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The Clinton News Record, 1935-12-19, Page 71935: THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE 7 Health Cooking Edited By Mabel R. Clark Serve the l�►7 est Tea Rniffatious of R�VekaV A Column Prepared Especially for Women— But Not Forbidden to Men GIFTS ': They brought their gifts to please a baby King; f Their fragrant incense and their glittering gold, `What gifts can I put in. Itis hands ..today For Him to love and hold? • `'What can I offer from my heart's To please a Christ full cup grown-up? What can I give Thee, Master? and I hear His voice in answer: "Inasmuch' as ye Have done it unto one of the least of these, Ye have done it unto me." __Each thought for other's, each small kindness shown, He claims them for His own. :"They are such selfless gifts He asks of me! The little common deeds of every day: Small services my hands can find to do— The words my tongue can say, t. Strange gifts, it seems, to lay before a King, Yet all He bids nie bring. which are gone when that c re e was complete. and our hearts were ful and content in such companionship But no sorrow, however hard to bear, can dim the gladness of Christ- mas. We are all the more sure of meeting loved ones again because }Ie came and lived, and died, and rose a- gain. Christmas time is a time of joy and gladness. Do not do anything to dampen that joy in others, even it you cannot rise to the height of it yourself. In the olden days of the Jewish people, long before Christ came, af- ter a season in captivity when they had gone back to their own country and were endeavoring to restore its institutions, a book was found, the law of the Lord, written on parch- ment, wliieli was read to them. As they stood for hours listening to these words, they lifted up their voices and wept, thinking how far short they had come of doing what they had been commanded to do. But Nehemiah, wise old Nehemiah, told them to stop weeping and to rejoice, to go home and feast, "to eat the fat and drink the sweet and to send por- tions to them for whom nothing is prepared." I do not think a better plan could be thought out for Christ- mas. We have infinitely more to re- joice about than those Jewish peo- ple had, who had discovered after years, their meagerbook of the law. —Grace Noll Crowell. The Christmas season is a time for : gladness, for happiness, for good • cheer. One needo offen no apology for being happy at Christmas time. It was the happiest day thissad- glad—good old world ever saw, the day Christ was born into it. And no .• matter what happens; no matter what life has done for us or to us; no matter what sorrow or joy it • may have for us, we should rejoice on this day as we remember the •event we celebrate. Sometimes people cannot be glad . at Christmas time because i n the home circle there is a vacant chair, some loved one is missing, one per- haps who made . the happiness and the brightness of the home circle. We cannot, of course, forget the days TREE DECORATIONS Children Like Them Better If They. Are Edible. The old fashion of decorating Christmas trees with strings of pop- corn appeals' to the children often more than the glass balls and trink- ets commonly used. Children enjoy helping pop the corn and stringing it: Cranberries at equal distances along the strings of popcorn are attractive. Apples hang- ing from the tree shine brightly if they have been washed and polished with a dry cloth or a little olive oil. Tin foil cut ,into thin strips hanging from the tree will sparkle in any light. If candles are used, . be exceeding- ly careful of fire. Evergreen trees blaze up instantly and furiously if they catch fire, which they do very easily. We have the whole Bible, the old law and the.new, and while we might do well to weep at our own shortcom- ings in living according to it, at this time we should rejoce, "eat the fat and ' drink the sweet and send por- tons to them for whom nothing is prepared." We should remember "that it is more blessed to give than to receive" and remember even the "least," for so, Christ said, we should be giving unto Him, There are the gifts we can bring to him this Christmas time. —EEBEXAH. OF TUI rvf' ice (antabt&n ebirat Assoriatinit and Life Insurance Companies in Canada. ORIGIN OF CAROLS The influence of the constant visu- alization of Bible scenes, of which people were accustomed to think vividly, inspired the 'writing of Christmas carols. They began to make their appearance about the year 1400. This was a new music in what was still almost a new lan- guage, of minstrel, literary and folk poetry. The ballad was one of the forms in which many of the tradi- tional carols were cast. s a v r l`s Edited