Zurich Herald, 1926-08-26, Page 2•
WHEN OLD FRIENDS MEET
By QAROLIN
1 spent the evening with a good,
fiend of mine not long ago; it was'
a chilly evening for midsummer, and
I found her in her lamp Sit living
room seated before a favorite old desk
having a porfectly delightful time of
it reading old letters, looking over old i
photographs, sorting time-honored I
recipes and family documents and gen-
erally enjoying herself,
"Come in," she exclaimed. "You •
are the one woman 1 ,know who evil,
sympathize with my fondness for says'
lug old things."
And so, 'aftee. she had established
me in the friendly chair I particularly
like, and I had taken out my sewing,
she returned to her work and we set-
tled ourselves to one of those cozy,
intimate evenings that only two very;
good friends can enjoy, I with my1
mending and she with her quaint old
daguerreotypes and keepsakes. Every;
now and then we would pause to' laugh
at the likeness of some fiercely pro- I
per ancestor, or smile, perhaps a little i
wistfully, over a crudlly made pin-
cushion with "Mother" picked out on
its surface in rusty pins, or a very
crookedly worked bookmark, the early
gifts of my friend's children, pre-
serve :l as precious mementoes.
A Treasured Keepsake.
Th $e was one satinwood box in the
old dsse which my friend handled so
tenderly that I knew it contained the
meet t _•easured keepsake of all. She
opened it and from a bit of tissue
paper tied with faded blue ribbon
lifted lovingly a soft, flaxen cusp,
"Harry's," she said, and for a few
moments we both were silent. Then
after she had twined the baby curl
about her fingers for a moment, she,
put it back in the satinwood box and
furtively wiped her eyes.
"Harry would be a man, now," she
said, "but to me he is always the dear
baby I watchied through those two
sad, sad days before the doctor could`•
make his way through the storm to
our farm, only to tell us when he did
arrive that • it was tub late to save ,
our boy. Thank God that through the'
work of one brave man the parents
of today are spared the dread of dipir--;
theria we women of an older gen-'
eration endured."
"Yes," I answered, "they are spared
the anxiety if they are wise enough,'
but you will be surprised to hear that
many of them still permit that worst
of all diseases to menace their chil-
dren."
And because my friend is keenly in-
terested in the welfare of all children
and in every discovery or undertaking
that tends toward making life better
or safer for them, I .told her of the
plan we had had the autumn before,
when I was a member of the school
board in our township, to administer
to every child in our community the
serum that insures immunity against
diphtheria. I told her how careful:•y 1
we had explained to the mothers and
fathers that we hoped by this mea-
sure to exterminate the scourge for
al: time from our midst; I to'.d her
of the telephone culls and questions
and letters, and of the ways in which
we endeavored to spread the good
news,
."And of course they were happy to
give you their cooperation? queried
niy friend. "I am sure you could not
have bad a single refusal. .rust to
think of it, absolute immunity, actual
safety for all time for childhood! It
was wonderful!"
When Parents Were Timid.
But I had to tezl her that several
of the parents were timid, that be=
cause they feared their children might
be harmed in some way by the inocu-
latioro, a few of them preferred to
risk diphtheria itself, rather than the
vague, shadowy evils of their imag
inatic•ns.
"And what was the result?" asked
my friend. "Were there tragedies?"
"There were," I replied, "severaL
There was one dear little girl whose
life went out only a few weeks after-
ward; and two email children in an-
other family, victims of diphtheria
also; and here and there, in homes
where parents were ' afraid to let
science help them make their children
safe, isolated cases area still making
their appearance, often with fatal re-
sults.
"But," I saki finally, "it is encour-,
aging to know that not a child in the
township to whom the serum was ad-
ministered has had even a slight at-
tack of diphtheria; and I believe we
are not far from the happy day when
it will be an almost forgotten, disease
In this neighborhood, now that the
fearful parents have discovered that
none of their little neighbors has suf-
fered the least troub:e from the se -
runt."
I told her of my two grandchildren,
who felt no discomfort whatever; ex-
cept perhaps a slight redness or swell-
ing of the arm after the inoculation
which is, after all, nothing more than
a needle prick—and of the tremendous
relief that we older folks had exper-
ienced when we finally realized that
our children were absolutely immune
from that frightful plague, diphtheria.
We talked late of this marvelous
serum, toxin antitoxin.
