. Edward Floody, one of the officials of the Inland Revenue .Department, Toronto, was injured when struck by' a street car at the corner of Shute grid longe Streets,, on Tuesday aft-: ernoon. His friends hope a st reet car.will not prove serious. 'Gunn, Langlois of Montreal ;have letnitely decided to establish a bran- ch in Clinton and have bought the Standard elevator from Is. Sutter and Co. In addition to• poultry, the Com- pany buys various kinds of produce. Mr. N. W. Trewartha, who is man- ager at Holmesville, will take charge at Clinton. and born - Z es Mrs, W. Brunsdon spent Sunday with her son Arthur at London. Miss A. Braithwaite left last week on an extended visit to 'friends in' Hamilton. Su nmerhill— Mrs. John Johnston, spent a few days recently with friends in Clinton, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Scruton of Clin- ton spent Sunday the guests of IVIr. J D. Barr. Mr. and Mrs. C. Dale and family of the Huron Road were recent visit- ors with Mr, and Mrs. Geo. Johnston. From the Clinton New Era, April 25, 1912. • Dr. Smith of Stratford was the guest of Major and Mr. Combe over the week -end. Mr. J. Becker has taken a position with the Building and Bridge depart- ment of the G, T. R. Mr, W. S. R. Holmes attended the Rexall Convention of dealers in the Company's medicines, last week in Toronto. Dick Tasker reports next week to the Brantford Baseball Team for the coming season in the Canadian Base- ball League. Dick's old friends will all hope for a successful year. Brucefield —Earl Kaiser of the Trader's Bank, Fergus has been tran- sferred to Bridgeburgh. Goderich Township—Mr. Randall Cole of Toronto, spent the past week with his parents. The McEwan Bros. intend proving their small plant from R. Trick's farm to the river on R. Cole's farm. "PEP" UP FISH DAY Fish makes a tempting party dish. In the seasoning, one may attain quite appetizing effects from the use in cooking, and in sauces, of such sim- ple seasoning agents as prepared mustard, Worcestershire sauce, ket- chup, chili, tabasco, onion and vege- table stock preparation while orange and lemon, grapes, pimiento cups and olives give a range of flavour possi- bilities that add immeasurably to any fish under the sun. Very little imagination is used in the average home in the saucing and serving of fish. Yet garnishing is quite a trick, and color has its impor- tance, for food should be as enchant- ingly and becomingly garbed as the I maples in their Fall costumes. If you are planning a party, aur- prise your family and guests by serv- ing them fish. Take two halibut steaks. Dip your steaks in finely. sifted bread crumbs, seasoned with salt and pepper and a little Worces- tershire, and fry them in salad oil. , The oil cooking is splendid, for the fish does not stick to the frying pan, does not burn or smell, and cooks and browns to perfection. For the sauce make a light -textur- ed cream sauce using two tablespoons. of butter and one tablespoon of flour to two cups of milk, or one and a half cups of milk and a half a cup of, cream or evaporated milk, well sea- soned with salt and pepper and pap- rika and about a teaspoon of Worces- tershire Sauce. If you wish to be particularly festive, add a can of shrimps, cut them fine and add to the sauce. Cooking the whole for half 1an hour, beating it while cooking with the egg beater occasionally. Gar- nishing can be added at will: grapes, slices of orange and lemon are ap- petizing, Fish, if nicely prepared, is a dish any cook may be proud to serve. It can be used in so many ways. Fish with fish, fish with fruit, fish with crisp salads, with mushrooms, with onions and peppers and sweet herbs. Nature is not. narrow-minded. She provides the fruits of the earth . . and combined with a little imagina- tion. fish day canbe made as thril- ling as a Neronian banquet. And in addition to its ability to please our: palates, fish has also the power to satisfy our thyroid glands by furnishing plenty of iodine. Sea foods are most excellent providers of this necessary element and it was ev- en reported several years ago that the presence of salmon' as an important part of the bill -of -fare of an Indian village in the Northwest was suffi- cient to account for ; their freedom from simple goitre, while throughout the surrounding coonsry the white people, who failed to nse the salmon which came up the stream to their doors, were almost all afflicted. Thus in inland regions, where simple goi- tre is a danger, the taste for sea food is a valuable ons to cultivate and the use of it, wherever it is available, A HEALTH SERVICE OF THE CANADIAN MED.CAL ASSOCIATION AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA NOSE BLEEDS Stop those repeated nose