by GRANT FLEMING, MM.. Associate Secretary , _ CONSTIPA'T'ION ! Laxatives may empty the bowel, As you read the advertisements, but laxatives will never overcome ;,listen to the radio and heed the com- constipation. Indeed they encour- plaints of your friends, you become age constipation because they train aware of the number of people : who the bowel to depend upon the stint - are troubled by constipation and the ulation by a drug instead of having vast quantities of different laxatives a normal evacuation. The way in which are used in an effort to cor which people turn from one laxative r'ect or cure the :complaint. - to .another shows how laxatives Just as food' and air are requiredgradually lose their effectiveness as :by the body to sustain it in health the bowel becomes accustomed to and strength, so must it get rid of its the particular drug in the laxative. waste products. General experience Next to regularity of toilet habit Indicates, that regular daily elimina- as 'a means to secure regular elim- tion is a desirable habit in that it Matron come diet and exercise.. Many frees the body of its waste products people are helped by using_ more without undue delay. water. A glass . or two upon rising We are largely creatures of hale- and between meals is a good habit. lt. We enjoy better health when we It is not advisable to fill the. diges- iiaye our meals at regular hours. We tive tract with a lot of indigestible enjoy certain foods at meal which roughage but most people do require we would not think of eating at an- a reasonable amount of bulk in the other. We do not eat soup or pie diet, This is best 'secured by eat - for breakfast; there, are so-called ing freely of fruits and leafy vege- "breakfast foods" whieh stay on the tables which contain a fair amount pantry shelves from one breakfast to of fibre. • another.' The abdominal muscles must be Regular elimination is more 'a used if they are to be kept strong, matter of habit than anything else. This may be accomplished through The bowel which has been trained to your work or else such exercises as empty itself at the same time every call theseparticularr muscles into ;day will keep on doing so. Such play. Defeat constipation with habit, regularity is discouraged by failure diet and exercise. It can be done if to heed promptly the call' of nature; you persist. it is encouraged by a regular visit Questions concerning health, ad- to the toilet at exactly the same dressed to the Canadian Medical As- time every day regardless of any sedation, 184 College St,, Toronto, urgeto empty the bowel, will, be answered personally: by letter. HOW THE TURKEY CHANGED CHRISTMAS FARE Among the culinary gifts from the aboriginal inhabitants of North Am- erica to the ,white man — cornmeal foods, pemmican, succotash, pump- kins, squash, sweet potatoes, fish and wild fowl and clams and beans bak- ed in clay, maple syrup and maple sugar, roast turkey stands supreme. Nearly' three hundred years have passed since the American turkey displaced the vaunted Sir Lion and Baron of Beef from their proud posi- tions on the British Christmas table and ;vanquished forever the claims of roast guinea fowl, quail, cranes and swans as the Christmas master- piece of the festive board. Indeed, today, so dominant is the North Am- erican bird that Christmas through- out the English speaking world is not Christmas without a turkey. The earliest documentary evidence of the Americanization of European dietary is set forth in an ecclesiasti- cal ordinance by Cramer, Archbis- hop of Canterbury, in which is men- tioned "the turkey-cocke" as one of "the greater fowles" of which an ec- clesiastic was to have "but one on a dishe". The learned Archbiship could not have referred to "ye Canadian turkey-cocke", for the Canadian tur- key is a noble bird capable of sup- plying sustenance to many, and what a generous repast! Browned to a nicety, fragrant as a zephyr from Ceylon's Isle, and towering in regal mien above the portentous platter, I the Canadian turkey is a feast for a king. And also a feast for the mind, for with consumption comes tlie.spir- it of Christmas, and all men are brothers. Tranquility, harmony, con- cord. Peace to men of Good Will. Care of Children Household Economics SOME SEASONABLE DONT'S Don't use candles on Christmas trees. Don't place the tree near open lights• i Don't set the tree upon flimsy supports, Don't operate electric toys under a tree, or near cotton, paperor oth- er inflammable material. Don't use a'.rickety step -ladder in decorating trees or hanging wreaths or decorations. Don't permit old Santa to get too close to fire. Whiskers, cotton trim- mings, etc., are highly inflammable. Don't leave a lighted tree