"Oh," exclaimed my friend as I
folded my work at last and prepared
to take my leave, "if only we could
do somr•thingeto spread the news of
this wonderful work of a brave, ens
tiring man. Can't you do it in that
magazine of yours? Can't you tell
the story of my Harry? Can't you
make every father and mother who
reads your pages understand that
iphtheria can be stamped out and
that it's up to them to help to do it.
Can't you?"
And I promised her that 1 would.
—Country Gentleman.
MARMALADES AND JAMS
By EDITH M. BARBER.
Every family has its own special with water and cook 'slowly until
marmalade secrets. Sometimes these soft. Rub through fine strainer and
are kept 'a dark secret; sometimes add three-fourthe the measure of
they are generously shared. A:most sugar. Cook slowly twenty minutes.
all of us feel that our own recipes Pack and seal. The skins and pulp
are the best, either because of ohi d- left from quince jelly may be used in
blood association or of accustomed• this way.
flavor. We are, however, usually glad
to add one more to our collection of
recipes each season. Perhaps you will
find one or two in this collection
' which you will like to try and make
your own.
Marmalades are simple to cook
after the fruit is prepared and there
are just one or two precautions which
should be taken. Do not be too lavish
with the sugar and do not overcook.
While some persons like a marmalade
which responds to the jelly test ---
two drops hanging side by side from
the spoon when he:el above the kettle
—others prefer a thinner consistency
which is indicated by one very heavy
drop which hangs but does not fall.
Some fruits which lack pectin will
never respond to the two -drop test
and are often over -cooked.
Do not try to make too large an
amount of marmalade at a time as it
is likely to change in flavor if cooked
the longer time necessary for a large
quantity. A precaution which is wise
to use when cooking is done over gas
ORANGE MARMALADE
1 orange.
1 grapefruit.
1 lemon.
Cut fruit into fine strips, removing
seeds. Measure, add three times
amount of water and allow to stand
for twenty-four hours. -Boil until
skins are tender. Measure, add equal
amount of 'sugar and boil until it
jellies.
MEDLEY FRUIT CONSERVE
2 bins. peaches.
2 lbs. quinces,
lee lbs. pears.
13:i lb. apples.
3 lemons.
Sugar.
Wash, peel or pare, core and stone
fruit. Pass through food chopper and
weigh. To each pound of fruit allow
three-quarters of pound of sugar. Put
fruit and sugar in alternate layers in
bowl and let stand over night. Next
morning place in preserving kettle
with pules of lemons and one-half rind
or oil, is to keep an asbestos mat under , sliced in thin' strips. Boil until mix -
the kettle, I ture becomes very thick. One cup of
After the marmalade has been cook- scalded chopped nuts (not peanuts)
ed in the glasses, _be sure that the may be added, if d• sired, five minutes
,paraffin which you pour into seal is More removing from fire.
very hot to ki-+l any germs which may
have sett+ed on it while expend to
cool. Cover with tin covers• orpasted
paper and keep in a coal dry pace
as 'free as possible from dust. With
those precautions, the appetite of the
family will be the only thing which
prevents your marmalade from keep-
ing indefinitely.
PINEAPPLE PLUS MARMALADE
1 qt. finery cut rhubarb.
. 3 qts. diced pineapple.
8 oranges..
8 qts. sugar.
Let pineapple and rhubarb stand
with the sugarover night. Remove
rind from oranges, slice fine, 000k
until tender •sand add with pulp to
rest of fruit, Cook about :half an
hour Until of desired consistency,
QUINCE MARMALADE'
Wipe quinces, cut in quarters, re-
move Weenie ends and seeds. Put
We preserving kettle, nearly cover
GRAPE MARMALADE
Pick over, wash, drain' and remove
stems from grapes. .Separate pulp
from skins. Cook pub slowly until
seeds separate. Rub through a fine
str,&inee, Add, skies, rn'eas•aro and add
then -fourths .amount of sugar. Cook
t•:acvy thirty min !less.
APPLE AND TOMATO
This is the Rev. H. A. Abbott, with his daughter, three masters, and
seven pupils, from a well-known public sohcol in England, situated at Grays,
near Tilbury, p'hotog'raphed on board the Cunard liner Alaunia. This party
is making a tour of Ea•etern Canada to ,give the boys a wider knowledge of
the Empire than ie afforded by book and theoretical education, The 'party
have been guests of various interested public-spirited organizations, such as
the Kiwanis.
Sed selection by the Fai'rner.