bleeds be- fore you lose your job. Business to- day demands a great deal if you are to keep your head above the tide and you cannot do this when your health is being undermined by frequent haemorrhages from the nose. Often the cause and remedy are so simple too. A small blood vessel towards I he front of the nose bursts its wall and bleeds for awhile. Soonit stops, but before it is completely healed it breaks through at the same place again, and this may occur a number of times. Your doctor can cure these nose bleeds by sealing off the offend- ing blood vessel with some form of cauterization. It takes but a short time and is usually painless. When you are faced with the alarm- ing picture of blood pouring from the nose what are you to do? Well, first of all do not plug the nose with anything, as this merely causes fur- ther injury to the broken wall of the bleeding vessel. Tight pressure with the finger on the outside of the nos- tril which is bleeding will usually control the haemorrhage in about five minutes. All nose bleeds of course are not due to bleeding vessels at, the front of the nose. Common causes in chil- dren are adenoids and foreign bodies, such as beads and buttons. These usu- ally cannot be discovered except by your doctor, who also can remove the cause and so stop the bleeding. Some adults suffer from high blood pressure which indirectly may be the source of the repeated nose bleeds, Here the blood from the nose is a warning that other trouble is present and the sign should not be neglected. In older people growths in the nose cause irregular bleeding and the soon- er the tumour is discovered and treatment begun, the greater the chance of cure. So it is very important that all per- sons suffering from repeated nose bleeds should be examined by their doctor in order to find out the cause and to commence treatment before too much damage is done. Questions concerning 'health, ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sedation, 184 College St., Toronto, will be answered personally by letter. should be encouraged. Don't throw away any trimmings or bones of fish, but if you are using fish that requires trimming and has bones, throw these instead into the kettle with a little pepper corn, a bit of onion, and salt and pepper. Cover with cold water and simmer until re- duced to a good strong stock. It forms the basis of many fish sauces, especially the butter sauces used with some fish. Fish Soup is delicious, too. On a re- cent trip to England; Elizabeth Craig gave us a demonstration of how de- licious fish soup can be made in her testing kitchen at Lycrome, Bucks. Here famous dishes are concocted to tempt the palate of Kings and peas- ants. It Where Elizabetl;j Craig -writes articles which set the housewives of England agog --- and not long ago printed a series of articles, showing that the English housewife wastes more food down the sink than would pay off the national debt. It is her job to show them how to economize how to make up dishes which will be tasty as well as nutritious . and her fame has spread far and wide over her soup dishes. Here is the recipe for her famous fish soup: Three-quarters of a pound of sole, or three-quarters of a pound, haddock steak. Place in a saucepan and cover with three-quarters of a cupl of water and chop one small onion fine. ' Cook slowly for ten minutes. Strain. Remove fish. , from bones. Take fish water, add three medium- sized tomatoes, sliced, 2 heaping ta- blespoons of potatoes cooked, 1 table- spoon of butter, 1 tablespoon of flour and half a pint of milk and stir in the shredded fish and liquor and cook. Season with pepper, salt and paprika and thin with milk to the right consis- tency.. This makes a delicious soup nourishing and tasty. How about some fish cakes ' for. Sunday morning's breakfast. Cod, for instance, is rich in Vitamins'A and B -healthful also in its store of such minerals as calcium, gtlnosphorus, sop per, sulphur and iodine. Try this re- cipe. Baked Fish Cakes Mix one can of flaked Canadian fish with onion, salt, pepper and one cup cooked macaroni. Add to beaten egg. Form into small round cakes, place in buttered pan and bake until gently browned. Serve hot on rounds of toast with Horseradish Sauce. THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful and Ins piring- APRIL AGAIN April again! The willow wands are yellow, Rose -red brambles that the passing wind blows. Comes a robin's note, like the note of a 'cello, And across the valley the calling of the crows— "April again!' ' April again! and the marsh -birds swinging Over the rushes that belong to yesteryear; Silver shines the river, and young lips are singing Songs as old as Eden—as old and as dear— "April