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The Clinton News Record, 1937-04-29, Page 7' THURS., APRIL 29, 1931. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE 7 HOUSEHOLD` ECONOMICS COOKING 1. '4,0P0WAWAV°w,rc 0 d i°a .,"-'■ W,AVL . '■'■LS°■".W°■°i r'r'■°ANWS 11.! YOUR WORLD AND MINE by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD (Copyright) "■ . , J■S•■■N■•eS'N■SS ■SSY■ rig=ti ■ �=� r ■"WWWWWIANSri i'■'dii'•iYaPi'a'ii All too frequently'I have calls from where he had been successful, tempt - young mel who want to talkto me ed away by the offer of $50 a week about :their work — their future — salary, as against $40 which he had about how to get a job. In the ag been receiving. gregate the hours I give to these cal- lers run into the hundreds every year. These callers do not seem to have any consciousness that my time is valu- able to me—that my time is what I sell—what I use to make a living. Most of my callers stay on and on until I have to indicate te, them that I have work to do. The last of these callers, when he was leaving, said in a lazy way that he would call again when he had some topic of interest to hint—to him, mark you—to pre- sent to me. He Ieft me only after I had risen to my feet and made him 515' Several times this man has been to see me since January 1st. The Last visit was to' tell me that he is ready to quit, and means to quit. His new employer bawls him out—and others also—incessantly; curses all his staff most offensively; calls them "bas tards"; drives them with a whip— the whip of abuse. This man, accus- tomed to good treatment for many years, finds himself most unhappy. Then there is;a third man -a sales- man—a salesman for stationery. He aware by this means that he too finds his work discouraging. He says should rise from his chair, and get that he has nothing to offer business out of my office. firms which cannot be bought with This man has been to see me about equal satisfaction from any one or a four times this year, He is a uni- dozen competitors and he wants• to varsity graduate.. He sells life in- get a new connection. sureties. Latterly he has not been very successful He seems to have acquired a desire to get into some other kind of work. About 6 weeks ago he wanted to talk about a job which half opened to him. For good reasons he decided not to follow up 'this chance—after I had shown him that it was work able to be done and my judgment is that he'll never better by others—others having a become a good salesman. He has more robust nature than my caller has, It was work with no stability in it. It was 'work • ork requiring one to contact a rather illiterate class of persons—persons of no ambition — leaners rather than lifters. The last call I' had from this same man was about a new kind of work— selling business books to business men. The enterprise Iooked "smelly" to me. I counselled him to have nothing to do with a man who was making misstatements -- and from • what I was told, this man was saying that he was affiliated. with a very re - This man—over 6 feet tall—is an oarsman. I was telling a friend a- bout him, and my friend said that all oarsmen` are pretty "dumb"; Ile said that this man ought- to be doing hard physical work—In a mine, by way of example. Certainly, this sales- man lacks imagination and initiative, pleasant manners, and is very like- able;'but he -ix pretty stupid. The qualities _ Mies required by a sales- man—so •one salesmanager has said are Personality — meaning, amiability, impressiveness. Observation—quickness of percep- tion of things, surroundings, influ- ences, buyer behaviourism, Language—ability to expresa cne- self clearly, forcefully, interestingly, freely. Aggressiveness—manifested eager- ness to sell; readiness to counter re- putable organization, and to my sistance, or buyer apathy; unwilling- ness to be defeated. Persistence — keeping on despite discouragement; keeping up the sales effort even when the buyer seems to The same day there came to me be disinclined to buy. Working on another man.