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The Clinton News Record, 1934-01-18, Page 7THURS., SAN.. 18, 1934 THE CLINTON NEWS-MQRI, PAGE 7 Health, Cooking, Care of Children } A P&G INTEREST Edited By Lebam Hakeber Kralc OP %.fui PEKOE ,w :mak "Fresh From the Gardens" Z 6 � aiinatiau Of Reah I i A Column Prepared Especially for Women— But Not Forbidden to Men speech and when they did commence to talk, it came naturally to them. The habit of reading is .a wonder- ful safeguard. to young 'nen and wo- men as they go out into the world, -a- way from home influence and re. Straints.; It will serve to pass many an hour which would otherwise have beenlonely, when they might easily have become a prey to influences not so good. THE CHILD :AND THE BOOK He, who gives a child ,a book, Gives that child a sweeping look, Through its pages Down theages. Gives that child a ship to sail, Where the far' adventurers haij Down the sea Of destiny. Gives that child a vision, wide ,. Ae the skies where stars abide Anchored in The love of Iiim, Gives that child great dreams dream; Sun -lit ways that glint and gl Where the sages Tramp the ages, —William L. Stidg cam ger. leacilegiseet 0 JOMEN Household Economics riving a comfortable income. She decided to keep hooking and selling her rugs. Now she sells them as fast as she can hook. More than that, she has booked orders which' will keep her deft fingers busy all winter. One order for nine large rugs came from a commercial firm in Halifax. One often feels when meeting young nien and women who cannot amuse themselves an hour without; being with others that they havo missed a lot in not having formed the reading habit. To ,grow to man- hood and womanhood not being able to spend a happy evening with booke is to find oneself in a very poverty- stricken condition, indeed. No child in this country where books are e plentiful should be allowed to do so. and no matter how scarce money is, in a vicinity like Clinton, with an excellent library at one's elbow, it is unnecessary. A five -cent card gives you the privilege of reading sixteen books. No entertainment is so cheap and, in the long run. none so satis- factory, as reading,' Let the children, encourage the children, urge the chil- dren to form the habit of reading early in life. No habit is so educa- tional, so broadening, so generally helpful to successful living. , REBEKAH. this love by telling stories at stated intervals during the week or every evening, if that is possible. Nowa, days the books written for children are a marvel to those who were brought up on '"Little Red Riding - hood" and "Old Mother Hubbart" It is no trouble at all to get stories for children. The weekly ";Story dour" at the Pultlt'c Library is s mighty factor in arousing the love of reading in children. Mothers whose children do not take advan- tage of it should see that they do. thus planting the seed early in life, which in later years will develope in- to the goodly tree of a worthwhile habit. There are people, at least there used to be, perhaps the world is wis- er h look d• as a waste On one occasion the late Sir John Willison paid a visit to Clinton, I 'think it was during the;wax, when he gave an address. He no doubt said a good many interesting and , w o oo t upon leading of time. Perhaps some reading is, if one spends all one's time reading light, frothy, or worse, filthy and obscene stories, it may be worse than a waste of time. But it is a mistake to suppose that the reading of every- thing ,but the bible and r•eligiour important things, for Sir John was books a waste of time. Aside from an able man, but the only thing 1 banning really harmful books a can remember of that address was `child's reading should not be too the statement that anyone who gave much restricted. He will soon learn or encouraged a child in the habit of to diseriminate. Let him read every.. treading did more for the develope- thing he can lay his hands on. The vent and the happiness of that child • than could be done in any other 'way. Perhaps the reason why 1 remem- ber this so well is because I so titor- eughly agreed with him none are accounted so wise, you know, as those who are in agreement with us. But -'I've' proved it out ill my owl lifo. I'll say nothing about the de, velopement but certainly the habit of reading, which needed no eneour- ageneint in rate; I inherited it, has been one of the greatest joys of my, life. But every child is not born with a The Migration of Birds Birds furnish us with the most perfect examples of migration. The power in the wings which e nables them to make such long flights seems to us extraordinary. The. large number of ,birds that migrate, the stated seasons In which they leave and return, the long distance covered during twenty --four hours,. and the regularity 'of movement, to- gether with their powers of endue-- ance even among very small birds, appear to us truly wonderful. They have a remarkable honing instinct which direets them to their old hones, as may be seen in the re- turn of the carrier -pigeon. RED CARROTS AS WINTER; GREEN FEED FOR POULTRY (Experimental Farms Note) It is. a known fact that green feed in one form or another is a very val- uable addition to a poultry ration. No natter