again!" April again! with a wet wind blowing And along the western sky a path- way of gold; Sounds a call to follow the road we're not knowing, A new road—a wild road—o'er fairy lands unrolled— "April again!" April again! with its wonder of glad- ness, April with its haunting joy and swift -stinging tears— Month of mist and music, and the old moon -madness, Month of magie fluting, the spirit only hears— "April again!" —Virna Sheard. THE GLADNESS OF NATURE Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, When our mother Nature laughs around; When even the deep blue heavens look glad, And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground? There are notes of joy from the hang - bird and wren, And the gossip of swallows through all the sky; • The ground -squirrel gaily chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by. The clouds are at play in the azure space, And there shadows at play, on the bright -green vale, And here they stretch to the frolic chase, And there they roll on the easy There's a dance of leaves in that as- pen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, There's a smile on the fruit, and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea. And look at the broad -faced sun, how he smiles On the dewy earth that smiles in his ray, On the leaping waters and gay young isles; Ay, look, and he'll smile thy gloom away. —William Cullen Bryant. POEM A frost and a crescent moon, And two proud horses' side by side, "But whence came they and whither pace?" Thus heard I one that questing cried. Ah, never ask! Ah, never probe! Their hoofs with silver shoes are shod, The poet's moon -white staIIions tread Where never earthly horse has trod, V. Sackville West, in Time and Tide, AND EVER SHALL BE. He offered her a fine big house, Roof stout and firm' and shiny floors, Larder well -stored and fuel -bin filled High curtained windows and heavy doors. A. neighbor picked for her wayside flowers, And joined her in singing a merry song, Made love's old tale seem a glad sura prise, Offered his arm be life's way brief or long. She laughed in the face of the old and the wise, Unplaited her hair and laid by her snood, Kissed her gay lover and thanked with a smile His neighbor who brought them a basket of food. —E Lillian Morley, THE BECKONING OF THE BEACON Southward—Southward In their long, long flight Through the uncharted sky -roads In the night, By some eternal urge Within their feathered breasts, Tho small birds have been passing. Passing in the autumnal night, Arc -long a serge Of Beauty passing by. O'er forest, plain and sea they fly; Undaunted 'Till now, in this sad year, between two days, Out of the miasmal maze Of Erie's misty marsh Fog-haunted— Flashing One hundred thousand candle strong, The mighty beam of Long Point Light Allured, alas! the winging host. Bewildered, betrayed, And victims of a strong momentum— In quick decision made, They gambled 'gainst the giant pane --and Inst :In massed confusion `Crashing. At dawn's •first kiss The light -house keeper finds Fivehundred dead. Abl many a Southern glen shall miss Their morning. song. Hushed be their haunts By Northern trail and tree: And Canada shall mourn the vanished throng, And poorer be—forever. M- errill H, Cook. LIBERTY "If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.". -John 8. To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way, And the high soul climbs the highway, And the low soul gropes the low; And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth The way his soul shall go. -John Oxenham. WAS IT YOU? An old man limped.. along life's way, His grief -bowed head was crowned with grey; Somebody cheered his dreary day. I wonder—was it you? A lonely child devoid of guile, Looked up, and tears bedimmed its smile Somebody stopped to play a while.: 1 wonder—was it you. There's alwayssomeone needing and Some trembling heart alone, afraid, Some load that could be lighter Tirade Can they depend on you? A PLEA FOR THE. SHEEP 'Twas a sheep not a lamb that had strayed away, . In a parable Jesus told, A grown-up sheep that had gone astray From the ninety and nine in the fold. Out on the hillside; out in the cold 'Twas a sheep the Good .Shepherd sought, Ansi back to the flock safe in the fold T'was a sheep the good shepherd And why for the sheep should we earnestly long, And earnestly hope and pray? Because if they go wrong They will lead the lambs astray. For the lambs will follow the sheep you know Where ever the sheep will stray, When the sheep go wrong it will not be long Till the lambs are as wrong as they. And so with the sheep we earnestly plead For the sake of the lamb today, If the lambs are lost what a terrible cost Some sheep will have to pay. i --Ana'