—to tell me his griefs. and on, even when weary. Overeom- At the first of this year he went to ing one's temptations to slack up. a new employer—on invitation. He Executive ability that quality :left a pleasant place of employment which leads to the organization of knowledge he has no connection what- 'soever with, this reputable organiza- tion. 94 1S as �G { ` 04 t�wQ. .11 • * d 0 9 Q i` With your car safely in the garage, seems as though you are prepared for anything that can happen. Don't even need a telephone any more, BUT . _.. ARE YOU CERTAIN? Sickness, fire, accident; whatever it may be and: some of these things come occasionally to all of us '— is your car quick enough, sure enough? Maybe the roads are blocked. Maybe a Mire is flat'. . . Ia emergency what you need most is a TELE- PHONE. Don't wait for something to happen to find that out! NEW LOW RATES for farm telephone service are row in effect! MILK—EVERY, DAY FOR EVERYONE Milk and its products are indispen- sible to the growth of the child and to the health of the adult. For the infant, milk is a perfect food; for the. growing child, milk and its products are essential foods; and for adults they are the most important foods. The nutritive' value of milk is uni- que, and milk should be regarded as the foundation of the diet. Milk is the best all-round food, as it contains more of the materials essential to growth and health than any other animal food. Milk furnishes more of the elements for body building and energy producing than any other food commodity at the same cost, There is no waste—every . ounce of milkbought may be used, Milk may be served in many ways. Milk combines well with many other foods. Milk preparations require lit- tle fuel to cook. Milk may be pur- chased in different forms. Potato Soup 3 medium potatoes 2 cups boiling water 2 to 3 cups milk 3 slices onion 3 tablespoons butter 1 1-2 teaspoons salt 1-4 teaspoon .celery salt 1-8 teaspoon pepper Few grains cayenne 1 tablespoon chopped parsley. 2 tablespoons flour Cook potatoes in boiling salted wa- ter. When soft drain and rub through sieve. Measure liquid and add enough milk to make 4 cups. Scald with the onion. Remove onion and add liquid slowly to potato pulp. Melt butter, add flour and seasonings, Cook few one's work; ability to come to quick decisions; orderliness;.ability to di - rec •and Ilam and carry out pro- grammes. p -grammes. Reason—ability to think clearly and soundly; quickness to see funda- mentals; ability to shape arguments. to make them impressive; ability to state, impressively and clearly, rea- sons why one should buy. Specific ability -ability to do some one thing well—something related to one's job as salesman. There are other qualitieswhich could be named—the quality of op timism, for example; the quality of heartiness, of sunniness, of sincerity of bull -doggedness. It is possible that some of my readers are salesmen, or want to be- come salesmen. In which case, they should find this analysis of sales qualifications useful. HEALTH minutes, stirring constantly. Grad- ually add potato mixture. Cook 3 minutes. Sprinkle parsley on soup be- fore serving. Chocolate Bread' Pudding 2 cups stale bread crumbs or srnall squares. bread 2 cups scalded milk 2 squares unsweetened chocolate or 1-2 cup cocoa ` 2-8 cup sugar 2 eggs 1-4 teaspoon salt 1-2 teaspoon vanilla. Soak bread in the scalded milk a- bout half an hour. Melt chocolate ov- er hot water. When using cocoa mix with sugar, Add sugar and enough milk taken from bread and milk mix, ture to make it of a consistency to pour. Pour into bread and milk. Add salt, vanilla and well breaten eggs. Turk into buttered baking dish, or in- dividual dishes. Put dish in pan of water and bake about,one hour at 35.0 degrees F. Ham a la King 4 tablespoons butter 1 cup mushrooms 1 tablespoon green pepper, chopped 4 tablespoons flour 1-2 teaspoon salt 1-2 teaspoon celery salt Few grains cayenne 2 cups milk 2 eups cooked ham, cubed 1 tablespoon parsley, chopped 1 tablespoon pimiento, cut in small pieces.. Melt butter, add mushrooms and green pepper. Stir and cook 5 min- utes. Mix flour and seasonings. Add to first mixture. Cook 5 minutes. Add milk slowly. Add ham, parsley and pimiento. Reheat.. SPICES OF LIFE Whatever the old rhyme of child- hood days With sugar and spice and everything nice That's what little girls .are made of may have conveyed to youthful minds is very likely forgotten by adults. Not so the enticing odour floating from the kitchen on bakin g days when cinnamon cloves t were and nutmeg g w re used in the process.' These spices which add zest to our food are vegetable substances, usu- ally the products of trees. Cloves, for instance, are the dried flower buds of an evergreen tree which grows in the East Indies, East Afri- ea, the West Indies and Brazil. The buds are dried in the sun or with hot air. Cinnamon is the dried inner bark of - a tree which grows in the neighbour- , hood of the West Indies. Allspice is , the dried fruit of an, evergreen tree which grows in Jamaica, Mexico and northern parts of South America. The berries are picked while green and sun dried or kiln dried. Nutmegs grow on atree resembling the orange tree. The