unwatch- ed, especially if children are near. Don't use cotton beneath the tree to get a snow -carpet effect. Don't keep the tree around the house after the holidays. When they dry up they become highly inflam- mable. :Cut them up and burn them, a' little at`a time, in the fire place. Don't spoil your holidays by an avoidable accident. FIRST CHRISTMAS CARD The Christmas card, in its present- day fora}, was non-existent until a- baft 1860; Before . that date,.there were many Christmas cards of a sort, but they were very expensive, and but little used. The idea for such a card originated with Sir Henry Cole and the first card printed was issued in 1846 by a London artist, Joseph Cundal. CHRISTMAS RECOLLECTIONS How' many old recollections and how many . dormant , sympathies Christmas time awakens! . , Hap- py, happy :Christmas, that can win tie back to the illusions of our child- ish clays, recall to the old man the pleasure of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home. --Charles Dickens. OUR RECIPES FOR TODAY OLD FASHIONED WAY TO COOK CHRISTMAS TURKEY There are many excellent ways of cooking and stuffing t h e Christmas turkey, but the one de- scribed' has the advantage of simplicity according to time-hon- oured custom. When the turkey is drawn and- cleaned, and for young housekeepers it night be said that in cleaning the fowl ev- erything that can be removed from the inside should be, the in- side is well -washed, t h e n is rubbed with salt and pep- per and stuffed with dressing of the old-fashioned sort which long experience has proven most satis- factory. .The recipe for dressing is: - 2 cups soft bread' crumbs, 2 cups cracker crumbs, 1-2 cup melted butter, 2 eggs slightly beaten, a small bit of onion, if Liked, finely chopped, 2 teaspoons powdered savory or poultry dres- sing, 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon pepper, and 1-8 teaspoon celery salt. Malt the butter, add the slight- ly beaten eggs, pour over the bread crumbs and mix lightly, not to make it soggy. Add the sea- sonings. Then fill the cavity with this dressing, and also the cavity under the skin of the neck where the crop was removed. When com- pleted, sew up the opening, tak- ing care to draw the skin over the neck and tie it. Truss the turkey by forcing the tip of each wing back of the first wing joint, triangular shape,. and tie the ends of the legs to the tail. Place the turkey in the roasting pan so that the back rests on the pan and the legs on the top. Dredge with flour, sprin- tasty sandwich spread is, made by kle salt and pepper, and place in a putting through the food chopper hot oven. When the surface of 1 cup cold beef, 1-2 cup .seeded the bird is well browned, reduce the heat and baste every 15 min- utes until the turkey is cooked. This will usually require three hours, depending, of course, on the size of the bird, allowing 20 minutes to the pound. For bast- ing, melt four tablespoons of but- ter or bacon fat in a half cup of boiling water. Pour. this into' the, roasting pan. Adel water when this evaporates, so as to keep a Sufficient amount for basting. Turn the bird several times dur- ing the roasting,eso that the sides and back as well as the breast will be browned. When it can be eas- ily pierced with a fork, remove the turkey from the roasting pan, cut the strings and pull them out, When garnished the turkey is ready to present a regal repast. begins to brown, stir in one cup of whole milk fpr each two table- spoons of flour. Simmer it gent- ly and it will cook thick and smooth. Season it with salt and pepper. Dickens loved a eup of currant jelly added, but we'd pre- fer leaving the jelly cold and eat- ing it with the above. APPLE MINCEMEAT Apple or green mincemeat for pie is made as follows:— 2 cups chopped tart Canadian- grown apples. 11-2 quarts sliced green toma- toes, (green tomatoes not being available at this season, use more apples). 1 chopped orange. 3 cups medium brown sugar. 2 tablespoons mixed ground spice. 1 pound raisins. Sprinkle tomatoes with salt and let stand overnight; then drain and chop fine. Add apples and orange; simmer 2 hours, then add remaining ingredients and sinner 1 hour. As this will keep indefin- itely if canned as usual in sterile jars while boiling hot, a larger quantity can be made at one time. SANDWICHES For the Holiday Season Parties: Sliced cold roast beef, boiled fresh beef, corned beef or tongue, with a little pepper and salt make most attractive sandwiches; or these meats may be chopped and mixed with a little horseradish, mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, olives, sweet pickles, etcetera. A CHRISTMAS TURKEY GRAVY To make gravy for the Christ- mas turkey, pour off