'i'he terns "seed. selection" nec'essar-
ily includes A choice of variety As
well as the selection of seed of that
variety. livery farmer. should ask
himself thece tvoq uestibns: Am I
growing the best variety?' Am I using
the best poesible seed of that variety?
Some varieties ,Art nl-re suitable
for certain districts than others; will
return greater yields; will produce
a quality of crop which will demand
a butter market; or wile be more suit-
able foto feeding requirements. It
pays to solicit the advice of the near -1
.est experimental station, Agricultural
college or agricultural agent regard -
in,' the varieties which ar.•e :i1ce:,y to
give best results and then to test
out a few of these beside the old
sort.
I Once a really desirable variety has
been located the next important gees -
tion to settle is how to obtain and
maintain a supply of good seed of!
that variety. It is safe to use only
' pure seed of high vitality, plump and
uniform In quality, fres froth disease
and well matured.
When a change of seed is necessary
it should be obtained from the best
source available. Registered seed
' should be secured if at alI possible
as this is the highest grade of seed
Rations for Early Layers. l Silage Corn in Hills or Drills? . recognized commercially. If it is de -
Now is the period of expensive eggs. '
It is the time of low production in
the poultry flock and every dozen eggs
costs more to produce than they do at
most any other season of the year. It
takes money to make eggs in Septem-
ber, but it "is money that should be 1
well spent.
If ane expects to get high-priced
eggs during the season of low pro-
duction he must provide egg -building'.
materials in abundance. This means
that a sufficient supply of animal!
protein in the form of meat scrap
must be made available for the early
layers. On the growing range the
birds which have matured on a ration
of only medium to low protein, from
now en should be fed increased quan-
tities of laying mash and increased
,protein content.
Early layers start producing before
they have finished putting on their
body weight. And as we must not
expect to get a maximum egg prodric-
tion at a sacrifice of body develop-
ment, the feeding of the early layers
becomes a problem..' The birds are
usually either confined to their laying ,
houses continually or they are given
only restricted range. In either case
the following feeding practice will be
effective:
•
MARMA.LADE
8 c.apple pulp.
6 c. cooked strained tomato.
5 G. sugar.
4 sticks cinnamon.
2 tbsp. whole clbvee.
e. vinegar.
Apple pulp left after juice has
drained off for apple jelly may bo
used. Press through course strainer,
add tomatoes and sugar.. Tie spice in
theosealoth and boil half an hour with
other ingredients, Add vinegar, boil
ton minutes more. Remove slices,
Pack and seal.
Try a scratch grain ration of two
parts of cracked coin, one pa o
wheat and one part of..ei.'ipped whole
oats. Feed this three -limes a day,
morning, noon and night, at the rate
of 12 pounds a grain a day to each
100 birds. As the season advances
and the weather gets cooler, this quan-
tity must be increased up to 15
pounds, and if • the birds come into
extremely heavy production this
should be further increased.
An efficient dry -mash ration, de-
signed for home mixing, is: 100
pounds wheat bran, 100 pounds four
middlings, 100 pounds ground heavy
oats, 100 pounds newly ground yellow
corn meal, 100 pounds high-grade
meat scrap, 50 pounds alfalfa leaf
meal.
To this should be added 3 per cent
of flowers of sulphur; this to help
keep the flock resistant to chicken-
pox and its allied infections. • Keep
this mash mixture before the 'laying
birds continually in large self-feeding
hoppers. See that the birds are get-
ting plenty of grit, shell and some
charcoal.
Fish Meal as Stock. Food.
Fish near where available is a suit-
able concentrate for cattle and especi-
ally for hogs. If of good quality
and properly fed with other meals
and with roughages, it is fairly pala-
table, wholesome, and a good feed for
young growing stock, and also for
milk production, having no injurious
effects on the meat or milk. It is
obtained by the utilization of surplus
fish and of fish offal, of which enor-
mous quantities go to waste in Can-
ada every year, and as a cheap feed
it should be more appreciated and de-
veloped. In discussing the subject in
his latest report, Dr. F. T. Shutt, the
Dominion Chemist, warns manufac-
turers of thie product that the fish
and fish. wastes employed in ita pre-
par.•ation must be fresh and sound,
and the several operations in the pro-
cess of its manufacture should be care-
fully and tboroughl•y carried out, if
a whoeeem•s., palatab;e meal with good
keeping qua:itios is to result. Un-
sound fish or waste will result in un-
wholesome. and rancid products,. apt
to cause tainted meats, milk and eggs.
