HOME ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17863, 3 June 1926, Page 14

HOME ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION.

SANCTUARY. Soft in the mellow lamplight My comrades and I alone Wait in the sweet agreement Good friends have ever known. I closed the door as I entered, And the world is well shut out While I sit in a tender silence With my faithful all about. The rose in my window blooming Prates never an hour of God, And yet it has wrought His wonder Out of the lowly clod; The book at my hand’s outreaching Whispers to me of strength \nd hope with the new day dawning To bear me the journey’s length. . . So the quiet and peace of my own small room With my silent friends alone, p'or all of the clamour and strife outside With blessing and rest atone. —Maud Newton in “ The Christian Science Monitor.” To-morrow (Friday) evening, Miss Todhunter, domestic science lecturer at the Otago University, has very kindly consented to give a demonstration of the cooking of vegetables to the Home Economics Association. “ Home and Country ” for April is an even more than usually interesting number of that spirited little journal which has now a circulation of 42,162. On one of its front pages the following quotation from Robinson’s “ Spirit of Association ” is given:—•“ Co-oper-ation is a vital, permanent and constructive force; whereas strife is sterile, impermanent and destructive.” The prize offered by “ Home and Country ” for the best original riddle sent by its readers was won by Miss Marjorie Launchbury, with the following: What is nothing? A footless stocking with the leg cut off. A very interesting article is “ A Danish Poultry Farm,” which to those interested in cocks and hens is more exciting than any fairy tale. This farm was started by Miss Anna Christensen in 1915, when her stock consisted of ten hens and two cocks. She now rears every year 3000 chickens, 150 to 200 geese, and 1000 ducks. The concluding paragraph of the article runs thus —“ Miss Anna Christensen superintends the poultry farm personally and spends most of her time there. She has one permanent assistant and some pupils. The poultry farm is con sidered the best in all Scandinavia, and is visited every year by interested people from all parts of Denmark as ■well as from abroad. During the last few’ years visitors have come from Eng , land, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, America, Belgium, Italy and Russia.” The following correspondents are thanked for their contributions:— F.B.—ln a recent number of the “ Home Economics Journal ” W. D. Sansum has a very interesting article on “ The Role of Fruit and Vegetables in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease.” I copy from it a paragraph: “We believe that the lack of sufficient fruits and vegetables in the national dietary is undoubtedly the most important single diet error. Constipation and the various types of bowel disturbances that result from the improper use of cathartics are due primarily to the lack of these essential foods. Fruits and vegetables contain an adequate supply of all the mineral foods used by the body. They also contain all of the vitamines. The blood vessel and kidney diseases responsible for high blood pressure may be due to the lack of these common foods. Original Member. —I send you some verses copied from an American magaMake “but” the guidepost where the road Swerves off from tears to laughter; Before it place faults, doubts, and dread, Place cheer and courage after; For whether your bright dreams sink down Or as great deeds leap starward Depends on whether you turn back Or gallantly face forward. St Clair Adams. Gardenistins.—ln case other members have, like myself, wondered how they could possibly do the necessary weeding and planting of their gardens and at the same time keep their hands in a condition to do dainty needlework for our November exhibition, I pass on a “.wrinkle” which has enabled me to garden vigorously all the morning and do hand sewing all the afternoon. Before starting in the garden, I pour into the palm of my left hand half a teaspoonful of glycerine and to this I add half a teaspoonful of Coutt’s acetic acid. This mixture I rub vigorously into both I hands, with the result that after three hours w r eeding or planting my hands are as smooth and soft as anyone could A’ish. Green Leafer.—The vegetarian sausage for which I send you a recipe with this is very popular in my household. Take one cup of cooked rice and one cup of lentil pulp made from brow’n lentils that have been cooked to a pulp and rubbed through a sieve. Add salt to taste, a little finely chopped sage, one grated onion, and just enough bread or zwieback crumbs to make of right consistency to form sausage. Fry a nice brown and serve with tomato gravy thickened with brown flour. I make this gravy as follow: —Brown two level tablespoonfuls of flour with one of olive oil in an iron pan over a hot stove. When nicely browned add one cup of strained tomato juice, one cup of brown lentil broth and a teaspoonful of butter. Strain, and reheat before serving. Keep on Smiling.—l was the other day looking through the scrapbook of her girlhood days of a dear old ninety-year-old friend of mine when I came across the following, which I think is worthy of a place in our column:— “A commonplace life,” we say, and we sigh, But why should we sigh as we say? The commonplace sun in a commonplace sky Makes up the commonplace day. The moon and the stars are commonplace things, And the flower that blooms, and the bird that sings, But dark were the world, and sad our lot If the flowers failed and the sun shone not; And God, who studies each separate soul, Out of commonplace things makes a beautiful whole.