some of the fat from the •roasting pan, if it is considered there is an excessive amount, sprinkle thefat that re- mains with 'dry flour, one table- spoon to each cup of liquid to be used, which may be of milk, cream or water, or any mixture of the three. Stir the flour into the hot fat, if it is pure fat, if not better mix flour with a small amount of cold water otherwise the fat will separate a n refuse to m i x smoothly. Heat the liquid, and add tins hot liquid to the fat and flour in the roasting pan. Stir rapidly so that no lumps will form, and, if necessary, season with more salt andpepper to suit the taste. GIBLET'GRAVY raisins, 6 ripe olives, and 6 sweet pickles. Mix this with sufficient mayonnaise to blend. APPLE PEANUT SALAD Pare, core, and cube slightly- acid Canadian grown apples. Mix them with half as much cubed celery. Mix a dressing of peanut butter, using 5 tablespoons lemon juice to 1 tablespoon peanut but- ter. Mix the dressing through the apples and celery, and season with salt and cayenne pepper. Chill and serve on lettuce; garnish with peanuts. CIIRISTMAS1 CANDIES Molasses Pull Taffy One-half cup butler; 2 cups sugar; 1 cup molasses; 1 1-2 cups boiling water. Put in either iron or copper saucepan; bring to boiling point and boil without stirring until mixture will form a soft ball when dipped in cold water. Turn in a buttered pan and, as mixture cools around sides fold towards centre. When cool enough to handle, pull until very light colored; cut with scissors. Ginger Candy • One cup light brown sugar; 1-2 cup butter; 2-3 cup molasses; 1 teaspoon powdered 'ginger; -1-2 teaspoon lemon extract; pinch of cream of tartar. Put molasses, sugar, ginger and butter in saucepan, dissolve over fire, then add cream of tartar; boil to 200 degrees or until brit- tle' when rittle,when tried in cold water. Add the lemon extract and pour into buttered tins. Cut in neat, squares. In England giblet gravy seems to belong to Christmas as surely as Santa Claus. It is made .with the giblets, that is, the liver, heart, and gizzard. First the giblets are cooked, then the fat at the bottom of the roasting pan 'is thickened with a flour and water paste, the proportion being one tablepsoon- ful-of flour to three of fat. The paste is blended with the fat and the cooked giblets which are cut into fine bits. .When the mixture wrap in oiled paper. Taffy Four cups .sugar; 1 cup boiling water 2 tablespoons vinegar; 2 tablespoons butter. Stir until the sugar is dissolv- ed. Boil untilit cracks (250 de- grees F.) Pour into a well -greas- ed parr, cool quieldy:and as soon as it is 'cool enough to handle, pull until white. Cut. : in pieces and 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• "GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST" Hark! the herald -angels sing "Glory to' the new-born King, Peace on earth, and mercy mild; God and sinners reconciled, Joyful, all ye nations, rise, • Join the tr;iumph of the skies; With angelic hosts proclaim, "Christ is born in Bethlehem!" Christ, by highest heaven adored, Christ, the everlasting Lord; Veiled in flesh the Godhead seer Hail the incarnate Deity! Mild he lays his glory by, Born that man no more may die; ' Born to raise the sons of earth, Born to give them second birth. Hail the heaven -born Prince of Peace hail the Sun of Righteousness! Light and life to all he brings, Risen with healing in his wings. —C. Wesley. • THE STAR IN THE EAST Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorn- ing, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. , Cold on his cradle the dew -drops are shining; Low lies his bed with the beasts of the stall; Angels adore him, in slumber reclin- ing, Maker, and Monaric±i, and Saviour of all. ' Say, shall we yield him, in costly de- votion, Odours of Edam, and offerings di- vine? Gems of the mountain, and pearls of the ocean, Myrrh from the forest, and gold from the mine? Vainly we offer each ample oblation; Vainly with gifts would his favour secure: Richer by far is the heart's adoration Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor, While the white flakes 'round him .. whirl; And sooner or later he finds the, home Of each good little boy and girl,. The little red stockings he silently fills, Till the stockings will hold no more; The bright little sleds for the great snow hills Are quickly -set down on the floor; Then Santa Claus mounts to the roof like a bird, And glides to his seat' in the sleigh; Not the sound of a bugle or drum is heard, As he noiselessly gallops away. He rides to the East, he rides to the West, Of his goodies he touches not one;" He eats but the crumbs of the Chirst- mas feast, When the dear little folks are done. Old Santa Claus