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The Clinton News Record, 1934-08-02, Page 7THURS., AUG. 2, 1931 Health THE CLINTON NEWS RECORD PAGE 7 Cooking Care of Children Household Economics Thrifty Housewives Buy Quality - TEA "Fresh From the Gardens" NM 11 RNA A Column Prepared Especially for Women— But Not Forbidden to Men , THE USE OF FLOWERS God might havebade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small; 'The oak tree and the cedar tree Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough For every vivant of ours— -For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have had no flowers. Then wherefore, wherefore were they made, All dyed with rainbow light, All fashioned with suprement grace, Upspringing day and night; 'Springing in valleys green and low And on the mountains high, And in the silent wilderness Where no man passes by? FACTORS IN FRUIT JELLY MAKING POINTED' PARAGRAPHS TELL L STORY OF "THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS OF YORE" Three substances are essential to a good jelly. They are pectin, sugar and acid. 'Pectin is the primary ]el lying agent. It varies considerably in fruits both in quality and quantity. Analysis of email fruits, in the chem- ical laboratories of the Central Ex- perimental Farm, has shown how readily pectin deteriorates. To retain their maximum. jellying ''capacity, these fruits should be picked when just ripe and should be used as soon as possible after picking. Sugar plays an important part in jelly formation. Texture, flavour and yield ,of jelly are largely deter- mined by the amount of sugar added. Ordinarily, the best jellies contain a- bout 66 to 68 peg cent. of sugar in the finished product, but the necessary amount of sugar to be added will vary with the composition of the fruit - Too much sugar in proportion to pec- tin and acid is one of the most com- mon causes of failure in jelly making. Other' things being equal, a weak jet- ly results from the additionof too much sugar and a tough jelly from the addition of too little. it, else why is the color on the peach, the dainty frill on the edge of the lettuce leaf ? And then there arethe many love- ly flowers which can be made to grow and bloom in our gardens; the lovely and stately trees, and beautiful shrubs. And if we do not bother to grow them they often grow up of themselves. Along almost every sideroad you will find wild flowers bgooming and in the more secluded spots are often grown flowers as love- ly as any in the best -tended garden. It certainly, looks as though the Great All -Father and Creator of the Universe loved beauty and expected man to love it, too, and strive to cultivate it. ' Our outward life requires them not-,— Then ot-Then wherefore had they birth 1 To minister delight to man, To beautify the earth; To comfort man, to • whisper hope, Whene'er his faith is dim, For who so Gareth for the flowers Will care,much reore'for'Him, —Mary Howitt. 4 Isn't it rather wonderful, when you come to think of it, that quite aside from those things which are provided for our actual physical needs, there should also be provided so many things of no real value, physically, only as the health of our minds and souls affect our bodies, but which delight the eyes and lighten and brighten life for us? Some time age a young woman wrote to one of our contemporaries and asked if she .could getsome in- formation about what she .called "the good old days." She had often heard her grandmother tell of transpirings in her day, she said, and how people,. particularly women, dressed but, bee ing born in this modern age, treated granny's recordings more as a fable than actual fact, Here are some of the occurrences of "the' good old days" as this news- paper unearthed them: Ladies wore bustles. Monday was washday. There were no flappers ! Nobody had appendicitis. There was no traffic cop. Everybody played croquet. There were' no'Bolsheviks. Nobody worked but Father. Cream was five cents a pint. ,Men sported wiry whiskers. Ice cream was. "iced" cream. Boys' shoes were copper toed. Nobody was ashamed to walk. Saturday night was bath night. No one was fined for speeding. Vitamin guages were unknown. Milk shake was a popular drink: Only little girls wore short skirts. Widows weeds weren't cigarettes. ,Only small boys. wore short pants. Doctors wanted to see your tongue. Nobodywas told, "This line is busyl" Neither men nor women played golf. Whiskey was fifty cents a quart bottle. The livery stable was the social circle. Farmers came to town for their mail. Nobody cared for the price of gas- oline. Only lumberjacks rolled their stockings. No one had to look for a parking place. Chickens all went to roost at sun-, down, Beer was five cents a glass, includ- ing lunch. A good cigar set you back a whole picker. The shiers all lived in Arabia or Turkey. Shows in the Town Hall carie only so often. Paper and celluloid collars were popular. Food stuffs came in bulls, not in packages. Women wore bathing dresses, not undresses. Candies for the girl cost her fellow fifteen cents a bag. 