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The Clinton News Record, 1935-11-14, Page 7PACE irguRS., NOV. 14, 1935, THE ON NEWS -RECORD 1 AGE Health Tea at its. 1, est Cooking TEA Ruiutlla.liuus Rebgali iT Column Prepared 'Especially for , Women- But Not Forbidden to Men MY WISH '- It is my wish to think one kindly thought, ' To breathe one simple prayer each day I wake 'That I may add to those about me naught ' That wouldtheir own life's burden harder make. If I but do one comfort -giving deed, If 1 but speak aloud one word of cheer, - Perchance some soul, discouraged, cad, may heed, And lose its sodden weight of doubt or fear. What service to mankind can be more blessed? It costs so little, and I gain so much, Each time I pass the sunshine to the rest, I too, am Warned by its gentle, touch, —Author Unknown. It doesn't seem to• be worthwhile to do anything else but live kindly lives, lives which do not detract but add to the comfort and happiness of others, An elderly man told me the other day about a little plan he had of getting together a number of his old school- mates who laved within reach and . going ,together o visit the old local- ity where they had gone to school. 'It was a kindly thought of a kindly • man,, who has come to the time of life when he looks back, rather than forward. But the little plan dell through when he discovered that two ' of these people were not on friendly 'terms, they ane not speaking to each • other, of course, could not be expected to spend a happy day together. Now • ali these people are old, they can- -not in the natural course of events, expect to spend many more 'years on 'this sphere, Doesn't it seem silly 'for such people to harbor grudges and think ill of each other to that extent? Well, the man who had planned the picnic thought so. When people are young, when their blood runs hot in thtir veins, it some- ? times happens that they fall out and say and think hardly of each other. But when the years pile up, when the passing of time should bring wisdom, I it is seldom the heart can retain its grudges. One cannot feel the sane to all people. There are some with which cine likes to be; they are congenial and our spirits blend so well that we enjoy intercourse with them. But even though- it is not possible to feel the same to all, it doesn't seem nec- essary to have the heart nurse grud- ges. It is a waste of time and, doc- tors say, it conduces to hardening of the arteries and the hastening on of old age. "Let's get rid of all such hinderences to a happy Life. What lovely weather we have had this fall, such sunny days and so little real cold weather. We write this on Nov. 9th, and to date we have not seen the ground whitened. We sel- dom get through October without a bit of a bluster, which often passes to give us a few nice days in Novem- ber. But this fall it has been fine right along. Another thing which is noticable is that when it rains it is usually at night. Just recently some one was complaining, or perhaps just expressing a little bit of fear, as the rain came down at night, But I said I liked to hear it. We have had so much dry weather, so much drying up of crops, etc., the past few years, that I have eomiee to delight in every drop of rain which falls. I would like to see every creek and river running full and the Lakes rise a foot or two. I hate to see the lakes receding, showing up esd:swhile hidden rocks and shoals. I love to see plenty of water, it is refreshing and invig- orating. We used to heal. it said that winter would not come until the ;swamp trees were up to their knees in water. Wle need mare rain yet. - R BE$Ati teal& Service OF THE (6ttttabitttt ebtrttlAtt, .aritt#iatt and Life Insurance Companies in Canada. Edited by GRANT FLEMING, M.D.. Aaeociate Secretary GROWING UP difficulties and to :meet problems, The child's life is one of eontinu- I He should be assigned tasks, suited ons growth and development. Born to his age, which will call upon his 'with certain instinets and a given! powers So overcome, Re must not measure: of intelligence, his future fail too often, or he will come re '•depends largely upon how he is hell -1 accept failure as normal. The child wants to achieve and to receive for his achievements that recognition which he should have. It is when., normal development is halted by the lack of some of these essentials for healthy mental growth that the ground is being laid for difficulties in later life . Many of the problems and difficulties