does all the good that he can, This beautiful mission is his; Then, children, be good to the little, old man When you find out who the little man is. —Anon. —Bishop Heber. THE INCARNATION Sing, all in heaven, at Jesus' birth, Glory to God, and peace on earth; Incarnate love in Christ is seen, Pure mercy and good -will to men. Praise him, extolled above all height, Who doth in worthless worms delight God reconciled in Christ confess, Your present and eternal peace. From Jesus, manifest below, Rivers of pure salvation flow, And pour, on man's distinguished race, Their everlasting streams of grace, Sing, every soul of Adam's line, The favourite attribute divine; Ascribing, with the hosts above, All glory to the God of Love. —C. Wesley. A CHRISTMAS CAROL Awake my soul! and greet the morn, For unto us a Child is born; Yea, God has come in human frame To save the world from sin and shame. Ye angels, swell your notes of song Till echoes ring both loud and long, And lead us to the holy Child, The lowly Jesus undefiled. With Judah's shepherds let us tread To reach the Saviour's stable bed, And there to Him our homage show With love that makes the spirit glow. 0, Mary, blest of womankind, What thoughts arise within thy mind[ Thou hast been called by God alone To bear His own begotten Son. 1 Let all proclaim His birth and sing, "Glory to God our gracious King: Good will to men and henceforth peace," With rapture that shall never cease. Come all ye lands and truly prove, The wonder of the Saviour's love; And like the holy men of yore Praise God the Lord forevermore. —Rev. W. Scott Galbraith. "UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN, UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN" To us a Child of royal birth, Heir of the promises, is given; The Invisible appears on earth, The Son of man, the God of heaven. A Saviour born, in love supreme He comes our fallen souls to raise; He comes his people to redeem With all his plentitude of grace. The Christ, by raptured seers fore- told, Filled with the eternal Spirit's power, Prophet, and Priest, and King behold, And Lord of all the worlds adore. The Lord of hosts, the God most high, Who quits his throne on earth to live, With joy we welcome from the sky, With faith into our hearts receive. —C. Wesley. SANTA, CLAUS He comes i the night! Ile comes g inthenight! He softly, silently comes! When the little brown heads on the pillow so white Are dreaming of bugles and drums. He cuts thru the snow like a ship thru the foam, WINTER I have seen Summer go out like a. pinched wick, I have watched Autumn grow grey as an ash; Light and fire swept away, as though God played a trick, Smighting His world with the wind and the hail, as a lash Cuts cruel and deep. So Winter, let loose from His hand, Smote the rebellious sea and the stoi- cal land. I have seen beauty go down where the gardens once smiled, I have known song. frozen stiff in feathered throats. Blossom and bird, when the tempest was ugly and wild As the masterless typhoon snatches and smothers the boats. • As the avalanche sweeps, as the sireoon is swiftly unrolled, So winter came -down, and its silence was deep as its cold: —Rena Stoteispurgh Travail_ World's Greatest Plague Being Overcome, 5 of so many years ago, consumption leas 1110 dworldly ma ergremenatesbutt scn00ot1'50, 11 to still a eadso potent 1 ceoee of the effective means which. 11- • been taken foe its- Prevention and rurc. I`t t physician, the dietitian and the » ,nits!len expert have all combined and. nhh the aid of the sun fres and fresh air and d the great inroads rest, have which tuberculosis lmade upon our popnial ion. Thu National Sanitarium Association operates the ,,hare!:a llosilltal I'or Oo sm pLiv'o sant I tient Qeo0fl tSiery'. whicibal for. Consent ptivo pacityon, Jestver combined have a Iota, capacity of Inst over 1,00(1 bade.. They aro:ies for equipped dentreatment auui have all )acinitis 1'or the modern thruof 111is disease and it is largely through tnsum efforts hila, the doaflt. rate 110,5 consumption' has bcOa an greatly !educed: 'lltrse hospitals too not operated ror Lhe well-to-do but are maintained solely Per the poorwho are afflicted with tuber- culosis- and aro without means to pay for their' treatment and circ. It requiresa great deal of. 'newly to operate these illsttlllti 0115, fad' more 1,1maa. they cal trope to reeelre 1Y0111 statutory allowances, and it is only with the co- operation of many generous friends that they can eontioue 1'0 carry 01L " M1L05 thousands of dollars w,ll be flooded to covbr the shortage on operating, this year."" will you please assist by sending .a contribution to the National Sanitarium Association, 223: 0011050 Street. Toronto 2.