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THE. GUARDIAN

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DECEMBER 21. 1951'

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HEALTH IN GENERAL HOSPITALS

when I was about eight years old. In older brother broke his leg and was sent to hospital. As this was the nrst' experience of the family with hospitals. I was great- ly Ilarmed. rthought hospitals and death went together. However. on visiting my brother. I learned how much he liked the hospital. haw kind everybody was to him and I felt that he regretted com- ing home. since that day I have Iliad a. great respect for hospitals and hospital care. -

Our hospital authorities, realiz- ing that a. sick. or injured patient entering hospital for the first time III naturally upset and worried. make 1 El point to place a compet- ent, ki dly nurse at the admitting desk and select carefully the nurse and orderly who show the patient In his room or ward. This all mounts in the happiness and con- tentment of the patient.

In Mental Health. Albany. New York. Dr. W. II. Dunn states that ln those days of specialists and specialties, the relationship be- tween the patient and his physic- Ialn is threatened by We C0mP19X1' ities of modern life and by the im- Personality of life in great cities. 'There is a growir: awarcness of the medical profession and allied services of the importance of con- oidering patients as persons and not just as cases."

Thus in the general hospital there should be an attitude of try- ing to help the paiicnt not only in his illness but in his everyday life In room or ward. There should be an attitude of all members of the staff of all-round helpfulness to each patient. "an atmosphere that will communicate to all patients a feeling of security. acceptance and confidence in the hospital and its clinics as suc.h, as well as in indi- vidual staff members.”

"Consideration of the patient" should be the motto or the un- spoken slogan of the hospital, as this philosophy is the basic method of healing.

I believe the above suggestions from Dr. Dunn are timely and while already being practised by some members of the medical staff. nurses, dietitians and orderlies ghould be "projected llllb the community by cooperation with others interested in health and adjustment to life."

The consideration of the patient nrst is amply demonstrated by the efforts of the social worker to keep the patient contented and happy about the life of his loved ones in the home during his or her ab- Hence and lending a hand in the work and kindly direction of home affairs.

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What could be Iweotor than a pretty Idle dressed up doll? Every child lone lunow costume for her own favorite. The

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for Tomorrow ,. A S'I'R.IC'r adherence to integri- ty, Iound principles and I. stem sense of duty may be the impell- ine 10m for putting important objectives on I lasting and solid basis, perhaps with a plan for fut- ure manipulation. Much depends upon right action in the present if future rewards and emoluments are to materialize. Studied ideas should be supported by quick action and practical tactics. Initia- tive and daring have value, win- hing support from responsible sources and against odds.

For the Birthday

Those whose birthday it is may find that a strict sense of duty, obligation, responsibility, may-have force to "move mountains" against stubborn opposition, or scant cn-v couragement from high places. by means or quick action, sound plans, and a bold front in the face of ob- 51536165. perhaps stagnation. Force. courage. far vision, a conscientious sense of high principles could make for enduring security and rewards in the future.

A child born on this day is well equipped with practical talents. with initiative for battering down 0DD0sition and lack of support. Its strong sense of duty and integrity bring ultimate security and rc- ward for merit.

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ELLEll'S DIARY

I; an IIIIIII l'InnIII Wife

-9: Now that Winter has spreId his beautiful but sometimes grim

Island farm is Acquiring its re- quirements of imported feed. in such supply II will last the hogs for several months to come.

At Alderlea we must always make allowance for those spells when this road of ours will hold that depth of snow which will put an end to all hauling by machine to or from the place. so the little truck has been kept busy of into making trips to the city in ' the furmers' spare time and as well I big one has been engaged to has- ten the undertalring to a. close. And the rows of stacks. neatly tiered, mount in this or that building to provide a surety of food, for the animals and a back- log of satisfaction for the family when wintry winds blow.

James came in dusted in white and smiling at the end of the en- deavour this evening to comment: "I was Just thinking. Ellen. that methods of farming have certain- ly changed these last years. There was a time when if a farmer laid in a bit of fish-meal and oil-cake in the fall, he was well away. And now we have come to depend wholly on the stuff bought. I can tell you it doesn't give a fellow I very comfortable feeling to have only a few sacks in a corner now and a storm coming up!"