which afflict mankind arise from failure to grow up emotionally. One thing we know is that as a- dults we make use of physical com- plaints to escape fromsomething un- pleasant if we have not learned, as children, to face conditions. Head- ache or sick stomach may arise from eye -strain or from gastric ulcers, but may also come from worry, fear, anxiety or -family discord. The 'future happiness and effi- ciency • of each one depends largely upon his start in life, If, as adults, we remain in part children, then we are likely to have an uncomfortable time eeoreelves' and to be a nuisance to others. Parents should learn how to guide their children to maturity -- help them to grow up. Questions concerning Health, ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As - sedation, 184 College Street, Toren° to, will be answered personally by legter, i i , i.. !, ' ed, particularly by parents and teach- ers, through his various stages of t,development, Much has been revealed by science 'concerning the nature of disease.' We are, today, able to do more in the prevention of disease and in the pre- servation of health than ever be- fore in the history of man. We have learned that if a child is ;`to grow up in a satisfactory man- , , ner, his .mental and emotional de- - must receive considera- tion. It is generally agreed that what kind of adults we are to become 'depends, .more .than anything else, *upon the start which we receive dur- ing the first five years, of life, The child requires a sense of-se- curity f-se-curity in his ,home. He needs free- 4dom, to develop ,to become indepen- dent and to free himself gradually '''from his mother's apron -strings. Many parents find it hard to let go, 'The mother who is over solicitous: and over -protective in her relation- ships with her child is almost surely expressing some lack in her own life, She wants someone to depend en her, but what she may think is an abundance of love for her child is really an expression of selfishness an her poet. • The child must learn 'te ;overcense Edited By Mabel R. Clark, Care of Children Household Economics YOUR WORLD AND MINE $; by JOHN, C. KIRKWOOD (copyright) .•�eioNY■•■ INV•'■Y'iA•i i'■ i•■b•i �°•YA•w•AY■ es" ■•• i■•r•: i'.Y■•■ ei :•fes *' Our passions, enthusiams and am- that their present- passions, •,enthust bitions die even as do flowers, and amiss and ambitions are to be im- plicitly trusted and will always en- dure. I want to say to the'nr that rapids in a river are not to be re- garded as being the river's normal manner or flow. After rapids are smooth waters.. We (see young people in their teens falling madly in love. During this perid of uncontrolled—and 'Per- haps uncontrollable—madness, rea- eon•is out of the saddle. The ohents° istry of the emotions makes mix- tures which, are inflamlrctatory. Thi's foal's -dug and vilo1ent mixture just has to be allowed to exhaust its fury. Then the cool peace of normalcy will resume its sway. To young people whose present condition is that of mental and emo- tional turbulance--they call it love! --'what I write here will have no immediate valuei yet it may be that what I write now will be appreciat- ed by those who have passed through the maelstrum of a 'mad love affair. Grand passions enduring passions —there have been and will be; but for every case of a grand passion of lasting quality and intensity, there are 10,000 ,passions of the bromo seltzer kind ---•fizzy affairs of short duration. This is because the great majora y of us are very ordinary persons --•just as most potatoes, tur- nips and carrots are pretty much a- like. It may be agreeable to our imagination to regard ourselves as being extraordinary persons, but to those who have true sight and judg- ment,•we are seen to be of the com- mon or garden variety of human beings. , it is a good thing that they do, for we could not possible retain all our passions, enthusiasms and amibitions throughout all our days — no more than we could keep on our bodies all the clothing used for the body's pro tection, comfort and adornment: , Passions, enthusiasms and ambi- tions. are teommonly shortil'ived--as they ought to be. They possess us for a few moments, 'hours, days or years. They become bright, and hot and they consume themselves. They are just fevers, raising our temperature swiftly,- and perhaps dangerously, and when they pass; they may leave us enervated for a period, and with our self-confidence badly shaken. But Dr. Time can' be relied on to