Is it better to grow silage corn in
s? For five years
erations have been conducted at Cap
Rouge, Que., Dominion experimental
station, to ascertain the beet method.'
All the corn from '57.3 . acres was
weighed with the following results,
says Mr. Gus Langelier, the Superin-
tendent, in his annual report: drills,
48 inches apart, plants thinned to
about 8 inches in the row, 20,759
pounds of green material per acre;
lulls the sane distance apart, plants
thinned to about 8 inches in the hills,
20,185 pounds; hills 36 inches apart
in ail directions, 12,402 pounds; hills
42 inches apart in all directions, 12,-
358
2,
958 pounds. Samples were sent to the
Dominion. Chemist, who reports that
the composition was practice ly the
same for each lot._. While the results
on the sandy roam at Cap Rouge was
decidedly in favour of the drills, the
Superintendent thinks it might not
have been the case on weedy clay
land.
Weighing a. Hair.
A weighing -machine, " designed for
use in shops, is so finely constructed
that it will weigh anything from a
human hair to articles of 40 lbs.
hills or in driip-
•
'sired to improve a v�aariety, a simple .
method is to go through' the field st
harvest time and se:ecf'a large num-
ber of heads from plants which are
strong, vigorous, free 'from disease
and uniform in type. It is very •im-
portant that the selection of identical
heads be observed or the resulting
crop may not be uniform. These heads
may be threshed in a bag, -tieing a
round stick, and the seed carefully
cleaned and graded with a fanning
` milk The seed should be sown in a
special plot of about one-quarter of
an acre on clean land to increase the
supply. It has been demonstrated
many times that seed produced by
this method, with careful and efficient
use of a good fanning -mill, may pay
'for the troub'e many times over.
To Robert Louis Stevenson.
You never strove as moat men do
To put away the child in you,
But you retained with special joy
The art of being Just a boy.
it plear.es_me to peep sometimes
Into the garden of your rhymes—
At calm of evening just for fun
To play with you, friend Stevenson.
—Marion Steward.
1M'N'T BOTHERING
WORTH WHILE?
HELEN GREGG GREEN
N
Aunt Emmy -Lou has never had any
children of her own, but she can telt
hs Who .are mothers, how we should'
raise our boys and girls, all right.
She certainly does know.
The other day, this kindly, Interest-
ed neighborhood auntie and ' I were
chatting with Julienne, who has two
snlitel children, both of them real live
wi res.
Among other indiscretions of thele
two little people, was that of jumping
up and down on Julienne's dining
room table. Julienne's brown eyes
begged them to stop, but to no avail,
"0, weir, they are at least not hurt-
ing anybody's else things," she smiled,
"Julienne!" Aunt Emmy -Lou blus'.
tered, "'You- lovely idiot! By allowing
Becky and Joe to continue, you are
teaching them disrespect of property.
Mark my words, they'll be of the type
that is a general nuisance. They'll
cut their seats et school, litter the
streets and deface the public build-
ings."
"0, Aunt Emmy -Lou,"' answered
Julienne frowning, "1 can't be both-
ered noticing everything."
"You cant be bothered? That's just
it!" Aunt Emmy -Lou snapped. Can't
be bothered enough to keep your chil-
dren from becoming pests. I recent-
ly had a handsome old table done
over, and an acquaintance of mine, e
girl who should have known better,
breezed in, and threw a jangly silver
pocketbook on the lovely bare surface.
Now the top will have to be done over
again. Really, I hope she'll never
come again."
"Oh, dear!" Julienne seemed to be
waking up. "I'd hate to have people
feel that way about my children,
(Becky, Joe, stop jumping on that
table!) I guess you're right. We owe
it to' our boys and girls to bother,
don't we?"
Axid that very day Julienne began
a new course of training. It was he -
gun several years too late, but still
not hopelessly so.
Auready, Becky and Joe are improv-
ing.
Of course, it takes "bothering." But,
dearie me, isn't "bothering" worth
white, when it's directed toward mak-
ing our children into delightful and
useful Canadian citizens?