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"I'd say we aren't done any too soon. From the appearance of the sky and the feel of the air, I be- lleve we're due for falling weather shortly. And Just over-night, could bring an end to our hauling. It doesn't take much snow to close the road." . . . "And what do you do with the grain you grow.

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TOSSEI) WALDORF SALAD VVITH SOUR. CREAM DRESSING

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(Serves 4-6)

Three red apples, 4 stalks col-L ery, chopped. ',-,- cup iraliiuts or pecans, chopped. 3 tablespoons mayonnaise, ll cup sour cream, 83 teaspoon sugar.

Core and dice unpeeled red ap- ples and combine with chopped celery and nuts. To mayonnaise. sour cream and sugar. add 8. few grains of salt and a dash of pap- rika. Combine fruit and dressing and toss together gently. Serve on crisp shredded lettuce.

Many salad makers add the chopped celery last in order to pre- vent its "weeping."

There are many variations on Waldorf Salad. Try serving it, in green pepper shells. Try adding pineapple. The apples and pine- npple produce a delicate flavor. The juice of the pineapple pre- vents the apple from darkening.

CHOCOLATE SUNDAE PE

1 tablespoon unflavored gelatlne, '4 cup cold water. 3 slightly beaten egg yolks, 86 cup sugar, 15 tea- spoon salt. 1 cup milk, scolded, l'A teaspoons vanilla. 3 stiff- beaten egg whites, 1 cup heavy cream. whipped. 1, I-ounce square chocolate, slivered.

soften gelatine in cold water. Cmnblne egg yolks. sugar and salt; slowly add milk. Cook i.n double boiler until mixture coats spoon. Add softened gelatine; stir until dissolved. Cool: add vanilla. Fold in egg whites and cream. Pour into chocolate - wafer crust; sprinkle with slivc-red chocolate. chili thoroughly. Chocolate-Wafer Crust: Blend IV. cups chocolate. wafer crumbs (about 20 wafers) with U3 cup melted butter. Press in 9-inch piepan.

BEEF ROLL!

' 2 lbs. beef round, cut 1.4-inch thick; 1 large dill pickle. 4 slices bapon: 2 small. peeled onions, thinly Sliced: salt. pepper. 2 table- spoons fat or salad oil.

Cut beef into eight strips about 4 x 21.1: inches. Cut pickle in elshths and bacon in halves. on

can be made In minute: from 3 ply each sirip,place crosswise a piece

Sell it, I suppose?" a farmer-vlsb tor inquired of ours one day last summer. And James smiled at the very ihought of the like, since he is one to feed every last grain and root and bundle of hay on the

Midle-Aged Narcissus

This Husband's Only Interest His Clothes And Appearance

DEAR MISS DIX: Can you tell me wliIt'I wrong with my hus- band? We've been married 24 years. He buy: all the new clothes he needs. but when I want something new I must earn the money for it. He makes fun of my appearance, then tells me the compliments peo- ple pay him on the way he looks. He comes home, sits in a rocker

, looking at himself in I mirror and fussel with his hair or clothel. -

We have two boys. and he says when the a black penny. The children are worried about it, and of course so am I

HELEN

ANSWER: In the first-place, your husband can't abandon you without some support. at least for the children. If he tries it, get legal assist- ance either from a lawyer you may know, or from the Legal Aid Society. which can be located through your telephone book, or one in your nearest big city.

CONSIDER CHILDREN FIRST

Your husband's constant preoccupation with his own good looks calls for psychiatric treatment. However. since a man who is so in love with himself seldom is unfaithful, you have that consolation at least. Don't let him jeopardize your children's health. If he con- tinues to plague the youngsters with his threats, you'll be better off away from him, even if it's only a temporary separation.

DEAR MISS DIX: What is your opinion of a grandmother who won't mind her grandchild? My husband and I were invited to a wedding and I asked my mother-in-law to mind our 13-months-old baby. She refused. This was the first time we had ever asked her. I don't believe a young couple should make a habit of asking their mothers to mind the children but it seems to me once in a year and a half wouldn't hurt.

BARBARA

ANSWER: I agree completely with your conclusions. but many grandmothers feel that if they mind a youngster once, his mother will make a habit of going out and grandma will be stuck with baby-sitting every day. Of course, this happens just often enough to give justifica- tion io her worries.

Most women are happy to mind their grandchildgnn now and then but care should be taken that they are not imposed upon with this task. After all, they have raised the generation for which they were directly responsible, and the task is now handed down. Grand- ma has earned whatever rest she can get (which in these hectic days usually isn't much) and should be free to enjoy her children and grandchildren as she herself feels able.

farm. "Oh no" he replied, "it goes toi

cattle and horses . . . and it's amazing how it disappears! In- need you hear the women com-

plain sometimes that there's not enough left to store the hams in for summer! . . . "rhere now, we clean forgot to buy any food for them!" we said in dismay to the younger farmer one day when we were returning with him from a spell of shopping in town. which had added a pair of goldfish to our "treasures on earfh.'

Then recalling that grand- daughter had an ample supply on hand we settled back as he re- marked with a chuckle "I reckon you thought you'd feed them from

the heap in the granary - the same as you do the turkeys!" O O 0 So not I bit too soon. our win.

fer supply of store feed is in. Be- cause tonight snow is falling and a light drift of it blows along the yards. "This weather makes one Ilrateful for plenty of fuel!" James loofqs up from his reading to of- fer. as the fire crackles cheerilv. biting into the sticks of maple with which it is fed. We notice A white rim of frost on the panes and passing steps crunch on the paths about.

"IVS flood to have the new stable - 80 mug and warm for the cat- tle. I guess it's true that people who live on farms are more aware of the Hand of Providence than are ihose who do not gain a liv.. im! from the land. we seem always to have so much to be thankful for! And Ellen" he adds with a familiar ingratlating smile. "wouldn't ll cup of tea be warming on a night like this?" "Until tomorrow - - Diary .. .. Good-night

DEAR MISS DIX: We are a couple of girls aged 17 and 18. We are worried over losing our boy friends. They claim to like us very much but won't come calling at our homes. We always have to meet them at a snack bar. Then they just stay around acting as though they wanted to be noticed by other girls. They are very nice to us otherwise. '

M. T. and B. B.

ANSWER: Are boys so scarce in your town that you have to latch on to such undesirables as these? Any boy worth his bit would be glad lo call for a girl at her home. They know the nicest girls will consider no other meeting place. Apparently all these boys like iseto have you notice how popular they are. Let them hang around the snack bar themselves and delight the feminine customers with their charms. You two find some boy friends with a little more re- spect for young ladies.

DEAR MISS DIX: I went. with a boy for four years, then we broke up. New I find he is planning to marry someone else and re- turn here to live. His home will be directly across the street from mine. I have tried every possible way to forget him but can't. It will be heartbreaking to see him every day; what can I do?

K. O. M.

ANSWER: -You are indeed faced with a difficult situation. If it is at all possible. why not take a job somewhere else for a while

At any rate,

and live away from home? 01 course, this is only putting off the day when you'll have to see each other every day, but it will help until the adjustment period is over. If this course is impossible. there's nothlngyfor you to do but face the problem squarely. It really won't be as difficult in actuality us it seems in perspective; few things are. Continue your own social life as actively as possible and in time the heartiiche will pass.

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Q. Should a girl working in an office give or send her employer an inexpensive Christmas gift?

A. No. She should wish him a Merry Christmas as he or she is leaving the office on Christmas Eve. In some cases. a Christmas card addressed to him and his wife is appropriate.

Q. -When an elderly woman brings a young man over to a girl who is sealed. for the purpose of an introduction, should the girl rise?

A. Yes: in this instance the

Q. How do a man Ind his wife go about notifying business and social acquaintances that they have legally changed their mime?

A. The quickest and simplest way to do this is to mail out formal announcements. as. "Mr. and Mrsywilllam (original name) announce that by permission of the court they and their children girl should rise. as deference to have taken the family name of the elderly woman who is stand- Jones." ing.

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It's Arms llown Please, In The country Dance!

To the Editor of the "Weekly Seotunan"

Dur Sir.-I would like to -1991! to the letter from the U. S. A.. headed ”Is It Arms Up. or Down. r in the country Dance?" in which Mr. George Gourlay asked for comme ts on a problem that is troubl g members of the Scot- tish Country Dancing Group of Washington. D. 0.

I belong to the United Kingdom Alliance of Professional Teachers of Dancing. I am I competitive Highland dancer, and I hold class- es in Scottish country dancing and advise and coach B60910 .10? Caledonisn l3alls...l should like to make the following points for his conslderation:-

(I) At all times the gentleman must be ready to guide. assist. and support his partner, as in modern ballroom dancing. How can he do. this properly and neatly 11 N51 arms are not always held at his' side and ready to help the lady? (2) Any raised position of the arms lacking in "line" is lacking in grace and beauty. and much study is required to achieve good line. Few dancers equipped with the necessary ballroom technique have had the training in ballet or Highland dancing to achieve these raised positions without present- ing the usual ugly "Hands up or I'll shoot" picture commonly seen when people raise their arms in most Scottish dances.

Controlled Turns

Home arts flourish on the stately Armstrong farmstead at Waweig, N.B. In the midst of canning wax beans, blue- berries, and mackerel, Mrs.

(3) There is very little swinging Allan Armstron still finds in Scottish country dancing. with . . the exception of the Reel 0' 'rul- hm” (0 db 5 bate of baking

for the St. Stephen Exhibition. And when the judging at the 1951 fair was completed, Mrs. Armstrong had taken eight prizes! ' Commenting on her success

ioch and Round About the Hulla- chan. i

There are howeier. controlled turns, and the gentleman must be able to place his partner for the following figure or movement at the completion of any turn. At the end of a linked-arms, turn, the

"I have never had I (Ilium with F'isiIchmiInn'I Yonni " IIyI Mrs. Allan A '

nxntrong, who bakes for I table of 13.

Wins Eight Baking Prizes of Sfystephen Fair

in the deld of yeast-raised baking, Mrs. Armstrong says: "I can certainly recommend Fleischmann'a Yeast to any one who wants to turn out tip. top baking. My own experience is that you can't beat Fleisch. mann's for dependable fast rising. I us it constantly." Good advice! Champion bakers all over the Maritimes make it a rule to use only . Fleischmarm's Yeast.

gentleman cannot -, " hand or guide the lady. . (4) If the movements are cor- rectly performed with "flow" and a good sense of musical phrasing and rhythm, they have Joie de vivre. and how on earth can any- one call a dance so performed in- sipid or uninspired either to do or to watch?

I5) Have you ever seen I lady in a strapless evening gown set- ting with raised aims? Inelegant, isn't it? Have you ever had a. poke in the eye or a deafening "hooch" in the car from an over-exuber- ant dancer in a crowded ballroom?

These dances are elegant and gracious, and it is I sad misun- derstanding of the character, of I reel or strathspey if the dancer cannot perform it joyously and with gaiety within the confines of good taste and suitability.

Morning Smile

b. v. orst To Come

A man with I caustic wit was quai-relling with his wife. After a particularly biting remark. she burst into ,tears and said: "How can you treat me like this when I've given you the seven best years of my life!" I

"Good Heavens!" replied her husband. "were those your best?"

His Envy

The play had been long and un- interesting. One member of the audience kept mumbling I few words until a woman in an ad-

Good Manners . joining seat could restrain her cur- (aileecause it is a matter of 105M no lonzen good taste and of good manners. "Do you mind if I ask what A gentleman dancing solo in the you're saying?" she said. centre of an elghtsome or setting "Not -at all. It's merely 'I envy to another gentleman in the Tul- my fcet'." replied the mumbling loch may "go to town" with raised one- arms and Highland-style steps. "But Why?" but it should be obvious bad man- "They're asleep!"

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Boiler English If D. o. WIIIIIK

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1. what is wrong with this sen- tence? "He doesn't do his work proper. and apparently has no capacity as a machinist"

2. What is the correct pronunc- iation of "emeritus"? .

3. Which one of these words ll misspelled? Veneer. ventrlioqulst. ventilation, vengance.

4. What does the word "lang- uorous" mean?

6. What is I word beginning with ad that means "praise"?

ANSWER-S

1, say, "He doesn't do his Wofl properly, Ind apparently has no ability as a machinist. 2. PN- nounce the I Isdn right. and M- cent third syllable. 3. Venreince. 4. Producing listless iridolcnc-' characterized by lassitude. "She lay in lsnguorous case on the dlvan) 5. Adulatlon.

iiers to show off in such a fashion when setting to a lady. ,. (7) Until dancers can think of i this question for themselves as one of what is suitable and what is not. they have failed to grasp the true beauty and spirit of scot- tish country dancing.

There is all the spirit in vthe world and nothing wooden or pup- pet-llke in a reel which flows with happy gaiety. This is not the same