restore us to sanity and sound health. Take the child, for example, He is a veritable panorama of passions, ambitions and enthusiasms. Ile goes to a circus, and resolves then and there to become a trapeze artist, or a circus rider, ora clown. He wants to be a policeman, a fireman, or an aviator, He tells you that when he grows up he'moans'to be a great artist, or musician, or travel- ler, or jockey, or hockey player, or actor. For a period he is captured by an enthusiasm for bird study, or stamp colledting, or painting, or me- chanical toys; and if you are his parent you will surely say, "Jackie 1s going to be, a great naturalist:— or whatever else his enthusiasm was focussed on. Yet, later en,'Jackie's childhood interest in a particular pastime or hobby or activity has completely disappeared, and your faith in the adage, As the twig is bent the tree's inclined, suffers a shock. Similarly lads and maids in their teens may exhibit intense enthus- iasms for certain employments or pleasures or enterprises or sports; yet, in their development, it is quite common to see these enthusiams cool off. I am not saying that avowed and exhibited enthusiasms and ambitions are valueless or without significance. To me they resemble the leaves or buds which grow on the stem or stalk of a flowering plant; they are signs of life within—the evidences clf a rich sap within the stem or stalk --exhibits of vitality. They ,may be. nothing .more, and ought not to be taken too •seriously -as predicating rich blooms later on. What matters most is the flower which develops at the end of the main stalk, when adolescence comes. B!7al I do not say that parents and teachers should not give strength and direction to a lad's ora maid's enthusiasms and ambitions. On the contrary, I believe that they should give very great attention to the in- dications of the child's true genius or qualities—that, like the compet- ent gardener, they should watch the growing and developing plant of a lad's or a maid's true nature and strength, and give a fostering care to what thcjy wish the bloom to be. I think of my awn childhood, 1 do not now recall all my burning am'biti'ons. I suppose that I had plenty of them. I do remember that I used to dreamof being rich and of owning a mansion of castle size and magniflcence. I used to dream of being a great orator—of being •a wide traveller. I suppose that beneath all such dreams was a great desire for the praise and adula- tion and envy of men. I just want- ed to show off—to be able to brag. And I remember that I had, when a lad, a very cruel streak in me. I used those large green tomato •worms on to find an unholy pleasure in putting a hot stove—to see them in convul- sion, I once tried to kill a kitten, striking it with a club—for no other reason than it 'scratched me when I Mishandled it. I shot birds and squirrels just, to test the quality of my marksmanship. I would hasten to see a wounded , dog or horse. 1 had a fiery temper; Now, in my old. age. I, do, not want to kill birds and squirrels. I turn away from the sight of wounded or hurt persons and animals, And I think that I can say quite truiy that I have a placid • temper. ' C3 99 This contribution to The News - Record is intended for the consump- tion of young people -those whose blood flows hotly and turbulently through their veins -who may fancy E9 Cl Why do I try to rob yonng persons of their illusions about themselves-- the illllsions that they are different from others—that they are destined to go far and high? Perhaps it is just bad temper in me—for .I am of- fended when I see young people who want to show oft --who brag—who try to impress others that they are important, Those whom I and oth- ers like best are those who behave normally, who are thoroughly honest, who recognize that they are very much the same in respect of most things as their neighbors. I have said that our passions, en- thusiasm's and ambitions die even as do flowers, and that it is a good thing that this is so. But I have not said that there should not be new and fresh passions, enthusiasms and ambitions. Dying flowers indi- cate the ripening of seed — seed which when planted repeats the flow- er which died 'and multiplies it. Sim- ilarly dying passions, enthusiasms and ambitions should signify the ripened seed of our passions, en- thusiasms and ambitions—seed which will be reproduced in new forms. the consequence of the cross -breed• ing of our lush life with the lusty life of new visions, experience and purposes. No age should be without its fires --'the passion for truth and beauty and rectitude and honour; enthua iasm for Iiving; an ambition for self -development in the direction of an enriching culture, a capacity for the enjoyment of all fine things; and a toleration of others whose ways of thinking and acting may not 'b• in line with our own. BRAINY GIRLS WIN A good mathematician will make a better wife than a good cook! This is the'opinion,of Dr. E. H. Lehmann, of Highland .Manor school, New York state. The doctor says a good mathe- matician will make a better wife, not merely because she is a goad maple - madden., but because her ,success in that direction indicates that she has a higher degree of intelligence. It is still widely thought that there is only one way to a man's heart — throughhis stomach, There is a bet- ter way—through his mind. ENJOYS FUNERALS Poe his diversion, Michael Stine, 26, Kensington, Pa., enjoys going to funerals. A -dance, ,picture show; ball game, :horse race' or any of the other pastimes that appeal to young men db not interest Stura nearly as much as a funeral. Tie has had this weak- ness ever since he•was a boy and has attended 3,000 funerals, sometimes. going many miles even though the family visited -by death; is entirely unknown to him Race, na- tionalirty, color, religious :creed of the departed make no difference to here Ile merely likes to go to funerals. •. • • • ;• s • • •-•, • OUR RECIPES FOR TODAY • Home Preselrves • • • • r • .. - • The following recipes for * • winter salad and a fine C011. - * on* serve of grape and apple but- * * ter, which have been thorough- • 't' ly tester, will be found to be * * very useful:- • • • • • Winter Salad * 1 cauliflower • 1-2 cabbage • 1 cucumber • 1 .quart onions ' • 1 quart green tomotoes. • 2 heads celelar • 2 quarts vinegar * 1 cup flour, • 3 cups brown sugar • 1 teaspoon tumeric • 1 teaspoon celery seed * 1-4 cup mustard. • • • • , • • Prepare all vegetables by putting through the food chop- per. Alio'w to stand in salt brine over eight. In morning boil for 10 minutes in brine and strain. Boil vinegar, mix flour, brown sugar, mustard, tumeric, and celery seed in e- nough cold vinegar to make a paste, add to hot vinegar and boil until it begins to thicken. Pour over vegetables, mix well and bathe. (Quantilty about 6 quarts). • Conserve • Grape and App:e Butter • • • 4 cups grapes (stemmed) 6 apples, 1-4 cup water 2 cups sugar Cook grapes aver a very slow fire 10 minutes, then press through a coarse sieve. Cut apples in small pieces but do not peel or core. Add grapes and water. Cools slowly 10 minutes. Then press through a coarse sieve. Add sugar to the pulp and cook 20 minutes. Seal at once in sterilized glas- ses, • • • • V • • • • • • * • • • • • • • • • • • • • THANKFUL An old lady, of cheerful disposi- tion, accustomed to giving testimony in a Methodist class meeting, said: "I have many mercies to be thankful for. I thank God for my two re- maining,teeth, and I especially thank Him that ' they meet" APPROACH OP WINTER Winter seemis several weeks away, But weather tike this alarms young sheep. The lambs in the west field will not play; They huddle forlorn in a frightened heap. A month should pass before the snows: The pasture is warm, but the cast that is there Follows his mother wherever she goes, His nostrils wide as he sniffs the air. Winter is coming when young sheep wait Broodily bleating outside the fold, Wlhen the colt and his mother crop near the gate— Soon will the weather be turning told. —Lionel Wiggam, in New York Times NOVEMBER It is November. See a soft grey haze Of slanting rain the withered gar- den veils; Far up the leaden sky a late, bird sails, Serene, untroubled, in the pathless ways. Low hang the dying stalks where late a blaze Of goldenrod and nodding asters sweet Danced in the sun as if on fairy feet— • Dtanced and . were•' gone, like dear, remembered days. Hush! was it just the wind across the grass That sobbed and touched this, far- len leaf of red? Or did one come, with feet that lightly pass, Back from the land of long for- gotten, dead, And, treading light, unseen, across the, grass, Weep; for her garden whence the, , flowers had fled? , :—Ghristine'R;err Davis, e Be particular—buy your flour by name. Purity Flour has enjoyed your confidence for thirty years. Always uniform quality --spilled from the world's best wheat ensures complete satisfaction for every kind of baking. URIT9 FLOUR Best or all your Baking THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad— But Always Helpful and Ins pining' THE MOON Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing at the earth, Wandering cont!panionless Among the stars that have a dif- ferent birth, And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its con- stancy? —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). COMPROMISE Spare me a bough of scarlet maple When you go awc y, Or a late aster, or spring of golden- rod, Anything You say -- But do not leave me, Astunul, With only November grey. Yet, though I asked' her kindly, She gathered them all, and threw Into my eyes a sprinkling 0'f frosted dew; But when, in the west the daylight Faded, what should I see tut a yellow pumpkin sailing Ou£ of the east to mei --Jessie L. Beattie, in ?Shifting Sails." AFTER THE HARVEST After the harvest Fields lie still Waiting for Nature To work her will; Waiting for sunshine, Wind and rain To fit them for Travail again. For 'a short season I shall not sing - 1 shall lie fallow— Wait for the spring; I shall drink beauty Deep in my heart— For of such seed do Bright songs start. —.Pearl Logan Wloodbridge, in Chris- tian Science Monitor. THE HOAR -FROST ON THE WOOD Look through the glistening stubble. fields to where Last night, in sullen and complain- • ing mood Over the fate that left them grim and bare The trees in yonder dear old forest stood "The Spring," they moaned. "Ali; it will be a while Bre she can reach vs with her Magic wand." Who was it heard? Today mile upon anile There stretches out a white, en- chanted land. Each tall tree hath a wight of gems that shine. Mark how the sun can draw its beauties out, On every .soft, white thing its rays now fall Till in the air we see a dazzling line Of sparkl.itg gems. It is a glorious rout Of Natuie'ts children Bolding car- nival. -lean (Hewett. WHITE CROSSES God Walks among the crosses That stretch in endless row Among the drooping poppies Where mourners come and go. He looks in sympathy where they Turn, wiping 'bitter tears away. God walks among the crosses Where countless soldiers lie, The lads who, leaving homeland, Went bravely forth to die. He .breathes .his .blessing o'er each head, Itis blessing on the gallant dead. God walks among the crosses -- I never knew before; I thought myj boy lay there alone Far from his country's shore. But now I've seen the place where he Lies in his bed of liberty. And crosses will spring up anew And poppies shall forever rise Until the men who speak of war Its awfulness can realize. Oh, God, flaunt front) the West td East The gleaming standard of Thy peacet —Esther MacMath, Get. 28th, 1935. MOTHBR One not learned, save in gracious household ways; Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants. No angel, but a dearer thing, all dipt In angel instincts, breathing Para- dise; Interpreter between the gods and ,man, Who looked all native to her place, and yet Oh tiptoe seemed to touch upon a sphere Tao gross to tread, end all mala minds perforce Swayed to her from their orbits as they moved, And girdled her with music. Happy he With such a mother! Faith in woe mankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and, though he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay, -Tennyson. AUTUMN RAINS The day is dark; thedreary wind un- tiring, The ceaseless rain drives cold against the pane; The .yellow leaves in drenched dee spair are falling; And Nature mourns for 'summer days again. But driving rains, lone, wailing winds, and cold; Dead falling leaves and lowering weeping skies Will to home loving hearts a joy un- fold As doors are closed against drear autumn days, Across the room ,the firelight's gloss, is falling. Its cheery bubbling song the kettle sings, A gay geranium on the window smiling To leaden skies a challenge boldly flings. Long shelves of books, "a world of friendship there, Bright covered magazines inviting 'near. A bit of sewing; music on the tir And easy chairs' drawnvp in cosy ' cheer. 1 t Then in the waning light, through chilling rains, Come eager hurrying feet from " many ways; While in each heart rings clear the old refrain • Of 'Sante Sweet Home," so dear • ,these autumn days; - 4E•lizabeth A. Vining in the ST. Marys Journal -Argue., FOREWARNED Daughter—dVfaw, I wish you would stop bossing pa around so much, Maw—Wiiat's .the matter now? Daughter -Well, every time I get some boy interested in ane he grows serious and asks me if I take after you.