'School teachers "licked" pupils good. The boyish form was displayed on- ly by the boy. Ladies used side saddles, not the whole road. A girt was mostly bustle behind, not hustle ahead. Statics were merely a mathemati- cal study at school. They were days mostly --1 every- thing over at ten. p.m. , No one had to listen to a saxo- phone, thank goodness. Everybody went to church, or to sleep on Sunday. 'Girls set their caps—not their knee- caps—for a man. Oyster suppers and church socials were twenty-five cents a throw. Moving pictures happened only, at housecleaning trine. Females all wore corsets -'at least we think they did. The hired girl drew $1.50 a week and did the washing. They bobbed your hair only after they got you in jail. The melodeon --not the radio -- supplied the family music.' The family Bible and family al- bum were popular institutions, They didn't have to hire a big hus- ky man to teach the boys how to play. Everyone in the family took sul- phur and ulphur"and molasses each spring. The hired man got a dollar a day for 'steep hours -and earned it, too. Ladies ehibs were the Ladies'' Aid, Stewing Circle and rolling pin. Milk was delivered into your own pitcher from the dealer's tin measure. There were no germs, even in Germany. There were no crooners, except mo- ther when she reeked her restless baby to sleep. ' Women's skirts trailed as much ma- terial below their feet as they don't now above, People used to arise and retire on the same day; now they retire and arise on the sante day. Boys were boys, ' and girls were girls, but nowadays mother and grandmother are girls also. High flyers used to "take a drop" often, now they take -off and take a drop only once. • People took tonic when' they were run down; now they usually takean hector, for instance. And he, himself ambulance or the hearse. most of all.—.London Answers The mostprominent part of an at; ' After all, the physical needs of man are very simple, food, shelter from the weather, clothing (and the modern trend is towards wearing as little of the latter as possible). It doesn't take mach to care for the physical man, • But his spiritual needs are many, I use the word spiritualto designate all that part of man which is not physical. He needs education, to have his mental powers cultivated and trained; he needs to have his social nature de- veloped and trained, so that he can live in peace and harmony with his fellows; he needs to have the antise tic side of his nature developed so that life may not become too drab and dull as the years slip along; he needs to have his spiritual side de- veloped so that he may see beyond this' life into a future existence where his powers may have freer play. Oh, yes, the physical nature would have been easily satisfied, but the Creator when he made man made him capable of much more enjoyment than that of the satisfaction of phys- ical appetites. And He provided the many lovely and wonderful things of this old earth for our delight and enjoyment. We are certainly in true with 'nature and nature's God when we strive to create beauty and when we delight in it; I have often' remarked on the many lovely thingswhich grow for our food, the dainty and wholesome greens, the multi -flavored vegetables the beautiful and lucious fruits, all the product of the good, old brown earth, tilled andtended by man's skill and industry. What a delight to the palate, when we :might have been made to subsist upon some very com- mon -looking and very homely food which would have given us' no delight at all. :But no! We are expected tq enjoy our food, to enjoy the sight of The acrd content, or more correct- ly, the active acidity of fruits is the third essential of jelly formation. If it is too high; sweating will occurs. If it is too low, the jelly will not set. All fruits contain acid in varying a- mount. In general the acid in the fruit provides sufficient active acidity for the making of a good jelly, pro- vided that, sufficient pectin and sugar are present. Investigations in the chemical lab- oratories have shown how important it is to obtain a proper balance be- tween pectin, sugar and active acidity to produce the best jellies. • A'combination of 0.2 per cent. acid and 0.5 per cent. pectin with 67 per cent. sugar was found to give a very satisfactory product. Since commercial pectin has been perfected many fruits with low pectin content can be used with satisfaction in the making of jelly. icaltli Sci4€e OF TillE 1 (!tY1'i abian i'l' airat, 0onr ttiixn 'l'p and Life Insurance Companies in Canada. Edited by GRANT FLEMING, M.D., Associate Secretary MORE PREVALENT? focus :attention upon it. But it is equally desirable that we should not In a recent issue of the Quarterly become unduly pessimistic. Bulletin distributed, by, the Depart- These New York figures would in-, went of health of New York City; dicate that, in so far as the popula- there is an interesting article which tion of that city is concerned, there is written as an answer, to the quos- is no new force or .condition which tion: "Is cancer becoming more .pre-, has arisen, in recent years, to cause valent?" an increase in cancer. There is noth- t of all that big It is pointed out, firs g to indicate that the foods used or it is to be expected that there will be the methods of cooking employed <by an increase in the total number of civilized people today are leading to deaths from :causes such as cancer, an increase in cancer. which occur in the older age groups. Whether or not cancer is on the in - As is generally known, the average crease in the population is of little expectancy ctane of life has increased con-, interest to the person who develops siderably, so that today, a larger per- the disease. To him, the one and only centage of the population are in the question of importance is—Can any - age groups attacked by cancer. thing be done for me in the way of No one has questioned this fact, treatment? The answer to this but many have said that after mak- question remains the same as it al- ing due allowanc"e for this aging of . ways was. The chance: of cure de - the population, there has been an ac- pends very largely upon early recog- teal increase in cancer. The New York figures .do not support this view, and the conclusion is reached •"that cancer is probably no mere': prevalent now, in any given age group, than it was a, generation ago." Wye do not think that this ends the -controversy, but we do believe: that 'this note of comparative optimism -should be heard. The cancer problem Is serious enoughthat it does not re- squire the 'slightest exaggeration to nition of the presence of the disease, followed by proper treatment. No one can say just how many lives would be Saved by early diagnosis and, proper treatment, b'ut we do know that in no other way can these lives be preserv- ed., Questions concerning Health, 'ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sedation, 184 College Street, Toron- to, will be answered personally by letter. OUR RECIPE FOR TODAY ROYAL SPONGE CAKE 1 cup sugar 341 cup water 8 eggs 1 cup flour i/ teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons Baking Powder * der * 1 teaspoon vanilla or lemon :x- to tract. 4 14 cup cold water. Boil sugar and water without * stirring until syrup spins a * thread and add slowly to beat- en egg whites, beating until * mixture is cold; sift together three times, flour, salt and * baking powder; beat egg yolks * until thick; add a little at a +" time, flour mixture and egg 4' yolks, alternately to white of * egg mixture; add cold water * and .favoring; mix lightly. * Bake in ungreased tin in mode * ere oven about one hour. * * * * * * * tractive girl was the bustle and frill; now it's hustle and thrill. Young people turned in at nine p.m.; now they tune in, and don't turn in until the next morning. Man wanted but little here below; now it's the woman who not, only wants it but wears it also. Girls wore many worthy mention-, ables, and'? now they wear hardly any- thing worth mentioning. There were no paid street clean- ers; women pedestrians' trailing spirts di4 .the job free and plenty. Father got most of his outdoor ex- ercise with the family horse, the saw- horse and shanks' mare. "Step-in" was merely an offhand neighboring invitation preliminary to a social glass or two or three. Ladies' stockings were on general view only in the dry goods stores and on the family wash line. Mary's little lamb finally got into a stew.; now Mary's little calf some - time's get her into a. "stew," too. The seven Sutherland sisters with their seven -foot long hair were the envy of womankind the world over. Daughters always helped their mo- thers to prepare dinner, but now they're not usually home even to help eat it. Mother used to put on more clothes when she disrobed to go to bed than her daughter now does when she dresses to go out. The right way of living lengthened many a man's days; nowadays the right-of-way living shortens many another man's days. Women, when fully dolled up, wore about twenty-nine pounds of cloth- ing; now they display their charms in only a few ounces of "fixin's." The butcher then "threw in" the heart and liver free; now he sells it for thirty cents a pound, and throws in his thumb when he's weighing it. 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, I LONGED FOR LOVS1 I longed for love, and, eager to dis- cover Its hiding place, I wandered far and wide; And as, forlorn, I sought the lone world over, Unrecognized, love journeyed at my side. , I craved for peace and priceless years expended In unrewarded search from shore to shore; But, home returned, the weary seek-, ing ended, Peace welcomed me where dwelt my peace of yore! f * * * * * * WHAT EVERY CHILD NEEDS Every child tyrants a pet and a sand pile. And they are his inalienable right. They should be his; his very own to romp with and in as he pleas- es. Most of all though he should have a home which he knows his daddy owns. It helps his self-reliance. The child should have his own play- ground just as he has his own toys. It means more tohim than the careless, unthinking parent imagines. An independent spirit does not flourish and grow strong' under re- straint And more than ever, today, does the boy need spirit. Give the youngster his chance. Get him a home. Let him know that it is. his. Pep up his independence. Guard his spirit as you do his health. Bring him up to loot the world in the eye, frankly and fearlessly. Soon- er or later heis going to have to take a poke at it. THE CONQUEROR (continued from page 2) this particular property?" 'Baker knew when he was beaten. "Nance your tern's!" he snapped. "Five hundred pounds profit," said Perring calmly. "That or nothing." Tor one short moment Baker hesi- taecl, while Alexander Hector's heart stood still. "I'll buy," said Baker at last. That evening Alexander Hector put on his best suit, polished his shoes and bought a large box of chocolates, and an even larger bunch of flowers. Thus armed, he knocked on the door of the house which he had bought and sold. Jean herself opened the door. "May I see your mother?" he said. She held open the door for him to enter. His knees were knocking again Facing Baker was one thing, but fac- ing Jean's mother was another. "You have probably heard that this house was sold to one of Mry Gray... son's clients—and had today been resold—he began. "But how did you know " said Mrs. Mortimer. "I know because I bought it in the first place,' he answered evenly "And I want you to know this—I bought it because our friend Tyler was being bribied by someone and was planning to let you down. You see, he knew that, according to the original plans which are still secret, the new by- pass would run along the bottom of your garden, making the house more valuable." Alexander Hector smiled upon them benignly. "Lev --+ I mean admiring your daughter, I could not let that happen. But neither could I tell anyone with- out betraying a secret known to me by reason of my employment. So I did•the only thing possible. I'bought the house myself." Mrs. Mortimer was smiling at hien. "You are very clever, Mr: Perring and much shrewder than I thought. Wie should certainly have taken 'the first offer. But tell me, if the road is coming, why did you let these men have the house even for the higher price?" . Alexander Hector ]anew" that 'his supreme moment had come. !'I said `according to the original plans," he answered proudly. "You see, I knew, but Tyler 'didn't, that those plans had been scrapped." "I'll have to think about looking for a new house or a flat," said Mrs. Mortimer later. ."I've been thinking about that, too", said Alexander Hector, remembering suddenly that the title conqueror al- ways strikes while theiron is hot. "Could—that is, niay I discuss some- thing with Jean before you decide anything'" He stopped amazed at his own rashness . "Yes—" urged Jean gently. "I was thinking," he added, "that quite a lot of things have .changed in the 'last few days." /Jean Mortimer, seeing the new look AND NOW WE HAVE DATED CHEESE And now we •have.: dated cheese. All Canadian cheese and all packages containing cheese are henceforth to be marked with the date of 'manufac- ture. The date mist be applied to the cheese within twenty-four hours from the time it is removed from the press, according to a government rul- ing. It is felt that the adoption of this important regulation will assist greatly in increasing the sale of Can- adian cheese. Grey -green bing. Cedar, aspen, still your sighing. "Our white beauty's dying, dying. Fairest one of all was she, White birch tree, White birch tree. Rabbits playing on the glade Sought her benison. of shade, Birdlings nested 'heath her leaves— The forest grieves, The forest grieves. Sumachs, hold your tapers high And say a prayer before she die. Say a prayer in the purple night For a lady white, For a lady white." Grey -green water, I am