how well balanced any ra- tion may be there seems to come a time when . a change is desirable. Variety in a diet is possibly no less welcome to the hen than to the hue man. race. Though it has been au- thentically reported that birds re- ceiving dried green feed such as elf, alfa leaf meal may give results .as good if not better than birds receiv- ing steeped alfalfa, cabbage and mangels, the question of a change in diet is a point that; will always de- serve consideration. mind of ;youth is something like his digestion, it can stand a good deal. Put the good literature in his way and he will soon learn to appreciate it. Having a few good periodicals come regularly to the house is a help and nothing helps more than seeing the parents and grown-ups in the house indulging in the reading habit. A woman was once asked how her children had learned so early to use such good English. She said that she had always, even when they were little tots, made a practice of read- ing to them one bit of good Mara - love .for reading, in some it must be tire each day. "I think," she said cultivated, and it is well worth cul- "that without being conscious of i tivating. The normal .' child loves and even before they could speak stories and the mother can indulge they learned the sound of correc t t aseamnumnsuremna li� c Vice OF TRIC Gambian �I4 bttat Al sariw•lirn and Life Insurance Companies in Canada. Edited by GRANT FLEMING. M.D., Associate Secretary common cold, influenza, pneumonia, HAND TO MOUTH Many diooase germs may be de- and other communicable disease$.. • seribed literally and accurately" hs ' Hands that are soiled by nose and living a hand-to-mouth ixistence. As .mouth secretions transfer germs to far as we know, ; disease germs do objects which they touch, and if not multiply, in nature, outside of these objects' are handled by another the human or animal body. They may persist for a time,but most of them die fairly soon because drying and light, particularly as produded by 'direct sunlight; t destroy' them. This means that disease germs, if they are to pass from person to person, trust make the journey by a fairly direct route if they are not to perish en the way. •'From a practical point of view, it is of great importance that we be able to recognize the routes taken by the routes, we may be able to erect secretions of rho handler .which may contain disease germs. .. Knowing these routes, it is ort vions that, first of all, bands should be kept away, from the face, and that the hands should be thoroughly washed before food is prepared 0r eaten. If these simple precautions are taken, the hand-to-mouth trans= fer •of disease germs will be pre, vented, and a very real danger will be overcome. Questions concerning Health, ad.' dressed to the Canadian Medical As. sociittion, 184 College Street, Toron- to, 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 •piring- EARLY SNOW Never again will slow wind shake the trees To such a flowering marvelous as this It might be April in an April breeze; It might be April in a chrysalis. This is :not winter with this tender snow Sifting across the blue dells of the da y, The snow falls to some slow adagio, And every maple wears a bride's bouquet,—London Free Press. otemsr VISTA As a young swimmer in the flowing sea Rises above the silver -crested swells But what is the impelling force Glimpsing beyond' a vista yet more fuse that causes these birds' to migrate? Wherein the mystery of water The food supply is growing scarcer' dwell •' ular kind of food that x tie that a P So do I rest upon each passing day. certain birds live on is failing ire the •Sensing a little where the white north and they travel southward °in birds fly, search of the same kind until they Standing where I can glimpse each reach that region where that food Is lovely way plentiful, and'rest there. Then at That lies beyond the heart's eter- the approach of cold weather food nal cry. fails again and they return to the And yet I know that I have never north.. seen Birds have remarkable homing Beyond the shadow on the endless sense of direction, and can find the, screen. shortest distance to any place as pre- ceeding generations have done. Ev--Sara .an Alystyne Allen in the New en young birds find their way al- York Sun though it is generally believed they �et are led by the older ones. "As the manyavintered Clew that leads the ROMANCE clanging rookery home." My love dwelt in a Northern land, The spring migration begins in A gray tower in a forest green March and punctually on March first Was her's and far on either hand in Western Ontario comes the Horned Lark easily recognizable by short tufts of feathers on either side of his head. Before he has come the crows have been calling, but the crow does not migrate to distant parts, but shelters himself in .nearby swamps. About a couple of weeks after the lark has piped his song, the robin appears if the •season is early. Ile In the feeding of the birds in the Egg -Laying Contests at the Domin- ion Experimental Farm, Agassiz, B. 0, particular attention has always been given to •the natter of green feed. For many years mangers were used in this connection during the winter months. However, as evi- dently the value of the mangel did not justify its classification so much as a green feed as a succulent feed only, the attention of those respon- sible has recently been turned move and more to the value of red car- rots. The latter is of value not on- ly for its succulency brit for its vita- min content also. No matter how well balanced a ration may be success in feeding whether it be poultry or other live stock depends very much indeed on the ability of the feeder. It is here where his power of observance person, the germs are transferred to the hands of this second person, who may carry them to his mouth or nose. In this way the cycle is completed, and if this action takes place with sufficient rapidity, there is the real danger that living disease germs will be spread. Another practical danger is that hands soiled by'secretions will touch food which is later taken into the mouth, without having been cooked. and in this way are passed, into the disease germs Provided we know mouth of the food consumer, the. Green -capped gnomes by the hiilful, Rhymes by Romeo's quiliful; Measure sweets by'the jarful, Dreams by the brooding starful, Robes by the bridal chestful, Songs by the' Bobolink's breastful; Thorns by the rose's stemful, Gems by the diademful, Gold and dust by the cartful, Only love by the heartful. —Katharine Lee Bates,in "Yellow W Glover." (New York: Dutton.) tri THE DREAMER er years! Soiled' by blunders and black regret; Are. the pages we read with our, eyelids wet. • Close in our hearts as the leaves are a turned Is the record of passions that flar- ed and burned, Now laid away with our doubt and fear, As we open the book of an Iinlived Year. All day he worked, his'het among • the furrows, His eyes intent •upon • the prairie sod, His thoughts concerned with turning careful corners, V,Tithin his. heart an anthem, prais- ingGod: Once in a year in our hand is laid, An uncut book by the• Master made It is ours to read with eyes that cling To flowers that blossom and birds that sing. Light and shadow, and hope that wakes • Like a song in the heart when a glad clay breaks; Dreams that beckon and ghosts that leer, Look out from our book of an Un - lived Year! -Carey Holbrook._ eseeseee CHEERIO, LADY --- AND FAREWELL Cheerio, Lady—and farewell, You are done with all we know— Life hath closed her conscious spell, You are gone where we shall go. e Long ere Love had dimmed its glow, , How he rejoiced in each new day's I Ere the evening shadows fell, beginning, ,Sniffing • tleo fragrance of the leanly soil; A falling feather, turning far above ititty filled him with rapture, lightening his toil You went early home—and so— Cheerio, Lady, all is well, Cheerio, Lady; darkening days And failing years were not for you Yours were the meridian blaze— Summer dawns and sparkling dew; Fading Autumn's sullen hue Still 'his the glory of each dawn and Had not spread her sombre spell; sunset, Life was vivid, vital, mw. From his small home to never Cheerio, Lady, all is well. wandered far. Cheerio, Lady; those who weep Always fcr him the retrad of common Shall ,dry their tears at memory's: duties, wilo His feet in loam, his soul aboard a Recall your laughter from the deep, star. And smile with your remembered —Elsie Bower Embrey. smile; Grief will bo mistress fo'r awhile, ONCE A YEAR But time her bitterness will quell, And the lone, aching heart beguile. The long wash of the waves was Once in a year in out. hand is laid, Cheerio, Lady, all is well. An uncut book by the Master made seen, I Cheerio, Lady, all is well; And leagues and leagues of yellow Unread Unread are the pages written there, Sobs will soften to a sigh, sand, Twelve new chapters clean and fair Tho' Love, the loyalist, rebel, 'The woven forest boughs between. Once a year, when the glad belie Grief, like humanity, must die. And through the silver Northern Jin From the tempest -clearing sky And the Old Year nods to a baby Smiles the Sun, Life's Sentinel, night Di The sunset slowly died away, Passing even heart -breaks by. And herds of strange deer, lily -1 Fresh inng, our hands with the title Cheerio, Lady, and farewell. clear Port Dover, Ont. —A. C. Stewart white• 1 And the leaves uncut is an Unlivecl Stole forth among the branehes (Note --The above beautiful lines has.been flying all night and greets 1 1 Year• ,were written by Mr. Stewart on the us in the morning. His spotted gray; line and About the coming of the light, , t An Unlived Year! Ab, startled with passing of Mrs. Minnie Henderson, breast declares his family They fled like ghosts before the! tears a young matron of Port Dover.—,The wesee the forerunner of the thrush day. I 1s the well thumbed volume of oth- Bystander, in The Globe.) family. i A week later the bluebird arrives Andrew Lang, quoted in "Ann together with other thrushes from 'Vickers" the West Indies and North of Southasteinseete America. AT EVENING Then follow the sparrows, wrens, swallows, flycatchers, warblers and Dark mountains and golden sky, last the goldfinch, the aristocrate. purple clouds stretching on high. But the goldfinch tries to make up Silent the shadows fall, for lost time and so remains late in the fall while a thistleblossom re, mains but is strangely silent. Fear comes in. Birds will apparently, if fur of being thought inconsistent , given the opportunity, pick out from and in lceeping with his quiet mood, a numberoffeeds not only what they prefer but what is best for then. he has changed his bright plumage for a suit resembling his lowly bro- Although no definite experiment has ther sparrows, and only betrays his been carried out at Agassiz in the feeding of red carrots as against mangels, the evidence so far obtain- ed from the feeding of both of these is inclined to be much in favour of the red carrots. harriers along the way and so stop: the traffic completely; the' least we may be able to do is to delay. the traffic, and so increase -the;likeli hood of the germs perishing before they reach their destination, Secretions from the nose and throat reach the hands •through .the use of the handkerchief, or the -use- less habit of placing the fingers in or on the lips or nose. Most of the reommunicablee ,'diseases which attack us are to. be found in the upper part of the respiratory tract, and so the secretions •of the mouth and nose frequently carry th . germs of the How One Women. Met a Crisis Here is the story of a woman who met adversity with a smile and turned it into good fortune by cour- age and industry. She lives in Nova Scotia. Four years ago Mrs. Estelle With - ere was faced with a mortgage that ti t identity by his undulating flight. I The swallow does not choose to stop with us nearly so late and as eve see them sitting in long rows on the telegraph wires or on fences preening- for flight, wo realize that summer is well on thewane, and that they will soon return to the Tor- rid zone to gladden the heart of the "sad slave woman." Mournful sounds the night -hawk's call, Then the park with •great, pearls .gleams,Through the dark their biigletness streams, Casting rivulets of light On still waters. Gentle night Has conte 'with gems on earth. High Stars, like fireflies, fleck the sky. Wearily Echo's voice falls, Still softly, sweetly she calls. Above, the daffodil noon Keeps tryst with the night of June. A prayerful dreaming hour, Dim thoughts burst into flower. Dreams, like sunsets, come an go, Leave a pleasant afterglow. •—,Alpbee Tej,, During the spring migration the �. male birds dress in their brightest colors and sing their gayest songs, FROM "TREES" Buat the season advances and the terteleseee s return flight iscontemplated they don their sober .colors ani the song almost ceases so .that. their going away is not nearly so noticeable as their coming. The Grey Plover is an example of threatened her with - mo loss f her perfect regularity of migration. It home,- She had no money, andfor lackit breeds in the Arctic 'circle and re- el it..d the' home must go for turns promptly at the same time: of it. Perhaps it would have, too, ye each ar t the Equatorial regions. o had not Mrs. Withers been out of Another bird - in which we are all comp. the run of ordinary individuals. Another is the Canada Goose. It They flood the plain, She cast about for ways of Jars- inigratss in immense flocks in the Sweepthrough the valley, top the ing cash. She was an excellent fall to the: south, travelling day and mound,' beani of rugs. ?ler handicrafthad night, only stopping to feed in safe Flow over ,the low hill, been counnented upon often She Sl in V-shape, high in The trees throw up their singing leaves, and climb Spray over spray. They break through Time. Their roots lash the clay. They lave The earth, and wash along the ground. They burst in green wave over wave, Fly in a blossom of light foam. Rank following windy rank they had, besides, made some sales of hen air,. making long black lines across designs; infrequent, it was true, 'but the 'sky, always with a male bird as when some had been sold, why could leader and honking as they go. not more be sold? People neededThe wild cluck acts similar to the mats. goose, but gather in small flocks and She finally decided to bake up rug- fly rather quietly. making as a business. She disposed In exceptionally cold weather we of few at first, but gradually her have a welcome visitor from the sales increased as knowledge of her north in the grosbeak.It is heavily- akill widened. One rug she sold for feathered and thick -billed and ,pre - $125; ethers brought proportionate. fers to hunt his hard seeds only in ly smaller prices. cold latitudes, so for that reason, we Soon themortgage bad been paid are only favored with his "feeble eff. Other debts went too. And twitter." Mrs. Withers found that she was de -1 . "When thy breath is very bitter.. places They V The bases of the mountains, fill Their crevices, and stain Their ridges, green... Be sure on keep Some memory of this for sleep. --Harold Monro. MEASURES Measure grist by the milifull, Dew by the daffodilful, April clouds by the skyful,; Tears by Ophelia's eyeful; Measure leaves by the elmf.uI, Slaves by the tyrant's realmful, Ahertisei' ring Akin Dollars into I FL 1 u s Y PR omememormasussammeas Gives EXTRA w anality and Nourishment to Foods! Over and over again, ex- pert homecooks, as well as professional bakers, have told us that Five Roses Flour gives extra. quality to foods. rr llrs. H. Dearing, 01 Exeter, Huron County Cak Champion, Mrs. W. H. 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