nuts are gathered and smoked until the shells can be crack- ed and the kernel separated, The shells are groundand sold as mace. Ginger, although not a product ,from trees, is the root of a sub-tro- j pica, plant. Black ginger is made by scalding the roots and rapidly drying them while white ginger is obtained by drying the macerated root in the sun. Last year Canada imported $915,- 000 915;000 worth of spices. Some came di- rectly from the country where they grew, but over $505,000 worth came from the United Kingdom , and the United States, according to the Ex- ternal Trade Branch of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Department of Trade and Commerce. I return to the first man of whom l have spoken—the salesman for an insurance company who is wobbling —who is ready to quit his present connection, and to take up any other kind of work which .v11l supply hire with a guaranteed wage of $2.O or so a week. This irresc.ution ina uni- versity graduate, with two years' ex- perience as a saleaman'for a life in- surance company is discreditable to him. I. find this young than rather limp—a leaner. Always he is chewing gum when he enters my office, and the last time he brought with hini a beer breath. He slumps in his chair. He is with- out'animation. He has become rath- er forceless. His zip has left him. He said that he had been at home for a fortnight with a cold -an admission that hisvitalityas well as his will had become vitiated. This young man is what they call an introvert— meaning .a Man of introspective'ha- bit, and thinking much about oneself is very had. I am inclined to think that this man is an individualist— not a good mixer, not one who con- tributes life to any company. Ile is about 23 years of age, and unless: he chanees his ways, he will become in his 20's a permanent failure, A strong character doesn't develop from lassitude,' limpness, laziness,. laxity, listlessness, "leaningness", and other "1" qualities. An unculti- vated character becomes a weed -like character -rank, 'unlovely, - rather useless. Strength of character, of mind, of personality, of purpose, is built up by exercise. Strength comes from the conquest of opposition—of one's inclinations toward ease and softness. Everyday is a battle dayi for young persons. One does not be-( come strong by running away front: his battle fields. One acquires power and ability to win and to rule by• fighting his battles to the end—to the point of conquest. CHINAWARE As you washed the dinner dishes tonight or at least while you were eating off them, did you realize that it was only after thediscovery of the Cape route to the East that porce- lain dishes became familar in Eur- ope? Until that time, Western peo- ple used earthenware fashioned from clay and baked ina wood fire. The light and gracefully designed china of today receives its name from the fact that fine pottery was originally imported from China. China was the first country to produce a hard porcelain and the Chinese were the sole producers for a great many years. The first Eur- opean porcelain is believed to have been produced, in Italy during the 150. century andlater the art spread M : France and Germany. The famous German Dresden of today was made as early as that. In body and glaze the true Eng- lish porcelain is equal, if not super- ior, to that of Chinese manufacture and only the spirit of Oriental orna- mentation, authorities say, is lacking to place them on a level with the best: specimensof the original Chinese art. Canadian visitors to London for the Coronation may view in the Victoria THE LOST PRINCE (Continued from page 2) him, he could have done it with one quiet glance, without uttering a word. For some wonderful reason he did not wish' him to cease talking. He was willing to hear what he had to say- he was even interested. "You are growing older," he had said the night he had revealed the marvelous secret. "Silence is still the order, but you are roan enough to be told more." Was he man enough to be thought worthy to help Samavia in any small way—even with, boyish fancies which might contain a germ of some thought which older and wiser minds might make useful? Was he being listened to because the plan, made as part of a game, was not an impossible one— if two boys who could be trusted could be found? He caught a deep breath as he went on, drawing still nearer and speaking so low that his tone was almost a whisper. "If the men of the Secret Party have been working and thinking for so many years --they have prepared everything. They know by this time exactly what must be done by the messengers who are to give the sig- nal. They can tell them where to go and how to know the secret friends who must be warned. If the orders could be written and given to— to some onewho has—who has learned to remember• things!" He had begun to breathe so quickly that he stopped for a moment. Loristan looked up. He looked di- rectly into his eyes. "Some one who has been trained to remember things?" he said. "Some one who has been trained," Marco went on, catching his breath a- gain. "Some one who does not forget -who would never forget—never! That one, even if he were only twelve • seven if he were only ten ----could go and do as he was told," Loristan put his hand on his shoulder. "Comrade,"' he said, "you are speak- ing as if you were ready to go your- self." Marco's eyes looked bravely straight into his, but he said not one word. "Do you know what it would mean, Comrade?" his father went on. "You are right. It is not a game. And you are not thinking of it as one. But have you thought how it would be if something betrayed you — and you were set up against a wall to be shot?" Marco stood up quite straight. He tried to believe he felt the wall a- gainst his back. "If I were shot, I should be shot for Samavia," he said. "And for you, *Father." Even as he was speaking, the front door -bell rang and Lazarus evidentiy opened it. He spoke to some one, and then they heard his footsteps ap- proaching the back sitting -room. "Open the door," said Loristan, and Marco opened it. "There is a boy wno is a cripple here, sir," the old soldier said. "He asked tc.see Master Marco." "If it is The Rat," said Loristan, "bring him M. here. I wish to see him." Marco went down the passage to the front door. The Rat was there, but he was not upon his platform. He was leaning upon an old pair of crut- ches, and Marco thought he looked wild and strange, He was white, and somehow the lines of his face seemed twisted in a new way. ' Marco won- dered if something had frightened, him, or if he felt ill. (Continued next week) GRUBS IN ONTARIO AND QUEBEC (Continued from : page 6) to. Port Hope, there will likely be considerable stripping of trees due to the feeding of the beetles, though ev- en here virtually no loss from attacks by the grubs is to be expected. The absence of injury throughout Ontario'. is due to the insects being present in the non -injurious stages, ` The very severe outbreak in 1936 in Ontario in Glengarry, Grenville, Peterborough Hastings; and lake Simeoe.and Bruce county areas will continue to show in 1037 in the form of dead areas in pasture and meaeow sod. These should be watohed,foi carefully, and wherever replacement of this sod by weeds, .particularly in meadows, is likely to occur, the killed out fields or spots' should be cultivated and seeded down before the weeds estab- lish themselves.• and Albert Museum some choice spe- cimens of old English porcelain, There is only one firm in Canada making chinaware, We imported last y,ear tableware alone of china and porcelain to the value of over three million' dollars,: most of it from the United Kingdom, according to the Ex- ternal Trade Branch of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Department of Trade and Commerce, CARE OF CHILDREN THIS MODEST CORNER IS -DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful and Inspiring. WEAVING The shadows lengthened as I sat apart, My workbox at my side. With sad- dened heart I saw the soiled, snarled threads,and thought, "These are but - worthless shreds: they're good for nought!" A. master -weaver came, and paused, and smiled, • "Be not east down," he said, "des- pairing child, Outgrown their curly childhood yet; And cows no longer hurry home However sweet a voice cries "Come." Here, with green Nature all around While that fine bird, the skylark sings; Who now in such a passion is, He flies by it, and not his wings; And many a blackbird, thrush, and sparrow Sing sweeter songs than I may bor- row. Give me the threads!" I gave them These watery swamps and thickets o'er, and he wild— Wove me a fabric wondrous fair tol Called Nature's slums to me are see. more Than any courts where fountains play, The tangled threads of life, and from And men-at-arms guard every door, them make For I could sit down here 'alone A fadeless garment for eternity; The Master -Weaver loves humanity. —Louise Yates Towriss, in Knitting and Homecrafts. The One who wore the seamless robe can take SPELL Strange are the things the wind can say, And strange are the ways of the shifting sea— But there's never a madness made by day Like a night of snow and a ghostly tree, And a sudden drift where the road should be. :Kathleen Millay. PLAINSONG In garments fair and clean And in a reverent mien To the blest table of my Lord I go; Withim H to eat and sups I take the bread and cup, Symbols of Body given, Blood that for me did flow, Unless the heart be clean, Though in a reverent mien, In rags and pride I to the table go; Fleshly to eat and sup, I take the bread and cup, So meat to me is given; thirst quench- ing wine doth flow. With heart made pure and clean, And in a reverent mien, To the blest table of my Lord I go; With Him to eat and sup I take the bread and cup, Body once given, Blood that for me did flow. E. Lillian Morley. THE HOME To make a home—to shape, withi four walls, A sacred spot where love may liv and be Fed by the living flame of zealou hearts, Hearts of twin aim and stirred unit- edly. nitedly. Home is an instinct, deep, and blessed of One Who made man twain, and gave these urge to bring Offspring of theirs into a world. Where life Must e'er be kept in safe and tender guise. its ' growth. A place to have and share Thought and experience; where hon- esty is lain Upon the altar and no evil e'er Can sunder Love or separate the twain That shape a home, and call on God to be Their Landlord and their Friend, eternally. —Rena Chandler. And count the oak -trees one by one. -W. W. Davies. LET THE PEOPLE PRAISE THEE Dear Master, for this coming year, Just one request I bring, I do not pray for happiness Or any earthly thing. I do not ask to understand The way thou leadest me, But this I ask, teach me to do The thing that pleaseth Thee. I want to know Thy guiding voice, To walk with Thee each day. Dear Master make me swift to hear And ready to obey. And thus the year I now begin A happy year will be, If I am seeking just to do The thing that pleaseth Thee. —Anon, co A HEALTH SERVICE OF THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES 114 CANADA TONSILS AND ADENOIDS Is the removal of tonsils and ade- noids a recently devised operation? As a matter of fact it is one of the earliest surgical operations, dating back to at least Celsus A.D. 10. We have been told that in one of the Eas- tern countries the tonsils are removed from every infant. A slip knot is formed of a piece of horsehair and placed around the tonsil. The slip knot is then pulled tight and the ton, sir is cut off and removed. These people have great belief in the value n of this operation and to it they as- cribe the great stature of their men. e In Canada, however, only forty years ago a child whose tonsils had s been removed was a rarity, but now, when every school child receives medical supervision, this operation is very common, Well maya thinking parent find it difficult to believe that there is need for such a widespread attack on a structure of the body. Of what good are the tonsils? Does their removal do any harm? Surely they have been given to us for a purpose? The tonsils and adenoids area kind of tissue which grows in the throat to protect us against the spread of germs, but only as long as it is a healthy tissue is it protective. The position of tonsils and ade- noids readily exposes them to infec- tion and often they become harbours of poisonous material Therefore, the removal of these damaged, and harm- ful pieces of tissue will not lie any loss to the defenses of the body. It is, as statistics show, a great benefit to the children as a whole, even though occasionally the individual may notseem to be benefitted. It is the experience of doctors with large practices, that after a child has had `his unhealthy tonsils and ade- noids removed, he requires medical attention much less frequently on the average than hitherto. Questions concerning health, ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College St., Toronto, will be answered personally by letter. STARS Alone in the night on a dark hill, With pines around me spicy and still, And a heaven full of stars over my head, White and topaz, and misty red-- Myriads ed—Myriads with beating hearts of fire That aeons cannot vex or tire— Up the dome of heavenlike` a great hill, I watch them marching stately and still; - And I know that -I am honored to be Witness of so much majesty. —Sara Teasdale. EARLY SPRING How sweet this morning air in spring, When tender is the, grass and wet! I see some little leaves have not The kind old lady had just used the '. public 'telephone for the first time. and had given the operator quite a lot of trouble. After she had finish- ed her conversation she Called the exchange. "I'm very sorry to have given you so much trouble, Miss", she said, "so I'm putting another nickel in the that for yourself,'