sobbing. Cedar, aspen, I am sighing. Our white Beauty's dying, dying. —Muriel Jenkins, in the Canadian Bookman. Florence Earle Coates. GARMENT water, cease your sob - And a gold -back bee; A cricket claimed a hummock He couldn't say how; t Two wrens held a mortgage On an aspen bough. Never such an acre To 'mortal was given—' My rich old great-aunt, May she rest in Heaven! —Nancy Byrd Turner, in Good Housekeeping. * * 4 A WOMAN AT BANFF I know God fashioned little fields Sothey would be A•comfort for old homely folk Like you and me. Small gardens with their fences Snug and tight, And tiny gates to shut us From the night. But THIS HE made with Glory in His veins, This solitude, where Might Forever reigns. Molded the hills with glad Exultant hands, Shaping the valleys for Wide pasture lands. And so this towering peak Forever bears, Old finger -marks Its rutted stairs. And every shining height Reflects the glow Of some white virgin field of drifted snow. And over it He laid With loving care, The mantle of His peace Forever there. —Edna MISTY MOONLIGHT The angels walk the floor of Heaven tonight; Their garments trailing splendor as they pass; A rapture tips the thin, green leaves with light, And showers quivering gold upon the grass. The slender poplars shake their sil- ver lace Against the trembling glory of the stars; The old world is a feathered thing of grace, Unmindful of a million ancient SCATS. The look of Heaven is on the land and sea, And something in this pale, celes- tial light Has loosed my yoke of weariness from me, And sets my spirit winging,' free and white. The old, old hurt my heart has borne so long Grows faint and dim, as some for- gotten song. -Grace Noll .Crowell. THE LILIES OF THE FIELD upon of determination in his eyes, agreed Quite a lot of things had changed. He'r mother's opinion of 'Alexander When I went up to .Nazareth—, A pilgrim of the spring= When I went up to Nazareth The earth was blossoming! I saw the blue flower of the flax Beside a shepherd's fold! Along the hillside's stony tracks I found the marigold! The iris raised a shimmering spire Of'beauty.at my feet! The poppy was a- cup of fire Among the cooling wheat! Jaques. THE VISION OF THE FAWN Hard by a laurel, between two run- ning streams, At the young season's youngest bud- ding dawn, In a green space I saw a milk -white fawn With horns the silver of an angel's dreams; Remote and magical, with little gleams Of light around its head, it waner clered on: Leaving my labors, like a miner drawn By gold, I followed —• foolishly, it seems. "Let none impede mel"—round its collar ran The legend pricked in pearl and dis mond— "By Caesar's charge I wander fancy - fond." . --From Sonet CLXII. in "The Son- nets of Petraoeh." (Translated by Joseph Auslander, New York: Long- mans, Green.) When I went up to Nazareth I marked how time came down With blighting dust and withering breath Upon the hallowed town! The years that buriedBabylon Were drifti`g to efface The steps of Mary's Heavenly Son, His dwelling and His, facer But still 1 read His permanence By signs' that never din"; ' With all their ancient eloquence The lilies spoke of Him!' —Dancer Henderson. LEGACY I had a rich old great-aunt Who left me' when she died One meagre acre, And nothing else beside. Nothing else she left me, But a dump of sweet phlox And a silver aspen And some hollyhocks. A •humming -bird disputed My heritage with me, And so did a robin .! THE LONGEST DAY There is a sadness in the longest day, We feel, somehow, the year has seen his best; He seems to look around, then make his way, With shortening breath, down td his snow-wrapt rest. But 'tis not so; his best is yet to be, When his child, Autumn, shall with' gifts abound, And when at happy Yuletide, wel' shall see Iris snow-white head with wreaths of holly crowned Then tell me not that life's best part is gone • Because the high noon of the day is here; There is a beauty in the twilight deeps , al keen as any One has felt at any hour since dawn; And what is there for tired man to' fear When night comes in with stars and dreams and sleep? -Alexander Louis Fraser., T'S LIVER THAT MAKES YOU FEEL SO WRETCHED Wake up yaur Liver Bile., .-No Calomel necessary rot you to Seel healthy and happy or liver mutt pour two ppo,ndo of liquid bilrya int* Your , bowels, every dal. Without that bile. trouble Maria. Poor digestion, Slow elimination, Poieono in the body. General wretchedness. flow can you expeotto Bloat up a titillation like this completely with mere bowel -moving. selte, oil, mineral water, laxative Dandy or chewing guru, or roughage? They don't woks. up your liver. You need Qarter'e Little Liver Pillet Puts r vegetable. Safe. Quiok and eute reeulte, M for them by name. Refuse eubltituta.:.•16a. M