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THE 'CANADIAN HOMEMAKER
series s'' week') articles
covering,
PLANNING . BUILDING . FINANCING
DECORATING . FURNISHING . GARDENING
<s•. Co e:5.1' 4%1C
CARE OF THE PERENNIAL BORDER
By (Henry J. Moore:
Autumn of all the seasons is a time
when the perennial border should not
be neglected. .During this period cul-
tivation should be assiduously effected
for it is now more largely than at any
other time the moisture should be re-
tained in the soil for the use of the
plants in whose leaves food is being
manufactured to 'supply to the roots
1 which are to produce the abundance
of flowers next year. It is also neces-
sary that air be allowed access to the
soil and also warmth so that the soil
bacteria may convert the ammonia
which is a result of the decomposition
of organic matter (manure) into ni-
trates which are plant foods. Culti-
vation retains moisture -during autumn..
Cutivation however should eeas.e about
mid-September so as not to force
growth unduly or the crowns of the
Plants may become unduly tender.
During late September and early Oc-
tober, Paeonies and Iris may be plant-
ed. Care, however, must be exercised
not to plant these too deeply. The
former if planted more than n 'few
inches deep will not flower, Two
inches should be regarded as the maxi-
, mum depth. It is well, however, to so
i plant the roots that the crowns of the
plants just show above the ground.
1?rith the Iris it is much the same pro-
cedure. if -;;ou examine a clump in
your garden you will find that the
thick rhizomes (i'cot stocks) have all
. been pushea up so that they are not
j covered to any extent with soil. In
some cases the rhizomes are entirely-
above
ntirelyabove the surface. When planting see
that these thickened roots are barely
covered with soil. Light and warmth
arc essential to the development of the.
Tris root, hence the r•eitson they push
up out of the soil. 1
lespecia:ly in localities whore the
winter's temperature is not of the most
severe nature, it is desirable to divide
the roots of perennials wherever a_
crowded condition in the border exists
during autumn. A sharp spade is a
good implement to use and with it to
simply sever the root stocks so that
largo pieces of each plant may be re-
moved to be transplanted elsewhere.
In this way crowding ,of the plants inay
be obviated for three or four years.
'This however is a procedn're which
may be practiced more generally In all
localities in -gluing, When the Meld-
ing process lin been completed the
resultant depressions in the soil must
be tilled with fertile soil ancl the bord-
er be raked smoothly, New borders!
Reducing in Eng and.
Mrs. Idaglebird-•--"I have lost tweedy
pound's shies I came over here."
I<ady Doublecross—"I neves• play.
bridge for very ,high stakes."
may at this time also be planted w
perennials.
Planting Bulbs.
During October bulbous spring fio
ering plants may be planted in mass
in the perennial border. Among tho
suitable are Daffodils, Darwin Tull
nth Crocus, Chionodoza (Glory of the
Snow), Scilla, Erantbis, Hyemalls
(Winter Aoonite), Snowdrops, and
iv_; other small hardy ones. For this par-
es pose any of the fore -mentioned bulbs -
which were used for flowering per -
pg 'poses in the home last winter may now
be planted in the border. They should
not be repotted to be forced again into
;flower for some years.
Cleaning Up the Border.
During late October it is proper to
cut away and remorse the decaying
stems of the perennials and after
growth has absolutely ceased to light-
ly fork the soil. Especially if the soil
is heavy should this be effected to
favor the admission of air and of
frost with their ameliorating in-
fluences. Toward mid-November, ear-
lier or later according to season, a
covering of straw litter about four
inches in thickness• should be placed
on the border. In this may be mixed
any tree leaves which can be collected,
et should be borne in mind that any
protective material used should be of
such a nature as not to preclude air
front passing inward uor so absorba-
tivo as to absorb and retain moisture
during winter, Your plants live
through winter as through summer,
Air is as necessary to their lives as ,to
Human beings. Do tot cover your
valuable plants with impervious ma -
Oriels or to such a depth with any ma-
terial so that air cannot get through.
7f you do your plants will die. Sear
in mind' the protective mulch is not to
keep the Prost out but to keep it in se
that in spring should abnormally early
thaws occur the plants will not heave '
from tiro soil as elle muleh will keep
M the frost.
It is better to apply stable manure
to your border in spring than in fall:
and to fork it into the soil between
the plsuts, Fresh strawy manure how.
ever should not be used; but only that
which is fairly well rotted.
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50 FOOT CITY LOT
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Ques,tien: 1 have noticed In some
houses where steel casement windows
aro used that the screens are placed
on the inside of the windows. Is this
necessary?
Screens on all casements opeuing
out trust be placed inside se that they,
wile not Interfere with the 'Opening of
the windows, This is not a disadvant•
age foe it protects the screens from
rust and dust, making thcnn more dur
able, Draperies are kept °loan: